Does Twitter have a physical presence in France? If not, then the French government can fuck off. If they don't like it, they can block Twitter access to their citizens - I'm sure that will go over well....
Not sure about the other commenter who said to take it camping, it's damn heavy.
People take them camping because you can put them literally into the campfire, cover them with coals and slow (or fast) cook. I think even the Boy Scout manual has some recipes for using a cast-iron dutch oven. Pro Tip: Bring a small one - Dutch Oven, not Boy Scout:-)
Yes its like those Mars Rovers that only lasted days instead of weeks and months and years- their primary mission wasn't even accomplished! What poor workmanship and slave labor have wrought!
Or don't even last that long. For example:
The Mars Climate Orbiter disintegrated in the upper atmosphere because of a miscommunication of pound-seconds instead of newton-seconds - okay, that was a ground-initiated software fault, but still.
The Beagle 2 that died for some unknown reason en-route and crashed.
I'm sure some Google time could provide a long list of failed Mars attempts...
...and we are still standing on the shoulders of our past Geniuses. Oh how far we have fallen.
Technically, it's a little *under* 36 years later, as Voyager was launched on September 5, 1977, so be careful about lamenting the fallen, Grasshopper, until your simple Math skills improve.:-)
The fact that this was launched in 1977 and is still operating 36 years later -- 33 years after its primary mission (Jupiter, Saturn encounter) ended in 1980 -- is an achievement in itself and testament to its design and build quality. According to Voyager 1 the 3 RTGs (radioisotope thermoelectric generators) on Voyager 1 will continue to provide sufficient power for some operations until around 2025.
Oh. And have good health insurance. A one-month supply of her chemotherapy medication Temodar would have been $11,000 w/o insurance, at that time. With her HMO, the co-pay was $40. (With my BCBS, it would have been 10%.) If I remember correctly, the standard treatment is 4 months.
I normally have a shot of espresso (straight back) and orange juice for breakfast,
You'd be much better off have an actual orange than orange juice.
The fiber helps moderate the metabolism of the fructose and keeps you feeling fuller longer.
I would welcome the advance notice.
I'd like to have a chance to get my affairs in order and do a few things before I'm unable.
Do those things now; you never know when your time is up.
My wife was perfectly healthy until the day before Thanksgiving 2005 when, with only the complaint of a persistent headache, she was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor known as a Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). She died in my arms just seven weeks later; we had been together for 20 years.
While she was 61, I was 42 at that time. We both had Wills and our finances pretty well in order anyway, but now I have a more detailed Will, beneficiaries and/or transfer on death notices on my investments, copies of important paperwork in a firesafe at home, and a Living Will registered at U.S. Living Will Registry that includes a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) - many hospitals can provide and submit the paperwork and having them do so will also cover the $5/year fee. I have also signed up with the Virginia State Anatomical Program to donate my body to science, like my wife asked me to do for her.
We were lucky and I'm grateful for all our years and those last seven weeks together, including our last Thanksgiving, wedding anniversary, Christmas and New Year. (though, the Winter season suck for me now.) Many people aren't so lucky and the end comes very suddenly.
But if If they knew the difference between Ubuntu and Android, you wouldn't need to dumb it down.
One OS comes from a company professing to not be evil, but wants to monitor your search and purchasing habits in order to serve you ads and the other company is... um... Wait, what?
... so every hour or two somebody is looking for a new peripheral.
The law of large numbers turns rare occurrences in the life of any single person into an every day hassle.
When Facebook engineers spill coffee on their keyboard (a common mishap),
I've been a system programmer/administrator for over 25 years and routinely eat and drink at my desk and have *never* spilled anything on my equipment - computer or otherwise. What kind of monkeys do they hire at Facebook?
'I like the assumption that employees will do the right thing,'
If only that assumption could be applied to the company itself.
The swipe means that everyone's requests are tracked and I'm sure some algorithm somewhere is constantly sorting the data to see if anyone has pulled 10 sets of headphones out of the system.'"
I guess it shows that 5,000 people were there, COULD have paid but didn't, but it's a bit like throwing a piece of chewed-up gum into a street performer's hat. It says "you suck", but it's not entirely productive.
It's not entirely unproductive either:-) Sometimes unpleasant things need to be said. Sometimes advertisers need to be explicitly told that we don't want to hear, and/or are not interested in, what they have to say. I believe that silence can sometimes be construed as acceptance.
It's a purely voluntary system, where you click 1, 2 or 3-cent links in your bookmark bar, depending on how much you value the page you're visiting.
In this case, there should also be a 0-cent link so people can positively register that they didn't value the page at all. That someone would voluntarily take the time to provide negative feedback means more than simply ignoring the ad.
Habitats, vehicles and other infrastructure are not what's been holding us back. We've had technology to make these for decades. If we had to, we could come up with adequate ones from scratch inside of a year.
The problem has always been our rockets. The most powerful rocket ever built was the Saturn V. It costs $ billions per single launch and that's still not enough to lift a Mars capsule with all the fuel and supplies necessary for a manned landing. So we need multiple Saturn V launches and assemble the spacecraft in orbit, and that just increases the cost and complexity to insane levels. I don't remember the exact number, but in the 90's President H. Bush was toying with the idea of a manned Mars mission and asked NASA if it can be done, and the reply he got was "Yes we can do it, for 200 billion", after which Bush quietly dropped the idea.
By your own description of the problem, the problem is *not* our rockets, but our checkbook and our willingness to use it.
And if I'm going to risk life and limb to step foot on Mars (or to get into LEO for that matter) there had better be a place to sleep, a place to poo, and plenty of food to eat when I get there.
Clearly, you're more of a tourist than adventurer. Wouldn't want you to have to sacrifice anything on your space holiday... Perhaps you're better suited to weekend camping in your (literal) back yard.
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Does Twitter have a physical presence in France? If not, then the French government can fuck off. If they don't like it, they can block Twitter access to their citizens - I'm sure that will go over well....
Not sure about the other commenter who said to take it camping, it's damn heavy.
People take them camping because you can put them literally into the campfire, cover them with coals and slow (or fast) cook. I think even the Boy Scout manual has some recipes for using a cast-iron dutch oven. Pro Tip: Bring a small one - Dutch Oven, not Boy Scout :-)
By Young's estimation, CDs can only offer about 15% of the data that was in a master sound track...
[ -- insert appropriate Neil Young lyric for satirical effect here -- ]
You get vastly more with the carrot than an easily-circumvented stick.
How did that go over with your girlfriend/wife?
Do not look directly into Laser (or Lightsaber) with remaining good eye.
Yes its like those Mars Rovers that only lasted days instead of weeks and months and years- their primary mission wasn't even accomplished! What poor workmanship and slave labor have wrought!
Or don't even last that long. For example:
I'm sure some Google time could provide a long list of failed Mars attempts...
...and we are still standing on the shoulders of our past Geniuses. Oh how far we have fallen.
Technically, it's a little *under* 36 years later, as Voyager was launched on September 5, 1977, so be careful about lamenting the fallen, Grasshopper, until your simple Math skills improve. :-)
The fact that this was launched in 1977 and is still operating 36 years later -- 33 years after its primary mission (Jupiter, Saturn encounter) ended in 1980 -- is an achievement in itself and testament to its design and build quality. According to Voyager 1 the 3 RTGs (radioisotope thermoelectric generators) on Voyager 1 will continue to provide sufficient power for some operations until around 2025.
Can't wait for a future girl/boy-friend to come up with an app to handle routine/repetitive interactions with him.
You're pretty sure that within 10 years you'll be selling your first startup or earning a high -six-figure salary.
Ya, many may be "pretty sure" of all that, but most are not that smart, inventive, resourceful, connected, and/or lucky.
Like most, if not all other environmental efforts, it's all about talk and symbolism, and very nearly nothing about actually doing the math...
Math is hard.
Oh. And have good health insurance. A one-month supply of her chemotherapy medication Temodar would have been $11,000 w/o insurance, at that time. With her HMO, the co-pay was $40. (With my BCBS, it would have been 10%.) If I remember correctly, the standard treatment is 4 months.
I normally have a shot of espresso (straight back) and orange juice for breakfast,
You'd be much better off have an actual orange than orange juice.
The fiber helps moderate the metabolism of the fructose and keeps you feeling fuller longer.
See: Sugar: The Bitter Truth
I would welcome the advance notice. I'd like to have a chance to get my affairs in order and do a few things before I'm unable.
Do those things now; you never know when your time is up.
My wife was perfectly healthy until the day before Thanksgiving 2005 when, with only the complaint of a persistent headache, she was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor known as a Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). She died in my arms just seven weeks later; we had been together for 20 years.
While she was 61, I was 42 at that time. We both had Wills and our finances pretty well in order anyway, but now I have a more detailed Will, beneficiaries and/or transfer on death notices on my investments, copies of important paperwork in a firesafe at home, and a Living Will registered at U.S. Living Will Registry that includes a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) - many hospitals can provide and submit the paperwork and having them do so will also cover the $5/year fee. I have also signed up with the Virginia State Anatomical Program to donate my body to science, like my wife asked me to do for her.
We were lucky and I'm grateful for all our years and those last seven weeks together, including our last Thanksgiving, wedding anniversary, Christmas and New Year. (though, the Winter season suck for me now.) Many people aren't so lucky and the end comes very suddenly.
Remember Sue...
But if If they knew the difference between Ubuntu and Android, you wouldn't need to dumb it down.
One OS comes from a company professing to not be evil, but wants to monitor your search and purchasing habits in order to serve you ads and the other company is ... um ... Wait, what?
Flying cars, invisibility, peace in the Middle East, FTL travel, consensus on the original lyrics to "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"?
What?
Also, can the Large Hadron Collider be used to find small and medium Hadrons?
[ Seriously CERN, think about multipurpose usefulness once in a while. ]
(You can't stop the signal. Everything goes somewhere, and the Internet goes everywhere. )
... so every hour or two somebody is looking for a new peripheral.
The law of large numbers turns rare occurrences in the life of any single person into an every day hassle.
That explains my sex life...
Fresh grads from the top Universities. Duh!
When Facebook engineers spill coffee on their keyboard (a common mishap),
I've been a system programmer/administrator for over 25 years and routinely eat and drink at my desk and have *never* spilled anything on my equipment - computer or otherwise. What kind of monkeys do they hire at Facebook?
'I like the assumption that employees will do the right thing,'
If only that assumption could be applied to the company itself.
The swipe means that everyone's requests are tracked and I'm sure some algorithm somewhere is constantly sorting the data to see if anyone has pulled 10 sets of headphones out of the system.'"
Ya, like Facebook can track user data... :-)
I guess it shows that 5,000 people were there, COULD have paid but didn't, but it's a bit like throwing a piece of chewed-up gum into a street performer's hat. It says "you suck", but it's not entirely productive.
It's not entirely unproductive either :-) Sometimes unpleasant things need to be said. Sometimes advertisers need to be explicitly told that we don't want to hear, and/or are not interested in, what they have to say. I believe that silence can sometimes be construed as acceptance.
It's a purely voluntary system, where you click 1, 2 or 3-cent links in your bookmark bar, depending on how much you value the page you're visiting.
In this case, there should also be a 0-cent link so people can positively register that they didn't value the page at all. That someone would voluntarily take the time to provide negative feedback means more than simply ignoring the ad.
Habitats, vehicles and other infrastructure are not what's been holding us back. We've had technology to make these for decades. If we had to, we could come up with adequate ones from scratch inside of a year.
The problem has always been our rockets. The most powerful rocket ever built was the Saturn V. It costs $ billions per single launch and that's still not enough to lift a Mars capsule with all the fuel and supplies necessary for a manned landing. So we need multiple Saturn V launches and assemble the spacecraft in orbit, and that just increases the cost and complexity to insane levels. I don't remember the exact number, but in the 90's President H. Bush was toying with the idea of a manned Mars mission and asked NASA if it can be done, and the reply he got was "Yes we can do it, for 200 billion", after which Bush quietly dropped the idea.
By your own description of the problem, the problem is *not* our rockets, but our checkbook and our willingness to use it.
And if I'm going to risk life and limb to step foot on Mars (or to get into LEO for that matter) there had better be a place to sleep, a place to poo, and plenty of food to eat when I get there.
Clearly, you're more of a tourist than adventurer. Wouldn't want you to have to sacrifice anything on your space holiday... Perhaps you're better suited to weekend camping in your (literal) back yard.