Oh yes there is a magic solution: directional transmitters and receivers. With a directional signal path you can have multiple signals on the same frequency at the same time in the same area without interference. It's like billboards on the highway: you can look at one without the next one blocking your sight. We didn't have computer controlled phased array antenna's that could follow a transmitter in Marconi's time, so we had to use dedicated radio spectrum for each transmitter- and our rules haven't changed even though now we do.
The Korean's appear to have managed that task, and at a lower total cost. (and if population density had anything to do with it, then why doesn't new york have top notch internet service?) I might suggest the Korean's are smarter- but it's probably just that in a country that only values money the smart people go into "money" jobs where they can get rich (possibly by gouging the public on services/banking/investments).
Regardless of number of stars the plants pay a tradeoff in energy gathering vs cost of gathering. Plants that are better will displace those that aren't (evolution). Plants on earth have been evolving for a long time, therefore their solutions are likely optimized (for that environment). I therefore expect alien worlds will have green plants, insects, birds and fish.
Fortunately the police won't use this at traffic stops, it's too expensive (time) to justify the cost. However if they take you for questioning it'll certainly be used.
They must archive the data, they need it for trial or to find more evidence. Everything the police do is a fishing expedition to look for evidence of crime, it's what they do. It's only a matter of how far we'll let them pry, not if.
Knowing he's guilty would be sufficient for the police to justify watching him and digging for bodies. The police don't need a court order unless someone objects, and I expect unless he's got a hog farm that there is evidence not on his land.
Given the huge range of phones in existence and that it bypasses passwords, this device must have the active cooperation of your phone. The most likely source of such cooperation is from the cellphone provider. Given the number of secret laws, it's highly likely that there is a secret law requiring backdoor access to all cellphones sold in the USA, for the purpose of retrieving evidence (for terrorist cases, probably). I suggest that someone do a code audit of the android phones to find the backdoor code, and deal with it.
If the advertisers asked you to send them your life (pictures, friend lists, schedule...) so they could better sell you stuff you'd refuse. But if they say here, store your stuff on our servers (in the cloud) for free! (where free means we can spy on you to sell you stuff) then we all go for it without a second thought.
The rockets from china are flying, they have actual numbers to work with for cost. SpaceX isn't there yet, their numbers are projections. The main cost difference between mass production and prototypes is labour costs, where the Chinese have the advantage. I don't think they would outsource to the USA even if it was a tenth of the price, it's both national pride and national security at stake. Countries succeed because people want them to. Americans are so busy grabbing a piece of the pie (money) that they can't be bothered to care about their own country. American jobs don't go to china because it's cheaper, they go because american managers care more about profits than they do about their country.
I disagree. Being able to look up the source code for word (as part of the patent application) would make writing the converters for open office much easier. If software was legally patentable instead of backdoor patentable like now then you'd need to include source code. Of course the length of software patents should be 5 years, with no extensions.
I would think the (US) patent office has a legal requirement to properly investigate patents before approval. If it can be shown they don't- then that should (morally should, I don't know about legally) reverse the process and require patent holders to prove the patent valid before they can enforce it. I believe in lawsuits they normally follow the most likely answer (preponderance of evidence) instead of proven beyond reasonable doubt. I suggest they keep that standard for patent validity.
Everything the gov does costs money. Putting an internet kiosk in the real estate office so you can buy the house you just got shown is easy and cheap. If they don'
t tax the internet then ALL buying will be done online. Next you'll have people working over the internet- you work in your cubicle and your boss (across the hall) sends you orders through your computer. Allowing everyone to get the tax breaks reserved for the rich and powerful will result in the country going broke.
The Japanese knew they were going to lose, they just needed a political excuse to save face. Russia showed with ww2 that they are willing to take casualties on a huge scale if it means winning. The russians were prepared to fight ww3 even if half their country died in an american first strike
I think we can safely assume that all email sent to/from north korea is recorded/stored/examined in detail unless it's encrypted. I'm pretty sure sending encrypted email to north korea will result in the men in black helicopters coming to visit you in the middle of the night. If you really care about security use your own email server, with self destruct if tampered with. (and if they try to obtain it legally they will probably go for the hard drive before telling you- oops!)
When you annex a house to make a road you must pay the owner. Those songs would have been mine (public property, therefore part mine) and now they won't be. I want compensation for your annexation.
Er no, neutrons don't "pass through harmlessly", they either knock off sub-atomic particles (then keep on going) or stick and make radioactive isotopes. It's not the uranium that's making heat in the japan reactors, it's the secondary radioactive isotopes created by the neutrons.
No, it's trivially easy to get high voltages from household stuff, your house already has 220 volt AC power readily available you just need several really big transformers in series to finish the job. Be sure you space the wires far enough apart that they don't arc at the higher voltages. Thick braided copper wire is prefered. Don't forget to use big circuit breakers to run the whole mess as you will have some losses in the circuit. Ensure nothing comes close to the transformers/wires during operation. (close is relative to voltage levels)
Oh yes, and you can't directly accelerate neutrons with electricity or magnetism.
If you heat up Helium sufficiently it will break down into neutrons and protons. Separate the protons with an electric charge and you're ready to accelerate them towards your target. I'd tell you one of the two methods of accelerating neutrons except then the black helicopters might come back.
A space elevator changes everything, but until then given the astronomical cost of getting anything into orbit it would be cheaper to just build a much bigger solar array with batteries on earth.
So if you paved death valley in solar panels (with greenhouses below growing rice I expect) then you'd not need to import oil or give money to OPEC. So all America has to do is figure out how to pay the Chinese to built it.
1- You can't ship hydrogen cheaply or efficiently. 2- the biosphere (fish) like having sunlight on the ocean. 3- distributed energy is too hard for rich people to profit from, they prefer centrally generated power, with metering.
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It's the American way, get rich by gouging the public.
Oh yes there is a magic solution: directional transmitters and receivers. With a directional signal path you can have multiple signals on the same frequency at the same time in the same area without interference. It's like billboards on the highway: you can look at one without the next one blocking your sight. We didn't have computer controlled phased array antenna's that could follow a transmitter in Marconi's time, so we had to use dedicated radio spectrum for each transmitter- and our rules haven't changed even though now we do.
The Korean's appear to have managed that task, and at a lower total cost. (and if population density had anything to do with it, then why doesn't new york have top notch internet service?) I might suggest the Korean's are smarter- but it's probably just that in a country that only values money the smart people go into "money" jobs where they can get rich (possibly by gouging the public on services/banking/investments).
Regardless of number of stars the plants pay a tradeoff in energy gathering vs cost of gathering. Plants that are better will displace those that aren't (evolution). Plants on earth have been evolving for a long time, therefore their solutions are likely optimized (for that environment). I therefore expect alien worlds will have green plants, insects, birds and fish.
Fortunately the police won't use this at traffic stops, it's too expensive (time) to justify the cost. However if they take you for questioning it'll certainly be used.
They must archive the data, they need it for trial or to find more evidence. Everything the police do is a fishing expedition to look for evidence of crime, it's what they do. It's only a matter of how far we'll let them pry, not if.
Knowing he's guilty would be sufficient for the police to justify watching him and digging for bodies. The police don't need a court order unless someone objects, and I expect unless he's got a hog farm that there is evidence not on his land.
Given the huge range of phones in existence and that it bypasses passwords, this device must have the active cooperation of your phone. The most likely source of such cooperation is from the cellphone provider. Given the number of secret laws, it's highly likely that there is a secret law requiring backdoor access to all cellphones sold in the USA, for the purpose of retrieving evidence (for terrorist cases, probably). I suggest that someone do a code audit of the android phones to find the backdoor code, and deal with it.
If the advertisers asked you to send them your life (pictures, friend lists, schedule...) so they could better sell you stuff you'd refuse. But if they say here, store your stuff on our servers (in the cloud) for free! (where free means we can spy on you to sell you stuff) then we all go for it without a second thought.
The rockets from china are flying, they have actual numbers to work with for cost. SpaceX isn't there yet, their numbers are projections. The main cost difference between mass production and prototypes is labour costs, where the Chinese have the advantage. I don't think they would outsource to the USA even if it was a tenth of the price, it's both national pride and national security at stake. Countries succeed because people want them to. Americans are so busy grabbing a piece of the pie (money) that they can't be bothered to care about their own country. American jobs don't go to china because it's cheaper, they go because american managers care more about profits than they do about their country.
if the Las Vegas Review-Journal has sold the right to sue, does that mean they can't sue for copyright infringement?
I disagree. Being able to look up the source code for word (as part of the patent application) would make writing the converters for open office much easier. If software was legally patentable instead of backdoor patentable like now then you'd need to include source code. Of course the length of software patents should be 5 years, with no extensions.
I would think the (US) patent office has a legal requirement to properly investigate patents before approval. If it can be shown they don't- then that should (morally should, I don't know about legally) reverse the process and require patent holders to prove the patent valid before they can enforce it. I believe in lawsuits they normally follow the most likely answer (preponderance of evidence) instead of proven beyond reasonable doubt. I suggest they keep that standard for patent validity.
If your state declares the transaction happens entirely at YOUR end of the wires (in state) then it's not interstate.
Everything the gov does costs money. Putting an internet kiosk in the real estate office so you can buy the house you just got shown is easy and cheap. If they don' t tax the internet then ALL buying will be done online. Next you'll have people working over the internet- you work in your cubicle and your boss (across the hall) sends you orders through your computer. Allowing everyone to get the tax breaks reserved for the rich and powerful will result in the country going broke.
Probably production tax, based on the value of what you replicate. And on the royalty on the copyrighted plans you bought/downloaded.
The Japanese knew they were going to lose, they just needed a political excuse to save face. Russia showed with ww2 that they are willing to take casualties on a huge scale if it means winning. The russians were prepared to fight ww3 even if half their country died in an american first strike
I think we can safely assume that all email sent to/from north korea is recorded/stored/examined in detail unless it's encrypted. I'm pretty sure sending encrypted email to north korea will result in the men in black helicopters coming to visit you in the middle of the night. If you really care about security use your own email server, with self destruct if tampered with. (and if they try to obtain it legally they will probably go for the hard drive before telling you- oops!)
When you annex a house to make a road you must pay the owner. Those songs would have been mine (public property, therefore part mine) and now they won't be. I want compensation for your annexation.
Er no, neutrons don't "pass through harmlessly", they either knock off sub-atomic particles (then keep on going) or stick and make radioactive isotopes. It's not the uranium that's making heat in the japan reactors, it's the secondary radioactive isotopes created by the neutrons.
No, it's trivially easy to get high voltages from household stuff, your house already has 220 volt AC power readily available you just need several really big transformers in series to finish the job. Be sure you space the wires far enough apart that they don't arc at the higher voltages. Thick braided copper wire is prefered. Don't forget to use big circuit breakers to run the whole mess as you will have some losses in the circuit. Ensure nothing comes close to the transformers/wires during operation. (close is relative to voltage levels) Oh yes, and you can't directly accelerate neutrons with electricity or magnetism.
If you heat up Helium sufficiently it will break down into neutrons and protons. Separate the protons with an electric charge and you're ready to accelerate them towards your target. I'd tell you one of the two methods of accelerating neutrons except then the black helicopters might come back.
A space elevator changes everything, but until then given the astronomical cost of getting anything into orbit it would be cheaper to just build a much bigger solar array with batteries on earth.
So if you paved death valley in solar panels (with greenhouses below growing rice I expect) then you'd not need to import oil or give money to OPEC. So all America has to do is figure out how to pay the Chinese to built it.
1- You can't ship hydrogen cheaply or efficiently. 2- the biosphere (fish) like having sunlight on the ocean. 3- distributed energy is too hard for rich people to profit from, they prefer centrally generated power, with metering.