Comment Wikipedia's page on the U.S. Constitution (Score 1) 165
(On the discussion page it looks like all the recent edits are coming from five guys at the Supreme Court.)
At least they weren't gzipped.
Don't be ridiculous. The dinosaurs lived long before the GNU utils were written. They would have been compressed.
If I ever do it again, I think I'll try just putting out a few plants in pots, rather than lots of plants in beds.
Try bushes. Once they take root, they don't really need anything, can last for decades, and are fast and easy to harvest.
And are you seriously telling me if she gets an iphone 64 GB 5S it's the same price as if she gets the $20 special?
In many cases... yes. The most expensive phones have an up-front cost in addition to the two-year commitment, but if you get the most expensive phone you can without an up-front fee, then there is no price difference between that one and the cheapest phone.
Yes, this is ridiculous.
When installing software and are 'forced' to 'agree' to many paragraphs of legalese before the OK button will become clickable, do you tick "I agree" and think "I agree" or do you tick it whilst thinking "I'm only clicking 'I agree' because I've discovered that that's what's necessary to proceed to the next installation-step?"
When people cheer for a tinpot dictator, do they think "this guy is awesome" or "I'm only cheering because I've discovered that's what's necessary to avoid getting killed"?
Internalizes helplessness isn't about being deceived, that's called stupidity. Internalized helplessness is about saying "I agree" no matter what you think, because you don't think "I disagree" would go well for you. You're treating having to jump through hoops to use a software you've already purchased as a fact of life you can do nothing about. Your spirit has, in however small way, been broken; you've begun to accept the will of various institutions and forces of human creation as defining the very parameters of your life.
You're not rejecting the idea of helpless subjectdom, you're embodying it. And so do Americans as a whole, more and more every year, as the powers that be continue slipping out of their control and consequently carry their tasks out without any real oversight, to the point of insanity and beyond. That won't end well.
On the one hand, I like my glasses. They have also prevented stuff from getting in my eyes more than once.
On the other hand, LASIK involves someone slicing into the front of my eyeballs while I am fully conscious and watching them do it.
the potential dangers to both humans and humanities infrastructure
If the humanities infrastructure suffers, no doubt there'll be fewer English majors, and more CS majors, so it'll be a good thing, right?
Or did someone mean "humanity's infrastructure"? Yes, I know, "my people don't do editing"....
Very few phones work on both CDMA2000 networks (Verizon and Sprint) and GSM networks (AT&T and T-Mobile), and they're hard to find in U.S. stores. Mail order doesn't let you hold the phone and get a feel for its size, weight, screen, and buttons before you buy.
What decade are you living in? Most recent phones have been either phones that work on both AT&T and T-mobile or LTE phones with multiple bands which would work on multiple networks. It is only the retarded Verizon specific phone that are designed to work on their bastardized version of the 700 Mhz band that have less utility on other LTE networks.
We'll get more results by using 20% of the money to expand SpaceX contracts, and applying the other 80% toward deficit reduction.
80% of SLS devoted to deficit reduction is a trivial change in the deficit (Better to split it between SpaceX and Orbital Sciences and mission development. Allowing $3B per year for mission development, that leaves enough to pay for development of Falcon9R, Falcon9 Heavy, and Orbital's equivalents.
Or just buy Dragon flights from SpaceX - $5B per year would pay for a Dragon launch every couple weeks.
Or an equivalent number of Falcon9R launches for unmanned missions. Or a Falcon9 Heavy every other month....
It's all the ones that are useless to serve or be eaten by humans that are going extinct.
The problem is, most animal species are useful in the same way as nails in a wall are useful: sure, you can remove one or two without any apparent ill effect, but keep taking them off and the roof will fall on your head.
Ecosystem is a machine, and while it can adjust to a part going missing or operational parameters changing that capacity has limits. Kill enough species or warm the world enough and you trigger a domino effect. It won't be the end of the world, but it will be the end of our world.
But of course the temptation to take just one more is too much. It just goes to show that human brains and mindset aren't actually fit to handle our current level of power. I wonder if this is the Great FIlter.
A Tesla with an extra 1/2 battery pack would bust that record.
So, really, with a half-pack of bonus batteries in the trunk of a Model S Elon Musk could easily set a new world record?
I love the quote, "Five hundred kilometres is pretty much as far as a normal person would want to drive in a single day." Oh, man, I've driven further to see a live show, and driven back essentially the next day (It's ~750km to NYC from my house). I wouldn't want to drive that every day, but It's not unusual to top 500km for a long weekend/vacation trip which we do multiple times a year.
Or problem is we put people into positions of power who developed their sense of morality at a time when "The Nazis" were still a valid political party and we didn't generally allow African Americans into the military yet.
And in 50 years, we'll be putting people into positions of power who believe something that is a very fashionable idea in 2014. No idea what it will be, but since we pick our leadership from among the elderly, and develop our ideas of what's good, right and proper during our youth, it's inevitable.
Note also, for reference, the "Buffalo Soldiers". They were around from the end of the Civil War (formed in 1866). There were Negro regiments during the Civil War as well.
It should be noted also that the 9th and 10th Cavalry, as well as other Negro regiments existed through WW2 until the military was integrated during the Korean War (considerably before the rest of US society).
Better, faster, cheaper.
Choose two.
and we're not really an apex predator either.
Yes, actually we are.
A very efficient one, at that, being omnivorous and all. It lets us get past that boom/bust cycle that so many predatory species have to live with....
Where there's a will, there's a relative.