He will have to change the plot. The original Avatar was banned from China. At the time, China was having some serious unrest and violence over rural land rights, and the Avatar plot was just too close to reality. But the Chinese market is much bigger today, and may have already surpassed America as the world's biggest movie market. So the story line will likely have to be adjusted to accommodate the Chinese government.
I mean, what are you going to do, have everyone move houses and buildings to other locations? What a waste of time.
Given a minute or so of warning, you can: 1. Stop trains, so they don't come off the track. 2. Stop additional cars from entering tunnels. 3. Pretension dampers in tall structures 4. Sound an alarm to warn people in warehouses and stores to move away from shelves. 5. Pull up automatic safely webbing to prevent pallets from falling off racks. 6. Stop and lower cargo on forklifts. 7. Start powering down heavy machinery 8. Stop people from entering elevators 9. Open fire station doors, so they don't jam closed. 10. Shutdown the flames in furnaces and water heaters 11. Start reducing gas pressure in pipelines. 12. Warn people on beaches to start moving to higher ground. 13. Start backup diesels for emergency services. 14. Retract the control rods from nuclear reactors.
Since seismic waves travel about 5 km / sec, you can give useful warning to people further away just by quick detection. Of course, prediction would be better.
Your "friend" visited the heavily scripted tourist areas of North Korea. It's not an accurate comparison.
... and you know this because your government's propaganda told you to believe it.
Learn to think for yourself. Go to Google maps, and pan across the DMZ. Compare random areas of north and south. SK is definitely better off, but the difference is not as dramatic as you have been led to believe.
Yep and it doesn't require batteries or fancy schmancy AI based navigation tricks
Exactly. Whey use a $20 battery and zero-marginal cost software, when you can simply use a pneumatic system that requires billions of dollars of subterranean infrastructure that doesn't exist.
if delivery is to ordinary people, ease of accessing goods delivered will triumph over security.
That is true for human-delivered goods as well. UPS and FedEx just toss packages on my front porch. USPS leaves packages in my unlocked mailbox. Yet I have never had a package stolen. How will these robots be any less secure than the current system?
To be fair to these people, I'm starting to wonder why I work when I could collect welfare instead.
Go apply for welfare, and you will find out. It is unlikely you will qualify. Neither do most homeless people. America spends far less on welfare than most people realize.
You should apply for SSDI instead. Just say your back hurts.
I would agree but it's too late to put that genie back in the bottle, which means if that region falls into a oil-demand depression then the entire world will become a less safer place.
It takes resources to be a threat. There are plenty of extremists in dirt poor places like Somalia and northeast Nigeria, but they pose little threat outside their home regions... and even there, the extremism is promoted by funding from Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia.
Because you can replace it with something faster, lighter, with more memory, a better battery, and greater screen resolution. People often use their phones for hours everyday, and for many people their phone is their main computing device. It is silly to use something inferior if you can easily afford to upgrade. Eventually, phone technology will plateau, but the difference between a phone from 2013 and today is still significant.
Things are unstable enough as it is in that territory. Matters could get a lot worse if they lose their only major source of income.
The Middle East is unstable because of the oil wealth. Most terrorism comes from the wealthiest ME countries, not the poorest. If a government gets most of its wealth from oil, it has little need to be concerned about the welfare or aspirations of the people, other than to just keep them under control. So you get a corrupt and repressive elite, and seething resentment from the population. Saudi Arabia is the worst case, and has bred the most terrorists, including Osama bin Laden, and 15/19 of the 911 hijackers.
Trump only exists as a candidate because the Republicans have done such a bad job of representing the average working-class guy who votes Republican.
Isn't that the whole idea? Get the masses riled up over sex, abortion, and drag queens in the women's restroom, and you can get them to vote for corporate tax breaks and carried interest deductions.
I mostly blame it on people voting strictly based on party and not the actual candidate...
People did look at the actual candidates. The Republican Party in California is completely dysfunctional, and totally out of touch with the electorate. It was difficult, but they actually found people that were worse than Feinstein.
California is a one-party state. The only hope getting rid of Feinstein is a primary challenge, and that would be extremely difficult, and very expensive in a big state like California. Feinstein would have the establishment support, and plenty of money from both donors and her family fortune.
It will be fun listening to all the right-wing nut-bars after Trump goes down in flames.
Trump is not "right-wing". He draws his strongest support from independents, and tends to do poorly in more partisan closed primaries. Many of his views are anathema to the right-wing, and many conservative talk radio hosts detest him. Talk radio is credited with his defeat in the Wisconsin primaries. Trump is a populist, with a mish-mash of views, without any ideological consistency.
It's kind of odd to me to hear that people still buy DVDs and Blu-Rays in the Golden Age of Streaming.
1. If you want to stay legal, there are WAY more movies available on DVD than via streaming. 2. You can buy used DVDs, watch them, and then sell them for about what you paid for them.
Which, needless to say, is a strong indication he really was spying for the Chinese.
Not really. The 1950s were a time of totalitarian Maoism, and millions were starving during The Great Leap Forward. He had little choice but to do the bidding of the Chinese government. There was no evidence that he committed any espionage will he was in America, nor was he ever even accused of that. He was just accused of having "communist sympathies". His return to China was controversial at the time, and some high level people thought it was extremely stupid. But McCarthyism was raging in America at the time, and common sense was in short supply.
How the hell would that solve the underlying problem?
A big first step would be information transparency. Require doctors to publicly post their prices. Prohibit them from banning patients for posting reviews. Malpractice information, and outcome data should be publicly available.
Years ago, I lived in a small 2bdrm house in the midwest, worth only $50k. Then I moved to California, and I lived in my van for six months. I worked hard, and saved. But it was worth it. Today, I live in a small 2bdrm house worth nearly $1M.
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He will have to change the plot. The original Avatar was banned from China. At the time, China was having some serious unrest and violence over rural land rights, and the Avatar plot was just too close to reality. But the Chinese market is much bigger today, and may have already surpassed America as the world's biggest movie market. So the story line will likely have to be adjusted to accommodate the Chinese government.
The Republicans in my town want to tear down an out of date power plant and build 50 acres of condos. Fortunately the people voted that down.
Why is that fortunate? People need someplace to live, and high density condos are better than the alternative of suburban sprawl.
I mean, what are you going to do, have everyone move houses and buildings to other locations? What a waste of time.
Given a minute or so of warning, you can:
1. Stop trains, so they don't come off the track.
2. Stop additional cars from entering tunnels.
3. Pretension dampers in tall structures
4. Sound an alarm to warn people in warehouses and stores to move away from shelves.
5. Pull up automatic safely webbing to prevent pallets from falling off racks.
6. Stop and lower cargo on forklifts.
7. Start powering down heavy machinery
8. Stop people from entering elevators
9. Open fire station doors, so they don't jam closed.
10. Shutdown the flames in furnaces and water heaters
11. Start reducing gas pressure in pipelines.
12. Warn people on beaches to start moving to higher ground.
13. Start backup diesels for emergency services.
14. Retract the control rods from nuclear reactors.
Since seismic waves travel about 5 km / sec, you can give useful warning to people further away just by quick detection. Of course, prediction would be better.
For only $500,000 per dose.
But only $20 in Canada.
Your "friend" visited the heavily scripted tourist areas of North Korea. It's not an accurate comparison.
... and you know this because your government's propaganda told you to believe it.
Learn to think for yourself. Go to Google maps, and pan across the DMZ. Compare random areas of north and south. SK is definitely better off, but the difference is not as dramatic as you have been led to believe.
Yep and it doesn't require batteries or fancy schmancy AI based navigation tricks
Exactly. Whey use a $20 battery and zero-marginal cost software, when you can simply use a pneumatic system that requires billions of dollars of subterranean infrastructure that doesn't exist.
Any bad mooded teenager can take such a drone out by a simple kick.
... and would be caught on camera doing so. It would be much simpler and safer for the teenager to just vandalize parked cars.
if delivery is to ordinary people, ease of accessing goods delivered will triumph over security.
That is true for human-delivered goods as well. UPS and FedEx just toss packages on my front porch. USPS leaves packages in my unlocked mailbox. Yet I have never had a package stolen. How will these robots be any less secure than the current system?
To be fair to these people, I'm starting to wonder why I work when I could collect welfare instead.
Go apply for welfare, and you will find out. It is unlikely you will qualify. Neither do most homeless people. America spends far less on welfare than most people realize.
You should apply for SSDI instead. Just say your back hurts.
The gap between poor and rich is ever increasing.
People are not homeless because they are poor. They are homeless because they are mentally ill, usually combined with alcohol and drug abuse.
We need to address both poverty and homelessness, but they are two very different issues.
I would agree but it's too late to put that genie back in the bottle, which means if that region falls into a oil-demand depression then the entire world will become a less safer place.
It takes resources to be a threat. There are plenty of extremists in dirt poor places like Somalia and northeast Nigeria, but they pose little threat outside their home regions ... and even there, the extremism is promoted by funding from Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia.
Why?
Because you can replace it with something faster, lighter, with more memory, a better battery, and greater screen resolution. People often use their phones for hours everyday, and for many people their phone is their main computing device. It is silly to use something inferior if you can easily afford to upgrade. Eventually, phone technology will plateau, but the difference between a phone from 2013 and today is still significant.
Things are unstable enough as it is in that territory. Matters could get a lot worse if they lose their only major source of income.
The Middle East is unstable because of the oil wealth. Most terrorism comes from the wealthiest ME countries, not the poorest. If a government gets most of its wealth from oil, it has little need to be concerned about the welfare or aspirations of the people, other than to just keep them under control. So you get a corrupt and repressive elite, and seething resentment from the population. Saudi Arabia is the worst case, and has bred the most terrorists, including Osama bin Laden, and 15/19 of the 911 hijackers.
$1800 is a reasonable price for a cutting edge product like this.
Back in 1983, I paid $5000 for a 4 MHz PC, and I was happy to have it.
Trump only exists as a candidate because the Republicans have done such a bad job of representing the average working-class guy who votes Republican.
Isn't that the whole idea? Get the masses riled up over sex, abortion, and drag queens in the women's restroom, and you can get them to vote for corporate tax breaks and carried interest deductions.
Can I start my letter with the phrase, "Diane, you ignorant slut!" ???
If you call her "ignorant", then you probably should spell her correctly. It is Dianne.
I mostly blame it on people voting strictly based on party and not the actual candidate...
People did look at the actual candidates. The Republican Party in California is completely dysfunctional, and totally out of touch with the electorate. It was difficult, but they actually found people that were worse than Feinstein.
California is a one-party state. The only hope getting rid of Feinstein is a primary challenge, and that would be extremely difficult, and very expensive in a big state like California. Feinstein would have the establishment support, and plenty of money from both donors and her family fortune.
It will be fun listening to all the right-wing nut-bars after Trump goes down in flames.
Trump is not "right-wing". He draws his strongest support from independents, and tends to do poorly in more partisan closed primaries. Many of his views are anathema to the right-wing, and many conservative talk radio hosts detest him. Talk radio is credited with his defeat in the Wisconsin primaries. Trump is a populist, with a mish-mash of views, without any ideological consistency.
the amount of ambient light is impressive.
Meh. It is not as impressive as everyone using a 500 Tera-Watt NIF laser.
It's kind of odd to me to hear that people still buy DVDs and Blu-Rays in the Golden Age of Streaming.
1. If you want to stay legal, there are WAY more movies available on DVD than via streaming.
2. You can buy used DVDs, watch them, and then sell them for about what you paid for them.
Which, needless to say, is a strong indication he really was spying for the Chinese.
Not really. The 1950s were a time of totalitarian Maoism, and millions were starving during The Great Leap Forward. He had little choice but to do the bidding of the Chinese government. There was no evidence that he committed any espionage will he was in America, nor was he ever even accused of that. He was just accused of having "communist sympathies". His return to China was controversial at the time, and some high level people thought it was extremely stupid. But McCarthyism was raging in America at the time, and common sense was in short supply.
How about putting her in jail for fraud?
Because jails should be used to protect the public from violent criminals, not as a substitute for VC due diligence.
I get the results in 24 hours on their phone app, I can order my own tests, test are a FRACTION of the cost
1. Cheap
2. Fast
3. Accurate
You can pick any 2, as long as you don't pick #3.
How the hell would that solve the underlying problem?
A big first step would be information transparency. Require doctors to publicly post their prices. Prohibit them from banning patients for posting reviews. Malpractice information, and outcome data should be publicly available.
I own a house that is worth maybe 20 or 30k
Years ago, I lived in a small 2bdrm house in the midwest, worth only $50k. Then I moved to California, and I lived in my van for six months. I worked hard, and saved. But it was worth it. Today, I live in a small 2bdrm house worth nearly $1M.