A similar solution is possible for your baby seal issue: sell the seals to private owners. Then if a corporation clubs your baby seal to death, you can sue them. This is as effective as anything the government can do to the *corporation*.
Let's start by stating, as we are all smart people here, that you will not win this election. Given your party's platform (and name), people who'll vote for you would have voted for Kerry, and not Bush. So, you are effectively helping Bush, who has a dismal record when it comes to protecting the environment. So, why run at all? Won't you feel guilty if Bush wins to continue his polluting and predatoru policies?
Now you've done it. Coming into Slashdot to brag about how big of a geek you are... geez, it's like walking into a biker's bar screaming about how you're the toughest guy around. I expect the barrage of geeky, each-more-pathetic-than-the-previous stories to start about... now. Let the fun begin.
It would depend on the hacker. Not all hackers are the same, you know. This question is as inane as "Would you hire a gamer?", or "Would you hire a model plane builder?". You'd have to interview him, see why he did whatever he did, how succesful he was at it, would he do it again... Then again, a virus kiddie is not a hacker, so in this case, the question is academic.
Since you had a good question, and no one has answered: I found this in the LiftPort FAQ:
Because of conservation of angular momentum, payloads going up the elevator will pull it down.
When an elevator ascends the ribbon, it must be accelerated eastward because the Earth's rotation represents a larger eastward velocity the higher you go. The required eastward force on the ascending elevator would have to be provided by a corresponding westward force on the ribbon, possibly requiring rockets at intervals along the cable.
If you go through the math quantitatively, the angular momentum for the climbers requires a few newtons of force over the one-week travel time, and we do that easily with our many tons of material in the anchor and the counterweight. The additional angular momentum will eventually be recovered from that of the entire Earth.
The quantities really are tiny, but just to be complete, a climber going up pushes the entire elevator slightly to the east, causing it to lean. However, the ribbon recovers for the same reason that it stays up in the first place. Centripetal acceleration is acting on the counterweight pulling it outward, and the lost angular momentum is replaced very quickly (essentially as fast as it is lost). The ribbon will never lose enough angular momentum to even deflect a single degree, let alone fall. The extra angular momentum is stolen from the Earth's rotation; we will have to worry about this effect slowing down the Earth and making the day longer if we ever decide to ship Australia into space.
Yeah, God forbid I help my 2 year old son to go potty. Really, I can tell you don't have kids, or you'd realize you end up with them in the bathroom a hell of a lot more often that you'd like. In other words, your scenario would draw way, way too many false positives. And the bathroom is not a good place to raid your honest patrons.
They're out of ideas, folks. This is why we get craptacular stuff. They must not have an original bone/idea left.
Yep. And there's nothing WE can do about it, right? Because obviously WE cannot have ideas. And even if we did, WE have no means of writing them down. Hell, WE are not living in an era when it's really cheap to make our own films, and even distribute them. Now, we are at THEIR mercy. Woe is us.
I see a lot of antiLucas sentiment thrown around in this discussion. George Lucas is a hack. Steven Spielberg is a consumate director. The fact that he is commercially succesful does not mean he's not talented. Check out his filmography (no link, it's not that hard to find).
Well, I'm gonna take a chance on you knowing way too much about this stuff. I have a huge problem with mosquitoes, and am really desperate for a qualified opinion. My home is right next to a cemetery (I'm talking just a wall between us). Grass, mud, or for whatever reason, there seems to be an amazing number of mosquitoes breeding there, of which a large part chooses to migrate towards our home. We keep doors and windows closed, but still some of them get in. Now, I have a 10 months old son, and I hate to see him covered in mosquito bites (repelent doesn't seem to work that well). Is there anything I can do to make my frontyard less atractive to mosquitoes? Do those electric mosquito "fryers" work? Or, more ambiciously, is there some way I can eradicate the mosquito population from the cemetery? (I can approach the administrators and would be willing to pay a reasonable amount). Sorry about the long rant, but it's a really big problem for me, and few people seem to know about mosquitos. If you will, you can respond here, or send me an email. I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks.
Allow me to demonstrate via a small one person play:
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Wow. Are you in the wrong thread. Quote the title of this story: "Ask the Green Party candidate...".
Want to rephrase?
A similar solution is possible for your baby seal issue: sell the seals to private owners. Then if a corporation clubs your baby seal to death, you can sue them. This is as effective as anything the government can do to the *corporation*.
Yeah, unless it's the corporation who buys them.
Let's start by stating, as we are all smart people here, that you will not win this election.
Given your party's platform (and name), people who'll vote for you would have voted for Kerry, and not Bush. So, you are effectively helping Bush, who has a dismal record when it comes to protecting the environment.
So, why run at all? Won't you feel guilty if Bush wins to continue his polluting and predatoru policies?
THAT WAS OUT PLANET!
And this, boys and girls, is why we preview. Otherwise, a quite funny joke can be killed by one typo.
Nice try, tough.
Some elements were kinda unrealistic
You, sir, are the undisputed lord and master of understatement.
Or you live in a different world. I can't really tell from here.
Now you've done it.
Coming into Slashdot to brag about how big of a geek you are... geez, it's like walking into a biker's bar screaming about how you're the toughest guy around.
I expect the barrage of geeky, each-more-pathetic-than-the-previous stories to start about... now.
Let the fun begin.
It would depend on the hacker. Not all hackers are the same, you know. This question is as inane as "Would you hire a gamer?", or "Would you hire a model plane builder?".
You'd have to interview him, see why he did whatever he did, how succesful he was at it, would he do it again...
Then again, a virus kiddie is not a hacker, so in this case, the question is academic.
conquest is a Western invention? my ass it is.
Your ass is a Western invention? Like hell. I'm pretty sure I have prior art.
Prepare to pay for a license.
Given the United States's behaviour with respect to Irak and Afghanistan...
So, they shouldn't follow U.S. laws either?
Since you had a good question, and no one has answered: I found this in the LiftPort FAQ:
Because of conservation of angular momentum, payloads going up the elevator will pull it down.
When an elevator ascends the ribbon, it must be accelerated eastward because the Earth's rotation represents a larger eastward velocity the higher you go. The required eastward force on the ascending elevator would have to be provided by a corresponding westward force on the ribbon, possibly requiring rockets at intervals along the cable.
If you go through the math quantitatively, the angular momentum for the climbers requires a few newtons of force over the one-week travel time, and we do that easily with our many tons of material in the anchor and the counterweight. The additional angular momentum will eventually be recovered from that of the entire Earth.
The quantities really are tiny, but just to be complete, a climber going up pushes the entire elevator slightly to the east, causing it to lean. However, the ribbon recovers for the same reason that it stays up in the first place. Centripetal acceleration is acting on the counterweight pulling it outward, and the lost angular momentum is replaced very quickly (essentially as fast as it is lost). The ribbon will never lose enough angular momentum to even deflect a single degree, let alone fall. The extra angular momentum is stolen from the Earth's rotation; we will have to worry about this effect slowing down the Earth and making the day longer if we ever decide to ship Australia into space.
I'd rather imagine a Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans implementing my I/O system, thank you very much...
Of course, all this nitpicking is uninteresting, regardless of its truth. /runs away
Yeah, God forbid I help my 2 year old son to go potty.
Really, I can tell you don't have kids, or you'd realize you end up with them in the bathroom a hell of a lot more often that you'd like.
In other words, your scenario would draw way, way too many false positives. And the bathroom is not a good place to raid your honest patrons.
Yes. Because Spielberg is George Lucas.
Oh, wait. He's not.
Idiot.
They're out of ideas, folks. This is why we get craptacular stuff. They must not have an original bone/idea left.
Yep. And there's nothing WE can do about it, right? Because obviously WE cannot have ideas. And even if we did, WE have no means of writing them down. Hell, WE are not living in an era when it's really cheap to make our own films, and even distribute them.
Now, we are at THEIR mercy. Woe is us.
I see a lot of antiLucas sentiment thrown around in this discussion.
George Lucas is a hack. Steven Spielberg is a consumate director. The fact that he is commercially succesful does not mean he's not talented. Check out his filmography (no link, it's not that hard to find).
...and my thoughts protected.
You know, I wouldn't worry too much. Really.
FBI or U.S. Martial Service
Is that the agency responsable for fighting evil ninjas? I knew we needed one.
How embarrassing would it be for the police to discover their own machines in the zombie network ...
Yeah, well, rob a house and maybe you'll get caught. Rob a cop's house, and it's personal for all of them. It would probably be the same.
Imagine, if you will, a Beowulf Cluster of "grannies-who-get-it"
That's it. The "imagine a Beowulf cluster of" meme HAS to go. It's gone too far.
Grandma? Is that you?
Well, I'm gonna take a chance on you knowing way too much about this stuff. I have a huge problem with mosquitoes, and am really desperate for a qualified opinion.
My home is right next to a cemetery (I'm talking just a wall between us). Grass, mud, or for whatever reason, there seems to be an amazing number of mosquitoes breeding there, of which a large part chooses to migrate towards our home. We keep doors and windows closed, but still some of them get in. Now, I have a 10 months old son, and I hate to see him covered in mosquito bites (repelent doesn't seem to work that well).
Is there anything I can do to make my frontyard less atractive to mosquitoes? Do those electric mosquito "fryers" work? Or, more ambiciously, is there some way I can eradicate the mosquito population from the cemetery? (I can approach the administrators and would be willing to pay a reasonable amount).
Sorry about the long rant, but it's a really big problem for me, and few people seem to know about mosquitos.
If you will, you can respond here, or send me an email. I'd really appreciate any help.
Thanks.
Just like France refuses to extradite the Unicorn Killer
Newsflash: He's already in Philadelphia awaiting trial
Allow me to demonstrate via a small one person play:
FurryFeet: Hey, Slashdot! BSD is dead!
(1: Troll)
FurryFeet: And CmdrTaco sucks my big hairy....!
(0: Flamebait)
FurryFeet: What else? Oh, yeah! Windows is more secure than Linux, because with Linux you can see the source code! Really! How can you call that secure?
(-1: Troll)
FurryFeet: Help! Help! I'm being censored!
Because they didn't call themselves "Sven Ghoulie".