#1: Absolutely. OK, so the direct science of manned spaceflight is dubious, but we need the romance of space and it can really help to push along major innovation. If we let the market do it, all we get are Microsoft products.
#5: SOOOO impractical. Make it accelerate well, not be beholden a third of its life to a power cord and actually USEFUL and it'll take off. THat's why I love hybrid and fuel cell technology.
#7: Oh SO much. I have three old IBM keyboards, one a "UNIX" keyboard (no keypad). Built like tanks. I've pounded on them in frustration and they take it like Tina Turner. I love overengineered products.
#8: Funny, most of my phones in the house (3 out of four) are corded. Even better, two of those are from the '20s and '30s. That ring is just so beautiful. I just love getting called.
#9: Also funny, in the past three years I've bought far more vinyl than plastic. Used and new, to be sure, but the ratio is about 3:1, vinyl to plastic.
You can choose to be nostalgiac for the past or, like me, just live in it (so says the man whose newest means of transportation is over 25 years old and has two wheels...).
We already have our comments monitored by everyone IN the company, and can get fired for them, or suspended. The FEC says I can't support a political candidate on my web site, and if you try to complain publicaly about a home builder in Missouri, you'll be sued under tort laws.
I'm scared. Fight this. All speech by a private citizen should be given protection to the fullest extent. Within reason. This does not qualify.
But then, what do you expect from Northwest. (Perhaps to hear from their lawyers, eh?)
'There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action' Goethe
After Kentucky and Kansas, it's nice to see a state with some stones. It's a crying shame that this is even an issue in this day. I say, everyone who pushes creationism, since they are so against any sort of real science, should have their computers, phones, microwaves, TVs, VCRs, etc. taken away. If they want to think in the 14th century, let them live in it.
As an aside, this is also the state who's governor thinks that the US reconsider the War on Drugs(tm), as the failure it is. Freethinking state; I may have to move there.
When I was in college ( and then for some time after that ), I regularly read two newspapers known for their journalistic integrity; the two best on the opposite sides of the political spectrum. They were the Wall Street Journal, for the conservatives, and the Christian Science Monitor for the liberal side. Their paper is one of the best, and more reasonable, and they keep the editorials on the editorial page. And there's no religious proselytizing, either.
As to Europa, I also saw the Discovery show on the probe. I guess I never realized how likely life was there ( I thought it was frozen solid ), and I didn't know that there's actually a plan to send a probe. With the geothermal vents, I think the likelihood of life there is high. To think that in thirty years or less, we could be there checking for life really got me excited. That would be one of the discoveries of the epoch. God, I get excited just thinking about it.
Plus, just think if it's advanced past the microbial stage!
Oops, gotta go to the bathroom now; just made a mess.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke (we could be gods!)
I have to agree with this up to a point. That point being the money threshhold. GPL, open source, and Linux never would have had to worry about any of this crap if it hadn't become so popular. People can now make money in this, and take advantage of the ignorance of the courts and patent office ( such as the patenting of ad delivery systems ). I do feel happy (lucky?) that some groups had the foresight to realize that you always have to pander to the lowest common denominator. It's the price we pay for being in a (somewhat) free system. No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. - H. L. Mencken
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Nope, 1976 motorcycle.
My truck is older than that.
#1: Absolutely.
OK, so the direct science of manned spaceflight is dubious, but we need the romance of space and it can really help to push along major innovation. If we let the market do it, all we get are Microsoft products.
#5: SOOOO impractical.
Make it accelerate well, not be beholden a third of its life to a power cord and actually USEFUL and it'll take off. THat's why I love hybrid and fuel cell technology.
#7: Oh SO much. I have three old IBM keyboards, one a "UNIX" keyboard (no keypad). Built like tanks. I've pounded on them in frustration and they take it like Tina Turner. I love overengineered products.
#8: Funny,
most of my phones in the house (3 out of four) are corded. Even better, two of those are from the '20s and '30s. That ring is just so beautiful. I just love getting called.
#9: Also funny,
in the past three years I've bought far more vinyl than plastic. Used and new, to be sure, but the ratio is about 3:1, vinyl to plastic.
You can choose to be nostalgiac for the past or, like me, just live in it (so says the man whose newest means of transportation is over 25 years old and has two wheels...).
We already have our comments monitored by everyone IN the company, and can get fired for them, or suspended. The FEC says I can't support a political candidate on my web site, and if you try to complain publicaly about a home builder in Missouri, you'll be sued under tort laws.
I'm scared. Fight this. All speech by a private citizen should be given protection to the fullest extent. Within reason. This does not qualify.
But then, what do you expect from Northwest.
(Perhaps to hear from their lawyers, eh?)
'There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action' Goethe
now THAT'S funny.
...but Spacewar is the next big thing. It will become the Game Of Choice for a new generation in a new Millennium...
'There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.'
Goethe
After Kentucky and Kansas, it's nice to see a state with some stones. It's a crying shame that this is even an issue in this day. I say, everyone who pushes creationism, since they are so against any sort of real science, should have their computers, phones, microwaves, TVs, VCRs, etc. taken away. If they want to think in the 14th century, let them live in it.
As an aside, this is also the state who's governor thinks that the US reconsider the War on Drugs(tm), as the failure it is. Freethinking state; I may have to move there.
When I was in college ( and then for some time after that ), I regularly read two newspapers known for their journalistic integrity; the two best on the opposite sides of the political spectrum. They were the Wall Street Journal, for the conservatives, and the Christian Science Monitor for the liberal side. Their paper is one of the best, and more reasonable, and they keep the editorials on the editorial page. And there's no religious proselytizing, either.
As to Europa, I also saw the Discovery show on the probe. I guess I never realized how likely life was there ( I thought it was frozen solid ), and I didn't know that there's actually a plan to send a probe. With the geothermal vents, I think the likelihood of life there is high. To think that in thirty years or less, we could be there checking for life really got me excited. That would be one of the discoveries of the epoch. God, I get excited just thinking about it.
Plus, just think if it's advanced past the microbial stage!
Oops, gotta go to the bathroom now; just made a mess.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
(we could be gods!)
I have to agree with this up to a point. That point being the money threshhold. GPL, open source, and Linux never would have had to worry about any of this crap if it hadn't become so popular. People can now make money in this, and take advantage of the ignorance of the courts and patent office ( such as the patenting of ad delivery systems ). I do feel happy (lucky?) that some groups had the foresight to realize that you always have to pander to the lowest common denominator. It's the price we pay for being in a (somewhat) free system. No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. - H. L. Mencken