How unambitious. I'm hoping they get that whole anti-senescence thing worked out. Preferably either before I get to the nasty bits of being old or in a way that allows them to reverse the damage.
And anyway, why are you such a self-centered cunt? Even if you're dead or a drooling on yourself with age (rather than stupidity, which is what seems to be happening now) why wouldn't you want future generations to have awesome shit like a space elevator? This sort of thing is AWESOME, sure it's probably not gonna happen on Obayashi's timeframe and might be flat out impossible but you can't find out if you don't try and it would be really neat (as well as incredibly useful) if they managed to make one. No one thought the Wright Brothers would be able to make a plane...
I disagree with the current 'burn the witch' situation we have going in this country anytime someone brings up pedophiles or anything that could be construed as CP, but your argument is silly.
The government has the right to do things based on the social contract. That is to say, at least theoretically, we choose the government's composition via democracy and the government provides services and writes/enforces laws to allow us to live in a civilized society. Part of that is protecting citizens from those who would see them harmed.
Asking 'who is the government to do things like this?' is silly, because doing things like this is the entire point of the government's existence.
That said, I think what the government is doing in this area is a non-solution. Worrying about child porn that's already out there and declaring a bunch of things that aren't actually child porn (art, stories, edited images, young looking but legal actors etc) to be child porn and going after them is dumb. As is going after teenagers who self-produce porn (which the government has done, often charging all involved with producing child porn, as if legal charges and almost certain sex-offender status will somehow 'protect' 15 and 16 year olds). Worry about the people who rape children, especially the ones who record it (can you say 'documenting your crimes and providing ready-made evidence'?) as well as anyone profiting off it (if money's being made it's encouraging more children to be raped).
Going after images that are already out there and things that didn't actually harm any children (whether because they were doing it to themselves or because there were no children involved in the first place) is only useful as a propaganda piece so people can act like they're tough on crime (as if that actually meant anything or accomplished anything useful). It doesn't stop any children to be hurt and it drives the people who want to look at it underground where they get encouraged to rape little girls and take pictures for the 'community' rather than going and getting psychiatric help (which is what they actually need). And unlike when it happened on reddit, when people give this sort of advice on a darknet it's not out in the open where non-child-molesters can see it and possibly take preventative action.
See that's the exact attitude that's gotten us into such a mess. Corporations are made of people! Yes, they exist to make money but that's not an excuse to leave ethics at the door, you can (and should) make money without being a dickhead.
The Republicans proudly and openly suck corporate cock. The Democrats pretend they don't, act sorry when they get caught and do it just as much in the end. The system is stacked so it's almost impossible for a third party to get elected. What would you suggest doing? This is an honest question, because I've honestly got nothing. How are you supposed to fight an oligarchic mess when most of your countrymen don't even acknowledge that a problem exists in the first place or even think that we haven't gone far enough in that direction?
It shouldn't have to be a 'hack' though. Any general purpose computer you buy should let you load any compatible operating system and any operating system should let you run any compatible programs. You shouldn't have to jump through hoops just to do what you'd like with your own damn hardware.
They could have an public conference to release any discoveries. New York is a good place, how about the Poughkeepsie Exposition of New and Interesting Science?
Typical libertarian anti-logic. "If we attempt to control corporations with regulations the regulators will be bought off, thereby letting corporations do whatever they want. So we should just eliminate all legislation which somehow prevents corporations from doing whatever they want...".
I will point out that SS wouldn't necessarily have ever become "doomed" without those raids. As long as your population is stable or growing you can fund that sort of thing indefinitely (so long as you create a sane and logical tax/benefit structure for it.).
Pre-raid SS didn't necessarily meet all those criteria but they had more than enough cash on hand to keep it together until Congress got its shit together and fixed the tax code, whenever that actually happens...
If someone has the drive and persistence needed to succeed at winning an election for Congress then it's reasonable to assume that this person would also succeed at becoming a rich person.
You mean the drive and ambition to succeed at being born into a rich family?
The entire building is a plastic white egg, there's a power button, a really big plug, 1 Ethernet jack, 1 usb port and several proprietary ports that no one but Apple uses. The preferred interface is a small touchscreen kiosk carefully hidden with tasteful landscaping.
There are no user-serviceable parts inside, opening the shell voids the warranty. What few upgrade options available when ordering will have exorbitant mark up and it will be slightly slower and a lot more expensive than most of its competitors. If anything breaks the recommended solution is to demolish it on site and order a new one.
While you're right that the reason no one's building thorium reactors now is because of the NIMBYs it's important to remember that we didn't build them in the first place because the first run of nuclear infrastructure was built with an eye towards nuclear weapons production (which a thorium cycle reactor is a lot worse at than a uranium or plutonium reactor).
Actually neither uses an alphabet per-se. The Chinese use ideograms, with the Japanese using the same set of ideograms (usually with the same or at-least a similar) meaning attached but (obviously) to represent a Japanese word instead of a Chinese one. The Japanese also use two syllabaries (that are basically the equivalent of cursive and printing except that one is generally used for normal writing and the other is used to write out SFX and foreign words (usually badly mangling them in the process because as a syllabary there's no way to express consonant sounds without an attached vowel).
The Koreans us a Featural Alphabet where consonants and vowels are put together in blocks to form syllables and those syllable blocks are put together into words but they have just as much trouble with R & L as the Chinese and Japanese because all three languages treat R&L as the same phoneme so the first time native speakers of any of those languages have to differentiate between the sounds is when they pick up a language that does.
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Don't stick you dick in beehives while you're tripping (hell, don't do it when you're straight either...). Problem solved.
Of the Neutron-Flux?
I live upstate and it's true. This IS where all the freaks live.
That's because of the way voting works in this country though. If things were set up better other parties could gasp win elections.
How unambitious. I'm hoping they get that whole anti-senescence thing worked out. Preferably either before I get to the nasty bits of being old or in a way that allows them to reverse the damage.
And anyway, why are you such a self-centered cunt? Even if you're dead or a drooling on yourself with age (rather than stupidity, which is what seems to be happening now) why wouldn't you want future generations to have awesome shit like a space elevator? This sort of thing is AWESOME, sure it's probably not gonna happen on Obayashi's timeframe and might be flat out impossible but you can't find out if you don't try and it would be really neat (as well as incredibly useful) if they managed to make one. No one thought the Wright Brothers would be able to make a plane...
Theme From A Summer Place works well too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M
I disagree with the current 'burn the witch' situation we have going in this country anytime someone brings up pedophiles or anything that could be construed as CP, but your argument is silly.
The government has the right to do things based on the social contract. That is to say, at least theoretically, we choose the government's composition via democracy and the government provides services and writes/enforces laws to allow us to live in a civilized society. Part of that is protecting citizens from those who would see them harmed.
Asking 'who is the government to do things like this?' is silly, because doing things like this is the entire point of the government's existence.
That said, I think what the government is doing in this area is a non-solution. Worrying about child porn that's already out there and declaring a bunch of things that aren't actually child porn (art, stories, edited images, young looking but legal actors etc) to be child porn and going after them is dumb. As is going after teenagers who self-produce porn (which the government has done, often charging all involved with producing child porn, as if legal charges and almost certain sex-offender status will somehow 'protect' 15 and 16 year olds). Worry about the people who rape children, especially the ones who record it (can you say 'documenting your crimes and providing ready-made evidence'?) as well as anyone profiting off it (if money's being made it's encouraging more children to be raped).
Going after images that are already out there and things that didn't actually harm any children (whether because they were doing it to themselves or because there were no children involved in the first place) is only useful as a propaganda piece so people can act like they're tough on crime (as if that actually meant anything or accomplished anything useful). It doesn't stop any children to be hurt and it drives the people who want to look at it underground where they get encouraged to rape little girls and take pictures for the 'community' rather than going and getting psychiatric help (which is what they actually need). And unlike when it happened on reddit, when people give this sort of advice on a darknet it's not out in the open where non-child-molesters can see it and possibly take preventative action.
See that's the exact attitude that's gotten us into such a mess. Corporations are made of people! Yes, they exist to make money but that's not an excuse to leave ethics at the door, you can (and should) make money without being a dickhead.
And the current crop of assholes are gonna propose and sign into law legislation explicitly designed to kick them out of office, why exactly?
The Republicans proudly and openly suck corporate cock. The Democrats pretend they don't, act sorry when they get caught and do it just as much in the end. The system is stacked so it's almost impossible for a third party to get elected. What would you suggest doing? This is an honest question, because I've honestly got nothing. How are you supposed to fight an oligarchic mess when most of your countrymen don't even acknowledge that a problem exists in the first place or even think that we haven't gone far enough in that direction?
But does netcraft confirm it?
It shouldn't have to be a 'hack' though. Any general purpose computer you buy should let you load any compatible operating system and any operating system should let you run any compatible programs. You shouldn't have to jump through hoops just to do what you'd like with your own damn hardware.
I actually like pre-cognitive commands, makes things interesting. It's why I switched form neutrinos to tachyons actually...
And there are a lot more McDonald's than 5 Star Restaurants in the world. Does that mean micky-d's is gourmet now?
Here's an idea, if you want your goddamn libertarian paradise so damn bad move to Somalia. No mean, nasty government there to ruin your day...
They could have an public conference to release any discoveries. New York is a good place, how about the Poughkeepsie Exposition of New and Interesting Science?
We used to have a Husky that liked getting his fur vacuumed. Some animals will put up with a lot more than others...
Typical libertarian anti-logic. "If we attempt to control corporations with regulations the regulators will be bought off, thereby letting corporations do whatever they want. So we should just eliminate all legislation which somehow prevents corporations from doing whatever they want...".
I will point out that SS wouldn't necessarily have ever become "doomed" without those raids. As long as your population is stable or growing you can fund that sort of thing indefinitely (so long as you create a sane and logical tax/benefit structure for it.).
Pre-raid SS didn't necessarily meet all those criteria but they had more than enough cash on hand to keep it together until Congress got its shit together and fixed the tax code, whenever that actually happens...
Unjust lies and slander, tarnishing the good name of Catholic Priests everywhere. They wouldn't be after your daughter.
If someone has the drive and persistence needed to succeed at winning an election for Congress then it's reasonable to assume that this person would also succeed at becoming a rich person.
You mean the drive and ambition to succeed at being born into a rich family?
All the puns are REPLent...
The entire building is a plastic white egg, there's a power button, a really big plug, 1 Ethernet jack, 1 usb port and several proprietary ports that no one but Apple uses. The preferred interface is a small touchscreen kiosk carefully hidden with tasteful landscaping.
There are no user-serviceable parts inside, opening the shell voids the warranty. What few upgrade options available when ordering will have exorbitant mark up and it will be slightly slower and a lot more expensive than most of its competitors. If anything breaks the recommended solution is to demolish it on site and order a new one.
While you're right that the reason no one's building thorium reactors now is because of the NIMBYs it's important to remember that we didn't build them in the first place because the first run of nuclear infrastructure was built with an eye towards nuclear weapons production (which a thorium cycle reactor is a lot worse at than a uranium or plutonium reactor).
Actually neither uses an alphabet per-se. The Chinese use ideograms, with the Japanese using the same set of ideograms (usually with the same or at-least a similar) meaning attached but (obviously) to represent a Japanese word instead of a Chinese one. The Japanese also use two syllabaries (that are basically the equivalent of cursive and printing except that one is generally used for normal writing and the other is used to write out SFX and foreign words (usually badly mangling them in the process because as a syllabary there's no way to express consonant sounds without an attached vowel).
The Koreans us a Featural Alphabet where consonants and vowels are put together in blocks to form syllables and those syllable blocks are put together into words but they have just as much trouble with R & L as the Chinese and Japanese because all three languages treat R&L as the same phoneme so the first time native speakers of any of those languages have to differentiate between the sounds is when they pick up a language that does.