I have a vested interest in drinking clean water and breathing clean air. Both of those things have improved significantly since the 70s entirely due to federal government regulations that Conservatives and Libertarians have fought tooth and nail.
I've read Ron Paul's plan to get rid of the EPA. The idea is that after your kid dies due to toxic waste dumping, then you can sue the company for violating your property rights. The problem is that the company has an army of very good lawyers who can afford to drag the case through the courts for a decade while you go bankrupt.
The problem is that Libertarians want corporations to be unencumbered by regulations to the extent that they can harm people and the environment without oversight.
If you think Helen Thomas's statement *weren't* antisimitic, then I don't know what to tell you. If she had said "Everyone of Mexican descent, event those born in the US, should go "home" to Mexico." she would have gotten a similar reaction.
Contrary to that email, NASA did not spend a penny to develop a space pen. A private company did and then offered them to NASA, who jumped at the opportunity because they were a massive improvement over the grease pencils they had been using. They had to use grease pencils because a floating broken off graphite pencil tip would be a massive health hazard.
[quote]I said a long time ago that the militarization of the internet would cause a lot of problem[/quote]
The internet was created by the US military for military research. It hasn't become militarized. It always has been. They just allowed a billion civilians to use a miliary network and we all jumped on board.
People manage to build skyscrapers and bridges, and dig huge mines without a massive loss of life. The threat of OSHA fines and private lawsuits actually does put safety at the top of their priority list.
if the user doesn't make calls the Bluetooth v4 connection won't drain the battery very much
But they're marketing the ability to make calls as a major feature. Buyers will expect that. And early adopters willing to shell out $300 will probably tend to be heavy users. If this watch can't handle 14-18 hours of solid use, I have to think it's dead in the water.
My Galaxy phone doesn't have great battery life, but for $5 I can buy extra batteries and swap them out. Making this watch's battery situation much worse is the fact that you can't charge them directly from ubiquitous microUSB cables. You would have to drag the charging dock with you in order to recharge away from home.
You're missing the point. If a type of battery chemistry requires Neodymium, for example, there is only a set amount Neodymium available on the market. There is research to create batteries that are just as effective but with less or no rare earth elements, but that kind of R&D moves very slowly. Because these batteries make use of element's very specific chemical properties- you can't substitute them easily.
If you get an order for a million batteries that require Neodymium, you can't just make a phone call and have it delivered at the same price you're used to. Your consumption has actually impacted the market and driven up price on that input.
Why would you steal the robot? The point of the robot is to protect the property, not the robot. The whole idea is that the cops can get to the property in less time than it takes for you to make off with anything valuable- just like with rent a cops today.
In fact this large demand is going to be what eventually causes prices for batteries to go down
That's not necessarily true. An increase in production decreases the price of each unit when an unlimited amount of the needed raw materials are available. Batteries involve exotic materials that may become scarce due to increased use. That scarcity leads to higher prices for inputs, and thus higher prices for the batteries.
But they would respond exactly like the fat mall cop would - by calling the actual cops. It would be more difficult to prevent a robot mall cop from doing that than a human mall cop. The robot mall cop could also easily be rigged with a "dead man's switch" so that if contact is lost, cops are notified.
The thing is that none of these "skeptics" ever find errors or present relevant data. They just say "nuh uh, 98% of climate scientists are all wrong because Rush Limbaugh said so".
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Your non-hysterical interpretation will not be the one that people take away from this.
Is he not a True Scotsman?
The primary feature is the large, bright, thin screen.
You think adding a webcam and a microphone adds "several hundred dollars" to the price of a new TV? More like $10 at most.
They should call it "Tape Actually Used for Ducts".
I have a vested interest in drinking clean water and breathing clean air. Both of those things have improved significantly since the 70s entirely due to federal government regulations that Conservatives and Libertarians have fought tooth and nail.
I've read Ron Paul's plan to get rid of the EPA. The idea is that after your kid dies due to toxic waste dumping, then you can sue the company for violating your property rights. The problem is that the company has an army of very good lawyers who can afford to drag the case through the courts for a decade while you go bankrupt.
That's some good No True Scotsmanning, Lou.
The problem is that Libertarians want corporations to be unencumbered by regulations to the extent that they can harm people and the environment without oversight.
That article has nothing to do with the percentage of bills used to buy drugs.
If you work at Groom Lake, the government flys you to work. Next time you're in Las Vegas, look for a while 737 with a red stripe.
Then refuse orders, get court marshalled, and bring attention to the situation. Posting an anonymous picture on the internet is cowardly.
If you think Helen Thomas's statement *weren't* antisimitic, then I don't know what to tell you. If she had said "Everyone of Mexican descent, event those born in the US, should go "home" to Mexico." she would have gotten a similar reaction.
I'm not seeing anything that contradicts my statement.
One or two nutjobs that nobody cares about have labeled legitimate anti-israel criticism as anti-semitic.
Yet people like you make it sound like some big widespread thing so that you can feel like oppressed victims.
I think the US fully deserves it if they do carry out this attack on Syria.
Unfortunately for you, it doesn't matter what you think.
Contrary to that email, NASA did not spend a penny to develop a space pen. A private company did and then offered them to NASA, who jumped at the opportunity because they were a massive improvement over the grease pencils they had been using. They had to use grease pencils because a floating broken off graphite pencil tip would be a massive health hazard.
[quote]I said a long time ago that the militarization of the internet would cause a lot of problem[/quote]
The internet was created by the US military for military research. It hasn't become militarized. It always has been. They just allowed a billion civilians to use a miliary network and we all jumped on board.
People manage to build skyscrapers and bridges, and dig huge mines without a massive loss of life. The threat of OSHA fines and private lawsuits actually does put safety at the top of their priority list.
if the user doesn't make calls the Bluetooth v4 connection won't drain the battery very much
But they're marketing the ability to make calls as a major feature. Buyers will expect that. And early adopters willing to shell out $300 will probably tend to be heavy users. If this watch can't handle 14-18 hours of solid use, I have to think it's dead in the water.
My Galaxy phone doesn't have great battery life, but for $5 I can buy extra batteries and swap them out. Making this watch's battery situation much worse is the fact that you can't charge them directly from ubiquitous microUSB cables. You would have to drag the charging dock with you in order to recharge away from home.
You're missing the point. If a type of battery chemistry requires Neodymium, for example, there is only a set amount Neodymium available on the market. There is research to create batteries that are just as effective but with less or no rare earth elements, but that kind of R&D moves very slowly. Because these batteries make use of element's very specific chemical properties- you can't substitute them easily.
If you get an order for a million batteries that require Neodymium, you can't just make a phone call and have it delivered at the same price you're used to. Your consumption has actually impacted the market and driven up price on that input.
Why would you steal the robot? The point of the robot is to protect the property, not the robot. The whole idea is that the cops can get to the property in less time than it takes for you to make off with anything valuable- just like with rent a cops today.
In fact this large demand is going to be what eventually causes prices for batteries to go down
That's not necessarily true. An increase in production decreases the price of each unit when an unlimited amount of the needed raw materials are available. Batteries involve exotic materials that may become scarce due to increased use. That scarcity leads to higher prices for inputs, and thus higher prices for the batteries.
Yeah. That's why I wrote a third sentence about how to overcome that.
But they would respond exactly like the fat mall cop would - by calling the actual cops. It would be more difficult to prevent a robot mall cop from doing that than a human mall cop. The robot mall cop could also easily be rigged with a "dead man's switch" so that if contact is lost, cops are notified.
The thing is that none of these "skeptics" ever find errors or present relevant data. They just say "nuh uh, 98% of climate scientists are all wrong because Rush Limbaugh said so".