And seeing as absolutely anything in the past has consequences in the future (butterfly effect, etc.), then really, you would only be a tourist. Even the people seeing you there at all could have some effect, in your fancy 21st century clothes and whatnot. Also, you might kill some bacterii or a bug or something, which would exponentially effect the population of the future bug. How does this model circumvent that?
Does noone realise that if we did this, every ASTEROID would have a McDonalds put on it? Geez, keep the multi-national (soon to be multi-planetary?) conglomerates to yourself please, Planet Earth.
Uhh ok then, instead of calling things by their abbreviated-and-easy-to-remember titles, we'll now refer to things by a short description of what they do.
Let's all thank infinityis for renaming the "internet", to "the porn what comes through the computer". Thanks infinityis!
This is hilarious. In my country (Australia) we *have* no patriotic act, and also, we dropped two thirds of our national anthem because, well, we really couldn't be bothered singing the entire thing. It's like, we're... America on opposite day.
I know no-one will ever read down this far *but* doesn't this whole thing just scream to the educators that no-one will ever *need* to do it for themselves if a crappy calculator can? It might be an easy task but, isn't the point of technology to make our lives easier?
I *COULD* manually cook food on the whole oven/hotplate/stove/taking 45 minutes affair, but wouldn't it just be *easier* to you know, stick it in the microwave? Seems to me that the same principle is in action.
I dont know if you kids know this *BUT* if they did successfully initiate hydrogen fusion, then this would result in next-to free power (from hydrogen obtained in electrolysis from the sea)
But, the laser first has to heat the hydrogen pellet to greater-than-or-equal-to 100 MILLION degrees celsius (this is like 180 MILLION farenheit but im not entirely sure about that calculation)
Yeah, but i read it in a book written circa 1983 hehe, old books are funny, especially with predictions about things we'd have by 2000...
to complain (which they will/have, mark my words). ISPs have been storing IP data on their OWN databanks which they themselves didn't require for daily operations. Therefore, it's their right to stop doing MPAA, RIAA and other similar institutions favours.
You do realise that some ingenious pr0n site is going to come up with a system where they work out every touch sensation that could possibly happen with, say, a pornstar, and write a program that distributes those sensation signals to your suit based on where your hand is... kind of like, a blind man having sex with an inflatable doll, thinking it's a real girl. And then someone will rip the idea off and distribute it for free....
Why doesn't someone (say, congress) overhaul the patent system; and implement a system based on performance (quality) and not patents registered (quantity)?
Perhaps, *all* the money from the patent fee can be channeled to an independant, unbiased and perhaps unnamed third party, who then redistribute the money back to the patent company based on performance,which could be measured by how much the patents benefit society in general, (ie. stopping MS/Dell/Netgear/HP/Big Corps royally screwing Joe Nobody).
If the patent office continued to allow stupid patents (eg, MS's "human skin as an electrical conductor" patent) under this system, then the 3rd party would consider this "a burden on advancing technology" and block funding. The patent fee money would just sit in the bank, waiting until the patent office stop screwing us over, or die of malnourishment.
Heh, the/. crowd would make a good 3rd party, we seem both knowlegable and opinionated...
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And seeing as absolutely anything in the past has consequences in the future (butterfly effect, etc.), then really, you would only be a tourist. Even the people seeing you there at all could have some effect, in your fancy 21st century clothes and whatnot. Also, you might kill some bacterii or a bug or something, which would exponentially effect the population of the future bug. How does this model circumvent that?
Does noone realise that if we did this, every ASTEROID would have a McDonalds put on it? Geez, keep the multi-national (soon to be multi-planetary?) conglomerates to yourself please, Planet Earth.
Uhh ok then, instead of calling things by their abbreviated-and-easy-to-remember titles, we'll now refer to things by a short description of what they do. Let's all thank infinityis for renaming the "internet", to "the porn what comes through the computer". Thanks infinityis!
This is hilarious. In my country (Australia) we *have* no patriotic act, and also, we dropped two thirds of our national anthem because, well, we really couldn't be bothered singing the entire thing. It's like, we're... America on opposite day.
I know no-one will ever read down this far *but* doesn't this whole thing just scream to the educators that no-one will ever *need* to do it for themselves if a crappy calculator can? It might be an easy task but, isn't the point of technology to make our lives easier? I *COULD* manually cook food on the whole oven/hotplate/stove/taking 45 minutes affair, but wouldn't it just be *easier* to you know, stick it in the microwave? Seems to me that the same principle is in action.
I dont know if you kids know this *BUT* if they did successfully initiate hydrogen fusion, then this would result in next-to free power (from hydrogen obtained in electrolysis from the sea) But, the laser first has to heat the hydrogen pellet to greater-than-or-equal-to 100 MILLION degrees celsius (this is like 180 MILLION farenheit but im not entirely sure about that calculation) Yeah, but i read it in a book written circa 1983 hehe, old books are funny, especially with predictions about things we'd have by 2000...
to complain (which they will/have, mark my words). ISPs have been storing IP data on their OWN databanks which they themselves didn't require for daily operations. Therefore, it's their right to stop doing MPAA, RIAA and other similar institutions favours.
You do realise that some ingenious pr0n site is going to come up with a system where they work out every touch sensation that could possibly happen with, say, a pornstar, and write a program that distributes those sensation signals to your suit based on where your hand is... kind of like, a blind man having sex with an inflatable doll, thinking it's a real girl. And then someone will rip the idea off and distribute it for free....
Why doesn't someone (say, congress) overhaul the patent system; and implement a system based on performance (quality) and not patents registered (quantity)?
,which could be measured by how much the patents benefit society in general, (ie. stopping MS/Dell/Netgear/HP/Big Corps royally screwing Joe Nobody).
/. crowd would make a good 3rd party, we seem both knowlegable and opinionated...
Perhaps, *all* the money from the patent fee can be channeled to an independant, unbiased and perhaps unnamed third party, who then redistribute the money back to the patent company based on performance
If the patent office continued to allow stupid patents (eg, MS's "human skin as an electrical conductor" patent) under this system, then the 3rd party would consider this "a burden on advancing technology" and block funding. The patent fee money would just sit in the bank, waiting until the patent office stop screwing us over, or die of malnourishment.
Heh, the
No, australia has a military, its just in another country fighting a war the USA started....