Atleast the mission impossible agents were given a choice, "Your mission, if you choose to accept it". Vodafone's tape starts out as "Your mission, which is a core item of your monthly performance review".
Apparently these evil overlords calling themselves scientists aren't following entry 12 of the evil overlord list. Specifically keeping a 5 year old child on staff to spot these glaringly obvious fatal flaws in their evil schemes.
Good thing though. Virtuous hero AC here can exploit that flaw and save us from their evil oil-seawater separation plot.
Tomato growers. Every hydroponics user I've talked to in the last 20 years have all been tomato growers. Really passionate about it too. A bit paranoid and secretive too. Must be a really competitive field, tomato growing.
Bah, maybe in 2010. But this is 2015, 204.8" is the base minimum to use today's apps. The next big thing is Google's new Android '95 OS, which is multi-tasking but needs atleast 819.2".
There's one way to advance space flight and colonize the solar system. Moonshiners looking for a place to run their stills, and tax men following close behind. We'd have colonies on mars growing modified corn within 10 years.
The other would be to allow porn to be made on the ISS. Nothing spurs innovation like the quest for kinkier smut.
If it's cheap enough I can see a wave of hangover clinics opening in college towns across the country. Shoudln't need more than a single on site doctor and some nurses to staff it. Offer a monday morning special. Filter out the bad stuff and infuse some caffeine at the same time. A saline bag with 300mg of caffeine is probably about as expensive as a cup of starbucks anyway.
Apple. Microsoft employs weasels in their marketing department, not car dealers.
"Now see here son. Not only is this here Macbook the purdiest thang this side of the Mississippi, but it's also a real investment in your future. You buy this and I guarantee you'll get atleast half your money back when you trade up in 5 years. Guaranteed. Can't say that about any of those other clunkers out there. They lose 95% of their value as soon as you get one. Might as well be pissing your money down the drain. Pardon my french."
Yeah, yeah, we get it. You want some of that corporate america money for yourself but that annoying FCPA law stops them from giving you the bribes you deserve.
You're really dipping into classic villain territory here. Insulting someone for taking the moral high ground even if it means a minor inconvenience (slightly reduced profits).
If the EM drive does turn out to be a usable reactionless thruster then an automated debris cleaning satellite is very possible. It could rendezvous with debris, close in on it as slowly as needed, and snag it with a magnetic front plate or something else. When enough debris is collected it enters a deorbit or moon collision trajectory, releases the stored debris, then burns itself back up to a stable orbit to target more debris.
Give the thing a grapple arm and it could double as a service transport to grab old satellites and bring them to a station that can deal with the satellite not having a standardized servicing design.
Plus they had issues with the other codecs they were writing.
ODIN: Great audio but missing half the video. LOKI: The resulting video was always a rickroll. HEIMDALL: Good video but the DRM was harsh. JOTUN: Kept freezing up.
There's a good reason not to make them smarter too. Sensors could be used to detect military movements and possibly find small/stealth unit movements as well. So a sufficiently paranoid nation or group could decide to destroy those sensors.
No company would want to give north korea or isis a reason to actively target undersea cables.
Nah. Having that time offset would be admitting someone else is the center of time. NK is really +0 and everyone else is at a -24 or more offset from them. And it has always been this way since the Eternal President created the concept of time 67 years ago.
The target does not change the legalities of the action. The state is compelled to investigate and rule. But the punishment is up to their discretion (barring horrid minimum sentencing laws like some jail obsessed countries have). So while they likely will be found guilty, a smart judge will punish them with a pinkie promise not to do it again.
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Atleast the mission impossible agents were given a choice, "Your mission, if you choose to accept it".
Vodafone's tape starts out as "Your mission, which is a core item of your monthly performance review".
Apparently these evil overlords calling themselves scientists aren't following entry 12 of the evil overlord list.
Specifically keeping a 5 year old child on staff to spot these glaringly obvious fatal flaws in their evil schemes.
Good thing though. Virtuous hero AC here can exploit that flaw and save us from their evil oil-seawater separation plot.
Tomato growers. Every hydroponics user I've talked to in the last 20 years have all been tomato growers.
Really passionate about it too. A bit paranoid and secretive too. Must be a really competitive field, tomato growing.
M is for More. M is for Money. With M you can spend More Money.
Shouldn't it be called Wi-Fri?
Don't forget region locking. Because materials behave completely differently when you cross country borders.
Plus with service that fast you'll blow through your bandwidth cap in 40 seconds.
Bah, maybe in 2010. But this is 2015, 204.8" is the base minimum to use today's apps.
The next big thing is Google's new Android '95 OS, which is multi-tasking but needs atleast 819.2".
There's one way to advance space flight and colonize the solar system. Moonshiners looking for a place to run their stills, and tax men following close behind.
We'd have colonies on mars growing modified corn within 10 years.
The other would be to allow porn to be made on the ISS.
Nothing spurs innovation like the quest for kinkier smut.
Hey, if a government issued license says I can conceal it, then reality better follow suit. I want hammerspace damnit.
I wonder if concealed carry permits cover broadswords?
If it's cheap enough I can see a wave of hangover clinics opening in college towns across the country. Shoudln't need more than a single on site doctor and some nurses to staff it.
Offer a monday morning special. Filter out the bad stuff and infuse some caffeine at the same time. A saline bag with 300mg of caffeine is probably about as expensive as a cup of starbucks anyway.
Of course they're working hard on their launch capabilities. How else are they going to get their giant mecha into space?
Apple.
Microsoft employs weasels in their marketing department, not car dealers.
"Now see here son. Not only is this here Macbook the purdiest thang this side of the Mississippi, but it's also a real investment in your future. You buy this and I guarantee you'll get atleast half your money back when you trade up in 5 years. Guaranteed.
Can't say that about any of those other clunkers out there. They lose 95% of their value as soon as you get one. Might as well be pissing your money down the drain. Pardon my french."
Yeah, yeah, we get it. You want some of that corporate america money for yourself but that annoying FCPA law stops them from giving you the bribes you deserve.
You're really dipping into classic villain territory here. Insulting someone for taking the moral high ground even if it means a minor inconvenience (slightly reduced profits).
Military contractors are being forced to tighten their belts and only spend 50 weeks a year vacationing in the bahamas.
If the EM drive does turn out to be a usable reactionless thruster then an automated debris cleaning satellite is very possible.
It could rendezvous with debris, close in on it as slowly as needed, and snag it with a magnetic front plate or something else. When enough debris is collected it enters a deorbit or moon collision trajectory, releases the stored debris, then burns itself back up to a stable orbit to target more debris.
Give the thing a grapple arm and it could double as a service transport to grab old satellites and bring them to a station that can deal with the satellite not having a standardized servicing design.
THOR is still the strongest of the codecs, and lightning fast to boot.
Plus they had issues with the other codecs they were writing.
ODIN: Great audio but missing half the video.
LOKI: The resulting video was always a rickroll.
HEIMDALL: Good video but the DRM was harsh.
JOTUN: Kept freezing up.
There's a good reason not to make them smarter too.
Sensors could be used to detect military movements and possibly find small/stealth unit movements as well. So a sufficiently paranoid nation or group could decide to destroy those sensors.
No company would want to give north korea or isis a reason to actively target undersea cables.
They were going to use the tagline "Alphabits and Bytes!", but Post would get litigious.
Still waiting for "NAND-Gate", where some big flash memory manufacture is caught using another companies designs or something.
Nah. Having that time offset would be admitting someone else is the center of time.
NK is really +0 and everyone else is at a -24 or more offset from them. And it has always been this way since the Eternal President created the concept of time 67 years ago.
Boring is where work gets done.
The target does not change the legalities of the action. The state is compelled to investigate and rule.
But the punishment is up to their discretion (barring horrid minimum sentencing laws like some jail obsessed countries have). So while they likely will be found guilty, a smart judge will punish them with a pinkie promise not to do it again.