Do I REALLY want to run a dosbox in my browser? How long until someone comes up with an exploit? Yeah, maybe I have some advantages over Windows users, and maybe I don't. I certainly lose any advantages I might have, if I carelessly, and pointlessly allow unknown code to run. I already block javascript on all but "trusted" sites. I'm going to allow dos code to run? Nahhhh - I'll pass.

Yeah, I actually do like some of those old dos games. Why don't I just download them myself, and run them in a sandbox, or a VM? No need to get my browser involved, or to mindlessly click through some permissions dialogue.

Our previous "IT Guy" couldn't do a disk image. I tried to explain it to him, he acted like it was over his head, so I dropped it. We could have saved SO MUCH money, just by having disk images for welders and other computer operated equipment. Disk dies, grab another similar disk with similar architecture, image the thing, plug it in, and the welder is ready to work. Two hours down time, if I play grab-ass along the way. Instead, a disk dies, we call the vendor who sold the machine, the vendor promises to have a guy out to us within the week, the repair guy shows up with the wrong damned disk image, so it's another day before he comes back with the right one. Meantime, every hour in a 24/7 plant, that welder is costing a few hundred dollars because it's not running.

The new IT guys actually get stuff done. Not my way, but they get things done.

My employer up until sixteen months ago did exactly that. Volume licensing would have saved them some money - not a whole lot of money, but some. But, the IT department was totally incompetent. Now that we've been bought out by a larger company, the IT department is far less incompetent, and we actually have machines that work, OS's that do what they are supposed to do, and something that passes for security. And, volume licensing.

Ditto your thoughts here. Wonder if MS even checked for such a possibility. I use a couple different VPN addresses routinely, and some others less routinely. I have no idea how many people use the same VPN's. Hundreds of thousands, maybe?

Getting OFF this rock is the most important thing. You're afraid of the weather. I'm afraid of that humonguous rock targeting earth, which will make weather irrelevant.

According to my parents? There is no doubt that my generation was far less mature than my parent's generation. I didn't find it necessary to go to the Pacific Ocean when I was fifteen years old to fight against Imperial Japan. There was no Pearl Harbor for my generation to respond to. My sister didn't find it necessary to work in a factory at age sixteen, to provide ammunition for her brothers in the Pacific. There are a lot of differences between my generation and my parent's generation.

My grandparent's generation? Huge difference again. My mother's children all survived to adulthood, except one infant. Grandma? Guess again. I'm a guy, so I don't really remember accurately - but memory indicates that the old woman birthed 18 babies - only 9 of whom lived to adulthood. The medical sciences sucked back then, and the Great Depression helped to ensure that not everyone had ready access to the best that medical science offered.

You may go on, seeking to minimalize the differences between generations, but there are real differences between us.

Trivial to get a good paying job? Really? You mean it wasn't necessary to work hard? Maybe you're confusing me and my generation with the sixties Union activists. Hell, a union member in good standing couldn't be fired for much of ANYTHING. Sorry, but I wasn't part of that socialist shindig.

Now - as for good paying jobs - have you CREATED any jobs, yourself? No? Why not? Open up a business, and put some people around you to work. Get after it, Pal. Do something useful.

Before you ask - I DID go into business. Ultimately, I failed. I employed 5 to 8 people for a few years, competing against the invading illegal aliens. I thought I was doing alright, until one of my people was injured. Ooops - no insurance. I got out from under that impending disaster, but realized it was only a matter of time before another injury would destroy me. So, I folded up, and went back to work for more established companies.

Why don't you do what I failed at, and prove yourself the better man?

Or, do you feel that government owes you a living?

Each has different missions. Maybe those missions are repetitively redundant, but at least they each have a different perspective on the same problems.

What I am saying is, NASA has a much bigger, much more important mission that studying weather and/or climate.

Ehhh. I just watched this short video again. I am mesmerized by the face of the woman in the last scene. I imagine that she's waiting for a "bus" to come along, to take her to college. Or to bring home a loved one from a years long journey. Or, maybe she's just headed to the local version of an amusement park. Or, joining classmates, then heading off to the mall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Low earth orbit" and "space" are not quite synonymous. Let NOAA have LEO, and NASA can go to space.

"You've essentially said the students shouldn't question authority or express themselves when they see misogyny or injustice etc. "

It's always been my motto to question authority. Question away. But, do the course work. Pass the class. Or, don't do the work, fail the class, and live with that failing grade.

Have I somehow implied that the young woman is not entitled to her opinion? Have I somehow implied that she shouldn't voice her opinion? I certainly hope not.

What I have stated pretty clearly is, I disagree with her, and I'm not at all supportive of her position. If my vote were necessary to censure the teacher, then it wouldn't happen. If the young lady is expecting me to pat her on the back for standing up to the teacher, that won't happen either.

On the other hand - if the young woman were to be punished in any way for stating her opinion, such as getting a lower grade, then I would be up in arms. The teacher in question would certainly have acted in a mysogenistic manner, overstepped his authority, and treated a student in an unethical manner.

Sounds like a heap of excuse making to me. We were discussing growing up, were we not? And, you bring up how badly the economy sucks. How does a bad economy justify immaturity? I simply don't see any connection.

Had you attacked my generation's parenting and nurturing skills, I would be right on board with the attack. Can't spank a child, can't speak harshly to a child, can't just drop kick the smart mouth into next week. How in hell did we EXPECT the kids to grow up, if they never face harsh consequences for improper conduct?

"not doing something that pops into your head"

Doing something, and studying or reading something are entirely different. I've studied how to make bombs. I've never MADE a bomb, never USED a bomb, but the knowledge is in my head.

Studying the building plans of a prison, or a bank might serve many purposes. Heading out one morning to perform a prison break, or a bank robbery would be wrong, of course, but the architecture involved shouldn't be censored.

Censorship involves suppressing knowledge, and/or governing what information a person should have access to.

You ask about good judgement? Hmmm. Certainly not the best judgement - but so what? Are we going to begin punishing people for having poor judgement?

You know, I could possibly go along with such an agenda. Except - powerful people aren't held to such a standard. Look at Clinton. That skank has such poor judgement, I wonder how she has managed to feed herself all her life, let alone raise a daughter.

Oh, forget the daughter bit. That daughter has zero understanding of money. Pampered rich bitch, doesn't have a clue how to survive in real life.

If you're asking whether I would personally use this image in that course - probably not. I am simply not offended by it. And, I question the judgement of those who claim to be offended. Do the course work, and stop worrying about the people around you. They don't matter. Do the work, get your grade, pass the course, and move on. That is what growing up is all about, right?

Then, WTF do you call it? Just WHAT do you call it? Censorship, plain and simple.

Dog-Cow is overly abusive with his response - but he's not far off target. Most, not all, but most of my generation were grown up when they graduated from high school. Legal adults, with the right to vote, the right to drink, the right to fight for our country, the right to marry, the right to have children, and the right to work.

Today? WTF has happened to our country?

We need Charles Darwin to remind us of that "survival of the fittest" thing.

If the kids aren't ready to make adult decisions sometime between 15 and 20, then they are not fit for survival. If parents aren't ready to cut the apron strings by the time the kids are 20, then those parents are unfit, themselves.

So, the relatively less bright elder brother can continue dabbling in old science, while the brighter, younger sister forges ahead into new territory.

No matter how you cut it, we don't need NASA putzing around in the atmosphere, there is another agency already dedicated to that.