I dunno. The police must have been in on it. How else could literally everyone she knows, even casually, end up a murder victim with no suspicion aimed at her?
Automatic veto, nothing requiring the president's signature gets to happen. Any actions taken in the name of the president during the interim are only temporary and can be immediately revoked by the next person to be actually be elected to the office. Also, nobody gets to sit behind the desk in the oval office. Hopefully the Red Phone has call forwarding.
In my city, some of the longer streches of pipe weren't getting enough flow, the chlorine wasn't surviving all the way to the end user, allowing bacteria to grow in certain of the water lines. To reduce this they had to go around opening fire hydrants up to let water flow out, throughout the city, on a shedule. It isn't a problem now that we are in drought, though (we are usually in a drought, if you actually look at the numbers), but when it is a wet year, people use sprinklers less, and bacteria grows in the pipes.
So, you are looking at runaway prices like when California deregulated the energy market and the automated computer programs all manipulated the price immediately? Or maybe you are referencing the stock market, where automated trading algorithms seem to be designed to respond to eachother to produce price instability?
Google will manage the whole thing, in exchange for all the data they would get to collect about the daily habits of every business and consumer in the country.
And then there would be a meter-race to get your device turned on when the rate drops, before someone else fires up the competing device and drives up the demand. Rapid swings in announced price and demand, caused mostly by automated algorithms all trying to manipulate the price, would follow. In the end, middle-man traders would get all the profits, drive up the price to the actual consumers, and cause such intermittent stop-and-start current flow that the electrical generation and distribution hardware would suffer. Just like the stock market.
No, the secret operations will all be run by the mob^w charitable mediterranean families association. We wouldn't leave anything that important up to the government.
I'm sure China can help us out with a loan of those materials. Unfortunately, I some physicists theorize that Chinese Unobtanium will directly prevent the observation of Jobtanium.
I still think we should have the option to vote "no" for president, congress, with enough "no" votes in an election meaning the office stays vacant for 1 term and all^wboth parties running candidates are given a strong hint to find different kinds of candidates.
"Vote NO for President" would make a good bumper sticker, too.
Exactly. And if we don't export the production far enough, we actually have to re-import the waste along with the products. See "maquiladoras" in border region of Mexico, and the La Paz Agreement. If US companies move production just across the border, they still have to^w^w "are supposed to" bring the waste back to the US for disposal, but if the US companies move production farther away, they have no requirement.
How many years of orbital manufacturing and refining would we get before we surrounded our planet with a field of tiny debris making future launches increasingly difficult? Instead of polluting the atmosphere with chemicals, we'd be polluting near-space with tiny solid particles. Unless the refining, manufacturing, and construction takes place further out* where the resources are, we will be setting ourselves up for future trouble by collecting asteroids of valuable composition and hauling them to Earth orbit to use them.
*or near a massive object that will take care of garbage collection. The moon, perhaps? Plenty of sunlight, no atmospheric drag, mch easier escape velocity, etc., but probably easier for the human brain to cope with living/working on the moon than adjusting to living/working/thinking in open space long term.
Can we refine them here and export the waste to China for 'disposal,' or do we only get to ignore the environmental problem if they produce the waste themselves?
Two guys are out camping in the woods, and the discussion turns to bears. One of them has a monstrous cannon of a pistol he lugs around all day, but it gets heavy by the end of the day. The other guy shows him a tiny.22 pistol,
A: "This is what I carry. All I need for bear."
B: "Are you kidding? You won't even slow down the bear a little bit with that thing."
A: "I wasn't going to shoot the bear.
Moral of the story: Increase your own security a little bit, and encourage everyone else to be less secure, but still making enough noise to be an attractive target.
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I dunno. The police must have been in on it. How else could literally everyone she knows, even casually, end up a murder victim with no suspicion aimed at her?
And a sliding scale of just how unsafe you want your results....
Automatic veto, nothing requiring the president's signature gets to happen. Any actions taken in the name of the president during the interim are only temporary and can be immediately revoked by the next person to be actually be elected to the office. Also, nobody gets to sit behind the desk in the oval office. Hopefully the Red Phone has call forwarding.
"For a nickel more, we won't give you any more fries, and we'll give it to you as a "diet supersize."
Then they don't even have to make extra fries.
In my city, some of the longer streches of pipe weren't getting enough flow, the chlorine wasn't surviving all the way to the end user, allowing bacteria to grow in certain of the water lines. To reduce this they had to go around opening fire hydrants up to let water flow out, throughout the city, on a shedule. It isn't a problem now that we are in drought, though (we are usually in a drought, if you actually look at the numbers), but when it is a wet year, people use sprinklers less, and bacteria grows in the pipes.
So, you are looking at runaway prices like when California deregulated the energy market and the automated computer programs all manipulated the price immediately? Or maybe you are referencing the stock market, where automated trading algorithms seem to be designed to respond to eachother to produce price instability?
Google will manage the whole thing, in exchange for all the data they would get to collect about the daily habits of every business and consumer in the country.
I don't have to check my watch to tell you that time already happened.
And then there would be a meter-race to get your device turned on when the rate drops, before someone else fires up the competing device and drives up the demand. Rapid swings in announced price and demand, caused mostly by automated algorithms all trying to manipulate the price, would follow. In the end, middle-man traders would get all the profits, drive up the price to the actual consumers, and cause such intermittent stop-and-start current flow that the electrical generation and distribution hardware would suffer. Just like the stock market.
You haven't heard the one about the Navy switching to liquid soap?
Yeah, like that has stopped us in the past.
You mean the one with a light nucleus with no protons, and no electron shell? We already have that.
No, the secret operations will all be run by the mob^w charitable mediterranean families association. We wouldn't leave anything that important up to the government.
How many people would we have to send to mars to significantly impact the unemployment rate here on Earth? Did exporting criminals to Australia work?
I'm sure China can help us out with a loan of those materials. Unfortunately, I some physicists theorize that Chinese Unobtanium will directly prevent the observation of Jobtanium.
I still think we should have the option to vote "no" for president, congress, with enough "no" votes in an election meaning the office stays vacant for 1 term and all^wboth parties running candidates are given a strong hint to find different kinds of candidates.
"Vote NO for President" would make a good bumper sticker, too.
Exactly. And if we don't export the production far enough, we actually have to re-import the waste along with the products. See "maquiladoras" in border region of Mexico, and the La Paz Agreement. If US companies move production just across the border, they still have to^w^w "are supposed to" bring the waste back to the US for disposal, but if the US companies move production farther away, they have no requirement.
How many years of orbital manufacturing and refining would we get before we surrounded our planet with a field of tiny debris making future launches increasingly difficult? Instead of polluting the atmosphere with chemicals, we'd be polluting near-space with tiny solid particles. Unless the refining, manufacturing, and construction takes place further out* where the resources are, we will be setting ourselves up for future trouble by collecting asteroids of valuable composition and hauling them to Earth orbit to use them.
*or near a massive object that will take care of garbage collection. The moon, perhaps? Plenty of sunlight, no atmospheric drag, mch easier escape velocity, etc., but probably easier for the human brain to cope with living/working on the moon than adjusting to living/working/thinking in open space long term.
Can we refine them here and export the waste to China for 'disposal,' or do we only get to ignore the environmental problem if they produce the waste themselves?
When will they start selling machined aluminum lego parts to, say, me? I demand to benefit from NASA projects, personally!
Focus on geology? What else would you expect study of a planet to be focused on? That's what geology is.
Doesn't geo- mean "earth?"
They'll start caring when they realize the bugs have built ships.
Accused it/diffused it.
.... And then the ISPs might be forced not to oversell bandwidth. Where is the problem again?
Two guys are out camping in the woods, and the discussion turns to bears. One of them has a monstrous cannon of a pistol he lugs around all day, but it gets heavy by the end of the day. The other guy shows him a tiny .22 pistol,
A: "This is what I carry. All I need for bear."
B: "Are you kidding? You won't even slow down the bear a little bit with that thing."
A: "I wasn't going to shoot the bear.
Moral of the story: Increase your own security a little bit, and encourage everyone else to be less secure, but still making enough noise to be an attractive target.