Then have a 'secure' government website which you could punch your unique # into and make sure that it matches what you intended to vote
Perfect scheme for vote-buying and coercing. The union boss would demand that the local return their vote slips to him so he can check to see if they voted properly according to union demands or they won't get the money they were promised.
Depends on the tax. Many taxes would allow a >100% tax rate. For instance a sales tax of 200% is easily doable mathematically (if not politically). For instance, you buy a $5.00 doodad, the clerk adds $10.00 sales tax, you pay $15.00 at check out. There you are -- a 200% tax.
But instead of talking about the technological solutions, the lawyers fly half way across the world to meet with their clients. There are other considerations involved. Similar to how TV News anchors somehow manage to find stories to report on in the Caribbean that require their personal presence during the worst months of North American winters.
But, most certainly, it is NOT the job of any part of the government to influence public opinion. Apply this line of thinking to the global warming debate.
What does a strangelet look like from far away? Perhaps it looks very much like a quasar. And since there's no really good explanation for quasars, a runaway strangelet reaction is as good as any is it not?
There's probably things from WW2 that are still classified. A Congressman a few years back asked the National Archives to find the oldest classified document in their possession. He wanted to see how the declassification efforts were going. It was a document from World War One. It still remains classified. Both governments (the US and UK) reviewed it and determined that there were still legitimate reasons for it to remain classified. So it is.
Can you name the English settlers who died in 1587 attempting to settle in what is modern day Virginia? I know the name of the first baby born there. Virginia Dare -- the first English baby born in North America. I would think the name of the first human baby born on Mars will be equally remarkable.
My BS detector is pinging.
the transmission line provided the Quantico recipient direct access to all content and all information concerning the origin and termination of telephone calls placed on the Verizon Wireless network as well as the actual content of calls. The contents of my cell phone calls made locally intracity west of the Mississippi DO NOT get routed through a single line on the east coast that terminates at Quantico. It's absurd to think that all of Verizon's cell calls are routed to that link. Occam's razor.
A thought question: Will a mars mission not irreversibly contaminate Mars? That's bad? That's the best possible solution to living on Mars. Living organisms that could convert the place to something more liveable is preferable to keeping it a dead barren planet.
Again, in the name of cost-efficiency, they could simply hire more TSA guys, and build a bigger airport But near the largest cities, you can't build a bigger airport as there is no available land. Look at how far away they had to build the new Munich airport. With this mixed-mode approach, the airports can be built larger with more efficient hubs and don't have to be as near to the cities. Like the poster above said, it could bring the efficiencies of containerized shipping to passenger travel. And the planes would be more efficient too, as you could just as easily load a cargo container as a passenger container. The US Air Force does this already with luxury VIP passenger containers that they slip into cargo aircraft.
You miss the best part of the cartridge plan. The cartridges can be loaded downtown and taken to the plane on a rail, light rail or subway car. How many businessmen would go for that? No longer having to find your way to the airport, no security lines to wait in, no parking issues, etc. You get onboard near your place of work downtown and return there.
There is a simple solution to the problem of too many patents to examine. Go back to requiring a working prototype. You would have to supply working source code for any software patent. Business "methods" patents would not be acceptable unless you could demonstrate the method actually in use.
So Arthur C. Clarke would not have been able to patent the idea of geostationary satellites. He didn't so nothing was lost. Were current patent procedures in place in the late 40s, most certainly a patent troll would have patented it. But what harm is there in forcing comeone to actually get a satellite to geostationary orbit before allowing a patent? It would certainly encourage research and development rather than litigation and argument. Forcing Edison to actually get a filament that worked before granting him a patent on the light bulb worked out for the better, rather than allowing him to patent the "idea" of using an electrically heated filament to generate light. If he had gotten the patent without the working model he could have sat back and just sued anyone implementing electic lights for the next 17 years. It would have set back progress tremendously.
1. Mismatching Shoes and Belt 2. Tie and Short Sleeve Shirt 3. The One Binary Watch 4. Tight Black Jeans 5. Oversized Hawaiian Shirts 6. Socks and Sandals 7. Alternative Hairstyles 8. Concert T-shirts 9. A Closet of Vendor and Trade Show Gear 10. Stains
It's really testament to the shallowness of the boardroom that these are actually taken seriously by those with the ability to promote people. Your plan for upgrading the servers using well-reasoned arguments backed with meticulous research data to save the company megamoney in maintenance well be passed over because they are concentrating on your mismatched belt and shoes instead. >sigh
We're about to elect a fairly fresh Democrat Senator after an eight-year Republican administration and resurrect hypersonic jets (the X-15) and supersonic bombers (the XB-70). Will British music, long hair, and brightly colored clothes be next?
Sorry, but claiming that just because someone was appointed to a political position later in life makes all the previous organizations with jobs he/she held, also have positions of political appointment IS absurd. Maybe he worked for McDonald's in high school. Does that mean that McDonald's has political appointees in it? It must following your (il-)logic. And it IS absurd.
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why is a government employee sending emails on govt business through a free email account?
Because it's illegal to send campaign messages, partisan political messages, or e-mails dealing with RNC activities through a government account.
Yeah and we're still in Japan 60 years after WWII. But we didn't annex parts of Japan then either.
But note that Russia DID annex parts of Japan after WWII (the Kuriles and southern Sakhalin).
Then have a 'secure' government website which you could punch your unique # into and make sure that it matches what you intended to vote
Perfect scheme for vote-buying and coercing. The union boss would demand that the local return their vote slips to him so he can check to see if they voted properly according to union demands or they won't get the money they were promised.
Oops, sorry. The KFC tone is 4,825 Hz or 4.825 kHz. Damn them decimals!
I measured that KFC tone at 4825 kHz with a spectrum analyzer. It's not very high at all -- certainly not the mosquito tone.
How about building cities that float in the oceans on earth first?
We have already. They are called Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
Depends on the tax. Many taxes would allow a >100% tax rate. For instance a sales tax of 200% is easily doable mathematically (if not politically). For instance, you buy a $5.00 doodad, the clerk adds $10.00 sales tax, you pay $15.00 at check out. There you are -- a 200% tax.
Ahh, but do they have a T-Rex?
For an example of TEMPEST exploits being used successfully look up details of Operation GOLD, the Berlin tunnel.
You miss the best part of the cartridge plan. The cartridges can be loaded downtown and taken to the plane on a rail, light rail or subway car. How many businessmen would go for that? No longer having to find your way to the airport, no security lines to wait in, no parking issues, etc. You get onboard near your place of work downtown and return there.
There is a simple solution to the problem of too many patents to examine. Go back to requiring a working prototype. You would have to supply working source code for any software patent. Business "methods" patents would not be acceptable unless you could demonstrate the method actually in use.
So Arthur C. Clarke would not have been able to patent the idea of geostationary satellites. He didn't so nothing was lost. Were current patent procedures in place in the late 40s, most certainly a patent troll would have patented it. But what harm is there in forcing comeone to actually get a satellite to geostationary orbit before allowing a patent? It would certainly encourage research and development rather than litigation and argument. Forcing Edison to actually get a filament that worked before granting him a patent on the light bulb worked out for the better, rather than allowing him to patent the "idea" of using an electrically heated filament to generate light. If he had gotten the patent without the working model he could have sat back and just sued anyone implementing electic lights for the next 17 years. It would have set back progress tremendously.
Gaffes Keeping Geeks Out of the Board Room
1. Mismatching Shoes and Belt
2. Tie and Short Sleeve Shirt
3. The One Binary Watch
4. Tight Black Jeans
5. Oversized Hawaiian Shirts
6. Socks and Sandals
7. Alternative Hairstyles
8. Concert T-shirts
9. A Closet of Vendor and Trade Show Gear
10. Stains
It's really testament to the shallowness of the boardroom that these are actually taken seriously by those with the ability to promote people. Your plan for upgrading the servers using well-reasoned arguments backed with meticulous research data to save the company megamoney in maintenance well be passed over because they are concentrating on your mismatched belt and shoes instead. >sigh
Here's the patent:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=HY54AAAAEBAJ&dq=7003500
I'll bet that the very first use of this will be to spot a field of marijuana. Any takers?
And NASA wants to send men to the moon.
We're about to elect a fairly fresh Democrat Senator after an eight-year Republican administration and resurrect hypersonic jets (the X-15) and supersonic bombers (the XB-70). Will British music, long hair, and brightly colored clothes be next?
Sorry, but claiming that just because someone was appointed to a political position later in life makes all the previous organizations with jobs he/she held, also have positions of political appointment IS absurd. Maybe he worked for McDonald's in high school. Does that mean that McDonald's has political appointees in it? It must following your (il-)logic. And it IS absurd.