Right now in the US, it's the automakers. The traditional rationale for protecting them is because our national security requires the manufacturing base (in case we have to switch it over to tanks, for example).
Keep in mind that the US has very little production capability and every bit lost is unlikely to return. Then keep in mind all of those outstanding dollars in the world that will eventually have to be repaid.
Hrm...
This was going to be a post about how we need to save manufacturing base by propping up the auto industry. Then I started thinking about how many crappy domestic cars would need to be produced to pay off those outstanding dollars. Then I thought about how it's doubtful that the earth has enough resources left to produce enough crappy domestic cars.
2 billion dollar is a drop in the ocean if it's split on 300 million people anyway so I don't see why one should remove it.
I suppose that's certainly one argument why pork-barrel spending should continue - because the distributed cost of individual projects is so low! That would've been a great sound bite during the campaign. Now, I'm not suggesting that Constellation is pork barrel, but your logic in rationalizing the expense is deeply flawed.
...but personally I have no problem at all with spending lots of money for greater knowledge of humankind.
Of course you have no problem at all with spending lots of money for greater knowledge of humankind -- it's not your money.:)
Fantastic. Now we won't even be safe from spam when we're in our vehicle.
The real trick will be to figure out the algorithm so that impostor signals can be sent in the appropriate number and at the appropriate time such that the warning messages sound like a jingle.
Judging from the comments that most Idle stories bring these days, I think I must be about the only one to find these segments worthy of at least a chuckle.
Of course they're mostly groaners, but at least I know what I'm getting myself into when I open it:)
If you're really paranoid, you could include an uncompressed "raw data" format containing nothing but RGB triples or RGBA quads (3 or four bytes per pixel) containing each pixel's value in order across the top row, then the next row, etc. Include an info file for each image that tells the image size so that someone trying to read the file can easily determine where to split the lines.
I believe you're describing an overly complex version of PPM (portable pixel map). That being said, it would be my choice of format. If ASCII isn't readable in 25 years, I want out of this whole computer thing.
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Right now in the US, it's the automakers. The traditional rationale for protecting them is because our national security requires the manufacturing base (in case we have to switch it over to tanks, for example).
Keep in mind that the US has very little production capability and every bit lost is unlikely to return. Then keep in mind all of those outstanding dollars in the world that will eventually have to be repaid.
Hrm...
This was going to be a post about how we need to save manufacturing base by propping up the auto industry. Then I started thinking about how many crappy domestic cars would need to be produced to pay off those outstanding dollars. Then I thought about how it's doubtful that the earth has enough resources left to produce enough crappy domestic cars.
Let 'em fail.
2 billion dollar is a drop in the ocean if it's split on 300 million people anyway so I don't see why one should remove it.
I suppose that's certainly one argument why pork-barrel spending should continue - because the distributed cost of individual projects is so low! That would've been a great sound bite during the campaign. Now, I'm not suggesting that Constellation is pork barrel, but your logic in rationalizing the expense is deeply flawed.
...but personally I have no problem at all with spending lots of money for greater knowledge of humankind.
Of course you have no problem at all with spending lots of money for greater knowledge of humankind -- it's not your money. :)
Fantastic. Now we won't even be safe from spam when we're in our vehicle.
The real trick will be to figure out the algorithm so that impostor signals can be sent in the appropriate number and at the appropriate time such that the warning messages sound like a jingle.
Judging from the comments that most Idle stories bring these days, I think I must be about the only one to find these segments worthy of at least a chuckle. Of course they're mostly groaners, but at least I know what I'm getting myself into when I open it :)
If you're really paranoid, you could include an uncompressed "raw data" format containing nothing but RGB triples or RGBA quads (3 or four bytes per pixel) containing each pixel's value in order across the top row, then the next row, etc. Include an info file for each image that tells the image size so that someone trying to read the file can easily determine where to split the lines.
I believe you're describing an overly complex version of PPM (portable pixel map). That being said, it would be my choice of format. If ASCII isn't readable in 25 years, I want out of this whole computer thing.