Experiments have been made using spin to replace gravity. At any reasonable size the differential angular momentum between the head and feet create physiological problems.
So no, the old donut shaped space station will never be a thing. Nor will the spinning tube, as seen on the Hermes in The Martian. It's a great idea that just doesn't work in real life.
The idea of addressing school gun incident by addressing the student's home life is actually very good. There was even a locality that tried it. They put social services, the people responsible for handling truancy, school administrators and a member of the judiciary all in the same place and handled disciplinary and truancy problems holistically.
Unfortunately they were required to stop because the ACLU decided they were violating parents rights to raise their kids badly.
Meaningful gun legislation is prosecuting people who use guns in the commission of a crime. Meaningful gun legislation is a requirement that every U.S. citizen be required to take a gun familiarization course so they can overcome their irrational fear of firearms.
The merits of gun control is ensuring that you hit what you aim at.
Except in places like where I live where it is illegal to give discounts for using cash, or charging more to use credit. This kind of thing (government price controls) is already done in the U.S.
In the U.S. at least a copyright holder can notify Youtube and the service will pull the content. That's what the DMCA is all about. It shields Youtube and other service providers from just this kind of action.
I realize that its effect does not extend beyond U.S. territory. Likewise any ruling of law Austria might impose is not effective beyond it's own boarders (or perhaps the EU.)
Geoblocking is a thing. For that matter how much revenue does YouTube get from Austria compared to the cost of the almost impossible task of preventing users from uploading copyright material? If the cost is high enough pulling out of that market might be the better move.
That's just not accurate. Obama told us he was going to try to turn the U.S. into a socialist paradise and he spent eight years trying to do that.
Trump told us he was going to lower taxes, kill U.S. participation in the Paris agreement, penalize China for manipulating the Dollar, recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, role back EPA rules imposed by the Obama administration, etc.
Republicans hated Obama because he kept his promises.
Democrats hate Trump because he is keeping his promises.
Sanders terrified mainstream Democrats and Republicans because they were afraid he'd keep his promises.
So are you claiming that foreign governments don't spy on other foreign governments?
Do you honestly believe that Britain doesn't spy on Germany? Germany doesn't spy on Spain? And Spain doesn't spy on Italy? Let alone them all not spying on Russia, China and Israel?
What a fantasy filled world you must live in. Say hello to the unicorns for me.
Yeah, you might almost think the NSA was a secret government organization that has existed since WWI and which the U.S. government actually hid the existence of for over fifty years.
If you're getting close to retirement and still have the majority of your retirement funds in the stock market you need to get a new financial adviser.
Well since my uncle was with one of the units that liberated the camps, yes. I've met someone who was there. He had pictures (probably taken unofficially). It was horrible. He showed them to me when I enlisted in the service, because , he said, I needed to know there were some things worth fighting for.
And of course taking money from people who have $250 million doesn't work either, because as soon as you try, suddenly that $250 will move it to where you can't get it.
We've played this game before when Wilson raised the income tax rate to 75% or more. In the time between then and when Kennedy lowered it do you really think anybody who was rich paid 75% tax?
You want to really screw up the economy? Threaten to really take most of the money the rich have. It's the best way to incentivize them to move all their assets overseas. Maybe Bill Gates won't be the richest man in the world if he dumps his MS stock to move the money overseas, but the resulting collapse of the stock market won't help the American economy. Now imagine all of the Waltons doing it too. And Zukerberg. Pretty soon the U.S economy is toast.
Don't get me wrong. I'm on Facebook, but my exposure to Facebook advertising in minimal, since only see individual posts which are the result of notifications. I literally never look at the newsfeed, nor visit much beyond my own pics. I am what Facebook must consider a bad user.
However I'm smart enough to know that Facebook is in business to make money and they aren't going to do anything that will disrupt that revenue stream, unless forced by law.
So I don't expect Facebook to do anything that is good for users, only things that are good for customers, the ad purchasers and buyers of their scavenged data.
I'm going to take a what is effectively a skateboard and attach a motor to it powered by a lithium ion battery (a product well know to be be potentially unstable and a fire hazard). Then I'm going to sell it to people who think that putting a motor and what is effectively a skateboard is a good idea.
EPUB does not use DRM. DRM problems are problems related to over extension of copyright. EPUB format does not need to be format shifted because there is absolutely no reason that EPUB can't be read on multiple platforms. I read EPUB on my PC tablet and phone using different operating systems. From Project Gutenberg. Using Barnes & Noble's Nook software, which reads non-DRM entangled texts just fine.
Failure to transfer printed work to electronic copy is the reason many works will become unavailable.
Printed books are great. I love print. But some really great works have been almost lost because they are out of print. The fact that a few people have print copies will not prevent them from being forgotten. Hopefully someone will transfer them to electronic copies before they're gone.
And computer on the TV is still a valid threat. Google at the original introduction of the Chromecast showed a device much more capable than the one that exists now. Features included displaying your calender and contacts and even Netfilx's front screen, all responding to voice commands. The product as shipped can't do any of that. Yet.
When it can it might very well replace the computer for people who only use their computer for surfing because it has a bigger screen.
SmartTVs have failed in this space because without the keyboard and mouse it's just to hard to use a TV based browser. And their browsers actually suck pretty bad.
Add voice control and a decent browser based on Chrome and Google could own that space.
The problem is that, except for geeks, the home PC is more or less dead.
Laptops have replaced desktops for many people who need a computer. But the fact is that most people who use Facebook don't need a computer, they just need a way to connect to the internet, and if they have a smart phone they have that.
Distributed systems will never replace Facebook or Google or Amazon, not because the technology will never be there to support it, but because most people won't even have a computer or need one.
So basically Microsoft has become the old IBM. The company whose computers as a service paradigm the PC running MS-DOS destroyed back in the day.
I am so glad I'm in a Linus shop where MS Windows machines are only used by the beam counters.
Except being old is a legally protected class, just like being Black or female. Filter against Californians or beekeepers or people who drive red cars all you want. If you filter based on a protected class you have legal liability.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
That says it all right there. The illustrated problems are a result of a generation that ignored and in some cases mocked values based on moral principles.
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Experiments have been made using spin to replace gravity. At any reasonable size the differential angular momentum between the head and feet create physiological problems. So no, the old donut shaped space station will never be a thing. Nor will the spinning tube, as seen on the Hermes in The Martian. It's a great idea that just doesn't work in real life.
The idea of addressing school gun incident by addressing the student's home life is actually very good. There was even a locality that tried it. They put social services, the people responsible for handling truancy, school administrators and a member of the judiciary all in the same place and handled disciplinary and truancy problems holistically. Unfortunately they were required to stop because the ACLU decided they were violating parents rights to raise their kids badly.
Meaningful gun legislation is prosecuting people who use guns in the commission of a crime. Meaningful gun legislation is a requirement that every U.S. citizen be required to take a gun familiarization course so they can overcome their irrational fear of firearms.
The merits of gun control is ensuring that you hit what you aim at.
Except in places like where I live where it is illegal to give discounts for using cash, or charging more to use credit. This kind of thing (government price controls) is already done in the U.S.
In the U.S. at least a copyright holder can notify Youtube and the service will pull the content. That's what the DMCA is all about. It shields Youtube and other service providers from just this kind of action.
I realize that its effect does not extend beyond U.S. territory. Likewise any ruling of law Austria might impose is not effective beyond it's own boarders (or perhaps the EU.)
Geoblocking is a thing. For that matter how much revenue does YouTube get from Austria compared to the cost of the almost impossible task of preventing users from uploading copyright material? If the cost is high enough pulling out of that market might be the better move.
That's just not accurate. Obama told us he was going to try to turn the U.S. into a socialist paradise and he spent eight years trying to do that.
Trump told us he was going to lower taxes, kill U.S. participation in the Paris agreement, penalize China for manipulating the Dollar, recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, role back EPA rules imposed by the Obama administration, etc.
Republicans hated Obama because he kept his promises.
Democrats hate Trump because he is keeping his promises.
Sanders terrified mainstream Democrats and Republicans because they were afraid he'd keep his promises.
So are you claiming that foreign governments don't spy on other foreign governments?
Do you honestly believe that Britain doesn't spy on Germany? Germany doesn't spy on Spain? And Spain doesn't spy on Italy? Let alone them all not spying on Russia, China and Israel?
What a fantasy filled world you must live in. Say hello to the unicorns for me.
Yeah, you might almost think the NSA was a secret government organization that has existed since WWI and which the U.S. government actually hid the existence of for over fifty years.
And in the process created a gender imbalance that they're going to have to deal with in the next 20-30 years, and it won't be pretty.
Most new cars are being made of plastic and aluminum, not steel. Being made of steel is why cars rot. Today's ICE cars will not be rotting so quickly.
If you're getting close to retirement and still have the majority of your retirement funds in the stock market you need to get a new financial adviser.
Well since my uncle was with one of the units that liberated the camps, yes. I've met someone who was there. He had pictures (probably taken unofficially). It was horrible. He showed them to me when I enlisted in the service, because , he said, I needed to know there were some things worth fighting for.
And of course taking money from people who have $250 million doesn't work either, because as soon as you try, suddenly that $250 will move it to where you can't get it.
We've played this game before when Wilson raised the income tax rate to 75% or more. In the time between then and when Kennedy lowered it do you really think anybody who was rich paid 75% tax?
You want to really screw up the economy? Threaten to really take most of the money the rich have. It's the best way to incentivize them to move all their assets overseas. Maybe Bill Gates won't be the richest man in the world if he dumps his MS stock to move the money overseas, but the resulting collapse of the stock market won't help the American economy. Now imagine all of the Waltons doing it too. And Zukerberg. Pretty soon the U.S economy is toast.
And Facebook keeps making buckets of money, How?
Don't get me wrong. I'm on Facebook, but my exposure to Facebook advertising in minimal, since only see individual posts which are the result of notifications. I literally never look at the newsfeed, nor visit much beyond my own pics. I am what Facebook must consider a bad user.
However I'm smart enough to know that Facebook is in business to make money and they aren't going to do anything that will disrupt that revenue stream, unless forced by law.
So I don't expect Facebook to do anything that is good for users, only things that are good for customers, the ad purchasers and buyers of their scavenged data.
Matthew William Brann is the judge in this case. He was appointed by Obama in 2012. Tell me again how this is the Republican's fault.
Matthew William Brann is the judge. He was appointed by Obama in 2012. Tell me again how this is the Republican's fault.
I'm going to take a what is effectively a skateboard and attach a motor to it powered by a lithium ion battery (a product well know to be be potentially unstable and a fire hazard). Then I'm going to sell it to people who think that putting a motor and what is effectively a skateboard is a good idea.
What could possibly go wrong?
EPUB does not use DRM. DRM problems are problems related to over extension of copyright. EPUB format does not need to be format shifted because there is absolutely no reason that EPUB can't be read on multiple platforms. I read EPUB on my PC tablet and phone using different operating systems. From Project Gutenberg. Using Barnes & Noble's Nook software, which reads non-DRM entangled texts just fine.
Failure to transfer printed work to electronic copy is the reason many works will become unavailable.
Printed books are great. I love print. But some really great works have been almost lost because they are out of print. The fact that a few people have print copies will not prevent them from being forgotten. Hopefully someone will transfer them to electronic copies before they're gone.
And computer on the TV is still a valid threat. Google at the original introduction of the Chromecast showed a device much more capable than the one that exists now. Features included displaying your calender and contacts and even Netfilx's front screen, all responding to voice commands. The product as shipped can't do any of that. Yet.
When it can it might very well replace the computer for people who only use their computer for surfing because it has a bigger screen.
SmartTVs have failed in this space because without the keyboard and mouse it's just to hard to use a TV based browser. And their browsers actually suck pretty bad.
Add voice control and a decent browser based on Chrome and Google could own that space.
The problem is that, except for geeks, the home PC is more or less dead. Laptops have replaced desktops for many people who need a computer. But the fact is that most people who use Facebook don't need a computer, they just need a way to connect to the internet, and if they have a smart phone they have that. Distributed systems will never replace Facebook or Google or Amazon, not because the technology will never be there to support it, but because most people won't even have a computer or need one.
So basically Microsoft has become the old IBM. The company whose computers as a service paradigm the PC running MS-DOS destroyed back in the day. I am so glad I'm in a Linus shop where MS Windows machines are only used by the beam counters.
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Why would she need proof? Has Trump ever denied it?
Except being old is a legally protected class, just like being Black or female. Filter against Californians or beekeepers or people who drive red cars all you want. If you filter based on a protected class you have legal liability.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
That says it all right there. The illustrated problems are a result of a generation that ignored and in some cases mocked values based on moral principles.