In this case privatise and reduce power. Basically extend airport security to passenger check in and the only law they are allowed to use is "either do this" or "we will no let you board the plane". Nothing less and certainly nothing more. They should ask permission before carry out any inspection, whether it be, checking your luggage, asking you to allow yourself to be irradiated (with full notification of risk), check of carry on luggage or to be frisked and, that's it. If they deny you boarding they have to refund the ticket and, all the way along you should be advised of your right to refuse and you will only be denied boarding and you can leave at any time. Anything beyond that is handed over to the regular police force.
In this case it is used to publicly advertise a critical products, system and security admins failure and force immediate remedial action. Rather and embarrassing way for Google to do it but very effective and all in all, very appropriate.
Talk about nit picky. Let's be honest at the top most of the phones a very usable, Android, Windows and Apple. This creates the real problem, the death for manufacturers, with function somewhat equal form starts to take precedence and that form in human society is a very complex issue.
Some of the drivers are. Android provides choice in hardware, which creates a very broad price range, high end to budget, this draws a lot of attention, a lot of support and global input. Apple has achieved ego purchase, people define themselves by being able to afford an iPhone, bit of a catch 22, it is also the spoilt brat which can have very negative long term image problems. Windows, ???, it does nothing special.
Long term winner, Android, nothing beats a very wide budget base, being able to supply budget phones and high end phones simultaneously, feeds a large support base, lots of input into necessary product features, which drives the quality of the product. Apple will get bitten on the butt by spoilt brat anti-marketing. It is too late for windows phone, it does nothing special, it has little market appeal, about all it can do is seriously focus in on the business market.
Most of the ones mentioned are of general knowledge and don't really need any cites. Some are new but also there are many, many others not mentioned. People get rightly infuriated when justice is blatantly one sided, where corruption is clearly the rule of the day. Some days when people are in better moods then can express themselves more effectively, how ever when they are exposed to a series of criminal abuses by those in power the humour tends to trail off and the express themselves in purely the way they feel.
Everyone knows what the problem is, a purely for profit justice system, when county, state and federal governments are far more concerned about losing civil suits and paying millions in damages, than in justice, even when their corrupt deceits more often than not drive the civil suits due to the victims of their families only means by which to pursue justice.
Perhaps one usefull thing can be done is to create an independent, only pursue law enforcement criminal actions, federal agency. Their only job to investigate and prosecute criminal behaviour by law enforcement. Forcing all levels to law enforcement to adhere to the constitution, federal law and state law and publicly prosecuting infringements of the law by law enforcement. I am sure there are plenty of police officers out there totally sick of the corruption who would love nothing more than to be part of a force that does nothing else other than track down criminal law enforcement.
The reality is, all you can do is publicly support it. Even if it is empty politics, the greater the public support the more they will have to take notice of it and the greater the risk of ignoring it. It matters not what party, whether conservative or progressive is arbitrary, at the end of the day all that counts is policy. The internet bill of rights for individuals is good policy, the greater the support, the greater the impact of the policy. Even if it is a political scam, should the response be strong enough, the politician will find themselves bound by as the backlash would be to severe to just ignore it. So pile on there and pass it on and then see what will come of it.
Taxes are paid after profits not before, you're just thinking of insane psychopathic greed and lies. All governments need to do is ensure taxes are paid were revenue is generated. That is what competitive countries and governments are all about providing the best economic climates for generating revenues not simply being slimy scum sucking tax thieves stealing other countries social services to subsidise their basic incompetence at being able to run a country which can generate revenues.
Either that or a patent guaranteed to ensure reasonable governments are going to take hard look at privacy invasive psychological targeted advertisements. The kind of patent you forward to your elected representative to ensure new legislation to block the aims of the patent.
Always remember your place may fly, the universe is billions of years old and will continue for billions more. Greed is not the only measure of success and far more likely to be a trap rather than a reward. Ambition contribute more to life than consume from it, all things are balance, it would seem unwise to allow ambition to leave a negative balance. In a may fly existence, that regardless of how great the perceived impact upon the living universe it will disappear as if it never ever happened and yet what stains will remain with you forever.
Well, duhh, two storey houses are also illegal in your neighbourhood. Your neighbours need permission before they or contractors they employ can climb on their roof. Trucks driving through your neighbourhood must paint out their windows. Your neighbour also pays to have all hills and slopes removed, dead flat, to match their heads.
You own the privacy inside your home not out in your yard, that is part of the neighbourhood and as it impacts them, both in the products you release from your yard and the impact of the appearance of your yard and the safety of objects and structures in your yard.
Basically grow up, you are part of a society not some lone creature living in the wilds. If you want to be a lobe creature living in the wild, then do so. What happens when a neighbour places security cameras around the perimeter of their home mounted directly at the eaves, much higher than six feet. What happens when a neighbour wants to add a second storey addition. Let's guess, you want to do what you want to do in your yard and you want your neighbours to do what 'YOU' want them to do in their yard.
Notification of Google street view dates is going to be a joke, companies will be real dicks and putting up signs all over the places, especially near the competitors. Every smart alec is going to try to pull all kinds of stupid stunts to get on google street view, injuries and deaths, very likely. Basically Google should just give Switzerland a quick cheap trial with advanced notice, and then put up the resultant mess, and then quit before wasting more money.
Hint, for the stupid, why are googles cameras mounted so high because they are not the only cars on the road and the cameras have to be higher than say 'SUV's, otherwise they have to keep driving down the same street, over and over and over and over and over again. Basically mount the cameras low and you are wasting your time.
Of course playing games of 'can we successfully prosecute' whole risking the life of a victim is not the best thing either. How about if the Google search is used in conjunction with other behavioural patterns. For example how about if people where tested for narcissism and psychopathy. Narcissism being the genetic lack of an autonomic empathic response something that can be infallibly tested for and psychopathy being the genetic lack of an autonomic empathic response in conjunction with a extreme shallowness of emotional responses (psychopaths can not control their emotions they just straight up lack them aside from of course being able to simulate them in order to fool people and hide). As both conditions can infallibly be tested for and as psyhcopaths make up 1% of the human population but >15% of the prison population (even allowing for non-violent drug users, take them out of the equation and the percentage of psychopaths sky rockets). So when an identified psychopath initiates high risk to others activity perhaps alarm bells should go off, a quick investigation and check initiated not with the focus of prosecution but with preventative policing in mind.
World war 2 computers were not a big thing. Calculation where done largely mechanically in the field and the internet did not exist, yet there were nukes. Cyberwarfare is bullshit and the lie relies upon unprepared and insecure enemy with computers connected to the internet. The reality of course is a free for attacks people, corporations and the internet backbone itself. Anything but a purely defensive stature is insane. Any bugs or security failures that are found and then not disclosed to be corrected is simply relying on dumb luck that the enemy doesn't also find them and use. Basically any attack only suits criminals with criminal intent.
If you're going to play bullshit games like that, just use off the shelf hardware to create a stealth cruise missile to start murdering foreigners and destroying technical infrastructure at random. If it is all about being destructive and not getting caught when go half measures. If you hacks when released start infecting hospital prescriptions and making lethal alterations, really just how stupid has your cyberwarfare game become.
No government department ever has the right to with hold discovered faults from repair in the hopes of deploying it themselves only to see their own citizens become victims of it when used by organised crime. That's what bullshit cyber warfare is really about. Find back doors, keep them secret and then toss them aside when criminals also start finding and using them and basically screw the victims created until the fault is fixed. Instead of proper policing find back doors and remove them. In fact what you end up with government departments working against each other at taxpayer expense.
A piece of information is still missing before any educational recommendation can be made. Why is the child being home schooled. Is it behavioural problems, is it distance or it it religious or other fundamentalist dogma. Without knowing the basis for the 'homeschooling' how can an educational recommendation be made, especially when chemistry is one of the areas where working with others is also taught (joint lab experiments and major reports). Those joint experiments and discussing the preparation of the laboratory report and jointly producing the various parts of it are an important part of education.
More likely typical corporate bullshit, will create one of companies per launch, all debt and no capital. They'll also dump all employees wages and pensions in there, corporate greed being corporate greed, any time a launch fails, meh tough, bankrupt the $2 debt ridden company, employees lose all wages and pensions (excluding the corporate executive ass hats who created the scheme, their wages and conditions are covered by another company) and screw the innocent victims. Then it's create the next company for the next launch.
Here is an engineering problem for you. Fracking induces a whole lot of horizontal faults fills those faults with polluted fluids and releases large quantities of methane gas. What happens when there is a major earthquake in those regions and a new vertical fault intersects those horizontal faults. Obvious answer, large quantities of toxic water is released into ground water and, the water table and onto surface water catchments. Also huge quantities of natural gas are released into atmosphere at flammable levels creating massive fuel (several cubic kilometres) air explosions, only limited by ignition source. So fracking has introduced thousands of toxic time bombs and buried them beneath the feet of gullible Americans just waiting for a major earthquake and vertical fault to set them. So correct the problem created by human greed, what imaginable engineering solution at public expense can fix that problem especially when all the profits from creating the problem have been privatised.
Hate to bust your bubble buddy but American police as far a New Zealand or any other countries laws are concerned are nothing but bloody tourists. It is illegal to hand over evidence to visting tourists and let them take it out of the country. It even gets more stupid, users can have their files back as long as access to copyrighted files is blocked, WTF! Just because I am not an American and not a member of the RIAA/MPAA/Obama Justice Department club for pigopolists all of a sudden my work is no longer protected by copyright, talk about bullshit. All that work on those drives is protected by copyright, so what the fuck are they talking about, just because a bunch of out of control Fucking Bloody Idiot tourists stole a copy infringing other peoples copyrights doesn't mean that work now permanently loses copyright protection.
Local concerns are meant to drive exactly what in education. Local concern create new maths concepts, local concerns redefine the laws of physics or local concerns change the English language. Perhaps local concerns redefine biology, geology or global history. Even local history should not be taught in school except as an option. That kind of right wing crap that somehow school in one location should be different to school at the opposite end of a country or even in another country (baring language) is just crazy crap talking point nonsense. It has nothing to do with providing a sound education and everything to do with political and religious propaganda. Want to teach bullshit political and religious propaganda do it outside of school hours and don't attempt to compulsorily force your bullshit upon other parents children, just the facts taught in schools.
Why not simplify everything with a global immigration policy. One for one swaps with other countries and the best of those apply up to the available slots get through calculated quarterly. Lets stick to the capitalist supply and demand rules, screw the greedy shit heads at the top (there is no polite way to put it). You simply pay more for workers when their skills are in demand no immigrant cheating. Want farm workers, then keep paying more until you attract them no lying, cheating and stealing. Companies are allowed to charge as much profit as they can get away with, workers should be allowed to charge as much as their labour is worth without employers conspiring with government to undercut their wages by bringing in immigrants and artificially reducing demand.
So straight up global immigration policy based upon 1 for 1 swaps ie for each Australian willing to immigrate to the US, one US citizen can immigrate to Australia, where there is an imbalance in the numbers the best of those who apply get in. Outside of that there is no real reason for population migration any more.
It is all about slimy ass hats who think they are smarter than everyone else trying to sell the same domain names over and over and over again. So companies like Ford, Coco Cola, McDonalds buy out every top level domain name variant of their company name to prevent them pointing to competitors, oh so sorry, they don't but them, they only get to pay rent on them forever. They are trying to turn domain names into some sort of pathetic con artist investor get rich quick scheme.
Based upon this bullshit it would have been much smarter to have IP addresses as straight up alphabetic characters rather than being numeric and let them bid over the IP address perhaps it is time for IPv7 alphanumeric IP address three lots of 128 alphanumeric characters broken up by periods and piss off the out of control domain registrars.
A complete failure to understand evolution. There are two kinds mutation and selection. Selection does not really add to the top it clips from the bottom and as such shifts the average over time so the species becomes more competitive in it's environment. Mutation generally requires vacancy within an environment, whether by major disaster, meteor, major volcanic action, planetary shift, climate change etc. This tends to generate mutations through genetic stressors and also allows them to survive in altered less competitive environments. Then over time the mutation is refined and becomes far more competitive. Some people can't grasp the passage of time a million years is simple beyond their comprehension, well a million years is beyond anyone comprehension how ever most people can readily comprehend the level of evolutionary change that can occur over that time coupled with natural disasters and mutation.
When you are one step removed from chimpanzees rather than the delusion of one step removed from the supreme being of the universe, you learn to accept your intellectual limitations. I mean, seriously how deluded are elements humanity to look in a mirror and believe they are one step short of a supreme being of the universe, talk about arrogance and delusions of grandeur and that's what it is all really about, jealous idiot's trying to pretend they are a whole lot smarter than they really are.
M$ had their moment in the sun and M$ Office was good and at a fair price the 1997 version, windows 98 second edition was nearly there and XP professional edition was pretty on the money apart from the idiot sign up. They got greedy, totally choked the chicken on MSN, failed to retire Uncle Fester, when nuts trying to corrupt international standards, lame arsed in on music player and phones and are a real pain on data lock in and forced upgrades.
M$ here are a couple of thrown away hints about how table top can work, it's all about environment, you need to create table top venues, bars where every booth has a table top say 4 and 6 per table, a serving susan above the table top, not to far up. People want to see each other but not the opposing side surface. People can game and interact around the table, against others in the club and across the internet. Geeks/nerds/gamers need to go out too, create a franchised venue around your table top, tens of thousands of venues, lateral thinking means generating new revenue opportunity and don't let Uncle Fester touch it. Make Apple restaurant idea look positively goofy compared to an MSN table top Cafe.
Here is the commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdUfzftGNQk. So they are aiming for a 2,000 pound capacity with high hang time, 10 days, over a region. No mention of price though, based on that alone, likely to be extremely profitable for Boeing. They should of course still have solar panels on all upper surfaces to reduce required battery capacity or using up fuel to drive generators, to power any equipment, especially with 10 day operational time.
It is also useful for scoping out the area of space close to our planet. I would have thought cameras designed to look at things no further away than the orbit and the surface of out planet aren't really going to especially good at looking at stuff beyond our solar system. Sounds like the could be using the greater manpower of NASA to look at stuff near by, like asteroids and 'er' other unidentified 'er' things.
Unfortunately here is where reality can often wildly distort statistic. The mentally disadvantaged children of intelligent well paid parents get mental health care. The mentally disadvantaged children of poor parents get tasered to death, get shot, get murdered, dies in other peoples wars or end up in prison. Basically poor parents with mental difficulties and who are unable to effectively compete in a capitalistic society will produce children who while in need of mental health services are extremely far more likely to end up in prison. It apparently all has something to do with sadistic prison guards employed by private industry being much cheaper than mental health professionals, also accommodations are meant to be cruel and inhumane (under insane right wingers) versus assisting in the mentally healthy rehabilitative process.
1. Normal people often do stuff for free and even pay for the privilege, be it sports, hiking, handicrafts, or making music or being in plays. Why should the community pay for some else's hobby?
2. Copying is not stealing it is copying. If you want no one to copy it 'shh' keep it a secret, we wont care. 3. No one is taking your work from you, you still have your copy and you can sell it. 4. We don't believe you about massive downloading, you always lie, always. You lie about the quality of your content. You lie about the value of your content. You pay off politicians to lie for you. You sell advertisements which most often are lies. You infected news which now sells lies as news. You are lying liars that always lie. 5. So what? Get a real productive job to subsidise your hobby just like everyone else. You lie about the taxes, yet another lie. Money not spent on your content will be spent elsewhere in the economy, often with far better social returns and, still generating taxes, liar. 6. Yet another lie. Consumers for a start would be far better off spending that money on better quality food for example rather than on dubious quality often anti-social content. Besides when do we have enough content, there is already more than any one person can consume in a life time. Why should an artificial creation of value continue when it supplies something we already have to an excess. 7. All your points are distorted PR=B$, lies for profit and greed. It is what you do. To further the 'USEFULL' arts and sciences, an 'ARTIFICIAL' opportunity to profit was created, when that work fails in that regard it is not entitled to that artificial monopoly, when that work is not 'TESTED' to ensure it meets that requirement it is not entitled to that artificial temporary monopoly. 8. You are your industry are not a benefit to the economy it is a parasite upon the economy, that can only be afforded when the economy produces as surplus. Right now global economies are tightening due to increasing population and depletion of resources, guess where that places you parasitical industry versus food, clothing, healthcare, transportation, education, energy production, potable water provision, heck you're even way below refuse disposal on the requirement scale.
You would expect that. Deep down we all know the truth, that kid ain't all that smart, it's just the rest of us are pretty dang stupid and we laugh at the sub 100s. Humbling ain't it. We got this ego thing going about how smart people are, it's little reminders like this that let us know how smart people can actually be. We ain't all that far off our primate cousins regardless of delusions religious and political delusions.
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In this case privatise and reduce power. Basically extend airport security to passenger check in and the only law they are allowed to use is "either do this" or "we will no let you board the plane". Nothing less and certainly nothing more. They should ask permission before carry out any inspection, whether it be, checking your luggage, asking you to allow yourself to be irradiated (with full notification of risk), check of carry on luggage or to be frisked and, that's it. If they deny you boarding they have to refund the ticket and, all the way along you should be advised of your right to refuse and you will only be denied boarding and you can leave at any time. Anything beyond that is handed over to the regular police force.
In this case it is used to publicly advertise a critical products, system and security admins failure and force immediate remedial action. Rather and embarrassing way for Google to do it but very effective and all in all, very appropriate.
Talk about nit picky. Let's be honest at the top most of the phones a very usable, Android, Windows and Apple. This creates the real problem, the death for manufacturers, with function somewhat equal form starts to take precedence and that form in human society is a very complex issue.
Some of the drivers are. Android provides choice in hardware, which creates a very broad price range, high end to budget, this draws a lot of attention, a lot of support and global input. Apple has achieved ego purchase, people define themselves by being able to afford an iPhone, bit of a catch 22, it is also the spoilt brat which can have very negative long term image problems. Windows, ???, it does nothing special.
Long term winner, Android, nothing beats a very wide budget base, being able to supply budget phones and high end phones simultaneously, feeds a large support base, lots of input into necessary product features, which drives the quality of the product. Apple will get bitten on the butt by spoilt brat anti-marketing. It is too late for windows phone, it does nothing special, it has little market appeal, about all it can do is seriously focus in on the business market.
Most of the ones mentioned are of general knowledge and don't really need any cites. Some are new but also there are many, many others not mentioned. People get rightly infuriated when justice is blatantly one sided, where corruption is clearly the rule of the day. Some days when people are in better moods then can express themselves more effectively, how ever when they are exposed to a series of criminal abuses by those in power the humour tends to trail off and the express themselves in purely the way they feel.
Everyone knows what the problem is, a purely for profit justice system, when county, state and federal governments are far more concerned about losing civil suits and paying millions in damages, than in justice, even when their corrupt deceits more often than not drive the civil suits due to the victims of their families only means by which to pursue justice.
Perhaps one usefull thing can be done is to create an independent, only pursue law enforcement criminal actions, federal agency. Their only job to investigate and prosecute criminal behaviour by law enforcement. Forcing all levels to law enforcement to adhere to the constitution, federal law and state law and publicly prosecuting infringements of the law by law enforcement. I am sure there are plenty of police officers out there totally sick of the corruption who would love nothing more than to be part of a force that does nothing else other than track down criminal law enforcement.
The reality is, all you can do is publicly support it. Even if it is empty politics, the greater the public support the more they will have to take notice of it and the greater the risk of ignoring it. It matters not what party, whether conservative or progressive is arbitrary, at the end of the day all that counts is policy. The internet bill of rights for individuals is good policy, the greater the support, the greater the impact of the policy. Even if it is a political scam, should the response be strong enough, the politician will find themselves bound by as the backlash would be to severe to just ignore it. So pile on there and pass it on and then see what will come of it.
Taxes are paid after profits not before, you're just thinking of insane psychopathic greed and lies. All governments need to do is ensure taxes are paid were revenue is generated. That is what competitive countries and governments are all about providing the best economic climates for generating revenues not simply being slimy scum sucking tax thieves stealing other countries social services to subsidise their basic incompetence at being able to run a country which can generate revenues.
Either that or a patent guaranteed to ensure reasonable governments are going to take hard look at privacy invasive psychological targeted advertisements. The kind of patent you forward to your elected representative to ensure new legislation to block the aims of the patent.
Always remember your place may fly, the universe is billions of years old and will continue for billions more. Greed is not the only measure of success and far more likely to be a trap rather than a reward. Ambition contribute more to life than consume from it, all things are balance, it would seem unwise to allow ambition to leave a negative balance. In a may fly existence, that regardless of how great the perceived impact upon the living universe it will disappear as if it never ever happened and yet what stains will remain with you forever.
Well, duhh, two storey houses are also illegal in your neighbourhood. Your neighbours need permission before they or contractors they employ can climb on their roof. Trucks driving through your neighbourhood must paint out their windows. Your neighbour also pays to have all hills and slopes removed, dead flat, to match their heads.
You own the privacy inside your home not out in your yard, that is part of the neighbourhood and as it impacts them, both in the products you release from your yard and the impact of the appearance of your yard and the safety of objects and structures in your yard.
Basically grow up, you are part of a society not some lone creature living in the wilds. If you want to be a lobe creature living in the wild, then do so. What happens when a neighbour places security cameras around the perimeter of their home mounted directly at the eaves, much higher than six feet. What happens when a neighbour wants to add a second storey addition. Let's guess, you want to do what you want to do in your yard and you want your neighbours to do what 'YOU' want them to do in their yard.
Notification of Google street view dates is going to be a joke, companies will be real dicks and putting up signs all over the places, especially near the competitors. Every smart alec is going to try to pull all kinds of stupid stunts to get on google street view, injuries and deaths, very likely. Basically Google should just give Switzerland a quick cheap trial with advanced notice, and then put up the resultant mess, and then quit before wasting more money.
Hint, for the stupid, why are googles cameras mounted so high because they are not the only cars on the road and the cameras have to be higher than say 'SUV's, otherwise they have to keep driving down the same street, over and over and over and over and over again. Basically mount the cameras low and you are wasting your time.
Of course playing games of 'can we successfully prosecute' whole risking the life of a victim is not the best thing either. How about if the Google search is used in conjunction with other behavioural patterns. For example how about if people where tested for narcissism and psychopathy. Narcissism being the genetic lack of an autonomic empathic response something that can be infallibly tested for and psychopathy being the genetic lack of an autonomic empathic response in conjunction with a extreme shallowness of emotional responses (psychopaths can not control their emotions they just straight up lack them aside from of course being able to simulate them in order to fool people and hide). As both conditions can infallibly be tested for and as psyhcopaths make up 1% of the human population but >15% of the prison population (even allowing for non-violent drug users, take them out of the equation and the percentage of psychopaths sky rockets). So when an identified psychopath initiates high risk to others activity perhaps alarm bells should go off, a quick investigation and check initiated not with the focus of prosecution but with preventative policing in mind.
World war 2 computers were not a big thing. Calculation where done largely mechanically in the field and the internet did not exist, yet there were nukes. Cyberwarfare is bullshit and the lie relies upon unprepared and insecure enemy with computers connected to the internet. The reality of course is a free for attacks people, corporations and the internet backbone itself. Anything but a purely defensive stature is insane. Any bugs or security failures that are found and then not disclosed to be corrected is simply relying on dumb luck that the enemy doesn't also find them and use. Basically any attack only suits criminals with criminal intent.
If you're going to play bullshit games like that, just use off the shelf hardware to create a stealth cruise missile to start murdering foreigners and destroying technical infrastructure at random. If it is all about being destructive and not getting caught when go half measures. If you hacks when released start infecting hospital prescriptions and making lethal alterations, really just how stupid has your cyberwarfare game become.
No government department ever has the right to with hold discovered faults from repair in the hopes of deploying it themselves only to see their own citizens become victims of it when used by organised crime. That's what bullshit cyber warfare is really about. Find back doors, keep them secret and then toss them aside when criminals also start finding and using them and basically screw the victims created until the fault is fixed. Instead of proper policing find back doors and remove them. In fact what you end up with government departments working against each other at taxpayer expense.
A piece of information is still missing before any educational recommendation can be made. Why is the child being home schooled. Is it behavioural problems, is it distance or it it religious or other fundamentalist dogma. Without knowing the basis for the 'homeschooling' how can an educational recommendation be made, especially when chemistry is one of the areas where working with others is also taught (joint lab experiments and major reports). Those joint experiments and discussing the preparation of the laboratory report and jointly producing the various parts of it are an important part of education.
More likely typical corporate bullshit, will create one of companies per launch, all debt and no capital. They'll also dump all employees wages and pensions in there, corporate greed being corporate greed, any time a launch fails, meh tough, bankrupt the $2 debt ridden company, employees lose all wages and pensions (excluding the corporate executive ass hats who created the scheme, their wages and conditions are covered by another company) and screw the innocent victims. Then it's create the next company for the next launch.
Here is an engineering problem for you. Fracking induces a whole lot of horizontal faults fills those faults with polluted fluids and releases large quantities of methane gas. What happens when there is a major earthquake in those regions and a new vertical fault intersects those horizontal faults. Obvious answer, large quantities of toxic water is released into ground water and, the water table and onto surface water catchments. Also huge quantities of natural gas are released into atmosphere at flammable levels creating massive fuel (several cubic kilometres) air explosions, only limited by ignition source. So fracking has introduced thousands of toxic time bombs and buried them beneath the feet of gullible Americans just waiting for a major earthquake and vertical fault to set them. So correct the problem created by human greed, what imaginable engineering solution at public expense can fix that problem especially when all the profits from creating the problem have been privatised.
Hate to bust your bubble buddy but American police as far a New Zealand or any other countries laws are concerned are nothing but bloody tourists. It is illegal to hand over evidence to visting tourists and let them take it out of the country. It even gets more stupid, users can have their files back as long as access to copyrighted files is blocked, WTF! Just because I am not an American and not a member of the RIAA/MPAA/Obama Justice Department club for pigopolists all of a sudden my work is no longer protected by copyright, talk about bullshit. All that work on those drives is protected by copyright, so what the fuck are they talking about, just because a bunch of out of control Fucking Bloody Idiot tourists stole a copy infringing other peoples copyrights doesn't mean that work now permanently loses copyright protection.
Local concerns are meant to drive exactly what in education. Local concern create new maths concepts, local concerns redefine the laws of physics or local concerns change the English language. Perhaps local concerns redefine biology, geology or global history. Even local history should not be taught in school except as an option. That kind of right wing crap that somehow school in one location should be different to school at the opposite end of a country or even in another country (baring language) is just crazy crap talking point nonsense. It has nothing to do with providing a sound education and everything to do with political and religious propaganda. Want to teach bullshit political and religious propaganda do it outside of school hours and don't attempt to compulsorily force your bullshit upon other parents children, just the facts taught in schools.
Why not simplify everything with a global immigration policy. One for one swaps with other countries and the best of those apply up to the available slots get through calculated quarterly. Lets stick to the capitalist supply and demand rules, screw the greedy shit heads at the top (there is no polite way to put it). You simply pay more for workers when their skills are in demand no immigrant cheating. Want farm workers, then keep paying more until you attract them no lying, cheating and stealing. Companies are allowed to charge as much profit as they can get away with, workers should be allowed to charge as much as their labour is worth without employers conspiring with government to undercut their wages by bringing in immigrants and artificially reducing demand.
So straight up global immigration policy based upon 1 for 1 swaps ie for each Australian willing to immigrate to the US, one US citizen can immigrate to Australia, where there is an imbalance in the numbers the best of those who apply get in. Outside of that there is no real reason for population migration any more.
It is all about slimy ass hats who think they are smarter than everyone else trying to sell the same domain names over and over and over again. So companies like Ford, Coco Cola, McDonalds buy out every top level domain name variant of their company name to prevent them pointing to competitors, oh so sorry, they don't but them, they only get to pay rent on them forever. They are trying to turn domain names into some sort of pathetic con artist investor get rich quick scheme.
Based upon this bullshit it would have been much smarter to have IP addresses as straight up alphabetic characters rather than being numeric and let them bid over the IP address perhaps it is time for IPv7 alphanumeric IP address three lots of 128 alphanumeric characters broken up by periods and piss off the out of control domain registrars.
A complete failure to understand evolution. There are two kinds mutation and selection. Selection does not really add to the top it clips from the bottom and as such shifts the average over time so the species becomes more competitive in it's environment. Mutation generally requires vacancy within an environment, whether by major disaster, meteor, major volcanic action, planetary shift, climate change etc. This tends to generate mutations through genetic stressors and also allows them to survive in altered less competitive environments. Then over time the mutation is refined and becomes far more competitive. Some people can't grasp the passage of time a million years is simple beyond their comprehension, well a million years is beyond anyone comprehension how ever most people can readily comprehend the level of evolutionary change that can occur over that time coupled with natural disasters and mutation.
When you are one step removed from chimpanzees rather than the delusion of one step removed from the supreme being of the universe, you learn to accept your intellectual limitations. I mean, seriously how deluded are elements humanity to look in a mirror and believe they are one step short of a supreme being of the universe, talk about arrogance and delusions of grandeur and that's what it is all really about, jealous idiot's trying to pretend they are a whole lot smarter than they really are.
M$ had their moment in the sun and M$ Office was good and at a fair price the 1997 version, windows 98 second edition was nearly there and XP professional edition was pretty on the money apart from the idiot sign up. They got greedy, totally choked the chicken on MSN, failed to retire Uncle Fester, when nuts trying to corrupt international standards, lame arsed in on music player and phones and are a real pain on data lock in and forced upgrades.
M$ here are a couple of thrown away hints about how table top can work, it's all about environment, you need to create table top venues, bars where every booth has a table top say 4 and 6 per table, a serving susan above the table top, not to far up. People want to see each other but not the opposing side surface. People can game and interact around the table, against others in the club and across the internet. Geeks/nerds/gamers need to go out too, create a franchised venue around your table top, tens of thousands of venues, lateral thinking means generating new revenue opportunity and don't let Uncle Fester touch it. Make Apple restaurant idea look positively goofy compared to an MSN table top Cafe.
Here is the commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdUfzftGNQk. So they are aiming for a 2,000 pound capacity with high hang time, 10 days, over a region. No mention of price though, based on that alone, likely to be extremely profitable for Boeing. They should of course still have solar panels on all upper surfaces to reduce required battery capacity or using up fuel to drive generators, to power any equipment, especially with 10 day operational time.
It is also useful for scoping out the area of space close to our planet. I would have thought cameras designed to look at things no further away than the orbit and the surface of out planet aren't really going to especially good at looking at stuff beyond our solar system. Sounds like the could be using the greater manpower of NASA to look at stuff near by, like asteroids and 'er' other unidentified 'er' things.
Unfortunately here is where reality can often wildly distort statistic. The mentally disadvantaged children of intelligent well paid parents get mental health care. The mentally disadvantaged children of poor parents get tasered to death, get shot, get murdered, dies in other peoples wars or end up in prison. Basically poor parents with mental difficulties and who are unable to effectively compete in a capitalistic society will produce children who while in need of mental health services are extremely far more likely to end up in prison. It apparently all has something to do with sadistic prison guards employed by private industry being much cheaper than mental health professionals, also accommodations are meant to be cruel and inhumane (under insane right wingers) versus assisting in the mentally healthy rehabilitative process.
1. Normal people often do stuff for free and even pay for the privilege, be it sports, hiking, handicrafts, or making music or being in plays. Why should the community pay for some else's hobby?
2. Copying is not stealing it is copying. If you want no one to copy it 'shh' keep it a secret, we wont care.
3. No one is taking your work from you, you still have your copy and you can sell it.
4. We don't believe you about massive downloading, you always lie, always. You lie about the quality of your content. You lie about the value of your content. You pay off politicians to lie for you. You sell advertisements which most often are lies. You infected news which now sells lies as news. You are lying liars that always lie.
5. So what? Get a real productive job to subsidise your hobby just like everyone else. You lie about the taxes, yet another lie. Money not spent on your content will be spent elsewhere in the economy, often with far better social returns and, still generating taxes, liar.
6. Yet another lie. Consumers for a start would be far better off spending that money on better quality food for example rather than on dubious quality often anti-social content. Besides when do we have enough content, there is already more than any one person can consume in a life time. Why should an artificial creation of value continue when it supplies something we already have to an excess.
7. All your points are distorted PR=B$, lies for profit and greed. It is what you do. To further the 'USEFULL' arts and sciences, an 'ARTIFICIAL' opportunity to profit was created, when that work fails in that regard it is not entitled to that artificial monopoly, when that work is not 'TESTED' to ensure it meets that requirement it is not entitled to that artificial temporary monopoly.
8. You are your industry are not a benefit to the economy it is a parasite upon the economy, that can only be afforded when the economy produces as surplus. Right now global economies are tightening due to increasing population and depletion of resources, guess where that places you parasitical industry versus food, clothing, healthcare, transportation, education, energy production, potable water provision, heck you're even way below refuse disposal on the requirement scale.
You would expect that. Deep down we all know the truth, that kid ain't all that smart, it's just the rest of us are pretty dang stupid and we laugh at the sub 100s. Humbling ain't it. We got this ego thing going about how smart people are, it's little reminders like this that let us know how smart people can actually be. We ain't all that far off our primate cousins regardless of delusions religious and political delusions.