It's a book. OMG. A book. I can murder people by slicing and hacking at their throats with this razor thin page. Nevermind the fact it'll take me the entire FUCKING flight to do it. Oh wait, maybe I can set fire to the book, oh but wait, I could do that to the SkyMall magazine too, and I left my prohibited lighters and matches at home like a good sky-traveller. But WAIT! I could tear the covers off and rub them together really fast and maybe make a spark! Oh, but I'll probably just get bored and watch the Hulk and Stepmom on the in-flight movie instead. Or maybe that cute chick will let me just use her left boob as a pillow.
I would advise a 5-1 male to female ratio, and probably with a Matriarchical society set up. Not for nothing, but the women in my life are far more likely to live for the long-term if not for the "Hey honey, watch this!" factor that men seem to be born with.
Since there are no external predators, the physical strength and endurance of males is less of an asset than in prehistoric Earth.
And since the women control the pussy, well, the men can be kept in line. Especially when all 5x of them show solidarity in the matter.
Never fly though, since Men rule Earth (or so we think).
Can you imagine Armstrong... the only human being to EVER be the first to step upon another world. I liken it to what it must be like if you bumped into God on the way to the supermarket. To then disappear to a private life... I cannot imagine how humbling an experience that must have been.
Though men may eventually walk on Mars or Titan and the Moon again, no one will ever be what Armstrong was - the first.
I think it just points out that information really DOES want to be Free.
And if that wasn't true, why are there an army of companies making a shitton of money off of Open Source? Because in 90% of the cases, making software is just a means to an end - real business ISN'T software, it's services, goods and the shuffling of money.
Software is a cost - so the quicker that cost approaches zero, the better off you are. And the risk of theft hasn't stopped music from exploding, though I don't know how much Indie music sales have grown in the past ten years. I certainly know there's more available through avenue's like Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, the web in general.
Soon, people will be making free open content blockbuster movies. Once there's a BT client that lets you share CPU cycles to do rendering:-)
Bring it on I say. Who's to say there isn't beauty to be "seen" in the EM spectrum around us that we can't naturally see? The ability to perceive the deep infrared, the microwave spectrum. to see the magesty in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation?
I for one am not deluding myself into thinking this will be easy, doable, or achievable in my lifetime, but I'm not going to close myself off to the possibility it will be better than anything we have ever imagined.
Or drag the first world back down and start the procreating all over again. What do poor people do with no tennis lessons, dinner parties, vacations to paris do? They fuck. And they can't afford birth control. Voila. Pretty soon all of America will be there at the rate we're going.
I think the Moon provides a unique opportunity for the human race - the ability to generate a socio-economic community that focuses on reducing consumption, something that no human community does over the long term. No technologically advanced society has ever constricted it's resource consumption or done complex resource planning before expanding. In an environment like the moon, you have to have the infrastructure in place before you can expand. If you only have food for 1000 people, you can't have 100 families give birth until you build out greenhouses to feed another 400 or so.
At the very least, development of working Biosphere type environments, increases your survival ANYWHERE, and is a necessary precondition for long-term survival on other worlds or deep space.
It is a fairly nice idea, except Logan is such an ass backwards layout... they should have leveled it during the recent rebuild and started from scratch. From 4 terminals to 1, maybe two, separated from baggage and checkin with people-movers, sort of like Orlando.
Sorry, in the Palm world, or the Windows Mobile world, the cost of entry, aside from the phone itself, is exactly $0. There are no gatekeepers. I'm holding out hope the Pre will turn out the same fashion, but I doubt it. Looks like I'm switching to AT&T so I can import some of the better European phones.
No, they just want to prove they're badasses. And when you pick a fight with one, they can't stand toe to toe with you on their own but summon their entire crew. Yes, yes, don't piss off the motorcycle riders, they have something to prove.
Prior to the current security theatrics, you could carry blades less than 3" on-board. Back then they were mostly concerned with things that could caused rapid explosions, aerosols, batteries, etc. They didn't care if you could stab your seat-mate.
Oh, and in the good old days you could kiss your girlfriend goodbye at the gate, instead of dropping them curbside, and you wouldn't get hassled by state troopers if you parked outside arrival for 10 minutes while your friends go their bags. Now I have to "orbit the airport" because Logan doesn't provide any short-term parking outside the terminals.
I got to see BladeRunner about 10 years ago on the big screen at Harvard. Holy crap was that stunning, front row seat. And I got to stay behind and participate in the lecture afterwards. Interesting.
Okay, here's a suggestion: put a cap of 150% on their plan rate. If they have a $50 plan, they can rack up $75 in charges max. This would limit their downside risk. But that would hurt their profits on people who occasionally go over the limits and rack up $150 in a month, and then upgrade to a $90 plan they never use.
No, it doesn't give access to my shopping habits. That's a record kept between me, my credit card vendor, and the individual shops, who know only what they sold me.
It doesn't allow access to an unlimited line of credit, because if I'm on the ball, and can provide a reasonable amount of proof I didn't make certain charges, then the credit card company has to foot the bill for unauthorized charges.
And the biggest bit: having access to my credit card will NOT allow you to get MORE credit cards in my name, or take out loans, or a myriad of other credit-destroying tasks that could cost me years and thousands of dollars to undo.
It's why I only shop online with credit - 15 years of internet shopping, and I've only had to reverse charges twice. Once from a dragnet scam, and once from a shoddy vendor.
It was clearly printed on mine, when I got my Pre. I dislike the Sprint service, though, so I'm taking it back Saturday. I can't wait until I can get an unlocked pre.:-)
So you can still claim your child as a deduction on your income taxes? Last time I did taxes for my friend, Turbotax required it for her to claim for her daughter.
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It's a book. OMG. A book. I can murder people by slicing and hacking at their throats with this razor thin page. Nevermind the fact it'll take me the entire FUCKING flight to do it. Oh wait, maybe I can set fire to the book, oh but wait, I could do that to the SkyMall magazine too, and I left my prohibited lighters and matches at home like a good sky-traveller. But WAIT! I could tear the covers off and rub them together really fast and maybe make a spark! Oh, but I'll probably just get bored and watch the Hulk and Stepmom on the in-flight movie instead. Or maybe that cute chick will let me just use her left boob as a pillow.
Both the newspaper and the principal falsely represented the letter as being from her, what recourse does she have to sue for libel?
And then there were those of us who didn't give a shit, and just wanted to get some news from CNN. WTF?
No space flight system flown by the US has a better track record than the STS. Projected, maybe. But actual? No.
Soyuz however, I belive has the best flight record of any space flight system ever, but only marginally.
[Liberally stolen from:]
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/military/read.main/54404/
Soyuz (1967-Present)
Flights: 95
Failures: 4 (2 non-fatal)
Failure Rate: 4.21%
Cosmonauts Flown: 228
Fatalities: 4
Fatality Rate: 1.75%
Shuttle (1981-Present)
Flights: 116
Failures: 3 (1 non-fatal)
Failure Rate: 2.59%
Astronauts Flown: 692
Fatalities: 14
Fatality Rate: 2.02%
Soyuz Failures:
Soyuz 1 (1967), Soyuz 11 (1971), Soyuz 18A (1975, Non-Fatal), Soyuz T-10A (1983, Non-Fatal)
Shuttle Failures:
STS-51L (1986), STS-83 (1997, Non-Fatal), STS-107 (2003)
They banned wood burning kits? WTF?
I would advise a 5-1 male to female ratio, and probably with a Matriarchical society set up. Not for nothing, but the women in my life are far more likely to live for the long-term if not for the "Hey honey, watch this!" factor that men seem to be born with.
Since there are no external predators, the physical strength and endurance of males is less of an asset than in prehistoric Earth.
And since the women control the pussy, well, the men can be kept in line. Especially when all 5x of them show solidarity in the matter.
Never fly though, since Men rule Earth (or so we think).
Can you imagine Armstrong... the only human being to EVER be the first to step upon another world. I liken it to what it must be like if you bumped into God on the way to the supermarket. To then disappear to a private life... I cannot imagine how humbling an experience that must have been.
Though men may eventually walk on Mars or Titan and the Moon again, no one will ever be what Armstrong was - the first.
I think it just points out that information really DOES want to be Free.
:-)
And if that wasn't true, why are there an army of companies making a shitton of money off of Open Source? Because in 90% of the cases, making software is just a means to an end - real business ISN'T software, it's services, goods and the shuffling of money.
Software is a cost - so the quicker that cost approaches zero, the better off you are. And the risk of theft hasn't stopped music from exploding, though I don't know how much Indie music sales have grown in the past ten years. I certainly know there's more available through avenue's like Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, the web in general.
Soon, people will be making free open content blockbuster movies. Once there's a BT client that lets you share CPU cycles to do rendering
Bring it on I say. Who's to say there isn't beauty to be "seen" in the EM spectrum around us that we can't naturally see? The ability to perceive the deep infrared, the microwave spectrum. to see the magesty in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation?
I for one am not deluding myself into thinking this will be easy, doable, or achievable in my lifetime, but I'm not going to close myself off to the possibility it will be better than anything we have ever imagined.
Or drag the first world back down and start the procreating all over again. What do poor people do with no tennis lessons, dinner parties, vacations to paris do? They fuck. And they can't afford birth control. Voila. Pretty soon all of America will be there at the rate we're going.
I think the Moon provides a unique opportunity for the human race - the ability to generate a socio-economic community that focuses on reducing consumption, something that no human community does over the long term. No technologically advanced society has ever constricted it's resource consumption or done complex resource planning before expanding. In an environment like the moon, you have to have the infrastructure in place before you can expand. If you only have food for 1000 people, you can't have 100 families give birth until you build out greenhouses to feed another 400 or so.
Except that you can never be sure that you have eliminated all orbital threats.
You can be sure that outposts of 10-20,000 humans scattered throughout the solar system will be far more resilient.
At the very least, development of working Biosphere type environments, increases your survival ANYWHERE, and is a necessary precondition for long-term survival on other worlds or deep space.
You still need some sort of mass to accelerate with Ion propulsion.
Hookers and blow BEFORE the world ends, dude. That's where.
It is a fairly nice idea, except Logan is such an ass backwards layout... they should have leveled it during the recent rebuild and started from scratch. From 4 terminals to 1, maybe two, separated from baggage and checkin with people-movers, sort of like Orlando.
Sorry, in the Palm world, or the Windows Mobile world, the cost of entry, aside from the phone itself, is exactly $0. There are no gatekeepers. I'm holding out hope the Pre will turn out the same fashion, but I doubt it. Looks like I'm switching to AT&T so I can import some of the better European phones.
No, they just want to prove they're badasses. And when you pick a fight with one, they can't stand toe to toe with you on their own but summon their entire crew. Yes, yes, don't piss off the motorcycle riders, they have something to prove.
Prior to the current security theatrics, you could carry blades less than 3" on-board. Back then they were mostly concerned with things that could caused rapid explosions, aerosols, batteries, etc. They didn't care if you could stab your seat-mate.
Oh, and in the good old days you could kiss your girlfriend goodbye at the gate, instead of dropping them curbside, and you wouldn't get hassled by state troopers if you parked outside arrival for 10 minutes while your friends go their bags. Now I have to "orbit the airport" because Logan doesn't provide any short-term parking outside the terminals.
It's called statistical sampling for a reason.
Sample 100,000 people, get results, and erroneously extrapolate to 350,000,000 people.
I got to see BladeRunner about 10 years ago on the big screen at Harvard. Holy crap was that stunning, front row seat. And I got to stay behind and participate in the lecture afterwards. Interesting.
Okay, here's a suggestion: put a cap of 150% on their plan rate. If they have a $50 plan, they can rack up $75 in charges max. This would limit their downside risk. But that would hurt their profits on people who occasionally go over the limits and rack up $150 in a month, and then upgrade to a $90 plan they never use.
That's why they don't do it.
No, it doesn't give access to my shopping habits. That's a record kept between me, my credit card vendor, and the individual shops, who know only what they sold me.
It doesn't allow access to an unlimited line of credit, because if I'm on the ball, and can provide a reasonable amount of proof I didn't make certain charges, then the credit card company has to foot the bill for unauthorized charges.
And the biggest bit: having access to my credit card will NOT allow you to get MORE credit cards in my name, or take out loans, or a myriad of other credit-destroying tasks that could cost me years and thousands of dollars to undo.
It's why I only shop online with credit - 15 years of internet shopping, and I've only had to reverse charges twice. Once from a dragnet scam, and once from a shoddy vendor.
It was clearly printed on mine, when I got my Pre. I dislike the Sprint service, though, so I'm taking it back Saturday. I can't wait until I can get an unlocked pre. :-)
So you can still claim your child as a deduction on your income taxes? Last time I did taxes for my friend, Turbotax required it for her to claim for her daughter.