Stalking is certainly more easily and thoroughly done the traditional way regardless. This might be useful for a professional burglar, though -- build a profile of what hours a certain device is actively browsing the web from a certain house, and plan a break-in accordingly.
so like other "poor people" cars it will be designed to fall apart after it goes out of warranty
What? It's actually the rich people cars with the more complicated equipment that tend to have the expensive maintenance. My '98 Ford Escort still runs great and cheap.
And Consumer Reports said in the article that they expect the Model 3 to be more reliable than the Model S, for similar reasoning.
Disabling javascript is the only way to read articles from random sites these days. If you intend a non-interactive experience for the site, disable javascript on it -- if you intend to be interactive, give javascript a chance.
And what exactly is wrong with Chrome showing a "battery saver mode" popup for badly written sites that use 100% CPU for simple tasks? Sounds like a great idea to me, it'll force the developers to fix their sites to keep their users.
What if I have a bad immune system and get sick more often than others? What if I have had cancer and might relapse? What if I have high cholesterol and might have a heart attack as I age? What if I have a history of depression? What if I have a long commute to work (and am more likely to be in a car crash)? What if I have a history of drug use or alcoholism but am currently sober? What if I might get pregnant? What if I take legal opiates for back pain? Or a variety of Valium to help me sleep or deal with anxiety? What if I've gotten a ticket for texting while driving? What if I belong to a non-standard religion and might celebrate holidays that aren't normally days off?
Companies would love to know all those things and decline to hire you because of them -- but they're not legally allowed to ask most of those things. Your illegal drug use isn't legally protected from affecting your employment because, well, it's already illegal.
We've always had "death panels" in that we've never been able to afford to keep treating people with every last-ditch expensive possibility and always need to decide when it's better for the patient's comfort to just give up.
With the atmosphere of Venus being as thick as it is, how you would see the surface when standing on it is considerably affected by the air. It would not look dark gray -- it did not look dark gray to Venera 3 when the probe landed. Comparison: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/publi...
Rather than have a king with absolute authority, the President is a king with absolute authority over the execution of the law, appointment of justices in the highest court, and the ability to check congress by vetoing their laws.
You've managed to be wrong on every count. The President does not have absolute authority on court appointments -- congress has a responsibility to vet and approve or deny. Nor is the President's veto an absolute authority, congress can override it. Likewise the executive branch has its own complex structure designed to prevent any one person from exercising absolute authority.
And yet the scariest thing is that Obama is a pacifist compared to mainstream American thinking. Both the politicians and, more importantly, the people of America -- who can agree on more money for the military and more aggressive action around the world when they can't agree on anything else.
Also, there's a time and place for the truth. From a certain perspective Russia was and is the greatest geopolitical threat (because it's far more powerful than other countries), but a politician saying so to the media is unhelpful to relations and increases the threat.
The notion that anyone should be upset with Russia for sending navy ships to the coast of an allied government who requested it, whereas the USA navy forever patrolling off the coasts of countries that don't want them there (Iran, China, etc)... is absurd. Just goes to show how bad your double standards are.
Sovereignty is not a hurdle. The outer space treaty already forbids the USA or any other country from laying claim official claim to any part of Mars. For the foreseeable future, Mars colonies will be effectively controlled by Earth powers because they can't sustain themselves without outside help. Once they can, unless they discover some sort of amazing new precious material not available on Earth, I think you'll find governments unanimously say "Alrighty then, have fun with your self-rule and try not to die!"
It's quite possible that Mars or Moon gravity are better for human health than Earth gravity. Less stresses, less wear and tear all around. The issues we have with microgravity are mostly because the human body evolved with the expectation of things naturally flowing downward, and that's certainly not an issue on Mars.
microgravity will render astronauts helpless. I.e., unlike earth, there won't be anybody at the destination to carry you off on a stretcher and treat you back to health.
Scott Kelly was still able to move around, function, and decline to go to the hospital in the described scenario for his first 48 hours after returning to Earth. Clearly if he'd been landed on Mars he'd have been able to function, even though he probably still wouldn't enjoy 30% gravity.
You're really complaining that low-paid jobs were replaced with higher-paid jobs? Income inequality levels and a near zero unemployment rate tell you that there are plenty of low paying jobs out there, it's those middle and higher income jobs we need more of.
I've had the opposite durability problem: the headphone jacks on my last two phones have been flaky and progressively harder to keep working with any earbuds. Bluetooth is my solution for that.
It rules out simulations that anything within this universe, no matter how advanced, could come up with. Thus it rules out that the universe is being simulated within a universe that plays by similar fundamental rules of math and logic. Thus it rules out that the universe is being simulated within any universe we are capable of comprehending or talking about. Whereof one cannot speak one must remain silent. That's quite significant.
Just read it. It has zero argumentation for how such a simulation would be possible. Books and movies aren't real, people.
The most realistic way to simulate a universe would be solipsism -- you only have to simulate one person's experiences, and you don't have to keep the rest consistent beyond what that person is likely to notice... which isn't much, especially if the person isn't a scientist.
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Stalking is certainly more easily and thoroughly done the traditional way regardless. This might be useful for a professional burglar, though -- build a profile of what hours a certain device is actively browsing the web from a certain house, and plan a break-in accordingly.
What? It's actually the rich people cars with the more complicated equipment that tend to have the expensive maintenance. My '98 Ford Escort still runs great and cheap.
And Consumer Reports said in the article that they expect the Model 3 to be more reliable than the Model S, for similar reasoning.
The ideal scenario would be to find a lava tube close enough to the polar crater ice deposits that you can bring in easily-accessible ice.
Which doesn't always work. It stops about 80% of them but some videos find their way through somehow.
Disabling javascript is the only way to read articles from random sites these days. If you intend a non-interactive experience for the site, disable javascript on it -- if you intend to be interactive, give javascript a chance.
And what exactly is wrong with Chrome showing a "battery saver mode" popup for badly written sites that use 100% CPU for simple tasks? Sounds like a great idea to me, it'll force the developers to fix their sites to keep their users.
Companies would love to know all those things and decline to hire you because of them -- but they're not legally allowed to ask most of those things. Your illegal drug use isn't legally protected from affecting your employment because, well, it's already illegal.
We've always had "death panels" in that we've never been able to afford to keep treating people with every last-ditch expensive possibility and always need to decide when it's better for the patient's comfort to just give up.
The culture of outrage I can ignore. It's the culture of being outraged at other people's outrage that gets me.
I BM Ur anus? I feel sorry for the people who work there.
The space station street view is actually of a ground-based replica at the Johnson Space Center.
With the atmosphere of Venus being as thick as it is, how you would see the surface when standing on it is considerably affected by the air. It would not look dark gray -- it did not look dark gray to Venera 3 when the probe landed. Comparison: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/publi...
You've managed to be wrong on every count. The President does not have absolute authority on court appointments -- congress has a responsibility to vet and approve or deny. Nor is the President's veto an absolute authority, congress can override it. Likewise the executive branch has its own complex structure designed to prevent any one person from exercising absolute authority.
And yet the scariest thing is that Obama is a pacifist compared to mainstream American thinking. Both the politicians and, more importantly, the people of America -- who can agree on more money for the military and more aggressive action around the world when they can't agree on anything else.
There are about 3 million Russian-Americans. Nobody considers them a threat.
Also, there's a time and place for the truth. From a certain perspective Russia was and is the greatest geopolitical threat (because it's far more powerful than other countries), but a politician saying so to the media is unhelpful to relations and increases the threat.
The notion that anyone should be upset with Russia for sending navy ships to the coast of an allied government who requested it, whereas the USA navy forever patrolling off the coasts of countries that don't want them there (Iran, China, etc)... is absurd. Just goes to show how bad your double standards are.
Sovereignty is not a hurdle. The outer space treaty already forbids the USA or any other country from laying claim official claim to any part of Mars. For the foreseeable future, Mars colonies will be effectively controlled by Earth powers because they can't sustain themselves without outside help. Once they can, unless they discover some sort of amazing new precious material not available on Earth, I think you'll find governments unanimously say "Alrighty then, have fun with your self-rule and try not to die!"
It's quite possible that Mars or Moon gravity are better for human health than Earth gravity. Less stresses, less wear and tear all around. The issues we have with microgravity are mostly because the human body evolved with the expectation of things naturally flowing downward, and that's certainly not an issue on Mars.
Scott Kelly was still able to move around, function, and decline to go to the hospital in the described scenario for his first 48 hours after returning to Earth. Clearly if he'd been landed on Mars he'd have been able to function, even though he probably still wouldn't enjoy 30% gravity.
You're really complaining that low-paid jobs were replaced with higher-paid jobs? Income inequality levels and a near zero unemployment rate tell you that there are plenty of low paying jobs out there, it's those middle and higher income jobs we need more of.
I've had the opposite durability problem: the headphone jacks on my last two phones have been flaky and progressively harder to keep working with any earbuds. Bluetooth is my solution for that.
Personally, I prefer $15 bluetooth headphones over wired. It's not a choice between $300 or wired.
It rules out simulations that anything within this universe, no matter how advanced, could come up with. Thus it rules out that the universe is being simulated within a universe that plays by similar fundamental rules of math and logic. Thus it rules out that the universe is being simulated within any universe we are capable of comprehending or talking about. Whereof one cannot speak one must remain silent. That's quite significant.
Just read it. It has zero argumentation for how such a simulation would be possible. Books and movies aren't real, people.
The most realistic way to simulate a universe would be solipsism -- you only have to simulate one person's experiences, and you don't have to keep the rest consistent beyond what that person is likely to notice... which isn't much, especially if the person isn't a scientist.