There has been a lot of discussion in the last few days about the rape victim in Aruba and what she should or shouldn't have done to "prevent" her rape.
Just like those idiots, YOU are the one doing the blame deflection. If you are raped, the only one who is to blame is the rapist. If you are mugged the only one who is to blame is the mugger. If your house is broken into by a burglar, the burglar is 100% at fault.
If your system is hacked into, the only one to blame is the hacker.
Yes, you can take reasonable precautions in all of these cases, but the bottom line is that a person who decides to commit a crime is wholly responsible for their behavior. You can never fully protect yourself against somone deciding to be an asshole and attack you, and to suggest that it is anyone's fault but theirs is simply giving them an excuse.
Terraforming is definitely hubris. It's one thing to contemplate tunnelling in some barren moon to provide space, another altogether to propose altering another planet.
First of all, it would be a crime against science - suppose some seemingly lifeless planet actually DID harbor life at one time in some small area - we might unknowingly destroy their fossils or submerge them under a huge body of water and never get the chance to discover them. We have barely begun to discover all there is about the Earth, and some place like Mars likely has untold numbers of wonders that we don't want to go mucking up. Wait until we've explored it fully? Well, we've had perhaps a million years to do that on Earth and we aren't done yet.
More to the point of hubris, though - here we are on a very habitable planet, one that has an incredibly complex feedback system to keep it habitable without effort, and we're failing at managing it. And we're proposing building our own from scratch? The very definition of hubris.
Some, but not all proponents of terraforming seem to think moving to another next will be our salvation from the one we've already messed up - this is pure idiocy. Even if we do manage it, only a few dozen people at a time will ever be lofted off of this rock. The bulk of the human race will always be on Earth, and those elsewhere will be colonies at best. Talk about inequality, increasing the gap between rich and poor - only the extremely priveledged (in a relative sense) will ever leave the earth, meanwhile billions will still languish in Calcutta-like slums.
In the late 1970's, back before someone figured out how to get the TRS-80 to generate sound through its cassette port, a few people experimented with AM interference for sound creation.
I remember my dad's excitement as he finished typing in a BASIC program from 80 Micro (or similar mag) and held a transistor radio near the comp to listen to it groan out "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue."
junkscience.com is run by steven milloy. Steven milloy was a lobbyist who was paid by Phillip Morris to create a similar "group" to put forth the idea that second hand smoke is harmless.
Now he has this site up, and though he refuses to disclose his funding, he has in the past received money from oil company interests to lobby for them and do PR for them.
How is a current-tech battery supposed to power a molecule-transistor laptop for a month when they won't even hold their charge that long sitting unused on a shelf?
The Navigator was filmed in 1924 and so is in the public domain... however they probably managed to copyright the transfer of it from film to video or some such idiotic thing...
Yes I did, but you choose to belittle and ignore it. Not my problem.
As far as knowing dates by heart, what I meant is that I knew the missions and their discoveries so well that I even knew their dates by heart... not that I only knew the dates.
lol. Friend, I've forgotten more about space science than you ever knew. I was enough of a space fanatic that I memorized the names and launch dates of every major nasa unmanned mission, the launch dates of every manned nasa mission along with the mission accomplishments and of course the astronauts names... the names, launch dates and accomplishments of the soviet unmanned missions, the names of all the soviet cosmonauts, their missions, durations... In the mid 1980's I had a letter published in Time Magazine correcting their science writer about some historical data on one of the soviet missions. I've moved on to other things in recent years, but for many years I lived and breathed the space program.
Yes, the hubble has done great work, and would rank up there with Apollo and Voyager too. The Cassini probe is a great mission, the huygens probe was great, though in my opinion the enormous mass of scientific data it returned (and is returning) is not quite as groundbreaking as the Mars Rovers'.
And my enthusiasm has nothing to do with "cool! remote control cars!" but instead has to do with having a lab that is testing and sampling rocks and soil including subsurface soil from multiple locations, allowing comparison, etc...
There has been an immense amount learned, but it just doesn't convert resdily into snazzy headlines . Frankly, Skippy, to say that from a scientific standoint they're not exciting is complete idiocy - I have seen the geologists and chemists and other space scientists this excited since Voyager II's flyby of Saturn.
A car for a few days? Try two, both for well over a year and still going... and which made some of the most important discoveries the space program has EVER made.
I agree that overall the space program is in a sad state, but the Mars Rovers rank up there with Apollo and Voyager as one of the most important missions ever in terms of discoveries and accomplishments.
Only a third of the american populace supported independence. A third wer tories, and a third just wanted to be left alone by whoever won.
Also, the tactics the revolutionaries used WERE terrorism in the idea of those times. At the time, armies were marched in formation to face each other, then still facing with no obstruction they fired.
The revolutionaries instead hid behind fences and trees, ambushed by surprise, etc. Totally against the prevailing european standards of warfare. They were considered savages for this.
Also, pro-independence fighters attacked CIVILIANS that were known to support the king, killing them, burning their houses, and TERRORIZING them.
I took a flight last month and of course they made me take off my New Balance sneakers.
Later on the place the guy next to me shows me what he has in his carry-on - a huge gas-powered RC car.
He said to me "dude, this thing has a gas tank, empty now but with fumes at least... a big battery pack, a circuit board, and radio control unit. You know what that is? That's a fucking BOMB, man, and they didn't even open up the bag after the x-ray.
Not to mention they would never catch a glass or obsidian knife strapped to your leg.
The "security" at airports is not about security at all, it's about the illusion of security. Make people feel good about spending their money again, can't let those airlines go bust.
If I were IBM, I would have changed the passwords to things like "YouMoron"... "sayhellotobankruptcy"... "suckstobeyou,loser" etc... before handing it over.
Yeah. David Milch was from Buffalo and that's where the Buffalo references came from. More TV shows influenced by Buffalonians - Deadwood, NYPD Blue, etc.
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There has been a lot of discussion in the last few days about the rape victim in Aruba and what she should or shouldn't have done to "prevent" her rape.
Just like those idiots, YOU are the one doing the blame deflection. If you are raped, the only one who is to blame is the rapist.
If you are mugged the only one who is to blame is the mugger.
If your house is broken into by a burglar, the burglar is 100% at fault.
If your system is hacked into, the only one to blame is the hacker.
Yes, you can take reasonable precautions in all of these cases, but the bottom line is that a person who decides to commit a crime is wholly responsible for their behavior. You can never fully protect yourself against somone deciding to be an asshole and attack you, and to suggest that it is anyone's fault but theirs is simply giving them an excuse.
http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/thimer osal_distortions/#comments
The link you gave shows the e-ink being used for POP (point of purchase) advertising displays, not for the game box itself.
Terraforming is definitely hubris. It's one thing to contemplate tunnelling in some barren moon to provide space, another altogether to propose altering another planet.
First of all, it would be a crime against science - suppose some seemingly lifeless planet actually DID harbor life at one time in some small area - we might unknowingly destroy their fossils or submerge them under a huge body of water and never get the chance to discover them. We have barely begun to discover all there is about the Earth, and some place like Mars likely has untold numbers of wonders that we don't want to go mucking up. Wait until we've explored it fully? Well, we've had perhaps a million years to do that on Earth and we aren't done yet.
More to the point of hubris, though - here we are on a very habitable planet, one that has an incredibly complex feedback system to keep it habitable without effort, and we're failing at managing it. And we're proposing building our own from scratch? The very definition of hubris.
Some, but not all proponents of terraforming seem to think moving to another next will be our salvation from the one we've already messed up - this is pure idiocy. Even if we do manage it, only a few dozen people at a time will ever be lofted off of this rock. The bulk of the human race will always be on Earth, and those elsewhere will be colonies at best. Talk about inequality, increasing the gap between rich and poor - only the extremely priveledged (in a relative sense) will ever leave the earth, meanwhile billions will still languish in Calcutta-like slums.
This idea of an international station is a good one - it worked out so well the last time.
so the only issues remaining are the ones that killed all of the passengers on the last flight.
Great. Where do I sign up?
I remember my dad's excitement as he finished typing in a BASIC program from 80 Micro (or similar mag) and held a transistor radio near the comp to listen to it groan out "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue."
junkscience.com is run by steven milloy. Steven milloy was a lobbyist who was paid by Phillip Morris to create a similar "group" to put forth the idea that second hand smoke is harmless.
Now he has this site up, and though he refuses to disclose his funding, he has in the past received money from oil company interests to lobby for them and do PR for them.
ok, my first "I misread the title as" post...
I misread it as massive Bonet attack, and was wondering how being physically accosted by Lisa Bonet could ever be considered a bad thing.
How is a current-tech battery supposed to power a molecule-transistor laptop for a month when they won't even hold their charge that long sitting unused on a shelf?
just be sure to listen for your mother when she calls you down for dinner.
The Navigator was filmed in 1924 and so is in the public domain... however they probably managed to copyright the transfer of it from film to video or some such idiotic thing...
Am I the only one that sees this as the next rubiks cube - only it solves itself? (Kids are lazy these days anyway)
Am I the only one here that has an instictive fear of anything called "Real_____(whatever)"?
Yes I did, but you choose to belittle and ignore it. Not my problem. As far as knowing dates by heart, what I meant is that I knew the missions and their discoveries so well that I even knew their dates by heart... not that I only knew the dates.
lol. Friend, I've forgotten more about space science than you ever knew.
I was enough of a space fanatic that I memorized the names and launch dates of every major nasa unmanned mission, the launch dates of every manned nasa mission along with the mission accomplishments and of course the astronauts names... the names, launch dates and accomplishments of the soviet unmanned missions, the names of all the soviet cosmonauts, their missions, durations...
In the mid 1980's I had a letter published in Time Magazine correcting their science writer about some historical data on one of the soviet missions.
I've moved on to other things in recent years, but for many years I lived and breathed the space program.
Yes, the hubble has done great work, and would rank up there with Apollo and Voyager too. The Cassini probe is a great mission, the huygens probe was great, though in my opinion the enormous mass of scientific data it returned (and is returning) is not quite as groundbreaking as the Mars Rovers'.
And my enthusiasm has nothing to do with "cool! remote control cars!" but instead has to do with having a lab that is testing and sampling rocks and soil including subsurface soil from multiple locations, allowing comparison, etc...
There has been an immense amount learned, but it just doesn't convert resdily into snazzy headlines . Frankly, Skippy, to say that from a scientific standoint they're not exciting is complete idiocy - I have seen the geologists and chemists and other space scientists this excited since Voyager II's flyby of Saturn.
Mars Express is not a NASA mission, dipshit.
Fuck anonymous cowards and their mediocrity - why am I even responding to you?
Ok, how about the discovery of proof that Mars had bodies of water? Sure, we had lots of indirect evidence, but not conclusive proof. Now we have it.
A car for a few days? Try two, both for well over a year and still going... and which made some of the most important discoveries the space program has EVER made.
I agree that overall the space program is in a sad state, but the Mars Rovers rank up there with Apollo and Voyager as one of the most important missions ever in terms of discoveries and accomplishments.
Only a third of the american populace supported independence. A third wer tories, and a third just wanted to be left alone by whoever won. Also, the tactics the revolutionaries used WERE terrorism in the idea of those times. At the time, armies were marched in formation to face each other, then still facing with no obstruction they fired. The revolutionaries instead hid behind fences and trees, ambushed by surprise, etc. Totally against the prevailing european standards of warfare. They were considered savages for this. Also, pro-independence fighters attacked CIVILIANS that were known to support the king, killing them, burning their houses, and TERRORIZING them.
I can't claim credit, that's off the homestarunner.com strong bad email "crying."
Later on the place the guy next to me shows me what he has in his carry-on - a huge gas-powered RC car.
He said to me "dude, this thing has a gas tank, empty now but with fumes at least... a big battery pack, a circuit board, and radio control unit. You know what that is? That's a fucking BOMB, man, and they didn't even open up the bag after the x-ray.
Not to mention they would never catch a glass or obsidian knife strapped to your leg.
The "security" at airports is not about security at all, it's about the illusion of security. Make people feel good about spending their money again, can't let those airlines go bust.
By the current standards, the founding fathers WERE terrorists.
If I were IBM, I would have changed the passwords to things like "YouMoron" ... "sayhellotobankruptcy" ... "suckstobeyou,loser" etc... before handing it over.
Yeah. David Milch was from Buffalo and that's where the Buffalo references came from. More TV shows influenced by Buffalonians - Deadwood, NYPD Blue, etc.