An interesting question, one that I don't have an answer to.
However I would like to point out in the occupied countries that you've mentioned, they have more pressing matters to deal with than copyright infringement. I'm pretty sure than everyone (except the RIAA, MPAA, and SCO of course) would agree that stopping ongoing murder is preferrable to stopping copyright infringement in the short term.
I hope Russia does put together a concerted effort to reach Mars and establish a human presence there. Their space program may be poor and mothballed by the government, but that isn't going to stop them from dreaming and trying to achieve those dreams.
This is the sort of thing that we need to give NASA a swift kick in the butt. The self proclaimed richest nation in the world can't be bothered to spend money to futher scientific ambition like this, and would rather spend all their resources defending themselves against an enemy that does exist, and it takes a dirt poor, ex-superpower to do anything about it.
Sorry guys, but it looks to me like you're still trying to fight the old fight, and haven't quite realized yet that the world has passed you bye.
Re:Good, cheap, fast: pick any two-Insurance.
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Not to mention being able to slap you with lawsuits for damages, as well as building code violations if something goes wrong.
Electricity is not a toy (as I have heard, many times, because my father was trained as an electrician).
Those answers are not difficult to provide: No, it probably isn't a good idea to keep developing new superweapons. Why? Think massive destruction. Although the flip side is that it advances knowledge, and science is a good thing.
Your other answer is also No, it will be impossible to keep it from falling into the hands of others. Other than destroying all record of the technology and the people who built it (even then!) there will be others ambitious enough and with the know-how to recreate it, or steal it.
And that isn't a bad thing, although from your position you likely don't see it this way, but I think that only one nation holding all the power, all the cards, and without anyone to oppose them is dangerous. The scary part is not one rogue group getting their hands on a single bomb, its the nation that hoards them and could destroy the world because of that one group that holds a single bomb. I fear the US and its ambitions more than any single terrorist group.
Sorry, but try to get your facts straight. People who live to be over 100 usually have very good quality of life, that is why they've lived that long!
Most people who suffer from poor quality of life do not stay alive perpetually on machines, they are the ones who die of 'old age' or sickness in their sixties and seventies. The people who live into their 100's are usually active and are well off, its only once they suffer an accident or some incident that will end up likely putting them in their grave.
My great-grandfather died a few years ago at the age of 97. He stopped farming and moved into a retirement home in his late 80s because he figured he had worked long enough, and his son (age 60) then took over the farm from him. His only major complaint, before a fall broke his hip at age 95 and confined him to a wheelchair, was that he was no longer able to walk 10 miles a day, and was down to 1.
Growing old does not necessarily mean growing infirmity.
Is why does the US use this punch-card system anyway? Its needlessly complex and too prone to error.
Up here in Canada, we have a very simple system. You get a black card with the 4 or 5 candidates on it in white boxes. Each box is connected to a white 1.5cm circle. You scribble an X in the circle you want to vote for.
There are also instructions to tell you to get a new card if you accidentily X'ed the wrong circle (don't erase, destroy and redo)
Then its very easy to check the votes, no mark, 2 or more marks, or a non-X all get thrown out. The ballots with a single X then get counted.
Yes they do. However the same would apply to someone who received a blood transfusion. The DNA of the blood cells or organ do not get 'rewritten' to match the recipients DNA. So a sample of the transfused blood or donated organ would result in a mismatch with the recipients uncontaminated DNA.
It would let authorities, for instance, instantly find the name and address of every brown-haired owner of a red Ford pickup truck in a 20-mile radius of a suspicious event.
Matrix is short for Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange. The name was chosen somewhat whimsically by a Florida law enforcement officer, an agency official said.
Excuse me? I would have to say that whimsically is not the correct word in this case. Considering the difference in the acronym from MATRIX, I'd have to say that it was chosen Intentionally.
Alas, it appears that the enforcement officer failed to interperet the meaning behind that name correctly. It was not meant as a message of empowerment to law-enforcement...
We clear up the confusion that for some reason IPv6 is 'better' than IPv4, we'll correct this confusion by renaming IPv4 to IPv6. And to ensure we clearly express the advantages and disadvantages of one over the other to consumers, we will call IPv4 IPv6 "hi-quanitity" and IPv6 as IPv6 "full-quantity"
There is only one real problem with that... It is called Denial-of-Service attack.
The problem with spam is that it is in a grey area of the law, no one likes it, but its not exactly illegal. However, such a concerted effort to melt a webserver is actually a crime..nosig
"Practically, with China, this means not letting greedy coorporations dictate foreign policy, and even more important, considering China a strategic _partner_ for the future, and not this bullshit strategic _competitor_."
The only problem with this, is that it would require the US to have a foreign policy that is NOT dictated by greedy corporations to actually be implemented.
It seems to me that it has always been this way, in Canada most believe that progress towards peace and freedom is not made at the point of a sword. The emphasis has always been on evolution rather than revolution.
The United States presidency is becoming a monarchy where the face sitting on the throne gets changed every 4 years or so. But the tenants of 'with us or against us' are frighteningly familiar.
Imagine... the high profile, challenging, and ultimatly rewarding job of Florida State Vote Counter...
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I sincerely doubt such technology could have saved the astronauts from the disaster that was the Challenger. The simple timing of the incident, how fast it developed, they literally didn't have a chance.
It is far more likely that such technology could allow for quick escapes from stationary orbits. Like the International Space station for instance. Imagine small pods attached to the station in various places, nothing fancy, just a little vehicle, emergency air, with a couple small rockets on it. The sole purpose, would be in case of fire, or other problem that requires the evacuation of the station, the astronauts could climb in and shoot away. The pods purpose would be to get them into safe parachuting distance of the earth, in a controlled fashion. Close enough not to burn up, but not the take them all the way down.
The astronaut then leaves the capsule, and parachutes back to earth...
You can also add these facts to your calculation.
1) The US cannot produce enough electricity to provide enough power to consumers to avoid blackouts and brownouts.
2) This is including the fact that the US imports a very large quantity of power from Canada on top of it.
My father works in the control center at Manitoba Hydro. They are currently running an ad campaign in Manitoba telling its users to use as little power as possible. Now, this is not conservation advertisment, but the fact that they make far more selling to the US than to their local customers.
This is backwards from the way it used to be. They used to make a lot more money selling to local residents, but the vast energy shortage in the US has driven prices up to the point, that the base price is far above what they would get selling locally.
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Do I really have to elaborate?
An interesting question, one that I don't have an answer to.
However I would like to point out in the occupied countries that you've mentioned, they have more pressing matters to deal with than copyright infringement. I'm pretty sure than everyone (except the RIAA, MPAA, and SCO of course) would agree that stopping ongoing murder is preferrable to stopping copyright infringement in the short term.
Its called extortion. Forcing people to pay you or "something bad will happen."
zx75
I hope Russia does put together a concerted effort to reach Mars and establish a human presence there. Their space program may be poor and mothballed by the government, but that isn't going to stop them from dreaming and trying to achieve those dreams.
This is the sort of thing that we need to give NASA a swift kick in the butt. The self proclaimed richest nation in the world can't be bothered to spend money to futher scientific ambition like this, and would rather spend all their resources defending themselves against an enemy that does exist, and it takes a dirt poor, ex-superpower to do anything about it.
Sorry guys, but it looks to me like you're still trying to fight the old fight, and haven't quite realized yet that the world has passed you bye.
Not to mention being able to slap you with lawsuits for damages, as well as building code violations if something goes wrong.
Electricity is not a toy (as I have heard, many times, because my father was trained as an electrician).
Yes, and due to the amazing human ability of self-deception and denial, we'll be saying this right up until the self-aware computers kill us all.
Those answers are not difficult to provide :
No, it probably isn't a good idea to keep developing new superweapons. Why? Think massive destruction.
Although the flip side is that it advances knowledge, and science is a good thing.
Your other answer is also No, it will be impossible to keep it from falling into the hands of others. Other than destroying all record of the technology and the people who built it (even then!) there will be others ambitious enough and with the know-how to recreate it, or steal it.
And that isn't a bad thing, although from your position you likely don't see it this way, but I think that only one nation holding all the power, all the cards, and without anyone to oppose them is dangerous.
The scary part is not one rogue group getting their hands on a single bomb, its the nation that hoards them and could destroy the world because of that one group that holds a single bomb.
I fear the US and its ambitions more than any single terrorist group.
Sorry, but try to get your facts straight. People who live to be over 100 usually have very good quality of life, that is why they've lived that long!
Most people who suffer from poor quality of life do not stay alive perpetually on machines, they are the ones who die of 'old age' or sickness in their sixties and seventies. The people who live into their 100's are usually active and are well off, its only once they suffer an accident or some incident that will end up likely putting them in their grave.
My great-grandfather died a few years ago at the age of 97. He stopped farming and moved into a retirement home in his late 80s because he figured he had worked long enough, and his son (age 60) then took over the farm from him. His only major complaint, before a fall broke his hip at age 95 and confined him to a wheelchair, was that he was no longer able to walk 10 miles a day, and was down to 1.
Growing old does not necessarily mean growing infirmity.
Yes you are correct that the blood cells will die off, so such a Chimera would only be temporary but still potentially noticeable.
Like I said, I'm Canadian... so its somewhere between 0 and 100... I think.
Is why does the US use this punch-card system anyway? Its needlessly complex and too prone to error.
Up here in Canada, we have a very simple system. You get a black card with the 4 or 5 candidates on it in white boxes. Each box is connected to a white 1.5cm circle. You scribble an X in the circle you want to vote for.
There are also instructions to tell you to get a new card if you accidentily X'ed the wrong circle (don't erase, destroy and redo)
Then its very easy to check the votes, no mark, 2 or more marks, or a non-X all get thrown out. The ballots with a single X then get counted.
Simple, no?
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Yes they do. However the same would apply to someone who received a blood transfusion. The DNA of the blood cells or organ do not get 'rewritten' to match the recipients DNA. So a sample of the transfused blood or donated organ would result in a mismatch with the recipients uncontaminated DNA.
Excuse me? I would have to say that whimsically is not the correct word in this case. Considering the difference in the acronym from MATRIX, I'd have to say that it was chosen Intentionally.
Alas, it appears that the enforcement officer failed to interperet the meaning behind that name correctly. It was not meant as a message of empowerment to law-enforcement...
We clear up the confusion that for some reason IPv6 is 'better' than IPv4, we'll correct this confusion by renaming IPv4 to IPv6. And to ensure we clearly express the advantages and disadvantages of one over the other to consumers, we will call IPv4 IPv6 "hi-quanitity" and IPv6 as IPv6 "full-quantity"
zx75
There is only one real problem with that... It is called Denial-of-Service attack.
.nosig
The problem with spam is that it is in a grey area of the law, no one likes it, but its not exactly illegal. However, such a concerted effort to melt a webserver is actually a crime.
"Why ? Is it because we are the only country with "God" on our side ? :-)"
No, its because the US believes that might makes right.
And that is a scary notion...
"Practically, with China, this means not letting greedy coorporations dictate foreign policy, and even more important, considering China a strategic _partner_ for the future, and not this bullshit strategic _competitor_."
The only problem with this, is that it would require the US to have a foreign policy that is NOT dictated by greedy corporations to actually be implemented.
Sure, Bittorrent (Cable) 31.1 MB @ 270kbps
zx75
It seems to me that it has always been this way, in Canada most believe that progress towards peace and freedom is not made at the point of a sword. The emphasis has always been on evolution rather than revolution.
The United States presidency is becoming a monarchy where the face sitting on the throne gets changed every 4 years or so. But the tenants of 'with us or against us' are frighteningly familiar.
zx75
It is far more likely that such technology could allow for quick escapes from stationary orbits. Like the International Space station for instance. Imagine small pods attached to the station in various places, nothing fancy, just a little vehicle, emergency air, with a couple small rockets on it. The sole purpose, would be in case of fire, or other problem that requires the evacuation of the station, the astronauts could climb in and shoot away. The pods purpose would be to get them into safe parachuting distance of the earth, in a controlled fashion. Close enough not to burn up, but not the take them all the way down.
The astronaut then leaves the capsule, and parachutes back to earth...
You can also add these facts to your calculation. 1) The US cannot produce enough electricity to provide enough power to consumers to avoid blackouts and brownouts. 2) This is including the fact that the US imports a very large quantity of power from Canada on top of it. My father works in the control center at Manitoba Hydro. They are currently running an ad campaign in Manitoba telling its users to use as little power as possible. Now, this is not conservation advertisment, but the fact that they make far more selling to the US than to their local customers. This is backwards from the way it used to be. They used to make a lot more money selling to local residents, but the vast energy shortage in the US has driven prices up to the point, that the base price is far above what they would get selling locally. zx75