Can you picture Florida in a replay of 2000 saying, "yeah, well we could vote for the governors brother or we could honor some compact we joined...screw it we're going to vote for W. no matter what."
But, personally, I have no problem with my tax dollars being spent to find out.
But it is your tax dollars - the government runs on borrowed money. Meaning that we are already so far in the hole that we needed to trim all non-essentials from the budget long ago. we are on a road to ruin financially and we are almost there.
Actually, the effects of microgravity are very detrimental to health. People cannot stay on the ISS permanently - there is a maximum length of time to their stay before they have to return to earth and then they are in very bad shape. So, it isn't just food and air.
I want to punch that "Mac Guy" in those new Apple commericals more than I ever wanted to punch the "Dude, you're getting a Dell" guy. Something about his attitude just grates me.
Yeah, I also fucking hate people who are "nice" "reasonable" and "caring".
I can't see Apple and MS each with 30% of the market. If/when MS drops that low, their marketshare will be in free fall. And if Apple's were that high, it would take away the major reason people don't buy Apple (low marketshare). So, if that were the case, Apple would start rising and MS would be dropping.
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Can you picture Florida in a replay of 2000 saying, "yeah, well we could vote for the governors brother or we could honor some compact we joined...screw it we're going to vote for W. no matter what."
On the plus side, this might just encourage more people to take public transit.
Don't count on it.
You are talking about the Lisa, or the Mac?
For 10K, the Lisa certainly SHOULD have been better than a TRS-80.
I pre-ordered this book and I received it maybe 10 days ago. It is a very good book.
Not too easy to make a game in a couple hours anymore
I think that depends on what kind of game you are trying to make.
How is it that they owe us an apology? Clearly the TIMING of this arrest is the for purposes you quoted.
scientologists, you have a very interesting religion
That's an urban legend. Scientology is actually very boring.
Dude, that was turtles.
Once the roman empire canceled their space program, it was all downhill from there, baby.
I am truly sorry that you got modded flamebait. This is a well reasoned post that I heartily agree with.
You just made his point by mentioning the few things space travel is actually good for. Note that going to the Moon isn't on the list.
But, personally, I have no problem with my tax dollars being spent to find out.
But it is your tax dollars - the government runs on borrowed money. Meaning that we are already so far in the hole that we needed to trim all non-essentials from the budget long ago. we are on a road to ruin financially and we are almost there.
You would be hard pressed to refine enough Al on ISS to make a teaspoon.
Yeah, you'd also be a bit hard pressed to mine the ore there either.
The V1s and V2s were not even close to being inter-continental.
Depends on which two continents we're talking about. Spain to north africa would be "intercontenental".
Clearly all of the progress you speak of could not have happened if the Apollo program had not been canceled.
In fact, if we could have gotten the Space Shuttle canceled, we would have had peace in the middle east by now.
I'd like to know if NASA is responsible for the current television advertisement campaign for Tang.
Math isn't an invention, it is a discovery.
We could pay for NASA by spending 4% less on defense, or finding a way to decrease medical costs by 2%.
Or we could do the sane thing and zero out NASA's budget (and AmTrak and many others...) in order to reduce the deficit.
it's not as though we launch tons of dollar bills into orbit and eject them into space.
Doing so would be much more cost effective and have an equal scientific value.
Oh, and I am very glad you brought up Tang because truely, where the hell would be without Tang.
Actually, the effects of microgravity are very detrimental to health. People cannot stay on the ISS permanently - there is a maximum length of time to their stay before they have to return to earth and then they are in very bad shape. So, it isn't just food and air.
Very, very good post. I think you really hit the nail on the head with this one.
I want to punch that "Mac Guy" in those new Apple commericals more than I ever wanted to punch the "Dude, you're getting a Dell" guy. Something about his attitude just grates me.
Yeah, I also fucking hate people who are "nice" "reasonable" and "caring".
I doubt that. Apple also sells on the web direct to consumers and businesses. So, excluding those numbers would make no sense.
I can't see Apple and MS each with 30% of the market. If/when MS drops that low, their marketshare will be in free fall. And if Apple's were that high, it would take away the major reason people don't buy Apple (low marketshare). So, if that were the case, Apple would start rising and MS would be dropping.
That's only true because Mac OS X doesn't have an equivalent to Windows File Protection.
For which all of the world's Macintosh users are very thankful.