Not surprising at all. Astronomy is still a field where there is a lot of "discovery" going on. In many other sciences, we basically know what everything does, and we are trying to find out how those things happen, whereas in astronomy, we're still trying to discover what's out there. When you don't know what you're looking for, the only way that you can find it is luck.
Consumers, he said, were chafing against the restrictions that using a netbook imposed on them.
That's been the situation since portable computers were invented.
What made netbooks seem like something new is not the hardware. Cheap low-end laptops have been around for deaces. The shift occurred because that a cheap laptop now serves 90% of computing needs - the internet. Yes, consumers will chafe against the 10% of things they can't do on a netbook (games, video) but that doesn't mean that they won't keep buying netbooks. That's like saying that because people don't like the pick-up in low-end cars, all cars will suddenly become high-end cars. That's silly.
Well, that's nice of them, but it should have never happened in the first place.
"We didn't realize our dick move would receive so much public attention."
...they discovered the "dead ant" smell that would signal the colony that "this one is dead, go put it on the pile." When they put the scent on a live ant, the other ants would carry it off to the pile, ignoring the fact that it was squirming the whole way there...
Later made into a major motion picture.
...what if you go for a job and they recognise you from a site you have nothing to do with called bustedpartysluts.com?
If I recognize an applicant from bustedpartysluts.com, she's almost certainly going to be hired.
No, once they are over 30 something clicks and they become more interested in preserving their own wealth than in idealism, so they become conservatives.
What seems radical today will be sound public policy thirty years from now. The only true conservatives died off 10,000 years ago. It's been wave after wave of liberals ever since then.
...30-40 years down the road, the Pirate Party will most likely become obsolete as the other more "mainstream" parties will have taken up the pirate cause and then people will vote based on the economy, etc. because everyone will care about allowing filesharing and increasing privacy.
Just like the Greens went away when we solved that whole environment thing. Or labour went away after all working-class issues were settled. We are in the midst of shift to an information economy. Face it, intellectual "property" issues are likely to become increasingly important as technology makes the old restrictions more and more obsolete.
The scanners they run on your computer are not there to look at your personal files, track down copyright infringement, or anything else...
...yet.
Not to belittle the Cold War, but a big factor in the Berlin Wall falling was poor East Germans knowing the West Germans were doing it much better and that the only way to join in the wealth was to liberalise.
Why hasn't this exact same phenomena had any effect in North Korea, which literally shares a border with a much more prosperous neighbor? What about in Cuba -- less than 100 miles away from the US, with plenty of contact via the refugee population? If anything China is much more isolated than either of those two.
Who's going to feed all of these underprivileged lawyers once they stop being hired to sue students, 10 year old girls and dead grandmothers?
Don't worry, they'll all get cushy jobs in the Obama administration.
... the problem the US has with the "right to live" is that it eliminates the death penalty, not that the government wants to reserve the right to kill, kill, kill.
What exactly is the difference?
...because Rudy Giuliani was mayor at the time and handled it well. And never passed up an opportunity to mention that he did so, either.
A noun, a verb, and 300 BCE.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
