Lets think critically about this for a minute. You believe they spoke to a super natural being whose influence is not scientifically documented? Whose stongest interactions were taking place before digital recording and scientific reasoning? You believe in "angels" more than "life evolving on a[nother] planet"?
When people walk by him they say "Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn". Really, they just say "Damn" but the immenseness of his ass distorts space-time and slows time down.
You are too dependent on your stomach to supply your blood sugar. I had this same problem in my 20s. While it is scary to be shaking if you wait a few hours you'll be fine. However it is no way to live going to meal to meal and just barely making it before the shakes set in.
Insulin stores excess blood sugar to fat so you don't going into a coma. Glucagon is the opposite, taking fat and putting it in the blood stream as sugar. Insulin work on short (15 minute) time scales. Gucagon work on hour/day time scales. It takes 3 days of no carbs to bring your glucagon levels up to the point of fully being able to provide al the blood sugar you need. Both glucagon and insulin have an inverse relationship. If your insulin is high, then glucagon is shut off. (You don't want it constantly providing blood sugar when you are about to go into a coma.
So what is happening in your body is called hyperinsulinism. You eat something, feel better, you burn some store the rest. Then your blood sugar drops below cellular satiation level. You feel hungry and get the shakes. You reach for more food as the cure... The same thing happens with rats. Take a rat, put it in a cage and provide it two sweetened water sources, one sugar, and the other a synthetic 0 calorie sweetener. At the start of the experiment, it will drink from both equally. But of the course of a few days it will only be drinking from the sugar one. Insulin makes you dependent on insulin because of its fast acting nature compared to glucagon.
I broke the cycle by not eating simple carbs. No sugary drinks, and no breads. Complex carbs like beans are ok. Basically a low-glycemic index diet is what all adults should be on. One benefit of this is with my near-zero carb diet, I can go an entire day without eating an not be hungry or tired. My glucagon level stays elevated and I am in a constant fat-burning mode. If I get hungry it is only because I ate carbs about 4 hours before. (I do allow one day a week to let loose and have cake. It seems that at zero carbs all the time I'd get dizzy and sick whenever I ate them because the rush of blood sugar was too much. I lost my lunch a couple times that way) If you are hungry, the best thing to eat is something that will slowly digest with lasting energy. Proteins are great but won't fix your immediate hunger. The trick I do is this: liquid carbs - like a Vitamin Water 10 (25 cals/bottle) fast acting, then eat something at the same time to provide a longer-duration energy source.
I cannot recommend a low-carb diet enough. It is so liberating. The Aborigines have a saying along the lines of "Western man looks at his watch to see when to eat" which highlights the differences between our diets. We are constantly looking for our next meal because of the carb/insulin dependence caused by our diets. They don't share the diet or the addiction. FYI: A person with a modest 10% body fat can live for a whopping 30 days on those reserves. What you experience in hunger intensity is not proportional to your survival predicament.
FYI: the "Atkins" diet was known to work in the 1800s, when it was called the "Banting diet" after Charles Banting whose physician recommended it. It worked so well he went about sharing it with the world.
I highly recommend everyone read "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Taubes, which is a fantastic book that critically examines what the mainstream media claims about diet.
So let me get this straight, you'd rather spend billions a year to send people to Mars, for no useful purpose, because it "might mean something some day" versus feeding millions of people a year?
Just tell all those starving Ethiopian kids about how that money went to send a man to Mars because *that* *might* mean something. What does that say about that kid? That the kid is less important than something we don't know about which may or may not be useful.
Now to the bailouts. While horribly implemented they did prevent the collapse of the major economies. We were 5 trades away (as documented in some financial site) from complete insolvency. What that means, is that only the lucky few get a pay check, people don't go wot work and the machinery (both figurative and literal) to produce food, and oil stops. Without solvent banking, *everything* stops.
I believe that you are correct in that the bailouts were BS, and horribly implemented, but that would be failing to consider the sociology involved in the system. Without confidence our economy stops. Look up the term "velocity of money". They were the papering over of a problem to add confidence that we needed.
Space exploration is not "fundamentally important". The bailouts help protect the people who are alive from starvation and crime. [I hate you for having me argue for a bailout, but given a choice between space and the collapse of civilization as we know it, I'll take the bailouts]
I do believe NASA's premiere mission should be one to identify and protect Earth from asteroid and comet impacts by developing technology to 1) identify hazards and 2) adjust trajectories. Everything else (man on mars, moon or beyond) should be discretionary. We will never colonize another stellar body to any extent, and what is more, is we will never have an outpost to save humanity. Anything that is pervasive enough to destroy humanity on Earth is large nough to detroy the ecosystems of the planet for longer than any colony could exist independently off world.
Just a tip - don't be partisan in your posts. Both parties spend spend spend, and have done so with reckless abandon since WWII. This is the check book republic.
Here, do this the next time your party is in charge: Take your income tax bill and write a check for double that. Because at our rate of spending, we only tax for half our expenditures. It doesn't matter who is in charge.
It us unfortunate that we have come full circle and now have taxation without representation. Our children and our kids have no representation in congress, yet they get to inherit our bills.
1. My house is secured by deed, and is on file at the county records department.
2. Flat out false. If I rent my house out and I am not there or furnishing it, the tenants don't get the insurance money, and they don't get to rebuild the house. I do. Who has keys does not matter either. The tenants can't unsure it because it is not theirs. They can only insure their possessions in it.
3. It is a trivial amount of work. The idea is that you can add a million items to the game as easily as 1000. It only costs a few tenths of a second, making it effectively free.
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2. Virtual property cannot be reconciled. With real property, there is a house, a dead a title, a MCO. There are physical things which exist beyond these paper instruments, or the paper is alt least redeemable for physical things. Your virtual property is an arrangement of bits on a platter or on a wire. Your transactions aren't logged and you don't get monthly statements.
3. The creation of real property involves the splitting or effort coming from an economy in order to make it. If you want a tire, there is an economy around the production of the tire. The tire is set at a market value, which is relative to its importance in the economy. Again, your virtual goods are nothing more than an arrangement of bits. INSERT INTO player_inventory (itemname) value ('heavy_mithril_axe');
4. We can make virual goods into the real one, but that would actually cost something. Documenting all those statements and transactions would impose a real cost on conducting business on virtual goods, which would ironically give them a real-world cost. But his would also cause the operators to comply with laws of equity.
Seems that we'd need a "measurement" element, with a quantity and a unit. Then your browser can render the m/s as it wants to.For instance units of a circle (degrees or radians) can be rendered as the number or graphically.
Of course, this opens a can of issues in expressing equasions, because X could be a quantity too. Expressing <term><<measurement quantity="1" units="m"><over><measurement quantity="1" units="s"></term> would probably be more helpful as now you can look for relationships as well.
So now the government is heavily taxing a medication for a specific condition.
Do you think they'll repeal these taxes, or just continue to tax wht is now medication? From what I know medications are tax-free. So now I have to get a prescription to smoke? Where do I get my cigarettes tax free?
The problem with plastics, is while it may seemingly last for ever, its performance characteristics do change because of out gassing.
Cellophane plastic, while able to take a lot of abuse when it is fresh, does not have the same threshold 30 years later. Polypropylene rope is notoriously sensitive to UV, which in a few years loses its strength and continues to break down. Vinyl will crack.
All plastics get brittle. Take for instance my engine starter cap (on the solenoid). I was replacing it this weekend and when I went to unscrew the posts, the plastic just cracked and gave way. It wasn't the faulty part either, but thanks to having to do the other repair, the problem was exacerbated.
If you have a similar atmosphere, you will have similar wear issues. If you have a different atmosphere, you will need technology to adapt to that atmosphere. Maybe you can change the planet-wide system, but that takes a lot of time. Or you can live in bubbles, in which case pressure and air ratios have to be maintained, by some technological equipment.
Ok, so not an allergy, but what about these cell-phone cancer studies? If confirmed, it would also confirm electromagnetic sensitivity, although not an allergy, but it still would be having adverse affects.
I'll let you all debate the validity of those studies.
You can't source a lot of things without an industry. Like petrol and petrol-based products, like oil and plastics and rubber. What is more is plastics and rubber have a finite shelf life so you can't bring all that you need with you, store them and expect to use them. What about volatile compounds? What about medical supplies?
What about accidents, disease, etc. Assume that yes, your industry is set, but then a virulent plague culls half or even 10% of your people. Assuming you brought a "complete, everything you need for 100-years kit" you're now 10% short of that 100-year kit. What do you do? Pad the kit? And say that kit is 100 years because that is how long to get a self-sustaining society set up. Any deviations of population overages or underages will contribute to the collapse of the colony. Too many people and you farm more than expected, taking a toll on the equipment. Too few people and not enough gets built in time.
And every time you bring something with you, you increase the size of your ship and its fuel requirements. Which mean a slower journey or more fuel, which means a bigger ship.
Last night I was working on my 30-year old car. It had slipped the alternator, water and steering belts. Not a big deal, but the belts needed to be replaced. So I went to the store. $45 later I had belts. (Never mind that you can't keep belts on hand because they rot on the shelf) Then I snapped a bolt loosening the alternator. No biggie, I went and got a new bolt. But then I couldn't save the alternator casing because the bolt broke off inside of the threaded hole. So I got a shiny new alternator. ($30)
Things I still need to fix:
Rag joint in steering.
Steering gear is loose
the frame is 30 years old and needs a cross brace
the rubber seals leak and need replacing
the 4WD won't engage.
Needs an oil change, air filter too
Now this is a typical list for a 30-year old vehicle. How are you going to source all those parts on a world where there is no existing manufacturing base?
You underestimate the complexities of the modern world. Lets play your game.
Lets land one some M-class planet.
You set up your reactor, you dig your mine.. by hand or machinery? lets say machinery. Your bit dull and break, eventually you run out of bits.
But lets say you mined enough before this happens. You send the ore to me smelted, at the smelter. No word on how the smelter is powered, fossil fuels? More load on the reactor?
Then you've purified the ore into a metal of suitable quality, combining it with the many other materials, that you've also minded and purified. So now you have stock.
Now you need to machine that stock as making it with hand tools will make fitment issues. So you fire up your lathe, your many-axis CNC milling machine (all powered by that reactor)
Then you finally have your part.
On this planet your part will take a week to arrive. On any other planet you're looking at months. And what do you do in those months? You use machinery to farm because your population of miners, smelters, metallurgists, nuclear power plant maintainers, and the farmers too need to eat and drink.
Now lets assume there is a problem in the farm machinery as well as with your mining bit. You can't just order one, so you have to take something from something that's not being used to fix what broke. So you end up scavenging your own hardware. This can only go on for so long before the age of your equipment (say 30 years) shows and everything starts breaking down. Meanwhile your mothership is down to 3 core processors because the other 75 have faulted from power overloads from failing capacitors and you're still trying to just/feed/ people.
Heavens forbid the nuke plant itself develop a problem.
The problem with your plan is humans don't last long without food and water. The pursuits of the modern world are only made possible by specialization. Otherwise we'd all still be hunting/gathering. We have a farming industry, and the industry is t he size of the planet, that allows us to not worry about food. We'd have to create that bounty on another planet which would take years just to get it to the point of reliability. Otherwise your first famine and everyone dies.
We only survived because we evolved here, we spread out first, with a low technical requirements (fire, stone, wood) then upped our technology after reliable infrastructure was established. In fact, that is why we have the high degree of specialization today in our society. You can start with technology and build down to reliability. Technology is inherently unreliable, has huge energy requirements in terms of power and human power to keep fit.
Who services the nano-bots? when your supply has run out, where do you get more? If you started out with a lot, then as when if you have a hammer everything is a nail, you'll get nano-bot dependent.
And try feeding your kids only information and see how long they last...
I think a better question is "could they bother" or the "Battlestar Galactica" problem. (Honorable mention to Trigun)
Any craft, unless capable of near-luminal speeds will take a large amount of time and energy to get there. This craft will require maintenance over the duration, and after arriving at a a destination will be limited by the lack of industry at the destination. Meaning, once you get somewhere, all your technology goes away eventually, unless you transport a population large enough to build the most complex part on a ship (for us a microprocessor) You can cheat for a little while and take a small chip fab plant with you, but eventually that will need parts too. What you'll end up with ia a devolution of society. Given the problems the pilgrims had at Plymouth rock, (on the same planet) the survival of the group is far from assured. i.e. Jamestown and the the other colonies.
Meanwhile your source civilization is capable of being wiped out by an asteroid or comet. Sure it may take 30 or 100 years to get the part delivered, but it to too long of delay.
I think any civilization out there would focus on the much more down-to-earth effort of population and resource management. We should also be looking at populating the oceans, because given an asteroid impact, that is the safest place to be overall.
Well, what about a lighter weight windows 2000? I mean that's what XP is.. 2000+bloat. Until games "required XP" (in fact, only 3 DirectX DLLs, copied easily enough from an XP system) I was plenty happy with 2000. But now one must worry about security updates which don't happen anymore.
I'm leaning towards Linux these days. Same basic stuff, without the bloat. Plus the MS agreements where you don't own rights to the software in your computer are becoming an issue. If I can't use software in the approved way, or someone programs a kill switch, then I don't really own a computer do I?
Right, you read it wrong, like you were supposed to. 70% = 0.7, 30%= 0.3. Ergo, if it isn't catching spam correctly, its marking the rest as spam, that way you catch all the spam!
I wonder at what point in time it'd be better to reject everything and just deal with escalated messages (to phone calls, txts, tweets, etc). Then you can ignore email all together.
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Lets think critically about this for a minute.
You believe they spoke to a super natural being whose influence is not scientifically documented? Whose stongest interactions were taking place before digital recording and scientific reasoning?
You believe in "angels" more than "life evolving on a[nother] planet"?
WOW.
When people walk by him they say "Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn". Really, they just say "Damn" but the immenseness of his ass distorts space-time and slows time down.
You are too dependent on your stomach to supply your blood sugar. I had this same problem in my 20s. While it is scary to be shaking if you wait a few hours you'll be fine. However it is no way to live going to meal to meal and just barely making it before the shakes set in.
Insulin stores excess blood sugar to fat so you don't going into a coma. Glucagon is the opposite, taking fat and putting it in the blood stream as sugar. Insulin work on short (15 minute) time scales. Gucagon work on hour/day time scales. It takes 3 days of no carbs to bring your glucagon levels up to the point of fully being able to provide al the blood sugar you need. Both glucagon and insulin have an inverse relationship. If your insulin is high, then glucagon is shut off. (You don't want it constantly providing blood sugar when you are about to go into a coma.
So what is happening in your body is called hyperinsulinism. You eat something, feel better, you burn some store the rest. Then your blood sugar drops below cellular satiation level. You feel hungry and get the shakes. You reach for more food as the cure... The same thing happens with rats. Take a rat, put it in a cage and provide it two sweetened water sources, one sugar, and the other a synthetic 0 calorie sweetener. At the start of the experiment, it will drink from both equally. But of the course of a few days it will only be drinking from the sugar one. Insulin makes you dependent on insulin because of its fast acting nature compared to glucagon.
I broke the cycle by not eating simple carbs. No sugary drinks, and no breads. Complex carbs like beans are ok. Basically a low-glycemic index diet is what all adults should be on. One benefit of this is with my near-zero carb diet, I can go an entire day without eating an not be hungry or tired. My glucagon level stays elevated and I am in a constant fat-burning mode. If I get hungry it is only because I ate carbs about 4 hours before. (I do allow one day a week to let loose and have cake. It seems that at zero carbs all the time I'd get dizzy and sick whenever I ate them because the rush of blood sugar was too much. I lost my lunch a couple times that way) If you are hungry, the best thing to eat is something that will slowly digest with lasting energy. Proteins are great but won't fix your immediate hunger. The trick I do is this: liquid carbs - like a Vitamin Water 10 (25 cals/bottle) fast acting, then eat something at the same time to provide a longer-duration energy source.
I cannot recommend a low-carb diet enough. It is so liberating. The Aborigines have a saying along the lines of "Western man looks at his watch to see when to eat" which highlights the differences between our diets. We are constantly looking for our next meal because of the carb/insulin dependence caused by our diets. They don't share the diet or the addiction. FYI: A person with a modest 10% body fat can live for a whopping 30 days on those reserves. What you experience in hunger intensity is not proportional to your survival predicament.
FYI: the "Atkins" diet was known to work in the 1800s, when it was called the "Banting diet" after Charles Banting whose physician recommended it. It worked so well he went about sharing it with the world.
I highly recommend everyone read "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Taubes, which is a fantastic book that critically examines what the mainstream media claims about diet.
So let me get this straight, you'd rather spend billions a year to send people to Mars, for no useful purpose, because it "might mean something some day" versus feeding millions of people a year?
Just tell all those starving Ethiopian kids about how that money went to send a man to Mars because *that* *might* mean something. What does that say about that kid? That the kid is less important than something we don't know about which may or may not be useful.
Now to the bailouts. While horribly implemented they did prevent the collapse of the major economies. We were 5 trades away (as documented in some financial site) from complete insolvency. What that means, is that only the lucky few get a pay check, people don't go wot work and the machinery (both figurative and literal) to produce food, and oil stops. Without solvent banking, *everything* stops.
I believe that you are correct in that the bailouts were BS, and horribly implemented, but that would be failing to consider the sociology involved in the system. Without confidence our economy stops. Look up the term "velocity of money". They were the papering over of a problem to add confidence that we needed.
Space exploration is not "fundamentally important". The bailouts help protect the people who are alive from starvation and crime. [I hate you for having me argue for a bailout, but given a choice between space and the collapse of civilization as we know it, I'll take the bailouts]
I do believe NASA's premiere mission should be one to identify and protect Earth from asteroid and comet impacts by developing technology to 1) identify hazards and 2) adjust trajectories. Everything else (man on mars, moon or beyond) should be discretionary. We will never colonize another stellar body to any extent, and what is more, is we will never have an outpost to save humanity. Anything that is pervasive enough to destroy humanity on Earth is large nough to detroy the ecosystems of the planet for longer than any colony could exist independently off world.
Just a tip - don't be partisan in your posts. Both parties spend spend spend, and have done so with reckless abandon since WWII. This is the check book republic.
Here, do this the next time your party is in charge: Take your income tax bill and write a check for double that. Because at our rate of spending, we only tax for half our expenditures. It doesn't matter who is in charge.
It us unfortunate that we have come full circle and now have taxation without representation. Our children and our kids have no representation in congress, yet they get to inherit our bills.
1. My house is secured by deed, and is on file at the county records department.
2. Flat out false. If I rent my house out and I am not there or furnishing it, the tenants don't get the insurance money, and they don't get to rebuild the house. I do. Who has keys does not matter either. The tenants can't unsure it because it is not theirs. They can only insure their possessions in it.
3. It is a trivial amount of work. The idea is that you can add a million items to the game as easily as 1000. It only costs a few tenths of a second, making it effectively free.
1. SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Aug 13 16:07:13 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to: wow_prod_001
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> DELETE FROM player_inventory;
where oh shit!!!!1!!
2. Virtual property cannot be reconciled. With real property, there is a house, a dead a title, a MCO. There are physical things which exist beyond these paper instruments, or the paper is alt least redeemable for physical things. Your virtual property is an arrangement of bits on a platter or on a wire. Your transactions aren't logged and you don't get monthly statements.
3. The creation of real property involves the splitting or effort coming from an economy in order to make it. If you want a tire, there is an economy around the production of the tire. The tire is set at a market value, which is relative to its importance in the economy. Again, your virtual goods are nothing more than an arrangement of bits.
INSERT INTO player_inventory (itemname) value ('heavy_mithril_axe');
4. We can make virual goods into the real one, but that would actually cost something. Documenting all those statements and transactions would impose a real cost on conducting business on virtual goods, which would ironically give them a real-world cost. But his would also cause the operators to comply with laws of equity.
You say that now, but wait for the Open Intelligent Design course materials come out.
Origami users beware!
Seems that we'd need a "measurement" element, with a quantity and a unit. Then your browser can render the m/s as it wants to.For instance units of a circle (degrees or radians) can be rendered as the number or graphically.
Of course, this opens a can of issues in expressing equasions, because X could be a quantity too. Expressing <term><<measurement quantity="1" units="m"><over><measurement quantity="1" units="s"></term> would probably be more helpful as now you can look for relationships as well.
So now the government is heavily taxing a medication for a specific condition. Do you think they'll repeal these taxes, or just continue to tax wht is now medication? From what I know medications are tax-free. So now I have to get a prescription to smoke? Where do I get my cigarettes tax free?
Just wait until it finds out about git and starts maintaining the tty subsystem, writing itself into linux...
The problem with plastics, is while it may seemingly last for ever, its performance characteristics do change because of out gassing. Cellophane plastic, while able to take a lot of abuse when it is fresh, does not have the same threshold 30 years later. Polypropylene rope is notoriously sensitive to UV, which in a few years loses its strength and continues to break down. Vinyl will crack. All plastics get brittle. Take for instance my engine starter cap (on the solenoid). I was replacing it this weekend and when I went to unscrew the posts, the plastic just cracked and gave way. It wasn't the faulty part either, but thanks to having to do the other repair, the problem was exacerbated. If you have a similar atmosphere, you will have similar wear issues. If you have a different atmosphere, you will need technology to adapt to that atmosphere. Maybe you can change the planet-wide system, but that takes a lot of time. Or you can live in bubbles, in which case pressure and air ratios have to be maintained, by some technological equipment.
I'll let you all debate the validity of those studies.
Just use the structures themselves and make them like a Wal*Mart or Home Depot. I never get signal in those stores!
You can't source a lot of things without an industry. Like petrol and petrol-based products, like oil and plastics and rubber. What is more is plastics and rubber have a finite shelf life so you can't bring all that you need with you, store them and expect to use them. What about volatile compounds? What about medical supplies?
What about accidents, disease, etc. Assume that yes, your industry is set, but then a virulent plague culls half or even 10% of your people. Assuming you brought a "complete, everything you need for 100-years kit" you're now 10% short of that 100-year kit. What do you do? Pad the kit? And say that kit is 100 years because that is how long to get a self-sustaining society set up. Any deviations of population overages or underages will contribute to the collapse of the colony. Too many people and you farm more than expected, taking a toll on the equipment. Too few people and not enough gets built in time.
And every time you bring something with you, you increase the size of your ship and its fuel requirements. Which mean a slower journey or more fuel, which means a bigger ship.
Things I still need to fix:
Now this is a typical list for a 30-year old vehicle. How are you going to source all those parts on a world where there is no existing manufacturing base?
Never mind medical supplies!
Lets land one some M-class planet.
On this planet your part will take a week to arrive. On any other planet you're looking at months. And what do you do in those months? You use machinery to farm because your population of miners, smelters, metallurgists, nuclear power plant maintainers, and the farmers too need to eat and drink.
Now lets assume there is a problem in the farm machinery as well as with your mining bit. You can't just order one, so you have to take something from something that's not being used to fix what broke. So you end up scavenging your own hardware. This can only go on for so long before the age of your equipment (say 30 years) shows and everything starts breaking down. Meanwhile your mothership is down to 3 core processors because the other 75 have faulted from power overloads from failing capacitors and you're still trying to just /feed/ people.
Heavens forbid the nuke plant itself develop a problem.
The problem with your plan is humans don't last long without food and water. The pursuits of the modern world are only made possible by specialization. Otherwise we'd all still be hunting/gathering. We have a farming industry, and the industry is t he size of the planet, that allows us to not worry about food. We'd have to create that bounty on another planet which would take years just to get it to the point of reliability. Otherwise your first famine and everyone dies.
We only survived because we evolved here, we spread out first, with a low technical requirements (fire, stone, wood) then upped our technology after reliable infrastructure was established. In fact, that is why we have the high degree of specialization today in our society. You can start with technology and build down to reliability. Technology is inherently unreliable, has huge energy requirements in terms of power and human power to keep fit.
Who services the nano-bots? when your supply has run out, where do you get more? If you started out with a lot, then as when if you have a hammer everything is a nail, you'll get nano-bot dependent. And try feeding your kids only information and see how long they last...
I think a better question is "could they bother" or the "Battlestar Galactica" problem. (Honorable mention to Trigun) Any craft, unless capable of near-luminal speeds will take a large amount of time and energy to get there. This craft will require maintenance over the duration, and after arriving at a a destination will be limited by the lack of industry at the destination. Meaning, once you get somewhere, all your technology goes away eventually, unless you transport a population large enough to build the most complex part on a ship (for us a microprocessor) You can cheat for a little while and take a small chip fab plant with you, but eventually that will need parts too. What you'll end up with ia a devolution of society. Given the problems the pilgrims had at Plymouth rock, (on the same planet) the survival of the group is far from assured. i.e. Jamestown and the the other colonies. Meanwhile your source civilization is capable of being wiped out by an asteroid or comet. Sure it may take 30 or 100 years to get the part delivered, but it to too long of delay. I think any civilization out there would focus on the much more down-to-earth effort of population and resource management. We should also be looking at populating the oceans, because given an asteroid impact, that is the safest place to be overall.
Its the colorful buttons on the title bar... they stored them as BMP.
I was hoping to be modded funny. Ir insightful. hard to tell the difference these days...
Well, what about a lighter weight windows 2000? I mean that's what XP is.. 2000+bloat. Until games "required XP" (in fact, only 3 DirectX DLLs, copied easily enough from an XP system) I was plenty happy with 2000. But now one must worry about security updates which don't happen anymore. I'm leaning towards Linux these days. Same basic stuff, without the bloat. Plus the MS agreements where you don't own rights to the software in your computer are becoming an issue. If I can't use software in the approved way, or someone programs a kill switch, then I don't really own a computer do I?
Right, you read it wrong, like you were supposed to. 70% = 0.7, 30%= 0.3. Ergo, if it isn't catching spam correctly, its marking the rest as spam, that way you catch all the spam! I wonder at what point in time it'd be better to reject everything and just deal with escalated messages (to phone calls, txts, tweets, etc). Then you can ignore email all together.