Faster than light travel is not possible in this universe, so your idea is bunk.
Furthermore, time travel is a ridiculous concept that belongs only in bad science fiction, not serious discussion.
I'm not even going to bother trying to explain to you WHY these two facts are true, just try THINKING a little bit about what you are saying, inevitably you will come up with a whole host of logical impossibilities that result from your idea.
APPARENTLY YOU HAVE NOT HEARD OF TIME CUBE TECHNOLOGY!! TIME CUBE ALLOWS FASTER THAN LIGHT TRAVEL THROUGH 5TH DIMENSIONAL ROTATION OF TIME CUBE!!
I did not say they should get all their pay taken away. I'm suggesting that the individuals responsible should be fined instead of the consumers and employees. If you don't lock their pay at their current rate, they'll just give themselves a nice multi-million dollar bonus the first chance they get.
The government *could* have put them in prison. When someone goes to prison, the government is already basically saying, no pay or job for you and you're confined to this building. But this is not the kind of crime that is so bad that people need to go to prison. This option would allow them to keep their job, still get paid, not go to prison, yet still fine them and ensure they don't transfer that fine to the people.
Maybe they should fine the board members instead, and disallow them from receiving bonuses/stock/pay increases for 5 or 10 years. You can't punish companies but you can punish people.
Something I've always wondered is that since we supposedly know how far the farthest recorded star is, and supposedly know the age of the universe, how fast are we moving away from the farthest star? And how fast are we moving relative to the source of the big bang? If there's 10 lightyears from us to that star, the most conservative guess (the slowest speed) would put the big bang starting directly between us and the other star, putting the big bang somewhere else would mean we're moving faster.
Does anyone know how to do the math to calculate either of these? I know its definitely not 10 billion ly / 14 bln y, we'd have to take in to account relativistic speeds, and the movement of the light from the other star, etc. It seems like we must really be moving pretty damn fast away from the other star if we're seeing it in the position it was 2 billion years after the big bang, and the light from there to here traveled 10 billion lightyears.
I notice the same thing that Chris Pimlott mentioned. Sensory deprivation experiments show that as sensory input is lowered, the brain automatically 'turns up the volume' of those senses. As he said as long as the headphones are good and you dont hear loud background noises, you wont notice a difference because your brain is amplifying the music.
I generally try to find the sweet spot in my mp3 player's volume. Every few minutes I adjust the volume down until its no longer getting amplified enough. Then raise it a notch. Then even if my favorite song was created at a lower volume, it'll be loud enough part way into the song.
The main hindrance to American technological innovation is a patent system that rewards people for sitting on ideas and punishes those who create new products.
It has become an accepted fact that when you create something new, you will likely have to pay companies that had nothing whatsoever to do with your invention, just because they filed a patent while never intending to actually produce or sell anything. Did anyone else notice how leading these "Questions" are? They tell the interviewee exactly what you are wanting to hear, basically just leaving it up to them to answer "Yes I agree".
Maybe a better method would be to explain both sides from each side's own view (meaning not degrading or promoting either one) and ask which they support or how they would resolve these two conflicting opinions.
These people being interviewed could have no clue about the subject and just telling them one side of the story is like all the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoaxDihydrogen Monoxide hoaxes where politicians were ready to ban the stuff. In fact, that should have been one of the questions imho.
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If virtual killing breaks a law, then there should be a virtual court, and a virtual sentencing (if guilty) and put the person in a virtual prison.
What they haven't addressed is... What if I kill someone in my imagination? Should I put myself in an imaginary prison?
Faster than light travel is not possible in this universe, so your idea is bunk.
Furthermore, time travel is a ridiculous concept that belongs only in bad science fiction, not serious discussion.
I'm not even going to bother trying to explain to you WHY these two facts are true, just try THINKING a little bit about what you are saying, inevitably you will come up with a whole host of logical impossibilities that result from your idea.
APPARENTLY YOU HAVE NOT HEARD OF TIME CUBE TECHNOLOGY!! TIME CUBE ALLOWS FASTER THAN LIGHT TRAVEL THROUGH 5TH DIMENSIONAL ROTATION OF TIME CUBE!!
I did not say they should get all their pay taken away. I'm suggesting that the individuals responsible should be fined instead of the consumers and employees. If you don't lock their pay at their current rate, they'll just give themselves a nice multi-million dollar bonus the first chance they get. The government *could* have put them in prison. When someone goes to prison, the government is already basically saying, no pay or job for you and you're confined to this building. But this is not the kind of crime that is so bad that people need to go to prison. This option would allow them to keep their job, still get paid, not go to prison, yet still fine them and ensure they don't transfer that fine to the people.
Maybe they should fine the board members instead, and disallow them from receiving bonuses/stock/pay increases for 5 or 10 years. You can't punish companies but you can punish people.
Something I've always wondered is that since we supposedly know how far the farthest recorded star is, and supposedly know the age of the universe, how fast are we moving away from the farthest star? And how fast are we moving relative to the source of the big bang? If there's 10 lightyears from us to that star, the most conservative guess (the slowest speed) would put the big bang starting directly between us and the other star, putting the big bang somewhere else would mean we're moving faster. Does anyone know how to do the math to calculate either of these? I know its definitely not 10 billion ly / 14 bln y, we'd have to take in to account relativistic speeds, and the movement of the light from the other star, etc. It seems like we must really be moving pretty damn fast away from the other star if we're seeing it in the position it was 2 billion years after the big bang, and the light from there to here traveled 10 billion lightyears.
I notice the same thing that Chris Pimlott mentioned. Sensory deprivation experiments show that as sensory input is lowered, the brain automatically 'turns up the volume' of those senses. As he said as long as the headphones are good and you dont hear loud background noises, you wont notice a difference because your brain is amplifying the music. I generally try to find the sweet spot in my mp3 player's volume. Every few minutes I adjust the volume down until its no longer getting amplified enough. Then raise it a notch. Then even if my favorite song was created at a lower volume, it'll be loud enough part way into the song.