The whole scheme is paranoid to begin with, the parent poster is just explaining that it isn't paranoid enough to succeed at the goal of remaining anonymous. If you're filling up the card at an ATM you've already linked it to fully trackable data about you.
Yeah you're right... if 2020 is go time, then they're already ready and it just takes the two years to draw their processes out and get the assembly line guys trained on the new procedures. It probably takes nearly as long to change the corporate logo and letterhead.
If it is HEPA it can most certainly filter viruses, that's what is used in PAPRs that keep researchers safe from ebola and what have you. You see them in movies, as well.
Those are HEPA filtered. (But they probably don't maintain it well!) A dirty HEPA filter actually becomes better at filtering even smaller particles as its pores load up. It'd be a surprise if droplets of pathogen even made their way into the air intake for recirculation as it was.
That's kind of hilarious considering how many people with clearances are getting free identity theft protection because they couldn't keep their network secure. I guess we could ask China for the list.
Well eating varnish isn't good for you either... and in addition to making vibrant colors, lead in paint also acted as a preservative. But still, you'd hope they wouldn't lie about it and just own up to that it was dangerous, explain the benefits, and how to use it safely. Certainly the sales reps don't try to convince us that lab chemicals are safe, we just get trained on how to avoid being injured by them.
Even if we were to deny that what has happened with the internet going mainstream was revolutionary (which would be silly), doesn't the internet marketplace appear to be consolidating and ossifying to you? The limitations of printing and broadcasting kept things local and heterodox to an extent, but now those are consolidating while the internet was always easy to consolidate. Social networking has shown the importance of userbase to viability.
I have a Logitech gaming keyboard that has a little display that uses RSS to populate some news stories. It is a nice gimmick but not really something I've tried to make more useful, and I don't see a way for it to be monetized, so I don't imagine the remaining services will survive long.
The ones near here were nearly 1/3 full of Lego sets and similar. Big wall of board games, outdoor toys like bikes. I suppose it probably varies by area.
Phillips is a company that actually is pretty easy to deal with on replacing items under warranty if you want to save yourself the extended warranty costs.
There's a scene in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun where the protagonist stumbles into a jumble of perfectly preserved corpses like this in the woods in a far-future declined Earth. There's little reason to believe freezing your head or being plasticized would result in anything more than being a curio in some far flung future, at best.
Its probably just some lame program for training that got stuffed into the standard system image. Mission critical stuff probably only resides on individually validated systems.
That's what they do with the dog entry, so sure, why not. Otherwise I think you're going to need to either do a computer generated average image or perhaps get some anthropologists and geneticists together to figure out what subgroup is closest to wild-type.
This is one of the few things the voice assistants on phones are good at, you can just ask "what time is it in place" and they figure it out by the time Google pulls up a conversion pulldown menu webpage that you're not quite sure is taking into account DST.
Not a bad idea, but the charter for the committee may have language to dissuade this sort of thing. I suppose amendment could be item one on the agenda...
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The whole scheme is paranoid to begin with, the parent poster is just explaining that it isn't paranoid enough to succeed at the goal of remaining anonymous. If you're filling up the card at an ATM you've already linked it to fully trackable data about you.
If we're just arm chair experimenting here, what you describe might cause skin cancer but shouldn't get through to the brain as they describe.
Do you have a link handy? I'd not heard that.
Yeah you're right... if 2020 is go time, then they're already ready and it just takes the two years to draw their processes out and get the assembly line guys trained on the new procedures. It probably takes nearly as long to change the corporate logo and letterhead.
If it is HEPA it can most certainly filter viruses, that's what is used in PAPRs that keep researchers safe from ebola and what have you. You see them in movies, as well.
Those are HEPA filtered. (But they probably don't maintain it well!) A dirty HEPA filter actually becomes better at filtering even smaller particles as its pores load up. It'd be a surprise if droplets of pathogen even made their way into the air intake for recirculation as it was.
I'm not familiar with lead gelled linseed oil, but you might be able to get something close with some japan drier and boiled linseed oil?
That's kind of hilarious considering how many people with clearances are getting free identity theft protection because they couldn't keep their network secure. I guess we could ask China for the list.
Well eating varnish isn't good for you either... and in addition to making vibrant colors, lead in paint also acted as a preservative. But still, you'd hope they wouldn't lie about it and just own up to that it was dangerous, explain the benefits, and how to use it safely. Certainly the sales reps don't try to convince us that lab chemicals are safe, we just get trained on how to avoid being injured by them.
I'd guess it had something to do with acclimating to the higher radiation, but that's just spit balling.
Even if we were to deny that what has happened with the internet going mainstream was revolutionary (which would be silly), doesn't the internet marketplace appear to be consolidating and ossifying to you? The limitations of printing and broadcasting kept things local and heterodox to an extent, but now those are consolidating while the internet was always easy to consolidate. Social networking has shown the importance of userbase to viability.
I have a Logitech gaming keyboard that has a little display that uses RSS to populate some news stories. It is a nice gimmick but not really something I've tried to make more useful, and I don't see a way for it to be monetized, so I don't imagine the remaining services will survive long.
The ones near here were nearly 1/3 full of Lego sets and similar. Big wall of board games, outdoor toys like bikes. I suppose it probably varies by area.
Without receipt you can generally get store credit, so you use the credit to buy something you can pawn.
Phillips is a company that actually is pretty easy to deal with on replacing items under warranty if you want to save yourself the extended warranty costs.
There's a scene in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun where the protagonist stumbles into a jumble of perfectly preserved corpses like this in the woods in a far-future declined Earth. There's little reason to believe freezing your head or being plasticized would result in anything more than being a curio in some far flung future, at best.
Its probably just some lame program for training that got stuffed into the standard system image. Mission critical stuff probably only resides on individually validated systems.
The analogy holds for dogs (themselves just a subspecies!) and cats.
Hadn't thought about build, also brings age into the picture.
That's what they do with the dog entry, so sure, why not. Otherwise I think you're going to need to either do a computer generated average image or perhaps get some anthropologists and geneticists together to figure out what subgroup is closest to wild-type.
This is one of the few things the voice assistants on phones are good at, you can just ask "what time is it in place" and they figure it out by the time Google pulls up a conversion pulldown menu webpage that you're not quite sure is taking into account DST.
Not a bad idea, but the charter for the committee may have language to dissuade this sort of thing. I suppose amendment could be item one on the agenda...
Letting the most accomplished scientist and engineers influence policy related to science and engineering already has a name: meritocracy.
It used to be better before they were bought out, but it is still pretty good.
I suppose with getting their tithe from the store for any installed apps, that would be a good way to monetize people that would otherwise pirate it.