Well, hopefully they won't make the sentences consecutive. Otherwise I'd have been put away till about the time the sun starts to expand into a red giant...
Apparently Florida had a law against that (was mentioned in the article.) But it was overturned... it was "unconstitutional as applied to this 16-year-old as a basis for a delinquency proceeding." So (at least a few years ago) there's a few decent judges left in Florida, anyway....
So it's designed to hold all the samples at 0 C, thus preventing them from sprouting/molding/decaying.
But is it designed to be 0 degrees C inside with the current outside temperatures, or the outside temperatures possible in the worst-case global warming scenario of, say, a century from now? Like when we'd actually need it?
I'll be generous, and I'll suppose, for a minute, that your source is true.
Cause then we'd have nothing to worry about, right?
Unless you're talking about, oh, I dunno... temperature. Now, let's see... normal surface temperature is roughly 300 K, right? (Just picking a round number) So if we bump the average surface temperature up or down 9 K, it's not gonna make that big a difference, right? Well, I mean, except that's about the difference from the last ice age and now.
No, I'm not saying that a 3% increase in C02 is going to cause a 3% increase in maximum temperature, before you try to straw-man this. What I'm saying is that a 3% difference can be a big difference.
This isn't a piece of combat gear! It's a law enforcement tool.
If there's somebody shooting at you, you're not going to take the time to fingerprint them before shooting back. And if there's bystanders about, you're going to tell them to get out of the way, not try to fingerprint them.
For a radio, or a GPS, or a rifle, or any of a dozen other things, I can understand spending five times as much to get something 20% less likely to break - cause if one of those picks the wrong time to stop working, people are going to die quickly. But something designed for use in a law enforcement roll doesn't have to be that overengineered. When performing a law enforcement mission, your not going to be cut off from your base and getting blown up.
That doesn't explain why using electricity on shabbat is considered work but walking five miles because you aren't supposed to drive is NOT considered work. Fuck that.
Well, I can understand the not driving part - pretty much all the passages relating to the shabbat in the Talmud will tell you not to light a fire, which you're (indirectly) doing a few hundred times a second if you start a car. Sorta. But it sure is easier than walking all the way to temple...
So, you see, you don't even have to have translations to get away from the original meaning.
When geometers came up with curved ways to define straight lines, they called it "hyperbolic geometry" meaning approximately "unnecessary but still pretty cool geometry."
Not the adjective 'hyperbolic' as in 'exaggerated'. It's called 'hyperbolic' cause it's related to hyperbolas.
There's a world of difference between planning for the occasional fried circuit card and smoking large numbers of... cigarettes... every day for a 30-month trip. Not to mention, you'd have to carry quite a few more fritos onboard...
Very true. But I'm pretty sure there's plenty of people who's cry sexism from here to Jupiter if NASA suggested an all-male crew for that stated reason.
Damn, I forgot about that. I didn't, actually, but my wife did for about three weeks straight... that was what actually prompted me to get a second computer...
Is the 'mass appeal' of these games really such that we could see a casual developer rise to the prominence of an EA or a Blizzard?
If you mean 'prominence' as piles of fanboys, and long discussions on slashdot, then no, probably never. The very idea of casual game fanatics is oxymoronic...
but if by prominence you mean strictly sales, and number of people playing it... casual games, done right, could be much bigger than EA or Blizzard. It's a question of how big your market is.
True, but if you bring up skins, the first thought (most people in the US have) is probably American History X. Course, then you can go to the UK, and the first thought is football holligans.
Whether or not it is technologically feasible should not be the determining factor as to whether this legislation is enacted. If it is denied because it is technologically infeasible, they'll just dredge the legislation back up ten years from now when it is.
If everything my ISP is seeing out of my cable modem is a stream of encrypted bits going to other servers, the only way for them to really cover their ass is to store 100% of the packets. For eternity. (If I'm reading the bill correctly... IANAL, so I might be wrong.) Storage is cheap, true. And, yes, it keeps getting cheaper, and denser. But so does bandwidth. In the last month, I've seen about 5 gigabytes pass through my router. That's 60 GB a year.
For one person. And that's only the data coming in... supposing they have to save it all, they're looking at 120 GB for a year - per person.
Forever.
Course, your other point is valid too - common sense says we don't monitor people for no reason. And we don't require buisnesses to make audio & video recordings of everything that happens inside of them, 24/7, and keep them forever.
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Well, hopefully they won't make the sentences consecutive. Otherwise I'd have been put away till about the time the sun starts to expand into a red giant...
Hmm... but what if you decline to press charges against the offender?
Apparently Florida had a law against that (was mentioned in the article.) But it was overturned... it was "unconstitutional as applied to this 16-year-old as a basis for a delinquency proceeding." So (at least a few years ago) there's a few decent judges left in Florida, anyway....
So it's designed to hold all the samples at 0 C, thus preventing them from sprouting/molding/decaying.
But is it designed to be 0 degrees C inside with the current outside temperatures, or the outside temperatures possible in the worst-case global warming scenario of, say, a century from now? Like when we'd actually need it?
Well, okay, they were going there for a geologic exploration, and it was the south pole. But Mr. Lovecraft was pretty close...
And once the next ice age starts, I really hope somebody remembers where this damned thing is before the glaciers start rolling over it...
Cause then we'd have nothing to worry about, right?
Unless you're talking about, oh, I dunno... temperature. Now, let's see... normal surface temperature is roughly 300 K, right? (Just picking a round number) So if we bump the average surface temperature up or down 9 K, it's not gonna make that big a difference, right? Well, I mean, except that's about the difference from the last ice age and now.
No, I'm not saying that a 3% increase in C02 is going to cause a 3% increase in maximum temperature, before you try to straw-man this. What I'm saying is that a 3% difference can be a big difference.
If one of the things they're building this against is global warming, how are they planning to keep the seeds warm if... umm... it gets warmer?
at the darkness?
If there's somebody shooting at you, you're not going to take the time to fingerprint them before shooting back. And if there's bystanders about, you're going to tell them to get out of the way, not try to fingerprint them.
For a radio, or a GPS, or a rifle, or any of a dozen other things, I can understand spending five times as much to get something 20% less likely to break - cause if one of those picks the wrong time to stop working, people are going to die quickly. But something designed for use in a law enforcement roll doesn't have to be that overengineered. When performing a law enforcement mission, your not going to be cut off from your base and getting blown up.
So, you see, you don't even have to have translations to get away from the original meaning.
Not the adjective 'hyperbolic' as in 'exaggerated'. It's called 'hyperbolic' cause it's related to hyperbolas.
There's a world of difference between planning for the occasional fried circuit card and smoking large numbers of... cigarettes... every day for a 30-month trip. Not to mention, you'd have to carry quite a few more fritos onboard...
And that's why you have spares.
We'd be unevolved compared to eunuchs from the future, not devolved.
But imagine how much more complicated designing the ship would be if you had to include provisions for smoking...
And the US military is against both of those, anyway.
Very true. But I'm pretty sure there's plenty of people who's cry sexism from here to Jupiter if NASA suggested an all-male crew for that stated reason.
And a shitty game with great graphics... is still a shitty game. But sometimes it starts to look like a shitty movie.
Damn, I forgot about that. I didn't, actually, but my wife did for about three weeks straight... that was what actually prompted me to get a second computer...
but if by prominence you mean strictly sales, and number of people playing it... casual games, done right, could be much bigger than EA or Blizzard. It's a question of how big your market is.
True, but if you bring up skins, the first thought (most people in the US have) is probably American History X. Course, then you can go to the UK, and the first thought is football holligans.
Doesn't count, cause the original story contained the word "nazi" already. It's like trying to invoke Godwin's law in a discussion about skinheads.
According to the bill, as written? As long as the current Attorney General wants you to. There's no time limit in the bill at all.
If everything my ISP is seeing out of my cable modem is a stream of encrypted bits going to other servers, the only way for them to really cover their ass is to store 100% of the packets. For eternity. (If I'm reading the bill correctly... IANAL, so I might be wrong.) Storage is cheap, true. And, yes, it keeps getting cheaper, and denser. But so does bandwidth. In the last month, I've seen about 5 gigabytes pass through my router. That's 60 GB a year.
For one person. And that's only the data coming in... supposing they have to save it all, they're looking at 120 GB for a year - per person.
Forever.
Course, your other point is valid too - common sense says we don't monitor people for no reason. And we don't require buisnesses to make audio & video recordings of everything that happens inside of them, 24/7, and keep them forever.