Remember that the size of their fleet is based on the current level of technology in the galaxy. So even if we got attacked, it would just be by a single frigate - can't kill more than a few million & blow up a few factories.
The Siberian explosion was from one less than half the diameter of that, with the one in the Mediterranean being only about 10m across (according to wiki). We've gotten lucky with both of those but those were our two strikes.
Well, we're weren't unlucky with them. But considering that over 70% of the Earth's surface is water, and nearly half of that land surface is effectively unihabibited, missing a 15% chance twice in a row is still a better than 70% chance.
A lot of the evangelists will go on and on about homosexuality, even though it's not even mentioned in the New Testament, and the old testament has more to say about the evil of pork than homosexuality.
Thank you, kind sir, for inspiration for this week's new sig.
In the book of Joshua, that 'the sun stood still in the midst of heaven'. From this verse, and a few others, many groups (from the Catholic chuch in the middle ages to certain Baptist sects today) feel that the Sun orbits the other, and saying otherwise is going against the word of (their) god.
Explain how not printing a page can be equally, or more wasteful than printing one.
The first idea that comes to mind is electricity. The library of fiction books I read every year took a few hundred pounds of paper to print. I spend a few weeks each summer re-reading them. If you're going to be reading the same thing over and over, at some point the amount of electricity wasted in leaving the computer running exceeds the amount used to manufacture the same book.
It's similair to a technical manual in that respect. But the seventy-odd pages that cover the portion of the government I work for will probably get a looking over. And if I'm bored, I'll take a look at the portions for NASA or DOJ out of curiousity.
And, yes, if the final budget is available the same way, with the revision history, you better believe I'm going to make sure that none of my congressmembers voted to cut funding on things I feel are worthwhile.
I'm not going to contest any of that - but the original poster claimed that anything that wasn't going to be ready in 18 months was vaporware. Most of the major innovations in the real world have taken a lot longer than that to develop.
For those of us who live in large cities, this might actually be the most expensive part of the whole deal - or just be outright impossible. If you don't own your own place, it's difficult to keep the outside noises outside.
I still listen to CDs directly, although I will give you that using an MP3 player is a lot more common. The only time I really use my CDs directly is in my house - I don't keep CDs in my car since it got broken into, and I haven't had a portable CD player in years.
Get a long sheet (about 50 cm x 2-5 meters, depending on the number of lights.) Starting at one end, wrap it around the short end of the rectangle, then fold it over about 10 cm. Repeat until all your lights are in a big cigar tube.
If the CD has ANY rights protection on it, then the DMCA kicks in and your right to rip goes up in smoke.
But a purely Redbook Audio CD can't have rights protection on it... and even the Sony rootkit CD's couldn't do anything if they weren't connected to a Windows box with autorun enabled. So while it might violate the DMCA to bypass the rootkit on a Windows box, the RIAA would have a hard time arguing that ripping the MP3 on a *nix or Mac is bypass copy protection.
What you suggest requires that individuals with autism breed ONLY with others having autism for, ohhhhh, a few million years.
Considering that he seemed to be talking about directed breeding, I'd say the timescale would be closer to that for domesticating animals - a few thousand generations, instead of a few hundred thousand. Of course, that would depend on a very particular mindset of the people involved.
I think the point being made is that when a general rule (Thou Shalt Not Kill/Murder) comes into conflict with a specific rule (see the rules for warfare, adulterers, and perjury at a trial, to start), the specific rule generally wins.
So, yeah, in general, it's wrong to take another human's life. Unless it falls into one of these couple of dozen exceptions.
Now, if you point out that most of those are in the Old Testament, and therefore might not be applicable to all of you Christians, well, then you're in another area of debate altogether...
Or if we have a company of 10,000 employees who were all pretty underpaid and "encourage" them to vote a certain way, with informants watching the polls, haven't we silenced their individual voices?
This is the exact reason that a take-home election reciept is a bad idea. Which is why most voting systems don't have it... not just the tyranny of the employer, but also the undue influence from peers & family. (Can you imagine how long I'd be sleeping on the couch if the wife knew who I voted for last time?)
You completely miss the point. Without scarcity, growing profits is near impossible. In fact, you'd expect profits to keep droppin, as scarcity is what drives cost.
But if we remove the idea of scarcity from both sides. Infinite labor supply also means an infinite demand for your product, even if almost everyone thinks it's useless. Course, then you get into the problem of distrubuting an infinite number of a worthless product across an infinite space... which starts to sound a lot like most of the stock traded on NYSE.
And I'm not really thrilled with the other provisions of the bill, namely requiring 15% of every utility's power from every state to come from non-renewable sources.
I'm going to assume the 'non-' was a typo... but since that whole section of the bill was dropped from the Senate version anyway, it's a moot point.
I will agree, though, that passenger-sized vehicles owned by the government should adhere to the same standards as passenger-sized vehicles sold to individuals. There's no reason for anything from a police car to an government-owned sedan to be more of a gas hog than a new Mustang. (Since military vehicles are usually a bit larger, I can see them going by the standards for commercial vehicles, such as buses and tractor-trailers.)
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Remember that the size of their fleet is based on the current level of technology in the galaxy. So even if we got attacked, it would just be by a single frigate - can't kill more than a few million & blow up a few factories.
Besides, the 'according to need' has the nice effect of not forcing people to pay taxes to Celine Dion.
Duh.
In the book of Joshua, that 'the sun stood still in the midst of heaven'. From this verse, and a few others, many groups (from the Catholic chuch in the middle ages to certain Baptist sects today) feel that the Sun orbits the other, and saying otherwise is going against the word of (their) god.
Both of your unwilligness to reveal your name tells us your commitment to troll-fu is weak.
The first idea that comes to mind is electricity. The library of fiction books I read every year took a few hundred pounds of paper to print. I spend a few weeks each summer re-reading them. If you're going to be reading the same thing over and over, at some point the amount of electricity wasted in leaving the computer running exceeds the amount used to manufacture the same book.
And, yes, if the final budget is available the same way, with the revision history, you better believe I'm going to make sure that none of my congressmembers voted to cut funding on things I feel are worthwhile.
I'm not going to contest any of that - but the original poster claimed that anything that wasn't going to be ready in 18 months was vaporware. Most of the major innovations in the real world have taken a lot longer than that to develop.
Learn something new every day.
We has it.
I still listen to CDs directly, although I will give you that using an MP3 player is a lot more common. The only time I really use my CDs directly is in my house - I don't keep CDs in my car since it got broken into, and I haven't had a portable CD player in years.
Get a long sheet (about 50 cm x 2-5 meters, depending on the number of lights.) Starting at one end, wrap it around the short end of the rectangle, then fold it over about 10 cm. Repeat until all your lights are in a big cigar tube.
Other than that, you're right.
They have telekinetic mutant powers.
Hah, call me off-topic now!
whose fault it may be?
We usually call them sergeants.
So, yeah, in general, it's wrong to take another human's life. Unless it falls into one of these couple of dozen exceptions.
Now, if you point out that most of those are in the Old Testament, and therefore might not be applicable to all of you Christians, well, then you're in another area of debate altogether...
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
This is the exact reason that a take-home election reciept is a bad idea. Which is why most voting systems don't have it... not just the tyranny of the employer, but also the undue influence from peers & family. (Can you imagine how long I'd be sleeping on the couch if the wife knew who I voted for last time?)
But if we remove the idea of scarcity from both sides. Infinite labor supply also means an infinite demand for your product, even if almost everyone thinks it's useless. Course, then you get into the problem of distrubuting an infinite number of a worthless product across an infinite space... which starts to sound a lot like most of the stock traded on NYSE.