Geez. The Martians will be drinking gallons (excuse me... liters) of tea and endless, mind-numbing rounds of cricket will be the official planetary sport by the time the first civilian colony opens.
On the plus side, everyone will speak really really good English, even the Martian prostitutes.
I'm a practicing agnostic, but I know several quite religious people who also believe in life elsewhere in the Universe. It's not that big of a deal, really. The question tends to be raised by those with a stereotypical view of "religious people". Always try to remember that in our society the most vocal and visible members of any group are the Gaussian tail types.
...will release a secure operasting system Real Soon Now! So what if their last 95,102 attempts failed. They have said they are going to get serious about it! So there!!!!!
Blow me, bullshitter. If that's how the brain functions, there would be no one like me to suggest that mmaybe we occasionally rise above pigeonholing people, and maybe looking at individuals. If you want to be a mere animal, go ahead, but don't drag everyone else down to wallow in your reptilian core brain level.
It's very typical. Humanity is devolving and mongrelizing itself. I give civilization another 50 years at the outside.
I never understood the "jock" physical ideal in high school. The ones who were the big sports "jocks" were strong, but they were also very husky and overweight. They ate like pigs, and I guarantee a significant number of them had their hearts just stop in their 30's.
Some of the other "nerds" and I got into bodybuilding and proper nutrition early on, but it didn't help much because being smart was such an overriding negative to the general populace. Fortunately there were a number of girls who appreciated guys with a little combined mental and physical discipline.
What if this was about Microsoft marketing Lie-nux or your SO coming home with Pepzi or Mountain Due? You'd be pissed off..
Nope. Sorry. I have far more important things in life to worry about than corporate squabbles over names. Also, I tend to date women who are smart enough to not be fooled by a similar sounding product name.
But you're not looking at the overall picture people (not necessarily you) tend to paint here. A lot of the extreme privacy wonks (and I'm not anti-privacy by any stretch) have this image of shadowy government agents tracking their every move and spending billions to track Joe Sixpack in his trailer park. They present scenarios of sensors embedded in every public doorway. It just gets so silly sometimes.
The goverment could store nuclear waste in middle school cafeterias across the country, too. A lot of things are possible, but some we can weed out as being a little, shall we say, impractical or improbable?
Besdies, who wants all the angst ridden junior high school kids with superpowers that would inevitably result?:-)
There's the obvious self-induced evolution to a human form, but I also liked the ships that were actually different Cylon models. They are adapting themselves to fill niches.:-) Very nice.
And I don't get the complaints about the blonde Cylon. Her mission was to seduce someone and gain access to the Colonial security systems, so of course she'd be designed to be a total babe. She was perfectly and mechanically adapted to that role.
Even Starbuck as a tomboy worked. Nice scene at the card game where she and the XO just stared at one another as the tension ramped up unnoticed by the others.
That owuld be for a series to answer, but the blonde agent talked about believeing in God, so maybe the Cylons went and built themselves a mechine god, and it's a religious war.
I generally counter with what is apparently a secret carefully hidden from Mac zealots: "That's because only a fraction of the world uses Macs. What's the point of attacking a niche market? No one will notice!"
Yeah...? And...? You have no point here. What the Mac user said was that they don't get attacked. You gave the generally accepted reason, but that doesn't counter what the Mac user said. They are still happily using an OS that doesn't have all the security problems.
Lance's theoretical "if the tables were turned" theory is pointless. It's not reality. Reality is that the dominant OS in the world is a complete security clusterfuck. Why doesn't Lance address that? If Macs are so marginal, why rant about it. Just ignore them.
If there's one flaw, it must be attacked and reviled despite the fact that everything else is even more flawed and broken.
It's the same thing in politics. Everything is busted and broken, but any plan proposed is savaged out of existence because it's not sparkling and perfect and infallable. Since nothing can be perfect, nothing gets fixed.
"How cocky are you feeling now, Mac elite? Hmm. Suddenly it's gotten pretty quiet around here."
That's the sound of no one caring what you think, Lance.
A series of what ifs, followed by the reaction of imaginary mac fields that exist only in Lance's head.
And the whole "Macs don't suffer viruses because there's so few" myth was dead and buried long ago. Sheesh. Who cares? If Lance is happy with his bloated, cheerless, abominable bugfest of an OS, more power to him.
And now, Obligatory Car Analogy: it's like Lance is sitting by the side of the road with his Chevy Vega that just flew to pieces for the fifth time that week, and he's pointing at the Lexus that just sped by because it had a defective radio knob that just fell off.
Yeah, but... the job (which is the reason for moving) pays for the move...
Or you can get any job you can to pay the bills. I graduated with my BSEE into one of the worst engineering job markets of the 20th century. I took some grunt work electromagnetic compatibility analysis job 80 miles from my home and commuted. While I was there, I searched and searched and 8 months later got the job more in line with what I wanted, and 14 years and two more degrees later, here I am, beloved by my employer.:-)
My employer who I like to scare once a year just before review time by "accidently" leaving my resume in a strategically located printer.
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On the plus side, everyone will speak really really good English, even the Martian prostitutes.
I'm a practicing agnostic, but I know several quite religious people who also believe in life elsewhere in the Universe. It's not that big of a deal, really. The question tends to be raised by those with a stereotypical view of "religious people". Always try to remember that in our society the most vocal and visible members of any group are the Gaussian tail types.
Where do you live? Can I have your stuff?
...will release a secure operasting system Real Soon Now! So what if their last 95,102 attempts failed. They have said they are going to get serious about it! So there!!!!!
They promised a good video game. What they delivered was a some sort of psychological test designed to induce rage and annoyance in vast quantities.
And here I was hoping I'd have to add hardware to *MY* car in order to make things easier from some smelly ad executive somewhere!
That was maybe the dimmest response I've ever gotten here. You really didn't understand what I meant?
Blow me, bullshitter. If that's how the brain functions, there would be no one like me to suggest that mmaybe we occasionally rise above pigeonholing people, and maybe looking at individuals. If you want to be a mere animal, go ahead, but don't drag everyone else down to wallow in your reptilian core brain level.
They're so much easier than thinking or considering individuals.
It's very typical. Humanity is devolving and mongrelizing itself. I give civilization another 50 years at the outside.
I never understood the "jock" physical ideal in high school. The ones who were the big sports "jocks" were strong, but they were also very husky and overweight. They ate like pigs, and I guarantee a significant number of them had their hearts just stop in their 30's.
Some of the other "nerds" and I got into bodybuilding and proper nutrition early on, but it didn't help much because being smart was such an overriding negative to the general populace. Fortunately there were a number of girls who appreciated guys with a little combined mental and physical discipline.
Nope. Sorry. I have far more important things in life to worry about than corporate squabbles over names. Also, I tend to date women who are smart enough to not be fooled by a similar sounding product name.
Most trunks I've seen would more than adequately narf a freeway pass signal.
The goverment could store nuclear waste in middle school cafeterias across the country, too. A lot of things are possible, but some we can weed out as being a little, shall we say, impractical or improbable?
Besdies, who wants all the angst ridden junior high school kids with superpowers that would inevitably result? :-)
Exactly! Remember, kids, to cut off the head and hands.
If you're going someplace you don't want recorded, put the freeway pass into the trunk. Duh.
And if you ARE that paranoid, you should support RFID tags EVERYWHERE. The sheer amount of data will be impossible to manage. :-)
And that's all I claimed, so where is your argument?
And sitting and imagining a theoretical is not actually "putting it into action". It's just an opinion derived from whatever biases you hold.
Been reading Mission Earth? ;-)
Actually, if you cut out the middle four or five books, that's something that would make a decent space opera miniseries.
And I don't get the complaints about the blonde Cylon. Her mission was to seduce someone and gain access to the Colonial security systems, so of course she'd be designed to be a total babe. She was perfectly and mechanically adapted to that role.
Even Starbuck as a tomboy worked. Nice scene at the card game where she and the XO just stared at one another as the tension ramped up unnoticed by the others.
That owuld be for a series to answer, but the blonde agent talked about believeing in God, so maybe the Cylons went and built themselves a mechine god, and it's a religious war.
I generally counter with what is apparently a secret carefully hidden from Mac zealots: "That's because only a fraction of the world uses Macs. What's the point of attacking a niche market? No one will notice!"
Yeah...? And...? You have no point here. What the Mac user said was that they don't get attacked. You gave the generally accepted reason, but that doesn't counter what the Mac user said. They are still happily using an OS that doesn't have all the security problems.
Lance's theoretical "if the tables were turned" theory is pointless. It's not reality. Reality is that the dominant OS in the world is a complete security clusterfuck. Why doesn't Lance address that? If Macs are so marginal, why rant about it. Just ignore them.
It's the same thing in politics. Everything is busted and broken, but any plan proposed is savaged out of existence because it's not sparkling and perfect and infallable. Since nothing can be perfect, nothing gets fixed.
That's the sound of no one caring what you think, Lance.
A series of what ifs, followed by the reaction of imaginary mac fields that exist only in Lance's head.
And the whole "Macs don't suffer viruses because there's so few" myth was dead and buried long ago. Sheesh. Who cares? If Lance is happy with his bloated, cheerless, abominable bugfest of an OS, more power to him.
And now, Obligatory Car Analogy: it's like Lance is sitting by the side of the road with his Chevy Vega that just flew to pieces for the fifth time that week, and he's pointing at the Lexus that just sped by because it had a defective radio knob that just fell off.
Or you can get any job you can to pay the bills. I graduated with my BSEE into one of the worst engineering job markets of the 20th century. I took some grunt work electromagnetic compatibility analysis job 80 miles from my home and commuted. While I was there, I searched and searched and 8 months later got the job more in line with what I wanted, and 14 years and two more degrees later, here I am, beloved by my employer. :-)
My employer who I like to scare once a year just before review time by "accidently" leaving my resume in a strategically located printer.