Comment Re:Here are your odds (Score 2) 350
This is actually two bets, isn't it? One is that I live to be 93. Not terribly likely.
Hey, you're right. Time to excise the Boston Tea Party out of the history books.
Interesting. I've had the opposite result with mice. I can get the young ones easy, but the old wily ones I got to trick some how. The last infestation I had to deal with was 11 mice. The very last mouse I killed was this big fat misshapen guy who ran slowly and in a straight line. No dodging, no attempt to hide. I literally dropped a trap right in front of him and he walked into it.
My interpretation is that that mouse family was taking care of their disabled relative.
The arbitrariness of species is one of the realizations that lead to Darwin's book. It forms a key part of his argument. Divergence time means "time to last common ancestor". If we take these arbitrary groupings, and say these are mice, and these are rats, then we can take a rat and a mouse and use genetic tests to guess how long it has been since they shared an ancestor.
What we'll probably find, even though our initial grouping was arbitrary, that for the most part a given mouse and a given rat's common ancestor will be about as far in the past as any other pair of rat and mice.
Provide low-cost federal insurance for colonization and asteroid mining missions, like we do for nuclear power plants.
From a technical standpoint, no single decision has ever been that important... The problems tend to be around alienating users or developers and I'm pretty good at that. I use strong language. But again there's not a single instance I'd like to fix. There's a metric shitload of those.
It's probably not a coincidence that Torvalds said this just a few weeks after critics like Lennart Poettering started drawing attention to the abusive nature of some commentary within the open-source community. Poettering explicitly called out Torvalds for some of his most intemperate remarks and described open source as "quite a sick place to be in."
Still, Torvalds doesn't sound like he's about to start making an apology tour. "One of the reasons we have this culture of strong language, that admittedly many people find off-putting, is that when it comes to technical people with strong opinions and with a strong drive to do something technically superior, you end up having these opinions show up as sometimes pretty strong language," he said. "On the Internet, nobody can hear you being subtle."
"As you can imagine there's a lot that goes into taking people up into space," said Dr. Shawn Bearden, associate professor of physiology at Idaho State University. "And there's an equal amount and perhaps even more risk and danger and issue associated with coming back down."
The first group of test mice will eventually die, but there are plans to make later groups return to Earth safely.
This is just you growing up and realizing video games pre-order has no value and is just a way of getting money from suckers. This has always been true. A couple of times a year this happens and each time a whole new batch of gamers is rudely awoken to this fact.
If your concern in life is ethics in video game journalism, you got serious problems.
There's a difference between a written plea deal and the prosecutor bamboozling you in person.
Let me preface this with the fact that I'm an intellectual property specialist. I bill $450/hour, and still have lots of time to work on my startup without having to take venture capital.
I thought about some educational answers for your questions, but the insult at the start of your comment rubs me wrong and I decided I don't owe you anything. So, I'll save them.
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