Comment Re:Want! (Score 1) 292
I actually heard her momma say "stranger danger". Well needless to say I went off like an atom bomb
Hilarious. Sounds like momma's got a sixth sense about people.
I actually heard her momma say "stranger danger". Well needless to say I went off like an atom bomb
Hilarious. Sounds like momma's got a sixth sense about people.
More likely scenario: if I put a key into the car's ignition and before it started it gave me a 30 second ad by the car manufacturer...
I won't hear that ad, because I'll be outside scraping the ice off the windshield.
On paper it may seem like they have more failures than NASA or the ESA
When things don't work, it's a failure. Doesn't matter how much you did or didn't spend. There's no "on paper" involved. ($170M is really cheap, though.)
they spend less time testing on the ground and more time testing in space.
Testing after launch isn't called "testing" anymore. It's called "really hoping things go well on this crap shoot" followed by "failure". That's why this stuff is expensive, by the way: You either do it right, or you get nothing. Well, maybe you get a fireball or a crater, but you don't get any science.
For someone in aid and development it is then obvious that...
You don't have to be in aid and development to realize that somebody saying "Fuck it, let's just fling computers at 'em from the sky." is a pretty good indication that they're out of ideas, but not funding.
A Slashdot global warming discussion is like old people fucking. It's messy and not much gets accomplished.
And...
Administration: An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. -- Ambrose Bierce