You can do the same with eggs. Your breeding capacity is going to be limited by the resources available, then the wombs (real or artificial) available, then the care takers available, and lastly the sperm/eggs available. You're arguing for shipping more women than men in order to support breeding, but you've got to deal with the massive amounts of supplies to send for X people + breeding before you deal with the gender ration of X.

StarFox pilots have their legs cut off so they can fit into the cockpits of the Arwings and to prevent blackouts in high-acceleration maneuvers.
Go look at the original box art and manuals if you don't believe me. They've all got mechanical prosthetics.

Dessert is twice as sweet.

Neither - their interest was enough to get them click on the button on the Kickstarter they were linked to, but their interest is not enough to get them to go to some other site, fill out payment info, and hope for the best.

Kickstarter works because:
There's a single site with tons of people on it who would otherwise never visit yourrandomproject.com or thatotherproject.org .
It's a single click to pledge your cash for a specific reward.
Backers know that they have the option to cancel their pledge at the 11th hour. This safety encourage people to pledge when they're only slightly interested, and limited rewards encourages them to do it early, generating hype.

There's a reason the vast majority of Kickstarters are extremely front-loaded - people don't want to be left out of the next big thing. I would see more value in the Kickstarter model, and trust it more, if projects were posted before funding opened. This would allow for comments, questions, and updates before the bandwagon gets rolling. Then a limited funding period (7-10 days?) would commence where people could fund the thing. Right now everything is driven by hype and impulse. This is, of course, what project creators and Kickstarter itself want, so it's not going to change.

I'm not hungry for "easy-to-use technology that encrypts and anonymizes all personal internet traffic", nor am I hungry for it.

If you want to encrypt traffic then set up secure keys (OFFLINE) with the hosts you wish to communicate with. Use whatever you want for keys - certificates (NOT FROM THE ESTABLISHED CERTIFICATE AUTHORITIES), passwords, RSA clocks, OTPs, or scans of your genitals.

If you want to anonymize your traffic, then use someone else's connection, changing your MAC every time you do so. Try to use multiple different connections in different locations. Try to use locations away from your house. Do not travel to said locations in a way that can easily be tracked (your cell phone, your car, etc.).

Tor, proxies, certs from the established authorities, etc. are nothing but annoying obfuscation to the NSA and similar entities. There is no easy way to be secure and there never will be. Unless you have physical control over the entire pipe, you cannot trust the connection. End of story.

Beyond that, fuck Kickstarter. I haven't seen a useful one yet.

Engineers rarely use the word "impossible". With your standards, we'd never build another boat.

AK Marc shitting on i kan reed is like Hodor beating up Helen Keller.
It's mildly entertaining and saves me the trouble of doing it myself, but he'll still be riding the short bus to the kid's table on Thanksgiving.

I believe the morning sun's
Always gonna shine again and
I believe a pot of gold
Waits at every rainbow's end, oh
I believe in roses kissed with dew,
Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?

I believe in make believe,
Fairy tales and lucky charms and,
I believe in promises,
Spoken as you cross your heart, oh,
I believe in skies forever blue,
Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?

You may say I'm a fool,
Feelin' the way that I do
You can call me Pollyanna,
Say I'm crazy as a loon,
I believe in silver linings
And that's why I believe in you

I believe there'll come a day,
Maybe it will be tomorrow,
When the bluebird flies away,
All we'll have to do is follow,
I believe that dreams can still come true,
Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?

You may say I'm a fool,
Feelin' the way that I do,
I believe in friends and laughter
And the wonders love can do,
I believe in songs and magic
And that's why I believe in you
You may say I'm a fool,
Feelin' this way about you,
There's not much I can do,
I'm gonna be this way my life through
'Cause I still believe in miracles,
I swear I've seen a few
And the time will surely come
When you can see my point of view,
I believe in second chances
And that's why I believe in you

What's wrong with Wayland that Mir fixes?
What else does Mir bring to the table that would make people use it over Wayland?
What is preventing Wayland from improving over the next 2 years?

If you want people to click on, read, and discuss articles, Slashdot, you should have articles worth clicking on, reading, and discussing.

I read TFA. Nothing in it answers the questions I have, not even the answer to the same fucking question that the interviewer had.

Grow a pair and move to the US of A.
Here, the only king you need to memorize is the Almighty Dollar.

Komptria!
Indeed.
Jaffa kree!
Sha'kaaaaaaaaaaaa.
If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, the meal was cooked a long time ago.
Does it say "Colonel" anywhere on my uniform?

Apparently TESLA headlines weren't getting enough clicks, so they had to shove IPHONE in there too.
This site is fucking pathetic.

All of the "flake" cereals have Cheerios beat on surface area:volume.

Compare the adoption rate of firewire vs the adoption rate of Thunderbolt across peripherals.
Firewire was much more successful, and had an actual use at the time - it was much faster than USB when USB was a bottleneck for common uses.
Thunderbolt is faster than USB, but USB 3 and USB 3.1 are not bottlenecks for common uses. For high-demand uses, you should be using something like DisplayPort or PCIe, both of which are faster and cheaper (from controller to cable to licensing) than Thunderbolt.

I don't think you understand how Thunderbolt works - it's a controller that attaches directly to PCIe and then wraps some protocol shit around it so it can shunt USB, Ethernet, etc. over a single pipe. I would prefer to go over PCIe without Thunderbolt every single time.

Having a fucking brain necessitates being a Mac hater. If you think you're getting anything near the capabilities for full duplex 10 Gbps Ethernet over Thunderbolt without a true 10 Gbps Ethernet controller in the system, you're a damned fool. If you do have a 10 Gbps Ethernet controller in the system, just use it directly.