Solar panels are an environmental issue. Environmental issues are a liberal cause. Liberals are America-hating godless commies. Therefore solar panels are evil and must be fought.
The political types of the internet disagree. The common view there is that absolutely everything should be encrypted - because it you only encrypt what you want kept secret, it stands out like a blinking neon 'something dodgy going on here' sign. The overhead of encryption is very slight with modern hardware, and getting more so all the time.
"Lunar mining, refining and smelting to help create a sustainable industry off earth."
The most expensive construction ever built off-earth to create a product for which no customers exist. You'll need more than a billion to launch an entire space industry.
If they really need something that can't be easily identified as fake, I'm sure they can use markov chains are an important part of any consideration when the weather has started to darken.
Color copiers and laser printers embed a steganographic code into every printed page too - if you know how to read the pattern of very pale yellow dots, you can determine the printer's serial number. It's an anti-counterfeiting measure. Inkjets usually don't do it because no-one is going to mistake inkjet-printed currency for the real thing.
This is a government policy, remember. From the organisation that brought you the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act."
I suggest "Secure Homeland Intel Transferal holes." Or possibly "Freedom holes."
Even those-formerly-known-as-progressive are abandoning the term now, seeing it has become associated with super-feminists and social justice activists who have no respect for free speech and a tendency towards extremism.
The republican position says that small government is the American ideal - except with regard to abortion, prostitution, pornography, government-sponsored events to tell citizens who, how and when they should be worshiping, gambling, and a ton of others. They used to push hard for action at the federal level to prevent states from recognising gay marriage - until the supreme court ruling on the issue, at which point they declared that marriage was a state matter and the federal government was overstepping its bounds by regulating that.
The real republican position is almost identical to the democrat position: Politics is expensive. Appeal to voters where possible, but exercise caution not to upset the wealthy and corporate donors that provide the money for political campaigning.
Intel CPU designs go to great lengths to look very much like earlier Intel CPUs - even if the internals are very different, they are still backwards-compatable with earlier code dating right back to the 80386.
I do wonder what they could achieve if they were to abandon backwards compatibility and just ask people recompile their old code. Probably lots of ARM sales.
If I were an evil bioterrorist with mediocre laboratory skills, I'd just start with a really nasty but readily-available bacterium, something already proven highly fit - TB would be good. Then it's a simple matter of slowly increasing the concentrations of every antibiotic I can get my hands on, ideally while incubating in human hosts - plenty of places where it's endemic anyway. It'd be slow, but it should work - and at the end I get Omni-Resistant TB - highly contagious, long incubation time so it won't be noticed until too late, difficult to distinguish clinically from regular TB, and impossible to treat. One of the ancient plagues returns even to the medically advanced parts of the world.
There are a few hobbies that have fun into similar things. Orchid growers hit similar problems - the equipment needed for indoor cultivation of tropical plants is exactly the same as that needed for an indoor pot-farm. Growers know this. Police know this. So they will monitor purchases from stores that supply said equipment, and treat any domestic address as suspicious - if you buy some forced-ventilation, grow-light and hydroponics gear for your tropical plants, there's a significant chance that the SWAT team are going to smash your door down and hold you and your family on the floor at gunpoint as they tear your home apart in search of drugs.
The first amendment has many clauses within. A lot of those pro-second people are strictly opposed to the establishment clause - they believe that it is the duty of government to promote Christianity above all other religions, always has been, and they won't let the dirty liberals insult good Americans by trying to force Christ out of government policy.
Ammunition arbitrage. If scalpers can turn a profit in that manner, then the ammunition is under-priced compared to what the market will bear.
It's not possible to drive up demand artificially to raise prices in the long term. It can work briefly, but it requires buying a lot more bullets than you can hope to sell at your higher price, and soon the ammo stores realise that they are constantly sold out and either start to stock more or charge more, either of which means the scalper needs to spend ever-increasing amounts of money to keep them sold out. In the end the scalper will either quit while they are ahead, or carry on too long and find themselves with a warehouse full of ammo crates they have to sell at a loss.
The first sale doctrine applies to copyright law - and it does indeed mean that a ticket, as a physical object, can be resold. But that doesn't mean it must continue to be a valid ticket: If the ticket is resold then the venue operator is free to consider it invalidated and deny entry. With paper tickets it is just difficult for them to establish at the time if it has been re-sold.
All this could be effectively solved were the physical paper tokens simply replaced with, say, a phone app that tracks tickets and authenticates them cryptographically. It's also mean no more counterfeit tickets.
The asteroid thing is about density. The 'belt' is really not dense. At all. Deep space probes routinely fly straight through, hitting something is not a big concern. The only way you're getting hit by an asteroid is if you aim for it. Yet ships dodging through an asteroid belt or hiding within one is a very common cliche in sci-fi - including the venerated Star Wars. If the rocks were that close together, they'd have long ago coalesced under gravity into a planet.
Overused, but it serves a purpose. One thing that science fiction can do very well (or very not-well) is allegory. Take a real-world issue and project it into a fantastic setting so that it can be looked upon in a new way - the heavily class-divided society of the story may be a cliche, but if done well then the audience will look upon it and see the ways in which it reflects our own.
Done poorly though it just comes across as ham-fisted and preachy.
Exception: Babylon Five. There are sound effects in space combat - and it's stated in one episode that the fighter ship computers generate those noises because an artificial soundscape is an effective way to maintain all-round situational awareness for the pilot in a high-paced combat situation. The laser shooting past your wing doesn't make any noise, but the computer still makes sure you hear a 'laser pew' and can take evasive action.
You don't need math to understand the problem with Gravity - you just need a Kerbal Space Program player in the room, who will inform you most loudly every time something ridiculous is achieved.
One common element I've seen is that the newly settled worlds are an expanding frontier of plentiful resources where most people live in luxury - but Earth itsself has become an overpopulated resource-deprived pollution-stricken hell. Mined-out and over-exploited.
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GMO foods, vaccine conspiracies, the abortion/breast-cancer link... some myths persist because they reenforce the way people see the world.
Politics.
Solar panels are an environmental issue.
Environmental issues are a liberal cause.
Liberals are America-hating godless commies.
Therefore solar panels are evil and must be fought.
"And exactly who are you to judge what we like to do here in the US?"
A resident of a country that hasn't seen a school shooting since 1996.
It's not really charity. It's more a bribe.
The political types of the internet disagree. The common view there is that absolutely everything should be encrypted - because it you only encrypt what you want kept secret, it stands out like a blinking neon 'something dodgy going on here' sign. The overhead of encryption is very slight with modern hardware, and getting more so all the time.
"Lunar mining, refining and smelting to help create a sustainable industry off earth."
The most expensive construction ever built off-earth to create a product for which no customers exist. You'll need more than a billion to launch an entire space industry.
If they really need something that can't be easily identified as fake, I'm sure they can use markov chains are an important part of any consideration when the weather has started to darken.
Color copiers and laser printers embed a steganographic code into every printed page too - if you know how to read the pattern of very pale yellow dots, you can determine the printer's serial number. It's an anti-counterfeiting measure. Inkjets usually don't do it because no-one is going to mistake inkjet-printed currency for the real thing.
This is a government policy, remember. From the organisation that brought you the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act."
I suggest "Secure Homeland Intel Transferal holes."
Or possibly "Freedom holes."
Even those-formerly-known-as-progressive are abandoning the term now, seeing it has become associated with super-feminists and social justice activists who have no respect for free speech and a tendency towards extremism.
The republican position says that small government is the American ideal - except with regard to abortion, prostitution, pornography, government-sponsored events to tell citizens who, how and when they should be worshiping, gambling, and a ton of others. They used to push hard for action at the federal level to prevent states from recognising gay marriage - until the supreme court ruling on the issue, at which point they declared that marriage was a state matter and the federal government was overstepping its bounds by regulating that.
The real republican position is almost identical to the democrat position: Politics is expensive. Appeal to voters where possible, but exercise caution not to upset the wealthy and corporate donors that provide the money for political campaigning.
Intel CPU designs go to great lengths to look very much like earlier Intel CPUs - even if the internals are very different, they are still backwards-compatable with earlier code dating right back to the 80386.
I do wonder what they could achieve if they were to abandon backwards compatibility and just ask people recompile their old code. Probably lots of ARM sales.
If I were an evil bioterrorist with mediocre laboratory skills, I'd just start with a really nasty but readily-available bacterium, something already proven highly fit - TB would be good. Then it's a simple matter of slowly increasing the concentrations of every antibiotic I can get my hands on, ideally while incubating in human hosts - plenty of places where it's endemic anyway. It'd be slow, but it should work - and at the end I get Omni-Resistant TB - highly contagious, long incubation time so it won't be noticed until too late, difficult to distinguish clinically from regular TB, and impossible to treat. One of the ancient plagues returns even to the medically advanced parts of the world.
There are a few hobbies that have fun into similar things. Orchid growers hit similar problems - the equipment needed for indoor cultivation of tropical plants is exactly the same as that needed for an indoor pot-farm. Growers know this. Police know this. So they will monitor purchases from stores that supply said equipment, and treat any domestic address as suspicious - if you buy some forced-ventilation, grow-light and hydroponics gear for your tropical plants, there's a significant chance that the SWAT team are going to smash your door down and hold you and your family on the floor at gunpoint as they tear your home apart in search of drugs.
The first amendment has many clauses within. A lot of those pro-second people are strictly opposed to the establishment clause - they believe that it is the duty of government to promote Christianity above all other religions, always has been, and they won't let the dirty liberals insult good Americans by trying to force Christ out of government policy.
It'll certainly bring the class back into insults.
Ammunition arbitrage. If scalpers can turn a profit in that manner, then the ammunition is under-priced compared to what the market will bear.
It's not possible to drive up demand artificially to raise prices in the long term. It can work briefly, but it requires buying a lot more bullets than you can hope to sell at your higher price, and soon the ammo stores realise that they are constantly sold out and either start to stock more or charge more, either of which means the scalper needs to spend ever-increasing amounts of money to keep them sold out. In the end the scalper will either quit while they are ahead, or carry on too long and find themselves with a warehouse full of ammo crates they have to sell at a loss.
The first sale doctrine applies to copyright law - and it does indeed mean that a ticket, as a physical object, can be resold. But that doesn't mean it must continue to be a valid ticket: If the ticket is resold then the venue operator is free to consider it invalidated and deny entry. With paper tickets it is just difficult for them to establish at the time if it has been re-sold.
All this could be effectively solved were the physical paper tokens simply replaced with, say, a phone app that tracks tickets and authenticates them cryptographically. It's also mean no more counterfeit tickets.
In any other market, the practice of scalping is known as "arbitrage" and is generally regarded as a good thing.
The asteroid thing is about density. The 'belt' is really not dense. At all. Deep space probes routinely fly straight through, hitting something is not a big concern. The only way you're getting hit by an asteroid is if you aim for it. Yet ships dodging through an asteroid belt or hiding within one is a very common cliche in sci-fi - including the venerated Star Wars. If the rocks were that close together, they'd have long ago coalesced under gravity into a planet.
OT God was a pretty nasty piece of work.
Overused, but it serves a purpose. One thing that science fiction can do very well (or very not-well) is allegory. Take a real-world issue and project it into a fantastic setting so that it can be looked upon in a new way - the heavily class-divided society of the story may be a cliche, but if done well then the audience will look upon it and see the ways in which it reflects our own.
Done poorly though it just comes across as ham-fisted and preachy.
Exception: Babylon Five. There are sound effects in space combat - and it's stated in one episode that the fighter ship computers generate those noises because an artificial soundscape is an effective way to maintain all-round situational awareness for the pilot in a high-paced combat situation. The laser shooting past your wing doesn't make any noise, but the computer still makes sure you hear a 'laser pew' and can take evasive action.
You don't need math to understand the problem with Gravity - you just need a Kerbal Space Program player in the room, who will inform you most loudly every time something ridiculous is achieved.
One common element I've seen is that the newly settled worlds are an expanding frontier of plentiful resources where most people live in luxury - but Earth itsself has become an overpopulated resource-deprived pollution-stricken hell. Mined-out and over-exploited.