(someone would have to come to your door to thieve things instead of walk past it on the street)
wouldn't going up to the door actually provide extra cover for the theif? a mailbox by the road is typically in plain view of everyone, but putting it by the door to your house, the house itself provides quite a bit of cover from neighbors and sometimes even the road. because you have additional cover it is easier to walk up to the mailbox by the door without being seen. if you are overly paranoid and think someone in the house saw you, you can build yourself a potential way out by knocking on the door and if someone answers saying something like "is this the Anderson residence? No? Do you know where the Andersons live?"
Let each person be a CA [wikipedia.org]. If I know you, I can sign your certificate myself. Anybody who knows me and trusts me would then trust you. Again, compromises are fixed by revocation and expiration, but the impact is somewhat less severe.
then you get something like the ebay problem where every review is AAAAAAA++++++++++++!!!!!!1!!!!one!!eleven!! and are useless
just because i trust my friend doesn't mean i always trust him to show good judgement...how do i know he was of sound mind when he signed the cert for that tattoo parlor and came back with the pink bunny tattoo on his forehead?
It is even worse than that. Even if you are a rover on an entirely different planet all your actions are controlled by NASA (they are sort of like the NSA just with an extra 'A' right?)
Eminent domain doesn't make things free. they still have to pay market rates for your property which can still be quite expensive, however likely less than what the current property owner would want to be evicted from their property.
property rights in many places extend underground and would still require a lot of above ground infrastructure and access ways for maintenance purposes.
carving it in stone may be quite durable but it has very poor data density. what did we really learn from them other than some of their legends and history? it doesn't even tell us a whole lot about their construction techniques, at least not enough to be useful to replicate any of them, and even with our current technology we don't quite know how they could place some of their blocks with such precision. so we could potentially have stuff we could still learn from them even with our current technology.
step 1) create storage platters that can last a million years. step 2) label platters "these are NOT frisbees" step 3) create readers, for those platters, that can last a million years.
Low tech storage like books are nice for passing knowledge, but they just don't have very good storage density. and they still have a relatively short lifespan (measured in hundreds of years?) compared to this.
I still don't understand why she didn't think to bring it in to the office.
That is quite obvious really...she wanted it to work from home not in the office. yeah i know that is just silly, but in "user think" it makes perfect sense.
your mistake was not asking her if it was a laptop to begin with.
not only that but a couple companies (eTrade, Ameritrade, and some others) released an MMO a while ago where you can play this game entirely online and you no longer need to worry about papercuts from looking at paperwork.
seriously trading stock is now just as virtual as bitcoin or selling gold in WoW
but the shareholders are the parasites. the shareholders want to bleed the company dry of every ounce of profit for their own gain. the longer they hold the shares the more profit they expect and demand to bleed from the company. most even long term holders don't buy the shares because they care about the company, they buy them because they want to make money...same reason as the HFT's only on a different timescale.
the company on the other hand really doesn't care if the shareholders are long term. if the HFT's are willing to buy up any new shares that they issue then the company would be more than happy to sell it to them. the company honestly doesn't care who buys the shares (long term holders, day traders, or HFTs) as long as someone buys them.
sure it might be hard to get more raw destructive power than a nuke, but if the aliens are advanced enough they could probably easily shoot our nukes out of the sky before they get within range and so have nothing to fear from them. that would be similar to trying to use bows and arrows against a tank.
the current trend seems to be smaller but better targeted munitions. these can take out your target with little to no collateral damage and are even more difficult to stop as they are a much smaller target than say an ICBM. Bunkers can be built to withstand a nuclear blast, but if you build a missile that can burrow into the ground before exploding you can take out the bunker without needing a very large boom. Aliens would likely use small targeted munitions like this. why destroy the infrastructure when you can selectively disable it and leave most of it intact?
so, i would wager the aliens would actually use weapons with a much smaller boom than us, and they may not even be nuclear, unless they just want to destroy the planet.
To my knowledge, where i live, you can use it in pickups or other on-road vehicles as long as the pickup is actively being used for "farm use" this could for example include going to town to pick up feed or bringing livestock to a livestock auction.
the truck may also have to be registered as farm use however, and you may need to provide some sort of justification for using it on the road.
but wouldn't being at a livestock auction be considered farm use? assuming you are buying/selling livestock and transporting it either to or away from the auction...
i mostly agree, but i was responding to the gp that was insisting it must be implanted.
there are times when you would want the gun disabled, but most schemes to do this are far too error-prone that most people would not purchase that gun because it isn't worth risking the gun not firing when you need it.
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Don't forget mail from DMV, court summons, legal correspondence and stuff like that which unfortunately comes mixed in with the junk mail.
many legal correspondence, and especially court summons must be served by hand (source) directly to the person or their registered agent, such as an attorney
i guess further down it does say
Service by mail is permitted by most U.S. jurisdictions for service on defendants located in other U.S. states
(someone would have to come to your door to thieve things instead of walk past it on the street)
wouldn't going up to the door actually provide extra cover for the theif? a mailbox by the road is typically in plain view of everyone, but putting it by the door to your house, the house itself provides quite a bit of cover from neighbors and sometimes even the road. because you have additional cover it is easier to walk up to the mailbox by the door without being seen. if you are overly paranoid and think someone in the house saw you, you can build yourself a potential way out by knocking on the door and if someone answers saying something like "is this the Anderson residence? No? Do you know where the Andersons live?"
Let each person be a CA [wikipedia.org]. If I know you, I can sign your certificate myself. Anybody who knows me and trusts me would then trust you. Again, compromises are fixed by revocation and expiration, but the impact is somewhat less severe.
then you get something like the ebay problem where every review is AAAAAAA++++++++++++!!!!!!1!!!!one!!eleven!!
and are useless
just because i trust my friend doesn't mean i always trust him to show good judgement...how do i know he was of sound mind when he signed the cert for that tattoo parlor and came back with the pink bunny tattoo on his forehead?
and i would be willing to bet people that had one autistic child is statistically more likely to have a second autistic child...
It is even worse than that.
Even if you are a rover on an entirely different planet all your actions are controlled by NASA (they are sort of like the NSA just with an extra 'A' right?)
for a 4 year old i am pretty sure the value of pi is "more" and possibly "with ice cream"
Ammonia has the nasty properties of being poisonous and corrosive.
i believe the idea is that the exhaust from a steam turbine is still hot enough to collect additional electricity by using this.
just knowing who the psychopaths are, will help you control them and then you can place them in the proper area where they will be most useful.
and more importantly keep them away from areas where you are afraid they would do more damage than good. such as in your examples.
The govt would benefit from this...wouldn't you want the "violent" ones in your military? the pacifists don't fight very well
also understanding the psychology of your own troops (and civilians) helps you control them better.
doesn't google turn on "safe-search" by default?
Eminent domain doesn't make things free. they still have to pay market rates for your property which can still be quite expensive, however likely less than what the current property owner would want to be evicted from their property.
property rights in many places extend underground and would still require a lot of above ground infrastructure and access ways for maintenance purposes.
carving it in stone may be quite durable but it has very poor data density. what did we really learn from them other than some of their legends and history? it doesn't even tell us a whole lot about their construction techniques, at least not enough to be useful to replicate any of them, and even with our current technology we don't quite know how they could place some of their blocks with such precision. so we could potentially have stuff we could still learn from them even with our current technology.
step 1) create storage platters that can last a million years.
step 2) label platters "these are NOT frisbees"
step 3) create readers, for those platters, that can last a million years.
Low tech storage like books are nice for passing knowledge, but they just don't have very good storage density. and they still have a relatively short lifespan (measured in hundreds of years?) compared to this.
I still don't understand why she didn't think to bring it in to the office.
That is quite obvious really...she wanted it to work from home not in the office. yeah i know that is just silly, but in "user think" it makes perfect sense.
your mistake was not asking her if it was a laptop to begin with.
not only that but a couple companies (eTrade, Ameritrade, and some others) released an MMO a while ago where you can play this game entirely online and you no longer need to worry about papercuts from looking at paperwork.
seriously trading stock is now just as virtual as bitcoin or selling gold in WoW
but the shareholders are the parasites. the shareholders want to bleed the company dry of every ounce of profit for their own gain. the longer they hold the shares the more profit they expect and demand to bleed from the company. most even long term holders don't buy the shares because they care about the company, they buy them because they want to make money...same reason as the HFT's only on a different timescale.
the company on the other hand really doesn't care if the shareholders are long term. if the HFT's are willing to buy up any new shares that they issue then the company would be more than happy to sell it to them. the company honestly doesn't care who buys the shares (long term holders, day traders, or HFTs) as long as someone buys them.
At least diablo had a tenuous reason for the always on connection, the real money auction house.
EA's latest Sim City on the other hand was a bigger fiasco, and had no real reason at all for requiring the always on connection.
and when the XBone is released...they will still have the XBox 360 to play with!
With the new Xbox, Microsoft seems to be trying really hard to compete with EA for the top spot of alienating their customers
sure it might be hard to get more raw destructive power than a nuke, but if the aliens are advanced enough they could probably easily shoot our nukes out of the sky before they get within range and so have nothing to fear from them. that would be similar to trying to use bows and arrows against a tank.
the current trend seems to be smaller but better targeted munitions. these can take out your target with little to no collateral damage and are even more difficult to stop as they are a much smaller target than say an ICBM. Bunkers can be built to withstand a nuclear blast, but if you build a missile that can burrow into the ground before exploding you can take out the bunker without needing a very large boom. Aliens would likely use small targeted munitions like this. why destroy the infrastructure when you can selectively disable it and leave most of it intact?
so, i would wager the aliens would actually use weapons with a much smaller boom than us, and they may not even be nuclear, unless they just want to destroy the planet.
To my knowledge, where i live, you can use it in pickups or other on-road vehicles as long as the pickup is actively being used for "farm use" this could for example include going to town to pick up feed or bringing livestock to a livestock auction.
the truck may also have to be registered as farm use however, and you may need to provide some sort of justification for using it on the road.
but wouldn't being at a livestock auction be considered farm use? assuming you are buying/selling livestock and transporting it either to or away from the auction...
i mostly agree, but i was responding to the gp that was insisting it must be implanted.
there are times when you would want the gun disabled, but most schemes to do this are far too error-prone that most people would not purchase that gun because it isn't worth risking the gun not firing when you need it.