I think EULAs are a major underlying problem here. In my view, in order for an agreement to be binding, it would need to be presented as part of the sales transaction. Imagine if you bought a new car, had it delivered, and then the first time you turned the key a screen with a EULA popped up claiming that in order to use the car you had to agree to drive in a certain way. I don't think that would fly very well. To me, clicking "agree" or "accept" on a EULA window is just one of the standard steps for installing software; I never read them and I don't consider clicking "accept" to be an act of accepting it. There is also the matter that there is no way to prove who clicked on the EULA, and we know that no one ever installs software for anyone else, right?
How about Iran? Afghanistan? China? China could float a couple hundred such ships into our harbors and make Peal Harbor look like a water-balloon attack.
That's assuming there's time.
Radar operator: "Sir, we have an unknown incoming object at mach 3! Request permission to engage defenses!"
Missile "Boom."
Consider also that these cruise missiles don't have to fly straight at the target; they can feint in any direction at any altitude and then jink for the kill.
In order to be effective the defense systems would have to be armed 24/7, possibly with more stringent requirements for automatic engagement. Perhaps set it so anything approaching faster than mach 2 without friendly IFF is a trigger.
It's hard to get your shipping container close enough to the enemy's military base for direct detonation to be effective. Use of nukes would incite global retaliation. A precision cruise missile that only has to get to the general area before launch is much more useful and politically acceptable.
I can't remember the last time I paid any RIAA company for music. Supply is up, so relative demand is down; that means it's time to change if they want to stay in business. "I will bend like a reed in the wind."
There may be much better technologies out there, but backward compatibility has significant value. Say you have a multimillion dollar manufacturing machine, like a large five-axis gantry mill, that takes programs on 3.5" floppies or by RS-232 port. There was a time you could buy a cheap off-the-shelf desktop or laptop to interface with it. Now if you want something with a 3.5" floppy drive or an RS-232 port you need special hardware, often scavenged from antiques. Soon you'll have to spend a bunch of money to replace the control on the machine, not because it can't do it's job, but because you can't talk to it anymore.
They want the Earth for a massive golf course and vacation resort. Humans are just primitive vermin that are in the way and need to be eradicated before construction can begin in earnest.
Just think how many grubby mitts have been on that cash, how many fat boys have sweated on it as it sat folded in their back pocket. And you want to lay in it naked? Ewww...
Instead of using a motorized arm, mount solenoids to push the stick from the four directions. You should achieve a fast response time and long cycle-life.
Too expensive to have to ditch the gun every time. Instead, make some high fidelity recordings of various gunshots (or download them) and use them for percussion in your rap music. Get everyone to crank it up as they drive around the ghetto and the things will be going off like crazy. If the cops do stop you, the worst they can nail you for is sound pollution.
That sounds pretty good. If they're claimed "too big to (f/n)ail", it's because their resources are considered critical. If they're dismembered and sold off piecemeal, those resources are still around but under different management.
What I really don't like about corporate law is how those who make the decisions are isolated from the consequences of them. A CEO, board of directors, or whoever else may be running a company cannot at present AFAIK, be imprisoned for the wrongdoings committed under their direction. This needs to change.
In addition to reintroducing accountability, it would preserve the corporation itself, because after replacing the person or people in question business could continue as usual.
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More importantly, the law has little if anything to do with physical reality.
If they initiate with respect, I treat them with respect. If they initiate with a mag light in my face, I tend to get a little irritable.
I think EULAs are a major underlying problem here. In my view, in order for an agreement to be binding, it would need to be presented as part of the sales transaction. Imagine if you bought a new car, had it delivered, and then the first time you turned the key a screen with a EULA popped up claiming that in order to use the car you had to agree to drive in a certain way. I don't think that would fly very well. To me, clicking "agree" or "accept" on a EULA window is just one of the standard steps for installing software; I never read them and I don't consider clicking "accept" to be an act of accepting it. There is also the matter that there is no way to prove who clicked on the EULA, and we know that no one ever installs software for anyone else, right?
Build a glass bottomed bridge over it and offer bungee jumping. Should attract some tourist money.
Would the Russian Government be happy to hand-out weapons that could just as easily be used against them?
Hey, the US does it all the time.
Sorry, meant "Iraq", not "Iran" above.
How about Iran? Afghanistan? China? China could float a couple hundred such ships into our harbors and make Peal Harbor look like a water-balloon attack.
That's assuming there's time. Radar operator: "Sir, we have an unknown incoming object at mach 3! Request permission to engage defenses!" Missile "Boom." Consider also that these cruise missiles don't have to fly straight at the target; they can feint in any direction at any altitude and then jink for the kill. In order to be effective the defense systems would have to be armed 24/7, possibly with more stringent requirements for automatic engagement. Perhaps set it so anything approaching faster than mach 2 without friendly IFF is a trigger.
It's hard to get your shipping container close enough to the enemy's military base for direct detonation to be effective. Use of nukes would incite global retaliation. A precision cruise missile that only has to get to the general area before launch is much more useful and politically acceptable.
More than meets the eye...
I can't remember the last time I paid any RIAA company for music. Supply is up, so relative demand is down; that means it's time to change if they want to stay in business. "I will bend like a reed in the wind."
There may be much better technologies out there, but backward compatibility has significant value. Say you have a multimillion dollar manufacturing machine, like a large five-axis gantry mill, that takes programs on 3.5" floppies or by RS-232 port. There was a time you could buy a cheap off-the-shelf desktop or laptop to interface with it. Now if you want something with a 3.5" floppy drive or an RS-232 port you need special hardware, often scavenged from antiques. Soon you'll have to spend a bunch of money to replace the control on the machine, not because it can't do it's job, but because you can't talk to it anymore.
They want the Earth for a massive golf course and vacation resort. Humans are just primitive vermin that are in the way and need to be eradicated before construction can begin in earnest.
Oh they'll issue a ticket alright, it just means you might be able to fight it. If the judge isn't in the city's pocket that is.
Unless they got a clear shot of his face they can't prove it was him driving.
Just think how many grubby mitts have been on that cash, how many fat boys have sweated on it as it sat folded in their back pocket. And you want to lay in it naked? Ewww...
Instead of using a motorized arm, mount solenoids to push the stick from the four directions. You should achieve a fast response time and long cycle-life.
Chucknorrissium.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to hand out emergency radios that wait in a low power standby mode until a certain signal is received?
Canada has even more guns per capita and less homicide rate
That doesn't do much to help your point. :)
Too expensive to have to ditch the gun every time. Instead, make some high fidelity recordings of various gunshots (or download them) and use them for percussion in your rap music. Get everyone to crank it up as they drive around the ghetto and the things will be going off like crazy. If the cops do stop you, the worst they can nail you for is sound pollution.
Hmm... Time for an electric self-spanning magazine fed crossbow.
That sounds pretty good. If they're claimed "too big to (f/n)ail", it's because their resources are considered critical. If they're dismembered and sold off piecemeal, those resources are still around but under different management. What I really don't like about corporate law is how those who make the decisions are isolated from the consequences of them. A CEO, board of directors, or whoever else may be running a company cannot at present AFAIK, be imprisoned for the wrongdoings committed under their direction. This needs to change. In addition to reintroducing accountability, it would preserve the corporation itself, because after replacing the person or people in question business could continue as usual.
Or it will be censored in the name of "National Security".
The evil you know...