As much as I would love to colonize Mars, it would be a lot easier to colonize the Moon. In both cases you need a pressure suit and you're going to be hit by lots of radiation. You'll be spending most of your time underground in both cases. And it's cheaper to get more stuff to the Moon to help people to survive.
Thanks for the update, I obviously haven't kept up with the latest LEGO information (and forgot about proper capitalization of LEGO). Your post shows a real-world example of what really works.
Let's look at Lego. If Lego sold as many sets to girls as they sell to boys they would earn billions more than they do now. So they try hard to sell to girls. They show girls in advertisements playing with traditionally boy's sets. They make pink sets with flowers and ponies. They try and try and try and try to get girls into Legos. Yet the number of girls who play with Legos is consistently much smaller than boys. Lego isn't actively trying to prevent girls from liking their product. Capitalism beats out sexism. Only an idiot would allow sexism to prevent them from doubling their market. It's just that Legos don't appeal to most girls.
It is perfectly acceptable for a woman to go to bed in a set of boxers and a white t-shirt. However, it is unacceptable for a man to go to bed in a lace teddy and panties, even when his girlfriend is laying there in said boxers.:P
I think a better example would be skirts. It is socially acceptable for a woman to go to work either in pants or a skirt. However, if I (as a male) came to work in a skirt I would be asked into the bosses office and told to go home and get changed. This being summertime I imagine a skirt would be quite cool and comfortable.
Thanks to fracking we are now one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas. We are pumping it out so fast we're running out of places to store it. Obama has the luxury of not putting boots on the ground in the Middle East because we no longer need their oil.
It's actually more plausible to colonize the Moon than Mars. In both cases you're going to be living underground. In both cases you're extracting water and oxygen from local resources. In both cases you're going to be wearing a pressure suit on the surface. The advantage of the Moon is it only takes a couple weeks to get there instead of months. You can bring a heck of a lot more resources from Earth to your Moon base for the cost of bringing it to your Mars base. An emergency escape craft to bring you from the Moon to Earth wouldn't cost a trillion dollars. If you believe a Mars base would be easier to bring to self-sufficiency you are fooling yourselves.
I was just saying it was a problem. As it just so happens I'm plugging up someone else's memory leaks right now in a C# program. I worked in C and C++ for decades, so I love garbage collection. Just because I point out a problem doesn't mean I want to dump Java or C#.
A problem with Java and C# is that it is possible to create memory leaks in those languages, but since people rely so much on garbage collection they don't think about it and get bit in the ass. Event handlers shared across processes are particularly dangerous.
Why this wasn't done properly in Iraq is a serious head-scratcher, especially given that Iraq was indeed an artificial country (thanks, England!), and doubly so because of the regional culture plus pre-existing secular tensions. It would have been a long, expensive road, but it was certainly at least doable.
If the Germans had been putting IEDs under their AutoBahns for a decade after 1945, and continued to kill each other by the thousands, it's hard to imagine how we could have forced it to be the industrious, Bier drinking, techno loving paradise it is today.
I get the impression they were trying to make her a more major character... However she had some personal issues that got in the way.
They were going to play off the sexual tension between her and Kirk and have this simmering but never acted upon kind of thing between them. I wonder if she had remained in the series would Kirk have become the space-slut he's famous for?
It's like if someone from the 1800s wrote a science fiction story about someone from the 21st century going back to their time and expecting them to be experts with the slide rule and Morris code.
Heck, it's like someone from the 21st century being fluent in the name of things like "Morse code".:D
[face palm] You see how I cleverly proved my own point?
While I loved that scene, it always bothered me because you never see standard keyboards in the Star Trek universe, so how did Scotty get so proficient? It's like if someone from the 1800s wrote a science fiction story about someone from the 21st century going back to their time and expecting them to be experts with the slide rule and Morris code.
I don't think defining specific isotopic ratios will be out of the question for molecular printers. If you want to make a block of wood that seems like it's a thousand years old you just fill your carbon cartridge with the correct ratio of carbon 14.
Any historical media that is exclusively digital can be forged. Once we have molecular level 3-D printers, all physical historical artifacts can potentially be forged and altered. We have to look at a possible future where there in no way to verify any historical fact, an historical fact being anything that happened more than a nanosecond ago.
Depends on the severity of the culling. If monsters suddenly appeared in Holland and ate everyone under 2 meters tall in one night, evolution would happen rather quickly.
Mainly because Amercians are too stupid to actually get irony.
Hey! It was a Canadian who wrote the most popular song about irony where most of her examples were more tragic or unfortunate than ironic--so the most popular song about irony isn't really about irony at all, which is really quite ironic, don't ya think? Which . . . come to think of it . . . might be what she was trying to accomplish through meta-irony! Boy this is starting to hurt my head. Maybe I am too stupid to understand irony. Oh wait, you weren't talking about Americans, you were talking about Amercians, those people from Amercia. Never mind.
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As much as I would love to colonize Mars, it would be a lot easier to colonize the Moon. In both cases you need a pressure suit and you're going to be hit by lots of radiation. You'll be spending most of your time underground in both cases. And it's cheaper to get more stuff to the Moon to help people to survive.
Thanks for the update, I obviously haven't kept up with the latest LEGO information (and forgot about proper capitalization of LEGO). Your post shows a real-world example of what really works.
How about a kilt?
I would probably get a talking to about that too. Unless maybe if I brought bagpipes and said I was going to a parade after work.
Let's look at Lego. If Lego sold as many sets to girls as they sell to boys they would earn billions more than they do now. So they try hard to sell to girls. They show girls in advertisements playing with traditionally boy's sets. They make pink sets with flowers and ponies. They try and try and try and try to get girls into Legos. Yet the number of girls who play with Legos is consistently much smaller than boys. Lego isn't actively trying to prevent girls from liking their product. Capitalism beats out sexism. Only an idiot would allow sexism to prevent them from doubling their market. It's just that Legos don't appeal to most girls.
It is perfectly acceptable for a woman to go to bed in a set of boxers and a white t-shirt. However, it is unacceptable for a man to go to bed in a lace teddy and panties, even when his girlfriend is laying there in said boxers. :P
I think a better example would be skirts. It is socially acceptable for a woman to go to work either in pants or a skirt. However, if I (as a male) came to work in a skirt I would be asked into the bosses office and told to go home and get changed. This being summertime I imagine a skirt would be quite cool and comfortable.
If you can explain what a delegate is and use one to create an event, you can probably get hired.
Thanks to fracking we are now one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas. We are pumping it out so fast we're running out of places to store it. Obama has the luxury of not putting boots on the ground in the Middle East because we no longer need their oil.
If you want to be immortal, you have to be sterilized.
It's actually more plausible to colonize the Moon than Mars. In both cases you're going to be living underground. In both cases you're extracting water and oxygen from local resources. In both cases you're going to be wearing a pressure suit on the surface. The advantage of the Moon is it only takes a couple weeks to get there instead of months. You can bring a heck of a lot more resources from Earth to your Moon base for the cost of bringing it to your Mars base. An emergency escape craft to bring you from the Moon to Earth wouldn't cost a trillion dollars. If you believe a Mars base would be easier to bring to self-sufficiency you are fooling yourselves.
I first read it as "Hot Pocket", which I think would be a better fit.
I was just saying it was a problem. As it just so happens I'm plugging up someone else's memory leaks right now in a C# program. I worked in C and C++ for decades, so I love garbage collection. Just because I point out a problem doesn't mean I want to dump Java or C#.
A problem with Java and C# is that it is possible to create memory leaks in those languages, but since people rely so much on garbage collection they don't think about it and get bit in the ass. Event handlers shared across processes are particularly dangerous.
Why this wasn't done properly in Iraq is a serious head-scratcher, especially given that Iraq was indeed an artificial country (thanks, England!), and doubly so because of the regional culture plus pre-existing secular tensions. It would have been a long, expensive road, but it was certainly at least doable.
If the Germans had been putting IEDs under their AutoBahns for a decade after 1945, and continued to kill each other by the thousands, it's hard to imagine how we could have forced it to be the industrious, Bier drinking, techno loving paradise it is today.
She beamed down to the Lord of the Flies planet and almost died.
Wasn't Scotty a red shirt too?
Scotty was killed in an episode, but then brought back to life.
I get the impression they were trying to make her a more major character... However she had some personal issues that got in the way.
They were going to play off the sexual tension between her and Kirk and have this simmering but never acted upon kind of thing between them. I wonder if she had remained in the series would Kirk have become the space-slut he's famous for?
It's like if someone from the 1800s wrote a science fiction story about someone from the 21st century going back to their time and expecting them to be experts with the slide rule and Morris code.
Heck, it's like someone from the 21st century being fluent in the name of things like "Morse code". :D
[face palm] You see how I cleverly proved my own point?
While I loved that scene, it always bothered me because you never see standard keyboards in the Star Trek universe, so how did Scotty get so proficient? It's like if someone from the 1800s wrote a science fiction story about someone from the 21st century going back to their time and expecting them to be experts with the slide rule and Morris code.
I don't think defining specific isotopic ratios will be out of the question for molecular printers. If you want to make a block of wood that seems like it's a thousand years old you just fill your carbon cartridge with the correct ratio of carbon 14.
Any historical media that is exclusively digital can be forged. Once we have molecular level 3-D printers, all physical historical artifacts can potentially be forged and altered. We have to look at a possible future where there in no way to verify any historical fact, an historical fact being anything that happened more than a nanosecond ago.
That's what I get for using hard coded constants.
25 year old son Hey dad, do you have a watch I can borrow?
Father I have a watch in my top drawer, but the battery ran out.
22 year old son That's okay. I'm going to bar tonight, I don't need the watch to actually tell time.
Depends on the severity of the culling. If monsters suddenly appeared in Holland and ate everyone under 2 meters tall in one night, evolution would happen rather quickly.
Mainly because Amercians are too stupid to actually get irony.
Hey! It was a Canadian who wrote the most popular song about irony where most of her examples were more tragic or unfortunate than ironic--so the most popular song about irony isn't really about irony at all, which is really quite ironic, don't ya think? Which . . . come to think of it . . . might be what she was trying to accomplish through meta-irony! Boy this is starting to hurt my head. Maybe I am too stupid to understand irony. Oh wait, you weren't talking about Americans, you were talking about Amercians, those people from Amercia. Never mind.
It would be even more ironic if Shortguy881 was Dutch!