Well, if not a terrorist group, a rogue nation could buy several container ships, load them with 126 of these systems on each ship and drive each ship within 300km of a carrier group. Fire simultaneously from all ships and take out all carriers at the same time.
I'll bet it costs a whole lot less to buy and arm a ship with 126 of these systems than to build a whole aircraft carrier and the aircraft it carries.
The thing is, if you use a nuclear warhead, the cruise missile does not have to impact the aircraft carrier to sink it. Detonation within 100m may be sufficient and will probably take out a large part of the carrier group too.
Measles might well be the most contagious disease known to man. On top of that, the serious complication rate is much higher than 0.1%, even with world's best standard healthcare.
You are seriously underestimating the potential of graft versus host disease. Seriously. You do not want to eliminate your own immune system only to get a whole new one which will recognize your body as foreign.
If North Korea threatens China with taking out Hong Kong, 8 minutes after making that threat, their missile launch sites will be giant craters. Followed closely by Pyongyang.
It will be 5 minutes instead of 8 minutes if Kim threatens to take out Beijing instead of Hong Kong.
Either that, or we would just fail to make the payments. That would crash the value of all foreign debts, and so the holders would be lucky to get ten cents on the dollar by selling their paper to speculators (who are betting that we'll pull out of it). Failing to make payments on debt is a default. Perhaps you are not familiar with what happens to people or companies or even countries that are in default. People in default over their home mortgages lose their houses. Companies in default over their debt end up in bankruptcy and shareholders often end up with little or nothing. Countries in default have the value of their currencies (which is effectively a country's share price) drawn through the dust.
If the US defaults on all foreign debt, the value of the US dollar will be crap. Nobody will want to hold US dollars because it represents a liability that the country has shown it is not willing to pay back.
All US citizens would suffer the effects of hyperinflation as the price of all imports in US dollars soars.
pfft. At anytime it feels like it, the US could declare all foreign investments located within its country United States property. Certainly in times of world war, and likely in desperate times of severly limited resources. If that happens, it would be theft of property and the breakdown of law. It would end up as basically the US versus the rest of the world. The US is the world leader in economic and military power but I wouldn't bet on it winning against everyone else together.
My personal opinion is that only the people who have paid more money in taxes than received money in welfare should be allowed to vote. i.e. only those actually supporting the system rather than those who are net leechers on the system.
This way, even retirees will still get the vote as long as the amount of welfare they have received in retirement still does not exceed the amount of taxes they have paid over their working life. Similarly, people on welfare can gain the right to vote after earning enough money to pay more money in taxes than they have received in welfare.
Today, 8 air pockets. In a few years, tactile sensation to the entire body with ability to specify locations accurate to areas smaller than an inch. In a few more years, the ability to convey various types of tactile sensation (e.g. textures) and... lo and behold, cybersex will have a whole new meaning.
Is if the major part of fee for getting an email through actually goes to the intended recipient, rather than to any third party. A third party may collect a small part of the fee as commission for the service. It would be even better if the recipient could specify the mail fee for email to get through to him/her.
This way, spam companies will have to pay the recipient of their emails for each and every email. It would add up pretty quickly for mass mailings, making them few and far between or, at the very least, they would become super-targeted at interested audiences.
On the other hand, for personal email between friends or relatives, the fee would cancel out as they would effectively be paying each other; better yet, after a few emails, they could whitelist each other's email addresses and not have any more fees for email between them.
This is the way the marketplace should work for pay-for-email.
No, try 100% probability of dying. No return vehicle, not enough oxygen/food/water.
Even with a 100% probability of dying on a one-way trip for a reasonable chance of saving many millions of lives, I for one am pretty sure there would be thousands lining up to volunteer.
If I felt there was at least a 20% chance the trip I was on would succeed (in deflecting the asteroid or blowing it up or whatever) I'd take those odds. Tell me the odds of success are less than 1% and I'll prefer to let someone else go...
Yes, but don't forget the price point. People will change products when the functionality is significantly different at the same price or the price is significantly different for the same functionality.
Last I checked, MS Office cost a whole lot more than OpenOffice.org...
The other possibility is that this means the current lucrative multi-billion dollar industry in anti-retroviral treatments may be going down the drain if this works...
yes, schizophrenia means you already have visual and auditory hallucinations (or some other problem with preceiving the world and thus have the concomitant problems with dealing with it) but if you can simulate the hallucinations, perhaps the patient can be trained to tell real from not real.
I don't know about you, but if a patient is down/collapsed for 5 minutes or more, it doesn't matter whether he/she gets defibbed then or not, the patient would already have hypoxic brain damage.
CPR will keep the brain viable for longer... as you well know.
Although there are still a few irrelevant currencies that still do, most of the world simply allows currency markets to determine the value of currencies (and *shock horror* the economy hasn't collapsed).
Not yet, anyway. However, if you follow the trail of collapsed national currencies starting in the 1970s (when the US dollar went off the gold standard), it's been happening at an ever faster rate. The Latin American countries, the South American countries, the Asian financial crisis...
Coming to a theathre near you soon - the US Dollar financial crisis...
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Well, if not a terrorist group, a rogue nation could buy several container ships, load them with 126 of these systems on each ship and drive each ship within 300km of a carrier group. Fire simultaneously from all ships and take out all carriers at the same time.
I'll bet it costs a whole lot less to buy and arm a ship with 126 of these systems than to build a whole aircraft carrier and the aircraft it carries.
Now that's asymmetric warfare.
The thing is, if you use a nuclear warhead, the cruise missile does not have to impact the aircraft carrier to sink it. Detonation within 100m may be sufficient and will probably take out a large part of the carrier group too.
Measles might well be the most contagious disease known to man. On top of that, the serious complication rate is much higher than 0.1%, even with world's best standard healthcare.
You are assuming the DVD that is discovered by future archaeologists will have data mostly consisting of text.
According to Murphy's Law, the stash that this future archaeologist discovers first will be a bunch of porn movie DVDs.
you mean an open fracture as opposed to a closed fracture. a compound fracture just means many pieces instead of two pieces.
You are seriously underestimating the potential of graft versus host disease. Seriously. You do not want to eliminate your own immune system only to get a whole new one which will recognize your body as foreign.
You really don't have kids, do you?
If North Korea threatens China with taking out Hong Kong, 8 minutes after making that threat, their missile launch sites will be giant craters. Followed closely by Pyongyang.
It will be 5 minutes instead of 8 minutes if Kim threatens to take out Beijing instead of Hong Kong.
That's why I like the idea of Senator online. Would like to see it working instead of just in theory though.
If the US defaults on all foreign debt, the value of the US dollar will be crap. Nobody will want to hold US dollars because it represents a liability that the country has shown it is not willing to pay back.
All US citizens would suffer the effects of hyperinflation as the price of all imports in US dollars soars.
Careful what you wish for.
If it could happen to the Roman empire, it can happen to the USA.
My personal opinion is that only the people who have paid more money in taxes than received money in welfare should be allowed to vote. i.e. only those actually supporting the system rather than those who are net leechers on the system.
This way, even retirees will still get the vote as long as the amount of welfare they have received in retirement still does not exceed the amount of taxes they have paid over their working life. Similarly, people on welfare can gain the right to vote after earning enough money to pay more money in taxes than they have received in welfare.
Today, 8 air pockets. In a few years, tactile sensation to the entire body with ability to specify locations accurate to areas smaller than an inch. In a few more years, the ability to convey various types of tactile sensation (e.g. textures) and ... lo and behold, cybersex will have a whole new meaning.
It's not that low...
Is if the major part of fee for getting an email through actually goes to the intended recipient, rather than to any third party. A third party may collect a small part of the fee as commission for the service. It would be even better if the recipient could specify the mail fee for email to get through to him/her.
This way, spam companies will have to pay the recipient of their emails for each and every email. It would add up pretty quickly for mass mailings, making them few and far between or, at the very least, they would become super-targeted at interested audiences.
On the other hand, for personal email between friends or relatives, the fee would cancel out as they would effectively be paying each other; better yet, after a few emails, they could whitelist each other's email addresses and not have any more fees for email between them.
This is the way the marketplace should work for pay-for-email.
The German wikipedia already does this (http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7145.cfm) and there are plans for the same for the English one, however the stumbling block appears to be that they want a higher standard for the first DVD version of the English wikipedia - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/Push ing_To_1.0.
Even with a 100% probability of dying on a one-way trip for a reasonable chance of saving many millions of lives, I for one am pretty sure there would be thousands lining up to volunteer.
If I felt there was at least a 20% chance the trip I was on would succeed (in deflecting the asteroid or blowing it up or whatever) I'd take those odds. Tell me the odds of success are less than 1% and I'll prefer to let someone else go...
Yes, but don't forget the price point. People will change products when the functionality is significantly different at the same price or the price is significantly different for the same functionality.
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Last I checked, MS Office cost a whole lot more than OpenOffice.org
Well, then perhaps the tax for road wear and tear should not be in the price of gas but in an annual fee based on vehicle size and weight...
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and the carbon tax should be on the fuel so the fuel-efficient car owners pay less
Just my two cents...
I think the parent post was referring to the level of software piracy rampant in Indonesia...
The other possibility is that this means the current lucrative multi-billion dollar industry in anti-retroviral treatments may be going down the drain if this works...
yes, schizophrenia means you already have visual and auditory hallucinations (or some other problem with preceiving the world and thus have the concomitant problems with dealing with it) but if you can simulate the hallucinations, perhaps the patient can be trained to tell real from not real.
I don't know about you, but if a patient is down/collapsed for 5 minutes or more, it doesn't matter whether he/she gets defibbed then or not, the patient would already have hypoxic brain damage.
CPR will keep the brain viable for longer... as you well know.
Although there are still a few irrelevant currencies that still do, most of the world simply allows currency markets to determine the value of currencies (and *shock horror* the economy hasn't collapsed).
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Not yet, anyway. However, if you follow the trail of collapsed national currencies starting in the 1970s (when the US dollar went off the gold standard), it's been happening at an ever faster rate. The Latin American countries, the South American countries, the Asian financial crisis
Coming to a theathre near you soon - the US Dollar financial crisis