If you expect to be able to keep people from murdering other people, you are going to be extremely disappointed.
Even if the rule was "no murders within 300m over private property", the cost of weapons that can kill you while you sunbathe is falling rapidly. Even if you somehow stop that, there is always the danger that a deorbiting satellite will crash into your house from space on a nice clear sunny day.
There seems to be little point in trying to hold this tide back, so let's make murder legal.
Yeah, not so much.
Laws aren't put in place to make it impossible to commit a crime. Laws are meant to provide a level of punishment that makes the inappropriate behavior no longer worthwhile to a rational person. There will always be some people who still break those laws, but the majority of people will abide by them.
I think you may have some misunderstanding about what is simpler: 1) Dig up ice, melt it, spray in freezing cold air to make snow (what, you thought there was snow on Mars?), gather snow and pack it into cubes, stack cubes into structure, stack lots more cubes to attain the thickness needed to block radiation (5cm ice equates to 50 cm of snow, after all).
2) Dig up ice, melt it, use 3D printer to print a structure made of solid ice.
Ideas are cheap, implementation is expensive. Only idiots and patent trolls believe that they should receive huge sums of money for coming up with an idea and then doing absolutely nothing to make that idea into something real.
a newly created car, that looks nothing like any car made before,
REALLY? You're going to claim that THIS DAMN NEAR PERFECT REPLICA of the Batmobile from the 1966 show doesn't look anything like any car made before even though it looks EXACTLY like the one from the show?
There isn't a company on the planet with enough money to produce every possible variation on a 'look'.
From your suggestion of an elephantmobile, a company would have to cover all possible variations of trunk length and diameter, ear length and width and angle from the body, tusk length and curvature and diameter and color, tail length, proportion of leg length to body length, color of skin and dozens of other factors in order to try and block out all other possible elephantmobiles. Millions upon millions of elephantmobiles would have to be produced just to lock down this one single look.
And even then, someone would still be able to add butterfly wings and glitter and go into the market with the fairy elephantcar with no chance of you being able to stop them unless you'd thought of the same thing.
MANY MORE people will start creating batmobiles and replicas of other DC comics things.
That's actually okay and they won't do anything to prevent people from creating those replicas. It's only when someone decide to go into business creating and selling replicas that they'll take legal action to stop it.
Capitalism will keep all the private providers in check. There's no way Comcast and it's ilk would behave the way they do if they had to compete for your business.
Bullshit. Just one look at how those same telecom companies have raped consumers with shitty cell phone plans, locked in hardware, insane overage and roaming charges is enough to prove that capitalism does not keep providers in check. Only strong regulation by the government that you feel should be limited has ever done anything to slow down any of it.
Why would we care about them surviving in drinking water?
Because it's also the water that you shower in, swim in, get sprayed with if someone uses a squirt gun on you, get splashed with when you wash a dish by hand and so forth. Most people don't want to constantly be exposed to a parasite that can kill them.
Someday Steam will go away, and then all those discs which are now coasters which install Steam and maybe some game resources will just be coasters.
Yes, and someday the universe will end in heat death and everything that ever existed will be useless. That doesn't mean we shouldn't enjoy it up until that point.
But by then we'll have the F48 project which will be 15 years behind schedule and 2 trillion dollars over budget, which is way more than the paltry 3-4 years behind schedule and 200 billion over budget that they managed with the F35.
Why fix small issues that take virtually no effort to fix when you can blow them off because there are much larger issues that are nearly impossible to fix.
I mean, my house has a foundation issue that will take a year or two for me to save up the money to repair, so it makes sense for me to stop taking out the trash and cleaning the cat's litter box. I have to focus on the big issue, right? The trash and cat shit can wait a couple of years.
You know what else hydrogen peroxide reacts to? Blood!
Blood contains he enzyme catalase which really likes to react with hydrogen peroxide to make a foamy mess that would not be the healthiest thing to have in your blood vessels.
Then you won't have a problem with the police installing a webcam in your bedroom and putting it online for the world to see, right? After all, someone might commit a crime in there and all that matters is that crimes shouldn't be committed.
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So is herpes. Doesn't mean you should embrace either one.
And nothing says "I'm smart" like falling for an obvious troll.
If you expect to be able to keep people from murdering other people, you are going to be extremely disappointed.
Even if the rule was "no murders within 300m over private property", the cost of weapons that can kill you while you sunbathe is falling rapidly. Even if you somehow stop that, there is always the danger that a deorbiting satellite will crash into your house from space on a nice clear sunny day.
There seems to be little point in trying to hold this tide back, so let's make murder legal.
Yeah, not so much.
Laws aren't put in place to make it impossible to commit a crime. Laws are meant to provide a level of punishment that makes the inappropriate behavior no longer worthwhile to a rational person. There will always be some people who still break those laws, but the majority of people will abide by them.
I think you may have some misunderstanding about what is simpler:
1) Dig up ice, melt it, spray in freezing cold air to make snow (what, you thought there was snow on Mars?), gather snow and pack it into cubes, stack cubes into structure, stack lots more cubes to attain the thickness needed to block radiation (5cm ice equates to 50 cm of snow, after all).
2) Dig up ice, melt it, use 3D printer to print a structure made of solid ice.
Ideas are cheap, implementation is expensive. Only idiots and patent trolls believe that they should receive huge sums of money for coming up with an idea and then doing absolutely nothing to make that idea into something real.
a newly created car, that looks nothing like any car made before,
REALLY? You're going to claim that THIS DAMN NEAR PERFECT REPLICA of the Batmobile from the 1966 show doesn't look anything like any car made before even though it looks EXACTLY like the one from the show?
There isn't a company on the planet with enough money to produce every possible variation on a 'look'.
From your suggestion of an elephantmobile, a company would have to cover all possible variations of trunk length and diameter, ear length and width and angle from the body, tusk length and curvature and diameter and color, tail length, proportion of leg length to body length, color of skin and dozens of other factors in order to try and block out all other possible elephantmobiles. Millions upon millions of elephantmobiles would have to be produced just to lock down this one single look.
And even then, someone would still be able to add butterfly wings and glitter and go into the market with the fairy elephantcar with no chance of you being able to stop them unless you'd thought of the same thing.
MANY MORE people will start creating batmobiles and replicas of other DC comics things.
That's actually okay and they won't do anything to prevent people from creating those replicas. It's only when someone decide to go into business creating and selling replicas that they'll take legal action to stop it.
Majestic as fuck
Nylon is a type of plastic, not rubber.
Your appreciation for your job is shown by the dollar amount on your paycheck. If that's not enough, start looking for a new job.
How about a movie that spends the first hour with character generation?
We'd call it an origin story and move on. Take the various Spider Man movies, for example...
Press Alt-F4 and go outside.
Capitalism will keep all the private providers in check. There's no way Comcast and it's ilk would behave the way they do if they had to compete for your business.
Bullshit. Just one look at how those same telecom companies have raped consumers with shitty cell phone plans, locked in hardware, insane overage and roaming charges is enough to prove that capitalism does not keep providers in check. Only strong regulation by the government that you feel should be limited has ever done anything to slow down any of it.
Hasn't every single case in USA been due to someone swimming in a open body of water?
No.
Why would we care about them surviving in drinking water?
Because it's also the water that you shower in, swim in, get sprayed with if someone uses a squirt gun on you, get splashed with when you wash a dish by hand and so forth. Most people don't want to constantly be exposed to a parasite that can kill them.
Someday Steam will go away, and then all those discs which are now coasters which install Steam and maybe some game resources will just be coasters.
Yes, and someday the universe will end in heat death and everything that ever existed will be useless. That doesn't mean we shouldn't enjoy it up until that point.
But by then we'll have the F48 project which will be 15 years behind schedule and 2 trillion dollars over budget, which is way more than the paltry 3-4 years behind schedule and 200 billion over budget that they managed with the F35.
Why fix small issues that take virtually no effort to fix when you can blow them off because there are much larger issues that are nearly impossible to fix.
I mean, my house has a foundation issue that will take a year or two for me to save up the money to repair, so it makes sense for me to stop taking out the trash and cleaning the cat's litter box. I have to focus on the big issue, right? The trash and cat shit can wait a couple of years.
You know what else hydrogen peroxide reacts to? Blood!
Blood contains he enzyme catalase which really likes to react with hydrogen peroxide to make a foamy mess that would not be the healthiest thing to have in your blood vessels.
I think you've confused news with history. A news site isn't the best place to read about things that have happened in the past.
So you think that the Xfinity router without this sharing functionality has no vulnerabilities that can be exploited. Interesting.
to this day I don't understand why he'd pick a song with the lyrics "You make a grown man cry!" in the chorus.
It also includes the line "You make a dead man cum" in the chorus, which is a teensy bit worse.
Jim Butcher: The Skin Game, yep Harry Dresden is crap, best selling crap,
A few months ago, Kim Kardashian's book of selfies was on a best seller list.
Selling well doesn't mean it's good.
IANAL, but warrant is, probably, not necessary in such cases
Judge Kendra Ausby ruled last week that the police should not have used a stingray to track Andrews without a search warrant
It's right there in the summary. All you had to do was finish reading it before posting.
Then you won't have a problem with the police installing a webcam in your bedroom and putting it online for the world to see, right? After all, someone might commit a crime in there and all that matters is that crimes shouldn't be committed.