A priest, a minister and a rabbi are discussing when life begins. The priest says "life begins at conception". The minister says "life begins at birth". The rabbi says "life begins when the kids move out and the dog dies".
One day, very soon, a chip in your head will instantaneously connect with The Singularity, which will transmit back images into your corneal implants which will show you why this is so. In the meantime, take it as The Received Word from the future.
Governor Le Petomane: We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen!
We must do something about this immediately!
Immediately! Immediately!
Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph! Group: Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph! Le Petomane: Hey! I didn't get a Harrumph outta that guy! Hedy (That's Hedly) Lamar: Give the governor a harrumph!
Maybe they could explain why fighters always have to fly nose-first, like an F-22 or something. And don't get me started about banking while turning...
Want it that way or have simply come to expect it that way? Certainly the TSA, DHS, FBI et al. present a world where we're daily surrounded by bomb-throwing, foaming-at-the-mouth crazies intent on killing soccer moms at the local mall. Our popular fiction (NCIS, NCIS:Los Angeles, CSI: Wherever, Person of Interest etc.) show a surveillance society where "<clickety> I've traced the IP address to a local Internet cafe, <clickety> I hacked the video camera on the ATM in the corner, <clickety> facial recognition software identifies him as Edgar Schwartz, <clickety> here's his drivers license photo." as everyday occurrences. Physics be damned. Current state-of-the-art be damned. The law (due process, probable cause) be damned. We got our bad guy. So the message "you're surrounded, only (non-critically) giving up your rights is the only way to stay safe" comes at us from all sides.
Have you missed the part where they're watching what you install on your PC? Have you heard of Bing? iTunes? Do you really suppose they're NOT logging all that?
It's always (sadly) amusing to me how the Constitution thumpers are all about the Founders Intent and Strict Interpretations and all that - right up until it's time to dispense with all that shit so we can have Yet More authoritarian "law enforcement".
Let's face it: we now live in a surveillance society. If it's not the government (FBI, NSA, CIA, DHS, etc.), it's a corporation trying to make money (Google (DoubleClick), Microsoft, Apple, etc.) or an IP troll (RIAA, MPAA, Sony, EMI, etc.). We drive down the street, and we're under almost constant video surveillance. Walk into a store, bank, restaurant, dry cleaners, expect to be photographed. Soon we'll have drones overhead. Big Brother is watching. Their excuse is "We're just trying to make money/keep you safe", and their justification is "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.". Get used to it, because there's nothing you can do about it.
Sully had minutes, otherwise they all would have died. And this new "radar" thing extends that 200mph closing distance something wonderful. I'll give you the geese problem. Still, the "chances taken" percentage inside two-second reaction times is WAY higher for drivers than for pilots.
Airline pilots seem to be able to do it without going insane, although, admittedly, they don't need the reaction/response time that a driver does. If Something Bad (TM) happens to the plane's autopilot, you've got (up to) minutes to recover, in a car, possibly (down to) tenths of a second.
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Prototype Canadian rovers have the same problem as (notional) Iranian nukes: no delivery systems.
"We can't use dogs to spy on everybody, everyplace, all the time".
A priest, a minister and a rabbi are discussing when life begins. The priest says "life begins at conception". The minister says "life begins at birth". The rabbi says "life begins when the kids move out and the dog dies".
A priest, a minister, a rabbi and a polar bear walk into a bar. Bartender says: "What is this, some kind of joke?".
Why do you hate America? If we paid CEOs even more money, they'd create even more jobs.
Oh, I don't know. In lots of industries "within four orders of magnitude" is the same thing as "equal". Economists and US senators, for example.
Spying on Sarah Palin's house.
One day, very soon, a chip in your head will instantaneously connect with The Singularity, which will transmit back images into your corneal implants which will show you why this is so. In the meantime, take it as The Received Word from the future.
Ray Kurzweil is the biggest hack on the planet.
Way to completely miss the point. In almost all areas of the US, water usage fees are really sewer/water treatment fees.
TLDW;
Governor Le Petomane: We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen!
We must do something about this immediately!
Immediately! Immediately!
Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
Group: Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
Le Petomane: Hey! I didn't get a Harrumph outta that guy!
Hedy (That's Hedly) Lamar: Give the governor a harrumph!
Maybe they could explain why fighters always have to fly nose-first, like an F-22 or something. And don't get me started about banking while turning...
Want it that way or have simply come to expect it that way? Certainly the TSA, DHS, FBI et al. present a world where we're daily surrounded by bomb-throwing, foaming-at-the-mouth crazies intent on killing soccer moms at the local mall. Our popular fiction (NCIS, NCIS:Los Angeles, CSI: Wherever, Person of Interest etc.) show a surveillance society where "<clickety> I've traced the IP address to a local Internet cafe, <clickety> I hacked the video camera on the ATM in the corner, <clickety> facial recognition software identifies him as Edgar Schwartz, <clickety> here's his drivers license photo." as everyday occurrences. Physics be damned. Current state-of-the-art be damned. The law (due process, probable cause) be damned. We got our bad guy. So the message "you're surrounded, only (non-critically) giving up your rights is the only way to stay safe" comes at us from all sides.
Yeah, that would be bad. We could end up with something like the Patriot Act.
Have you missed the part where they're watching what you install on your PC? Have you heard of Bing? iTunes? Do you really suppose they're NOT logging all that?
It's always (sadly) amusing to me how the Constitution thumpers are all about the Founders Intent and Strict Interpretations and all that - right up until it's time to dispense with all that shit so we can have Yet More authoritarian "law enforcement".
Let's face it: we now live in a surveillance society. If it's not the government (FBI, NSA, CIA, DHS, etc.), it's a corporation trying to make money (Google (DoubleClick), Microsoft, Apple, etc.) or an IP troll (RIAA, MPAA, Sony, EMI, etc.). We drive down the street, and we're under almost constant video surveillance. Walk into a store, bank, restaurant, dry cleaners, expect to be photographed. Soon we'll have drones overhead. Big Brother is watching. Their excuse is "We're just trying to make money/keep you safe", and their justification is "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.". Get used to it, because there's nothing you can do about it.
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Because Unicode is for hippies and tree-huggers.
I know what you mean. I had the same reaction when I switched from Win2K to KDE.
Slashdot leaps to mind...
Sully had minutes, otherwise they all would have died. And this new "radar" thing extends that 200mph closing distance something wonderful. I'll give you the geese problem. Still, the "chances taken" percentage inside two-second reaction times is WAY higher for drivers than for pilots.
Airline pilots seem to be able to do it without going insane, although, admittedly, they don't need the reaction/response time that a driver does. If Something Bad (TM) happens to the plane's autopilot, you've got (up to) minutes to recover, in a car, possibly (down to) tenths of a second.
Anybody with any experience with California drivers knows that most cars in California are already "driverless".