Kickstarter doesn't do investing. It is a pre-purchase...
It's neither. It's funding. You are providing funding to the owners of the project to get the project off the ground. You may get rewards in return but they are not a pre-purchase, pre-order or any such thing (and Kickstarter is very clear about that, if people bother to read what the fuck they agree to when they sign up). This confusion was the catalyst for their policy changes on physical projects a while back. As you said they are also very clear it is not an "investment". That comes with a whole world of regulatory pain (and would essentially make the whole concept impossible).
Early warning systems prevent first strike. The initiation of the strike would be on NORAD's screen within 45 seconds of the missiles launching. (They have dozens of SATs that watch for heat signatures to indicate ICBM launch. This is one of the reasons launching a satellite into space has to be announced in advance lest it be interpreted to be a nuclear ICBM in boost which would ruin everyone's day.)
Considering flight time is about 45 minutes you can be damn well certain that US nukes would be airborne long before the first missile hits US soil. That's the entire point of MAD, there is no first strike possible because you can't deliver the missiles without the other side knowing long before they arrive.
OK, change "first strike" to "firing first". It doesn't change the rest of my post (keep in mind the context going back a few comments in this thread). If the US or Russia was crazy enough to launch a nuclear strike on the other, they would not hold back to save humanity, because they know the other country would reply in kind.
Prevailing theory on first strike is that you fire everything you can, targeting not only cities and military installations, but also the nuclear fields of the enemy to try to knock out as much of their ability to strike back as you can. The reason for this is that you assume you will not get a second chance, as the opposing country will answer in kind. You would fire all of your land-based missiles, along with a portion of your sub-launch weapons to get an early first strike on extremely high-value targets. That still leaves you with airborne bombers and, most importantly, the remainder of your SLBMs for 2nd strike. Russian nuclear ballistic subs carry 16-20 SLBMs with 8 warheads each. That's plenty of reserve power.
Ignoring all that: Have you looked at a map recently? The US is big. To have the effect you are talking about a strike that would require hundreds of warheads. That would be more than enough according to Sagan et al.
It wouldn't matter. A strike the size required to take out the US would doom human kind anyway. It would be more than enough to trigger a nuclear winter. When are talking thousands of warheads, a one or a two at the front if that number really won't make the end result all that different.
A politician is always lying which means he can't be lying like he says he is. He's telling the truth. But if he's telling the truth, then saying "I'm lying" is a lie. So he's lying. But if he's lying about lying then he's telling the truth. But.... *brain explodes*
Not a problem. That is one phrase you can be sure no politician will every say, when referring to himself.
Alibaba is HUGE. Every US online retailer should be scared. Alibaba has the potential to take them ALL down.
Yea, but a big majority of that volume is wholesale and B2B. There's Alibaba Express, their eBay like site that caters to consumers but the vast majority of their main site listings are for wholesale lots of... well, damn near anything. Need 60 tonnes of rice? They have you covered. 3000 pairs of jeans? No problem. Inflatable military tank decoys? Yep, they got those too. Can we put you down for 500?
I can already hear the excuses when the footage is "lost" over the one controversy an officer might have. Or (as previously mentioned), the camera magically shut itself off.
Then that should be held against the officer when it comes to trial. The system should also have an audit log (that can't be erased) to show who erased what and when.
Do these record sound as well? How legal is this in an all party state, where everyone has to consent to being recorded and a suspect refuses?
Those are all state laws and most, if not all, have exceptions for law enforcement in the performance of their jobs. Warrants are required in certain circumstances but that is usually not covered by these laws (that falls under federal/constitutional law). So the exception essentially voids the 2-party rule for law enforcement.
"I don't need to be knowledgeable in the operating system this will run on!"
I'm always shocked about how little many developers, especially Windows developers, actually know about the OS they are writing software for.
IANAL but you could argue that we are all partially nude (I'm naked under my clothes) and the fact that I am wearing a skirt means I have an expectation that my privates will remain private.
Or you could argue that you're trotting around partially nude in public and should be on a sex offender registry. See the problem? It's amazing that lawmakers can't seem to write a law that is straightforward, covers what they intended, and isn't so vague that it has unintended consequences. Of course, the police and prosecutors love the vagueness of the law, since it usually benefits them over the defendant.
The other bizarre thing is that a distinction between nude and not nude exists in the first place. Why does the law care whether genitalia are showing, unless that is specifically written into the statute?
It was some weirdness written into the statute, probably to balance out some other problem with a different vagueness in it.
If you intend to publish or in any way publicize that picture, actually, you technically *DO* need all of the other parents' permission.
Only if you intend to use it in a way that would suggest the people in the photo are endorsing something. Otherwise, no, you do not need a model release. You can sell it as art, but you can't use it to advertise your sporting goods store.
Probably Google streetview cars. Google blanks out plates, obviously not without storing them numerically first.
Streetview cars don't travel the same routes often enough to be useful for this. They don't hit the same streets over and over in a short time period. These are tow truck operators and repo men running dedicated scanner hardware. Since they operate in the same general areas each day, they can hit the same locations on an ongoing basis, building up multiple datapoints for the same tags.
If you buy the game digitally, it not longer has any value at all once your purchase it. For something to continue to have value, someone must want and be able to purchase it from you. Digital prices should be lower than physical copies if for no other reason than you have pissed all over first sale doctrine and no longer have rights to it (among all the logistical discounts of obtaining digital copies.)
As opposed to physical PC games (because that's what we are talking about here, steam doesn't sell console games) which have a rich resale market. Wait, no, they don't. It's against the EULA and most are tied to your Steam/MS/Origin/whatever account anyway so.... I guess there is value in physical media as coasters, but really, is that why you invest in games?
TV's of 1984 or 2014? Some new smart TV's have cameras and mics for Skype, Microphones in the remotes for voice. My LG can snap screenshots from the mobile phone app, newer models can stream video. It knows what you watch and can (and was, without notification) send that info home. Screw the consoles, the TVs themselves may be monitoring us.
I'm going to have to invoke a variance of Occam's browser plugin and say that, until proven otherwise by an authoritative source, I'll need to take the word of the chief judge of the 9th circuit court of appeals over yours. No offense.
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Kickstarter doesn't do investing. It is a pre-purchase...
It's neither. It's funding. You are providing funding to the owners of the project to get the project off the ground. You may get rewards in return but they are not a pre-purchase, pre-order or any such thing (and Kickstarter is very clear about that, if people bother to read what the fuck they agree to when they sign up). This confusion was the catalyst for their policy changes on physical projects a while back. As you said they are also very clear it is not an "investment". That comes with a whole world of regulatory pain (and would essentially make the whole concept impossible).
Early warning systems prevent first strike. The initiation of the strike would be on NORAD's screen within 45 seconds of the missiles launching. (They have dozens of SATs that watch for heat signatures to indicate ICBM launch. This is one of the reasons launching a satellite into space has to be announced in advance lest it be interpreted to be a nuclear ICBM in boost which would ruin everyone's day.)
Considering flight time is about 45 minutes you can be damn well certain that US nukes would be airborne long before the first missile hits US soil. That's the entire point of MAD, there is no first strike possible because you can't deliver the missiles without the other side knowing long before they arrive.
OK, change "first strike" to "firing first". It doesn't change the rest of my post (keep in mind the context going back a few comments in this thread). If the US or Russia was crazy enough to launch a nuclear strike on the other, they would not hold back to save humanity, because they know the other country would reply in kind.
Prevailing theory on first strike is that you fire everything you can, targeting not only cities and military installations, but also the nuclear fields of the enemy to try to knock out as much of their ability to strike back as you can. The reason for this is that you assume you will not get a second chance, as the opposing country will answer in kind. You would fire all of your land-based missiles, along with a portion of your sub-launch weapons to get an early first strike on extremely high-value targets. That still leaves you with airborne bombers and, most importantly, the remainder of your SLBMs for 2nd strike. Russian nuclear ballistic subs carry 16-20 SLBMs with 8 warheads each. That's plenty of reserve power.
Ignoring all that: Have you looked at a map recently? The US is big. To have the effect you are talking about a strike that would require hundreds of warheads. That would be more than enough according to Sagan et al.
Like anybody reads the summary.
It wouldn't matter. A strike the size required to take out the US would doom human kind anyway. It would be more than enough to trigger a nuclear winter. When are talking thousands of warheads, a one or a two at the front if that number really won't make the end result all that different.
What if a politician says: "I am lying."
A politician is always lying which means he can't be lying like he says he is. He's telling the truth. But if he's telling the truth, then saying "I'm lying" is a lie. So he's lying. But if he's lying about lying then he's telling the truth. But.... *brain explodes*
Not a problem. That is one phrase you can be sure no politician will every say, when referring to himself.
I presume that the Alibaba Group has forty directors running it, and that every single one of them has "sticky fingers."
Actually, doesn't Yahoo own a chunk of Alibaba? I know they are tied up somehow.
Alibaba’s portals handled gross sales of $170 billion in 2012–that is more than eBay and Amazon’s gross sales combined..
Alibaba is HUGE. Every US online retailer should be scared. Alibaba has the potential to take them ALL down.
Yea, but a big majority of that volume is wholesale and B2B. There's Alibaba Express, their eBay like site that caters to consumers but the vast majority of their main site listings are for wholesale lots of... well, damn near anything. Need 60 tonnes of rice? They have you covered. 3000 pairs of jeans? No problem. Inflatable military tank decoys? Yep, they got those too. Can we put you down for 500?
nope, decreased by 14km (not TO 14km). It i still around twice the size of pluto.
So it's safe from being plutoed by NDT .... for now.
yeah, but its a similar situations with politicians.
So true. How can you tell a politician is lying?
Trick question, they are never not lying.
I can already hear the excuses when the footage is "lost" over the one controversy an officer might have. Or (as previously mentioned), the camera magically shut itself off.
Then that should be held against the officer when it comes to trial. The system should also have an audit log (that can't be erased) to show who erased what and when.
Do these record sound as well? How legal is this in an all party state, where everyone has to consent to being recorded and a suspect refuses?
Those are all state laws and most, if not all, have exceptions for law enforcement in the performance of their jobs. Warrants are required in certain circumstances but that is usually not covered by these laws (that falls under federal/constitutional law). So the exception essentially voids the 2-party rule for law enforcement.
"I don't need to be knowledgeable in the operating system this will run on!" I'm always shocked about how little many developers, especially Windows developers, actually know about the OS they are writing software for.
"Users love slide shows!"
Used physical PC games may show up on fleabay but there is not a thriving market for them like there are for console games.
IANAL but you could argue that we are all partially nude (I'm naked under my clothes) and the fact that I am wearing a skirt means I have an expectation that my privates will remain private.
Or you could argue that you're trotting around partially nude in public and should be on a sex offender registry. See the problem? It's amazing that lawmakers can't seem to write a law that is straightforward, covers what they intended, and isn't so vague that it has unintended consequences. Of course, the police and prosecutors love the vagueness of the law, since it usually benefits them over the defendant.
The other bizarre thing is that a distinction between nude and not nude exists in the first place. Why does the law care whether genitalia are showing, unless that is specifically written into the statute?
It was some weirdness written into the statute, probably to balance out some other problem with a different vagueness in it.
If you intend to publish or in any way publicize that picture, actually, you technically *DO* need all of the other parents' permission.
Only if you intend to use it in a way that would suggest the people in the photo are endorsing something. Otherwise, no, you do not need a model release. You can sell it as art, but you can't use it to advertise your sporting goods store.
Websense makes devices to do this. I have a couple of customers that use it. It does tend to fuck up some websites though.
Probably Google streetview cars. Google blanks out plates, obviously not without storing them numerically first.
Streetview cars don't travel the same routes often enough to be useful for this. They don't hit the same streets over and over in a short time period. These are tow truck operators and repo men running dedicated scanner hardware. Since they operate in the same general areas each day, they can hit the same locations on an ongoing basis, building up multiple datapoints for the same tags.
If you buy the game digitally, it not longer has any value at all once your purchase it. For something to continue to have value, someone must want and be able to purchase it from you. Digital prices should be lower than physical copies if for no other reason than you have pissed all over first sale doctrine and no longer have rights to it (among all the logistical discounts of obtaining digital copies.)
As opposed to physical PC games (because that's what we are talking about here, steam doesn't sell console games) which have a rich resale market. Wait, no, they don't. It's against the EULA and most are tied to your Steam/MS/Origin/whatever account anyway so.... I guess there is value in physical media as coasters, but really, is that why you invest in games?
welcome to management, here's a nice gold watch.
You're obviously an impostor, otherwise you would know that the watches are made from platinum, dolphin leather, and powered by the tears of the poor.
TV's of 1984 or 2014? Some new smart TV's have cameras and mics for Skype, Microphones in the remotes for voice. My LG can snap screenshots from the mobile phone app, newer models can stream video. It knows what you watch and can (and was, without notification) send that info home. Screw the consoles, the TVs themselves may be monitoring us.
Out in the open in a public place, such as a sidewalk, bar, or a grocery store - there isn't an expectation of privacy.
Apparently there is, even if the law doesn't currently recognise it. Maybe that law is out of date and should be changed.
Illinois wiretap laws cover this. It was abused to protect police officers from being recorded in public.
I'm going to have to invoke a variance of Occam's browser plugin and say that, until proven otherwise by an authoritative source, I'll need to take the word of the chief judge of the 9th circuit court of appeals over yours. No offense.