In order to stay wealthy, enjoy trappings, and stay in power, dictators need to placate people below them, and the people below them, and so forth. To do that takes money, and without an economy you don't have money - So the benefit is it helps give NK an economy, which helps keep the elite rich.
The problem I see for the NK government is that expectations would rise faster than the economic benefit of openness, with the result that the government would try ways to selectively open the economy but in the process blow holes in their hold on power. It would be nice to think that this would lead to a cascading collapse but I personally think the government will keep the lid firmly on their country.
Eric Schmidt visits a farm and tells the farmer than his cows would be far better off with internet access. The farmer looks at him like he is fucking stupid. Where is the benefit for him in doing that?
Yeah its interesting but it should be possible to calculate the amount of biomass required to do that. There is a hell of a lot of methane in this cycle on Titan which implies a lot of life. My guess is that the stuff would have to blanket the planet and it would need a fast metabolism. For me that means it must be in a subsurface ocean. The surface is too cold for a high energy metabolism.
The other idea I saw is that to use their free service you have to install their ad-blocker which replaces normal advertisments on web pages with their advertisments. Its shonky as hell but I can see it working for them.
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Where is the benefit for him in doing that?
In order to stay wealthy, enjoy trappings, and stay in power, dictators need to placate people below them, and the people below them, and so forth. To do that takes money, and without an economy you don't have money - So the benefit is it helps give NK an economy, which helps keep the elite rich.
The problem I see for the NK government is that expectations would rise faster than the economic benefit of openness, with the result that the government would try ways to selectively open the economy but in the process blow holes in their hold on power. It would be nice to think that this would lead to a cascading collapse but I personally think the government will keep the lid firmly on their country.
I'm sure adblock will deal with the obnoxious ads ...
But isn't that their monitizing plan? To you mega you will need to run their ad blocker which replaces normal advertisments with ads from mega.
Eric Schmidt visits a farm and tells the farmer than his cows would be far better off with internet access. The farmer looks at him like he is fucking stupid. Where is the benefit for him in doing that?
Yeah its interesting but it should be possible to calculate the amount of biomass required to do that. There is a hell of a lot of methane in this cycle on Titan which implies a lot of life. My guess is that the stuff would have to blanket the planet and it would need a fast metabolism. For me that means it must be in a subsurface ocean. The surface is too cold for a high energy metabolism.
The source of Titan's methane remains a mystery because methane in the atmosphere is broken down over relatively short time scales by sunlight
Hang on a minute: wasn't free methane being used as an indicator of life on Mars? So where does this methane come from?
cool
About 90 kelvins, right? Its only twice as cold as the coldest place on Earth, relative to normal Earth temperatures.
It would make a great movie if we could stop remaking Superman movies for a while.
"My mother was a test tube, my father was a knife"
-R.A.H
Thats really unfair on the baby. How would you like to be related to a Kardashian?
The other idea I saw is that to use their free service you have to install their ad-blocker which replaces normal advertisments on web pages with their advertisments. Its shonky as hell but I can see it working for them.
Willlful ignorance is a crime...
The internet police will be knocking on his door soon enough.
Not to mention taking deliberate steps to avoid prosecution by hosting exclusively outside the US
So what does that make me? I have no connection to the US and I took deliberate steps to host all my stuff at my place.
Yeah I looked at Croquet but just getting it to build seemed like a lot of work. In the end minecraft did just about everything I needed.
I wonder if you can run this on the Sandbenders?
Like bag pipes on a slightly larger and hopefully quieter scale.
Yeah but they don't build kilometre deep tunnels to do it.
Core temperature is important for medical reasons. A suit would give you the temperature of the skin.
This being the CFA I assume the pills are expected to be reused.
Philips would axe 9 projects out of 10, even if a particular product was about to ship.
I also know a few bad organisations which can't seem to follow through on projects. They seem to get dumped for no reason at all.
And nobody has to get blown up.
He does point out down the page that the rock in question is unlikely to be a meteorite.
This sounds like the guy who was supporting Fred Hoyle's claims back in the day.
Thats how Linkedin works.
I would be interested to see if Notch has any interest in Analytics at all.
Its all code.
Also: Your sig is dereferencing a null pointer.
Just some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript should be enough to start. ... You don't need to become an expert, just know the basics, so you're not helpless.'"
As we didnt have enough badly written, insecure and slow web applications which were not designed by somebody whose description fits to the above.....
Our professional software engineers are going a good enough job of creating those.