The natural conclusion being that we need to stop listening to the showman and start listening to the guy with the green home and the environmentally unsound public policy?
Or stop the cognitive dissonance by looking at reality: AAG (Albert Arnold Gore, Jr) preaches pie-in-the-sky impracticality but builds an energy-sucking mansion. OTOH, GWB has the money to build an eco-friendly house yet knows that a large, industrialized society needs a continuous flow of "industrial-sized" energy.
My problem with W is that he didn't stand up to Big Oil and insist that they "play nice" by using some of their jillions in profits to spill less and have better safety equipment.
A sustainable colony requires a mind-boggling amount of sustainable industry and the use of structures and devices engineered to be produceable by said industrial infrastructure.
Especially when:
the max temperature on Mars is 5C,
the mean "air" pressure is 1/158th that of Earth,
there's no magnetic field to protect us from HE radiation, and
"continent"-wide dust storms last for months.
Science fiction is great and everything, but really, when you look at the facts, who the fuck would WANT to live there?
Interesting. In the rural LA parish where my mother lives, FedEx/UPS don't go outside the few towns. They hand off to the USPS any packages that must go to the rural routes.
Since all the mail must be delivered every day, maybe your county would require too many rural carriers.
I'm just saying when you own the business, you don't need to worry about the business owner embezzling.
You've got to be kidding!! Haven't you ever heard of a "second set of books"?
Don't/Enron/ and/Worldcom/ mean anything to you?
Keep labor costs low by setting up strict regulations about who can do what, making humans interchangeable and less likely to cheat.
I, a Senior DBA in a large IT organization, see it as a "fear reaction" to customers (government organizations that we have contracts with) and auditors. Bureaucracy as defense.
Surely, though, the bean counters are also using it for their own nefarious purposes...
realize this, but there's still a whole lot of people who live out in the country and small rural towns where the population density isn't high enough for UPS, FedEx and broadband to be profitable enough to serve these citizens.
Every web forum that I've visited has a "disable emoticons" check box, and the only IM client I use (Lotus SameTime, at work) lets you delete emoticons.
One of which is actually based on modelling and thought
Except that the Eddington Limit was also based on modeling and thought, but was then smashed by reality.
2.5 years ago, astronomers with a spreadsheet "discovered" that the Milky Way is really 2x thicker than previously accepted.
While I'm glad that Science allows scientists to alter their theories and beliefs, ISTM that too many astronomers/cosmologists think they know far more than they really know.
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The natural conclusion being that we need to stop listening to the showman and start listening to the guy with the green home and the environmentally unsound public policy?
Or stop the cognitive dissonance by looking at reality: AAG (Albert Arnold Gore, Jr) preaches pie-in-the-sky impracticality but builds an energy-sucking mansion. OTOH, GWB has the money to build an eco-friendly house yet knows that a large, industrialized society needs a continuous flow of "industrial-sized" energy.
My problem with W is that he didn't stand up to Big Oil and insist that they "play nice" by using some of their jillions in profits to spill less and have better safety equipment.
where it is from and what it relates to.
Doesn't matter: you're using it as a "bumper sticker".
to halt computing is to shackle the mind
Very ironic, considering that TFA was about how bumper sticker phrases spread so much BS.
Maybe your TRS-80 should have tokenized keywords to conserve memory.
It did.
Maybe removing LET simplified the interpreter?
I am afraid that ... I actually get dummer.
Looks like you actually are getting dumber!
A sustainable colony requires a mind-boggling amount of sustainable industry and the use of structures and devices engineered to be produceable by said industrial infrastructure.
Especially when:
Science fiction is great and everything, but really, when you look at the facts, who the fuck would WANT to live there?
They play a pretty mean game of rugby...
Groups of large, sweaty, scantily-clad men gathering together for "energetic" group hugs?
I thought all they did in NZ was "raise" sheep and feel smug about being a Nuclear Free Zone (as if it were worth more than warm spittle).
as someone who wants to see GNOME Shell and 3.0 finished
How is it that much better than the current paradigm?
My mother doesn't live in a small town. She lives 10 miles outside a small town.
Interesting. In the rural LA parish where my mother lives, FedEx/UPS don't go outside the few towns. They hand off to the USPS any packages that must go to the rural routes.
Since all the mail must be delivered every day, maybe your county would require too many rural carriers.
I'm just saying when you own the business, you don't need to worry about the business owner embezzling.
You've got to be kidding!! Haven't you ever heard of a "second set of books"?
Don't /Enron/ and /Worldcom/ mean anything to you?
Keep labor costs low by setting up strict regulations about who can do what, making humans interchangeable and less likely to cheat.
I, a Senior DBA in a large IT organization, see it as a "fear reaction" to customers (government organizations that we have contracts with) and auditors. Bureaucracy as defense.
Surely, though, the bean counters are also using it for their own nefarious purposes...
When all of the money funnels back to someone who doesn't want any of their line people taking any share of the profits,
Your comment reeks of dogma.
it's tough to pay extra to a telco or cable company to extend service to an area they decide isn't worth it.
But, but, but... the Free Market is the be all and end all! It's perfect!
told there just wasn't a process for that, they just wouldn't give me a price.
This is the down-side of the computerized business: greatly reduced flexibility.
realize this, but there's still a whole lot of people who live out in the country and small rural towns where the population density isn't high enough for UPS, FedEx and broadband to be profitable enough to serve these citizens.
http://www.dell.com/ubuntu is still functional in the US.
but how about the guy reading my code? Will it be disabled for him as he is reading it?
It's interesting how you keep on "moving the goal"...
Every web forum that I've visited has a "disable emoticons" check box, and the only IM client I use (Lotus SameTime, at work) lets you delete emoticons.
So, stop whining and start looking...
What I hate is when those bastards insert smiley-icons into code that I am emailing.
You must not realize that you can disable that "feature" in both Lookout and Tbird.
With junk science, you tweak your model
Isn't that what all modelers do on a regular basis?
to explain the new data too, and dismiss the exceptions as meaningless
I have a premonition...
This particular star is likely not an interesting exception
Did you just call yourself a junk scientist?
Flash is needed to view a lot of websites, most notably Youtube.
To heck with YouTube... My wife needs Flash to watch /Brothers and Sisters/ and my kids "need" it to play the games thy like.
One of which is actually based on modelling and thought
Except that the Eddington Limit was also based on modeling and thought, but was then smashed by reality.
2.5 years ago, astronomers with a spreadsheet "discovered" that the Milky Way is really 2x thicker than previously accepted.
While I'm glad that Science allows scientists to alter their theories and beliefs, ISTM that too many astronomers/cosmologists think they know far more than they really know.
they run and hide by claiming that their shows are 'opinion'
Their most popular shows (O'Reilly and Hannity) are opinion. To see them as anything else is the height of folly.
To the first American company to put not fewer than 31 Americans on the Moon and keep them there continuously for a period of three years and one day
What the hell do you *do* on the Moon for 3 years, besides get cancer and have your equipment get abraded to shreds by the lunar dust?
baited breath
You're using you breath to lure animals?