Ummm... no. Over time Jupiter and Saturn's gravity knock asteroids which are happily orbiting in the asteroid belt into earth-crossing orbits.
So because we haven't had a planet killer asteroid impact in 300,000 years means that we're in the clear? I'll have to take that logic to the craps table next time I'm in Vegas. "Well, haven't seen a 7 in 5 rolls, they must not exist!".
And besides "earth killer" impacts, we are susceptable to impacts which can cause "serious regional damage" about once per century. I for one am glad that some rational people are "obsessing" over it.
Actually, the domain name was available when he registered for it. Although I believe he had to pay somebody for "mp5" or "mp6" or something... still, it wasn't much.
He used to speak at business classes at UCSD extention and pretty much admitted that he didn't even know what mp3s really were when he registered for the domain name. He just wanted to try and cash in on this new thing he kept hearing about.
But as for Lindows being a really shady opeation? Definitely. I was actually invited to a meeting with some other developers at his house in Del Mar last summer when he was looking for help. I could pretty much tell after 5 minutes that he didn't give a rat's ass about Linux, Windows, Lindows or anything. He just wanted to cash in again.
The two people I know that decided to quit their jobs and try it out left Lindows in disgust about 2 months later.
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Ummm... no. Over time Jupiter and Saturn's gravity knock asteroids which are happily orbiting in the asteroid belt into earth-crossing orbits.
So because we haven't had a planet killer asteroid impact in 300,000 years means that we're in the clear? I'll have to take that logic to the craps table next time I'm in Vegas. "Well, haven't seen a 7 in 5 rolls, they must not exist!".
And besides "earth killer" impacts, we are susceptable to impacts which can cause "serious regional damage" about once per century. I for one am glad that some rational people are "obsessing" over it.
Actually, the domain name was available when he registered for it. Although I believe he had to pay somebody for "mp5" or "mp6" or something... still, it wasn't much. He used to speak at business classes at UCSD extention and pretty much admitted that he didn't even know what mp3s really were when he registered for the domain name. He just wanted to try and cash in on this new thing he kept hearing about. But as for Lindows being a really shady opeation? Definitely. I was actually invited to a meeting with some other developers at his house in Del Mar last summer when he was looking for help. I could pretty much tell after 5 minutes that he didn't give a rat's ass about Linux, Windows, Lindows or anything. He just wanted to cash in again. The two people I know that decided to quit their jobs and try it out left Lindows in disgust about 2 months later.