It's easy for a programmer to say "We should stop worrying so much about compatibility and interoperability" when they don't have to deal with customers, support, or actually selling the end product. When a customer calls up and says, "Hey, how come this new version of Windows doesn't work with any of my old Windows software?" you can't just tell them "Because our programmers thought it was better to get a fresh start."
I had a cousin who used to wear a lot of gold jewelry. He also lived in a shitty neighborhood. Everyone used to call him crazy for it, but he ignored this, because he was fucking stupid. Of course, he got mugged, and lost all his jewelry one day (he's lucky that's all he lost).
Nope. Those chunks of ice in the ice caps are actually dry ice (CO2), not water. To get to the water, you have to dig down a ways for it, and it's mixed in with dust and iron oxide.
Mars has lots of water in the same sense that earth has lots of gold. Getting water on Mars is not just a matter of digging a well or picking up large, pure ice chunks off the surface. It's more akin to industrial mining.
No, foreigners come to the U.S. because, thanks to corporate ownership of the government, the U.S. is one of the few countries that shows almost no favoritism to native workers (quite the opposite actually). You're more likely to get a tech job in the U.S. these days with an H1B visa and a few Java classes than with American citizenship and a full degree.
Ralph Nader, Bernie Sander, Ron Wyden, Sarah Palin, Justin Amash and Glenn Beck
Every one of those people is a self-serving liar and thief. If you REALLY want a government to represent the people, you need to start with good decent people, not fucking scumbag politicians and media whores. You need to pick the guy who doesn't WANT to be in charge--because the guy who does is a almost certainly a selfish scumbag looking to advance his own interests, not those of the people. Find the good person who doesn't want to lead and you'll probably also find the guy who doesn't want to steal, lie, pad his own pockets with graft, accumulate power, serve his own ego, betray his constituents for 30 pieces of silver, etc.
If I were a Fortune 500 company with a lot of valuable IP to protect, I sure as shit wouldn't cut corners on my security. You don't want the guy who decides who can come in and out of secure areas in your building to be some outside contractor making $9/hr. What do you think some guy like that is going to say when someone approaches him and offers him $10,000 to look the other way when they come in?
Shit, I *WISH* I could live like Al Gore. The guy has a fleet of SUV's, a mansion with a power bill that makes mine look like a joke, and closets full of nice clothes, rooms full of expensive shit, etc. Were that we could *ALL* live as "sustainably" as environmentalists like Al Gore or Leonardo Dicaprio.
If anything goes wrong, they'll just wake up in a distant future where everyone is really stupid, or they're a delivery boy, or the Earth is ruled by damned dirty apes. Either way, hilarious hijinks and adventures will follow. Problem solved!
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It's easy for a programmer to say "We should stop worrying so much about compatibility and interoperability" when they don't have to deal with customers, support, or actually selling the end product. When a customer calls up and says, "Hey, how come this new version of Windows doesn't work with any of my old Windows software?" you can't just tell them "Because our programmers thought it was better to get a fresh start."
It's just shy.
Yeah, you SHOULD be able to do a lot of things. And if we lived in an ideal world, we WOULD be able to do all those things.
You seen any ideal worlds lately?
I had a cousin who used to wear a lot of gold jewelry. He also lived in a shitty neighborhood. Everyone used to call him crazy for it, but he ignored this, because he was fucking stupid. Of course, he got mugged, and lost all his jewelry one day (he's lucky that's all he lost).
He was the victim of a crime.
He was also fucking stupid.
a) estrogen in the water
b) more kids who will one day fish.
It was A wolf, reported by the rescuers as "going in their direction".
To which the cosmonauts, knowing what they've just been through, laughed.
It would be kind of like asking an astronaut "But weren't you afraid of drowning when your pod splashed down?" ;-)
Pissing on the spacecraft before launch was a Russian tradition (no joke). I would laugh at this, but it seemed to work out pretty well for them.
The Russians had the genius Korolev all we Americans had was an old Nazi who no one even listened to until the Russians were already way ahead of us.
Nope. Those chunks of ice in the ice caps are actually dry ice (CO2), not water. To get to the water, you have to dig down a ways for it, and it's mixed in with dust and iron oxide.
Mars has lots of water in the same sense that earth has lots of gold. Getting water on Mars is not just a matter of digging a well or picking up large, pure ice chunks off the surface. It's more akin to industrial mining.
No, foreigners come to the U.S. because, thanks to corporate ownership of the government, the U.S. is one of the few countries that shows almost no favoritism to native workers (quite the opposite actually). You're more likely to get a tech job in the U.S. these days with an H1B visa and a few Java classes than with American citizenship and a full degree.
Well, we can't just sit back and let white Americans suffer.
Drone strikes already murder people every day.
And the reverse is also true. Any NSA officer hacking into a Russian server is subject to prosecution in Russia, if discovered.
Basically, personnel from both sides might want to avoid taking any vacations where the other side might arrest you.
What good does a bad Yelp review do when the company has no competition?
Yeah, you just buy some fake-ass "carbon credits" and get to pretend you're the good guy while you live like a gluttonous king.
I need them too, especially Leonardo's endless stream of hot women.
Ralph Nader, Bernie Sander, Ron Wyden, Sarah Palin, Justin Amash and Glenn Beck
Every one of those people is a self-serving liar and thief. If you REALLY want a government to represent the people, you need to start with good decent people, not fucking scumbag politicians and media whores. You need to pick the guy who doesn't WANT to be in charge--because the guy who does is a almost certainly a selfish scumbag looking to advance his own interests, not those of the people. Find the good person who doesn't want to lead and you'll probably also find the guy who doesn't want to steal, lie, pad his own pockets with graft, accumulate power, serve his own ego, betray his constituents for 30 pieces of silver, etc.
If I were a Fortune 500 company with a lot of valuable IP to protect, I sure as shit wouldn't cut corners on my security. You don't want the guy who decides who can come in and out of secure areas in your building to be some outside contractor making $9/hr. What do you think some guy like that is going to say when someone approaches him and offers him $10,000 to look the other way when they come in?
Looks like Al has mod points too. Shouldn't you be off chasing ManBearPig?
It's highly unlikely that the world can safely produce almost five times as much electricity by 2035 as it does now
We could if environmentalists and NIMBY's would stop blocking new nuclear power plant construction.
Shit, I *WISH* I could live like Al Gore. The guy has a fleet of SUV's, a mansion with a power bill that makes mine look like a joke, and closets full of nice clothes, rooms full of expensive shit, etc. Were that we could *ALL* live as "sustainably" as environmentalists like Al Gore or Leonardo Dicaprio.
If anything goes wrong, they'll just wake up in a distant future where everyone is really stupid, or they're a delivery boy, or the Earth is ruled by damned dirty apes. Either way, hilarious hijinks and adventures will follow. Problem solved!
If you put on the sunglasses too, you'll see all the signs that say "Conform."