Considering the cost of hard drives there is no good reason to keep anything in the cloud except for stuff you want to share (free hosting file server).
It's the new world order where only individuals are liable, not corporations. What's the point of being rich and powerful if you have to behave? Next thing you know people might suggest that banks that lose all their money be allowed to go broke or politicians who pass illegal laws go to jail.
It's a shame you can't get hold of the source code and add that feature, it would solve all your problems!
We could even give such software a special name so people will know they have that option- something about being open i expect.
The arab countries won't be importing oil, most of their population is making minimum wage or less and the rich will move to where the new oil is found. We know the oil will run out eventually, it's just a matter of the price of gas when we switch. I'd rather switch before the price becomes too high to afford than after, it will hurt less.
When gas hits $12 a gallon I expect you'll be out riding the bus, along with all your rich neighbors. Gas companies don't spend a fixed percent of income on exploration, they figure out how much to spend to maximize their profits and set gas prices to pay for it. If you lower gas taxes they will just pocket the new money.
There is no shortage of food, and subsistence farming won't pay the rent/taxes. Either we lower the cost of living to match our (new, lower) income or we increase our income to pay the bills.
If you are desperate for power build breeder reactors, subways and electric street cars. That will eliminate 1/2 the oil imports and drive down oil prices world wide. It would buy you time to do something.
Chemical rockets are the limiting factor, the tech is so marginal that only extreme efforts allow spaceflight with such poor tech- and that means tiny safety margins and huge flight cost. Human space travel will never be more than a curiosity until we advance our to orbit launch capability. Guns of one sort or another (gun powder, rail gun, electromagnetic catapult) are the only available tech that will give us affordable space flight within our lifetime.
I propose a tax on rich people with too much time and not enough brains, to tax their apparent unlimited supply of bad ideas. To be fair the tax would be half the value of their stupid idea, with a bonus for witty ideas. I suggest we call it the Half-wit tax.
Nationalize all the communications wires in the country. All the phone, cable, internet wires. Then let anyone who wants bandwidth rent it at cost + 10% from the department of telecommunications that owns and operates the wires. Every ISP/telco/cable co in the whole country can rent those lines to deliver their services to every single person in the country. Or put another way every single person in the country can pick their cable (from every cable co in the whole country), they can pick their telco (from every telephone company in the whole country), and they can pick their ISP. Only the government would own the last mile, and they would be strictly limited in cost and service. We have national road service, national police service, national water etc, surely the wires are next?
I think the secret to a universal translator is to have a single perfectly defined artificial language and then to work out how to convert your desired language into that. Because all the translator work is targeting a single fixed target you only have to translate each language once instead of English to Spanish, English to french, English to Arabic, french to English, french to Spanish, french to etc. When converting into your chosen language you also need to track what you know. Some languages have gender to words, some give the married status of women etc but others don't so that will be missing. You'll have to alter/mark the translations to declare when some aspect of the target language isn't known. The common language would be incredibly complex (superset of all languages), but since nobody would use it directly that wouldn't matter.
If you can minimize standby current you could have a thermocouple generate power from your body heat to charge the phone giving unlimited battery life.
Google Phased array antenna, it's a non mechanical directional antenna. Also suggest looking up ceramic resonators, they allow building much smaller radio transievers with lower power use. If the VCO uses half the power then don't use one, just have fixed frequencies using crystals (trade larger size for lower power).
A better idea: put guidance fins on the bullet controlled by the rifle- you could correct the trajectory of the bullet in flight to account for wind/target moving/imperfections in the rifle. If they can make tiny motors (mems) they can certainly do this.
1- All creative endeavors are copyrighted. So the only thing you could upload would be the phone book? Sounds rather useless. I think you meant you can't upload to dropbox without PERMISSION of the copyright holder. 2- if the material was taken off for DMCA request, then they must put it back up if you file a counter notice with the hoster.
Pollution from power makes up a small part of total pollution (on earth agriculture and textiles are huge). I expect mine tailings and industrial/chemical waste will be extensive even with fusion.
The cheapest solution is to leave it behind at the mining site or next to the factory. A pile of garbage would make cheap armour against debris strikes and solar radiation. The moons would be covered in tailings, the asteroid belts littered with slag, the outside of the orbital factory covered in bricks of chemical waste. I expect the spectrum given off would contain odd molecular signatures but at low signal levels. Given the orbital nature it should be possible to spot this when it passes in front of the star as a brief repetitive white noise signal pulse in the stars spectrum.
If you want security then you host your own data, else the gov cracks your server remotely. I suppose you could have a self destruct on your server, with password protection for access- I assume they (police) can't force you to testify (give password) legally. Of course your password would have to change with every single use to prevent key logging. You could use words from the US the constitution as your passwords, one word at a time in order- I don't expect they would figure out that one even if you post the constitution on your wall behind the computer with used words crossed out.
I think polution is what you want to look for. If they don't have that then you probably don't want to talk to them anyway because they:
1- are too primitive, have no tech- nothing to trade or steal.
2- are envioro-nazis who will hate us for destroying our enviornment.
You might want to READ the constitution sometime. How about this:
Amendment V http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution/billofrights#amendmentv
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The "nor be deprived of liberty without due process" part is key. Notice it doesn't specify WHERE (or who) you are protected, meaning it applies everywhere including gitmo. This passage means that the US government can't kidnap you and hold you in gitmo for many years without trial (legally). Also i believe killing US military personnel might count as "infamous crimes", and therefore require a grand jury indictment.
1-Manned space flight serves no scientific purpose, is expensive, and puts people at risk without cause. If we really wanted a public works project to help the world how about terraforming the sahara desert or building cities under water.
2-the USA is deeply in debt and going deeper by the second, you really can't afford it. If you can't afford universal health care you certainly can't afford space flight.
3-it's hard to plan ahead when you don't know if your project will be funded after the next election. What about the people you put up there?
4-there are only 2 tasks that could justify a permanent lunar base: astronomy (big telescope without interference) and solar panel production (launch into earth orbit, in bulk it's cheaper than earth launches).
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Considering the cost of hard drives there is no good reason to keep anything in the cloud except for stuff you want to share (free hosting file server).
It's the new world order where only individuals are liable, not corporations. What's the point of being rich and powerful if you have to behave? Next thing you know people might suggest that banks that lose all their money be allowed to go broke or politicians who pass illegal laws go to jail.
They do this because it pays (same with spam). When it stops paying they will stop doing it.
It's a shame you can't get hold of the source code and add that feature, it would solve all your problems! We could even give such software a special name so people will know they have that option- something about being open i expect.
Having an ocean under the ice doesn't mean water, it might be methane something or other instead.
The state is limited by the STATE constitution, the federal gov by the federal constitution.
The arab countries won't be importing oil, most of their population is making minimum wage or less and the rich will move to where the new oil is found. We know the oil will run out eventually, it's just a matter of the price of gas when we switch. I'd rather switch before the price becomes too high to afford than after, it will hurt less.
When gas hits $12 a gallon I expect you'll be out riding the bus, along with all your rich neighbors. Gas companies don't spend a fixed percent of income on exploration, they figure out how much to spend to maximize their profits and set gas prices to pay for it. If you lower gas taxes they will just pocket the new money.
There is no shortage of food, and subsistence farming won't pay the rent/taxes. Either we lower the cost of living to match our (new, lower) income or we increase our income to pay the bills.
If you are desperate for power build breeder reactors, subways and electric street cars. That will eliminate 1/2 the oil imports and drive down oil prices world wide. It would buy you time to do something.
Chemical rockets are the limiting factor, the tech is so marginal that only extreme efforts allow spaceflight with such poor tech- and that means tiny safety margins and huge flight cost. Human space travel will never be more than a curiosity until we advance our to orbit launch capability. Guns of one sort or another (gun powder, rail gun, electromagnetic catapult) are the only available tech that will give us affordable space flight within our lifetime.
I propose a tax on rich people with too much time and not enough brains, to tax their apparent unlimited supply of bad ideas. To be fair the tax would be half the value of their stupid idea, with a bonus for witty ideas. I suggest we call it the Half-wit tax.
Nationalize all the communications wires in the country. All the phone, cable, internet wires. Then let anyone who wants bandwidth rent it at cost + 10% from the department of telecommunications that owns and operates the wires. Every ISP/telco/cable co in the whole country can rent those lines to deliver their services to every single person in the country. Or put another way every single person in the country can pick their cable (from every cable co in the whole country), they can pick their telco (from every telephone company in the whole country), and they can pick their ISP. Only the government would own the last mile, and they would be strictly limited in cost and service. We have national road service, national police service, national water etc, surely the wires are next?
I think the secret to a universal translator is to have a single perfectly defined artificial language and then to work out how to convert your desired language into that. Because all the translator work is targeting a single fixed target you only have to translate each language once instead of English to Spanish, English to french, English to Arabic, french to English, french to Spanish, french to etc. When converting into your chosen language you also need to track what you know. Some languages have gender to words, some give the married status of women etc but others don't so that will be missing. You'll have to alter/mark the translations to declare when some aspect of the target language isn't known. The common language would be incredibly complex (superset of all languages), but since nobody would use it directly that wouldn't matter.
If you can minimize standby current you could have a thermocouple generate power from your body heat to charge the phone giving unlimited battery life.
Google Phased array antenna, it's a non mechanical directional antenna. Also suggest looking up ceramic resonators, they allow building much smaller radio transievers with lower power use. If the VCO uses half the power then don't use one, just have fixed frequencies using crystals (trade larger size for lower power).
A better idea: put guidance fins on the bullet controlled by the rifle- you could correct the trajectory of the bullet in flight to account for wind/target moving/imperfections in the rifle. If they can make tiny motors (mems) they can certainly do this.
1- All creative endeavors are copyrighted. So the only thing you could upload would be the phone book? Sounds rather useless. I think you meant you can't upload to dropbox without PERMISSION of the copyright holder. 2- if the material was taken off for DMCA request, then they must put it back up if you file a counter notice with the hoster.
If the universe is cyclic then that means the former civ got squished (or left) and therefore not available for contact.
Pollution from power makes up a small part of total pollution (on earth agriculture and textiles are huge). I expect mine tailings and industrial/chemical waste will be extensive even with fusion.
The cheapest solution is to leave it behind at the mining site or next to the factory. A pile of garbage would make cheap armour against debris strikes and solar radiation. The moons would be covered in tailings, the asteroid belts littered with slag, the outside of the orbital factory covered in bricks of chemical waste. I expect the spectrum given off would contain odd molecular signatures but at low signal levels. Given the orbital nature it should be possible to spot this when it passes in front of the star as a brief repetitive white noise signal pulse in the stars spectrum.
If you want security then you host your own data, else the gov cracks your server remotely. I suppose you could have a self destruct on your server, with password protection for access- I assume they (police) can't force you to testify (give password) legally. Of course your password would have to change with every single use to prevent key logging. You could use words from the US the constitution as your passwords, one word at a time in order- I don't expect they would figure out that one even if you post the constitution on your wall behind the computer with used words crossed out.
I think polution is what you want to look for. If they don't have that then you probably don't want to talk to them anyway because they: 1- are too primitive, have no tech- nothing to trade or steal. 2- are envioro-nazis who will hate us for destroying our enviornment.
You might want to READ the constitution sometime. How about this: Amendment V http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution/billofrights#amendmentv No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. The "nor be deprived of liberty without due process" part is key. Notice it doesn't specify WHERE (or who) you are protected, meaning it applies everywhere including gitmo. This passage means that the US government can't kidnap you and hold you in gitmo for many years without trial (legally). Also i believe killing US military personnel might count as "infamous crimes", and therefore require a grand jury indictment.
1-Manned space flight serves no scientific purpose, is expensive, and puts people at risk without cause. If we really wanted a public works project to help the world how about terraforming the sahara desert or building cities under water. 2-the USA is deeply in debt and going deeper by the second, you really can't afford it. If you can't afford universal health care you certainly can't afford space flight. 3-it's hard to plan ahead when you don't know if your project will be funded after the next election. What about the people you put up there? 4-there are only 2 tasks that could justify a permanent lunar base: astronomy (big telescope without interference) and solar panel production (launch into earth orbit, in bulk it's cheaper than earth launches).