Fewer marketplaces when the Russian mafia sells the fuel. I think a better deterrent would be a plethora of rural civilization bootstrapping stations. Some of the robots predicted to take all the jobs can manage not to live in cities.
When you say "Pop" music, I think that the "Pop" determination is made by radio stations and record labels. While, like Network TV, these distribution channels may have the single largest block of listenership, does it have even half the audience in any age demographic? Information technology allows us many different ways to get music, and we have fragmented our attentions among them. The distribution channel that designates "Pop" is run by business people who have been trained to believe that the only real product is maximized investor returns, so it's not surprising that this genre is skewed towards a product that maximizes something other than musicality. However, lots of music that these distribution channels don't classify is being created all the time and reaching listeners by other methods. Using "Pop" to make a determination about current music, is like using Network Television to make a determination about visual entertainment. The prevalence of "Realty TV" will seem to suggest the bar has been lowered, but if you're not including all the various new material available online, you're not close to seeing the whole picture.
If people don't use the app to make the call, have the app load a visual interface when they make a 911 call, and give it the option to send location only when the caller hits "send location" instead of sending it automatically. As you've noted, people are less paranoid about distributing their identifying data if they feel like they have control over it being transmitted.
Having a standard for a 911 app that transmits location data looks like the way to go to me also. However, having the app work without data service should not require anything special from the phone companies. The necessity of requiring something special from the phone companies is why location doesn't work now. Instead, the app could act as a modem over a regular voice connection and send location data once at the start of the call, and again if the caller hits a "send location" button on the screen. The app should visually tell the user and tell 911 via modem if location data is not available. If there was a standard for smartphones to send location data to 911 over voice, then every phone manufacturer could make a 911 app that would work best with their hardware (eg. providing the option to automatically turn on hardware components that the user might normally keep turned off). The app could also automate texting location data for people who use text to access 911. For people with fast data service available, the app could also have the option to transmit video.
I was told in a Chinese history class that the big revolutions happen about every 200 years, like clockwork. Since the last one was in the 1950s, look for the next one in the 2150s.
You make a case for the FTC to regulate the states, but the courts already told the FCC that without Title 2, they don't have authority of that nature, and the FCC gave up Title 2 as part of their plan to end net neutrality. The last mile for most ISP customers occurs within their state of residence.
Yes, I was expecting that something would need to be in orbit to pick it up. I was thinking that the difficulty of aiming to where it could be picked up would be less than landing something on Mars capable of lifting both itself and a core sample off the planet - that it would be easier to land a sample taking robot, a railgun and some casings than to land a rocket capable of return. The equipment capable of return could stay in orbit, where the delta v for return is less.
The description of what he did sounds a lot like stealthing to me. The woman made consent conditional on condom use, and found out later that a condom wasn't used. It's not forcing sex on someone who's trying to get away, but it's not acceptable behavior.
A one meter by 50mm core sample would mass about 2 kg. The navy has railguns now that can accelerate 10 kg to about 2.4 km/sec. According to this Delta V map, delta v to reach low Mars orbit is about 3.8 km/sec. Considering that it wouldn't have to be built to withstand use in warfare, it might not be that much harder than what we've already achieved to build a railgun that could launch an ice core to low Mars orbit.
If Jack in the Box is still paying people to bus the tables, like the automats did, I'm willing to call it a restaurant. If they have no inside space for customers, it's a vending machine. Really though, I can't see them having inside space and restrooms without a few employees, because they would attract the same crime related problems that keep cities from having the wheel chair type public toilets. If they only have one employee, it'll have to be a security guard who also mops and buses tables, but that's not a friendly face for food business. I think the way it works is to forego the walk-in business and be a drive-through-only food vending kiosk. Probably it will provide discounts and extra customization for customers who pre-order & pre-pay via smartphone and then let an app track their proximity to the kiosk so as to maximize throughput.
I don't think sitting is an option. The boats have to go back to China to bring more stuff people want to buy that has been manufactured there. It's a matter of whether they go back empty or go back with cargo.
You had suggested that the friend would be taking the flight to the other country.
Yes.
and no other record of their departure from the country would be hard to explain to US Customs/Immigration on the way back in.
You can leave the country without a record of it here. That's how lax the US exit process is.
If you go back to the start of this discussion, you'll see that that's what I had suggested changing,
They could tell some story that starts with "I changed my mind
They don't have to tell any ICE agent on the way back in that they "changed their mind". ICE isn't going to care that someone missed a domestic flight. It's ridiculous to think they would.
and decided to go to Venezuela by boat
Canada and Mexico are a lot closer, and a lot of US citizens go to either or both every year.
Yes, but they have information sharing agreements with the US government.
I think the friend would have to be someone who wasn't coming back, because otherwise the no-show on the flight that got the friend past security would be an issue that person would have to resolve when trying to come back.
What "resolve"? "I decided not to go." It's not a crime not to take a flight that you've checked in on. The airline may get pissy about applying the money for that flight to something else, but that's why you get a really cheap flight.
You don't think any airline would actually deny someone who didn't make one flight the ability to fly ever again on that airline, do you? No, sorry, they'll happily take your money to fly you from London to Chicago even if you skip out on half a dozen flights from Chicago to Indianapolis. If you do find such a moronic airline, then use a different airline to fly back. Delta will take customers United doesn't want all day long.
You had suggested that the friend would be taking the flight to the other country. Coming back from someplace they weren't recorded as going to after the recorded no-show on the flight that got them past security and no other record of their departure from the country would be hard to explain to US Customs/Immigration on the way back in. They could tell some story that starts with "I changed my mind and decided to go to Venezuela by boat.." But, I don't think it'd be an easy sell.
I think the friend would have to be someone who wasn't coming back, because otherwise the no-show on the flight that got the friend past security would be an issue that person would have to resolve when trying to come back. But, you've convinced me. Clearly we should spend a billion dollars on poorly performing facial recognition.
Seems like they could spend a lot less than a billion dollars and just provide a document scanner to the person who looks at your photo id and boarding pass on the way in to airport security. The scanner could do OCR on the ID, confirm the validity of the boarding pass, and prompt the TSA employee to request a passport for scanning where that's appropriate (foreign nationals departing the country (who didn't already supply their passport as ID) and US citizens departing to a country that requires a passport for entry).
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And perovskite
No investors or CEOs siphoning money off the top?
Fewer marketplaces when the Russian mafia sells the fuel. I think a better deterrent would be a plethora of rural civilization bootstrapping stations. Some of the robots predicted to take all the jobs can manage not to live in cities.
When you say "Pop" music, I think that the "Pop" determination is made by radio stations and record labels. While, like Network TV, these distribution channels may have the single largest block of listenership, does it have even half the audience in any age demographic? Information technology allows us many different ways to get music, and we have fragmented our attentions among them. The distribution channel that designates "Pop" is run by business people who have been trained to believe that the only real product is maximized investor returns, so it's not surprising that this genre is skewed towards a product that maximizes something other than musicality. However, lots of music that these distribution channels don't classify is being created all the time and reaching listeners by other methods. Using "Pop" to make a determination about current music, is like using Network Television to make a determination about visual entertainment. The prevalence of "Realty TV" will seem to suggest the bar has been lowered, but if you're not including all the various new material available online, you're not close to seeing the whole picture.
If people don't use the app to make the call, have the app load a visual interface when they make a 911 call, and give it the option to send location only when the caller hits "send location" instead of sending it automatically. As you've noted, people are less paranoid about distributing their identifying data if they feel like they have control over it being transmitted.
Having a standard for a 911 app that transmits location data looks like the way to go to me also. However, having the app work without data service should not require anything special from the phone companies. The necessity of requiring something special from the phone companies is why location doesn't work now. Instead, the app could act as a modem over a regular voice connection and send location data once at the start of the call, and again if the caller hits a "send location" button on the screen. The app should visually tell the user and tell 911 via modem if location data is not available. If there was a standard for smartphones to send location data to 911 over voice, then every phone manufacturer could make a 911 app that would work best with their hardware (eg. providing the option to automatically turn on hardware components that the user might normally keep turned off). The app could also automate texting location data for people who use text to access 911. For people with fast data service available, the app could also have the option to transmit video.
I was told in a Chinese history class that the big revolutions happen about every 200 years, like clockwork. Since the last one was in the 1950s, look for the next one in the 2150s.
You make a case for the FTC to regulate the states, but the courts already told the FCC that without Title 2, they don't have authority of that nature, and the FCC gave up Title 2 as part of their plan to end net neutrality. The last mile for most ISP customers occurs within their state of residence.
Yes, I was expecting that something would need to be in orbit to pick it up. I was thinking that the difficulty of aiming to where it could be picked up would be less than landing something on Mars capable of lifting both itself and a core sample off the planet - that it would be easier to land a sample taking robot, a railgun and some casings than to land a rocket capable of return. The equipment capable of return could stay in orbit, where the delta v for return is less.
The second of those two things. In the article, and interest was expressed in retrieving core samples.
The description of what he did sounds a lot like stealthing to me. The woman made consent conditional on condom use, and found out later that a condom wasn't used. It's not forcing sex on someone who's trying to get away, but it's not acceptable behavior.
I believe Britain wants him for jumping bail.
A one meter by 50mm core sample would mass about 2 kg. The navy has railguns now that can accelerate 10 kg to about 2.4 km/sec. According to this Delta V map, delta v to reach low Mars orbit is about 3.8 km/sec. Considering that it wouldn't have to be built to withstand use in warfare, it might not be that much harder than what we've already achieved to build a railgun that could launch an ice core to low Mars orbit.
If Jack in the Box is still paying people to bus the tables, like the automats did, I'm willing to call it a restaurant. If they have no inside space for customers, it's a vending machine. Really though, I can't see them having inside space and restrooms without a few employees, because they would attract the same crime related problems that keep cities from having the wheel chair type public toilets. If they only have one employee, it'll have to be a security guard who also mops and buses tables, but that's not a friendly face for food business. I think the way it works is to forego the walk-in business and be a drive-through-only food vending kiosk. Probably it will provide discounts and extra customization for customers who pre-order & pre-pay via smartphone and then let an app track their proximity to the kiosk so as to maximize throughput.
is that word, "restaurant." Did they call that giant vending machine for cars a dealership?
I don't think sitting is an option. The boats have to go back to China to bring more stuff people want to buy that has been manufactured there. It's a matter of whether they go back empty or go back with cargo.
Please explain this fabulous plan to native Hawaiians. I believe they've been getting taxed out of their homes for quite some time.
This plan fails at the point when the Congresspersons become less expensive than the extensions. Then, the law changes.
Coal
So what's the differential between it going back with the plastic, and it going back empty?
for IceLink.
You had suggested that the friend would be taking the flight to the other country.
Yes.
and no other record of their departure from the country would be hard to explain to US Customs/Immigration on the way back in.
You can leave the country without a record of it here. That's how lax the US exit process is.
If you go back to the start of this discussion, you'll see that that's what I had suggested changing,
They could tell some story that starts with "I changed my mind
They don't have to tell any ICE agent on the way back in that they "changed their mind". ICE isn't going to care that someone missed a domestic flight. It's ridiculous to think they would.
and decided to go to Venezuela by boat
Canada and Mexico are a lot closer, and a lot of US citizens go to either or both every year.
Yes, but they have information sharing agreements with the US government.
I think the friend would have to be someone who wasn't coming back, because otherwise the no-show on the flight that got the friend past security would be an issue that person would have to resolve when trying to come back.
What "resolve"? "I decided not to go." It's not a crime not to take a flight that you've checked in on. The airline may get pissy about applying the money for that flight to something else, but that's why you get a really cheap flight.
You don't think any airline would actually deny someone who didn't make one flight the ability to fly ever again on that airline, do you? No, sorry, they'll happily take your money to fly you from London to Chicago even if you skip out on half a dozen flights from Chicago to Indianapolis. If you do find such a moronic airline, then use a different airline to fly back. Delta will take customers United doesn't want all day long.
You had suggested that the friend would be taking the flight to the other country. Coming back from someplace they weren't recorded as going to after the recorded no-show on the flight that got them past security and no other record of their departure from the country would be hard to explain to US Customs/Immigration on the way back in. They could tell some story that starts with "I changed my mind and decided to go to Venezuela by boat.." But, I don't think it'd be an easy sell.
I think the friend would have to be someone who wasn't coming back, because otherwise the no-show on the flight that got the friend past security would be an issue that person would have to resolve when trying to come back. But, you've convinced me. Clearly we should spend a billion dollars on poorly performing facial recognition.
This made me curious about how they tell that visa holders actually leave the country, and I ended up on this page: https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/i-94-instructions.
Seems like they could spend a lot less than a billion dollars and just provide a document scanner to the person who looks at your photo id and boarding pass on the way in to airport security. The scanner could do OCR on the ID, confirm the validity of the boarding pass, and prompt the TSA employee to request a passport for scanning where that's appropriate (foreign nationals departing the country (who didn't already supply their passport as ID) and US citizens departing to a country that requires a passport for entry).