We need someone (the Government?) to do things right, then everyone else can just copy the template. It's a pity the NSA has abandoned their duty to defend America so they can spend all their time spying on people.
There are only a handful of companies making phone chip sets. It would be easy for the NSA to pay off enough people to install backdoor hardware in the designs, to allow remote access. Such access would bypass the phone software completely, and be very hard to detect. The payoff to cost ratio (ROI) is so high we should assume it's already happened.
Even with the disasters, coal still pumps more radioactive waste into the air and water than nuclear power. A lot of coal is contaminated with radioisotopes.
Does this law grant exemption from American copyright law? Your private emails and phone calls should qualify, and your ISP (and the government) is clearly making and distributing unauthorized copies. Based on statutory fines alone this should be bigger than the US Federal debt.
The government will hit them with damages and fines. Give the damages to the car owners and use the fines to build out the electric car charging infrastructure.
Possibly you missed the use of Then instead of Than? Or possibly you are used to the poor grammar of "English as a second language" posters and just let it go.
You don't understand how this works. Tariff free doesn't mean the retail price of stuff drops, it means the company selling it pays less tax and therefore makes more profit.
The cable companies need to pick a side in this fight. Either fight for the customers (end to end encryption so they don't see anything, no logging anything without a court order) or they support the copyright cartel (active monitoring for IP, log everything, cut off subscribers upon accusation). So the question is, who pays the most?
A world where the guy in charge is completely dependent on a lot of people for life support/food/water/heat strongly promotes being nice. Slavery? You need a large police/military force to guard slaves (or they will revolt and kill you) and Mars will have a shortage of workers to start with, so no slavery. Upset Earth? Your colony will be dependent on Earth for supplies for a while, that won't work for you. You could make it a Theocracy. Sending all the religious loonies and criminals to the new world is a popular plan.
Under no circumstances would I ever put my food source on the surface of Mars. Solar panels feeding grow lights for the tunnels is the way to go. Eliminates radiation mutation hazards, cheaper to construct(no glass under pressure), lower maintenance(same), and you can use the greenery as budget parkland. As for gravity, if you make a cone structure (pointy end down) and spin it, you get centripetal gravity. Just match the angle of the cone to the spin rate and you can have full earth gravity.
Colonizing Mars is doable with current tech. Terra forming that rock is theoretically doable, in about 10,000 years. But no matter what tech level you have, fixing the Earth is at least 2 orders of magnitude easier by every metric. If the Billionaires are looking for somewhere to go, an orbital hab would be a better bet. Just attach engines and you can move whenever the peons threaten you.
The people in power grew up in a world where the Elites controlled the information. Where they got to choose what people see/hear/read. That control let them shape the world and guide the people's actions. In the new interconnected world they don't have that control and they are scared. Their primary objective is to regain that control, and the first step is knowing what everyone is reading/hearing/seeing, with step 2 being control of that info.
Google is an advertising company. Add companies are their customers, and the people using their software are the product to be sold. The purpose of a corporation is to make money, selling our communications makes them money.
In order to locate unknown accomplices of attackers, you need to be able to link them to the attack. You do that by listening to them giving status reports or talking about the attack, and by listening for voiceprints of people on watch lists. In order to accomplish that you must be able to listen to calls. Meta data will only tell you about the IMEI number of phones in an area, not what they are doing.
If the F35 parts get re-used that would be true, but that's not how they operate. ALL future jets will have their parts custom designed, because re-using parts makes them commodities, and that's just another word for reduced profit margins.
When you only grow one thing, it's in constant danger from something coming along and killing it all. They need to have two or three varieties, planted together, to prevent this happening.
Avoid jobs you can do from home, because that means someone from the third world can do it from their home and take your job. The only "Benefit" from teaching programming to the masses is a glut of workers to drive down wages and benefits.
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The pat down takes more time. This move allows them to speed things up when a lot of people opt out.
One of the drawbacks of maximizing profit is you minimize redundancy.
We need someone (the Government?) to do things right, then everyone else can just copy the template. It's a pity the NSA has abandoned their duty to defend America so they can spend all their time spying on people.
Tax haven shell companies don't need employees. They just need a mail box to route the tax free money through.
Engineering follows manufacturing. You keep them close to minimize design turnaround.
If you only care about next quarters profits, then strip mining the US economy (killing the milk cow) is a perfectly reasonable activity.
There are only a handful of companies making phone chip sets. It would be easy for the NSA to pay off enough people to install backdoor hardware in the designs, to allow remote access. Such access would bypass the phone software completely, and be very hard to detect. The payoff to cost ratio (ROI) is so high we should assume it's already happened.
Even with the disasters, coal still pumps more radioactive waste into the air and water than nuclear power. A lot of coal is contaminated with radioisotopes.
Does this law grant exemption from American copyright law? Your private emails and phone calls should qualify, and your ISP (and the government) is clearly making and distributing unauthorized copies. Based on statutory fines alone this should be bigger than the US Federal debt.
The government will hit them with damages and fines. Give the damages to the car owners and use the fines to build out the electric car charging infrastructure.
Possibly you missed the use of Then instead of Than? Or possibly you are used to the poor grammar of "English as a second language" posters and just let it go.
You don't understand how this works. Tariff free doesn't mean the retail price of stuff drops, it means the company selling it pays less tax and therefore makes more profit.
The cable companies need to pick a side in this fight. Either fight for the customers (end to end encryption so they don't see anything, no logging anything without a court order) or they support the copyright cartel (active monitoring for IP, log everything, cut off subscribers upon accusation). So the question is, who pays the most?
A world where the guy in charge is completely dependent on a lot of people for life support/food/water/heat strongly promotes being nice. Slavery? You need a large police/military force to guard slaves (or they will revolt and kill you) and Mars will have a shortage of workers to start with, so no slavery. Upset Earth? Your colony will be dependent on Earth for supplies for a while, that won't work for you. You could make it a Theocracy. Sending all the religious loonies and criminals to the new world is a popular plan.
Under no circumstances would I ever put my food source on the surface of Mars. Solar panels feeding grow lights for the tunnels is the way to go. Eliminates radiation mutation hazards, cheaper to construct(no glass under pressure), lower maintenance(same), and you can use the greenery as budget parkland. As for gravity, if you make a cone structure (pointy end down) and spin it, you get centripetal gravity. Just match the angle of the cone to the spin rate and you can have full earth gravity.
Colonizing Mars is doable with current tech. Terra forming that rock is theoretically doable, in about 10,000 years. But no matter what tech level you have, fixing the Earth is at least 2 orders of magnitude easier by every metric. If the Billionaires are looking for somewhere to go, an orbital hab would be a better bet. Just attach engines and you can move whenever the peons threaten you.
Car companies tried to block aftermarket parts. The courts ruled against them. I would think that legal precedent might apply here.
The people in power grew up in a world where the Elites controlled the information. Where they got to choose what people see/hear/read. That control let them shape the world and guide the people's actions. In the new interconnected world they don't have that control and they are scared. Their primary objective is to regain that control, and the first step is knowing what everyone is reading/hearing/seeing, with step 2 being control of that info.
Google is an advertising company. Add companies are their customers, and the people using their software are the product to be sold. The purpose of a corporation is to make money, selling our communications makes them money.
In order to locate unknown accomplices of attackers, you need to be able to link them to the attack. You do that by listening to them giving status reports or talking about the attack, and by listening for voiceprints of people on watch lists. In order to accomplish that you must be able to listen to calls. Meta data will only tell you about the IMEI number of phones in an area, not what they are doing.
If the F35 parts get re-used that would be true, but that's not how they operate. ALL future jets will have their parts custom designed, because re-using parts makes them commodities, and that's just another word for reduced profit margins.
What if I buy the computer used? Then I never agreed to anything, and the First Sale Doctrine applies.
When you only grow one thing, it's in constant danger from something coming along and killing it all. They need to have two or three varieties, planted together, to prevent this happening.
Where do you live that politicians like rail? My politicians love cars, and have been actively removing rail at every chance.
Avoid jobs you can do from home, because that means someone from the third world can do it from their home and take your job. The only "Benefit" from teaching programming to the masses is a glut of workers to drive down wages and benefits.