Cryptocurrencies do not make "untraceable money drops" more easy - on the contrary, if you transfer such money from some legitimate account to that of a criminal, every future use of that money is recorded in detail in the "distributed ledger", ready to be used for investigation now or in 30 years..
If this were true, then why would there be a ransomware problem? Now that entire national healthcare systems are getting hit, intelligence agencies have a strong interest in tracing the path of ransomware payments so that the perpetrators can be quietly strangled with their own intestines as an example to their cohorts.
No, apparently all you have to do is 'tumble' coins through a few exchanges and that blockchain of custody no longer functions as a tracer.
This traditional form of crime has fallen out of favor in modern societies because of the increasing difficulty of making an untraceable money drop. Ransoms in cryptocurrency eliminates this problem. Now we can expect to see kidnapping's comeback in the US and Europe.
I'll consider metrics when the clock, day, and calendar are also 'neatly' divided by 10.
The first iteration of metric, right after the French revolution, included a ten-hour day of hundred-minute hours, with hundred-second minutes. The months were renamed from the antique Romanesque hodgepodge to be more logique: March became Germinal, the month when things grew, October became Brumaire, the foggy month, and November became Nivôse, the snowy month.
But people wanted quarter-hours and all the other integer divisible units they were used to, and the month-renamers were reminded that, malheureusement, the new month names only made sense in Paris. In places like Martinique and Réunion, the new names made no sense.
The one good thing about the nation's drug problem is that it has introduced metric weights and volumes to our young people, especially in the inner city.
My solution; Make intellectual property an inalienable personal right of the creator, like free speech. This means that we stop treating patents as real estate by making them non-fungible. The inventor of work gets a patent on it, and that patent stays with the creator until it expires. Any company wishing to exploit the patent would have to maintain a contractual relationship with the creator during the period of validity. That would mean no more exploiting inventors and then kicking them aside. No more defensive patent portfolios to stifle innovation, which is the opposite of what was intended by Article 1, Section 8.
Imagine what kind of societal dystopia we would have if we could sell off our right to free speech? The wealthiest corporations would buy out the speech rights of their critics and steadily increase their power.
I've run across two or three people in three decades in the industry who I thought were so bad at what they did that I'd consider them representing themselves as programmers should constitute fraud.
Found the Microsoft developers who were put in charge of making the Skype interface harder and harder to deal with!
If this is true, than something is being emanated into the air and can be detected by a man-made sensor.
This was my immediate reaction too. Note that your point was answered only by conspiratorial flames about drug-snifffing dogs.
There is no incentive for dogs to falsely detect cancer, so if some of them can smell it, let's find out what they're specifically reacting to and design a chip for it.
The long-term solution for radiation exposure from flight may be a race between Hyperloop and artificial magnetic fields for aircraft and space vehicles.
The EDF spews nothing but self-serving crap. The precise figure for methane warming potential, from your LEAD report (first link) among others, is 23 times CO2. This report gives land and water usage as the main impacts of cattle production.To make belching a significant source of methane, the report has to add in all ruminants.
Our own EPA puts it in better perspective: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissio... with total methane at 10% of greenhouse gases. Cattle have to share this methane fraction with waste emissions from natural gas production and emission from landfills and wetlands.
But yes, to minimize the total impact of cattle production, let's all support vat meat development.
Methane may be 20 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2, but it also breaks down quickly. Given the carbon circulation in the environment a a whole, cow burps are lost in the noise.
Add to these the people who have just had a medical procedure that they have been instructed not to drive themselves home from. If you have no second driver in the family and you live in a place where taxi service is sparse and expensive, you will tend to fudge on the instructions and drive anyway. Ridesharing can improve public safety here too.
The whole controversy on the part of climate fanatics over animal methane is about cows, which are pure herbivores. It's a baseless controversy because the methane being released is not "old" methane, as from natural gas wells, but methane created by grass which entrained carbon only this year, but it is still an element in climate activism.
Crickets are as good a protein source as beef and require practically no water to raise. They are sold in the form of flour that you can make into power bars and the like.
In that time, I was already in my second year of college. Any diagnosis of cancer other than basal cell meant you automatically prepared for death. So far as we could see, the war in Vietnam would go on forever. Having scientific interests in that era meant being so radically different from everyone else that they might as well be living on another planet. Because no ordinary person had ever seen a computer, there was no inkling of how they might one day assume a place in the general culture. "Electronics" meant hi-fi audio and your oddball Uncle Fred, whose knotty-pine house was full of arcane ham radio gear.
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Cryptocurrencies do not make "untraceable money drops" more easy - on the contrary, if you transfer such money from some legitimate account to that of a criminal, every future use of that money is recorded in detail in the "distributed ledger", ready to be used for investigation now or in 30 years. .
If this were true, then why would there be a ransomware problem? Now that entire national healthcare systems are getting hit, intelligence agencies have a strong interest in tracing the path of ransomware payments so that the perpetrators can be quietly strangled with their own intestines as an example to their cohorts.
No, apparently all you have to do is 'tumble' coins through a few exchanges and that blockchain of custody no longer functions as a tracer.
This traditional form of crime has fallen out of favor in modern societies because of the increasing difficulty of making an untraceable money drop. Ransoms in cryptocurrency eliminates this problem. Now we can expect to see kidnapping's comeback in the US and Europe.
What was the issue with quarter hours? 25 minutes is an integer.
When the Japanese adopted the western calendar they just numbered the months one to twelve.
My kingdom for the ability to postedit, as we have in every other form out there.
And yes, I like the Japanese month names.
I'll consider metrics when the clock, day, and calendar are also 'neatly' divided by 10.
The first iteration of metric, right after the French revolution, included a ten-hour day of hundred-minute hours, with hundred-second minutes. The months were renamed from the antique Romanesque hodgepodge to be more logique: March became Germinal, the month when things grew, October became Brumaire, the foggy month, and November became Nivôse, the snowy month.
But people wanted quarter-hours and all the other integer divisible units they were used to, and the month-renamers were reminded that, malheureusement, the new month names only made sense in Paris. In places like Martinique and Réunion, the new names made no sense.
The one good thing about the nation's drug problem is that it has introduced metric weights and volumes to our young people, especially in the inner city.
Exactly! Isn't obsessive-compulsive behavior already classified as a mental problem?
"Hal Extra Stout, made with pure Europan spring water - one toot and you won't be opening those pod bay doors!"
My solution; Make intellectual property an inalienable personal right of the creator, like free speech. This means that we stop treating patents as real estate by making them non-fungible. The inventor of work gets a patent on it, and that patent stays with the creator until it expires. Any company wishing to exploit the patent would have to maintain a contractual relationship with the creator during the period of validity. That would mean no more exploiting inventors and then kicking them aside. No more defensive patent portfolios to stifle innovation, which is the opposite of what was intended by Article 1, Section 8.
Imagine what kind of societal dystopia we would have if we could sell off our right to free speech? The wealthiest corporations would buy out the speech rights of their critics and steadily increase their power.
Body dismorphia is science.
What you mean is "a fad described by science."
The Philippines and Vietnam are in the US now?
Clearly you haven't visited Texas lately.
I've run across two or three people in three decades in the industry who I thought were so bad at what they did that I'd consider them representing themselves as programmers should constitute fraud.
Found the Microsoft developers who were put in charge of making the Skype interface harder and harder to deal with!
And 56,000? In India, that's a village.
If this is true, than something is being emanated into the air and can be detected by a man-made sensor.
This was my immediate reaction too. Note that your point was answered only by conspiratorial flames about drug-snifffing dogs.
There is no incentive for dogs to falsely detect cancer, so if some of them can smell it, let's find out what they're specifically reacting to and design a chip for it.
Apparently a single public employee is monopolizing the service and sucking up all the storage space.
The long-term solution for radiation exposure from flight may be a race between Hyperloop and artificial magnetic fields for aircraft and space vehicles.
The EDF spews nothing but self-serving crap. The precise figure for methane warming potential, from your LEAD report (first link) among others, is 23 times CO2. This report gives land and water usage as the main impacts of cattle production.To make belching a significant source of methane, the report has to add in all ruminants.
Our own EPA puts it in better perspective: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissio...
with total methane at 10% of greenhouse gases. Cattle have to share this methane fraction with waste emissions from natural gas production and emission from landfills and wetlands.
But yes, to minimize the total impact of cattle production, let's all support vat meat development.
Methane may be 20 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2, but it also breaks down quickly. Given the carbon circulation in the environment a a whole, cow burps are lost in the noise.
Add to these the people who have just had a medical procedure that they have been instructed not to drive themselves home from. If you have no second driver in the family and you live in a place where taxi service is sparse and expensive, you will tend to fudge on the instructions and drive anyway. Ridesharing can improve public safety here too.
3. Cash with ... automatic change dispenser
This option 3 rapidly turns into option 8 after you have to keep reinserting a bill into the flaky bill acceptor multiple times.
The whole controversy on the part of climate fanatics over animal methane is about cows, which are pure herbivores. It's a baseless controversy because the methane being released is not "old" methane, as from natural gas wells, but methane created by grass which entrained carbon only this year, but it is still an element in climate activism.
Crickets are as good a protein source as beef and require practically no water to raise. They are sold in the form of flour that you can make into power bars and the like.
That’s only a problem if you don’t treat sewage. So long as you break the cycle of fecally transmitted disease, recycling is a great idea.
Sounds good, as long as the omnivores keep all the methane in their own private atmosphere.
Herbivores generate just as much methane as omnivores.
In that time, I was already in my second year of college. Any diagnosis of cancer other than basal cell meant you automatically prepared for death. So far as we could see, the war in Vietnam would go on forever. Having scientific interests in that era meant being so radically different from everyone else that they might as well be living on another planet. Because no ordinary person had ever seen a computer, there was no inkling of how they might one day assume a place in the general culture. "Electronics" meant hi-fi audio and your oddball Uncle Fred, whose knotty-pine house was full of arcane ham radio gear.
So you're the guy who tried to break into the cockpit, yelling something about "I wanna drive!" on that last trip to Europe?