Here's another solution: when you file a claim you also state a maximum legal fee you will be paying your lawyer(s) for this lawsuit. If you win you can't ask for more that that, and if you lose you're liable for defense expenses up to your stated max.
At the same time, paying your lawyer more than you declared should consitute perjury for you, while accepting the payment should subject the lawyer to suspension of his license (to prevent risk-free lawsuits with $1 max).
I agree with this, Paypal is excellent for small amount transactions. I've used it to receive probably thousands of under $20 payments and I can't complain. Had chargeback issues maybe 0.2% of the time and honestly I couldn't care less about those. The majority of fraud is taking place on high-dollar items because it's worth it. I'd never use Paypal to receive anything from around $200 up, money orders are the way to go for that (and don't ship until they clear just to be sure).
I wonder how it gets power. Presumably from dynamometers tapping into the rotation of the ball? Then you're using wind power for both movement and communications/sensing, I wonder if there will be enough given the 0.01 atm pressure on Mars.
>If you want to see how easily material gets out of the atmosphere consider how high stuff gets in volcanic plumes.
How high is that? 10 km? 20 km? Orbit is 40,000 km. You can probably shoot a bullet 10 km high, yes. Try shooting a bullet into orbit - it'll vaporize the moment it leaves the muzzle.
>According to NASA, a meteorite that was discovered in Antartica contains indications that life once existed on Mars. If life was abundant enough that a rock could be ejected from Mars and subsequently make it to Earth with some evidence of life (structures similar to Earth fossils and organic molecules) then I think the chances of finding a fossil in a targeted sample are much greater than you assume.
Yeah, but how many other Mars rocks were found in Antarctica that didn't have any evidence at all?
>There has been significant exchange of materials between Earth and Mars as a result of meteor impacts splashing small bits of each planet into space.
The problem with this sort of inerplanetary contamination is that Earth has a thick atmosphere and any piece of it that were to escape into space would have to leave surface with a sufficient speed to achieve that. Keep in mind that the earth bit doesn't get accelerated like a rocket, it's actually slowed down with altitude and it needs to have Match 25 or whatever from the start. Given this, force and pressure are not the issue, burning up and extreme heat are the problem, and I cant see bacteria surviving that.
Now if this was taking place before Earth had a thick atmosphere then there wouldn't be a problem, but once you have life and thick air I don't quite see it happen any longer.
If the object is travelling at 10km/s (which is first gear for interstellar speed), then the missile would have to be able detonate with somewhere around 3/1000th of a seconds accuracy for the blast to hit. Not to mention it would have to position itself in the exactly right spot.
Yeah, but triggering is commonly done by a radar and could probably be enhanced by laser. So all you really need is to place it reasonably close to the asteroid's trajectory and have it lock onto the right object.
Jeron, please tell me how this gene will travel among the fresh water and why salt water would stop it??
Fish travel between disconnected but nearby bodies of fresh water by two means:
1. When rivers in the area flood and the bodies of water become connected;
2. When birds feeding on young fish pick them up, then fly them up and accidentally drop them over another pond/river nearby.
These two are the exact reasons carp spread at an incredible pace and were impossible to stop once small numbers were brought to Australia (and US, which actually suffers from the same problem to some extent). Neither of the above would work across the ocean, and carp won't live long enough in saltwater to swim over.
the "good" worm does much more than cleaning up blaster, it actually patches the whole on computers with ignorant owners so some kid can't use it again for his trojans.
judging from what they do (or don't do for that matter) neither of the two worms seem to be some lifeless kid's work. they smell much more like some pissed off network/security admin(s) who wanted to slap M$. could even be the same guy twice. network slowdown is more like a side effect, not much of an issue that is.
"It was brough to our attention that due to recent developments in the power distribution accross the US all buildings now store important quantities of Hydrogen. Blowing stuff up has just become a whole new experience!
Where is the invasion of privacy if the Secret Service know a homeless person collected food from this shelter on Monday AND got soup from a different shelter cross town on Wednesday?
The invasion of privacy is right there. It's not the secret service bussiness to know where I eat.
this isn't a big issue. as long as the power grid is up your pump is getting sine wave from the grid. it only gets to see the square wave during blackouts, and i don't think any pump or motor will have trouble running a few hours on square wave power. if it had to run it's entire life on square wave it'd be a big problem indeed, but that's not the case.
no reason to mod parent funny. you can get a UPS for like $100 at bestbuy, and seeing as the aquarium setups can easily run into thousands, spending a hundred to make sure your fish stay alive in a long blackout is perfectly reasonable. not to mention that you can plug your PC in the same UPS so you don't lose your work in a short powerdown (lightning, etc).
We *knew* the Japanese weren't willing to surrender in a manner acceptable to the Allies.
To the best of my knowledge they're only request was that the emperror would be left in charge. So you killed how many for that one emperor? And wasn't the guy allowed to stay in charge anyway?
A settlement is not considered an admission of wrongdoing or liability (unless one of the terms of the settlement is that the defendant make a public proclamation of such). Indeed, most settlements are in cases where the defendant has the far stronger case and the greater likelihood of winning. The plaintiff attorney's goal is to prevent the case from ever going to trial and instead get a settlement for his client(s); the odds are generally against the plaintiffs once it goes to trial. The defendant settles in these cases because, especially if they're a large corporation, it's cheaper to settle early rather than pay their lawyers' fees (especially if appeals and such are counted), to say nothing of the non-zero (though, on average, less than 40%) probability of them losing.
hmm, that sounds short-sighted to me. in the long run this practice just encourages more lawyers to sue left and right for any or no reason, leading to more and more "settlement costs". if they sued me i'd much rather spend twice on my lawyers to defend (if i knew i had a good case) rather than settle. that way then next lawyer to stop by will have a good reason to think twice before filing his lawsuit.
>>This is the 'let's go kill people' software. >Is it just me, or does this kind of talk disturb anyone ?
Yes, it's disturbing. The purpose of any military is supposed to be defense, not going about killing people at will. Unfortunately it seems there are a lot of people (all the way up to the leadership) who don't think that way. Makes me wonder if it has something to do with the kind of people who originally colonized this land...
The US has the right to topple regimes that rule illegally through force if it is in their self-interest, i.e. for security in this case.
Care to poin out who provided the US with that right? And since when it's ok for a nation to attack another because they feel like it (read "it is in their self-interest")?
There's no way to make sharp turns at slow speed (parking) without turning some wheels. With 4 parallel wheels even with awd, if you rotate the left tires faster than the right ones some tires will have to skid in order for the car to turn at 1mph. You'll need new tires every other oilchange... doh no oil now, every 6000 mi then.
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Here's another solution: when you file a claim you also state a maximum legal fee you will be paying your lawyer(s) for this lawsuit. If you win you can't ask for more that that, and if you lose you're liable for defense expenses up to your stated max.
At the same time, paying your lawyer more than you declared should consitute perjury for you, while accepting the payment should subject the lawyer to suspension of his license (to prevent risk-free lawsuits with $1 max).
Sounds good?
I agree with this, Paypal is excellent for small amount transactions. I've used it to receive probably thousands of under $20 payments and I can't complain. Had chargeback issues maybe 0.2% of the time and honestly I couldn't care less about those. The majority of fraud is taking place on high-dollar items because it's worth it. I'd never use Paypal to receive anything from around $200 up, money orders are the way to go for that (and don't ship until they clear just to be sure).
[off topic] just out of curiosity, what was it that they charged $650 to do and didn't do?
I wonder how many credit cards you needed to carry in the first place in order to actually save space by using their device...
>Wouldn't you run the risk of having it get buried in sand/ice and then be completely immobile?
I don't think it can get burried under sand or ice, but stuck in a deep crater it definitely can.
I wonder how it gets power. Presumably from dynamometers tapping into the rotation of the ball? Then you're using wind power for both movement and communications/sensing, I wonder if there will be enough given the 0.01 atm pressure on Mars.
How high is that? 10 km? 20 km? Orbit is 40,000 km. You can probably shoot a bullet 10 km high, yes. Try shooting a bullet into orbit - it'll vaporize the moment it leaves the muzzle.
Yeah, but how many other Mars rocks were found in Antarctica that didn't have any evidence at all?
The problem with this sort of inerplanetary contamination is that Earth has a thick atmosphere and any piece of it that were to escape into space would have to leave surface with a sufficient speed to achieve that. Keep in mind that the earth bit doesn't get accelerated like a rocket, it's actually slowed down with altitude and it needs to have Match 25 or whatever from the start. Given this, force and pressure are not the issue, burning up and extreme heat are the problem, and I cant see bacteria surviving that.
Now if this was taking place before Earth had a thick atmosphere then there wouldn't be a problem, but once you have life and thick air I don't quite see it happen any longer.
Speaking of length, anyone cared to figure out how many times the stuff would wrap around the Earth if it broke and fell down?
Yeah, but triggering is commonly done by a radar and could probably be enhanced by laser. So all you really need is to place it reasonably close to the asteroid's trajectory and have it lock onto the right object.
Fish travel between disconnected but nearby bodies of fresh water by two means:
1. When rivers in the area flood and the bodies of water become connected;
2. When birds feeding on young fish pick them up, then fly them up and accidentally drop them over another pond/river nearby.
These two are the exact reasons carp spread at an incredible pace and were impossible to stop once small numbers were brought to Australia (and US, which actually suffers from the same problem to some extent). Neither of the above would work across the ocean, and carp won't live long enough in saltwater to swim over.
the "good" worm does much more than cleaning up blaster, it actually patches the whole on computers with ignorant owners so some kid can't use it again for his trojans.
judging from what they do (or don't do for that matter) neither of the two worms seem to be some lifeless kid's work. they smell much more like some pissed off network/security admin(s) who wanted to slap M$. could even be the same guy twice. network slowdown is more like a side effect, not much of an issue that is.
on Al Jazeera TV:
"It was brough to our attention that due to recent developments in the power distribution accross the US all buildings now store important quantities of Hydrogen. Blowing stuff up has just become a whole new experience!
Allah is great!"
The invasion of privacy is right there. It's not the secret service bussiness to know where I eat.
this isn't a big issue. as long as the power grid is up your pump is getting sine wave from the grid. it only gets to see the square wave during blackouts, and i don't think any pump or motor will have trouble running a few hours on square wave power. if it had to run it's entire life on square wave it'd be a big problem indeed, but that's not the case.
no reason to mod parent funny. you can get a UPS for like $100 at bestbuy, and seeing as the aquarium setups can easily run into thousands, spending a hundred to make sure your fish stay alive in a long blackout is perfectly reasonable. not to mention that you can plug your PC in the same UPS so you don't lose your work in a short powerdown (lightning, etc).
We *knew* the Japanese weren't willing to surrender in a manner acceptable to the Allies. To the best of my knowledge they're only request was that the emperror would be left in charge. So you killed how many for that one emperor? And wasn't the guy allowed to stay in charge anyway?
hmm, that sounds short-sighted to me. in the long run this practice just encourages more lawyers to sue left and right for any or no reason, leading to more and more "settlement costs". if they sued me i'd much rather spend twice on my lawyers to defend (if i knew i had a good case) rather than settle. that way then next lawyer to stop by will have a good reason to think twice before filing his lawsuit.
their ambasador was in washington negotiating peace terms. nukes were never needed, except for muscle flexing and ego satisfaction.
>We have shown remarkable restraint with the rest of the world.
>Considering what happened on our own soil.
That sure is a big deal, considering what had happened on Japanese soil.
>>This is the 'let's go kill people' software.
>Is it just me, or does this kind of talk disturb anyone ?
Yes, it's disturbing. The purpose of any military is supposed to be defense, not going about killing people at will. Unfortunately it seems there are a lot of people (all the way up to the leadership) who don't think that way. Makes me wonder if it has something to do with the kind of people who originally colonized this land...
Care to poin out who provided the US with that right? And since when it's ok for a nation to attack another because they feel like it (read "it is in their self-interest")?
There's no way to make sharp turns at slow speed (parking) without turning some wheels. With 4 parallel wheels even with awd, if you rotate the left tires faster than the right ones some tires will have to skid in order for the car to turn at 1mph. You'll need new tires every other oilchange... doh no oil now, every 6000 mi then.