I have been in this situation several times. The company has never wanted the cheap item I got by mistake back and has always shipped the more expensive item I actually ordered as soon as the mistake was pointed out to them. US law seems to be pretty clear-cut and honest retailers understand this.
If you had the chance to visit the late lamented Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton when it still existed, and if you had visited the gentlemen's toilet, you would have unzipped before a urinal topped by a mirror. Upon tinkling, the mirror would proceed to display an amusing ad for some silly personal product only available in the Star Trek universe. It was so amusing that there was a constant stream of guys sneaking their girls into the men's room to show it off.
Apparently there was a similar gag in the Ladies' at the wash basin, but the ladies report that it wasn't nearly as funny.
NMR only reports the presence of (certain isotopes of) nuclei. With most biochemicals of interest being made almost entirely of the same four atoms (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen) there's nothing to tell the MRI which particular large molecule the atoms are part of.
If the Moon was created by a glancing collision between the Earth and a Mar-sized protoplanet, which seems to be the going theory nowadays, then the Moon was created in Low Earth Orbit during the very heavy bombardment phase of the LHB. Once the Moon became tidally locked -- which would have happened pretty quickly at such proximity -- Nearside was shielded from most further bombardment by the Earth. So Nearside is kind of a fossile from the heaviest epoch of the LHB, while Farside continued to get pelted as the big stuff was swept up, and finally got the fine dusting of the last scraps evening it out. It would also have continued to accumulate crud, which Nearside wouldn't, thus the thicker Farside crust.
Eisenhower suspended nuclear testing. Shortly thereafter, the Soviet Union ignored its promise and resumed testing with some of the largest and "dirtiest" weapons ever detonated.
Heinlein was infuriated. He stopped work on the novel that would become Stranger in a Strange Land and wrote Starship Troopers in a white-hot fury.
So it would appear that Heinlein was about as serious and passionate as he ever would be about anything when he wrote ST. This is what he was serious about.
So in the movie the Hubble is a bit lower and the ISS a bit higher, and they share an orbit and hold station to facilitate regular maintenance, but at a safe distance to prevent regular ISS activity from interfering with the telescope and in case something goes wrong. Yes it's impossible in our space program but the F in SF doesn't stand for Fact.
As for the roulette prediction computers, they are the reason most jurisdiction now have anti-device laws. Counting cards is legal, although the casino can also legally throw you out for doing it. But using a computer is actually illegal.
...to clear Turing of having an official criminal record. The law and the criminal justice system regard you as a criminal if you break a law, whether that was a "good" law or a "bad" law. Essentially, under the legal system, there can't be any such thing as a law that's invalid because it's bad; that would undermine the whole idea of what law is. So what the pardon does is erase Turing's record of being a criminal lawbreaker without making any statement about the validity of the law he broke. That is something that can be done without undermining the very idea of law itself.
My company does work for one of the largest sugar refineries in North America. The plant manager told me that during the New Coke debacle Coca-Cola very obviously and deliberately phased out their use of sucrose, going from one of their larger single customers to doing no business with them at all by the time Coke Classic was introduced.
The launch window is like half a second long for this kind of approach, so if anything at all goes wrong during the countdown the launch is off until the next window, typically several orbits later.
Corporations tend to be very conservative about making changes to critical infrastructure, on the theory of "don't fix it if it ain't broke." They don't like unscheduled forced expenditures and down time. I can personally think of at least a dozen DOS and Windows 98 machines that are in service today. This may come as a shock, but there are actually computers out there which aren't on the internet, so security vulnerabilities and upgrades aren't an issue. And the last thing a company that has something wants is a replacement that *requires* an internet connection.
Tesla monitors cars remotely now to warn owners who are in danger of bricking the batteries by not keeping them charged. And while you might ask whether you can trust them not to monitor where you go if you buy a car from them, you should certainly expect them to use the capability if it's THEIR test car and you're writing a review of it.
Cosmic rays actually interact very little either with the Earth's magnetosphere, atmosphere, or sillicon chips. They're going so fast that they don't hang around long enough to interact with atomic nuclei unless they score a direct hit. There really isn't much difference in cosmic ray exposure between the ground and, say, the surface of the Moon.
The real problem is solar weather. The Sun regularly spits out particle blasts that would fry anything made of semiconductors. Those blasts are what power the aurorae. But those charged particles aren't going so fast so they're deflected by the magnetosphere (which is what protects the ISS) and they're also more readily absorbed by the atmosphere, which is why radiation levels at sea level are lower than they are in Denver.
If you could get your iPhone and tablet safely out of the solar system, they would probably work fine on a generation starship.
Tiny BASIC pretty much made hobby computing possible; before Microsoft came along it opened the computer hobby up to people who couldn't or couldn't be bothered to learn machine language.
Radiation detectors at ports are gamma detectors, primarily for detecting radiologically contaminated scrap. I have actually worked next to those detectors and seen them go off. The principal material in an atomic bomb is plutonium, which is an alpha emitter. A piece of paper will stop an alpha particle, much less a bomb casing or even the skin of a shipping container. A finished, functional atomic bomb is not all that radioactive compared to some steel that you stupidly alloyed with cesium from an old cancer therapy machine, which is what the ports are looking for.
Seriously, there is NO CHECKING of incoming freight into the US. You put the bomb in a shipping container, have it offloaded and shipped to some random warehouse, then put the bomb in a panel park and park it downtown $victim_city. There is no mechanism whatsoever to catch you if you do this. I have done work in ports. If the paperwork is straight for it to be tennis shoes it will get where it's going with nobody the wiser.
Of course if you're NK your bomb is a piddly fizzly Plutonium gun bomb that doesn't work all that well so it will only knock down a few square blocks and spray a bunch of contamination around, but that will be annoying enough that nobody will mind if we respond with one of our own slightly more effective systems, right?
I have to use wireless because there is no reliable wired service to my house but I'm practically underneath a cell tower. I pay USD$60/month for 5 gigabytes and, if I go over, USD$60 per gigabyte for every gigabyte I go over that. The only way to tell how close I am to the usurious cap is to log into a website that's only updated once a day and which itself serves several megabytes of ads before I can get to the summary of my data usage. Oh, I also get 50%, 75%, and 90% emails and similar SMS messages which I can't receive because my access point is a MIFI which isn't really a phone.
I have complained, and of course not only is nothing done the only competitor has EXACTLY the same pricing model. The one time I went over by accident it nearly doubled my bill and when I complained they "generously" gave me a one-time waiver, but when I told them I'd rather have the service slow down or stop working I got nothing but shrugs. Because, of course, it's a profitable trap and nothing else.
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I have been in this situation several times. The company has never wanted the cheap item I got by mistake back and has always shipped the more expensive item I actually ordered as soon as the mistake was pointed out to them. US law seems to be pretty clear-cut and honest retailers understand this.
My Rand McNally map of the Moon has it labeled Sinus Iridium, so maybe you should give them a call to complain.
...of using their desktop monopoly to strongarm their way into the mobile market.
If you had the chance to visit the late lamented Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton when it still existed, and if you had visited the gentlemen's toilet, you would have unzipped before a urinal topped by a mirror. Upon tinkling, the mirror would proceed to display an amusing ad for some silly personal product only available in the Star Trek universe. It was so amusing that there was a constant stream of guys sneaking their girls into the men's room to show it off. Apparently there was a similar gag in the Ladies' at the wash basin, but the ladies report that it wasn't nearly as funny.
Suicide does not affect any of the other things you list, and if you pay through the nose you can get a life insurance policy that even covers it.
...you can expect a really, really long jail sentence. And the health care in those for-profit prisons sucks.
NMR only reports the presence of (certain isotopes of) nuclei. With most biochemicals of interest being made almost entirely of the same four atoms (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen) there's nothing to tell the MRI which particular large molecule the atoms are part of.
If the Moon was created by a glancing collision between the Earth and a Mar-sized protoplanet, which seems to be the going theory nowadays, then the Moon was created in Low Earth Orbit during the very heavy bombardment phase of the LHB. Once the Moon became tidally locked -- which would have happened pretty quickly at such proximity -- Nearside was shielded from most further bombardment by the Earth. So Nearside is kind of a fossile from the heaviest epoch of the LHB, while Farside continued to get pelted as the big stuff was swept up, and finally got the fine dusting of the last scraps evening it out. It would also have continued to accumulate crud, which Nearside wouldn't, thus the thicker Farside crust.
Eisenhower suspended nuclear testing. Shortly thereafter, the Soviet Union ignored its promise and resumed testing with some of the largest and "dirtiest" weapons ever detonated.
Heinlein was infuriated. He stopped work on the novel that would become Stranger in a Strange Land and wrote Starship Troopers in a white-hot fury.
So it would appear that Heinlein was about as serious and passionate as he ever would be about anything when he wrote ST. This is what he was serious about.
Cars can't get drunk. I would be watching the scenery blow by with a beer in my hand. And not in a goddamn paper bag.
So in the movie the Hubble is a bit lower and the ISS a bit higher, and they share an orbit and hold station to facilitate regular maintenance, but at a safe distance to prevent regular ISS activity from interfering with the telescope and in case something goes wrong. Yes it's impossible in our space program but the F in SF doesn't stand for Fact.
As for the roulette prediction computers, they are the reason most jurisdiction now have anti-device laws. Counting cards is legal, although the casino can also legally throw you out for doing it. But using a computer is actually illegal.
Nothing more embarrassing than finding that female reporter rotting away in a dungeon cell
You do realize that she's an heiress and a masochist and that the entire movie is her fantasy, right?
If we're doing aggregator writeups it's been done better by someone who actually found the original Trustwave alert.
...to clear Turing of having an official criminal record. The law and the criminal justice system regard you as a criminal if you break a law, whether that was a "good" law or a "bad" law. Essentially, under the legal system, there can't be any such thing as a law that's invalid because it's bad; that would undermine the whole idea of what law is. So what the pardon does is erase Turing's record of being a criminal lawbreaker without making any statement about the validity of the law he broke. That is something that can be done without undermining the very idea of law itself.
My company does work for one of the largest sugar refineries in North America. The plant manager told me that during the New Coke debacle Coca-Cola very obviously and deliberately phased out their use of sucrose, going from one of their larger single customers to doing no business with them at all by the time Coke Classic was introduced.
The launch window is like half a second long for this kind of approach, so if anything at all goes wrong during the countdown the launch is off until the next window, typically several orbits later.
Corporations tend to be very conservative about making changes to critical infrastructure, on the theory of "don't fix it if it ain't broke." They don't like unscheduled forced expenditures and down time. I can personally think of at least a dozen DOS and Windows 98 machines that are in service today. This may come as a shock, but there are actually computers out there which aren't on the internet, so security vulnerabilities and upgrades aren't an issue. And the last thing a company that has something wants is a replacement that *requires* an internet connection.
Tesla monitors cars remotely now to warn owners who are in danger of bricking the batteries by not keeping them charged. And while you might ask whether you can trust them not to monitor where you go if you buy a car from them, you should certainly expect them to use the capability if it's THEIR test car and you're writing a review of it.
Cosmic rays actually interact very little either with the Earth's magnetosphere, atmosphere, or sillicon chips. They're going so fast that they don't hang around long enough to interact with atomic nuclei unless they score a direct hit. There really isn't much difference in cosmic ray exposure between the ground and, say, the surface of the Moon. The real problem is solar weather. The Sun regularly spits out particle blasts that would fry anything made of semiconductors. Those blasts are what power the aurorae. But those charged particles aren't going so fast so they're deflected by the magnetosphere (which is what protects the ISS) and they're also more readily absorbed by the atmosphere, which is why radiation levels at sea level are lower than they are in Denver. If you could get your iPhone and tablet safely out of the solar system, they would probably work fine on a generation starship.
Tiny BASIC pretty much made hobby computing possible; before Microsoft came along it opened the computer hobby up to people who couldn't or couldn't be bothered to learn machine language.
Radiation detectors at ports are gamma detectors, primarily for detecting radiologically contaminated scrap. I have actually worked next to those detectors and seen them go off. The principal material in an atomic bomb is plutonium, which is an alpha emitter. A piece of paper will stop an alpha particle, much less a bomb casing or even the skin of a shipping container. A finished, functional atomic bomb is not all that radioactive compared to some steel that you stupidly alloyed with cesium from an old cancer therapy machine, which is what the ports are looking for.
Seriously, there is NO CHECKING of incoming freight into the US. You put the bomb in a shipping container, have it offloaded and shipped to some random warehouse, then put the bomb in a panel park and park it downtown $victim_city. There is no mechanism whatsoever to catch you if you do this. I have done work in ports. If the paperwork is straight for it to be tennis shoes it will get where it's going with nobody the wiser. Of course if you're NK your bomb is a piddly fizzly Plutonium gun bomb that doesn't work all that well so it will only knock down a few square blocks and spray a bunch of contamination around, but that will be annoying enough that nobody will mind if we respond with one of our own slightly more effective systems, right?
I have to use wireless because there is no reliable wired service to my house but I'm practically underneath a cell tower. I pay USD$60/month for 5 gigabytes and, if I go over, USD$60 per gigabyte for every gigabyte I go over that. The only way to tell how close I am to the usurious cap is to log into a website that's only updated once a day and which itself serves several megabytes of ads before I can get to the summary of my data usage. Oh, I also get 50%, 75%, and 90% emails and similar SMS messages which I can't receive because my access point is a MIFI which isn't really a phone. I have complained, and of course not only is nothing done the only competitor has EXACTLY the same pricing model. The one time I went over by accident it nearly doubled my bill and when I complained they "generously" gave me a one-time waiver, but when I told them I'd rather have the service slow down or stop working I got nothing but shrugs. Because, of course, it's a profitable trap and nothing else.
Copyright exists on creation. Very long-standing law.