Exactly. Our civilization is also "a nanosecond on the geologic clock."

While "innocent until proven guilty" is typically the right approach, "huge assholes until proven otherwise" has always been extremely accurate for Monsanto.

Also, they could just swim to Hubble.
Source : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt14...

Great quote, thanks.
With the exact same arguments (basically, I'm for the inalienable right of existence for Israel, but against colonialism and disproportionate strikes against civilians), I've been labeled a terrorist, an antisemite or a sionist, depending on whom I talk to.

One more reason to use Mint.
That's the best they could do out of this situation.

You're right. All I'm saying is that you actually need some imagination to find out what the worst-case scenario could be.
As in, not just "getting hit by a bus", "fire at work" and "being robbed at home", but all three at the same time.

That, and many more problems. A good friend and our main developer committed suicide 5 years ago.
With the ceremony, the emotional shock and many organizational problems, 1 month got by, the bank account got closed, the provider didn't get paid and deleted the whole VM on which our website was running.
During this period, 2 disks died at his place on the Raid 5 NAS backup, and nobody noticed.

When people tell me I'm being overzealous with backups now, I tell them that worst-worst-case scenarios do happen sometimes.

Okay, it's getting a bit tiring.
Maybe those problems are unsolved because they're f**ing hard?
And saying that science is "one dimensional" tells more about your lack of knowledge than about science.
Finally, guess what? You can find a lot of economics, business and art in mathematics alone.

Seems interesting and reasonable.
How do you do this? With Ghostscript/NoScript/...?
Does it work well? A lot of websites use 3rd party js plugins for map display for example.

I can't tell if you're trolling.
Anyway: science can be arbitrarily hard.
If you find science too easy, what about explaining gravity or the human brain?
What about proving the Riemann hypothesis? What about curing cancer? What about explaining how life appeared?

Engineering is much more complicated than science.

Wait, what? It's not even wrong!

Well, I'm mostly a Ruby programmer.
So yes, Java and Python+Numpy are fast for me :D

Why not? Java can be almost C fast, and Python can also be really fast with e.g. Numpy.

Mint is not just for noobs.

I'm working for a project in southern Germany where we do just that.
The grid operator pays 50% of any battery installed. It's only for one small village right now, and we hope it will grow.