Good thing you posted as AC, moron, because if you had bothered to actually read about the team, you'd see that Duncan Laurie is a guy.
DUNCAN LAURIE is the God of Computer Engineering. He is responsible for the flight code of the three picosatellites, along with interns, Erik Jonsson and Robbie Schingler. Duncan likes to go days without sleeping. Erik doesn't like frogs or slurpees, Robbie likes frogs, and Duncan's pet snake eats frogs.
I for one have always preferred the ease of Pico over vi when it comes to simple text editing. I am thrilled to discover that my chosen text editor now has satellite capability as well.
Hey, idiot, the Pokemon cards are in no way a form of gambling. Why? Because the company that is selling them won't give you shit for 'em. In a lottery, the people you buy the ticket from (the state) will pay you if you win. In a casino, when you win the casino rewards you. Who is paying these people for "winning" a rare Pokemon card? The other losers who attach some kind of ludicrous value to a colored piece of cardboard. Not the company that made them. That is why this is not gambling.
The idea that any word is inherently "harmful" is a ridiculous, outdated, almost superstitious belief.
I mean, what makes any word a "bad word"? It obviously isn't the defintion of the word. "Fuck" can be replaced by the (almost) universally-acceptable "screw". "Shit" means the same as "crap", but one is censored and the other is only shrugged off. Such synonyms can be used interchangeably, but are never considered to be quite as harsh or distasteful.
It obviously isn't the pronunciation of the word. Every language has their own set of profanity. What effect do they have on people of another nationality? None at all.
So why are they bad words? Because people want them to be.
The only way a word itself can bother you is if you let it. The more you let it, the more it will be used to accomplish that task. Our society perpetuates the idea that these words are inherently bad, and that is the only reason they still are.
And how would we do this? Put a bill before Congress?
"Fellow congressman, the next bill up for discussion is a law to remove our ability to pass laws. Basically, we will be powerless peons just like everyone else, and there goes our $130,000 a year. All in favor?"
Yes, the cannonball will act upon the Earth, but when the cannonball and the feather are both falling from the same direction, the Earth's minute acceleration is towards both of them anyway. Besides, the effect of a cannonball upon the Earth is so small as to be undetectable.
If you dropped the feather and the cannonball from opposite directions, direct acceleration comparisons would be difficult.
Well, suppose intelligent life is common. Then this galaxy should be swarming with E.T.'s by now. However, it quite clearly isn't. What does this mean?
Okay,
A) If life is common, there is no basis to believe the galaxy should be "swarming with E.T.'s". Even if every planet in the universe followed the same course as the Earth, all that would mean is there's a lot of planets with races that have never left their own planet's gravity well.
B) The only thing that's quite clear is that if said E.T.'s actually are swarming around the galaxy, they haven't landed here. Or, at least, didn't make a big show of it.
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I for one have always preferred the ease of Pico over vi when it comes to simple text editing. I am thrilled to discover that my chosen text editor now has satellite capability as well.
You're right. In fact, several of these warnings have been on our website for three or four years now. They're definitely not new.
Hey, idiot, the Pokemon cards are in no way a form of gambling. Why? Because the company that is selling them won't give you shit for 'em. In a lottery, the people you buy the ticket from (the state) will pay you if you win. In a casino, when you win the casino rewards you. Who is paying these people for "winning" a rare Pokemon card? The other losers who attach some kind of ludicrous value to a colored piece of cardboard. Not the company that made them. That is why this is not gambling.
I mean, what makes any word a "bad word"? It obviously isn't the defintion of the word. "Fuck" can be replaced by the (almost) universally-acceptable "screw". "Shit" means the same as "crap", but one is censored and the other is only shrugged off. Such synonyms can be used interchangeably, but are never considered to be quite as harsh or distasteful.
It obviously isn't the pronunciation of the word. Every language has their own set of profanity. What effect do they have on people of another nationality? None at all.
So why are they bad words? Because people want them to be.
The only way a word itself can bother you is if you let it. The more you let it, the more it will be used to accomplish that task. Our society perpetuates the idea that these words are inherently bad, and that is the only reason they still are.
"Fellow congressman, the next bill up for discussion is a law to remove our ability to pass laws. Basically, we will be powerless peons just like everyone else, and there goes our $130,000 a year. All in favor?"
*Sound of crickets chirping in the distance*
It's much more likely that my cat ate them and them threw them up on the kitchen counter. He likes to do that.
If you dropped the feather and the cannonball from opposite directions, direct acceleration comparisons would be difficult.
Big problem with looking for gravitons: we haven't the faintest idea how to do it.
- Well, suppose intelligent life is common. Then this galaxy should be swarming with E.T.'s by now. However, it quite clearly isn't. What does this mean?
Okay,A) If life is common, there is no basis to believe the galaxy should be "swarming with E.T.'s". Even if every planet in the universe followed the same course as the Earth, all that would mean is there's a lot of planets with races that have never left their own planet's gravity well.
B) The only thing that's quite clear is that if said E.T.'s actually are swarming around the galaxy, they haven't landed here. Or, at least, didn't make a big show of it.