"No due process, no suspect's rights, no Miranda warning, no 5th amendment, no court-appointed attorney, no judge, no jury, no appeals, no comfy jail cell, etc, etc, etc...."
We have the same thing in Minnesota, and it only applies during certain months. All it means is that the deadbeat owes even more when the service finally does get cut off. Nor does it mean that the utility is obligated to turn service back on in the following winter. Usually it's still uncomfortably cold when the cutoff date arrives, but the deadbeats will at least live.....
The reason isn't extortion, it's because it used to be normal for a few people to die every year for failure to pay for heat; and things like that tend to get political attention.
It's a first-generation application of the technology; just like you couldn't burn CDs or DVDs when they were brand new either. Buy your data pre-recorded for the first year, then drool over the new holo-burners when they come out.....
I remember that MS was going to show some Far Eastern country some limited version of the Windows source, but was it really China? After arguing that the Windows source was a matter of US national security? And did it really come to pass that China actually got to see the source?
Hmmm....."Microsoft Gives National Security Secrets to Communist China" might make an interesting news item.....
They have been studying "it" for 14 years now, and they are STILL at the "we suspect that something is there, but we don't really have a clue as to what it might be, nor do we even have any real evidence that anything is really there at all" stage.
Nonetheless, cold fusion conspiracy theorists like to point out that a "major Japanese corporation" has a working model that is due to be demonstrated Real Soon Now.....
I work in the mapping industry. Currently I'm in the process of burning 232 DVDs because the client doesn't have a DLT or an SDLT. Even if we AND our client had T-1's, how long would it take to transfer over a terabyte of scanned imagery? (Yes, I'm too lazy to do the math.....) And how would I deliver to the next client while the current client is tying up our bandwidth?
We're not just doing basic science research out there; we're also doing basic engineering research, too.
Don't forget that these continuing missions give us valuable field data for making better ships, suits, tools, procedures, etc. for future visits. These missions are worth it if only for the improvements we get for when we have something better for the astronauts to do. (Although right now I think the best research the engineering MANAGERS could do is to read Professor Feynman's addendum to the Challenger disaster report.)
Sending people out there on a regular basis also lets medical researchers get ongoing data on the human condition in space - I think that NASA's medical types would like even more data than they already have.
Why not just add sensors to the existing power and/or data infrastructure? Like the safety device vendors are already doing? Bricks could be used to supplement that, but using these bricks in place of existing technology seems silly.
Wouldn't the best way to benchmark be to combine approaches? I want to see performance ratings on apps, equalized ratings on raw power, and unequal ratings on chip-optimized raw power. The benchmark suite should give the whole picture, then let me decide which way I want to go with the numbers.
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"No due process, no suspect's rights, no Miranda warning, no 5th amendment, no court-appointed attorney, no judge, no jury, no appeals, no comfy jail cell, etc, etc, etc...."
No apology if they got the wrong guy.....
For that price, one could get a low-end laptop.
I don't know.....I can imagine quite a bit!.....
We have the same thing in Minnesota, and it only applies during certain months. All it means is that the deadbeat owes even more when the service finally does get cut off. Nor does it mean that the utility is obligated to turn service back on in the following winter. Usually it's still uncomfortably cold when the cutoff date arrives, but the deadbeats will at least live.....
The reason isn't extortion, it's because it used to be normal for a few people to die every year for failure to pay for heat; and things like that tend to get political attention.
Ummm.....it's not extortion to refuse to continue incurring the expense.
Even if you do live with your parents, money is what keeps you alive.
It's a first-generation application of the technology; just like you couldn't burn CDs or DVDs when they were brand new either. Buy your data pre-recorded for the first year, then drool over the new holo-burners when they come out.....
They also think in terms like:
"Linux? Aren't those Linux guys getting sued? I ask for an IT solution and you bring me a lawsuit?"
I remember that MS was going to show some Far Eastern country some limited version of the Windows source, but was it really China? After arguing that the Windows source was a matter of US national security? And did it really come to pass that China actually got to see the source?
Hmmm....."Microsoft Gives National Security Secrets to Communist China" might make an interesting news item.....
Wasn't McDonalds also under court order from a previous case to lower the temperature of their coffee?
"Enable cookies: For current session only"
You should be happy with that, and your girlfriend too.
What harm is a cookie going to do to you if it cannot survive between sessions? Why the need to keep killing the same cookies over and over?
"Let the machine do the work."
I tried to build my own lava-lamp once.
Both the wax and the clear fluid are complex compounds which the manufacturer regard as trade secrets.
.....adding to my own post:
They have been studying "it" for 14 years now, and they are STILL at the "we suspect that something is there, but we don't really have a clue as to what it might be, nor do we even have any real evidence that anything is really there at all" stage.
Nonetheless, cold fusion conspiracy theorists like to point out that a "major Japanese corporation" has a working model that is due to be demonstrated Real Soon Now.....
and has been so due for 14 years so far.
Whatever "it" is, it is NOT fusion.
So call it something else already, and maybe those who study whatever "it" is may have a shot at being taken seriously.
"This was a case where we missed it.
Just flat missed it," he said of the
significance of the foam strike."
No, they didn't miss it.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Why doesn't someone post the contact info for some Viagra suppliers? Especially their CEOs? Make life painful for THEM I say.....
I work in the mapping industry. Currently I'm in the process of burning 232 DVDs because the client doesn't have a DLT or an SDLT. Even if we AND our client had T-1's, how long would it take to transfer over a terabyte of scanned imagery? (Yes, I'm too lazy to do the math.....) And how would I deliver to the next client while the current client is tying up our bandwidth?
We're not just doing basic science research out there; we're also doing basic engineering research, too.
Don't forget that these continuing missions give us valuable field data for making better ships, suits, tools, procedures, etc. for future visits. These missions are worth it if only for the improvements we get for when we have something better for the astronauts to do. (Although right now I think the best research the engineering MANAGERS could do is to read Professor Feynman's addendum to the Challenger disaster report.)
Sending people out there on a regular basis also lets medical researchers get ongoing data on the human condition in space - I think that NASA's medical types would like even more data than they already have.
Why not just add sensors to the existing power and/or data infrastructure? Like the safety device vendors are already doing? Bricks could be used to supplement that, but using these bricks in place of existing technology seems silly.
What would really be cool is for native Java to be included as one of the packages in the disc-1 ISO.
Wouldn't the best way to benchmark be to combine approaches? I want to see performance ratings on apps, equalized ratings on raw power, and unequal ratings on chip-optimized raw power. The benchmark suite should give the whole picture, then let me decide which way I want to go with the numbers.