"Water on Mars" doesn't mean there are lakes and rivers. It means that there is trace amounts of it frozen in the soil. It would be an epic (and likely unsustainable) effort to even process that in substantial quantities. The crew would likely use up more calories in the effort than it would be worth.
A gigantic upfront cost, and an even bigger long-term cost. And this won't be the kind of project that can be abandoned when money gets tight either (like MIR and the ISS). Once the "colonists" are there, that's going to be decades of shipping them EVERYTHING, with absolutely no payout or particularly compelling benefit. Not even NASA is stupid enough to drop trillions on a project whose biggest discovery will likely be something along the lines of "We've found ammonium salt in the soil!"
Going to Mars isn't like going to the new world. Without constant shipments of oxygen, food, water, and many other supplies; death is absolutely guaranteed. Science fiction aside, there is no way to make Mars sustainable in real life--not with our present level of technology, anyway (and probably never). A one-way trip to Mars is a death sentence just waiting to happen.
Yeah, and the EU is still harassing them about it to this day. Here's a hint - the EU doesn't require Apple to have a ballot for *it's* browser, only MS.
No need to raise the ethical issues of recruiting inmates. Just find some depressed, suicidal smart people. That will be a helluva lot easier than finding educated, technically literate people on death row. Half the engineers I've ever worked with were on the verge of jumping off a bridge anyway. It might even finally get them laid, before they leave.
Yeah, but this is Microsoft, and this is/. So that makes anything they do automatically exceptionally bad.
For example, when Apple bundles its browser with its OS--that's just to benefit the consumer experience. When MS bundles its browser with its OS--that's evil, anti-competitive, and a criminal offense.
It's not a private network. This is a state school. It's the government reporting these kids to another government entity, a clear. I smell a civil rights lawsuit just waiting to happen here (especially if the police start acting on these reports).
There was exactly ZERO evidence that they intended to bug a telephone.
From the wikipedia article:
O'Keefe and three other conservative activists were arrested by U.S. Marshal Service in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 25, 2010 on federal felony charges of attempting to maliciously interfere with the office telephone system of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. Two of the activists had entered the federal building dressed as telephone repairmen, claiming they were responding to complaints that the phones were out of order. One of the Senator's staff members told them "that she did not report any phone problems and that the office was not experiencing any issues with the phone system."[17] They were apprehended after they attempted to gain access to the telephone equipment closet. O'Keefe was present admittedly recording the events on his cell phone.
So, what do you think they were doing in her telephone closet exactly? Just visiting?
This guy just got lucky and guessed a password. But he acted against a conservative in Tennessee, so he got a year in prison. James O'Keefe actually tried to physically bug the telephone of a sitting U.S. Senator. But O'Keefe acted against a liberal in Louisiana, so he walked with probation.
This will go on for several more years, wasting at least one billion $ (possibly considerably more). Periodically, a new slate of promises will emerge (with some cool looking computer animation at the press conference), accompanied by setbacks that always leave the launch just a few years out of reach. At one point NASA will simply stop talking about the project, and the press (with the attention span of a 3-year-old-child) will never follow up on it or ask why it failed or why so much was wasted on it (having moved on to a whole new bunch of promises about other exciting programs which will also ultimately go nowhere).
Sadly, even on the left, many Democrats who were known for standing up to corporations (more than most of their colleagues, anyway) were defeated in this election. The saddest loss was Russ Feingold, one of the leading voices of net neutrality, consumer rights, and privacy protections in Congress.
Yes, I can understand how they would be shocked to find a homeowner in his own house. I break into private residences all the time, never expecting to be confronted by an angry homeowner with a weapon. How crazy is a guy to think he has the right to confront a stranger who just kicked down his door? What's next, someone thinking they have the right to use physical force to stop someone from kidnapping one of their kids off the street???
I tell you what, I'll send a very nice bouquet to his funeral if he just turns out to be a career thief. And I'll send a nice bouquet to your funeral if your guy turns out to be a murderer. That way, everybody wins. Well, not everybody, but me and my family anyway.
If they're breaking into an occupied private residence, it's pretty reasonable to assume they're a helluva lot more than a mere "trespasser." Trespassing is what I do when I go explore abandoned industrial buildings. It's not breaking into some family's home at 2 a.m. Best case scenario, that is a "thief." Much worst case scenarios include "kidnapper," "rapist," and "murderer." And I'm not particularly inclined to give the guy who's breaking into my house the benefit of the doubt.
walking around with any of this stuff and actually helping people
I think the phrase they were looking for was "walking around and actually getting laughed at." Real life superheroes don't exist because real life is nothing like comic books, where walking down random streets leads to daily encounters with purse snatchers and in-progress bank robberies. In the real world, finding this kind of crime is hard (that's why even the much larger police force spend very little time catching actual crimes *in progress*). Of course, you could always spend your days harassing drug dealers and prostitutes in the shitty hoods, but that's hardly the stuff of comic book legend.
Playing it on the Xbox 360 post-patch, I haven't had any significant bugs at all. But even if I did, I would still *much* rather play a somewhat buggy game with great story and gameplay than a mediocre game that runs flawlessly. So the idea that Fallout fans should boycott this great game just because of some bugs (which the studio has obviously been working hard to correct) is crazy.
I am currently playing the 360 version (post-patch) and haven't had any issues of note at all with the game. The only glitches I've notices were some minor clipping and "floating" (characters floating in the air) issues. I've played it for many hours and have yet to have it lock up on me (knock wood), as some have described, or glitch in any serious way. So, whatever the issues before the patch, Bethesda seems to have really stepped up to the plate on the patch.
This still sucks for players who are offline and can't patch, though.
My experience with actual farmers isn't anywhere near as romantic as you would probably imagine. If there were ever a more greedy bunch of cutthroat motherfuckers assembled on this planet than a gathering of American farmers, I'd like to see it. The assholes I worked for would take a handout from a farm charity one day, pay their workers in cash and sell most of their produce off the books to avoid taxes the next day, complain about the government not giving them enough subsidies on the third day, and cry to the media about how "forgotten" they were on the fourth day, then go out and buy a new top-of-the-line truck with cash on the fifth day--and all while pleading poverty.
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"Water on Mars" doesn't mean there are lakes and rivers. It means that there is trace amounts of it frozen in the soil. It would be an epic (and likely unsustainable) effort to even process that in substantial quantities. The crew would likely use up more calories in the effort than it would be worth.
Colonization of Mars is a pipe-dream.
More like decades, not years.
Now, who's going to pay for this? And don't EVEN say the U.S. government (they can't even afford what they've got on their plate already).
A gigantic upfront cost, and an even bigger long-term cost. And this won't be the kind of project that can be abandoned when money gets tight either (like MIR and the ISS). Once the "colonists" are there, that's going to be decades of shipping them EVERYTHING, with absolutely no payout or particularly compelling benefit. Not even NASA is stupid enough to drop trillions on a project whose biggest discovery will likely be something along the lines of "We've found ammonium salt in the soil!"
Going to Mars isn't like going to the new world. Without constant shipments of oxygen, food, water, and many other supplies; death is absolutely guaranteed. Science fiction aside, there is no way to make Mars sustainable in real life--not with our present level of technology, anyway (and probably never). A one-way trip to Mars is a death sentence just waiting to happen.
Yeah, and the EU is still harassing them about it to this day. Here's a hint - the EU doesn't require Apple to have a ballot for *it's* browser, only MS.
No need to raise the ethical issues of recruiting inmates. Just find some depressed, suicidal smart people. That will be a helluva lot easier than finding educated, technically literate people on death row. Half the engineers I've ever worked with were on the verge of jumping off a bridge anyway. It might even finally get them laid, before they leave.
Yeah, but this is Microsoft, and this is /. So that makes anything they do automatically exceptionally bad.
For example, when Apple bundles its browser with its OS--that's just to benefit the consumer experience. When MS bundles its browser with its OS--that's evil, anti-competitive, and a criminal offense.
I have it on good authority that there could be urine in it.
You joke, but police are already conducting stings against people buying legal Sudafed in many states (Sudafed is a main ingredient in crystal meth).
It's not a private network. This is a state school. It's the government reporting these kids to another government entity, a clear. I smell a civil rights lawsuit just waiting to happen here (especially if the police start acting on these reports).
From the wikipedia article:
So, what do you think they were doing in her telephone closet exactly? Just visiting?
Yes, but unlike all other Apple computers, this one is also over-hyped and over-rated.
This guy just got lucky and guessed a password. But he acted against a conservative in Tennessee, so he got a year in prison. James O'Keefe actually tried to physically bug the telephone of a sitting U.S. Senator. But O'Keefe acted against a liberal in Louisiana, so he walked with probation.
This will go on for several more years, wasting at least one billion $ (possibly considerably more). Periodically, a new slate of promises will emerge (with some cool looking computer animation at the press conference), accompanied by setbacks that always leave the launch just a few years out of reach. At one point NASA will simply stop talking about the project, and the press (with the attention span of a 3-year-old-child) will never follow up on it or ask why it failed or why so much was wasted on it (having moved on to a whole new bunch of promises about other exciting programs which will also ultimately go nowhere).
How is the actual story and gameplay?
You wish, meatbag.
Sadly, even on the left, many Democrats who were known for standing up to corporations (more than most of their colleagues, anyway) were defeated in this election. The saddest loss was Russ Feingold, one of the leading voices of net neutrality, consumer rights, and privacy protections in Congress.
Yes, I can understand how they would be shocked to find a homeowner in his own house. I break into private residences all the time, never expecting to be confronted by an angry homeowner with a weapon. How crazy is a guy to think he has the right to confront a stranger who just kicked down his door? What's next, someone thinking they have the right to use physical force to stop someone from kidnapping one of their kids off the street???
I tell you what, I'll send a very nice bouquet to his funeral if he just turns out to be a career thief. And I'll send a nice bouquet to your funeral if your guy turns out to be a murderer. That way, everybody wins. Well, not everybody, but me and my family anyway.
Teens who have a lot of friends to text with also have a lot of friends to party with.
If they're breaking into an occupied private residence, it's pretty reasonable to assume they're a helluva lot more than a mere "trespasser." Trespassing is what I do when I go explore abandoned industrial buildings. It's not breaking into some family's home at 2 a.m. Best case scenario, that is a "thief." Much worst case scenarios include "kidnapper," "rapist," and "murderer." And I'm not particularly inclined to give the guy who's breaking into my house the benefit of the doubt.
I think the phrase they were looking for was "walking around and actually getting laughed at." Real life superheroes don't exist because real life is nothing like comic books, where walking down random streets leads to daily encounters with purse snatchers and in-progress bank robberies. In the real world, finding this kind of crime is hard (that's why even the much larger police force spend very little time catching actual crimes *in progress*). Of course, you could always spend your days harassing drug dealers and prostitutes in the shitty hoods, but that's hardly the stuff of comic book legend.
Playing it on the Xbox 360 post-patch, I haven't had any significant bugs at all. But even if I did, I would still *much* rather play a somewhat buggy game with great story and gameplay than a mediocre game that runs flawlessly. So the idea that Fallout fans should boycott this great game just because of some bugs (which the studio has obviously been working hard to correct) is crazy.
I am currently playing the 360 version (post-patch) and haven't had any issues of note at all with the game. The only glitches I've notices were some minor clipping and "floating" (characters floating in the air) issues. I've played it for many hours and have yet to have it lock up on me (knock wood), as some have described, or glitch in any serious way. So, whatever the issues before the patch, Bethesda seems to have really stepped up to the plate on the patch.
This still sucks for players who are offline and can't patch, though.
My experience with actual farmers isn't anywhere near as romantic as you would probably imagine. If there were ever a more greedy bunch of cutthroat motherfuckers assembled on this planet than a gathering of American farmers, I'd like to see it. The assholes I worked for would take a handout from a farm charity one day, pay their workers in cash and sell most of their produce off the books to avoid taxes the next day, complain about the government not giving them enough subsidies on the third day, and cry to the media about how "forgotten" they were on the fourth day, then go out and buy a new top-of-the-line truck with cash on the fifth day--and all while pleading poverty.