Then don't buy a Chromebook. It is not a professional workstation. I don't have one either. But my kids do. Chromebooks are also popular with schools. They are cheap, and are difficult for students to screw up, because ... well because there is nothing on them. But if all you need is a broswer and Google docs, they are fine. You can buy five of them for the price of a Macbook.

Russia has heavy lift capability, and that's basically it. I tried to find the last time they actually did exploration (as in probes, rovers, etc) and didn't see much of anything since the Soviet Union. Right now NASA, ESA, Japan, China and even India are all ahead of Russia as far as exploration goes, as all those organizations have active probes in space doing science. Russia is basically just hauling stuff into orbit.

Now exactly how fucking long would the list of failed corporations be. How long would the list of corporate prosecutions be. Government fails sometimes, corporations always inevitably fail. I rather take maybe over the certainty. PS governments tend only to fail when they are corruptly controlled by, you guessed it, private interests and cease to represent the majority.

CORPORATIONS ALWAYS FAIL.

Accurately ascertaining failure allows you to action to prevent similar future failures, doing nothing, does exactly that, nothing. Why not an uninteruptable live stream from all commercial aircraft cockpits of a certain size, that two way communication could allow authorities to dissuade the suicider and remind them of the harm they are causing to others. That data traffic could be routed around the world along with aircraft telemetry, in this day and age it is a tiny amount of data. What you do in your bedroom is yours to keep private, what you do when in control of the lives of hundreds (possibly thousands) of others most certainly is not.

You know what is really stupid, pointing to those lying slave keeping genocidal animals as being some one special, ohhh, look the founders with mind you an hugely limited 18th education and truly horrible background as human beings. 'Founding Fathers' is simply meaningless PR marketing bullshit, with their words and writings routinely being distorted, with their ignorance some how put ahead of the knowledge gained in the last 250 years. Americans are fucking idiots to keep pointing at those people from centuries ago as if they still have meaning.

Fuck the founding genocidal slavers, what citizens think to day based upon the knowledge of today and what we will pass to future generations is far more important. Pointing to the thieves who stole the country from the thieves who sent them to steal it, as being holey saints is just so fucking stupid, only in America. The sheer level of marketing bullshit in US politics is staggering, religious nonsense, founding fathers, greed is good, marketing as truth and double speak as the United States main art form. You people are arguing about shit whilst your country collapses about you.

Until moronic thoughts. Now where were the coastal cities, where were the hundreds of millions of displaced humans who will be screaming for blood (and they will get it). It does not matter the cause, we are forced to attempt to control climate change, regardless. Go back further moron and the earth was a cloud of dust waiting to form into a planet how about it's climate then, huh, what about climate during the early earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadean), huh, what about climate when the sun expands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Earth), huh, seriously, piss off with that stupid shit.

We have what we have now and we have to deal with what we have now and we need to protect 'HUMAN' coastal environs and the hundreds of millions of people who live there.

What the experts now fear is the methane surge, quite a major catastrophic climate event. sure averages over the century are going to rise slowly but that methane surge could be seriously catastrophic for a short period within that longer term. Forget 1 degree a huge global surge far higher than forecast, as not only existing methane is released into the atmosphere but more is generated by a broken down ecology rotting in the heat.

The methane will break down and the impact will be short lived (years) and the planet will settle to more expected temperature levels but the damage in the interim will be enormous. It is all kind of funny and sad, it will happen and no amount of lies will stop in from happening, they just prevent efforts being taken to minimise the impact. The consequences for those who participated in the lies will not be pretty, crimes against humanity always ends up with harsh punishments.

Who gives a crap about the phone shit. What it revealed was that US government executives routinely lie to the public and attack members of the public with slander and false arrest when members of the public try to expose the criminal activities of above the law government departments.

The US department of State, the CIA, the NSA, the Secret Service and even the FBI at the highest levels all routinely consider themselves above the law. This horrifically extends to the corporations that controls which politicians get elected and who will be selected to take the highest administrative positions in government not as agents of the public but as agents of the corporations who arranged for their appointment.

The US government has become an empty teleprompter reading mouthpiece for those corporations who pay to get their colluding and conspiring pet politicians elected. The Snowden leaks exposed the underlying reality of how far the Public Relations show of the US government differs from corporate controlled reality of government agencies.

Their is nothing wrong with nuclear power however there is something wrong with major corporations, they are all broken. Myopic focus on short term profits with a total disregard for consequences. Repeated failure by governments to prosecute corporate executives not some times but by far most of the time to the extent of having failed to prosecute culpable individuals thousands upon thousands of times. Nuclear power but government owned and controlled and publicly audited, definitely not in the hands of deregulate everything now, profits this quarter only and golden parachutes for the top executives for inevitable failures their psychopathic attitudes create.

When a corporate executives decisions kill then they should be facing extended imprisonment and confiscation of assets to pay for damages.

For one brief moment I thought this was actually newsworthy - AKA it was implemented in Javascript using WebGL and Web Audio API - while in reality it runs in 3rd party plugin which is a native executable running directly on the system. Yawn.

Yes, but I'm pretty sure Carly can read and write.

In this case it was one day. In other cases of apparently intentional crashes, it took much longer. The cause of some of those crashes is still disputed. A video would also be useful for crashes involving equipment failure, human error, or some combination, to see how the crew reacted.

You mean like LED bulbs costing $22 each? I bought a pack of 10 last month for $20, or $2 each.

Do you have any data to back that up? The myth that appliances, tools, or cars lasted longer in the past is mostly false nostalgia.

That is not because they don't last. It is because manufacturers have figured out that they can make a lot of money selling "extended warranties" to dumb people.

OK, when you put it like that it sounds pretty awesome. And delicious.

I'll bring the sauce, aloe vera and skin graft kit.

Nah, permanent moon base and yep, free for all mines. You get there first and you stake your 1km by 1km mine and develop it within a decade, then it is yours. Want to stake a hundred, you had better develop them all and get them in production, else you will lose them. Think that is unfair, exactly how easy or hard do you expect it to be to develop a mine on the moon and that mine to start producing the materials for a larger moon base, a real space colony station and then a much larger space ship than people would expect for a trip to Mars, more a mobile space station.

We can either turn inward and become slaves to the greed of the 1% consuming the planet to death or we can reach out to the stars, focus on a sustainable planet and space as the only opportunity for growth.