I didn't watch the show, but no dust on the lander seems reasonable. All of the dust that the landing kicked up would have been sent away from the landing sight, and since there is the moon does not have an atmosphere, the dust would continue to travel away from the landing sight, until gravity pulled it back down to the surface, and quite possibly, none of the dust would come to rest on the lander itself.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a seagull that sought to fly better than any other seagull, and in so doing, transcended to a higher level of existence, only to find that there was still a lot of room for improvement.
Apple computer, a computer company that wanted to make "insanely great" products, and in so doing transformed the industry, only to find that there was still a lot of room for improvement.
If I took a bag of tacks and spread them across a busy highway, traffic would slow down to a crawl as the road became littered with disabled vehicles(or if I hung a VW from a bridge). Not much has been done to combat this, except that most people are decent enough not to drop a bagful of tacks on the road.
Regard these attacks for what they are irresponsible acts by people with little regard for the public good.
Here's a more likely scenario.
John's term paper was due in an hour, and he needed information from one more article. When he opened the article, the banner ad that accompanied it was so compelling that he clicked on the link and bought a new chinchilla. Realizing that he didn't have a good place to keep a chinchilla John began researching chinchilla huthches.
The first article he found was great, great because it also had a compelling banner ad...
Name a game where the object is murder? In all of the games I've seen, people are trying to kill you, and you are defending yourself. A lot of games penalize killing innocent bystanders(which would be murder).
First off, child pornography is illegal because the children depicted are harmed by the process, and could not consent to the process.
If virtual child porn were legal, it would be difficult to prosecute actual child porn. Anyone who was charged with creating child porn would simply have to say no, that's "virtual" porn, and the police would have to find the child to prove that the porn wasn't virtual.
It is also illegal to own child pornography. If virtual child porn were legal, a defendant in a real child porn case could claim he thought he was looking at virtual porn, and the police would have to demonstrate that the defendant did not believe the porn was virtual.
The world's population will double in the next 30 years, if no one died in that time period, the affect on the population would be minor (20%). Consider that most women will not be able/willing to have children indefinitely, the percentage of people on the planet's fertility/fecundity rate would decrease as the population aged. In short, long term you could have decreased population growth.(Plus, don't rule out war to control population!)
And what of the ethics? Could this be used to reverse ageing? (unlikely, but if it could, what are the ethics of keeping entire generations around just so they can oppress their descendants).
Actually, if people did not die the earth might be a better place. Altruism is a great thing, but it would pale in comparison to self-interest. Would we be so careless with non-renewable resources if we knew we'd be around when the supplies ran out? Given that the world population is doubling every thirty years, keeping one extra generation around would only be the difference of thirty years population growth.
Germany had a multi-party system after WWI, which lead to the rise of Adolph Hitler. The German Constitution now requires that a political party have a fairly substantial percentage of the vote before they can have members in their equivalent of Parliament. The reason for this safeguard is that in a fractured multi-party system, there is ample opportunity for a charismatic individual to seize power(because the opposition is so fractured).
Slobodan Milosevic also benefited from the fractious nature of his opposition, and stayed in power a lot longer than he would have in a two party system.
In a presidential system, where there is one person elected as head of government and state, participation by additional parties only hurts the Dominant party candidate with which the smaller parties are most closely identified.
In a parliamentary system, where leadership of the government is determined by the party who has a majority in the legislature, third parties hurt the dominant parties by dilluting support in the individual districts. Obviously this is different in a proportional representation system, where third parties can be part of governing coalitions(and threaten to disrupt the coalition if they don't get their way).
But I have to take issue with your attack on the two-party system. What do third (and fourth and fifth..) parties accomplish? They fracture voting blocks into units so small they are virtually powerless. Ralph Nader's candidacy for president cost the Left the election. Though Nader will vehemently deny this, the issues he ran on will be adversely affected by his candidacy.
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I didn't watch the show, but no dust on the lander seems reasonable. All of the dust that the landing kicked up would have been sent away from the landing sight, and since there is the moon does not have an atmosphere, the dust would continue to travel away from the landing sight, until gravity pulled it back down to the surface, and quite possibly, none of the dust would come to rest on the lander itself.
Apple computer, a computer company that wanted to make "insanely great" products, and in so doing transformed the industry, only to find that there was still a lot of room for improvement.
Regard these attacks for what they are irresponsible acts by people with little regard for the public good.
(sorry for the off topic post!)
The first article he found was great, great because it also had a compelling banner ad...
It supports Hebrew
Compare the two processes,
Type a letter on a typewriter.
Put paper in typewriter, type letter.
Type a letter on a computer.
Turn on computer,
wait for start up,
find WP application
start wp application
type letter
print letter
The latter example has a lot of extra (admittedly trivial) steps.
I guess his ideal world would be to have separate machines that would have limited functionality.
Turn on keyboard
Type letter.
print letter.
The SuperBowl ad is just another innovation for which we owe Apple our neverending thanks!
Hey, Persephone did not anger Pluto, she angered Goofy...
I always disagreed with this analysis, but back in school, they told us that Australia was both.
a man of letters.
Name a game where the object is murder? In all of the games I've seen, people are trying to kill you, and you are defending yourself. A lot of games penalize killing innocent bystanders(which would be murder).
If virtual child porn were legal, it would be difficult to prosecute actual child porn. Anyone who was charged with creating child porn would simply have to say no, that's "virtual" porn, and the police would have to find the child to prove that the porn wasn't virtual.
It is also illegal to own child pornography. If virtual child porn were legal, a defendant in a real child porn case could claim he thought he was looking at virtual porn, and the police would have to demonstrate that the defendant did not believe the porn was virtual.
Just one more reason for my wife to say that I don't "need" a cell-phone
If memory serves, Compaq is also releasing a DVD burner.
Actually, if people did not die the earth might be a better place. Altruism is a great thing, but it would pale in comparison to self-interest. Would we be so careless with non-renewable resources if we knew we'd be around when the supplies ran out? Given that the world population is doubling every thirty years, keeping one extra generation around would only be the difference of thirty years population growth.
Since you've got Sony Stuff, buy the Sony Receiver, the Remote is cool and controls everything(as well as other brands)
Because I finally bought a player :(
I guess I never thought of North Carolina as "Out There"...
I hope he doesn't get gobbled up by Vermicious Knids!
Slobodan Milosevic also benefited from the fractious nature of his opposition, and stayed in power a lot longer than he would have in a two party system.
In a presidential system, where there is one person elected as head of government and state, participation by additional parties only hurts the Dominant party candidate with which the smaller parties are most closely identified.
In a parliamentary system, where leadership of the government is determined by the party who has a majority in the legislature, third parties hurt the dominant parties by dilluting support in the individual districts. Obviously this is different in a proportional representation system, where third parties can be part of governing coalitions(and threaten to disrupt the coalition if they don't get their way).
I guess this is probably off topic...
But I have to take issue with your attack on the two-party system. What do third (and fourth and fifth..) parties accomplish? They fracture voting blocks into units so small they are virtually powerless. Ralph Nader's candidacy for president cost the Left the election. Though Nader will vehemently deny this, the issues he ran on will be adversely affected by his candidacy.