A hangglider instructor once told me the exact opposite. He experimented with 3d simulators and abandoned them because after the use of the simulator, the pupils took twice as long to learn how to fly as the pupils who never used the simulator.
Actually, hell would not exactly freeze over if you block Google. In fact, if they did, people would just use another search engine (IXquick, DuckDuckGo or others) and almost every web site would load a lot faster without the cross-site scripting attack from Google. As a second advantage, people might start to think twice before handing their entire life to some evil company when it comes to documents or agendas.
When I read contest or lottery rules, it always states that the people who work at the organising organisation are not allowed to participate in it. Even if everybody plays fair, an organiser winning his own lottery will be suspected of foul play.
If we had to rebuild society, could we do it without all the fossil fuels we used to do it the first time?
Not only could we do it, we have already done so. The 18th century was the century where a sawmill was actually a mill. Like this one. Mills made cement, drilled canons, ground paint, tobacco, oak bark and corn, kept our feet dry, pressed oil, made felt and more. Many of them still do, for historical reasons. See the links (you have to use a Babel Fish if you do not read Dutch). Our "Golden Age" was run mostly on wind, and other countries also used water.
I think you do pay for the wifi. In hotels, it is usually not "free wifi" but "wifi included in the package". If you only visit the hotel without renting a room it may still be open, but it is meant for the paying guests.
You don't understand. Many countries in the UK are competing themselves to death in being "tax-friendly" to extremely rich companies and individuals. Even American rock stars are "located" in the UK, the Netherlands or wherever they can avoid taxation the most. Off course, this contributes nothing to either countries. To make matters worse, it opens up the possibility of all kinds of incomprehensible constructs that may even be less legal. But who knows? You'd have to know all the laws and all the deals with the tax authorities (which are, even though there are laws of government openness, secret).
Tax paradises are not only located in Africa and run by dictators. Off course, that is what politicians try to make us believe. Tax paradises are in a lot of cases our own countries. It is therefore quite hypocrite for a UK politician to condemn tax paradises or rich companies using them after these companies were lured to the UK for being a tax paradise in the first place.
That depends. Latin American Spanish sounds quite friendly, but Spanish Spanish sounds like a Chicago Typewriter. I would not call that "lighthearted".
Those without a timeline will be at a huge advantage
There, fixed that for you. If influencing strangers is named as an advantage, I strongly disagree. Strangers more likely influence anyone with a publicly available profile. Remaining anonymous gets more important every day.
Only companies (and government institutions) complain that we need less regulation, especially in their field. Most slashdotters are outraged about what the companies and institutions get away with.
Funny, I would label a rust remover "extremely dangerous and not fit for human consumption". Especially if by drinking it you are just begging for diabetes. But Cola is still not banned from the supermarket.
You are not the only one to think of it. Only I would recommend sending the financial sector; that would also solve the funding problem. If that causes the entire planet's destruction by [insert local greedy people here] fighting over the last dollar, so be it.
Governments will make encryption illegal (they want to do that now, if they haven't done it already) and will stop giving the companies who support this government contracts. No self-respecting company will support this.
Maybe Canonical should stop their Not Invented Here Syndrome. If something works for at least 90%, they invent something worse and force it into the main Ubuntu distro. Have the Canonical guys never tried one of their own updates?
I do not expect my mum / uncle / holiday friend or any other non-technical person to be able to even use GPG. Let alone find other ways to decrypt it. Alas, e-mail security mainly hangs on secure connections.
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A hangglider instructor once told me the exact opposite. He experimented with 3d simulators and abandoned them because after the use of the simulator, the pupils took twice as long to learn how to fly as the pupils who never used the simulator.
Good luck with that
Actually, hell would not exactly freeze over if you block Google. In fact, if they did, people would just use another search engine (IXquick, DuckDuckGo or others) and almost every web site would load a lot faster without the cross-site scripting attack from Google. As a second advantage, people might start to think twice before handing their entire life to some evil company when it comes to documents or agendas.
I really love the speed of the EU. Tomorrow they will fine Jesus after a complaint of Zeus about a non-competitive religion...
When I read contest or lottery rules, it always states that the people who work at the organising organisation are not allowed to participate in it. Even if everybody plays fair, an organiser winning his own lottery will be suspected of foul play.
If we had to rebuild society, could we do it without all the fossil fuels we used to do it the first time?
Not only could we do it, we have already done so. The 18th century was the century where a sawmill was actually a mill. Like this one. Mills made cement, drilled canons, ground paint, tobacco, oak bark and corn, kept our feet dry, pressed oil, made felt and more. Many of them still do, for historical reasons. See the links (you have to use a Babel Fish if you do not read Dutch). Our "Golden Age" was run mostly on wind, and other countries also used water.
I think you do pay for the wifi. In hotels, it is usually not "free wifi" but "wifi included in the package". If you only visit the hotel without renting a room it may still be open, but it is meant for the paying guests.
countries in the UK
I meant many countries in the EU. There, fixed that for me.
You don't understand. Many countries in the UK are competing themselves to death in being "tax-friendly" to extremely rich companies and individuals. Even American rock stars are "located" in the UK, the Netherlands or wherever they can avoid taxation the most. Off course, this contributes nothing to either countries. To make matters worse, it opens up the possibility of all kinds of incomprehensible constructs that may even be less legal. But who knows? You'd have to know all the laws and all the deals with the tax authorities (which are, even though there are laws of government openness, secret).
Tax paradises are not only located in Africa and run by dictators. Off course, that is what politicians try to make us believe. Tax paradises are in a lot of cases our own countries. It is therefore quite hypocrite for a UK politician to condemn tax paradises or rich companies using them after these companies were lured to the UK for being a tax paradise in the first place.
But if there is enough angel dust in the said contraband they might not feel it...
Spanish sounds lighthearted
That depends. Latin American Spanish sounds quite friendly, but Spanish Spanish sounds like a Chicago Typewriter. I would not call that "lighthearted".
You could say that they are better company.
I know it is meant to be funny, but it is a quite refreshing idea that someone in politics sucks up to the people instead of to the companies.
Sorry guys, I will never use the word "hacker" again now that they are officially called "Exploit Engineers".
Those without a timeline will be at a huge advantage
There, fixed that for you. If influencing strangers is named as an advantage, I strongly disagree. Strangers more likely influence anyone with a publicly available profile. Remaining anonymous gets more important every day.
Only companies (and government institutions) complain that we need less regulation, especially in their field. Most slashdotters are outraged about what the companies and institutions get away with.
Funny, I would label a rust remover "extremely dangerous and not fit for human consumption". Especially if by drinking it you are just begging for diabetes. But Cola is still not banned from the supermarket.
You are not the only one to think of it. Only I would recommend sending the financial sector; that would also solve the funding problem. If that causes the entire planet's destruction by [insert local greedy people here] fighting over the last dollar, so be it.
At its heart, the submarine would use a 1 kW radiothermal Stirling generator.
In other words, an impobability drive. Beware of the whales.
By whom? The same 1%?
And suddenly Americans are speaking foreign languages! Shall we continue Slashdot in German?
Sorry. I meant: either they make it illegal, or they refuse orders to companies that support encryption.
Governments will make encryption illegal (they want to do that now, if they haven't done it already) and will stop giving the companies who support this government contracts. No self-respecting company will support this.
Maybe Canonical should stop their Not Invented Here Syndrome. If something works for at least 90%, they invent something worse and force it into the main Ubuntu distro. Have the Canonical guys never tried one of their own updates?
I do not expect my mum / uncle / holiday friend or any other non-technical person to be able to even use GPG. Let alone find other ways to decrypt it. Alas, e-mail security mainly hangs on secure connections.
Well, at least that part will work, given that they perform the attack themselves.