If either shoots, both die because fire will be returned. Also, neither can know whether the other's home planet is more militarily advanced and will seek revenge for an unprovoked attack. A species irrational enough to attack in that situation would be unlikely to have gotten off its home world in the first place.
Columbus based his whole plan on the bad science of claiming the Earth was half as large as smarter people correctly thought it was and that he could reach India much quicker than he really could. His project was only green-lighted because of ignorance.
The only way Coca-Cola is in the history books is if they sponsor legally changing the name of the first person on Mars to Coca Cola, and even that assumes that the body can be delivered to Mars before it dies -- unlikely at present.
The fact that people buy a new phone every year and only buy a desktop every 7 years does not imply that they use their desktop less than they used to or even less than their phone. While there has been a mild decline in desktop use, mobile use has been largely supplementary not a replacement.
Actually, American citizens used to make a habit of sending their private armies to invade Mexico and other countries. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Although it may kill a lot more people, waging war in the knowledge that innocent people will die is rightfully treated very differently from actively targeting defenseless innocents as a primary war strategy. Morality is not the math of summing up body counts. Both are in my opinion immoral, but the active targeting is far more so.
Those billions of dollars of American property having been stolen blatantly from Cuba in the first place with the help of a corrupt crony dictatorship. Even JFK admitted that the American ownership of Cuba in the 50s was wholly unjust.
Considering Venus the only other planet sized similarly to Earth in this solar system, and that we don't know of any exomoons yet, it seems premature to declare it that unusual.
That says a design flaw, not lack of maintenance. Throwing more money at it doesn't seem likely to help prevent that. At any rate, one bridge in 8 years in a country of 300,000,000 people suggests the infrastructure is doing remarkably well.
You want your kernel developers running something old and stable? I sure don't, I want him running something fresh where he finds the bugs before they get to me.
Honest question: are there really bridges that are falling down in the USA? I haven't seen them here in northern California, nor have I see many bad potholes or anything else suggesting the roads are in trouble. Bad traffic in the big cities is the only significant issue I see.
Proof that years of astronaut training and astronaut psychological evaluations should be required before purchase for all gun owners. There'd be no more gun accidents or murders.
It's simple: Facebook's advertising technology employs a large number of Irish leprechauns who carry your ad from your computer through the series of tubes to the screen of the person you're advertising to.
But here is my larger point: who cares? Yes people can be difficult, they may be jerks, or worse; but this kind of crap is never justified.
You don't have to endorse "going postal" to consider that it may be a symptom of workplace problems in the industry. Likewise you don't have to endorse this sort of thing to care about addressing the causes of it, mainly the poor policies of comcast making their support employees miserable.
Humans are not machines. Many of them come to hate their jobs beyond the point they can bear, especially if said job involves being yelled at and blamed by angry people all day about things they have no control over. It's natural to direct that blame back at the people yelling at them, and to be on a short fuse after a while. Sure they have to be fired when the insults become public as a matter of public relations, but I sympathize with them even if I'm one of the people they've labeled insultingly.
Are you sure the bottom of the pacific ocean wouldn't actually be the best place for radioactive materials? Miles below the surface surrounded by an unfathomable amount of water?
Realistically, the price of clothes would increase until people learned to sew or shop in second hand stores again like they used to -- at which point the demand would stabilize at a much lower level. People would stop throwing out half of what's on their plate and locally grown food would start to out-compete food that has to be trucked further. Etc. Increasing prices always reduces demand. Gasoline costs twice as much in Europe as the USA, but life goes on with people adapting to use less of it.
Americans use twice as much energy per capita as the EU currently (source), so it might actually take a large energy supply reduction to drastically affect quality of life.
As opposed to the $5 you'd pay if you walked into Fry's to buy the same thing (according to a quick google). Not much savings for dealing with strangers of questionable reputation.
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If Betelgeuse was going to supernova tomorrow, there'd still be nothing to be concerned about -- just something to be excited about.
First human-meat-covered crater on Mars! There'll still be volunteers.
Nearly everyone is above average at something though. And Turing and every other genius are below average at many things.
If either shoots, both die because fire will be returned. Also, neither can know whether the other's home planet is more militarily advanced and will seek revenge for an unprovoked attack. A species irrational enough to attack in that situation would be unlikely to have gotten off its home world in the first place.
Columbus based his whole plan on the bad science of claiming the Earth was half as large as smarter people correctly thought it was and that he could reach India much quicker than he really could. His project was only green-lighted because of ignorance.
The only way Coca-Cola is in the history books is if they sponsor legally changing the name of the first person on Mars to Coca Cola, and even that assumes that the body can be delivered to Mars before it dies -- unlikely at present.
The fact that people buy a new phone every year and only buy a desktop every 7 years does not imply that they use their desktop less than they used to or even less than their phone. While there has been a mild decline in desktop use, mobile use has been largely supplementary not a replacement.
Actually, American citizens used to make a habit of sending their private armies to invade Mexico and other countries. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Although it may kill a lot more people, waging war in the knowledge that innocent people will die is rightfully treated very differently from actively targeting defenseless innocents as a primary war strategy. Morality is not the math of summing up body counts. Both are in my opinion immoral, but the active targeting is far more so.
Those billions of dollars of American property having been stolen blatantly from Cuba in the first place with the help of a corrupt crony dictatorship. Even JFK admitted that the American ownership of Cuba in the 50s was wholly unjust.
Considering Venus the only other planet sized similarly to Earth in this solar system, and that we don't know of any exomoons yet, it seems premature to declare it that unusual.
That says a design flaw, not lack of maintenance. Throwing more money at it doesn't seem likely to help prevent that. At any rate, one bridge in 8 years in a country of 300,000,000 people suggests the infrastructure is doing remarkably well.
You want your kernel developers running something old and stable? I sure don't, I want him running something fresh where he finds the bugs before they get to me.
Honest question: are there really bridges that are falling down in the USA? I haven't seen them here in northern California, nor have I see many bad potholes or anything else suggesting the roads are in trouble. Bad traffic in the big cities is the only significant issue I see.
Proof that years of astronaut training and astronaut psychological evaluations should be required before purchase for all gun owners. There'd be no more gun accidents or murders.
I would think by the 7th child there'd the the possibility of murder charges. Nobody can claim they haven't noticed the pattern by then.
If you have dry summers and wet winters, reservoirs supply enough water for the summer.
It's simple: Facebook's advertising technology employs a large number of Irish leprechauns who carry your ad from your computer through the series of tubes to the screen of the person you're advertising to.
Show me the oral traditional of annual rainfall totals. Or for that matter, show me when Mayans Aztecs or Toltecs were in LA.
But here is my larger point: who cares? Yes people can be difficult, they may be jerks, or worse; but this kind of crap is never justified.
You don't have to endorse "going postal" to consider that it may be a symptom of workplace problems in the industry. Likewise you don't have to endorse this sort of thing to care about addressing the causes of it, mainly the poor policies of comcast making their support employees miserable.
Humans are not machines. Many of them come to hate their jobs beyond the point they can bear, especially if said job involves being yelled at and blamed by angry people all day about things they have no control over. It's natural to direct that blame back at the people yelling at them, and to be on a short fuse after a while. Sure they have to be fired when the insults become public as a matter of public relations, but I sympathize with them even if I'm one of the people they've labeled insultingly.
Statistical extrapolations of repeating arrangements of matter based on the projected size of the multiverse has nothing in common with spirituality.
Are you sure the bottom of the pacific ocean wouldn't actually be the best place for radioactive materials? Miles below the surface surrounded by an unfathomable amount of water?
Realistically, the price of clothes would increase until people learned to sew or shop in second hand stores again like they used to -- at which point the demand would stabilize at a much lower level. People would stop throwing out half of what's on their plate and locally grown food would start to out-compete food that has to be trucked further. Etc. Increasing prices always reduces demand. Gasoline costs twice as much in Europe as the USA, but life goes on with people adapting to use less of it.
Americans use twice as much energy per capita as the EU currently (source), so it might actually take a large energy supply reduction to drastically affect quality of life.
As opposed to the $5 you'd pay if you walked into Fry's to buy the same thing (according to a quick google). Not much savings for dealing with strangers of questionable reputation.