I totally agree with your assessment and your first point. No idea about the 2nd.
To me what seems to be the crux of it is the scales of observation. At small scales (relatively) things it seems make sense, it is only at the truly vast scales, that things start to get wonky.
To me that points to the issue being one of two things; 1) our methods of observation at such distances having themselves issues 2) the scales involved introduce additional factors hereto unforeen
The sizes for this kind of stuff always make my head hurt, but I much prefer that idea that at those kind of scales, there is enough unobservable normal matter that is so diffuse as to be undetectable using our current methods of observation, but while minute, due to the sheer volumes involved add up to an amount of mass that is hard for us to accept. Anyway, I like that idea better than just some seemingly made up substance called "dark matter" simply because we can't explain it (or see it, detect it, observe it, etc...)...
Lastly, as a rather wacky idea of just now, it could be a little something of both. In that, our understanding at VERY small scales just like VERY large scales is not complete. Again due to the difficulty of observation. It could be that at a very small scale something is going on, which again is sooo minute as to be really hard to tell, when it is extrapolated at our scales of normal observation it doesn't make much of a difference (at least to our maths), however when expanded on at the other end of the vastness spectrum, those very small variations or unexplained differences all add up to a significant amount. Who knows, again it could be that interactions between normal forces at such a large scale (uber-galactic) behave a bit differently than our current understanding of how heavenly bodies interact (solar and extra-solar).
I think your use of "wrong" is a pretty strong word.
As I understand it, our current theories don't explain the amount of mass of various very large bodies in the universe. To counter this folks have come up with "dark matter" and "dark energy" to explain it away as something we cannot yet observe. I myself thought it silly that there was a report of something missing this. What is interesting is that there is a discrepancy. I wonder how closely it meets our current understanding, in that it's mass is about what we actually think the math should tell us. I've also seen articles that talk about dust and gas, which because are so dispersed over such a vast amount of space are for all intents not very observable, but in all could explain the inconsistency. Though I have also heard that it is not enough to account for it.
Anyway I've never liked the terms "dark" as I thought it was just a cop-out for things not lining up like you think it should. I don't call that science. That said this stuff falls into the realm of theoretical physics which has always had issues with observability and confirmation, sometimes which take many years for either technology or unique phenomenon to catch up on like that very large gravity wave we had a little while ago (relatively speaking)...
However I believe they are still working out some of the practical kinks with molten salt based coolants, at least in a realistic test basis. If I recall correctly the issue is that the molten salt is highly corrosive (or much more corrosive than conventional coolants), which is a maintenance issue for the piping which will need more often replacement and a system in place for that to occur.
Though one of the advantages you missed I think was the fact that you could build much smaller independent and redundant reactors (or just smaller in place reactors), which would much reduce both the potential impact as well as some of those larger capitol investment costs. Would also let you distribute them a bit more in the later case to defray the cost of centralized distribution.
However the history of older plants designed largely to produce nuclear weapons, as well as public opinion, the resultant regulatory environment, etc... is going to make that pretty difficult, at least in the US. Countries will continue to use Coal/Gas as base load for the immediate future. However eventually gas will become expensive, and coal usage has it's own problems. Some other countries will continue to advance reactor technology, and eventually they will be selling the systems to everyone who hasn't.
While I'd admit I know little of the factions, and care less there have been examples of left/right pushing agenda for many decades, so it is hardly new. Though gaming the system only seems to hurt the readers who might depend on awards to give them reading ideas. Abuse it too much, and people will just stop paying attention to the award, and then it will eventually become irrelevant and go away.
Though your Lovecraft comment reminded me however that you really need to keep some perspective about when a work was written. I mean Lovecraft wrote in what the 1920's? Being an "obnoxious mysoginistic racist" perhaps wasn't so uncommon by today's standards. Similarly a lot of the science fiction I enjoy, particularly from the 50's and 60's from certain authors are just as mysoginistic and right leaning if not more, but again it was a different time, and for some folks more than others. Heinlein and Bova for example.
Heck it can surprise you, I was on an 18h car ride listening to Lovecraft, when he start talking about a certain black cat with what would be a pretty unacceptable name today, and I remember thinking "what the heck am I listening to?" In the end, as said it was a different time, from a guy long dead, and if you find it too offensive then just don't read it.
At the same time, that is what makes some of the older works so amazing, like Vern and Wells. When reading it, initially doesn't sound too fantastic until you think about the time it was written and what sort of technology they had available back then (or lack thereof).
Yeah same, I did plenty of hard manual labor jobs, mover, landscaping, groundskeeper, etc... I recall moving laundry and dryer machines down narrow basement staircases by myself as not being so fun, and cutting down vast stretches of invasive hawthorn trees which no amount of leather gloves or clothing could keep out the poisonous thorns as not so fun. I'd do either again in a heartbeat before I'd go strawberry picking for profit again.
Was pretty much the same time, summer of 1995 or 1996 can't remember. While I wasn't so young, neither were the rest. I'd say it was mostly older immigrants. Many sang while they worked which was nice, some talked to themselves it seemed (hence the crazy comment). I think in the end, my parents just didn't want me hanging around the house doing nothing, so in the end that was accomplished more less.
I moved 2000km away from home when I was 18, and I've been working in the IT field for almost 20 years now. I did plenty of manual labor jobs while at University just fine, however picking strawberries just wasn't one of them (hence the story).
Yes I remember reading about how vulnerable carriers are when the whole hypersonic missile issue come up a number of years ago. Basically as I recall it was that their seems to be a lot of "hype" (sorry) about the new technology and what it meant in terms to carrier defence. In that while yes, they would be very deadly, they aren't really all that needed. In that if a "real war" broke out with theaters that aren't just terrorists or rogue states, normal missiles would do just fine. In that while carriers have defense against them, because they would be such high value targets, if they EVER came within range, they would simply be saturated in that they would either try to overwhelm the defenses which shear volume of missiles, or just keep firing them until whatever anti-missile ammunition runs out... Even if they are larger and more expensive than their counter parts, the carrier itself is many many times that.
Anyway if someone is trying to sink carriers in the nuclear age, we've got bigger problems...
Anyway just more fun! I recall them doing it for both Voyager, Enterprise, DS9 (and now Discovery, not sure if they did it for STTNG but probably) and I always thought the actors probably had more fun doing it as they always sort of have to play the same roles all the time.
I particularly liked the one they did for Voyager, because rather than using a normal a "mirror universe" they used historical perspective to tell the story which not only added a bit of Star Trekness morality story to the idea, but also let all the actors *really* overdo the ridiculousness of how bad they were...
In a documentary I saw it was even more than that. It wasn't so much to facilitate a story so much as it was to save on production costs. It costs money to build shuttle sets, and to film shuttle scenes. It was cheaper to just "beam" people into the next scene and just exclaim "technology!"
Another fun fact was the Vulcan neck pinch. Being a family show, they couldn't just run around killing people (hence stun settings), but occasionally they needed scenes without using phasors. Kirk of course would just settle it with fisticuffs. However there was a scene where Spock was supposed to hit a guy on the back of the neck with a phasor to knock him out. Apparently he improvised the Vulcan neck pinch as his unique way to disable people as he thought hitting a guy with a gun was a bit too unsubtle for a Vulcan...
While only half joking, Intel might fall into this business model.
If no one is around to warn them of issues, they can ignore them in favor of risky business decisions that are more profitable. When feet put to fire as to why they decided to make such decisions they can feign ignorance rather then willful ignorance based on business decisions designed for short term gains.
The problem with the expansion of centralized economies is that the partners in such a scheme loose the flexibility to adjust their own economy (and debt) VIA currency deflation/inflation.
This was most noticeably seen very recently with Greece and the Euro.
As soon as a country agrees to do this, they loose the sovereign ability to control their currency and will be at the whim of all the other countries that use the same thing.
Never mind all the intrinsic fundamental issues with using bitcoin as an actual currency rather than a speculative "investment". I'd think it would be more likely that one of the larger conventional currencies eventually get adopted more and more until only one is left standing (Dollar, Euro, Yuan). Even then that would likely take many decades, and not in the next "10 years".
Many years ago during the summer between University semesters I was unable to find a conventional job. My parents wanted me to to try anything, so after much cajoling I tried becoming a professional strawberry picker... It didn't turn out so well. Those that do it for real work, are really good at it, and probably a bit crazy as well. At the time in the mid-late nineties minimum wage where I was located was 5.85$ I think. Strawberry picking you were paid by volume. After working for a couple weeks, I figured out one day that I was probably pulling in less than 2$ an hour because I was so slow at it. Not willing to face my parents without seeming to give it at least the old college try, I dutifully drove to the farm each morning, parked my car by the side of the road, and read a book all day, returning at the end of the day. I did this for a couple more weeks, until I could finally go and say I tried but it really wasn't working out. It is really hard, dirty, hot work...
Best left to the Robots, or at least once they figure it out...
It's not like its too late, plenty of companies are just tagging either onto their company for fun and profit.
Heck it probably isn't that much of a stretch to use AI in some fashion for graphic rendering, or to make decisions about what to render. As for blockchain I'm clueless about that stuff but as a method of tracking transactions it could probably be used for all sorts of stuff. Heck just go for the low fruit and say your using your own type of bitcoins for your "Magic Leap World" marketplace, and the start another ICO and let the money pour in...
Ya, exactly what I was thinking, varies with the size of salt...
They specifically say grain, which is obviously untrue, or at least misleading as people think of a grain of table salt. That isn't even course sea salt, or even kosher salt. The picture looks like "Rock Salt" of a particularly lumpy variety. Most of the stuff I use on my driveway is finer than that stuff. I mean "Salt" can come in just about any dimensions you want, but I am not sure I would call it a "grain". We just bout a Salt Lamp for a friends housewarming gift and that "grain" probably weighed 40-50lb...
Given all that, I'm not sure why they even used the grain of salt analogy at all given it's size. Sure it is small, but it isn't that much smaller than a lot of embedded chips.
People talk about difficultly running against an incumbent, or the DNC needing to get their act together, I don't think grasp the larger more contextual picture.
If I had a looking glass into the future, I'd bet pretty good money that the DNC could probably elect a bag of potatoes as a leader, and win by a landslide.
There hasn't been a President like Trump before. Yes W Bush was a piece of work and got re-elected, he was in fact why I bet money on Trump to win, however Trump is an entirely different animal. Also if you think the DNC is in disarray, the Republican party is probably twice as bad now, and will be worse by the time Trump is over.
Anyway whoever is running as the Democratic leader I have to think has a very good shot, the DNC would *REALLY* have to screw it up to lose I have to think.
Perhaps Trump will change the Constitution do get rid of the foreign birth rule, and Arnold Schwarzenegger can run. That would be my best case, though admittedly by the time the election roles around he'd be getting up there in age.
It's not all that bad of an idea. You're really just mitigating the risk of not finding a charging station, which in the early days might be often. I've been looking at a rather expensive electric, but I have trouble getting past the whole 100 or even 200 mile range, and that is if you can find a charging station.
However conceivably you could just buy an all electric, then throw an electric generator in the trunk, and some gas containers, and that would offset the risk a bit if you do take a long trip someplace... How well that might work would be a good question. That seems very much a Top Gear kind of experiment...
That existence is pretty much what I am expecting some scientist to figure out a long time from now, get supremely depressed, and end it all taking his secrets with him.
So we tell time? Well no, the Universe tells time, you do practically nothing. What does he use it for? Wouldn't he always know what time it is? Mostly just as an accessory, he likes how it looks. I mean you have an iPhone don't you? Oh my God. Exactly.
Step 1: Billionaire Freezes Brain. Step 2: Donate all assets to a Trust that uses the managed growing interest to fund technologies to revive frozen brains. Step 3: Repeat.
but I somehow would like to see someone remotely hack an Alexa to utter voice commands to Cortana, to bypass Windows security and gain access to "sensitive files"...
Who knows maybe they will get into an argument, or have built in hard-coding to give each other the silent treatment.
As far as the movie option, it'll probably never happen as the producers would probably get sued into oblivion by the tag team of Amazon and Microsoft...
"If you've never filled out a job app that asked your gender, then separately, your race, then you've never applied for a job in the USA."
Really? The US is weird. I could see it for something like McDonald's standard application type forms, but for a career type job? Bizarre. Also I could see things like photos for say TV or Movie like positions...
If could be that Personal Information is so much more protected in Canada VS the US, so most companies are weary of even collecting any type of information they absolutely do not need. You would think that with the legatious nature of the US that companies would be weary of collecting this information for this exact reason of this story, as anytime someone has a beef with not getting hired you may just be setting yourself up for a lawsuit when they scream discrimination.
As for name changes, yeah it has to be within reason. However I've heard of all sorts of crazy ones, so there is an awful lot of latitude. As another example, I know of a personal one, where after 9/11 someone (probably many) changed their name from Mohammad Akbar (or whatever) to Jason Smith (also made up), as they didn't want to have to deal with all the negative fallout, and possible discrimination, etc... for both themselves in their work, or for their families in general. So in this context its not like you are trying to change your name to Optimus Prime (which I have heard of), but rather the exact opposite something as mundane and "normal" as you can think of. Which is kind of sad really, culturally speaking and everything.
Pretty sure I've never applied for a job and specifically said I was a "White Male", nor filled out an application that had that distinction either. I don't think I've ever attached a picture either.
However I'd have to put my name on it, so they could probably figure it out if my name is William Chesterson Johnson III or Zhou Ping that I might be white or asian... If my name was Desoranta Mumbotu or Maria Sanchez I might be more what they are looking for...
Pro tip for lulz, while it might be a bit drastic, I'm pretty sure anyone can change their name to anything:)
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I totally agree with your assessment and your first point. No idea about the 2nd.
To me what seems to be the crux of it is the scales of observation. At small scales (relatively) things it seems make sense, it is only at the truly vast scales, that things start to get wonky.
To me that points to the issue being one of two things;
1) our methods of observation at such distances having themselves issues
2) the scales involved introduce additional factors hereto unforeen
The sizes for this kind of stuff always make my head hurt, but I much prefer that idea that at those kind of scales, there is enough unobservable normal matter that is so diffuse as to be undetectable using our current methods of observation, but while minute, due to the sheer volumes involved add up to an amount of mass that is hard for us to accept. Anyway, I like that idea better than just some seemingly made up substance called "dark matter" simply because we can't explain it (or see it, detect it, observe it, etc...)...
Lastly, as a rather wacky idea of just now, it could be a little something of both. In that, our understanding at VERY small scales just like VERY large scales is not complete. Again due to the difficulty of observation. It could be that at a very small scale something is going on, which again is sooo minute as to be really hard to tell, when it is extrapolated at our scales of normal observation it doesn't make much of a difference (at least to our maths), however when expanded on at the other end of the vastness spectrum, those very small variations or unexplained differences all add up to a significant amount. Who knows, again it could be that interactions between normal forces at such a large scale (uber-galactic) behave a bit differently than our current understanding of how heavenly bodies interact (solar and extra-solar).
I think your use of "wrong" is a pretty strong word.
As I understand it, our current theories don't explain the amount of mass of various very large bodies in the universe. To counter this folks have come up with "dark matter" and "dark energy" to explain it away as something we cannot yet observe. I myself thought it silly that there was a report of something missing this. What is interesting is that there is a discrepancy. I wonder how closely it meets our current understanding, in that it's mass is about what we actually think the math should tell us. I've also seen articles that talk about dust and gas, which because are so dispersed over such a vast amount of space are for all intents not very observable, but in all could explain the inconsistency. Though I have also heard that it is not enough to account for it.
Anyway I've never liked the terms "dark" as I thought it was just a cop-out for things not lining up like you think it should. I don't call that science. That said this stuff falls into the realm of theoretical physics which has always had issues with observability and confirmation, sometimes which take many years for either technology or unique phenomenon to catch up on like that very large gravity wave we had a little while ago (relatively speaking)...
However I believe they are still working out some of the practical kinks with molten salt based coolants, at least in a realistic test basis. If I recall correctly the issue is that the molten salt is highly corrosive (or much more corrosive than conventional coolants), which is a maintenance issue for the piping which will need more often replacement and a system in place for that to occur.
Though one of the advantages you missed I think was the fact that you could build much smaller independent and redundant reactors (or just smaller in place reactors), which would much reduce both the potential impact as well as some of those larger capitol investment costs. Would also let you distribute them a bit more in the later case to defray the cost of centralized distribution.
However the history of older plants designed largely to produce nuclear weapons, as well as public opinion, the resultant regulatory environment, etc... is going to make that pretty difficult, at least in the US. Countries will continue to use Coal/Gas as base load for the immediate future. However eventually gas will become expensive, and coal usage has it's own problems. Some other countries will continue to advance reactor technology, and eventually they will be selling the systems to everyone who hasn't.
While I'd admit I know little of the factions, and care less there have been examples of left/right pushing agenda for many decades, so it is hardly new. Though gaming the system only seems to hurt the readers who might depend on awards to give them reading ideas. Abuse it too much, and people will just stop paying attention to the award, and then it will eventually become irrelevant and go away.
Though your Lovecraft comment reminded me however that you really need to keep some perspective about when a work was written. I mean Lovecraft wrote in what the 1920's? Being an "obnoxious mysoginistic racist" perhaps wasn't so uncommon by today's standards. Similarly a lot of the science fiction I enjoy, particularly from the 50's and 60's from certain authors are just as mysoginistic and right leaning if not more, but again it was a different time, and for some folks more than others. Heinlein and Bova for example.
Heck it can surprise you, I was on an 18h car ride listening to Lovecraft, when he start talking about a certain black cat with what would be a pretty unacceptable name today, and I remember thinking "what the heck am I listening to?" In the end, as said it was a different time, from a guy long dead, and if you find it too offensive then just don't read it.
At the same time, that is what makes some of the older works so amazing, like Vern and Wells. When reading it, initially doesn't sound too fantastic until you think about the time it was written and what sort of technology they had available back then (or lack thereof).
Yeah same, I did plenty of hard manual labor jobs, mover, landscaping, groundskeeper, etc... I recall moving laundry and dryer machines down narrow basement staircases by myself as not being so fun, and cutting down vast stretches of invasive hawthorn trees which no amount of leather gloves or clothing could keep out the poisonous thorns as not so fun. I'd do either again in a heartbeat before I'd go strawberry picking for profit again.
Was pretty much the same time, summer of 1995 or 1996 can't remember. While I wasn't so young, neither were the rest. I'd say it was mostly older immigrants. Many sang while they worked which was nice, some talked to themselves it seemed (hence the crazy comment). I think in the end, my parents just didn't want me hanging around the house doing nothing, so in the end that was accomplished more less.
OK "oldgraybeard" with the 7 digit ID...
I moved 2000km away from home when I was 18, and I've been working in the IT field for almost 20 years now.
I did plenty of manual labor jobs while at University just fine, however picking strawberries just wasn't one of them (hence the story).
Yes I remember reading about how vulnerable carriers are when the whole hypersonic missile issue come up a number of years ago. Basically as I recall it was that their seems to be a lot of "hype" (sorry) about the new technology and what it meant in terms to carrier defence. In that while yes, they would be very deadly, they aren't really all that needed. In that if a "real war" broke out with theaters that aren't just terrorists or rogue states, normal missiles would do just fine. In that while carriers have defense against them, because they would be such high value targets, if they EVER came within range, they would simply be saturated in that they would either try to overwhelm the defenses which shear volume of missiles, or just keep firing them until whatever anti-missile ammunition runs out... Even if they are larger and more expensive than their counter parts, the carrier itself is many many times that.
Anyway if someone is trying to sink carriers in the nuclear age, we've got bigger problems...
...and have black gloves... because menacing!
Anyway just more fun! I recall them doing it for both Voyager, Enterprise, DS9 (and now Discovery, not sure if they did it for STTNG but probably) and I always thought the actors probably had more fun doing it as they always sort of have to play the same roles all the time.
I particularly liked the one they did for Voyager, because rather than using a normal a "mirror universe" they used historical perspective to tell the story which not only added a bit of Star Trekness morality story to the idea, but also let all the actors *really* overdo the ridiculousness of how bad they were...
In a documentary I saw it was even more than that. It wasn't so much to facilitate a story so much as it was to save on production costs. It costs money to build shuttle sets, and to film shuttle scenes. It was cheaper to just "beam" people into the next scene and just exclaim "technology!"
Another fun fact was the Vulcan neck pinch. Being a family show, they couldn't just run around killing people (hence stun settings), but occasionally they needed scenes without using phasors. Kirk of course would just settle it with fisticuffs. However there was a scene where Spock was supposed to hit a guy on the back of the neck with a phasor to knock him out. Apparently he improvised the Vulcan neck pinch as his unique way to disable people as he thought hitting a guy with a gun was a bit too unsubtle for a Vulcan...
While only half joking, Intel might fall into this business model.
If no one is around to warn them of issues, they can ignore them in favor of risky business decisions that are more profitable. When feet put to fire as to why they decided to make such decisions they can feign ignorance rather then willful ignorance based on business decisions designed for short term gains.
The problem with the expansion of centralized economies is that the partners in such a scheme loose the flexibility to adjust their own economy (and debt) VIA currency deflation/inflation.
This was most noticeably seen very recently with Greece and the Euro.
As soon as a country agrees to do this, they loose the sovereign ability to control their currency and will be at the whim of all the other countries that use the same thing.
Never mind all the intrinsic fundamental issues with using bitcoin as an actual currency rather than a speculative "investment". I'd think it would be more likely that one of the larger conventional currencies eventually get adopted more and more until only one is left standing (Dollar, Euro, Yuan). Even then that would likely take many decades, and not in the next "10 years".
Or at least not this Human.
Many years ago during the summer between University semesters I was unable to find a conventional job. My parents wanted me to to try anything, so after much cajoling I tried becoming a professional strawberry picker... It didn't turn out so well. Those that do it for real work, are really good at it, and probably a bit crazy as well. At the time in the mid-late nineties minimum wage where I was located was 5.85$ I think. Strawberry picking you were paid by volume. After working for a couple weeks, I figured out one day that I was probably pulling in less than 2$ an hour because I was so slow at it. Not willing to face my parents without seeming to give it at least the old college try, I dutifully drove to the farm each morning, parked my car by the side of the road, and read a book all day, returning at the end of the day. I did this for a couple more weeks, until I could finally go and say I tried but it really wasn't working out. It is really hard, dirty, hot work...
Best left to the Robots, or at least once they figure it out...
It's not like its too late, plenty of companies are just tagging either onto their company for fun and profit.
Heck it probably isn't that much of a stretch to use AI in some fashion for graphic rendering, or to make decisions about what to render. As for blockchain I'm clueless about that stuff but as a method of tracking transactions it could probably be used for all sorts of stuff. Heck just go for the low fruit and say your using your own type of bitcoins for your "Magic Leap World" marketplace, and the start another ICO and let the money pour in...
Me? I'm investing in popcorn.
Ya, exactly what I was thinking, varies with the size of salt...
They specifically say grain, which is obviously untrue, or at least misleading as people think of a grain of table salt. That isn't even course sea salt, or even kosher salt. The picture looks like "Rock Salt" of a particularly lumpy variety. Most of the stuff I use on my driveway is finer than that stuff. I mean "Salt" can come in just about any dimensions you want, but I am not sure I would call it a "grain". We just bout a Salt Lamp for a friends housewarming gift and that "grain" probably weighed 40-50lb...
Given all that, I'm not sure why they even used the grain of salt analogy at all given it's size. Sure it is small, but it isn't that much smaller than a lot of embedded chips.
Perhaps not so eloquent, but about right.
People talk about difficultly running against an incumbent, or the DNC needing to get their act together, I don't think grasp the larger more contextual picture.
If I had a looking glass into the future, I'd bet pretty good money that the DNC could probably elect a bag of potatoes as a leader, and win by a landslide.
There hasn't been a President like Trump before. Yes W Bush was a piece of work and got re-elected, he was in fact why I bet money on Trump to win, however Trump is an entirely different animal. Also if you think the DNC is in disarray, the Republican party is probably twice as bad now, and will be worse by the time Trump is over.
Anyway whoever is running as the Democratic leader I have to think has a very good shot, the DNC would *REALLY* have to screw it up to lose I have to think.
Perhaps Trump will change the Constitution do get rid of the foreign birth rule, and Arnold Schwarzenegger can run. That would be my best case, though admittedly by the time the election roles around he'd be getting up there in age.
It's not all that bad of an idea. You're really just mitigating the risk of not finding a charging station, which in the early days might be often. I've been looking at a rather expensive electric, but I have trouble getting past the whole 100 or even 200 mile range, and that is if you can find a charging station.
However conceivably you could just buy an all electric, then throw an electric generator in the trunk, and some gas containers, and that would offset the risk a bit if you do take a long trip someplace... How well that might work would be a good question. That seems very much a Top Gear kind of experiment...
That existence is pretty much what I am expecting some scientist to figure out a long time from now, get supremely depressed, and end it all taking his secrets with him.
So we tell time?
Well no, the Universe tells time, you do practically nothing.
What does he use it for? Wouldn't he always know what time it is?
Mostly just as an accessory, he likes how it looks. I mean you have an iPhone don't you?
Oh my God.
Exactly.
Step 1: Billionaire Freezes Brain.
Step 2: Donate all assets to a Trust that uses the managed growing interest to fund technologies to revive frozen brains.
Step 3: Repeat.
Bonus Step: Be the guy that manages said fund.
I'd say more accurately...
Real guns = Good
Fictional guns = Bad
No different from books, or movies. Get those guns out of the books and movies!
Fake guns make me think of physically fake guns, which actually might be bad if used improperly and get yourself killed.
Worse thing about video games is mostly vulgar racism (and every other 'ism) from 12 year olds.
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
Three words: The Shannara Chronicles.
So if you're looking for someone to ruin your childhood memories look no further...
or perhaps best suited for a movie...
but I somehow would like to see someone remotely hack an Alexa to utter voice commands to Cortana, to bypass Windows security and gain access to "sensitive files"...
Who knows maybe they will get into an argument, or have built in hard-coding to give each other the silent treatment.
As far as the movie option, it'll probably never happen as the producers would probably get sued into oblivion by the tag team of Amazon and Microsoft...
"If you've never filled out a job app that asked your gender, then separately, your race, then you've never applied for a job in the USA."
Really? The US is weird. I could see it for something like McDonald's standard application type forms, but for a career type job? Bizarre. Also I could see things like photos for say TV or Movie like positions...
If could be that Personal Information is so much more protected in Canada VS the US, so most companies are weary of even collecting any type of information they absolutely do not need. You would think that with the legatious nature of the US that companies would be weary of collecting this information for this exact reason of this story, as anytime someone has a beef with not getting hired you may just be setting yourself up for a lawsuit when they scream discrimination.
As for name changes, yeah it has to be within reason. However I've heard of all sorts of crazy ones, so there is an awful lot of latitude. As another example, I know of a personal one, where after 9/11 someone (probably many) changed their name from Mohammad Akbar (or whatever) to Jason Smith (also made up), as they didn't want to have to deal with all the negative fallout, and possible discrimination, etc... for both themselves in their work, or for their families in general. So in this context its not like you are trying to change your name to Optimus Prime (which I have heard of), but rather the exact opposite something as mundane and "normal" as you can think of. Which is kind of sad really, culturally speaking and everything.
Pretty sure I've never applied for a job and specifically said I was a "White Male", nor filled out an application that had that distinction either. I don't think I've ever attached a picture either.
However I'd have to put my name on it, so they could probably figure it out if my name is William Chesterson Johnson III or Zhou Ping that I might be white or asian... If my name was Desoranta Mumbotu or Maria Sanchez I might be more what they are looking for...
Pro tip for lulz, while it might be a bit drastic, I'm pretty sure anyone can change their name to anything :)
Would make for some good commercials.
Hate to see the roaming charges tho... :O