And this is fundamentally different from Apple's OS -- FreeBSD + changes

This is talking abou textending the school year -- no one said kids would never go outside....

And you only need five minutes of sun light to completely restore vitamin D levels in the body. kids stand outside waiting on the bus longer than that. Schools are not going anywhere. The need for social interaction while learning is common to all people. What kids don't need is more overly protective parents making them stay inside all day at a computer to learn.

Schools should be and are where you go ot be taught what humans know. To gain skills to approach analytical problems, and a place to gain basic skills that are common to all jobs.

Changing how the school year is formatted is fine go for it, but it would be better to make the minimum requirements for teaching to be a lot higher. That would improve everything a lot faster. Make all elementary teachers have a BS degree in a science field and a teaching certificate. make all secondary education teachers have a MS in the field they teach and a teachers certificate. have them teach courses that are close to college equivalent. This will give us better educated youth.

[insert definition of pedantic here]

Could you expand on this question:

Like all colonies on Earth from the Imperialism era where there was the land grab in Africa to the American colonies: Once colonies become self sufficient their cultural base wants increased taxes because the colony operates like corp, but the people living there treat it as home and want independence from a culture that is not in touch with their day to day lives. How do you suppose to guarantee funding for Mars exploration while protecting the future of the endeavor from the issues of taxation and right of governance when the colony does become self sufficient?

Hello, related to this question, and the following question for that matter:

With Mars' lack of a magnetosphere and the MARIE experiment failing due to high radiation levels coupled with no ozone layer to absorb UV light, what hope do humans have of using the surface of the planet or introducing flora?

Would it not be more practical to send robots to the Moon and set up infrastructure in an experimental effort to identify problems. Granted the two are VERY different environments, atmosphere, and gravity, but surely the money saved on fuel and communication time would give the Moon a a very strong case to be first settled.

I have heard the arguments that rocket fuel can be easily made with late 1800's techniques from the CO2 rich atmosphere. Do those arguments hold any water?

Almost:

you had it up to the whoops

So you never get to see the cars as they crash. We are dealing with E=mc^2 so matter and energy are exchangeable. They are literally looking at the resulting energy and particles and saying -- hmm what could make you be the outcome. unfortunately in this energy range ALMOST everything creates the same outcomes. With one possible exception. The Higgs would leave the same outcome but with a slightly bigger energy signature. You never get to see it. But if you find enough signatures that are slightly too big then it must be real.

So you never get that test drive.

And this would be the first 0 spin boson i think -- fact check me on that.

Also the Higgs is the first tachyon -- NOT FTL - just an inconsistency in a field.

Post Higgs -- look st the charts -- what is going on around 200 GeV -- something unexpected ;-)

rewrite:

6 quarks
6 leptons
5 bosons --- odd man out -- perhaps the 6th boson is responsible for Dark Energy?

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the bosons are force carriers
gloun - strongest, over shortest distance
w+ w- and z -- strong up to 10^-18 m
EM force -- controls everyday life up to the size of large asteroid
Higgs -- gives mass to W/Z and if something is massive enough we call it's effect gravity
??? -- we now current theories of gravity fall apart on cosmic scales --- galaxies rotate to fast, space has an energy factor -- this points to another force ... but how do you test for something that operates on galaxies?? it was hard as heck to find the Higgs.

they have also targeted London and Paris -- UK and France two other nuclear states

the Hardware was never a question. A linux box or a windows box runs on the same hardware. It emulates directory setup, file system usage, dll and a lot of other little things.

A computer is by definition hardware -- or software. A computer is a machine defined by memory and a language that allows it to follow instructions and execute commands. A computer ceased to be hardware a long time ago, and began being able to fit into the pure software a long time ago. Depends on application of the word. But please understand that when you take a mathematics of computing course in grad school or undergrad you understand that a computer is a machine and a machine can be software.

Everyone is upset NVIDIA doesn't give away all it's secrets. There hard earned property. that they built. Why not go the more open route and create one set of driver standards for video cards. VESA -- everyone knows the standard and its up to the manufacturer to optimize their side and on the consumer side you get what you asked for.

This is actually a battle over special features -- my hardware can do some pretty sweet stuff, but I wanna control how you can access that stuff. the concept from above still applies, but there is no incentive for the hardware designer to devote resources (people and the salaries they have to pay those people) to help you bang out that new framework.

I love open source, but it's built on peoples free time. Companies have to justify how something makes them money. Saying this will build product sales in a 10% market share is not enough. So come halfway and get the framework done and they will optimize their side. This is the best of both world I get a product and they stay behind their doors, but it's a blackbox I can use.

Encrypt the hard drive all you wish, all they are asking for are the expected input and output specs. This does not have to change with an encrypted source.

Well then you should see Hawking in Intel's promotional video's --- he is making a lot of money promoting Intel lately. At the end of one video he state that Intel has always powered his wheelchair -- the video is quite gimmicky but it's Hawking so... I have no problem believing he has sold his soul to Intel, They are probably paying for his flight into space.

We know they had chemical weapons because we sold them to Iraq from the late seventies to the mid eighties... this wasn't a question of might and maybe -- but we knew they had chemical weapons because we gave them to Saddam. Hell Detroit gave Saddam the key to the city in 1979. He was a hero in the late seventies --- that all changed and we knew he still had some pretty good bombs --- now we were TOTALLY WRONG about having nukes.