Who the American Idol winner is has no real effect on my life, whereas my local city council does when they decide whether to put money into repairing nearby streets or changing the zoning to accommodate a CVS in my neighborhood.
The council has more effect, sure, but does your vote make any difference?
(apart from putting a different name on the council officer's doors)
Considering this a defensive system 2 kilometers means the high velocity threat is nearly on top of what you want to protect. It's 'destruction' is still likely to rain down debris nearby.
Another test was done where the subject went out for a "brisk walk". This caused adverse physiological reactions including increased heart rate, increased breathing rate and sweating, especially on an uphill part of the trajectory. We recommend immediate banning of hills in places where people are likely to walk.
In other tests it was also found that holding a piece of plastic to your ear for a period of time caused a localized warming effect.
Case 1: Company A labels their phone, company B doesn't. Customers looking at a phone from A get scared, look at phone from B and buy it because it doesn't come with the scary warning.
Me? I want one with high radiation. The higher the better. High radiation means better coverage!
Casual, recreational use of a variety of brain-altering drugs: fine. Anonymous bathhouses where one can - hetero or homo - have sex with a variety of strangers: lifestyle choice.
Cellphones: "We should make sure we warn people about the dangers!"
Nope. I'd like to reassure you that the first two things also have plenty of lunatics trying to ban them.
Bitcoins have gone from worthless in 2010 to $120 a coin in 2013
$120 is only today's price. It can go down.
“...the system is secure as long as the honest nodes collectively control more [computing] power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes.” - Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.
ie. If governments or bot-herders want to destroy Bitcoin, they can.
In fact, if I was a bot herder I'd be busy working on a way to manipulate the price of bitcoin for fun and profit.
I couldn't shoot deer, bears, etc. but there's plenty of people who think it's great fun. Some of them even take their kids along when they do it so they can put one foot on them for the Facebook pics.
You can bet there's no shortage of people who'd press the button without hesitation. All the air force has to do is find a few of them.
All we need is email programs that perform a Diffie-Hellman key exchange during the first few emails you exchange with anybody (add an attachment the the email which the user never sees). After two or three emails exchanged, you're encrypted. Why isn't it being done?
I'm guessing the men in black SUVs pay visits to anybody who attempts it. What's the explanation if not...?
Where's the incentive to improve the software on a subscription model? Once they have your money they can just sit around without adding new features, or add features nobody really wants, or...basically whatever they feel like doing. There's no pressure at all to make new versions which are good enough to make people part with more many.
Laptops don't have thousands of lawyers constantly watching them and salivating over the possibility of a class-action lawsuit.
(they only have hundreds...)
If I was the boss of a car manufacturing company, I'd be cautious about everything. Nerdy customers moaning over the size of the onboard storage would be a distant second.
Not necessarily. The FBI could require a data tap inside every telephone exchange without telling the telco how often it would be used (ie. they say "with a warrant" when they really mean "always"). If it's designed right, the telco has know way of knowing if the little black box is recording or not.
The simple answer is to mandate a huge, prominently placed MPG display in all new cars. That way people can see their current MPG see how their driving affects it, compare with their neighbor's car, etc.
It's because they all use 32-bit ActiveX controls and even if you're running a 32-bit version of Windows 7 (hardly anybody is) the permission system doesn't let you install them without a huge amount of esoteric messing around.
Remember back in the 1990's when we told Microsoft that ActiveX was a bad idea...? Yeah, about that.
PS: We have the exact same problem here in Spain. All the accountants, etc., pretty much have to use Windows XP if they want to get any work done.
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Who the American Idol winner is has no real effect on my life, whereas my local city council does when they decide whether to put money into repairing nearby streets or changing the zoning to accommodate a CVS in my neighborhood.
The council has more effect, sure, but does your vote make any difference?
(apart from putting a different name on the council officer's doors)
Considering this a defensive system 2 kilometers means the high velocity threat is nearly on top of what you want to protect. It's 'destruction' is still likely to rain down debris nearby.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
Di-hydrogen monoxide!
...What business is it of *ANY* municipal government to even try to regulate something like this?
Simple: The people complaining are voters. The primary business of all municipal governments is to get people to vote for them.
The largest study done actually showed a slight correlation of a REDUCED rate of cancer with cell phone usage.
There is no known mechanism for adverse effects.
Is that because the people who can afford cellphones don't usually live in houses with moldy asbestos ceilings?
Another test was done where the subject went out for a "brisk walk". This caused adverse physiological reactions including increased heart rate, increased breathing rate and sweating, especially on an uphill part of the trajectory. We recommend immediate banning of hills in places where people are likely to walk.
In other tests it was also found that holding a piece of plastic to your ear for a period of time caused a localized warming effect.
Case 1: Company A labels their phone, company B doesn't. Customers looking at a phone from A get scared, look at phone from B and buy it because it doesn't come with the scary warning.
Me? I want one with high radiation. The higher the better. High radiation means better coverage!
Casual, recreational use of a variety of brain-altering drugs: fine.
Anonymous bathhouses where one can - hetero or homo - have sex with a variety of strangers: lifestyle choice.
Cellphones: "We should make sure we warn people about the dangers!"
Nope. I'd like to reassure you that the first two things also have plenty of lunatics trying to ban them.
There has not been a larger increase in head cancers over the past thirty years despite a more than billion-fold increase in mobile phone use.
...and this hasn't surprised anybody who knows anything about physics.
Cellphone radiation is non-ionizing. You know that, right?
You also understand what 'radiation' and 'non-ionizing' mean in this context, right?
(ie. "radio waves" and "utterly incapable of damaging a DNA molecule")
Bitcoins have gone from worthless in 2010 to $120 a coin in 2013
$120 is only today's price. It can go down.
“...the system is secure as long as the honest nodes collectively control more [computing] power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes.” - Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.
ie. If governments or bot-herders want to destroy Bitcoin, they can.
In fact, if I was a bot herder I'd be busy working on a way to manipulate the price of bitcoin for fun and profit.
The value of bitcoin is tied to the disposable income of the people who live in that country.
If the dollar crashes, so will Bitcoin.
The price of food can double in a single day and you think it's normal? Luckily your wages do the exact same thing, right?
Yep. What the world really needs right now is a new currency whose value fluctuates like a share price.
(Because it's based on the same premise - that it's only worth what people are willing to pay for it).
I couldn't shoot deer, bears, etc. but there's plenty of people who think it's great fun. Some of them even take their kids along when they do it so they can put one foot on them for the Facebook pics.
You can bet there's no shortage of people who'd press the button without hesitation. All the air force has to do is find a few of them.
Why isn't all email encrypted yet?
All we need is email programs that perform a Diffie-Hellman key exchange during the first few emails you exchange with anybody (add an attachment the the email which the user never sees). After two or three emails exchanged, you're encrypted. Why isn't it being done?
I'm guessing the men in black SUVs pay visits to anybody who attempts it. What's the explanation if not...?
Adobe Rent for $50 per month.
Where's the incentive to improve the software on a subscription model? Once they have your money they can just sit around without adding new features, or add features nobody really wants, or...basically whatever they feel like doing. There's no pressure at all to make new versions which are good enough to make people part with more many.
Laptops don't have thousands of lawyers constantly watching them and salivating over the possibility of a class-action lawsuit.
(they only have hundreds...)
If I was the boss of a car manufacturing company, I'd be cautious about everything. Nerdy customers moaning over the size of the onboard storage would be a distant second.
Not necessarily. The FBI could require a data tap inside every telephone exchange without telling the telco how often it would be used (ie. they say "with a warrant" when they really mean "always"). If it's designed right, the telco has know way of knowing if the little black box is recording or not.
The simple answer is to mandate a huge, prominently placed MPG display in all new cars. That way people can see their current MPG see how their driving affects it, compare with their neighbor's car, etc.
It's because they all use 32-bit ActiveX controls and even if you're running a 32-bit version of Windows 7 (hardly anybody is) the permission system doesn't let you install them without a huge amount of esoteric messing around.
Remember back in the 1990's when we told Microsoft that ActiveX was a bad idea...? Yeah, about that.
PS: We have the exact same problem here in Spain. All the accountants, etc., pretty much have to use Windows XP if they want to get any work done.
And yet this is more or less the same thing they said about mobile phones in the early 80's.
Ummmm, citation needed.
As far as I remember *every* businessman I knew wanted one.
I don't think 'pestering' people worries Facebook in the slightest.
OTOH this is several orders of magnitude better than "What's your favorite color?". I almost like it.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2961
...who speak standard US English better than many Earth-natives.