Just because the license is used as a means of determining what account to debit from, it doesn't necessarily mean that the government has unrestricted access/control of your accounts. The transaction still has to be approved by you in some way, and probably by the mediating company guarding your account, so fears that the government is going to have a way to immediately charge you for fines and tickets are completely unfounded.
That's right kiddies, lose weight, code better, and feel better. Commenting does it all, it's the new miracle cure. All you have to do is spend hours a day adding useless comments to your code like "The function addUser adds a user" and your standard of living will increase ten-fold. While you're at it, why don't you try our miracle weight loss pill; lose 50 pounds in a week and it automatically comments your code for you.
Seriously though, comments do have their place, but when every line of code is dwarfed by ten lines of comments, it's hard to follow the code. Also, people need to stop taking up entire lines with - and stuff like that. Between that and slashdot, I think I've sprained my mousewheel.
Let us assume that it is possible to travel back in time affecting the past in only complimentary ways. This would suggest that the present is static, it cannot be changed by modifications made to the past. Therefore, a person who travels into the past would have knowledge of what would happen in the present. Now let's change perspective for a minute and stand in the shoes of the person in the past, that person would therefore have to arrive at the same point in the present. Whence the person in the past has no free will.
Now if the theory (which is very poorly represented in the article) were to suggest that the time traveler were only a phantom in the past, unable to enact on the past in any way (not even able to be seen by those in the past) and that that person were just viewing the past like a movie, I may be able to accept the argument. For then rather than the past being reenacted, the time traveler is merely reviewing previous events.
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Just because the license is used as a means of determining what account to debit from, it doesn't necessarily mean that the government has unrestricted access/control of your accounts. The transaction still has to be approved by you in some way, and probably by the mediating company guarding your account, so fears that the government is going to have a way to immediately charge you for fines and tickets are completely unfounded.
These seem like a cool enough gadget. Unfortunately, after the sun goes down they start playing "Sunglasses At Night" repeatedly at maximum volume.
That's right kiddies, lose weight, code better, and feel better. Commenting does it all, it's the new miracle cure. All you have to do is spend hours a day adding useless comments to your code like "The function addUser adds a user" and your standard of living will increase ten-fold. While you're at it, why don't you try our miracle weight loss pill; lose 50 pounds in a week and it automatically comments your code for you.
Seriously though, comments do have their place, but when every line of code is dwarfed by ten lines of comments, it's hard to follow the code. Also, people need to stop taking up entire lines with - and stuff like that. Between that and slashdot, I think I've sprained my mousewheel.
I can't resist the temptation to point out that you can't even spell qwerty correctly.
Let us assume that it is possible to travel back in time affecting the past in only complimentary ways. This would suggest that the present is static, it cannot be changed by modifications made to the past. Therefore, a person who travels into the past would have knowledge of what would happen in the present. Now let's change perspective for a minute and stand in the shoes of the person in the past, that person would therefore have to arrive at the same point in the present. Whence the person in the past has no free will. Now if the theory (which is very poorly represented in the article) were to suggest that the time traveler were only a phantom in the past, unable to enact on the past in any way (not even able to be seen by those in the past) and that that person were just viewing the past like a movie, I may be able to accept the argument. For then rather than the past being reenacted, the time traveler is merely reviewing previous events.
I hate you so much.