Hear, hear. I used to live in Vancouver, and sure, there are fights in bars, I've seen plenty; but they aren't generally random, so as long as you stay away from the more obnoxious drunks, no problem. Now I live in Windsor, which is inundated with Detroit youth looking for a rowdy time, and people get rolled randomly all the time-- there are two guys in the hospital who on separate occasions tried to stop random beatings, and there have been a few funerals lately, inexplicable beatings or shootings. Windsor population is about 200K, and it's rough here during bar season (weekend nights), an actual problem, not just fearmongering.
Downtown Eastside Vancouver=poorest neighbourhood in Canada, 10,000+ junkies, devastated lives all over the place, and I never felt at risk when I lived there. Those folks just aren't asshole enough. It takes small mobs of clean-cut sloshed yobbos to strike fear into me.
The reason so many Americans equate socialism to communism is because of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) which as everyone knows was a communist nation. And since the end of WWII all American children have been told that the USSR was an evil, god hating, commie nation bent on destroying the American Way of Life
Well, it was evil and god hating and bent on destroying its enemies, but it wasn't really communist, it was State Monopoly Capitalism(TM), which was supposed to be a brief economic phase on its way to a true redistribution of the means of production. It got stuck there (power corrupts, and capital is oh so powerful). The world hasn't seen a commie state yet, and the cold war was less ideological than people were led to believe.
I find it odd that so many replies here (I'm guessing from the US) are so shocked and find this so scary and such an affront to "freedom.
That just points out the effectiveness of propaganda in the USA.
The Land of the Free isn't really, as your excellent EFF link points out -- just opposition to a few key policies is enough to elicit a glare from the baleful ever-searching Eye of repression.
"A natural human living off of the land really needs to know nothing more than how to make a spear, run from big beasts, and keep out of the rain."
Oh, puhleeze. People who live in the rainforest in huts have incredibly sophisticated knowledge about that environment, much of it codified in oblique narratives and ritual. A good way to think of that kind of awareness is "pattern-literate." It is a complex system of knowledge that interweaves culture and ecology.
I'd like to watch a reality show where you and your buddies are given a lesson in spearmaking and lean-to building, and let loose in the australian rainforest or the kalahari for real, then you could report back to us about how stupid hunter/gatherers are.
92% of US taxes paid by the rich?! That's a troll, mods! OK, I'll bite anyway.
Oooh Mr. Billionaire, after your accountants and lawyers have practiced their expensive Enronomics on your income, you only have 100,000,000 left this year to play with, and you had to pay an obscene 150,000,000! What can I say?
CRY ME A RIVER WHITE BOY!
Oh, that's harsh, isn't it. OK let's skip the real poor. How about that single working dad? [any skin colour will do] Mom died, left him with 2 kids, and even though he makes a decent $38,000/yr, after childcare and scrimping there's nothing to save with at the end of the month, no way to get ahead financially, and now he's locked into that paying but abusive job out of fear of losing his healthcare plan, since he has a spot on his lung. Repeat, vary, lather, rinse.
Why is the parent moderated insightful without any citation or reference? Try this newsflash:
The onrush of technology largely explains the gradual development of a "two-tier labor market" in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. -- CIA World Factbook
So, the old saw remains: the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. I will argue alongside many others that 'poor' in North America is rich to, say, someone from Chad or Afghanistan, but the issue in this discussion is disparity. Disparity, including disparity in power, is a key issue in the social determinants of health.
Yes, the USA as a whole is richer in capital, and poorer for it (Canada too). That's news.
If the marginal parties don't get any votes, then you'll wind up with a pale, nay, translucent imitation of representative democracy: a two party system. Then everyone loses, except those who control the two parties, and truly, "no matter who you vote for, the government always gets in."
Similarly, studies done on hearing and listening have shown that the human voice has special status in our perceptual filters: radio messages missing key phonemes or words are easy enough to put together for the listener, if they are replaced by the ambient static. However, when replaced by silence they are much more difficult to piece together, since sudden silence takes perceptual priority.
All they accomplished was letting Bush into office
That didn't have to do with split votes so much as Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush delivering Florida with voter list manipulation--as many as 60,000 democrats illegitimately denied their vote. See Palast's reporting on the subject for an introduction. Once that was accomplished, appointment by a Rep. Court was easy.
those "censored" stories clearly have the same agenda (ie, being miles left of center)
That's just perspective: you're using a zoom lens because you're so far away, and it's causing foreshortening. Those articles are centre-left from my point of view, and I know people who are WAY WAY left of me, even miles. The political spectrum is much broader than that offered in the corporate media.
"The media don't tell you what to think, but they DO tell you what to think about." I forget who told me that (probably Communication Studies 110), but it's relevant.
damned shady evidence -- OK that is troll material, since these are fairly well-researched before nomination, and you don't even bother with substantive rebuttals.
DU is much more than heavy bullets, and yes the UN has labelled it a WMD, which suggests that the only WMD's in Iraq are in the hands of the occupiers and being used. How's that for orwellian? Please see this selection of internal documents for just a taste of how DU has been evaluated, and that evaluation suppressed. Or better yet try a simple websearch on a topic, aw heck, here.
BTW, regarding the Baath use of chemicals, I think that item #3 in the list, "US Illegally Removes Pages from Iraq UN Report" provides some interesting leads to follow.
Second, let's see some evidence, the Bushes aren't even German.
Gosh, let's see: try this, or you can just check out the Straight Dope, he's a pretty good skeptic. The grandparent post is confusing Prescott with the rest of his family, although they all benefited from dealing with the Nazis.
At least one of those links will take you to pdf scans of some original corporate records, which should be enough proof. BTW, the point that they aren't German is exactly the point to be concerned with! What does "Trading with the Enemy" mean to you? And while you're at it, investigate some of the Bush family dealings with the bin Ladens, very entertaining.
make sure to read some ultra-conservative propaganda as well. Otherwise you're simply a hypocrite. -- some of this story's discussion would qualify! Lots of liberal-baiting, with nary a substantive rebuttal in sight, lots of kneeJerks.
When you have an extremist position and no one cares what you have to say, don't complain when no one listens. That's not censorship, that's just supply/demand in the marketplace of ideas.
Wow, do you actually believe that it's extremist to be concerned that people don't know that their non-elected government has planned global domination by force for decades, and that their current actions are falsely justified? That concern is extremist? Wow.
If you must fall into the role of jingoist and ideologue by demonizing publications of vaguely defined enemies, at least try to be a little more accurate... "women aren't allowed to drive"--indeed! But only in the US supported regime.
The parent post just scratches the surface of prokaryotic pervasiveness. You are outnumbered in your own body, ten-to-one, by bacteria. From the Wikipedia:
Overall, there are about ten times as many bacteria as human cells in the body, 100 trillion (1014) versus 10 trillion (1013), with bacterial cells being much smaller than human cells. Most of the bacteria live in the mouth, the small intestine, the colon, and on the skin. It is estimated that 500-1000 different species of bacteria live in the human body.
The celebrated microbiologist and geneticist Lynn Margulis has even floated the viewpoint that we vertebrates are an integral part of the ecology as determined by microbes... kind of like a habitat that they developed for themselves, with a big feast at the end of a plant or animal's life.
There are also geologists wondering if the archaea and nanobacteria found deep in the crust are so pervasive that they outmass all other life!
For a fun/alarming take on all this, read Greg Bear's Vitals.
Well I'd argue that philosophically (and legally, as far as I understand it) that IS still a straightforward crime, but as a society we can chose to judge that the circumstances warranted the crime
Legally... well can we dispense with legalities, since in this case, the law is an ass. Ethically, we should be looking to international conventions of human rights to base our judgements of human behaviour, and rights are always a question of balance. From the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:
Article 3
1. In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.
So I'd say that even in systems where the ethics include strong property rights, the rights of a hungry child take precedence, and it would be a violation of that child's right to adequate nutrition to allow her to starve in sight of full apple trees, regardless of property rights. While the CRC is a document for nation states, the full spirit of it applies to all adults everywhere (unless you're a complete blithering statist), and so each of us is individually responsible for it, even the sick bastard with full apple trees who wants to beat a hungry child for eating one.
I appreciate your attempt to contain human rights within the framework of property rights, but a system founded on property will never be fair to the unpropertied, no matter how hard you try to put in checks and balances. Arguing for some naturalized property right that transcends human rights is an ideological position that suggests I should like my stuff and power more than people.
Human rights are inalienable, property rights beyond those needed to sustain human rights are optional.
Disks are physical devices that you buy from the store, and if you can't use all of that device because someone else is using it without your permission, then I call that theft.
If a spammer walked out of your server room, hard drive under arm, yeah that's theft. Information clog you can filter and delete? That's vandalism, since it interferes with your productivity and wears your drives, but it can be recovered from and prevented, without having to replace a missing drive. A loose analogy: you own a building and put up a mural, some loser overpaints it with a crappy graffito, has he stolen your wall, your reputation, your view? No, he's vandalized it; paint it and move on.
My case: accusing spammers with "vandalism" is a stronger argument than "theft", because it's more accurate, it doesn't commoditize my time or information, and it's just as bad an affront if not worse.
"Hitler was TIme Magazines Man of the Year too. What is your point? "
His main point is that Prescott Bush was financing the Nazi war effort, in full knowledge of that fact, a full 10 months after the war had been entered by the USA. At that point in 1942 the "Trading With The Enemy Act" was invoked, and the Union Banking Corporation had its assets seized. Ol' boy Prescott was a senior director; executives included two Nazi officials. I would say "study your history" but this historical fact has been obscured and suppressed.
I guess his more important point is that there is evidence of a dynastic ideological continuity from grandfather to the current president, and so people should be prepared to experience a more subtle and complex rerun of Germany ca. 1932.
"Well, theft is a pretty straightforward crime in any society that recognises personal property and/or money."
Yeah, until it is one of the starving kids next door stealing an apple from a rich man's orchards... property rights do nothing to protect the rights of the unpropertied. This is NOT one of those cases, and I have a personal vendetta for bike and laptop thieves, so I'm not an anti-propertarian in all senses. However, I am uncomfortable with shoehorning ephemera like information and resources like bandwidth into the paradigm of property rights.
Can we just agree that these people are trashing the internet and they should be evicted / eviscerated?
"(There are free PDF makers that are almost-but-not-quite as good as Acrobat.)"
[smug posturing=egregious] I have one of those. Well, it's nearly free, more like a bonus component. It's called Mac OS X. But even then Word X gets befuddled sometimes. [/smug]
[Aside:] Responsible format citizens send basic documents in.rtf (for now). For everything else there's page layout software.
"These people aren't political dissidents. They're criminals, and they're perpetrating crimes against ME! Furthermore, the data is a list of the members of a willful collusion. "
OK, in the interest of ethics, can we be a little bit more accurate about this please?
Remember that abolitionists used to be criminals: sometimes doing the right thing is criminal in an unjust society. So, their relationship to the law is not necessarily the measure you really want to use; your better point is that they are perpetrating against you.
I think it's safer (for our democratic impulses) to ignore their legal status, since the law is an ass in this case, and judge them for what they are: greedy vandals attacking the little people--us. THAT is what gives us the right to enact prank justice, the fact that the average person suffers and no-one is adequately defending our simple moral right to be free from harrassment.
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"for learning history, english, philosophy, sociology, psychology, math, etc, youc an do just fine doing it online."
Woah, there, tiger. English is not a print-only course of study, it is (or should be if it's worth anything) also a verbal activity. You need to hear the shit read out loud now and then, or else you might as well thumb through a phone book. English courses online would be a bit like doing a chem lab with a java app running a simulation: possibly useful to make a minor point, not much good as training.
[...tears out what little hair is left] What the hell is going on in schools? No wonder I get these barely literate university drones to work with!
"What if they, for example, wore air tight space suits?"
That should work--for awhile. But consider all the other factors: those suits will have to go in and out of the shelter, as well as scientific instruments and other goodies; waste matter of various kinds; venting from the shelter (assuming emergency protocols for clearing out airborne toxins), etc. Obviously any attempt to avoid contamination would have to include some heavy-duty sterilization protocols, but [insert jurassic park reference about "nature will find a way" here]. Don't forget that bacteria survived for a few years in equipment left on the moon: Pete Conrad (Apollo 12) - "The thing that had the bacteria in it was the television camera. The Styrofoam in between the inner and outer shells. There's a report on that. I always thought the most significant thing that we ever found on the whole goddamn Moon was that little bacteria who came back and lived and nobody ever said shit about it."
So, finding life on Mars would seriously complicate setting up camp there, and probably require extensive robotic and remote exploration first.
If you need to use PC applications why did you buy a mac? Or, what can a mac do that a PC cant? All the aesthetics and battery life discussions aside, you leave me the impression that the laptop you have doesnt do something you need it to.
Oh, man, have you seen any solitaire game that is as good on the Mac? [oh, ok, there are a few] Solitaire is the most successful Microsoft project of all time [oh wait, that was Wes Cherry, and he didn't get any royalties].
Seriously, though, what I can do on a Mac is develop/design cross-platform sites, db's, and video without all the grief of being in Microlimpland, then briefly confirm that it works as intended. Oh, and I used to use it to go to special websites that required monopoly computing, but thankfully those have pretty much shriveled up.
Short answer to 'what can a mac do that a PC can't'? Pretty much everything that counts, and then some.
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Hear, hear. I used to live in Vancouver, and sure, there are fights in bars, I've seen plenty; but they aren't generally random, so as long as you stay away from the more obnoxious drunks, no problem. Now I live in Windsor, which is inundated with Detroit youth looking for a rowdy time, and people get rolled randomly all the time-- there are two guys in the hospital who on separate occasions tried to stop random beatings, and there have been a few funerals lately, inexplicable beatings or shootings. Windsor population is about 200K, and it's rough here during bar season (weekend nights), an actual problem, not just fearmongering.
Downtown Eastside Vancouver=poorest neighbourhood in Canada, 10,000+ junkies, devastated lives all over the place, and I never felt at risk when I lived there. Those folks just aren't asshole enough. It takes small mobs of clean-cut sloshed yobbos to strike fear into me.
Well, it was evil and god hating and bent on destroying its enemies, but it wasn't really communist, it was State Monopoly Capitalism(TM), which was supposed to be a brief economic phase on its way to a true redistribution of the means of production. It got stuck there (power corrupts, and capital is oh so powerful). The world hasn't seen a commie state yet, and the cold war was less ideological than people were led to believe.
That just points out the effectiveness of propaganda in the USA.
The Land of the Free isn't really, as your excellent EFF link points out -- just opposition to a few key policies is enough to elicit a glare from the baleful ever-searching Eye of repression.
For reference, look up the word COINTELPRO.
"A natural human living off of the land really needs to know nothing more than how to make a spear, run from big beasts, and keep out of the rain."
Oh, puhleeze. People who live in the rainforest in huts have incredibly sophisticated knowledge about that environment, much of it codified in oblique narratives and ritual. A good way to think of that kind of awareness is "pattern-literate." It is a complex system of knowledge that interweaves culture and ecology.
I'd like to watch a reality show where you and your buddies are given a lesson in spearmaking and lean-to building, and let loose in the australian rainforest or the kalahari for real, then you could report back to us about how stupid hunter/gatherers are.
92% of US taxes paid by the rich?! That's a troll, mods! OK, I'll bite anyway.
Oooh Mr. Billionaire, after your accountants and lawyers have practiced their expensive Enronomics on your income, you only have 100,000,000 left this year to play with, and you had to pay an obscene 150,000,000! What can I say?
CRY ME A RIVER WHITE BOY!
Oh, that's harsh, isn't it. OK let's skip the real poor. How about that single working dad? [any skin colour will do] Mom died, left him with 2 kids, and even though he makes a decent $38,000/yr, after childcare and scrimping there's nothing to save with at the end of the month, no way to get ahead financially, and now he's locked into that paying but abusive job out of fear of losing his healthcare plan, since he has a spot on his lung. Repeat, vary, lather, rinse.
Yes, the USA as a whole is richer in capital, and poorer for it (Canada too). That's news.
You'll probably never know, since economists don't practice whole-cost accounting, don't recognize the triple bottom line, and governments don't consider ecological footprints when doing environmental assessments.
As those grating wacky culture jammers at adbusters say, economists need to learn to subract!
If the marginal parties don't get any votes, then you'll wind up with a pale, nay, translucent imitation of representative democracy: a two party system. Then everyone loses, except those who control the two parties, and truly, "no matter who you vote for, the government always gets in."
oh wait...
Similarly, studies done on hearing and listening have shown that the human voice has special status in our perceptual filters: radio messages missing key phonemes or words are easy enough to put together for the listener, if they are replaced by the ambient static. However, when replaced by silence they are much more difficult to piece together, since sudden silence takes perceptual priority.
That didn't have to do with split votes so much as Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush delivering Florida with voter list manipulation--as many as 60,000 democrats illegitimately denied their vote. See Palast's reporting on the subject for an introduction. Once that was accomplished, appointment by a Rep. Court was easy.
That's just perspective: you're using a zoom lens because you're so far away, and it's causing foreshortening. Those articles are centre-left from my point of view, and I know people who are WAY WAY left of me, even miles. The political spectrum is much broader than that offered in the corporate media.
"The media don't tell you what to think, but they DO tell you what to think about." I forget who told me that (probably Communication Studies 110), but it's relevant.
damned shady evidence -- OK that is troll material, since these are fairly well-researched before nomination, and you don't even bother with substantive rebuttals.
DU is much more than heavy bullets, and yes the UN has labelled it a WMD, which suggests that the only WMD's in Iraq are in the hands of the occupiers and being used. How's that for orwellian? Please see this selection of internal documents for just a taste of how DU has been evaluated, and that evaluation suppressed. Or better yet try a simple websearch on a topic, aw heck, here.
BTW, regarding the Baath use of chemicals, I think that item #3 in the list, "US Illegally Removes Pages from Iraq UN Report" provides some interesting leads to follow.
Gosh, let's see: try this, or you can just check out the Straight Dope, he's a pretty good skeptic. The grandparent post is confusing Prescott with the rest of his family, although they all benefited from dealing with the Nazis.
At least one of those links will take you to pdf scans of some original corporate records, which should be enough proof. BTW, the point that they aren't German is exactly the point to be concerned with! What does "Trading with the Enemy" mean to you? And while you're at it, investigate some of the Bush family dealings with the bin Ladens, very entertaining.
make sure to read some ultra-conservative propaganda as well. Otherwise you're simply a hypocrite. -- some of this story's discussion would qualify! Lots of liberal-baiting, with nary a substantive rebuttal in sight, lots of kneeJerks.
When you have an extremist position and no one cares what you have to say, don't complain when no one listens. That's not censorship, that's just supply/demand in the marketplace of ideas.
Wow, do you actually believe that it's extremist to be concerned that people don't know that their non-elected government has planned global domination by force for decades, and that their current actions are falsely justified? That concern is extremist? Wow.
Moderators: please note that Spider Robinson has posted numerous times to this topic, MOD HIM UP!
thanks.
If you must fall into the role of jingoist and ideologue by demonizing publications of vaguely defined enemies, at least try to be a little more accurate... "women aren't allowed to drive"--indeed! But only in the US supported regime.
And in other news, bacteria still run the planet.
The celebrated microbiologist and geneticist Lynn Margulis has even floated the viewpoint that we vertebrates are an integral part of the ecology as determined by microbes... kind of like a habitat that they developed for themselves, with a big feast at the end of a plant or animal's life.
There are also geologists wondering if the archaea and nanobacteria found deep in the crust are so pervasive that they outmass all other life!
For a fun/alarming take on all this, read Greg Bear's Vitals.
Legally... well can we dispense with legalities, since in this case, the law is an ass. Ethically, we should be looking to international conventions of human rights to base our judgements of human behaviour, and rights are always a question of balance. From the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:
So I'd say that even in systems where the ethics include strong property rights, the rights of a hungry child take precedence, and it would be a violation of that child's right to adequate nutrition to allow her to starve in sight of full apple trees, regardless of property rights. While the CRC is a document for nation states, the full spirit of it applies to all adults everywhere (unless you're a complete blithering statist), and so each of us is individually responsible for it, even the sick bastard with full apple trees who wants to beat a hungry child for eating one.
I appreciate your attempt to contain human rights within the framework of property rights, but a system founded on property will never be fair to the unpropertied, no matter how hard you try to put in checks and balances. Arguing for some naturalized property right that transcends human rights is an ideological position that suggests I should like my stuff and power more than people.
Human rights are inalienable, property rights beyond those needed to sustain human rights are optional.
Disks are physical devices that you buy from the store, and if you can't use all of that device because someone else is using it without your permission, then I call that theft.
If a spammer walked out of your server room, hard drive under arm, yeah that's theft. Information clog you can filter and delete? That's vandalism, since it interferes with your productivity and wears your drives, but it can be recovered from and prevented, without having to replace a missing drive. A loose analogy: you own a building and put up a mural, some loser overpaints it with a crappy graffito, has he stolen your wall, your reputation, your view? No, he's vandalized it; paint it and move on.
My case: accusing spammers with "vandalism" is a stronger argument than "theft", because it's more accurate, it doesn't commoditize my time or information, and it's just as bad an affront if not worse.
"Hitler was TIme Magazines Man of the Year too. What is your point? "
His main point is that Prescott Bush was financing the Nazi war effort, in full knowledge of that fact, a full 10 months after the war had been entered by the USA. At that point in 1942 the "Trading With The Enemy Act" was invoked, and the Union Banking Corporation had its assets seized. Ol' boy Prescott was a senior director; executives included two Nazi officials. I would say "study your history" but this historical fact has been obscured and suppressed.
I guess his more important point is that there is evidence of a dynastic ideological continuity from grandfather to the current president, and so people should be prepared to experience a more subtle and complex rerun of Germany ca. 1932.
"Well, theft is a pretty straightforward crime in any society that recognises personal property and/or money."
Yeah, until it is one of the starving kids next door stealing an apple from a rich man's orchards... property rights do nothing to protect the rights of the unpropertied. This is NOT one of those cases, and I have a personal vendetta for bike and laptop thieves, so I'm not an anti-propertarian in all senses. However, I am uncomfortable with shoehorning ephemera like information and resources like bandwidth into the paradigm of property rights.
Can we just agree that these people are trashing the internet and they should be evicted / eviscerated?
"(There are free PDF makers that are almost-but-not-quite as good as Acrobat.)"
.rtf (for now). For everything else there's page layout software.
[smug posturing=egregious]
I have one of those. Well, it's nearly free, more like a bonus component. It's called Mac OS X. But even then Word X gets befuddled sometimes.
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[Aside:] Responsible format citizens send basic documents in
"These people aren't political dissidents. They're criminals, and they're perpetrating crimes against ME! Furthermore, the data is a list of the members of a willful collusion. "
OK, in the interest of ethics, can we be a little bit more accurate about this please?
Remember that abolitionists used to be criminals: sometimes doing the right thing is criminal in an unjust society. So, their relationship to the law is not necessarily the measure you really want to use; your better point is that they are perpetrating against you.
I think it's safer (for our democratic impulses) to ignore their legal status, since the law is an ass in this case, and judge them for what they are: greedy vandals attacking the little people--us. THAT is what gives us the right to enact prank justice, the fact that the average person suffers and no-one is adequately defending our simple moral right to be free from harrassment.
"for learning history, english, philosophy, sociology, psychology, math, etc, youc an do just fine doing it online."
Woah, there, tiger. English is not a print-only course of study, it is (or should be if it's worth anything) also a verbal activity. You need to hear the shit read out loud now and then, or else you might as well thumb through a phone book. English courses online would be a bit like doing a chem lab with a java app running a simulation: possibly useful to make a minor point, not much good as training.
[...tears out what little hair is left] What the hell is going on in schools? No wonder I get these barely literate university drones to work with!
That should work--for awhile. But consider all the other factors: those suits will have to go in and out of the shelter, as well as scientific instruments and other goodies; waste matter of various kinds; venting from the shelter (assuming emergency protocols for clearing out airborne toxins), etc. Obviously any attempt to avoid contamination would have to include some heavy-duty sterilization protocols, but [insert jurassic park reference about "nature will find a way" here]. Don't forget that bacteria survived for a few years in equipment left on the moon: Pete Conrad (Apollo 12) - "The thing that had the bacteria in it was the television camera. The Styrofoam in between the inner and outer shells. There's a report on that. I always thought the most significant thing that we ever found on the whole goddamn Moon was that little bacteria who came back and lived and nobody ever said shit about it."
So, finding life on Mars would seriously complicate setting up camp there, and probably require extensive robotic and remote exploration first.
Would you be willing to describe your software setup a bit more? I'm considering options for a similar solution. TIA.
Oh, man, have you seen any solitaire game that is as good on the Mac? [oh, ok, there are a few] Solitaire is the most successful Microsoft project of all time [oh wait, that was Wes Cherry, and he didn't get any royalties].
Seriously, though, what I can do on a Mac is develop/design cross-platform sites, db's, and video without all the grief of being in Microlimpland, then briefly confirm that it works as intended. Oh, and I used to use it to go to special websites that required monopoly computing, but thankfully those have pretty much shriveled up.
Short answer to 'what can a mac do that a PC can't'? Pretty much everything that counts, and then some.