Great, now you just need to explain what the point of sending bacteria on a long-distance space trip would be...

High unemployment is not sustainable. People won't just sit back and go "oh well, I guess I'm out of a job for the rest of my life. I'll just sit and do nothing".

The higher the unemployment, the more pressure on governments to do something about it, and the more incentive is given to alternative governments to introduce radical solutions.

I'm quite interested in the idea of universal basic income, since it would free up a lot of highly creative people to do what they love, and create new markets and push new innovative ideas further than is currently possible.

I don't know if/how it would work in every detail, but it sure seems like something we should be looking at as a society. I've heard rumours that there are places in the world where this is being trialled, but can't remember the details.

I was of the understanding that the Trust and Safety Council was specifically invented to protect the "offended" crowd.

These people seem to turn "being offended" into a profession.

Because no one ever got lost before GPS, right?

That's interesting. I wonder if that's why Google offers unlimited photo storage but at lower res?

Are you sure the real reason isn't just that you want people to continue to buy both a mac and an ipad? creating a hybrid would only compete with both of the other products...

I don't see how that makes download size irrelevant. It still affects performance even if running locally.

"I'm sorry, it seems I've forgotten how to fix that. Good luck"

And how do you suppose one should attempt to falsify that?

At the very best all you can do is say that some people from the first century WROTE that some other people had seen Jesus alive again after he died, some 40-50 years prior. It only works if you trust everything they wrote as being accurate. You can appeal to other events recorded in the same gospels, but now you've just increased the number of dubious events with no means of verifying any of them.

I think there is at best a lot of uncertainty surrounding the events, and at worst it's pretty damn likely there was no resurrection.

Exactly!

From the article:

[quote]Most of all though, we can see that this bomb, like just about every other real bomb, didn’t have a visible clock. Placing a pretty LED display on the outside of the box is something that happens in the movies, not reality.[/quote]

Um, yeah, until someone decides that putting a pretty LED display on the outside of the box would be a good way to have a bomb go undetected.

Doesn't manslaughter do that too?

How is this not modded up?!

In the Linux world, I guess we would call this "natural selection" ;-)

I've been using Arch Linux as both a work and a personal desktop for over a year now. What am I doing that you're not, or vice versa?

Arch excels at its primary purpose. It's by far the best linux distro I've used, and I've tried many (for serious work not just tinkering).

I agree.

Someone didn't THINK too DEEPLY about this...

This comment reminded me of Dr Sbaitso for some reason.

"I am Dr Sbaitso. Tell me your problems."