Perfectly predictable auto insurance would mean it would cost really bad drivers too much to be able to afford to drive -- and that'd be a good thing, eliminating that risk from the road entirely.
If you've been using an encrypted hard drive regularly for years, forgetting the password the very day the police seize it may be technically possible but it's not reasonable doubt. Nothing can ever be proved beyond doubt, just beyond reasonable doubt.
Easier to collect data without a probe. Telescopes are improving faster than rockets, you don't have to get closer to learn more. A probe flying past the planet will probably learn less than eventual direct imaging from back home.
There's nothing inconsistent about that. I also think space research is an important priority, a moon base is ridiculous, and would welcome endorsements from people in the space industry. A manned moon base is not the most effective way to do space research, it's only good for headlines.
Waiting for a PDF to load externally takes a while and messes up the whole browsing flow -- can't open links in a background tab if they're going to grab hold of your screen and pop up a PDF viewer in front. Chrome's in-browser PDF viewer works great, loads so much faster than an external viewer.
Helium will only get much more expensive in near centuries if methods of discovering and mining it don't get cheaper (which they have a tendency to do).
Even RMS supports Red Hat's trademark enforcement. Not giving away free end user copies of their OS doesn't make them less open source, it just makes them not freeware.
I'm definitely not confusing my social security tax with income tax, and "plenty" means a large percentage of my income, and nearly all of my leftover income after life essentials. It puts a much more severe burden on me trying to make ends meet than paying a million does to a billionaire.
It's America -- people routinely spend money they don't have, go into debt and wait for the bankruptcy lawyers. You can't assume that someone buying a service means they can afford it. Especially with comcast's "first six months at half the price" type deals where you may be able to afford it for a while but then the price jumps drastically.
The half the country that doesn't pay income tax is not the poor. I make way less than the median income (around $15K/yr) and I pay plenty of federal income tax. While welfare clients may not pay any, the working poor do. I don't doubt that half of Americans don't, but that simply demonstrates that the rich aren't paying income taxes.
We can't see through the atmosphere of Venus, but that doesn't make Venus a gas giant. The atmospheres of Venus and Earth are extremely thin compared to the radius of the planets themselves, whereas Jupiter's atmosphere is bigger than its rocky core. Also by the way, Earth's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen.
I make $19K/yr, well less than the median, and pay plenty of federal income tax. Is it the middle class who don't get taxed while the lower class does, or did you just make up that stat and give a dead link as a source?
Being able to actually see what you're doing, not to mention type comfortably and fast, will never be obsolete. Sure, I've got a pocket tablet and I've got a netbook... but I spend 95% of my computing time on my desktop because it's a far better experience with a full keyboard and 23" screen.
Wall off a solar system and the inhabitants can live. Wall off a planet and everybody on it dies from the lack of sunlight so you might as well just blow them up.
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Perfectly predictable auto insurance would mean it would cost really bad drivers too much to be able to afford to drive -- and that'd be a good thing, eliminating that risk from the road entirely.
If you've been using an encrypted hard drive regularly for years, forgetting the password the very day the police seize it may be technically possible but it's not reasonable doubt. Nothing can ever be proved beyond doubt, just beyond reasonable doubt.
Easier to collect data without a probe. Telescopes are improving faster than rockets, you don't have to get closer to learn more. A probe flying past the planet will probably learn less than eventual direct imaging from back home.
There's nothing inconsistent about that. I also think space research is an important priority, a moon base is ridiculous, and would welcome endorsements from people in the space industry. A manned moon base is not the most effective way to do space research, it's only good for headlines.
In court, yes. Proof will have to be presented in court. This isn't court.
There's intelligent life in the oceans, but you won't find dolphins building spaceships. Space travel is likely to be unique to land-based creatures.
Waiting for a PDF to load externally takes a while and messes up the whole browsing flow -- can't open links in a background tab if they're going to grab hold of your screen and pop up a PDF viewer in front. Chrome's in-browser PDF viewer works great, loads so much faster than an external viewer.
Yeah, everybody knows that only Peruvians can do cold fusion so it'd really blow their scam if someone found out they were Chinese.
Helium will only get much more expensive in near centuries if methods of discovering and mining it don't get cheaper (which they have a tendency to do).
Shame on you for clicking TFA link -- clearly you don't belong on slashdot anyway.
It can generate income for the publisher, but not for the author. The publisher has no obligation to pay the author any cut.
Put a giant parachute on the plane instead.
You get a thousand foot extension cord and plug it into her wall socket, or park in her living room.
Even RMS supports Red Hat's trademark enforcement. Not giving away free end user copies of their OS doesn't make them less open source, it just makes them not freeware.
I'm definitely not confusing my social security tax with income tax, and "plenty" means a large percentage of my income, and nearly all of my leftover income after life essentials. It puts a much more severe burden on me trying to make ends meet than paying a million does to a billionaire.
It's America -- people routinely spend money they don't have, go into debt and wait for the bankruptcy lawyers. You can't assume that someone buying a service means they can afford it. Especially with comcast's "first six months at half the price" type deals where you may be able to afford it for a while but then the price jumps drastically.
The half the country that doesn't pay income tax is not the poor. I make way less than the median income (around $15K/yr) and I pay plenty of federal income tax. While welfare clients may not pay any, the working poor do. I don't doubt that half of Americans don't, but that simply demonstrates that the rich aren't paying income taxes.
We can't see through the atmosphere of Venus, but that doesn't make Venus a gas giant. The atmospheres of Venus and Earth are extremely thin compared to the radius of the planets themselves, whereas Jupiter's atmosphere is bigger than its rocky core. Also by the way, Earth's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen.
The link you gave says desktop linux is up more than 10% in popularity in the past year, though. Obviously not dying.
I make $19K/yr, well less than the median, and pay plenty of federal income tax. Is it the middle class who don't get taxed while the lower class does, or did you just make up that stat and give a dead link as a source?
Being able to actually see what you're doing, not to mention type comfortably and fast, will never be obsolete. Sure, I've got a pocket tablet and I've got a netbook... but I spend 95% of my computing time on my desktop because it's a far better experience with a full keyboard and 23" screen.
Wall off a solar system and the inhabitants can live. Wall off a planet and everybody on it dies from the lack of sunlight so you might as well just blow them up.
Though sane people wouldn't hike there, it's worth noting that neither Kurdistan nor Iran is actually a war zone.
The ESA is a true international space agency, just not a world-wide one.
Much more likely it's a misquote of Sir Arthur Eddington's "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."