The galaxy should be ablaze with life. It would only take one spacefaring race to colonise the entire galaxy. It's only 100,000 light years across - that's do-able in a few million years even at sublight. Heck, Earth is primo real estate - it should have been colonised, maybe several times over, by BEMs.
So, where are they?
Either no spacefaring race has evolved, anywhere, ever, or they evolved and died out - across the whole galaxy.
When you start to think about what could cause a spacefaring race to "die out" on a galactic scale, well, maybe we shouldn't be shouting out "Here we are!" into the void.
Smarter BEMs, if they exist, have probably figured this out, and are listening, quietly. Maybe even listening to our transmissions, to see what happens to us.
Paranoid? Yes. But the alternative is to believe that we are truly unique, which is racial solipsism of the highest order. Pick your mental poison.
What sort of guarentee[sic] can you offer that it will be adequately destroyed?
The same guarantee that everybody else offers - cast iron, 100% and fully contractually enforceable. At least enforceable against the tiny limited liability shell company with no assets that you've spun off to do the actual work.
See, it's not how you do the work, it's how you do the business that matters.
He's a likeable chap, but not the sharpest droid in the box. To wit, he's rabidly in favour of electric vehicles, to the point where he accuses anyone pointing out the obvious flaws with current vehicles - production costs, bad and reducing range, battery recycling issues, and that the vast majority of the electricity still comes from fossil source - as being biased shills.
So, well intentioned fellow, but rather superficial in the thinking department.
Well, I'd normally assume that you're a 2nd semester economics freshman, but from your combination of illiteracy and sociopathy, I'm actually guessing that you're doing law.
Why is Apple's stock so prone to heavy fluctuation
Apple doesn't pay dividends, so its stock is owned by speculators, not investors. Its value is based solely on the belief that there will always be another sucker along in a minute who thinks its worth more than you paid. When you stop believing those suckers will appear, then it's time to bail.
I was going to say that being a Congress critter looks like a lot less work for a lot more money, but I see NASA are finally catching up with the "less work" part of that equation.
I seem to remember party girl McCartney being caught smoking and drinking while knocked up. Surely that should have toughened her womb-booger up and made him more resistant to the autism virusbacteriacurse?
I'd love to see him not spend one red cent, let Sony present all their evidence, then as his defence say to the bench "Hell if I know, you're the ones getting paid to do the law-deciding stuff, you tell me how many billions I done owe them. Cause I ain't got nothing to give, no sir."
Them folksy ways go down a lot better than some hi-falutin' city wiseguy lawyer-jabber anyways, I surely do reckon.
No, really, track is where it's at, baby. Go and try and find a discontinued Microsoft Trackball Explorer anywhere. If you can get one for less than $200, buy it - they're only increasing in value. A Logitech wireless trackball is the next best thing, but nothing - nothing compares to one of those Microsoft trackballs. It's like stroking a purring kitten, while Alyson Hannigan nuzzles your neck and Felicia Day nibbles on your earlobe.
There's still a market for low level C programmers, and for Java, C#, Perl, Python, VB, and just about everything else, but who uses C++ these days? Games developers, a few corporate app maintainers and... uh... hang on...
Note carefully: I love C++, with all its fragmentation, bloat, gotchas and non-standard-standard-libraries, but really, it's a niche language now, kept alive by beardy wierdies and a few caffeine soaked kids who'll burn out and end up writing SQL for banks in a couple of years. Interesting, but hardly news that matters.
By accepting that climate change is a real "problem", you've already entrenched yourself in a belief-based bunker. Note that climatologists are selling a solution - of course they're going to claim there's a "problem".
Oh, it's very obvious that GPL3 was written by many, many different people. I single out Moglen for special praise though because he carried it to Stallman, on a hurd of gnus, to be blessed.
Hah, I used to develop for WinCE and Windows Mobile. From time to time we would look at each other, exchange an "Are we really doing this? For real?" glance, then sigh and get back to our Sisyphean task.
It was always blindingly obvious that the chaps who developed the WinCE line did so on simulators on their desktops, not on actual phone hardware. The WinCE line has never, ever been designed for actual mobile use.
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The galaxy should be ablaze with life. It would only take one spacefaring race to colonise the entire galaxy. It's only 100,000 light years across - that's do-able in a few million years even at sublight. Heck, Earth is primo real estate - it should have been colonised, maybe several times over, by BEMs.
So, where are they?
Either no spacefaring race has evolved, anywhere, ever, or they evolved and died out - across the whole galaxy.
When you start to think about what could cause a spacefaring race to "die out" on a galactic scale, well, maybe we shouldn't be shouting out "Here we are!" into the void.
Smarter BEMs, if they exist, have probably figured this out, and are listening, quietly. Maybe even listening to our transmissions, to see what happens to us.
Paranoid? Yes. But the alternative is to believe that we are truly unique, which is racial solipsism of the highest order. Pick your mental poison.
No, if you took 95 cents of my dollar every time I got a first post, you'd be an executive.
No, really, the guy that beat me up was like seven feet tall. Also, there were three of him. All of them ninjas.
The same guarantee that everybody else offers - cast iron, 100% and fully contractually enforceable. At least enforceable against the tiny limited liability shell company with no assets that you've spun off to do the actual work.
See, it's not how you do the work, it's how you do the business that matters.
Out of sight, out of mind. Really, after a week of not waking up dead, you'll forget all about it.
He's a likeable chap, but not the sharpest droid in the box. To wit, he's rabidly in favour of electric vehicles, to the point where he accuses anyone pointing out the obvious flaws with current vehicles - production costs, bad and reducing range, battery recycling issues, and that the vast majority of the electricity still comes from fossil source - as being biased shills.
So, well intentioned fellow, but rather superficial in the thinking department.
Well, I'd normally assume that you're a 2nd semester economics freshman, but from your combination of illiteracy and sociopathy, I'm actually guessing that you're doing law.
Apple doesn't pay dividends, so its stock is owned by speculators, not investors. Its value is based solely on the belief that there will always be another sucker along in a minute who thinks its worth more than you paid. When you stop believing those suckers will appear, then it's time to bail.
First thing I thought of when I saw "Martian" was that the politically correct term will have to be [Caucasian|Latino|African|Asian]-American-Martian.
Unless the Goddamn Russkis, Chinks, Gooks or Nips get there first, obviously.
We can't all work for Microsoft, Adobe and Google. You'll learn that when mom kicks you out of the basement.
I was going to say that being a Congress critter looks like a lot less work for a lot more money, but I see NASA are finally catching up with the "less work" part of that equation.
I seem to remember party girl McCartney being caught smoking and drinking while knocked up. Surely that should have toughened her womb-booger up and made him more resistant to the autism virusbacteriacurse?
I'd love to see him not spend one red cent, let Sony present all their evidence, then as his defence say to the bench "Hell if I know, you're the ones getting paid to do the law-deciding stuff, you tell me how many billions I done owe them. Cause I ain't got nothing to give, no sir."
Them folksy ways go down a lot better than some hi-falutin' city wiseguy lawyer-jabber anyways, I surely do reckon.
Crackers be fearing of the track, is all.
No, really, track is where it's at, baby. Go and try and find a discontinued Microsoft Trackball Explorer anywhere. If you can get one for less than $200, buy it - they're only increasing in value. A Logitech wireless trackball is the next best thing, but nothing - nothing compares to one of those Microsoft trackballs. It's like stroking a purring kitten, while Alyson Hannigan nuzzles your neck and Felicia Day nibbles on your earlobe.
I said "market", not hippyware. Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
Thanks, I try to raise my game when the subject merits it. It's nice to have my efforts recognised.
Good call. I wonder - does Dark Knight Returns mark the start of the Reboot Era?
There's still a market for low level C programmers, and for Java, C#, Perl, Python, VB, and just about everything else, but who uses C++ these days? Games developers, a few corporate app maintainers and... uh... hang on...
Note carefully: I love C++, with all its fragmentation, bloat, gotchas and non-standard-standard-libraries, but really, it's a niche language now, kept alive by beardy wierdies and a few caffeine soaked kids who'll burn out and end up writing SQL for banks in a couple of years. Interesting, but hardly news that matters.
Who has peer reviewed this claim? Who has tested it? This is Science by Press Release.
I'll stuff Al Gore into that strawman before burning it. Take that, atmosphere!
Hacked != Cracked.
Yes, there's a difference. It may only matter to the people who do it, rather than those who just talk about it, but they're the ones who matter.
By accepting that climate change is a real "problem", you've already entrenched yourself in a belief-based bunker. Note that climatologists are selling a solution - of course they're going to claim there's a "problem".
Oh, it's very obvious that GPL3 was written by many, many different people. I single out Moglen for special praise though because he carried it to Stallman, on a hurd of gnus, to be blessed.
Hah, I used to develop for WinCE and Windows Mobile. From time to time we would look at each other, exchange an "Are we really doing this? For real?" glance, then sigh and get back to our Sisyphean task.
It was always blindingly obvious that the chaps who developed the WinCE line did so on simulators on their desktops, not on actual phone hardware. The WinCE line has never, ever been designed for actual mobile use.
I'm not sure Moglen has ever seen the inside of a courtroom in anger. Never mind half baked, I think he's still gooey in the middle.