More like established and wealthy governments, in the name of democracy, national security and the usual world domination. It wasn't rogue scientists who have developed chemical weapons, the atom bomb etc.
When you meet a driver who will risk a collision rather than tollerate traffic infractions in others, what do you tell him? That he should stop driving by the rules? Hardly. No matter what you think about it, he's in the right and safe (from prosecution) as long as it's not him violating the rules. The same goes for driverless cars. Once you teach them to break the rules and one of them will get into an accident while being in violation, all driverless cars will be in trouble. Another positive result of this bevaior is that the more of such hardasses there will be on the roads, the safer the other drivers will be forced to drive in order not to cause a collision. In the end everybody will drive safer and less people will get hurt.
Are you kidding? Organized war is what we did since ancient Sumer (blasted Mesopotamia, it was trouble then and it is trouble now) and I don't see a reason to stop now. A global war would be a bit tricky, or at least too short for anyone to really profit from it because of nuclear weapons, but I don't see a reason why this year's Ukrainian campaign couldn't turn into a real war. The Russians already have a lot of weapons and 'vacationers' in there, it just needs a couple thousands well-equipped NATO 'vacationers' and we're good to go. I'm sure the Baltic states plus Poland would be happy to provide those...
Give "The Guns of August" a try - it's really good at explaining how easy it is to start a war, and how difficult it is to stop one, once the armies start moving. Also "Red Storm Rising" is quite interesting, if you prefer fiction.
They are actually welding the structure one drop of molten metal at a time. The energy expended must be staggering compared to classical construction technologies, and I'm pretty sure the resulting metal is seriously inferior to standard steel...
Well, I don't expect that the G7 will put the agreement into their respective constitutions. I don't even expect them to put it into writing, show it to their respective parliaments for ratification and then sign it. That would make this business too difficult to weasel out of later...
I don't think so - I can't even see how that would work, AFAIK solid fats don't go into ice cream at all. But I have no idea really, all I know is that the ice cream you get here tastes the same as everywhere else in Europe I've had the chance to try it.
A bunch of politicians who won't be around in 10 years agree to do something in 85 years? Wow, that's a real commitment to our future:) Especially since there won't be anything left to burn by then, and nobody to burn it (unless the cockroaches get on top of things really fast)...
Anybody who stands to lose more by having their (illegal) activities uncovered compared to being penalized for using (banned) encryption will still use it, so only the good guys, who don't use it to cover up their criminal activity will stop using encryption. At the same time they will be more exposed to data and identity theft, blackmail and illegal snooping. This just shows how little actually the FBI cares about the safety of common, law-abiding citizens. They don't see their mission as protecting people from becoming victims in the first place, but rather as catching criminals after the fact. It's logical if pretty evil - the more crime there is in USA, the more money and power the FBI gets. But folks - which one of those is better for us? Prevention or prosecution?
This is beyond futile, but at least it will greatly advance image recognition. Maybe they could also differentiate the ban by actual scene properties and try to vary them every week (like having a BBC week, ATM week, etc.) - that would be really useful.
The whole C language is one beautiful hack, scary at first but once you get to know it in some really messed up sw project you can't help but love it. The balance between freedom and structure is excellent.
You're right - killing people is a simple solution to all the problems you've mentioned. Dead people are surprisingly quiet, undemanding and cheap for the state. Your cops already know it and implement this solution like there's no tomorrow (especially for people of color)...
I'm sure you're right that religion plays a role, just as it played a role in what Christians did to others some time ago. I think the main difference between Tibetans and Muslims is that there are fewer Tibetans, their target (China) is a totalitarian state with enormous security apparatus, and they have much, much less money since it's difficult to drill for oil in Tibet. Regarding the biographies of 9/11 hijackers, I've read somewhere that suicide bombers don't avenge the wrongs done to them but rather those done to their community. Really, it's a bit ironic (in a very sad way). Muslim emigrants from war-torn Middle East are rarely welcome in other, wealthy and peaceful muslim countries, so they are forced to come to Europe and USA. There they can live well enough to have the time to start thinking about how much their respective country/city/neighbourhood/family/any other community they identify with has been wronged by the greedy westerners. Some of them, with a bit of religious radicalization, will act on it - against the country which has given them shelter.
Enlightenment is very much dependent on the amount of wealth and education available to the population, and these are in rare supply in the Middle East nowadays as they're not much compatible with bombing of infrastructure and civilians and exploitation by foreign powers. Now, if enlightenment were related to suffering, death and general misery, they'd be far ahead of us already.On the other hand, fanaticism feeds on tragedy and despair so at least they have something to do in their spare time...
...of non-Americans, of whom about 98% of those who know Snowden also like him. After all, he did help us a lot by showing us that the NSA most likely holds all our politicians by the... tapped cell phones;) Suddenly many strange decisions made by our voted representatives in the last 15 years make much more sense.
And then asking for money for anything he ever did or said? That takes some arrogance. Anyway, I wouldn't fear to go to court over this. I can't see how a German court would rule in a way that would look like protecting the legacy of a big-time WW2 criminal. Ha, that would make for some interesting headlines in all major newspapers around the world:)
...putting together a plotter for my ZX clone. The best thing about those time was - no MMORPGs to hook your kids at 6. The games of the time (and place) were so lame that it was more fun to learn BASIC:)
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More like established and wealthy governments, in the name of democracy, national security and the usual world domination. It wasn't rogue scientists who have developed chemical weapons, the atom bomb etc.
When you meet a driver who will risk a collision rather than tollerate traffic infractions in others, what do you tell him? That he should stop driving by the rules? Hardly. No matter what you think about it, he's in the right and safe (from prosecution) as long as it's not him violating the rules. The same goes for driverless cars. Once you teach them to break the rules and one of them will get into an accident while being in violation, all driverless cars will be in trouble. Another positive result of this bevaior is that the more of such hardasses there will be on the roads, the safer the other drivers will be forced to drive in order not to cause a collision. In the end everybody will drive safer and less people will get hurt.
Really, even Randall Munroe would have to work very hard to beat this one :)
To me, this is all the necessary evidence of a secret Russian space program. I'd just like to know why they select such clumsy astronauts...
Sorry, wrong internet...
Humans are messing with our planet?? Aaaargh! We must eradicate that scum!
'one to several days' actually means 'we have no idea what's wrong and how to fix it'... it's common CS lingo :)
Are you kidding? Organized war is what we did since ancient Sumer (blasted Mesopotamia, it was trouble then and it is trouble now) and I don't see a reason to stop now. A global war would be a bit tricky, or at least too short for anyone to really profit from it because of nuclear weapons, but I don't see a reason why this year's Ukrainian campaign couldn't turn into a real war. The Russians already have a lot of weapons and 'vacationers' in there, it just needs a couple thousands well-equipped NATO 'vacationers' and we're good to go. I'm sure the Baltic states plus Poland would be happy to provide those... Give "The Guns of August" a try - it's really good at explaining how easy it is to start a war, and how difficult it is to stop one, once the armies start moving. Also "Red Storm Rising" is quite interesting, if you prefer fiction.
Google search will achieve effectively the same results and will be much faster.
They are actually welding the structure one drop of molten metal at a time. The energy expended must be staggering compared to classical construction technologies, and I'm pretty sure the resulting metal is seriously inferior to standard steel...
Well, I don't expect that the G7 will put the agreement into their respective constitutions. I don't even expect them to put it into writing, show it to their respective parliaments for ratification and then sign it. That would make this business too difficult to weasel out of later...
I don't think so - I can't even see how that would work, AFAIK solid fats don't go into ice cream at all. But I have no idea really, all I know is that the ice cream you get here tastes the same as everywhere else in Europe I've had the chance to try it.
A bunch of politicians who won't be around in 10 years agree to do something in 85 years? Wow, that's a real commitment to our future :) Especially since there won't be anything left to burn by then, and nobody to burn it (unless the cockroaches get on top of things really fast)...
Anybody who stands to lose more by having their (illegal) activities uncovered compared to being penalized for using (banned) encryption will still use it, so only the good guys, who don't use it to cover up their criminal activity will stop using encryption. At the same time they will be more exposed to data and identity theft, blackmail and illegal snooping. This just shows how little actually the FBI cares about the safety of common, law-abiding citizens. They don't see their mission as protecting people from becoming victims in the first place, but rather as catching criminals after the fact. It's logical if pretty evil - the more crime there is in USA, the more money and power the FBI gets. But folks - which one of those is better for us? Prevention or prosecution?
This is beyond futile, but at least it will greatly advance image recognition. Maybe they could also differentiate the ban by actual scene properties and try to vary them every week (like having a BBC week, ATM week, etc.) - that would be really useful.
Aaaah, slide rules... sooo beautiful... :)
The whole C language is one beautiful hack, scary at first but once you get to know it in some really messed up sw project you can't help but love it. The balance between freedom and structure is excellent.
You're right - killing people is a simple solution to all the problems you've mentioned. Dead people are surprisingly quiet, undemanding and cheap for the state. Your cops already know it and implement this solution like there's no tomorrow (especially for people of color)...
...and make it do 180 degree turn - that'd be fun :)
I'm sure you're right that religion plays a role, just as it played a role in what Christians did to others some time ago. I think the main difference between Tibetans and Muslims is that there are fewer Tibetans, their target (China) is a totalitarian state with enormous security apparatus, and they have much, much less money since it's difficult to drill for oil in Tibet. Regarding the biographies of 9/11 hijackers, I've read somewhere that suicide bombers don't avenge the wrongs done to them but rather those done to their community. Really, it's a bit ironic (in a very sad way). Muslim emigrants from war-torn Middle East are rarely welcome in other, wealthy and peaceful muslim countries, so they are forced to come to Europe and USA. There they can live well enough to have the time to start thinking about how much their respective country/city/neighbourhood/family/any other community they identify with has been wronged by the greedy westerners. Some of them, with a bit of religious radicalization, will act on it - against the country which has given them shelter.
Enlightenment is very much dependent on the amount of wealth and education available to the population, and these are in rare supply in the Middle East nowadays as they're not much compatible with bombing of infrastructure and civilians and exploitation by foreign powers. Now, if enlightenment were related to suffering, death and general misery, they'd be far ahead of us already.On the other hand, fanaticism feeds on tragedy and despair so at least they have something to do in their spare time...
...of non-Americans, of whom about 98% of those who know Snowden also like him. After all, he did help us a lot by showing us that the NSA most likely holds all our politicians by the... tapped cell phones ;) Suddenly many strange decisions made by our voted representatives in the last 15 years make much more sense.
Man, it really took me some time to get that it's all meant ironically... K+ man, K+ !
And then asking for money for anything he ever did or said? That takes some arrogance. Anyway, I wouldn't fear to go to court over this. I can't see how a German court would rule in a way that would look like protecting the legacy of a big-time WW2 criminal. Ha, that would make for some interesting headlines in all major newspapers around the world :)
...putting together a plotter for my ZX clone. The best thing about those time was - no MMORPGs to hook your kids at 6. The games of the time (and place) were so lame that it was more fun to learn BASIC :)