A monopoly is destructive because the monopoly holder's incentive is to maximise their profit by restricting supply and maintaining an excessively high price. While socialism can certainly be destructive, it is for entirely different reasons - the government (in theory, anyway) isn't driven by the goal of maximising profits.
The lack of an alternative. Socialism works for some niches quite well, but all attempts at a fully socialist economy so far have ended in disaster. A free market system with a reasonable amount of regulation, for all its flaws, works.
There's currently no system to handle distribution in such an economy. It doesn't matter if there are resources a-plenty if many people can't access them. Robot farms may be able to make food at almost no cost, but there's still a cost - and if most of the population is unemployed, they can't pay even that.
To save googling: Amish, native american tradition, forget the name but not hard to find, Kent Hovind, the 9/11 attackers among many, Dale and Leilani Neumann.
There's a problem with this: It destroys the concept of law entirely, because for every law there exists a person somewhere who has a religion that demands they disobey the law. "My religion prohibits the use of electricity, so I can't install a fire alarm in my business to meet state building regulations." "My religion requires I capture an endangered species for ritual sacrifice." "I had to kill by baby in the microwave, I sensed he was possessed by a demon." "My religion prohibits paying taxes, because all my property is just being held on behalf of God." "My religion requires I kill innocent citizens to defend my people against their country." "I know my daughter was critically ill, but my religion does not allow me to seek medical treatment, as it shows a lack of faith in God." All of these are real cases - and those are just in the US. These situations show that freedom of religion cannot be absolute, because absolute freedom of religion renders every area of law effectively meaningless: You would be able to literally get away with murder by claiming you believed it to be a religious mission.
The clustering of vaccinations is for purely logistical reasons: Shipping out vaccines and a person qualified to administer them to schools costs money, and getting them all done in one day is more practical than going back for several trips.
My dentist uses an AOL email address and a website that probably hasn't been updated in a decade. I don't care: He's still a decent enough dentist for the occasional drill-and-fill.
Those infamies are too hard to achieve. You need real political skill and connections. You'd achieve more success trying to be a Osama or a Guy: Try to blow up something really important and full of people.
Sensor buoys, perhaps? Solar power on top, overnight power via supercaps which have a lifetime far longer than any battery. They could carry on transmitting for decades, until the cells degrade too far to meet their very small power demand.
If not those, solar powered calculators. Just sitting there, doing their thing: Monitoring the 'on' button for a press that will never come.
Any halfway-sensible design will include some means of emergency escape - though it may be in the form of a deliberate weak spot in the roof that can be punched out from inside. Like a sunroof.
I suspect it will only look awesome when you're wearing a eye patch. No matter how good the resolution and contrast ratio, depth perception is going to ruin the illusion.
Drag a patent infringement case on for a decade years with legal tricks - that's doable if you fight dirty. As case nears conclusion the infringing company might go bankrupt for example, and sell of their assets including fabs to a new company that happens to have most of the same directors. By the time it finishes, the patent may even have expired. Eventually the rest of the world would get fed up and launch some sort of WTO action, which again can be stalled by fighting dirty. Eventually Russia wouldn't be able to stall any longer and some sanctions would finally happen - but that would be a long way off, and it's quite possible Russia would be willing to accept this level of future trouble in order to avoid dependence on American-sourced components. Plus there's an export market - Russia isn't the only country that is concerned their current peaceful-ish relationship with America and Europe won't last.
They could even pull a Putin again, implausible deniability: "Russia is not making any infringing components. Please ignore the crates of processors being shipped behind me, the traitorous employee testimonials, the leaked footage of the fabs showing the alleged parts and the sudden appearance of infringing processors on the market. These are western lies. Russia does not infringe patents."
The purpose of insurance companies is to make a profit. If they can find a way to avoid paying out - some excuse, however flimsy - it is their duty to the shareholders to exploit it.
Climate does change naturally - over the course of thousands of years. Even brief disruptions like the 'little ice age' lasted for a few hundred. The current scale of change is measured in decades - unnaturally fast.
The lie detectors work very well for their required purpose: If the operator decides the subject looks a bit shifty, the test shows a lie. The test serves to provide an appearance of scientific neutrality that seems a lot more respectable than admitting to depending on human intuition.
Is that as evil as you can get? You can kill people with this, from a long distance. Just make a worm, take ransom in bitcoins. You should be able to amass a tidy sum in the few days it takes to get every pump in the country disconnected and replaced.
The magnetron might not spin, but it does have inertia of a sort. It's driven by a voltage doubler circuit off of a transformer: That means a capacitor and an inductor, both of which store a considerable amount of energy. Cut the power and it will take a few milliseconds before their energy is exhausted.
Household here has gotten through many microwaves over the years. Not one from electrical fault. It's always the body that goes - paint cracks, steam gets in, steel corrodes. Blisters and rust.
There's just not much to go wrong in one. There are only two moving parts: The cooling fan, and the motor that spins the turntable. Both of which are done using brushless motors. The actual microwave stuff is a transformer, capacitor, diode and old-fashioned vacuum tube coupled to a waveguide.
Very nearly. The big difference I see would be addressing requests via hash. That means it's just about impossible for a rogue node to break anything, either deliberately or as part of an attack - if the client gets anything other than what it requested, the hash doesn't match.
Usenet with security makes Freenet - but Freenet is heavily focused on a paranoid level of resistance to monitoring which seriously impairs performance.
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A monopoly is destructive because the monopoly holder's incentive is to maximise their profit by restricting supply and maintaining an excessively high price. While socialism can certainly be destructive, it is for entirely different reasons - the government (in theory, anyway) isn't driven by the goal of maximising profits.
The lack of an alternative. Socialism works for some niches quite well, but all attempts at a fully socialist economy so far have ended in disaster. A free market system with a reasonable amount of regulation, for all its flaws, works.
There's currently no system to handle distribution in such an economy. It doesn't matter if there are resources a-plenty if many people can't access them. Robot farms may be able to make food at almost no cost, but there's still a cost - and if most of the population is unemployed, they can't pay even that.
To save googling: Amish, native american tradition, forget the name but not hard to find, Kent Hovind, the 9/11 attackers among many, Dale and Leilani Neumann.
There's a problem with this: It destroys the concept of law entirely, because for every law there exists a person somewhere who has a religion that demands they disobey the law.
"My religion prohibits the use of electricity, so I can't install a fire alarm in my business to meet state building regulations."
"My religion requires I capture an endangered species for ritual sacrifice."
"I had to kill by baby in the microwave, I sensed he was possessed by a demon."
"My religion prohibits paying taxes, because all my property is just being held on behalf of God."
"My religion requires I kill innocent citizens to defend my people against their country."
"I know my daughter was critically ill, but my religion does not allow me to seek medical treatment, as it shows a lack of faith in God."
All of these are real cases - and those are just in the US. These situations show that freedom of religion cannot be absolute, because absolute freedom of religion renders every area of law effectively meaningless: You would be able to literally get away with murder by claiming you believed it to be a religious mission.
The autism claims are entirely discredited now.
The clustering of vaccinations is for purely logistical reasons: Shipping out vaccines and a person qualified to administer them to schools costs money, and getting them all done in one day is more practical than going back for several trips.
My dentist uses an AOL email address and a website that probably hasn't been updated in a decade. I don't care: He's still a decent enough dentist for the occasional drill-and-fill.
Dentists: Another reason why birds are superior.
Those infamies are too hard to achieve. You need real political skill and connections. You'd achieve more success trying to be a Osama or a Guy: Try to blow up something really important and full of people.
Or it might be that the tests include a few questions to challenge the brightest students, so that they may be properly recognised?
"Something must be done, this is something, therefore this must be done."
Sensor buoys, perhaps? Solar power on top, overnight power via supercaps which have a lifetime far longer than any battery. They could carry on transmitting for decades, until the cells degrade too far to meet their very small power demand.
If not those, solar powered calculators. Just sitting there, doing their thing: Monitoring the 'on' button for a press that will never come.
Any halfway-sensible design will include some means of emergency escape - though it may be in the form of a deliberate weak spot in the roof that can be punched out from inside. Like a sunroof.
You get a robot for that too. It bolts onto the roof.
I suspect it will only look awesome when you're wearing a eye patch. No matter how good the resolution and contrast ratio, depth perception is going to ruin the illusion.
Windows out.
Big-screen TV in.
Drag a patent infringement case on for a decade years with legal tricks - that's doable if you fight dirty. As case nears conclusion the infringing company might go bankrupt for example, and sell of their assets including fabs to a new company that happens to have most of the same directors. By the time it finishes, the patent may even have expired. Eventually the rest of the world would get fed up and launch some sort of WTO action, which again can be stalled by fighting dirty. Eventually Russia wouldn't be able to stall any longer and some sanctions would finally happen - but that would be a long way off, and it's quite possible Russia would be willing to accept this level of future trouble in order to avoid dependence on American-sourced components. Plus there's an export market - Russia isn't the only country that is concerned their current peaceful-ish relationship with America and Europe won't last.
They could even pull a Putin again, implausible deniability: "Russia is not making any infringing components. Please ignore the crates of processors being shipped behind me, the traitorous employee testimonials, the leaked footage of the fabs showing the alleged parts and the sudden appearance of infringing processors on the market. These are western lies. Russia does not infringe patents."
What about an unofficial policy? It's illegal, but the courts always find any case invalid on some tiny technicality?
The purpose of insurance companies is to make a profit. If they can find a way to avoid paying out - some excuse, however flimsy - it is their duty to the shareholders to exploit it.
Climate does change naturally - over the course of thousands of years. Even brief disruptions like the 'little ice age' lasted for a few hundred. The current scale of change is measured in decades - unnaturally fast.
The lie detectors work very well for their required purpose: If the operator decides the subject looks a bit shifty, the test shows a lie. The test serves to provide an appearance of scientific neutrality that seems a lot more respectable than admitting to depending on human intuition.
If you need a craft that can hover with precision, that's really the only way to go. Planes can't drop a package into a container.
Is that as evil as you can get? You can kill people with this, from a long distance. Just make a worm, take ransom in bitcoins. You should be able to amass a tidy sum in the few days it takes to get every pump in the country disconnected and replaced.
The magnetron might not spin, but it does have inertia of a sort. It's driven by a voltage doubler circuit off of a transformer: That means a capacitor and an inductor, both of which store a considerable amount of energy. Cut the power and it will take a few milliseconds before their energy is exhausted.
Household here has gotten through many microwaves over the years. Not one from electrical fault. It's always the body that goes - paint cracks, steam gets in, steel corrodes. Blisters and rust.
There's just not much to go wrong in one. There are only two moving parts: The cooling fan, and the motor that spins the turntable. Both of which are done using brushless motors. The actual microwave stuff is a transformer, capacitor, diode and old-fashioned vacuum tube coupled to a waveguide.
Very nearly. The big difference I see would be addressing requests via hash. That means it's just about impossible for a rogue node to break anything, either deliberately or as part of an attack - if the client gets anything other than what it requested, the hash doesn't match.
Usenet with security makes Freenet - but Freenet is heavily focused on a paranoid level of resistance to monitoring which seriously impairs performance.