Most beta blockers are used as a treatment for high blood pressure. Surely the stress levels that these scientists experience would justify that kind of prescription.
Organleggers will exist until we develop proper organ cloning. The moral dilemma over cloning and stem cell research will hamper any progress in this area and allow the organleggers to continue, much like the drug trade has.
I realize that Microsoft is the 800 pound gorilla in the room, but it just sounds like giving in. Microsoft really hasn't shown any signs of innovation in a long time and my fear is that this would just turn into another chance for Microsoft to take a concept from the collaboration, implement it in their own way and claim it as their own. Remember what they did with TCP/IP early on? Made their own stack that didn't quiet work with anything else but said it wasn't their fault.
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity."
But the thing is that Congress-critters are a lot smarter than you think. Like most people (not all), they have their own self interest at heart. They may want to protect their business constituents, that's all. And gosh, you don't want someone with all that money to be donating it to someone that may not be able to help in the next election, do you?
Really though, I would think that this would be something that you would use to, say, sink the enemy's ship, maybe shoot their nuclear reactors, or otherwise destroy infrastructure. It would have a really strong psychological factor too. I remember reading somewhere that they deliberately made the sound of the Apache attack helicopter distinctive to try and intimidate any enemy ground troops they were going up against. I don't know if it worked, but I doubt it (if it's true).
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The designing engineers were primarily from Japan.
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Most beta blockers are used as a treatment for high blood pressure. Surely the stress levels that these scientists experience would justify that kind of prescription.
Yea, that's the ticket, fuzzy logic!
They wanted to keep it for themselves.
Organleggers will exist until we develop proper organ cloning. The moral dilemma over cloning and stem cell research will hamper any progress in this area and allow the organleggers to continue, much like the drug trade has.
I think that DC Comics has a copyright on that name.
Seriously, I've have an overheated nVIDIA card blow up and take out a motherboard with it.
1) There are "fewer" people using torrents than using email.
2) Email users include businesses that probably include a draconian SLA on the ISPs part and they don't want to mess with that.
3) And as always, it affects Profit!!!
I realize that Microsoft is the 800 pound gorilla in the room, but it just sounds like giving in. Microsoft really hasn't shown any signs of innovation in a long time and my fear is that this would just turn into another chance for Microsoft to take a concept from the collaboration, implement it in their own way and claim it as their own. Remember what they did with TCP/IP early on? Made their own stack that didn't quiet work with anything else but said it wasn't their fault.
Seriously, this is probably something to draw attention to a service that few people knew about. Any publicity is good publicity, after all.
I looked up my home address and the Google Street View was off by about 10 house numbers. With that kind of inaccuracy, I'm not worried about it.
You know the ones I mean.
Probably could help them quiet a bit with things.
Unless you want to sell AnyTime Lunar Minutes to other countries that would already be there.
Washing the shirt will ruin it.
That type argument has been made before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_debate
This will make VG Cats happy.
...they are going to patent the Storm Worm computer virus.
We hope.
When it's Godzilla vs Godzilla, Tokyo gets trashed either way.
Or at least, they should, but then people do some pretty stupid things sometimes.
Haven't we dealt with this before?
But the thing is that Congress-critters are a lot smarter than you think. Like most people (not all), they have their own self interest at heart. They may want to protect their business constituents, that's all. And gosh, you don't want someone with all that money to be donating it to someone that may not be able to help in the next election, do you?
Really though, I would think that this would be something that you would use to, say, sink the enemy's ship, maybe shoot their nuclear reactors, or otherwise destroy infrastructure. It would have a really strong psychological factor too. I remember reading somewhere that they deliberately made the sound of the Apache attack helicopter distinctive to try and intimidate any enemy ground troops they were going up against. I don't know if it worked, but I doubt it (if it's true).