Fission reactors would actually be better in this application because the mass of the fuel and shielding can be used as a 'safe room' in case the deflector field fails. And besides, they exist.
Now I can start streaming TV episodes I missed once again, just as I did in the golden age of two years ago, even when my cable provider isn't one of the three tiny companies in the network apps "Verify My Cable Carrier" list.
I would rather have a system in which the public bandwidth comes out of the bandwidth I contract for, with my being compensated for the bandwidth the public uses and my being able to limit the public usage fraction either by bandwidth (personal QoS, I suppose) or by time of day. The marketing people could call this service your "Internet solar roof."
The proper way to introduce tech like this is to deploy it to private schools first. I know that this approach is "elitist" and unpopular, but a small group of early adopters in a fenced-off environment is an ideal test population, and keeps the inherent value of the technology separate from unrelated external factors ("Tablets won't work because they will all get stolen!"). When hoi polloi see a new technology working in the elite population and being integrated into its culture, then it will be time to spread it to a more general class of students.
...that our federosaurus is going to seize the money as soon as it actually gets transferred to some winner. But if the incriminating information can be gotten out to the Internet, Dotcom's point will still have been proven.
More seriously, I have always wondered why NASA didn't set up its Apollo-era launch facilities in Brownsville to begin with. It's as far south as you can get in the lower 48, it has open water to the west, and it doesn't have that terrible Florida weather that kept delaying every launch. Also unlike Florida, it would have been not nearly so far from the Houston command center.
Actually it might be a good thing if this happened: the public pushback would intensify against this insane power of property seizure without due process.
In these videotaping cases, police departments spend money dragging citizens though the courts on junk charges. Damages coming out of their budget would force them to prioritize, going after real crime first.
If police malpractice awards come out of the police budget rather than the city council appropriating additional money, they are much more likely to change police behavior.
There's nothing wrong with having standards for safety, insurance, accuracy in billing, and so on. But as soon as you see a limit on the number of cab licenses, bingo! That tells you that cabdrivers already in business are fiddling with the law to limit new entrants to the field. We of the dark side call this regulatory capture.
I didn't want to plug in a foreign SIM. I wanted my Verizon account to work overseas so my IT customers could leave messages for me at my regular number and so I could, in critical cases, call back. I wanted to avoid having to tell the world that I would be away for several weeks.
The definition of "used overseas" on the Verizon site is that your phone supports GSM. In fact, iPhones before the 4 were GSM-only, which meant that US customers were limited to AT & T as a provider.
Before leaving on my five-week visit to Europe, I enabled Verizon's buck-a-minute Global Voice Roaming on my iPhone, after having the website verify that a 4S could be used overseas. It qualified, but when I got over there I encountered five solid weeks of No Service, and so Verizon got no revenue whatever out of my overseas experience. I, on the other hand, was able to make do by using the Skype app over WiFi.
The reason government cannot even repeat its Sixties effort is not some mysterious lack of competence, but the simple fact that Luddites have a major input to any governmental effort. Our legal system makes it fa too easy for them to hold up any project they want with endless "environmental" claims and fake safety quibbles. The big advantage of private enterprise is its long-term ability to tell the flat-earthers to go fuck themselves.
There are plenty of qualified people willing to assume personal risk in space; in the private sector, they can.
Both of these outcomes were exactly my intent. Higher costs would discourage junk suits, and so would a higher evidentiary standard. Everybody wins, because economic progress - not to mention the court system itself - would no longer be barred by a swarm of no-account lottery players. If this means larger awards for solid cases, this would not be a bad outcome either. It would be an incentive to build quality cases.
Which costs more: larger payouts for a small number of well-proven torts, or large numbers of pretrial settlements made just to avoid the civil crapshoot?
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Fission reactors would actually be better in this application because the mass of the fuel and shielding can be used as a 'safe room' in case the deflector field fails. And besides, they exist.
Now I can start streaming TV episodes I missed once again, just as I did in the golden age of two years ago, even when my cable provider isn't one of the three tiny companies in the network apps "Verify My Cable Carrier" list.
I would rather have a system in which the public bandwidth comes out of the bandwidth I contract for, with my being compensated for the bandwidth the public uses and my being able to limit the public usage fraction either by bandwidth (personal QoS, I suppose) or by time of day. The marketing people could call this service your "Internet solar roof."
The proper way to introduce tech like this is to deploy it to private schools first. I know that this approach is "elitist" and unpopular, but a small group of early adopters in a fenced-off environment is an ideal test population, and keeps the inherent value of the technology separate from unrelated external factors ("Tablets won't work because they will all get stolen!"). When hoi polloi see a new technology working in the elite population and being integrated into its culture, then it will be time to spread it to a more general class of students.
If Amazon loses, it has one sure-fire way to retaliate: send the settlement through PayPal.
...that our federosaurus is going to seize the money as soon as it actually gets transferred to some winner. But if the incriminating information can be gotten out to the Internet, Dotcom's point will still have been proven.
Facial bones designed to withstand punches, and their language having over four hundred different words for 'vomit'.
And Florida would totally disappear! Anyone else feel like going out right now and lighting off a coal seam?
Sorry, that was supposed to be 'east'. All launches take place in that direction to get the free boost from Earth's rotation.
Any danger to Cuba from Brownsville would be as great a danger to Florida - but are both places not decently out of range at that distance?
More seriously, I have always wondered why NASA didn't set up its Apollo-era launch facilities in Brownsville to begin with. It's as far south as you can get in the lower 48, it has open water to the west, and it doesn't have that terrible Florida weather that kept delaying every launch. Also unlike Florida, it would have been not nearly so far from the Houston command center.
There is an article covering the controversy in the June "Wired."
Actually it might be a good thing if this happened: the public pushback would intensify against this insane power of property seizure without due process.
In these videotaping cases, police departments spend money dragging citizens though the courts on junk charges. Damages coming out of their budget would force them to prioritize, going after real crime first.
If police malpractice awards come out of the police budget rather than the city council appropriating additional money, they are much more likely to change police behavior.
With awards coming directly out of the police budget for that year - no fobbing off the penalty on the taxpayers.
There's nothing wrong with having standards for safety, insurance, accuracy in billing, and so on. But as soon as you see a limit on the number of cab licenses, bingo! That tells you that cabdrivers already in business are fiddling with the law to limit new entrants to the field. We of the dark side call this regulatory capture.
I didn't want to plug in a foreign SIM. I wanted my Verizon account to work overseas so my IT customers could leave messages for me at my regular number and so I could, in critical cases, call back. I wanted to avoid having to tell the world that I would be away for several weeks.
The definition of "used overseas" on the Verizon site is that your phone supports GSM. In fact, iPhones before the 4 were GSM-only, which meant that US customers were limited to AT & T as a provider.
Yes! If you ever drive I-8 (Tucson to San Diego) make sure your phone is in airplane mode.
Before leaving on my five-week visit to Europe, I enabled Verizon's buck-a-minute Global Voice Roaming on my iPhone, after having the website verify that a 4S could be used overseas. It qualified, but when I got over there I encountered five solid weeks of No Service, and so Verizon got no revenue whatever out of my overseas experience. I, on the other hand, was able to make do by using the Skype app over WiFi.
An even faster way for me to hit my chintzy Suddenlink usage cap earlier in the month.
The reason government cannot even repeat its Sixties effort is not some mysterious lack of competence, but the simple fact that Luddites have a major input to any governmental effort. Our legal system makes it fa too easy for them to hold up any project they want with endless "environmental" claims and fake safety quibbles. The big advantage of private enterprise is its long-term ability to tell the flat-earthers to go fuck themselves.
There are plenty of qualified people willing to assume personal risk in space; in the private sector, they can.
The modern approach would be to test it with a Kardashian before sending up humans.
Both of these outcomes were exactly my intent. Higher costs would discourage junk suits, and so would a higher evidentiary standard. Everybody wins, because economic progress - not to mention the court system itself - would no longer be barred by a swarm of no-account lottery players. If this means larger awards for solid cases, this would not be a bad outcome either. It would be an incentive to build quality cases.
Which costs more: larger payouts for a small number of well-proven torts, or large numbers of pretrial settlements made just to avoid the civil crapshoot?
I stick with a DVD only subscription because Suddenlink's useless, scumsucking usage cap prevents me from streaming.