Comment Re:No (Score 5, Funny) 557
Pounds Sterling.
Fucking limey.
Comment Re:Inertia (Score 1) 557
Just tell your computer it's a US keyboard and touch-type. You can touch-type, can't you?
Comment Re:Titan is becoming a more amazing world (Score 1) 45
All the elements for the latter are in place, except for private ownership of printed material. However, if no-one reads them, then it really doesn't matter what they say.
As to being about to get humans out of Terra's g-field...sigh. And Hard AI is so much harder than what anyone had imagined. And is much harder than what the Transhumanists and Singularists could possibly imagine.
Comment Re:Titan is becoming a more amazing world (Score 5, Interesting) 45
Read and watch "2001: A Space Odyssey". (The book and the movie were developed simultaneously and you really need one to fully understand the other. I'd read the book first.) Then read "2010: Odyssey Two". Both written by Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Psychedelics optional where permitted by law, sitter who knows and loves the story highly advised.
Comment Re:Titan is becoming a more amazing world (Score 2, Funny) 45
Except Europa ... Attempt No Landings There.
Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic 445
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Alexander Abad-Santos writes that in any other country, the late Dr. Abdus Salam would be a national hero: he's the Nobel laureate in physics who laid the groundwork for the biggest physics discovery in the past 30 years--the Higgs boson. But that isn't the case in Pakistan, where Salam has been wiped from textbooks and history for not being fundamentalist enough. 'He belonged to the Ahmadi sect, which has been persecuted by the government and targeted by Taliban militants who view its members as heretics,' says Sebastian Abbot. 'His grand unification theory of strong, weak and electromagnetic fields opened the gateway for the discovery of bosons and laid down the basis for this quantum electrodynamics project,' writes Anam Khalid Alvi for Pakistan's Express Tribune. But Pakistan can't celebrate his achievements, since Ahmadis like Salam are and were prevented from 'posing as Muslims,' and can be punished with prison and even death. By contrast, fellow Pakistani physicist A.Q. Khan, who played a key role in developing the country's nuclear bomb and later confessed to spreading nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya, is considered a national hero. Khan is a Muslim."
Comment Re:In 300 years abortion seen worse than slavery. (Score 1) 220
The horror isn't in the slaughter (although it's not pretty, especially in some operations) — the horror is in the factory farming operations where the living, breathing, conscious animals are treated like machinery.
As to Einstein:
It is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
From a letter to Harmann Huth, 27 December 1930
Comment Re:Yeah (Score 1) 220
Whereas in the Old Testament, having a wife and concubines was commonplace. Some men had more than one wife. The New Testament didn't change that, either, with no real mention of plural marriage either way.
Comment Re:Without power? (Score 1) 813
I have trains running about 3 acres away
How many parsecs do they go?
Comment Re:It's always been obvious (Score 4, Funny) 622
Python has *always* been obviously better than PHP (or perl, etc.) But if you have no skills, you look for the easiest path: the goal is to get the project going.
If your expertise is Perl, climbing the Python learning curve, gentle as it may be, isn't attractive, and becomes less so as your available time to engage in such things narrows. And so your project $sucks @terribly $$ and looks like APL
This is how I can tell that you're not an APL programmer. APL programs are beautiful. Perl looks as if your mom picked up the phone while you were using a BBS.
Comment Re:useful.... (Score 2) 161
high durability aircraft
The return of the A-10?
Comment Re:Do it HAM style (Score 2) 212
"HAM" is not an acronym. Nor is it an initialism.
Comment Re:still... (Score 1) 463
People want to immigrate to America. We made it nearly impossible over the past 30 years to do so legally.
Excuse me? There has been plenty of legal immigration happening. The Immigration and Naturalization Reform Act of 1986 saw to that.
Comment Re:Artificial organ scarcity (Score 3, Informative) 291
According to a doctor friend of mine who rides, the helmet keeps the brainstem working long enough to keep the body working so the organs can be donated.
Comment Re:...overkill...? (Score 1) 298
MAD TV did that. 20 blades. MAD Magazine did it in the seventies with six blades, I believe.
