I think, you've been misinformed. The new airport scanners use either low density (not low energy) x-rays, or high frequency RF. Both just barely penetrate clothing and do not go though your entire body.
Even the x-ray body scanners only emit enough radiation to be the equivalent of a few minutes of a high altitude flight.
You seem to be forgetting a few other inventions from the US and Europe like: automobiles, airplane, helicopters, computers, telephones, fiber optics, microwaves, the transistor, and nuclear power.
Bringing this back on topic... the US invented (or discovered) powered flight, and subsequently tried to patent it which essentially shut down any further innovations in the field. Europe however basically ignored the patent and as a result within a few years had far better planes due to the number of companies pursuing active development.
Things got so bad that by the time WWI started, the US had to buy planes from Europe since they were so much better than the US ones.
It is clear patent law does nothing to protect the inventor and has a massive negative impact on creativity and progress. It's time for a massive patent overhaul.
It's called hydro here - regardless of the source.. Took me a while to get used to that
I pay anywhere from 5.9c to a peak rate of 10.7. Most of my use is at the cheaper rate though.
If by next door you mean Quebec, yes their rates are even cheaper due to a combination of extensive use of hydroelectricity and stealing cheap power from Newfoundland.
Nuclear has the lowest fatality rates of any power source, and is the only true green technology with no emissions whatsoever. No it's not perfect but it is the best source of power we have today.
The issue as I see it is whether they *should* have known there was going to be an earthquake based on available data, and based on whether someone in their field would also come to the same conclusion. They may have not been able to tell, or they could have been negligent. Hard to tell with the published information.
How is that analogous though? In this situation there is record of members of the committee specifically saying that the citizens were "in no danger". Your situation doesn't even fit at all.
Sure it does. The committee members are saying there is no danger when there clearly was. My analogy also has someone saying there is no danger when there clearly was. It's identical.
Holding people liable for an act of nature is a dangerous precedent.
If you stood in an intersection and waved people through a red light telling them it was safe, then those people were subsequently killed by an oncoming truck, are you liable?
Is a checkin without human interaction something that is in use generally?
All the time. I never see a real person if I can avoid it. The way it works here is you walk up to a scanner, put in some ID (drivers license, passport, credit card or frequent flyer card), choose your seat if you need to, print your baggage tags if you are checking anything in, then put the tags on your luggage and walk through to security. No people, quick and easy.
It is stupid. It simply states that you cannot measure two interrelated properties simultaneously to an arbitrary precision. Can you actually measure *anything* to an arbitrary precision? It's just one of these fudges to make up for the mistakes and fudges in quantum mechanics. When they figure out quantum mechanics correctly and tie everything together, the uncertainty principle will go away.
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I couldn't even finish watching the trailer, let alone the entire movie.
I think, you've been misinformed. The new airport scanners use either low density (not low energy) x-rays, or high frequency RF. Both just barely penetrate clothing and do not go though your entire body.
Even the x-ray body scanners only emit enough radiation to be the equivalent of a few minutes of a high altitude flight.
You realize you get far more radiation while actually flying at high altitudes than you get from the scanners?
I don't have to remove shoes or belt while traveling in Canada, but I've been told to remove them in the US.
Although anything that doesn't require me to remove my shoes and belt is a good thing. Can't stand travelling to the US for that reason.
Regardless, your situation does not apply to the rest of Canada.
I like your idea of rights ownership being something you have to pay for to maintain
Pay to WHO exactly? The government? Which government? How would you enforce this if another country took the idea?
You seem to be forgetting a few other inventions from the US and Europe like: automobiles, airplane, helicopters, computers, telephones, fiber optics, microwaves, the transistor, and nuclear power.
Bringing this back on topic... the US invented (or discovered) powered flight, and subsequently tried to patent it which essentially shut down any further innovations in the field. Europe however basically ignored the patent and as a result within a few years had far better planes due to the number of companies pursuing active development.
Things got so bad that by the time WWI started, the US had to buy planes from Europe since they were so much better than the US ones.
It is clear patent law does nothing to protect the inventor and has a massive negative impact on creativity and progress. It's time for a massive patent overhaul.
I pay 25.00$CAD/month for 2Mbps cable with a 35GB upload+download monthly cap.
Mines way better than that. Don't subscribe to a cheap carrier then generalize your poor performance to the entire country.
Not really. I'm getting tired of Anonymous' childish antics
It's called hydro here - regardless of the source.. Took me a while to get used to that
I pay anywhere from 5.9c to a peak rate of 10.7. Most of my use is at the cheaper rate though.
If by next door you mean Quebec, yes their rates are even cheaper due to a combination of extensive use of hydroelectricity and stealing cheap power from Newfoundland.
Current temporary storage facilities don't all 'leak'. That's just nonsense.
That sounds like terrorism to me. "Stop making GM plants, or we'll fuck your shit up."
Kinda analogous to what those idiots did to Sony..
Nuclear has the lowest fatality rates of any power source, and is the only true green technology with no emissions whatsoever. No it's not perfect but it is the best source of power we have today.
Remember when they claimed nuclear power would be 'too cheap to meter'
Canada has a lot of nuclear (Ontario is over 50% nuclear) and as a result we have some of the cheapest hydro rates in the world.
The issue as I see it is whether they *should* have known there was going to be an earthquake based on available data, and based on whether someone in their field would also come to the same conclusion. They may have not been able to tell, or they could have been negligent. Hard to tell with the published information.
How is that analogous though? In this situation there is record of members of the committee specifically saying that the citizens were "in no danger". Your situation doesn't even fit at all.
Sure it does. The committee members are saying there is no danger when there clearly was. My analogy also has someone saying there is no danger when there clearly was. It's identical.
Holding people liable for an act of nature is a dangerous precedent.
If you stood in an intersection and waved people through a red light telling them it was safe, then those people were subsequently killed by an oncoming truck, are you liable?
Go to Mexico. Lots of people called Jesus live there, and by random luck at least one of them might be lost..
Wow. You really are a patronizing prick, aren't you?
Is a checkin without human interaction something that is in use generally?
All the time. I never see a real person if I can avoid it. The way it works here is you walk up to a scanner, put in some ID (drivers license, passport, credit card or frequent flyer card), choose your seat if you need to, print your baggage tags if you are checking anything in, then put the tags on your luggage and walk through to security. No people, quick and easy.
It is stupid. It simply states that you cannot measure two interrelated properties simultaneously to an arbitrary precision. Can you actually measure *anything* to an arbitrary precision? It's just one of these fudges to make up for the mistakes and fudges in quantum mechanics. When they figure out quantum mechanics correctly and tie everything together, the uncertainty principle will go away.
Right on sister.
And, uh, what did they do about that Heisenberg thing?
Heisenberg is the most stupid and obvious *principle* ever. It applies to everything, not just matter at the quantum level.
Setting up physical stacks so you can browse through them is a hardware solution to a software problem.
That is so totally ass backwards I actually laughed out loud.