Lower gravity, but the atmosphere is pretty thin. Plus, 8 minutes of flight time isn't very much even here on Earth. Meanwhile, on Venus, these would be destroyed by the environment before you could even pop the hatch;) Might be useful for poking around in some caves though if you can get the flight time up a bit.
You've never been to Alabama, have you? Hell, come to Denton, TX some time and I'll take you to a place about 2 miles from where I'm sitting where they just barely have electricity and don't have paved streets in the neighborhood.
If you want to fix the broken patent system, you have to fight people who have a lot of wealth (power) and a lot of interest in the status quo.
Of course, these same people, wielding their pet corporations, are fighting to keep Government corruption in its current form (the backbone of which is the "campaign contribution" bribery system and it's offshoot, the system of lobbying jobs, speaking engagements, and book deals that serve as a front to pay off cronies at all levels of government), so you can write off using government power as a check against them.
The only way we'll see things change is if these rich, powerful people get too greedy and use their pet corporations against each other (like the story above), in which case our goal is simply to hunker down as much as possible and hope that in the aftermath we can sneak in a little bit of progress.
Things won't change as long as our civilization allows for the concentration of wealth at current levels. The hard part, of course, is deciding an allowable maximum threshold. Soviet or Mao style communism are obviously not the answer, and European style socialism is having some problems (though arguably a lot of those were caused by socialists dabbling in hyper-capitalist market manipulation as a result of meme-contamination from the US). The Canadian style hybrid seems to be doing pretty well, though they've got their own contamination problems making trouble, likely due to meddling by powerful interests afraid of a world run like Canada.
I know, I know, it's an article about patents, but the obvious flaws in the patent system are all simply emergent phenomena, part of a deeper underlying dysfunction that can ultimately be attributed to animals having more power than they can responsibly handle.
Not always. Keep in mind that if it isn't going to be massively profitable, it won't be massively marketed. If it can't be patented, it often won't get funding for research.
Purely anecdotal, but I have an undiagnosable (doctors mostly just shrug and offer me Bentyl when I try to get them to figure out what is wrong) chronic pain in my left lower abdomen. When I was trying to figure out on my own what was wrong I tried a lot of things to make the pain go away, and the only thing that ever seemed to help was an herbal supplement that had a mix of ingredients. Unfortunately one of them was wormwood, which can be dangerous if you take it over any length of time, so I had to stop. I ended up trying each ingredient to find out which one was making the pain go away, and it turned out it was Black Walnut.
Now, I take Black Walnut every day to manage the pain (Bentyl, the pharma answer to abdominal pain, causes severe allergic reactions and is way more expensive). It works like a charm, though I couldn't tell you why.
Herbal tradition says black walnut is good for stomach problems, so there is something there. I think it might be balancing PH (my problems might be acid related), but until I find a doctor with enough intellectual curiousity to help me figure out my condition I won't be able to say for sure.
Which is, ultimately, the problem with these kinds of things. They work, sometimes, but even when they do you don't know what they're doing or why.
I have mixed feelings about a VPN. On one hand if they did it right cybercrime would be a lot more difficult to pull off. Not impossible, of course, but difficult. On the other hand if it works really well we'll be more or less required to have government software installed on our machines or we'll be locked out of half the web.
It's ok, I'll just load up this new Icebreaker I bought off some Cowboy at the local bar into my Ono-Sendai. I just hope they aren't using Black ICE on this new turf in the Matrix...
Sure, if you compare the number of dollars spent on defense by the US in a year to the number of atoms in a human body, that makes a pretty nice graph too. And it's just as useful for understanding how our government is spending our tax money.
well, in 2007 the Japanese had 833 cell phones per 1,000 people.
could even have land-line phone blast telemarketing style for those with no cell (i'm guessing the elderly maybe not plugged into the ether so much). Sure, there would be panic and the problems it causes, but some would get a chance
You're talking about "reverse 911." They have it in a lot of major cities in the US now (including Dallas). It's a system that lets the government send emergency messages to blocks of phone numbers, like a robocaller but with things like Amber alerts or tornado warnings.
You mean by cooperating and sharing the burden equally we can all have access to a service we all need and use? This sounds brilliant where do I sign up?
Funny, it doesn't say anything about 'illegal', it just says 'ex post facto Law'. It's like say, being convicted on a possession of marijuana charge, and then two weeks later they make marijuana legal. You don't get to go free because it's legal now; it wasn't legal when you committed the act.
This is completely wrong. You do not understand how the legal system works in this regard.
You'll find that christians will most likely happily go to their death before agreeing to an implanted RFID (or similar) chip used to facilitate buying and selling.
The prophecy quite specifically talks about a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. It would seem that implanting an RFID chip into the left hand should not pose any problem to Christians.
Clearly this is because of our lack of socialized healthcare, and this is no other factor that could possibly affect this.
Actually, this is quite possible.
You'll note that the "Rand Corporation" only collected data for this study from 2002-2006. That's when the life expectancy trend was really starting to show up.
Second, you'll note that for some reason, they compared the US to Great Britain. If they had used other countries with what you so quaintly call "socialized medicine" the results would show that the US was not doing quite so well in the health and life expectancy olympics.
Because this is corporate propaganda designed to be used as ammunition when the powerful's Republican servants in the US go to repeal/sabotage the health care bill in the US, while also providing ammo for their equivalent servants in the UK to begin undermining the NHS.
Actually, poor people pay a good chunk of money in taxes. Many pay sales tax, and everyone pays payroll taxes. It's only income tax that they don't pay.
Any deficiencies in the morality of the old testament is always explained away as "oh, those were just flawed people, but God was still good and right." You can rub their nose in the part where God orders his minions to dash babies against rocks, but they just push their head further into the sand. You can lead a person to sense but you can't make them sensible.
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Hope nobody attaches a spinning blade to one of these. I'm low on pistol ammo.
Lower gravity, but the atmosphere is pretty thin. Plus, 8 minutes of flight time isn't very much even here on Earth. ;)
Meanwhile, on Venus, these would be destroyed by the environment before you could even pop the hatch
Might be useful for poking around in some caves though if you can get the flight time up a bit.
You've never been to Alabama, have you? Hell, come to Denton, TX some time and I'll take you to a place about 2 miles from where I'm sitting where they just barely have electricity and don't have paved streets in the neighborhood.
If you want to fix the broken patent system, you have to fight people who have a lot of wealth (power) and a lot of interest in the status quo.
Of course, these same people, wielding their pet corporations, are fighting to keep Government corruption in its current form (the backbone of which is the "campaign contribution" bribery system and it's offshoot, the system of lobbying jobs, speaking engagements, and book deals that serve as a front to pay off cronies at all levels of government), so you can write off using government power as a check against them.
The only way we'll see things change is if these rich, powerful people get too greedy and use their pet corporations against each other (like the story above), in which case our goal is simply to hunker down as much as possible and hope that in the aftermath we can sneak in a little bit of progress.
Things won't change as long as our civilization allows for the concentration of wealth at current levels. The hard part, of course, is deciding an allowable maximum threshold. Soviet or Mao style communism are obviously not the answer, and European style socialism is having some problems (though arguably a lot of those were caused by socialists dabbling in hyper-capitalist market manipulation as a result of meme-contamination from the US). The Canadian style hybrid seems to be doing pretty well, though they've got their own contamination problems making trouble, likely due to meddling by powerful interests afraid of a world run like Canada.
I know, I know, it's an article about patents, but the obvious flaws in the patent system are all simply emergent phenomena, part of a deeper underlying dysfunction that can ultimately be attributed to animals having more power than they can responsibly handle.
Not always. Keep in mind that if it isn't going to be massively profitable, it won't be massively marketed. If it can't be patented, it often won't get funding for research.
Purely anecdotal, but I have an undiagnosable (doctors mostly just shrug and offer me Bentyl when I try to get them to figure out what is wrong) chronic pain in my left lower abdomen. When I was trying to figure out on my own what was wrong I tried a lot of things to make the pain go away, and the only thing that ever seemed to help was an herbal supplement that had a mix of ingredients. Unfortunately one of them was wormwood, which can be dangerous if you take it over any length of time, so I had to stop. I ended up trying each ingredient to find out which one was making the pain go away, and it turned out it was Black Walnut.
Now, I take Black Walnut every day to manage the pain (Bentyl, the pharma answer to abdominal pain, causes severe allergic reactions and is way more expensive). It works like a charm, though I couldn't tell you why.
Herbal tradition says black walnut is good for stomach problems, so there is something there. I think it might be balancing PH (my problems might be acid related), but until I find a doctor with enough intellectual curiousity to help me figure out my condition I won't be able to say for sure.
Which is, ultimately, the problem with these kinds of things. They work, sometimes, but even when they do you don't know what they're doing or why.
I have mixed feelings about a VPN. On one hand if they did it right cybercrime would be a lot more difficult to pull off. Not impossible, of course, but difficult. On the other hand if it works really well we'll be more or less required to have government software installed on our machines or we'll be locked out of half the web.
It's ok, I'll just load up this new Icebreaker I bought off some Cowboy at the local bar into my Ono-Sendai. I just hope they aren't using Black ICE on this new turf in the Matrix...
Please don't let that quack mutilate your kids.
Sure, if you compare the number of dollars spent on defense by the US in a year to the number of atoms in a human body, that makes a pretty nice graph too. And it's just as useful for understanding how our government is spending our tax money.
well, in 2007 the Japanese had 833 cell phones per 1,000 people.
could even have land-line phone blast telemarketing style for those with no cell (i'm guessing the elderly maybe not plugged into the ether so much). Sure, there would be panic and the problems it causes, but some would get a chance
You're talking about "reverse 911." They have it in a lot of major cities in the US now (including Dallas). It's a system that lets the government send emergency messages to blocks of phone numbers, like a robocaller but with things like Amber alerts or tornado warnings.
You mean by cooperating and sharing the burden equally we can all have access to a service we all need and use? This sounds brilliant where do I sign up?
Yes! All they have to do is invert the polarity!
OMG I already killed thirty two iron atoms and none of them dropped any quarks! How the hell do these atoms not have any quarks in them?!
Yeah but how do you handle the smell when you cut them open?
Funny, it doesn't say anything about 'illegal', it just says 'ex post facto Law'. It's like say, being convicted on a possession of marijuana charge, and then two weeks later they make marijuana legal. You don't get to go free because it's legal now; it wasn't legal when you committed the act.
This is completely wrong. You do not understand how the legal system works in this regard.
IMHO it's not as good as "weapon of mass destruction related program activities," from the SOTU speech.
Holy shit, did he just invert the polarity?
Mustard gas that was sold to him by the US for use on Iranians
Treason is aid and comfort to the enemy. Which enemy did he aid and comfort?
I think the phrase you're looking for is "weapons of mass destruction related program activities."
You'll find that christians will most likely happily go to their death before agreeing to an implanted RFID (or similar) chip used to facilitate buying and selling.
The prophecy quite specifically talks about a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. It would seem that implanting an RFID chip into the left hand should not pose any problem to Christians.
Game, set, and match.
Invalid analogy. Please play again!
Actually, this is quite possible.
You'll note that the "Rand Corporation" only collected data for this study from 2002-2006. That's when the life expectancy trend was really starting to show up.
Second, you'll note that for some reason, they compared the US to Great Britain. If they had used other countries with what you so quaintly call "socialized medicine" the results would show that the US was not doing quite so well in the health and life expectancy olympics.
Because this is corporate propaganda designed to be used as ammunition when the powerful's Republican servants in the US go to repeal/sabotage the health care bill in the US, while also providing ammo for their equivalent servants in the UK to begin undermining the NHS.
Corporations have no natural rights. Activist judges have granted them rights.
Actually, poor people pay a good chunk of money in taxes. Many pay sales tax, and everyone pays payroll taxes. It's only income tax that they don't pay.
Any deficiencies in the morality of the old testament is always explained away as "oh, those were just flawed people, but God was still good and right." You can rub their nose in the part where God orders his minions to dash babies against rocks, but they just push their head further into the sand. You can lead a person to sense but you can't make them sensible.