I thought this was done in the 90's by NatWest but ended up being bought up and turned into loyalty card systems, rather than kept as cash that people could actually use to buy useful things.
Flying drones and driving round in humvees doesn't take a huge amount of muscle. Plus, use your favourite search engine to find 'Olympic athlete vegetarians'. There are world champions in fields as diverse as cycling, sprinting, marathon, tennis and wrestling. Your friends probably just care enough about becoming muscle bound.
Livestock are fed crops that are grown using fertilisers that are made from oil. The fertiliser needs to be extracted, processed and transported. Livestock need large amounts of land to grow the crops they eat, and this is a large part of why the rainforests and wetlands around the globe are being destroyed contributing further to increased CO2 and methane emissions, and reducing carbon capture in soils. When the livestock eat the crops they turn a large proportion into methane which is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2. It is an order of magnitude more efficient just to grow crops and feed them to people instead of wasting 90% by passing it through animals first.
Nu-oh. You fail evolution. When a new controller comes along the old controller is likely to be killed, hence not passing on any more genes, and it is quite possible that their children will be killed too. The controlled are more likely to be taken over and controlled by the new controller, hence continuing to pass on their genes. Being controlled is probably a better strategy but it does depend on the balance between the ratio of numbers of controllers and controlled, and the frequency of takeovers.
This. If you access someone else's computer system outside of the allowed terms and conditions it sounds very much like it might come under the Computer Misuse Act in the UK, I guess other jurisdictions have similar laws preventing unauthorised access to computerised information systems.
Interesting opinions there. I'd be more interested if you came back with actual stats of the execution time of the two pieces of code supplied above, against a large text data set.
You have to ask yourself though, is it better to have a nicer looking code or faster execution for a one line regex parser? Perl will always win the performance comparison by a large margin, even if the syntax offends your sense of aesthetics.
Why would you use something other than perl for parsing text? This is what perl was designed for and it's most likely faster than anything else scripted. I'm sure you could write a text parser in any language you happen to like, but if you have the skills then perl is the correct tool for this job.
There were credible reports in 2006 that the FBI were using people's phone mics as audio bugs, and that this worked even when the phone was off,. I think you can draw your own conclusions about whether phones have become more or less susceptible to law enforcement interference in the intervening years. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html
Reference from the wikipedia article on Mobile Phone Tracking (check the original source if you can be arsed and let us know if sounds true):
Declan McCullagh; Anne Broache (December 1, 2006). "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool". Cnet. Retrieved June 24, 2010. "Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set."
This. When someone initiates a conversation it is for a reason. If the content seems needless then what is occurring is a needful sense of being in communication with another human. Most of our species find this a necessity, so learn to talk nonesense about youor personal life and listen to other people talk about theirs. It turns out this is a useful way to spend time.
The principle I see in action here is that if you break every task down into easy-to-implement components that do one simple thing well, then you can have three young coders build each component for you and each will probably work well. If you try to build a system which is more complex than that, the effort grows something like exponentially with the complexity, and the likelihood of early success shrinks correspondingly. If only we could get by with simple things and not bother with complex integrated online services.
There isn't a worry here about salination of the soil because the salts end up in the evaporation columns. I saw a lo-tech version of this described a couple of years ago at the UK Plant Sci conference, and this project sounds like an outgrowth from that - they also described the effect on the land outside the greenhouse, with spontaneous growth of native desert flora due to the increased external humidity. The experimenters used a greenhouse with a cardboard wall on the upwind side - the sea water soaks up the wall and is evaporated into the greenhouse by the wind, leaving the salts in the cardboard. After a few years the cardboard wall is a very rigid mineral-rich material that you can use for building structures like sheds.
Citation needed. You see there is this thing called investment, which may or may not have a return, but investors (such as governments) usually invest in things they expect to have a positive return. Some corporations do it as well, it's just that their shareholders don't always like them making investments with long-term payoffs. I don't think this is a new thing for Germany, and I see no evidence of them failing economically in the past, or now. They had a brief period in the 30s when their economy went tits up due to being forced to pay war reparations to all their neighbours, but since the 1940s they have been net positive contributors to the Soviet economy and now the European economy since reunification. Your comment sounds like mostly uninformed prejudice.
Scuffles with police when Anonymous set fire to their electricity bills outside Buckingham Palace as a symbolic act of protest against the price of staying warm in winter. (source BBC news).
I agree, in a way I would have been more impressed if they had shown that these particular neurons are differentially stimulated by pictures of snakes and other snake-like objects. Darwin's ideas about many traits being sex-related may be relevant here - how about seeing whether these neurons can differentiate between pictures of snakes and cocks?
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I thought this was done in the 90's by NatWest but ended up being bought up and turned into loyalty card systems, rather than kept as cash that people could actually use to buy useful things.
In England the government has said that a 5p charge will come in 2015 AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION. Too early to count chickens.
But I thought SQL wasn't webscale wtf?
Flying drones and driving round in humvees doesn't take a huge amount of muscle. Plus, use your favourite search engine to find 'Olympic athlete vegetarians'. There are world champions in fields as diverse as cycling, sprinting, marathon, tennis and wrestling. Your friends probably just care enough about becoming muscle bound.
Livestock are fed crops that are grown using fertilisers that are made from oil. The fertiliser needs to be extracted, processed and transported. Livestock need large amounts of land to grow the crops they eat, and this is a large part of why the rainforests and wetlands around the globe are being destroyed contributing further to increased CO2 and methane emissions, and reducing carbon capture in soils. When the livestock eat the crops they turn a large proportion into methane which is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2. It is an order of magnitude more efficient just to grow crops and feed them to people instead of wasting 90% by passing it through animals first.
Nu-oh. You fail evolution. When a new controller comes along the old controller is likely to be killed, hence not passing on any more genes, and it is quite possible that their children will be killed too. The controlled are more likely to be taken over and controlled by the new controller, hence continuing to pass on their genes. Being controlled is probably a better strategy but it does depend on the balance between the ratio of numbers of controllers and controlled, and the frequency of takeovers.
This. If you access someone else's computer system outside of the allowed terms and conditions it sounds very much like it might come under the Computer Misuse Act in the UK, I guess other jurisdictions have similar laws preventing unauthorised access to computerised information systems.
Interesting opinions there. I'd be more interested if you came back with actual stats of the execution time of the two pieces of code supplied above, against a large text data set.
You have to ask yourself though, is it better to have a nicer looking code or faster execution for a one line regex parser? Perl will always win the performance comparison by a large margin, even if the syntax offends your sense of aesthetics.
Why would you use something other than perl for parsing text? This is what perl was designed for and it's most likely faster than anything else scripted. I'm sure you could write a text parser in any language you happen to like, but if you have the skills then perl is the correct tool for this job.
There were credible reports in 2006 that the FBI were using people's phone mics as audio bugs, and that this worked even when the phone was off,. I think you can draw your own conclusions about whether phones have become more or less susceptible to law enforcement interference in the intervening years. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html
Reference from the wikipedia article on Mobile Phone Tracking (check the original source if you can be arsed and let us know if sounds true): Declan McCullagh; Anne Broache (December 1, 2006). "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool". Cnet. Retrieved June 24, 2010. "Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set."
I'm guessing the solution will involve Bruce Willis and a spaceship full of nukes flying to the sun to save us all
This. When someone initiates a conversation it is for a reason. If the content seems needless then what is occurring is a needful sense of being in communication with another human. Most of our species find this a necessity, so learn to talk nonesense about youor personal life and listen to other people talk about theirs. It turns out this is a useful way to spend time.
The principle I see in action here is that if you break every task down into easy-to-implement components that do one simple thing well, then you can have three young coders build each component for you and each will probably work well. If you try to build a system which is more complex than that, the effort grows something like exponentially with the complexity, and the likelihood of early success shrinks correspondingly. If only we could get by with simple things and not bother with complex integrated online services.
There isn't a worry here about salination of the soil because the salts end up in the evaporation columns. I saw a lo-tech version of this described a couple of years ago at the UK Plant Sci conference, and this project sounds like an outgrowth from that - they also described the effect on the land outside the greenhouse, with spontaneous growth of native desert flora due to the increased external humidity. The experimenters used a greenhouse with a cardboard wall on the upwind side - the sea water soaks up the wall and is evaporated into the greenhouse by the wind, leaving the salts in the cardboard. After a few years the cardboard wall is a very rigid mineral-rich material that you can use for building structures like sheds.
You may be wrong, it may be the case that incarceration increases the likelihood of reoffending.
Citation needed. You see there is this thing called investment, which may or may not have a return, but investors (such as governments) usually invest in things they expect to have a positive return. Some corporations do it as well, it's just that their shareholders don't always like them making investments with long-term payoffs. I don't think this is a new thing for Germany, and I see no evidence of them failing economically in the past, or now. They had a brief period in the 30s when their economy went tits up due to being forced to pay war reparations to all their neighbours, but since the 1940s they have been net positive contributors to the Soviet economy and now the European economy since reunification. Your comment sounds like mostly uninformed prejudice.
Scuffles with police when Anonymous set fire to their electricity bills outside Buckingham Palace as a symbolic act of protest against the price of staying warm in winter. (source BBC news).
I wonder whether it would be as simple as coating the missile with bicycle reflectors or cats eyes from the road
I agree, in a way I would have been more impressed if they had shown that these particular neurons are differentially stimulated by pictures of snakes and other snake-like objects. Darwin's ideas about many traits being sex-related may be relevant here - how about seeing whether these neurons can differentiate between pictures of snakes and cocks?
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