Pretty, and radioactive.

If we still depend on the Sun in 4 billion years, we're screwed anyway. Maybe we could've burried deep underground or something, shielded from the heat and toxic atmosphere, but we need to become a lot more mobile if we intend to live on as a species (not that it's likely to be the same species as it is today).

In Norway we get interests on the money we've paid over. If you're good at investments you might have better ways, but at least it's not wasted. I consider it a way of saving up money for later.

And of course, with "Pen and pencil" I didn't fuck up "Pen and paper". I don't use paper, I just use pens and pencils to write on whatever's in front of me at the time.

I still do the occasional computing without using a computer at all. Actually, I do it possibly every day, but a lot of that didn't even register as I was first thinking of this comment. There's stuff like computing the difference between the time it is now and when I'll be doing something later (or when I should've been doing something earlier), and various small purchases that comes up all the time.

I'm not sure on how to add up the computing time. If my computer could do that computing for me, it would take it fractions of a second for what I spend a significant number of minutes doing overall.

When I use the computer, I know it computes, but the vast majority of it is not something I perceive as "my computing". It's only in my programming that there is a noticeable amount of computing, that I'm telling my computer to do for me.

If I'm going to go by a different understanding of "computing time", I'm tempted to ask; how much of your computing time does your car account for?

With all these "security" measures clogging up the place, there must be a lot more targets for them to hit there, and a lot more easily, than on a plane.

I think they don't, because they see we're doing just fine oppressing ourselves and creating our own terror now.

We said they hated our freedom, so to discourage them, we got rid of it.

I thought the US was never in peace time, at least with the war on terror and everyone in the world being a potential target, including their own citizens in their own country.

No one knows that there even was a birth.

So in 75 years I guess all the ice has melted.

Evolution. A detrimental behaviour is less likely to survive, while a benefical behvaiour is more likely to. One spider constructs its web with better fly catching capability, it's going to get more food, be able to have more kids, those kids will have a gene template that'll likely make them construct a similarly decent web. Maybe one of them have a mutation that lead them to making an awesome web, and then a few generations down its descendents are the dominant ones. Something like that.

I don't care about my genes, but my genes care about themselves. Or nature does. The ones that produce the most offspring will be the genes that survive. The ones that don't produce offspring at all, gone.

All I'm saying is that morality comes from nature. It's a little complex with us humans since we started devloping language and tools, making genes not quite as important for transferring information from generation to generation. But that's still part of the whole system. If we end up making ourselves extinct by depleting the resources or destroying the environment that we depend on, that's evolution. We didn't make the cut.