What makes taking a photo at 200 km different than taking it at 2km? Why the hell would you need to obtain a license from NOAA just because you go above some arbitrarily defined altitude?
However you put it, it's rather difficult to "actively or passively sensing the Earth's surface, including bodies of water" at any distance without resorting to the "use of the properties of the electromagnetic waves emitted, reflected, or diffracted by the sensed objects".
And what makes the Earth so fucking special in the first place? Why not add these requirements to other objects in an orbit around a star?
Indeed - you even have such highly protected rights like "free speech zones". Not to mention how you have the FCC decide what can and cannot be said on public airwaves. And of course the FCC is an elected commision, answerable to the voters as well as congress, right?
Arguing that Free Speech is more free in the US vs Europe results in some interesting argument, especially as the things you're pointing out are individual countries, not the EU.
Hell, I can mention an EU member who up until a few years ago had a nationally funded Nazi radio station until the politician changed the funding law in a way that hurt I think 50 other radio stations. The result - they're still on the air through private funding. Aditionally, this country came under attack from Turkey for not banning ROJ from broadcasting sattelite TV.
As for insulting Ataturk? Have a look at the Dixie Chicks - sure, that wasn't government censorship, but you can't really have free speech when you have that many members of the public upset over someone making use of their free speech.
Dude... grow a spine. Do what a real man would do. Climb the stairs to get out of the basement, kick open the front door and yell at your mother as you run away.
Well, I suspect it's something along the line of a food processor. You know the kind - you put your ingredients into it, push a button and the result is something you wouldn't recognize if you didn't know what just happened.
Indeed. Drive defensively and buy a tank. Even a T34 would do wonders, and it's almost as gas efficient as most SUVs.
I can't wait for the extended edition
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Preferably including gag-reel.
In the penthouse scene where Joker has Rachel, I would have loved to see him lick her on her cheek and sing "Don't you wish your boyfriend was a freak like me".
But then again, that'd probably be more of a Jack-Joker thing than a Heath-Joker thing
The New York City Dept of Health monitors sales records [...] to detect [...] biological attacks.And just how many of those have they detected? Seriously, if you have to look at sales records to identify a biological attack, how do you disguingish it from a regular disease outbreak? Secondly, if that's the only way to identify it, it's not really that effective - roughly as effective as the terrorist plot to kill all Americans by having them die in car crashes. So far they're getting about 130 people a day that way.
Very true. When's the last time you saw any kind of cop show, where they admitted to have screwed up? I can only remember it being done in Numb3ers in two episodes. One and a half actually, because only one of the shows talked about the fingerprints being misidentifed and the wrong guy being thrown in jail. The other was just a wrong assumption on their parts resulting in a manhunt.
Hell, I'd love for a show like 24 to have Jack Bauer or whomever torture the wrong guy for hours on end only to finally realise "woops - wrong guy. Guess the stuff he admitted to was just to get out of more beatings"
Since you know a lot more about statistics than I do, this might be a question better answered by you than anyone I know:
Since chimps and humans share about 97% of our DNA, does that mean that if the "odds" of matching with a human is 1:113,000,000,000 that the "odds" of it matching with a chimp is 1:116,500,000,000?
That's because we're all a bunch of pinko commie liberals!
Imagine the horror that would flow through the US if everyone could just look at their cellphone plan and know that they'll be paying a minimum of say US$1,063 for the 8 GB iPhone3G including a 6 month subscription which has the following stipulations:
Monthly subscription fee for the first six months: US$ 127.54 Monthly subscription fee after the first six months: US$ 84.95 Call charge for calling cellphones with the same provider: US$ 0.00/minute Call charge for calling any landline phone: US$ 0.00/minute Outgoing charge for every attempted call, successfull or not: US$0.00 300 calling minutes per month to any other cellphone included Call charge after this: US$ 0.21/minute - calculated per second 300 MB data traffic per month (3G/Edge) Data charge after this: US$ 0.27/MB Cost per SMS sent: US$ 0.00
All prices includes sales tax and stolen from the Danish provider Telia
I mean - the horror of being able to know what you'll be paying. That's only for commies and anti capitalist, anti free market liberals!
Seriously - night driving or fog and it points out where the stuff you can't see is is supposed to be for old people, but speeding bringing up a pink sign is for everyone? Wtf?
I would love for a kind of thermal imaging sensor that does head up warnings of where almost invisible things are when I'm driving.
And as for the person above asking why people should be allowed to drive if they NEED this, it's not about needing it (you can always just slow down a lot), it's about it being a good fucking idea! I remember the night driving aid being shown off in "Beyond 2000" back when it was on and thinking "great idea" not "meh, only for old people - they're the only ones in need of knowing what more than 20 yards in front of the car when driving in dense fog at night."
Promotion? How about a kick ass demotion to corporal (or the equivalent) followed by a dishonerable discharge? That way they can't go around refering to themselves as ex-generals
What's with the hate against busses? The number of cars in the US significantly outweighs the number of busses, and the number of drunk drivers, speeders, reckless drivers etc are significantly higher for cars than busses.
Just say "hit by a car". The speed at which it's lethal for a but, it's probably lethal for a car as well.
I wasn't suggesting indefinite imprisonment without charges. I very clearly laid out the kind of charge and punishment that the involved parties should have. I just think that it'd be suitable if they spent their time in Gitmo.
Hrmm... wilfully changing the outcome of an election against the will of the people by manipulating the votes cast is an attack on democracy. As such it is also an attack on the government. It could even be argued that it is doing exactly what Al Qaeda is trying to do.
It might not be treason, but it ought to be worth a trip to Gitmo.
A single voter selling his vote can land him in jail for a year (well, here anyway, don't know about the US). How many votes were aparently cast in these two counties? Let's say... 10,000 for an easy number. Give him 1 day in jail for every vote cast in the now ruined election. Not for every vote changed - every vote cast.
The trick is, of course, that it is to be served end to end. That's only 27 years and 139 days to be served in jail.
Should work as a pretty good deterrent. For extra incentive to be a whistleblower, go after every single person involved in this, from software programmers to the people not verifying the patching with the state who failed to report it to the authorities. That way, if someone shows up wanting to patch your voting machine, you grab the phone and call your superiors and check with them BEFORE letting them touch the machine. If they sign off on it, it's their ass in the slammer, not yours.
Saudi Arabia perhaps. But I think you'd find the US economy taking the bigger hit, if it were to do a full on embargo of China.
Look around the room you're in. How much of that stuff has been made in China or is US made from raw materials processed in China?
A few simple examples: The vast majority of bras and zippers are made in China - not the most fun thing to have to do without on a daily basis. Same with buttons. The washing tags in your clothes are also from China.
Quite a lot of your electronics are probably from either China or Taiwan, and it's not entirely unthinkable that if the US decided to do an embargo on China, that China would respond with either an invasion or blockade on Taiwan.
Not sure about the US, but strangely some food items are produced in Europe, shipped to China for a bit of processing and then back to Europe for final preparation. I'm sure you can find lots of similar examples with US goods.
Not to mention that since China has a lot of trade with countries other than the US, they would be in a good position to make them pick between trading with the US or China. Sure, you guys have fun movies, but we kinda like our food, clothes and luxury goods over here.
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Isn't this playing into the Ghandi tactic that people keep accusing Microsoft of falling for?
First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you -- FSF seems to advocate this step now
Then they lose
If this is how it works when Microsoft tries to take on Libre software, why doesn't it work like that when FSF does it to Apple?
What makes taking a photo at 200 km different than taking it at 2km? Why the hell would you need to obtain a license from NOAA just because you go above some arbitrarily defined altitude?
However you put it, it's rather difficult to "actively or passively sensing the Earth's surface, including bodies of water" at any distance without resorting to the "use of the properties of the electromagnetic waves emitted, reflected, or diffracted by the sensed objects".
And what makes the Earth so fucking special in the first place? Why not add these requirements to other objects in an orbit around a star?
But, but, but ... where the hell will we get bacon from? When pigs can fly why would they stay in their pens?
Guess who makes Duplo bricks
Consumer electronics my ass - it's being stockpiled for Terminator endoskeletons
Indeed - you even have such highly protected rights like "free speech zones". Not to mention how you have the FCC decide what can and cannot be said on public airwaves. And of course the FCC is an elected commision, answerable to the voters as well as congress, right?
Arguing that Free Speech is more free in the US vs Europe results in some interesting argument, especially as the things you're pointing out are individual countries, not the EU.
Hell, I can mention an EU member who up until a few years ago had a nationally funded Nazi radio station until the politician changed the funding law in a way that hurt I think 50 other radio stations. The result - they're still on the air through private funding. Aditionally, this country came under attack from Turkey for not banning ROJ from broadcasting sattelite TV.
As for insulting Ataturk? Have a look at the Dixie Chicks - sure, that wasn't government censorship, but you can't really have free speech when you have that many members of the public upset over someone making use of their free speech.
I'm not sure we want to know what you do with your family at 2 AM in the morning. Wife/girlfriend, sure .. but not the rest of your family
Dude ... grow a spine. Do what a real man would do. Climb the stairs to get out of the basement, kick open the front door and yell at your mother as you run away.
Well, I suspect it's something along the line of a food processor. You know the kind - you put your ingredients into it, push a button and the result is something you wouldn't recognize if you didn't know what just happened.
Indeed. Drive defensively and buy a tank. Even a T34 would do wonders, and it's almost as gas efficient as most SUVs.
Preferably including gag-reel.
In the penthouse scene where Joker has Rachel, I would have loved to see him lick her on her cheek and sing "Don't you wish your boyfriend was a freak like me".
But then again, that'd probably be more of a Jack-Joker thing than a Heath-Joker thing
I realise it's customary not to RTFA, but I would think that the submitters would at least read what they submit. Roland wrote:
The article says:
Far from the same thing. But I suppose that's another reason people don't like Roland.
Very true. When's the last time you saw any kind of cop show, where they admitted to have screwed up? I can only remember it being done in Numb3ers in two episodes. One and a half actually, because only one of the shows talked about the fingerprints being misidentifed and the wrong guy being thrown in jail. The other was just a wrong assumption on their parts resulting in a manhunt.
Hell, I'd love for a show like 24 to have Jack Bauer or whomever torture the wrong guy for hours on end only to finally realise "woops - wrong guy. Guess the stuff he admitted to was just to get out of more beatings"
Since you know a lot more about statistics than I do, this might be a question better answered by you than anyone I know:
Since chimps and humans share about 97% of our DNA, does that mean that if the "odds" of matching with a human is 1:113,000,000,000 that the "odds" of it matching with a chimp is 1:116,500,000,000?
That's because we're all a bunch of pinko commie liberals!
Imagine the horror that would flow through the US if everyone could just look at their cellphone plan and know that they'll be paying a minimum of say US$1,063 for the 8 GB iPhone3G including a 6 month subscription which has the following stipulations:
Monthly subscription fee for the first six months: US$ 127.54
Monthly subscription fee after the first six months: US$ 84.95
Call charge for calling cellphones with the same provider: US$ 0.00/minute
Call charge for calling any landline phone: US$ 0.00/minute
Outgoing charge for every attempted call, successfull or not: US$0.00
300 calling minutes per month to any other cellphone included
Call charge after this: US$ 0.21/minute - calculated per second
300 MB data traffic per month (3G/Edge)
Data charge after this: US$ 0.27/MB
Cost per SMS sent: US$ 0.00
All prices includes sales tax and stolen from the Danish provider Telia
I mean - the horror of being able to know what you'll be paying. That's only for commies and anti capitalist, anti free market liberals!
Seriously - night driving or fog and it points out where the stuff you can't see is is supposed to be for old people, but speeding bringing up a pink sign is for everyone? Wtf?
I would love for a kind of thermal imaging sensor that does head up warnings of where almost invisible things are when I'm driving.
And as for the person above asking why people should be allowed to drive if they NEED this, it's not about needing it (you can always just slow down a lot), it's about it being a good fucking idea! I remember the night driving aid being shown off in "Beyond 2000" back when it was on and thinking "great idea" not "meh, only for old people - they're the only ones in need of knowing what more than 20 yards in front of the car when driving in dense fog at night."
Promotion? How about a kick ass demotion to corporal (or the equivalent) followed by a dishonerable discharge? That way they can't go around refering to themselves as ex-generals
What's with the hate against busses? The number of cars in the US significantly outweighs the number of busses, and the number of drunk drivers, speeders, reckless drivers etc are significantly higher for cars than busses.
Just say "hit by a car". The speed at which it's lethal for a but, it's probably lethal for a car as well.
I wasn't suggesting indefinite imprisonment without charges. I very clearly laid out the kind of charge and punishment that the involved parties should have. I just think that it'd be suitable if they spent their time in Gitmo.
Hrmm ... wilfully changing the outcome of an election against the will of the people by manipulating the votes cast is an attack on democracy. As such it is also an attack on the government. It could even be argued that it is doing exactly what Al Qaeda is trying to do.
It might not be treason, but it ought to be worth a trip to Gitmo.
A single voter selling his vote can land him in jail for a year (well, here anyway, don't know about the US). How many votes were aparently cast in these two counties? Let's say ... 10,000 for an easy number. Give him 1 day in jail for every vote cast in the now ruined election. Not for every vote changed - every vote cast.
The trick is, of course, that it is to be served end to end. That's only 27 years and 139 days to be served in jail.
Should work as a pretty good deterrent. For extra incentive to be a whistleblower, go after every single person involved in this, from software programmers to the people not verifying the patching with the state who failed to report it to the authorities. That way, if someone shows up wanting to patch your voting machine, you grab the phone and call your superiors and check with them BEFORE letting them touch the machine. If they sign off on it, it's their ass in the slammer, not yours.
Oh, that thing that Sheldon Cooper can suck on?
Which we could then encase in leak proof containers and dump them in a subduction zone.
Plenty of those around, so just dump it back in the Earth without having to guard it against earthquakes - in fact we'd like those to happen.
Actually, some trees cannot reproduce without a forest fire scorching them. Can't quite remember the species though
Saudi Arabia perhaps. But I think you'd find the US economy taking the bigger hit, if it were to do a full on embargo of China.
Look around the room you're in. How much of that stuff has been made in China or is US made from raw materials processed in China?
A few simple examples: The vast majority of bras and zippers are made in China - not the most fun thing to have to do without on a daily basis. Same with buttons. The washing tags in your clothes are also from China.
Quite a lot of your electronics are probably from either China or Taiwan, and it's not entirely unthinkable that if the US decided to do an embargo on China, that China would respond with either an invasion or blockade on Taiwan.
Not sure about the US, but strangely some food items are produced in Europe, shipped to China for a bit of processing and then back to Europe for final preparation. I'm sure you can find lots of similar examples with US goods.
Not to mention that since China has a lot of trade with countries other than the US, they would be in a good position to make them pick between trading with the US or China. Sure, you guys have fun movies, but we kinda like our food, clothes and luxury goods over here.