This. A human should be able to override the terrain-following radar once it becomes (through whatever circumstance) terrain-seeking/intersecting radar. Allowing human override doesn't mean you can't have AI, jsut that you aren't forced to use it even when it breaks.
My apologies, I did not take the time to read all the comments on the article.
It seems that Happer allegedly said something implying that Gore or someone working for him said something similar to the "quote".
That is to say, I wouldn't draw any conclusions from the alleged quote.
Following a few links from googling 'gore "not going to let science get in the way"' led me to this: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13773. Seems he did say something of the sort, anyway.
It'll work just as well as any keyboard layout. Unless you manage to switch layouts every few minutes, they will simply come up with a different map of sounds to letters. It will still be successfully analyzed, since you're using the same map of keys to letters.
The important thing is that Lotus Symphony uses the same file formats as OpenOffice (and any other ODF-compatible office suite). It should not matter what software is used to edit the files, as long as anyone can write a replacement.
Now, if Lotus Symphony has it's own proprietary format, that'd be different entirely.
True, but this isn't actually cutting off the internet, just slowing it down. If you have a very slow, unreliable connection, you'll probably be more panicked at the bits and pieces you can get than if you can see everything that's going on.
On the other hand, when a mechanic complains that his brakes don't work, most people would tell him to go fix them. Regular users can (and should!) complain when something is broken. Programmers can, too, but they should at the very least submit a detailed bug report. If they have a pet peeve that never gets fixed, then they should by all means fix it. Otherwise, they should decide to accept the leadership decision (and stop complaining), since they aren't bothering to fix the problem even though they have the means.
That was my first thought, but The BBC article mentions animals being affected, too. Animals aren't (usually) subject to the mental tricks we're all so prone to.
A highly-evolved race saying "religion is a common primitive response in dual-parent species" would not go down too well in modern America. (Maybe that wasn't in Childhood's End) I'm pretty sure that was from Rendezvous with Rama.
Not until stores start accepting EDs; you'd still have to exchange them for real money, and that income (the real money) would be taxed. If EDs do become accepted as money, then the government could tax them, and you could pay with them.
As long as the money is taxed, along with any interest gained on it while it was in the alternate currency, I don't see a problem. The goal of taxes is (hopefully) not to prevent profit, but to ensure that a portion of all money earned goes towards the public good. If the money is effectively removed from the economy, there is no need to tax it until it is returned.
It would be different if the virtual currency were being traded for real goods, since then the virtual currency isn't really virtual anymore. If the government wants to tax virtual currency directly, they should be prepared to accept virtual currency as payment, and I don't think they'll be willing to do that until they can do something useful with it.
I believe that the money would be taxed as soon as the investors converted the ESDs back into regular dollars, just as the game money is being taxed when it is traded for real money.
The levy was already in place--this just reduced the levy amount for most mediums (it didn't change for "data" cds).
If this is the solution, then why are people still being sued for copyright infringement? We have a similar tax in the US.
(when I say forseeable...I mean it. There's actually a VASTLY more efficient way to do interplanetary, and even interstellar, travel that doesn't involve fusion or fission plants...) What is this method? Are you talking about using the solar wind?
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This. A human should be able to override the terrain-following radar once it becomes (through whatever circumstance) terrain-seeking/intersecting radar. Allowing human override doesn't mean you can't have AI, jsut that you aren't forced to use it even when it breaks.
Alternatively, make it female and attractive, then reverse the logic.
My apologies, I did not take the time to read all the comments on the article. It seems that Happer allegedly said something implying that Gore or someone working for him said something similar to the "quote". That is to say, I wouldn't draw any conclusions from the alleged quote.
Following a few links from googling 'gore "not going to let science get in the way"' led me to this: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13773. Seems he did say something of the sort, anyway.
It'll work just as well as any keyboard layout. Unless you manage to switch layouts every few minutes, they will simply come up with a different map of sounds to letters. It will still be successfully analyzed, since you're using the same map of keys to letters.
...I would have no idea wether this is troll, funny or insightfull.
It seems you were wrong on all counts. +5 interesting isn't bad, though.
The important thing is that Lotus Symphony uses the same file formats as OpenOffice (and any other ODF-compatible office suite). It should not matter what software is used to edit the files, as long as anyone can write a replacement.
Now, if Lotus Symphony has it's own proprietary format, that'd be different entirely.
You must be new here.
True, but this isn't actually cutting off the internet, just slowing it down. If you have a very slow, unreliable connection, you'll probably be more panicked at the bits and pieces you can get than if you can see everything that's going on.
All laws are enforced with the threat of violence (at some point). If they weren't, a lot more people would break them.
While it may occasionally inspire violence, taxation is not, in and of itself, violence.
On the other hand, when a mechanic complains that his brakes don't work, most people would tell him to go fix them. Regular users can (and should!) complain when something is broken. Programmers can, too, but they should at the very least submit a detailed bug report. If they have a pet peeve that never gets fixed, then they should by all means fix it. Otherwise, they should decide to accept the leadership decision (and stop complaining), since they aren't bothering to fix the problem even though they have the means.
That was my first thought, but The BBC article mentions animals being affected, too. Animals aren't (usually) subject to the mental tricks we're all so prone to.
Not until stores start accepting EDs; you'd still have to exchange them for real money, and that income (the real money) would be taxed. If EDs do become accepted as money, then the government could tax them, and you could pay with them.
As long as the money is taxed, along with any interest gained on it while it was in the alternate currency, I don't see a problem. The goal of taxes is (hopefully) not to prevent profit, but to ensure that a portion of all money earned goes towards the public good. If the money is effectively removed from the economy, there is no need to tax it until it is returned. It would be different if the virtual currency were being traded for real goods, since then the virtual currency isn't really virtual anymore. If the government wants to tax virtual currency directly, they should be prepared to accept virtual currency as payment, and I don't think they'll be willing to do that until they can do something useful with it.
I believe that the money would be taxed as soon as the investors converted the ESDs back into regular dollars, just as the game money is being taxed when it is traded for real money.
I'll call your grammar mastery and raise you one Venus Flytrap.
The levy was already in place--this just reduced the levy amount for most mediums (it didn't change for "data" cds). If this is the solution, then why are people still being sued for copyright infringement? We have a similar tax in the US.