If you go and buy a real car - say a merc - then you can already get the option for each of the remotes to automatically set up your seat etc to your configuration, or reset it for another driver.
Anyway, the fact that you are too lazy to adjust your seat when you get in the car doesn't justify:
* the government unduly invading MY privacy * the government wasting MY money on a scheme that patently doesn't achieve ANY of its aims
Since you are blatantly generalising (in "Europe"? Which country, precisely?), let me retaliate in kind:
You are obviously American, so the chance of you speaking any of the European languages to the level required to watch TV is approximately 1/25 (English) + 0.3 / 25 (Spanish) - no wonder you didn't enjoy it;)
already knows roughly where you are (at least to cell level), and should be able to make it more accirate with triangulations. Seems more promising than taking pictures of all the buildings in a city
Why don't you build something with mini-itx (http://www.mini-itx.com/) motherboards? I reckon you shold be able to fit a bunch of them into a small-ish flight-case... in fact I'm itching for an excuse to do that anyway. Which would give you three, or more, server PCs in very little space. Not the most powerful systems in the world, but cheap & quiet.
Actually, there were quite a few WIND mills in the flatter, windy parts of the country - like Norfolk, where you can still see lots of them.
As to "Its kind of sad that people are so cloistered and urbanised that when someone mentions doing what man has been doing for 2000+ years you ask 'Is it Legal?'".. people have been killing people for more than 2000+ years, and it's still illegal;)
In absolute terms, the US is one of the biggest donors. As a percentage of GDP, or per head of population, the amount of aid is very small compared to other countries.
Not to mention that the US (like other countries, but more so) has a penchant of giving aid tied to specific purchases, or to support 'peculiar' regimes.
As Gordon Gecko so nicely put it in "Wall Street": "Greed is good!".
Seriously, companies are there to make money for their shareholders. If they can make more money by outsourcing (and I'm actually not sure that's necessarily the case), then they have a duty to do that. That's capitalism. If you don't like it, go and live in Russia... oh, that doesn't work anymore. North Korea or Cuba, perhaps?;)
But don't forget who owns the companies. A huge chunk of the stock market is owned by pension funds, i.e. you & me.
>Europe has never concentrated an effort on an organized road system like the us did untill recently (if they ever did)
You've clearly never been to Europe, have you? The road network is excellent, particularly motorways. E.g. last summer I drove from Malmo in Sweden to London - and it's just one smooth Motorway (and, of course, one of the worlds longest road bridges, and the channel tunnel by train).
After all, vee germanz invented zee Autobahn, mein Freund, vell before your puny interstate system;)
So it takes an evening. Big deal. Their going to be in office for 4 years, and they've been campaigning for god knows how many months.... and you can't wait 8 hours to get a result?
It just seems a hell of a lot of effort for no point.
Don't get me wrong, I love computers too, but what exactly is wrong with paper ballots? They work reliably, and have been for a long long time. They are cheap, simple, tamperproof - and the beauty is, the technology scales wonderfully;)
Just 'cause you can automate something doesn't always mean you should.
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If you go and buy a real car - say a merc - then you can already get the option for each of the remotes to automatically set up your seat etc to your configuration, or reset it for another driver.
Anyway, the fact that you are too lazy to adjust your seat when you get in the car doesn't justify:
* the government unduly invading MY privacy
* the government wasting MY money on a scheme that patently doesn't achieve ANY of its aims
Since you are blatantly generalising (in "Europe"? Which country, precisely?), let me retaliate in kind:
;)
You are obviously American, so the chance of you speaking any of the European languages to the level required to watch TV is approximately 1/25 (English) + 0.3 / 25 (Spanish) - no wonder you didn't enjoy it
"A half-century of practicing free trade while the US and Germany errected heavy tariffs on imports."?
Preach it, maybe, but practice it? Hardly.
Quite apart from the fact that Hitler was Austrian, not German!
impossible to forge? like money, you mean :)
Actually, it's been there for far longer than that. The French are the relative newcomers to English, with the Norman invasion....
Why would you not have legal recourse in the U.S. because you're from Scotland? The legal system is open to all (who can afford itr)....
I really would love you to scientifically prove that women "have souls" ;)
AI isn't usually in the business of killing people, unless you can bore dictators to death with letters.... Puzzled.
already knows roughly where you are (at least to cell level), and should be able to make it more accirate with triangulations. Seems more promising than taking pictures of all the buildings in a city
Errr.. by that argument, nobody would ever have been able to write anything useful in C, since that doesn't have any garbage collector at all?
Circular references, in my experience at least, are a) rare and b) easily avoided if they cause problems.
Why don't you build something with mini-itx (http://www.mini-itx.com/) motherboards? I reckon you shold be able to fit a bunch of them into a small-ish flight-case... in fact I'm itching for an excuse to do that anyway. Which would give you three, or more, server PCs in very little space. Not the most powerful systems in the world, but cheap & quiet.
Actually, there were quite a few WIND mills in the flatter, windy parts of the country - like Norfolk, where you can still see lots of them.
.. people have been killing people for more than 2000+ years, and it's still illegal ;)
As to "Its kind of sad that people are so cloistered and urbanised that when someone mentions doing what man has been doing for 2000+ years you ask 'Is it Legal?'"
"The end result is that undocumented C++ code is often unreadable. A lot of other languages don't suffer from that sort of problem."
Heck, the guy who sits next to me makes PYTHON unreadable;)... sometimes you can blame the tools, but sometimes you have to blame the workmen.
The one that really gets me is "the wrong kind of rain". You'd think of all things they'd be used to rain in this country...
Just goes to show what every sensible person already knows: The more rabid the "advocacy", the more counterproductive it is.
>Learning to code in assembly is like learning to fight with a sword.
:)
Tedious & Pointless ?
How about for some strong arguments?
;)
* It's expensive
* It harms the US economy (especially tourism)
* It achieves nothing for security
BTW, I think we'll end up with a nannying police state
In absolute terms, the US is one of the biggest donors. As a percentage of GDP, or per head of population, the amount of aid is very small compared to other countries.
Not to mention that the US (like other countries, but more so) has a penchant of giving aid tied to specific purchases, or to support 'peculiar' regimes.
As Gordon Gecko so nicely put it in "Wall Street": "Greed is good!".
... oh, that doesn't work anymore. North Korea or Cuba, perhaps? ;)
Seriously, companies are there to make money for their shareholders. If they can make more money by outsourcing (and I'm actually not sure that's necessarily the case), then they have a duty to do that. That's capitalism. If you don't like it, go and live in Russia
But don't forget who owns the companies. A huge chunk of the stock market is owned by pension funds, i.e. you & me.
Why is the person outside of your country - probably also the head of a household - less deserving than the person in your country?
Sorry, that's not a moral argument.
YYYY-MM-DD. He's in Europe, so he's using sensible date formats ;)
>Europe has never concentrated an effort on an organized road system like the us did untill recently (if they ever did)
;)
You've clearly never been to Europe, have you? The road network is excellent, particularly motorways. E.g. last summer I drove from Malmo in Sweden to London - and it's just one smooth Motorway (and, of course, one of the worlds longest road bridges, and the channel tunnel by train).
After all, vee germanz invented zee Autobahn, mein Freund, vell before your puny interstate system
So it takes an evening. Big deal. Their going to be in office for 4 years, and they've been campaigning for god knows how many months.... and you can't wait 8 hours to get a result?
It just seems a hell of a lot of effort for no point.
Don't get me wrong, I love computers too, but what exactly is wrong with paper ballots? They work reliably, and have been for a long long time. They are cheap, simple, tamperproof - and the beauty is, the technology scales wonderfully ;)
Just 'cause you can automate something doesn't always mean you should.