Except that if the thieves are even moderately intelligent the phones will go through at least one or two levels of being sold to random people out of the trunk of a car. They might nab a few people for possession of stolen property but the only info they'll probably get out of them is " i got it from some [black|white|hispanic] guy, i think his car was blue, or maybe black, or was it green?"
You're correct when looking at the larger picture, however on some scales people do profit from jails and prisons (primarily the correctional officers who work there, but if i wasn't so hungover I'm sure i could come up with a few other examples). If you look beyond incarceration there are many people and organizations who profit from fines, tickets, court costs, probation fees, and free / cheap labor from people sentences to "community service" or on work release programs.
We can already manufacture these on earth with carbon vapor deposition. Not that I'm arguing against advancing spaceflight or mining asteroids, you just mine asteroids and use the materials to build stuff in space, not send it down to Earth.
Yeah, this is only the second time I've heard anything about it, the previous one being a slashdot article saying essentially "this might be really cool."
My son was born 11 days ago so i have a recent anecdote on this. My son latched on to the nipple within 2 minutes of being born. Pretty much as soon as my girlfriend put his mouth next to it he chomped down.
Ergh. Maybe in small doses to help you sleep. In larger doses diphenhydramine causes auditory hallucinations. Not a good idea for somebody already emotionally unstable.
Not to mention you're asking slashdot. Somebody here could know the guy who maintains it, or at least know somebody who mentioned to them that he got hit by a bus.
Exactly. I have 3 girlfriends that i've been involved with for some time (4, 3, and 1 years). One of them has a boyfriend and one of them has a girlfriend (whom we sometimes get together with for group play.) This brings our sexual contact group to a total of 6. They all know about each other and have decided the pro's (sex with me, occasionally sex with each other) outweigh the cons (having to share, worrying about one of the others bringing in an STD, worrying about somebody getting jealous).
Sometimes we decide to temporarily bring another person into our sexual group, but we always pass the word around and make sure they have a recent STD screening. All in all the arrangement works out for everybody involved, we're all sexually satisfied and relatively safe.
My girlfriend is something like 3/16th native american, (all 3 parts coming from different tribes, but her mother still goes to pow-wows so I think it counts more, or something...) so I guess our son (who will be born any day now) will be 3/32nds (assuming I don't have any in my blood I don't know about, haven't really researched too far back on my mom's side).
Wow, that sentence had more asides than content...
This is more like your neighbor giving you an apple, you then planting the seeds, and using those apples to bake a pie, and then being sued by the farmer who sold your friend the apple.
If the teacher needs the answer handed to them they shouldn't be teaching the class. Forcing the teachers to read the textbook and solve the problems at least once will go a long way towards making sure there are no glaring errors in the text (or our teacher selection). And if the book is open source, then they can simply submit a patch and everybody benefits.
In my opinion giving life in general a chance to continue should something happen to the Earth is a worthy enough cause. I've often dreamt of designing autonomous starships that investigate stellar systems. If there is no life there they would seed the planets with hardy bacteria, mine some material to replicate itself, and sends a copy or two of itself on to the next star systems while it parks in orbit or on a moon somewhere to wait and greet anything intelligent that might evolve and tell them where they came from.
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Really? I mean, sure, technically they're supposed to find probable cause first, but normally that just amounts to telling their dog to bark at the car, or having their detective shove his head in your window and claim to smell pot.
Or do I simply have the misfortune of living in the only town where cops routinely ignore the law so that they can get as many arrests as possible and get their department some of that sweet sweet federal drug enforcement money and buy a half dozen new suped up dodge chargers?
You don't mine stuff in space to send to Earth. You mine stuff in space to build more stuff in space. If we can start building spacecraft and habitats without having to worry about pushing them out of a huge gravity well we have the potential to greatly expand our exploration and habitation of space.
If we want intelligent life from Earth to survive in the long run, inevitably we need to move towards self-sufficient space colonies.
Sort of like the "DO NOT PUT IN FIRE" already on every battery we produce? If these things put out enough oxygen to produce a localised fire hazard while recharging, well they must be recharging pretty damn quick. I would consider this a feature. It seems to me all we would need to do to mitigate this risk (if it is even there) is make sure the recharging stations have a little fan in them to disperse the oxygen quickly.
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If I were her I would fly to Canada or Europe and see if they'll treat it.
You're basing this on the assumption that malware authors are going to use the syntactically correct terminology in their flash adverts.
Off topic but funny. From the link you posted: "This video requires Flash Player version 8. Your Flash Player is version 10 [Upgrade Now]"
Except that if the thieves are even moderately intelligent the phones will go through at least one or two levels of being sold to random people out of the trunk of a car. They might nab a few people for possession of stolen property but the only info they'll probably get out of them is " i got it from some [black|white|hispanic] guy, i think his car was blue, or maybe black, or was it green?"
You're correct when looking at the larger picture, however on some scales people do profit from jails and prisons (primarily the correctional officers who work there, but if i wasn't so hungover I'm sure i could come up with a few other examples). If you look beyond incarceration there are many people and organizations who profit from fines, tickets, court costs, probation fees, and free / cheap labor from people sentences to "community service" or on work release programs.
After reading the title i quickly tagged this "redmars"
We can already manufacture these on earth with carbon vapor deposition. Not that I'm arguing against advancing spaceflight or mining asteroids, you just mine asteroids and use the materials to build stuff in space, not send it down to Earth.
Yeah they weren't "fringe" but they sure as hell broke all the time.
Yeah, this is only the second time I've heard anything about it, the previous one being a slashdot article saying essentially "this might be really cool."
My son was born 11 days ago so i have a recent anecdote on this. My son latched on to the nipple within 2 minutes of being born. Pretty much as soon as my girlfriend put his mouth next to it he chomped down.
Ergh. Maybe in small doses to help you sleep. In larger doses diphenhydramine causes auditory hallucinations. Not a good idea for somebody already emotionally unstable.
*ding ding ding* We have a winner! Sir Lewk wins by knockout in the 6th round.
As reward you get this friend belt. Blakey Rat gets foe'd for being a meanie.
(I know this is dumb, I'm sleep deprived)
EXACTLY. My son is only 10 days old and I'm already getting a little loopy from sleep deprivation.
What is the specific project you're fixing up?
Not to mention you're asking slashdot. Somebody here could know the guy who maintains it, or at least know somebody who mentioned to them that he got hit by a bus.
Exactly. I have 3 girlfriends that i've been involved with for some time (4, 3, and 1 years). One of them has a boyfriend and one of them has a girlfriend (whom we sometimes get together with for group play.) This brings our sexual contact group to a total of 6. They all know about each other and have decided the pro's (sex with me, occasionally sex with each other) outweigh the cons (having to share, worrying about one of the others bringing in an STD, worrying about somebody getting jealous).
Sometimes we decide to temporarily bring another person into our sexual group, but we always pass the word around and make sure they have a recent STD screening. All in all the arrangement works out for everybody involved, we're all sexually satisfied and relatively safe.
My girlfriend is something like 3/16th native american, (all 3 parts coming from different tribes, but her mother still goes to pow-wows so I think it counts more, or something...) so I guess our son (who will be born any day now) will be 3/32nds (assuming I don't have any in my blood I don't know about, haven't really researched too far back on my mom's side).
Wow, that sentence had more asides than content...
This is more like your neighbor giving you an apple, you then planting the seeds, and using those apples to bake a pie, and then being sued by the farmer who sold your friend the apple.
So did you buy your uid on ebay? Or just have a very odd definition of 'new'?
My girl calls mine WAD - Weapon of Ass Destruction
If the teacher needs the answer handed to them they shouldn't be teaching the class. Forcing the teachers to read the textbook and solve the problems at least once will go a long way towards making sure there are no glaring errors in the text (or our teacher selection). And if the book is open source, then they can simply submit a patch and everybody benefits.
In my opinion giving life in general a chance to continue should something happen to the Earth is a worthy enough cause. I've often dreamt of designing autonomous starships that investigate stellar systems. If there is no life there they would seed the planets with hardy bacteria, mine some material to replicate itself, and sends a copy or two of itself on to the next star systems while it parks in orbit or on a moon somewhere to wait and greet anything intelligent that might evolve and tell them where they came from.
they need a reason to search someone.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHA AHAHAH hahah aha ha heee hoooooooooo oooh oooh.
Really? I mean, sure, technically they're supposed to find probable cause first, but normally that just amounts to telling their dog to bark at the car, or having their detective shove his head in your window and claim to smell pot.
Or do I simply have the misfortune of living in the only town where cops routinely ignore the law so that they can get as many arrests as possible and get their department some of that sweet sweet federal drug enforcement money and buy a half dozen new suped up dodge chargers?
You don't mine stuff in space to send to Earth. You mine stuff in space to build more stuff in space. If we can start building spacecraft and habitats without having to worry about pushing them out of a huge gravity well we have the potential to greatly expand our exploration and habitation of space.
If we want intelligent life from Earth to survive in the long run, inevitably we need to move towards self-sufficient space colonies.
Sort of like the "DO NOT PUT IN FIRE" already on every battery we produce? If these things put out enough oxygen to produce a localised fire hazard while recharging, well they must be recharging pretty damn quick. I would consider this a feature. It seems to me all we would need to do to mitigate this risk (if it is even there) is make sure the recharging stations have a little fan in them to disperse the oxygen quickly.
That seems like an awfully small target audience. Purveyors of this handbag music must be really dedicated to their genre.