Companies don't want to get dragged into free speech debates, but sometimes they have no choice.
Take the NFL, for example. Some years back they started injecting more patriotism into their games - anthem singing, flags everywhere. It was great, almost everyone loved it (America being a country where displays of patriotism are widely admired), and they even got some government grant money for it.
Then a few players decide they don't want to take part, as they no longer feel they admire the country to that extent. The NFL has two, and only two options: 1. Let the players sit it out. Incur the wrath of half the country for allowing this insult to said country. Be condemned as hating American hero soldiers. Anger politicians. 2. Force the players to take part anyway, under threat of suspension or expulsion. Incur the wrath of the other half of the country for forcing people to take part in a political statement against their will.
The FBI wouldn't be investigating a stolen phone anyway. Not in their jurisdiction, unless they have reason to believe the phone was stolen in connection with a crime across state lines or a matter of national security.
I've found a trick on those crime dramas for identifying the red herrings: If the main characters refrain from brutalising, threatening or intimidating the suspect, that means they are likely going to be found to be innocent later.
Very, very difficult in the US. The process takes years, and acceptance is unlikely even then. That's why there are illegal immigrants. Do you think they enjoy hiding from the law, trying to find a shady employer who will look the other way?
If the webserver is for your own personal use - which, if it's on a residential connection and without domain name, is likely true - then you may as well just use self-signed.
It's a poor measurement, but remains widely used because it's very easy to measure - you just need scales and a meter stick. Better ways of measuring fat exist, but require access to expensive and bulky equipment.
Yes, and the best way to bring down unwanted pregnancy rates is telling teenagers not to have sex.
It's very difficult to fight against an instinct ingrained by millions of years of natural selection. Some people can, many people will fail - and that it not because of a personal failing. It's because they are people. That is the nature of people.
If it were up to the patient to decide how far to go in saving their lives, you'd probably find a few of them attacking the next patient along with a scalpel to steal organs.
Resources are limited. People did not evolve to live to eighty years old - it takes a lot of very expensive medical care to maintain the lifespan expected today.
He was dying anyway. Nature sentenced the child to death. Or his own messed-up mitochondrial genetics.
The parents, understandably, were clutching at straws. The only doctor who would even propose a treatment was proposing a technique that had never been tested before, not even in animal models. Even if it had somehow worked perfectly, it wouldn't have been able to do a thing about the severe brain damage already incurred. It was a dead end - a one-in-a-thousand shot at what was, at best, a reduction in severity of the condition from 'dying' to 'vegetable.'
He is just one person. He might never have to see you again, but his boss's boss still has to coordinate the long-term physiotherapy and the follow-up examinations, and possible future surgeries.
We also have socialised medicine on the cheap - our per-capita spending is much smaller than any of the major continental European countries, which might explain why the NHS is constantly overwhelmed and struggling for resources.
Probably things more relatable, but... yes. Even in our hypothetical post-apocolyptic future, people are still people. They will seek to escape their miserable lives, as people have always done, with pointless distractions and fantasy. Remembered past, imagined future. Even before the industrial revolution, people found the time for an occasional party, cities had theatres, and people could earn a (disreputable) living as travelling entertainers - and a cinema is a lot cheaper to run than a theatre. Staff, one.
Puerto Rico is a US territory, but they don't get any representation in Congress or any vote in presidential elections. So they are politically a non-entity. Neither party has any reason to care about them in the slightest. If they don't like the party, they can't vote for the other one.
"In the post pocalyptic world cash and computers might actually be irrelevant. Knowledge will the most precious resource as all the vaules that contain it would possibly be lost."
The past offers a solution here: Libraries. Knowledge is valuable enough that any reasonably sized settlement after the collapse would certainly want a school and/or library, which would include a few laptops and solar panels to run them, and people searching through the ruins would have no problem finding vast numbers of hard drives. Not only good for education and practical instruction in things like engineering and medicine, but also good for entertainment. School hall by day, cinema by evening - and no copyright law, just every DVD the scavengers and traders can lay their hands on.
I wouldn't be so sure on the water. It's not difficult to make. Boil and filter is usually good enough in a crisis, and if you really need pure you can use the same home-made still for making moonshine.
You end up paying for them when they get cancer too. Either through your taxes, or through higher insurance premiums, depending how your country does it.
Or maybe the galaxy is full of civilisations who never manage to achieve interstellar travel (because it's really, really hard) and are all wondering why they can't detect anyone else.
Perhaps we should build a beacon - not for mankind, but for all the others, so that they might know they are not alone.
Plus once the replies come back we can start swapping cultural archives. Always good to have an off-site backup.
It'd have to be one hell of a beacon, though, to get picked up at such distance.
I deliberately phrased my descriptions from a European perspective to highlight how American politics as viewed by someone on the outside. A touch of hyperbole seemed appropriate.
In the US, the "radical left" means people who call for universal government-provided healthcare, a strictly progressive tax scheme in which those with the most income pay the highest proportion of it in taxes, and a well-funded system of universal education under direct government administration.
Here in Europe, we call those people 'centrists.'
In works the other way too: Those who are on the center-right in the US would be seen as a radical fringe in Europe. They support such ridiculous ideas as letting just about anyone legally buy and own a lethal weapon, and shutting down the public education system in favor of a system of privately-run schools that can teach any ridiculous nonsense without any form of oversight. That stuff might fly in America, but over here it sounds like insanity.
I'd like to use tape backups myself. The problem is drive cost - when you're backing up hundreds of terabytes, the drive cost is negligible on a per-terabyte basis. But when you're backing up something personal, like my own 20-odd terabytes,then an LTO5 drive will set you back at least a thousand pounds. A lot more than the cost of the media.
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Youtube is international. Gun videos might be seen a good fun in the US, but elsewhere in the country a love of guns is seen as suspicious.
Companies don't want to get dragged into free speech debates, but sometimes they have no choice.
Take the NFL, for example. Some years back they started injecting more patriotism into their games - anthem singing, flags everywhere. It was great, almost everyone loved it (America being a country where displays of patriotism are widely admired), and they even got some government grant money for it.
Then a few players decide they don't want to take part, as they no longer feel they admire the country to that extent. The NFL has two, and only two options:
1. Let the players sit it out. Incur the wrath of half the country for allowing this insult to said country. Be condemned as hating American hero soldiers. Anger politicians.
2. Force the players to take part anyway, under threat of suspension or expulsion. Incur the wrath of the other half of the country for forcing people to take part in a political statement against their will.
No matter what they do, they are screwed.
Not necessarily. He might be a genuine idealist, who truly believes in the infallibility of the market and that all government control is tyranny.
The FBI wouldn't be investigating a stolen phone anyway. Not in their jurisdiction, unless they have reason to believe the phone was stolen in connection with a crime across state lines or a matter of national security.
I've found a trick on those crime dramas for identifying the red herrings: If the main characters refrain from brutalising, threatening or intimidating the suspect, that means they are likely going to be found to be innocent later.
Very, very difficult in the US. The process takes years, and acceptance is unlikely even then. That's why there are illegal immigrants. Do you think they enjoy hiding from the law, trying to find a shady employer who will look the other way?
If the webserver is for your own personal use - which, if it's on a residential connection and without domain name, is likely true - then you may as well just use self-signed.
It's a poor measurement, but remains widely used because it's very easy to measure - you just need scales and a meter stick. Better ways of measuring fat exist, but require access to expensive and bulky equipment.
Yes, and the best way to bring down unwanted pregnancy rates is telling teenagers not to have sex.
It's very difficult to fight against an instinct ingrained by millions of years of natural selection. Some people can, many people will fail - and that it not because of a personal failing. It's because they are people. That is the nature of people.
They take an oath. It's been rewritten and altered so many times now that exactly which oath depends upon the medical school. Lots of variations.
If it were up to the patient to decide how far to go in saving their lives, you'd probably find a few of them attacking the next patient along with a scalpel to steal organs.
Resources are limited. People did not evolve to live to eighty years old - it takes a lot of very expensive medical care to maintain the lifespan expected today.
He was dying anyway. Nature sentenced the child to death. Or his own messed-up mitochondrial genetics.
The parents, understandably, were clutching at straws. The only doctor who would even propose a treatment was proposing a technique that had never been tested before, not even in animal models. Even if it had somehow worked perfectly, it wouldn't have been able to do a thing about the severe brain damage already incurred. It was a dead end - a one-in-a-thousand shot at what was, at best, a reduction in severity of the condition from 'dying' to 'vegetable.'
He is just one person. He might never have to see you again, but his boss's boss still has to coordinate the long-term physiotherapy and the follow-up examinations, and possible future surgeries.
We also have socialised medicine on the cheap - our per-capita spending is much smaller than any of the major continental European countries, which might explain why the NHS is constantly overwhelmed and struggling for resources.
Probably things more relatable, but... yes. Even in our hypothetical post-apocolyptic future, people are still people. They will seek to escape their miserable lives, as people have always done, with pointless distractions and fantasy. Remembered past, imagined future. Even before the industrial revolution, people found the time for an occasional party, cities had theatres, and people could earn a (disreputable) living as travelling entertainers - and a cinema is a lot cheaper to run than a theatre. Staff, one.
Puerto Rico is a US territory, but they don't get any representation in Congress or any vote in presidential elections. So they are politically a non-entity. Neither party has any reason to care about them in the slightest. If they don't like the party, they can't vote for the other one.
A few posts further turn you say that "those chinese merchants aren't going to pass up chance to collect money." So, yes, you're a racist.
"In the post pocalyptic world cash and computers might actually be irrelevant. Knowledge will the most precious resource as all the vaules that contain it would possibly be lost."
The past offers a solution here: Libraries. Knowledge is valuable enough that any reasonably sized settlement after the collapse would certainly want a school and/or library, which would include a few laptops and solar panels to run them, and people searching through the ruins would have no problem finding vast numbers of hard drives. Not only good for education and practical instruction in things like engineering and medicine, but also good for entertainment. School hall by day, cinema by evening - and no copyright law, just every DVD the scavengers and traders can lay their hands on.
I wouldn't be so sure on the water. It's not difficult to make. Boil and filter is usually good enough in a crisis, and if you really need pure you can use the same home-made still for making moonshine.
Well, one less reason to object then! Might even help fix the pension problem.
You end up paying for them when they get cancer too. Either through your taxes, or through higher insurance premiums, depending how your country does it.
Or maybe the galaxy is full of civilisations who never manage to achieve interstellar travel (because it's really, really hard) and are all wondering why they can't detect anyone else.
Perhaps we should build a beacon - not for mankind, but for all the others, so that they might know they are not alone.
Plus once the replies come back we can start swapping cultural archives. Always good to have an off-site backup.
It'd have to be one hell of a beacon, though, to get picked up at such distance.
I deliberately phrased my descriptions from a European perspective to highlight how American politics as viewed by someone on the outside. A touch of hyperbole seemed appropriate.
It's relative.
In the US, the "radical left" means people who call for universal government-provided healthcare, a strictly progressive tax scheme in which those with the most income pay the highest proportion of it in taxes, and a well-funded system of universal education under direct government administration.
Here in Europe, we call those people 'centrists.'
In works the other way too: Those who are on the center-right in the US would be seen as a radical fringe in Europe. They support such ridiculous ideas as letting just about anyone legally buy and own a lethal weapon, and shutting down the public education system in favor of a system of privately-run schools that can teach any ridiculous nonsense without any form of oversight. That stuff might fly in America, but over here it sounds like insanity.
That is a problem.
I'd like to use tape backups myself. The problem is drive cost - when you're backing up hundreds of terabytes, the drive cost is negligible on a per-terabyte basis. But when you're backing up something personal, like my own 20-odd terabytes,then an LTO5 drive will set you back at least a thousand pounds. A lot more than the cost of the media.