Sheesh, what kind of insurance coverage are you applying for?! I live in Canada, have been on various group insurance plans for years, and have never been required to have any medical examinations, let alone an AIDS test.
(I think the worst thing I've had to do was fill out a hideously long application form...)
No... If they can terminate the service "without cause", they don't have to state their reasons. That's what "without cause" means (at least in non-legal English).
"You may no longer use this service," is all they need to say.
All the discussion of 'hidden' stuff in Pi reminds me of a bit in one of the Dirk Gently books.
Gently, while pondering the problem du jour, scribbles meaningless symbols on a piece of paper, proclaiming that he's now reduced a seemingly impossible mystery into a relatively simple problem of cryptography...
It only goes in one direction...
That assumes we catch the laser when "they" started firing it. If the Earth happens to stray in the path of the beam, how the heck will we know which direction it's travelling? (Is it moving right-left or left-right, so to speak?)
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I like what you're saying... Not a full-blown union, but more of a Programmer's Guild. Let the "cookbook coders" be Apprentices for a few years to earn their stripes.
Let us recall that the state in question is the Canadian government.
Cops need to fill out paperwork for drawing their sidearms, and the military is too scattered all over the planet on UN peacekeeping missions to do any "dissapearing" of anyone...
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Of course, in French, you shouldn't use Title Case either, so the point is moot.
(I think the worst thing I've had to do was fill out a hideously long application form...)
No... If they can terminate the service "without cause", they don't have to state their reasons. That's what "without cause" means (at least in non-legal English).
"You may no longer use this service," is all they need to say.
= 5406 mph
= 8698 km/h
= 2416 m/s
Scramjet speed of 5909 mph
= 9508 km/h
= 2641 m/s
130-foot cannon
= 39.6 m
260-foot flight
= 79.2 m
Gently, while pondering the problem du jour, scribbles meaningless symbols on a piece of paper, proclaiming that he's now reduced a seemingly impossible mystery into a relatively simple problem of cryptography...
It only goes in one direction... That assumes we catch the laser when "they" started firing it. If the Earth happens to stray in the path of the beam, how the heck will we know which direction it's travelling? (Is it moving right-left or left-right, so to speak?)
I like what you're saying... Not a full-blown union, but more of a Programmer's Guild. Let the "cookbook coders" be Apprentices for a few years to earn their stripes.
Cops need to fill out paperwork for drawing their sidearms, and the military is too scattered all over the planet on UN peacekeeping missions to do any "dissapearing" of anyone...