Indeed... I spent the better part of my 20's in the midst of an expensive lifestyle. Little did I realize that the expensive cars, high credit card balances, and paycheck-to-paycheck living were symptoms of the consumerist lifestyle that I thought I had managed to avoid.
It took an extended period of underemployment for me to realize that I really didn't need all that crap. Now my debts are almost paid off, I drive a cheap car, and I'm so much happier to just live my life and not have to worry so much about money.
While I still work in a cube farm, life is much more pleasant not having to worry so much about money. I agree, drop out of the system!
Here's a man who's a nuclear engineer who bans breeder reactors because terrorists might get ahold of the plutonium and make a bomb, even though he should know that refining the Pu239 from the mix is impossible.
It's only impossible until somebody finds a way to do it.
Why can't they just make a spacecraft that has a rotating section to provide artifical gravity?
Weight, reliability, and cost perhaps? If they can find a set of plants that will do the job on zero-G, it'll weigh less, be relatively reliable, and the component parts (water, nutrients, etc.) may be recyclable to some extent. Seems like it has the potential to be an elegant solution.
Indeed, throughout my career I have noticed that projects usually have failed for reasons *other* than the methodology/approach being used.
This includes such things as executive sponsors having relatively short attention spans, failure of team members to adequately address the needs of their customers, and losing sight of the big picture.
In fact, the only book I've seen recently that appears to be of some value (particularly for those who work on productized software) is "Beyond Software Architecture" by Luke Hohmann.
Articles written by attendees almost always include this observation, and I've read several that reported seeing litter discarded by a thoughtless visitor scooped up and deposited in the trash by another visitor only a few steps behind the offender.
It seems there is hope for humanity after all.:-)
Yeah, it didn't bug me when I was 10, but it sure does now.
Sounds like the same problem I have with Robotech. It was totally cool when I was 10, but when I watched it again as an adult a lot of things just didn't make sense.
Agreed. Firefly really got the short end of the stick with the undesirable, inconsistent time slots.
Otherwise, it's a really well-done show with interesting characters, interesting plots, and Joss Whedon's characteristic witty dialogue.
Excellent example of the "fallacy of composition" from economics...
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Keep in mind that the world population has grown to maybe 5 times what it was prior to the use of fossil fuels for transportation. Just because major cities in Europe may have been sustained this way in the past doesn't mean that they will be able to fare so well if they had to do it again.
I just bought a new all-gasoline Sentra which is rated as SULEV and supposedly gets over 30mpg.
Presumably there are more environmental impacts beyond just mileage and emissions, such as amount of recycled materials in the vehicle, energy and chemicals used in manufacturing, etc.
I must respectfully disagree with the idea that consciousness has "absolutely nothing" to do with science. Just because science does not have an comprehensive model for how consciousness works does not mean that there won't be one in the future that can be verified with observational evidence.
I'll go out on a limb here and propose that physicists are only considered "credible" if they stay very close to the established theoretical framework.
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Nah, Adam Baldwin is cool. He played a character on Firefly, after all...
darn, beat me to it. :-)
It took an extended period of underemployment for me to realize that I really didn't need all that crap. Now my debts are almost paid off, I drive a cheap car, and I'm so much happier to just live my life and not have to worry so much about money.
While I still work in a cube farm, life is much more pleasant not having to worry so much about money. I agree, drop out of the system!
It's only impossible until somebody finds a way to do it.
Weight, reliability, and cost perhaps? If they can find a set of plants that will do the job on zero-G, it'll weigh less, be relatively reliable, and the component parts (water, nutrients, etc.) may be recyclable to some extent. Seems like it has the potential to be an elegant solution.
This includes such things as executive sponsors having relatively short attention spans, failure of team members to adequately address the needs of their customers, and losing sight of the big picture.
In fact, the only book I've seen recently that appears to be of some value (particularly for those who work on productized software) is "Beyond Software Architecture" by Luke Hohmann.
Sounds like a keeper. :-)
Why not just open the airlock and give it a good kick?
My cat goes absolutely crazy when I play Warcraft III, with all those little things running around behind the glass.
Articles written by attendees almost always include this observation, and I've read several that reported seeing litter discarded by a thoughtless visitor scooped up and deposited in the trash by another visitor only a few steps behind the offender. It seems there is hope for humanity after all. :-)
Sounds like the same problem I have with Robotech. It was totally cool when I was 10, but when I watched it again as an adult a lot of things just didn't make sense.
I guess the best response would be "ack"?
Indeed, that is the case. Sitting on the toilet too long will increase the risk of developing hemorrhoids, according to most medical info.
I did notice that all the alien planets look very much like Colorado. Maybe they really look like British Columbia instead?
Agreed. Firefly really got the short end of the stick with the undesirable, inconsistent time slots. Otherwise, it's a really well-done show with interesting characters, interesting plots, and Joss Whedon's characteristic witty dialogue.
Excellent example of the "fallacy of composition" from economics...
Keep in mind that the world population has grown to maybe 5 times what it was prior to the use of fossil fuels for transportation. Just because major cities in Europe may have been sustained this way in the past doesn't mean that they will be able to fare so well if they had to do it again.
I just bought a new all-gasoline Sentra which is rated as SULEV and supposedly gets over 30mpg.
Presumably there are more environmental impacts beyond just mileage and emissions, such as amount of recycled materials in the vehicle, energy and chemicals used in manufacturing, etc.
I'll go out on a limb here and propose that physicists are only considered "credible" if they stay very close to the established theoretical framework.
1. Trillian
2. MS Office (Outlook)
3. Cygwin
4. PowerDVD
5. SecureCRT
6. Xemacs
7. Google Toolbar
8. SETI@Home
9. McAfee VirusScan
10. WinZip
Raspberry.
Would you want to carry a heavy rocket pack to the top of Everest?
Perhaps they plan to compress the data. Text or HTML emails should compress very well...
Cast goes through the gate, gets captured/abducted/trapped.
Cast brings something bad/evil/dangerous back to Earth.
Cast goes offworld, befriends/irritates/vanquishes representative(s) of some ancient Earth culture or alien species.