I'm sure with enough drugs, we could turn any decent writer into a paranoid schizophrenic. Should we ask for volunteers, or nominate them against their will? Should we inform them their minds are being controlled for the sake of the output, or does knowing their minds are being controlled affect the way it breaks down?
Maybe they will do some retcon, and use a marker to edit the original so that it takes place in 2109. Then they'll have plenty of time for a prequel, and more importantly an entirely new version of the original movie that you will have to buy to go with the new one, and buy again in the boxed set, and again in blue-ray, blue-ray boxed set, director's cuts, extended versions, scenes they decided weren't good enough to actually put in to the movie, etc.
Also, the new version will have dozens more characters introduced, for the sole purpose of selling action figures and merchandise related to each one.
So we won't be able to put more transistors per square inch into a chip after a certain point. Do you think we will keep finding better layouts, making the transistors cheaper, or improving connectivity between chips? Or will we say "well, we can't make them any smaller. Our work is done. Anybody want to go play frisbee?"
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
You may find this hard to believe, but in many places law-abiding citizens are required to conceal lawfully-carried firearms. The only people who can legally have a gun visible are the police. In fact, it may act as a deterrent, as a potential attacker doesn't know who is and is not carrying. Long gone is the old west attitude of "only a criminal would conceal a gun, honest men should carry them out in the open."
So, they'd be stopping him without any probable cause? They had no reason to believe he was carrying illegally, and now he gets to eat asphalt, play nice, answer all their questions, wait 20 minutes while they check his ID, and be thankful he is cooperating with national security, plus the added benefit of undocumented X-rays?
That's the same as pulling over anyone you see driving a car, because if they don't have a license it would be illegal for them to drive, so you have to be sure. Except you treat every stop as a felony stop, maybe PIT maneuver, guns drawn, etc., except while you are checking their ID you also give them cancer.
Because if the DHS is using it, it is a security device. If you were using it, it is a medical device that must be carefully regulated as improper use could cause serious health problems. See the difference?
Shield? How about a big magnetic field, funneling all that hydrogen into your fusion plant? Just scooping up all that interstellar matter, ramming it into your reactor, and using it for fuel? What should we call this device?
Give it some manufacturing capability, and by the time it gets there we might have developed some interesting technology to tell him about. He might even arrive at his destination to find that technology advances allowed someone who left well after him to get there first.
Sounds good to me. Selling supplies to prospectors usually turns much more profit than actually prospecting, and the opening of new frontiers to explore/claim/colonize/fight over in space might help reduce pressure to fight over the fixed supply of real estate here on Earth.
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Usually only 20 or 30.
Maybe Ridley Scott will cast Sandra Bullock in icing and a gun. If she's a replicant that would be on the cake...tight pants
And this is what we read.
And the major plot elements would have very little relation to how anybody else understood the original movies. I could go for that.
Blade Runners (set in Tannhauser gate with lots of warrior replicants as semi-heroes instead of being the bad guys).
I can't count just how many sci-fi movies that could be a direct ripoff of.
I'm sure with enough drugs, we could turn any decent writer into a paranoid schizophrenic. Should we ask for volunteers, or nominate them against their will? Should we inform them their minds are being controlled for the sake of the output, or does knowing their minds are being controlled affect the way it breaks down?
Maybe they will do some retcon, and use a marker to edit the original so that it takes place in 2109. Then they'll have plenty of time for a prequel, and more importantly an entirely new version of the original movie that you will have to buy to go with the new one, and buy again in the boxed set, and again in blue-ray, blue-ray boxed set, director's cuts, extended versions, scenes they decided weren't good enough to actually put in to the movie, etc.
Also, the new version will have dozens more characters introduced, for the sole purpose of selling action figures and merchandise related to each one.
In the time it would take to create such a thing efficiently, it would probably be possible to do it in 1/4th of the size :)
And in the time it would take the government to build such a thing, it will have become commodity desktop hardware.
Waterboarding is not a new technique by any stretch of the imagination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#Historical_uses. Keylogger is an old technique+"with a computer".
1Gigabit key might be fine for encrypting tweets, but what if I want to secure something larger?
So we won't be able to put more transistors per square inch into a chip after a certain point. Do you think we will keep finding better layouts, making the transistors cheaper, or improving connectivity between chips? Or will we say "well, we can't make them any smaller. Our work is done. Anybody want to go play frisbee?"
Even more plausibly: NSA knows your password and private key already, even if they don't have backdoors into your encryption software.
So, by analogy, in the time it takes to crack one encryption code, we can crack them all?
Osama Bin Laden wanted to draw us into war in the middle east. We sure showed him!
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
And, as pointed out a few years ago, fruitcake has the same proportions as some of the common explosives they are looking for - and density.
You may find this hard to believe, but in many places law-abiding citizens are required to conceal lawfully-carried firearms. The only people who can legally have a gun visible are the police. In fact, it may act as a deterrent, as a potential attacker doesn't know who is and is not carrying. Long gone is the old west attitude of "only a criminal would conceal a gun, honest men should carry them out in the open."
So, they'd be stopping him without any probable cause? They had no reason to believe he was carrying illegally, and now he gets to eat asphalt, play nice, answer all their questions, wait 20 minutes while they check his ID, and be thankful he is cooperating with national security, plus the added benefit of undocumented X-rays?
That's the same as pulling over anyone you see driving a car, because if they don't have a license it would be illegal for them to drive, so you have to be sure. Except you treat every stop as a felony stop, maybe PIT maneuver, guns drawn, etc., except while you are checking their ID you also give them cancer.
Because if the DHS is using it, it is a security device. If you were using it, it is a medical device that must be carefully regulated as improper use could cause serious health problems. See the difference?
Algebra, you may have heard of it. (160*1445-80,000)/159. Turn in your nerd card, while we perform an audit of the office that issued it.
Shield? How about a big magnetic field, funneling all that hydrogen into your fusion plant? Just scooping up all that interstellar matter, ramming it into your reactor, and using it for fuel? What should we call this device?
Give it some manufacturing capability, and by the time it gets there we might have developed some interesting technology to tell him about. He might even arrive at his destination to find that technology advances allowed someone who left well after him to get there first.
Sounds good to me. Selling supplies to prospectors usually turns much more profit than actually prospecting, and the opening of new frontiers to explore/claim/colonize/fight over in space might help reduce pressure to fight over the fixed supply of real estate here on Earth.
What was left of it.
I wonder how many people the FBI hire to spread the meme that it is funny to name your SSID "FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN"?
Sounds like perfect cover. Who is going to believe the FBI is actually labeling their undercover surveillance van? It is so idiotic, it can't be true.