heh. Somebody sez "Theres a reason most climate scientists privately think we're toast as a sepecies." and gets modded up. You provide some pertinent facts and your conclusions based on them, and get modded "troll".
"Theres a reason most climate scientists privately think we're toast as a sepecies."
Then that worries me. I wonder about their logic about one of the most adaptable species the planet has produced.
Now, is our current level of civilization toast? Maybe. All civilizations fall, and climate change has been a contributor to many a fall.
Why are astronauts made out to be heroes? They are at best test pilots, and I betchya more test pilots have died in the line of duty than astronauts.
Why does it have to be either/or? Test pilots are heroes too. Most would also volunteer to strap themselves atop two million pounds of fuel. Much better than today's heroes who play with balls or grimace and shake in front of cameras.
Privatized profit, socialized sickness.
"so-called "misinformation" (of which much of it certainly was not)."
And its corollary, "much of it certainly was". As always, we argue about where to draw the line.
...found it disconcerting how the magnetic vortices tend to appear like pairs of eyes, faces staining out of the void, animalistic bodies, etc.
That's your pareidolia kicking in.
I took a look at the picture. Interesting but "messy" and it didn't really impress me. When I clicked on the hi-res pic in the article and zoomed in, I saw a galaxy of field lines that would have done Van Gogh proud.
Since we're doing analogies here, I've never seen a rollout of an extremely large system that didn't immediately need a slew of patches. Sometimes they include actual exceptions to a ruleset.
It is magnitudes cheaper than the Cold War, where it was Russia draining the US treasury by supporting proxies around the world, and is cheaper than a full-blown Cold War II.
The US, despite its cycles of isolationism and failures to live up to its own ideals, is not going to quit promoting the rule of law and democracy, and Russia is not going to stop bullying its neighbors and own people. It's one reason it is the largest nation in the world and growing.
Well, when the goal is power at any cost, the ends justify the means.
I wonder if he committed suicide by shooting himself in the top of his head 5 times like Vince Foster... (who knows what Wikipedia says about his death now)
Wikipedia says five investigations, including Kenneth Starr's circus, support suicide by gunshot through the mouth and out the back of the head.
Great explanation, thanks.
Well said.
"“Its recliner-laden collaborative workspaces do not work well for teams carting around laptops, since workers must plug into ethernet cables *at their desks* to get consistent internet service."
I found the Top Secret stuff to be rather boring. Most such items were classified like that to avoid revealing sources or detailed specifications. Most Secret dox were boring too, though could be more interesting after massaging by analysts. I do remember seeing a couple of juicy reports, one about a current event, and another that I didn't see in open sources for twenty years.
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
