That's kind of shortsighted. No one thought anybody would plan on attacking the World Trade Centers, or crowds in France, or nightclubs, etc.
Great point: that's why we need to stop making tall buildings and nightclubs, and quickly retire all current ones from service. Then we can stop making airships too and be totally safe in our mud huts.
The electoral college is supposed to give the states a voice
And when the constitution was written the states were presumed to be at worst within an order of magnitude of each other in size and population, which they no longer are. Wyoming and California are barely within two orders of magnitude.
We could employ everyone on earth riding stationary bicycles to drive little dynamos for electricity, but that's not a worthwhile goal.
You could get a billion dollar valuation for that idea, if you pitch it as a combination renewable energy and weight loss plan, and write an app that gives everyone little reward incentives for each mile.
Hi there, I'm Jill Stein's other voter. In the universe where the USA is a parliamentary democracy with proportional representation, she's one of the two Green MPs being ignored by the major parties.
Make things with patents? Don't be silly. The most profitable, wildly successful IBM business strategy is patent trolling. They get the revenue of other companies that make stuff, without doing any of the work -- a sweet deal.
It's very unsafe to continue driving more than a couple hours without a break. If you don't have time to drive there safely, you shouldn't be driving there at all -- it's not just you who you could kill, it's innocent people in another car.
Of course, if you spend 50 years telling boys that girls are not different than them and that they are exactly the same, then why are you going to be surprised when boys act like boys and include girls in the conversation?
This is what's so idiotic about cultural conservatism: the belief that there are a handful of groups of uniform people (in this case just two groups, men and women, who all think like their fellows). It's ironic that they're unable to even process the concept of individual uniqueness and thus somehow interpret liberals as saying everyone is the same, when of course liberals have always been saying the exact opposite: that everyone is different.
The reality of being a responsible adult is that you should evaluate the people around you to determine whether it's appropriate to talk about certain iffy subjects. But no, you cannot simply say "there are women around so I won't talk about this" and "there are no women around so I will talk about this". That may be a factor in your evaluation, but should certainly not be the only factor. There are many men who will find you disgusting and lose all respect for you, and some women who won't mind or will join in. What you need to learn to do is evaluate the environment as a whole and read the signals from those around you when you test the ground. Sorry if that's too complex for you.
It doesn't have to take over 100MB of RAM to display a webpage, if you don't care about performance. It takes so much RAM because using that RAM makes it faster.
P.S. If you couldn't tell, I am a cheap old geezer.
Cheap? You spent a fortune on a macbook. You could've bought a new low-end laptop every single year for less total cost, and had better performance most of those years.
A purpose of The Boring Company is to avoid the issue of having to tear up streets, by going under. The main reason Arizona has an easier time building infrastructure than California is that it's mostly cactus and there's nothing to be lost and no worthwhile environment to harm by tearing it up.
That's why every other country in the world (all of which have drastically less spending on such things) has been conquered by the Russians, the Chinese or Daesh. If even tiny impoverished North Korea can remain stubbornly independent with most of the world against it, what are you so worried about in the world's largest economy protected by oceans and friendly neighbors?
Sure, one of these days he's going to use the notoriety gained from SpaceX, Tesla, etc to go found an online payments company where he'll make his real money.
The ISS has no real advantages for staging, and some disadvantages compared to using an empty spot in orbit. First, it's in an orbit designed for its own purposes at a low altitude -- not designed for transfer to Mars -- and this could increase fuel costs significantly. Second, it has no manufacturing or assembly capabilities and retrofitting it with such will likely be more expensive than launching those facilities directly. Third, the "advantage" of being an emergency fail safe can as easily be seen as a disadvantage of endangering 6 more lives unnecessarily if something should go wrong that damages the station, and a soyuz can be parked in any random orbit if you want one so there's nothing special about the ISS having a soyuz.
Also, the seals on the ISS are going to have failed long before we can reach Mars -- and it's not easy to fix.
What about website/domain name value estimators? They also pull a seemingly-random number out of a hat, disagreeing with each other by 1000% or more, and no doubt impact what a buyer is willing to pay. Yet it's hard to see how it would be in the public interest to outlaw all machine-generated estimates.
Ubuntu's success among linux desktop users has in fact led to it gaining a chunk of server/cloud users (name recognition goes a long way regardless of merit), the latter being where the profit is. They aren't the leading player, but even a chunk of a profitable market is profitable.
My worry is that Ubuntu is going to follow the path of RedHat. Where Ubuntu takes over debian as the defacto fork and updates trickle back to debian. Usurping the debian development and testing in the process.
This could've happened years ago if Ubuntu so desired, since Ubuntu has more users and more developers and more resources than Debian. They don't so desire. It's easier to be downstream than upstream and they know it. They'd rather help Debian remain their upstream so they can get some benefit from it.
Exactly. I switched to KMail for a bit because of shiny features, but unfortunately KMail was being actively developed and the developers kept breaking it. Had to migrate back to Thunderbird so that I could count on my mail always working.
You can live on minimum wage by managing your money well. You can never be secure on minimum wage though, and insecurity is the cause of stress. Knowing that you're one injury or one layoff from being homeless makes it hard to sleep at night.
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People who buy $5 headphones are probably not the target market for a $700 phone.
Great point: that's why we need to stop making tall buildings and nightclubs, and quickly retire all current ones from service. Then we can stop making airships too and be totally safe in our mud huts.
Glaciers have covered most of Greenland for the past 2-3 million years. Not hundred.
And when the constitution was written the states were presumed to be at worst within an order of magnitude of each other in size and population, which they no longer are. Wyoming and California are barely within two orders of magnitude.
You could get a billion dollar valuation for that idea, if you pitch it as a combination renewable energy and weight loss plan, and write an app that gives everyone little reward incentives for each mile.
95% of the electorate voted for evil. Not perfect but I really don't think evil is feeling too bad about that.
Hi there, I'm Jill Stein's other voter. In the universe where the USA is a parliamentary democracy with proportional representation, she's one of the two Green MPs being ignored by the major parties.
Make things with patents? Don't be silly. The most profitable, wildly successful IBM business strategy is patent trolling. They get the revenue of other companies that make stuff, without doing any of the work -- a sweet deal.
It's very unsafe to continue driving more than a couple hours without a break. If you don't have time to drive there safely, you shouldn't be driving there at all -- it's not just you who you could kill, it's innocent people in another car.
This is what's so idiotic about cultural conservatism: the belief that there are a handful of groups of uniform people (in this case just two groups, men and women, who all think like their fellows). It's ironic that they're unable to even process the concept of individual uniqueness and thus somehow interpret liberals as saying everyone is the same, when of course liberals have always been saying the exact opposite: that everyone is different.
The reality of being a responsible adult is that you should evaluate the people around you to determine whether it's appropriate to talk about certain iffy subjects. But no, you cannot simply say "there are women around so I won't talk about this" and "there are no women around so I will talk about this". That may be a factor in your evaluation, but should certainly not be the only factor. There are many men who will find you disgusting and lose all respect for you, and some women who won't mind or will join in. What you need to learn to do is evaluate the environment as a whole and read the signals from those around you when you test the ground. Sorry if that's too complex for you.
It doesn't have to take over 100MB of RAM to display a webpage, if you don't care about performance. It takes so much RAM because using that RAM makes it faster.
Cheap? You spent a fortune on a macbook. You could've bought a new low-end laptop every single year for less total cost, and had better performance most of those years.
"Garbage" hardware will last most users more years than they plan to keep the phone.
Your local grocery store has Android phones for $20. $60 is the most I've ever paid for a smartphone.
If your marketing pitch is fault-tolerance, cockroach is a good way to convey that it's hard to kill.
A purpose of The Boring Company is to avoid the issue of having to tear up streets, by going under. The main reason Arizona has an easier time building infrastructure than California is that it's mostly cactus and there's nothing to be lost and no worthwhile environment to harm by tearing it up.
That's why every other country in the world (all of which have drastically less spending on such things) has been conquered by the Russians, the Chinese or Daesh. If even tiny impoverished North Korea can remain stubbornly independent with most of the world against it, what are you so worried about in the world's largest economy protected by oceans and friendly neighbors?
Sure, one of these days he's going to use the notoriety gained from SpaceX, Tesla, etc to go found an online payments company where he'll make his real money.
The ISS has no real advantages for staging, and some disadvantages compared to using an empty spot in orbit. First, it's in an orbit designed for its own purposes at a low altitude -- not designed for transfer to Mars -- and this could increase fuel costs significantly. Second, it has no manufacturing or assembly capabilities and retrofitting it with such will likely be more expensive than launching those facilities directly. Third, the "advantage" of being an emergency fail safe can as easily be seen as a disadvantage of endangering 6 more lives unnecessarily if something should go wrong that damages the station, and a soyuz can be parked in any random orbit if you want one so there's nothing special about the ISS having a soyuz.
Also, the seals on the ISS are going to have failed long before we can reach Mars -- and it's not easy to fix.
What about website/domain name value estimators? They also pull a seemingly-random number out of a hat, disagreeing with each other by 1000% or more, and no doubt impact what a buyer is willing to pay. Yet it's hard to see how it would be in the public interest to outlaw all machine-generated estimates.
Ubuntu's success among linux desktop users has in fact led to it gaining a chunk of server/cloud users (name recognition goes a long way regardless of merit), the latter being where the profit is. They aren't the leading player, but even a chunk of a profitable market is profitable.
This could've happened years ago if Ubuntu so desired, since Ubuntu has more users and more developers and more resources than Debian. They don't so desire. It's easier to be downstream than upstream and they know it. They'd rather help Debian remain their upstream so they can get some benefit from it.
Unfortunately they've overlooked the fact that the poor (except maybe the homeless) can't afford to move, it's the wealthy who are mobile.
Perhaps it's just that the summer weather makes Arizonans so miserable that they want to hurt people.
Exactly. I switched to KMail for a bit because of shiny features, but unfortunately KMail was being actively developed and the developers kept breaking it. Had to migrate back to Thunderbird so that I could count on my mail always working.
You can live on minimum wage by managing your money well. You can never be secure on minimum wage though, and insecurity is the cause of stress. Knowing that you're one injury or one layoff from being homeless makes it hard to sleep at night.