Uhura being black during the civil rights movement is what everyone remembers, but how often did her gender come up in the context of her being a bridge officer
In the first pilot ("The Cage"), the first officer was played by Majel Barrett (before she became Nurse Chapel) as "Number One". The network made Gene get rid of her because they didn't think a woman as the second in command would fly. Let's not even talk about "Turnabout Intruder".
I might point out that he in fact hasn't ended the Korean war. No peace treaty has been signed yet. In fact, nothing except a few very vaguely worded statements have come out of this yet. Let's see if North Korea really will give up their nukes. I'm not holding my breath.
We have only the poster's word that there ever *was* a case. No references to any court documents or independent sources. Nothing to corroborate that any of this ever happened, let alone that the prosecution dropped a case.
Depends on your definition of "accident". The machine will do what you tell it to do; any malfunction serious enough that this is not the case will almost certainly be serious enough to disable it completely.
"I didnn't mean to have it do that." "Well, that's what you told it to do." Every software mishap in a nutshell.
While they're at it, can they patent a car that doesn't kill pedestrians?
You are talking about thousands of pounds of metal moving at scores of miles per hour. There is no way to prevent it from killing pedestrians if things go wrong (and there's no way to completely prevent things from going wrong).
In 5 minutes someone will top this of course with his punch-card machine
Started to do that before I read the rest of your post...(and yes, my first programming was on punch cards...can't really call it "my first computer", though, since individuals didn't really own those beasts. It was just what I did my first programming course on)
Yeah, it's great when you're not the one paying for it. The guys who do have to pay for it, though, may decide that it's better just to avoid the whole hassle and just throw it away.
There's plenty of people out there who'd say they'd take the risk for a lower price, but would then turn around and sue you if it turned out bad. They'd probably win, too, no matter what they signed; there are consumer rights you can't sign away. So Amazon can't resell this junk.
Transparent aluminum has been around for considerably before Star Trek IV. It's called "sapphire" (or "ruby" if it's red). Synthetic sapphire has been manufactured since 1902.
What is the "other side" to Copernicus' view that the Earth revolves around the Sun
It all depends on your frame of reference. You can pick a frame of reference where the earth is perfectly still. Granted, it's a non-inertial frame of reference which make celestial mechanics a bitch to deal with, but you can do it, and it will work.
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In the first pilot ("The Cage"), the first officer was played by Majel Barrett (before she became Nurse Chapel) as "Number One". The network made Gene get rid of her because they didn't think a woman as the second in command would fly. Let's not even talk about "Turnabout Intruder".
I don't think you can talk about how the U.S. is more polarized now than it used to be until we fight another civil war.
I might point out that he in fact hasn't ended the Korean war. No peace treaty has been signed yet. In fact, nothing except a few very vaguely worded statements have come out of this yet. Let's see if North Korea really will give up their nukes. I'm not holding my breath.
We have only the poster's word that there ever *was* a case. No references to any court documents or independent sources. Nothing to corroborate that any of this ever happened, let alone that the prosecution dropped a case.
Which we haven't seen, because he won't show us. Does it exist?
And yet you apparently have no difficulty believing some random yobbo on the internet when *he* has no corroborating evidence...
Depends on your definition of "accident". The machine will do what you tell it to do; any malfunction serious enough that this is not the case will almost certainly be serious enough to disable it completely.
"I didnn't mean to have it do that." "Well, that's what you told it to do." Every software mishap in a nutshell.
if somebody builds them.
And somebody will.
You won't be, after this week's episode of Soap!
You are talking about thousands of pounds of metal moving at scores of miles per hour. There is no way to prevent it from killing pedestrians if things go wrong (and there's no way to completely prevent things from going wrong).
"Only please always to call it 'research.'"
Marines have their own genes, and they're patented?
Started to do that before I read the rest of your post...(and yes, my first programming was on punch cards...can't really call it "my first computer", though, since individuals didn't really own those beasts. It was just what I did my first programming course on)
And get hit by an expose campaign about how they're inflicting dangerously defective goods on the poor and helpless. You can't win.
Yeah, it's great when you're not the one paying for it. The guys who do have to pay for it, though, may decide that it's better just to avoid the whole hassle and just throw it away.
Won't work. People can't sign away their consumer rights. If they get a bad product and sue, they'll win no matter what boxes they checked.
There's plenty of people out there who'd say they'd take the risk for a lower price, but would then turn around and sue you if it turned out bad. They'd probably win, too, no matter what they signed; there are consumer rights you can't sign away. So Amazon can't resell this junk.
And with Trump, you get the man who really has insight into that psychology.
Five words that tell you everything you need to know about Zuckerberg.
Transparent aluminum has been around for considerably before Star Trek IV. It's called "sapphire" (or "ruby" if it's red). Synthetic sapphire has been manufactured since 1902.
It all depends on your frame of reference. You can pick a frame of reference where the earth is perfectly still. Granted, it's a non-inertial frame of reference which make celestial mechanics a bitch to deal with, but you can do it, and it will work.
And now conversations of your DRM are not just on reddit, they're all over the net. Welcome to the Streisand effect, guys.
Be sure to enjoy it, because soon nothing else will.
Microsoft believes in, "It it ain't broke, how are we supposed to make money on support contracts?"
My favorite is still the infamous "Critical Update Notification Tool". Yes, they really released that.