I buy the sentiment of your title in that there is little difference in the ethics of the two methods for territorial expansion.
Practically speaking, empire building has been accomplished historically by annexation via invasion... or the threat thereof. This has been a generally accepted method of increasing one's sovereign soil.
The concept that a nation can float a semi-permanent habitat into international waters and call it their territorial waters, well, it's more than a little self serving and short-sighted. What happens when every other country gets on to their crafty scheme?
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Floating cities: so that's what Buckminster Fuller had in mind with the proposed airborne habitats: trying to corner the market on international air rights.
China's also been prominently reported as a proponent of developing cities that float on dihydrogen monoxide.
Those crafty bastards! Trying to expand the empire by loophole, rather than sword.
You're right, but that applies once you get an expensive lawyer, only.
One of the great strengths of a populace gifted with civil rights is an abiding belief that those rights belong to them. No law or condition of government can abridge an ingrained belief in individual rights.
Would I rather be a wealthy defendant than a poor one? A no-brainer, sure, but when you no longer believe that basic rights are afforded to you, you have already lost.
Easy to discount on its face, but a Cyborcat could bring all the purring, mouse-killing, internet meme fun to your home without the burden of a litterbox.
I am inclined to agree with your general sentiment, but it's accurate to say some of the apps are predatory and targeted at those too young to make informed decisions.
$19 million to Google.... simply good PR at a bargain.
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Practically speaking, empire building has been accomplished historically by annexation via invasion... or the threat thereof. This has been a generally accepted method of increasing one's sovereign soil.
The concept that a nation can float a semi-permanent habitat into international waters and call it their territorial waters, well, it's more than a little self serving and short-sighted. What happens when every other country gets on to their crafty scheme?
China's also been prominently reported as a proponent of developing cities that float on dihydrogen monoxide.
Those crafty bastards! Trying to expand the empire by loophole, rather than sword.
That a citizen believes he can openly criticize his government without peril means, at the very least, that public perception of China is improving.
Not to force a Snowden parallel, but he believed something like this once.
It seems all the new models have some bugs to work out.
What segment of the population do you imagine investigates cures for things like this?
Nerds and geeks, boy, nerds and geeks.
Since we were watching for a meteor flyby, the explosion and crater are difficult to imagine as merely coincidence.
Your American is showing, eh?
Are the powers that be embroiled in seemingly constant effort to reverse those personal freedoms given to the citizens? Sure.
However, a voting populace that expects better treatment generally gets it.
All your cells replace themselves every seven to ten years, it is said, so we are the Ship.
Dr Barnard, I presume.
You're right, but that applies once you get an expensive lawyer, only.
One of the great strengths of a populace gifted with civil rights is an abiding belief that those rights belong to them. No law or condition of government can abridge an ingrained belief in individual rights.
Would I rather be a wealthy defendant than a poor one? A no-brainer, sure, but when you no longer believe that basic rights are afforded to you, you have already lost.
If you're doing the math, that's 1750 in dog feet.
Jackpot.
No. They should set their bar a bit higher than that.
Sigh. Yes. This parenting thing is rife with sacrifice. If you do it properly.
With regards to THC, I believe the acronym GMO mostly still means grow my own.
$19 million to Google.... simply good PR at a bargain.
Sounds like a tiny bit of advertising budget is being deployed here.
I will have to claim prior art. My family has been manufacturing methane the same way for generations.
Stupid customer said what?
Sure, it's biting the hand that feeds you, but the us versus them theme is practically genetic.
Especially if the game can touch back.
You couldn't get away with a secret launch, but the research could continue undetected.
Sometimes it helps to look at things the other way around.
If Florida seceded from the American union, would the Russians give two kopecks?
The real downside for Verizon will be the outrage that drives thousands of their customers to... another evil carrier.
Sigh! Never mind.
Circular logic then suggests we are but the spawn of incestuous breeding.