I'd only argue that I would replace "pays taxes" with "citizenship". Lots of foreign visitors pay taxes of one sort or another, but its citizens who the cops are primarily in charge of protecting. Likewise, not all citizens can, do or are able to pay taxes but should still be able to hold the police accountable (eg. underage people, low income people, etc).
Note that the GPS tracker is installed on the car, not the cop. So all the cop would need to do is park somewhere (more) plausible and walk down the street. Which is probably a little more inconspicuous anyway to passerbys.
We had just started putting GPS on our delivery trucks about a year before I left my last job. The guys who did their route and got back to base in the expected amount of time were never checked unless a customer requested an ETA. However, we had a few guys who always seemed to take a lot longer, so we checked their GPS routes much more often and found stuff like two hour lunches, or going thirty miles out of their way to stop at home... stuff that really impacted our delivery schedules and the workload on their coworkers, not to mention limiting the total number of deliveries (which is to say, income) we could make from a single truck and driver.
tl;dr: Guys who delivered results were rarely monitored at all, and if they were, issues were usually ignored. Guys that didn't deliver good results could no longer give bullshit excuses and were dealt with appropriately.
Fun fact: Evidence suggests that life was around on Earth for some 200 million years before photosynthesis; Even after the evolution of photosynthesis, it would have likely taken millions more years for it to change the atmosphere in any way detectable to visitors... nevermind distant observers. Although its presence may be a telltale sign of life, the absence of it shouldn't be taken as evidence of no life.
There are those who believe...that life out there began here, far across the Solar System...with tribes of dinosaurs...who may have been the forefathers of the Europans...or the Callistians...or the Titans...
Some believe that there may yet be descendants of microbes...who even now fight to survive—somewhere beyond the heavens!
Or just buy a ceramic knife... will probably be more capable than a 3D printed knife. However, many ceramic knives have a metal rod embedded in them for either sturdiness or detectability, so you'd want to avoid those.
It always seemed to me that controlling the ammunition would be easier than controlling the weapon itself. Making a gun is relatively easy compared to making your own gunpowder, especially if you only need the gun to be able to fire a few shots, as is the case with the majority of guns made on the current stock low-end 3D printers that he's concerned about. I'm not in favor of controlling the distribution of gunpowder to the degree they try to control guns, but I do think it would make more sense from an enforcement and regulation perspective.
Considering 1/3 of an AU is only slightly closer than Mars' closest approach to Earth, and several million miles more than Venus' closest approach to Earth, I'd say it's close enough to 0 to be considered a rounding error.
"The prototype needs to be operated by a human but it's hoped that in the future a version can be developed that will be fully automated."
In other words, it's a robot prototype that's just missing a few features from the final build. It just happens to be one of the things that define "robot"
1.7% of the population is a much different figure than 1.7% of the working class. Granted, it's still probably only 3 or 4% of the working class but that's still almost 400,000 people.
Or they could just be expected to keep the animal on their own damned property... in most places, cats aren't allowed to roam unleashed off your property any more than dogs - it just isn't enforced as much because cats have less of a chance of causing bodily harm (in other words, they're really good at hiding the body).
A lot of the bloat in modern OSes comes from having to support a wide range of hardware - it's one of the reasons Linux can scale down to run on a tiny embedded system if you strip out that hardware support and other unneeded features (such as a fancy UI). You might even find that it doesn't scale well onto higher-end systems.
There's already a pretty big market of embedded devices running Linux or FreeDOS... and who's to say that another competitor couldn't offer yet another, better option?
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The cops will be happy to take your bet for donuts.
They're not sleeping, they're conducting tests on organic photon-blocking retinal shielding.
That was my first thought, but it's not entirely clear on whether they're doing this only for marked cars or if unmarked cars are also subject to it.
And if there's nothing better on TV, you should be able to watch the watchers.
I'd only argue that I would replace "pays taxes" with "citizenship". Lots of foreign visitors pay taxes of one sort or another, but its citizens who the cops are primarily in charge of protecting. Likewise, not all citizens can, do or are able to pay taxes but should still be able to hold the police accountable (eg. underage people, low income people, etc).
Note that the GPS tracker is installed on the car, not the cop. So all the cop would need to do is park somewhere (more) plausible and walk down the street. Which is probably a little more inconspicuous anyway to passerbys.
You mean beyond the GPS trackers that have already been found on civilian cars?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/gps-tracker-times-two/
Actually, it's " in a dark Alley". She's a black hooker. And his penis was doing to the talking. And the talking is... well, you get the picture.
We had just started putting GPS on our delivery trucks about a year before I left my last job. The guys who did their route and got back to base in the expected amount of time were never checked unless a customer requested an ETA. However, we had a few guys who always seemed to take a lot longer, so we checked their GPS routes much more often and found stuff like two hour lunches, or going thirty miles out of their way to stop at home... stuff that really impacted our delivery schedules and the workload on their coworkers, not to mention limiting the total number of deliveries (which is to say, income) we could make from a single truck and driver.
tl;dr: Guys who delivered results were rarely monitored at all, and if they were, issues were usually ignored. Guys that didn't deliver good results could no longer give bullshit excuses and were dealt with appropriately.
Baby steps. Let's give it a few million miles before we start looking at light years and surviving interstellar space.
So what you're saying is that, should religion pan out, it's the ultimate example of the Dunning–Kruger effect?
Fun fact: Evidence suggests that life was around on Earth for some 200 million years before photosynthesis; Even after the evolution of photosynthesis, it would have likely taken millions more years for it to change the atmosphere in any way detectable to visitors... nevermind distant observers. Although its presence may be a telltale sign of life, the absence of it shouldn't be taken as evidence of no life.
There are those who believe...that life out there began here, far across the Solar System...with tribes of dinosaurs...who may have been the forefathers of the Europans...or the Callistians...or the Titans...
Some believe that there may yet be descendants of microbes...who even now fight to survive—somewhere beyond the heavens!
Or just buy a ceramic knife... will probably be more capable than a 3D printed knife. However, many ceramic knives have a metal rod embedded in them for either sturdiness or detectability, so you'd want to avoid those.
It always seemed to me that controlling the ammunition would be easier than controlling the weapon itself. Making a gun is relatively easy compared to making your own gunpowder, especially if you only need the gun to be able to fire a few shots, as is the case with the majority of guns made on the current stock low-end 3D printers that he's concerned about. I'm not in favor of controlling the distribution of gunpowder to the degree they try to control guns, but I do think it would make more sense from an enforcement and regulation perspective.
Considering 1/3 of an AU is only slightly closer than Mars' closest approach to Earth, and several million miles more than Venus' closest approach to Earth, I'd say it's close enough to 0 to be considered a rounding error.
"The prototype needs to be operated by a human but it's hoped that in the future a version can be developed that will be fully automated."
In other words, it's a robot prototype that's just missing a few features from the final build. It just happens to be one of the things that define "robot"
1.7% of the population is a much different figure than 1.7% of the working class. Granted, it's still probably only 3 or 4% of the working class but that's still almost 400,000 people.
Or they could just be expected to keep the animal on their own damned property... in most places, cats aren't allowed to roam unleashed off your property any more than dogs - it just isn't enforced as much because cats have less of a chance of causing bodily harm (in other words, they're really good at hiding the body).
As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle sun!
*Cue coronal mass ejection*
I own the sun. Go ahead, just try landing there, my defenses will obliterate you!
I never said it wasn't an OS, I was just pointing out one of the things that would make this more of an accomplishment.
A lot of the bloat in modern OSes comes from having to support a wide range of hardware - it's one of the reasons Linux can scale down to run on a tiny embedded system if you strip out that hardware support and other unneeded features (such as a fancy UI). You might even find that it doesn't scale well onto higher-end systems.
But did it support USB, TV tuners, and webcams?
There's already a pretty big market of embedded devices running Linux or FreeDOS... and who's to say that another competitor couldn't offer yet another, better option?