"We are on a vulnerable planet," Schulze-Makuch said. "Asteroid impact can threaten us, or a supernova explosion. If we want to survive as a species, we have to expand into the solar system and likely beyond."
I'm pretty sure any nearby supernova that threatened Earth would be pretty efficient at ending life on Mars, too.
Very true. Any ammendment, or any part of the Constitution can be altered or repealed by a future ammendment. The 21st ammendment essentially nixed the 18th (prohibition). The 17th ammendment changed the manner of the election of senators, originally prescribed in Article I, Section 3.
Furthermore, I would argue that the ability to modify or overturn any law is important. Once you say "This law is permanant, it can't be changed" you've closed the door on democracy. Granted, I doubt very highly enough people would ever want to repeal or weaken the 1st ammendment, but the freedom to be able to do so is nonetheless important.
If you had spent *more* than just two seconds reading the article yourself, you would notice that both cities are named. The match between Hydra and Shredder is being held in Abu Dhabi. The propsed chess city in to be built in Dubai. The slashdot summary is consistant with this.
I am a student who also happens to be attending a small liberal arts school. When I returned to my dorm in the fall of 2003 after the widespread Blaster and SoBig worms, I found that our usually reliable (though somewhat lethargic) internet access was not working. The reason? Apparently, the infected computers brought in by freshman (roughly 300 students) were enough to cause problems.
The response by IT was to cut internet access to every dorm room. IT had a very "holier than thou" attitude, and threatened to not restore access until *everyone* had installed the patch. Of course, this never happened, but the permanant "solution" was to throttle (read cripple) our upload speed from the dorms (I could average about 80 kbps on a good day).
While this didn't bother most students (not many geeks, mainly people who just surf, read email, and use p2p), it was very frustrating for anyone who's internet needs went beyond that. Also, IT called several times inquiring why I had not installed the patch (I use a Macintosh).
I guess my point is that IT deparments (perhaps specificly at small liberal arts or private schools) may tend to be a little over zealous when telling students what the must and/or can't do.
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"We are on a vulnerable planet," Schulze-Makuch said. "Asteroid impact can threaten us, or a supernova explosion. If we want to survive as a species, we have to expand into the solar system and likely beyond."
I'm pretty sure any nearby supernova that threatened Earth would be pretty efficient at ending life on Mars, too.
Very true. Any ammendment, or any part of the Constitution can be altered or repealed by a future ammendment. The 21st ammendment essentially nixed the 18th (prohibition). The 17th ammendment changed the manner of the election of senators, originally prescribed in Article I, Section 3.
Furthermore, I would argue that the ability to modify or overturn any law is important. Once you say "This law is permanant, it can't be changed" you've closed the door on democracy. Granted, I doubt very highly enough people would ever want to repeal or weaken the 1st ammendment, but the freedom to be able to do so is nonetheless important.
If you had spent *more* than just two seconds reading the article yourself, you would notice that both cities are named. The match between Hydra and Shredder is being held in Abu Dhabi. The propsed chess city in to be built in Dubai. The slashdot summary is consistant with this.
The response by IT was to cut internet access to every dorm room. IT had a very "holier than thou" attitude, and threatened to not restore access until *everyone* had installed the patch. Of course, this never happened, but the permanant "solution" was to throttle (read cripple) our upload speed from the dorms (I could average about 80 kbps on a good day).
While this didn't bother most students (not many geeks, mainly people who just surf, read email, and use p2p), it was very frustrating for anyone who's internet needs went beyond that. Also, IT called several times inquiring why I had not installed the patch (I use a Macintosh).
I guess my point is that IT deparments (perhaps specificly at small liberal arts or private schools) may tend to be a little over zealous when telling students what the must and/or can't do.