Even if they had priced the PlayStation 3 at $59 instead of $599, I wouldn't have bought one. I still have not forgiven them for installing rootkits on all of my boxen, thus 0wning my boxen. It just goes to show: "0wn me and I won't 0wn your stuff."
The difference between murder and heart disease, stroke, and diabetes is that murder is more preventable. What I mean is, people have to die of something, and it's better to stop 20 year olds feom getting shot than to cure a 90 year old of heart disease only to have the person die a month later due to stroke.
The rampant spread of AIDs is a symptom of a bigger problem - poorly educated countries with beliefs and lifestyles about sex that encourage the spread of diseases, and which is largely tied to its poverty.
The cure for the disease may be far away. Attempts can be made to try to fix the economy right now.
And what if there is a cure? How much will it fix? What about overcrowding, and vast numbers of orphans, for that matter? There are so many unplanned children born into families with no way to support them... Just having a vaccine is no substitute for having an economy that can stand on its own. It's like a putting a bandaid on an arterial wound.
Well get going to Africa and help them develop that infrastructure then. If you happen to get AIDS or malaria, sell the medicine you get and donate it to some linux charity. There's nothing wrong with curing the symptoms while trying to fix the source of the problem. Especially when the solution is many decades away at the very least.
If you think for a second that that the US government is any less corrupt than that of Russia you have made a horrible mistake. I'm guessing you really believe bush went into Iraq to promote democracy also. Dont' be fooled my friend.
America is pretty fucked up, sure, but Russia is still a hell of a lot worse.
Interesting. Why stop there, with healthcare and roading? Why not have other people pay for your gaming console? Your car? Your bottle of single malt Scotch?
Because I like to live in a free country that whose government spends a little of my money on social programs and research, but not in a communist country.
Why so pessimistic? We have hydrogen (nuclear) to replace oil, and there's still a quadrillion metric assloads of metal left on the earth. Shit, what do you think the earth is made out of?
Which means... you want space telescopes, & think other people should be made to pay for them?
Yes, and that plays a small role in what political parties and individuals I elect and support. You want (public transportation, police, fire services, public schools...) and you think other people should have to pay for them? That's what governments are for. Of you don't like it, vote for someone else or move.
Why not just privatise NASA altogether, and stop wasting billions of dollars of taxpayers money? The X-Prize has shown that the future of space travel is clearly private - IMO, this venture shows that NASA realises it too, and is trying to delay the inevitable.
There's a big difference between real scientific research and getting a few thrill seekers into "space". Orbit is much harder to reach than what Rutan's creation achieved. Real space travel isn't going to be possible for a real long time anyways. We need a destination first, and until then we'll just have expensive space-cruises for a small group of rich people. That wont pay for a new Hubble. There's no private market for space telescopes.
There won't be any attempts to put affordable technological foundations in poorer countries...which is primarily the domain of things made by the FSF and EFF.
Doesn't it seem rather shortsighted for what is now one of the wealthiest charities to only do that?
I'd say it's focused and important. Not shortsighted. I'd rather a poor kid get AIDS treatment than another couple hundred Ubuntu CDs get shipped for free. If you read the enter article you would see that the foundation funds longterm research, as well.
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Man that Chunky Soup tasted a little strange!
Dude, you just ate the solar system!
EVERYOONE LEAVE! I have to poop...
I guess that's probably better than arcade afterbirth.
85,4 km?
Motion capture is nothing new. The real credit should still be given to the animators.
The difference between murder and heart disease, stroke, and diabetes is that murder is more preventable. What I mean is, people have to die of something, and it's better to stop 20 year olds feom getting shot than to cure a 90 year old of heart disease only to have the person die a month later due to stroke.
Sadly, nothing sparks innovation and technology like war and disasters.
Wouldn't it be fun to give the ants little shoes to make their legs longer? That would screw 'em up pretty good.
I think the author was asking about free open source accounting programs, not ways to run commercial apps on linux.
Boring....
Avernum is a great game. It's like nethack but fun.
DC just bought AMD.
Politics! Hopefully you live in a country is run by people that will listen to you and if not, people that you can vote out of office.
Why so pessimistic? We have hydrogen (nuclear) to replace oil, and there's still a quadrillion metric assloads of metal left on the earth. Shit, what do you think the earth is made out of?