About a light year, I believe -- so nobody is going to be picking up our TV signals. We could send a detectable signal to nearby stars if we wanted to, but we aren't.
Likewise people who are obviously guilty are also called "suspects" or "persons of interest" all the time by investigators. Their job is not to express their outrage or appeal your emotions, their job is to methodically follow the process.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation the characters claimed that the Federation no longer needs or uses money, which seems unlikely in the extreme to me.
The moment you invent a replicator, money becomes worthless -- both because you can replicate any denomination of money in any amount and because you can replicate products instead of buying them.
All but the wealthiest americans have had their mailboxes centralized into a community one in the last few decades. People with personal mailboxes in front of their houses -- the only kind that don't have locks -- have become quite rare.
Refunds through paypal are free to the merchant though -- they refund the fee. I don't see how the donor can cause expenses to the victim unless they do a chargeback with their credit card company, which will cost the merchant ~$25.
I don't check my mail every day. Most of us have locked mailboxes which are large enough that they don't fill up that fast. You don't have to pay bills the second they land in your mailbox, waiting a day won't hurt.
This would just cause companies to find workarounds (like they do with taxes) in order to create entities which remain under the exemption limit to file all their patents for them.
There may also be a god who disrespects people who believe in him without good evidence. I find it more plausible that god would send his believers to hell and his disbelievers to heaven on the grounds that the latter show more initiative and good use of the faculties he gave them while the former are useless followers.
Backup? No, the simulation started 2 minutes ago. Everything before that was just background data to make the simulation look like it has a past. It's actually very buggy, there's no need for all the laws of physics work right or anything because we simulated life forms have been given false memories that make us think everything is okay, and we haven't had time to run any tests in the last 2 minutes.
That could explain why some people claim to be able to know the future
It wouldn't explain why they're all wrong, as proved by their inability to successfully act on their supposed future knowledge with a better success rate than the rest of us.
In fact we have almost no idea what Mars gravity will do to a person. The worst case is that it'd be ISS-like, but it's possible that there are no significant impacts from 1/3 gravity, or that the impacts will only be problematic if returning to Earth.
The real problem is that even if there's a 99% survival rate, the first death will delay the project for 5 years. For some reason we're willing to accept a 2% death rate for climbing Mount Everest and continue sending tourists there by the boat load, but we won't accept that kind of mortality rate for rocketing into space.
You have every right to complain about how people vote when there isn't a "no confidence in either candidate" option.
Do you really live somewhere that puts only two candidates on your ballot and has no write-in option? I'm not convinced that such a state exists in the USA.
For an extreme example, we have 34 candidates on the ballot for senator in California this year... and if you still can't find anyone you agree with, you can write yourself in.
GNI per capita in Chile: $21K. In South Korea: $33K. Japan: $38K. Denmark: $45K. I wouldn't call that similar. It's actually much closer to Brazil's $15K, and nobody denies that Brazil is largely mired in poverty.
Have you noticed all of the TV's, refrigerators, door locks, thermostats, garage doors, security systems, and lights that are connected to the internet and accessible from outside the home?
Nope, I've never personally encountered any of those in the real world. They're niche products for wealthy people who'll buy a gadget just because, they're not products most people actually care to pay for.
At the current rate there is no way we would last a single millenium on the current reserves.
Considering the rate at which new reserves are discovered as it becomes profitable to look for them in more difficult places, it wouldn't surprise me if we could find enough fossil fuels to last a millennium. That would of course make the Earth considerably hotter than this projection.
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About a light year, I believe -- so nobody is going to be picking up our TV signals. We could send a detectable signal to nearby stars if we wanted to, but we aren't.
Once you're on the surface of Mars, the solution is easy: just go another several feet under the surface.
Likewise people who are obviously guilty are also called "suspects" or "persons of interest" all the time by investigators. Their job is not to express their outrage or appeal your emotions, their job is to methodically follow the process.
The moment you invent a replicator, money becomes worthless -- both because you can replicate any denomination of money in any amount and because you can replicate products instead of buying them.
All but the wealthiest americans have had their mailboxes centralized into a community one in the last few decades. People with personal mailboxes in front of their houses -- the only kind that don't have locks -- have become quite rare.
Refunds through paypal are free to the merchant though -- they refund the fee. I don't see how the donor can cause expenses to the victim unless they do a chargeback with their credit card company, which will cost the merchant ~$25.
I don't check my mail every day. Most of us have locked mailboxes which are large enough that they don't fill up that fast. You don't have to pay bills the second they land in your mailbox, waiting a day won't hurt.
That $800 is quite close to SSI payments. SSI is already supposed to be just enough to live on, so we might as well use the same number.
This would just cause companies to find workarounds (like they do with taxes) in order to create entities which remain under the exemption limit to file all their patents for them.
There may also be a god who disrespects people who believe in him without good evidence. I find it more plausible that god would send his believers to hell and his disbelievers to heaven on the grounds that the latter show more initiative and good use of the faculties he gave them while the former are useless followers.
Backup? No, the simulation started 2 minutes ago. Everything before that was just background data to make the simulation look like it has a past. It's actually very buggy, there's no need for all the laws of physics work right or anything because we simulated life forms have been given false memories that make us think everything is okay, and we haven't had time to run any tests in the last 2 minutes.
It wouldn't explain why they're all wrong, as proved by their inability to successfully act on their supposed future knowledge with a better success rate than the rest of us.
In fact we have almost no idea what Mars gravity will do to a person. The worst case is that it'd be ISS-like, but it's possible that there are no significant impacts from 1/3 gravity, or that the impacts will only be problematic if returning to Earth.
The real problem is that even if there's a 99% survival rate, the first death will delay the project for 5 years. For some reason we're willing to accept a 2% death rate for climbing Mount Everest and continue sending tourists there by the boat load, but we won't accept that kind of mortality rate for rocketing into space.
Do you really live somewhere that puts only two candidates on your ballot and has no write-in option? I'm not convinced that such a state exists in the USA.
For an extreme example, we have 34 candidates on the ballot for senator in California this year... and if you still can't find anyone you agree with, you can write yourself in.
GNI per capita in Chile: $21K. In South Korea: $33K. Japan: $38K. Denmark: $45K. I wouldn't call that similar. It's actually much closer to Brazil's $15K, and nobody denies that Brazil is largely mired in poverty.
I know people who've had the same job for life, but they're all government employees. That's where stability has always been.
Somehow I doubt someone buying exploits on the black market is going to charge it to their mastercard and provide their address. Maybe to a victim's.
Nope, I've never personally encountered any of those in the real world. They're niche products for wealthy people who'll buy a gadget just because, they're not products most people actually care to pay for.
If it's genuinely not about the money, demand that the company donate the specified amount to a specified charity.
If the machine is for your personal use, I'm curious, why are you logging out? Personally I never logout except to reboot.
If the UK gets down to hundreds below at night and has practically no air, then yes.
Anyone who doesn't make predictions based on nothing changing for 200 years will never learn what changes are needed in the next 200 years.
Considering the rate at which new reserves are discovered as it becomes profitable to look for them in more difficult places, it wouldn't surprise me if we could find enough fossil fuels to last a millennium. That would of course make the Earth considerably hotter than this projection.
The Japanese have already made hundreds of monsters-fighting-each-other-in-Tokyo movies with essentially the same plot as gorilla.bas.