No it isn't. It's a definition, and an arbitrary one since the class "planet" as currently defined has no particular physical significance. "Member of the list of planets of Sol" is no less (and no more) "factual".
> I'll trust the people at Jane's, who have been doing this for decades...
Doing what, publishing "Jane's All the Worlds Contrails"? Why do you think that someone who writes articles about military ships and aircraft would be an expert at distinguishing aircraft contrails from rocket exhaust?
Unfortunately you look at it with Capitalist eyes, if everyone can produce goods at home we would be tending towards a more socialist society,
Only for certain definitions of "capitalist" and "socialist".
sorry USians I know that is blasphemous.
The only citizens of the USA who are likely to find this "blasphemous" are those who favor state control of the means of production. Since state socialism is more popular among EUians it would seem likely to meet with more "regulation" in Europe.
You don't see the raw meat until after you've caught and killed the animal and are ready to eat. Bloodlust is not appropriate at that point. He needs to redo the experiment with images of prey animals running away.
If the default posture is "it will be hacked" to any proposal for a necessary identification system such as this, how could such a system be designed so that these objections are unwarranted?
It is abundantly clear to anyone willing to look that it can't. Centralization doesn't scale. Creating a single point of failure for an entire nation is stupid.
As we Americans move towards a national healthcare system, this question will need to be answered soon.
...for the same reason publishers didn't shut down Xerox. They will have a theoretical contributory infringement case against those who distribute CAD files but will have even less luck than the RIAA due to the lack of statutory damages. For the same reason they won't be able to act against end-users at all unless they start selling large numbers of copies.
The real fun will begin when the cheap 3D scanners come out.
Five pirates in a motorboat armed with AK47s and couple of RPGs are going to successfully attack a city of 100,000 people. Right.
Even if they manage to get on board without being shot by the city cops, so what? They're just five foreign criminals trying to compete with the local mafia while dodging the cops. I don't think they'd do well.
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Pluto is not a satellite of Neptune and yet it crosses Neptune's path.
> It's a fact.
No it isn't. It's a definition, and an arbitrary one since the class "planet" as currently defined has no particular physical significance. "Member of the list of planets of Sol" is no less (and no more) "factual".
That's what the lawsuit is about, isn't it?
That only deals with copyright problems. It's irrelevant to patents (And Google claims to have already effectively done it).
> I'll trust the people at Jane's, who have been doing this for decades...
Doing what, publishing "Jane's All the Worlds Contrails"? Why do you think that someone who writes articles about military ships and aircraft would be an expert at distinguishing aircraft contrails from rocket exhaust?
Why? He did what he got paid for. The editor who was supposed to edit out the flashing lights screwed up, though.
> Likely what happened is that government officials first held a few meetings
I doubt that anyone at DoD took it that seriously. After all, they deal with CBS "News" every day.
> I have NEVER seen a plane produce so much steam on take off,
808 wasn't on take off. It was passing over on its way from Hawaii to Arizona.
> Didn't this appear to rise from the Pacific?
This morning I watched a contrail appear to rise from central Wisconsin...
How could they do that with only a vague description of the location and direction?
They did check their radar records and found nothing.
Not the newsies, fortunately.
The military correctly identified it as nothing of interest.
I assume that by "we" you mean CBS news.
That was just sloppy editing.
...the hell I won't.
Only for certain definitions of "capitalist" and "socialist".
The only citizens of the USA who are likely to find this "blasphemous" are those who favor state control of the means of production. Since state socialism is more popular among EUians it would seem likely to meet with more "regulation" in Europe.
> now 3D printers are being classified as "law-breaking" tools.
I know of no evidence that anyone is doing any such thing.
Please point out some the things that the "corporate entities" have actually done against 3d printers.
You don't see the raw meat until after you've caught and killed the animal and are ready to eat. Bloodlust is not appropriate at that point. He needs to redo the experiment with images of prey animals running away.
It is abundantly clear to anyone willing to look that it can't. Centralization doesn't scale. Creating a single point of failure for an entire nation is stupid.
It won't be. It will be ignored.
...for the same reason publishers didn't shut down Xerox. They will have a theoretical contributory infringement case against those who distribute CAD files but will have even less luck than the RIAA due to the lack of statutory damages. For the same reason they won't be able to act against end-users at all unless they start selling large numbers of copies.
The real fun will begin when the cheap 3D scanners come out.
Five pirates in a motorboat armed with AK47s and couple of RPGs are going to successfully attack a city of 100,000 people. Right.
Even if they manage to get on board without being shot by the city cops, so what? They're just five foreign criminals trying to compete with the local mafia while dodging the cops. I don't think they'd do well.
No reason hurricanes should be a major problem. They are not a serious threat to existing very large ships such as aircraft carriers.
Fortunately nothing is actually built out of money.
Entities that do so are called "governments".
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