Theft is NOT a good long term solution to any problem, you can ask the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, etc
You left quite a few countries off of your list. America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand as well as many European Colonial powers, all have done very well by stealing, often whole continents.
How much when you're littering the orbit in front of Mars with landers? Every Martian day Mars will travel over 1/2 a degree of its orbit, close to a couple of million miles. If you're going to do that much maneuvering, perhaps over twice the distance between Earth and the Moon, why not just directly land.
In my Province, there was always a 10 km/h buffer so you wouldn't get ticketed until 60 km/h in a 50 zone and considering the inaccuracies of speedometers and how perfectly the radar was calibrated they pretty well had to have the buffer. (Easy to argue in court about 2 km/h and camera/radar calibration) But yes they did start out with the cameras at the bottom of hills until there was so much blow back that they moved them.
Places like the bottom of hills where most people are going in access of the speed limit at the bottom but coast back to the speed limit fairly quickly. There's a bad one I drive regularly, 4 lane divided highway with overpasses, basically a bypass that goes up and down a big hill and when going down the speed limit goes from 80 to 50 km/h about a mile and a half before the light at the end of the road. Everyone slows down at the bottom of the hill on the approach to the light as it is a very safe stretch of road.
Not only that, but in Canada we're now logging the northern boreal forest, trees that grow a couple of inches a year and will take a long time to regenerate the forest.
Living in a temperate rain forest, after 10000 years since the glaciers left, there's only a few inches of soil over most of the ground. Exceptions are in depressions and such where you have the cycle of ponds slowly turning into meadow and then forest but most of the trees seem to rot pretty quick. Then there are fires that periodically go through (90 years ago here since the last big fire). Vancouver Island as an example seems to get thoroughly burned about every thousand years based on the shade intolerant tree species. As for the municipal dump, the one here is now in the business of building and selling soil. Huge chipper chips all green waste as well as lumber and reduces everything to small particles when it is mixed with chicken shit, composted fast in big plastic tubes with huge fans driving air through so it rots in a couple of weeks. I'd guess much of the carbon would go back into the air but a good chunk would get sequestered, especially if the soil is laid down thick. There are a lot of bacteria, fungi and such that will eat the soil and release the carbon.
Just make it simple, people who drive need to be put down. That way we'll catch all the bad drivers and as everyone is a bad driver at least once in a while...
No more then being killed by a tired driver, a texting driver, a driver with passengers, a driver driving in a strange place, a driver using GPS, a driver using the radio, a driver looking at their speedometer to make sure they're not speeding or basically anyone who causes a ton+ of vehicle to move more then walking speed. I say jail them all, or perhaps execute them as they made the choice to drive knowing they might make a mistake or become distracted.
We should expand the crime to driving tired as being over tired is as dangerous as driving drunk. Just as alcohol affects different people differently so we have a hard limit on blood alcohol levels, we can do the same with tired, if you work over 8 hours a day, you're not allowed to drive as you're a danger to everyone else. Put them in jail, bring back the chain gang, punish them for endangering others. Just like drunk driving, driving tired is a choice and just as anyone who has two quick beers deserves locking up, so does anyone who works a long day and then jumps into their car. They can take a taxi or whatever.
Wouldn't that result in the supplies spread out over the Martian surface? Mars is big and the supplies need to be deposited close to where the explorers are going to land.
The same problem as sharing anything that somebody thinks is important but really isn't. Would you be happy to be bombarded with atheist messages, communist messages or perhaps Muslim messages? People often get mentally ill and believe weird shit that doesn't have any relevance to reality and the rest of us don't want to hear it as it is like listening to someone going on about what they dreamed last night, not real.
Originally the Milky Way was the Universe and when other galaxies were discovered they were also called universes and this use persisted in some dialects of English.
It's not a Godwin if it's on topic which it is. I'll add the other problem that they had was focusing on expensive hi-tech instead of lots of lower tech. How much did they waste on the V2, good tanks that were vastly out numbered and so on. America and its allies who are forced to trail along are making the same mistake. Personally I'm pissed off as a Canadian that our government signed onto the F35 program with no bidding or such, totally lied about the costs, when what we really need is a plane that can fly in arctic conditions and keep flying if it loses an engine.
It's nice to know that hundreds of years after giving away Copyright as a means of eliminating book licenses... we are back to book licenses.
Oh, wait, sorry, I'm wrong: that's exactly the opposite of "nice to know".
Copyright and its history shows the biggest flaw in democracies. Right at the beginning of discussions of copyright at the beginning of the 18th century, the elected representatives were willing to give publishers infinite copyright (even arguing the BS that it was for the authours/artists) and it was only the unelected upper house that pushed for a limited term (14+14) with the works going into the public domain "for the advancement of learning" after copyright expired as well as copies deposited in the libraries of the 2 main universities. Now with the upper house being neutered in most western democracies and elected representatives in charge of writing laws, we see copyright being basically extended to infinite as well as other methods being applied to keep a work ever falling into the public domain. The story of copyright is only one example of the problem of capitalist democratic societies where the government morphs into an institution to protect businesses instead of serving the people.
The American Bill of Rights only restricted Congress from limiting speech, eventually the 14th amendment was used to expand that to all governments. For people back then, there was duels, tar and feathering and lynching for those who made offensive speech.
How are things compared to aprox. hundred years ago? WWI was in full swing with America about to join, the Constitution was being ignored in many ways, eg people being thrown in jail for distributing pamphlets and the Supreme Court OKing it by comparing free speech to yelling fire in a theatre, wealth was concentrating much like today, the corruption of the government was even more open then now with industrialists openly talking about the Senators they owned. The justice system was probably much worst if you were guilty of being the wrong colour or very poor or pushing for worker rights with jury nullification regularly used to let murderers off. The Prohibition mind set was getting louder and louder which soon led to the militarization of the police and the expanding of federal power. Things always seem worse in the present and it is always hard to see how things were in the past.
China also has regularly peacefully voluntary power transfers between the conservative and liberal branches of the party every 8 years and probably quicker if a loser gets appointed. A little more closed but not much different as only party members can be appointed and change has to come from inside the party, eg while still called Communist they've slowly changed to Capitalist (Fascist). And in both systems if someone is too radical such as Ron Paul, well they're shut out of the process, eg the media announce 1st, 2nd, and 4th places.
Also look at the fate of Saddam (trying to sell oil for euros) and Kaddafi (trying to trade oil for gold) as well as all the propaganda against Venezuela and Iran who have also been selling oil for Euros. The Petrol Dollar is backed by military might.
We should do this for everything. Buying food and standing in the line at the cashier, start an auction about who should be first, if someone is willing to pay $20 for a loaf of bread shouldn't they be first? Driving down the road and want to get somewhere fast, pay extra and be able to cut off other drivers. Bad accident, rather then triaging based on seriousness of injury, treat whoever can whip out the most cash or platinum credit card. If someone can't stay conscious then obviously they didn't want to be treated that bad.
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Theft is NOT a good long term solution to any problem, you can ask the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, etc
You left quite a few countries off of your list. America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand as well as many European Colonial powers, all have done very well by stealing, often whole continents.
How much when you're littering the orbit in front of Mars with landers? Every Martian day Mars will travel over 1/2 a degree of its orbit, close to a couple of million miles. If you're going to do that much maneuvering, perhaps over twice the distance between Earth and the Moon, why not just directly land.
In my Province, there was always a 10 km/h buffer so you wouldn't get ticketed until 60 km/h in a 50 zone and considering the inaccuracies of speedometers and how perfectly the radar was calibrated they pretty well had to have the buffer. (Easy to argue in court about 2 km/h and camera/radar calibration) But yes they did start out with the cameras at the bottom of hills until there was so much blow back that they moved them.
Places like the bottom of hills where most people are going in access of the speed limit at the bottom but coast back to the speed limit fairly quickly.
There's a bad one I drive regularly, 4 lane divided highway with overpasses, basically a bypass that goes up and down a big hill and when going down the speed limit goes from 80 to 50 km/h about a mile and a half before the light at the end of the road. Everyone slows down at the bottom of the hill on the approach to the light as it is a very safe stretch of road.
A fact that needs purging from the history books. The very idea that the enemy is human needs to be vigorously denied.
Not only that, but in Canada we're now logging the northern boreal forest, trees that grow a couple of inches a year and will take a long time to regenerate the forest.
Living in a temperate rain forest, after 10000 years since the glaciers left, there's only a few inches of soil over most of the ground. Exceptions are in depressions and such where you have the cycle of ponds slowly turning into meadow and then forest but most of the trees seem to rot pretty quick. Then there are fires that periodically go through (90 years ago here since the last big fire). Vancouver Island as an example seems to get thoroughly burned about every thousand years based on the shade intolerant tree species.
As for the municipal dump, the one here is now in the business of building and selling soil. Huge chipper chips all green waste as well as lumber and reduces everything to small particles when it is mixed with chicken shit, composted fast in big plastic tubes with huge fans driving air through so it rots in a couple of weeks. I'd guess much of the carbon would go back into the air but a good chunk would get sequestered, especially if the soil is laid down thick. There are a lot of bacteria, fungi and such that will eat the soil and release the carbon.
Just make it simple, people who drive need to be put down. That way we'll catch all the bad drivers and as everyone is a bad driver at least once in a while...
No more then being killed by a tired driver, a texting driver, a driver with passengers, a driver driving in a strange place, a driver using GPS, a driver using the radio, a driver looking at their speedometer to make sure they're not speeding or basically anyone who causes a ton+ of vehicle to move more then walking speed.
I say jail them all, or perhaps execute them as they made the choice to drive knowing they might make a mistake or become distracted.
We should expand the crime to driving tired as being over tired is as dangerous as driving drunk. Just as alcohol affects different people differently so we have a hard limit on blood alcohol levels, we can do the same with tired, if you work over 8 hours a day, you're not allowed to drive as you're a danger to everyone else. Put them in jail, bring back the chain gang, punish them for endangering others.
Just like drunk driving, driving tired is a choice and just as anyone who has two quick beers deserves locking up, so does anyone who works a long day and then jumps into their car. They can take a taxi or whatever.
Wouldn't that result in the supplies spread out over the Martian surface? Mars is big and the supplies need to be deposited close to where the explorers are going to land.
I'll assume it was just a quote.
Of course this raises the question of how people too poor to eat can read a USB stick. Perhaps the average N. Korean owns a computer?
The same problem as sharing anything that somebody thinks is important but really isn't. Would you be happy to be bombarded with atheist messages, communist messages or perhaps Muslim messages?
People often get mentally ill and believe weird shit that doesn't have any relevance to reality and the rest of us don't want to hear it as it is like listening to someone going on about what they dreamed last night, not real.
Originally the Milky Way was the Universe and when other galaxies were discovered they were also called universes and this use persisted in some dialects of English.
It's not a Godwin if it's on topic which it is. I'll add the other problem that they had was focusing on expensive hi-tech instead of lots of lower tech. How much did they waste on the V2, good tanks that were vastly out numbered and so on.
America and its allies who are forced to trail along are making the same mistake.
Personally I'm pissed off as a Canadian that our government signed onto the F35 program with no bidding or such, totally lied about the costs, when what we really need is a plane that can fly in arctic conditions and keep flying if it loses an engine.
Actually there were WMD's in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
And America should have nuked whichever country supplied them to Saddam, zero tolerance and such.
It's nice to know that hundreds of years after giving away Copyright as a means of eliminating book licenses ... we are back to book licenses.
Oh, wait, sorry, I'm wrong: that's exactly the opposite of "nice to know".
Copyright and its history shows the biggest flaw in democracies. Right at the beginning of discussions of copyright at the beginning of the 18th century, the elected representatives were willing to give publishers infinite copyright (even arguing the BS that it was for the authours/artists) and it was only the unelected upper house that pushed for a limited term (14+14) with the works going into the public domain "for the advancement of learning" after copyright expired as well as copies deposited in the libraries of the 2 main universities.
Now with the upper house being neutered in most western democracies and elected representatives in charge of writing laws, we see copyright being basically extended to infinite as well as other methods being applied to keep a work ever falling into the public domain.
The story of copyright is only one example of the problem of capitalist democratic societies where the government morphs into an institution to protect businesses instead of serving the people.
The American Bill of Rights only restricted Congress from limiting speech, eventually the 14th amendment was used to expand that to all governments. For people back then, there was duels, tar and feathering and lynching for those who made offensive speech.
How are things compared to aprox. hundred years ago? WWI was in full swing with America about to join, the Constitution was being ignored in many ways, eg people being thrown in jail for distributing pamphlets and the Supreme Court OKing it by comparing free speech to yelling fire in a theatre, wealth was concentrating much like today, the corruption of the government was even more open then now with industrialists openly talking about the Senators they owned. The justice system was probably much worst if you were guilty of being the wrong colour or very poor or pushing for worker rights with jury nullification regularly used to let murderers off. The Prohibition mind set was getting louder and louder which soon led to the militarization of the police and the expanding of federal power.
Things always seem worse in the present and it is always hard to see how things were in the past.
China also has regularly peacefully voluntary power transfers between the conservative and liberal branches of the party every 8 years and probably quicker if a loser gets appointed. A little more closed but not much different as only party members can be appointed and change has to come from inside the party, eg while still called Communist they've slowly changed to Capitalist (Fascist). And in both systems if someone is too radical such as Ron Paul, well they're shut out of the process, eg the media announce 1st, 2nd, and 4th places.
Also look at the fate of Saddam (trying to sell oil for euros) and Kaddafi (trying to trade oil for gold) as well as all the propaganda against Venezuela and Iran who have also been selling oil for Euros.
The Petrol Dollar is backed by military might.
We should do this for everything. Buying food and standing in the line at the cashier, start an auction about who should be first, if someone is willing to pay $20 for a loaf of bread shouldn't they be first? Driving down the road and want to get somewhere fast, pay extra and be able to cut off other drivers. Bad accident, rather then triaging based on seriousness of injury, treat whoever can whip out the most cash or platinum credit card. If someone can't stay conscious then obviously they didn't want to be treated that bad.
Perhaps the patent examiners have actually used a taxi and are familiar with them?
Boredom can be torture, especially for a creature that is used or has it in its genes to roam a large territory.