Bingo. Seems they failed to grasp a basic plot point of one of my favorite movies: they never set out to destroy it, they deflected it.
They mapped the sucker, drilled and dropped a bomb down deep, and split the sucker. That is feasible, and the size of the bomb, beyond a certain threshold, isn't really relevant as it would only affect how far away you needed to detonate it to get enough seperation to miss the Earth.
Really then the more important consideration is the composition materials of the asteroid, from an energy propagation standpoint; ie, loosely packed dust/debris would absorb more of the blow without seperating, thus still smacking the planet.
Oh momma! Thank Vishnu our leaders had the forsight to distribute these phones to curb the hunger of our impoverished. It's a little crunchy, but boil it long enough and it softens up some.
Corporate Personhood was not a footnote inserted by some clerk.
Corporate Personhood (CP from here in) is essentially just another in the long line of Unintended Consequences.
Specifically the claim was made that the contract was with the corporation, not the individuals behind it, and since a corporation was not a person, it could not be sued. Thus when they failed to meet the contractual obligations (and get sued for breach) the person wronged was left without any method of redress. CP was a method of holding corporations accountable, and forcing them to fulfil contracts. It was actually fought by many corporations initially.
For ths US, truth is advertising is required of commercial ads, but not of political campaigns. Both are speech. But the politcal ads are "political speech" and protected by the 1st amendment as protected speech, including lies and falsehoods. The commercial ads, while "speech", are intended to facilitate the transfer of goods or services for money, and thus are not protected speech because preventing someone from lying to a potential customer to make a sale is seen as the bigger benefit to society than protecting that persons right to lie.
And yes, the irony of a politican "lying to faciliate the transfers of goods or services for money" is killing me.
granted but point still stands. with modern implementations i dont doubt efficiency could be drastically increased. plus the concorde used the burners to accelerate up, and its engines were turbojets. a modern supercruise capable low bypass turbofan would be a dramatic improvement in efficiency and power. modern electronics could be a lot smaller, saving weight and space. the glass cockpit would present more useful infomation more immediately reducing workload and "where is that damn gage" when you have a few hundred of them in front of you to sort through.
Its supply and demand. He has something with a value. That value decreased, but it still has a value, and he can trade in for it.
And he didn't "lose a billion dollars", his worth, ie the value of his assets, decreased. He only LOST money if he came into the market with a 5b and comes out with 4b. Same as you only GAINED if you come out with more than went in. right now my invested dollars are up ~15%, but I haven't made any money yet, and wont until I cash them out (which I wont be doing).
That's standard user/buyer beware. There is a minimum knowledge level for things. True, you make more money by not setting the bar too high, but like driving a car requires a demonstraed set of skills, that many people still lack, usage of slightly advanced internet tools also requires a set of skills, mainly being smart about what you and from where, and checkin the AV now and then.
I would love if patches for software were archived and torrented. Know how hard it is sometimes to find old software patches, for games or apps, but mostly games, that are essential to their use?
There is a difference between a safety net and welfare as it exists is many cities or neighborhoods in our country. Some people actually treat it like one and get off it in time.
But you cannot deny there are those who live off it rather than get a job of any kind when they are more than capable of doing so. I call those people people lazy. And I say open up the borders. Let anyone in who wants to come in. I don't have a problem with that. But for every person that comes in because they want to be a citizen, we kick out one of the lazy bums.
I was with you until you got into the rhetoric about screwing low and middle classes and then you went off into lala land.
Making a company successful after it has gotten into a pit (Best Buy, perfect example) is not easy. It will probably be years before Best Buy is once again successful even if the founder guy gets to go ahead with his plan. And it will entail much painful decisions and restructuring.
But what should they do, just keep lumbering along for fear of hurting someone?
The company is already in the toilet. Don't stop them from trying to climb out.
Damn you greedy users for using the advances in technology! You weren't actually supposed to use real live internet on your phone!! It was supposed to be just a gimmick for us to make money!
The IP is not the source of value, or rather it is irrelevent to the value.
The value for a game comes essentially from its usability. In this case, the gameplay, the enjoyment. You can load a game with tons of IP but that doesnt mean it has any value.
Value is determined by the market. Market makes this determination according to demand. Demand for games is determined by enjoyability.
And that is why highly enjoyable games are worth more on a trade in, while others are not.
Now instead of no-name or proxy companies holding giants hostage, the giants themselves will become the hostage takers, violating patents left and right, and daring any little guy patent holders to try, just try, to take em to court. Then when the giant outspends I mean wins the court case, the lil guy is now really fookered cause he had to the giant's lawyer bill for its high profile team of super expensive attorneys.....
Result: no lil guy will ever take on a giant that violates his patents, and when he contacts the company for any kind of settlement or sale offer, they'll just brush him off.
Old saying: "The military in peacetime is run by bean counters. The military in wartime is run by warriors."
And it's a true fact. And you need both persons. Like a marriage, they compensate for each others weaknesses. And it leads to things like at the start of WWII being unprepared for the fight, cause the transition from one primacy to the other has a lag time.
And its not calling out excessive. It's calling out misplaced spending. And that happens all the time. some people because they can't believe their own niche is going away, others because they are the visionary who sees where the tech is headed.
Not getting nuked during Cold War was a fairly nice achievement, if you ask me.
Not getting nuked had more to do with it being an unwinnable game (ie, MAD) than with diplomacy. What's the point in oblitering the other if you aren't around to enjoy the spoils?
Switzerland is your example? The country that's the size of a postage stamp and has few if any natural resources to covet, the only two reasons why it's always been allowed to remain nuetral and had that neutrality honored in recent history?*
Ya that's a valid comparison.
*Sweden was neutral too...but had things Germany wanted so they got invaded anyway.
I dont believe most of them have any disregard for us.
I do believe most of them are just cogs in the system plugging at their jobs like their told. "Just a paycheck".
And I do beleive cetain high ranking powerful individuals do have blatant disregard for us, and they are responsible for spinning the wheels those cogs are attached to.
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Bingo. Seems they failed to grasp a basic plot point of one of my favorite movies: they never set out to destroy it, they deflected it.
They mapped the sucker, drilled and dropped a bomb down deep, and split the sucker. That is feasible, and the size of the bomb, beyond a certain threshold, isn't really relevant as it would only affect how far away you needed to detonate it to get enough seperation to miss the Earth.
Really then the more important consideration is the composition materials of the asteroid, from an energy propagation standpoint; ie, loosely packed dust/debris would absorb more of the blow without seperating, thus still smacking the planet.
Oh momma! Thank Vishnu our leaders had the forsight to distribute these phones to curb the hunger of our impoverished. It's a little crunchy, but boil it long enough and it softens up some.
Corporate Personhood was not a footnote inserted by some clerk.
Corporate Personhood (CP from here in) is essentially just another in the long line of Unintended Consequences.
Specifically the claim was made that the contract was with the corporation, not the individuals behind it, and since a corporation was not a person, it could not be sued. Thus when they failed to meet the contractual obligations (and get sued for breach) the person wronged was left without any method of redress. CP was a method of holding corporations accountable, and forcing them to fulfil contracts. It was actually fought by many corporations initially.
For ths US, truth is advertising is required of commercial ads, but not of political campaigns. Both are speech. But the politcal ads are "political speech" and protected by the 1st amendment as protected speech, including lies and falsehoods. The commercial ads, while "speech", are intended to facilitate the transfer of goods or services for money, and thus are not protected speech because preventing someone from lying to a potential customer to make a sale is seen as the bigger benefit to society than protecting that persons right to lie.
And yes, the irony of a politican "lying to faciliate the transfers of goods or services for money" is killing me.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1843796,00.html
granted but point still stands. with modern implementations i dont doubt efficiency could be drastically increased. plus the concorde used the burners to accelerate up, and its engines were turbojets. a modern supercruise capable low bypass turbofan would be a dramatic improvement in efficiency and power. modern electronics could be a lot smaller, saving weight and space. the glass cockpit would present more useful infomation more immediately reducing workload and "where is that damn gage" when you have a few hundred of them in front of you to sort through.
You're playing word games.
Its supply and demand. He has something with a value. That value decreased, but it still has a value, and he can trade in for it.
And he didn't "lose a billion dollars", his worth, ie the value of his assets, decreased. He only LOST money if he came into the market with a 5b and comes out with 4b. Same as you only GAINED if you come out with more than went in. right now my invested dollars are up ~15%, but I haven't made any money yet, and wont until I cash them out (which I wont be doing).
Fallacy.
expense of the many how?
That's standard user/buyer beware. There is a minimum knowledge level for things. True, you make more money by not setting the bar too high, but like driving a car requires a demonstraed set of skills, that many people still lack, usage of slightly advanced internet tools also requires a set of skills, mainly being smart about what you and from where, and checkin the AV now and then.
I would love if patches for software were archived and torrented. Know how hard it is sometimes to find old software patches, for games or apps, but mostly games, that are essential to their use?
There is a difference between a safety net and welfare as it exists is many cities or neighborhoods in our country.
Some people actually treat it like one and get off it in time.
But you cannot deny there are those who live off it rather than get a job of any kind when they are more than capable of doing so. I call those people people lazy. And I say open up the borders. Let anyone in who wants to come in. I don't have a problem with that. But for every person that comes in because they want to be a citizen, we kick out one of the lazy bums.
I was with you until you got into the rhetoric about screwing low and middle classes and then you went off into lala land.
Making a company successful after it has gotten into a pit (Best Buy, perfect example) is not easy. It will probably be years before Best Buy is once again successful even if the founder guy gets to go ahead with his plan. And it will entail much painful decisions and restructuring.
But what should they do, just keep lumbering along for fear of hurting someone?
The company is already in the toilet. Don't stop them from trying to climb out.
Mod up. TruValue and ACE, real hardware stores for guys that get things done. Home Depot and Lowe's are jokes.
Damn you greedy users for using the advances in technology!
You weren't actually supposed to use real live internet on your phone!!
It was supposed to be just a gimmick for us to make money!
Game Depreciation: graphics, AI, usability (drivers, OS, hardware reqruiements), ease of use features not implemented that now taken for granted.
The IP is not the source of value, or rather it is irrelevent to the value.
The value for a game comes essentially from its usability. In this case, the gameplay, the enjoyment. You can load a game with tons of IP but that doesnt mean it has any value.
Value is determined by the market.
Market makes this determination according to demand.
Demand for games is determined by enjoyability.
And that is why highly enjoyable games are worth more on a trade in, while others are not.
Now instead of no-name or proxy companies holding giants hostage, the giants themselves will become the hostage takers, violating patents left and right, and daring any little guy patent holders to try, just try, to take em to court. Then when the giant outspends I mean wins the court case, the lil guy is now really fookered cause he had to the giant's lawyer bill for its high profile team of super expensive attorneys.....
Result: no lil guy will ever take on a giant that violates his patents, and when he contacts the company for any kind of settlement or sale offer, they'll just brush him off.
Ya this is a great idea.
Because the olympics isn't about anything other than money as far as the IOC is concerned.
That is so much bullshit, and it could not have been painted with a broader brush. /. it of course get's a +5 Insightful.
But being
Disgusting.
First, stop acting like it's irrational to protect one's own interests.
Second, typical hippy BS post.
Old saying: "The military in peacetime is run by bean counters. The military in wartime is run by warriors."
And it's a true fact. And you need both persons. Like a marriage, they compensate for each others weaknesses.
And it leads to things like at the start of WWII being unprepared for the fight, cause the transition from one primacy to the other has a lag time.
And its not calling out excessive. It's calling out misplaced spending. And that happens all the time. some people because they can't believe their own niche is going away, others because they are the visionary who sees where the tech is headed.
Really? What has diplomacy EVER solved?
Not getting nuked during Cold War was a fairly nice achievement, if you ask me.
Not getting nuked had more to do with it being an unwinnable game (ie, MAD) than with diplomacy.
What's the point in oblitering the other if you aren't around to enjoy the spoils?
Switzerland is your example? The country that's the size of a postage stamp and has few if any natural resources to covet, the only two reasons why it's always been allowed to remain nuetral and had that neutrality honored in recent history?*
Ya that's a valid comparison.
*Sweden was neutral too...but had things Germany wanted so they got invaded anyway.
I dont believe most of them have any disregard for us.
I do believe most of them are just cogs in the system plugging at their jobs like their told. "Just a paycheck".
And I do beleive cetain high ranking powerful individuals do have blatant disregard for us, and they are responsible for spinning the wheels those cogs are attached to.
If a 3yo can pick it up, it's not a "safe".