Because someday this little rock we're on isn't going to be here. It's going to get smashed with a giant meteor or the sun is going to swell up and burn it away/suck it into it's gravitational pull. As living organisms it is our instinct, our purpose to survive against all odds, and as intelligent creatures we know we must ultimately extend our reach beyond the Earth in order to do so. It may take years before we can, or it may take millenia before we can. Better to start now instead of stalling and dooming future generations. The purpose of life is to continue.
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My only loss as a prisoner in such a facility is that I have to be more cautious in my masturbation.
Of course, if you're simply care-free about it, perhaps you can get yourself started in a lucrative career doing the same thing when you get out...
I Hear : We still have several killer bugs we haven't figured out yet so tell everyone the delay is because we care about the users, not because we're incompetent.
Even competence couldn't find and fix every bug in Windows...
The only downside to this is that the space traveler may seem like the trip only lasted a short time period, when it in fact took 10 years. By the time he gets back home his family will have aged 20 years
Thanks to Relativity, this will happen at near-light speeds as well. Light speed itself is impossible without infinite energy (or so is thought).
While the "saving a backup of humanity" is undoubtedly useful, why waste vast amounts of money on manned spaceflight that doesn't achieve that goal? Surely unmanned vehicles capable of setting-up the environment that will eventually be required is a better way towards the goal of an off-planet colony.
Well, that won't do us much good if we can't get there.
...And to prove that Open Source is a good thing, consider this: Anyone can submit a patch to Slashcode which would allow this comment to get the +6, Funny As Hell it deserves. Bravo.
And *how* does this differ from e-mail SPAM? Who is paying for that? The recipient!!!
I never got charged $0.40 per e-mail, but if I don't have unlimited text messaging on my cel phone and spam pushes me over my limit, each message costs one minute of full price airtime. I've gotten cel spam before, but only 3 times. Each time it was from a Yahoo! address and it's only happened once per account.
Even though it would never happen and if it did it would never work, just the thought of a flash mob winning the X-Prize kind of scared me...imagine slashdotting history...
This is true. An interesting point to add: Installer.app will always ask for your password, as do most other OS X installers, but many times, Mac apps are distributed as a single file and you install by dragging the app to the Applications folder, and this has no safeguard.
Also note that applications do NOT need to reside in the Applications folder to be run.
I think that, lately, our values expressed in our judicial and legislative system are more in line with what Americans expect than their political leadership have provided.
If Bush gets re-elected, prepare for a mass exodus of Americans to Canada. I'm sure not going to get drafted into Bush's World War 3!
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Ahhh... both points refuted! mod grandparent into the ground.
Quothe the article:Was you PC going "Blee-ble-ble-ble-ble-bleeee" so long that you missed the Switch commercials? That's kind of..........a bummer.
"Capitains Log, Stardate 1423964; I've lost my toupe and girdle, and can't leave my room" - Tom, MST3K
Doesn't the EUPTO charge a filling fee? sounds to me like they should, and avoid such nonsense.
Besides, it can't take much time to read a patent abstract and stamp it "rejected: no software"...
Why, if they're not legally enforcable, are they issued anyway? Seems like the EU patent office is wasting your Euros.
Then it would be A's copyright in dispute after all, which makes your answer a stupid answer.
Besides, that didn't happen in this case. Any more Karma whoring/trolling to be done today?
*AHEM*
That's GNU/Cringe
Works on college chicks...
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I second that.
...And to prove that Open Source is a good thing, consider this: Anyone can submit a patch to Slashcode which would allow this comment to get the +6, Funny As Hell it deserves. Bravo.
Even though it would never happen and if it did it would never work, just the thought of a flash mob winning the X-Prize kind of scared me...imagine slashdotting history...
This is true. An interesting point to add: Installer.app will always ask for your password, as do most other OS X installers, but many times, Mac apps are distributed as a single file and you install by dragging the app to the Applications folder, and this has no safeguard.
Also note that applications do NOT need to reside in the Applications folder to be run.
That'll go great with my CoffeeTron Dick Defender(tm)
...you insensitive clod!