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Comment Re:Retire at 20 (Score 1) 358

set for life means not having to work a job.

Not having to work does not mean not working, it means that you have the freedom to take risk-free risks...
Let's say he takes the money plays with some of it (new car, puts aside money for a degree) and puts most of it in some sort of investment, and ends up with 100k a year after tax.
He's 19, he can now go out secure in the knowledge that any project he takes on will not ruin him.
Start a new company, go looking for venture capital, spend the year networking, new company fails?
Damn... oh well looks like he still has a solid enough income to just try again.
Spend the Summer chasing tail coming up with a new idea, try again in the winter, fail.
Try again in spring, oh this time it worked, made another load of cash.

Set for life does not, should not mean never working again, it means having such an amazing safety net that even when you fail you are still able to live well enough to try again with out the danger of losing you home, having trouble affording food, ending up back in your parents basement in your 30s.

Comment Re:exponential version growth (Score 4, Informative) 309

I have a copy of (most of) 0th edition at home (the "little brown books" that came out before Basic).

And if it's made from animal hide, it's vellum, not parchment.

parchment = skin (of various animals).
vellum = high quality skin (of various animals).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum

Comment Re:No pictures? (Score 1) 120

I assumed the OP meant a nice informative diagram rather than an actual image of the planets... the pretty artists rendition of a star and a planet doesn't do the complexity of the orbit any justice.

Comment Re:dont use print links (Score 1) 208

That's a very good point...
People *should* link to the main article, but then the main article should be on one page, not spread over 5 pages and surrounded by massive piles of crud... also the print page still has adverts on it, so there is still some advertising revenue from your visit.

NASA

The Best Near-Term Future of Space Exploration? 444

An anonymous reader writes "Much fanfare has been made about manned missions to moons and planets, but little has been done about travel to the asteroids — until now. NASA is working on plans for a trip to the asteroids by 2025. This type of mission has great potential for positive economic return based on the fact that no effort has to be spent on getting in and out of a distant planet's gravity well. Yes, we should go to the planets, but we should master mining the asteroid belt for resources first because it is easiest. What do you think?"
Idle

Iron Baby 139

When Iron Baby wants O's, Iron Baby gets O's.

Comment Re:Icarus? (Score 1) 138

Of it can refer to the physically impenetrable Walls of Troy which were only breached through cunning trickery...
Much like when she takes all your condoms and secretly pokes holes in them through the packaging so that she can have your baby... actually that's more likely to happen the other way round but anyway.

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