I heard that the last NASA Shuttle launch was ~280 million (probably not taking into account the huge sunk costs they have incured..), and recently the largest.com satelite thrown into orbit cost 250 million.
The easy solution would be to take some digging and tunneling equipment then use that to create an underground Mars station....thus using the billions of tons of existing rock & dirt to sheild you. You could also take melting aparatus and make an under-ice cave in the new lake.
Back in 1948, during his first race for the U.S. Senate, Lyndon Johnson was running about ten points behind, with only nine days to go. He was sunk in despair. He was desperate. And it was just before noon on a Monday, they say, when he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed him to call a press conference for just before lunch on a slow news day and accuse his high-riding opponent, a pig farmer, of having routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children.
His campaign manager was shocked. "We can't say that, Lyndon," he supposedly said. "You know it's not true."
"Of course it's not true!" Johnson barked at him. "But let's make the bastard deny it!"
there is no way a proc and board fried "in 2 seconds" b/c the sink was underrated for it. Its because you didnt install it properly and it wasnt making contact.
I went with my grandmother to buy her new condo a few months back. They ran the regular credit cehck and then a very embarrassed sales person came out and said there was a problem. "We're sorry mrs, you um....dont have any credit. You probably wont be able to get financing."
Grandmother: "Thats ok, I'lll pay cash" as she pulls ~$100k out of her purse and stacks it on the desk. I laughed, the sales person must have shit a brick.
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not to mention you can run it from the command line and it will act very much like basic/pascal etc...or just put a #!/usr/bin/php -q at the top of your file
PHP is a great starter language that allows you to stay simple with litte web scripts, or write entire webapps and backend tool suites.
Only downfall is your pretty limited as far as console graphics and text manipulation.
The moral of this story, stealing is wrong. If you steal something from a store, the dont just take that back from you, or make you pay for it...you pay a lot more in court fees to get out of it, or you go to jail....
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I heard that the last NASA Shuttle launch was ~280 million (probably not taking into account the huge sunk costs they have incured..), and recently the largest .com satelite thrown into orbit cost 250 million.
Thats like saying that billboard owners should pay everyone that drives down the highway since you have the option to look at their advertisement.
It's almost a shame there already is affordable GSM technology..then you wouldn't look like such a dumb bastard.
The easy solution would be to take some digging and tunneling equipment then use that to create an underground Mars station....thus using the billions of tons of existing rock & dirt to sheild you. You could also take melting aparatus and make an under-ice cave in the new lake.
Back in 1948, during his first race for the U.S. Senate, Lyndon Johnson was running about ten points behind, with only nine days to go. He was sunk in despair. He was desperate. And it was just before noon on a Monday, they say, when he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed him to call a press conference for just before lunch on a slow news day and accuse his high-riding opponent, a pig farmer, of having routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children.
His campaign manager was shocked. "We can't say that, Lyndon," he supposedly said. "You know it's not true."
"Of course it's not true!" Johnson barked at him. "But let's make the bastard deny it!"
there is no way a proc and board fried "in 2 seconds" b/c the sink was underrated for it. Its because you didnt install it properly and it wasnt making contact.
I went with my grandmother to buy her new condo a few months back. They ran the regular credit cehck and then a very embarrassed sales person came out and said there was a problem. "We're sorry mrs, you um....dont have any credit. You probably wont be able to get financing." Grandmother: "Thats ok, I'lll pay cash" as she pulls ~$100k out of her purse and stacks it on the desk. I laughed, the sales person must have shit a brick.
not to mention you can run it from the command line and it will act very much like basic/pascal etc...or just put a #!/usr/bin/php -q at the top of your file PHP is a great starter language that allows you to stay simple with litte web scripts, or write entire webapps and backend tool suites. Only downfall is your pretty limited as far as console graphics and text manipulation.
The moral of this story, stealing is wrong. If you steal something from a store, the dont just take that back from you, or make you pay for it...you pay a lot more in court fees to get out of it, or you go to jail....
again, whats the problem?