You really think America is in any perceptible less danger than it was before (not that it was in much danger before)? I don't presume to know the reason they were, but the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were hardly waged to keep America safe.
And in the long term, well, humans only have 10-20 years of useful life span. From birth to usefulness, let's say you have to be 20 years old to have learned enough and be mature enough to work. OK, by the time you're 40, you're bald, fat, stupid, and a demented vegetable that can't learn anything, has bad eyesight, farts, lost fertility, has all kinds of diseases. How far in space can you get in 20 years? How big is the universe?
Actually current estimates say that mars will escape the engorging of the sun.:P Besides that, who says we're confined to the one solar system? As I mentioned in another post, we have the technology to leave *now*. Let alone what we'll have in a few years.
Why do you say we will never get beyond this solar system? With no advances whatsoever in technology, we already have the technology to leave, albeit incredibly slowly. And technology that is within our grasp would allow us to travel at 10% of the speed of light.
From a preservationist's standpoint, colonizing space provides more options. Sure, it might be more hospitable on earth, but if you've also got colonies on the moon and (best case) mars too, you've got backups so to speak. The earth is decimated, but some technological societies continue on. Sure, the moon/mars would be less habitable than an earth undergoing cataclysmic events, but a lot more stable. E.g. you have air to breathe on earth, you need no life support, but variance between major earthquakes, flooding, ash clouds and whatever will ensue in a supervolcanic eruption lead to a lot more... variables than you have in say, an underground martian or lunar base. It's a simple "you know what you get" kind of thing if you understand me. And free space would be *ideal* from a safety standpoint- think O'Neil cylinder. Also: what can you do to prepare for a supervolcano?
Irrelevant. Just get enough people off of earth to continue humanity genetically, a few thousand or so. In a few generations, you'll have the equivalent of a large percentage of earth's population out there as long as migrations continue (and population growth levels off as is expected). As long as there is a large number of humans with sufficient diversity living on worlds other than the one that gets destroyed, society will continue, maybe not unphased, but preserving technological development. Which, considering the hardiness of the human race, is in the end, all that matters.
Bring it back in secret? There are so many things wrong with that.... "So, why have the gold markets been flooded, and whatever happened to that billion dollar spacecraft that was launched 2 months ago?"
Hardly. I know on slashdot, it's cool to bash vista and all, but vista wasn't even close to ME in terms of quality (or lack thereof). I use it fairly often, all my computers run various linux distros, but I use a vista laptop on a regular basis. It's not too bad on terms of speed considering the highly modest hardware, but don't let facts get in the way of your rant. ME though... But yeah, I think dropping vista support is quite ridiculous.
Reminds me of 1984. It is revealed later in the novel that the proletariat (approximately 85% of oceanic population) are relatively unmonitored, uncontrolled, etc. because all revolutions come from the middle class.
But their loss was entirely pointless! Sony could have kept both as they did in, hm, let's see, the first 3 years of the console's life. And please, what benefit did the millions of owners get from having the choice to run linux removed?
Except for the fact that they have access to, wait for it... the source code to windows. They could easily (or perhaps with some difficulty) write a version of wine with 100% or near about 100% compatibility. I mean look how well the people at wine did through simple reverse engineering, 95% support of directx9!
No need to be an asshole, I wasn't entirely clear on the history of a nation 10,000 miles away from me, been a few years since I took a history class. And you seem to be extrapolating just a *tiny* bit. I didn't ever say that india was a hindu nation, I just said the kama sutra was written by hindus who happened to be from india. Going crazy with bullshit? I wrote two fucking sentences.
Eh? I thought the kama sutra was written by Indian Hindus. As I understand it, shortly after gaining independence, India set aside Pakistan and Bangladesh for the muslim population
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You really think America is in any perceptible less danger than it was before (not that it was in much danger before)? I don't presume to know the reason they were, but the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were hardly waged to keep America safe.
Yeah, I agree, watched the speech a few minutes ago. In fact, I think it might have just gotten worse.
As we wake up tomorrow, and nothing changes.
http://xkcd.com/678/
I'm 90% sure he means the web, which was still rather new in 93. Most people don't know the difference, actually.
Woosh.
Not many countries are currently powering their cities with large fusion plants? Which ones are?
And that's if you don't have a dynamic IP. Simply put, an IP is not a good identifier.
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And in the long term, well, humans only have 10-20 years of useful life span. From birth to usefulness, let's say you have to be 20 years old to have learned enough and be mature enough to work. OK, by the time you're 40, you're bald, fat, stupid, and a demented vegetable that can't learn anything, has bad eyesight, farts, lost fertility, has all kinds of diseases. How far in space can you get in 20 years? How big is the universe?
Speak for yourself...
Actually current estimates say that mars will escape the engorging of the sun. :P Besides that, who says we're confined to the one solar system? As I mentioned in another post, we have the technology to leave *now*. Let alone what we'll have in a few years.
Why do you say we will never get beyond this solar system? With no advances whatsoever in technology, we already have the technology to leave, albeit incredibly slowly. And technology that is within our grasp would allow us to travel at 10% of the speed of light.
From a preservationist's standpoint, colonizing space provides more options. Sure, it might be more hospitable on earth, but if you've also got colonies on the moon and (best case) mars too, you've got backups so to speak. The earth is decimated, but some technological societies continue on. Sure, the moon/mars would be less habitable than an earth undergoing cataclysmic events, but a lot more stable. E.g. you have air to breathe on earth, you need no life support, but variance between major earthquakes, flooding, ash clouds and whatever will ensue in a supervolcanic eruption lead to a lot more... variables than you have in say, an underground martian or lunar base. It's a simple "you know what you get" kind of thing if you understand me. And free space would be *ideal* from a safety standpoint- think O'Neil cylinder. Also: what can you do to prepare for a supervolcano?
Irrelevant. Just get enough people off of earth to continue humanity genetically, a few thousand or so. In a few generations, you'll have the equivalent of a large percentage of earth's population out there as long as migrations continue (and population growth levels off as is expected). As long as there is a large number of humans with sufficient diversity living on worlds other than the one that gets destroyed, society will continue, maybe not unphased, but preserving technological development. Which, considering the hardiness of the human race, is in the end, all that matters.
Bring it back in secret? There are so many things wrong with that.... "So, why have the gold markets been flooded, and whatever happened to that billion dollar spacecraft that was launched 2 months ago?"
Windows 7 hasn't been out for 3 years.
Hardly. I know on slashdot, it's cool to bash vista and all, but vista wasn't even close to ME in terms of quality (or lack thereof). I use it fairly often, all my computers run various linux distros, but I use a vista laptop on a regular basis. It's not too bad on terms of speed considering the highly modest hardware, but don't let facts get in the way of your rant. ME though... But yeah, I think dropping vista support is quite ridiculous.
Reminds me of 1984. It is revealed later in the novel that the proletariat (approximately 85% of oceanic population) are relatively unmonitored, uncontrolled, etc. because all revolutions come from the middle class.
But their loss was entirely pointless! Sony could have kept both as they did in, hm, let's see, the first 3 years of the console's life. And please, what benefit did the millions of owners get from having the choice to run linux removed?
Except for the fact that they have access to, wait for it... the source code to windows. They could easily (or perhaps with some difficulty) write a version of wine with 100% or near about 100% compatibility. I mean look how well the people at wine did through simple reverse engineering, 95% support of directx9!
-1 doesn't know how to use quote tags.
No need to be an asshole, I wasn't entirely clear on the history of a nation 10,000 miles away from me, been a few years since I took a history class. And you seem to be extrapolating just a *tiny* bit. I didn't ever say that india was a hindu nation, I just said the kama sutra was written by hindus who happened to be from india. Going crazy with bullshit? I wrote two fucking sentences.
Eh? I thought the kama sutra was written by Indian Hindus. As I understand it, shortly after gaining independence, India set aside Pakistan and Bangladesh for the muslim population
...and we will sue limewire for.. *raises pinky to lip* 75 trillion dollars!
Limewire execs: *much laughing* hahahaha, it's 2011, that amount of money doesn't even exist!
*RIAA exec gestures to cut off transmission*
Well, shit...
*reopens transmission*
We don't care.
Please provide evidence that TV is a dying medium.
Netcraft confirmed it.
Pretty much.