The summary starts by mentioning the House Majority Pac, and then segues to a claim a Democratic Pac wants to push people to vote. The House is, of course, where the Republicans have the majority, not the Democrats. Both sides aren't doing it, one side is.
If I'm not mistaking, that quote is from part-time philologist Jim (Massy) Plato who is still busy philosophizing while fishing the Alaskan gulf for dungeoness crab when he's not seriously pondering life's shortcomings from underneath his barstool.
Touché...
... And the image of a dungeoness crab will remain with me till my dying day.
Dungeness crab, on the other hand, tend to disappear from my table in moments.
I don't have to worry about it anyways, I'm not in Maine and I'm sure someone else would kill her if she ended up killing/infecting others. But you should be worried about it. The WHO says Ebola can stay alive for days in blood. They also say that wild animals get Ebola and infect humans. So that fantasy is actually real life in other parts of the world.
not knowing who one of the most famous astrophyscists in the world is.
Given that I am a physicist and work on Dark Matter I *very* strongly doubt that. If you rephrase that as one of the most well known astronomy presenters on TV in the US perhaps but I'm not in the US, have never seen or heard of that TV program and while I'm not an astrophysicist I can name quite a few and he would not be one of them.
Based on what evidence?
The fact that I am a physicist, talk everyday to physicists and go to conferences with physicists and I know only one physicist who reportedly believes that DM is likely to be due to a MOND-like effect (I've not actually met him). You can probably go and look at the papers as well: I've only seen a couple on MOND-like models and that was several years ago vs. far more on particle-based approaches (both theory and experimental results). The type of particle is unknown: axions seems to be more popular than WIMPs for the theorists at the moment but I'm not aware of any MOND community, let alone one the size of the DM particle community.
Giving up a key or DNA sample is not signifying your approval; it's just surrendering information which is stored outside your brain.
Technically isn't your fingerprint also information which is stored outside your brain? How is this really any different than requiring you to surrender a key to a locked filing cabinet? You could make the exact same argument about that as well: the key is just a means to signal approval.
Police already use fingerprint information to identify where you have been and what you have handled so you are already required to surrender this information. If you choose to have this information unlock your phone then that's your choice: stick to a password if you are worried about what is on there.
Who knows? The main argument has been against the compelling part, if they can read your mind through involuntary responses that may be legally permissible. They probably can't get a confession that way, but they might gather leads on what you may recognize or feeling or whatever. They show you a picture of your dead wife, your brain goes to hate. That cute secretary you have a secret affair with triggers a quite different and legally interesting response. And photos from where the body was dumped triggers recall responses more than shock responses, oh my. They are after all allowed to play mind games with you, that's what most interrig... sorry, interview techniques are all about. Maybe it'll be like sci-fi series where characters hum children's rhymes to avoid telepaths being able to read their thoughts.
In regard to your sig, it's "baseball bat", not "baseball club". Have a nice day.
No, he means 'club'. The Mets frickin' hate systemd.
True, but rightly or wrongly those people are perceived of has being in control of their own fate and could have escaped death with better decisions. Here you just strap your butt to someone else's bomb.
My impression is that between guides, porters, avalanches, snow storms and equipment failures they're highly dependent on other expedition members and accept quite a bit of inherent risk in what they're doing that they don't in any meaningful way control. It's not like you can walk off on your own, you bend or break with your team. If you can put your faith in them you can put it the people making your spaceship too, not because they'll be perfect because they won't but because they're (hopefully) smart and doing their best.
This. Ask people who the first man in space is and if they have a name it's almost certainly Yuri Gagarin, unless they confuse it with the moon landing. Very few count Alan Shepard's suborbital flight as really going into space even though he took a peek and got the astronaut wings for it. What SpaceShipTwo is delivering will certainly give you some bragging rights, but you'll also find many party poopers who'll tell you it's $200k spent on not really going into space anyway.
And there's a lot of potential for SpaceX to improve on that $20 million/head if they take a Falcon Heavy which should be able to lift 8-9 Dragon capsules to orbit as it has payload 53000 kg to LEO, one Dragon is 6000 kg launch weight. My guess is that it's possible to design a "Dragon XXL" to carry 100 people to sit on top of that rocket. At $85 million for the rocket let's say $100 million total with capsule - a $1 million/head trip seems entirely within reach in the next 10-20 years. While that is still out of the average persons' reach there's literally millions of millionaires out there who could go if they spent their entire net worth going. And thousands who wouldn't even feel it.
Thanks for at least being honest.
"Because I, personally, was not consulted about this change, I'm outraged on the internet and will wage a holy war of FUD."
You do get that the FOSS community is in its very essence about consultation? That consultation and cooperation are the only fucking way this whole fucking open source thing is going to work?
Yes, people get shirty when their input is ignored. No, it is not fucking FUD when we say, 'You have no right to ignore the complaints of roughly half of everyone who actually gives a shit about this topic.' It is not FUD when people highlight at length and in detail the many, many ways that systemd's design sucks.
Maybe systemd will get better. Most software does. But until its developers grow up enough to actually argue the thing on its merits and not simply to dismiss every criticism as aversion to change, it's going to face strident opposition.
The guys (and woman) who died in Challenger were heroes. The casualties from this crash were like the people who died building the Empire State Building.
- you know you are an actual asshole, right? What, the difference between people that are flying space ships for private business and for NASA or whatever agency is that in private business they are billionaires? Nope. The owner of the company is, the people flying the fucking rockets are heroes even before they blow up.
By the way, asshole, the only way to achieve real cheap space flight is to have commercial space flight, and just like anything that is done before it becomes the thing that everybody can afford, the first years of it are going to be expensive and only affordable by the wealthiest individuals. Just like cars used to be.
I take it this is considered space exploration.
This is space tourism.
And yes, this might well be considered the first death in commercial space tourism.
Obviously.
This is a setback, but crashes happen.
If everyone had given up on airplanes in the early days because of a few deaths, then we'd all be taking the train today.
Right, you've gotta break some eggs if you want to see the big return on investment.
A few lives here and there aren't going to stop the quest for profits.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai
