Comment Re:And.. (Score 1) 56
Corporations is people!
Corporations is people!
The Force is Strong within this one.
Nice word-play. A good one-liner when a Russian starts whining. Now I just need to get a good one-liner for when an American starts whining, and I'll be on my way to a full set.
Face it. We're a virus with shoes.
-- Saint Hicks
I believe that this geologic age will pass the tipping point at the Shoe Event Horizon.
-- Saint Adams
Yeah, that was weird. Some people can't take a joke. I can just picture him sitting at the breakfast table with his laptop and his morning beer, sticking his button everywhere so people can press it.
Sorry. Forgot the reference.
For those of the geological persuasion, 50 000 years is certainly 'right now'.
But it's not the same "right now" that includes driving cars.
"Sez you!" - F. Flintstone
Interesting, thanks.
The cost is a drop in a drop in a bucket. Applying the savings to some Earth-local research budget might help that particular thing for a bit. Then when it is gone we've inched or millimetered our way towards knowledge included in the billions of dollars that we already spend on this stuff world-wide. And we would still have no further knowledge of exo-planets, therefore absolutely no chance of finding any other data points to compare with Earth.
Comparative planetology has greatly increased our knowledge of Earth systems. I feel your argument is similar to someone in the 70's who would have argued "why send spacecraft to other planets to study them? We have enough problems here".
That said the current government has just introduced new legislation that says if your kids haven't had their jabs you lose all child related wellfare. Dependent on your income that could be as much as $15k a year per child.
Good. If I'm paying for someone's kids, I want them to at least have a chance of being healthy.
I think you thinking of Jenna Jamesson, not Jenny McCarthy.
Ah. Thank you for clearing that up. I don't want any McCarthyism getting into my porn feeds.
If you would have started telling me in 4th grade about how programming can be used to integrate CRM and ERP systems I probably would have just kept playing Nintendo instead of learning QBASIC.
Sometimes you need to get people hooked on how a topic can be cool before you start showing them how it can be practical.
Yep. I got into computers because I had fun programming an artillery game in my school's first computer.
Good analogy. That's the way it works.
I'd be interested in knowing what might be fabricated, too. Any particular part?
I was a bit turned off by Kaku watching him during some astro show. He gave an single example of something then presented a solution of "what else can it be?". Von Däniken used that kind of thing a lot.
It seems that more and more mathematicians are using a new, high level language named "research student".
