Examiners can take away your calculator, though.
Besides, you could text message your friends during an exam and have their answers show up on your hands.
I actually think this is brilliant. $43bn on infrastructure over 8 years, coming direct from the government. 47, 000 jobs at peak means more money which filters back to the government while people get good work across the country. It's a whole lot more effective than tax cuts or stimulus packages like a $900 cheque and it means that when it's all over, the government can make back the expenditure with privatisation, which will help pay back the public debt we're looking at down the road. It's good for businesses, good for nerds, good for employment and great for the economy in the short and longer term.
Screw the filter concerns. Conroy's got egg on his face and he's not popular with anyone lately. The internet filter's already being no-dealed by big ISP's, too; and ditching the filter is an ace-in-the-hole as far as election promises go if it ever gets to that.
I challenge you to come up with a game concept that is truly innovative. I sure as hell can't do it. Yeah, but chances are you don't get paid to come up with new ideas for new games by huge gaming/entertainment companies.
We get better at things we do more often. Sight isn't a skill like playing a sport. By your logic someone who has sex or masturbates a lot will ejaculate "better". Maybe true, but it's certainly not a given....although if anyone would know that one I think Slashdot is the place to look. They won't ejaculate better, but they'll sure as hell masturbate better.
Now, instead of getting into bar fights with drunk guys who say you look at them funny, they can just call the police and register you as a potential sex offender.
Assuming they actually can produce free energy, there'd still be a charge for the bother of providing it and the rights to use it, etc.
Kinda defeats the purpose of 'free'.
If they want to make themselves bigger targets for music piracy, then let them. Instead of making a dime off the dollar, they can just make nothing off the dollar through the internet. No skin off our nose.
Well, at least until the RIAA comes and sues our noses off.
Last I heard, that didn't work out too well. To maintain a system like the one you've suggested (what with the social, financial and resource-related equality) would inevitably require a totalitarian, united power to enforce it (which would defy the entire point of the situation). As long as humans live, we're going to have a drive for selfishness and power.
For example, let's say we did implement such a system across the world. Is it so hard to imagine a small army forming to revolt, then seize control of a community's supply of resource to satisfy their own desires?
I really do hope that in however many years when use of stem cells grows to a point where they're used in common surgery, they'll be able to cure or at least help with RSI. What I wouldn't give for my wrists will once more be able to handle an hour of Xbox useage again.
As a techie who only commutes to the outer suburbs of his city to work, I can't say that I have particularly extensive knowledge of being a long-distance commuter. However, I do have my experience as a young child with a commuting parent growing up, and prolonged stays away from homne (I'm talking two weeks to a month or more at a time) does tend to weaken the bond between a child and a parent.
2-3 days a week away from your family isn't too rough, provided that you can be there when they, too, aren't busy. If you're home plenty of weekends and as many weeknights as possible, I don't think you'd get too much of a rift opening up between you, your wife and your kids.
Actually led to this pilot being shelved, and there being less evil law-evading call monitoring by the NSA. I'm amazed that something this insidious was actually abandoned in the wake of 'rising terror threats'.
Well that's part of the beauty of it. Very little works out, but if you wanted to be pedantic, Shinji does grow at least a small pair of balls at the very end when he realises that it's his own job to make his life worth living and not blame everyone else for his crappy life.
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Examiners can take away your calculator, though. Besides, you could text message your friends during an exam and have their answers show up on your hands.
Screw the filter concerns. Conroy's got egg on his face and he's not popular with anyone lately. The internet filter's already being no-dealed by big ISP's, too; and ditching the filter is an ace-in-the-hole as far as election promises go if it ever gets to that.
God sues people for breathing His air.
'Come' with me if you want to live.
You can be your own 5000 best friends.
All the better to frag you with, sweetheart.
Maybe by "Showtime" they refer to destroying Mars as a display of the iStar's power.
I was going for the "Apple unveils plans to dominate the universe in a giant Apple space station which suspiciously resembles a Death Star" theory.
Now, instead of getting into bar fights with drunk guys who say you look at them funny, they can just call the police and register you as a potential sex offender.
That's one small step for the slownesday tag..
Assuming they actually can produce free energy, there'd still be a charge for the bother of providing it and the rights to use it, etc. Kinda defeats the purpose of 'free'.
Well, at least until the RIAA comes and sues our noses off.
My Macbook Pro's running quite a lot cooler while in XP... hm.
Oh awesome. Now we don't need to run time resyncs on Windows startup. I'd say that trumps built-in iSight support.
With those 39 terabytes of memory, they might set their sights on the stuff dreams are made of - Vista Premium.
Last I heard, that didn't work out too well. To maintain a system like the one you've suggested (what with the social, financial and resource-related equality) would inevitably require a totalitarian, united power to enforce it (which would defy the entire point of the situation). As long as humans live, we're going to have a drive for selfishness and power.
For example, let's say we did implement such a system across the world. Is it so hard to imagine a small army forming to revolt, then seize control of a community's supply of resource to satisfy their own desires?
To think up a way of taxing virtually-free phone calls.
I really do hope that in however many years when use of stem cells grows to a point where they're used in common surgery, they'll be able to cure or at least help with RSI. What I wouldn't give for my wrists will once more be able to handle an hour of Xbox useage again.
2-3 days a week away from your family isn't too rough, provided that you can be there when they, too, aren't busy. If you're home plenty of weekends and as many weeknights as possible, I don't think you'd get too much of a rift opening up between you, your wife and your kids.
Man. The possibilities for humor with technology like this are almost limitless.
Actually led to this pilot being shelved, and there being less evil law-evading call monitoring by the NSA. I'm amazed that something this insidious was actually abandoned in the wake of 'rising terror threats'.
And by 'hint', I do mean, 'direct copying of in a relevant context'.
Well that's part of the beauty of it. Very little works out, but if you wanted to be pedantic, Shinji does grow at least a small pair of balls at the very end when he realises that it's his own job to make his life worth living and not blame everyone else for his crappy life.