It will take at least a billion years for Earth to become a harder place to live than Mars. Even then, after Earth's oceans have boiled away, it may be easier to live in climate-controlled spaces on an otherwise-lifeless Earth than on Mars.
It would be far more effective, not to mention cheaper, to build an isolated "backup" society deep underground on the Earth. The only reason we can't do that is that they'd refuse to stay and could too easily escape.
the US HOPED that the Russians would see the US as a potential friend in the world. Whatever our past... the future opens ever wider.
Sadly, it doesn't seem like any of that happened. The Russians seem immune to olive branch gestures.
The US hoped the Russians would see the US as the world's lone superpower and agree to become a vassal state. Turns out they're uppity and have ambitions of being at least a regional power in former Soviet states instead of turning them over to the USA.
Regardless, though, the ISS was meant to keep some of Russia's smartest people employed so that they wouldn't have to sell their skills to other countries that might want space rockets, like North Korea and Iran. The ISS has been fully successful in that task.
Term limits - a method for ensuring that right about the time someone is good at their job they are forced to leave it.
The theory behind congressional term limits is that the job of a congressperson is to accumulate pork for their district and their campaign contributors by screwing everyone else, and thus we're better off with them being bad at their jobs.
Unfortunately, I think term limits would just give us politicians even more concerned about pleasing their sponsors so they can pick up a cushy advisory job when they get termed out.
The two attack vectors are through executing malicious javascript code through a web browser and the other would be downloading malicious programs and/or having physical access to the computer. The latter problem might be tackled by allowing only "certified" known programs that are not malicious to be executed on the computer. Which would mean controlling the program from origination to delivery perhaps with a "Linux registry".
What? Nearly everyone for decades now has been installing their software from their distro's repository, which is already a vetted safe collection. Virtually nobody has infected their Linux desktop by installing a trojan.
JPEG and PNG have very different purposes. PNG is not suitable for photos in any low-bandwidth scenario, the file sizes are huge. PNG was never meant to compete with JPEG at all, it was meant to replace GIF -- which it has mostly done for static GIFs.
We have record-setting levels of employment (here in California the unemployment level is the 40 years of the current tracking methodology), and we're getting rid of the horrible jobs no sane person wants to do. How anybody can think that's not great news is beyond me. I was originally against the minimum wage increase because I thought it was unnecessarily high and would increase unemployment and inflation, but it has clearly proved a success: here we are somehow with the poor getting more pay, near zero unemployment, and near zero inflation.
Humans can eliminate all other large species only by driving humanity to extinction at the same time -- and even at the cost of our own extinction, we're incapable of wiping out all insect life with all the nukes at our disposal. Also, if insects eliminate all humans they can continue happily on with their lives -- if humans eliminate all insects, we go extinct. It's clear whose position is stronger.
A better web page analogy for the GPL version of linking might be an iframe. If Boing Boing's article had embedded the centerfolds gallery in the middle of the article to be browsed in-page while reading the article, then I think Playboy's copyright complaint would be legitimate.
Best defense: have an obviously worthless car. Nobody's going to attempt an insurance scam on my '98 Ford Escort, they're going for something that looks like money.
California has a 6 billion dollar budget surplus and a sizable rainy day fund. It has more debt than any other state because it has twice as many people as any other state, obviously... and also direct democracy where voters keep voting for bond measures.
Partly employee retention, and partly midterm elections this year to protect the corporate tax cuts. People will vote based on how their wallets feel this year, not based on the lack of any actual pay raise long term or the size of the deficit.
The point is that "let's spend more on the military" always gets you votes, and hypersonic spy planes are extra cool. Whereas if you tried to spend it on dirty ungrateful poor people you'd get booted out of office.
Sometimes vindictive spite is the only way a lawmaker can get the courage to vote for what they believe, instead of for what the party whip tells them they have to vote for if they want their next campaign financed. It's like when you're in a toxic office environment but you wear a smile and toe the company line until your last day when you spill the harsh truth in your exit interview.
How can you do a crewed test flight? You send people up, tell them to do no work, and then examine whether they've exploded or not? Who volunteers for that mission?
Literacy rates today are far, far better than in the first half of the 20th century -- even in the USA and Europe a large percentage of the population couldn't read or write at all back then.
Of course, English literacy in the USA has likely decreased in the 21st century due to immigration. Back in 2003 I scored California High School Exit Exams for a bit, and it was obvious that a lot of the students simply had not learned English yet but may have been quite proficient in their own language.
Maintenance recommendations are already largely a scam, so it won't be difficult for dealers to recommend a $100 battery aura balancing for EVs every 1000 miles.
Because they're different people. The ones flocking to bitcoin (besides the speculators who have no personal values, and the drug addicts) are the libertarians who object the government regulations and taxation and laws that limit the 1% to a mere 50% of the world's wealth.
There's never been anything about open source that suggests that developers should listen to the end users. Closed source is better at listening, because proprietary software developers are paid to listen to what you want. Open source developers, on the other hand, are there to do what they want and you can take it or leave it.
Respecting the end user is a different matter, though -- it's a bare minimum of not violating rights. You don't have a right to be heard, but you have a right not be given adware/malware/backdoors. Just because the software respects the users doesn't mean the users have to respect it back.
It sure beats the current situation where dead seniors drive into someone else and kill them too. If you have some strange objection to traveling while dead, we can add an auto-eject system to detect when the occupant stops breathing and toss them out onto the shoulder of the road while the car goes home.
Agreed. Those of us who live alone and have no interest in 4K video certainly have no use for more than 10Mbps. I've happily downgraded to 6Mbps to save money, and I can't imagine what I could want faster for. And I spend most of my day working online. When discussing broadband as a necessary utility for the modern world, there's no sense in defining broadband as a speed that most people can't even think of a way to use. If you've got 5 kids all watching videos at once... they can suffer 360p for a bit, gasp.
What do you expect when you appoint someone to a job for which they have zero relevant experience? It's like making the trash collector your new company CEO.
Most of us want a civilized society with services -- so if you're in a federal country, let's simply shift the parenting down a level. Elect libertarians at the national level and socialists at the state level. That way you've got all the services you want, but you've also got oversight with the national government acting as a watchdog passing laws that stop surveillance and propaganda and other abuses of citizens by their states.
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It will take at least a billion years for Earth to become a harder place to live than Mars. Even then, after Earth's oceans have boiled away, it may be easier to live in climate-controlled spaces on an otherwise-lifeless Earth than on Mars.
It would be far more effective, not to mention cheaper, to build an isolated "backup" society deep underground on the Earth. The only reason we can't do that is that they'd refuse to stay and could too easily escape.
The US hoped the Russians would see the US as the world's lone superpower and agree to become a vassal state. Turns out they're uppity and have ambitions of being at least a regional power in former Soviet states instead of turning them over to the USA.
Regardless, though, the ISS was meant to keep some of Russia's smartest people employed so that they wouldn't have to sell their skills to other countries that might want space rockets, like North Korea and Iran. The ISS has been fully successful in that task.
The theory behind congressional term limits is that the job of a congressperson is to accumulate pork for their district and their campaign contributors by screwing everyone else, and thus we're better off with them being bad at their jobs.
Unfortunately, I think term limits would just give us politicians even more concerned about pleasing their sponsors so they can pick up a cushy advisory job when they get termed out.
What? Nearly everyone for decades now has been installing their software from their distro's repository, which is already a vetted safe collection. Virtually nobody has infected their Linux desktop by installing a trojan.
JPEG and PNG have very different purposes. PNG is not suitable for photos in any low-bandwidth scenario, the file sizes are huge. PNG was never meant to compete with JPEG at all, it was meant to replace GIF -- which it has mostly done for static GIFs.
We have record-setting levels of employment (here in California the unemployment level is the 40 years of the current tracking methodology), and we're getting rid of the horrible jobs no sane person wants to do. How anybody can think that's not great news is beyond me. I was originally against the minimum wage increase because I thought it was unnecessarily high and would increase unemployment and inflation, but it has clearly proved a success: here we are somehow with the poor getting more pay, near zero unemployment, and near zero inflation.
Humans can eliminate all other large species only by driving humanity to extinction at the same time -- and even at the cost of our own extinction, we're incapable of wiping out all insect life with all the nukes at our disposal. Also, if insects eliminate all humans they can continue happily on with their lives -- if humans eliminate all insects, we go extinct. It's clear whose position is stronger.
A better web page analogy for the GPL version of linking might be an iframe. If Boing Boing's article had embedded the centerfolds gallery in the middle of the article to be browsed in-page while reading the article, then I think Playboy's copyright complaint would be legitimate.
Best defense: have an obviously worthless car. Nobody's going to attempt an insurance scam on my '98 Ford Escort, they're going for something that looks like money.
California has a 6 billion dollar budget surplus and a sizable rainy day fund. It has more debt than any other state because it has twice as many people as any other state, obviously... and also direct democracy where voters keep voting for bond measures.
Partly employee retention, and partly midterm elections this year to protect the corporate tax cuts. People will vote based on how their wallets feel this year, not based on the lack of any actual pay raise long term or the size of the deficit.
The point is that "let's spend more on the military" always gets you votes, and hypersonic spy planes are extra cool. Whereas if you tried to spend it on dirty ungrateful poor people you'd get booted out of office.
Sometimes vindictive spite is the only way a lawmaker can get the courage to vote for what they believe, instead of for what the party whip tells them they have to vote for if they want their next campaign financed. It's like when you're in a toxic office environment but you wear a smile and toe the company line until your last day when you spill the harsh truth in your exit interview.
How can you do a crewed test flight? You send people up, tell them to do no work, and then examine whether they've exploded or not? Who volunteers for that mission?
Literacy rates today are far, far better than in the first half of the 20th century -- even in the USA and Europe a large percentage of the population couldn't read or write at all back then.
Of course, English literacy in the USA has likely decreased in the 21st century due to immigration. Back in 2003 I scored California High School Exit Exams for a bit, and it was obvious that a lot of the students simply had not learned English yet but may have been quite proficient in their own language.
Maintenance recommendations are already largely a scam, so it won't be difficult for dealers to recommend a $100 battery aura balancing for EVs every 1000 miles.
Because they're different people. The ones flocking to bitcoin (besides the speculators who have no personal values, and the drug addicts) are the libertarians who object the government regulations and taxation and laws that limit the 1% to a mere 50% of the world's wealth.
There's never been anything about open source that suggests that developers should listen to the end users. Closed source is better at listening, because proprietary software developers are paid to listen to what you want. Open source developers, on the other hand, are there to do what they want and you can take it or leave it.
Respecting the end user is a different matter, though -- it's a bare minimum of not violating rights. You don't have a right to be heard, but you have a right not be given adware/malware/backdoors. Just because the software respects the users doesn't mean the users have to respect it back.
85% of California's water goes to farmers, who aren't willing to pay desalinization prices. The agriculture only exists because of cheap water.
It sure beats the current situation where dead seniors drive into someone else and kill them too. If you have some strange objection to traveling while dead, we can add an auto-eject system to detect when the occupant stops breathing and toss them out onto the shoulder of the road while the car goes home.
Agreed. Those of us who live alone and have no interest in 4K video certainly have no use for more than 10Mbps. I've happily downgraded to 6Mbps to save money, and I can't imagine what I could want faster for. And I spend most of my day working online. When discussing broadband as a necessary utility for the modern world, there's no sense in defining broadband as a speed that most people can't even think of a way to use. If you've got 5 kids all watching videos at once... they can suffer 360p for a bit, gasp.
What do you expect when you appoint someone to a job for which they have zero relevant experience? It's like making the trash collector your new company CEO.
It's still 10 cents a text for pay as you go plans, if you know any poor people.
Most of us want a civilized society with services -- so if you're in a federal country, let's simply shift the parenting down a level. Elect libertarians at the national level and socialists at the state level. That way you've got all the services you want, but you've also got oversight with the national government acting as a watchdog passing laws that stop surveillance and propaganda and other abuses of citizens by their states.