"What other invention can disrupt virtually any event, almost always at the worst time?"
It's not always at the worst time. Sometimes it is at the best time. I was at a dinner at church and we were being led in prayer before we ate, so the room was completely quiet except for the pastor. Just as the pastor said "Lord, help us to hear your call," his cell phone rang. It was the funniest shit that's happened at church in a while. Perfect timing...
All I meant to say was that the concert about the media not reporting on personal tragedies enough is not that big a problem, because people will eventually find out about it anyway in the event that the war gets really out of hand. Your criticizm of the media points to a problem, but it is a small problem.
People will see crippled soldiers when they come home in large numbers. Don't worry about the news. If this conflict actually becomes serious, and people's neighbor's kids wind up dead, there will be an outcry to end it quickly. Right now, 500 americans have died. Nobody from my community. It is a problem that will correct itself if it gets out of hand.
Wow, youa re the saddest, sickest person I have ever known. You would rather see a dead rock float through space for all eternity than let humans terraform and bring life to it? You would rather see life itself perish than bring life to the rest of the universe? This is a joke, right? Try falling in love, you'll change your attitude on Life.
OK, you don't like deadlines? How about this. If we have a self-sustaining colony on the moon and some good ships for getting us there and back, we could sell several million dollar vacation packages there. The space program would be MORE than self-funding in 30 year's time. If you look at it that way, the sooner we do this, the more money we SAVE. And when I'm old, retired, and realizing my mortality, I think I would be more than willing to give my entire net worth just to be able lie down on the moon and watch the Earth spin by, framed by the blackness of space and the overwhelmingly bright and numerous stars.
Oh, and a place with really low gravity would make a great retirement community.
Eventually this planet will die. Expanding through the galaxy is humanity's only hope of survival. In fact, as far as we know, our space program is the only long-term chance for life itself to survive. There could not be a more noble use of our tax money. Better health care, feeding the hungry, all of these short-term, unsustainable goals are completely insignificant in the long term compared to the space program.
Don't be silly. Digital information is far more archiveable than any other sort, especially film. It can be perfectly stored forever, and coppied to multiple places for redundant backup. If the physical mediam it is on starts to decay, it can be moved to something new. You can't do that with film.
I call bullshit. I took my Toshiba Satellite apart one night. The only tool I needed was a small screwdriver. Everything inside there was easily replaceable. Hard drive, CDROM, whatever, could just be popped out/unplugged. I had the thing spread all over the table. It was not "sealed" and there were no painted on wires. Some of the parts looked like they might be well-standardized. Oh, but when I put it back together, I had 2 screws left over. But it doesn't matter, it still works perfectly. Given the parts, everything inside a laptop (at least of my model) should be replaceable by anyone who is at least capable of building a PC from standard parts. Now, replacing the outer plastic casing, that would be a different story...
You people with your EOLs! I use Gentoo, and it never EOLs because everyone is always on the latest 'version'. There is only one 'version' and if you run "emerge -u world" from time to time, you will always be completely up to date with the latest.
You should learn to touch-type. That way you can write words in your posts instead of having to make up acronyms. Also, people reading what you type won't have to guess at what you mean. If you can touch-type, you can write out 'click the fucking link' faster than you can type CTFL because you don't have to hit the shift key. Better for everyone. Where I'm from, touch-typing is taught in 7th grade...
I hope your business and personal data was so personal or important to the business, since it was on unencrypted FTP. Not even getting in to the fact that your FTP server was owned by warez types.
The future is ALL robots on the battle field. It has alread started. The predator drone is the first big step. It flies and attacks remotely. All of the new DoD research money is going toward robotic replacements for soldiers. Our tanks now are controlled completely electronically. It shouldn't make a difference whether the soldiers are staring at a computer monitor inside the tank or miles away in a safe place. And why send a soldier down a fox hole, when an X10 wireless webcam and a $30 RC car from radioshack would do the job? The final step will be when mostly human-shaped robots with rifles are controlled remotely. It would be able to do most things a soldier does if it has a microphone and speakers and video cammera. He could see and hear what it does and speak through it. It will be much easier to take over 3rd world conutries when we have no casualties, soldiers don't have to sleep, and have machine accuracy for targeting.
NASA exists because the American governmant makes it so. They fund and organize it. You are clearly wrong when you say you are "against the american government." You may oppose some decisions of the american government, or some politicians, but you are not 'against the american government' as you say. That is a rather juvenile view. NASA is part of the american government. So is our unmatched foreign aid program. Grow.
Those KIO things are great, but there is no mention of them in the Konq handbook. None. Search for 'fish' and you find zilch. That's very poor documenting on KDE's part.
Bring on the heat. I'm cold. So we lose Bangladesh? Big deal, in the process, Canada would finally become habitable. We can move them there, eh?
I am not at all worried about global warming and the 'balance of nature' because there is and never was a balance. I say we should terraform Earth so that it's nice and warm and there are more girls in bikinis.
Whether a slashdotter is using the term agains Microsoft or the RIAA is using the term against file swappers, copyright infringement SHOULD NOT be called theft. They are extremely different things, and by perpetuating the terminology you are playing into the hands of the IP cartels.
You are wrong. The central theme to Asimov's stuff is the three laws of robotics. And these commercials advertise the robots as being "3 laws safe." Clearly, the movie and books are related by more than/just/ the name.
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"What other invention can disrupt virtually any event, almost always at the worst time?"
It's not always at the worst time. Sometimes it is at the best time. I was at a dinner at church and we were being led in prayer before we ate, so the room was completely quiet except for the pastor. Just as the pastor said "Lord, help us to hear your call," his cell phone rang. It was the funniest shit that's happened at church in a while. Perfect timing...
That would have been a funny joke-- in middle school!
All I meant to say was that the concert about the media not reporting on personal tragedies enough is not that big a problem, because people will eventually find out about it anyway in the event that the war gets really out of hand. Your criticizm of the media points to a problem, but it is a small problem.
People will see crippled soldiers when they come home in large numbers. Don't worry about the news. If this conflict actually becomes serious, and people's neighbor's kids wind up dead, there will be an outcry to end it quickly. Right now, 500 americans have died. Nobody from my community. It is a problem that will correct itself if it gets out of hand.
Wow, youa re the saddest, sickest person I have ever known. You would rather see a dead rock float through space for all eternity than let humans terraform and bring life to it? You would rather see life itself perish than bring life to the rest of the universe? This is a joke, right? Try falling in love, you'll change your attitude on Life.
OK, you don't like deadlines? How about this. If we have a self-sustaining colony on the moon and some good ships for getting us there and back, we could sell several million dollar vacation packages there. The space program would be MORE than self-funding in 30 year's time. If you look at it that way, the sooner we do this, the more money we SAVE. And when I'm old, retired, and realizing my mortality, I think I would be more than willing to give my entire net worth just to be able lie down on the moon and watch the Earth spin by, framed by the blackness of space and the overwhelmingly bright and numerous stars.
Oh, and a place with really low gravity would make a great retirement community.
Sir, I applaud you. Well said.
Eventually this planet will die. Expanding through the galaxy is humanity's only hope of survival. In fact, as far as we know, our space program is the only long-term chance for life itself to survive. There could not be a more noble use of our tax money. Better health care, feeding the hungry, all of these short-term, unsustainable goals are completely insignificant in the long term compared to the space program.
Don't be silly. Digital information is far more archiveable than any other sort, especially film. It can be perfectly stored forever, and coppied to multiple places for redundant backup. If the physical mediam it is on starts to decay, it can be moved to something new. You can't do that with film.
What are we going to do? Hold it under the dorsal guided feathers?
Actually, every Christian church baptizes. And almost everyone in the US is circumsized, but not for religious reasons.
I call bullshit. I took my Toshiba Satellite apart one night. The only tool I needed was a small screwdriver. Everything inside there was easily replaceable. Hard drive, CDROM, whatever, could just be popped out/unplugged. I had the thing spread all over the table. It was not "sealed" and there were no painted on wires. Some of the parts looked like they might be well-standardized. Oh, but when I put it back together, I had 2 screws left over. But it doesn't matter, it still works perfectly. Given the parts, everything inside a laptop (at least of my model) should be replaceable by anyone who is at least capable of building a PC from standard parts. Now, replacing the outer plastic casing, that would be a different story...
You people with your EOLs! I use Gentoo, and it never EOLs because everyone is always on the latest 'version'. There is only one 'version' and if you run "emerge -u world" from time to time, you will always be completely up to date with the latest.
You should learn to touch-type. That way you can write words in your posts instead of having to make up acronyms. Also, people reading what you type won't have to guess at what you mean. If you can touch-type, you can write out 'click the fucking link' faster than you can type CTFL because you don't have to hit the shift key. Better for everyone. Where I'm from, touch-typing is taught in 7th grade...
I hope your business and personal data was so personal or important to the business, since it was on unencrypted FTP. Not even getting in to the fact that your FTP server was owned by warez types.
The future is ALL robots on the battle field. It has alread started. The predator drone is the first big step. It flies and attacks remotely. All of the new DoD research money is going toward robotic replacements for soldiers. Our tanks now are controlled completely electronically. It shouldn't make a difference whether the soldiers are staring at a computer monitor inside the tank or miles away in a safe place. And why send a soldier down a fox hole, when an X10 wireless webcam and a $30 RC car from radioshack would do the job? The final step will be when mostly human-shaped robots with rifles are controlled remotely. It would be able to do most things a soldier does if it has a microphone and speakers and video cammera. He could see and hear what it does and speak through it. It will be much easier to take over 3rd world conutries when we have no casualties, soldiers don't have to sleep, and have machine accuracy for targeting.
That's a good point. Wait, no it's not. Don't update software because some people might not buy it right away. Right. No soup for you.
NASA exists because the American governmant makes it so. They fund and organize it. You are clearly wrong when you say you are "against the american government." You may oppose some decisions of the american government, or some politicians, but you are not 'against the american government' as you say. That is a rather juvenile view. NASA is part of the american government. So is our unmatched foreign aid program. Grow.
... and multi-colored LEDs on the fans and a plexiglass window...
Those KIO things are great, but there is no mention of them in the Konq handbook. None. Search for 'fish' and you find zilch. That's very poor documenting on KDE's part.
Come now, you buy from Dell? A Slashdotter who does not build his own PC is like a Jedi who does not build his own lightsaber.
Note to moderators: Just because you don't get it, doesn't mean it is a troll. It could mean you have no sense of humor. Read the guidlines.
Bring on the heat. I'm cold. So we lose Bangladesh? Big deal, in the process, Canada would finally become habitable. We can move them there, eh?
I am not at all worried about global warming and the 'balance of nature' because there is and never was a balance. I say we should terraform Earth so that it's nice and warm and there are more girls in bikinis.
Whether a slashdotter is using the term agains Microsoft or the RIAA is using the term against file swappers, copyright infringement SHOULD NOT be called theft. They are extremely different things, and by perpetuating the terminology you are playing into the hands of the IP cartels.
You are wrong. The central theme to Asimov's stuff is the three laws of robotics. And these commercials advertise the robots as being "3 laws safe." Clearly, the movie and books are related by more than /just/ the name.