Rights are supposed to be assumed, and only limited when it's in the public interest. You shouldn't have to have a law to *protect* your right to anonymity.
I don't think corporations can do much about supply and demand...
Boy are you mistaken. Corporations can cause demand to increase. It's called Marketing. Every commercial, every radio spot, every advertisment, every billboard has as it's sole purpose to create demand for a product. Corporations can also affect the supply. Consider the OPEC oil cartel. They frequently adjust their production, and therefore the price of oil/gasoline.
By my calculations it only takes 45 minutes to fall from geosynch altitude (...and despite what you may have heard, you're likely to remain conscious all the way down.), and that doesn't include any velocity obtained when the cable snaps. That's not a lot of time for the wind to have an effect. In fact, considering the highest wind speed ever measured is 516 km/h the cable ain't getting more than 400km form the anchor point.
Not quite. It's true that Endpoint Station has to be at the geosynchronous orbit. But the counterweight doesn't have to be at twice that. It only has to be beyond it. It could be 12km past, or 50m past, whatever, as long as it is beyond the geosynchronous point.
No, I think you have it backwards. Most people regard a watch as a device that tells time and, coincidentally, can be a form of personal decoration. If it were commonly thought to be jewelry with a time-telling function added in, you'd see a lot more ring, and neclace watches than you typically do. At times I do consider it jewelry, in much the same way a prisoner considers the bars of his cell to be good feng shui.
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne - "For whom the Bell Tolls"
Don't bother. Somebody's set up a pleasure planet in orbit midway between the two. It has gorgeous tropical beaches, mountain hideaways, lakes full of fresh water. It even has a large moon for moonlight strolls.
It's not so much the die size, but the circuit complexity. A memory chip is basically the same circuit duplicated several million times. A CPU has registers, ALUs, pipelines, control circuitry, and who knows what else. Memory chips are cheaper to design, and sell in greater quantities.
What you do is you take an SUV and load it full of plants. Then throw in a chipmunk, and a bird or two. You could build a stream in the back, if you don't mind it sloshing around as you drive. Oh, and don't forget the mosquitos and deer flies.
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In the 80's everything that was science fiction was considered to be a Star Wars ripoff.
The analogy is that of a safe-cracker. A safe-cracker breaks into safes. A computer cracker breaks into computers.
If the "poor white crackers in the southern US" aren't destructive, then why are there bullet holes in the mailbox?
Rights are supposed to be assumed, and only limited when it's in the public interest. You shouldn't have to have a law to *protect* your right to anonymity.
I don't think corporations can do much about supply and demand...
Boy are you mistaken. Corporations can cause demand to increase. It's called Marketing. Every commercial, every radio spot, every advertisment, every billboard has as it's sole purpose to create demand for a product. Corporations can also affect the supply. Consider the OPEC oil cartel. They frequently adjust their production, and therefore the price of oil/gasoline.
By my calculations it only takes 45 minutes to fall from geosynch altitude (...and despite what you may have heard, you're likely to remain conscious all the way down.), and that doesn't include any velocity obtained when the cable snaps. That's not a lot of time for the wind to have an effect. In fact, considering the highest wind speed ever measured is 516 km/h the cable ain't getting more than 400km form the anchor point.
Is Radio Shack selling chips again? They seem to have abandoned that practice around here.
Why would it wrap? It is travelling the same speed as the surface of the Earth. It would fall straight down, no?
Not quite. It's true that Endpoint Station has to be at the geosynchronous orbit. But the counterweight doesn't have to be at twice that. It only has to be beyond it. It could be 12km past, or 50m past, whatever, as long as it is beyond the geosynchronous point.
No, I think you have it backwards. Most people regard a watch as a device that tells time and, coincidentally, can be a form of personal decoration. If it were commonly thought to be jewelry with a time-telling function added in, you'd see a lot more ring, and neclace watches than you typically do. At times I do consider it jewelry, in much the same way a prisoner considers the bars of his cell to be good feng shui.
Take a look at this picture, or this one or maybe even this one. Granted, these are stills, but CG "actors" are not that far off. (OK, one more.)
No, it's blurry because they were trying to capture the style of 1940's serials.
Sorry. My N key is fiicky.
If they're hot+smart, they're clever enough not to get entagled with any of us.
It seems like it is where it is supposed to be.
Me too. Or perhaps I'll get excited when Slashdot gets a new poll.
Lately I've been wondering what Harrison Ford's opinion on this whole Han/Greedo shoots first controversy is. Anybody know?
Oh yeah. Now since the playing field is little even, let me get my catcher's mit.
Why did I just imagine someone grinning evilly whilst cocking a machine pistol?
Darin: Sam! How many times do I have to tell you - No Witchcraft! Next time please use the nouse!
Don't bother. Somebody's set up a pleasure planet in orbit midway between the two. It has gorgeous tropical beaches, mountain hideaways, lakes full of fresh water. It even has a large moon for moonlight strolls.
Do we really want beer helping the police to free harmful radicals?
It's not so much the die size, but the circuit complexity. A memory chip is basically the same circuit duplicated several million times. A CPU has registers, ALUs, pipelines, control circuitry, and who knows what else. Memory chips are cheaper to design, and sell in greater quantities.
What you do is you take an SUV and load it full of plants. Then throw in a chipmunk, and a bird or two. You could build a stream in the back, if you don't mind it sloshing around as you drive. Oh, and don't forget the mosquitos and deer flies.
Hmmm... Land seems to be all concentrated on the non-Pacific side of the planet.