And now thirdly, the ISPs want to charge the content providers additional fees to deliver their content (initially, it will be fees for "faster", next it will be fees for "not slowing it down" and finally, the fee will be for "delivery").
Hmm, your "third" looks a lot like your "first". You're paying for access to the system, and the guys at the other end are paying for their access to the system.
In other words, I fail to see the problem that you have described. Which is not the same as being against Net Neutrality, just against your argument....
First, I don't consider insurance companies a good investment.
Second, I don't have to own a car, and thus don't have to buy auto insurance. This case, though, isn't about "we need their product therefore we buy it", it's "we're required by law to buy their product whether we need it or not". Consider the possibilities inherent in requiring EVERYONE to buy auto insurance, even if they don't own a car, nor have a driver's license...
But the nature of this specific failure mode has absolutely nothing to do with the age of the rockets or stages, but was due instead to one or more lapses in pre-flight checks of the configuration parameters for the launch.
Either that, or this was a test of a FOBS (Fractional Orbit Bombardment System)....
Freedom of the Press, which is how our free speech is actually worded
Oh??
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
(and yes, we are going after them, but they are smarter and are doing more to protect themselves)
And you know this how, exactly? I'm assuming you are compromising an investigation that you are privy to, in order to prove your importance in the grand scheme of things, correct?
Or are you just assuming that because our security agencies don't brag about such things online, they're not capable of doing much online?
I wouldn't evacuate immediately, but after a couple days, if it looks like evacuation is called for (which basically means "things aren't under control yet), then Id leave.
As to guns, yes, I own some. Further deponent sayeth not....
I'm not particularly fearful of radioactivity, but if I saw reactor building 1 explode in Fukushima, I would not need an order to evacuate, I'd be in the car as soon as I could.
I'm not particularly fearful of radioactivity either. If I saw a reactor building explode, I tape up my windows and stay indoors for a couple days. THEN I'd evacuate, if it looked to require longer term safety than waiting on short-half-life stuff to decay away....
"If you are playing a game for next to nothing â" or free â" and you find out people are spending thousands, or tens of thousands, or in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars â" there may be a problem."
The problem being that some people are stupid enough to spend thousands, or tens of thousands, or in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars on a game.
And the related problem that people are taking a game seriously enough that winning becomes so important that spending thousands makes sense.
It's a game, for God's sake! Entertainment that is slightly more interactive than watching TV, but not so much as playing a little pick-up baseball or basketball (or whatever they play in any particular other country - cricket, football (aka soccer), lacrosse, whatever).
SI has a perfectly good unit of force (the newton). It will be really great when SI advocates actually start using SI, rather than bastardizing it with things like "kilograms of force"....
How long does a charge take? Because I'd have to charge it twice on the road to reach my parents' house. And I really wouldn't want a ten hour trip turned into a two day trip....
New laws require all electric vehicles to include noisemakers which could potentially make them LOUDER than modern internal combustion vehicles (I wish I was joking!)
My first thought was "he's joking, right?"
My second was "better verify this".
My third was "Jaysus, he's not joking". Though it's not quite correct. Only electrics built after 2019 will require the noisemakers....
Some schools won't even teach handwriting in favor of "typing" with tablets (?!?).
And they don't teach proper calligraphy anymore at all.
And they expect you to be able to read silently! Can you believe that? Reading without saying the words out loud?!
Yes, once upon a time, writing included calligraphy, and reading wasn't something that was done without pronouncing the words aloud.
In other words, why should they teach handwriting? Makes about as much sense as teaching modern students how often to dip their pen in an inkwell to keep their writing clear. Or teaching horsemanship instead of driver's ed....
We probably should be considering how dependent we are on computers and ask ourselves: Should we be?
And we should be considering how dependent we are on agriculture and ask ourselves: Should we be?
Or we can get a bit more modern by replacing "agriculture" with "papermaking", or "ironworking", or "plowing"....
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Hmm, your "third" looks a lot like your "first". You're paying for access to the system, and the guys at the other end are paying for their access to the system.
In other words, I fail to see the problem that you have described. Which is not the same as being against Net Neutrality, just against your argument....
Yeah, and noone would pay serious money for a painting of some random woman, either. Even if her name WAS Lisa....
In other words, art works that way sometimes.
And sometimes people have more money than sense. Only time will tell which this is....
Let's try something novel - if you can't find it in stores, just don't buy it.
Trust me, your little darlings aren't going to be scarred for life.
And even better, the so-called Grinch-bots will then be left holding the toys when noone is willing to pay $1K price tags for a $15 toy....
First, I don't consider insurance companies a good investment.
Second, I don't have to own a car, and thus don't have to buy auto insurance. This case, though, isn't about "we need their product therefore we buy it", it's "we're required by law to buy their product whether we need it or not". Consider the possibilities inherent in requiring EVERYONE to buy auto insurance, even if they don't own a car, nor have a driver's license...
So, the only way this would really work is if everyone were required by law to use the product of this company?
Hey, I bet I could make a lot of money making baseball base markers, if everyone in the country were required by law to buy three of them every year!
Slightly more seriously, I don't consider something a good investment if it requires a law making everyone an involuntary customer...
Either that, or this was a test of a FOBS (Fractional Orbit Bombardment System)....
Oh??
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Quibble: TENS of millions, not single-digit millions. For each of WW1, WW2, and the influenza pandemic of 1918.
Another quibble: "flue" refers to part of a fireplace. If you want to shorten "influenza", it's "flu"....
My, I really should get something to eat. Low blood sugar makes me even grumpier than my usual "grumpy"....
Assuming a density similar to water, that's 8 m^3 per day. Which would mean that glitter would pass that 1 km^3 threshold somewhere around 300000AD.
And that's if ALL of it ended up in the oceans.
Go with the thousands of factories number, and we bring the worst case date (ALL the glitter ends up in the oceans) down to 2300 AD or so.
So, 1.332 billion km^3 of oceans...
Which means a cubic km of glitter amounts to 0.000000075% of the oceans.
When we get up to a cubic km of glitter manufactured, I'll start thinking about worrying about glitter pollution....
Ditto. Really wish I could find a manual transmission small pickup in good condition....
No. That was what they call a "joke". In moderately bad taste....
You misspelled "privileges"....
And you know this how, exactly? I'm assuming you are compromising an investigation that you are privy to, in order to prove your importance in the grand scheme of things, correct?
Or are you just assuming that because our security agencies don't brag about such things online, they're not capable of doing much online?
Don't know. What percentage of them are dumb enough to continue to live in a city that they KNOW will be uninhabitable in 30 years?
Note the "for a couple days, THEN I'd evacuate".
I wouldn't evacuate immediately, but after a couple days, if it looks like evacuation is called for (which basically means "things aren't under control yet), then Id leave.
As to guns, yes, I own some. Further deponent sayeth not....
I'm not particularly fearful of radioactivity either. If I saw a reactor building explode, I tape up my windows and stay indoors for a couple days. THEN I'd evacuate, if it looked to require longer term safety than waiting on short-half-life stuff to decay away....
The problem being that some people are stupid enough to spend thousands, or tens of thousands, or in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars on a game.
And the related problem that people are taking a game seriously enough that winning becomes so important that spending thousands makes sense.
It's a game, for God's sake! Entertainment that is slightly more interactive than watching TV, but not so much as playing a little pick-up baseball or basketball (or whatever they play in any particular other country - cricket, football (aka soccer), lacrosse, whatever).
The problem with "cull the stupid from the gene pool" is that it quickly reaches defining "the stupid" as "people who disagree with me"....
A tiny majority? 50.01%, then?
Or did you really mean "tiny minority"?
They're not. Get over it.
SI has a perfectly good unit of force (the newton). It will be really great when SI advocates actually start using SI, rather than bastardizing it with things like "kilograms of force"....
How long does a charge take? Because I'd have to charge it twice on the road to reach my parents' house. And I really wouldn't want a ten hour trip turned into a two day trip....
My first thought was "he's joking, right?"
My second was "better verify this".
My third was "Jaysus, he's not joking". Though it's not quite correct. Only electrics built after 2019 will require the noisemakers....
And speaking of mistakes - possessive of "it" is "its" (no apostrophe). "It's" is a contraction of "it is".
And they don't teach proper calligraphy anymore at all.
And they expect you to be able to read silently! Can you believe that? Reading without saying the words out loud?!
Yes, once upon a time, writing included calligraphy, and reading wasn't something that was done without pronouncing the words aloud.
In other words, why should they teach handwriting? Makes about as much sense as teaching modern students how often to dip their pen in an inkwell to keep their writing clear. Or teaching horsemanship instead of driver's ed....
And we should be considering how dependent we are on agriculture and ask ourselves: Should we be?
Or we can get a bit more modern by replacing "agriculture" with "papermaking", or "ironworking", or "plowing"....