the series I would make is about a covert team that goes from planet to planet, helping smooth the way as each planet makes the final leap and joins the Federation.
Good idea! I'd watch that show. Sorta like the Quantum Leap show, which was sorta like Then Came Bronson, which was sorta like The Fugitive. (In the sense that the hero comes into someone's life, helps them out in some way, then moves on to the next place. I guess ya gotta toss in Touched By An Angel as well.)
Name ONE problem on this planet that is the result of the poor workings of evolution.
I assume you mean in relation to today's world.
1) Size. People are too big. If everyone were smaller then cars, buildings, roads, etc, could be smaller as well, greatly reducing pollution, fuel consumption, etc.
2) Intelligence. People are just barely sufficiently intelligent to form a society. For a large number of people even a small amount of complexity is too much, and so they rely on a standard set of "rules" for making decisions rather than actual thinking. Most people are helpless to perform anything more than basic arithmetic, and even then need a calculator for anything other than mulitplying by ten. There's a large cost to society that things in general have to be brought down to this level. It influences everything from the news to how we elect politicians. Standard education runs at a snail's pace, lest too many fall behind. I'll bet that a majority of slashdot readers consider themselves largely self-educated, irrespective of how many years of actual schooling they have.
3) Aging. People become feeble too quickly. Experience is an amazing thing. There's not a person alive who doesn't look back and realize that when they were young they didn't know nearly as much as they thought they did. And yet just about the time when people are becoming filled with wisdom and experience they are also well along the path to decay. Imagine how different the world would be if people lived a thousand years. We certainly wouldn't even think about allowing people to do important things like vote until they'd lived a half-century or so. Imagine if Galileo, da Vinci and countless others were still alive and vigorous and able to contribute to today's society.
Irregardless, (a word depending on what dictionary you use)
What dictionary would that be? There's no function in it being a word, as regardless means what "irregardless" does to those who say it. If anything, it should mean regarding, as the "ir" would cancel out the "less."
Even setting all that aside, if you know better, why would you use it?
Sorry, I was being sarcastic. Both the carburetor and the pill are among the many "inventions" that consipracy nuts claim were bought up and suppressed by oil companies and the like. (The carb rumor began when cars were much less efficient than today, and 75MPG would have been an outrageous leap in efficiency.)
What will happen, of course, is that Microsoft will take tissue samples of its most productive engineers, raise the kids in the tunnels somewhere underneath Bill's house, and groom them to be the next generation of MS slaves.
I suppose then you're in favor of mating with as many different parnters as possible, not for sexual pleasure or anything, but simply to diviersify the gene pool.
It was quite a breakthrough for me personally (on the issue of cloning) when I realized that the creation of a new soul is built into humanity, and happens at conception.
You didn't "realize" anything. You were trying to tie a particular fantasy in with reality, and you just decided that thinking about it a certain allowed you to maintain your fantasy.
The locking code for an RDBMS needs to operate in fewer than 100 instructions...Furthermore, the "latches", or internal locks on the buffer pool, etc., must execute in under 10 instructions.
Are these some fundamental laws of computer science? Please clarify these (seemingly) odd requirements.
Sure, just walk away and play bars for the rest of your life, while driving a cab during the day. Until you've proven you can sell records no label's gonna give you a fair deal. So if you goal is to a "labeled" recording artist then you either sign or you don't get to play the game.
It's not fair, it stinks, but that's the reality today. Someday it may be better, but if you're a hot local band looking to move to the big time you'd better sign when you can. All you can do is keep the contract as short as possible so that you can sign a better one the second time around.
Simply setup a national or global name registry of non-case sensitive, alphabetic strings. If you try to gain a name that matches another exactly you will be denied. If you are so much as one letter off- you are granted the string.
So then I could market a soft drink called Coca-Kola? I'm takin' the don'ts.
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Unique means one of a kind. Saying very unique is like saying very one of a kind.
Good idea! I'd watch that show. Sorta like the Quantum Leap show, which was sorta like Then Came Bronson, which was sorta like The Fugitive. (In the sense that the hero comes into someone's life, helps them out in some way, then moves on to the next place. I guess ya gotta toss in Touched By An Angel as well.)
I assume you mean in relation to today's world.
1) Size. People are too big. If everyone were smaller then cars, buildings, roads, etc, could be smaller as well, greatly reducing pollution, fuel consumption, etc.
2) Intelligence. People are just barely sufficiently intelligent to form a society. For a large number of people even a small amount of complexity is too much, and so they rely on a standard set of "rules" for making decisions rather than actual thinking.
Most people are helpless to perform anything more than basic arithmetic, and even then need a calculator for anything other than mulitplying by ten. There's a large cost to society that things in general have to be brought down to this level. It influences everything from the news to how we elect politicians. Standard education runs at a snail's pace, lest too many fall behind. I'll bet that a majority of slashdot readers consider themselves largely self-educated, irrespective of how many years of actual schooling they have.
3) Aging. People become feeble too quickly. Experience is an amazing thing. There's not a person alive who doesn't look back and realize that when they were young they didn't know nearly as much as they thought they did. And yet just about the time when people are becoming filled with wisdom and experience they are also well along the path to decay. Imagine how different the world would be if people lived a thousand years. We certainly wouldn't even think about allowing people to do important things like vote until they'd lived a half-century or so. Imagine if Galileo, da Vinci and countless others were still alive and vigorous and able to contribute to today's society.
What dictionary would that be? There's no function in it being a word, as regardless means what "irregardless" does to those who say it. If anything, it should mean regarding, as the "ir" would cancel out the "less."
Even setting all that aside, if you know better, why would you use it?
Well, that would depend on where your eyebrows were, now wouldn't it.
Tons of 'em. The 75MPG carburetor, the pill that turns water into gasoline, etc. etc. etc.
You didn't "realize" anything. You were trying to tie a particular fantasy in with reality, and you just decided that thinking about it a certain allowed you to maintain your fantasy.
Half, of course, being some fraction he just pulled out of his ass.
And another mit guy totally misses the point.
Cool. BSD is my main server, so now I can make all the ignorant comments I want!
Are these some fundamental laws of computer science? Please clarify these (seemingly) odd requirements.
It's not fair, it stinks, but that's the reality today. Someday it may be better, but if you're a hot local band looking to move to the big time you'd better sign when you can. All you can do is keep the contract as short as possible so that you can sign a better one the second time around.
The second n. All the rest was pretty clear. What part of "Don't be a jerk by using arrogant, belittling stock phrases" do you not understand?
So then I could market a soft drink called Coca-Kola? I'm takin' the don'ts.
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