All you need to bypass such level of "security" is to find a willing participant with skin color which is not critical. And you probably only need to do it once. Get all skin colors up to "critical level" and voila - everyone is a potential terrorist once more. Or no one is, depending on your perspective.
Prioritizing according to clearly visible and easily circumventable markers is a poor security technique. Might as well look only for people holding a stick of dynamite in one hand and a lit lighter in the other.
If wealth is nullified and everyone is to receive equally in food, necessities, and entertainment, then the people receiving the items must be willing to perform their duties for the improvement of society.
No need to "nullify wealth". Just have it distributed more equally.
And it is not that anyone MUST be willing to work for the improvement of the society - it's that many would then be FREE to do so.
That sounds like a scam/bullshiting to avoid responsibility to me. Return address is for returning.
I mean.. it's not even financially sound. Instead of destroying it, it is much smarter to attach an automatic "return+storage fee" and inform you with a slip of paper that "the package you have sent could not be delivered, please come to the post office to pick it up". THEN, if you don't want your stuff back, they destroy it/auction it/take it home/whatever.
Right off the bat undelivered==destroyed sounds more like someone avoiding to do any actual work.
I'm pretty sure that is covered by the original postage costs. Why would you need a return address on the envelope if not for RETURNING the mail to the sender?
The box has a bar code that is supposed to be used instead of a signature to confirm delivery but obviously anyone with a camera enabled mobile phone can defeat that, or the courier could just scan it and keep the package for himself.
Hmm... Assuming that the box remains unlocked while it is empty, and gets locked once you put something inside (a simple pressure switch could handle that), a randomized date-dependent bar code on the inside of the box should handle the "anyone with a mobile phone" part. Either have a small, battery operated bar code screen mounted inside, or simply print and paste a new bar code each time you're expecting a package.
If I take my money, which belongs to me, and I open *my* school, it's *my* business - and no one elses. No one else has *any* right to come along and order me around - let alone ordering me who my students will be.
First of all, running an education establishment like a business will inevitably lead to intellectual bankruptcy - education is a public service. As such, it is A-OK for public service to lose money as long as it provides acceptable service - which is education, which in turn is there to provide progress and higher standard of living and happiness for both citizens AND their society in general. That is why it is A-OK for the education sector to be subsidized by the government. Which leads us to the next point - certification.
All that shiny education your hypothetical school would provide is useless if it is not certified i.e. if the diplomas you give out are not accepted by your students' future employers AND by the government(s) that issues work and other permits to those businesses. After all, your school may only consist of your website and your kitchen table where you print your diplomas. Or, you may be teaching crazy shit like dianetics and whatnot. I for one would like to know that some government body has checked your school and made sure it is not an organ harvesting operation. Or simply that you provide an adequate education along with that piece of paper that claims that I've actually "studied shit" while at your school.
So, there ARE rules which you MUST obey if you want your school to be allowed to exist. To quote the eminent philosopher Keanu Reeves: "You need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car - hell, you even need a license to catch a fish.". Ergo, fuckin' A you're gonna be told what you can and what you can't do when opening a school.
There's this thing, it's called Freedom. It means no one can force you to do things, or deceive into doing them - unless they're acting in self-defence, and this isn't self-defence.
Actually... generally speaking, self-defense has nothing to do with that which you call Freedom and is generally defined as negative liberty, as opposed to positive kind. And then there is "the real freedom", but I'm guessing from you nickname that you already know about that. Why would anyone have to act in self-defense against you if you are only practicing your liberties, which are just like his/her liberties - unless you are not entitled to those liberties in the first place (due to previous actions on your part) or you are misusing them. In which case, you should not have the right to those liberties. But that's usually left for the courts to decide.
However, we also push all our idiotic shit to every country in the world with saber rattling and international intimidation.
Nothing short of a violent bloody revolution would save this country, and yet I fear that if we had one we would almost certainly be left with a horrible dictatorship and be even worse off than things exist today. So I think this country is basically screwed.
You might find the documentaries described here interesting. Particularly the third part, although parts 1 and 2 are also highly intriguing and the whole series IS connected. Last I checked they were available on Google Videos.
It should have been something like iProtect, iAntivirus or AppleGuard or something. What are they coming to when they can't even get their developers to use the proper naming scheme?
Just another proof that Apple is no longer a proper computer business but a shiny-pocket-widget and things-for-your-shiny-pocket-widgets shop. Or was that a shiny-pocket-widget and things-for-your-shiny-pocket-widgets store?
Unless you are talking about triffids, plants didn't go anywhere - by themselves, that is. They were washed ashore and they multiplied from there. Also, being that they tend to be stationary plants don't really "avoid being grazed upon". Most of them actually count on it for procreation. Those that do develop defenses again mostly do that in a passive way - thorns, poisons, hard protective bark, resilience, quick procreation...
What I'm trying to say is - plants are not really that pro-active. BUT... they DO however spread around easily and (relatively) quickly given the opportunity. Providing plenty of plant life on land once animals from the sea finally step ashore.
and the predators were last to follow to prey upon forementioned grazers without competition in those new hunting grounds.
Predators were already there. It's just that they weren't predators at first. Or meat eaters. Until they became scavengers, then omnivores, then predators.
Plus, the buffer zone exists anyway because oceans are turbulent- my guess is tides would not be that crucial.
It's not that it is impossible to create land life without tides (and there would be tides from other planets even without the moon) - it's that regular DAILY tides can be a great booster.
Think about it... A somewhat resilient organism is washed ashore and it can't go back to water on its own. But it sure as hell tries to stay alive as long as possible. After a couple of million of those organisms wash ashore, some of them manage to stay alive long enough until the tide comes and washes it back into the sea again. Couple of million iterations later and you get organisms that can breathe air. Now that organism has an option to mate on land and leave its eggs to mature in the sands. Away from predators.
Now... ponder a bit about the survival chances of a sea dwelling organism that waits for the oceans to get "turbulent" so it can be washed into sea again AND the chance of an organism that can pretty much count on the next high tide in about 12 hours.
Evolution works with cycles. Cycles of eons and generations. Two steady cycles each day is a lot more "cycling" than anything that seasonal turbulence (as the Earth goes around the Sun) could provide in that same time period.
According to TFA we did assume based on some calculations from 1993 that "Without the moon, gravitational perturbations from other planets...would greatly disturb Earthâ(TM)s axial tilt". And as with all other assumptions we ever made on extraterrestrial life - if it worked here...
There IS though, another point in the "moon equation" that is only hinted at in the article. Possibly cause it is assumed to be taken for granted (more of the "if it worked here...").
That would leave ample time for advanced land life to evolve under relatively stable climatic conditionsâ"although what would happen to such life during an axial shift remains unclear.
If you want your sea-dwelling life to migrate to land, stable yet powerful tides that regularly wash the aforementioned sea-dwelling life ashore surely are a plus. For plants and for animals that would feed on them.
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All you need to bypass such level of "security" is to find a willing participant with skin color which is not critical.
And you probably only need to do it once. Get all skin colors up to "critical level" and voila - everyone is a potential terrorist once more.
Or no one is, depending on your perspective.
Prioritizing according to clearly visible and easily circumventable markers is a poor security technique.
Might as well look only for people holding a stick of dynamite in one hand and a lit lighter in the other.
If wealth is nullified and everyone is to receive equally in food, necessities, and entertainment, then the people receiving the items must be willing to perform their duties for the improvement of society.
No need to "nullify wealth". Just have it distributed more equally.
And it is not that anyone MUST be willing to work for the improvement of the society - it's that many would then be FREE to do so.
That sounds like a scam/bullshiting to avoid responsibility to me.
Return address is for returning.
I mean.. it's not even financially sound.
Instead of destroying it, it is much smarter to attach an automatic "return+storage fee" and inform you with a slip of paper that "the package you have sent could not be delivered, please come to the post office to pick it up".
THEN, if you don't want your stuff back, they destroy it/auction it/take it home/whatever.
Right off the bat undelivered==destroyed sounds more like someone avoiding to do any actual work.
When they do a remake, you get to sue them for taking your idea.
You can thank me with 10% of the money you get. Or 250000 pounds, whichever suits you more.
I'm pretty sure that is covered by the original postage costs.
Why would you need a return address on the envelope if not for RETURNING the mail to the sender?
The box has a bar code that is supposed to be used instead of a signature to confirm delivery but obviously anyone with a camera enabled mobile phone can defeat that, or the courier could just scan it and keep the package for himself.
Hmm... Assuming that the box remains unlocked while it is empty, and gets locked once you put something inside (a simple pressure switch could handle that), a randomized date-dependent bar code on the inside of the box should handle the "anyone with a mobile phone" part.
Either have a small, battery operated bar code screen mounted inside, or simply print and paste a new bar code each time you're expecting a package.
Where do I collect my 250000 pounds?
It should return to sender if not picked up by certain date, shouldn't it?
IT'S A TRAP!
If I take my money, which belongs to me, and I open *my* school, it's *my* business - and no one elses.
No one else has *any* right to come along and order me around - let alone ordering me who my students will be.
First of all, running an education establishment like a business will inevitably lead to intellectual bankruptcy - education is a public service.
As such, it is A-OK for public service to lose money as long as it provides acceptable service - which is education, which in turn is there to provide progress and higher standard of living and happiness for both citizens AND their society in general.
That is why it is A-OK for the education sector to be subsidized by the government. Which leads us to the next point - certification.
All that shiny education your hypothetical school would provide is useless if it is not certified i.e. if the diplomas you give out are not accepted by your students' future employers AND by the government(s) that issues work and other permits to those businesses.
After all, your school may only consist of your website and your kitchen table where you print your diplomas.
Or, you may be teaching crazy shit like dianetics and whatnot.
I for one would like to know that some government body has checked your school and made sure it is not an organ harvesting operation.
Or simply that you provide an adequate education along with that piece of paper that claims that I've actually "studied shit" while at your school.
So, there ARE rules which you MUST obey if you want your school to be allowed to exist.
To quote the eminent philosopher Keanu Reeves: "You need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car - hell, you even need a license to catch a fish.".
Ergo, fuckin' A you're gonna be told what you can and what you can't do when opening a school.
There's this thing, it's called Freedom. It means no one can force you to do things, or deceive into doing them - unless they're acting in self-defence, and this isn't self-defence.
Actually... generally speaking, self-defense has nothing to do with that which you call Freedom and is generally defined as negative liberty, as opposed to positive kind.
And then there is "the real freedom", but I'm guessing from you nickname that you already know about that.
Why would anyone have to act in self-defense against you if you are only practicing your liberties, which are just like his/her liberties - unless you are not entitled to those liberties in the first place (due to previous actions on your part) or you are misusing them.
In which case, you should not have the right to those liberties.
But that's usually left for the courts to decide.
I believe that you are looking for this video.
When you can have organic water, from organic land and organic charcoal air filters that I suppose will give you organic air.
There's no need to have a fast, high powered solar laptop if the goal is just to have a solar laptop.
And there's no need for a laptop that actually works when you can make one out of cardboard.
As for solar-powered laptops, there are elegant solutions out there already but they are pricey.
You mean the one NOT squeezed out by robot-cows?
I just love how people use that magic-yet-imprecise word for absolutely everything.
Hey, you know why Han Solo's kids are the healthiest in the Galaxy?
Cause they are organaic.
Read something very similar from a local (Bosnian) version of a religious "textbook".
Only this one was about plants (as in trees) being food-factories.
The fun part: science has no fucking clue how do "the juices" get pumped from the ground, up through the trunk and into the branches and fruit.
"There are several theories, but none of them have been able to provide the answer."
That particular one is from a Muslim "textbook". Others are not much different. It's a built-in defect.
...it's full of stars.
However, we also push all our idiotic shit to every country in the world with saber rattling and international intimidation.
Nothing short of a violent bloody revolution would save this country, and yet I fear that if we had one we would almost certainly be left with a horrible dictatorship and be even worse off than things exist today. So I think this country is basically screwed.
You might find the documentaries described here interesting.
Particularly the third part, although parts 1 and 2 are also highly intriguing and the whole series IS connected.
Last I checked they were available on Google Videos.
...he creamed himself in front of an embassy?
How very embassaring... er, embarrassing.
Steve already bought all the livers he will ever need.
...you're looking for?
Film at eleve... Sorry... Film at iLeven.
It should have been something like iProtect, iAntivirus or AppleGuard or something.
What are they coming to when they can't even get their developers to use the proper naming scheme?
Just another proof that Apple is no longer a proper computer business but a shiny-pocket-widget and things-for-your-shiny-pocket-widgets shop.
Or was that a shiny-pocket-widget and things-for-your-shiny-pocket-widgets store?
Including sense of humor.
Plants went ashore to avoid being grazed upon
Unless you are talking about triffids, plants didn't go anywhere - by themselves, that is. They were washed ashore and they multiplied from there.
Also, being that they tend to be stationary plants don't really "avoid being grazed upon". Most of them actually count on it for procreation.
Those that do develop defenses again mostly do that in a passive way - thorns, poisons, hard protective bark, resilience, quick procreation...
What I'm trying to say is - plants are not really that pro-active. BUT... they DO however spread around easily and (relatively) quickly given the opportunity.
Providing plenty of plant life on land once animals from the sea finally step ashore.
and the predators were last to follow to prey upon forementioned grazers without competition in those new hunting grounds.
Predators were already there. It's just that they weren't predators at first. Or meat eaters. Until they became scavengers, then omnivores, then predators.
Plus, the buffer zone exists anyway because oceans are turbulent- my guess is tides would not be that crucial.
It's not that it is impossible to create land life without tides (and there would be tides from other planets even without the moon) - it's that regular DAILY tides can be a great booster.
Think about it... A somewhat resilient organism is washed ashore and it can't go back to water on its own. But it sure as hell tries to stay alive as long as possible.
After a couple of million of those organisms wash ashore, some of them manage to stay alive long enough until the tide comes and washes it back into the sea again.
Couple of million iterations later and you get organisms that can breathe air.
Now that organism has an option to mate on land and leave its eggs to mature in the sands. Away from predators.
Now... ponder a bit about the survival chances of a sea dwelling organism that waits for the oceans to get "turbulent" so it can be washed into sea again AND the chance of an organism that can pretty much count on the next high tide in about 12 hours.
Evolution works with cycles. Cycles of eons and generations.
Two steady cycles each day is a lot more "cycling" than anything that seasonal turbulence (as the Earth goes around the Sun) could provide in that same time period.
On all of your points.
According to TFA we did assume based on some calculations from 1993 that "Without the moon, gravitational perturbations from other planets...would greatly disturb Earthâ(TM)s axial tilt".
And as with all other assumptions we ever made on extraterrestrial life - if it worked here...
There IS though, another point in the "moon equation" that is only hinted at in the article. Possibly cause it is assumed to be taken for granted (more of the "if it worked here...").
That would leave ample time for advanced land life to evolve under relatively stable climatic conditionsâ"although what would happen to such life during an axial shift remains unclear.
If you want your sea-dwelling life to migrate to land, stable yet powerful tides that regularly wash the aforementioned sea-dwelling life ashore surely are a plus.
For plants and for animals that would feed on them.
...how much is that in Facebook friends?
Or Libraries of Congress?