Yeah I remember. What happened? Big fine, got appealed, long story short - nothing happened except some lawyers got paid. Microsoft can afford plenty of lawyers. Bring on round 2 and I dare you to expect anything different. TOO BIG TO FAIL. Remember those words? It doesn't just apply to banks. Someone decides to force Microsoft to pay a real hefty fine and some politician will show up (like Nancy Pelosi did for GM) and say "Oh gosh no, we can't break MICROSOFT!"...
I wonder how much "fake" meat they can come up with for $108 million. Because $108 million sure buys a lot of cattle and the land to keep them on. And a herd large enough to maintain its numbers and pay its own expenses. I know a lot of farmers who have started with far less...
You turn it into other things like kinetic energy, electricity, etc. Of course it all wants to go back to heat eventually, which is why in theory Dyson spheres still emit infrared. Which you allow to bleed off into space. But not before making all that energy work for you first. Kind of like a dam. You do realize that a dam doesn't completely block a river, right? Unless of course you want the river to flow over and around your dam...
That's why I rounded up to 1 million pounds a year. 200k buys a lot of training and sick days. But still ok, double the salaries. There's still a good 12 million pounds to account for.
OK the average British bobby earns about 45k a year. Lets have 18 of them, that gives us 6 policemen x 3 spots which should cover weekends and 3 shifts easily. 18 cops x 45k gives 810,000 a year. Ok let's round that up to 1 million pounds a year. Assange has been there 3 years now, so thats 3 million pounds. Now I realize there's plenty of other stuff to cover other than actual manpower, but I'm wondering where the other 15 million pounds is coming from.
But for as long as communities have existed, there has been scarcity. What happens when there is no scarcity anymore and automated production can supply the entire world. I mean, it's not as if the robots need to eat/watch tv.
And now that I think about it: when you have no idea why someone drops dead, that person certainly gets an autopsy in all but the poorest countries. So the guy who didn't know he had cancer and died from it - well there you go, he gets added to the statistics. So the ONLY case that probably wouldn't get covered is the guy with a known chronic illness who dies from his illness and who by the way had an asymptomatic, undetected cancer. That's a very small segment of the population. OK I'm done.
Are you suggesting that every dead person gets a full autopsy? Because that is not even close to be true.
In some countries, close to it. However you don't have to autopsy every single person to get a pretty good idea of how the situation is in the general population. If you did then statisticians would be out of work. Enough autopsies have been performed over the years to get fairly reliable data - but autopsies are not the only source of data. They were my counter to the "hidden cancer" argument. Quite a lot of people with cancer actually do see a doctor about it. Sometimes too late. But the capture rate is pretty high.
No there are not. And yes I am a doctor. Cancer is by definition NOT benign. Now you may be referring to less aggressive cancers and yes there are plenty of those. Basal cell carcinoma for example. Some prostate cancers. Cervical cancers. All of those are very slow in the growing and spreading. However thyroid cancers, due to their location, are obvious pretty quickly. People tend to wonder about that lump sticking out of their throat.
Still all of that is besides the point. When autopsies are performed, any cancers are noted even when the patient dies of unrelated conditions. For example almost ALL men over age 80 and ALL men above 90 have prostate cancer, although most of them die from something else. So yes you're right in that cancer can go undetected. But you are wrong in thinking we don't know exactly what the "normal" amount of cancer is in a population.
The GOOD news is that most thyroid cancers are treatable and survivable - except for the undifferentiated thyroid carcinoma which will kill you rather quickly and nothing can be done.
It's CANCER. Even if you don't go looking for it, if you wait long enough the patient dies from it. Incidence rates of all sorts of cancers are well documented all over the world.
Animal behavior teaches us the importance of bluffing and looking bigger, meaner or scarier than you actually are. While there's no reason to assume that xenobiology would be the same, there's no reason to assume it would be different either. Leaving aside the question of whether it's a good idea to even attempt communication at all - could a simple, easy to understand message be interpreted as weakness?
I am assuming that you have mentally divided the world into two groups of people - useless and useful ones. I'm also assuming you have placed yourself in the "useful" category. There is no such thing as a useless human.
Wait - so if they ban encryption, presumably it means I won't be able to secure my Wifi because after all that uses encryption, so dear government, how do you expect to force me to be responsible for anything that originates from my IP? Surely I must enjoy the same protections as my ISP.
Ahh yes, the company that couldn't even get my wife's shoe size right. Twice. Yeah I promised myself not to do business with them after they got snotty about it. But I wish them luck in their endeavor, lol.
I get it. He only missed off an apostrophe and an s from the second word of the second line (it's), and of course capitalization of the first letter of the first line. Dude, don't you understand typo? I'm fluent, I can both read and wrtie it.
Boots were on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were withdrawn for a reason. Presenting the locals with something to shoot at wasn't improving stability in the region.
Outlook is a piece of crap on Windows too so that shouldn't be a surprise. In fact I'm wondering how they figured out it was acting differently with El Capitan...was it just locking up/hanging for longer than usual?
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This is more of a front door with a bicycle lock.
Yeah I remember. What happened? Big fine, got appealed, long story short - nothing happened except some lawyers got paid. Microsoft can afford plenty of lawyers. Bring on round 2 and I dare you to expect anything different. TOO BIG TO FAIL. Remember those words? It doesn't just apply to banks. Someone decides to force Microsoft to pay a real hefty fine and some politician will show up (like Nancy Pelosi did for GM) and say "Oh gosh no, we can't break MICROSOFT!"...
I wonder how much "fake" meat they can come up with for $108 million. Because $108 million sure buys a lot of cattle and the land to keep them on. And a herd large enough to maintain its numbers and pay its own expenses. I know a lot of farmers who have started with far less...
How would the heat dissipate?
You turn it into other things like kinetic energy, electricity, etc. Of course it all wants to go back to heat eventually, which is why in theory Dyson spheres still emit infrared. Which you allow to bleed off into space. But not before making all that energy work for you first. Kind of like a dam. You do realize that a dam doesn't completely block a river, right? Unless of course you want the river to flow over and around your dam...
That's why I rounded up to 1 million pounds a year. 200k buys a lot of training and sick days. But still ok, double the salaries. There's still a good 12 million pounds to account for.
OK the average British bobby earns about 45k a year. Lets have 18 of them, that gives us 6 policemen x 3 spots which should cover weekends and 3 shifts easily. 18 cops x 45k gives 810,000 a year. Ok let's round that up to 1 million pounds a year. Assange has been there 3 years now, so thats 3 million pounds. Now I realize there's plenty of other stuff to cover other than actual manpower, but I'm wondering where the other 15 million pounds is coming from.
But for as long as communities have existed, there has been scarcity. What happens when there is no scarcity anymore and automated production can supply the entire world. I mean, it's not as if the robots need to eat/watch tv.
And now that I think about it: when you have no idea why someone drops dead, that person certainly gets an autopsy in all but the poorest countries. So the guy who didn't know he had cancer and died from it - well there you go, he gets added to the statistics. So the ONLY case that probably wouldn't get covered is the guy with a known chronic illness who dies from his illness and who by the way had an asymptomatic, undetected cancer. That's a very small segment of the population. OK I'm done.
Are you suggesting that every dead person gets a full autopsy? Because that is not even close to be true.
In some countries, close to it. However you don't have to autopsy every single person to get a pretty good idea of how the situation is in the general population. If you did then statisticians would be out of work. Enough autopsies have been performed over the years to get fairly reliable data - but autopsies are not the only source of data. They were my counter to the "hidden cancer" argument. Quite a lot of people with cancer actually do see a doctor about it. Sometimes too late. But the capture rate is pretty high.
So now a gender is "misogynistic"?
benign forms of cancer
No there are not. And yes I am a doctor. Cancer is by definition NOT benign. Now you may be referring to less aggressive cancers and yes there are plenty of those. Basal cell carcinoma for example. Some prostate cancers. Cervical cancers. All of those are very slow in the growing and spreading. However thyroid cancers, due to their location, are obvious pretty quickly. People tend to wonder about that lump sticking out of their throat.
Still all of that is besides the point. When autopsies are performed, any cancers are noted even when the patient dies of unrelated conditions. For example almost ALL men over age 80 and ALL men above 90 have prostate cancer, although most of them die from something else. So yes you're right in that cancer can go undetected. But you are wrong in thinking we don't know exactly what the "normal" amount of cancer is in a population.
The GOOD news is that most thyroid cancers are treatable and survivable - except for the undifferentiated thyroid carcinoma which will kill you rather quickly and nothing can be done.
It's CANCER. Even if you don't go looking for it, if you wait long enough the patient dies from it. Incidence rates of all sorts of cancers are well documented all over the world.
Animal behavior teaches us the importance of bluffing and looking bigger, meaner or scarier than you actually are. While there's no reason to assume that xenobiology would be the same, there's no reason to assume it would be different either. Leaving aside the question of whether it's a good idea to even attempt communication at all - could a simple, easy to understand message be interpreted as weakness?
I am assuming that you have mentally divided the world into two groups of people - useless and useful ones. I'm also assuming you have placed yourself in the "useful" category. There is no such thing as a useless human.
Wait - so if they ban encryption, presumably it means I won't be able to secure my Wifi because after all that uses encryption, so dear government, how do you expect to force me to be responsible for anything that originates from my IP? Surely I must enjoy the same protections as my ISP.
Ahh yes, the company that couldn't even get my wife's shoe size right. Twice. Yeah I promised myself not to do business with them after they got snotty about it. But I wish them luck in their endeavor, lol.
This is how crony America works. They took our jerbs
I get it. He only missed off an apostrophe and an s from the second word of the second line (it's), and of course capitalization of the first letter of the first line. Dude, don't you understand typo? I'm fluent, I can both read and wrtie it.
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IANAI (I am not an Inuit) but I believe that igloos are made out of blocks of ice, and snow is used as a sort of mortar to hold them together.
Hillary is that you? "What difference does it make"
Boots were on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were withdrawn for a reason. Presenting the locals with something to shoot at wasn't improving stability in the region.
Outlook is a piece of crap on Windows too so that shouldn't be a surprise. In fact I'm wondering how they figured out it was acting differently with El Capitan...was it just locking up/hanging for longer than usual?
What Apple's official answer will be: You are turning the phone on wrong.