Publish the method on how to hack your Garage door opener, So anyone can potentially cause you economic harm?
Better yet, I call you, and "request", but "not require", that you give out your garage door code, or else, I will give it out for you. Unless, of course, you pay me enough money to keep me employed, protect me from lawsuits if someone else "happens" to get the code.
You can play with what you own all you want. It's the blackmail that is the problem.
One baseball team without any one to play with would get pretty boring. Same with Science, exploration, etc. The fact that China is trying to get to Mars is the best thing that can happen to space exploration.
If China beats US, then US will really wakeup, smell the coffee, and decide how to take the lead back.
If US beats China, it would mean a revitalized space program, and a much better chance for some real space technology. Solar Power Satellites may become a reallty, for example.
And if US and China ties in the race, it would be the time to raise the bar. How about a permanently manned Mars/Moon Station, extracting what we need from local resources. It just means that we would be that much closer to getting off this small rock in the unfashionable western spiral arm of the Mily Way.
man kind gets closer to move off this hunk of rock permanently,
The government subsidize train rides to the wazoo. Your avergage 10$ train ticket may, on a good day, pay 25% of the cost of operating the train. The last I heard, there were no public transit system in the world, train or bus, that didn't need heavy subsidies from the government.
The train is much more efficient in hauling heavy stuff for long distances. The dedicated railroads makes hauling cheaper. The train is excellent in moving a block of people from point A to Pint B, say from Boston to NY or DC. The train is Awful when a bunch of people needs to go to various places, as it needs to stop every mile or two.
Let's see what S Korea thinks about world piece if we pull our 35000 troops out of S Korea, and they get to sit there facing the N Korean nukes by themselves.
Somehow, I don't think the DMZ will come down like the Berlin wall did. I would guess not until there is a reasonable, educated, non-power freak running N Korea.
Developer: You can't Be Serious that they want all these features! I can deliver 10% of that if we're lucky.
Manager: We'll Negotiate, but we should be able to deliver some of that in phase 1. The rest will have to wait.
Marketing: We'll going to deliver all the features our competitor has, but with 1/3 the cost and 1/2 the time.
Sales: Oh yeah! of course you will get the Thought Controller Interface for no additional charge.
CFO: I need to book $50 million revenue for the current quarter for this project.
CEO: Time to get more options from the board.
Well, many very smart people have come to understood that the Economic condition we live in is really the MOST IMPORTANT thing to the general public. Everything else is secondary.
If you disagree, just ask the people standing in unemployment lines today. Or, go to a third world country and ask them why are they burning down rain forests to gain farm land.
If you are digging in dirt 14 hours a day, a better job that helps you feed your family is worth dying for. Go ask the boarder patrol near Mexico if you don't believe it.
Back in the Great Depression, people stood in lines near the Golden Gate Bridge being constructed at that time, every day. They all waited, hoping that one of the workers would fall and die, and they can take the workers place.
The Borland dBase IV baseline used to be built on Solaris, VMS, and Ultrix first, DOS second. Did dBase Inc use a different baseline from that? If that baseline can be released as Open Source, then you should be able to get a Linux version pretty quickly. I would love to get that working on Linux.
Get your Facts Straight. Reid was detained by the police before he was allowed to board the plane. He wasn't even in US at the time. He probably went through at least 1 metal detector, if not more extensive searches.
If you cite Reid, what you have just demonstrated is that just searching people, profiled or not, don't work.
Now, would you search a 98 year old Middle eastern woman? She has few years to loose?
John Lindh is white, Tim McVeigh was white, Bi Laden is Middle Eastern, and I'm sure we can come up with Blacks, Asians, Indians, even Harbor Seals as terrorists.
Search them All! The police should be able to search anyone anytime! We don't need a fourth amendment!
I am an absolute conservative. Heck, I voted for Buchanon.
Please define what sanity is when someone is willing to kill hundreds, or thousands of people on a whim, regardless if they themselves are planning to live or not????
Lets see, another 9/11, or another Internment camp of "May Become Guilty" people. Protection against unreasonable arrest and seizure, or live in fear of police because "Heck, the Oklahoma City Bomber was a White man in a rented truck, let's pick them all up!." (Gosh darn, White American Males Can't be terrorists, right?)
Your are correct in saying that Profiling is quite advanced. However, no one can give you an exact number on what someone MIGHT do.
Even if a Profiler can tell you there is an exact percentage, then at what percentage do you allow the police to break down someones door without evidence?
Use of profiling to assume any sort of guilt, is wrong.
Your arguments regarding willing to pay for a perfect digital quality makes ZERO sense.
All someone has to do is to look for "LEGIT, PAID A QUARTER FOR" version of songs to download to get around the quality issue. And if everything is available, then someone would have paid a quarter for it, and made it available on PtoP.
Come on, you people are smart enough to think 1 more step. Joe pays a quarter for his song. Joe makes that song available for download. Everybody gets free song at perfect, digital quality. End of revenue stream. Artists make exactly 0.25 penny for their work, site makes 4.75 cents and goes bankrupt when their funding runs out. The credit card companies are happy with their 20 cents, too bad there aren't much more of that money flowing in.
When shareware first hit the scene, it was great. Everyone got good software for free. So few people paid, and we get Cripple ware.
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Publish the method on how to hack your Garage door opener, So anyone can potentially cause you economic harm? Better yet, I call you, and "request", but "not require", that you give out your garage door code, or else, I will give it out for you. Unless, of course, you pay me enough money to keep me employed, protect me from lawsuits if someone else "happens" to get the code. You can play with what you own all you want. It's the blackmail that is the problem.
One baseball team without any one to play with would get pretty boring. Same with Science, exploration, etc. The fact that China is trying to get to Mars is the best thing that can happen to space exploration.
If China beats US, then US will really wakeup, smell the coffee, and decide how to take the lead back.
If US beats China, it would mean a revitalized space program, and a much better chance for some real space technology. Solar Power Satellites may become a reallty, for example.
And if US and China ties in the race, it would be the time to raise the bar. How about a permanently manned Mars/Moon Station, extracting what we need from local resources. It just means that we would be that much closer to getting off this small rock in the unfashionable western spiral arm of the Mily Way. man kind gets closer to move off this hunk of rock permanently,
The government subsidize train rides to the wazoo. Your avergage 10$ train ticket may, on a good day, pay 25% of the cost of operating the train. The last I heard, there were no public transit system in the world, train or bus, that didn't need heavy subsidies from the government.
The train is much more efficient in hauling heavy stuff for long distances. The dedicated railroads makes hauling cheaper. The train is excellent in moving a block of people from point A to Pint B, say from Boston to NY or DC. The train is Awful when a bunch of people needs to go to various places, as it needs to stop every mile or two.
Let's see what S Korea thinks about world piece if we pull our 35000 troops out of S Korea, and they get to sit there facing the N Korean nukes by themselves.
Somehow, I don't think the DMZ will come down like the Berlin wall did. I would guess not until there is a reasonable, educated, non-power freak running N Korea.
Developer: You can't Be Serious that they want all these features! I can deliver 10% of that if we're lucky. Manager: We'll Negotiate, but we should be able to deliver some of that in phase 1. The rest will have to wait. Marketing: We'll going to deliver all the features our competitor has, but with 1/3 the cost and 1/2 the time. Sales: Oh yeah! of course you will get the Thought Controller Interface for no additional charge. CFO: I need to book $50 million revenue for the current quarter for this project. CEO: Time to get more options from the board.
Well, many very smart people have come to understood that the Economic condition we live in is really the MOST IMPORTANT thing to the general public. Everything else is secondary.
If you disagree, just ask the people standing in unemployment lines today. Or, go to a third world country and ask them why are they burning down rain forests to gain farm land.
If you are digging in dirt 14 hours a day, a better job that helps you feed your family is worth dying for. Go ask the boarder patrol near Mexico if you don't believe it.
Back in the Great Depression, people stood in lines near the Golden Gate Bridge being constructed at that time, every day. They all waited, hoping that one of the workers would fall and die, and they can take the workers place.
So, "Economy Uber-Alles"? Damn right!
The Borland dBase IV baseline used to be built on Solaris, VMS, and Ultrix first, DOS second. Did dBase Inc use a different baseline from that? If that baseline can be released as Open Source, then you should be able to get a Linux version pretty quickly. I would love to get that working on Linux.
Rudy V. B. Rucker, Philip K Dick. If you want to read something that makes you think about, then give these guys a shot.
Get your Facts Straight. Reid was detained by the police before he was allowed to board the plane. He wasn't even in US at the time. He probably went through at least 1 metal detector, if not more extensive searches.
If you cite Reid, what you have just demonstrated is that just searching people, profiled or not, don't work.
Now, would you search a 98 year old Middle eastern woman? She has few years to loose?
John Lindh is white, Tim McVeigh was white, Bi Laden is Middle Eastern, and I'm sure we can come up with Blacks, Asians, Indians, even Harbor Seals as terrorists.
Search them All! The police should be able to search anyone anytime! We don't need a fourth amendment!
Living in fear....
I am afraid of
I can't drive to work without being pulled over
because I am black
I am afraid of
I can't use public transportation
because I am brown
I am afraid of
I can't pray to my god
because I am a Protestant
I am afraid of
I can't kneel to my god
because I am a Muslim
I am afraid of
Being shot by some moron
excercising his second ammendment rights of carrying a gun into a restaurant or a school.
I am afraid of
The police will do a body cavity search on someones daughter
Because she dresses weird
I am not afraid of dying. Knowing that I can live without fear.
I am an absolute conservative. Heck, I voted for Buchanon.
Please define what sanity is when someone is willing to kill hundreds, or thousands of people on a whim, regardless if they themselves are planning to live or not????
Lets see, another 9/11, or another Internment camp of "May Become Guilty" people. Protection against unreasonable arrest and seizure, or live in fear of police because "Heck, the Oklahoma City Bomber was a White man in a rented truck, let's pick them all up!." (Gosh darn, White American Males Can't be terrorists, right?)
Your are correct in saying that Profiling is quite advanced. However, no one can give you an exact number on what someone MIGHT do.
Even if a Profiler can tell you there is an exact percentage, then at what percentage do you allow the police to break down someones door without evidence?
Use of profiling to assume any sort of guilt, is wrong.
Your arguments regarding willing to pay for a perfect digital quality makes ZERO sense. All someone has to do is to look for "LEGIT, PAID A QUARTER FOR" version of songs to download to get around the quality issue. And if everything is available, then someone would have paid a quarter for it, and made it available on PtoP. Come on, you people are smart enough to think 1 more step. Joe pays a quarter for his song. Joe makes that song available for download. Everybody gets free song at perfect, digital quality. End of revenue stream. Artists make exactly 0.25 penny for their work, site makes 4.75 cents and goes bankrupt when their funding runs out. The credit card companies are happy with their 20 cents, too bad there aren't much more of that money flowing in. When shareware first hit the scene, it was great. Everyone got good software for free. So few people paid, and we get Cripple ware.