Comment Re:PISA Results (Score 1) 431
Maybe they weren't testing the right age group?
Maybe they weren't testing the right age group?
Actually, he has wings, can't use them but can run really fast. And he also cuuuute!
That's not even a 75mm railgun size. Can I fit it on my Velator?
Very few, I hope. I never found the Rubik's cube to be frustrating, even back in the day when I didn't know how to algorithmically solve it. It was a fun way to spend some time, experimenting various methods and combinations.
It happened because it's not a bug, rather an intentional behavior. Click the second link in the GP post, read thoroughly.
If it still eats up 1 GB memory for 3 open tabs (or 500 MB with no tabs), then sorry, it's still shit.
He is nice because it is also very low viscosity
But she is nicer than him, that's for sure, mainly because her viscosity is spot on.
Also, "increase in capacity over it's last 4TB drive".
I already had an alternative for years: my ISP. It has this free service where you login with your account, and pick [chosenname].go.ro - and that's it. Of course, some might consider it as rather limited but I think its more than fitting for a home user.
That is EXACTLY the mentality I am talking about.
1. people willing to give their lives for scientific advancement = suiciders.
2. according to 1. -> they're crazy.
3. You judge everyone according to your morally superior filter, even deny their rights because they conflict with what you've been taught is "normal" (OK, that mostly applies to all cultures).
Maybe those people would rather live heroically for one year than sit on their asses as couch potatoes for 50-60 years. Yeah, I know they would give up tens of thousands of burgers, not to mention all those tons of ribs and bacon, which definitely MUST be crazy...
I can't think of any purely scientific suicides either
Giordano Bruno?
He refused the offer of a full recantation, which led to his burning on the stake.
Marie Curie - her research led to her death by radiation poisoning.
Harry Daghlian (arguably) - he died trying to prevent a nuclear meltdown from happening.
There were also many scientists who performed dangerous experiments on themselves and lived to tell the tale.
People sacrificed their lives for scientific advance throughout history, up until recently. More so for rather narrow religious beliefs. Out of the two, I'd pick scientific advance as the better reason any day.
Yeah well, maybe you don't know the right people.
Volunteer to do what, exactly, from my country which is located in Europe?
There ARE other countries out there, you know...
This is the mentality of modern (western) civilization, where comfort (or its perception) supersedes the willingness to risk your life or even face certain death after a task is accomplished. People from other countries might not exhibit the same mentality, though. They would see life and achievement differently, and that's mainly because they haven't "advanced" that much, therefore their minds aren't fully set on that "life is sacred" BS. Sorry, but I think that's utter BS.
Many technological and scientific advances from the past were done with sacrifice (e.g. Marie Curie, reaching North Pole, South Pole, exploration of Africa). Of course, today's scientific exploration has been made more secure, and we've gotten accustomed to that idea. And we're right, in most cases, but there's still the odd activity which would only be possible through taking huge risks, including volunteers marching to certain death for the purpose of scientific breakthrough. The alternative would be to just curl up in a corner and ignore that scientific branch until further notice, aka "when it's safe" - and in a small amount of cases that would equal "never" or "in hundreds of years".
Which leads us to this specific thing we're talking about, which is space exploration. You can't "simulate" that, you have to go out there and do it. That involves risks, and there's plenty examples from our recent past where space exploration made victims. True, they weren't sent to "certain death" but the outcome was the same nevertheless.
This whole "it's unethical to have such a mission" thing is artificial, and is a byproduct of modern, Western mentality which values life more than anything else, including an activity which might literally "save the planet" someday (space exploration, that is). I find it ironic that one is willing to sacrifice themselves for things such as religious or political belief but at the same time science is a big no-no of a reason.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra