I see space colonies becoming independent as the US became independent from England. Main reason is distance. It is impossible to control something that is far away because the locals have the time advantage.
It is even more true with space colonies. For example it would take at least 15 minutes to relay an instruction to Mars from an earth-bound home base.
You could argue that the colonies were established by the government of different countries so they are morally obligated to let themselves be controlled by those countries but you must realize that that is unreasonable as history has proved.
While we enjoy cooking in the desert summer heat, have fun with your tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, and highly variable temperatures. Living in the desert is awesome. We have continuous temperatures of 75-80 all year. Going outside in the summer during the day sucks but that's why we have A/C, wide roads, and pools which are pretty much standard.
People building also doesn't make everything hotter in the desert. If anything, it cools the desert down because people plant and maintain grass, and trees and which help cool down the soil.
The real problems around global warming are places where high temperatures are not expected, A/C is not available, and walking is a necessity to move around. In other cities with temperate climes many people die when there is a heat wave. In Phoenix it doesn't happen as much because people know what to expect and are not crazy enough to hang out in the heat.
Finally US broadcasters will have to compete with European broadcasters and cut down on the commercials. The reason football isn't popular in the US is because there are only 15 minutes of break available in the middle of the game. Any more commercials and the game would no longer be truly live.
4. Labor could form unions, and demand health care as a standard part of all employment. Employeers would be forced to pay for medical care, or face a highly organized nationwide strike.
Wouldn't that make the unions governments? People could be denied health-care if they're not in the union and respect the union rules.
Self-sufficiency through advanced technology such as medical nanobots using advanced high quality (7 sigma) software able to diagnose and heal would be the only ways people could stop having to rely on some form of government for health-care.
They hope they'll get the money from the fines and law enforcement budget increases which will be necessary to enforce such a stupid law. Obviously the politicians now assume that if the hurricane didn't get people to move, taking rights away from them won't get them to move either.
It's the new American way of doing things. Instead of making honest money by taxing the sale of the games they try to make money by making them illegal so that they can demand money for unnecessary work.
The Netherlands is on the opposite side of mentality. They let themselves be more liberal to raise money that keeps their country from being under the Atlantic!
In 50 years we'll probably have so few right left that when we try to run away, we won't be able to because there's a military controlled fence around US.
One example I can think of is how the Nixon administration made drugs illegal because they needed to hang something onto the anti-Nixon demonstrators who weren't doing anything illegal but who were an inconvenience.
Even though the revolution against Nixon was won through the freedom of press, it wasn't seen as a revolution and as such we got left with the fallout regulations.
I wonder what fallout we will be left with after Bush. Will it be regulation against our privacy? Not even Nixon managed to pull that one through.
Actually I think it is but from a freedom of press sense rather than from a freedom of speech sense.
The freedom of press extends to news gathering, and processes involved in obtaining information for public distribution.
To make people aware of the exploit and to prove it, he followed a process which is protected by the first amendment. He could not be protected by the first amendment if his process was built to collect information for other reasons than to raise awareness.
How much more soda did your American friend drink compared to you? The thing with corn syrup is that it tricks you into thinking that you are still hungry and need more.
The sweet stuff you can't have too much of and having small portions is un-American. I love sugar-cane soda and so do a few other people I know but if I have more than 2 *glass* bottles I get too wired and "sugared out".
I mentor a 5th grader and got involved in a robotics club at that school. To make it more interesting, we programmed a Lego robot in Java and everyone in the club got to write a class of it. The action the robot had to take could have been done easier in the RCX out-of-the-box software but I believe the exposure to programming was a lot more helpful to them.
There could be a lot more financial help to make programming more interesting to children but unfortunately teachers and politicians don't seem to get it so they pay no attention to the subject. The computers in public schools suck, and are poorly managed.
At home kids today don't program because it's very easy to just plug in the Fony PlayStation and start playing unlike in the time when I grew up and I at least had to type LOAD ""
I read somewhere that after New York City implemented a law like this, there were no changes in accident statistics. Sounds more like just another way to make money for the states as people WILL break the law.
Now people will really be made to switch. Windows is over-priced and the piracy of Windows actually helps Microsoft because a lot of people get used to the interface, and application at home on their pirated version of Windows which creates demand for the tools and OS at work.
As people won't be able to get Windows for free they'll start adopting other OSs so all-in-all this helps Microsoft fight its own monopoly.
The problem with the CrackBerry is the same reason why it's working "so well". Instead of you checking your e-mail which is what e-mail was created for (asynchronous communication), the e-mail is pushed to you. The problem in the M$ world started when Micro$oft decided to make exchange push the e-mails to outlook instead of outlook checking the e-mail at a user-chosen interval.
Exchange is not just pushing e-mail onto users but it's also pushing the CrackBerry onto addicted executives and politicians. It's so addictive I expect to soon see an amendment to the constitution saying something like "The right to bear BlackBerries"
"If our government wanted to make sure this didn't happen, they'd fine the IRS every time there was a security breach. In fact, they'd fine the IRS just for having bad security. And then things would improve."
No problem, they will just raise the tax to 150% on income from fines given to the IRS. It will be a special tax schedule.:)
Who decides who an enemy is? Warfare should be used to fend off attacks, and minimize risk and not to ATTACK the information of someone because they have a different point of view.
Throughout history capturing and using enemy information has been a lot more useful in combat than attacking the information of the enemy.
It's a personal freedom thing. They can't allow people too much freedom because people might realize that their stupid underpaid jobs where they are overworked are just not worth all the crap they buy from sanitized malls.
The people are the government. At least in the US. We are all THE MAN. Of course, when government officials or people with authority take actions against the freedom of speech it gets a little worse but nevertheless, I see retaliation against someone for something they said as a FoS violation.
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I see space colonies becoming independent as the US became independent from England. Main reason is distance. It is impossible to control something that is far away because the locals have the time advantage.
It is even more true with space colonies. For example it would take at least 15 minutes to relay an instruction to Mars from an earth-bound home base.
You could argue that the colonies were established by the government of different countries so they are morally obligated to let themselves be controlled by those countries but you must realize that that is unreasonable as history has proved.
While we enjoy cooking in the desert summer heat, have fun with your tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, and highly variable temperatures. Living in the desert is awesome. We have continuous temperatures of 75-80 all year. Going outside in the summer during the day sucks but that's why we have A/C, wide roads, and pools which are pretty much standard.
People building also doesn't make everything hotter in the desert. If anything, it cools the desert down because people plant and maintain grass, and trees and which help cool down the soil.
The real problems around global warming are places where high temperatures are not expected, A/C is not available, and walking is a necessity to move around. In other cities with temperate climes many people die when there is a heat wave. In Phoenix it doesn't happen as much because people know what to expect and are not crazy enough to hang out in the heat.
BTW, here is a picture of Phoenix surrounded by snow this past winter
Finally US broadcasters will have to compete with European broadcasters and cut down on the commercials. The reason football isn't popular in the US is because there are only 15 minutes of break available in the middle of the game. Any more commercials and the game would no longer be truly live.
That would never happen in Germany. People never ever got mass-arrested in Germany. Never.
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4. Labor could form unions, and demand health care as a standard part of all employment. Employeers would be forced to pay for medical care, or face a highly organized nationwide strike.
Wouldn't that make the unions governments? People could be denied health-care if they're not in the union and respect the union rules.
Self-sufficiency through advanced technology such as medical nanobots using advanced high quality (7 sigma) software able to diagnose and heal would be the only ways people could stop having to rely on some form of government for health-care.
There is hardware that can take care of that. You can power-cycle a box and even connect to its serial port using a modem or tcp/ip.
They hope they'll get the money from the fines and law enforcement budget increases which will be necessary to enforce such a stupid law. Obviously the politicians now assume that if the hurricane didn't get people to move, taking rights away from them won't get them to move either.
It's the new American way of doing things. Instead of making honest money by taxing the sale of the games they try to make money by making them illegal so that they can demand money for unnecessary work.
The Netherlands is on the opposite side of mentality. They let themselves be more liberal to raise money that keeps their country from being under the Atlantic!
In 50 years we'll probably have so few right left that when we try to run away, we won't be able to because there's a military controlled fence around US.
Shouldn't it be flirt first, screw later and not screw first and flirt later?
This is very true.
One example I can think of is how the Nixon administration made drugs illegal because they needed to hang something onto the anti-Nixon demonstrators who weren't doing anything illegal but who were an inconvenience.
Even though the revolution against Nixon was won through the freedom of press, it wasn't seen as a revolution and as such we got left with the fallout regulations.
I wonder what fallout we will be left with after Bush. Will it be regulation against our privacy? Not even Nixon managed to pull that one through.
"the 1st amendment isn't relevant here"
Actually I think it is but from a freedom of press sense rather than from a freedom of speech sense.
The freedom of press extends to news gathering, and processes involved in obtaining information for public distribution.
To make people aware of the exploit and to prove it, he followed a process which is protected by the first amendment. He could not be protected by the first amendment if his process was built to collect information for other reasons than to raise awareness.
How much more soda did your American friend drink compared to you? The thing with corn syrup is that it tricks you into thinking that you are still hungry and need more.
The sweet stuff you can't have too much of and having small portions is un-American. I love sugar-cane soda and so do a few other people I know but if I have more than 2 *glass* bottles I get too wired and "sugared out".
I mentor a 5th grader and got involved in a robotics club at that school. To make it more interesting, we programmed a Lego robot in Java and everyone in the club got to write a class of it. The action the robot had to take could have been done easier in the RCX out-of-the-box software but I believe the exposure to programming was a lot more helpful to them.
There could be a lot more financial help to make programming more interesting to children but unfortunately teachers and politicians don't seem to get it so they pay no attention to the subject. The computers in public schools suck, and are poorly managed.
At home kids today don't program because it's very easy to just plug in the Fony PlayStation and start playing unlike in the time when I grew up and I at least had to type LOAD ""
I read somewhere that after New York City implemented a law like this, there were no changes in accident statistics. Sounds more like just another way to make money for the states as people WILL break the law.
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Now people will really be made to switch. Windows is over-priced and the piracy of Windows actually helps Microsoft because a lot of people get used to the interface, and application at home on their pirated version of Windows which creates demand for the tools and OS at work.
As people won't be able to get Windows for free they'll start adopting other OSs so all-in-all this helps Microsoft fight its own monopoly.
Would a laser light bounce off the ionosphere?
Is this law unconstitutional? 1 Million dollars for breaking into just any computer seems pretty steep.
It should be cheaper to fend off some REAL bad people that the authorities can't get around to catch.
The problem with the CrackBerry is the same reason why it's working "so well". Instead of you checking your e-mail which is what e-mail was created for (asynchronous communication), the e-mail is pushed to you. The problem in the M$ world started when Micro$oft decided to make exchange push the e-mails to outlook instead of outlook checking the e-mail at a user-chosen interval.
Exchange is not just pushing e-mail onto users but it's also pushing the CrackBerry onto addicted executives and politicians. It's so addictive I expect to soon see an amendment to the constitution saying something like "The right to bear BlackBerries"
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"If our government wanted to make sure this didn't happen, they'd fine the IRS every time there was a security breach. In fact, they'd fine the IRS just for having bad security. And then things would improve."
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No problem, they will just raise the tax to 150% on income from fines given to the IRS. It will be a special tax schedule.
Who decides who an enemy is? Warfare should be used to fend off attacks, and minimize risk and not to ATTACK the information of someone because they have a different point of view.
Throughout history capturing and using enemy information has been a lot more useful in combat than attacking the information of the enemy.
XXX is the logo of the Dutch capital. You can see it very boldly on the Amsterdam flag if you follow the link.
It's a personal freedom thing. They can't allow people too much freedom because people might realize that their stupid underpaid jobs where they are overworked are just not worth all the crap they buy from sanitized malls.
That's one of the citizenship questions I had to learn.
They ask who the US is governed by. And the correct answer is the people.
The people are the government. At least in the US. We are all THE MAN. Of course, when government officials or people with authority take actions against the freedom of speech it gets a little worse but nevertheless, I see retaliation against someone for something they said as a FoS violation.