Aww, the triggered snowflake is suffering from white male persecution complex again. How cute. Head to your safe space, Anonymous Coward. I'm sure you'll feel better there.
Supersonic over the Pacific would still be a game changer. My last 17 hour flight to Singapore was way, way too long. Even in business it's just not fun.
If you could have this (Concorde) for 8 hours supersonic -
30 years ago, the main appeal of Concorde (other than the snob value) was the fact that a senior business person was only out of contact with the office for a few hours. Fast forward to nearly-2019 and by the time a new supersonic passenger jet is in the air that advantage will mostly have gone away - With broadband connectivity over the Atlantic, a businessperson will no longer be out of touch from HQ. They can sit in their first class seat, work, make and take calls, send and receive emails, have a couple of glasses of wine and sleep in a lie-flat bed for the same price (or less) than a sardine-seat in a supersonic airliner. I suspect more and more that's where the market will go.
Most of us who live in a city walk past multiple cameras in many situations. Humans don't have a very reflective tapetum in their eye, but some light still does get reflected out. A camera of sufficiently high resolution could capture your fingerprints, iris scan, and face with enough detail to reproduce any of the three.
Luckily I have a wicked-awesome specially-made tinfoil hat that prevents this.
You can't replace your fingerprints, iris, or head once they are compromised which happens about every 10 minutes these days.
How is my iris "compromised every 10 minutes?"
The only people with a hash of my iris-pair are the Canada Border Services Agency, and you can't reverse-engineer a pair of irises from a hash of them.
I have a couple of friends who are involved in the behind-the-scenes organizing at the Olympics. One thing they said that I found interesting was apparently the amount of sex and associated hanky-panky that goes on at the Athletes' Village is impressive. Can't remember it was London or Vancouver, but one comment was made that they actually ran out of condoms.
Makes sense - You put all those uber-fit young people together and stuff is bound to happen - Particularly amongst athletes whose events have completed.
Would be fascinating to watch if you put "eSports" "athletes" into that mix as well... Nerd heaven.
and for your stuff to continue to work for a long time
Not really, Anonymous Coward. If I were able to copy DonkeyKong.exe from a 5.25" IBM "PC-compatible" floppy I have in the attic onto a thumb drive, and load it in the Windows 10 MS Surface I'm typing this on, it would run. Likely so blindingly fast it would be unplayable, but it would run, sound effects and all. Ditto my dBase II disks.
However, were I to try to run Lode Runner from a Mac Classic onto a modern Macbook Air, it wouldn't work. Fairly regularly, Apple kills off all backwards compatibility. Sure there are emulators, blah blah blah, but Apple's stuff almost never "continues to work for a long time."
I appreciate that cars with pushbutton-start don't have steering locks on the column, but you can't start those by touching some wires together under the dash.
So just steal it the old-fashioned way. Car theft has been a thing way longer than your old crappy car.
I know, right? I watch TV. It's clear all you have to do is twist two wires together, then brush a third wire against that pair and the car will start. Seconds later you can drive away.
I also think we've reached a point where a thousand bucks is more than people want to spend on their "cell phone," regardless of how cool it is. My Samsung Galaxy S5 is long in the tooth, so I just replaced it - With an S7 that cost me $225 CAD.
Please give me a couple of links to the facts you supposedly have.
"I don't think Ivanka would do that inside the magazine [pose for Playboy] although she does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her."
Or, you know, millions and millions of people elected Trump to enforce immigration laws and the border, and he's doing exactly what they asked him to do.
Hey Anonymous Coward, where is your FACTUAL EVIDENCE that the USBP and US CBP can't process the 3000 migrants?
Where are the facts that indicate dispatching thousands of Army Troops was the correct course of action against unarmed men, women and children on foot seeking asylum?
You should try venturing outside your echo chamber.
And you should try not to make assumptions about people like me.
I evaluate Trump, his surrogates, and his supporters based on whether what they are saying is *FACTUAL* - And whether their actions make sense based on the facts at hand. When Trump spends $120M of taxpayer dollars to dispatch 7000 troops to the southern border - Depriving those troops of their families at Thanksgiving and Christmas - Based on a threat that is not factual, then I judge him on that, because the facts do not support his actions.
The people who *are* in echo chambers are the people who haven't critically evaluated whether sending 7000 troops to the border is a good use of resources, or a stunt to inflame their fears.
People have been going to Antarctica for 200 years now and we still aren't able to live there permanently due to the harsh conditions
We're certainly *able* to live there. We just (correctly) choose not to spend the many billions it would cost to build a comfortable, large permanent settlement.
I would say the only technical challenge we'd have to overcome is figuring out how to do emergency medical extraction during adverse weather conditions, but I suppose even in that case you spend billions on a sloping runway underground with a big door at the end - Open the door, do a JATO take off and you're on your way to a hospital in the southern hemisphere.
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Who are you to decide what the range should be?
The humans who, y'know, live here and grow food here.
When 150 million people start to migrate north to escape warming and famine you can bet the USA and Canada will have to sit up and take notice.
4 on the Evil Mean Old Microsoft
You mean we don't have to write it as "Micro$oft" any more?
I cherry pick based on how much they make my life suck
Hey Anonymous Coward, can you provide some concrete fact-based examples of exactly how Soros has "made your life suck?"
Half-dozen or so examples should be fine.
Aww, the triggered snowflake is suffering from white male persecution complex again. How cute. Head to your safe space, Anonymous Coward. I'm sure you'll feel better there.
Snob value ... like Apple crap ... is sufficient to justify anything.
Not really - If it was, the Concorde would still be flying.
There aren't enough snobs to make a service like Concorde profitable.
Supersonic over the Pacific would still be a game changer. My last 17 hour flight to Singapore was way, way too long. Even in business it's just not fun.
If you could have this (Concorde) for 8 hours supersonic -
https://media3.ausbt.com.au/15...
Or this (Singapore Airlines) for 17 hours subsonic (for the same price) -
https://samchui.com/wp-content...
Which would you choose?
30 years ago, the main appeal of Concorde (other than the snob value) was the fact that a senior business person was only out of contact with the office for a few hours. Fast forward to nearly-2019 and by the time a new supersonic passenger jet is in the air that advantage will mostly have gone away - With broadband connectivity over the Atlantic, a businessperson will no longer be out of touch from HQ. They can sit in their first class seat, work, make and take calls, send and receive emails, have a couple of glasses of wine and sleep in a lie-flat bed for the same price (or less) than a sardine-seat in a supersonic airliner. I suspect more and more that's where the market will go.
This is what liberal morons (redundant, I know) actually believe!
Yep - That's because we live in a world of FACTS as opposed to Conservative Fantasyland where facts don't matter.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/ma...
Most of us who live in a city walk past multiple cameras in many situations. Humans don't have a very reflective tapetum in their eye, but some light still does get reflected out. A camera of sufficiently high resolution could capture your fingerprints, iris scan, and face with enough detail to reproduce any of the three.
Luckily I have a wicked-awesome specially-made tinfoil hat that prevents this.
And just think of the increased revenue from gas taxes! That ought to soothe any ruffled liberal feathers.
Hey, gotta cover the shortfall from the Republican's trillion dollars added to the deficit.
You can't replace your fingerprints, iris, or head once they are compromised which happens about every 10 minutes these days.
How is my iris "compromised every 10 minutes?"
The only people with a hash of my iris-pair are the Canada Border Services Agency, and you can't reverse-engineer a pair of irises from a hash of them.
Is the crime that Meng is accused of in the US also a crime in Canada? If not, then the possibility of extradition seems remote.
Yes, she is charged with fraud - A crime in both countries.
I have a couple of friends who are involved in the behind-the-scenes organizing at the Olympics. One thing they said that I found interesting was apparently the amount of sex and associated hanky-panky that goes on at the Athletes' Village is impressive. Can't remember it was London or Vancouver, but one comment was made that they actually ran out of condoms.
Makes sense - You put all those uber-fit young people together and stuff is bound to happen - Particularly amongst athletes whose events have completed.
Would be fascinating to watch if you put "eSports" "athletes" into that mix as well... Nerd heaven.
You really haven't been watching the news lately.
So enlighten me.
...and no, a fire isn't "weather."
What "extreme weather" does California have?
and for your stuff to continue to work for a long time
Not really, Anonymous Coward. If I were able to copy DonkeyKong.exe from a 5.25" IBM "PC-compatible" floppy I have in the attic onto a thumb drive, and load it in the Windows 10 MS Surface I'm typing this on, it would run. Likely so blindingly fast it would be unplayable, but it would run, sound effects and all. Ditto my dBase II disks.
However, were I to try to run Lode Runner from a Mac Classic onto a modern Macbook Air, it wouldn't work. Fairly regularly, Apple kills off all backwards compatibility. Sure there are emulators, blah blah blah, but Apple's stuff almost never "continues to work for a long time."
We have extreme weather -- shorten lifespan.
Hey Anonymous Coward - Other than the occasional heavy rains, and very hot days, what "extreme weather" does California have?
Hurricanes? Nope. Tornadoes? Nope. Blizzards? Nope. Ice Storms? Nope. Sandstorms? I guess maybe.
Which modern cars don't have steering locks?
(Modern = made in the last 25 years.)
I appreciate that cars with pushbutton-start don't have steering locks on the column, but you can't start those by touching some wires together under the dash.
So just steal it the old-fashioned way. Car theft has been a thing way longer than your old crappy car.
I know, right? I watch TV. It's clear all you have to do is twist two wires together, then brush a third wire against that pair and the car will start. Seconds later you can drive away.
I also think we've reached a point where a thousand bucks is more than people want to spend on their "cell phone," regardless of how cool it is. My Samsung Galaxy S5 is long in the tooth, so I just replaced it - With an S7 that cost me $225 CAD.
I don't think I'm alone.
Want her to keep the kid? Too bad, it's her body.
Yep - As much as the GOP would like to be able to, you can't force a women to carry a child to term.
Don't want to keep the kid? Too bad, you're on the hook for child support for 18 years.
Wear a condom. Are they perfect? No. But odds of pregnancy plummet.
No problem for her, there's always paternity fraud.
Easily disproved with a genetic test.
So you're just going to ignore the "if Ivanka weren't my daughter" part, and say he wants to breed with his daughter?
The contortions you Trump apologists twist yourself into to explain away the behaviours of your Dear Leader never cease to amaze me.
Trump is creepy AF when it comes to how he talks about Ivanka, how he finds her sexy, and how he'd date her if she wasn't his daughter.
No normal father talks that way about his daughter.
Do you HONESTLY expect me to believe that if Obama said:
I've said if Sasha weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her. Isn't that terrible? How terrible? Is that terrible?
Yeah, Sasha's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father...
You'd be completely fine with it?
Please give me a couple of links to the facts you supposedly have.
"I don't think Ivanka would do that inside the magazine [pose for Playboy] although she does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her."
More: https://www.elitedaily.com/p/9...
Oh yeah, and this:
https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-...
Or, you know, millions and millions of people elected Trump to enforce immigration laws and the border, and he's doing exactly what they asked him to do.
Hey Anonymous Coward, where is your FACTUAL EVIDENCE that the USBP and US CBP can't process the 3000 migrants?
Where are the facts that indicate dispatching thousands of Army Troops was the correct course of action against unarmed men, women and children on foot seeking asylum?
You should try venturing outside your echo chamber.
And you should try not to make assumptions about people like me.
I evaluate Trump, his surrogates, and his supporters based on whether what they are saying is *FACTUAL* - And whether their actions make sense based on the facts at hand. When Trump spends $120M of taxpayer dollars to dispatch 7000 troops to the southern border - Depriving those troops of their families at Thanksgiving and Christmas - Based on a threat that is not factual, then I judge him on that, because the facts do not support his actions.
The people who *are* in echo chambers are the people who haven't critically evaluated whether sending 7000 troops to the border is a good use of resources, or a stunt to inflame their fears.
That's one of many many many dozens of examples.
People have been going to Antarctica for 200 years now and we still aren't able to live there permanently due to the harsh conditions
We're certainly *able* to live there. We just (correctly) choose not to spend the many billions it would cost to build a comfortable, large permanent settlement.
I would say the only technical challenge we'd have to overcome is figuring out how to do emergency medical extraction during adverse weather conditions, but I suppose even in that case you spend billions on a sloping runway underground with a big door at the end - Open the door, do a JATO take off and you're on your way to a hospital in the southern hemisphere.