You forgot that Google is also misspelled, so it's almost worse. The worst name I can think of off of the top of my head was the thankfully short lived "Flooz", despite Wikipedia stating that it has a reasonable base.
As will most cars from before roughly 2000. I could easily switch my 94 Miata to carbs, though I'm not sure how I'd cope with the ignition... I do have access to mechanical timing that may be able to be hacked to put a mechanical distributor and old school coil on though....
OK, I'll state my position on the species, since you asked, albeit not very politely.
Currently, we know of exactly one place that houses sentient life. That's the dirtball we're all on right now. While the odds are there's another dirtball similar to this one that has some sort of sentient life, we haven't found it yet (weather we want to or not is a question that is outside this context). It's not like we haven't been trying either.
With this in mind, I would consider it a travesty if we got wiped out by a handful of idiots with a gene sequencer, a handful of idiots with a centrifuge, or a cosmic event like a gigantic rock smacking our beloved dirtball. We're smarter than that. I don't know that we're the end-all be-all of knowledge with certainty, but we're the only ones we know of for now. Even though we are evolving and won't the be same thing in $BIGNUM years (perhaps not even recognizable to a member of the species today), I still think that we, as a species, have risen to the point to where we can ensure that something more than a fossil record is left, if we do the work. I believe we have the intelligence, we just need to keep grinding away until we get the full body (or at least a large enough body) of knowledge to get it done. Some people state that we already have this, we just need an investment.
As for my 'concern about the species': Being a member of it, I have a vested interest in it. I would think this would be a universal truth, but I could be wrong. The divisions we create among ourselves are merely theater when considered in the larger context, despite the fact that they often drive us to do horrific things to each other.
Space nutter indeed... There's no need to sink to insults. Of course, this is the internet...
Perhaps the likelyhood of an asteroid/comet/meteor strike sounds small to you, but the fact that one buzzed Russia last year(?) without any warning gives me a LITTLE bit of pause.
We need to get off this rock. Smarter people than I (Hawking, Musk) have been saying this for years.
I certainly hope that Nissan will release the sport version of the Leaf they built... The Leaf Nismo RC. Looks so much better, and they relocated the drive system to the back wheels, where $DEITY intended. Put a reasonable interior and battery in it, offer it for $30ish... I think there's a market for it.
The real problem is that, for some reason, a court DID order that entity A
"who was no longer allowed to speak negatively about the company online".
How exactly we've created a judicial system with arbitrary power like that is the problem.
Now the uberpower judicial system will (rightfully) attack Sundance Vacations, and we can all rejoice. Rejoice in the power we've given dudes in robes to declare "i am the law!".
I'm a foreign contractor.
I've worked all my 35+ career with foreign contractors. Most of them are rubbish. A few of them are great.
I've also worked most of my career with domestic staff. Most of them are rubbish. A few of them are great.
"90% of everything is crap". What are you trying to say?
There's a new Battlestar Galactica? Disney came out with their Kimba movie starring Matthew Broderick? Wow, the future is AWESOME! Did they bring back Dr. Who?
They call it Dr. Who, but it's not nearly as campy or funny.
Just because you don't have your own server doesn't mean there isn't one. Somebody has to actually run the server somewhere.
Or is it clouds all the way down?
Slashdot Mirror
"Hide the PhD." How do you then explain the 6 year gap in your resume?
"Misc. contract work"
to see that legal stupidity and .gov overreach lives in other places outside of the US, this still makes me a bit sad.
You forgot that Google is also misspelled, so it's almost worse. The worst name I can think of off of the top of my head was the thankfully short lived "Flooz", despite Wikipedia stating that it has a reasonable base.
Like TVR.
As will most cars from before roughly 2000. I could easily switch my 94 Miata to carbs, though I'm not sure how I'd cope with the ignition... I do have access to mechanical timing that may be able to be hacked to put a mechanical distributor and old school coil on though....
true. your point?
Privacy is already dead?
I pay Google in screen space rather than USD, so that still makes me a customer
Says the guy who runs adblock on everything.
OK, I'll state my position on the species, since you asked, albeit not very politely.
Currently, we know of exactly one place that houses sentient life. That's the dirtball we're all on right now. While the odds are there's another dirtball similar to this one that has some sort of sentient life, we haven't found it yet (weather we want to or not is a question that is outside this context). It's not like we haven't been trying either.
With this in mind, I would consider it a travesty if we got wiped out by a handful of idiots with a gene sequencer, a handful of idiots with a centrifuge, or a cosmic event like a gigantic rock smacking our beloved dirtball. We're smarter than that. I don't know that we're the end-all be-all of knowledge with certainty, but we're the only ones we know of for now. Even though we are evolving and won't the be same thing in $BIGNUM years (perhaps not even recognizable to a member of the species today), I still think that we, as a species, have risen to the point to where we can ensure that something more than a fossil record is left, if we do the work. I believe we have the intelligence, we just need to keep grinding away until we get the full body (or at least a large enough body) of knowledge to get it done. Some people state that we already have this, we just need an investment.
As for my 'concern about the species': Being a member of it, I have a vested interest in it. I would think this would be a universal truth, but I could be wrong. The divisions we create among ourselves are merely theater when considered in the larger context, despite the fact that they often drive us to do horrific things to each other.
Space nutter indeed... There's no need to sink to insults. Of course, this is the internet...
No, I was being serious... a neutral news source? Does it exist?
Could you suggest a neutral news source please?
At least it's easier to see when the fuzz are on your tail?
We need to get off this rock. Smarter people than I (Hawking, Musk) have been saying this for years.
At some point, we'll need to get off this rock or expire as a species. Getting people in space helps us understand how to do that better.
To say that all Volvo's are sedate would be untrue...
I certainly hope that Nissan will release the sport version of the Leaf they built... The Leaf Nismo RC. Looks so much better, and they relocated the drive system to the back wheels, where $DEITY intended. Put a reasonable interior and battery in it, offer it for $30ish... I think there's a market for it.
The real problem is that, for some reason, a court DID order that entity A "who was no longer allowed to speak negatively about the company online".
How exactly we've created a judicial system with arbitrary power like that is the problem.
Now the uberpower judicial system will (rightfully) attack Sundance Vacations, and we can all rejoice. Rejoice in the power we've given dudes in robes to declare "i am the law!".
Paging Judge Dredd...
I'm a foreign contractor. I've worked all my 35+ career with foreign contractors. Most of them are rubbish. A few of them are great. I've also worked most of my career with domestic staff. Most of them are rubbish. A few of them are great.
"90% of everything is crap". What are you trying to say?
Did you try turning it off and on again?
I think the perhaps the majority of the crowd here is too young to get MST3K references, but I thank you for the laugh.
"Well regulated militia" is the only group allowed to have weapons....
The supreme court disagrees with this assessment.
I was using perl before it was cool.
(I figured a fanboi submission required a hipster response)
Perl was cool? Seems that it's never been since I started using it in 2000.
There's a new Battlestar Galactica? Disney came out with their Kimba movie starring Matthew Broderick? Wow, the future is AWESOME! Did they bring back Dr. Who?
They call it Dr. Who, but it's not nearly as campy or funny.
Just because you don't have your own server doesn't mean there isn't one. Somebody has to actually run the server somewhere. Or is it clouds all the way down?
Something like that...
Was anyone else reminded of Paranoia when they read the synopsis?
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein