a civilization capable of interstellar travel is almost certainly capacble of terraforming, or I guess it would be xenoforming.

I hardly think they would come all this way to raid our puny little planet.

they would able to extract necessary resources from their own, or adjacent solar systems.

really ? his "look over there" move is to address climate change ?

really ? something the majority of americans couldn't care less about ?

you are a troll, but I don't have any mod points.

precisely _why_ has has money for this.

you are unhappy but you are an Oracle customer.

the game is to make your customers as unhappy as possible, but not so unhappy that they stop buying your product.

20,000 screaming idealogues who equate taxes used to educate children to create a literate society with fascism.

idealogical morons, the lot of them.

well the fucking morons in his district elected him.

then, because he's a loyal soldier in the war on science, the republicans gave him the chair of the committe.

remember these committe appointments are political give outs.

you might end up with someone who is actually competent, but it certainly doesn't have to be that way.

and interestingly this high and mighty witch hunt for dishonest scientists never seems to extend to the carbon cartel which has an extraordinary financial interest to lie through their teeth.

what we're seeing is exactly why they lie. there is absolutely no down side, and muddying the waters is very useful to them.

nothing good.
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seems like they could have beat the IR drop by simply bringing out sense lines.

it's not obvious too me how this helps intel.

unless of course the motherboard makers aren't doing a very good job with those external regulators because the intel chips now require such high performance regulation.

that's a distinct possibility.

+1

I'll tell you what's wrong - you have to know to put exim4-config in there.

Just try and figure out how to reconfigure your keyboard.

why dpkg-reconfigure doesn't take an option to let you know what the hell it is you _can_ reconfigure is another great mystery.

takes care of your commute and exercise in one fell swoop.

you would not believe how good a shape you can be in biking only 5 or 6 miles one-way to work.

obviously you have to be able to do it relatively safely which is not always easy depending on where you live.

just following orders has long been the refuge of scoundels.

wars are massively expensive but we continually find the money to fund them, and the ROI on war is awful.

we get a bunch of wounded warriors back and nothing else to show for our trouble.

but somehow making a long term commitment to renewables is always, always "too expensive".

now it's financial engineering.

and social distortion programming. the number of start-ups working on social apps which look to be completely worthless is mind-boggling, and they are getting bought up all the time for ridiculous somes of money. we're all going to write social networking apps which try to sell each other social networking apps.

America the land where people made things is disappearing and we will absolutely be worse off for it.

        your commute time then absorbs some of your exercise time.

        also, while you are at work do some simple PT/yoga type exercises for 5 min every hour or two.

        regardless, get up and walk around ! sitting at your desk continuously will definitely cause problems - start good habits now while you're a young whippersnapper.