Do it to a Senator, for example, and it wouldn't matter if they were cleared within a few days; the scandal would be enough to ruin their political career for life.
They'll just move on to become priests or fundie pastors or some other scam where child porn is more common.
California secedes, has to assume 10% of current federal debt (forgot about that, hmmm?);
Says who? Did we assume the debt of the british crown when we left them?
Says current international law. This was all hashed out when Quebec was proposing to separate from the rest of Canada. You can't just leave with the good parts and not take the bad parts as well.
So, current accumulated fed deficit of $12 Trillion, that works out to $1.2 Trillion. California has 36 million people, so that means the family of four will have an additional debt of $133,333.33
California bonds are already among the worst in the western world - they're 100% junk bonds. As a country, they'd be even worse. California is currently paying 5% on bonds, and that will go up.
So, that's $6,666.67 in taxes per family, provided that there is no increase in bonds because Cali is now no longer a US state.
Add that to the current budget deficits, and the need to service the previous accumulated deficits, and the accumulated shortfalls in various programs (pensions, etc), and you have a real problem. It's bad enough that California is on the watch list for default already, and that earlier this year is had to pay with IOUs.
So, in that perspective, is the $15 billion a year more that California pays out in taxes than it receives in federal spending ($416.17 per capita, or $1,666,67 per family of four) all that bad a deal?
HD flash videos use about 3-4% of my CPU. corei7 920. Talking about full screen video streams that eat up 700KB(bytes)/sec and look pixel perfect on my 1920x1080 screen.
700kb/sec video streams that "look pixel perfect on my 1920x1080 screen"? You either have:
A screen whose native resolution is far below 1920x1080, so it down-converts higher-resolution formats
Poor eyesight
BTW - Youtube's idea of "hi def video" is 720p - that's not going to be "pixel perfect" scaled out to 1920x1080, because the scaling factor is 1.5, and there's no such thing as a half-pixel.
700kb/sec is (lossy) compressed as all hell for a 1920x1080 screen. No pixel perfection there...
So what if the bar is destroyed.. the interesting question is how many are left, not whether the bar is destroyed or not. "Life-lines" don't exist as linear cause-and-effect in such a scenario - which is okay, because we already know that cause and effect break down in certain circumstances. Your answer assumes that cause and effect maintain their conventional relationship, which isn't true in some cases now, and would certainly be even less true when you throw in time travel to the past.
California could solve its budget problems by seceding. If the money we fork over for federal taxes stayed in California, the budget would be well in the black. Of course, knowing this state's legislature, I'm sure they'd piss away that surplus within five years.
California secedes, has to assume 10% of current federal debt (forgot about that, hmmm?);
Trade barriers and tarrifs between the Cali Republic and the US force most manufacturers to relocate to US of A
Cali housing, already in the tank, fails completely as neither Fannie Mae nor Freddie Mac can finance mortgages outside the US of A
People buy up remaining bankrupt Cali assets for 1 cent on the dollar.
the court found that personal jurisdiction was proper under a theory of national jurisdiction: the defendant had targeted the U.S. at large from outside of the territory and intended to avail himself of the opportunity of selling test answers to a U.S. graduate school entrance test to his most likely customers: Americans.
WoW isn't targeted only to Americans or at a strictly American product (unlike the US Graduate school entrance test).
Why can't a loop affect its' own causal past? We already know that causality is broken in some instances in this universe, so we don't have to worry about every little inconsistency.
And no, time travel is NOT impossible - you do it all the time. Come back in 24 hours, and you'll see you're a day in the future.
There's a point where it's just being stupid to be pissed that you can't enjoy a visual medium if you're blind.
I know that people don't read the articles, but I'll write this in bold and in caps so you can read it, since both you and the person doing the suing seem to have something in commoon: LOOK AT THE TITLE OF THE SUMMARY - VISUALLY IMPAIRED GAMER SUES SONY
He's not blind. However, without seeing the communications he's had with Sony, there's no way to know if what he's asking is reasonable, or if the onus should be on him to acquire equipment that overcomes his visual problems.
Or he can just download pr0n until he goes blind, and then we can have this discussion again:-)
Simple, cheqp, and quick solution - move the servers outside the USofA.
Why did Helen Keller fail her written English Composition class?
Her mother ironed her homework.
Why did Helen Kellers' dog jump over the cliff?
You would too if your name was "Msaghhhhaa!"
Seriously though, the question I have is would adding certain cues or mods give sighted people an extra advantage? If so, then you'll find a lot of people quickly using them to cheat.
Or he can do like one woman I saw who works with a special high-contrast VERY big screen that magnified a portion of what was shown on the other screen. If that works reasonably well, then it's not up to Sony to get such a setup for him.
My Magellan 4210 never lags behind my speedo for more than three seconds, in which time it is impossible to get the average vehicle from 45 to 65 mph. Try it sometime.
People do it all the time in ONE second.
You've never owned a motorcycle, obviously.
These 5 motorcycles can do 0-60 in 2.4 seconds, so the 0-65 in 3 seconds is a piece of cake, and 45-65 is a joke.
Sure you can lower the entropy of a closed system.
Thought experiment time!
You have a closed system at maximum entropy. The particles are moving around in a maximum state of disorder - "heat death of the universe" scenario.
Given enough time, those random motions will result in some areas having more energy and particle density than others. Guess what - your closed systems' entropy has been reduced slightly, because now you have a gradient.
Given enough of a time stretch, you could end up with a closed system with very LOW entropy, same as given enough time and enough monkeys with typewriters, you can end up with the collected works of Shakespeare.
In other words, any system at maximum entropy has only one way to go - lesser entropy. Any closed system by necessity IS it's own Maxwell's Daemon.
What if the higgs only destroys *some* of the universes?
what if the higgs just "re-arranges" the universe?
what if the higgs just destroys itself?
what if the higgs doesn't exist?
Optimal outcome, with no paradox: Two Higgs walk into a bar. One destroys the bar. The other one goes back in time and destroys the other Higgs. Two Higgs walk into a bar...
From the point of view of the rest of the universe, the bar continues to exist. However, how many Higgs EXIT the bar? Is it
None - they're caught in a loop.
One - the Higgs that went back in time, and destroyed the other Higgs, and in so doing, altered its' own future
Two - the Higgs that went back in time, then continued in time to meet up with its' future self, so they both left
Two - the Higgs that went back in time plus the other Higgs
Two - the Higgs that went back in time merges with the current-time Higgs
Three - Both Higgs, plus the copy that went back in time because it doesn't "merge" with itself
#3 and #6 both open up some interesting possibilities... especially if you replace "Higgs" with "People". People wouldn't "merge" when their time lines rejoin. #4 "could" work, in some strange way, but you would have to allow for a universe that tolerates non-continuity (which ours does in some respects, strange as it seems at the macro level) #5 is definitely out. #2 is just boring. #1 doesn't work, if you think for a few minutes - it requires the rest of the universe to agree to stop "observing", or that time stop for the whole universe.
But it COULD lead to the entire population of New Jersey, the armpit of America, being banned from flying. Not having to sit next to them might be seen as a win.
Or fear of bad airline food? Or fear of having a screaming kid on board? Or fear of being stuck next to a passenger with hygiene issues?
That's not the smell of fear... that's the stink of miserable certainty.
Oh well - look at the bright side. Anything that reduces air travel is good for the environment, so you KNOW they're also going to be applying for carbon tax credits for the reduction in air travel. One bad scam deserves another.
> No, but the guy who's afraid that such a person is on the flight will be. These persons will be detected and prevented from boarding, thus they avoid the imagined risk. It's added value for the neurotic!
So lessen the odds by bringing a bomb onto the airplane. Do you know what the odds of TWO people bringing a bomb onto an airplane are?
And if you can get someone else you trust never to explode a bomb to bring one on an airplane, your flight will be even safer, because do you know how much rarer it will be for THREE people to bring a bomb onto an airplane?
Heck, have the captain, the co-pilot, the flight engineer, and the head stew also bring bombs on board. the probability of an EIGHTH person bringing a bomb on board is soooo small....
Now, where's my grant money?
(no, it's not original - it's adapted from Isaac Asimov's Joke Book - which is now probably on some sort of watch list because certain people with no sense of humor act like they have a baguette shoved up their ass, so don't trot down to your local library to read it)
Hypothesis: There are multiple universes. Many of them build the LHC. In those that build it, most turn it on, destroying themselves. Not only do they destroy themselves, but they take out their planet, their galaxy, and their universe, including time, such that they essentially never existed.
4th hypothesis - we live in one of those destroyed universes - we just haven't gotten to the "destroy themselves, yadda yadda yadda" part; The universes simply exist until they don't any more, just like the baguette.
5th hypothesis - the universe is like a baguette - it will reach its "best before date" when the LHC is turned on.
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The problem with farmed fish is that most of the meat is contaminated with parasites, such as sea lice.
Talk to anyone who works in a cannery that works with farmed fish - they'll tell you about having to pick the parasites off the flesh all day.
If these were land animals instead of fish, they would be classified as unfit for human consumption.
They'll just move on to become priests or fundie pastors or some other scam where child porn is more common.
In other news, slashdotters lined up in droves asking "where can I get the adult | lesbian | furries version of this script?"
I didn't hit "preview" and must have forgotten to close a blockquote tag. My bad.
Says current international law. This was all hashed out when Quebec was proposing to separate from the rest of Canada. You can't just leave with the good parts and not take the bad parts as well.
So, current accumulated fed deficit of $12 Trillion, that works out to $1.2 Trillion. California has 36 million people, so that means the family of four will have an additional debt of $133,333.33
California bonds are already among the worst in the western world - they're 100% junk bonds. As a country, they'd be even worse. California is currently paying 5% on bonds, and that will go up.
So, that's $6,666.67 in taxes per family, provided that there is no increase in bonds because Cali is now no longer a US state.
Add that to the current budget deficits, and the need to service the previous accumulated deficits, and the accumulated shortfalls in various programs (pensions, etc), and you have a real problem. It's bad enough that California is on the watch list for default already, and that earlier this year is had to pay with IOUs.
So, in that perspective, is the $15 billion a year more that California pays out in taxes than it receives in federal spending ($416.17 per capita, or $1,666,67 per family of four) all that bad a deal?
700kb/sec video streams that "look pixel perfect on my 1920x1080 screen"? You either have:
BTW - Youtube's idea of "hi def video" is 720p - that's not going to be "pixel perfect" scaled out to 1920x1080, because the scaling factor is 1.5, and there's no such thing as a half-pixel.
700kb/sec is (lossy) compressed as all hell for a 1920x1080 screen. No pixel perfection there ...
So what if the bar is destroyed .. the interesting question is how many are left, not whether the bar is destroyed or not. "Life-lines" don't exist as linear cause-and-effect in such a scenario - which is okay, because we already know that cause and effect break down in certain circumstances. Your answer assumes that cause and effect maintain their conventional relationship, which isn't true in some cases now, and would certainly be even less true when you throw in time travel to the past.
California could solve its budget problems by seceding. If the money we fork over for federal taxes stayed in California, the budget would be well in the black. Of course, knowing this state's legislature, I'm sure they'd piss away that surplus within five years.
WoW isn't targeted only to Americans or at a strictly American product (unlike the US Graduate school entrance test).
Why can't a loop affect its' own causal past? We already know that causality is broken in some instances in this universe, so we don't have to worry about every little inconsistency.
And no, time travel is NOT impossible - you do it all the time. Come back in 24 hours, and you'll see you're a day in the future.
So impress me. Go drive around the block blindfolded.
Or just WALK to the store blindfolded.
Get dressed, make breakfast, and eat blindfolded. Now go clean up the mess you made, and change your clothes because you got shit all over them.
Make bacon and eggs blindfolded.
Light the barbecue blindfolded and cook a steak.
Pay for something with cash blindfolded.
Walk across the street to your neighbours blindfolded.
Do the groceries blindfolded.
Change the toner in your printer blindfolded.
Make a REAL spaghetti sauce blindfolded (god, the kitchen's going to look like you killed someone!)
Do the laundry blindfolded.
Post on slashdot blindfolded.
You've done all these before, some of them every day for years, if not decades. Certainly dozens of times for many of them ...
I know that people don't read the articles, but I'll write this in bold and in caps so you can read it, since both you and the person doing the suing seem to have something in commoon: LOOK AT THE TITLE OF THE SUMMARY - VISUALLY IMPAIRED GAMER SUES SONY
He's not blind. However, without seeing the communications he's had with Sony, there's no way to know if what he's asking is reasonable, or if the onus should be on him to acquire equipment that overcomes his visual problems.
Or he can just download pr0n until he goes blind, and then we can have this discussion again :-)
Only if the server is in the US.
The US doesn't have jurisdiction over servers outside the country, same as other countries don't have jurisdiction over servers in the US.
DONE. NEXT: The publishers of Playboy and Hustler are sued to be forced to include 4 Viagras with every copy sold to people with Erectile Dysfunction.
Simple, cheqp, and quick solution - move the servers outside the USofA.
Why did Helen Keller fail her written English Composition class?
Her mother ironed her homework.
Why did Helen Kellers' dog jump over the cliff?
You would too if your name was "Msaghhhhaa!"
Seriously though, the question I have is would adding certain cues or mods give sighted people an extra advantage? If so, then you'll find a lot of people quickly using them to cheat.
Or he can do like one woman I saw who works with a special high-contrast VERY big screen that magnified a portion of what was shown on the other screen. If that works reasonably well, then it's not up to Sony to get such a setup for him.
People do it all the time in ONE second.
You've never owned a motorcycle, obviously.
These 5 motorcycles can do 0-60 in 2.4 seconds, so the 0-65 in 3 seconds is a piece of cake, and 45-65 is a joke.
There are also plenty of cars that can do it. Any car that can do 0-60 in 10-11 seconds should be able to, and there are plenty on the list including shitboxes like the Neon. Escorts and F15-s, Caddie STSs, Camaros, Vettes, Kraut Kars, etc.
Sure you can lower the entropy of a closed system.
Thought experiment time!
You have a closed system at maximum entropy. The particles are moving around in a maximum state of disorder - "heat death of the universe" scenario.
Given enough time, those random motions will result in some areas having more energy and particle density than others. Guess what - your closed systems' entropy has been reduced slightly, because now you have a gradient.
Given enough of a time stretch, you could end up with a closed system with very LOW entropy, same as given enough time and enough monkeys with typewriters, you can end up with the collected works of Shakespeare.
In other words, any system at maximum entropy has only one way to go - lesser entropy. Any closed system by necessity IS it's own Maxwell's Daemon.
Nope - it's not a repeating loop. It's one time through the loop.
Otherwise it would take an infinite amount of energy.
Goes through the loop once, conditions are changed, conditions for looping no longer apply, time (and the particles) continues to flow forward.
Easier solution (and you'll never lose the decryption key):
Just say all your data is encrypted via DOUBLE ROT13.
oblig. banana meets LN02 video.
What if the higgs only destroys *some* of the universes?
what if the higgs just "re-arranges" the universe?
what if the higgs just destroys itself?
what if the higgs doesn't exist?
Optimal outcome, with no paradox: Two Higgs walk into a bar. One destroys the bar. The other one goes back in time and destroys the other Higgs. Two Higgs walk into a bar ...
From the point of view of the rest of the universe, the bar continues to exist. However, how many Higgs EXIT the bar? Is it
#3 and #6 both open up some interesting possibilities ... especially if you replace "Higgs" with "People". People wouldn't "merge" when their time lines rejoin. #4 "could" work, in some strange way, but you would have to allow for a universe that tolerates non-continuity (which ours does in some respects, strange as it seems at the macro level) #5 is definitely out. #2 is just boring. #1 doesn't work, if you think for a few minutes - it requires the rest of the universe to agree to stop "observing", or that time stop for the whole universe.
This whole idea doesn't pass the smell test.
But it COULD lead to the entire population of New Jersey, the armpit of America, being banned from flying. Not having to sit next to them might be seen as a win.
That's not the smell of fear ... that's the stink of miserable certainty.
Oh well - look at the bright side. Anything that reduces air travel is good for the environment, so you KNOW they're also going to be applying for carbon tax credits for the reduction in air travel. One bad scam deserves another.
So lessen the odds by bringing a bomb onto the airplane. Do you know what the odds of TWO people bringing a bomb onto an airplane are?
And if you can get someone else you trust never to explode a bomb to bring one on an airplane, your flight will be even safer, because do you know how much rarer it will be for THREE people to bring a bomb onto an airplane?
Heck, have the captain, the co-pilot, the flight engineer, and the head stew also bring bombs on board. the probability of an EIGHTH person bringing a bomb on board is soooo small ....
Now, where's my grant money?
(no, it's not original - it's adapted from Isaac Asimov's Joke Book - which is now probably on some sort of watch list because certain people with no sense of humor act like they have a baguette shoved up their ass, so don't trot down to your local library to read it)
4th hypothesis - we live in one of those destroyed universes - we just haven't gotten to the "destroy themselves, yadda yadda yadda" part; The universes simply exist until they don't any more, just like the baguette.
5th hypothesis - the universe is like a baguette - it will reach its "best before date" when the LHC is turned on.