The american highway system definitely helped the common (american) man. Also given the lack of security I imagine this would make a nifty radio controlled aircraft. I wonder how fast it is.
Might this project morph into a google books scenario? Where google actively scans in all the worlds music and gives everyone access (for money). I realize that the google books thing is on hold till they bribe enough politicians for an enabling law, but that's easy enough (politicians are easy though not cheap).
This is like your landlord billing you for a parking space when you only have a bike, but then you buy a car- so he complains you're using all of the parking spot instead of just a bit at the end and now he can't rent out the rest of your parking spot to other bikes so now he wants to charge you more to park a car there.
Sexual orientation is hardwired into the brain, sometimes the wires get crossed. Homosexuality is a birth defect not a choice. The world would be a better place if we could fix that (or accept those with this disability) but that's beyond our current medical tech. The app is basically worthless beyond entertainment. Also, I don't think the religious devout would consider the app hateful.
The UN only has legal jurisdiction in international matters, not internal affairs like a civil war. All power flows from the ability to deny others things they value, the UN has no such ability (nor the power that comes from it).
Ghadaffi was an american regional ally, so why are they openly opposing him? The other (american allied) despots can't enjoy watching the US betray their ally, i've no doubt that the house of Saud is quite upset over this betrayal, and Bahrain certainly will wonder if they are next. The american government doesn't do things because "It's the right thing" or because "we support democracy", they've shown again and again they only support short term self interest. So why are they intervening here? The only reason I can see is that European allies demanded help to prevent a massive refugee exodus into europe that would have destabilized the EU, leading to economic collapse that would cascade through the world's (and america) economy.
If the US doesn't want to be the world's police force, then LET someone else do it. The reason the US helped Iran during the Iran/Iraq war is because they wanted both countries to lose, and thereby prevent any country from becoming a major regional power capable of opposing the USA. And they've done the same in every other region of the world. The US has actively prevented any other country from taking on the role of world cop.
I think the income freeze has more to do with big business working hard to cut costs (labour) than with technology. There has definately been a global political shift to the right in the world during that time period, it's not just the USA that's becoming fascist. The massive offshoring of jobs to the third world has severely undermined rising wages in the first world. On the other hand: labour saving device == job killer.
Have a locked metal box with a slot in the top, everyone takes a ballot from the vote register at the box, checks off their choice, and puts it in the box. At the end of voting you open the box and count the ballots. One of the hazards of working in the high tech industry is the tendency to overthink everything, to use more tech than is actually required instead of the simplest solution practical.
The case revolves around legal definitions. In laymans terms a computer sits on your desk and you type/mouse stuff into it or watch Utube. To those of us with technicial backgrounds everything containing a cpu/gpu/mpu is a computer, but trying to explain that to a non techie will be rather difficult. Just as explaining the difference between hacker and cracker, this just isn't an easy road to travel. I think given the silly ideas politicians have that we want to avoid the whole problem and let sysadmins lock down their routers without police intervention.
The base resource the new bottles are made from is waste they previously paid to throw away, now it's useful and customers pay to take it away. That's a win. It also reduces the effects of higher oil prices, as they don't use it (as much) anymore.
Child abduction does appear to be a problem in mexico. A larger question is what happens to the biometric data when they become adults. I suspect it WON'T be deleted, and I suspect those people won't have that option offered to them. Meaning that the entire country will (in one generation) be biometric scanned. Think of the children is such an easy way to conn people into giving up their freedom.
If you lose your wallet the cash is gone. If you lose your phone the thief can run up thousands of dollars in PHONE charges. If you lose your contactless payment device: the thief can spend till your daily limit, or until the police track him down by the built in gps, or until you remotely disable the device. Also there is no reason your phone couldn't have a passcode required to spend money or to spend over a transaction/daily limit. Given the choice the lost contactless payment device might very well be the cheaper theft.
Hush! America is a faith based country, where people decide what they want to believe and then go looking for evidence that supports it, they don't wish to be confronted by contrary evidence.
So they pass a law, the right to be forgotten online. Ok, so say i've got a poor credit score because of bankruptcy or not paying bills. Well, how about I go to the credit companies and demand they "forget" me. Oh, well then we take away that right for commercial purposes. Er, what if i have adds on my website? Wouldn't that make the pictures I took of you drunk with that girl be commercial then? It would certainly involve me "entertaining" the public for recompense. And this doesn't even get into multiple countries, with different laws. I don't want to forgo international holidays because I might be sued for "damages", or imprisoned for ignoring local laws for something I did at home.
Honour varies trememdously around the world, for example in the US when the banks lost all their money because of fraud and incompetence the government was morally obliged to give them more (no matter how many people that hurt). And when prez bush got kicked out because people blamed him for mismanagement pres Obama was morally obliged to carry on his policies. We may not understand foreign culture but we've got to (make a show of) respect for it.
The reason they don't want you to smile in passport and drivers license photo's is for facial recognition. And those photo's come tagged with accurate name/address details.
CD's don't last forever, the plastic degrades and the metal oxidizes, and that's assuming proper storage. As a matter of fact, nothing digital will likely outlive you. Digital information appears to follow an inverse moors law, half of all digital info will be lost every 2 years. One of the tragedies of the modern age is all our culture and history will be lost, not passed down for future generations.
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Unlimited energy won't save the world, we'd just die from the heat given off by our technology (waste heat) instead of global warming (sunlight).
The american highway system definitely helped the common (american) man. Also given the lack of security I imagine this would make a nifty radio controlled aircraft. I wonder how fast it is.
And nothing was done, no punishment dished out. I would expect the practice to continue.
Finance needs effective oversight, they need watching. If you solve that problem then your engineers won't be getting the offers they can't refuse.
Might this project morph into a google books scenario? Where google actively scans in all the worlds music and gives everyone access (for money). I realize that the google books thing is on hold till they bribe enough politicians for an enabling law, but that's easy enough (politicians are easy though not cheap).
This is like your landlord billing you for a parking space when you only have a bike, but then you buy a car- so he complains you're using all of the parking spot instead of just a bit at the end and now he can't rent out the rest of your parking spot to other bikes so now he wants to charge you more to park a car there.
Your business model is based upon getting people to watch the adds in your programming. How exactly does this threaten that?
Sexual orientation is hardwired into the brain, sometimes the wires get crossed. Homosexuality is a birth defect not a choice. The world would be a better place if we could fix that (or accept those with this disability) but that's beyond our current medical tech. The app is basically worthless beyond entertainment. Also, I don't think the religious devout would consider the app hateful.
The UN only has legal jurisdiction in international matters, not internal affairs like a civil war. All power flows from the ability to deny others things they value, the UN has no such ability (nor the power that comes from it).
Ghadaffi was an american regional ally, so why are they openly opposing him? The other (american allied) despots can't enjoy watching the US betray their ally, i've no doubt that the house of Saud is quite upset over this betrayal, and Bahrain certainly will wonder if they are next. The american government doesn't do things because "It's the right thing" or because "we support democracy", they've shown again and again they only support short term self interest. So why are they intervening here? The only reason I can see is that European allies demanded help to prevent a massive refugee exodus into europe that would have destabilized the EU, leading to economic collapse that would cascade through the world's (and america) economy.
If the US doesn't want to be the world's police force, then LET someone else do it. The reason the US helped Iran during the Iran/Iraq war is because they wanted both countries to lose, and thereby prevent any country from becoming a major regional power capable of opposing the USA. And they've done the same in every other region of the world. The US has actively prevented any other country from taking on the role of world cop.
I think the income freeze has more to do with big business working hard to cut costs (labour) than with technology. There has definately been a global political shift to the right in the world during that time period, it's not just the USA that's becoming fascist. The massive offshoring of jobs to the third world has severely undermined rising wages in the first world. On the other hand: labour saving device == job killer.
Have a locked metal box with a slot in the top, everyone takes a ballot from the vote register at the box, checks off their choice, and puts it in the box. At the end of voting you open the box and count the ballots. One of the hazards of working in the high tech industry is the tendency to overthink everything, to use more tech than is actually required instead of the simplest solution practical.
The case revolves around legal definitions. In laymans terms a computer sits on your desk and you type/mouse stuff into it or watch Utube. To those of us with technicial backgrounds everything containing a cpu/gpu/mpu is a computer, but trying to explain that to a non techie will be rather difficult. Just as explaining the difference between hacker and cracker, this just isn't an easy road to travel. I think given the silly ideas politicians have that we want to avoid the whole problem and let sysadmins lock down their routers without police intervention.
The base resource the new bottles are made from is waste they previously paid to throw away, now it's useful and customers pay to take it away. That's a win. It also reduces the effects of higher oil prices, as they don't use it (as much) anymore.
Your suggested course of action sounds good, I'm eagerly awaiting the government of CANADA to follow it.
Child abduction does appear to be a problem in mexico. A larger question is what happens to the biometric data when they become adults. I suspect it WON'T be deleted, and I suspect those people won't have that option offered to them. Meaning that the entire country will (in one generation) be biometric scanned. Think of the children is such an easy way to conn people into giving up their freedom.
If you lose your wallet the cash is gone. If you lose your phone the thief can run up thousands of dollars in PHONE charges. If you lose your contactless payment device: the thief can spend till your daily limit, or until the police track him down by the built in gps, or until you remotely disable the device. Also there is no reason your phone couldn't have a passcode required to spend money or to spend over a transaction/daily limit. Given the choice the lost contactless payment device might very well be the cheaper theft.
Hush! America is a faith based country, where people decide what they want to believe and then go looking for evidence that supports it, they don't wish to be confronted by contrary evidence.
So they pass a law, the right to be forgotten online. Ok, so say i've got a poor credit score because of bankruptcy or not paying bills. Well, how about I go to the credit companies and demand they "forget" me. Oh, well then we take away that right for commercial purposes. Er, what if i have adds on my website? Wouldn't that make the pictures I took of you drunk with that girl be commercial then? It would certainly involve me "entertaining" the public for recompense. And this doesn't even get into multiple countries, with different laws. I don't want to forgo international holidays because I might be sued for "damages", or imprisoned for ignoring local laws for something I did at home.
Honour varies trememdously around the world, for example in the US when the banks lost all their money because of fraud and incompetence the government was morally obliged to give them more (no matter how many people that hurt). And when prez bush got kicked out because people blamed him for mismanagement pres Obama was morally obliged to carry on his policies. We may not understand foreign culture but we've got to (make a show of) respect for it.
The reason they don't want you to smile in passport and drivers license photo's is for facial recognition. And those photo's come tagged with accurate name/address details.
CD's don't last forever, the plastic degrades and the metal oxidizes, and that's assuming proper storage. As a matter of fact, nothing digital will likely outlive you. Digital information appears to follow an inverse moors law, half of all digital info will be lost every 2 years. One of the tragedies of the modern age is all our culture and history will be lost, not passed down for future generations.
Probably because apple subsidizes the (hardware) cost from apps and itunes, something an open system can't do.
Many of the big paper publishing sites demand copyright in return for publishing your work, so this could very well be illegal.