only an idiot thinks prices will stay this low. seriously, this happened in 2008 as well.
Just until the Saudis decide they've screwed the Iranians enough and cut their production again. This dip is entirely political and nothing to do with long term trends in energy supply and demand.
I never studied. My phenomenal raw intelligence got me through. I could listen to the lecture, instantly digest the material, and understand it better than most of my classmates did even after they spent the evenings poring over books and lectures. Could I have done better if I studied? Absolutely. Would I have had nearly as much fun hanging out at the local watering hole during the evenings? No way. Grades are fleeting. Intelligence stays with you as long as you are above ground and cannot be taken away.
Taking you at face value, I would advise that you can only cruise for so long. At some point you have to combine a bit of work with that awesome mind to progress.
Astrophage
Or stellavore if you prefer Latin to Greek.. But "starivore" is an abomination. if you're going to make up new compound words, you should stick to the same language for each component. "Star-eater" would be ok.
The population of the USA is about 320M, so that works out at 160M, or $1.6M. NASA's budget is actually around $17,647M, so you're off by three orders of magnitude. Do you, by any chance, work for Verizon? It's actually about $55 per person in the USA (including children).
As opposed to the useless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which cost abut $6 trillion or $75,000 for every American household.
Yup, this raise one of my big complaints about some SciFi stories: lack of economic plausibility.
Science Fiction is great for looking at how we might deal with various potential technologies. Readers are perfectly happy to suspend disbelief and accept whatever technology is proposed. What readers aren't willing to do is suspend disbelief and accept people behaving implausibly.
To write good science fiction, you need to accurately portray people. You can make up the technology, but you have to get humanity right. And that means you have to get the economics right.
I would recommend Iain M. Banks' Culture series where a post-scarcity society turns economics on its head.
Bad idea, created by "Twitter Generation"
You really need to review your history. The open office has been around for centuries, if not millennia. Mind you back then the Monks weren't allowed to speak. And that doesn't even touch on Dicksian nightmares and the middle of last century. What is new is people not shutting the fuck up and annoying everyone else.
From a British perspective, it seems we transitioned from small offices to open plan about 20 years ago. Cubicles have never been common here.
"Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
-- Nixon
Ah, yes, that wise old leader. I think his best quote was
we will bomb the living bejeezus out of North Vietnam and then if anybody interferes we will threaten the nuclear weapons.
Torture is useless as an intelligence tool. It is also counterproductive for any reason other than a "sense of vengeance".
Sure, it satisfies that, but then you lose the moral high ground. And that shit is actually important.
It doesn't matter if it is effective. It doesn't matter if they lied about it. What matters is that the USA tortures people and torture is wrong.
The crux is there are a billion more people in the next ten years. There will not be enough jobs for these people. Yes, yes, we already know no one gives a damn about the bushmen in the middle of nowhere, but we are talking about Americans
From where I stand most Americans in the middle of nowhere and no one gives a damn about them either.
I don't see why it should be a reason to be "proud". Gay is the way he is rather than something he has chosen but it does not confer some form of superiority on him. If he was a paedeophile though, that definitely *would* be a reason to be "unproud".
Whatever, see if I care.
Some people are even proud to be American even though there are lots of heterosexual American paedophiles.
Intelligence is knowing that everyone around you is full of shit. Wisdom is knowing you are, too.
The flip-side is imposter syndrome where you live in fear of being found out as an idiot. You wonder how long you can keep on winging it doing your well paid job when you know you're not really that good at it. So maybe if you feel that, you should be less hard on yourself. This, of course, does not apply to me as I'm actually brilliant.
"rrrybgdts" is a nursery rhyme. It doesn't even have to be written on a sticky.
And, of course, nobody would have Row Row Row your Boat as their password so the crackers are unlikely to try it.
Are you of slavic origin? Bog means god in Bulgarian, and is similar in other languages in the family.
I was referencing The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress but actually only found out it was a Bulgarian word in Sophia earlier this year.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
