Comment Re:Charlie don't surf (Score 1) 73
we could in principle build something for which the Earth is an incredibly hostile hot environment
Like, anything with superconductors?
we could in principle build something for which the Earth is an incredibly hostile hot environment
Like, anything with superconductors?
How many times do I have to show everyone you're a worthless piece of crap troll?
Zero more times.
Thank you, you beat me to it. It's disgraceful how much taxpayer money gets spent on those things.
The moon's close enough that we shouldn't bother with rovers, unless they're left behind by acutal astronauts..
If I go to the airport now I can get to Japan by tomorrow, but it still makes more sense for me to FedEx something there than to take it there personally.
So what, no Republicans voted to fund NASA or the NSF and Democrats don't vote for pork? This isn't MoJo, around here someone will call you on it when you engage in mindless political cheerleading.
BAD MOD: Not everyone will agree with this, but that doesn't mean it's flamebait.
The point of MOOCs is that since they're free, those who enroll in them can pick and choose from what's there that interests them. Plenty of people enroll in a MOOC because they want a refresher on something, or to learn about just one aspect of what's covered, or just to see what it looks like. It's not failure when those people don't go through everything in the course.
That doesn't seem to be considered a huge drawback in some Silicon Valley circles....
They may not be hardcore gamers or telecom experts, but when it comes to ruling on the law they are making determinations based on the exact wording on the law.
If only they would treat the Bill of Rights similarly!
When my Mom's old Dell running XP got too slow five or so years ago, I wiped it and installed Ubuntu, and she adapted quickly. She's still on Ubuntu now, but still has an old enough version that she has Gnome 2. I'm thinking for her 80th birthday in a few months I'll get her a new machine running Mint.
No one on their deathbed ever said "Gee, I wish I had spent more time at the office."
Yeah, but he's not dead yet. In fact, he thinks he'll go for a walk....
Wasn't a really low numbered one auctioned off for charity once upon a time?
It's too bad you think she's annoying, because in the meantime she grew up, and is really beautiful and seemingly really smart and interesting.
the FBI is a federal police force, not a spy agency that collects intelligence
The line is awfully blurry when you remember that it was the FBI and not the NSA that developed Magic Lantern.
Worse than that, during Christmas they claimed they delivered my package, but they really didn't. I had to get the seller to initiate an investigation, the conclusion of which was that it had actually been returned to the sender for no good reason and without apology. I get it that Christmas is busy, and if it had merely been late I'd have gotten over it. But they treated me really shabbily.
Incidentally, so did the seller, which took three days to respond to each of my inquiries, had no phone number, ignored my requests, etc. Pretty sad that from a company called 6dollarshirts you don't even get what you pay for!
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
