So you're saying it's just like universal basic income except it's not so universal, quite a bit more than basic, and it requires the recipients to waste resources, piss people off and kill some for good measure?
I don't know, last time I saw someone say something like what the OP did in a face to face conversation, the reply was very much like what the GP said. I believe there were some applause.
The worst case scenario is when you round x.5, y.5 to the nearest degree. A degree of latitude is 60 nm or about 111 km. A degree of longitude on the equator is also 60 nm, zero at the poles, and somewhere in between everywhere else. So we'll use the equator as worst case.
If you have to round both latitude and longitude by half a degree you'll be off by about sqrt(60**2+60**2) / 2 = 42 nm or 78 km.
Uh, no. The problem was that they used a default location for IPs they didn't know. Yes, they did round that location to the nearest degree, but that wasn't the problem.
Rounding to the nearest degree can result in an error of very nearly 100 statute miles (157 km). You can round to things other than the nearest whole degree, of course.
Dual slot experiments show that electrons have wave-like properties. The electron is indivisible and point-like as far as we know. In quantum mechanics going through two slits at the same time does not mean you're divisible.
You should write a script to click refresh for you. So you can get the very latest RightsCorp news as soon as it's available, of course.
Actually, this is not a bad idea for any company that has a terms of service with a line stating that it could change at any time. But your honor, the TOS says it's my responsibility to stay current. I was doing that to the best of my abilities (and helped everyone else do so as well).
There's a bit of a difference. Slashdot is a publication medium. If Oculus were running a publishing site like Twitch or YouTube, they would absolutely need blanket permission to publish your content. Facebook itself needs it. But the Oculus is a VR headset. Why do they need publication rights?
Sure, that makes sense. The phone company makes you sign the same agreement, right? You could sing Happy Birthday to your mother on the phone, after all.
You may be right. In 2011 according to Stats Can 51.8% of Quebeckers claimed to know only French. I apologize for not looking that up prior to posting. On the other hand, that number dropped a couple of percent between 2006 and 2011, so it's possible I'm right after all.
Also note, just because someone won't speak English to you doesn't mean they can't.
The legal lotteries being discussed are government-owned, even if the actual operation is farmed out to private companies. No, if you really want to go Kefedokhles, it is not a tax because it is not mandatory...
Yes, the government run ones are. The ones operated out of Antigua, the blocking of which we are discussing here, aren't. That's why I said "If someone other the government is doing it, it's not a tax."
In most Canadian provinces lottery funds are distributed in the form of direct grants to community projects. In Quebec, as far as I can tell, the money goes into the general government budget in the form of a dividend (only about 30% of which disappears in the form of corruption). It's spent in the province, the same way tax revenue is.
I'm originally from Alberta, lots of relatives in Toronto, live in Quebec. "Scandals" in the other provinces are cute compared to what goes on here. But don't take my word for it, here's a CBC correspondent with middle east and Washington experience, who recently returned to Canada to live in Ottawa, who says the same thing. Bonus, there's a little video of one of our "potholes."
If someone other than the government is doing it, it's not a tax. I'm in favour of stupid people giving extra money to the government, to be used for the good of society (including me). I don't really like site-blocking regulations, but I would also prefer that the stupid tax actually benefit people here.
Quebec is the only province in Canada that needs to have a *plan* to counter corruption. The other provinces find regular laws keep it in check just fine. But when the government makes a public announcement that they HAVE to do business with the mafia because there aren't any legitimate sources for things like pavement, you need a special plan. Or another special plan. They come along every 30 years or so.
If you find someone in Quebec who only knows a few words of English, chances are those words will be swear words, and will be used fluently. Of course, the majority of the population speaks English fluently, whether as first or second language, and is quite capable of laughing at the assnat.
Yup, a lunar space elevator could be built with current technology. In the meantime, given lots of cheap electricity you could refine alumina from the regolith and use that as rocket fuel.
Space-based solar has some environmental advantages over ground-based, and can be used for always on base load. More importantly, strip mining the moon for the materials to make thousands of square kilometres of solar panels has a lot of environmental advantages over doing the same on Earth.
This project is clearly premature, but we will build reliable autonomous industry some day and then mining and manufacturing on the moon will be a natural thing to do.
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So you're saying it's just like universal basic income except it's not so universal, quite a bit more than basic, and it requires the recipients to waste resources, piss people off and kill some for good measure?
I don't know, last time I saw someone say something like what the OP did in a face to face conversation, the reply was very much like what the GP said. I believe there were some applause.
Yes, but that's not the answer to the question.
The worst case scenario is when you round x.5, y.5 to the nearest degree. A degree of latitude is 60 nm or about 111 km. A degree of longitude on the equator is also 60 nm, zero at the poles, and somewhere in between everywhere else. So we'll use the equator as worst case.
If you have to round both latitude and longitude by half a degree you'll be off by about sqrt(60**2+60**2) / 2 = 42 nm or 78 km.
Uh, no. The problem was that they used a default location for IPs they didn't know. Yes, they did round that location to the nearest degree, but that wasn't the problem.
Correction, 50 statute miles, 78 km. Forgot to divide by 2.
Rounding to the nearest degree can result in an error of very nearly 100 statute miles (157 km). You can round to things other than the nearest whole degree, of course.
I'll give you an iPad that gives you a truly random result for only $1 million. It will just feed numbers from https://www.random.org/.
Dual slot experiments show that electrons have wave-like properties. The electron is indivisible and point-like as far as we know. In quantum mechanics going through two slits at the same time does not mean you're divisible.
No. It's all about pseudoparticles, which don't actually exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... has a better description. Click on the link to "fractionalization" which is what this article is talking about.
It's simple trilateralization (well, bilateralization because they assume you're in the same plane as the AP).
With the separation of the antenna on most APs it's going to give pretty crappy localization.
You should write a script to click refresh for you. So you can get the very latest RightsCorp news as soon as it's available, of course.
Actually, this is not a bad idea for any company that has a terms of service with a line stating that it could change at any time. But your honor, the TOS says it's my responsibility to stay current. I was doing that to the best of my abilities (and helped everyone else do so as well).
There's a bit of a difference. Slashdot is a publication medium. If Oculus were running a publishing site like Twitch or YouTube, they would absolutely need blanket permission to publish your content. Facebook itself needs it. But the Oculus is a VR headset. Why do they need publication rights?
Sure, that makes sense. The phone company makes you sign the same agreement, right? You could sing Happy Birthday to your mother on the phone, after all.
You may be right. In 2011 according to Stats Can 51.8% of Quebeckers claimed to know only French. I apologize for not looking that up prior to posting. On the other hand, that number dropped a couple of percent between 2006 and 2011, so it's possible I'm right after all.
Also note, just because someone won't speak English to you doesn't mean they can't.
Yes, the government run ones are. The ones operated out of Antigua, the blocking of which we are discussing here, aren't. That's why I said "If someone other the government is doing it, it's not a tax."
In most Canadian provinces lottery funds are distributed in the form of direct grants to community projects. In Quebec, as far as I can tell, the money goes into the general government budget in the form of a dividend (only about 30% of which disappears in the form of corruption). It's spent in the province, the same way tax revenue is.
I'm originally from Alberta, lots of relatives in Toronto, live in Quebec. "Scandals" in the other provinces are cute compared to what goes on here. But don't take my word for it, here's a CBC correspondent with middle east and Washington experience, who recently returned to Canada to live in Ottawa, who says the same thing. Bonus, there's a little video of one of our "potholes."
The aliens might also notice that a bunch of the power normally spread across the spectrum suddenly got concentrated at one frequency.
"as a tax"
If someone other than the government is doing it, it's not a tax. I'm in favour of stupid people giving extra money to the government, to be used for the good of society (including me). I don't really like site-blocking regulations, but I would also prefer that the stupid tax actually benefit people here.
Quebec is the only province in Canada that needs to have a *plan* to counter corruption. The other provinces find regular laws keep it in check just fine. But when the government makes a public announcement that they HAVE to do business with the mafia because there aren't any legitimate sources for things like pavement, you need a special plan. Or another special plan. They come along every 30 years or so.
If you find someone in Quebec who only knows a few words of English, chances are those words will be swear words, and will be used fluently. Of course, the majority of the population speaks English fluently, whether as first or second language, and is quite capable of laughing at the assnat.
I live in Quebec, you insensitive clod.
The whole province is broke from corruption so Loterie Quebec is getting leaned on to make more money.
I can't believe they actually used assnat for their domain.
Did you miss the "while engaged in a sexual act" part?
Yup, a lunar space elevator could be built with current technology. In the meantime, given lots of cheap electricity you could refine alumina from the regolith and use that as rocket fuel.
Space-based solar has some environmental advantages over ground-based, and can be used for always on base load. More importantly, strip mining the moon for the materials to make thousands of square kilometres of solar panels has a lot of environmental advantages over doing the same on Earth.
This project is clearly premature, but we will build reliable autonomous industry some day and then mining and manufacturing on the moon will be a natural thing to do.