Wouldn't it be safe to say that almost all stars should have planets around them? I mean all stars form in almost the same way, big gas cloud coalesces down to eventually form a star. Our sun did that and was able to form 8 planets, many moons, many proto-planets, an asteroid belt and possibly the oort cloud?
Well, I was in the navy and it was a semi-regular occurrence of seeing them use Sea Lions for mine detection. So this has been around for years. My guess is this is the first non-military use of them.
At the very least, if they are able to crush the internet piracy (which they won't) you are forgetting Sneakernet that will quickly become widespread in any group of people.
If I buy a DVD and attempt to view it on my computer and it says I can't due to copyright protection so I view it in VLC anyway, an immoral law is one that just said I can be sued for $500,000.
I wouldn't get into the slipper slope of what people are entitled to. It's the rabbit hole and the next thing you know you will hear some crazy lady yelling "Off with his head!"
I don't have a problem with patents as long as they aren't around for I dunno, creators life +75 years.
Patents do in fact help innovation but if they are held for too long then they hurt innovation since only one company (unless they license out) has the ability to use that patent for future technologies.
Imagine I am the first computer company to create a quantum computer, and I patent that. Now for the next 20 years or whatever it is, I control the advancement of every Tech, Every Science and all math. All because of my patent.
Tangible vs Intangible goods. By stealing the actual DVD the store has to spend money on another one to be able to sell it to customers. By downloading a movie off the internet, nobody has to pay anybody anything to return to the status quo.
There is a difference between writing on your facebook "I am going to make so and so pay" and writing on your facebook "I am going to make so and so pay" and going to the store to buy a shotgun.
Maybe, to better prepare myself against an Al Qaeda attack, I should review their training methods and such to see how advanced they are and what they can do and with what efficiency?
What they might not get is that CGI child porn may at least keep a pedophile or Ephebophile from actually committing those heinous acts for maybe just a little bit longer, or maybe not at all.
Well, we can look at potential growth in their fields and linear advancement that they may receive. You can argue that the person getting the master's degree has much greater potential to get a higher paying job in the future whereas the welder has a good possibility of being a welder for the rest of his life.
Also, the welder only has a set of skills pertaining to welding whereas the person who went to college can get a job in many different fields, especially ones not related to his degree.
Lastly, Society as a whole needs both welders and people with master's degrees in whatever, if the person is capable of getting his master's degree, then he may be able to fill one of the roles society has for him.
I completely agree, either I shouldn't have to take those damn Gen Ed requirements like "Native American Studies" which I can't give a damn about, or people with Liberal Arts degrees should have to take Linear Algebra.
You don't have to be very smart to clean toilets in a McDonalds so any high school dropout can do it. Since that High School dropout has few opportunities, McDonalds gets by with paying him less since his relative work is worth less.
At the very least referring to high school dropouts, why would an employer hire them over somebody who didn't drop out halfway through something incredibly easy?
I hear that large companies are recruiting people with BS's in physics cause those people know how to crunch numbers. Just cause your degree is in something unrelated to your field doesn't mean it doesn't help you in whatever field you do go into.
Yet it is completely legal to encourage others to access material that informs people on how to commit seditious acts and mass murder so long as you don't tell them to actually commit it.
The Tsar Bomba, I believe, that was dropped only had 3 reflectors on it but the bomb designs allowed it to go up to 5. The number of reflectors on it though made it the cleanest nuclear explosion ever chalking in an energy release equivalent to 1% of the sun's output in a year or something like that.
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Wouldn't it be safe to say that almost all stars should have planets around them? I mean all stars form in almost the same way, big gas cloud coalesces down to eventually form a star. Our sun did that and was able to form 8 planets, many moons, many proto-planets, an asteroid belt and possibly the oort cloud?
Good thing we here in the US have a Freedom of the Press.
No no no, you read that wrong, they are GUCCl bags.
It is ok for there to be potential for abuse as long as the person with the power does not abuse it? But what happens when they decide to?
Well, I was in the navy and it was a semi-regular occurrence of seeing them use Sea Lions for mine detection. So this has been around for years. My guess is this is the first non-military use of them.
"Sir, will you please jump in this large tank of water so that the dolphin can scan you."
You took something moderately funny and ruined it. You sir, are a fail.
At the very least, if they are able to crush the internet piracy (which they won't) you are forgetting Sneakernet that will quickly become widespread in any group of people.
If I buy a DVD and attempt to view it on my computer and it says I can't due to copyright protection so I view it in VLC anyway, an immoral law is one that just said I can be sued for $500,000.
An unjust law is law is no law at all.
I wouldn't get into the slipper slope of what people are entitled to. It's the rabbit hole and the next thing you know you will hear some crazy lady yelling "Off with his head!"
I don't have a problem with patents as long as they aren't around for I dunno, creators life +75 years.
Patents do in fact help innovation but if they are held for too long then they hurt innovation since only one company (unless they license out) has the ability to use that patent for future technologies.
Imagine I am the first computer company to create a quantum computer, and I patent that. Now for the next 20 years or whatever it is, I control the advancement of every Tech, Every Science and all math. All because of my patent.
Tangible vs Intangible goods. By stealing the actual DVD the store has to spend money on another one to be able to sell it to customers. By downloading a movie off the internet, nobody has to pay anybody anything to return to the status quo.
You wouldn't go to the toilet in the policeman's helmet and then give it to the policeman's grieving widow.
Laws are not necessarily moral.
There is a difference between writing on your facebook "I am going to make so and so pay" and writing on your facebook "I am going to make so and so pay" and going to the store to buy a shotgun.
Maybe, to better prepare myself against an Al Qaeda attack, I should review their training methods and such to see how advanced they are and what they can do and with what efficiency?
What they might not get is that CGI child porn may at least keep a pedophile or Ephebophile from actually committing those heinous acts for maybe just a little bit longer, or maybe not at all.
Well, we can look at potential growth in their fields and linear advancement that they may receive. You can argue that the person getting the master's degree has much greater potential to get a higher paying job in the future whereas the welder has a good possibility of being a welder for the rest of his life.
Also, the welder only has a set of skills pertaining to welding whereas the person who went to college can get a job in many different fields, especially ones not related to his degree.
Lastly, Society as a whole needs both welders and people with master's degrees in whatever, if the person is capable of getting his master's degree, then he may be able to fill one of the roles society has for him.
I completely agree, either I shouldn't have to take those damn Gen Ed requirements like "Native American Studies" which I can't give a damn about, or people with Liberal Arts degrees should have to take Linear Algebra.
You don't have to be very smart to clean toilets in a McDonalds so any high school dropout can do it. Since that High School dropout has few opportunities, McDonalds gets by with paying him less since his relative work is worth less.
At the very least referring to high school dropouts, why would an employer hire them over somebody who didn't drop out halfway through something incredibly easy?
I hear that large companies are recruiting people with BS's in physics cause those people know how to crunch numbers. Just cause your degree is in something unrelated to your field doesn't mean it doesn't help you in whatever field you do go into.
If you refer to the economy as the GDP then war most certainly boosts the economy as government spending goes through the roof.
Yet it is completely legal to encourage others to access material that informs people on how to commit seditious acts and mass murder so long as you don't tell them to actually commit it.
The Tsar Bomba, I believe, that was dropped only had 3 reflectors on it but the bomb designs allowed it to go up to 5. The number of reflectors on it though made it the cleanest nuclear explosion ever chalking in an energy release equivalent to 1% of the sun's output in a year or something like that.