If there are indeed people with multi-accounts in this campaign, perhaps they are "leveling up" those accounts to sell them later, and in the process make the minimum of posts to receive from the sig campaign as well; though to be honest, it seems far more work than it's worth. Perhaps byt411 is right, and it's more of a way to increase the post count in their main account. Or maybe a combination of both these things... 

This may be overkill, but considering the member list seems pretty full (visually at least), and that most people won't ever read the thread and your last post in particular, maybe you could add a "there are still X places open" to the first post, or something like that.

I don't know if this is what Tzupy was talking about, but perhaps along the lines of what a commenter on the site mentioned, the reduced gravity would require the printing process to be modified to ensure no defects were introduced into the printed objects. And maybe these modifications would require additional material or energy, making the process less efficient. Still, I'm pretty sure actually sending replacement parts to the ISS would require far more resources than simply printing them aboard directly.

Yes, but do you play all those on a regular basis? Because I think that's the point of this particular thread; not an account of all the games you have.

Well, part of the reason for the further tests is precisely to find out; it's not a final version of the printer yet, it seems. But the company that had been working on the printer had help from NASA so, as much as possible, it should be up to the task.

1 million views is a lot; and probably quite unrealistic, unless there is already some large social movement behind this. Anyway, if this is serious, would you be willing to escrow that 1 btc?

It will still undergo a few more tests aboard the space station, after which a permanent printer will be installed up there.

By the way, I want one too; this plus blender would be very cool. Anyone with a 3d printer want to print its components and ship them to me?

http://rt.com/news/165840-3d-printer-manufacturing-space/

Considering the price is now at $560/bitcoin, you might want to update the OP. 

Sure they don't... it's an 80 person cap.

I also let ooffice count it before I made the last post, and it seems to be at 75 people at the moment.

EDIT: there are however 4 extra people in the bottom of the list that aren't crossed out. I'm not sure what this means, but if they are still in the campaign, it means there's only 1 spot left.

From what I've seen, it's mostly people just re-enrolling, and not so much new signups. Besides, EvilPanda would have put up a warning that the campaign was full, if that was the case.

So, fatguyyyyy, there shouldn't be any problem in you just enrolling, putting up the sig, and start posting.

I want those, and I don't even like Pokemon. Very cool.



What about an huggable, talking Dalek?

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e9f9/

No, that's actually quite shallow.

Well, the US had already tried and failed to invade Cuba before the Cuban Missile Crisis; that's what the whole fiasco of the Bay of Pigs was about. Now, it's true that several wars were most likely prevented by both sides either having access to nuclear weapons, or allies that did. Pakistan and India are probably a good example: before they both had nukes, they engaged in about 3 wars, and none after. On the other hand, this means that what conflicts there are tend to be proxy wars; that is, instead of engaging each other directly, the nuclear powers arm and support conflicts in regions strategically important to them, if necessary overthrowing governments left and right by whatever means necessary.

But the reason I brought up the Cuban Missile Crisis was because it was an example of how close they were to using nuclear weapons on each other. And that isn't just at the top levels; there is the case of a soviet submarine, the crew of which finding itself under attack (the US ship was supposedly just practicing on it...), was deciding whether or not to fire their nuclear tipped torpedoes on the other ship. In the end, it came down to one person refusing to go along with it (all 3 officers on board had to agree). I guess I don't have to tell you what would have happened if that had gone differently.

On the same day, a couple of US planes flew out of course and entered Soviet space, which prompted them to scramble fighter planes after them; in turn, the US scrambled nuclear armed fighter planes. Again, things could have gone quite wrong, if cooler heads hadn't prevailed.

And remember, we're not in the clear yet; either intentionally, or due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, we can still find ourselves in the middle of a nuclear conflict. Sure, nothing like that has happened yet (except if you're Japanese), but if it ever does, it might not take long for the destruction to surpass all the wars that it "avoided" (though as I said, many turn into proxy wars of one type or another).

Sneeze on them.



Are you sure you wouldn't rather die? I mean, Vogon poetry is supposedly pretty bad.


Anyway, movie/book plots aside, I believe chances are we wouldn't even understand what we were looking at if any alien life were to come this way, let alone have any meaningful chance to fight them. Think of it this way: assuming we don't kill each other or enter another "dark age" before then, what will humans be like in 1000 years? What about 10000 years? Can you imagine all the knowledge we'll possess, and everything we will be able to do? Well, the elements and conditions needed for life as we know it have been around for at least 8 or 9 billion years; life on Earth is at most 4 billion years old. We could potentially be faced with species that have been around billions of years before Earth was even created. Assuming their technological progress was mostly positive, who knows what they would be able to do, or what they could possibly want with Earth for that matter.

Another thing I find interesting is this: even if we were lucky to be visited by a species that were just sufficiently advanced to have practical interstellar capabilities (FTL), but otherwise similar to humans, I'm not sure there would be much reason to assume they came to "invade the planet". I mean, any decent interstellar propulsion system would likely require prodigal amounts of energy to operate; energy which could potentially be redirected to some form of energy-matter conversion technology. Why waste resources on an invasion fleet and on a voyage to risk your hide fighting some weird species, when you could probably use all that energy to just create what it was you were after in the first place?

There are so many that I like... but here are 2 of them.

From Rosa Luxemburg:

From Robert A. Heinlein:

Rhetoric aside, no one is sufficiently stupid to go that far (disclaimer: this may be wishful thinking).

Now, as far as how the situation with Iran has been handled for example, that is a case in which I could sort of see them caving in to more extreme positions and (mis)handling the situation another way. On the other hand, the president only has a limited amount of power; it's not as if they can do whatever they feel like, so chances are that in these types of matters it's really irrelevant who is the puppet "in power".

The US only removed the murdering dictator because he was no longer useful to US interests; he was no longer doing its bidding as he had done in the past, so he had to go. The US was actively supporting him up to the point he ceased to be useful; just look at the Iran-Iraq war and the atrocities he committed with US help and technology (where do you think the chemical weapons that he used to slaughter his own people came from?). But the Iraq war had nothing to do with instituting democracy in Iraq as the propaganda goes. If that was the objective, it could have probably been accomplished after the first war when Iraqi generals were busy trying to get rid of Saddam, but which the US helped prevent.

The problem is, that is the only reported placed in which the data leaks happen; but no one knows if that is the only place where they happen. By using Ubuntu, or any other distro that is based on it, you basically have to trust them that no more information about you is being collected and sent elsewhere.

The prism-break page has a link to the discussion page in which they go into more detail about it: https://github.com/nylira/prism-break/issues/334

Wasn't it one such creature that said something along the lines of: god told Noa that there wouldn't be another flood, so climate change can't be a problem. Brilliant. 

But the truth is I'm not sure it's helpful to put this in the context of republicans versus democrats; perhaps the republicans are the ones taking most of the money from the oil companies, but the democrats are as corrupt as they are, and would probably join in if they could.

He's probably talking about the data leaks that are associated with Dash and the Amazon ads; basically, whatever you search for with it is sent over to whomever, Amazon in this case, but not necessarily only them.

For reference:
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/#operating-systems - see the last comment, which is about Ubuntu
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks


So, if you're not already using it, you might want to switch to the Debian based Mint and avoid the Ubuntu one.