Unfortunately in this new day and age, worrying about your privacy is a very real concern.
I used to pass off the "gubmint is watching and listening to everything you do" crowd as paranoid crazy tinfoil-hatters who thought the 'gubmint' was going to extraordinary efforts to illegally spy on its citizens digital communications.
Then Snowden happened and blew the lid wide open, clearly showing that the can of worms was empty, and the worms are *everywhere*.
We need a special prosecutor and get people under oath.
Ahh yes the dreaded Oath. Nothing gets lying people to tell the truth more than a verbal agreement to tell the truth backed up by supernatural threats if they dont.
The word "organic" has a new meaning, it doesnt mean based on organic compounds, it just means "chemical free". The word "chemical" has a new meaning. It doesnt mean what it used to mean, it now means "man made synthetic substance"
unless you miss hearing the last instruction due to external factors or voice text to speech mispronounciation....no nav unit ive seen allows you to just say "say it again" or something, and have the last voice instruction repeated without having to look at and physically interact with the nav unit while driving.
Please dont do stupid things like regulate that these devices must disable user interaction when the vehicle is travelling over a speed limit.
Unless the device can accurately detect if there is a passenger or not. This "safety feature" of my cars factory nav/media unit drives me up the wall...the passengers! the passengers! why wont *somebody* please think of the passengers!
Ironicly, its actually a TARP. Theres a patent for an "invention using a low cost plastic sheet covering to be placed over a vehicle for the purpose of rainproofing aforementioned vehicle.....with computers* "
nooooo, I made English Language grammar mistakes in my post above.... that means all reasoning and logical deductions that can be gleaned from my post have now been invalidated....
Nothing to stop them now, they don't like to innovate, now they don't have to!
Thats OK, the innovation has already been done for them. Look at the patents for details.
This means that Tesla compatible fast chargers can be built all over the world at a decreasing price as time goes on.
That means that owners of a Tesla car can find moar chargers, making their life easier, increasing the incentives to buy an environmentally responsible form of trabsport....
* Thereby helping the Planet..... OMG...the Implications are astounding!
I think you think you have a point. This is so utterly underwhelming, even with all the stuff V2 does that Apollo could never do, SpaceX might as well pack up and sell its assets and forget ever trying to improve space technology. Amiright?
Why even bother when there are so many haters and anti-progressers out there? Maybe we should all just give up on space completely because its not cool enough for you.
I heard that a large portion of the US population doesnt believe people went to the moon, and who am I to disagree with the fine citizens of the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the leaders of the Free World, the land of the Free with Liberty and Justice for All.
This is the correct answer. The Hawaian islands form over a "hot spot" under the sea floor that doesn't move with the plate. When the plate moves enough, a new volcanic vent appears. The entire chain of islands is the result of this process. Note that Hawaii, "The big island" is currently over the hot spot, and all the other islands are no longer active. The further away (in a line!) from the hot spot they are, they more they've eroded, so the smaller they are.
That looks suspiciously like compelling evidence for a >10000 year old earth.
Damn the devil is good! Hes obviously put alot of effort in to making the physical evidence as logical and consistent as possible.
Come to think of it, he would make a damn good engineer if he wasn't so evil. Its a real pity God lets this veritable mountain of evidence against a literal bible slide.
To be honest, He needs to lift His game a bit and put a stop to all this physical evidence thats fooling so so many intelligent humans...the plausible deniability argument is going to be pretty hard for Peter to refute at the Pearly Gates to be honest.
**Before the hate machine begins its inexorable slide over me, please note that this post is actually satire.
This is no less than utter hypocrisy by Facebook. Its all ok to share and data mine hundreds of millions of facebook users, but its not ok to do the same for their employees.
I've heard that the real reason they don't do that is because it actually feels good to die that way, and the bible-thumper types can't stand the idea of a prisoner enjoying his execution.
I call BS. Bible thumpers beleive that the person is going to spend no less than trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of billions of trillions of years to the power of infinity years suffering the most unbelievable abject torture and suffering in hell ( sorry, im trying to get across the sheer magnitude of time that is a literal eternity ) for their crime.
You think humans can be unbelievably cruel? Thats nothing compared to what God has in mind.
Ignore the fact that the punishment in no way befits the crime, its all OK because its sanctioned by God.
Oh, and before you say its not Gods fault ( it is ) and Hell is controlled by the devil, you would be wise to remember that God is Omnipotent and has the power ( but not the will ) to stop this atrocity.
Who cares how well the criminal lives, Hell and all of eternity of torture and suffering is waiting for him/her.
I dont think the issue is how much money it costs sending US astronauts on Russian rockets, the issue is that the Russian rockets are the only option right now.
My guess: Matter and energy are much of the same thing, E=mc^2 shows this. You put enough energy in a small enough space, its pretty likely that matter and antimatter condenses out of the energy.
Put two high energy photons in a small enough place....
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Unfortunately in this new day and age, worrying about your privacy is a very real concern.
I used to pass off the "gubmint is watching and listening to everything you do" crowd as paranoid crazy tinfoil-hatters who thought the 'gubmint' was going to extraordinary efforts to illegally spy on its citizens digital communications.
Then Snowden happened and blew the lid wide open, clearly showing that the can of worms was empty, and the worms are *everywhere*.
We need a special prosecutor and get people under oath.
Ahh yes the dreaded Oath. Nothing gets lying people to tell the truth more than a verbal agreement to tell the truth backed up by supernatural threats if they dont.
Where does anyone else get off saying that there must be something "wrong" with me because I have autism?
If I have , does anybody have the right to say something is "wrong" with me?
Yes. They do.
The word "organic" has a new meaning, it doesnt mean based on organic compounds, it just means "chemical free".
The word "chemical" has a new meaning. It doesnt mean what it used to mean, it now means "man made synthetic substance"
unless you miss hearing the last instruction due to external factors or voice text to speech mispronounciation....no nav unit ive seen allows you to just say "say it again" or something, and have the last voice instruction repeated without having to look at and physically interact with the nav unit while driving.
Please dont do stupid things like regulate that these devices must disable user interaction when the vehicle is travelling over a speed limit.
Unless the device can accurately detect if there is a passenger or not. This "safety feature" of my cars factory nav/media unit drives me up the wall...the passengers! the passengers! why wont *somebody* please think of the passengers!
It's a TRAP!!!!
Ironicly, its actually a TARP.
Theres a patent for an "invention using a low cost plastic sheet covering to be placed over a vehicle for the purpose of rainproofing aforementioned vehicle.....with computers* "
* rebadged patent granted, yours sincerely, USPTO.
nooooo, I made English Language grammar mistakes in my post above.... that means all reasoning and logical deductions that can be gleaned from my post have now been invalidated....
Damn you grammar nazis!
Nothing to stop them now, they don't like to innovate, now they don't have to!
Thats OK, the innovation has already been done for them. Look at the patents for details.
This means that Tesla compatible fast chargers can be built all over the world at a decreasing price as time goes on.
That means that owners of a Tesla car can find moar chargers, making their life easier, increasing the incentives to buy an environmentally responsible form of trabsport....
* Thereby helping the Planet.....
OMG...the Implications are astounding!
*(booos and hisses from the crowd)
Nobody cares. The media just wants something to write about.
I'm disappointed the NSA isn't doing more, and wasn't able to prevent leaks like this.
You and people like you are going to be the ones to blame the next time something bad happens. What have you ever done?
And people like you are the reason why our Bill of Rights is routinely sodomized.
LOL, what a complete load of absolute rubbish.
Im not even going to bother to rebut the utter tripe you have spouted, it truly is not worth the effort.
LOL.
...you are not part of some new and different "sharing economy" just because it involves an iPhone app.
What if they have an Android App? Android is Open Source after all.
Thank you Mr Snowden for everything you have done.
We always suspected, but never really knew how bad things really are until now.
Again, I thank you.
I think you think you have a point. This is so utterly underwhelming, even with all the stuff V2 does that Apollo could never do, SpaceX might as well pack up and sell its assets and forget ever trying to improve space technology. Amiright?
Why even bother when there are so many haters and anti-progressers out there? Maybe we should all just give up on space completely because its not cool enough for you.
Whatever.
Why do people perpetuate this myth?
I heard that a large portion of the US population doesnt believe people went to the moon, and who am I to disagree with the fine citizens of the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the leaders of the Free World, the land of the Free with Liberty and Justice for All.
Who. Am. I. To. Disagree.
Dont worry guys, its the LAPD. These guys keep their word.
I feel safer already.
Why build a massive pyramid, why not just use an existing object that is miles high and adapt it for the chimney effect...a mountain?
Great, just what the world needs, another pyramid scheme.
Bingo!
This is the correct answer. The Hawaian islands form over a "hot spot" under the sea floor that doesn't move with the plate. When the plate moves enough, a new volcanic vent appears. The entire chain of islands is the result of this process. Note that Hawaii, "The big island" is currently over the hot spot, and all the other islands are no longer active. The further away (in a line!) from the hot spot they are, they more they've eroded, so the smaller they are.
That looks suspiciously like compelling evidence for a >10000 year old earth.
Damn the devil is good! Hes obviously put alot of effort in to making the physical evidence as logical and consistent as possible.
Come to think of it, he would make a damn good engineer if he wasn't so evil. Its a real pity God lets this veritable mountain of evidence against a literal bible slide.
To be honest, He needs to lift His game a bit and put a stop to all this physical evidence thats fooling so so many intelligent humans...the plausible deniability argument is going to be pretty hard for Peter to refute at the Pearly Gates to be honest.
**Before the hate machine begins its inexorable slide over me, please note that this post is actually satire.
This is no less than utter hypocrisy by Facebook.
Its all ok to share and data mine hundreds of millions of facebook users, but its not ok to do the same for their employees.
hypocrisy [hi-pok-ruh-see]
noun, plural hypocrisies.
1. Facebook.
I've heard that the real reason they don't do that is because it actually feels good to die that way, and the bible-thumper types can't stand the idea of a prisoner enjoying his execution.
I call BS. Bible thumpers beleive that the person is going to spend no less than trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of billions of trillions of years to the power of infinity years suffering the most unbelievable abject torture and suffering in hell ( sorry, im trying to get across the sheer magnitude of time that is a literal eternity ) for their crime.
You think humans can be unbelievably cruel? Thats nothing compared to what God has in mind.
Ignore the fact that the punishment in no way befits the crime, its all OK because its sanctioned by God.
Oh, and before you say its not Gods fault ( it is ) and Hell is controlled by the devil, you would be wise to remember that God is Omnipotent and has the power ( but not the will ) to stop this atrocity.
Who cares how well the criminal lives, Hell and all of eternity of torture and suffering is waiting for him/her.
For those who are metric-impaired, 50 meters equals 1968.5 inches.
Since we are on the archaic unit bandwagon, thats approx 0.25 furlongs.
How much does your shitty country spend on space each year?
And this invalidates my argument how?
17 bil? is that all? 17 measly billion dollars a year for all of NASA?
Shit guys, get your act together. You spend more money a year on air conditioning for the US Army ( ~$20bil )
Nice set of priorities you have there.
seriously, wtf!?
I dont think the issue is how much money it costs sending US astronauts on Russian rockets, the issue is that the Russian rockets are the only option right now.
My guess: Matter and energy are much of the same thing, E=mc^2 shows this. You put enough energy in a small enough space, its pretty likely that matter and antimatter condenses out of the energy.
Put two high energy photons in a small enough place....