The parent's point was that some prostitutes have amassed great power through history
Incorrect. Your point was that some religious prostitutes have amassed great power. Show me a prostitute who has amassed great power and status but is unconnected to an organized religion. Betcha can't.
Just because you got dropped off in a spaceship doesn't imply that you are rich, or that the spaceship deposited a set of modern machine tools with the colony.
Of course, your conclusion is correct. As long as you assume that the people they drop off are uneducated dolts.
Let's say you or I were dropped off on a planet with little technology. What would we do? Would we devote our energies to building a civilization built on animal trade and chuckwagons? Or would we devote our energies to building a civilization based on the basic technology we know and understand. Of course, it would be the latter.
If we were dropped off with literally nothing, the first thing we'd do is build a steam engine. We'd spend some time locating a source of iron ore. Then we'd buy some books on how to make steel. Then we'd make steel. Then we'd build internal combustion engines.
Etc, etc. In conclusion, Firefly is believable, as long as you believe the characters are stone cold idiots.
The nice thing about horses and wagons is that horses are self reproducing, you don't need a tech base to fix them when they break or build new ones.
This betrays your understanding of horses. It's not like you just spend 5 minutes a day on your whole herd of horses and you are done. Have you ever heard of chores? Have you ever wondered why farmers and ranchers work harder than any other profession?
It's a matter of time. Taking care of animals is immensely enriching and rewarding. It is not, however, trivial or easy. It requires a great deal of time and commitment.
When you are moving to a new planet, the last thing you want to be concerned with is feeding and taking care of your herd animals.
The whole concept is ridiculous. What we have here is a writer who is an urbane sophisticate who thinks he is better than country rubes, but still admires their primitive ways for their quaintness and rusticness. He thinks there is no need to do any research to see how these things work. He lives in the city, and he doesn't want to think about those "dirt people."
And that is how bad writing is produced. Lazy people decide not to do their research, but instead indulge their pet fantasies.
Enjoy your Firefly movie. I will be concerned with things that have some degree of relevance in the real world.
Well, in the future, how expensive would a 4-wheel ATV or SUV cost? With vastly increased productivity and robotic manufacturing, they should be very cheap. Thus, the space settlers may not be able to buy a "Robo-turbo Helijet 4000," but they should be able to afford something with an internal combustion engine. Or at the very least, something steam powered.
Building up to a fully industrialized level on a bare planet will take a long time.
No, it wouldn't. You're not building a new civilization. You're expanding your civilization to a new planet. If you were going to move to Montana, would you sell your SUV and computer and buy a horse?
Prostitutes will never be the top females in the social hierarchy of any civilization.
If you fly a spaceship to colonize a new planet, you will never have to drive a chuckwagon pulled by a team of horses to get across a babbling brook on that planet.
This is the correct term. The old name was just "New Zealand." Due to legislation recently passed by the Parliamentary Body of the New Zealand Environment, it is henceforth illegal in the New Zealand Environment to say the words "New Zealand" if not sandwiching them between "The" and "Environment." The New Zealand Environment is a fully protected copyrighted trademark. Anyone who uses the term the New Zealand Environment without permission must pay $5 to the New Zealand Environment.
Thank goodness Slashdot has caught on to this in time, or it would be liable for $5 for every hit.
Ah. So now one must have a politically correct sense of the aesthetic, or one is considered a bigot, a moral degenerate who has no part in civilized society? Thank you for opening our minds to this startling, revolutionary insight. We are now liberated.
Ha.
He just expressed an opinion. If you can't take other people's opinions, you should avoid the Internet.
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Who cares? My point is that that is a stupid way to colonize a planet.
Incorrect. Your point was that some religious prostitutes have amassed great power. Show me a prostitute who has amassed great power and status but is unconnected to an organized religion. Betcha can't.
I was just trying to have an honest conversation. Slashdot users are mostly too closedminded to even consider such a thing, however.
Yeah, your herd wouldn't be inbred or anything.
You may want to stick to web sites and coding, rather than concerning yourself with farming and ranching.
Of course, your conclusion is correct. As long as you assume that the people they drop off are uneducated dolts.
Let's say you or I were dropped off on a planet with little technology. What would we do? Would we devote our energies to building a civilization built on animal trade and chuckwagons? Or would we devote our energies to building a civilization based on the basic technology we know and understand. Of course, it would be the latter.
If we were dropped off with literally nothing, the first thing we'd do is build a steam engine. We'd spend some time locating a source of iron ore. Then we'd buy some books on how to make steel. Then we'd make steel. Then we'd build internal combustion engines.
Etc, etc. In conclusion, Firefly is believable, as long as you believe the characters are stone cold idiots.
The nice thing about horses and wagons is that horses are self reproducing, you don't need a tech base to fix them when they break or build new ones.
This betrays your understanding of horses. It's not like you just spend 5 minutes a day on your whole herd of horses and you are done. Have you ever heard of chores? Have you ever wondered why farmers and ranchers work harder than any other profession?
It's a matter of time. Taking care of animals is immensely enriching and rewarding. It is not, however, trivial or easy. It requires a great deal of time and commitment.
When you are moving to a new planet, the last thing you want to be concerned with is feeding and taking care of your herd animals.
The whole concept is ridiculous. What we have here is a writer who is an urbane sophisticate who thinks he is better than country rubes, but still admires their primitive ways for their quaintness and rusticness. He thinks there is no need to do any research to see how these things work. He lives in the city, and he doesn't want to think about those "dirt people."
And that is how bad writing is produced. Lazy people decide not to do their research, but instead indulge their pet fantasies.
Enjoy your Firefly movie. I will be concerned with things that have some degree of relevance in the real world.
Next time, just remember, Light Amplified by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Well, in the future, how expensive would a 4-wheel ATV or SUV cost? With vastly increased productivity and robotic manufacturing, they should be very cheap. Thus, the space settlers may not be able to buy a "Robo-turbo Helijet 4000," but they should be able to afford something with an internal combustion engine. Or at the very least, something steam powered.
A geisha is loyal to her benefactor, of which she has exactly one. The Firefly hooker was loyal to anyone with a few spare coins.
Look at the spaceships we fly today. You can't get a good interplanetary and atmospheric craft in one with the tech they used.
You can't get a horse in there, either. If you think you could, you probably don't know anything about farming or ranching.
The point is, you wouldn't have to bring a 747 inside your spaceship. Just bring an SUV or a 4-wheeler ATV. Or a small boat.
Of course, she was not a highprestess. She was just a common whore who would sleep with anyone for a few ducats. Nice try, though.
The old "hooker with a heart of gold" line comes to mind.
No, it wouldn't. You're not building a new civilization. You're expanding your civilization to a new planet. If you were going to move to Montana, would you sell your SUV and computer and buy a horse?
That spelling works like a self-critique.
Time you spend being a good dad will have a more positive effect on the child than maximizing your web site hits.
Freaky, yes. That never happens, and never could. Your computer must be haunted.
This is the correct term. The old name was just "New Zealand." Due to legislation recently passed by the Parliamentary Body of the New Zealand Environment, it is henceforth illegal in the New Zealand Environment to say the words "New Zealand" if not sandwiching them between "The" and "Environment." The New Zealand Environment is a fully protected copyrighted trademark. Anyone who uses the term the New Zealand Environment without permission must pay $5 to the New Zealand Environment. Thank goodness Slashdot has caught on to this in time, or it would be liable for $5 for every hit.
Obviously, if it were the end of all physicial media, that would also mean the end of data.
A good book that alleges that Microsoft does many of the same practices that are alleged by Cringley is "Hard Drive." (at Amazon).
I was going to say it's comments like that that keep bringing me back to Slashdot, wondering what could possibly be next.
Spoken like a true bigot.
Ah. So now one must have a politically correct sense of the aesthetic, or one is considered a bigot, a moral degenerate who has no part in civilized society? Thank you for opening our minds to this startling, revolutionary insight. We are now liberated.
Ha.
He just expressed an opinion. If you can't take other people's opinions, you should avoid the Internet.
Just put a pi on your forehead. Everything will be fine. No one will think you're a mass murderer or anything.
My advice to Linus would be to get yourself a good intellectual property lawyer, and talk to him about all your potential liability issues. Do it now.
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Don't bother getting Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. It's not like the greatest jazz album ever made or anything.
SCO just stepped into some seriously nasty, smelly stuff. Bad move, SCO. Baaaaaaaadddddd move.