You will always find people willing to die for fame. Every high publicity serial killer generates people who what to take their place on the electric chair. That does not make it ethical to kill them, just because they want you to.
They could replace "America's Got Talent" with, "I Want to Kill Myself on Live TV" and they would not have any problem finding contestants. Would you really consider that an ethical reality TV show?
It has gotten seriously out of control. There are some monthly plans around where I live where you can hit your Monthly cap in well under an hour of usage. What use is that?
Well I won't, but I would have to leave my continent to get decent Internet.
At least Northern Norwegia borders places with good Internet speed, so all they needed was a few dozen miles of cable. As a rural Canadian I would have to cross Oceans to get to decent Internet.
You are legally allowed to not familiarize yourself with laws, and it is never illegal not to ask questions ("Can you bring this generic package over the boarder for me? Sure, why not", is legal). You are not not protected from the consequences of your ignorance.
I do not think there is a single law on the books that makes it illegal not to know something. All knowledge is op-out-able, as far as I am aware, no one is likely ever going to force you and everyone else to know something.
The problem is that these viruses are designed to get around things like this. A researcher becomes infected and no one necessarily knows for 3 weeks. Assuming these researchers are allowed to come home from the moon ever, there is still a risk.
And in the case it ever escapes simply into the quarantined lab, you have to assume that these infected scientists are entirely capable or panicking and breaking quarantine. When you are talking about deadly viruses, capable of destroying civilization, you have to assume that there exist people who want to spread it, someone infected will possibly try to hide it, and if it breaks out into the lab there will be absolute panic and a total breakdown of safeguards and procedures.
Add to that that most of these are airborne, and bacteria can survive both in space and entry into Earth's atmosphere.
That does not really follow. You do not need an evil mastermind pulling strings to have a system that benefits the rich. You are saying that you actually believe that there is some league of evil rich people out there, that are not just looking out for their own best interests but actively undermining the poor so that they have cheap oppressed labour? And they are not just mistakenly undetermined poor out of ignorance, but purposely infantry to do so, all the while laughing maniacally as they order their chauffeurs to run over homeless people.
You seem to have missed the point. That is the entire basis of a language, a shared body of specific knowledge. "You're such a Samantha" is from a SatC language, heavily based on English. That is why I and everyone else that know English can understand the words but not the meaning. But, lets assume we know nothing about SatC and English both. In that case "You're such a Samantha" is completely identical to "You're such a slut/bitch/smartypants" (whatever "Samantha" means to SitC fans). Samantha is just a random assortment of sounds/letters that denote an idea, No different than any other word.
Samantha in this case is just a new word that I do not know. There is nothing toilety about the word toilet, for example, the guy that designed it was probably just called Frank Toilet, that does not mean that an Alien culture would be unable to understand the word toilet because it used to be a proper noun.
Ya, maybe the episode would not of sucked so bad if their made up language, that was "completely different to all other languages" was not just a pile of bull.
Oh, you mean we could not decode the language because every word was just an arbitrary sequence of sounds denoting an idea, instead of how normal words work?
It would be a hell of a lot easier. Suck it out, chill it with a small cooler, and pump it right back in. Put a funnel under the wounds and just pump whatever leaks out back in.
How are they going to get consent? And are they only going to only do this for the otherwise hopeless cases?
The logistics sound impossible. They are going to need a lot or equipment, including a huge tank to store the cold saline solution and another for the blood. They cannot send this out with every ambulance.
"Don't become a CEO. The CEO represents the company." We get that line for every back room worker. I do not care what some burger flipper wrote on FB that is his business, not McDonald's. And the same goes for the CEO. "Don't do it publicly!" So freedom of speech, as long as no one hears you speak.
Yes they are. Steel has a higher strength/weight than Aluminum, even Stainless has a higher strength/weight than aluminium. But these are relativity small differences. The significant difference is the density, which is why we use Aluminum.
Titanium does not have any special strength vs weight. It is slightly below Steel and slightly above aluminium. But at the end of the day they are all basically the same. We make aircraft out of aluminium, because the same weight of steel would be too thin and we make steel girders out of steel because the same thing with aluminium would be too big; And we use Titanium when heat might be a problem, in general. Using reasonable alloys, their strength/weight is similar.
And 99% of metal hardness is in the heat treating. You can make steel into elastic, or rigid as diamonds.
Well it is all thickness, As long as the metal is heat treated right, and not too thin I do not think you would encounter any problems. They make aircraft out of both.
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You will always find people willing to die for fame. Every high publicity serial killer generates people who what to take their place on the electric chair. That does not make it ethical to kill them, just because they want you to.
They could replace "America's Got Talent" with, "I Want to Kill Myself on Live TV" and they would not have any problem finding contestants. Would you really consider that an ethical reality TV show?
It has gotten seriously out of control. There are some monthly plans around where I live where you can hit your Monthly cap in well under an hour of usage. What use is that?
Well I won't, but I would have to leave my continent to get decent Internet.
At least Northern Norwegia borders places with good Internet speed, so all they needed was a few dozen miles of cable. As a rural Canadian I would have to cross Oceans to get to decent Internet.
You are legally allowed to not familiarize yourself with laws, and it is never illegal not to ask questions ("Can you bring this generic package over the boarder for me? Sure, why not", is legal). You are not not protected from the consequences of your ignorance.
I do not think there is a single law on the books that makes it illegal not to know something. All knowledge is op-out-able, as far as I am aware, no one is likely ever going to force you and everyone else to know something.
The problem is that these viruses are designed to get around things like this. A researcher becomes infected and no one necessarily knows for 3 weeks. Assuming these researchers are allowed to come home from the moon ever, there is still a risk.
And in the case it ever escapes simply into the quarantined lab, you have to assume that these infected scientists are entirely capable or panicking and breaking quarantine. When you are talking about deadly viruses, capable of destroying civilization, you have to assume that there exist people who want to spread it, someone infected will possibly try to hide it, and if it breaks out into the lab there will be absolute panic and a total breakdown of safeguards and procedures.
Add to that that most of these are airborne, and bacteria can survive both in space and entry into Earth's atmosphere.
We have patents, and FB and Zynga still do that. So what, the worst case scenario of getting rid of patents is that nothing would change?
Poor food security is good for business.
That does not really follow. You do not need an evil mastermind pulling strings to have a system that benefits the rich. You are saying that you actually believe that there is some league of evil rich people out there, that are not just looking out for their own best interests but actively undermining the poor so that they have cheap oppressed labour? And they are not just mistakenly undetermined poor out of ignorance, but purposely infantry to do so, all the while laughing maniacally as they order their chauffeurs to run over homeless people.
Whale Wars: UN Edition?
I doubt it is actually 1 in 10, they are probably counting lesbians, and everyone knows lesbians do not count.
Scientists discovered this at least 6 years ago when I watched a documentary about it, and most likely quite a bit before that.
"Can you imagine them trying to write a book explaining microprocessor design?"
Shaka, when the walls fell
You seem to have missed the point. That is the entire basis of a language, a shared body of specific knowledge. "You're such a Samantha" is from a SatC language, heavily based on English. That is why I and everyone else that know English can understand the words but not the meaning. But, lets assume we know nothing about SatC and English both. In that case "You're such a Samantha" is completely identical to "You're such a slut/bitch/smartypants" (whatever "Samantha" means to SitC fans). Samantha is just a random assortment of sounds/letters that denote an idea, No different than any other word.
Samantha in this case is just a new word that I do not know. There is nothing toilety about the word toilet, for example, the guy that designed it was probably just called Frank Toilet, that does not mean that an Alien culture would be unable to understand the word toilet because it used to be a proper noun.
Ya, maybe the episode would not of sucked so bad if their made up language, that was "completely different to all other languages" was not just a pile of bull.
Oh, you mean we could not decode the language because every word was just an arbitrary sequence of sounds denoting an idea, instead of how normal words work?
So basically the worst episodes are those featuring Trio.
It would be a hell of a lot easier. Suck it out, chill it with a small cooler, and pump it right back in. Put a funnel under the wounds and just pump whatever leaks out back in.
How are they going to get consent? And are they only going to only do this for the otherwise hopeless cases?
The logistics sound impossible. They are going to need a lot or equipment, including a huge tank to store the cold saline solution and another for the blood. They cannot send this out with every ambulance.
"Don't become a CEO. The CEO represents the company."
We get that line for every back room worker. I do not care what some burger flipper wrote on FB that is his business, not McDonald's. And the same goes for the CEO.
"Don't do it publicly!" So freedom of speech, as long as no one hears you speak.
Is that anything new? I imagine the millions of grain shuckers just starved to death during the industrial revolution.
And Notch has already cancelled his Oculus Rift deal because Facebook creeps him out.
If Google had not turned completely incompetent, and have shown their complete inability to produce a even half decent smartphone OS, I would agree.
but at this point we need as many competitors as possible.
Yes they are. Steel has a higher strength/weight than Aluminum, even Stainless has a higher strength/weight than aluminium. But these are relativity small differences. The significant difference is the density, which is why we use Aluminum.
Titanium does not have any special strength vs weight. It is slightly below Steel and slightly above aluminium. But at the end of the day they are all basically the same. We make aircraft out of aluminium, because the same weight of steel would be too thin and we make steel girders out of steel because the same thing with aluminium would be too big; And we use Titanium when heat might be a problem, in general. Using reasonable alloys, their strength/weight is similar.
And 99% of metal hardness is in the heat treating. You can make steel into elastic, or rigid as diamonds.
Well it is all thickness, As long as the metal is heat treated right, and not too thin I do not think you would encounter any problems. They make aircraft out of both.