I have an alternate suggestion: Have a flat tax on all income, with all forms of income treated the same. Make the first $10,000 tax free and take 25% of the rest. Eliminate all the tax breaks, except make payroll and benefits taxed to the recipient only.
If you detonate the warhead it's falling dust. You can overcome the range in air issue by using more power, and that is easily done if land based. Also a home based system doesn't need long range, the missiles are coming towards you. You can overcome the rate of fire issue if you build multiple lasers, and that is easily done if land based. Ships off-shore can be sunk by submarines and sea mines. Aircraft are vulnerable to sub launched anti-aircraft missiles. Land bases are much harder to destroy. Putting the lasers where they can target America's Enemies is problematic because: 1-They change, so you have to keep building them. 2-They are near your enemies, so vulnerable to attack.
High energy lasers are the only effective way to block incoming Ballistic Missiles from hitting American cities, so the Pentagon should install (high energy lasers) around the edges of North America instead of spending all that money on the Kinetic Interceptor missiles.
Or you use electricity (from solar and wind) to heat up the molten salt, then extract the heat all night long. Making a big enough tank to power steam turbines for the entire country for a week is doable and cheap.
Comparisons are in order. A solar power system produces power for about 30 years, so add up the cost of all that oil for all those years and let's see the money.
Maybe they want to attach a full colour face to the 3D scan from their T-ray scanners. The guys on the late shift want to see what they are masturbating to.
As the organic material decays it will settle, resulting in your foundations cracking. This will result in plenty of gaps for toxic or explosive gasses to enter your house, and will reduce the lifespan of your home.
They get their money from oil, and they get their water from desalination (powered by oil), and they get their food from irrigated desert (... from oil). So losing oil means the carrying capacity of the "Desert" will drop to scattered tribes once more, meaning the rest will migrate north to Europe. Can Europe support 150 Million migrants? Yes. Will they? No. They are panicking over approx 5 million from Syria. So they will put up a huge wall, with armed guards, to stop the flow. This will redirect the flow into Asia where the major countries will put up walls and armed guards, and the smaller countries will get over-run and destroyed. Each country destroyed will increase the flow of migrants, and increase the supply of weapons. Eventually they will have the means to smash through the walls and guards, and the second dark age will befall us.
How about full sand-boxing, with permissions. Make the core OS small (task control, memory manager, permissions) to limit the quantity of vulnerable software, with most of the OS running at normal privilege. Make a white-list of what directories and file types programs are allowed access to. This wouldn't prevent idiots from configuring everything wide open and getting hacked, but it would let professionals and experts safeguard their stuff.
Given the British carriers won't have catapults, your comment makes no sense. On the bright side, the F35 won't be combat ready before 2025 (when this carrier goes into refit for modernization) so everything is good.
Windows 10 isn't exactly bug free. XP might actually be safer, because it's not actively targeted due to its age (security via obsolescence). Or you could run OpenBSD and have a secure OS.
The rest of the world would like to see the US stop overthrowing democracies and replacing them with corrupt dictatorships (ex Iran). Please don't encourage them, history has shown an isolationist US is much safer for everyone.
EU data privacy law doesn't allow remote access to the data, so they would need to ask someone in the EU to send it. Unless they didn't follow the law. Microsoft handing over that data could get people arrested and the company fined, and that is why they are bothering to fight this.
The Irish subsidiary should ask their local court for a court order preventing the access. And their server farm should be updated to prevent remote access (including to backup data). Failure to take both steps could leave them legally liable under EU data protection laws.
If they are not soldiers then they are civilians, entitled to a lawyer and a speedy trial. Getting held for decades and getting tortured without even being charged with a crime is a clear violation of US law. Also they should be charged under the legal system where the "Crime" was committed (Afghanistan, Iraq etc), not the USA. If you want the world to treat you as the "Good Guys" you have to act the part.
Or they could have a security setting to turn it on/off, with it defaulting to off. And they could release it as a security update now instead of next year.
You are talking about Communism when you say Socialism. There are less extreme versions of socialism that aren't dictatorships. Having the government build and maintain roads is socialism, so is a government run police department or army. Having the government subsidize farmers and the "War on Drugs" is classic Socialism straight out of Karl Marx but Republicans have no problem with those.
They use crypto-currency because their own currency sucks, they aren't allowed to use anything else, but they can't stop you using a crypto-currency. If a major country supported a crypto-currency it would quickly become a defacto world currency. Safe, can't be blocked easily, and you can avoid taxes/government control.
If the robots can do the work, then let them do it before you arrive. You show up to a fully built biome, fully stocked and tested. So you would be outside exploring, or inside your dome with enough room it looks outside.
The Spacex plan is very sub-optimal, and that makes me worry about his ability to make this work. Half the cost of getting people to Mars is the first 100 miles to orbit, and he wants to launch the entire interplanetary ship for every trip instead of having a re-usable ship with a gym/full bathrooms/bedrooms/living space etc and a disposable ship with nothing but bunks for the launch. If he's so smart and good at business, how come he wants to triple travel costs?
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I have an alternate suggestion: Have a flat tax on all income, with all forms of income treated the same. Make the first $10,000 tax free and take 25% of the rest. Eliminate all the tax breaks, except make payroll and benefits taxed to the recipient only.
If you detonate the warhead it's falling dust. You can overcome the range in air issue by using more power, and that is easily done if land based. Also a home based system doesn't need long range, the missiles are coming towards you. You can overcome the rate of fire issue if you build multiple lasers, and that is easily done if land based. Ships off-shore can be sunk by submarines and sea mines. Aircraft are vulnerable to sub launched anti-aircraft missiles. Land bases are much harder to destroy. Putting the lasers where they can target America's Enemies is problematic because: 1-They change, so you have to keep building them. 2-They are near your enemies, so vulnerable to attack.
High energy lasers are the only effective way to block incoming Ballistic Missiles from hitting American cities, so the Pentagon should install (high energy lasers) around the edges of North America instead of spending all that money on the Kinetic Interceptor missiles.
Or you use electricity (from solar and wind) to heat up the molten salt, then extract the heat all night long. Making a big enough tank to power steam turbines for the entire country for a week is doable and cheap.
Comparisons are in order. A solar power system produces power for about 30 years, so add up the cost of all that oil for all those years and let's see the money.
Maybe they want to attach a full colour face to the 3D scan from their T-ray scanners. The guys on the late shift want to see what they are masturbating to.
As the organic material decays it will settle, resulting in your foundations cracking. This will result in plenty of gaps for toxic or explosive gasses to enter your house, and will reduce the lifespan of your home.
They get their money from oil, and they get their water from desalination (powered by oil), and they get their food from irrigated desert (... from oil). So losing oil means the carrying capacity of the "Desert" will drop to scattered tribes once more, meaning the rest will migrate north to Europe. Can Europe support 150 Million migrants? Yes. Will they? No. They are panicking over approx 5 million from Syria. So they will put up a huge wall, with armed guards, to stop the flow. This will redirect the flow into Asia where the major countries will put up walls and armed guards, and the smaller countries will get over-run and destroyed. Each country destroyed will increase the flow of migrants, and increase the supply of weapons. Eventually they will have the means to smash through the walls and guards, and the second dark age will befall us.
format shifting is legal in many countries. It's probably against the terms of service though, and that might be illegal depending on where you are.
So you suggest Politics follows the money?
How about full sand-boxing, with permissions. Make the core OS small (task control, memory manager, permissions) to limit the quantity of vulnerable software, with most of the OS running at normal privilege. Make a white-list of what directories and file types programs are allowed access to. This wouldn't prevent idiots from configuring everything wide open and getting hacked, but it would let professionals and experts safeguard their stuff.
Given the British carriers won't have catapults, your comment makes no sense. On the bright side, the F35 won't be combat ready before 2025 (when this carrier goes into refit for modernization) so everything is good.
Windows 10 isn't exactly bug free. XP might actually be safer, because it's not actively targeted due to its age (security via obsolescence). Or you could run OpenBSD and have a secure OS.
This is self defense, not politics. If Microsoft complies they will be fined by the EU for data protection violations.
The rest of the world would like to see the US stop overthrowing democracies and replacing them with corrupt dictatorships (ex Iran). Please don't encourage them, history has shown an isolationist US is much safer for everyone.
EU data privacy law doesn't allow remote access to the data, so they would need to ask someone in the EU to send it. Unless they didn't follow the law. Microsoft handing over that data could get people arrested and the company fined, and that is why they are bothering to fight this.
The Irish subsidiary should ask their local court for a court order preventing the access. And their server farm should be updated to prevent remote access (including to backup data). Failure to take both steps could leave them legally liable under EU data protection laws.
If they are not soldiers then they are civilians, entitled to a lawyer and a speedy trial. Getting held for decades and getting tortured without even being charged with a crime is a clear violation of US law. Also they should be charged under the legal system where the "Crime" was committed (Afghanistan, Iraq etc), not the USA. If you want the world to treat you as the "Good Guys" you have to act the part.
Lumber comes in "Rough Cut" that is actual 2"x4" dimensions, and the normal stuff that had a 1/4" planed off all 4 sides to give 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 lumber.
Or they could have a security setting to turn it on/off, with it defaulting to off. And they could release it as a security update now instead of next year.
You are talking about Communism when you say Socialism. There are less extreme versions of socialism that aren't dictatorships. Having the government build and maintain roads is socialism, so is a government run police department or army. Having the government subsidize farmers and the "War on Drugs" is classic Socialism straight out of Karl Marx but Republicans have no problem with those.
They use crypto-currency because their own currency sucks, they aren't allowed to use anything else, but they can't stop you using a crypto-currency. If a major country supported a crypto-currency it would quickly become a defacto world currency. Safe, can't be blocked easily, and you can avoid taxes/government control.
If the robots can do the work, then let them do it before you arrive. You show up to a fully built biome, fully stocked and tested. So you would be outside exploring, or inside your dome with enough room it looks outside.
The Spacex plan is very sub-optimal, and that makes me worry about his ability to make this work. Half the cost of getting people to Mars is the first 100 miles to orbit, and he wants to launch the entire interplanetary ship for every trip instead of having a re-usable ship with a gym/full bathrooms/bedrooms/living space etc and a disposable ship with nothing but bunks for the launch. If he's so smart and good at business, how come he wants to triple travel costs?
Is it possible to pick your jail? A bit of competition would certainly improve the situation.