Because we don't know who ELSE has stocks of the disease and might want to turn it into a weapon. Plus the more we learn about infectious disease in general the better we can fight it. Anyway how does that link have anything to do with it? The more they vaccinate people, the less likely smallpox will come back. Manufacturing vaccines has NOTHING to do with having live, viable stocks of the actual disease. Which do exist, but that's a totally different issue.
Water absorbs the radio waves you need to use to triangulate your position, so GPS doesn't work underwater. They put GPS tags on whales and things, but they only work when the whale surfaces.
The Clean Air Act mandates lots of things vis-a-vis pollution, and it did stand up in court. Interstate commerce clause-> CO2 travels across state lines, has effects on state economies (global warming->fires & hurricanes). At least that's one way you could justify it.
"had they done this and the results turned out differently, they'd have to explain why this effect only happens to heterosexual men" Because heterosexual men are attracted to women, and homosexual men.... aren't?
They sure do need water though. At least for metabolic processes. Some can survive without it, but only in a sort of crystallized form that just sits there inert until it's put back into water.
I guess the hope would be they would weather solar flares by either burrowing underground, or using their water supply as a shield. It wouldn't help them if they were caught outside, but I guess that's a risk they'd take.
Yeah, and they also probably expected to have children, make money, and die a hard-working and successful man. NOT going to happen on Mars. Plus back then colonists were egged on by promises of a new Eden- we know darn well that going to Mars will be a hell of a hard time. Not that there weren't colonists who didn't know exactly what they were getting into.
Or just record everything coming out of the sound card & microphone, and keep an eye on what text is coming up in the Skype window to see who is calling and when to bother to record. Is there any reason that wouldn't work?
Or here's an idea: Provide a toolkit for building quiz apps that is easy enough to use that almost anyone could do it. Host all the separate apps on your webserver, and include code in every app generated by it that tracks people. Then you'd have dozens (hundreds?) of quizzes all feeding you information, all "built" by other people. With this you could basically recreate all of the information that Facebook has on its users.
For all I know this has already been done... these quizzes can't all be built from scratch, can they?
Here is an interesting privacy issue that Facebook has had for YEARS.
Alice posts an album with one photo that has her friend, user Bob, tagged in it. User Charles, who is friends with Bob (but not Alice) will more likely than not get an update saying "Your friend Bob just got tagged in an album!" and now Charles can see the entire album that Alice posted, whether or not Bob is actually in any more than one photo. This can also happen if Bob, instead of being tagged in the album, merely comments on a photo in the album.
Meaning, for all intents and purposes, all albums you post can not only be viewed by your friends and the people in the album, but also friends of anyone tagged in the album.
Right, because NOBODY has ever had any problems watching videos on Linux. Just the other day I was trying to watch some avis off a digital camera in Ubuntu, and VLC crapped out in a big way, complaining first that they were malformed and then playing a few stuttery frames and stopping. Wonderful. Sure, maybe there was something wrong with the AVIs, but I know they work on Windows.
If it doesn't exist (or rather, if CERN doesn't find it) we would at least have learned that the Higgs (if it exists) doesn't show up at the energy levels produced in CERN. That itself would be interesting.
Right, because this is avian flu! Wait, it's a virus NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE. Our current vaccines DON'T WORK- this is an H1N1 strain, the avain flu we were worried about is H5N1. We'll need to put together a new vaccine, which could take months. Yes, that might benefit the manufacturers- because this is a capitalistic society.
I had to do research on (illegal) drugs for a school project in middle school. Guess what? Very legit sites about the deleterious effects of various drugs were blocked at school.
Entanglement (as we know it) doesn't let you transmit ftl. It's nonlocal- the particles really are behaving oddly- but no useful information can be sent with it. The point is that you can transfer quantum states without the object holding the state actually moving through the intervening space. But to verify that anything is happening you need a classical, less than or equal to light speed, method of communication to see that, for example, the spin of one entangled particle ends up being the same as the other (at random).
Right, but unless the colony is self-contained, then if we on Earth are knocked back say 100 years in tech or more then they're screwed anyway, right? They'll have to come home once they run out of food/air/etc. Not that we shouldn't try to put them there, and hope self-sufficiently comes later. They'll be a strong incentive to become so, because of the huge costs of lifting things off Earth.
If we CAN come up with self-contained colonies, why not install a few on Earth? In the event of catastrophe, send some people in there. Think really comfortable mineshafts. Would work just as well- even a direct asteroid strike (a la dinosaurs) didn't make the Earth permanently uninhabitable.
The ORION spaceship project had a lot of promise, plus it theoretically scales very well with size (the larger it is, the more efficient). Minor detail: It requires letting off a bunch of nukes to get off the ground.
The problem with audio CAPTCHA, is that if it's not garbled enough IT can be cracked too... and then we're back to the same situation as we have with visual ones.
"Global temps are falling. They have been for as long as you have been aware of the so-called issue." [Citation Needed]
It doesn't matter if "Man is only responsible for a small percentage of CO2". Before we started releasing CO2, sinks and sources of CO2 were more or less equal in magnitude. Now they're out of whack, and CO2 is building up. We've destabilized the system, and there aren't enough sinks to soak up this new CO2. What is it going to do? Hang around the atmosphere for a century or so and warm things up. Exactly what happens then is a matter of debate, but any sort of destabilization is going to be bad for us.
Hand waving about relative sizes isn't helpful- even if CO2 is not the most prevalent greenhouse gas, increasing it will increase the heat trapped in the atmosphere.
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Because we don't know who ELSE has stocks of the disease and might want to turn it into a weapon. Plus the more we learn about infectious disease in general the better we can fight it. Anyway how does that link have anything to do with it? The more they vaccinate people, the less likely smallpox will come back. Manufacturing vaccines has NOTHING to do with having live, viable stocks of the actual disease. Which do exist, but that's a totally different issue.
Water absorbs the radio waves you need to use to triangulate your position, so GPS doesn't work underwater. They put GPS tags on whales and things, but they only work when the whale surfaces.
Unless you're using 3 and 5 for your factors, I think you're safe for now...
The Clean Air Act mandates lots of things vis-a-vis pollution, and it did stand up in court. Interstate commerce clause-> CO2 travels across state lines, has effects on state economies (global warming->fires & hurricanes). At least that's one way you could justify it.
"had they done this and the results turned out differently, they'd have to explain why this effect only happens to heterosexual men"
Because heterosexual men are attracted to women, and homosexual men.... aren't?
They sure do need water though. At least for metabolic processes. Some can survive without it, but only in a sort of crystallized form that just sits there inert until it's put back into water.
I guess the hope would be they would weather solar flares by either burrowing underground, or using their water supply as a shield. It wouldn't help them if they were caught outside, but I guess that's a risk they'd take.
Yeah, and they also probably expected to have children, make money, and die a hard-working and successful man. NOT going to happen on Mars. Plus back then colonists were egged on by promises of a new Eden- we know darn well that going to Mars will be a hell of a hard time. Not that there weren't colonists who didn't know exactly what they were getting into.
Plus do you trust Congress to keep funding going to keep you alive? What if a war breaks out, you'll be totally screwed.
Not if they die, I don't know, inside their pressurized lair? Plenty of time to rot before the air leaks out.
Or just record everything coming out of the sound card & microphone, and keep an eye on what text is coming up in the Skype window to see who is calling and when to bother to record. Is there any reason that wouldn't work?
Or here's an idea: Provide a toolkit for building quiz apps that is easy enough to use that almost anyone could do it. Host all the separate apps on your webserver, and include code in every app generated by it that tracks people. Then you'd have dozens (hundreds?) of quizzes all feeding you information, all "built" by other people. With this you could basically recreate all of the information that Facebook has on its users.
For all I know this has already been done... these quizzes can't all be built from scratch, can they?
Here is an interesting privacy issue that Facebook has had for YEARS.
Alice posts an album with one photo that has her friend, user Bob, tagged in it. User Charles, who is friends with Bob (but not Alice) will more likely than not get an update saying "Your friend Bob just got tagged in an album!" and now Charles can see the entire album that Alice posted, whether or not Bob is actually in any more than one photo. This can also happen if Bob, instead of being tagged in the album, merely comments on a photo in the album.
Meaning, for all intents and purposes, all albums you post can not only be viewed by your friends and the people in the album, but also friends of anyone tagged in the album.
But if he's at school, chances are this IS his "home" computer as well. The guest account/virtual machine options seem like the best.
Right, because NOBODY has ever had any problems watching videos on Linux. Just the other day I was trying to watch some avis off a digital camera in Ubuntu, and VLC crapped out in a big way, complaining first that they were malformed and then playing a few stuttery frames and stopping. Wonderful. Sure, maybe there was something wrong with the AVIs, but I know they work on Windows.
If it doesn't exist (or rather, if CERN doesn't find it) we would at least have learned that the Higgs (if it exists) doesn't show up at the energy levels produced in CERN. That itself would be interesting.
No, it's Galactic GPS System, silly.
Right, because this is avian flu! Wait, it's a virus NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE. Our current vaccines DON'T WORK- this is an H1N1 strain, the avain flu we were worried about is H5N1. We'll need to put together a new vaccine, which could take months. Yes, that might benefit the manufacturers- because this is a capitalistic society.
I had to do research on (illegal) drugs for a school project in middle school. Guess what? Very legit sites about the deleterious effects of various drugs were blocked at school.
Entanglement (as we know it) doesn't let you transmit ftl. It's nonlocal- the particles really are behaving oddly- but no useful information can be sent with it. The point is that you can transfer quantum states without the object holding the state actually moving through the intervening space. But to verify that anything is happening you need a classical, less than or equal to light speed, method of communication to see that, for example, the spin of one entangled particle ends up being the same as the other (at random).
Right, but unless the colony is self-contained, then if we on Earth are knocked back say 100 years in tech or more then they're screwed anyway, right? They'll have to come home once they run out of food/air/etc. Not that we shouldn't try to put them there, and hope self-sufficiently comes later. They'll be a strong incentive to become so, because of the huge costs of lifting things off Earth.
If we CAN come up with self-contained colonies, why not install a few on Earth? In the event of catastrophe, send some people in there. Think really comfortable mineshafts. Would work just as well- even a direct asteroid strike (a la dinosaurs) didn't make the Earth permanently uninhabitable.
The ORION spaceship project had a lot of promise, plus it theoretically scales very well with size (the larger it is, the more efficient). Minor detail: It requires letting off a bunch of nukes to get off the ground.
The problem with audio CAPTCHA, is that if it's not garbled enough IT can be cracked too... and then we're back to the same situation as we have with visual ones.
So much for Slashdot then?
"Global temps are falling. They have been for as long as you have been aware of the so-called issue."
[Citation Needed]
It doesn't matter if "Man is only responsible for a small percentage of CO2". Before we started releasing CO2, sinks and sources of CO2 were more or less equal in magnitude. Now they're out of whack, and CO2 is building up. We've destabilized the system, and there aren't enough sinks to soak up this new CO2. What is it going to do? Hang around the atmosphere for a century or so and warm things up. Exactly what happens then is a matter of debate, but any sort of destabilization is going to be bad for us.
Hand waving about relative sizes isn't helpful- even if CO2 is not the most prevalent greenhouse gas, increasing it will increase the heat trapped in the atmosphere.