If, as a public, we want the freedom to hack our stuff, we have to take the responsibility for the possible consequences back upon ourselves.
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Preaching personal responsibility? Why you sir must be a right wing religious nut! I'll have you know that no american can make up their mind and be expected to do the right thing without congress telling them what to do. That is, after all, why we have Social Security, medicare, medicaid and all these other programs as people can not be expected to make the right decisions for themselves./sarcasm
That aside, you are fully right. It seems like every stupid lawsuit I hear about is because some idiot won't take personal responsibility for themselves and/or wasn't using common sense. For example, rear ending someone and sueing the person you rear ended for not having moved. Trimming a hedge with a lawn mower (while wearing sandals no less) sueing when you lose some toes. Couple more I have heard of, but all from people refusing to admit that they were an idiot.
In my country, so called people's army had exactly such a database of all students, because every student was actualy a recruit on delay.
But that was deep past in the totalitarian communist era. Today it would be illegal to keep such data for any reason. What's exactly going on in the USA??? Is it a precursor to conscription?
You mean like how everyone upon turning 18 must join the service (for min 2 years) like in Germany, Switzerland, Israel...
Apparently you missed the last line of the poster:
Military recruitment is usually a win/win proposition. Let's not forget how much service personnel GET from the US government. I'm one of them and I can attest to it.
There would have to be a extreme increase in military funding before any drafting would occur.
For some reason a lot of people (usually leaning left) seem to forget that the military, even with ~500 billion, does not have to buy clothing, food, housing, equipment, fuel and munitions. Or do things such as research, supply health care and base upkeep.
Lets see, at $15k/year pay check+ at least another $15k per year of housing/food/equipment and other necesities that's $30k per person per year minimum, lets say we have 30 million people between the ages of 18 to 25, that would be 15 million males. Say a third can not do so for medical reasons. That leaves 10 million males at $30k/year. So the military would need at least $300 Billion more for a full all out draft. Then there is the cost of equipment and training...
The government needed a draft to help ensure it had the necessary military strength to survive attacks and invasions. The draft was created for defensive purposes.
Don't forget that every time we've enstated the draft, we never had a full standing army at the time. From 1776 through 1941, everytime a war was over there were drastic reductions in the size of the military to a barebones force. Post WWII was the first time that there was no large reduction (90+%). That came in ~1992 after the breakup of the USSR (~50% reduction).
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The European and US subsidies to farmers are the greatest example to this: where an income stream (and way to develop) could be given to a 3rd world farmer, Western governments subsidise their farms and tax imports.
Farming is one place where any country must be encouraged (even at the price of subsidies) to be completely elf sufficient. More from a security point of view than anything else. In times of war, you really don't want to have to worry about trade routes. In case someone else has a famine/flood/drought, you don't want your country to lost it's supply of food.
There are a few other areas countries (any and all) should be completely self sufficient in for various reasons. However, that is the main one.
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Sure, since 50 years ago (1955), it was pretty much like it is today...well, except for the Internet, the Cold War and Globalization
Globalization has been happening for several hundred years. Start with China's and Spain's silver trade for one. Nothing new, just no one noticed it until recently.
Specifically, it has become overrun with the sort of rich people that give rich people a bad name. The sort of charicatures that leftists and arachists always speak of. Snotty, snobbish, self-important, "do-you-know-who-I-am?!" types.
Interesting, considering CT is a very liberal/leftist state. And yes, I have been there. Just last year I finished my final year of college in West Hartford.
and they have alleged that persons who were at the time employed by or later became employed by Apple were present at both trade shows and viewed Contois' software
This is no big deal. If you are in the same field/industry, you go to the same trade shows. I was just at a trade show with some senior Sony execs and I checked out their booth. Why? I work in TV. I never talked to them, but I was seeing what equipment they had coming to market soon. As for viewing the Contois's software, it's called checking out the competition. Everyone does it. That's like saying someone is guilty of stealing anothers car because they went to the same auto show.
Ok, so magnetic shielding doesn't appear is will work.
That leaves protection from the sandblasting. If we are talking about robots, we don't need them to last forever, just long enough to do their job. So the outer shell just needs to be made of a tough material. Although, given that we can create diamonds today, why not just give them a diamond coating? That shouldn't have a problem with the sand blasting of the dust. We wouldn't even have to grow a single diamond large enough to cover the entire surface, just overlapping/interlocking plates of diamonds, similar to how roofs/jigsawpuzzles are made. Would that work for armor? Last I heard, a sandblasting wouldn't do much damage to a diamond.
We just came up with some miracle "demagnatizing spray" that would blow off the dust. I'd like to see how they pull this off without made up technologies.
Two possibilities here (that currently exist).
1) Encase the outside of the robots in a fairly hard/robust plastic/plexiglass. Make sure that any exposed surfaces have no metal on them. Hopefully the dust isn't charge enough to be attracted through the covering.
2) This idea relies on the assumption that the dust is all charged positive or negative (I don't know if it is all charged one way or not, that is just what this hinges on). Ionize the robot the same polarity as the charge particles. We do this with buildings right now to prevent lighning strikes. Should cause the ionized particles to be repelled. ALternatively, set up a magnetic field around the robots to do the same.
Technically, haven't we terraformed Earth by cutting down forests, building cities where heat builds up in localized areas, and by raising the temperature of the globe? We definitely have the potential for it, but we need to work on applying it positively.
Supposedly we've been doing this for the past 10,000 years which is why we aren't undergoing an ice age right now. Aborting an ice age sounds positive to me.
What about those kids who got in trouble with the SS (secret service) when the sang a parody of a song, containing words "kill" and "clinton", etc? Bah.
We've had 44 presidents, 4 assasinated while in office. 4 more who have had attempts on their life while in office. That's 18% of the the presidents so far.
The Secret Services job is to protect the President, his family, other high ranking officials and their families and foriegn dignitaries. They take their job seriously. They investigate ALL instances of possible threats because one of them just might be real. A guy I knew was pissed at a cop and said "I'm gonna kill the president!" The SS showed up at his door by the end of the week to find out if he was a threat or not. They found out he wasn't and left him alone.
So clarify what you mean by the kids or let the SS do their job.
Thanks, we've got a couple thousand photos/negatives scattered throughout the country in my family that aren't duplicated any place else. Plus, we have some really old negative formats (such as negatives that are 5"x6" and 3"x4", yes those are negatives) that we want to get spread to others just inc ase something happens to the original.
We scanned the pictures using a kick-ass negative scanner from Nikon that we bought refurbed (and then sold on eBay for a profit)
OT I know but, Quick question. Which model did you buy. I am looking for one for scanning in a whole bunch of old family photos and need a fairly good one.
Read the summary for this proposed bill. Future seems a little shaky now doesn't it -- How does "Darth Bush" sound to you? (Amendment 22 is concerned with that little thing about only having two terms as president, for those non USoAians)
Interesting what you fail to note. The primary sponsor is a Democrat. As are 3 of the 4 cosponsors.
That said, the 22nd was only enacted about 50-60 years ago after FDR won his 4th term.
Most of the energy we get from oil is used in cars. For creating liquid oxygen/hydrogen we would/do use powerplants that run on primarily on Coal and Nuclear. That pretty much invalidates any reason to worry about peak oil in relation to the rest of the argument.
I always thought people would just stop grousing about nuclear power so much once oil became prohibitively expensive, but I guess that's just me. We'll see what happens.
Personally, I like nuclear more and hope we get more of it as well. Just as soon as we start re-enriching the spen fuel rods most of the waste problem goes away,
Saturn 5 was good only for putting a man on the moon and returning him home. Effectively Zero payload capacity for pretty much anything else. As a technology, it's a dead end and not good for anything else.
I don't understand how anyone can get e-mail viruses easily. i never get any e-mail viruses, but when I do, it's either too obvious and I delete them. how do you guys get e-mail viruses then?
It's easy. Most people aren't paranoid skeptical cynics that have to de-worm and cleanse these machines after they have become infected like we are. Most are more along the lines of "OMG this is so COOL!" or "OMG Free Pr0N!".
My german professor once mentioned that you could go to the consulate of the country in question and get reimbursed for some or all of your taxes (assuming you have reciepts)
You can get re-imbursed. But generally, it is of so little ammount it is not worth it. If you're on a $3,000+ trip to Europe and spend a hundred or so on souvenirs, I don't think you're gonna worry about ~$10. However, that is besides the point in this case. While there, I still pay the tax. That I can get re-imbursed later is a different matter.
Here is a link on it. One of the things that it mentions is that there is a minimum ammount you have to spend to get re-imbursed for the VAT spent.
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If, as a public, we want the freedom to hack our stuff, we have to take the responsibility for the possible consequences back upon ourselves.
/sarcasm
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Preaching personal responsibility? Why you sir must be a right wing religious nut! I'll have you know that no american can make up their mind and be expected to do the right thing without congress telling them what to do. That is, after all, why we have Social Security, medicare, medicaid and all these other programs as people can not be expected to make the right decisions for themselves.
That aside, you are fully right. It seems like every stupid lawsuit I hear about is because some idiot won't take personal responsibility for themselves and/or wasn't using common sense. For example, rear ending someone and sueing the person you rear ended for not having moved. Trimming a hedge with a lawn mower (while wearing sandals no less) sueing when you lose some toes. Couple more I have heard of, but all from people refusing to admit that they were an idiot.
In my country, so called people's army had exactly such a database of all students, because every student was actualy a recruit on delay. But that was deep past in the totalitarian communist era. Today it would be illegal to keep such data for any reason. What's exactly going on in the USA??? Is it a precursor to conscription?
You mean like how everyone upon turning 18 must join the service (for min 2 years) like in Germany, Switzerland, Israel...
Apparently you missed the last line of the poster:
Military recruitment is usually a win/win proposition. Let's not forget how much service personnel GET from the US government. I'm one of them and I can attest to it.
There would have to be a extreme increase in military funding before any drafting would occur.
For some reason a lot of people (usually leaning left) seem to forget that the military, even with ~500 billion, does not have to buy clothing, food, housing, equipment, fuel and munitions. Or do things such as research, supply health care and base upkeep.
Lets see, at $15k/year pay check+ at least another $15k per year of housing/food/equipment and other necesities that's $30k per person per year minimum, lets say we have 30 million people between the ages of 18 to 25, that would be 15 million males. Say a third can not do so for medical reasons. That leaves 10 million males at $30k/year. So the military would need at least $300 Billion more for a full all out draft. Then there is the cost of equipment and training...
The government needed a draft to help ensure it had the necessary military strength to survive attacks and invasions. The draft was created for defensive purposes.
Don't forget that every time we've enstated the draft, we never had a full standing army at the time. From 1776 through 1941, everytime a war was over there were drastic reductions in the size of the military to a barebones force. Post WWII was the first time that there was no large reduction (90+%). That came in ~1992 after the breakup of the USSR (~50% reduction).
The European and US subsidies to farmers are the greatest example to this: where an income stream (and way to develop) could be given to a 3rd world farmer, Western governments subsidise their farms and tax imports.
Farming is one place where any country must be encouraged (even at the price of subsidies) to be completely elf sufficient. More from a security point of view than anything else. In times of war, you really don't want to have to worry about trade routes. In case someone else has a famine/flood/drought, you don't want your country to lost it's supply of food.
There are a few other areas countries (any and all) should be completely self sufficient in for various reasons. However, that is the main one.
Sure, since 50 years ago (1955), it was pretty much like it is today...well, except for the Internet, the Cold War and Globalization
Globalization has been happening for several hundred years. Start with China's and Spain's silver trade for one. Nothing new, just no one noticed it until recently.
Specifically, it has become overrun with the sort of rich people that give rich people a bad name. The sort of charicatures that leftists and arachists always speak of. Snotty, snobbish, self-important, "do-you-know-who-I-am?!" types.
Interesting, considering CT is a very liberal/leftist state. And yes, I have been there. Just last year I finished my final year of college in West Hartford.
and they have alleged that persons who were at the time employed by or later became employed by Apple were present at both trade shows and viewed Contois' software
This is no big deal. If you are in the same field/industry, you go to the same trade shows. I was just at a trade show with some senior Sony execs and I checked out their booth. Why? I work in TV. I never talked to them, but I was seeing what equipment they had coming to market soon. As for viewing the Contois's software, it's called checking out the competition. Everyone does it. That's like saying someone is guilty of stealing anothers car because they went to the same auto show.
Ok, so magnetic shielding doesn't appear is will work.
That leaves protection from the sandblasting. If we are talking about robots, we don't need them to last forever, just long enough to do their job. So the outer shell just needs to be made of a tough material. Although, given that we can create diamonds today, why not just give them a diamond coating? That shouldn't have a problem with the sand blasting of the dust. We wouldn't even have to grow a single diamond large enough to cover the entire surface, just overlapping/interlocking plates of diamonds, similar to how roofs/jigsawpuzzles are made. Would that work for armor? Last I heard, a sandblasting wouldn't do much damage to a diamond.
We just came up with some miracle "demagnatizing spray" that would blow off the dust. I'd like to see how they pull this off without made up technologies.
Two possibilities here (that currently exist).
1) Encase the outside of the robots in a fairly hard/robust plastic/plexiglass. Make sure that any exposed surfaces have no metal on them. Hopefully the dust isn't charge enough to be attracted through the covering.
2) This idea relies on the assumption that the dust is all charged positive or negative (I don't know if it is all charged one way or not, that is just what this hinges on). Ionize the robot the same polarity as the charge particles. We do this with buildings right now to prevent lighning strikes. Should cause the ionized particles to be repelled. ALternatively, set up a magnetic field around the robots to do the same.
Technically, haven't we terraformed Earth by cutting down forests, building cities where heat builds up in localized areas, and by raising the temperature of the globe? We definitely have the potential for it, but we need to work on applying it positively.
Supposedly we've been doing this for the past 10,000 years which is why we aren't undergoing an ice age right now. Aborting an ice age sounds positive to me.
What about those kids who got in trouble with the SS (secret service) when the sang a parody of a song, containing words "kill" and "clinton", etc? Bah.
We've had 44 presidents, 4 assasinated while in office. 4 more who have had attempts on their life while in office. That's 18% of the the presidents so far.
The Secret Services job is to protect the President, his family, other high ranking officials and their families and foriegn dignitaries. They take their job seriously. They investigate ALL instances of possible threats because one of them just might be real. A guy I knew was pissed at a cop and said "I'm gonna kill the president!" The SS showed up at his door by the end of the week to find out if he was a threat or not. They found out he wasn't and left him alone.
So clarify what you mean by the kids or let the SS do their job.
Thanks, we've got a couple thousand photos/negatives scattered throughout the country in my family that aren't duplicated any place else. Plus, we have some really old negative formats (such as negatives that are 5"x6" and 3"x4", yes those are negatives) that we want to get spread to others just inc ase something happens to the original.
We scanned the pictures using a kick-ass negative scanner from Nikon that we bought refurbed (and then sold on eBay for a profit)
OT I know but, Quick question. Which model did you buy. I am looking for one for scanning in a whole bunch of old family photos and need a fairly good one.
Theatre: Watch movie on a 60+ foot television (been in one that was 80-100)
Home: 32 inch TV if you are lucky.
and waiting to see how a small, Midwest-based chain called Micro Center fares in selling Linux software
There is one of these in Fairfax, VA. How are they midwest?
That said, I'm gonna have to stop by my local one and check out the linux boxes. Been a while since I have been in there. Oh, and link to locations.
Read the summary for this proposed bill. Future seems a little shaky now doesn't it -- How does "Darth Bush" sound to you? (Amendment 22 is concerned with that little thing about only having two terms as president, for those non USoAians)
Interesting what you fail to note. The primary sponsor is a Democrat. As are 3 of the 4 cosponsors.
That said, the 22nd was only enacted about 50-60 years ago after FDR won his 4th term.
We get a lot of energy from oil.
Most of the energy we get from oil is used in cars. For creating liquid oxygen/hydrogen we would/do use powerplants that run on primarily on Coal and Nuclear. That pretty much invalidates any reason to worry about peak oil in relation to the rest of the argument.
I always thought people would just stop grousing about nuclear power so much once oil became prohibitively expensive, but I guess that's just me. We'll see what happens.
Personally, I like nuclear more and hope we get more of it as well. Just as soon as we start re-enriching the spen fuel rods most of the waste problem goes away,
Lets build this then and send it up in one piece:
http://www.nuclearspace.com/a_liberty_ship.htm
1) Put a manufacturing base on the moon.
2) Build solar powered launch catapult.
3) Build space station.
The shuttle uses Liquid Hydrogen and Liquid Oxygen. They get it by spliting water. What does peak oil have to do with it?
Saturn 5 was good only for putting a man on the moon and returning him home. Effectively Zero payload capacity for pretty much anything else. As a technology, it's a dead end and not good for anything else.
I don't understand how anyone can get e-mail viruses easily. i never get any e-mail viruses, but when I do, it's either too obvious and I delete them. how do you guys get e-mail viruses then?
It's easy. Most people aren't paranoid skeptical cynics that have to de-worm and cleanse these machines after they have become infected like we are. Most are more along the lines of "OMG this is so COOL!" or "OMG Free Pr0N!".
My german professor once mentioned that you could go to the consulate of the country in question and get reimbursed for some or all of your taxes (assuming you have reciepts)
You can get re-imbursed. But generally, it is of so little ammount it is not worth it. If you're on a $3,000+ trip to Europe and spend a hundred or so on souvenirs, I don't think you're gonna worry about ~$10. However, that is besides the point in this case. While there, I still pay the tax. That I can get re-imbursed later is a different matter.
Here is a link on it. One of the things that it mentions is that there is a minimum ammount you have to spend to get re-imbursed for the VAT spent.