Just a few factual corrections here: ALL American ICBMs are based in the United States--the locations are quite public. There used to be MRBMs (medium-ranged) in Europe (Pershing I & II, Ground-Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM)); however, they were removed between 1988 and 1990 in accordance with the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
And while submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) have near-intercontinental range, they aren't considered "ICBMs"--although they may well be on subs that patrol within range of the Korean peninsula, among other places.
The airlines don't want to do security screening. They object to the "9/11 tax" added to each ticket, because they have to collect it and then remit it to the government. They want the government to subsidize all the changes they've had to make since 9/11, which are a direct hit to what has been, for the past 6 years (and even longer in some cases), a very thin bottom line.
But Joe Pax doesn't see that: He sees a higher airline ticket. The airlines want the lowest fares they can sell, generally (don't get me started on the convoluted fare structures of the airlines!). That way, they can add $10/ticket and (hopefully) add some value for that $10. But there's no value-added (from the airlines' point of view, of course) of the 9/11 security tax.
Someone explain to me (or to all of us) why it's perceived worse to have a purported "intelligence agent" (isn't that what a Google spider is?) write some BS on Wikipedia, than it is for some anonymous bozo with a personal bias to write the same BS?
After all, if someone's relying on Wikipedia as an unimpeachable source (and way too many "netizens"--most of whom should know a helluva lot better, do so) then they do so at their peril.
Be careful what you wish for. Before monthly billing plans were introduced, games WERE billed hourly--but not at US$0.04/hr. No...try, $1-$5/hour, depending on the game. Or you could, for example, pay $1.95/hour, or $12/5 hours.
At $12-15 a month, WoW and other games are just about the biggest bargain you can find--even if you only play an hour or two per week: That's still less expensive than going to a theater for the same amount of time.
Then this whole discussion is rather moot, isn't it? When is a robot, not a robot? It sounds as though people want to have their cake, and eat it, too. (Not that I totally buy your argument, incidentally.)
I submit that your inference of what "robotic" means is strictly the stuff of sci-fi B-movies, and not reality. "Robots" as used throughout the world today, have no more autonomy than my battery-powered alarm clock: I tell it when to wake me, or not to wake me. It does so, every day at the same time, until and unless I direct it otherwise.
Similarly, robots--whether on a Toyota assembly line, or a flying drone with a laser-guided munition--do what they're told, when they're told. No less, and no more.
Interestingly, I just replicated this "test." I typed "free undelete utility" into my Google search box in Firefox. The first result (shaded, and clearly marked as a "sponsored link" was pctools.com, for their trialware product "File Recovery." However, the trial version, as plainly indicated on the resulting page http://www.pctools.com/file-recover/?ref=google_fr &gclid=CMu0-tmMo40CFQlQWAodI1nZ6g does NOT recover deleted files.
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Just a few factual corrections here: ALL American ICBMs are based in the United States--the locations are quite public. There used to be MRBMs (medium-ranged) in Europe (Pershing I & II, Ground-Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM)); however, they were removed between 1988 and 1990 in accordance with the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
And while submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) have near-intercontinental range, they aren't considered "ICBMs"--although they may well be on subs that patrol within range of the Korean peninsula, among other places.
But Joe Pax doesn't see that: He sees a higher airline ticket. The airlines want the lowest fares they can sell, generally (don't get me started on the convoluted fare structures of the airlines!). That way, they can add $10/ticket and (hopefully) add some value for that $10. But there's no value-added (from the airlines' point of view, of course) of the 9/11 security tax.
isn't most real paper, carbon-based? You know...the stuff that comes from trees?
After all, if someone's relying on Wikipedia as an unimpeachable source (and way too many "netizens"--most of whom should know a helluva lot better, do so) then they do so at their peril.
I wonder if Ruiz would be willing to repeat that, word for word, in court, under oath. (Hint: Look up "dumping.")
You forgot to mention it's a Betamax.
At $12-15 a month, WoW and other games are just about the biggest bargain you can find--even if you only play an hour or two per week: That's still less expensive than going to a theater for the same amount of time.
about your S.O.!
Then this whole discussion is rather moot, isn't it? When is a robot, not a robot? It sounds as though people want to have their cake, and eat it, too. (Not that I totally buy your argument, incidentally.)
I submit that your inference of what "robotic" means is strictly the stuff of sci-fi B-movies, and not reality. "Robots" as used throughout the world today, have no more autonomy than my battery-powered alarm clock: I tell it when to wake me, or not to wake me. It does so, every day at the same time, until and unless I direct it otherwise.
Similarly, robots--whether on a Toyota assembly line, or a flying drone with a laser-guided munition--do what they're told, when they're told. No less, and no more.
Interestingly, I just replicated this "test." I typed "free undelete utility" into my Google search box in Firefox. The first result (shaded, and clearly marked as a "sponsored link" was pctools.com, for their trialware product "File Recovery." However, the trial version, as plainly indicated on the resulting page http://www.pctools.com/file-recover/?ref=google_fr &gclid=CMu0-tmMo40CFQlQWAodI1nZ6g does NOT recover deleted files.
That's because, as was pointed out very early on in these comments, Google, Inc.'s motto is "Don't do evil."
Unfortunately, most trolls can't read, and those who can, lack comprehension.