Summary of the previous article: Here's a technical problem, which no-one will ever figure out how to solve, therefore it's impossible.
Summary of the current article: Here's a tiny shred of scientific evidence that it may have happened before, therefore it is not impossible.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's First Law
Would you say this software violates your "human rights"? Or would you say that even suggesting the term is racist, and that the Federation is basically a "homo sapiens" only club?
Any reason why the American number would be double that of Holland? Is it because of a higher average temperature in much of the US, a difference in the attitude of home owners to energy use, a difference in power consumption standards, or something different entirely?
But the Federation is pretty much post-scarcity, at least with respect to consumer goods. Why would you fight over who uses which crapper when you have infinite toilets?
James T. Kirk: Harry lied to you, Norman. Everything Harry says is a lie. Remember that, Norman: Everything he says is a lie. Harry Mudd: Now I want you to listen to me very carefully, Norman: I... am... lying.
You know you did it right if smoke starts pouring out of your computer.
I really don't see how waiting 48 hours (two days) would have killed the economy. Oh my goodness, we had to wait 48 more hours before waiting several more months before getting stimulus money.
Even worse than that, every time they pass one of these things the market seems to go down, because saying the economy is 700-billion-dollars bad doesn't have a positive effect on investor confidence. I agree, waiting 48 hours couldn't have possibly hurt anything all that much.
...top democrats/leading democrats appear to have taken this "crisis" as an opportunity to push their agenda and "sell" it to the public using fear...
Sounds like the "economic crisis" is to the Democrats what 9/11 was to the Republicans. Same shit, different party.
"500 million jobs" being lost every month
But everybody knows that before the economic crisis we had a 143% employment rate!
That reminds me of Genesis 2:15 ("The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it."), which one of my college professors interpreted as meaning that God created humans basically to "take care of His stuff". If God created people not to live in some other plane of existence, but to stay here and basically house sit until He get's back, it would make sense for the faithful to want to stay here instead of looking forward to the afterlife.
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's First Law
For some people that's all they need to do...
So then it could be owned by Apple and it still wouldn't make it interesting or remotely useful.
Who is this Bill person, and what the hell is is problem?
TERRORISM!!!
What kind of data center would I build with $500M? I don't know, but I imagine it might look something like this...
Would you say this software violates your "human rights"? Or would you say that even suggesting the term is racist, and that the Federation is basically a "homo sapiens" only club?
Any reason why the American number would be double that of Holland? Is it because of a higher average temperature in much of the US, a difference in the attitude of home owners to energy use, a difference in power consumption standards, or something different entirely?
Sweet! Now I can put all those ears I collected in Diablo to good use!
I would like to enroll as a participant in your experiment, sir.
Why did we even bother bailing out the auto industry if we're just going to make everybody walk?!
Maybe that was Conflicker's plan all along! Do all it's dirty business on April 1st, and nobody will believe the news!
But the Federation is pretty much post-scarcity, at least with respect to consumer goods. Why would you fight over who uses which crapper when you have infinite toilets?
It's not even that good of an epiphany. On Cleopatra's Needle in New York at least two sides are badly weathered and no longer readable.
Who do they think they are? SG-1?
My mother? Let me tell you about my mother.
You know you did it right if smoke starts pouring out of your computer.
I doubt acquiring silica be too much of a problem, given it's the most abundant mineral in the earth's crust. I don't know how it would need to be prepared for diatoms, though.
Hey, maybe he's epileptic.
Maybe I shouldn't get out of bed tomorrow until I'm SURE nothing bad will happen.
Even worse than that, every time they pass one of these things the market seems to go down, because saying the economy is 700-billion-dollars bad doesn't have a positive effect on investor confidence. I agree, waiting 48 hours couldn't have possibly hurt anything all that much.
Sounds like the "economic crisis" is to the Democrats what 9/11 was to the Republicans. Same shit, different party.
But everybody knows that before the economic crisis we had a 143% employment rate!
I wouldn't describe foods like eel pie as bland so much as mildly frightening...
That reminds me of Genesis 2:15 ("The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it."), which one of my college professors interpreted as meaning that God created humans basically to "take care of His stuff". If God created people not to live in some other plane of existence, but to stay here and basically house sit until He get's back, it would make sense for the faithful to want to stay here instead of looking forward to the afterlife.
Hey, maybe that's the reason he hates doing it! All that pointy metal can't be pleasant.
But what about clouds? They're alot bigger than very small rocks, but they manage to stay up there! HOW?!