Comment Re: Bone a Neanderthal (Score 3, Informative) 128
it couldn't be measured if it weren't a distinct genotype. That says nothing about speciation, of course.
it couldn't be measured if it weren't a distinct genotype. That says nothing about speciation, of course.
You gain no privacy or right-mindedness by not letting mail "stay" on their servers.
The law disagrees. Stored e-mail is different than e-mail that passes through a server.
If it's in-house software then it can be fixed - no excuses. If people don't fix problems they know about and can fix then they get what they deserve.
Show me somebody who has a huge investment into a physical machine controlled by some proprietary software where the vendor has gone out of business and there's no source available and then I'll have a bit of sympathy, but even then put it on a VM on its own VLAN - these are not extremely difficult problems.
and since there are no historical examples of a non-abusive government, minimizing taxation is the only way to minimize abusiveness.
why? Because the interior minister's uncle wants a new boat. Oh sure, launder the cash through a few welfare programs, but more complex explanations are not required.
Solvent? There is nothing but IOU's in the "trust fund" - future taxation is the plan for paying out SS. Between that and Medicare for the boomers, each non-retiree (man , woman, and child) is on the hook for $900K in additional taxation over the boomers' retirement. Gene therapy will be banned and age wars seem possible. Arithmetic is inflexible that way.
The legacy of Bell Labs kind of runs contrary to this idea, because they were not only paid to come up with ideas, but also told to come up with ideas that would be profitable.
And yet C and Unix came about because someone wanted to play games.
How much mail do you really send that you are still buying stamps?
Outside of a dozen or two holiday cards, maybe three or four pieces a year.
I realize lots of businesses still send things out usps, but they are probably printing their own postage at this point anyway and not using actual stamps.
I've yet to see a solution suitable for home users.
It is a waste of precious resources to turn a woman into a computer programmer when she's a lot more valuable as a mother.
Ha ha! What a great satire of a shitheaded sexist troll you've done here. I especially like the bit about how any distraction, disruption or stress could cause a miscarriage. My doctor, a black belt in karate who trained up until her 8th month, would get a real belly laugh out of that. And my sensei, the EE, would surely get a chuckle out of the implication that she wasted her life by not being a baby machine. Keep polishing the satire and you could have a real career here.
(Assuming, of course, you're not serious. Because no one that stupid could survive.)
The government has no right to a monopoly on any weapon.
However, my neighbor storing atomic weapons in his garage is a reasonable threat to my safety and so should be heavily regulated. If he can meet the same safety standards as the government (maybe some billionaire collector could do this), the state has no legitimate authority to have nukes of its own while denying him one. Or, ya know, maybe nukes are an inherent threat to people and no one, state or otherwise, U.S. or Iran, can have them. But "we can have them, you can't" is not a logically defensible argument.
My neighbor storing machine guns or a typical shooter's supply of ammo in his garage (again, subject to safe storage requirements, no storing a loaded machine gun pointed at my house) is no more a threat to my safety than him having the usual home hardware and chemicals in there. (
Even a tank is not threat -- and indeed, for just $1175 you can spend a day driving one around.)
Hmm, now I'm curious. A fighter may have a takeoff weight of say 15000kg. Let's say that the "short lean female" saves 40kg over an "average male". With the other reductions - clothing, oxygen, etc - you probably get down to maybe a 60kg savings. That's a 0,4% reduction in system mass. The rocket equation (applicable here too) probably boosts that up to about a 0,5% benefit in many regards. Still not that much
However, if you can shrink the cockpit , then you're looking at a much bigger advantage - possibly 100-200kg extra weight savings and maybe cutting 5-10% off the total aero drag. That could actually be a big deal - relevantly faster accelerations, top speed, range, etc.
Good. Space suit design needs a modernization anyway.
There is no "how human societies have been organized". Some societies have had (and even continue to have) near complete segregation of the sexes except for reproductive purposes. Some have had full integration.
And "popular wisdom" is in general stereotype BS. It was "popular wisdom" that said that people of African descent were worthless for anything except manual labor and it's pointless to try to educate a woman, that gays are a social evil that needs to be obliterated, that burning witches is the only way to save the town, and that letting the races mix is tantamount to national suicide.
Males are not optional.
Strangely not creative enough to hide your gross sexism. Perhaps an aggressive retort would help defend your point?
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