In 2001 A Space Odyssey, in the first scene onboard the Discovery when Bowman and Poole are having dinner, they're both watching a BBC broadcast on iPads!
Full size flat screen video tablets that look suspiciously like an iPad.
Then the GOP would not have a way to scare people into voting against their own interests.
Dems are 100% in control at the moment. The head of TSA (appointed by the Obama administration) on the news today said that genital groping is justified and will continue.
I love The Shining, as well as Full Metal Jacket, for this exact reason. Some of the long takes in those movies are beyond impressive. Kubrick had a great vision...
Or 2001 A Space Odyssey. Maybe. 15 minute scenes of space ships maneuvering to classical music. I love it. My wife, not so much. It's the reason she won't let me pick our movies anymore, and I think she was asleep before the end of the opening scene with the monkeys.
And since when is essay writing all that valuable in say the techie world?
A software developer who can't communicate is worthless.
On the other screen of my computer right now is a design proposal that is every bit as linguistically complex and eloquent as any essay or term paper I wrote in school. It is a deliverable requirement for a major software project and is, in fact, more highly valued than the source code that will eventually back it up.
Send me, a half dozen inflatable greenhouses, enough plants to eat/breathe from, and some quonset-type buriable shelters.
If this is a real interest, you could buy a square mile of desert for a few dollars and do pretty much the same thing on earth. Just hold your breath anytime you're outside of your hut. No need for NASA's help.
Not necessarily, in less dense population you can use the septic field technology. I realize this might be a hard concept for a lot of people to swallow, but whats comfortable for the individual might not be best for the global society.
Not going to work on a large scale.
I have a septic field for my own home. First, it takes about 1/2 acre of cleared land just for the drain field. Second, the area has been built up a lot over the years and wells are starting to come up contaminated. We're just dumping too much waste water back into the water table.
At 5 to 10 acres per home, on site septic works just fine. But, yeah, I can't imagine a San Franciscanite living that way. Too far from a Starbucks.
Whenever there's a discussion about colonizing the moon I wonder why not expand into or onto the ocean? There's a lot less technical challenges to overcome and help would be a lot closer if needed.
If course, anybody who thinks the earth's land is full has obviously never been very far from a city.
and we believe his life is valuable enough that you shouldn't be entitled to take it because he tried to steal your computer. "Life is sacred" works both ways.
Not sure if we're still talking about the U.S. here, but just in case:
YOU CAN'T KILL SOMEONE FOR STEALING.
Self defense is only justified to defend your own LIFE. Or your family.
You people believe way too much of what you see on TV.
If you're so afraid of civilisation and see every threat in terms of OH GOD SOMEONE'S ABOUT TO RAPE ME AND KILL MY FAMILY then perhaps you ought to move to Texas rather than dragging Canada down with you.
If someone kicks in your front door or crashes through a window, they're not coming in for tea and crumpets. They probably are going to rape you and kill your family. Are there kinder gentler criminals in other countries?
In the U.S., you can justifiably kill someone if they've broken into your house and you could convince a jury that you were in fear of your life. I fail to see why this is a bad thing. And no, you can't shoot trespassers. Nowhere in the U.S. is this legal, despite what you may have seen on TV.
This ban on electronics while in-flight is bullshit. I've "forgotten" to turn off my cell phone, and numerous other electronics and nothing has happened.
Yeah. If somebody's iPod can bring down an airliner, I don't think I want to be on it anyways.
Because I only know one person who describes herself as a 'christian fundamentalist' and she refuses to believe any science that proves that the earth is more than ~6000 years old.
That's really more of a subset of fundamentalism, where one believes in a strict literal interpretation of the Bible. Those people don't seem to realize that God didn't write the Bible, never mind all the translations and revisions through its history.
Personally, I think the whole Genesis "Let there be light" thing sounds a lot like a singularity, and the Hebrew word for "day" and "epoch" are pretty similar (so I've been told). It helps that both the ministers at my church have engineering degrees.
Any propaganda you read about Republicans working to repeal ObamaCare is all hype. It can't be done unless they gain 12 seats in the Senate and take over the presidency in 2012. Until then, enjoy your premium increases.
Premium increase... LOL...
Just drop your coverage, take the token fine, and pay out of pocket for general doctor visits. This will save thousands of dollars per year. If you actually need the insurance, just sign up when you get really sick. The insurance companies will have to take you!!
And don't worry that enough people will eventually figure this out to bankrupt the entire industry, forcing President Pelosi in 2016 to socialize the entire healthcare industry. Couldn't happen...
Everybody: Go buy an ergonomic office chair. Cost is no issue. $700 is a bargain. Pay 3x that much if you want. If it's two months pay, so be it.
Why? After 10 years of miserable cubicle existence on the cheapest office chairs that the company accountants can scrounge up, your back will be FUBAR. And let me tell you, a herniated disc and pinched sciatic nerve is fucking horrible. Chiropractors and physical therapy will make the price of the chair look like pocket change. Not to mention, what are your nights and weekends worth? All your spare time will eventually be spent in bed in pain.
Oh, and even if you're sitting in an Aeron provided by your company, it's probably the extra large version (because we have to accommodate fat people) and it's not going to work if you're average or skinny. Go get one in your own size (there are 3 different sizes).
I WISH someone had given me that advice when I started out. And hit me in the back with a shovel and run over my leg with a car so I'd know what I had to look forward to.
My wife teaches 2nd grade and most of her students prefer to stand while they work.
So she lets them stand. The tables in the class room are adjusted to be comfortable while standing (thanks to her nerd husband who always carries tools) and the kids love it.
Is it fair that 40 hours per week at a minimum wage job is not a living wage for most people in most areas?
Minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage. It's an incentive to specialize and become more productive.
Is it fair that the tax rate is lower for people who make more money?
The rate is lower but the amount is higher. And how is that fair? They're using less public resources. To be fair, anything over ~$50k should be completely tax free, since it is more than covering that person's cost to society.
Is it fair to declare bankruptcy due to health care expenses even with an expensive insurance program?
Proof or GTFO. A typical insurance program will cover everything.
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In 2001 A Space Odyssey, in the first scene onboard the Discovery when Bowman and Poole are having dinner, they're both watching a BBC broadcast on iPads!
Full size flat screen video tablets that look suspiciously like an iPad.
In 1968! That was 42 years ago!
so is drinking while being a passenger /s
Not in Louisiana
Or Virginia. Nobody knew that until recently when an attempt was made to ban it. The attempt failed.
The catch is, if a passenger has a drink and the driver smells like it, it's assumed the driver was drinking. Which is likely a correct assumption.
Then the GOP would not have a way to scare people into voting against their own interests.
Dems are 100% in control at the moment. The head of TSA (appointed by the Obama administration) on the news today said that genital groping is justified and will continue.
So you can't blame everything on Bush.
I made it five minutes through this movie before the crazy CGI action started making my head hurt and I turned it off.
WAY too much.
I love The Shining, as well as Full Metal Jacket, for this exact reason. Some of the long takes in those movies are beyond impressive. Kubrick had a great vision ...
Or 2001 A Space Odyssey. Maybe. 15 minute scenes of space ships maneuvering to classical music. I love it. My wife, not so much. It's the reason she won't let me pick our movies anymore, and I think she was asleep before the end of the opening scene with the monkeys.
And since when is essay writing all that valuable in say the techie world?
A software developer who can't communicate is worthless.
On the other screen of my computer right now is a design proposal that is every bit as linguistically complex and eloquent as any essay or term paper I wrote in school. It is a deliverable requirement for a major software project and is, in fact, more highly valued than the source code that will eventually back it up.
Some bozo claiming that it costs about the same to keep a person locked up in federal prison as it does to send him 45 light-minutes away ...
Well, yeah, but it would be a LOT cheaper to just send them the first 300 feet up and then see what happens from there.
Send me, a half dozen inflatable greenhouses, enough plants to eat/breathe from, and some quonset-type buriable shelters.
If this is a real interest, you could buy a square mile of desert for a few dollars and do pretty much the same thing on earth. Just hold your breath anytime you're outside of your hut. No need for NASA's help.
Not necessarily, in less dense population you can use the septic field technology. I realize this might be a hard concept for a lot of people to swallow, but whats comfortable for the individual might not be best for the global society.
Not going to work on a large scale.
I have a septic field for my own home. First, it takes about 1/2 acre of cleared land just for the drain field. Second, the area has been built up a lot over the years and wells are starting to come up contaminated. We're just dumping too much waste water back into the water table.
At 5 to 10 acres per home, on site septic works just fine. But, yeah, I can't imagine a San Franciscanite living that way. Too far from a Starbucks.
Whenever there's a discussion about colonizing the moon I wonder why not expand into or onto the ocean? There's a lot less technical challenges to overcome and help would be a lot closer if needed.
If course, anybody who thinks the earth's land is full has obviously never been very far from a city.
One word: Septic The ocean is not your toilet.
Everybody's poop ends up there already. Sewage treatment or not, it's still poop.
and we believe his life is valuable enough that you shouldn't be entitled to take it because he tried to steal your computer. "Life is sacred" works both ways.
Not sure if we're still talking about the U.S. here, but just in case:
YOU CAN'T KILL SOMEONE FOR STEALING.
Self defense is only justified to defend your own LIFE. Or your family.
You people believe way too much of what you see on TV.
If you're so afraid of civilisation and see every threat in terms of OH GOD SOMEONE'S ABOUT TO RAPE ME AND KILL MY FAMILY then perhaps you ought to move to Texas rather than dragging Canada down with you.
If someone kicks in your front door or crashes through a window, they're not coming in for tea and crumpets. They probably are going to rape you and kill your family. Are there kinder gentler criminals in other countries?
In the U.S., you can justifiably kill someone if they've broken into your house and you could convince a jury that you were in fear of your life. I fail to see why this is a bad thing. And no, you can't shoot trespassers. Nowhere in the U.S. is this legal, despite what you may have seen on TV.
... if I fly, I can't take my printer with me *AT ALL* because the cartridges aren't even allowed to be in the checked in luggage?
Since you can check a firearm, just hide the ink cartridge in the ammo box.
This ban on electronics while in-flight is bullshit. I've "forgotten" to turn off my cell phone, and numerous other electronics and nothing has happened.
Yeah. If somebody's iPod can bring down an airliner, I don't think I want to be on it anyways.
but the ban will apply to both carry-on and checked luggage
Funny that one can check a firearm and boxes of ammunition. But no toner.
Yes, it is, and frankly, young Middle Eastern men have damned good reason to be nervous at a security checkpoint.
I'm a white guy, and last time I flew I was frisked by a young middle eastern man in a TSA uniform.
Also, my little-old-lady mother gets hassled every time. I think she ended up on some kind of list and gets singled out for all the searches.
Because I only know one person who describes herself as a 'christian fundamentalist' and she refuses to believe any science that proves that the earth is more than ~6000 years old.
That's really more of a subset of fundamentalism, where one believes in a strict literal interpretation of the Bible. Those people don't seem to realize that God didn't write the Bible, never mind all the translations and revisions through its history.
Personally, I think the whole Genesis "Let there be light" thing sounds a lot like a singularity, and the Hebrew word for "day" and "epoch" are pretty similar (so I've been told). It helps that both the ministers at my church have engineering degrees.
I'm not so sure the scientists intended that, but the reporters felt a need to glam the article up to sell copy.
I can just see the headline. Front page, New York Times...
"Scientists push button on big machine and look at data on a computer monitor."
They probably do need to dramatize a bit to grab attention from the unwashed masses.
...my ISP starts punishing me for using the Internet to do legal things that the Internet was designed for?
As soon as you reach the bandwidth cap that is specified in the fine print of the TOS.
At that point, they'd be happy to sell you access to HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc..
Any propaganda you read about Republicans working to repeal ObamaCare is all hype. It can't be done unless they gain 12 seats in the Senate and take over the presidency in 2012. Until then, enjoy your premium increases.
Premium increase... LOL...
Just drop your coverage, take the token fine, and pay out of pocket for general doctor visits. This will save thousands of dollars per year. If you actually need the insurance, just sign up when you get really sick. The insurance companies will have to take you!!
And don't worry that enough people will eventually figure this out to bankrupt the entire industry, forcing President Pelosi in 2016 to socialize the entire healthcare industry. Couldn't happen...
Where do you work that you get $700 chairs?
Go buy it yourself. And do it before you've permanently damaged your spine.
Everybody: Go buy an ergonomic office chair. Cost is no issue. $700 is a bargain. Pay 3x that much if you want. If it's two months pay, so be it.
Why? After 10 years of miserable cubicle existence on the cheapest office chairs that the company accountants can scrounge up, your back will be FUBAR. And let me tell you, a herniated disc and pinched sciatic nerve is fucking horrible. Chiropractors and physical therapy will make the price of the chair look like pocket change. Not to mention, what are your nights and weekends worth? All your spare time will eventually be spent in bed in pain.
Oh, and even if you're sitting in an Aeron provided by your company, it's probably the extra large version (because we have to accommodate fat people) and it's not going to work if you're average or skinny. Go get one in your own size (there are 3 different sizes).
I WISH someone had given me that advice when I started out. And hit me in the back with a shovel and run over my leg with a car so I'd know what I had to look forward to.
My wife teaches 2nd grade and most of her students prefer to stand while they work. So she lets them stand. The tables in the class room are adjusted to be comfortable while standing (thanks to her nerd husband who always carries tools) and the kids love it.
Is it fair that 40 hours per week at a minimum wage job is not a living wage for most people in most areas?
Minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage. It's an incentive to specialize and become more productive.
Is it fair that the tax rate is lower for people who make more money?
The rate is lower but the amount is higher. And how is that fair? They're using less public resources. To be fair, anything over ~$50k should be completely tax free, since it is more than covering that person's cost to society.
Is it fair to declare bankruptcy due to health care expenses even with an expensive insurance program?
Proof or GTFO. A typical insurance program will cover everything.