I have a AT&T DSL connection for my internet and Time-Warner for my cable. And if Time-Warner cuts my Comedy Central, I'm not only going to use my DSL connection for my Comedy Central shows, I'm going to use it for ALL my shows. It'll even have the benefit of saving me that $80 a month I give to Time-Warner. So thanks for the advice, Time-Warner! See you Friday!
Look at that jackass in North Carolina who almost ruined the lives of those lacrosse players, on a charge that was so obviously false as to make even the cops laugh--and all just so he could score some points in his reelection bid.
Actually, this only works if you never connect it to your computer again. Even if you don't update your firmware, just running the Zune software causes it to wig out again (probably has something to do with the clock sync).
Big words for a guy who has chosen to live in a simple house or apartment when he could be in a coop, building an underwater lair 2 miles under the ocean. After all, it's progress to relocate to new places even though it's fucking stupid, impractical, and wasteful to do so; isn't it?
Even with all the calamity you portend (and assuming that we didn't divert huge water supplies into underground lakes, adapt to geothermal energy, and so forth), earth would STILL be *BY FAR* more survivable than Mars or any other planetary body within reach.
More like billions. And even if humanity makes it that far, it's very unlikely they'll be anything even resembling the frail physical things we are now.
You say that as if any other reachable planet even HAD resources. Aside from some trace water scattered in the dust, there are basically no known resources on any nearby planetary body that would allow any colony to become even close to sustainable. Barring the unlikely discovery of some hidden ocean on another planet or moon in our solar system, it's almost certain that any attempt at colonization would only drain vast amounts of valuable resources from earth in an ultimately useless endeavor.
It really comes down to what Jimmy Whales and the foundation think (and can manage). Sure, me personally, I would be happy to have EVERYTHING advertiser-free (including the street full of annoying billboards near my house, all my favorite TV shows, etc.). But it really comes down to the question of whether Wikipedia can sustain itself on donations and goodwill alone. If they can, then great, more power to them! If not, I couldn't, in all fairness, fault them for allowing advertising or paying particularly useful contributors.
Actually, if you read the actual SALES numbers (not the "shipped" numbers Sony likes to obfuscate with), you'll see that Sony is in third place in both month-to-month sales and in overall market share.
I'll tell you what my grandma always used to tell me when I was a little kid: "Better to have your head in the dirt breathing oxygen than standing on a planet with no atmospheric pressure trying to breath methane."
Grandma was a strange woman, but her advice does hold true.
Again, it would be much easier and smarter to figure out how to preserve our existing ecology and resources than to attempt to colonize planets which have no ecology or resources to begin with.
An interesting idea. But there is just one problem is equating this with NASA. NASA has, AFAIK, never done any research into deflecting asteroids and has never implemented or even proposed such a program.
Actually, we have no freaking clue what killed the dinosaurs. But even if it was a meteorite/asteroid (as you smugly imply), it would still be a LOT smarter to pump our money into digging tunnels here on earth (where we at least have large existing supplies of oxygen, water, geothermal heat, and survivable atmospheric pressure) than pumping it into a pipe-dream of surviving the MUCH more hostile environs of any other reachable planetary body. Even after a large asteroid hit, I'd still rather be on Earth than anywhere else in the solar system.
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I shall disagree with you, sir, by questioning your sexual orientation and mocking your mother's girth!
Film and TV remakes generally are disliked because people loved the original and the idea of going back and "updating" them seems offensive when the originals were just fine to begin with. Such unnecessary meddling has become the trademark of lame filmmaker wannabes (like McG) and washed-up former greats (like George Lucas and Ridley Scott).
There are, of course rare exceptions to this rule. Scorsese's remake of "Cape Fear" and Ron Moore's remake of "Battlestar Galactica" are both far superior to the originals. But those are very rare exceptions.
NASA will last exactly as long as the American people are willing to keep spending money that we don't have and adding to the U.S. national debt. Coincidentally; that is also the exact lifespan of medicare/social security without income limits, the Iraq military budget, the government bailout packages, and the budgets of a wide variety of unnecessary pork projects.
Sadly, NASA is a drop in the bucket compared to most of this other stuff and is doing important research, but it is still money spent that we just don't have. And if we don't get the deficit under control soon, the U.S. government is probably going to be looking at bankruptcy somewhere around 2020. And if that happens, it's going to make this current financial crisis look like a sunday school picnic (we're talking Germany in the early 1920's bad).
He's the ee cummings of/. I never really appreciated the oppressive limitations that the English language forces on us until SUNSTOP opened my mind to the possibility of a new way!
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I have a AT&T DSL connection for my internet and Time-Warner for my cable. And if Time-Warner cuts my Comedy Central, I'm not only going to use my DSL connection for my Comedy Central shows, I'm going to use it for ALL my shows. It'll even have the benefit of saving me that $80 a month I give to Time-Warner. So thanks for the advice, Time-Warner! See you Friday!
Look at that jackass in North Carolina who almost ruined the lives of those lacrosse players, on a charge that was so obviously false as to make even the cops laugh--and all just so he could score some points in his reelection bid.
That means that the first one purchased wasn't until well into 2007.
Actually, this only works if you never connect it to your computer again. Even if you don't update your firmware, just running the Zune software causes it to wig out again (probably has something to do with the clock sync).
You had wood? Spoiled kid.
And no one owns one to notice...does it really die?
But, if you donate $30 or more, they'll send you this awesome tote bag!
Big words for a guy who has chosen to live in a simple house or apartment when he could be in a coop, building an underwater lair 2 miles under the ocean. After all, it's progress to relocate to new places even though it's fucking stupid, impractical, and wasteful to do so; isn't it?
Even with all the calamity you portend (and assuming that we didn't divert huge water supplies into underground lakes, adapt to geothermal energy, and so forth), earth would STILL be *BY FAR* more survivable than Mars or any other planetary body within reach.
More like billions. And even if humanity makes it that far, it's very unlikely they'll be anything even resembling the frail physical things we are now.
You say that as if any other reachable planet even HAD resources. Aside from some trace water scattered in the dust, there are basically no known resources on any nearby planetary body that would allow any colony to become even close to sustainable. Barring the unlikely discovery of some hidden ocean on another planet or moon in our solar system, it's almost certain that any attempt at colonization would only drain vast amounts of valuable resources from earth in an ultimately useless endeavor.
It really comes down to what Jimmy Whales and the foundation think (and can manage). Sure, me personally, I would be happy to have EVERYTHING advertiser-free (including the street full of annoying billboards near my house, all my favorite TV shows, etc.). But it really comes down to the question of whether Wikipedia can sustain itself on donations and goodwill alone. If they can, then great, more power to them! If not, I couldn't, in all fairness, fault them for allowing advertising or paying particularly useful contributors.
Actually, if you read the actual SALES numbers (not the "shipped" numbers Sony likes to obfuscate with), you'll see that Sony is in third place in both month-to-month sales and in overall market share.
I'll tell you what my grandma always used to tell me when I was a little kid: "Better to have your head in the dirt breathing oxygen than standing on a planet with no atmospheric pressure trying to breath methane."
Grandma was a strange woman, but her advice does hold true.
Again, it would be much easier and smarter to figure out how to preserve our existing ecology and resources than to attempt to colonize planets which have no ecology or resources to begin with.
An interesting idea. But there is just one problem is equating this with NASA. NASA has, AFAIK, never done any research into deflecting asteroids and has never implemented or even proposed such a program.
Actually, we have no freaking clue what killed the dinosaurs. But even if it was a meteorite/asteroid (as you smugly imply), it would still be a LOT smarter to pump our money into digging tunnels here on earth (where we at least have large existing supplies of oxygen, water, geothermal heat, and survivable atmospheric pressure) than pumping it into a pipe-dream of surviving the MUCH more hostile environs of any other reachable planetary body. Even after a large asteroid hit, I'd still rather be on Earth than anywhere else in the solar system.
I shall disagree with you, sir, by questioning your sexual orientation and mocking your mother's girth!
Film and TV remakes generally are disliked because people loved the original and the idea of going back and "updating" them seems offensive when the originals were just fine to begin with. Such unnecessary meddling has become the trademark of lame filmmaker wannabes (like McG) and washed-up former greats (like George Lucas and Ridley Scott).
There are, of course rare exceptions to this rule. Scorsese's remake of "Cape Fear" and Ron Moore's remake of "Battlestar Galactica" are both far superior to the originals. But those are very rare exceptions.
Apparently, like Santa Claus, Shampoo lives mostly in our hearts. He also invented Santa Claus.
...and another thing, GET OFF MY LAWN!
Proving once again that you just can't go wrong with a game involving monkeys.
NASA will last exactly as long as the American people are willing to keep spending money that we don't have and adding to the U.S. national debt. Coincidentally; that is also the exact lifespan of medicare/social security without income limits, the Iraq military budget, the government bailout packages, and the budgets of a wide variety of unnecessary pork projects.
Sadly, NASA is a drop in the bucket compared to most of this other stuff and is doing important research, but it is still money spent that we just don't have. And if we don't get the deficit under control soon, the U.S. government is probably going to be looking at bankruptcy somewhere around 2020. And if that happens, it's going to make this current financial crisis look like a sunday school picnic (we're talking Germany in the early 1920's bad).
No. I want to play Global Thermonuclear War.
He's the ee cummings of /. I never really appreciated the oppressive limitations that the English language forces on us until SUNSTOP opened my mind to the possibility of a new way!