Then let me ask you one question. This so wonderful, useful society, which all governments are supposed to be a part of, should be in a location fitting this ultra-neutral platform.
Now, where did they decide to put that headquarters... I know it's around here somewhere... IN NEW YORK CITY.
Ok, I certainly agree that the ISS is a great experiment. I have a picture of it for my wallpaper. But, it hasn't accomplished anything other than being uber-cool and a nice platform for other experiments. But we haven't had any major impacts from work done there.
And as to confining humanity to this planet, I certainly agree that this is a big step. Colonizing other worlds could also reap mining benefits, etc. But we're a long way from there right now, and we've got enough problems to deal with here than the logistics of returning things from other planets to here. We're certainly not going to offload all our excess population to another planet.
I've been often asked by friends and others just why it is we send people to space anyway. I fully understand all the inventions that we've gotten during the process, such as better rocket power, Tang, etc. But I have a hard time coming up with things that we've discovered because a person actually went along to accompany an experiment.
The best I know of is that humans are able to adapt to failures in space, so that if an experiment starts to go awry, an astronaut can fix things on the fly. But I have a hard time even coming up with human-controlled experiments that have had society-changing effects.
Although there are obvious privacy concerns about a machine anaylsis of speech, the insurance company isn't going to make decisions purely based on the machine results. They simply have tons and tons of tons of claims, and can't possibly examine everyone for accuracy.
The IRS does the same thing, just in a different manner. The use a machine to examine select fields in your return, to see if you might have cheated somewhere else. If their computer flags your return as suspect, then it gets a closer eye, a human eye, which can tell for sure if you really ARE cheating.
So the same thing applies here, as does is many lie detector tests. It's only used to raise that flag of "maybe, just maybe, he's trying to cheat the system". They're not good enough to be in courts, so they aren't. If you get denied a claim, you get to ask why, and it legally can't be "sorry, the machine said no".
And, if they catch frauders, they'll pay out more dividends yes, but then they can also lower premiums to attract more customers, and more customers is where the real profits come in. Anybody who thinks that a company's first priority is paying stock dividends instead of getting new customers and retaining the ones they have obviously hasn't worked in a recession.
Some consoles are just now getting into the TCP/IP market, and some have been there for a while with modems, etc. But for the most part, people don't have their consoles attached to the internet, and there are only so many games/services that will work this way.
On the contrary, the vast majority of games on a PC have some networking built into them. Look at the success that Doom, Quake, EQ, etc. have had, and it all came from having the networking ability. Add that to the console, and perhaps we'll see things change.
Clearly, to store anti-hydrogen, anti-protons and other anti-matter, you need an anti-storage tank. Since that sounds more like the vacuum of space than anything else I can think of, I think we're all set.
If they really want to teach these kids to run companies, they should set up an office that looks like their parent's basement, complete with folding chairs, ramen noodles for food, and a barely functioning PC. That's how real businesspeople do it.
Actually, that's not how many businesspeople do it. If you want to hold interviews, interface with a customer, and do anything besides be a little code monkey, the nice surroundings and furniture will help. Would you trust the guy in raggedy clothes with a three-legged desk or the one in a sharp suit and an oak table? The former might be a better coder, but only the latter could sell code to an end customer.
Sure, many businesses do get started with little to work from, starting with only the capital in the founder's pockets. But a business is a hell of a lot more likely to be successful when the owner has a proper place to file things, have meetings, and talk to customers.
And if that's not enough ...
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Just go and post a story that lists links to their webpage and hand them the slashdot effect.
I don't know if I can think of anything more pitiful than a hacked web page about stuff no one wants to read that no one could read anyway if they wanted to.
Beyond all law, beyond all legal precedent, beyond all unbiased opinion however, is the one true cardinal law - that all judgements ultimately come down to a judge, a panel of judges, or a jury, who lay down a verdict as they see fit. They must rationalize and have good reasoning for their decision, but time and time again lawyers after a case scratch their head and say "Wow, I can't believe I lost (or won) that case!"
It's for this reason that you can always TRY to sue, no matter how silly the claim, because you just might win, even if the laws of the past seem against you.
I thought the latest story said "Satellite Internet Service for MARS" and was all prepared to read about some hair-brained scheme to put a nuclear powered transmitter at some bizarre location on Earth.
Instead I got something about doing an odd piece of networkig for rarely-used computers. I guess both stories involve things that aren't likely to be very commonn. </rimshot>
At a certain unnamed school I attended, I worked for the ResNet folks. We had the same problems as everyone else, too much P2P file sharing. We didn't really want to put caps anywhere, but the traffic volumes were just too great not to.
We ended up creating two completely separate bandwidth pools - one for normal bandwidth users, and one for high bandwidth users. If you "abused" your bandwidth (something like >5 gigs/day) you got put in the second "penalty" pool, and had to fight it out with all the other P2P folks. This left the vast majority of the people happy as clams and the real bandwidth hogs to doing only minimal trading and not hosting the East Coast's most popular FTP server (which we had at one point).
It's a relatively simple solution to make up with some decent routers and such - I highly recommend it.
As any good geek knows, there's no such thing as a white-collar prison resort.
If you get caught laundering money, you're not going to a white collar resort prison. No, no, no. You're going to a Federal pound me in the ass prison.
But here's the gotcha. You don't have to use a phone provider. Or, pick one that doesn't sell your info (admittedly, that would be tough to find out). People did live before phones, after all.
The real point is, the Constitution only gives you basic rights and protections from the government. Once you start entering into contracts with private companies, so long as they aren't blatently stealing money, etc., you're pretty much on your own.
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Then let me ask you one question. This so wonderful, useful society, which all governments are supposed to be a part of, should be in a location fitting this ultra-neutral platform.
... I know it's around here somewhere ... IN NEW YORK CITY.
Now, where did they decide to put that headquarters
After it moves to Switzerland, we'll talk.
Ok, I certainly agree that the ISS is a great experiment. I have a picture of it for my wallpaper. But, it hasn't accomplished anything other than being uber-cool and a nice platform for other experiments. But we haven't had any major impacts from work done there.
And as to confining humanity to this planet, I certainly agree that this is a big step. Colonizing other worlds could also reap mining benefits, etc. But we're a long way from there right now, and we've got enough problems to deal with here than the logistics of returning things from other planets to here. We're certainly not going to offload all our excess population to another planet.
I've been often asked by friends and others just why it is we send people to space anyway. I fully understand all the inventions that we've gotten during the process, such as better rocket power, Tang, etc. But I have a hard time coming up with things that we've discovered because a person actually went along to accompany an experiment.
The best I know of is that humans are able to adapt to failures in space, so that if an experiment starts to go awry, an astronaut can fix things on the fly. But I have a hard time even coming up with human-controlled experiments that have had society-changing effects.
Can anyone here name some?
See, people were never afraid before when I'd tell them the sky was falling. Maybe after reading this they'll start listening to me.
I have to give my .02 cents on this one.
Although there are obvious privacy concerns about a machine anaylsis of speech, the insurance company isn't going to make decisions purely based on the machine results. They simply have tons and tons of tons of claims, and can't possibly examine everyone for accuracy.
The IRS does the same thing, just in a different manner. The use a machine to examine select fields in your return, to see if you might have cheated somewhere else. If their computer flags your return as suspect, then it gets a closer eye, a human eye, which can tell for sure if you really ARE cheating.
So the same thing applies here, as does is many lie detector tests. It's only used to raise that flag of "maybe, just maybe, he's trying to cheat the system". They're not good enough to be in courts, so they aren't. If you get denied a claim, you get to ask why, and it legally can't be "sorry, the machine said no".
And, if they catch frauders, they'll pay out more dividends yes, but then they can also lower premiums to attract more customers, and more customers is where the real profits come in. Anybody who thinks that a company's first priority is paying stock dividends instead of getting new customers and retaining the ones they have obviously hasn't worked in a recession.
Actually, I hear that the DoD needs about 280 million addresses, and that number increases slightly each year.
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BTW, I've been getting these weird "electricity" type neck pains lately
Dick Clark is alive ... they just keep his head in a jar. They're waiting for the year 3000 celebration mainly.
http://www.dct-net.co.jp/special/usb_hot.html
I SO need one of these. If only I knew someone in Japan.
Sounds like we need a legislative committee of members that have experience in dealing with sexual issues and explaining them to the media.
Where's Clinton these days?
The problem is obvious - it requires the involvement of France.
Well, we've dealt with this issue in the past. If you're having trouble with France, just go through Belgium!
Why, I give them to CowboyNeal, of course.
He handles all my backups anyway.
Some consoles are just now getting into the TCP/IP market, and some have been there for a while with modems, etc. But for the most part, people don't have their consoles attached to the internet, and there are only so many games/services that will work this way.
On the contrary, the vast majority of games on a PC have some networking built into them. Look at the success that Doom, Quake, EQ, etc. have had, and it all came from having the networking ability. Add that to the console, and perhaps we'll see things change.
Clearly, to store anti-hydrogen, anti-protons and other anti-matter, you need an anti-storage tank. Since that sounds more like the vacuum of space than anything else I can think of, I think we're all set.
If they really want to teach these kids to run companies, they should set up an office that looks like their parent's basement, complete with folding chairs, ramen noodles for food, and a barely functioning PC. That's how real businesspeople do it.
Actually, that's not how many businesspeople do it. If you want to hold interviews, interface with a customer, and do anything besides be a little code monkey, the nice surroundings and furniture will help. Would you trust the guy in raggedy clothes with a three-legged desk or the one in a sharp suit and an oak table? The former might be a better coder, but only the latter could sell code to an end customer.
Sure, many businesses do get started with little to work from, starting with only the capital in the founder's pockets. But a business is a hell of a lot more likely to be successful when the owner has a proper place to file things, have meetings, and talk to customers.
Just go and post a story that lists links to their webpage and hand them the slashdot effect.
I don't know if I can think of anything more pitiful than a hacked web page about stuff no one wants to read that no one could read anyway if they wanted to.
Beyond all law, beyond all legal precedent, beyond all unbiased opinion however, is the one true cardinal law - that all judgements ultimately come down to a judge, a panel of judges, or a jury, who lay down a verdict as they see fit. They must rationalize and have good reasoning for their decision, but time and time again lawyers after a case scratch their head and say "Wow, I can't believe I lost (or won) that case!"
It's for this reason that you can always TRY to sue, no matter how silly the claim, because you just might win, even if the laws of the past seem against you.
It seems like if we're looking for aliens, the last place we'd like to look is in the middle of a black hole.
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Then again, there seems to be some incentive to move to another continent just to look back into space, so they must know something I don't
I thought the latest story said "Satellite Internet Service for MARS" and was all prepared to read about some hair-brained scheme to put a nuclear powered transmitter at some bizarre location on Earth.
Instead I got something about doing an odd piece of networkig for rarely-used computers. I guess both stories involve things that aren't likely to be very commonn. </rimshot>
The tunnels are also able to withstand heavy conventional bombing.
Clearly, this is a design claim that needs to be tested. I'll call the military.
Boy, you're late to the party. Heck, I remember seeing that trick in the De Lorian in _1885_, back before most cars were even around.
</sheepish grin>
At a certain unnamed school I attended, I worked for the ResNet folks. We had the same problems as everyone else, too much P2P file sharing. We didn't really want to put caps anywhere, but the traffic volumes were just too great not to.
We ended up creating two completely separate bandwidth pools - one for normal bandwidth users, and one for high bandwidth users. If you "abused" your bandwidth (something like >5 gigs/day) you got put in the second "penalty" pool, and had to fight it out with all the other P2P folks. This left the vast majority of the people happy as clams and the real bandwidth hogs to doing only minimal trading and not hosting the East Coast's most popular FTP server (which we had at one point).
It's a relatively simple solution to make up with some decent routers and such - I highly recommend it.
However, allowing the Billy Idol LP's to get scratched up by the glass could really only have a positive effect!
As any good geek knows, there's no such thing as a white-collar prison resort.
If you get caught laundering money, you're not going to a white collar resort prison. No, no, no. You're going to a Federal pound me in the ass prison.
But here's the gotcha. You don't have to use a phone provider. Or, pick one that doesn't sell your info (admittedly, that would be tough to find out). People did live before phones, after all.
The real point is, the Constitution only gives you basic rights and protections from the government. Once you start entering into contracts with private companies, so long as they aren't blatently stealing money, etc., you're pretty much on your own.
The music was certainly quite memorable.
But I think the thing that really gets burned in ones mind, especially when compared to today, is the outfits and hairstyles of Ziggy Stardust!