However the case still has to be made for at least some immediate benifit to the human race for manned space flight and exploration to continue. Murky predictions of future technology advances in the "how are we going to get there" stage of the missions are just not enough IMHO.
I do agree with you though, technological advances are a very important reason to continue space exploration with humans, as long as they continue to come that is. I'm not up on the current technology, but i can't really think of new ones that have come about in the last 20 years that have resulted directly from advances in technology for space exploration.
Or if the tag is attached to one of those dye shot tags so that if you remove the tag in the store without the proper tool it shoots purple dye all over you.
So when your rolling down the highway and are forced to take this test, hopefully you won't have to take your eyes off the road to do it, you could end up causing an accident.
One reason to live in Canada. People on Unemployment can get grants from the govt to start up a business. The government even makes it easy for you to get workers by covering all or most of their salary for 32 weeks provided they too were on UI. I'm considering starting up a business after my current contract is up, and I just found out about a grant that pays your startup costs and lets you draw a salary for 6 months (and doesn't have to be repayed).
The time is ripe for a new wave of small niche businesses to start up.
So now they fire back with 1000 calls a day to each individual business/person asking for a written letter signifying that its ok to send faxes to that business. The thing is to have the calls come from different sources so that you get around the law. Claim that you don't have the capacity to have a Do Not Call list and that they'll just have to put up with you.
Heh, I don't think you'll find a Trek fan anywhere that will admit that any series was better than TNG. Even Discovery and TLC are turning into crap channels. The only Discovery shows I watch anymore are Monster Garage, American Chopper, and Motorcycle Mania (mainly cause Jessie James is cool).
I actually liked that show, one of the few actually good shows on TV IMHO. Still, perhaps its best if the franchise goes away for awhile, it'll resurface in a few years anyway with the making of a remake movie. They'll call it Star Trek: S.W.A.T.
The inner workings of the counterfeit deterrence system are so secret that not even Adobe is privy to them. The Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group provides the software as a black box without revealing its precise inner workings, Connor said.
Just what we need, more suspicious code included in already closed source software. Wonder if it calls home when the "black box" is tripped.
I for one love the RFID cards we have at our University now. Used to be you could hear me comming from the end of the hall with all the keys I had to carry, felt uncomfortable in my pocket too.
Now I just wave the card in front of the door and it magicly opens. I'd rather have to get by a biometric device than an armed guard anyday, biometrics allow you to pass if your authorized, simple and clean, armed guards can be having a bad day and start hassleing you for no reason or just to feel big. A biometric palm reader or retinal scanner can't have a bad day and only hassels you if your info doesn't match the file and machines (for the moment anyway:-) don't have ego's.
Only thing I'd like to see change is that I should have access at any time to my own data, and I should be able to control what my employeer does with that data, although I should have that right anyway as employeers shouldn't be able to do illegal or unethical actions with your data in the first place.
Yeah, because your average McManager has the ability to modify the employee time sheets before they get paid. Employers could only get away with chiseling you out of money for so long before you could compile records of your own then launch an action aginst them. Chances are if they're doing it to you then they're doing it to others, finding people to join you in a class action suit isn't hard.
We'll see who wins, Microsoft with its army of lawyers, or Mythic Entertainment with its no doubt heafty army of lawyers with its much smaller warchest with which to fight.
That by buying that CD from the band at a concert, your actually giving money to the RIAA anyway because the media manufacturers have to pay a levy from CD sales (at least in Canada anyway).
Like you said, Hypocrisy sucks, take a stance and stick with it.
I'm not sure how many people actually know about Tokyo Teleport Town but that is exactly what they did with all their telecom gear, heating and power transmission cable, all underground with large tunnels to get to it if it becomes necessary.
I live in a quite forested area of Canada (as you can imagine, it being Canada and all) and I can say it sucks really bad when a tree falls over in a storm and powerlines come down with the tree. Underground power and telecommunications is definetly the way to go, although if you're only putting them in the ground then covering them with dirt I can see how that would get annoying having to dig up the street each time you want to lay more cable or have to fix something that broke.
Well mabey its a lot of money to the normal serfs like us but its really not that much money if you have to pay for components, sales, actually having a storefront, power, webhosting. You also have to imagine that the end value of the tab may (read probably) have been inflated artifically by the Justice dept to make the bust seem bigger than it really was.
Pot busts are regularly inflated by Law Enforcement claiming they have more pot then they actually do. The Police weigh the drugs by the whole plant, not by how much dope actually comes off the plant. The measurement they get is multiplied by a high street price to get the number that actually gets reported to the press. I'd suspect this is more of the same type of sensationalism. Really the guys were lucky to be making more than 50k a year off these things, I'd be really surprised to hear that they made more than that.
Because you will never have enough money. Thats the short of it anyway. If you know that you can make $10,000 really easily and with almost no risk, but for the chance to make $20,000 you need to take a little risk, I'm guessing that you'll go for the 20 grand.
In the case where they were makeing $200 per box they sold I don't think they actually knew how much money they were actually making, and as they were probably splitting with someone else, no one person was getting that whole 10 mil, more likely they made 1 mil each over a period of 5 years. A lot of money to be sure, but not nearly a large amount.
The problem with "changing the laws" is that its practicably impossible to change a law once its approved by whatever leglislative body that has authority. The courts can provide a possible avenue to change laws, however the cost associated with launching a case all the way to the supreme court (if they even choose to hear the case at all) make this a worse than useless way to go about effecting change.
Its been proven that government will endevor to work towards the totalitarian model given enough time. All the checks and balances inherent in modern western democratic countries all come to naught as government eventually passes laws to circumvent other laws that keep government from becoming the police state that it wants to be by design.
The only way to effect change on a large enough scale is for the serfs to have an uprising. Mob uprisings however aren't a good form of government as they are short lived, people start to starve, violence becomes teh way of life and order vanishes. In order for a society to work some form of order needs to be established. Another form of government comes to power (usually with the same people in charge only with different public adjendas) and the cycle starts again.
Well I would hope they don't intentionally go out of their way to cheat their customers, however I'm sure they're not going to fix a situation that only benifits them.
Seems the only way to get back is to cancel the plan and go with a different company, either that or force the cell company to sign a contract with you that says if you catch a mistake on your bill they have to pay you a fee for doing their job for them.
Can't see many businesses going for that. "You want us to be accountable for our mistakes! Go away!"
Which is why where I live (eastern canada) we have voter registration cards that get mailed out before election time.
Its pretty cool too, the people working for the elections dept of the government send out volenteers to register whole households (people of the approptiate age) of voters. It saves time at the polls where they just ask for your card and they give you a ballot, your name gets checked off on the master list and you cast your vote. Then again everyone knows everyone in my community so its not really applicable to jurisdictions with hundreds of thousands of people.
I'd like to vote electronicly but theres just not that many voters here to make it worthwhile to have dedicated slot machine like devices when a pen and paper work just as easily. There was a previous slashdot story about a webapp for running elections perhaps that could be a solution.
Just mark an X, no punch no fuss. Although to be fair we have way less elected officials than the US and far less public opinion poll questions on the ballots.
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Don't they have to pay them if they want to sell the goods in the USA?
You're probably correct, proven in the lab and proven in the wild are two totally different things.
I do agree with you though, technological advances are a very important reason to continue space exploration with humans, as long as they continue to come that is. I'm not up on the current technology, but i can't really think of new ones that have come about in the last 20 years that have resulted directly from advances in technology for space exploration.
1st p0st baby!!!!
I'm sure that their's no evidence now of any goings on after the story broke and someone went barreling for the shredder.
Or if the tag is attached to one of those dye shot tags so that if you remove the tag in the store without the proper tool it shoots purple dye all over you.
So when your rolling down the highway and are forced to take this test, hopefully you won't have to take your eyes off the road to do it, you could end up causing an accident.
Well, thats Canada for you anyway. No matter what you do, about half of what you make goes to the government anyway.
The time is ripe for a new wave of small niche businesses to start up.
So now they fire back with 1000 calls a day to each individual business/person asking for a written letter signifying that its ok to send faxes to that business. The thing is to have the calls come from different sources so that you get around the law. Claim that you don't have the capacity to have a Do Not Call list and that they'll just have to put up with you.
Heh, I don't think you'll find a Trek fan anywhere that will admit that any series was better than TNG. Even Discovery and TLC are turning into crap channels. The only Discovery shows I watch anymore are Monster Garage, American Chopper, and Motorcycle Mania (mainly cause Jessie James is cool).
I actually liked that show, one of the few actually good shows on TV IMHO. Still, perhaps its best if the franchise goes away for awhile, it'll resurface in a few years anyway with the making of a remake movie. They'll call it Star Trek: S.W.A.T.
Just what we need, more suspicious code included in already closed source software. Wonder if it calls home when the "black box" is tripped.
Now I just wave the card in front of the door and it magicly opens. I'd rather have to get by a biometric device than an armed guard anyday, biometrics allow you to pass if your authorized, simple and clean, armed guards can be having a bad day and start hassleing you for no reason or just to feel big. A biometric palm reader or retinal scanner can't have a bad day and only hassels you if your info doesn't match the file and machines (for the moment anyway :-) don't have ego's.
Only thing I'd like to see change is that I should have access at any time to my own data, and I should be able to control what my employeer does with that data, although I should have that right anyway as employeers shouldn't be able to do illegal or unethical actions with your data in the first place.
Yeah, because your average McManager has the ability to modify the employee time sheets before they get paid. Employers could only get away with chiseling you out of money for so long before you could compile records of your own then launch an action aginst them. Chances are if they're doing it to you then they're doing it to others, finding people to join you in a class action suit isn't hard.
Now all we need is a corkscrew that doesn't leave floaty bits in the wine and we're all set.
Sure its not exactly as precise as some would want, but not everyone has 300 bucks to blow on a PDA.
We'll see who wins, Microsoft with its army of lawyers, or Mythic Entertainment with its no doubt heafty army of lawyers with its much smaller warchest with which to fight.
Like you said, Hypocrisy sucks, take a stance and stick with it.
I live in a quite forested area of Canada (as you can imagine, it being Canada and all) and I can say it sucks really bad when a tree falls over in a storm and powerlines come down with the tree. Underground power and telecommunications is definetly the way to go, although if you're only putting them in the ground then covering them with dirt I can see how that would get annoying having to dig up the street each time you want to lay more cable or have to fix something that broke.
Pot busts are regularly inflated by Law Enforcement claiming they have more pot then they actually do. The Police weigh the drugs by the whole plant, not by how much dope actually comes off the plant. The measurement they get is multiplied by a high street price to get the number that actually gets reported to the press. I'd suspect this is more of the same type of sensationalism. Really the guys were lucky to be making more than 50k a year off these things, I'd be really surprised to hear that they made more than that.
In the case where they were makeing $200 per box they sold I don't think they actually knew how much money they were actually making, and as they were probably splitting with someone else, no one person was getting that whole 10 mil, more likely they made 1 mil each over a period of 5 years. A lot of money to be sure, but not nearly a large amount.
Its been proven that government will endevor to work towards the totalitarian model given enough time. All the checks and balances inherent in modern western democratic countries all come to naught as government eventually passes laws to circumvent other laws that keep government from becoming the police state that it wants to be by design.
The only way to effect change on a large enough scale is for the serfs to have an uprising. Mob uprisings however aren't a good form of government as they are short lived, people start to starve, violence becomes teh way of life and order vanishes. In order for a society to work some form of order needs to be established. Another form of government comes to power (usually with the same people in charge only with different public adjendas) and the cycle starts again.
Seems the only way to get back is to cancel the plan and go with a different company, either that or force the cell company to sign a contract with you that says if you catch a mistake on your bill they have to pay you a fee for doing their job for them.
Can't see many businesses going for that. "You want us to be accountable for our mistakes! Go away!"
Its pretty cool too, the people working for the elections dept of the government send out volenteers to register whole households (people of the approptiate age) of voters. It saves time at the polls where they just ask for your card and they give you a ballot, your name gets checked off on the master list and you cast your vote. Then again everyone knows everyone in my community so its not really applicable to jurisdictions with hundreds of thousands of people.
I'd like to vote electronicly but theres just not that many voters here to make it worthwhile to have dedicated slot machine like devices when a pen and paper work just as easily. There was a previous slashdot story about a webapp for running elections perhaps that could be a solution.
Just mark an X, no punch no fuss. Although to be fair we have way less elected officials than the US and far less public opinion poll questions on the ballots.