I always find it funny. When I respond to someone and point out the flaws in their argument and they don't respond but I get their one immediate downvote, I consider it a victory. They can't respond with any kind of logical argument but also they're upset about their inability to defend their point. It's like two victories in one.
It helps to think that if someone is a complete jerk to you when they respond to your comment, they're a jerk so you don't have to care what their opinion is. I know it's easier to say than do, but my general feeling is that if I don't respect someone, I don't really care what their opinion of me is. In fact, I'd be more bothered if they agreed with what I said.
Because they're a science research lab not a computer programming lab? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying but they're not the right people, nor in the right situation to be solving this problem.
Unless you have an actual need to write a lot of 7s in a row and then rush off and actually do something you otherwise wouldn't have been able to accomplish had you omitted them, you can't claim that as usefully saved time. The tiny fractions of time by themselves aren't enough to do anything on their own therefore the total amount of things you have accomplished in your life would be the same whether you added the lines or not.
Everyone knows that... that's what they mean by free, free to use. Why do you think people don't know this? Did you just figure it out or something? Are you seriously that slow?
I would say, take the money from other things that suck, like handouts to the rich and wasteful military overspending which would easily cover the things we need to cover. Defunding NASA would contribute to the dummification of the country and is a terrible idea.
You'd have to find people who knew how to do those things. Cisterns, aqueducts, and even farming didn't just happen, they developed over time of people figuring out small things, and passing on the information generation after generation and building on the knowledge slowly. For the vast majority of human history, we didn't do these things.
Take ten or twenty random people from modern society and see how many of them know how to grow plants in a harsh environment and good luck getting one who knows how to work with stone. Just look back into our past, even relatively modern history, how often groups of people who were experienced farmers with passed down knowledge were almost, or actually were, starved out by the environment. Surviving is hard, even for those who have practised it. Modern society has made us forget that. Nature is waiting to own us again, and when she does, it will be brutal and nowhere near as easy as you make it sound. There's a reason we almost went extinct numerous times.
If you could hand pick a group of survivors, sure you could make a community, but you don't get to hand pick. You get who you happen to meet out of those who happen to survive which means random, which means good luck keeping the required skill sets alive.
Ah this brings back the memories of the race to close pop-ups as you can hear your parents coming home. For every one you close, three pop up to take it's place. You can hear the key in the lock. Sweat pouring down your face you finally do it, you hit the last X and nothing new pops up. You have defeated the pop-ups... this time.
"JOBS I said. Dementocrats want to fool you saying words Bigly long. Always fooling with the words DIMWITcrats. LOW TAXES I said and don't need biggerly words"
I'm sure I'll get shredded for this, but I keep my passwords in a notebook. Every once in a while I go through and change them all into other random nonsense and reorganize to keep it neat. I am a bit of a notebook fanatic and a have a whole shelf full of them. If someone ever broke into my house there's no way they're going through all of them to find anything like that. If the house burned down, maybe a bit of a problem, but as long as I have my phone I can get my email back, and between my phone and email I can get any of the important ones back as well.
If I had corporate or government secrets and was the target of espionage I'd probably rethink, but the danger of anything is so minuscule.
I think you made a mistype there. A box of KD contains exactly one serving. No more, no less, and I refuse to countenance any further discussion on the matter, thank you sir, madam, or else-wise!
They know most people who don't know one way or the other are downloading chrome just because that's what they heard to do. They also know anyone downloading firefox is doing so for a reason and won't be dissuaded by pop-ups.
Reject apple. Return to Star Trek TOS communicators