The current version of TFA says that the surface pressure of Venus is about 90x that of Earth, which is correct. You must have gotten an earlier, incorrect version.
They tried that. Up until around 1999, Microsoft wouldn't allow a new PC to be shipped with anything but stock Windows (and before that, DOS). Pre-installed software was forbidden by the licensing agreement.
An antitrust lawsuit in the late 90s claimed that this practice was anticompetitive because OEMs couldn't put alternative web browsers on PCs. So Microsoft was forced by the courts to allow OEMs to install whatever they wanted on prebuilt PCs.
For physical purchases, sales tax is based on where the sale happens, so the tax rate will (presumably) depend on whether or not the McDonald's has a bus stop on its block.
But if I ship you a bicycle fender, do we base it on whether there's a Houston bus stop on your block, or on mine? The law has always been that you have an obligation to pay if there's one on yours; this new law is attempting to shift the burden to me (a seller in another state who probably doesn't even know how Houston sales taxes work) to find out whether or not you have a bus stop on your block, charge you the appropriate tax, and send a check to the City of Houston.
But if you want to drive coast to coast anonymously, you can do that. Stay within the speed limit and don't have any malfunctioning vehicle parts, and you have given no one Probable Cause to see you and your license. Avoid those particular toll roads where your license plate is photographed for billing purposes.
In the United States, it is illegal for a car manufacturer to advertise any fuel efficiency number other than the one determined by the EPA.
Even running an ad campaign to the effect of "Hey, the EPA says that this car gets 45 MPG, but our testing says it's more like 42. Just thought you should know." would be a crime.
When the doctors are the gatekeepers of information about prescription drugs, that brings back the good old days of free dinners, all-expense-paid conferences, gifts, and hot pharmaceutical sales reps pretending to think that you're clever.
I will bet you 500USD right now that on May 15, 2020, this ice shelf will still exist and will have shrunk by not more than 606 square miles. (50% of the area of Rhode Island)
Now imagine if programmers were overpaid undertalented, super inflated egos, where glaring faults in code could be patched over with a public relations campaign?
I've posted this before, but I want to get this idea out there:
Here's how to make your password truly secure, if you really have something you want to hide:
1) Get fifty dollar bills. Maybe get some fives and tens mixed in with them. Total cost less than $100.
2) Shuffle them into a random order.
3) Set your Truecrypt (or Veracrypt, or whatever) password to be the hundred-digit number formed by taking the two least significant digits of the bills' serial numbers, in order.
4) Keep the stack of cash next to your computer, and make sure you don't let it get out of order. If you lose - or even just drop - the stack, it's game over. If/when you find yourself starting to remember the password and able to enter it without referring to the stack, shuffle the stack and change your password.
5) If an adversary raids your house, chances are that the stack of cash will simply vanish into a pocket. And if that doesn't happen, odds are pretty good that the stack will be scrambled, especially if there are different denominations mixed in.
6) At this point, your password is well and truly gone. No amount of rubber hose cryptography can bring it back.
7) The best part about this plan is you don't have to actually do it. Your password can be your dog's name, as long as you're willing to stick to your story - and it helps if you actually keep a stack of cash next to your computer - that you did steps 1-4.
If you have a Verizon phone, there's no way to get rid of the Verizon crapware, other than the barely-legal nuclear option of rooting your phone. So if you're going to test Verizon, it's reasonable to have the crapware be part of the test.
Step 1: Acquire fifty one-dollar bills. If you're feeling especially rich, mix fives and tens in with them.
Step 2: Put them into a random order.
Step 3: Generate a password by taking the least significant two digits of each bill, in order, for a 100-digit number. Use this password to encrypt your data.
Step 4: Make sure that the bills never get out of order. Keep them in your desk drawer or another safe place.
Step 5: The cops raid your place. There is a decent chance that a small stack of cash would never make it into evidence, simply vanishing into an officer's pocket. Even if that doesn't happen, they'll catalog the money, sort it (here's where the fives and tens come in handy), and almost certainly get it out of order in the process.
Step 6: Your password is now gone. Unless the cops turned in the cash and kept it in order, it is impossible for you to tell them your password. If the bills make it into evidence, there are up to 50! (~200 bits) possible passwords. If not, there are 10^100 (~300 bits) possible passwords.
Step 7: Don't actually do steps 1-4. Just keep a small stack of cash next to your computer. Your actual password can be your cat's name. Just be willing to testify under oath that you did steps 1-4.
From looking at certification chains, I can see that my employer (a state government) MITMs Google (even though GMail is blocked), and probably other sites that I haven't noticed, but they do not MITM banks, at least not the two I visit occasionally from work. I haven't done much investigation beyond that.
Hmm. I'm pretty sure I have my 15-year-old copy of MSVC 1.52 around here somewhere. Might be worthwhile to use something like that rather than a current version downloaded from MSDN.
Honest question: I can buy powder-actuated tools here in the States. That is a powerful nailgun or similar tool that uses a small gunpowder charge to drive a nail into concrete, brick, or the like. Do you have anything like that in your country? Because the charges are basically super-low-power bullets without the lead part.
No, the bank can loan out 95 strawberries. If those 95 loaned strawberries are deposited in another bank, that bank can loan out (95*.95) strawberries. If those strawberries are loaned out, and deposited again, now we're up to (95*.95*.95) strawberries, and an equal number of strawberry IOUs. If this process happens an infinite number of times, eventually the number of strawberry IOUs will be 2000. But every single deposit or loan will have involved a real strawberry.
Again, the government actually can create fiat currency by taking a piece of paper and writing "$100" on it, but fractional reserve banking always balances inputs and outputs. And despite what somebody upthread implied, it's been around since the middle ages.
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I'm fine with raising gas taxes to pay for roads.
Not bike lanes.
Not light rail.
Not streetcars.
Not pensions for people who retired from the highway district 20 years ago.
Roads. For cars. To drive on.
It's a well-known law of politics that people tend to be more conservative about things they know personally.
The current version of TFA says that the surface pressure of Venus is about 90x that of Earth, which is correct. You must have gotten an earlier, incorrect version.
1) Eventually.
2) Eventually.
3) Eventually.
4) Never.
5) Eventually.
LPT: If you're being murdered, tell Alexa.
Alexa: My brother in law Jerry is here and has a knife and is stabbing me! Ow!
They tried that. Up until around 1999, Microsoft wouldn't allow a new PC to be shipped with anything but stock Windows (and before that, DOS). Pre-installed software was forbidden by the licensing agreement.
An antitrust lawsuit in the late 90s claimed that this practice was anticompetitive because OEMs couldn't put alternative web browsers on PCs. So Microsoft was forced by the courts to allow OEMs to install whatever they wanted on prebuilt PCs.
For physical purchases, sales tax is based on where the sale happens, so the tax rate will (presumably) depend on whether or not the McDonald's has a bus stop on its block.
But if I ship you a bicycle fender, do we base it on whether there's a Houston bus stop on your block, or on mine? The law has always been that you have an obligation to pay if there's one on yours; this new law is attempting to shift the burden to me (a seller in another state who probably doesn't even know how Houston sales taxes work) to find out whether or not you have a bus stop on your block, charge you the appropriate tax, and send a check to the City of Houston.
Do you mean "look at"?
License plate scanners are everywhere.
In the United States, it is illegal for a car manufacturer to advertise any fuel efficiency number other than the one determined by the EPA.
Even running an ad campaign to the effect of "Hey, the EPA says that this car gets 45 MPG, but our testing says it's more like 42. Just thought you should know." would be a crime.
When the doctors are the gatekeepers of information about prescription drugs, that brings back the good old days of free dinners, all-expense-paid conferences, gifts, and hot pharmaceutical sales reps pretending to think that you're clever.
...the rest of us fear it may be legal.
Yeah, I thought so.
I will bet you 500USD right now that on May 15, 2020, this ice shelf will still exist and will have shrunk by not more than 606 square miles. (50% of the area of Rhode Island)
The dark night of Fascism is always descending on America, but it always falls on Europe.
Now imagine if programmers were overpaid undertalented, super inflated egos, where glaring faults in code could be patched over with a public relations campaign?
You had me at 'overpaid'.
I've posted this before, but I want to get this idea out there:
Here's how to make your password truly secure, if you really have something you want to hide:
1) Get fifty dollar bills. Maybe get some fives and tens mixed in with them. Total cost less than $100.
2) Shuffle them into a random order.
3) Set your Truecrypt (or Veracrypt, or whatever) password to be the hundred-digit number formed by taking the two least significant digits of the bills' serial numbers, in order.
4) Keep the stack of cash next to your computer, and make sure you don't let it get out of order. If you lose - or even just drop - the stack, it's game over. If/when you find yourself starting to remember the password and able to enter it without referring to the stack, shuffle the stack and change your password.
5) If an adversary raids your house, chances are that the stack of cash will simply vanish into a pocket. And if that doesn't happen, odds are pretty good that the stack will be scrambled, especially if there are different denominations mixed in.
6) At this point, your password is well and truly gone. No amount of rubber hose cryptography can bring it back.
7) The best part about this plan is you don't have to actually do it. Your password can be your dog's name, as long as you're willing to stick to your story - and it helps if you actually keep a stack of cash next to your computer - that you did steps 1-4.
If you have a Verizon phone, there's no way to get rid of the Verizon crapware, other than the barely-legal nuclear option of rooting your phone. So if you're going to test Verizon, it's reasonable to have the crapware be part of the test.
Step 1: Acquire fifty one-dollar bills. If you're feeling especially rich, mix fives and tens in with them.
Step 2: Put them into a random order.
Step 3: Generate a password by taking the least significant two digits of each bill, in order, for a 100-digit number. Use this password to encrypt your data.
Step 4: Make sure that the bills never get out of order. Keep them in your desk drawer or another safe place.
Step 5: The cops raid your place. There is a decent chance that a small stack of cash would never make it into evidence, simply vanishing into an officer's pocket. Even if that doesn't happen, they'll catalog the money, sort it (here's where the fives and tens come in handy), and almost certainly get it out of order in the process.
Step 6: Your password is now gone. Unless the cops turned in the cash and kept it in order, it is impossible for you to tell them your password. If the bills make it into evidence, there are up to 50! (~200 bits) possible passwords. If not, there are 10^100 (~300 bits) possible passwords.
Step 7: Don't actually do steps 1-4. Just keep a small stack of cash next to your computer. Your actual password can be your cat's name. Just be willing to testify under oath that you did steps 1-4.
Almost 20,000 people died because they lived close to the ocean.
A few dozen people might wind up with cancer someday because Japan uses nuclear power.
The obvious conclusion? Nuclear power is bad and should be eliminated immediately.
From looking at certification chains, I can see that my employer (a state government) MITMs Google (even though GMail is blocked), and probably other sites that I haven't noticed, but they do not MITM banks, at least not the two I visit occasionally from work. I haven't done much investigation beyond that.
Realistically, there are two useful languages you can speak.
The first one is the native language of wherever you're currently living.
The second one is English.
If you live in the Anglosphere, those are the same language.
Hmm. I'm pretty sure I have my 15-year-old copy of MSVC 1.52 around here somewhere. Might be worthwhile to use something like that rather than a current version downloaded from MSDN.
Honest question: I can buy powder-actuated tools here in the States. That is a powerful nailgun or similar tool that uses a small gunpowder charge to drive a nail into concrete, brick, or the like. Do you have anything like that in your country? Because the charges are basically super-low-power bullets without the lead part.
No, the bank can loan out 95 strawberries. If those 95 loaned strawberries are deposited in another bank, that bank can loan out (95*.95) strawberries. If those strawberries are loaned out, and deposited again, now we're up to (95*.95*.95) strawberries, and an equal number of strawberry IOUs. If this process happens an infinite number of times, eventually the number of strawberry IOUs will be 2000. But every single deposit or loan will have involved a real strawberry.
Again, the government actually can create fiat currency by taking a piece of paper and writing "$100" on it, but fractional reserve banking always balances inputs and outputs. And despite what somebody upthread implied, it's been around since the middle ages.