It's like Newton. "Hey, Liebnitz couldn't have invented calculis. I'm the only genius in the world." Newton went so far as to have his royal society convict Liebnitz of plagurism.
Little factoid, to this day we use Liebnitz's notation. Newton's stunk for everything but physics problems, and his notion of an integral was REALLY crude. Of course the spat drove Liebnitz out of his mind, and turned Newton into a recluse.
And talk about a geek. Newton never got laid, and worse, he was PROUD about of it.
Just look at real estate. Don't by the scummiest house on a nice block. By a scummy former rental next to a crack-block that the city is going to condemn, bulldoze, and then sell off to a housing company that's going to be dropping in luxury townhomes.
My house has doubled in value in six months. Not like I'd move. The neighborhood is great.
Come on, that's like rooting for the Protoss to take out the Zerg while you are playing the Terrans. Sure they are doing your dirty work now. But don't forget, those battle carriers were pointed at you in the past.
Actually, gull wing doors require less clearence to open. At their widest point they are less than a standard door open halfway. And even then, most of the travel is up and over the top of the car next to you. (And if you happen to be next to an SUV, the running boards along the side give you more than enough room.)
IBM tried this with their mainframes and lost. Case law already states this type of activity is illegal on anti-trust grounds. I'm pretty sure the big-three automakers tried similar tactics, and were also laughed out of court.
Besides, you aren't copying the car. The DMCA doesn't apply.
Exactly. Nothing like a thermonuclear blast to wreck your day.
Truth be told though, EMP isn't really a problem for microchips. It's generally a problem for electrical systems with long stretches of wire (like telephones and power grids.) What usually blows out a CMOS chips is static electricity, which you won't get from an EMP.
IBM lost several anti-trust cases based on exclusive service agreements with customers, and invalidating warrenties for user-installed parts. (The big three also tried these shenanigans back in the day, AND LOST.)
I don't know what the legal precidents are in Europe, but in the US Volvo would be laughed out of court if someone sued.
In a democraticly elected republic, the right for everyone to participate (regardless of relative intelligence) is a founding principle. If you believe otherwise.
Why? Because they pay taxes. And they have as much at stake as everyone else. At the same time "intelligence" tests have been misused extensively in the south to prevent blacks from voting. It is illegal to require a compentancy test to vote. That's not my opinion, that's from the Supreme Court.
I would like to add that while a paper trail is useful, it is hardly a final solution. Paper can be lost, or "misplaced."
I personally would like to see a combination of a green-bar style paper log at the local precincts, while at the same time vote transactions are sent to a central processing facility. If someone is playing games at a precinct, they will be caught. If someone is playing games at the central facility, they will be caught.
And it is highly unlikely that someone will be able to get their mits into EVERY precinct and the central voting center. At least not without leaving a trail.
Heck, "cheating" should be part of the strategy. The whole science of espionage is knowing what you rightfully shouldn't, and hitting your enemy where they least expect it. If you have the skills to intercept the communications between the enemy's ships, that's perfectly fair. I'm even thinking it would be cool to have a facility that allows you to 0#N38 someone else's ships.
There should also be a race of omnipotent droids (think The Day the Earth Stood Still) that will clean up anyone who tries to control too much of space. It's not the UN. It's the disinterested ass-kicking squad bent on making sure no side gets too much of an advantage to disrupt the game. If you grow to be a constructive power, no problem. But if you start using your size to push other people out of the game, they will happily destroy every ship and space station you own, forcing you to start over.
Like the greeks, periodically every player in the game gets to vote for the Ostra. The "winner" of the election gets his/her entire empire obliterated by the Gort. (Home planets are left alone.) To be Ostracised should be considered an honor. It means you were powerful enough to be a threat.
Even if your entire fleet is destroyed or captured, you always have your home planet to fall back on. Trying to occupy a world of billions of people is counterproductive, and the rules of interstellar war prohibit it. Attacking an inhabited world bring upon the instant retribution of the Gort.
My answer is write a game that plays itself. Rather than be a contest between who can keep the most number of balls in the air (ala RTS), we should instead write a system where you code your own AI's, and let the computers to the dirty work.
It would be like a stock-market simulator. You send your moves in, and you can check your porfolio, but the game goes on no matter how much (or little) attention you pay.
My thought is that you set the game in a universe where it's only possible to send robot fleets everywhere. As the Lord High Stick In the Mud, you control the fleet for your planet. Inhabited worlds are off limits. (So if you space off and your fleet and colony are destroyed, you can always start over.) It will really be about who can devise the best automated strategy, because everyone's got to sleep sometime.
Anyone interested, my address is out there. TTFN.
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Your analysis of the problem, while thoughtful, sounds much like the arguments for why heavier than aircraft won't fly, steel ships won't float, and supersonic flight is impossible.
With a properly designed gripping mechanism, movement of the cable is irrelivent. It's not really a "space elevator". It's more like a "space suspension bridge." Bridges move all the time, indeed a healthy bridge moves a few feet at a time. Since the movement is distributed over a distance of several miles, drivers on the bridge don't notice the movement. (The narrow bridge was a combination of being not stiff enough, wide enough to spread the motion across, and exactly the wrong length.)
One possibility motivation technique is to exploit the vibrations of the cable. You can make a wooden bead "surf" a standing wave along a rope, even against gravity.
Ok, that's a little far fetched. But so was the idea of wing warping that solved problem of Roll control in aircraft. (Well, until the invention of the flap.)
I hear that. It's like saying the first country to build a highway system is going to rule the world. Or the first country to build a suspension bridge.
The free market is a fallicy when there is no "do nothing" option. There is no free market in health care, nobody is willing to die if they can't come up with the money. There is no free-market in the labor force because there is nothing to fall back on if you quit or are fired "with cause". (Unemployment only covers being laid off.)
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Little factoid, to this day we use Liebnitz's notation. Newton's stunk for everything but physics problems, and his notion of an integral was REALLY crude. Of course the spat drove Liebnitz out of his mind, and turned Newton into a recluse.
And talk about a geek. Newton never got laid, and worse, he was PROUD about of it.
Moral of the story though, Nobody wins.
Just look at real estate. Don't by the scummiest house on a nice block. By a scummy former rental next to a crack-block that the city is going to condemn, bulldoze, and then sell off to a housing company that's going to be dropping in luxury townhomes.
My house has doubled in value in six months. Not like I'd move. The neighborhood is great.
Muhahahahahaha.
Now, about those scummy public schools...
You can have all the access you want. You just can't decrypt the thing.
First they will know fear.
Then they will know pain.
And THEN they will die.
In other news, SCO sues their own lawyers for negligence...
Well I never know which slip to fill out for the flaming bags of dog dirt.
Come on, that's like rooting for the Protoss to take out the Zerg while you are playing the Terrans. Sure they are doing your dirty work now. But don't forget, those battle carriers were pointed at you in the past.
Dear god, our Museum store uses SCO for the POS system. Our vendor was talking about moving us over to Unix. Could a science museum be next?!?
Linus: Uncle Ken, Uncle Ken, there's no place like /home!
Actually, gull wing doors require less clearence to open. At their widest point they are less than a standard door open halfway. And even then, most of the travel is up and over the top of the car next to you. (And if you happen to be next to an SUV, the running boards along the side give you more than enough room.)
Besides, you aren't copying the car. The DMCA doesn't apply.
Truth be told though, EMP isn't really a problem for microchips. It's generally a problem for electrical systems with long stretches of wire (like telephones and power grids.) What usually blows out a CMOS chips is static electricity, which you won't get from an EMP.
TMYK
I don't know what the legal precidents are in Europe, but in the US Volvo would be laughed out of court if someone sued.
In a democraticly elected republic, the right for everyone to participate (regardless of relative intelligence) is a founding principle. If you believe otherwise.
Why? Because they pay taxes. And they have as much at stake as everyone else. At the same time "intelligence" tests have been misused extensively in the south to prevent blacks from voting. It is illegal to require a compentancy test to vote. That's not my opinion, that's from the Supreme Court.
I would like to add that while a paper trail is useful, it is hardly a final solution. Paper can be lost, or "misplaced."
I personally would like to see a combination of a green-bar style paper log at the local precincts, while at the same time vote transactions are sent to a central processing facility. If someone is playing games at a precinct, they will be caught. If someone is playing games at the central facility, they will be caught.
And it is highly unlikely that someone will be able to get their mits into EVERY precinct and the central voting center. At least not without leaving a trail.
Or more accurately: Offshoring.
They are just trying to cash in on the who demonizing of off-shoring.
No, it was one "Magic" asteroid that hit the earth, richochet, and exited hitting the Governor.
There should also be a race of omnipotent droids (think The Day the Earth Stood Still) that will clean up anyone who tries to control too much of space. It's not the UN. It's the disinterested ass-kicking squad bent on making sure no side gets too much of an advantage to disrupt the game. If you grow to be a constructive power, no problem. But if you start using your size to push other people out of the game, they will happily destroy every ship and space station you own, forcing you to start over.
Like the greeks, periodically every player in the game gets to vote for the Ostra. The "winner" of the election gets his/her entire empire obliterated by the Gort. (Home planets are left alone.) To be Ostracised should be considered an honor. It means you were powerful enough to be a threat.
Even if your entire fleet is destroyed or captured, you always have your home planet to fall back on. Trying to occupy a world of billions of people is counterproductive, and the rules of interstellar war prohibit it. Attacking an inhabited world bring upon the instant retribution of the Gort.
It would be like a stock-market simulator. You send your moves in, and you can check your porfolio, but the game goes on no matter how much (or little) attention you pay.
My thought is that you set the game in a universe where it's only possible to send robot fleets everywhere. As the Lord High Stick In the Mud, you control the fleet for your planet. Inhabited worlds are off limits. (So if you space off and your fleet and colony are destroyed, you can always start over.) It will really be about who can devise the best automated strategy, because everyone's got to sleep sometime.
Anyone interested, my address is out there. TTFN.
With a properly designed gripping mechanism, movement of the cable is irrelivent. It's not really a "space elevator". It's more like a "space suspension bridge." Bridges move all the time, indeed a healthy bridge moves a few feet at a time. Since the movement is distributed over a distance of several miles, drivers on the bridge don't notice the movement. (The narrow bridge was a combination of being not stiff enough, wide enough to spread the motion across, and exactly the wrong length.)
One possibility motivation technique is to exploit the vibrations of the cable. You can make a wooden bead "surf" a standing wave along a rope, even against gravity.
Ok, that's a little far fetched. But so was the idea of wing warping that solved problem of Roll control in aircraft. (Well, until the invention of the flap.)
If it's useful, everyone will want their own.
Um, exactly how do you plan on moving a 22,000 mile long cable? In oribit?!
We'll leave Jonesy behind to mind the store. A good cat is hard to find.
The free market is a fallicy when there is no "do nothing" option. There is no free market in health care, nobody is willing to die if they can't come up with the money. There is no free-market in the labor force because there is nothing to fall back on if you quit or are fired "with cause". (Unemployment only covers being laid off.)
Nah, wrong image.
Maybe Tux as "Rosey" the Riveter.