Comment Re:Miserable? (Score 1) 215
You have it exactly wrong. I don't get angry because I ignore the calls.
How the hell do some of you people get so many of these spam calls? I've had my cell # for a good 10 years and I'm shocked to get 2 spam calls a year.
I don't know but I'm guessing it only takes being on one list and then you're on all of them.
They did make her life miserable up to the point she gets that money, if she ever does.
Miserable? Seriously? I get far more than 153 unsolicited calls a year so I just don't pick up long distance area codes I don't recognize. Getting a call once every two days doesn't make a normal person miserable.
Nobody cared about the Zune because there was nothing special or compelling about it. It was a me-too product introduced several years too late to matter. It's most compelling selling point (and compelling is a stretch) was that it wasn't made by Apple
I'm going to say it: I loved the brown version. It was beautiful. Whether it was ahead of its time, or behind its time, or just too niche, I don't know. I just know it looked fantastic in person and literally like crap in pictures. As for other compelling reasons: the Zune had better sound quality, better software, and a better screen than the iPod.
The OP's article doesn't mention that the original target of discovering 90 percent of NEOs with a size of 1 km or greater (extinction-size) has already been achieved. The bar has been lowered to 140 m, but those aren't an extinction threat.
Given that these sorts of events have consequences on a planetary scale and that little things like nation-states mean absolutely nothing if we lose the species, why the hell isn't this an international effort? Why does the USA have to do all the grunt-work? (I'm not a yank BTW). This really is something I could get behind the UN for actually doing something useful lately. (The UN has done SFA of use since eradicating smallpox).
Because we already drafted the blueprint.
Today folks *pay* for this kind of equipment *out of their own purses*, and the spooks are not the only ones listening in.
You mean like a combination microphone/speaker/gps/internet traffic monitor you carry around with you all day long every day? Like that kind of equipment? The echo is tame in comparison.
People born today will be too old to be part of the astronaut class that goes anywhere other than LEO.
Yeah, so many of us chose more exciting jobs because we'd be stuck in LEO if we decided to be astronauts instead. boooorrrrriiinngg. I mean, I guess I could do it, but I'd probably just end up changing careers in a few years anyway.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
