Or maybe because the Chinese would stop their lending programs, stop the cash flow and take their assets back, completely tanking our governments military fund.
I would envision the threat scenario of the Chinese threatening the US in any significant financial way would go like so...
1. China: We are cancelling all our loans and investments and want our money back now.
2. US: No.
3. China: Ummm...
Sadly, hydrogen cars are basically a scam brought about by oil companies to distract attention and funding away from gasoline alternatives that are actually realistic.
Don't forget about BMW's $1 billion dollar participation in this scam... what do they know about making cars anyway, eh?
There are many valid configurations within the game that can never be reached without setting it that way to begin with.
Conway's Game of Life (which I remember programming on a ZX-80 computer, good grief) is an extremely limited set of rules compared to the Universe's - it specifically doesn't allow for randomness - all configurations of the game can be reached if the initial conditions are randomly set.
So, you think the Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains have all that haze from the massive car pollution there, vice the ozone-producing isoprene that plants, trees in particular, emit, with plant hydrocarbon emission being at a rate ten times that of all the world's cars?
I suppose listening only to that great bastion of unbiased scientific study, the 4:1 liberal:conservative press, is one option...
What's to stop them from screwing up the HD streaming also, and then denying that they are doing anything wrong?
As long as they are allowed to interfere with anything, then they will actively choose to interfere with that which affects their profit margin the most.
If Comcast can't handle a minority of their users running bittorrent then how are they going to handle internet video becoming mainstream?
They will handle it just fine - once they have sufficiently induced legislators to write laws which creates a situation in which the ISP has the advantage in being the video (or any other high-profit data product) provider.
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offer them money to not steal them, and prosecute them if they do?
Or maybe because the Chinese would stop their lending programs, stop the cash flow and take their assets back, completely tanking our governments military fund.
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I would envision the threat scenario of the Chinese threatening the US in any significant financial way would go like so
1. China: We are cancelling all our loans and investments and want our money back now.
2. US: No.
3. China: Ummm
It might be useful to learn something about ... [anything that requires actual study and thought] ... before you make such pronouncements.
You must be old school here.
Actually.. methane and oxygen are colourless... My physics teacher practically beat us to death with that one.
Didn't see it coming?
if they chose the eclipse date on purpose. We'll wait and see what they say AFTER it all happens.
It was the earliest Karl Rove could arrange it.
I knew we would (d)evolve to punch cards eventually.
Sadly, hydrogen cars are basically a scam brought about by oil companies to distract attention and funding away from gasoline alternatives that are actually realistic.
... what do they know about making cars anyway, eh?
Don't forget about BMW's $1 billion dollar participation in this scam
There are many valid configurations within the game that can never be reached without setting it that way to begin with.
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Conway's Game of Life (which I remember programming on a ZX-80 computer, good grief) is an extremely limited set of rules compared to the Universe's - it specifically doesn't allow for randomness - all configurations of the game can be reached if the initial conditions are randomly set.
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That humans are intelligent at all seems nothing more than a genetic fluke, and not a guaranteed outcome.
Given sufficient time, all things possible are inevitable.
So, you think the Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains have all that haze from the massive car pollution there, vice the ozone-producing isoprene that plants, trees in particular, emit, with plant hydrocarbon emission being at a rate ten times that of all the world's cars?
I suppose listening only to that great bastion of unbiased scientific study, the 4:1 liberal:conservative press, is one option...
"After the birth of the artist came the afterbirth ... the critic."
You must be new here ...
hydrocarbons are good for lots of things besides fuel, numbnuts
Does one rub it on to get that effect?
...All in all you're just another brick in the wall
Prioritize my P2P traffic to be low priority.
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One man's low priority is another man's treasure
Then their story has changed, hasn't it?
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Yes, and as a publicly traded company, making false public statements should have the securities regulators involved in this debacle too
What's to stop them from screwing up the HD streaming also, and then denying that they are doing anything wrong?
As long as they are allowed to interfere with anything, then they will actively choose to interfere with that which affects their profit margin the most.
Charge per GB and call it a day.
Err, no - charge per minimum guaranteed GB/s. This forces the ISPs to actually provide what they advertise as selling.
they advertise an unlimited service which they have no intentions of delivering ... is this false advertising ?
No - it's fraud.
If Comcast can't handle a minority of their users running bittorrent then how are they going to handle internet video becoming mainstream?
They will handle it just fine - once they have sufficiently induced legislators to write laws which creates a situation in which the ISP has the advantage in being the video (or any other high-profit data product) provider.
No need to build the case, just let MS buy Yahoo, this will be a total financial disaster for MS.
It will be a most stupendous mushroom cloud...
screw the airlines - if they can't run that why should they be involved in a shiny new train network?
Basically, you'd be annoying hundreds of thousands of people each time
... where do I sign up?
Excellent
Hydrogen sucks for aircraft. The energy density is better than gasoline, sure, but the mass density is horrid.
Even liquid?
well, we will just have to polka holes in that discussion