US. Hawaii. Europe. Japan. All friendly locations, long-term allies, politically stable. Between them you've got enough coverage for constant communications with everything in equatorial orbit, and most things in very inclined orbits too.
What alternatives? The eco-people are getting in the way of increasing domestic production (And sometimes even with good reason), and the conservatives are getting in the way of any attempts to reduce oil consumption because they oppose anything that involves government intervention.
How hard would it be to move the ISS? It's obviously not going to endure any great acceleration, but it needs to occasionally accelerate to adjust for atmospheric drag anyway. Just reangle those and nudge it a little each time. You wouldn't want to take it all the way equatorial, but enough to reduce the requirements from somewhere more southerly.
There is already a lot of commercial activity in space. But there's no money to be made beyond geostationary. Astroid mining won't be economical for a long time, if ever. Space stations are only good for scientific use, and that's mostly blue-skies research of no commercial value.
I imagine your prediction would be true for movies. It costs millions to make a movie - even the cheap independent ones usually cost at least $100,000, absolute minimum. So no copyright may mean no movies, unless an alternative model is found (Kickstarter, maybe?). Music, on the other hand, would be barely affected at all: The production cost is well within the hobbyist range, and a lot of people make it for personal reasons or for the fame.
Internet copyright infringement is a criminal activity in the US, at least. Has been since the NET act - it actually makes infringement for commercial purposes a criminal offense, but defines that in such a broad sense that torrenting is included. If you copy a work with an expectation of receiving more infringing works in return, that's considered commercial. I imagine some other countries have similar laws.
And rather awkwardly, the number of bits required to represent the address of a sequence is, on average, proportional to the length of a sequence. So no magic compression algorithm.
The boundry isn't entirely clear. Some people consider the drones as any aircraft that is operated remotely without line of sight - ie, has a camera on board providing real-time visual back to the operator.
What you need is something like the UK's IPCC - their job is to investigate complaints against the police. They have the powers to do so properly, and they are not themselves part of the police.
Whereas in the US, if you wish to make a complaint against your local police department, it will be investigated by... your local police department. If you wish to make a complaint about a specific officer, it'll likely be investigated by another officer in the same department and good friend of the accused. There's a conflict of interest that means police in the US have very little accountability. There's nothing much you can do. It doesn't help that the prosecution is a very political position, so even once the police themselves are done screwing you over the prosecutors are under heavy political pressure to play along and get a conviction quickly no matter what underhanded means are required to do so.
Their description of intent is vague, but I can imagine it being flown over cities with the TIR cameras running to look for very hot buildings - something police already do with helicopters, drones would just make it cheaper. A very hot building usually means someone is growing pot in there.
Usually, anyway. There have been a few incidents of people with things like tropical greenhouses getting their doors smashed down and a police squad running in with guns drawn. We had one in the UK where a family's heated guina-pig hut was mistaken for a pot factory - but this being the UK, the police issued a full apology for the mistake.
But not to near-infrared. Many 'night vision cameras' are actually NIR cameras with a lot of very bright NIR LEDs - they can be made more powerful for a given size than cost than visible-light LEDs. I don't know if the drones use NIR cameras, but if they don't there's no reason they couldn't.
That said, only copter-drones can hover outside a window, and their noise level isn't exactly stealthy.
Investors love predictable price action, ideally upwards. With bitcoin, you may lose everything you invest, or may make a thousand percent in a month. It's all over the place. It seems to be slowly going down right now, but any news could cause that to change.
The Jesus date is somewhat vague. If he even existed at all. Accepting for the sake of argument that the biblical account of his birth is true (If not, the only reason to use him is tradition), we can be sure that he wasn't born at the start of 1CE - because Herod the Great, of baby-slaughtering fame, died in 4BCE.
The conventional calender it stupid, but it is well-established stupid that everyone understands. Mostly. I don't think most people could tell you the rules for leap years in full.
Besides, the real money without detection would be to steal idle wallets. There's a huge amount tied up in people who dabbled a bit in the early days, mined a coin or two (back when you could do so easily) and then lost interest.
An effective police force that makes sure the biker dude knows in advance that if he uses violence then there is a significent chance he will face jail time.
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Much of the ISS communication is relayed via satallite, too.
US. Hawaii. Europe. Japan. All friendly locations, long-term allies, politically stable. Between them you've got enough coverage for constant communications with everything in equatorial orbit, and most things in very inclined orbits too.
What alternatives? The eco-people are getting in the way of increasing domestic production (And sometimes even with good reason), and the conservatives are getting in the way of any attempts to reduce oil consumption because they oppose anything that involves government intervention.
How hard would it be to move the ISS? It's obviously not going to endure any great acceleration, but it needs to occasionally accelerate to adjust for atmospheric drag anyway. Just reangle those and nudge it a little each time. You wouldn't want to take it all the way equatorial, but enough to reduce the requirements from somewhere more southerly.
There is already a lot of commercial activity in space. But there's no money to be made beyond geostationary. Astroid mining won't be economical for a long time, if ever. Space stations are only good for scientific use, and that's mostly blue-skies research of no commercial value.
You're conflating media types.
I imagine your prediction would be true for movies. It costs millions to make a movie - even the cheap independent ones usually cost at least $100,000, absolute minimum. So no copyright may mean no movies, unless an alternative model is found (Kickstarter, maybe?). Music, on the other hand, would be barely affected at all: The production cost is well within the hobbyist range, and a lot of people make it for personal reasons or for the fame.
Magnet links.
Internet copyright infringement is a criminal activity in the US, at least. Has been since the NET act - it actually makes infringement for commercial purposes a criminal offense, but defines that in such a broad sense that torrenting is included. If you copy a work with an expectation of receiving more infringing works in return, that's considered commercial. I imagine some other countries have similar laws.
And rather awkwardly, the number of bits required to represent the address of a sequence is, on average, proportional to the length of a sequence. So no magic compression algorithm.
The boundry isn't entirely clear. Some people consider the drones as any aircraft that is operated remotely without line of sight - ie, has a camera on board providing real-time visual back to the operator.
What you need is something like the UK's IPCC - their job is to investigate complaints against the police. They have the powers to do so properly, and they are not themselves part of the police.
Whereas in the US, if you wish to make a complaint against your local police department, it will be investigated by... your local police department. If you wish to make a complaint about a specific officer, it'll likely be investigated by another officer in the same department and good friend of the accused. There's a conflict of interest that means police in the US have very little accountability. There's nothing much you can do. It doesn't help that the prosecution is a very political position, so even once the police themselves are done screwing you over the prosecutors are under heavy political pressure to play along and get a conviction quickly no matter what underhanded means are required to do so.
Their description of intent is vague, but I can imagine it being flown over cities with the TIR cameras running to look for very hot buildings - something police already do with helicopters, drones would just make it cheaper. A very hot building usually means someone is growing pot in there.
Usually, anyway. There have been a few incidents of people with things like tropical greenhouses getting their doors smashed down and a police squad running in with guns drawn. We had one in the UK where a family's heated guina-pig hut was mistaken for a pot factory - but this being the UK, the police issued a full apology for the mistake.
But not to near-infrared. Many 'night vision cameras' are actually NIR cameras with a lot of very bright NIR LEDs - they can be made more powerful for a given size than cost than visible-light LEDs. I don't know if the drones use NIR cameras, but if they don't there's no reason they couldn't.
That said, only copter-drones can hover outside a window, and their noise level isn't exactly stealthy.
Who signs up for something like that with their real email?
Old comics? You want DC++ for that - there are a few hubs that specialise in that sort of thing.
Investors love predictable price action, ideally upwards. With bitcoin, you may lose everything you invest, or may make a thousand percent in a month. It's all over the place. It seems to be slowly going down right now, but any news could cause that to change.
And what of those people born on the Febuary leap? They have to make do with celebrating on a nearby but incorrect date as a consolation birthday.
The Jesus date is somewhat vague. If he even existed at all. Accepting for the sake of argument that the biblical account of his birth is true (If not, the only reason to use him is tradition), we can be sure that he wasn't born at the start of 1CE - because Herod the Great, of baby-slaughtering fame, died in 4BCE.
There still are diffent start points. People talk about the financial year, and the school year, as these follow cycles offset from the regular year.
The conventional calender it stupid, but it is well-established stupid that everyone understands. Mostly. I don't think most people could tell you the rules for leap years in full.
Almost the entire world has now switched to metric. The US is the only holdout of any importance.
If we wait long enough, the earth will eventually tide-lock to the moon anyway. That'd help.
Risk. Bitcoin prices are highly volatile.
If it were that easy, someone would have done it.
Besides, the real money without detection would be to steal idle wallets. There's a huge amount tied up in people who dabbled a bit in the early days, mined a coin or two (back when you could do so easily) and then lost interest.
An effective police force that makes sure the biker dude knows in advance that if he uses violence then there is a significent chance he will face jail time.