The question is without realism. With six billion people on Earth it would be almost impossible to kill everyone. But far from that being a negative thing, mass destruction can be a boon for humanity. As Darwin showed, the evolution of a species is driven by the death of entire segments of the population. Those who survive are more suitable to the environment (In our case, "the environment" isn't just the ecosystem but also the social, political and technological environment we create around us).
Additionally, given our ability of self-change we've moved beyond genetic evolution and would more likely evolve by changing our ways rather than physically adapting (e.g. learning to not develop nuclear weapons rather than evolving a physical immunity to radiation). Hopefully we'd learn that the first time.
A little death and anarchy now and again is a good thing. In the grand scheme of things, it keeps the human animal on its toes.
I'm an IT project manager with a prime Wall Street financial company and I'm now writing this comment from a chair in Mumbai, India, surrounded by my new team of a dozen developers. I'm here for a month to inrtoduce myself and show them how we do business in New York. All of them are qualified and super-cheap.
I can't tell you how hard it is to find qualified people in the US, and when I did after months of searching, they all had delusions of moving into management (hypocrite that I am given that's exactly what I did after my dot-com developer days). Over here, I can have the req filled almost immediately with people who know what they're doing, can communicate well, and want nothing more than to be good software developers. It's true some of them smell a little and there are cows (and malaria) in the streets outside; but the code is good, the bottom line is happy, and that's all I care about.
I'm never hiring another developer in the States again.
Am I the only one who finds it really sad that this is the most exciting science news in the media these days? Watching a guy in a space suit pull out a piece of paper from between two tiles does not need to be on CNN for LIVE coverage. News worthy science stories should capture the imagination. Landing on the moon = cool, Finding life at the bottom of the ocean = cool Finding over a dozen new planets past Pluto = cool Rolling around on Mars = cool Discovering big bang/dark matter/universe expansion = cool
They are cool because they alter our understanding of the universe.
Touching up the shuttle in orbit while talking to the president of Japan = totally boring Maintenance trips to the space station = boring Looking at panoramic views of Earth from space for the 5 zillionth time = super boring
Doesn't mainstream media have anything better to report on in the science world? Is the problem with the reporting or the slow progression of scientific discoveries?
The annoying thing is that my whole family and I use Yahoo! Mail for our personal family addresses... ie me@LastName.com and they already charge us for more than 5 accounts even though we pay the $30 a year for the name service. Now each of us needs to pay to use Outlook too???
I think that's really annoying. I'm a bit computer savy and at least have a cable modem and a decent computer, is it possible to host on my computer? It there a free email server I can host? Would I definitely need a static IP?
Or maybe another service that won't charge for every little thing and not have those annoying adds run at the bottom of all my emails???
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What is surprising, is that this is surprising.
The question is without realism. With six billion people on Earth it would be almost impossible to kill everyone. But far from that being a negative thing, mass destruction can be a boon for humanity. As Darwin showed, the evolution of a species is driven by the death of entire segments of the population. Those who survive are more suitable to the environment (In our case, "the environment" isn't just the ecosystem but also the social, political and technological environment we create around us). Additionally, given our ability of self-change we've moved beyond genetic evolution and would more likely evolve by changing our ways rather than physically adapting (e.g. learning to not develop nuclear weapons rather than evolving a physical immunity to radiation). Hopefully we'd learn that the first time. A little death and anarchy now and again is a good thing. In the grand scheme of things, it keeps the human animal on its toes.
Let me tell you something,
I'm an IT project manager with a prime Wall Street financial company and I'm now writing this comment from a chair in Mumbai, India, surrounded by my new team of a dozen developers. I'm here for a month to inrtoduce myself and show them how we do business in New York. All of them are qualified and super-cheap.
I can't tell you how hard it is to find qualified people in the US, and when I did after months of searching, they all had delusions of moving into management (hypocrite that I am given that's exactly what I did after my dot-com developer days). Over here, I can have the req filled almost immediately with people who know what they're doing, can communicate well, and want nothing more than to be good software developers. It's true some of them smell a little and there are cows (and malaria) in the streets outside; but the code is good, the bottom line is happy, and that's all I care about.
I'm never hiring another developer in the States again.
Am I the only one who finds it really sad that this is the most exciting science news in the media these days? Watching a guy in a space suit pull out a piece of paper from between two tiles does not need to be on CNN for LIVE coverage. News worthy science stories should capture the imagination.
Landing on the moon = cool,
Finding life at the bottom of the ocean = cool
Finding over a dozen new planets past Pluto = cool
Rolling around on Mars = cool
Discovering big bang/dark matter/universe expansion = cool
They are cool because they alter our understanding of the universe.
Touching up the shuttle in orbit while talking to the president of Japan = totally boring
Maintenance trips to the space station = boring
Looking at panoramic views of Earth from space for the 5 zillionth time = super boring
Doesn't mainstream media have anything better to report on in the science world? Is the problem with the reporting or the slow progression of scientific discoveries?
The annoying thing is that my whole family and I use Yahoo! Mail for our personal family addresses... ie me@LastName.com and they already charge us for more than 5 accounts even though we pay the $30 a year for the name service. Now each of us needs to pay to use Outlook too???
I think that's really annoying. I'm a bit computer savy and at least have a cable modem and a decent computer, is it possible to host on my computer? It there a free email server I can host? Would I definitely need a static IP?
Or maybe another service that won't charge for every little thing and not have those annoying adds run at the bottom of all my emails???
Any help would be great guys.