Sounds very much like the Parkinson's Law of Triviality

It "roughly" states that when in a committee:

If a matter is urgent, complex and of great importance - people will tend to hold their opinions back. And are happy to honour or agree with one expert advice.

However, with trivial matters - everyone will bicker for ages - arguing strongly, offering their different points of view.

Such as: What colour should we paint the new bicycle shed?

That seems to happens because the majority non-experts are now given a chance to "impress" or "control the issue". It's inferiority complex at play really. So they compete by voicing their "expert" opinion. Everyone is an expert in trivial matters, really.

I design websites. And because of that I never ever allow clients or worse committee's to dictate the design process.

So I do my thing, write, design, optimise, add pretty pictures etc. Choose the colour scheme. Make it live - and then once everything is complete - allow them to speak freely. But at least the job is done now. No waiting on what colour schemes to choose from.

That tell us more about you - as a stupid person. Then it does about Wikipedia itself.

Do you even know how a rocket works? There needs to be something "thrown" out one end for the rocket to move forward. If you "catch" it in the same structure, you no longer get the "equal and opposite force".

If you used the H2 and O2 to generate power to throw something else out the end of the space ship, then you might have a story (but then again, at the end of the day, what you are talking about is a battery / fuel cell hooked up to a solar cell to recharge).

This is obviously not how the shuttle works, nor do we build "rockets" that operate on this principle to get into orbit in the first place.

yeah, I was kinda hoping for that... :)

I am sorry but that is an incredibly felatious argument.

Calligraphy is a subset skill of good graphic designers.
So the art hasn't died.

Oratory is a subset skill of any influential diplomat or politician.

So there.

Music may become a subset skill of something else greater or higher. But it won't die off.

To be a good musician - you will still have to learn the theory and then practise.

Just like:

To be a good graphic designer - it helps to understand some of the concepts employed in calligraphy / kerning / brush textures .. etc

And I bet many politicians lusting for power : study hours on end - verbal debating skills. Are coached, buy books on the subject and so on (eg Oratory)

In those times.

If they lost 30% of the crew, that wasn't considered to be such a big deal.

But imagine the impact today:

When losing 10% of your armed forced during a war is considered way too much.

What would you do if you had 1 billion dollar on your bank account, and a fair amount of free time.

... Exactly.

Dr. Wilson, is that you?

I use on and off - Nicotine gums, to improve my alertness and fatigue at times.

I discovered that as long you don't cross a certain threshold - I will not get addicted, and spiral out of control.

This comes from someone who used to be incredibly addicted to Nicotine gum / patches - it was living hell.

Now for about 1 year, I've been chew nicotine gums on and off - in very small amounts (maximum 4mg in one day) as needed.

If by any chance I feel it is getting out of control, then I just go cold-turkey for about 2 weeks.

I do not know how harmful this is - or if it is any worse than caffeine, or my medically prescribed amphetamine and Ritalin.

Google gives exactly the same results.

So it's not Bing that is at fault here, but the Zune team invested heavily on SEO / SEM.

If it came with Linux pre-installed.

I am not bluffing. I did purchase a previous eeePC but wanted something better now - to take with me when I travel

I don't want to do all the installing Linux afterwards myself, really, enough of "hacking".

eeePC like any other pre-Linux venture (ie OLPC) just couldn't resist selling out their souls.

Sure I represent a minority, but in a v fickle market - it is the minority that tend to be v loyal.

The netbook fad lost my interesting - it's pretty boring now.

I have a Windows XP machine. And I've learnt this. The more I install, the slower it becomes. How else could you explain this phonemenom ?

So don't tell me that memory has no weight, cos it does !!!

Machines gets heavy yeah? Them fat disks spinnin ever more sloow.

Because of competition. It seems any species that ultimately ended up being the dominant one in a planet, managed so by killing, eating, enslaving or exterminating other species as part of the process. It is only our hope that technological advances means spiritual moral evolution - but that doesn't have to be necessarily so. How many times us human - supposed to be relatively advanced & civilized - still completely decimated other nations or races, or destroyed other habitats and brought other natural species to complete extinction?

if you have the code, you can modify it or experiment further to create impressive textural .. ok more life "fluid" .. soundscapes. Add that to music production and whoosh / wow / ahhhhhh ok ...