I always thought it was part of a plan to colonize Mars. My colonization hypothesis explains:
why American went to the moon -- they wanted to colonize it;
and why they stopped going there -- because it's inhabitable;
And why the Russians did not go to the moon -- once they perceived the Americans could not colonize it, they did not bother going there.
You know, by now, Mars is completely inhospitable --- to complex forms of life, at least ---, but there are those talks about terraformation, of building habitats, of getting raw materials there. And look who are leading the space exploration: the Americans, a people who holds a long tradition of being descended from explorers, from settlers who came across the dangerous sea to an inhospitable land. Of course, going to Mars is too far fetched because of the actual reality, but culture is not more about reality than a representation of it.
How's it going to protect crew (and equipment) from hard radiation? Seems to me that getting all that (lots of) extra mass to escape velocity would make it *way* more expensive than.
Would it be more practical to build a habitat in one of those caves that the Moon is supposed to have?
Folks here on slashdot might give a crap about the fine distinctions between an iPad and a Surface tablet. Lots more folks really don't care even a tiny bit. To them the differences are purely academic.
That's mostly because people on/. knew what a tablet computer was before rumors about the iPad existed.
All of them. There is no point in installing that app if one does not already use iOS and finally got an easier way to move all that stuff from the old Android phone.
Since Edge comes from the same company that makes the OS used to run those benchmarks, the fact the it did not win in all, or even most of, instances is a failure.
While KDE is my first answer why I won't switch to Windows, although I thought that Win 7 was a decent OS, the keyboard layouts in Windows are what makes it harder to work for me in practical terms.
If you write in a single language, they're OK, but having to change layout to type in German looks like too much for too little. Also, the Greek (polytonic) layout in Windows is harder to learn, as you can't just combine diacritics. Typing IPA is also horrible and the workarounds my colleagues use cause a lot of incompatibility and produce unreadable text sometimes.
With XKB (part of X, I know), however, if the available layouts, and key combinations, do not suffice you, you can modify them or, at least, create your own pattern of key combinations. Even if there is, or was, a tool for that on Windows, the system has went on a trend that make customization always harder, so, I do not want.
Two, back in the olden days, you could physically beat mild autism out of a child, much like you could beat left-handedness, fingernail chewing, hair twirling, and other undesirable behavior out of them.
Only if they got past dysentery, scarlatina, malnutrition, infection, etc. Then you could even beat the life out of a child, and nobody would care, as you could claim any of the dozens of other causes of child death had got your child.
I am quite aware that life expectancy is not a metric of how old people get, especially when the child mortality is high, sorry if did not make it clear before. However, while your figures are about the aristocracy, which has always been a minority, what I meant is that most cancer is more widespread nowadays because people in the past died of another thing before cancer could get them. While I can't rule out that sunscreen causes, or increase the odds of, cancer, as the GP implies, the overall increase of cancer is not sound proof of that.
For thousands or millions of years humans have spent their lives outside farming, hunting, gathering, etc. and haven't had as much cancer as we have in todays society. Now its coming out that the roundup sprayed onto all of our food likely causes cancer. I wonder if the chemicals in sunscreen might also have a link.
For thousands or millions of years humans have lived shorter. Cancer incidence increases with age (source), therefore, the reason why there was less cancer incidence in the past is because most people died of other causes before cancer could get them. I'm not arguing that some chemicals sprayed on crops may not induce, or, at least, increase the odds of, cancer, but just comparing the data from the past to the present data is not sound proof. By the way, there is a chemical implied in the higher incidence of cancer nowadays; that is CFC, which made the ozone layer thinner.
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You know, by now, Mars is completely inhospitable --- to complex forms of life, at least ---, but there are those talks about terraformation, of building habitats, of getting raw materials there. And look who are leading the space exploration: the Americans, a people who holds a long tradition of being descended from explorers, from settlers who came across the dangerous sea to an inhospitable land. Of course, going to Mars is too far fetched because of the actual reality, but culture is not more about reality than a representation of it.
The right equation is Beria:McCarthy::Castro:Pinochet.
Not really, he must do about 2 words per minute nowadays (source ), but I think he may perform better with a brain implant.
If you write said amateur sci-fi, don't forget to trow in some sharks. Because sharks in space with lasers!
How's it going to protect crew (and equipment) from hard radiation? Seems to me that getting all that (lots of) extra mass to escape velocity would make it *way* more expensive than.
Would it be more practical to build a habitat in one of those caves that the Moon is supposed to have?
But how can one deal with moon dust?
And one can do EMP with an atomic bomb!
A former worker from big car companies is so sure that Apple can't enter the car market, while he is trying hard to shoo Apple away.
Yeah, but dogs can't speak English.
That's because Scottish drones do sound better and don't spy over people!
I saw a gnu in the Microsoft's page!
Folks here on slashdot might give a crap about the fine distinctions between an iPad and a Surface tablet. Lots more folks really don't care even a tiny bit. To them the differences are purely academic.
That's mostly because people on /. knew what a tablet computer was before rumors about the iPad existed.
All of them. There is no point in installing that app if one does not already use iOS and finally got an easier way to move all that stuff from the old Android phone.
Hmmm. I've seen GW Bush do the same Nazi salute when visiting the troops in Iraq.
That was the Roman salute.
Since Edge comes from the same company that makes the OS used to run those benchmarks, the fact the it did not win in all, or even most of, instances is a failure.
XKB.
While KDE is my first answer why I won't switch to Windows, although I thought that Win 7 was a decent OS, the keyboard layouts in Windows are what makes it harder to work for me in practical terms.
If you write in a single language, they're OK, but having to change layout to type in German looks like too much for too little. Also, the Greek (polytonic) layout in Windows is harder to learn, as you can't just combine diacritics. Typing IPA is also horrible and the workarounds my colleagues use cause a lot of incompatibility and produce unreadable text sometimes.
With XKB (part of X, I know), however, if the available layouts, and key combinations, do not suffice you, you can modify them or, at least, create your own pattern of key combinations. Even if there is, or was, a tool for that on Windows, the system has went on a trend that make customization always harder, so, I do not want.
Two, back in the olden days, you could physically beat mild autism out of a child, much like you could beat left-handedness, fingernail chewing, hair twirling, and other undesirable behavior out of them.
Only if they got past dysentery, scarlatina, malnutrition, infection, etc. Then you could even beat the life out of a child, and nobody would care, as you could claim any of the dozens of other causes of child death had got your child.
I am quite aware that life expectancy is not a metric of how old people get, especially when the child mortality is high, sorry if did not make it clear before. However, while your figures are about the aristocracy, which has always been a minority, what I meant is that most cancer is more widespread nowadays because people in the past died of another thing before cancer could get them. While I can't rule out that sunscreen causes, or increase the odds of, cancer, as the GP implies, the overall increase of cancer is not sound proof of that.
There are no doctors to diagnose them.
Sometimes ad hominem is the best strategy not to wast time.
Whatsapp is quite popular in Brazil. Just saying...
That's why he works predominantly at night.
(...) Those that did were probably genetically hardier as well...or rich.
And many rich people got less sun exposure, especially in southern Europe.
For thousands or millions of years humans have spent their lives outside farming, hunting, gathering, etc. and haven't had as much cancer as we have in todays society. Now its coming out that the roundup sprayed onto all of our food likely causes cancer. I wonder if the chemicals in sunscreen might also have a link.
For thousands or millions of years humans have lived shorter. Cancer incidence increases with age (source), therefore, the reason why there was less cancer incidence in the past is because most people died of other causes before cancer could get them. I'm not arguing that some chemicals sprayed on crops may not induce, or, at least, increase the odds of, cancer, but just comparing the data from the past to the present data is not sound proof.
By the way, there is a chemical implied in the higher incidence of cancer nowadays; that is CFC, which made the ozone layer thinner.
It's going to take a while, seeing as they can't hold a screw driver.
At least, they are not screwing the world, nor driving other species into extinction.
The next victims will likely include ourselves. As for the dolphins, as the most intelligent species of the world, they will find a way out.