not true, I have relatives that did the commune thing for years, and had a good time. then they got bored and tried other stuff.

two months ago software error in a 9M317 missile controlled by a BUK missile system rendered it unable to avoid being struck in midair by the careless pilot of Malaysian Airlines Fligh 17MH. Sadly, the missile was a total loss.

those things that run hypervisors for my virtual servers and network appliances, right? Yeah we call in service techs to replace or repair those sometimes, doesn't seems to affect my servers any.

Does true communism scale to anything bigger than a hippie commune?

Suppose the activation potential of a neuron is a quantum mechanical quantity that is probability driven (we know the light sensors in the eye are, sometimes a single photon can activate them). Your computer can't model that to arbitrary precision, the probability density function is continuous, analog, not discrete.

Yes there was some direct observational evidence, the predicted nuclei being present in the sun for both the hydrogen to helium and O-C-N. You are speaking of refinement of the model and gathering of more evidence. I was just miffed by someone saying "known since the 1960s", that's in my lifetime and I know for fact my grandfather was a kid when fusion known, in 1920 Eddington had the gist of what happens in the Sun: hydrogen to helium with 0.7% of energy converted to energy.

5 TB at 50 Mbytes of second to transfer to another drive, takes 32 hours. That's not "forever".

It's easy to do, at night when the Sun is dark

Good god man, Hans Bethe worked out the fusion processes in the Sun in the late 1930s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

if you're trusting a drive, "you're not doing it right(tm)"

. Now there is no Mac OSX server, just a "server add-on" pile of utilities for Mac OSX desktop. Never was a hit...

Yeah like that health nut Dr. Walford who claimed he was going to live to be 150 on calorie restricted diet. Well, he sure avoided any chance of cardio disease when he flopped over dead at slightly less than average lifespan for US citizen. ah well, it's the thought that counts

That's complete rubbish, civilization has extended lifespan. The groups mentioned in the slashdot summary have one thing in common, average lifespan well below average of first world citizen.

No, the points you raise are irrelevant. All government science programs are constrained by budget and other things, regardless of countries. So what, do you even have a point?

NASA has had incredible accomplishments with Mars exploration for over 40 years, limited budget and all.