I don't recall people of Seattle complaining about how Bill Gates ravaged their city in the 90's...

whoever thought running scripts from random sites and ads was a good idea?

My plan:

1. Kill the Senate Launch System and bury it in a landfill
2. Fire everyone who thought it was a good idea
3. Wait around a few years and play Kerbal Space Program
4. Buy a ride on Falcon Heavy R and save a billion bucks per launch
5. Now you can afford to haul more stuff to Mars for a city

Thank you, I'll take the $5000 in cashier's check, Visa or Mastercard.... but definitely NOT American Express.

That's an understatement. If everything goes according to Elon's plan, we might have weekly or even daily Dragon launches in the future. Calling the US Navy and having them send out aircraft carriers every day to retrieve capsules from the Pacific would get pretty expensive!

Having the capsule return to the launch site and land with precision is gonna be a big money-saver.

If Shuttle had a launch escape system, it would've been used at least once (Challenger) with 7 lives being saved.

You mean attach a cord to the USB thumb drive, tie the other end to your wrist, and insert the thumb drive into your computer before using it?

Seems like a hassle. The cord would have to be pretty short for this to work. It might be ok for temporary sessions on a laptop at the public library, but not for daily use with your home desktop (which is likely not on your desk but on the floor).

Someone should make a wireless version. Using a USB wireless mouse with those little snub receivers you plug into the USB port could work.

You leave the snub plugged into the computer. When the mouse is turned on, USB state changes and you have a live USB human interface. Then you type in your disk encryption key and use the computer. If the mouse is turned off OR if the mouse goes out of range of the receiver, USB state changes and computer shuts down. Now you just need to pull the guts out of the mouse and put it on a fashionable wristband or whatever.

See, this is why climate change is still such a contentious topic. You sound exactly like a religious fanatic. Anyone who does not agree with you is stupid (you said it four times in your two-sentence post). They are denialists. What you really mean is, they are heretics.

People like you living in an echo chamber might not hear this, but there are reasonable, non-Republican, not paid by Big Oil, non-stupid people out there who harbor some level of skepticism for various reasons. Not the least of which is the religious fervor with which Climate Change (nee Global Warming) believers attack their opponents.

For me personally, it was the history revision, deleting of hundreds of mentions of Medieval Warm period off of Wikipedia by climate crusaders. And the attempts to dismiss other historical records as garbage ramblings of primitive people. The Romans and the medieval monks and the Renaissance people were all stupid, right, because they didn't live in the enlightened age of computer models?

So you have to think in absolutes? Either (education = intelligence) or (education != intelligence) ?

Statistics will bear this out, but simple common sense says more intelligent people will tend to be better educated. People with 80 IQ do not spend 8 years and a hundred thousand dollars trying to obtain a PhD. There is a correlation. Of course there will be degrees and exceptions.

Direct IQ tests are even better correlated with intelligence than education level. But even that is not an absolute.

Maybe it's not new physics, but old physics. Would the universal aether from ~18th century explain this phenomenon?

in a small asteroid, live in that. Asteroid dirt should be good shielding material.

Too farfetched? I think so too, but people were talking about capturing an asteroid and bringing into lunar (or earth) orbit and mining it...

it must suck to be you. I on the other hand use Firefox with Adblock, and reading the article right now with no ads bothering me.

Denialist propaganda funded by Big Oil. Scientists have proven that those events were mere anecdotes recited by primitive tribesmen and never actually happened. The overwhelming consensus is that due to manmade climate change, it's hotter right now than anywhere anytime in the history of the universe.

they're probably talking about wanting to run Android/iOS apps on Windows 10 phones.

I live in California and get my internet from Verizon.

Apparently the guy from TFA streaming 10 copies of Game of Thrones was not an American then? I didn't know Verizon provided broadband service outside of the USA.

I have Netflix and there is no streaming option, only DVD discs.