It doesn't have to hit Earth to affect it. Consider the tides. Our global eco system has evolved to expect tides. It would be difficult if not impossible to predict the full extent of the harm that could result if tidal patterns are altered. All sorts of life could flourish or die under such changes.
I'm not exactly a tree-hugger, but I certainly appreciate the factors and influences over life on this planet. This would affect the oceans in all sorts of ways. That which affects the oceans and the life within them will affect us and possibly even global weather patterns.
Because a 2~60m diameter stone in space can significantly alter tides.
I guess you're against import taxes. I agree, but that discussion goes far far away from the topic of tv series and it's quite more important in products like fruit or meat.
And worse than that, it's a propaganda weapon on the 4th grade level. If that is the average level of the electorate, forget about having a democracy or a democratic republic.
That is the average level of the electorate.
Democracy is still better than dictatorship, even when the population is composed of uneducated monkeys.
If you have a suggestion of a better system to govern masses of retards, please do present it. For an educated minority, pushing to reach it will be easier than educating the masses.
I don't know about the U.K. but in the U.S. it can be remarkably hard to actually cancel those sorts of offers. Please carve your reason for canceling into marble slabs in triplicate and deliver to our head office (located conveniently in Uzbekistan) in person between 3AM and 3:01AM on a Friday.
Bah. When I was young, you had to carve your reasons in your own forehead, in trochaic octameter and deliver it by telepathy to their HQ, in Rigel IV, during the day of a hundred moons.
I'm still subscribed to Block Buster and the accumulated fine for the last movie I rented would pay a small country's bribe to the prime minister to enforce US IP laws.
Unfortunately, to joe public, a sample size of 1 (AKA an anecdote) is enough evidence to base their bias on. The media know this so they'll milk it for all it is worth.
Aiming at influencing the opinion of the retarded majority is easier and has the greatest in legislation and its enforcement. Welcome to democracy. The worst system except for every other one.
The problem is not doing it right once you understand the issue. The problem is understanding the issue.
In my experience, the problem is not understanding the issue but either acknowledging there is an issue or even making the effort to investigate whether there might be one.
Your freedom is carefully stored inside your wallet. When you work, you're not giving up freedom, as many youngsters believe. You're just saving it.
The problem are the people who spend the freedom of others. The freedom they didn't work for.
Some day the US will see it's changed from "land of the free" to "land of the freedom". And, hopefully, that day the country will be ready to discuss how is that still abundant freedom distributed.
On the other hand, an increase in cognitive load reduces the perceived speed of time. If you remove all distractions to focus, a sudden change will be harder to react to, not easier.
Unless you do know how to focus and do it by paying attention to an increased amount of data in your surrounding, increasing thus your cognitive load and therefore reducing your perceived speed of time.
But then, you've just changed the music and phone for the chant of the birds and the movement of the branches in the trees, which might help against a hidden tiger, but won't against an incoming vehicle.
A company that has failed to deliver on multiple contracts in the past should be given priority, because it has significant experience in government contracting work!
And a company that was ready to sell a $1.2 billion product for only $10 million should be praised as benefactors of Australia!
The Man is immensely stronger than the individual. It makes no strategic sense to call his attention.
If an individual really wanted to hurt the system, and not just make a lot of noise for ego and PR reasons, instead of putting bombs he'd spend one or two decades studying biological weaponry, building a hidden lab and accumulating enough product as to kill his entire continent.
With a doctorate in molecular biology, a well paid stable job, and two or three decades of free time, it's not so hard to make some tons of nerve gas and then snail mail thousands of tiny fragile glass vials to the entire world.
(Is that enough Bayesian poisoning? Or must I also put pictures of the secret lab's location, right under the MPAA HQ)
It is only slightly slower than an olympic sprinter running at full tilt
Now, to complete that analogy, we only need: - The mass of an Olympic sprinter. - The volume of the nail. - The half-life of the heaviest magnetic material to calculate it's density by the time it reaches the target.
The tree structure of replies in Slashdot may be a bit harder than whatever you're used to, but please make an effort to understand it and read the posts in their correct order.
Wait. My experience tells me that someone unable to get that will also be unable to understand my answer, so I'll say it in a simpler way. The 'think of the children!" argument is what the person I was replying to used. My post was one way of showing him why it didn't work, by showing an example of how his reasoning took us to an absurd conclusion.
Having said that, your quick reaction to "for the children!" arguments is, even though misapplied in this case, at least better than the common jumping in the bandwagon.
On the other hand, some of us have decided not to live our lives as totally selfish assholes.
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Happily you can simply turn off the alert on your phone and remove any random chance you might save someones life, so can can avoid a slightly annoying buzzing that lasts for a few seconds.
Are you really willing to sacrifice getting annoyed for a few seconds in exchange for the slim chance of saving a child?
Really?
Let's say I make a phone app that wakes the entire state up in the middle of the night, every week or so, with an important message from my sponsors. Let's say that of the large amounts of money I'd get paid by the sponsor, I give 50% to a charity operating in any of the poorest countries in Africa.
I guarantee you the chances of that money saving several children lives wouldn't be slim.
1 - Turn all citizens into criminals. 2 - Be the one in charge to decide which citizens to prosecute. 3 - Make your position inheritable. 4 - Construct large pyramidal tombs in the desert to be remembered forever.
This means that streaming a movie from an unauthorised source will be considered a more serious offense than vandalism, trespassing, simple assault and prostitution.
Because vandalism, trespassing, assault and prostitution generate a smaller economic loss than streaming (prostitution even generates benefit).
They should just take off the mask, create a new "crime against benefit" and set it as the gravest form of injury to society.
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What do you propose to build the foundry out of?
We need to capture one of these objects before we have the material to build the foundry!
If only we had a large mass of material anywhere close by...
An asteroid that size wouldn't reach land.
(However, the US has never needed the threats to be non-fictional to scare its population into giving up freedom and money.)
It doesn't have to hit Earth to affect it. Consider the tides. Our global eco system has evolved to expect tides. It would be difficult if not impossible to predict the full extent of the harm that could result if tidal patterns are altered. All sorts of life could flourish or die under such changes.
I'm not exactly a tree-hugger, but I certainly appreciate the factors and influences over life on this planet. This would affect the oceans in all sorts of ways. That which affects the oceans and the life within them will affect us and possibly even global weather patterns.
Because a 2~60m diameter stone in space can significantly alter tides.
Or just send a micro 3Dprinter robot that can mine the asteroid and use the material to self-replicate.
Dak Tak Lak Pak.
It depends on how you push it. If it's by reflecting solar wind on it via parabolic mirror, you can leave its rotation alone until mining time.
I guess you're against import taxes. I agree, but that discussion goes far far away from the topic of tv series and it's quite more important in products like fruit or meat.
And worse than that, it's a propaganda weapon on the 4th grade level. If that is the average level of the electorate, forget about having a democracy or a democratic republic.
That is the average level of the electorate.
Democracy is still better than dictatorship, even when the population is composed of uneducated monkeys.
If you have a suggestion of a better system to govern masses of retards, please do present it. For an educated minority, pushing to reach it will be easier than educating the masses.
I don't know about the U.K. but in the U.S. it can be remarkably hard to actually cancel those sorts of offers. Please carve your reason for canceling into marble slabs in triplicate and deliver to our head office (located conveniently in Uzbekistan) in person between 3AM and 3:01AM on a Friday.
Bah. When I was young, you had to carve your reasons in your own forehead, in trochaic octameter and deliver it by telepathy to their HQ, in Rigel IV, during the day of a hundred moons.
I'm still subscribed to Block Buster and the accumulated fine for the last movie I rented would pay a small country's bribe to the prime minister to enforce US IP laws.
10 minutes lol. You're hilarious.
Do you think it's too much? Or too little.
If too little, take into account that starting a torrent as it's created takes at least a couple minutes until it's running properly.
If too much... I don't know. Buy a better connection? I can't think of a way of needing more than 15min to download one chapter, even at 720p.
Unless you're streaming HD porn 24/7, in which case... I'd like to know on which side of the streaming you are.
Unfortunately, to joe public, a sample size of 1 (AKA an anecdote) is enough evidence to base their bias on. The media know this so they'll milk it for all it is worth.
Aiming at influencing the opinion of the retarded majority is easier and has the greatest in legislation and its enforcement. Welcome to democracy. The worst system except for every other one.
Intentional region blocking should really be illegal already under anti-discrimination laws...
Whose anti-discrimination laws?
The content owner's? Why would they apply to a different country?
The emitting country's? Why would they apply to whether something is available in another country sooner or later?
The international anti-discrimination laws enforced by the world anti-discrimination police?
I don't think getting the tv shows in time is part of the human rights convention.
The problem is not doing it right once you understand the issue. The problem is understanding the issue.
In my experience, the problem is not understanding the issue but either acknowledging there is an issue or even making the effort to investigate whether there might be one.
Your freedom is carefully stored inside your wallet. When you work, you're not giving up freedom, as many youngsters believe. You're just saving it.
The problem are the people who spend the freedom of others. The freedom they didn't work for.
Some day the US will see it's changed from "land of the free" to "land of the freedom". And, hopefully, that day the country will be ready to discuss how is that still abundant freedom distributed.
On the other hand, an increase in cognitive load reduces the perceived speed of time. If you remove all distractions to focus, a sudden change will be harder to react to, not easier.
Unless you do know how to focus and do it by paying attention to an increased amount of data in your surrounding, increasing thus your cognitive load and therefore reducing your perceived speed of time.
But then, you've just changed the music and phone for the chant of the birds and the movement of the branches in the trees, which might help against a hidden tiger, but won't against an incoming vehicle.
First councillor with down syndrome in Spain.
A company that has failed to deliver on multiple contracts in the past should be given priority, because it has significant experience in government contracting work!
And a company that was ready to sell a $1.2 billion product for only $10 million should be praised as benefactors of Australia!
The Man is immensely stronger than the individual. It makes no strategic sense to call his attention.
If an individual really wanted to hurt the system, and not just make a lot of noise for ego and PR reasons, instead of putting bombs he'd spend one or two decades studying biological weaponry, building a hidden lab and accumulating enough product as to kill his entire continent.
With a doctorate in molecular biology, a well paid stable job, and two or three decades of free time, it's not so hard to make some tons of nerve gas and then snail mail thousands of tiny fragile glass vials to the entire world.
(Is that enough Bayesian poisoning? Or must I also put pictures of the secret lab's location, right under the MPAA HQ)
It is only slightly slower than an olympic sprinter running at full tilt
Now, to complete that analogy, we only need:
- The mass of an Olympic sprinter.
- The volume of the nail.
- The half-life of the heaviest magnetic material to calculate it's density by the time it reaches the target.
The tree structure of replies in Slashdot may be a bit harder than whatever you're used to, but please make an effort to understand it and read the posts in their correct order.
Wait. My experience tells me that someone unable to get that will also be unable to understand my answer, so I'll say it in a simpler way. The 'think of the children!" argument is what the person I was replying to used. My post was one way of showing him why it didn't work, by showing an example of how his reasoning took us to an absurd conclusion.
Having said that, your quick reaction to "for the children!" arguments is, even though misapplied in this case, at least better than the common jumping in the bandwagon.
On the other hand, some of us have decided not to live our lives as totally selfish assholes.
[...]
Happily you can simply turn off the alert on your phone and remove any random chance you might save someones life, so can can avoid a slightly annoying buzzing that lasts for a few seconds.
Are you really willing to sacrifice getting annoyed for a few seconds in exchange for the slim chance of saving a child?
Really?
Let's say I make a phone app that wakes the entire state up in the middle of the night, every week or so, with an important message from my sponsors. Let's say that of the large amounts of money I'd get paid by the sponsor, I give 50% to a charity operating in any of the poorest countries in Africa.
I guarantee you the chances of that money saving several children lives wouldn't be slim.
Admit it. You couldn't have pointed at Zimbabwe, with a fat finger, on a map of the Solar System.
"send lines of attack code to a DNS server," really?
Yes. The code was: 41545441434b21
Well, you have to admit most of the damage was done by AT&AT.
The AT&ST could be beaten even by tiny bears with prehistoric technology.
We are all criminals.
1 - Turn all citizens into criminals.
2 - Be the one in charge to decide which citizens to prosecute.
3 - Make your position inheritable.
4 - Construct large pyramidal tombs in the desert to be remembered forever.
This means that streaming a movie from an unauthorised source will be considered a more serious offense than vandalism, trespassing, simple assault and prostitution.
Because vandalism, trespassing, assault and prostitution generate a smaller economic loss than streaming (prostitution even generates benefit).
They should just take off the mask, create a new "crime against benefit" and set it as the gravest form of injury to society.