Auto makers avoid KISS like the plague. The more complicated a car is, the more expensive and difficult it will be to repair, and the more likely you will be to give up and buy a new one.
Yes. I fluctuate between agnostic and atheist, and I think that if there is no God that's responsible for all this then you are the only one responsible for your actions. Perhaps if someone had a perfect scan of your brain and plugged it into a supercomputer they might be able to predict your decisions in certain circumstances, but that doesn't make it any less important for you to make the best decisions you can. I also think that if you're acting "good" so as to try to get into heaven or stay out of hell, then that's really a selfish behavior. If you don't believe in heaven or hell, then if you're "good" it's because that's how you really are.
Oh, but that wouldn't have fed the billions of dollars into the Military Industrial Complex or given them the excuse for the Patriot Act and similar constitutional violations.
A solar panel is a buy once use for a long time item. While it is true that oil companies are really energy distribution companies, the sun does it's own distribution.
I wouldn't be surprised if the oil companies are some of the ones lobbying for orbital solar power as opposed to ground based solar and wind. If you have your own solar panels and wind turbines you don't need to pay a giant company to distribute power to you.
The cheapest and most reliable way to control a light is to sneakernet the control signal to the switch. If your setup is correct, every time you enter or leave a room you'll have a short network path to issue the switch command.
Maybe it would be a good time to experiment with peer to peer internet, where each user is a node. That would be rather difficult for any powers to kill since there would be no backbone.
Correction: condensation happens when the temperature drops below the dew point. Dehydrate your air and condensation won't be a problem at any temperature.
You mean it's hard for 307 *million* people to ignore the few LEO amongst them?
The problem is getting all of them to stand up at once. If you stand up without everyone else standing up at the same time you will get shot down. That's why they're doing the boiling frog approach.
The law of unintended consequences rears it's ugly head all too often in legislation. It would be nice if legislators followed the "first: do no harm" rule.
I'd vote to sit back and wait another decade or two for further technological advance. Also remember that in order to capture an asteroid or comet to use it for reaction mass you have to match vectors with it. That means slowing practically to a stop to refuel unless it happens to be going your way. Your idea seems to be more useful as an option for refueling at or near the midpoint of a round trip.
More like making someone smell something while giving them electroshock therapy. The unique thing is that they circumvented the physical senses of discomfort and went straight to the negative stimulus flag in the brain. In that respect I think the title of the article is misleading; they didn't write a memory directly. They flipped the negative stimulus switch directly. Now if they could get the same results without having actually exposed the fly to the odor, that might be directly writing a memory.
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...the man knew he was not entitled to the money, so yes, he is guilty...
That applies to most politicians and CEOs.
Auto makers avoid KISS like the plague. The more complicated a car is, the more expensive and difficult it will be to repair, and the more likely you will be to give up and buy a new one.
The new controller for mature games would need to have force feedback and be waterproof and washable.
Yes. I fluctuate between agnostic and atheist, and I think that if there is no God that's responsible for all this then you are the only one responsible for your actions. Perhaps if someone had a perfect scan of your brain and plugged it into a supercomputer they might be able to predict your decisions in certain circumstances, but that doesn't make it any less important for you to make the best decisions you can. I also think that if you're acting "good" so as to try to get into heaven or stay out of hell, then that's really a selfish behavior. If you don't believe in heaven or hell, then if you're "good" it's because that's how you really are.
Hear hear! Vote third party!
Oh, but that wouldn't have fed the billions of dollars into the Military Industrial Complex or given them the excuse for the Patriot Act and similar constitutional violations.
Still, competitors claim it's mostly 'armless.
A solar panel is a buy once use for a long time item. While it is true that oil companies are really energy distribution companies, the sun does it's own distribution. I wouldn't be surprised if the oil companies are some of the ones lobbying for orbital solar power as opposed to ground based solar and wind. If you have your own solar panels and wind turbines you don't need to pay a giant company to distribute power to you.
His point was that BluRay is already a pointless product, so why should someone pay extra for it?
The cheapest and most reliable way to control a light is to sneakernet the control signal to the switch. If your setup is correct, every time you enter or leave a room you'll have a short network path to issue the switch command.
I was going to ask what Washington must smell like. Perhaps we should send the lawmakers each an air freshener.
You had to trust the TV and local paper for news though.
Maybe it would be a good time to experiment with peer to peer internet, where each user is a node. That would be rather difficult for any powers to kill since there would be no backbone.
That's one big advantage of putting it in a subterranean (er sublunar) tunnel. It's shielded from micrometeorites.
Studies have shown that 80-90% of everything that humans talk about is gossip.
That explains why I don't talk very much; I don't gossip.
That's 1/100. Wait another decade.
The thing to do would be to just implant an interface device. The hardware you interface with will be much easier to replace that way.
I'm going to have to buy The White Album again!
Correction: condensation happens when the temperature drops below the dew point. Dehydrate your air and condensation won't be a problem at any temperature.
Perhaps they'll keep track of which version(s) you DL.
Just get your kids into something else. There's no reason your kids (or anyone else's) need to grow up on Disney content.
You mean it's hard for 307 *million* people to ignore the few LEO amongst them?
The problem is getting all of them to stand up at once. If you stand up without everyone else standing up at the same time you will get shot down. That's why they're doing the boiling frog approach.
It was an oversight, not something deliberate.
The law of unintended consequences rears it's ugly head all too often in legislation. It would be nice if legislators followed the "first: do no harm" rule.
I'd vote to sit back and wait another decade or two for further technological advance. Also remember that in order to capture an asteroid or comet to use it for reaction mass you have to match vectors with it. That means slowing practically to a stop to refuel unless it happens to be going your way. Your idea seems to be more useful as an option for refueling at or near the midpoint of a round trip.
More like making someone smell something while giving them electroshock therapy. The unique thing is that they circumvented the physical senses of discomfort and went straight to the negative stimulus flag in the brain. In that respect I think the title of the article is misleading; they didn't write a memory directly. They flipped the negative stimulus switch directly. Now if they could get the same results without having actually exposed the fly to the odor, that might be directly writing a memory.