It asks you for your password to rename start menu items because the items you are renaming are global and not account specific. If you want to change something in/usr/share/applications, you also need root priveledges. The reason it asks you three times has to do with the different mechanisms involved in the rename process. It's not just a "mv oldfilename newfilename" like on Linux. Remember, it's Windows we're talking about here. If it's possible to do something in 10 steps instead of 1, the kind folks at MS will spend $10M telling you why those extraneous 9 steps are useful.
I think it's hilarious how people whine about the smallest stuff. I actually hate how most of the GUI su frontends default to keeping your priveledges. I want to know every time it does something that needs to be elevated. Especially on Windows. Consider this. Grandma installs Crysis (she's the coolest Grandma ever). After installing it, she goes to a crack site to crack it (we all know how "trustworthy" these sites are). She unwittingly installs a piece of spyware/virus/what have you, without even knowing it (IE has a habit of wanting to download everything that the page tells it to). UAC has thus, been made useless. If it popped up every time, she would (hopefully, since she's such a cool grandma) see the dialog and click the cancel button. No spyware: UAC saved the day. UAC does not cure stupidity, and most people just click OK over and over, but if you use UAC the way it was designed, it's very useful.
*NOTE: Don't tell me about how most GUI su frontends are configurable to disable the maintenance of elevated priveledges -- I know about it already. And yes, I would agree that it would be nice for those easily irritible folks to be able to configure UAC to stay elevated. Oh well.
Are the internat'l calls for business? If they're just personal, you can get them to use voice chat over the internet via Ventrillo or an IM client or something.
Sadly, the American people have let the executive branch expand in such a way that to the average citizen you have a president (which is sort of like a king to a lot of people), and then you have congress, which is like a group of bickering advisors to the president. Then you have the supreme court, which is a bunch of liberal hippies that try to ruin all those good laws that we pass. Don't believe the average American feels that way? Start talking to the average American.
Anonymous Coward trolling is great isn't it? Does it pass the time between porn sessions? I guess I'll amuse you with a response:
If you're so damn smart, why don't you show us YOUR findings and let us "embarrass" YOU. Personally, I am proud of what astronomers and physicists have accomplished in the past 100 years. Unlike politicians, scientists admit they're wrong on a daily basis. Also, unlike politicians, they don't dwell and bitch about it, they use it constructively and form wisdom based upon it.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up, simply because I know how true this statement is. I'd bet money that >80% of the people in the Christian faith could care less about God and Jesus, but only keep faith because they're scared of going to Hell. Christians don't bother me, it's the ones that try to get me on their bandwagon out of fear. I find that the people who believe out of their own will and actually care about the teaching of the Bible are very rational and open minded people. Nothing like the people who torment atheists and tell gays that God hates them.
Isn't it funny that God is supposed to love every man, woman, and child, yet Bubba spray paints a graffiti saying otherwise? You want to find a real terrorist? He won't wear a turban or follow Islam. No, the real terrorist is the man that uses religion itself as a weapon and fuel for hatred. Some of these people obviously have never read "Love thy neighbor." Either that or they just don't care, considering the fact that they think they make judgment for God, even though the only person supposed to be able to judge is God himself. So we have a lot of people running around preaching one thing and practicing another. They're pretending to be God himself with all their judgments. Perhaps we read Revelations wrong, and there are millions of antichrists?
PS: Don't misinterpret this post. I am an atheist. I'm just a frustrated atheist, since I know more about the Bible than the majority of Christians. The same Christians that try to convert me with false information (not saying the Bible is false, but that their understanding of the Bible is false). I think that many of these hateful Christian terrorists (again, not saying that Christians as a whole are hateful people, only that some few decide to be that way) would change their ways if they actually sat down and read the Bible for themself. Like I said before, the people who truly care about their religion and the Bible are the most rational people you'll meet in the Christian faith. The selfish majority that are only concerned with not burning in damnation are the most intolerant, irrational people you'll ever meet. They do more damage than terrorists and have been doing it for centuries.
Tell me this is a joke......this is really sad.......and sounds fun at the same time!:)
Perfect for the drunk people who are already inclined to exhibitionism.
The current design? I'm sorry folks, but it's a wee bit early to criticize designs that aren't even designed yet. Right now space elevators are something of a "Hey, imagine if we could..." type of thing. It's not exactly a touchstone piece of journalism that could save lives or anything when we don't even possess the technology to construct such a thing.
This isn't even a new idea. I remember reading concerns about this a LONG time ago, and people were already coming up with ideas for it. Change the title of the article to "Ignorance about space elevators can be lethal" and quit wasting our time. I figured this would've been something interesting about how it'd effect the environment or a theory on what would happen if it broke or something (besides the obvious)
I second this. Please don't assume that all younger people listen to is modern rock and pop music. I'm a huge fan of Pink Floyd, as well as most of my friends (not just in my area, all over the globe). I'm well under 30: 18.
The library of congress was built in another day and time. Back when knowledge was a Good Thing (TM). Nowadays in the US, we have people in office who disregard education altogether and will show up to read books to elementary students (possibly because A. That's the reading level of many of our politicians these days, B. No chance of a 1st grader criticizing the way congress has become a marketplace for selling laws). It's really dumb, but effective (since most parents are even more dumb). "Oh, he read books to little Tommy! Who cares about the fact that this guy completely devastated a town as mayor and now wants to run for mayor!"
Look at the way the government gives the shaft to the public education system. My school doesn't even have enough money to buy the basic necessities for our teachers. The teachers have to dig in their own wallets (which aren't very thick, considering teachers are for some reason not valued in this country. I think teachers should be some of the highest paid workers) to buy basic classroom supplies. On top of that, we have the stupid stupid Every Child Left Behind BS that really screws over the few good teachers we have left, because now they are forced to teach by government mandated curricula. I remember my biology teacher venting to us about how she was require to teach more about plants than humans. She felt that a portion of the class should deal with a certain mammal called Homo Sapiens and the gov said "No!"
All I know, is my child (if an unfortunate being has to endure me) is going to private school, tutoring, or plain home schooling. If he/she wants to go to public school, I'll let him/her. Otherwise, I'm willing to dish out the dough to keep them out of the government prisons for youth. Our schools are prison institutions and patriot academies for the youth. Because we are just SO scary that the old folks don't want us doing something more productive. 12 years just to graduate? BS! I could obtain the same amount of knowledge in 8, maybe even less than that.
To this I again repeat that the actions and effects caused are what the issue is. I'm sorry but if I were to say something racist to somebody it would not kill them. It would offend them, but not kill. Now if I attacked the person because of some ignorant idea I had that made me think I was superior and ended up killing them, now I would be a murderer wouldn't I? Somebody simply saying something racist is much different than somebody burning a house down or lynching somebody out of pure racism. If somebody said something racist about my race, I would probably just view that person as ignorant and ignore it because I'd know it wasn't true.
Leaking battle plans and shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater are not expressions of freedom of speech. The first is treason the second could lead to somebody getting killed. It's not censorship. If I pulled the fire alarm at a theater it would be just as bad as if I shouted "Fire!" It's the effect caused by what you did that is in question. I could say fire outside of a theater and I wouldn't get in trouble, because the same effects do not come about. Battle plans are the same way. By handing enemies battle plans you are being just as much a Benedict Arnold as you would if you just told them what we're going to be doing in that battle. It's the effects and intent that are illegal.
Do I agree with racism? Heck no! Do I agree with censorship? Also, heck no! If somebody wants to post a bunch of racist crap, let them be held accountable for their ignorance.
Whoa, fella. Way to rant about something offtopic! If you read carefully (possibly something that a slashdot poster would have problems with) he was commenting on a misspelling. I "delcare" that you are an idiot. (Hmm, big shock that you posted AC)
That's nothing. I once read a Reuters article about Clinton's global initiative thing and they tried to claim he was a republican! That induced a small chuckle in my throat.
You modded parent as troll? I think it's a valid assessment of the (possible) future. Don't mod somebody down just because he says something you don't want to hear.
It depends on what you call "superior". I don't believe that any lifeform is superior to any other, just different. Now intelligent lifeforms can have superior things like technology and philosophy, etc. It all depends on what their homeworld's situation is on how they'll treat us. If on their homeworld they didn't care much about philosophy and instead just developed technology and really fast rates and one or more tribes dominated everything on their planet, they'll probably take the same methods to colonization in alien worlds as well. If they were highly developed philosophically and had a very peaceful homeworld, they'd probably try to understand our languages first and then try to establish trade with us and exchange gifts. If they are a struggling people and their homeworld is stripped bare of organic resources that they can't just mine out of planets and space rocks, they might either take the route of the peaceful race I described or the warlike race I described. If they took the route of the warllike race, they'd either enslave us to produce resources for them or kill us all and then do it themselves.
Several other conditions and situations can occur as well. The ship that makes contact with us might be outcasts and even though their race is peaceful they might be warlike. They might be overcrowded in their homeworld/solar system and see Earth as cheap housing and wish to live with us or replace us by force. We might have something on Earth that they don't have on their planet and they might have something on their planet that we've never seen before, and that'd make for some good trade. They might even offer their science to us for exchange for ours or some other of our resources. Other races might even already know about us and are too scared to approach us (I wouldn't blame them).
Of course, perhaps I just play too many video games and watch too much Babylon 5:-P
This is sort of how Raelians view the universe as well. They view it as infinitely large, infinitely small and that our universe is but an atom in an even larger universe and of course the reverse as well. Seems plausible to me, although it's best to keep your mind open and accept several explanations for things like this. A closed mind is far more damaging than a closed fist.
Give it a rest! I'm pretty confident that these guys know about heat transfer either as well as you do or perhaps even better. You're beating a dead horse here because you aren't addressing their argument at all, you're just blasting the same crap over and over. An argument is not even taking place here because you keep repeating the same crap like a broken record.
It's funny how many sensible arguments get modded as flamebait simply because people don't want to face the truth. I think the parent should've actually been modded up instead of down
Especially when the educators aren't very intelligent. A majority of the teachers in the United States in the public school systems either don't know what they're really talking about, are not up to date (I've seen a lot of elder teachers that still teach the same things the same way they did when they graduated from college), don't care, or are restricted by the government. Education would be great if it focused on things like philosophy instead of a general catch-all. Teach people philosophy from a young age and let them take apprenticeships when they get older. I think it's extremely scary that much of the world scorns philosophy. If education was more like this, I think there'd be a lot wiser and less delusional people in this world. What a lot of people mistake for stupidity is actually misunderstanding and delusions (which are sadly passed down generation to generation in some places).
Government-run education scares me anyway. Not just because of how inadequate it is (ask any teacher who cares from Tennessee and probably anywhere else in the US, and they'll go on and on about how the government makes their job harder and less fruitful for the students). The thing that scares me most is that if the government wants to push an agenda it is extremely simple to force a certain type of education on them. Right now the education system teaches students to basically not care about learning ANYTHING but instead worry about grades. Students take this model and apply it to economics too. When they want to get a job they ask "How much does it pay?" instead of thinking about the meaning of the job. They pick careers based on the cash they get, instead of how they impact society. They see all of life as this big competition to always step on people instead of helping them up. These people are praised by their parents and peers and looked up to, while so many people who take jobs saving people's lives or improving the quality of life are sort of set to the side.
How are we to survive the next century? Simplify. Many of the "problems" of this world were brought upon ourselves. Governments have taken control and gotten so complicated that someone with a political science degree can't even understand them. Many people will turn to government to solve the problems we face in our future. I think the number one problem is not the governments but ourselves. Why are these innate instincts of survival by any means still here? We are advanced enough right now that we shouldn't have a lot of the problems we do today. Unfortunately, people lost interest in honor and morals and philoshopy and jumped straight on science and other things with big bucks. People keep expanding government to control more and more things, when really all we need to improve is ourselves.
So I take my answer of "simplicity" and push it to the farthest degree. Yeah, we can colonize the moon, but what next? Remember what happened in the United States? People thought this was a limitless reserve of resources, and it could've been too. If the Europeans never came over and the Native Americans still lived here today, it'd probably be in VERY good shape and still be a rich haven of resources and life. Simplicity in lifestyle would really help. People just HAVE to have a house with at least an acre of green grass growing around it. They'll go out and spend all kinds of cash on a whim for something as stupid as a pair of shoes "worth" $100 (that were produced in China for a few dollars at the most). You say we're overcrowded? Hmmm, just imagine if everybody in the United States had their own house with an acre of green grass growing around it. Kill this damn American dream bullshit, and we'll be much better off. Many people will say things like the American dream doesn't exist anymore, but just look around. Everybody just assumes that when you get older you should get a house, a wife, raise a family, and a little dog named Spot. Anything less would be unamerican.
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Where's some mod points when I need them? I wish there were more people out there like you.
It asks you for your password to rename start menu items because the items you are renaming are global and not account specific. If you want to change something in /usr/share/applications, you also need root priveledges. The reason it asks you three times has to do with the different mechanisms involved in the rename process. It's not just a "mv oldfilename newfilename" like on Linux. Remember, it's Windows we're talking about here. If it's possible to do something in 10 steps instead of 1, the kind folks at MS will spend $10M telling you why those extraneous 9 steps are useful.
I think it's hilarious how people whine about the smallest stuff. I actually hate how most of the GUI su frontends default to keeping your priveledges. I want to know every time it does something that needs to be elevated. Especially on Windows. Consider this. Grandma installs Crysis (she's the coolest Grandma ever). After installing it, she goes to a crack site to crack it (we all know how "trustworthy" these sites are). She unwittingly installs a piece of spyware/virus/what have you, without even knowing it (IE has a habit of wanting to download everything that the page tells it to). UAC has thus, been made useless. If it popped up every time, she would (hopefully, since she's such a cool grandma) see the dialog and click the cancel button. No spyware: UAC saved the day. UAC does not cure stupidity, and most people just click OK over and over, but if you use UAC the way it was designed, it's very useful.
*NOTE: Don't tell me about how most GUI su frontends are configurable to disable the maintenance of elevated priveledges -- I know about it already. And yes, I would agree that it would be nice for those easily irritible folks to be able to configure UAC to stay elevated. Oh well.
Are the internat'l calls for business? If they're just personal, you can get them to use voice chat over the internet via Ventrillo or an IM client or something.
Sadly, the American people have let the executive branch expand in such a way that to the average citizen you have a president (which is sort of like a king to a lot of people), and then you have congress, which is like a group of bickering advisors to the president. Then you have the supreme court, which is a bunch of liberal hippies that try to ruin all those good laws that we pass. Don't believe the average American feels that way? Start talking to the average American.
Anonymous Coward trolling is great isn't it? Does it pass the time between porn sessions? I guess I'll amuse you with a response: If you're so damn smart, why don't you show us YOUR findings and let us "embarrass" YOU. Personally, I am proud of what astronomers and physicists have accomplished in the past 100 years. Unlike politicians, scientists admit they're wrong on a daily basis. Also, unlike politicians, they don't dwell and bitch about it, they use it constructively and form wisdom based upon it.
Are you high?
If I had mod points I'd mod you up, simply because I know how true this statement is. I'd bet money that >80% of the people in the Christian faith could care less about God and Jesus, but only keep faith because they're scared of going to Hell. Christians don't bother me, it's the ones that try to get me on their bandwagon out of fear. I find that the people who believe out of their own will and actually care about the teaching of the Bible are very rational and open minded people. Nothing like the people who torment atheists and tell gays that God hates them.
Isn't it funny that God is supposed to love every man, woman, and child, yet Bubba spray paints a graffiti saying otherwise? You want to find a real terrorist? He won't wear a turban or follow Islam. No, the real terrorist is the man that uses religion itself as a weapon and fuel for hatred. Some of these people obviously have never read "Love thy neighbor." Either that or they just don't care, considering the fact that they think they make judgment for God, even though the only person supposed to be able to judge is God himself. So we have a lot of people running around preaching one thing and practicing another. They're pretending to be God himself with all their judgments. Perhaps we read Revelations wrong, and there are millions of antichrists?
PS: Don't misinterpret this post. I am an atheist. I'm just a frustrated atheist, since I know more about the Bible than the majority of Christians. The same Christians that try to convert me with false information (not saying the Bible is false, but that their understanding of the Bible is false). I think that many of these hateful Christian terrorists (again, not saying that Christians as a whole are hateful people, only that some few decide to be that way) would change their ways if they actually sat down and read the Bible for themself. Like I said before, the people who truly care about their religion and the Bible are the most rational people you'll meet in the Christian faith. The selfish majority that are only concerned with not burning in damnation are the most intolerant, irrational people you'll ever meet. They do more damage than terrorists and have been doing it for centuries.
Tell me this is a joke......this is really sad.......and sounds fun at the same time! :)
Perfect for the drunk people who are already inclined to exhibitionism.
The current design? I'm sorry folks, but it's a wee bit early to criticize designs that aren't even designed yet. Right now space elevators are something of a "Hey, imagine if we could..." type of thing. It's not exactly a touchstone piece of journalism that could save lives or anything when we don't even possess the technology to construct such a thing.
This isn't even a new idea. I remember reading concerns about this a LONG time ago, and people were already coming up with ideas for it. Change the title of the article to "Ignorance about space elevators can be lethal" and quit wasting our time. I figured this would've been something interesting about how it'd effect the environment or a theory on what would happen if it broke or something (besides the obvious)
I second this. Please don't assume that all younger people listen to is modern rock and pop music. I'm a huge fan of Pink Floyd, as well as most of my friends (not just in my area, all over the globe). I'm well under 30: 18.
Or Arch Linux. A "pacman -Syu" will upgrade your system and you don't need to switch distros to switch DE's like *buntu: www.archlinux.org
Of course, you can say that about most distros besides *buntu. Arch is pretty hassle free though.
The library of congress was built in another day and time. Back when knowledge was a Good Thing (TM). Nowadays in the US, we have people in office who disregard education altogether and will show up to read books to elementary students (possibly because A. That's the reading level of many of our politicians these days, B. No chance of a 1st grader criticizing the way congress has become a marketplace for selling laws). It's really dumb, but effective (since most parents are even more dumb). "Oh, he read books to little Tommy! Who cares about the fact that this guy completely devastated a town as mayor and now wants to run for mayor!"
Look at the way the government gives the shaft to the public education system. My school doesn't even have enough money to buy the basic necessities for our teachers. The teachers have to dig in their own wallets (which aren't very thick, considering teachers are for some reason not valued in this country. I think teachers should be some of the highest paid workers) to buy basic classroom supplies. On top of that, we have the stupid stupid Every Child Left Behind BS that really screws over the few good teachers we have left, because now they are forced to teach by government mandated curricula. I remember my biology teacher venting to us about how she was require to teach more about plants than humans. She felt that a portion of the class should deal with a certain mammal called Homo Sapiens and the gov said "No!"
All I know, is my child (if an unfortunate being has to endure me) is going to private school, tutoring, or plain home schooling. If he/she wants to go to public school, I'll let him/her. Otherwise, I'm willing to dish out the dough to keep them out of the government prisons for youth. Our schools are prison institutions and patriot academies for the youth. Because we are just SO scary that the old folks don't want us doing something more productive. 12 years just to graduate? BS! I could obtain the same amount of knowledge in 8, maybe even less than that.
To this I again repeat that the actions and effects caused are what the issue is. I'm sorry but if I were to say something racist to somebody it would not kill them. It would offend them, but not kill. Now if I attacked the person because of some ignorant idea I had that made me think I was superior and ended up killing them, now I would be a murderer wouldn't I? Somebody simply saying something racist is much different than somebody burning a house down or lynching somebody out of pure racism. If somebody said something racist about my race, I would probably just view that person as ignorant and ignore it because I'd know it wasn't true.
Leaking battle plans and shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater are not expressions of freedom of speech. The first is treason the second could lead to somebody getting killed. It's not censorship. If I pulled the fire alarm at a theater it would be just as bad as if I shouted "Fire!" It's the effect caused by what you did that is in question. I could say fire outside of a theater and I wouldn't get in trouble, because the same effects do not come about. Battle plans are the same way. By handing enemies battle plans you are being just as much a Benedict Arnold as you would if you just told them what we're going to be doing in that battle. It's the effects and intent that are illegal.
Do I agree with racism? Heck no! Do I agree with censorship? Also, heck no! If somebody wants to post a bunch of racist crap, let them be held accountable for their ignorance.
"The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored." - Chandon Seldon
Whoa, fella. Way to rant about something offtopic! If you read carefully (possibly something that a slashdot poster would have problems with) he was commenting on a misspelling. I "delcare" that you are an idiot. (Hmm, big shock that you posted AC)
That's nothing. I once read a Reuters article about Clinton's global initiative thing and they tried to claim he was a republican! That induced a small chuckle in my throat.
You modded parent as troll? I think it's a valid assessment of the (possible) future. Don't mod somebody down just because he says something you don't want to hear.
It depends on what you call "superior". I don't believe that any lifeform is superior to any other, just different. Now intelligent lifeforms can have superior things like technology and philosophy, etc. It all depends on what their homeworld's situation is on how they'll treat us. If on their homeworld they didn't care much about philosophy and instead just developed technology and really fast rates and one or more tribes dominated everything on their planet, they'll probably take the same methods to colonization in alien worlds as well. If they were highly developed philosophically and had a very peaceful homeworld, they'd probably try to understand our languages first and then try to establish trade with us and exchange gifts. If they are a struggling people and their homeworld is stripped bare of organic resources that they can't just mine out of planets and space rocks, they might either take the route of the peaceful race I described or the warlike race I described. If they took the route of the warllike race, they'd either enslave us to produce resources for them or kill us all and then do it themselves.
:-P
Several other conditions and situations can occur as well. The ship that makes contact with us might be outcasts and even though their race is peaceful they might be warlike. They might be overcrowded in their homeworld/solar system and see Earth as cheap housing and wish to live with us or replace us by force. We might have something on Earth that they don't have on their planet and they might have something on their planet that we've never seen before, and that'd make for some good trade. They might even offer their science to us for exchange for ours or some other of our resources. Other races might even already know about us and are too scared to approach us (I wouldn't blame them).
Of course, perhaps I just play too many video games and watch too much Babylon 5
This is sort of how Raelians view the universe as well. They view it as infinitely large, infinitely small and that our universe is but an atom in an even larger universe and of course the reverse as well. Seems plausible to me, although it's best to keep your mind open and accept several explanations for things like this. A closed mind is far more damaging than a closed fist.
Give it a rest! I'm pretty confident that these guys know about heat transfer either as well as you do or perhaps even better. You're beating a dead horse here because you aren't addressing their argument at all, you're just blasting the same crap over and over. An argument is not even taking place here because you keep repeating the same crap like a broken record.
It's funny how many sensible arguments get modded as flamebait simply because people don't want to face the truth. I think the parent should've actually been modded up instead of down
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Can you honestly say you've never spoken a word to the passengers of your vehicle while behind the wheel?
Especially when the educators aren't very intelligent. A majority of the teachers in the United States in the public school systems either don't know what they're really talking about, are not up to date (I've seen a lot of elder teachers that still teach the same things the same way they did when they graduated from college), don't care, or are restricted by the government. Education would be great if it focused on things like philosophy instead of a general catch-all. Teach people philosophy from a young age and let them take apprenticeships when they get older. I think it's extremely scary that much of the world scorns philosophy. If education was more like this, I think there'd be a lot wiser and less delusional people in this world. What a lot of people mistake for stupidity is actually misunderstanding and delusions (which are sadly passed down generation to generation in some places).
Government-run education scares me anyway. Not just because of how inadequate it is (ask any teacher who cares from Tennessee and probably anywhere else in the US, and they'll go on and on about how the government makes their job harder and less fruitful for the students). The thing that scares me most is that if the government wants to push an agenda it is extremely simple to force a certain type of education on them. Right now the education system teaches students to basically not care about learning ANYTHING but instead worry about grades. Students take this model and apply it to economics too. When they want to get a job they ask "How much does it pay?" instead of thinking about the meaning of the job. They pick careers based on the cash they get, instead of how they impact society. They see all of life as this big competition to always step on people instead of helping them up. These people are praised by their parents and peers and looked up to, while so many people who take jobs saving people's lives or improving the quality of life are sort of set to the side.
How are we to survive the next century? Simplify. Many of the "problems" of this world were brought upon ourselves. Governments have taken control and gotten so complicated that someone with a political science degree can't even understand them. Many people will turn to government to solve the problems we face in our future. I think the number one problem is not the governments but ourselves. Why are these innate instincts of survival by any means still here? We are advanced enough right now that we shouldn't have a lot of the problems we do today. Unfortunately, people lost interest in honor and morals and philoshopy and jumped straight on science and other things with big bucks. People keep expanding government to control more and more things, when really all we need to improve is ourselves.
So I take my answer of "simplicity" and push it to the farthest degree. Yeah, we can colonize the moon, but what next? Remember what happened in the United States? People thought this was a limitless reserve of resources, and it could've been too. If the Europeans never came over and the Native Americans still lived here today, it'd probably be in VERY good shape and still be a rich haven of resources and life. Simplicity in lifestyle would really help. People just HAVE to have a house with at least an acre of green grass growing around it. They'll go out and spend all kinds of cash on a whim for something as stupid as a pair of shoes "worth" $100 (that were produced in China for a few dollars at the most). You say we're overcrowded? Hmmm, just imagine if everybody in the United States had their own house with an acre of green grass growing around it. Kill this damn American dream bullshit, and we'll be much better off. Many people will say things like the American dream doesn't exist anymore, but just look around. Everybody just assumes that when you get older you should get a house, a wife, raise a family, and a little dog named Spot. Anything less would be unamerican.
Conflict ends when supply satisfies demand. If people didn't always want more more