Probably the best way to get consent is publish the pictures with a note explaining that you would like to contact the wubjects of the pictures to obtain their consent publish said pics (or to prosecute them, this should be in small typeface).
What would the US State Dept have to say if the tables were turned, i.e. Russian police arrest US citizen who broke into Russian computers and was lured to Russia?
You have just won a dinner in red Square with Natalia Sokolova!
Ever been to China? India? Europe? Africa? Seen how people live there (i.e. in private homes, how they get around, working conditions, spend their free time, care for their families)?
I've spend over 2 months in each of the above places (and, yes, in the US too), and bunching China and India together as > puny asian nations is pretty arrogant. Infinite budgets are NOT currently available in either of these countries, and yet they do pretty well on what they have. Most people I met there have the same human desires you (hopefully) do, i.e. better themselves, good chances for their kids to have a nice life, good health. They also have less than (I suspect) you or I, however they enjoy what they do have more than most Americans do.
Let me give a concrete example of how having too much money can be a bad thing. Ever see a kid on a roundabout? They enjoy it, a lot. Now put the same kid on an American or European roller coaster
type ride in an amusement park. Wow that's lots more fun. Put them back on the roundabout, it's boring. But the kid can't have the roller coaster every day... If the kid never had the roller coaster, didn't know it existed, they would be happier with what they do have every day (the roundabout in the local park).
I also can't think of a country where the public transit is worse than in the US, nor where I saw as many homeless. Most other countries have nationalized health care, i.e. you can get a doctor when sick just like you call the fire dept when your house is on fire. The fire dept doesn't charge you to put out the fire, it is a public service. For those of you who weren't aware, civilization basically implies people working together to make life easier, safer, etc. for ALL, not just for those who can afford it...
This doesn't fit what IMHO is the usual definition of teleportation (i.e. near-instantaneous transport of material objects)
This is just using electric current to push an atom thru a tube. Even if (big if) you could do it with large objects (i.e. whole humans), the acceleration (and also the deceleration) would squish you into a jelly or buttery substance (apologies to PBJ eaters). One really has to deconstitute the object at the start end, and send the info about the matter (metamatter??), not necessarily the matter itself, to the other end.
Then you still have the problem of reconstituting said object at the other end, no mean trick.
Read Niven, he has a good long article on teleportation in All the Myriad Ways (its a book, basically lots of bits of paper stuc together and no hyperlinks).
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Does he have to have just one profession?? I think the term usually used is philosopher-scientist anyway.
Probably the best way to get consent is publish the pictures with a note explaining that you would like to contact the wubjects of the pictures to obtain their consent publish said pics (or to prosecute them, this should be in small typeface).
What would the US State Dept have to say if the tables were turned, i.e. Russian police arrest US citizen who broke into Russian computers and was lured to Russia?
You have just won a dinner in red Square with Natalia Sokolova!
> No nemesis, no true nationalism
And yet in the next paragraph
> U.s. still rules and money matters..
Ever been to China? India? Europe? Africa? Seen how people live there (i.e. in private homes, how they get around, working conditions, spend their free time, care for their families)?
I've spend over 2 months in each of the above places (and, yes, in the US too), and bunching China and India together as > puny asian nations is pretty arrogant. Infinite budgets are NOT currently available in either of these countries, and yet they do pretty well on what they have. Most people I met there have the same human desires you (hopefully) do, i.e. better themselves, good chances for their kids to have a nice life, good health. They also have less than (I suspect) you or I, however they enjoy what they do have more than most Americans do.
Let me give a concrete example of how having too much money can be a bad thing. Ever see a kid on a roundabout? They enjoy it, a lot. Now put the same kid on an American or European roller coaster
type ride in an amusement park. Wow that's lots more fun. Put them back on the roundabout, it's boring. But the kid can't have the roller coaster every day... If the kid never had the roller coaster, didn't know it existed, they would be happier with what they do have every day (the roundabout in the local park).
I also can't think of a country where the public transit is worse than in the US, nor where I saw as many homeless. Most other countries have nationalized health care, i.e. you can get a doctor when sick just like you call the fire dept when your house is on fire. The fire dept doesn't charge you to put out the fire, it is a public service. For those of you who weren't aware, civilization basically implies people working together to make life easier, safer, etc. for ALL, not just for those who can afford it...
OK, I'm done, soapbox is free now..
This doesn't fit what IMHO is the usual definition of teleportation (i.e. near-instantaneous transport of material objects) This is just using electric current to push an atom thru a tube. Even if (big if) you could do it with large objects (i.e. whole humans), the acceleration (and also the deceleration) would squish you into a jelly or buttery substance (apologies to PBJ eaters). One really has to deconstitute the object at the start end, and send the info about the matter (metamatter??), not necessarily the matter itself, to the other end. Then you still have the problem of reconstituting said object at the other end, no mean trick. Read Niven, he has a good long article on teleportation in All the Myriad Ways (its a book, basically lots of bits of paper stuc together and no hyperlinks).