Our monarchy have declined into B-List celebrities for when the newspapers have nothing better to write about.
They have no dignity, any longer - they're no different from the crass 'celebs', with drug overdoses, sex scandals, all that.
In principle it's a good idea to have a figurehead that doesn't change every election and get bogged down in the sleaze of politics. In practice, they're an embarrasment to us.
How is this a troll? Unfortunately capitalism means people can spend money how they like, though.
However, what ya also have to notice is that the money does not stop in the hands of SETI - it is used to purchase equipment, materials, bandwidth, etc, and stimulates the economy.
Also, sun can use this as a massive tax write-off, since they can overvalue their own equipment to sale price:) Since I doubt starving children would have much use for things that Sun makes... (mmm... the tastiest bit is the lead solder...)
That I've had with friends - why the hell are you using your computer to look for little green men (who, even if they contact us, are near enough to come to us, and do so, will probably make us into gourmet ready-meals for their home planet, or smething) when they could be running something like the UD Cancer Project
This gives SETI more legitimacy IMO... as a fun project attatched to one with real value. Of course, I suppose Sun probably couldn't stomach donating to a commercial venture like UD, so I won't criticize them for choosing SETI.
I honestly thought noone would stand for the DVD region system when it emerged... Hollywood have always previously had some technical excuse, but this time it was pure and simple profiteeering.
Not that my DVD players aren't all Multi-region, but the principle of the thing.
That article reads like a piece of prose... very nice, but not much good for a news article:)
Anyway... I just play my music so loud I can't hear all the urban noise all around me... (London)... But then I guess that makes me part of the problem
I have 4 sockets here... Running 4*PC, 3*Monitor, Countless USB/Network hubs, TV, VCR, Lighting, Fridge, Clock/radio, countless portable chargers (palmtop/phone/battery/etc), Mofo of a speaker system, and other stuff which is still running in that huge pile of crap which has several cables snaking out to turned on power sockets:)
Now, what was the address of that site that posted on slashdot if you didn't sign in for x days, again?:~
...almost every time I travel I notice one on some of the screens... doesn't really reassure me when I'm about to get in a flying tin can controlled by the same people.
A salad for lunch and regular excercise go a lot further than most diets:) And if the excercise is various types of fighting (e.g. Fencing etc) then its a lot more fun than starving yourself too.
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Our monarchy have declined into B-List celebrities for when the newspapers have nothing better to write about. They have no dignity, any longer - they're no different from the crass 'celebs', with drug overdoses, sex scandals, all that. In principle it's a good idea to have a figurehead that doesn't change every election and get bogged down in the sleaze of politics. In practice, they're an embarrasment to us.
They're only famous a few decades after death - that's how it works. We should kill them now, for posterity :)
How is this a troll? Unfortunately capitalism means people can spend money how they like, though. However, what ya also have to notice is that the money does not stop in the hands of SETI - it is used to purchase equipment, materials, bandwidth, etc, and stimulates the economy. Also, sun can use this as a massive tax write-off, since they can overvalue their own equipment to sale price :) Since I doubt starving children would have much use for things that Sun makes... (mmm... the tastiest bit is the lead solder...)
That I've had with friends - why the hell are you using your computer to look for little green men (who, even if they contact us, are near enough to come to us, and do so, will probably make us into gourmet ready-meals for their home planet, or smething) when they could be running something like the UD Cancer Project
This gives SETI more legitimacy IMO... as a fun project attatched to one with real value. Of course, I suppose Sun probably couldn't stomach donating to a commercial venture like UD, so I won't criticize them for choosing SETI.
I honestly thought noone would stand for the DVD region system when it emerged... Hollywood have always previously had some technical excuse, but this time it was pure and simple profiteeering. Not that my DVD players aren't all Multi-region, but the principle of the thing.
That article reads like a piece of prose... very nice, but not much good for a news article :)
Anyway... I just play my music so loud I can't hear all the urban noise all around me... (London)... But then I guess that makes me part of the problem
I have 4 sockets here... Running 4*PC, 3*Monitor, Countless USB/Network hubs, TV, VCR, Lighting, Fridge, Clock/radio, countless portable chargers (palmtop/phone/battery/etc), Mofo of a speaker system, and other stuff which is still running in that huge pile of crap which has several cables snaking out to turned on power sockets :)
Now, what was the address of that site that posted on slashdot if you didn't sign in for x days, again? :~
It's already slashdotted :( and I wanted to hook a furby up to my Zaurus ;)
...almost every time I travel I notice one on some of the screens... doesn't really reassure me when I'm about to get in a flying tin can controlled by the same people.
A salad for lunch and regular excercise go a lot further than most diets :) And if the excercise is various types of fighting (e.g. Fencing etc) then its a lot more fun than starving yourself too.