So your rebuttal that profit is not, in fact, the prime motivator for periods of exploration is a stunt that only happened once and still hasn't been repeated? Interesting....
Your math seems sound, but don't forget that building a sufficiently-large desalination plant requires time and a large upfront cost. The Emma Maersk (and other ships in her size class) are already built. So the immediate cost of shipping water could still be cheaper (at least in the short term), and the turn-around time is certainly faster, than investing in new plants.
Being first isn't always important. Does anyone still use Webcrawler, Lycos, or Altavista? Or drive Winton cars? Or use Altair computers? Sometimes it's better to let someone else go first, work out the initial bugs, and learn from their mistakes.
That's not at all what he's claiming. He's claiming that since a robot is operating the account, and he disagrees with the motivation behind the running of that robot, it's OK for him to hack into someone else's account. He even admits that a human being has to initially open the mail account before turning on the software to run it.
I dislike people who have their POP clients set to download email every minute and process it using filters to put any email from me into a special folder. Does that give me the right to then hack their email accounts and take them over? Using the logic RD outlined above, it very much does. Which should show just how spurious his logic is.
There's a reason why your mother taught you that two wrongs don't make a right. The world would be a better place if more people remembered that.
He didn't get my address, but he did my neighbor, Mike's house across the street. Which means anyone trying to rob me will go there, instead. Which means I guess it's perfectly safe for me to leave this on, since I don't much like Mike, anyway.
No, they see it, but don't care about fixing it. They just want to use it for their own personal advantage. There's a huge difference between that and being oblivious to it in the first place.
And avoid girlfriends who think it's OK to twist and pull the stick shift violently, whether it's ready or not. Could be indicative of future, uh, problems.
Couple that with mandatory clauses in all auto-insurance policies that render the policy null and void if an accident is related to texting-while-driving. I'm sure the insurance companies would love that, and maybe after a few high-profile bankruptcies and ruined lives people will start to take this seriously.
There's a glaring mistake under the diagrams where he talks about not naming this ship the Enterprise and giving it a different Naval Construction Contract (NCC) number. The USS Galaxy's NCC number was not 1700, that belonged to the USS Constitution in the 23rd century. The Galaxy's was 70637.
If he can't get this minor detail right, what was did he screw up?
I feel your pain. No one seems to understand that the more they ask the government to give them, the more is eventually taken away in exchange. As a wise man once observed, any government powerful enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take away everything you have.
The campaign contributions are not personal income and cannot be used as such but only for campaign purposes.
Step 1: Buy an office. Not even a full building, just an office condo. Step 2: Rent out that office to your campaign headquarters at exorbitant rates. Step 3: Profit
No, it's not a humorous article, given that it's exactly how mainstream science reporting looks like.
No, it's sad and ironic (which will give rise to several more replies concerning the etymology of 'ironic', one of which will include the concept of an ironing board, which, ironically, no one on Slashdot has ever seen.
You're both wrong: it's a template for all of the science articles he ever needs to write.
You should just read "Obama wants..." as "The Obama Administration wants...". It's just shorthand and is used by the media fairly consistently. No one expects the President to know everything that's going on, but ultimately it's got his primogeniture on it because it's happening within his purview (e.g., the Executive branch of the Federal government). If he doesn't like it, tough shit, it comes with the job. As Truman famously said, the buck stops with him.
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So your rebuttal that profit is not, in fact, the prime motivator for periods of exploration is a stunt that only happened once and still hasn't been repeated? Interesting....
Tedious, dangerous, time-consuming tasks should be done by robots.
My wife says the same thing. But I keep telling her, steel and ceramic vaginas just don't do it for me.
Your math seems sound, but don't forget that building a sufficiently-large desalination plant requires time and a large upfront cost. The Emma Maersk (and other ships in her size class) are already built. So the immediate cost of shipping water could still be cheaper (at least in the short term), and the turn-around time is certainly faster, than investing in new plants.
So now the people in the Middle East will be as crazy as Sarah Palin? Thanks a lot for pointing that out, now I'll never get back to sleep!
It's equally likely that after receiving black eyes instead of kudos, developers left Diaspora in droves.
If only there were a term to describe it when people suddenly flee en masse from a larger group of people and/or location.
Being first isn't always important. Does anyone still use Webcrawler, Lycos, or Altavista? Or drive Winton cars? Or use Altair computers? Sometimes it's better to let someone else go first, work out the initial bugs, and learn from their mistakes.
Plus, you could just pick out lobsters precooked and ready to eat straight from the ocean!
how many people on Slashdot would want to buy P3n15 3nh@nc3rz?
You sell P3n15 3nh@nc3rz?!? Man, I need one of those! Where can I get one?
That's not at all what he's claiming. He's claiming that since a robot is operating the account, and he disagrees with the motivation behind the running of that robot, it's OK for him to hack into someone else's account. He even admits that a human being has to initially open the mail account before turning on the software to run it.
I dislike people who have their POP clients set to download email every minute and process it using filters to put any email from me into a special folder. Does that give me the right to then hack their email accounts and take them over? Using the logic RD outlined above, it very much does. Which should show just how spurious his logic is.
There's a reason why your mother taught you that two wrongs don't make a right. The world would be a better place if more people remembered that.
He didn't get my address, but he did my neighbor, Mike's house across the street. Which means anyone trying to rob me will go there, instead. Which means I guess it's perfectly safe for me to leave this on, since I don't much like Mike, anyway.
The Hobbit was the most boring of the Tolkien books, but hey, I'm all for a movie!
Isn't that like saying the Pacific Ocean is the most wet of the oceans?
No. There is a world of difference between obliviousness and ruthlessness.
No, they see it, but don't care about fixing it. They just want to use it for their own personal advantage. There's a huge difference between that and being oblivious to it in the first place.
See, the way I see it, there are three types of people in the world:
1) Those who recognize problems and run away from them.
2) Those who recognize problems and fix them.
3) Those who don't recognize problems.
You're completely ignoring the fourth group.
4) Those who recognize problems as an opportunity to gain more power for themselves.
Sadly, most politicians fall into that last category.
I know a lot of iranian protestors who seemed convinced otherwise.
How'd that work for them now that Iran is a vibrant and bustling democracy?
If they did, would anyone notice?
And avoid girlfriends who think it's OK to twist and pull the stick shift violently, whether it's ready or not. Could be indicative of future, uh, problems.
Couple that with mandatory clauses in all auto-insurance policies that render the policy null and void if an accident is related to texting-while-driving. I'm sure the insurance companies would love that, and maybe after a few high-profile bankruptcies and ruined lives people will start to take this seriously.
There's a glaring mistake under the diagrams where he talks about not naming this ship the Enterprise and giving it a different Naval Construction Contract (NCC) number. The USS Galaxy's NCC number was not 1700, that belonged to the USS Constitution in the 23rd century. The Galaxy's was 70637.
If he can't get this minor detail right, what was did he screw up?
laws can often times conflict with common sense, but not forever, and not glaringly so
Meanwhile the War on Drugs is 40 years old with no real end in sight.
I feel your pain. No one seems to understand that the more they ask the government to give them, the more is eventually taken away in exchange. As a wise man once observed, any government powerful enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take away everything you have.
The campaign contributions are not personal income and cannot be used as such but only for campaign purposes.
Step 1: Buy an office. Not even a full building, just an office condo.
Step 2: Rent out that office to your campaign headquarters at exorbitant rates.
Step 3: Profit
No, it's not a humorous article, given that it's exactly how mainstream science reporting looks like.
No, it's sad and ironic (which will give rise to several more replies concerning the etymology of 'ironic', one of which will include the concept of an ironing board, which, ironically, no one on Slashdot has ever seen.
You're both wrong: it's a template for all of the science articles he ever needs to write.
But name one, single regulation that Bush either blocked or repealed that led to the economic mess.
As I said, NCLB had fuck all to do with the recession. So, try again.
You should just read "Obama wants..." as "The Obama Administration wants...". It's just shorthand and is used by the media fairly consistently. No one expects the President to know everything that's going on, but ultimately it's got his primogeniture on it because it's happening within his purview (e.g., the Executive branch of the Federal government). If he doesn't like it, tough shit, it comes with the job. As Truman famously said, the buck stops with him.