Ya know my first thought was along the lines of what can we do to detect or predict life destorying blasts in the future. Then my imediate next thought was that this would be totally useless without a flux capacitor if we try to stop it.
Or we could just put a planetary tinfoil hat on.
Or better yet, giant solar panels.
Either way I'm just going to sit here and drink my beer. I hate even mentioning labor on Saturday.
So far we have been exploiting the fruits of fundamental material science, physics and chemistry research done in the 60-es (if not earlier), 70-es and to a small extent in the 80-es. There has been nothing fundamentally new done in the 90-es. A lot of nice engineering - yes. A lot of clever manufacturing techniques silicon of insulator being a prime example - yes. But nothing as far as the underlying science is concerned.
We haven't been able to develop new "underlying science" because the aliens haven't returned. Duh.
$35,000,000 - amount committed to help victims
$147,000,000,000 - spent on war in Iraq
I'm proud to be an American. Call me a troll if you want, but at least I know my country _did_ something.
While I am also proud to be an American and am glad we are taking action in opressed areas of the world. I feel a little insulted that we spent.02% of what we spent on the war in Iraq in aid for a natural disaster that has killed 70,000 (current number I'm reading). I'm not saying the money wasn't well spent, but we definitly could have donated more money as a nation.
The strength of TV is that the medium allows you to have a visual novel
Or yet another weakness of TV the has lowered the average intelligence of this nation. The average person looks to the TV to provide visual imagery instead of reading a book and developing their own imagination. And this is one factor that has limited our innovation. The imagination to think of crazy shit.
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Ya know my first thought was along the lines of what can we do to detect or predict life destorying blasts in the future. Then my imediate next thought was that this would be totally useless without a flux capacitor if we try to stop it.
Or we could just put a planetary tinfoil hat on.
Or better yet, giant solar panels.
Either way I'm just going to sit here and drink my beer. I hate even mentioning labor on Saturday.
We haven't been able to develop new "underlying science" because the aliens haven't returned. Duh.
$147,000,000,000 - spent on war in Iraq
I'm proud to be an American. Call me a troll if you want, but at least I know my country _did_ something.
While I am also proud to be an American and am glad we are taking action in opressed areas of the world. I feel a little insulted that we spent .02% of what we spent on the war in Iraq in aid for a natural disaster that has killed 70,000 (current number I'm reading). I'm not saying the money wasn't well spent, but we definitly could have donated more money as a nation.
but what if you don't have two hands free while browsing for pr0^H^H^H stuff?
Or yet another weakness of TV the has lowered the average intelligence of this nation. The average person looks to the TV to provide visual imagery instead of reading a book and developing their own imagination. And this is one factor that has limited our innovation. The imagination to think of crazy shit.
I like my life. Given various statics on jobs/money/education etc in this country I think I ended up in the better half.
Then again 74% of these statistics were made up.
Yeah, all of the sudden software comes in refrigerator sized boxes!