Well, based on the inability of/. users to spell and use proper grammar (and we're supposedly among the best and the brightest), I have no problem believing that there are thousands of small business owners with childlike English and hours to spare.
As to whether any particular FB user is what he claims to be...well, I don't believe it here, and don't believe it there, either....
two anonymous guards in masks discuss having sex. The tall one asks the short one if she is a boy or a girl. She replies, "Does it matter?" "No." And off they go.
As I recall, those weren't guards, they were medical technicians (nurses?) at a rejuvenation clinic....
When they were literally invented as the US version of the German Ãoebersoldat Nazi propaganda movies
Interesting theory. Of course, Superman came along the same year as Hitler, so it's kind of hard to see how he could be a copy of the Nazi propaganda, which postdates The Big Red S.
he is of Philippine descent if I remember correct.
You do remember correctly. Juan explicitly said he spoke Tagalog, which is a native language of Luzon in the Philippines.
Note that absolutely nowhere in the book was it suggested that Rico was American. For that matter, I can't think of any particular character that was American.
I actually did think of the "maternity ring" when I was posting the OP. I just wasn't sure how viable that it would be on a Mars colony. Basically the way I see it you would have to go off world to conceive and give birth.
Assuming 10km radius for the track, you'd need the "maternity ring" to move about 1100 km/hr (mach 1). Not hard at all in orbit (two habitats attached by a 10km cable would do it), and not terribly hard on Mars (get one of Musk's earth borers to dig an underground track)....
They say that it needs to be replaceable by an 'independent repair provider'. So not by yourself, but by someone presumably trained and familiar with the device, but not necessarily associated with the original manufacturer.
So I can pay the manufacturer, or pay someone else, but can't do it myself? Not sure I really see the improvement there....
So, I gather that you always refer to laptops as "laptop computers", and desktops as "desktop computers". And your smartphone as a "phone computer"?
Alas, the language changes. Despite the fact that these things are all computers, people don't use the word computer all that much in referring to them. And kids learn language by connecting the words used to things. If you always call your laptop "my laptop", there's not really a good reason why a kid would necessarily connect the word "computer" to that thing you always refer to as "my laptop"....
actually their is a whole series of various touch screen and display innovations from them.
And perhaps their children learn to spell. Still amazing to me the number of supposedly intelligent and educated people who can't choose between "there", "their", and "they're" reliably....
Today even with two incomes most families are poorer than their parents were with one income.
Yeah, their parents had MUCH better smartphones, more RAM in their desktop systems, their cars got better gas mileage, everything.
Was thinking about this the other day. When I was a kid, two car families were upper middle class. By the time I was reproducing, two cars was normal, and one car per driver wasn't too abnormal.
And computers. More computing power in my phone than most businesses had back then. Never mind my desktop (one of five in the household), which only has about 1000x the memory of the only computer I had as a young adult (and cost about 1/4 as much, ignoring inflation (about 1/10 as much, if inflation is taken into account)).
And more, and more, and more. I could go on for hours (or a great many paragraphs, at least) about the improvements in standard of living since I was a kid. That said, Get Off My Lawn!...
So, who, exactly, is "the enemy"? Are we at war with someone? Did I miss the declaration of war while I was in the shower?
That aside, no, exercising one's First Amendment rights is NOT "aiding and abetting the enemy". Rather the opposite - suppressing one's First Amendment rights makes the suppressor the enemy....
Or are you one of those people who believe that democracy really only works if the Right People are allowed to control the rest of us?
I do not know if there is an upper limit, apart from a practical limit on the device's weight, to how much this scales.
Exactly. You won't know whether it'll work as designed till you set one off.
And yes, I knew that high-end nukes were fission-fusion-fission devices. What I don't know is whether Tsar Bomba was such a weapon. I doubt that anyone outside the project knows....'
Maybe the past year show of nuclear force and ballistic missile defense on the part of the US before North Korea gave Russia strong incentive to build something of importance.
Umm, no.
Assuming this isn't someone's fantasy, it wasn't developed in the last year. It would probably have had to be in development for a decade or two.
Note also that it's never been tested. And I'm not talking about the bomb, I'm talking about the torpedo. Until it goes through a real test, it's not worth wasting time with.
And then there's the bomb. Until one is detonated, you never really know if it'll work as designed. And one hasn't been detonated....
Out of 330M or so...one person in 500 was "exposed" to Russian bad-thought, which isn't the same as "one person in 500 changed their vote to Trump as a result of Russian bad-thought....
Doesn't sound like much of a problem to me. It's not like people weren't exposed to foreign media regularly, all of which talked about the American Presidential elections at one time or another (it does,after all, have a moderately enormous affect on the world as a whole).
With the amount of profit surrounding cancer treatments
So, how much profit is there in cancer treatments? Articles I found trying to google the subject spent a lot of time conflating "cost to patient (or insurance company)" with "profits" (no, income is not the same as profit, even if you don't like the people you're giving money to), without bothering to provide any numbers for actual, you know, profits....
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It would never have occurred to me that you didn't know an orca is a dolphin.
Nonetheless, that joke was really terrible...
On the plus side, I now know that there is a Welsh national anthem....
Well, based on the inability of /. users to spell and use proper grammar (and we're supposedly among the best and the brightest), I have no problem believing that there are thousands of small business owners with childlike English and hours to spare.
As to whether any particular FB user is what he claims to be...well, I don't believe it here, and don't believe it there, either....
Or maybe they're asking themselves "so, what are they going to censor next? For our own good, of course"....
So, if I have physical access to the machine, I can install software that lets me loot the machine.
Or, if I have physical access to the machine, I can just take all the money out of the machine without bothering with the software install.
I'm failing to see this as a serious new threat to ATM's....
Really? Is someone really paying 14 bucks per KW-hr??? I get my electricity for cents per KW-hr, not dollars....
As I recall, those weren't guards, they were medical technicians (nurses?) at a rejuvenation clinic....
Interesting theory. Of course, Superman came along the same year as Hitler, so it's kind of hard to see how he could be a copy of the Nazi propaganda, which postdates The Big Red S.
You do remember correctly. Juan explicitly said he spoke Tagalog, which is a native language of Luzon in the Philippines.
Note that absolutely nowhere in the book was it suggested that Rico was American. For that matter, I can't think of any particular character that was American.
Montana. Not enough market to matter to large ISP's. The loss would be a rounding error. There are only about a million people in the whole state....
Assuming 10km radius for the track, you'd need the "maternity ring" to move about 1100 km/hr (mach 1). Not hard at all in orbit (two habitats attached by a 10km cable would do it), and not terribly hard on Mars (get one of Musk's earth borers to dig an underground track)....
FALSELY yelling fire in a crowded theater. The "falsely" is important.
So I can pay the manufacturer, or pay someone else, but can't do it myself? Not sure I really see the improvement there....
So, I gather that you always refer to laptops as "laptop computers", and desktops as "desktop computers". And your smartphone as a "phone computer"?
Alas, the language changes. Despite the fact that these things are all computers, people don't use the word computer all that much in referring to them. And kids learn language by connecting the words used to things. If you always call your laptop "my laptop", there's not really a good reason why a kid would necessarily connect the word "computer" to that thing you always refer to as "my laptop"....
Alternately, if you don't let the doctor remove your pancreas when needed, you won't have diabetes in the first place.
Of course, you may be dead, but that's a small price to pay for no diabetes, right?
Yes, some of us have diabetes for reasons completely unrelated to eating junk....
And perhaps their children learn to spell. Still amazing to me the number of supposedly intelligent and educated people who can't choose between "there", "their", and "they're" reliably....
More properly, the NYT is shilling for the government(s) to prop up their tax stream....
Yeah, their parents had MUCH better smartphones, more RAM in their desktop systems, their cars got better gas mileage, everything.
Was thinking about this the other day. When I was a kid, two car families were upper middle class. By the time I was reproducing, two cars was normal, and one car per driver wasn't too abnormal.
And computers. More computing power in my phone than most businesses had back then. Never mind my desktop (one of five in the household), which only has about 1000x the memory of the only computer I had as a young adult (and cost about 1/4 as much, ignoring inflation (about 1/10 as much, if inflation is taken into account)).
And more, and more, and more. I could go on for hours (or a great many paragraphs, at least) about the improvements in standard of living since I was a kid. That said, Get Off My Lawn!...
And note that only one in six of that less than 1% would be unable to find work without retraining.
Frankly, this sounds more like a typical year in the Real World (tm) than a "revolution"....
Hmmm....
So, who, exactly, is "the enemy"? Are we at war with someone? Did I miss the declaration of war while I was in the shower?
That aside, no, exercising one's First Amendment rights is NOT "aiding and abetting the enemy". Rather the opposite - suppressing one's First Amendment rights makes the suppressor the enemy....
Or are you one of those people who believe that democracy really only works if the Right People are allowed to control the rest of us?
Exactly. You won't know whether it'll work as designed till you set one off.
And yes, I knew that high-end nukes were fission-fusion-fission devices. What I don't know is whether Tsar Bomba was such a weapon. I doubt that anyone outside the project knows....'
Umm, no.
Assuming this isn't someone's fantasy, it wasn't developed in the last year. It would probably have had to be in development for a decade or two.
Note also that it's never been tested. And I'm not talking about the bomb, I'm talking about the torpedo. Until it goes through a real test, it's not worth wasting time with.
And then there's the bomb. Until one is detonated, you never really know if it'll work as designed. And one hasn't been detonated....
Well, no. In terms of deltaV, LEO is more than halfway to anywhere. LEO+40% is Terra Escape Speed. LEO doubled is pretty much Solar Escape Speed....
Out of 330M or so...one person in 500 was "exposed" to Russian bad-thought, which isn't the same as "one person in 500 changed their vote to Trump as a result of Russian bad-thought....
Doesn't sound like much of a problem to me. It's not like people weren't exposed to foreign media regularly, all of which talked about the American Presidential elections at one time or another (it does,after all, have a moderately enormous affect on the world as a whole).
So, how much profit is there in cancer treatments? Articles I found trying to google the subject spent a lot of time conflating "cost to patient (or insurance company)" with "profits" (no, income is not the same as profit, even if you don't like the people you're giving money to), without bothering to provide any numbers for actual, you know, profits....
Quite so. They don't HAVE to. Which isn't really the question. The question is "will they?".
Oh, and that question must be asked of every administration, Federal, State, and possibly Local till the end of time....