Comment Re:morons (Score 1) 83
Oh, and to clarify, Mars isn't a vacuum, it has atmosphere, just not much.
Oh, and to clarify, Mars isn't a vacuum, it has atmosphere, just not much.
How stupid are these people?!
Smart enough to have tested a prototype in a vacuum chamber that simulates Mars' atmosphere. And probably smart enough to RTFA before bashing somebody else. But I'm sure after reading a one paragraph summary that you are more educated on the topic than they are.
Since the site only has scientific value because it has been sealed away for millennia, I'd have thought they'd take more care about preserving its microbial integrity and not just go diving in it.
You're confusing this with Lake Vostok.
They're absolutely desperate to get away from Lockheed.
That's sarcasm, right? Have you heard of the F-35?
If I worked for Wikileaks, I think I'd be encrypting everything especially if it involved using a Google server.
Or better yet...don't use an email provider with any US presence.
the solution to the US terror problem seems simple. stop treating third world countries like they're children. quit overthrowing elected leaders and installing dictators, stop propping up nation states with a history of violence, and start treating the people who live in these regions as more than "hearts and minds" that you have to "win."
But then the terrorists win! Instead we need to be at war with them, and to win* that war we need to get that pesky constitution thingy the hell out of the way!
*winning the war on terror == giving large sums of money to defense contractors, and getting reelected by convincing the populous that they will get blown up if they vote for the other guy.
Or he's genuinely concerned about us STEM workers. Or the GOP wants to get STEM workers to switch sides (we're generally very strongly Democrat voters).
No, I'm quite certain he doesn't give a shit about STEM workers. It's the GOP's anti-immigration, pro-xenophobia ideology. But since the GOP also has their pro-corporation, anti-middleclass ideology, it's amusing to see what happens when those ideologies conflict. What it really tells us is that the particular companies he's beholden to aren't big H1-B'ers, so he is free to go with the anti-immigration ideology. Exxon Mobile, for example, only has 47 H1-B employees, out of 75,000 employees, so this probably doesn't even warrant a phone call from their CEO.
'You get what you pay for' is also common sense.
No, you don't always get what you pay for, but you don't get what you don't pay for.
The quarter ending 6/30/2014 shows Dish Network had a net profit of $213Million. Considering the penalty could be up to $912Billion, a full year's worth of net (not even gross, so the year would be a draw, not even a loss) profit should be the minimum . That would be $852Million, any thing less is just a slap on the wrist.
By the way, the article is from early this morning, but Dish Network's shares are up 3.4%. Clearly shareholders aren't taking this seriously, so why should the company's executives take it seriously? They need to be made to take it seriously.
The need for separation of science and state becomes more and more obvious every year since 1947.
NO. There already is too much separation of science and state, as evidenced by this very issue. There needs to be less separation of science and state, but we need to make sure that it's science defining policy, and not policy defining science. Try reading that again but replacing the word "science" with the word "reality" and you'll see what I mean.
I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize anyway, and I recommend everyone else do the same.
That's not an option for everybody, especially those who use their cell phone for business purposes.
You have to have explicit permission in order to do a robocall to a number.
How do you define explicit permission? If it's buried in page 12 of a user agreement that you have to sign, is that explicit permission? From a legal perspective, how do you separate that from the actual real-world permission like what you're thinking of? How about a line on page 12 that explicitly gives their "affiliates" permission to robocall you?
And that an old carbureted vehicle without a single transistor can be carjacked with a gun and a mask. And can crash into other cars. The real question is: Is the risk of causing deaths higher for autonomous vehicles or human driven vehicles?
Than how about they add some memory dedicated to the OS? The stuff is not that expensive these days...
They do. It's part of that 16GB that they advertise. This is how pretty much all devices are advertised. Do laptops and desktops come with a separate disk for the OS? When they advertise the size of the hard drive do they subtract the size of the OS? How about other brands of phones or tablets?
These people are completely ignorant about what they are suing for, in which case they have no business suing, or are suing just to sue (or because their lawyers are hoping to turn it into a class action suit, settle, and rake in millions while a bunch of people get 50 cents each), in which case they still have no business suing.
Any new competitor would now need to start from the very beginning like the smaller companies did in the 80s and 90s in obtaining access.
No, it wouldn't be like back then at all. Back then, they didn't have to fight a huge company with lots of money for lobbying and lawyers.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
