That's exactly what many alpinists (including me) do here in the swiss alps. If something happens (or you stumble over somebody in trouble) at least half a day from the next barrack, just pray either the REGA rescue radio works (though the gov't regulations for amateur radio make those beasts so weak that murphys law applies) or your mobile. With solar driven mobile relays all over the place (many hut's and alps have them nowadays) coverage is pretty good. Enough for an SMS if voice doesn't work.
And in space you can use photons instead of reaction mass. Yes, photons _do_ have an impulse. This would work like sailing on top of the laser beam. Got to get rid of the heat though, preferably as radiation directed towards the beam.
US - Drop cluster bombs on a devastated country in a region of the world that is being pushed from one war to the next, involving criminal regimes and organisations supported by the US (and super precise tank guns manufactured by careless swiss industrials whom I won't ever work for), to help the own economy that just doesn't want to change to work in a peacful world and thus fosters wars, talking theyer people into believing they are fighting "cleanly" and "chirurgically" against a dangerous group of terrorists (that wouldn't exist in the first place in this form if the CIA didn't support them) and meanwhile dropping back juristically to Inquisatory practices, ignoring human rights (even more than they do anyway) and even openly controlling theyer media. No, that's not "fuck you", that's "come down from your 'all US is good' let's make things as good as it gets and don't generalize too much". Oh, and if you want to fight drugs, try to stop war in that area, because war needs money, and wheat and hemp don't get you as much as opium.
Economists - well, never trust an economist who promises instant wealth and the end to all your managment problems.
Since the US justice persistently ignores theyer part of international law enforcment contracts and does not allow processes against US companies being brought before a juge in the country where the delict took place, in contrast to european companies, who have to defend themselves against ridiculous US laws even though the "delicts" happened outside of the US.
At least they have plenty of geothermal and hydroelectric energy resources. Reykjavik is the city with the clearest air I've ever seen, including other skandinavian and canadian coastal cities.
Instead why don't you envision a world in which all government
funded research projects are licensed with something akin to the
GPL. Imagine this world and how it will impact our economy?
Would it be a good thing?
You confuse copyrights and patents here. The aim of research projects are basic principles and strategies, not the implementation. Even if all those projects where licenced under the GPL, everybody would be free to use the ideas behind the code (such as protocols) in theyer own software.
/me can't stand pseudo-science such as the stuff practiced by populists and dictators like mussolini, hitler, stalin, various churches, cosmetics and food industries and so on.
It won't be long before some company patents a manipulated (or even engineered) human virus which spreads like an epidemic but with the only consequence that everybody has to pay royalties who got infected.
Oh, high latency and thus not well attackeable with antibodies...
I always wondered if that would be a suitably confusing defense of
copyright violation. "No your honor, I didn't 'pirate' this [item]. I
merely copied a large series of seemingly random numbers, [refers to
printout in binary form] see? It's just a bunch of 1's and 0's, not
[item]." The counter arguments would just degenerate into semantics
and the whole thing would just get ugly.:-)
Well, a text is usually encoded as a series of letters, which can be represented as ink on paper or further encoded as a number (whatever base).
Copyright is (contrary to what your lawyer may say) about thoughts, not about theyer representation.
>And I'll be using Linux instead of Windows, not >because it's the OS I want to use, but because I >can get drivers for proprietary hardware for it >when I can't get enough information to write that >driver for my preferred OS.
I don't believe that there will ever be a significant amount of binary-only drivers for Linux. So, how can you say that you don't have enough documentation for a piece of HW if you have the source of a Linux driver for it? You lost me there, really.
Hey, whats about every node (or virtual) representing an own Planet with spetial environment?! First all at the Planet begin at the same time, with emerging technology you can discover and trade and so forth with all the others on the net! Man, that would be funny!
A friend rosted his Powersupply last week, after he tried out what this nice red switch on the back of his case might be... Good example of WIN-DAU mentality: don't know what it is? Try it!
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That's exactly what many alpinists (including me) do here in the swiss alps. If something happens (or you stumble over somebody in trouble) at least half a day from the next barrack, just pray either the REGA rescue radio works (though the gov't regulations for amateur radio make those beasts so weak that murphys law applies) or your mobile. With solar driven mobile relays all over the place (many hut's and alps have them nowadays) coverage is pretty good. Enough for an SMS if voice doesn't work.
And in space you can use photons instead of reaction mass. Yes, photons _do_ have an impulse. This would work like sailing on top of the laser beam. Got to get rid of the heat though, preferably as radiation directed towards the beam.
You wouldn't beleive how surprised I was after my first encounter with native youths in nova scotia:
"Hi"
...
"Who are you?"
...
"How old are you?"
...
"Do you have any liqueur?"
...
Poor kids.
Cool, so I can use it too!
US - Drop cluster bombs on a devastated country in a region of the world that is being pushed from one war to the next, involving criminal regimes and organisations supported by the US (and super precise tank guns manufactured by careless swiss industrials whom I won't ever work for), to help the own economy that just doesn't want to change to work in a peacful world and thus fosters wars, talking theyer people into believing they are fighting "cleanly" and "chirurgically" against a dangerous group of terrorists (that wouldn't exist in the first place in this form if the CIA didn't support them) and meanwhile dropping back juristically to Inquisatory practices, ignoring human rights (even more than they do anyway) and even openly controlling theyer media. No, that's not "fuck you", that's "come down from your 'all US is good' let's make things as good as it gets and don't generalize too much". Oh, and if you want to fight drugs, try to stop war in that area, because war needs money, and wheat and hemp don't get you as much as opium.
Economists - well, never trust an economist who promises instant wealth and the end to all your managment problems.
Since the US justice persistently ignores theyer part of international law enforcment contracts and does not allow processes against US companies being brought before a juge in the country where the delict took place, in contrast to european companies, who have to defend themselves against ridiculous US laws even though the "delicts" happened outside of the US.
At least they have plenty of geothermal and hydroelectric energy resources. Reykjavik is the city with the clearest air I've ever seen, including other skandinavian and canadian coastal cities.
HE IS THE REINCARNATION OF HITLER!!
/me can't stand pseudo-science such as the stuff practiced by populists and dictators like mussolini, hitler, stalin, various churches, cosmetics and food industries and so on.
It won't be long before some company patents a manipulated (or even engineered) human virus which spreads like an epidemic but with the only consequence that everybody has to pay royalties who got infected.
...
Oh, high latency and thus not well attackeable with antibodies
So what's the problem, patents or judges?
Copyright is (contrary to what your lawyer may say) about thoughts, not about theyer representation.
I guess the heat when entering the atmosphere would burn every C based life form.
>And I'll be using Linux instead of Windows, not >because it's the OS I want to use, but because I >can get drivers for proprietary hardware for it >when I can't get enough information to write that >driver for my preferred OS.
I don't believe that there will ever be a significant amount of binary-only drivers for Linux. So, how can you say that you don't have enough documentation for a piece of HW if you have the source of a Linux driver for it? You lost me there, really.
Hey, whats about every node (or virtual) representing an own Planet with spetial environment?! First all at the Planet begin at the same time, with emerging technology you can discover and trade and so forth with all the others on the net!
Man, that would be funny!
A friend rosted his Powersupply last week, after he tried out what this nice red switch on the back of his case might be... Good example of WIN-DAU mentality: don't know what it is? Try it!
Well, 110V arn't 220V, are they?