This is different because this can be automated and distributed via the Internet instead of learned through trial and error. Bullshitting (and recognizing bullshit) is very necessary behavior in life, particularly for dealing with management. ("This is BS, so I can stop listening and think about something important.")
If you can download Get_an_A_in_IN.exe and have it spew gibberish so you can get a good grade you're missing out on a valuable experience. At least with manual bullshitting people had to learn how to write something.
Have you seen any of the clips from it? It looks insanely great. I mean greater than great. Snape in a dress, Hermione knocking out some punkass, probably Draco Malfoy? Kick. Ass. And we only have to wait until June 4!
Sure, this won't be hacked... Some script kiddie is gonna get the algorithm and get straight A's for his whole life on gibberish and devote more time to a new virus.
This is why I forced my fiance's little brother to watch all three of the originals before he saw any of the new ones. He still begs to watch A New Hope.
Baseball involves being outside under the Death Ball and away from the soothing radioactive glow of flourescent lights and my CRT, right? Remind me why I care again?
Frankly, I'm more keyed to see the next Harry Potter movie than Star Wars Ep 3 at this point, and that's a sad, sad thing to say about a new Star Wars movie.
Does Lucas know how people feel? Does he listen to the criticism? Does he realize it is hurting his reputation as a filmmaker? Is that his real neck or did he get implants? Am I asking too many questions???
This wouldn't be a problem if we had cheap space access. But noooo, NASA just *has* to throw bricks and wings into space, just because they can.
It will be very difficult to service until we have a vehicle capable of throwing a living environment all the way up there. The Ares could do it with current technology and minimal development cost, and give us a vehicle to put 120 tons into LEO, almost 60 on the moon, and over 47 tons to Mars, without refueling. This, coupled with mass production and automated return of the engines would create cheap access to space and lower launch costs (refill the SRBs, buy and fill two more standard pressure tanks, and away you go).
What if a foreign company creates a similar service, will they be regulated in New York, PA, NJ, CT, NH, VT, et al, including every other nation on Earth?
The internet is a fundamentally different communications system that needs different rules. I suppose that iChat AV, because it allows voice calls, would be considered a phone service and subject to regulation in NY.
Politicians and judges shouldn't be allowed to make rules about stuff they're clueless on. We have a bunch of stodgy old luddites telling us how to use the Internet.
Actually, I would rather have to drink less than more. It's less liquid in my system, which means I have to pee less. This is important because I always seem to have to pee when I'm on a roll coding.
But I don't worry about using all of it. Spam gets bounced, and I don't have many friends or family that contact me via email. And if I ever need it, I can just increase my quota on my mail server. I guess this isn't for me then.
Terrorists are criminals and should be treated as such, with police and courts and proper sentences; not elevated to the status of "enemy state" and attacked with an army.
You sir are very wise. Or you agree with me. Whatever, you make a good point.
The same goes with 'good' companies to some extent (i.e. the actions of L.L. Bean now), however that's always when some 'clear-thinking' individual shows up and points out that the company is 'only interested in profit', as if it's patently impossible that anyone in the management might have morals or standards. Or worse there's the implication that -- since the company is just this lumbering raving profit-hungry beast -- it will only ever do something good if it's prodded with the profit stick.
We can't trust corporations to do anything except maximize profit. Yes, it's nice that a few of them are run by people who have morals. However, since they are run by people, we can't trust them to do the right thing. By regulating companies, we make it more profitable to play nice than to pursue destructive habits.
It's the old case of a few ruining it for the many. A few corporations are motivated only by greed, and do bad things to lower cost and increase profit. This puts moral and ethical companies at a disadvantage because they can't compete on price and stick to their morals, meaning they either go bad or go out of business. Business is competition, and those who are willing to cheat have an advantage. That's where regulation comes in.
How much old stuff do you use on a day-to-day basis that you can't archive to CD? Unless you're doing some spam-archiving for a research project, I doubt anyone will receive one terabyte of legitimate email in their lifetime, especially stuff they want to keep.
f you think war is going to end anytime soon, you're deluded. And if you think poverty is going to end anytime soon, *you're* deluded.
Military research has helped mankind, but at what price? Yes, we are communicating on a medium created through military research, but imagine if the Internet had been used for its main design purpose; to allow communication during a nuclear attack, hundreds of millions of people would have died. Military research has indirect benefits for mankind, but space research has direct benefits to mankind; it creates new horizons to move into, it creates access to new resources, and it helps to develop technologies that are used terrestrially.
Unfortunately, NASA's projects are underfunded and without focus. Once it is focused on a goal, research can be better coordinated.
I wouldn't know how to spell it, I don't buy the stuff.:-)
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Both need energy. Fortunately, the Corbin Sparrow can be charged for free from the sun or wind or water power (which are all versions of solar). The air car is a little harder because it needs compressed air, which is difficult to make and store without fossil fuels because of the amount of power needed.
If you don't get your fix on time, you'll be feeling it for a while. Smaller cars can just go for longer on less heroine. When it's cheap we'll buy and use more, but that will just get us more addicted when it goes up in price.
How about we wait until we don't have to fight any more goddamn wars, and then cut the Pentagon budget, and use 1/4 of the savings on social programs, half on the space program, and the remaining $100 billion (according to my handy-dandy True Majority pen) we give back to the people as a tax cut?
Actually, we decry the military-industrial-congressional complex that seeks only to enrich itself whilst destroying stuff. I would have no problem if we spent as much money on the space program as we do on defense, and vice versa. At least we'd be building stuff and going somewhere instead of blowing stuff up and making life on earth worse.
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Nylon Roan? Who's he?
If you can download Get_an_A_in_IN.exe and have it spew gibberish so you can get a good grade you're missing out on a valuable experience. At least with manual bullshitting people had to learn how to write something.
Have you seen any of the clips from it? It looks insanely great. I mean greater than great. Snape in a dress, Hermione knocking out some punkass, probably Draco Malfoy? Kick. Ass. And we only have to wait until June 4!
Sure, this won't be hacked... Some script kiddie is gonna get the algorithm and get straight A's for his whole life on gibberish and devote more time to a new virus.
This is why I forced my fiance's little brother to watch all three of the originals before he saw any of the new ones. He still begs to watch A New Hope.
It's a joke. Laugh.
"Mr. Lucas, the more bad movies you make, the more geeky Star Wars fans will slip through your fingers."
Ditto!
Does Lucas know how people feel? Does he listen to the criticism? Does he realize it is hurting his reputation as a filmmaker? Is that his real neck or did he get implants? Am I asking too many questions???
It will be very difficult to service until we have a vehicle capable of throwing a living environment all the way up there. The Ares could do it with current technology and minimal development cost, and give us a vehicle to put 120 tons into LEO, almost 60 on the moon, and over 47 tons to Mars, without refueling. This, coupled with mass production and automated return of the engines would create cheap access to space and lower launch costs (refill the SRBs, buy and fill two more standard pressure tanks, and away you go).
The internet is a fundamentally different communications system that needs different rules. I suppose that iChat AV, because it allows voice calls, would be considered a phone service and subject to regulation in NY.
Politicians and judges shouldn't be allowed to make rules about stuff they're clueless on. We have a bunch of stodgy old luddites telling us how to use the Internet.
Actually, I would rather have to drink less than more. It's less liquid in my system, which means I have to pee less. This is important because I always seem to have to pee when I'm on a roll coding.
But I don't worry about using all of it. Spam gets bounced, and I don't have many friends or family that contact me via email. And if I ever need it, I can just increase my quota on my mail server. I guess this isn't for me then.
You sir are very wise. Or you agree with me. Whatever, you make a good point.
We can't trust corporations to do anything except maximize profit. Yes, it's nice that a few of them are run by people who have morals. However, since they are run by people, we can't trust them to do the right thing. By regulating companies, we make it more profitable to play nice than to pursue destructive habits.
It's the old case of a few ruining it for the many. A few corporations are motivated only by greed, and do bad things to lower cost and increase profit. This puts moral and ethical companies at a disadvantage because they can't compete on price and stick to their morals, meaning they either go bad or go out of business. Business is competition, and those who are willing to cheat have an advantage. That's where regulation comes in.
And corporations are people, according to the government. Wikipedia knows all.
Instead of screwing up iTunes with more bloat and features, Apple releases an SDK so Windows users can do it themselves! Brilliant!
How much old stuff do you use on a day-to-day basis that you can't archive to CD? Unless you're doing some spam-archiving for a research project, I doubt anyone will receive one terabyte of legitimate email in their lifetime, especially stuff they want to keep.
And if you think poverty is going to end anytime soon, *you're* deluded.
Military research has helped mankind, but at what price? Yes, we are communicating on a medium created through military research, but imagine if the Internet had been used for its main design purpose; to allow communication during a nuclear attack, hundreds of millions of people would have died. Military research has indirect benefits for mankind, but space research has direct benefits to mankind; it creates new horizons to move into, it creates access to new resources, and it helps to develop technologies that are used terrestrially.
Unfortunately, NASA's projects are underfunded and without focus. Once it is focused on a goal, research can be better coordinated.
I wouldn't know how to spell it, I don't buy the stuff. :-)
Both need energy. Fortunately, the Corbin Sparrow can be charged for free from the sun or wind or water power (which are all versions of solar). The air car is a little harder because it needs compressed air, which is difficult to make and store without fossil fuels because of the amount of power needed.
If you don't get your fix on time, you'll be feeling it for a while. Smaller cars can just go for longer on less heroine. When it's cheap we'll buy and use more, but that will just get us more addicted when it goes up in price.
How about we wait until we don't have to fight any more goddamn wars, and then cut the Pentagon budget, and use 1/4 of the savings on social programs, half on the space program, and the remaining $100 billion (according to my handy-dandy True Majority pen) we give back to the people as a tax cut?
The moon program, adjusted for inflation, cost around $23 Billion.
Actually, we decry the military-industrial-congressional complex that seeks only to enrich itself whilst destroying stuff. I would have no problem if we spent as much money on the space program as we do on defense, and vice versa. At least we'd be building stuff and going somewhere instead of blowing stuff up and making life on earth worse.
I'm sorry, but Zubrin laid the smack down all over your robotic-exploration-favoring butt. Check it out.