You know, I resent the fact that you consider anyone who doesn't know the difference between a ogg file, an mp3 file, and an AAC file a mindless drone. Do you know how everything in your body function? How to diagnose illnesses and treatments. The medical analogy might not be as comparative, so how about hobbyist mechanics. Do you know every part of your car, or even remotely all of them? How to change them and troubleshoot problems? They're are plenty of smart people out there, much smarter than you it would seem, who don't know much about computers, but it would seem that only us geeks are the really arrogant ones.
I don't find the fact that they don't know the difference between OGG, MP3 or AAC the problem. That just means they're uneducated on the topic, but still have valuable insights into other matters.
My problem is with the people who can't be bothered to learn the difference between them. These people usually have very little to offer, and mechanics are often as frustrated as geeks are, because they can't be bothered to learn how their cars work.
However, I also suggest we drop our elitist personas. Not because the ignorant deserve respect, but because mechanics are really good at taking their money, and we should be too.
But it seems so perverse. There is such a huge waste of life and resources going on all around us.
Whenever there's anything about space exploration on/. someone posts a 'why are we doing this?' message.
Yes, there are 2.3 billion people without fresh water, but it's not the fault of the space programs. NASA's budget for 2004 is about $16 billion. The Pentagon's budget is $450 billion!!!! This is more than all other military spending by all other nations combined We could cut it in half and still be spending three times as much as our next highest potential enemy (Russia, who spends $70 billion per year, and they're an ally.) The "Axis of Evil" spends only $7.5 billion, so we could easily defend our nation from "evildoers", feed all the hungry children, house the homeless, and provide quality education to anyone who wants it and still have money left over to send humans to Mars and the Moon, and push ourselves into space.
Don't blame NASA for taking money from important programs. Blame the Military-Industrial-Congressional complex who would rather build things that blow up than feed starving children.
Getting in a boat doesn't compare to the difficulty of going to another planet. Life on another planet could never be as an effective a getaway, as moving to a shack in Idaho or Montana. When/if Mars is finally colonized far the in the future, it will be a highly regimented lifestyle - you really think dissaffected weirdos would be the idea type for such a life?
Getting in a boat today doesn't compare to the difficulty of going to another planet, but in the 16th and 17th centuries, it was pretty damn expensive and life threatening.
And what makes you think that the life of a colonist in the 1700s wasn't regimented? Wake up, milk the cows, work in the fields, milk the cows, cook dinner, milk the cows, go to sleep hoping Indians won't kill you in the night. Sounds pretty regimented to me, and yet fringe wackos wanted to do it.
As someone else said, we can solve the problems here on Earth, and still have enough to go into space. We just don't have the will to do so. We're much happier building bombs to kill the people we blame our problems on.
There is no why to space exploration unless we're spending too much on "defense."
If we didn't spend $450 billion on things that go BOOM, then we would have enough money to save this planet AND colonize Mars, with enough left over for a nice, big tax cut.
When I hear fellow Lefties saying we can't explore space, I ask them "Should we stop exploring space, or stop building bombs?"
Unless that consumer doesn't follow popular trends and choses an alternative computing platform. If they do that their either jelly-bean eating wonks preaching peace and love like some friggin' hippies, or communist dogs who don't want you should pay for software.
I don't shop at Wal*Mart because they don't have anything I need and I don't like the atmosphere.
That's good enough for me. Unfortunately, most of the trogs in this world wouldn't know the difference between a quality product and a hole in their heads.
Cheap is gud 'cuz Ah gets to spend mo' munny on NASCAH
1) Apple doesn't kow tow to M$ by using wma. They use their own format, with decent DRM policies. That's more than enough for me to keep using them.
2) They bundle their store with free burning/ripping/playlist software and seamlessly integrate it. The only thing Wal*Mart is good at integrating is their supply chain.
3) Apple is a company that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when I buy their products. Did Wal*Mart create the first music store? No. Did Napster develop a really great MP3 player? No. Apple innovates, and that's why I like them.
One average size asteroid is made up of trillions of dollars of metals alone, let alone things like iridium and other platinum-group metals that are rare on earth.
Spending a billion for returns of in the tens of trillions seems like a pretty good investment to me
I think he classifies the "not real" as being the whores the RIAA decides are slutty enough to sell albums, and who have their songs written for them, and their voices altered digitally to stay on key. (Britney Spears)
That's the difference between "real" and "fake" musicians: Talent
But when some record producer creates a group, as they did with New Kids on the Block, the Backdoor Boys, and N*Stync, that's where fake musicians come from.
Tom Petty Put it best: "Bring me a girl/they're always the best/you put 'em on stage and you have 'em undress/some angel whore who can learn a guitar lick/yeah, that's what I call music."
Boycott the RIAA! And don't download music, that just gives them an excuse for why sales are slipping. (Entertainment's the only industry where if the product isn't selling they sue their customers.)
Karma be damned:
Beekman's a retard. He can't even hold down a show himself. At least Bill Nye doesn't need a guy in a rat suit.
And if you have problems with geeks, you're posting in the wrong place.
I will not send you my photo ID. Stick that form up your ass. I've downloaded all of the music I could ever need and you haven't caught me. I win. You lose. Have fun flailing into irrelevancy.
Signed,
Me.
I've ridden in a Prius and a Passat, and the Prius is both quieter and smoother than the Passat. Haven't tried a Benz, but the infinitely variable transmission makes acceleration quick and smooth and the low-resistance wheels and aerodynamic design make for a very quiet ride.
Self driving cars are stupid. High speed rail would be much cheaper and much more efficient.
Without cheap access to and from space there would be no way to profitably colonize Mars. And the fact that all of the easily accessible mineral deposits on Mars haven't been exploited by thousands of years of mining is also advantageous. In addition, the environment on Mars permits high-quality carbonyl manufacturing, meaning that the first exports from Mars might be high-quality manufactured goods.
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You know, I resent the fact that you consider anyone who doesn't know the difference between a ogg file, an mp3 file, and an AAC file a mindless drone. Do you know how everything in your body function? How to diagnose illnesses and treatments. The medical analogy might not be as comparative, so how about hobbyist mechanics. Do you know every part of your car, or even remotely all of them? How to change them and troubleshoot problems? They're are plenty of smart people out there, much smarter than you it would seem, who don't know much about computers, but it would seem that only us geeks are the really arrogant ones.
I don't find the fact that they don't know the difference between OGG, MP3 or AAC the problem. That just means they're uneducated on the topic, but still have valuable insights into other matters.
My problem is with the people who can't be bothered to learn the difference between them. These people usually have very little to offer, and mechanics are often as frustrated as geeks are, because they can't be bothered to learn how their cars work.
However, I also suggest we drop our elitist personas. Not because the ignorant deserve respect, but because mechanics are really good at taking their money, and we should be too.
But it seems so perverse. There is such a huge waste of life and resources going on all around us.
/. someone posts a 'why are we doing this?' message.
Whenever there's anything about space exploration on
Yes, there are 2.3 billion people without fresh water, but it's not the fault of the space programs. NASA's budget for 2004 is about $16 billion. The Pentagon's budget is $450 billion!!!! This is more than all other military spending by all other nations combined We could cut it in half and still be spending three times as much as our next highest potential enemy (Russia, who spends $70 billion per year, and they're an ally.) The "Axis of Evil" spends only $7.5 billion, so we could easily defend our nation from "evildoers", feed all the hungry children, house the homeless, and provide quality education to anyone who wants it and still have money left over to send humans to Mars and the Moon, and push ourselves into space.
Don't blame NASA for taking money from important programs. Blame the Military-Industrial-Congressional complex who would rather build things that blow up than feed starving children.
I can't see through.
Getting in a boat doesn't compare to the difficulty of going to another planet. Life on another planet could never be as an effective a getaway, as moving to a shack in Idaho or Montana. When/if Mars is finally colonized far the in the future, it will be a highly regimented lifestyle - you really think dissaffected weirdos would be the idea type for such a life?
Getting in a boat today doesn't compare to the difficulty of going to another planet, but in the 16th and 17th centuries, it was pretty damn expensive and life threatening.
And what makes you think that the life of a colonist in the 1700s wasn't regimented? Wake up, milk the cows, work in the fields, milk the cows, cook dinner, milk the cows, go to sleep hoping Indians won't kill you in the night. Sounds pretty regimented to me, and yet fringe wackos wanted to do it.
As someone else said, we can solve the problems here on Earth, and still have enough to go into space. We just don't have the will to do so. We're much happier building bombs to kill the people we blame our problems on.
There is no why to space exploration unless we're spending too much on "defense."
If we didn't spend $450 billion on things that go BOOM , then we would have enough money to save this planet AND colonize Mars, with enough left over for a nice, big tax cut.
When I hear fellow Lefties saying we can't explore space, I ask them "Should we stop exploring space, or stop building bombs?"
In a competitive environment, the consumer wins.
Unless that consumer doesn't follow popular trends and choses an alternative computing platform. If they do that their either jelly-bean eating wonks preaching peace and love like some friggin' hippies, or communist dogs who don't want you should pay for software.
I don't shop at Wal*Mart because they don't have anything I need and I don't like the atmosphere.
That's good enough for me. Unfortunately, most of the trogs in this world wouldn't know the difference between a quality product and a hole in their heads.
Cheap is gud 'cuz Ah gets to spend mo' munny on NASCAH
1) Apple doesn't kow tow to M$ by using wma. They use their own format, with decent DRM policies. That's more than enough for me to keep using them.
2) They bundle their store with free burning/ripping/playlist software and seamlessly integrate it. The only thing Wal*Mart is good at integrating is their supply chain.
3) Apple is a company that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when I buy their products. Did Wal*Mart create the first music store? No. Did Napster develop a really great MP3 player? No. Apple innovates, and that's why I like them.
Not only that, but bone's won't atrophy entirely on the surface of Mars. They'll degrade to a point where they'll as strong as they have to be.
Why are we jacking around in LEO?
Because flying in space is skeery and we don't know what we're doing
Yes, but the Moon and Mars don't have ecosystems depending on the quality of the air and water.
Why not pollute the Moon and STOP polluting the Earth?
One average size asteroid is made up of trillions of dollars of metals alone, let alone things like iridium and other platinum-group metals that are rare on earth.
Spending a billion for returns of in the tens of trillions seems like a pretty good investment to me
I think he classifies the "not real" as being the whores the RIAA decides are slutty enough to sell albums, and who have their songs written for them, and their voices altered digitally to stay on key. (Britney Spears)
That's the difference between "real" and "fake" musicians: Talent
But when some record producer creates a group, as they did with New Kids on the Block, the Backdoor Boys, and N*Stync, that's where fake musicians come from.
Tom Petty Put it best: "Bring me a girl/they're always the best/you put 'em on stage and you have 'em undress/some angel whore who can learn a guitar lick/yeah, that's what I call music."
Boycott the RIAA! And don't download music, that just gives them an excuse for why sales are slipping. (Entertainment's the only industry where if the product isn't selling they sue their customers.)
"That's no moon..."
The judge involved with the case has dismissed the case with prejudice
<dr evil>But was it, extreme prejudice?</dr evil>
Karma be damned: Beekman's a retard. He can't even hold down a show himself. At least Bill Nye doesn't need a guy in a rat suit. And if you have problems with geeks, you're posting in the wrong place.
Mmmmm... planet starbucks
Must... resist... citing... Case for Mars...
There was an honor roll student at my high school who asked why the space shuttle doesn't hit the ozone layer when it takes off.
Her GPA was higher than mine.
I will not send you my photo ID. Stick that form up your ass. I've downloaded all of the music I could ever need and you haven't caught me. I win. You lose. Have fun flailing into irrelevancy. Signed, Me.
Just like most Americans: Bigger is better.
I've ridden in a Prius and a Passat, and the Prius is both quieter and smoother than the Passat. Haven't tried a Benz, but the infinitely variable transmission makes acceleration quick and smooth and the low-resistance wheels and aerodynamic design make for a very quiet ride.
Self driving cars are stupid. High speed rail would be much cheaper and much more efficient.
Without cheap access to and from space there would be no way to profitably colonize Mars. And the fact that all of the easily accessible mineral deposits on Mars haven't been exploited by thousands of years of mining is also advantageous. In addition, the environment on Mars permits high-quality carbonyl manufacturing, meaning that the first exports from Mars might be high-quality manufactured goods.
But diamonds aren't enough to get people to go.
Is it me or does Mars look suspiciously like Arizona...
CONSPIRACY!!!
For any who are interested, I made a Martian Date Calculator so you can figure out important dates in history on the Mars Society's calendar
For example, today is Aquarius 34, XXIII.
Have fun with it.