If anything, setting someone's clothes on fire would be a far more effective method of immolating others. Cotton, in particular, burns great so long as it's dry. Except, if you splash alcohol on someone first, you just hydrated their clothes.
The biggest crime that can be committed when splashing someone with alcohol is the act of rendering the alcohol unfit for consumption.
Say this was a drug case, and the NSA was able to crack a text message from a dealer to his supplier, or to one of his clients. They can't use the cracked messages to convict the dealer. They can, however, use it to figure out the time and place of the deal, and bust that.
The one issue is that the NSA probably can't crack encryption in real time or in even reasonably close to real time, which is fine for the work they do, but not nearly as good for what law enforcement agencies need to do.
What? What world are you living in? Taking things into their own hands? By making a lot of virtual noise in a virtual world?
Until hundreds of thousands of people are marching down the streets in protest (or riot), things will not change. And even if they do, they probably won't change for the better.
Unfortunately, things won't even get that far. They already have their bread and circuses. They can't be bothered to go outside anymore.
Funny thing is, the banks aren't actually able to back every deposit at any given moment. They have most of the money tied up in investments and such, or just lent out.
The reason the whole system works is because people don't want to take out all of their money all at once.
Dark matter only accounts for around 30% of the universe's mass. It's gravitational effects are visible, so we're pretty sure it exists in some form or another. It could be a new subatomic particle. It could even be existing bayronic matter that's masked by some advanced alien technology. But it has been observed to exist.
Dark energy, which makes up the rest of the mass in the universe, is where the alternate ideas based on our incomplete understanding of subatomic physics is possible.
Gravity is very, very weak. Your highway would have to be incredibly dense. And the amount of energy you're going to expend making that is probably better off spent ripping wormholes in the fabric of space and time.
Actually, considering the job Lucasfilms did with their most recent movies, I'd say that not having any part of Lucas's empire produce anything creative in-house may have been a good thing.
What's funny is that government excess and bloat is usually a result of projects that were contracted out, which is more the fault of the elected official and the system that gets officials elected (which means it's We the People's fault), rather than the fault of the government agency.
Funny thing though, because this isn't really lowering the resolution so much as it's changing aspect ratios. Metro looks like it'd fit 4:3 better. It really looks like crap on a widescreen (16:10 or 16:9), with half the boxes getting cut off by the screen to the right.
It felt like the hardware department wasn't really talking to the software department. Or the Metro guys had 4:3 in mind, while everybody else was going with widescreen.
This is obviously the least of Microsoft's failures with Metro. But there's always the silver lining, that they're actually encouraging the hardware side to go back to 4:3. Apple's been sticking with 4:3 for their iPad, but that wouldn't have the industry-wide impact Microsoft's suggestions hopefully would.
Nah, the Reader debacle is just mismanagement. Somebody very high up saw that they couldn't monetize the service, didn't know what else to do but kill it, so they killed it.
You're assuming they have a successful nuclear bomb at all. Yeah, they can probably launch a dirty bomb into South Korea. But NK needs to hit infrastructure if they want to start a war. A dirty bomb (or missile) is just going to kill a bunch of civilians and maybe make a ton of land inhabitable for a little while, as well as piss China off when the fallout reaches there.
The terminal is still incredibly useful. In fact, things that might take ten minutes to do via a GUI takes maybe half a minute, if that much. This doesn't sound like much, until you start repeating the things you do (like constantly toggling an option). This is why keyboard shortcuts on a GUI are't going anywhere. Besides which, don't forget that every text editor is pretty much a neutered terminal window with color.
Progress does not mean the next new thing, it means the next better thing.
Now, I'm not sure running games on the browser specifically wouldn't constitute progress, but if running an application on the browser means using twice the memory and at a significantly reduced speed that the same program in native code would otherwise use (not compensating for increasing resource availability), then there'd be a strong case for it. Actually, considering the overhead of the browser itself, I'm pretty sure there is already a case for it.
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If anything, setting someone's clothes on fire would be a far more effective method of immolating others. Cotton, in particular, burns great so long as it's dry. Except, if you splash alcohol on someone first, you just hydrated their clothes.
The biggest crime that can be committed when splashing someone with alcohol is the act of rendering the alcohol unfit for consumption.
What sort of cultural dysfunction makes people in positions of authority so insufferable?
FTFY.
And it's the same one that puts them in those positions of authority.
I think that there should be a general safety class taught in schools
Yes, but that would be promoting violence in our school, when what they should really be focusing on is love and other people's feelings and ponies.
All the bad things will go away if they can just take away free will.
That was the point. You didn't thing this all happened by accident, did you?
certainly nobody is listening to any of us poor slobs.
Somebody's absolutely listening. Just not the people you want.
It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know that Hoover's legacy is still well and alive at the FBI.
It's real. Not sure if it's actually Kaz Hirai's twitter account though. There's more. Funny stuff.
Everything it requires to work, should be what is required for HIS benefit SOLELY.
Otherwise, it is a trojan.
Yes, not having kids when you're not ready benefits both of you.
Say this was a drug case, and the NSA was able to crack a text message from a dealer to his supplier, or to one of his clients. They can't use the cracked messages to convict the dealer. They can, however, use it to figure out the time and place of the deal, and bust that.
The one issue is that the NSA probably can't crack encryption in real time or in even reasonably close to real time, which is fine for the work they do, but not nearly as good for what law enforcement agencies need to do.
citizens are taking matters into their own hands
What? What world are you living in? Taking things into their own hands? By making a lot of virtual noise in a virtual world?
Until hundreds of thousands of people are marching down the streets in protest (or riot), things will not change. And even if they do, they probably won't change for the better.
Unfortunately, things won't even get that far. They already have their bread and circuses. They can't be bothered to go outside anymore.
Funny thing is, the banks aren't actually able to back every deposit at any given moment. They have most of the money tied up in investments and such, or just lent out.
The reason the whole system works is because people don't want to take out all of their money all at once.
Well aren't you the genius.
The only difference between genius and insanity is that all the voices get along.
99.9% of the time instead of 99% of the time.
We all have cancer, just like we're all eventually going to die. It's a matter of whether it's under control or not.
Dark matter only accounts for around 30% of the universe's mass. It's gravitational effects are visible, so we're pretty sure it exists in some form or another. It could be a new subatomic particle. It could even be existing bayronic matter that's masked by some advanced alien technology. But it has been observed to exist.
Dark energy, which makes up the rest of the mass in the universe, is where the alternate ideas based on our incomplete understanding of subatomic physics is possible.
Gravity is very, very weak. Your highway would have to be incredibly dense. And the amount of energy you're going to expend making that is probably better off spent ripping wormholes in the fabric of space and time.
Actually, considering the job Lucasfilms did with their most recent movies, I'd say that not having any part of Lucas's empire produce anything creative in-house may have been a good thing.
What's funny is that government excess and bloat is usually a result of projects that were contracted out, which is more the fault of the elected official and the system that gets officials elected (which means it's We the People's fault), rather than the fault of the government agency.
But of course it's easier to blame somebody else.
They are ok for what exactly?
Well, they can keep the paper from flying off your desk. They can hold books up in both senses. They can help you see in the dark.
That's all I got.
1) Build up a solid customer and developer base.
2) Kick them off.
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
Your whole description of people getting excited over a gadget is really creepy.
Why? It's just narrative license.
It is, isn't it?
Funny thing though, because this isn't really lowering the resolution so much as it's changing aspect ratios. Metro looks like it'd fit 4:3 better. It really looks like crap on a widescreen (16:10 or 16:9), with half the boxes getting cut off by the screen to the right.
It felt like the hardware department wasn't really talking to the software department. Or the Metro guys had 4:3 in mind, while everybody else was going with widescreen.
This is obviously the least of Microsoft's failures with Metro. But there's always the silver lining, that they're actually encouraging the hardware side to go back to 4:3. Apple's been sticking with 4:3 for their iPad, but that wouldn't have the industry-wide impact Microsoft's suggestions hopefully would.
Nah, the Reader debacle is just mismanagement. Somebody very high up saw that they couldn't monetize the service, didn't know what else to do but kill it, so they killed it.
You're assuming they have a successful nuclear bomb at all. Yeah, they can probably launch a dirty bomb into South Korea. But NK needs to hit infrastructure if they want to start a war. A dirty bomb (or missile) is just going to kill a bunch of civilians and maybe make a ton of land inhabitable for a little while, as well as piss China off when the fallout reaches there.
I suspect what OP actually is implying is that the missile will be picked up by the trade winds and blown into China.
The terminal is still incredibly useful. In fact, things that might take ten minutes to do via a GUI takes maybe half a minute, if that much. This doesn't sound like much, until you start repeating the things you do (like constantly toggling an option). This is why keyboard shortcuts on a GUI are't going anywhere. Besides which, don't forget that every text editor is pretty much a neutered terminal window with color.
Progress does not mean the next new thing, it means the next better thing.
Now, I'm not sure running games on the browser specifically wouldn't constitute progress, but if running an application on the browser means using twice the memory and at a significantly reduced speed that the same program in native code would otherwise use (not compensating for increasing resource availability), then there'd be a strong case for it. Actually, considering the overhead of the browser itself, I'm pretty sure there is already a case for it.