Talk radio would be cool, but all I can find in my town are the crazy right-wing neo-conservatives having Bush love-ins on the radio. Are there any reasonable folks left on the radio?
So lets put it out of its misery. Cut all funding from NASA except the bare minimum to continute to gather data from things already launched (and possibly a few relatively low budget projects that are near completion) and pay down the debt for a few years before launching a new and improved NASA in 15-20 years.
The official reason is that MacHack is ending because it is no longer profitable for ExpoTech. There were less than 100 attendees this year. Unofficially, there are several reasons going back a few years. A book could be written on all the background, but suffice it to say here that there were two groups of people with different ideas about how the conference should be run, those ideas were incompatible, and the whole thing fell apart. Some would say the last MacHack was in 2003, but others tried to keep it alive as "ADHOC" http://www.adhocconference.com/ Alas, it was not to be. Like a fish out of water, it flopped around for a while, and finally died.
Unfortunately I don't have any mod points, as I normally mod down any post that references moderation (including this one, which I manually modded down by removing my Karma Bonus).
In your case however, you are incorrect; I would not mod down your comment as "Flamebait", as it would more correctly be described as "Troll".
It will all get better once the remaining blue collar work force is automated. Goods will plummet in price, making it affordable for everybody to get all the new playstations they wnat
But if the blue collar workforce is put out of work by automation, then who will be able to buy the playstations!!??
This whole space program is a huge waste of money anyway. I say scrap the whole thing, with the exception of monitoring things that have already been launched, like Pioneer, Voyager and those doodads on Mars.
Take all the money you save (and all those smart people) and assign the task of making America energy independant within 10 years. With any luck, the oil won't run out before then, and you will have solved a huge immediate problem while still employing all those scientists and spending all those tax dollars. (I'd thought about suggesting giving the tax dollars back to the taxpayers, but that seems to be too revolutionary an idea for this government right now.)
Call CDW. If its out there, a determined CDW sales rep will find it for you. (If the one you get on the phone is lazy, wait 5 minutes & call back speak to a different one). It helps if you have the part number.
I'm amazed that it got as far as the judge. Don't cops usually let each other off as a kind of professional courtesy? A friend, who is a cop's mom, even keeps her son's card in her wallet, and show it when getting pulled over; never gets a ticket.
Guinan was on Picard's ship because 400 years earlier in San Francisco, he helped her out after having been thrown back in time to that point. He told the earlier Guinan about the 24th century, his ship, and when the 24th c arrived, she waited around until a Captain Picard had a ship called Enterprise, and made sure she was on it one way or another. In the normal timeline it was as a bartender, and in the alternate timeline, she might have made sure that she had some other skills to contribute to a ship of war.
I'm not an american, but I've never understood this 2nd amendment of yours. I've heard people claim that it would allow the people to rise up against the government if the government ever got out of hand. Unfortunately, no matter how many guns people have, this US governmnet will always have more; and they have nukes and chemical weapons too (tear gas; etc), enough to put down virtually any armed rebellion. Can you honestly picture in your mind and armed rebellion succeeding against the US government? If so, I am honestly curious, how would such a scenario play itself out?
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I'd love to see a book entitled "Shut up Wesley!"
Talk radio would be cool, but all I can find in my town are the crazy right-wing neo-conservatives having Bush love-ins on the radio. Are there any reasonable folks left on the radio?
So lets put it out of its misery. Cut all funding from NASA except the bare minimum to continute to gather data from things already launched (and possibly a few relatively low budget projects that are near completion) and pay down the debt for a few years before launching a new and improved NASA in 15-20 years.
Dude, you're toast.
Why not a self recharging mouse?
How much kinetic energy is generated with all that moving around? Enough to power a mouse?
The official reason is that MacHack is ending because it is no longer profitable for ExpoTech. There were less than 100 attendees this year. Unofficially, there are several reasons going back a few years. A book could be written on all the background, but suffice it to say here that there were two groups of people with different ideas about how the conference should be run, those ideas were incompatible, and the whole thing fell apart. Some would say the last MacHack was in 2003, but others tried to keep it alive as "ADHOC" http://www.adhocconference.com/
Alas, it was not to be. Like a fish out of water, it flopped around for a while, and finally died.
The more significant news this weekend is that this was the last MacHack/ADHOC conference. It was one of the best, and will be missed.
In your case however, you are incorrect; I would not mod down your comment as "Flamebait", as it would more correctly be described as "Troll".
There are some Challenger and Columbia crew who might disagree.
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Don't you love Apple URLs? Even if you don't have a link to click, you can guess at most of them!
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But if the blue collar workforce is put out of work by automation, then who will be able to buy the playstations!!??
This model in not sustainable!!
This whole space program is a huge waste of money anyway. I say scrap the whole thing, with the exception of monitoring things that have already been launched, like Pioneer, Voyager and those doodads on Mars.
Take all the money you save (and all those smart people) and assign the task of making America energy independant within 10 years. With any luck, the oil won't run out before then, and you will have solved a huge immediate problem while still employing all those scientists and spending all those tax dollars. (I'd thought about suggesting giving the tax dollars back to the taxpayers, but that seems to be too revolutionary an idea for this government right now.)
Call CDW.
If its out there, a determined CDW sales rep will find it for you. (If the one you get on the phone is lazy, wait 5 minutes & call back speak to a different one). It helps if you have the part number.
I'm amazed that it got as far as the judge. Don't cops usually let each other off as a kind of professional courtesy? A friend, who is a cop's mom, even keeps her son's card in her wallet, and show it when getting pulled over; never gets a ticket.
There's a beetle at MacHack every year with the license plate "MACSBUG"
They're not evil.
ok dude, you win. You're a bigger geek than me.
I don't see any short term or long term advantages to being gay.
Remember, the 19th Century of both timelines is identical. The timelines only diverge in the late 23rd century, in the time of the Enterprise C.
Guinan was on Picard's ship because 400 years earlier in San Francisco, he helped her out after having been thrown back in time to that point. He told the earlier Guinan about the 24th century, his ship, and when the 24th c arrived, she waited around until a Captain Picard had a ship called Enterprise, and made sure she was on it one way or another. In the normal timeline it was as a bartender, and in the alternate timeline, she might have made sure that she had some other skills to contribute to a ship of war.
"Only Nixon could go to China."
No doubt he was an elderly English gentleman, who had been encouraging our friends to try out their little experiment.
I'm not an american, but I've never understood this 2nd amendment of yours. I've heard people claim that it would allow the people to rise up against the government if the government ever got out of hand. Unfortunately, no matter how many guns people have, this US governmnet will always have more; and they have nukes and chemical weapons too (tear gas; etc), enough to put down virtually any armed rebellion. Can you honestly picture in your mind and armed rebellion succeeding against the US government? If so, I am honestly curious, how would such a scenario play itself out?
Everyone boycott Microsoft! They support terrorism!