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Just FYI for those who didn't see the History Channel show "Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe" that some of the engineering scenes were shot at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Here an article about it (link also on NIF home page): ‘Star Trek’ Boldly Goes to Unlikely Real-Life Locations
...even if her job was just to repeat everything the computer says...
Perhaps you were simply being funny but, for those unfamiliar, Uhura was the senior communications officer on the Enterprise. The comment quoted above is more appropriate for Sigourney Weaver's role as Gwen DeMarco on Galaxy Quest - which is obviously a parody of Uhura.
The positive feedback he [Larry Page] got from opening up about it inspired him to tell attendees at Google I/O that we should all be less uptight about keeping our medical records private. As far as Page is concerned, pretty much the only legitimate reason for worry on this score is fear of being denied health insurance.
Stories like this only remind me of how ignorant I still am and how I've wasted my life.
Don't feel bad. Maybe you've made coffee for, served fries to, or unclogged the toilet of one of these great people? Every little bit helps!
I had a summer job as a cook at local Pizza Hut way back in the mid '80s and made George Takei lunch once (there was a Star Trek convention in town). He signed the lunch receipt and I still have it. (Definitions of "great" might vary, but I think Mr. Takei qualifies.)
[ Note: Life since hasn't been a total waste; an senior system programmer/administrator. ]
Is it the health report? You can disable that as well either through the advanced tab under preferences or through about.config, just search for "healthreport".
The "Enable Firefox Health Report" only en/disables uploading the data to Mozilla. To disable data collection, set the config setting "datareporting.healthreport.service.enabled" to false. To clear already recorded data, delete the "healthreport.sqlite" file under your profile folder.
Is it bribery or do companies donate more money to politicians that will agree with their policies?
FTFY
[ BTW, The answer to both is "yes". ]
UPS and FedEx are cheaper and faster (for comparable services) than the USPS.
Unless you want to ship to somewhere UPS and FexEx don't deliver.
The USPS is required to deliver to all addresses.
The Post Office is in trouble mainly due to poor and overly restrictive oversight from Congress, which is limiting the USPS ability to respond to market forces (like limiting Saturday deliveries) and forcing the USPS to pre-fund its retirement fund 75 years into the future, in just 10 years: http://thegazette.com/2013/03/18/prefunding-care-is-real-postal-cost/
Beginning in 2007, the USPS has been required to pay 75 years of those costs in advance, and do so within just 10 years.
This pre-funding accounts for about 80 percent of the “losses” sustained by the Postal Service over the last six years. Indeed, that last quarterly profit was wiped out by a $1.4 billion pre-funding payment.
No other government agency or private company is required to pre-fund retiree health care.
No other company provides universal delivery service to every address in the country, six days a week. Even private shippers such as FedEx and UPS use the U.S. Mail for up to a third of their final deliveries to customers’ doors because they can’t match the efficiency of the postal network.
The rest of you assertions are just as flawed and/or incomplete, as others have pointed out. Medicare is vastly more cost-effective than private health insurance, with overhead expenses lower than any other insurer. It would be more so if it covered everyone.
When schools in Tennessee and the Bible belt still teach that man and dinosaurs coexisted, that the great flood killed the dinosaurs, that the earth is six thousand years old, and use religious texts as legitimate education tools, education needs some looking in to...
Though, even they will probably need good Healthcare at some point.
That is all nice and dandy, until you have an unruly neighbor. Ask Kuwait. Or Albania.
That is why you have allies. Ask Kuwait.
At first I thought it said "Alabama"
'We're even imagining in the future cars would be able to ask other cars, "Hey, can I cut into your lane?" Then the other car would let you in,'
Ya, unless that other car is a jerk, then it will just speed up to close any gap.
[ Will we be able to program a "personality" for our car? ]
Death from neutrino's? Woops containment shielding failed, nothing to see here... was it a tokamak?
I'm not sure you can die from neutrino exposure, but it doesn't matter with these people - you won't be able to tokamak of anything (apologies to Mel Brooks ).
Sadly, self-disqualification is exercising rational thought; something I think you'd want lots of in a mission like this.
Yes, the Catch-22 Logic:
The "Catch-22" is that "anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy". Hence, pilots who request a mental fitness evaluation are sane, and therefore must fly in combat. At the same time, if an evaluation is not requested by the pilot, he will never receive one and thus can never be found insane, meaning he must also fly in combat.
The only way to determine if it is fake is to participate in it. Take "The Hunger Games" scenario for example. You can either stay back in your little agenda 21 district and watch it all play out on T.V.
Ha! Shows what you know. There are only 12 districts - okay, 13, but we don't talk about them.
[ sigh ]
I can think of several people that I would like to volunteer for a one-way ticket to Mars. Were these volunteers self-nominated, or did Mars One accept third-party nominations?
People generally fill out their own applications and there's a fee (I think, $38 US via PayPal).
And... you all do know that an applicant does not *have* to go if chosen, right?
I wouldn't mind if the screen on my laptop was removable,
Oh, it's removable. Perhaps not usable afterward, but definitely removable.
Or did you have something else in mind?
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. -- Robert Benchley