They knew about the dangers of radioactive contamination, and radiation in general. They just didn't care. That's the real story.

"Hearing the sonic boom of the B-52s'" Those are subsonic jets. No sonic boom. But loud though.

Everyone who claims god both all-powerful is not an evil, sadistic, bastard.

A god who could create this world without killing off the vast majority of every generation of every species of every living thing (except humans after we invented science and democracy and capitalism) yet did not do so is unequivocally evil by any sane standard of morality.

A god who could not do so is not all-powerful.

Evolution is the most vicious, inefficient, monstrously cruel mechanism for the creation of the diversity of life you could possibly imagine, and if you want to put that on your god, go right ahead. Just don't expect me or anyone with a gram of human decency to think that your god is anything but a monster, worthy only of our hatred and contempt, because god knows that's all he has shown us.

And again: if you claim that your had no choice but to use this hideous, genocidal mechanism to create us, you are doing nothing but claiming your god is bound by a higher power that imposes that necessity. And what value is god that's merely a beefed up space-alien with superior technology, but still limited by the laws of physics, or logic, or some other greater power that governs the whole ordinary universe, god included.

There's no change in what Canonical collects. It's still the exact same spyware as before. Canonical merely says now that they'll try not to hand out your IP address to other people when they hand out your local searches.

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Oh goodie! Another ID number to protect my privacy!
Can get AdID #1?
I want to be the first and most anonymous.

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You can add to that: objects which cost $22 to print.

The choice is:
(A) Keep printer materials on hand and use $22 worth of material to self-print the object now, or
(B) Waste $10 of my my time and $1 of gas heading to home depot to pay $9.99 for it.

It doesn't matter if it costs more to print something than it costs in a store. They're a lot of value in not having to run out to buy something.

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Of course not.
Most people here look at a CNC mill and think 'can i lathe a girlfriend with this?'

P.S.
Don't skimp on the sanding step. Splinters can be a real bitch.

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The printers may not be very good yet, but surely thay can print a 3.5 inch plastic disk-thingie.

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It may be "getting reprinted all over the fuck", but I had blissfully managed to avoid seeing it.... until getting stabbed in the eye with it on Slashdot. Thanx.

I've been awake 5 minutes and already I've had a 100% Recommended Daily Allowance of pain, misery, cynicism, stupidity, scientific illiteracy, and media whoring.
Now I can't check cable news for today's update on the budget/Obamacare battle.

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Lithobraking had previously been considered unachievable, until the brilliant introduction of post-hoc crumplezones.

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Agreed. I always insist upon a tetrahedron in my employment contract.

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The thing is, this new operating system will evolve like just about every other "we'll make it smaller and simpler" systems. If they are the next big thing, then sooner or later they'll go down the path of adding everything into their system that they ripped the other guys for having, then act like they invented it.

My entry to make better software tools: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/healthdata/feedback/health-sensemaking-software-tools

We could connect the dots based on approaches pioneered by the intelligence community.

You are entangled with the Schrodragon.
You both win and lose initiative.

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Take your TNG and get off my lawn, ya damn kids!

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