"Corporations are set up specifically to limit the liablility of the investors."
And there in lies the problem. Quite frankly our government, or any government for that matter is not set up to deal with corporations. Look at the constitution. It is well designed, and outlines the repsonibilities of the government, and the rights of the individual. A corporation is a collection of individuals, in the same manner that a government organization is a collection of individuals. Instead of defining limits, and granting the individual rights that supercede the rights of the corporations, our laws "limit the liability" of the corporation.
In all fairness corporations did not exist during the framing of the constitution (ok, they did, but were charters of the monarchy, so they were not distinct from the government). But they have become a dominant power, as such they need to be formally integrated at a fundamental level into our government.
"Whenever money is at stake there will be abuses, and no system is perfect, but corporations help our economy more than hurt it"
I agree up to a point. But in their current state they server to accumulate the wealth to the upper caste of shareholders. How different is this from nobility levying taxes on the masses? You may say that we have freedom of choice of what to buy, but when ultimately bulk of your purchases benefit a small number of large corporations, with a small number of majority share holders, you grant these people an enormous amount of power, and oportunity to abuse.
Sadly, it will probably take another series of revolutions to change this, in the same way that the transition from fudalism to representitive government.
That is true, but shouldn't these so-called "car manufacturers" be coming up with methods which have NO points of failure
Yes, They should cure cancer too, and maybe solve world hunger, and global warming at the same time. Actually, I would be happy with a flying car
Any car can be broken into. Any mechanism can be fooled. complete security is not attainable.
As far as this being marketing, yep, they will do what they can to sell cars. Where is the crime in that? It does look like they are adding additional features to it as well.
This already happens in a way. In high school it was pretty well known that most toyota keys would work on most toyota cars. I had a toyota pickup, and even though the keys were not the same, I was on one occasion able to enter, and start up a friend's truck. He happened to be walking on the sidewalk, and I drove past him as I was moving it to the back parking lot. That took a while to explain. Later though, he did help me when I locked my keys in my truck. The point is, just because you see a failure mode in it doesn't mean that that he old way didn't have the a similar one
1. Hook up a GPS receiver directly, via the usb/serial port, use whatever software to interface
This might work if your server is near a window, or you could get a GPS with an external antena that you can run outside.
GPS's tend not to work too well when you are inside a building. Mine does not work inside unless it is near a window. In fact it does not work too well with heavy tree cover. If I am an a forest with large trees, and cannot see the sky, it gets no signal. Sadly, when I am in the trees like that it is usually when I need it the most.
"Greatly increase the standard of living for the world's poor" So would throwing huge ammounts of money/resources at the poor fix the problem? Tell me how to translate resources into "encouraging education and intelectual development, and tollerance", and I would agree that government funds such as these should be routed towards it.
Blind statements of "let's save the world first" are pretty ironic. Save the world from what? The world is what it is. We cannot create a utopia, becasue not everyone can agree on what that is. Yes, we can clean up our backyard, and *some* resources should go to that, but not all.
Manned space exploration is not something you do instead of cleaning up the situation, it is something you do in addition to. Programs such as this create the demand for the educated, because it is something that people WANT, and like to see.
They may not be able to reveal the contents of the file it convict you, bit the contents of the file may point them in the right direction to get information through apparently legal means that they *CAN* use to convict you.
This was the situation in WWII. From what I have read, the US and British intelligence agencies had broken the German cyphers, but they had to come up with a cover story of how they knew where the U-Boats would intercept the convoys. They would typically send out observaiton planes, and "stumble" upon the U-Boats when they were on their way to the intercept.
Actually, yes.
As long as a person is a a legal adult, what business does a government have telling them what they can or cannot do with their bodies?
Legalize it, and tax it. Then test for its presence where its use would be dangerous to other people.
Actually, as far as classes of addicts, wireheads would be the easiest to deal with. There is no illegal supply chains for the trafficers to maintain. No one needs to be killed over a few miliamps of electricity. And the wireheads tended to conveniently remove themselves from society, and wither away in privacy, starving themselves to death in a state of bliss.
Compare with heroin, crack, meth. converting all our addicts to this would be a boon to society.
This may be the first step in achieving that goal. Once there are multiple standards, and clocks always seem to be wrong. People will ask questions of "what time zone" and "which Daylight Savings, old or new?" These breakages will lead to everyone including the UTC times, so everyone will be sure. Then pretty soon, people will use primarily the UTC times, and I would love to see that become the norm.
Once time zones are broken. Work start times will be a convention. I rather like the idea of starting work at 4:00 and leaving at 12:00. Then in the winter starting at 5:00 and leaving at 1:00. Who cares what numbers are on the clock when I wake up and when I get to work.
We have a lot of social inertia with these arbitrary numbers, it would need something like this to break them in order for us to see how truely arbitrary they are.
Nothing really new to see here. These fish are already being planted in lakes in Washington State. They are called triplods. They are usually planted in heavily fished lakes for sport fishermen to catch. I guess not many slashdotters are sport fishermen.
In practice that does not work. If you pay the poacher not to poach, they take the money, and poach anyways. Human nature. Give them a real job 60 hour work weeks, stock options, saddle them with some debt, kids in private school. etc. and then when they come home from work, they will be too tired to poach. I am being tongue in cheak here, but their economic situation is a bit more complex. Just giving them food and water will not make poaching go away
There is the more fundamental problem, and that is that people like to read more about what is new, and coming up than they like to read about project failures. If you picked up a trade magazine or a newspaper, and it contained article after article of failure, how many of these would actually be read? It would need its own section, like an obituatary for research projects. Point is that since no one is forcing anyone to read the news, they print what sells.
Why? That would only serve to discourage experimentation. They do face reprocusions already, and that is in the form of not getting their grants renewed if they do a poor job. Many many bad ideas have to die out in order to get a few good ones.
More or less. If they rely on a soda that "is the same, but with no caloreis" rather than change of diet and exersize, we are dealing with an essentially self admitted will power problem.
so yes, May = Will in this case.
It also says that since it tastes sweet, you body is expecting calories when it is getting none, which may lead to increased craving of real, calorie rich foods.
The section on Orbit gives some numbers. Basically it ammounts to 15 microseconds/year 4.32 hours ] 15228 sec so you would need about a billion years. (I didn't do the math before)
Actually it is already slowing naturally, as the moon recedes the earth turns slower. you will just need to stick around for the next 100 thousand years to enjoy the results.
If I recall, during the Jurasic period, the day was around 16 hours long. Now that would make for a strange workday. Sleep ~ 5 hours, Work ~5 hours, ~5 hours of freetime (assuming today's proportions remain in place).
So what? The people who want to watch it will. The Apollo program was different, politicans had to justify spending tax dollars, private industry does not. How much coverage does the America's cup get on the evening news? How much coverage to the Reno Air races get? They stil go on, and have their followings.
I am from the area, and remeber it vividly. In Elementry school, when we went outside, we had to wear dust masks, and could only play on the concrete area of the playground, because that was all they could get clean. They later removed all the barkdust, and replaced it with new clean barkdust before we could go back on.
Our family owned some beachfront property on the Toutle River, which is on the Mt. St. Hellens watershed. The mud choked up the river for years, and it was probably 1995 before the beach began to look like it did before the mountain blew.
The ash and mud would make a jelly-like quicksand on the banks of the river with a thick, flexable layer on the top. You could walk (run, bounce, jump) on the top withoug breaking through until enough water worked into the top layer, then you would break through and sink up to your thighs. Neat stuff, we played in it for years.
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Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria!
"Corporations are set up specifically to limit the liablility of the investors."
And there in lies the problem. Quite frankly our government, or any government for that matter is not set up to deal with corporations. Look at the constitution. It is well designed, and outlines the repsonibilities of the government, and the rights of the individual. A corporation is a collection of individuals, in the same manner that a government organization is a collection of individuals. Instead of defining limits, and granting the individual rights that supercede the rights of the corporations, our laws "limit the liability" of the corporation.
In all fairness corporations did not exist during the framing of the constitution (ok, they did, but were charters of the monarchy, so they were not distinct from the government). But they have become a dominant power, as such they need to be formally integrated at a fundamental level into our government.
"Whenever money is at stake there will be abuses, and no system is perfect, but corporations help our economy more than hurt it"
I agree up to a point. But in their current state they server to accumulate the wealth to the upper caste of shareholders. How different is this from nobility levying taxes on the masses? You may say that we have freedom of choice of what to buy, but when ultimately bulk of your purchases benefit a small number of large corporations, with a small number of majority share holders, you grant these people an enormous amount of power, and oportunity to abuse.
Sadly, it will probably take another series of revolutions to change this, in the same way that the transition from fudalism to representitive government.
That is true, but shouldn't these so-called "car manufacturers" be coming up with methods which have NO points of failure
Yes, They should cure cancer too, and maybe solve world hunger, and global warming at the same time. Actually, I would be happy with a flying car
Any car can be broken into. Any mechanism can be fooled. complete security is not attainable.
As far as this being marketing, yep, they will do what they can to sell cars. Where is the crime in that? It does look like they are adding additional features to it as well.
This already happens in a way. In high school it was pretty well known that most toyota keys would work on most toyota cars. I had a toyota pickup, and even though the keys were not the same, I was on one occasion able to enter, and start up a friend's truck. He happened to be walking on the sidewalk, and I drove past him as I was moving it to the back parking lot. That took a while to explain. Later though, he did help me when I locked my keys in my truck.
The point is, just because you see a failure mode in it doesn't mean that that he old way didn't have the a similar one
Enforceable is the key word here. Would you go to war because China is causing too much CO2? How about India, or Brazil?
Nations go to war much less than that. Governmental policies, and religion.... What makes you think that we wouldn't go to war over CO2 emmissions?
1. Hook up a GPS receiver directly, via the usb/serial port, use whatever software to interface
This might work if your server is near a window, or you could get a GPS with an external antena that you can run outside.
GPS's tend not to work too well when you are inside a building. Mine does not work inside unless it is near a window. In fact it does not work too well with heavy tree cover. If I am an a forest with large trees, and cannot see the sky, it gets no signal. Sadly, when I am in the trees like that it is usually when I need it the most.
Think? Yes
"Greatly increase the standard of living for the world's poor"
So would throwing huge ammounts of money/resources at the poor fix the problem? Tell me how to translate resources into "encouraging education and intelectual development, and tollerance", and I would agree that government funds such as these should be routed towards it.
Blind statements of "let's save the world first" are pretty ironic. Save the world from what? The world is what it is. We cannot create a utopia, becasue not everyone can agree on what that is. Yes, we can clean up our backyard, and *some* resources should go to that, but not all.
Manned space exploration is not something you do instead of cleaning up the situation, it is something you do in addition to. Programs such as this create the demand for the educated, because it is something that people WANT, and like to see.
Yep, what and awesome book. It started me on a reading frenzy of WWII, and the submarine, and intelligence warfare.
They may not be able to reveal the contents of the file it convict you, bit the contents of the file may point them in the right direction to get information through apparently legal means that they *CAN* use to convict you. This was the situation in WWII. From what I have read, the US and British intelligence agencies had broken the German cyphers, but they had to come up with a cover story of how they knew where the U-Boats would intercept the convoys. They would typically send out observaiton planes, and "stumble" upon the U-Boats when they were on their way to the intercept.
Actually, yes. As long as a person is a a legal adult, what business does a government have telling them what they can or cannot do with their bodies? Legalize it, and tax it. Then test for its presence where its use would be dangerous to other people.
Actually, as far as classes of addicts, wireheads would be the easiest to deal with. There is no illegal supply chains for the trafficers to maintain. No one needs to be killed over a few miliamps of electricity. And the wireheads tended to conveniently remove themselves from society, and wither away in privacy, starving themselves to death in a state of bliss. Compare with heroin, crack, meth. converting all our addicts to this would be a boon to society.
Actually the tasp was the remote version of it, so you could "Make someone's day" by remotely You are thinking of a droud.
This may be the first step in achieving that goal. Once there are multiple standards, and clocks always seem to be wrong. People will ask questions of "what time zone" and "which Daylight Savings, old or new?" These breakages will lead to everyone including the UTC times, so everyone will be sure. Then pretty soon, people will use primarily the UTC times, and I would love to see that become the norm. Once time zones are broken. Work start times will be a convention. I rather like the idea of starting work at 4:00 and leaving at 12:00. Then in the winter starting at 5:00 and leaving at 1:00. Who cares what numbers are on the clock when I wake up and when I get to work. We have a lot of social inertia with these arbitrary numbers, it would need something like this to break them in order for us to see how truely arbitrary they are.
Nothing really new to see here. These fish are already being planted in lakes in Washington State. They are called triplods. They are usually planted in heavily fished lakes for sport fishermen to catch. I guess not many slashdotters are sport fishermen.
In practice that does not work. If you pay the poacher not to poach, they take the money, and poach anyways. Human nature. Give them a real job 60 hour work weeks, stock options, saddle them with some debt, kids in private school. etc. and then when they come home from work, they will be too tired to poach. I am being tongue in cheak here, but their economic situation is a bit more complex. Just giving them food and water will not make poaching go away
Yep, it is much more annoying in politics though. but that would take us way off topic
There is the more fundamental problem, and that is that people like to read more about what is new, and coming up than they like to read about project failures. If you picked up a trade magazine or a newspaper, and it contained article after article of failure, how many of these would actually be read? It would need its own section, like an obituatary for research projects. Point is that since no one is forcing anyone to read the news, they print what sells.
Why? That would only serve to discourage experimentation. They do face reprocusions already, and that is in the form of not getting their grants renewed if they do a poor job. Many many bad ideas have to die out in order to get a few good ones.
More or less. If they rely on a soda that "is the same, but with no caloreis" rather than change of diet and exersize, we are dealing with an essentially self admitted will power problem. so yes, May = Will in this case.
It also says that since it tastes sweet, you body is expecting calories when it is getting none, which may lead to increased craving of real, calorie rich foods.
Hey, what do you have in your thermos?
Two cups of coffee and an ice-cream cone!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
The section on Orbit gives some numbers. Basically it ammounts to 15 microseconds/year 4.32 hours ] 15228 sec so you would need about a billion years. (I didn't do the math before)
Actually it is already slowing naturally, as the moon recedes the earth turns slower. you will just need to stick around for the next 100 thousand years to enjoy the results.
If I recall, during the Jurasic period, the day was around 16 hours long. Now that would make for a strange workday. Sleep ~ 5 hours, Work ~5 hours, ~5 hours of freetime (assuming today's proportions remain in place).
So what? The people who want to watch it will. The Apollo program was different, politicans had to justify spending tax dollars, private industry does not. How much coverage does the America's cup get on the evening news? How much coverage to the Reno Air races get? They stil go on, and have their followings.
I am from the area, and remeber it vividly. In Elementry school, when we went outside, we had to wear dust masks, and could only play on the concrete area of the playground, because that was all they could get clean. They later removed all the barkdust, and replaced it with new clean barkdust before we could go back on.
Our family owned some beachfront property on the Toutle River, which is on the Mt. St. Hellens watershed. The mud choked up the river for years, and it was probably 1995 before the beach began to look like it did before the mountain blew.
The ash and mud would make a jelly-like quicksand on the banks of the river with a thick, flexable layer on the top. You could walk (run, bounce, jump) on the top withoug breaking through until enough water worked into the top layer, then you would break through and sink up to your thighs. Neat stuff, we played in it for years.