We rock at everything else right? I think the problem lies in the society. It's more important to be morally upstanding than to be intelligent. The US is in a steep downward decline towards stagnation, shunning any effort to change, which will ultimately destroy the country and force anyone worth keep to leave, should it be allowed to continue. Which is ok... I've always wanted to live in Europe.
I was recently called upon to fix the neighbor's pc (No, I will not fix your computer). His brother "who does computers for a living" had recently installed XP, no service packs, not hotfixes, and Norton AntiVirus with defs from December of 2000. They wanted to know why their pc wasn't working. And we wonder why all of our tech support is getting outsourced to India...
The sheep are being led. One can only wonder which direction this time, and when someone will finally get to finding those weapons of mass destruction. Or was it removing an evil dictator? Or was it a terrorist government? I forget. And what's worse, it looks like now I won't be able to go back and figure out which one it was...
I can't seem to figure out whether these people are after money or just avoiding responsibility. I'd like to think that they're after money, as I'd prefer to think that at least half our population is smart enough to know when they've messed up.
Priorities priorities priorities... we have a situation on our hands that, in my opinion, can be solved by the following methods:
A. Government puts a full interest into space/sea/land/gummi-bear exploration and gives the appropriate agencies the ability to do it.
B. Privatization of space exploration. I for one, would love a trip to an orbiting resort. Send a rocket up, charge the government, make a profit? You can't tell me no one is interested enough to really get this in motion?
C. Wrold-wide space agency. Hey, I agree, there's nothing better than redundancy and replication. But do we really care whether or not a Brazilian ever lands on the moon, as oppossed to any human landing on Mars?
Oh... and while we're at it, send the entire Utah population into orbit. That's the only way to be sure...
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We rock at everything else right? I think the problem lies in the society. It's more important to be morally upstanding than to be intelligent. The US is in a steep downward decline towards stagnation, shunning any effort to change, which will ultimately destroy the country and force anyone worth keep to leave, should it be allowed to continue. Which is ok... I've always wanted to live in Europe.
So where's the problem?
I was recently called upon to fix the neighbor's pc (No, I will not fix your computer). His brother "who does computers for a living" had recently installed XP, no service packs, not hotfixes, and Norton AntiVirus with defs from December of 2000. They wanted to know why their pc wasn't working. And we wonder why all of our tech support is getting outsourced to India...
The sheep are being led. One can only wonder which direction this time, and when someone will finally get to finding those weapons of mass destruction. Or was it removing an evil dictator? Or was it a terrorist government? I forget. And what's worse, it looks like now I won't be able to go back and figure out which one it was...
I can't seem to figure out whether these people are after money or just avoiding responsibility. I'd like to think that they're after money, as I'd prefer to think that at least half our population is smart enough to know when they've messed up.
" ps -ef | grep -i parenting "
"Poor genetic material. I'd blame your parents."
Priorities priorities priorities... we have a situation on our hands that, in my opinion, can be solved by the following methods: A. Government puts a full interest into space/sea/land/gummi-bear exploration and gives the appropriate agencies the ability to do it. B. Privatization of space exploration. I for one, would love a trip to an orbiting resort. Send a rocket up, charge the government, make a profit? You can't tell me no one is interested enough to really get this in motion? C. Wrold-wide space agency. Hey, I agree, there's nothing better than redundancy and replication. But do we really care whether or not a Brazilian ever lands on the moon, as oppossed to any human landing on Mars? Oh... and while we're at it, send the entire Utah population into orbit. That's the only way to be sure...
What? You mean now they have to come out with movies that don't suck? What'll they think of next? Have these guys been talking to the RIAA?