The correct corporate response should have been: Give us everything you got and we'll pay the bounty. They also need to replace the certificates and update their code to the new certificates at the same time. Assuming their hardware supports downloading new firmware, because if it doesn't they'd not have that option and would have to hope their government will shield them from lawsuits.
They could sell bandwidth. Like how they sell water. Have a base cost for a connection and a per usage cost for data. That would mean the heavy users would pay more, and the light users would pay less.
Hypersonic isn't stealthy. Your wake reflects radar (ionization) and sends seismic shock waves into the ground (at low altitude) that show where you are. The biggest problem with fast missiles is detecting the target at that speed. Even weak radar jamming or chaff could render your missile blind long enough to miss, and at that speed you don't have time or fuel to turn around and try again.
An explosive driven wind tunnel is optimized for testing bullets not aircraft. It can't maintain flight speed long enough to test a scram jet engine in flight, and the China wind tunnel is too small to test a manned aircraft.
Obama's politics were indistinguishable from the president he replaced. He was a right wing politician even by American standards. And the Offordable Care Act (Obama-Care) was a huge handout to big business and the Republicans should have been very happy (he stole the plan from the Republicans).
It was also an air tight greenhouse. It deliberately captured large quantities of sunlight. Proper desert buildings use shade and air flow to keep cool.
Build underground. The insulation from the sand makes it cheap to temperature regulate, and you capture the evaporation and runoff from your plants and lawns.
Democracy is the most stable form of government because anyone who has the money and support to overthrow the government has the money and support to win an election, so take the safer route and win at the ballot box. That only works if they trust the voting system, and that requires understanding the voting system. Even if you can make a secure electronic voting system, you'll never be able to prove that to the average voter, so you lose the main advantage of Democracy.
We still have government funded news sites. The BBC and Al-Jazeera both do good work. They might be under pressure to not report negatively on their patron but there are enough of them (with different patrons) to fill in the gaps. The TV networks once funded news sites as a status thing because news isn't profitable.
99% of copyright revenue happens in the first 7 years. Your hypothetical band would make more money touring for 18 years than the big record label would pay in 30. https://bandzoogle.com/blog/re...
It only takes 1 government to retroactively restore copyright to the original duration. We could offer them the same compensation we received when our public domain was taken from us via copyright extension.
The American civil war started over states rights. The federal government wanted a strong federal government and weak state governments, where the south wanted the opposite. Slavery only became an issue (after the war started) because the feds (north) wanted to block European countries from supporting the south, and claiming the war was about slavery achieved that.
There are 2 ways this might go:
1-The Spanish army moves in and brutally suppresses any dissent. The Catalons get upset over this, and you get a long running uprising (think IRA).
2-The Spanish government says the Catalons didn't get a fair vote because making the vote illegal prevented anyone opposed to independence from voting, so they offer a fair vote with international supervision to guarantee a fair vote combined with a huge add campaign to convince the Catalons to vote no. Combined with ongoing negotiations with the Catalon government to set conditions of independence if they win. And hope the Catalons discover things about independence sufficient to spike the vote to no.
It takes more than a Format command to destroy data on a hard drive (the age of the computer means spinning platters), because the erase head never perfectly aligns with the written data, there is always a little bit missed. A good data recovery company should be able to recover everything.
1-Corporations wouldn't be pushing for a rule change if they didn't think they could cut costs or increase income sufficient to pay for the effort several times over. 2-Government doesn't lift a finger unless pushed.
Voters have direct control over who is their Government. The only way to exercise that same control over the corporations is to have lots of money and buy the result you want. Corporations are more dangerous, because we have less control over them.
Your phone would also need to be entirely open hardware, including the baseband system. Secret hardware is probably backdoored. You also need to disable remote software updates, as that is a likely route for government meddling.
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The correct corporate response should have been: Give us everything you got and we'll pay the bounty. They also need to replace the certificates and update their code to the new certificates at the same time. Assuming their hardware supports downloading new firmware, because if it doesn't they'd not have that option and would have to hope their government will shield them from lawsuits.
They could sell bandwidth. Like how they sell water. Have a base cost for a connection and a per usage cost for data. That would mean the heavy users would pay more, and the light users would pay less.
Hypersonic isn't stealthy. Your wake reflects radar (ionization) and sends seismic shock waves into the ground (at low altitude) that show where you are. The biggest problem with fast missiles is detecting the target at that speed. Even weak radar jamming or chaff could render your missile blind long enough to miss, and at that speed you don't have time or fuel to turn around and try again.
An explosive driven wind tunnel is optimized for testing bullets not aircraft. It can't maintain flight speed long enough to test a scram jet engine in flight, and the China wind tunnel is too small to test a manned aircraft.
He could live in a third world country. In Western countries the math goes Life total = $75,000 (guestimation) x 40 = 3 Million Dollars.
Obama's politics were indistinguishable from the president he replaced. He was a right wing politician even by American standards. And the Offordable Care Act (Obama-Care) was a huge handout to big business and the Republicans should have been very happy (he stole the plan from the Republicans).
You have a corporation who's business model builds upon not playing nice with the competition.
They already have his call records (phone company) and his texts and emails (nsa). What else do they need?
It was also an air tight greenhouse. It deliberately captured large quantities of sunlight. Proper desert buildings use shade and air flow to keep cool.
Build underground. The insulation from the sand makes it cheap to temperature regulate, and you capture the evaporation and runoff from your plants and lawns.
No paper means no paper trail to audit.
And no way to disprove it, either. The system is designed to prevent audits.
Democracy is the most stable form of government because anyone who has the money and support to overthrow the government has the money and support to win an election, so take the safer route and win at the ballot box. That only works if they trust the voting system, and that requires understanding the voting system. Even if you can make a secure electronic voting system, you'll never be able to prove that to the average voter, so you lose the main advantage of Democracy.
We still have government funded news sites. The BBC and Al-Jazeera both do good work. They might be under pressure to not report negatively on their patron but there are enough of them (with different patrons) to fill in the gaps. The TV networks once funded news sites as a status thing because news isn't profitable.
99% of copyright revenue happens in the first 7 years. Your hypothetical band would make more money touring for 18 years than the big record label would pay in 30. https://bandzoogle.com/blog/re...
It only takes 1 government to retroactively restore copyright to the original duration. We could offer them the same compensation we received when our public domain was taken from us via copyright extension.
Many American elections in swing states are won by less than 1%.
The American civil war started over states rights. The federal government wanted a strong federal government and weak state governments, where the south wanted the opposite. Slavery only became an issue (after the war started) because the feds (north) wanted to block European countries from supporting the south, and claiming the war was about slavery achieved that.
There are 2 ways this might go: 1-The Spanish army moves in and brutally suppresses any dissent. The Catalons get upset over this, and you get a long running uprising (think IRA). 2-The Spanish government says the Catalons didn't get a fair vote because making the vote illegal prevented anyone opposed to independence from voting, so they offer a fair vote with international supervision to guarantee a fair vote combined with a huge add campaign to convince the Catalons to vote no. Combined with ongoing negotiations with the Catalon government to set conditions of independence if they win. And hope the Catalons discover things about independence sufficient to spike the vote to no.
It takes more than a Format command to destroy data on a hard drive (the age of the computer means spinning platters), because the erase head never perfectly aligns with the written data, there is always a little bit missed. A good data recovery company should be able to recover everything.
How would the Democrats gain access to the voting computer? The Republicans won that state so they control it.
Why would they reduce the cost of other plans? Plan costs has nothing about the cost of supplying the data plan, it's about maximizing revenue.
1-Corporations wouldn't be pushing for a rule change if they didn't think they could cut costs or increase income sufficient to pay for the effort several times over. 2-Government doesn't lift a finger unless pushed.
Voters have direct control over who is their Government. The only way to exercise that same control over the corporations is to have lots of money and buy the result you want. Corporations are more dangerous, because we have less control over them.
Your phone would also need to be entirely open hardware, including the baseband system. Secret hardware is probably backdoored. You also need to disable remote software updates, as that is a likely route for government meddling.