Sometimes I wonder if some of the squids and / or deep sea octopi have there own "version" of intelligence, they just exist in a "too far away" and exotic world for us to really study. Dolphins too.
Possibly. They just can't progress further due to a few problems (most prominent one: no fire. Use of fire spurred a variety of developments in humans - more efficient use of food, additional social behavior, etc).
Whilst nature would go on without humans it would also take billions of years for another species like humanity to emerge,
Earth will become unsuitable for life in about 1.2 billion years (give or take a few hundred million years) due to the increase of solar luminosity. There's just not enough time to start over before Earth is turned into a hot, dry rock.
However, hominization takes place on a much shorter time scale (couple of ten million years), so another intelligent species could still arise. Who knows, maybe the rats will succeed where the apes failed.
I think one of my buddies has a dog like that. Boxer English bull dog mix,
Are you sure it's a mix, and not an actual bullmastiff? They look a bit similar to boxers in coloration, but are much more massive (45-60kg). And they're the breed of dog I was thinking about. They instinctively knock people over and then keep them from getting up, either by sitting on them or headbutting them.
do you unleash a dog and risk having cell phone video shot from Pennsylvania Avenue of an unarmed, mentally ill person being bitten or menaced by an attack dog?
Get the right breed of dog and give it the right kind of training. There are dogs that were bred specifically for catching people while causing minimal harm - back then this was desired so the people caught could be publicly hanged, but I guess the dog won't really care that today it's more about avoiding negative publicity.
In a sane system, data abroad would just be outside their jurisdiction. The court couldn't simply get a warrant for it, just like it couldn't order someone fetch a physical item from another country.
Some language like "You may not disclose or in any way indicate you've received this letter (including but not limited to altering/amending/removing any warranty canaries)"?
A real warrant canary contains a date. You show that the canary is dead by not updating it at regular intervals.
Its the day when everything from picking beans to paving roads can all be done by machines that never get paid, never ask for days off, its the corporate idea of heaven!I
Not really. At that point, money becomes pointless. Shortly thereafter, corporations (and highly-paid CxOs) become pointless.
You'd find within a year all the fast food workers replaced with an automated system that not only wouldn't get paid but would probably have a better track record than the underpaid overworked employees do know when it comes to getting orders correct.
You'd also find that since most people aren't employed and therefore have no money, your fast food joint would go out of business due to lack of customers.
The second option would be the "Star Trek Socialist paradise" which would be the most humane of the three,
Managers with antisocial personality disorder can deliver impressive short-term results. This happens at the cost of long-term results, but since when did shareholders ever care about those?
Food & Beverage and Medical are harmless in comparison to continuous Chemical. If a contentious chemical plant fails, you don't just have loss of production, you may need to scrap part of the installation.
Yes, um, killing people by zapping them with too much ionizing radiation is "harmless" compared to having to scrap large pieces of machinery.
And "not killing our customers" isn't a business case if you don't kill too many of them.
"Your specifications are 'must not perform worse than the old version', with 'worse' meaning any kind of different behavior."
I hate this. It's pretty much impossible to test for complete identity with the old product, unless you build an exact copy of the old product (which you no longer can, thanks to RoHS and such).
So that means that one in ten thousand people who really need the gun to fire will instead get mauled by a bear, stabbed by a crazy or shot by a terrorist.
Also, how long does the fingerprint analysis take? Sometimes you need to fire in a hurry. One second might make the difference between you walking away and the other possibilites mentioned above.
IIRC there's also a US law about carrying more than $10k or so... usually by that point I'd go with traveler's checks, registered checks, cashier's checks, or some other method personally and/or have an account at a bank that covered most/all the travel area.
You have to declare if you're carrying over $10k in certain kinds of monetary instruments (cash is just one of them, certain kinds of cheques are another).
I don't care if it's free or not. If it's annoying or unnecessary, I don't want to have to spend two hours to rid my newly bought computer of crapware I don't want.
I entered USA more than a hundred times (always by car) and never ever had a problem, it's always the same question:
Well, that's just US CBP. They haven't started fleecing people of their cash... that is, unless it's over $10000 and wasn't declared.
It's the regular cops (e.g. when you get pulled over) that will be happy to relieve you of any possession that looks valuable enough.
Then again, I've come closer to being denied entry into Canada than into the US. The Canadian customs officer read 09-03-xxxx as "March, 9th" instead of "September, 3rd" and thought my "papers" had expired. My mind was racing for a few seconds, then I managed to explain things. The officer said "Oh, you're right, they still write dates that way in the US!", and I replied "Yes, gets me every time, too.". We both had a good laugh.
You may have just bought the car. It may have absolutely NOTHING personal in it. You still don't consent to a search.
Even worse: If you have just bought the car, and have not yet searched it thoroughly, it may have stuff from previous drivers/owners in it which the cop will assume you to be the owner of.
Case in point: Someone bought a vehicle that was seized (criminal seizure) by the police from someone who had been convicted of murder. Police had "searched" that car. What did the new owner find in it? The gun used in the murder.
As the AC mentioned, the goal is less to get my money back than to make sure they don't turn a profit.
They'll just stonewall anything that doesn't come from a court/judge. Or worse, they'll rubberwall it instead (which is kind of like stonewalling, with the addition of making you bounce back, i.e. create more work for you). You'll end up in a game where you'll have to spend more than one dollar for every dollar they spend. And since they have practically unlimited funds, the only thing that will happen is that you will run out of money.
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At least, that is, if they keep getting energy and power mixed up. You can't design a working system if you mess up the very basics.
Yes, once the design phase of millions of years is over, manufacturing can happen rapidly an in large numbers. ;)
Possibly. They just can't progress further due to a few problems (most prominent one: no fire. Use of fire spurred a variety of developments in humans - more efficient use of food, additional social behavior, etc).
Wasn't he saved by Chuck Norris err I mean Hercules eventually?
Earth will become unsuitable for life in about 1.2 billion years (give or take a few hundred million years) due to the increase of solar luminosity. There's just not enough time to start over before Earth is turned into a hot, dry rock.
However, hominization takes place on a much shorter time scale (couple of ten million years), so another intelligent species could still arise. Who knows, maybe the rats will succeed where the apes failed.
However, unlike human captors, it might be vulnerable to buffer overflows, deadlocks, injection attacks, etc.
Are you sure it's a mix, and not an actual bullmastiff? They look a bit similar to boxers in coloration, but are much more massive (45-60kg). And they're the breed of dog I was thinking about. They instinctively knock people over and then keep them from getting up, either by sitting on them or headbutting them.
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Get the right breed of dog and give it the right kind of training. There are dogs that were bred specifically for catching people while causing minimal harm - back then this was desired so the people caught could be publicly hanged, but I guess the dog won't really care that today it's more about avoiding negative publicity.
In a sane system, data abroad would just be outside their jurisdiction. The court couldn't simply get a warrant for it, just like it couldn't order someone fetch a physical item from another country.
Chuck Norris never blinks. Never.
A real warrant canary contains a date. You show that the canary is dead by not updating it at regular intervals.
Not really. At that point, money becomes pointless. Shortly thereafter, corporations (and highly-paid CxOs) become pointless.
You'd find within a year all the fast food workers replaced with an automated system that not only wouldn't get paid but would probably have a better track record than the underpaid overworked employees do know when it comes to getting orders correct.
You'd also find that since most people aren't employed and therefore have no money, your fast food joint would go out of business due to lack of customers.
The second option would be the "Star Trek Socialist paradise" which would be the most humane of the three,
Or something along the lines of "The Culture".
Three words: one time pad.
Brute force THIS.
Managers with antisocial personality disorder can deliver impressive short-term results. This happens at the cost of long-term results, but since when did shareholders ever care about those?
Yes, um, killing people by zapping them with too much ionizing radiation is "harmless" compared to having to scrap large pieces of machinery.
And "not killing our customers" isn't a business case if you don't kill too many of them.
I hate this. It's pretty much impossible to test for complete identity with the old product, unless you build an exact copy of the old product (which you no longer can, thanks to RoHS and such).
Also, how long does the fingerprint analysis take? Sometimes you need to fire in a hurry. One second might make the difference between you walking away and the other possibilites mentioned above.
Like ... gasoline for the many MRAP trips to the donut shop!
You have to declare if you're carrying over $10k in certain kinds of monetary instruments (cash is just one of them, certain kinds of cheques are another).
Because the victim is only a person and not a corporation.e
I don't care if it's free or not. If it's annoying or unnecessary, I don't want to have to spend two hours to rid my newly bought computer of crapware I don't want.
Well, that's just US CBP. They haven't started fleecing people of their cash ... that is, unless it's over $10000 and wasn't declared.
It's the regular cops (e.g. when you get pulled over) that will be happy to relieve you of any possession that looks valuable enough.
Then again, I've come closer to being denied entry into Canada than into the US. The Canadian customs officer read 09-03-xxxx as "March, 9th" instead of "September, 3rd" and thought my "papers" had expired. My mind was racing for a few seconds, then I managed to explain things. The officer said "Oh, you're right, they still write dates that way in the US!", and I replied "Yes, gets me every time, too.". We both had a good laugh.
As the old saying goes ...
For an American, 100 years is a long time.
For a European, 100 miles is a long distance.
The Roman Empire stood for centuries. And even its decline took centuries. Don't understimate the inertia of an empire.
Even worse: If you have just bought the car, and have not yet searched it thoroughly, it may have stuff from previous drivers/owners in it which the cop will assume you to be the owner of.
Case in point: Someone bought a vehicle that was seized (criminal seizure) by the police from someone who had been convicted of murder. Police had "searched" that car. What did the new owner find in it? The gun used in the murder.
They'll just stonewall anything that doesn't come from a court/judge. Or worse, they'll rubberwall it instead (which is kind of like stonewalling, with the addition of making you bounce back, i.e. create more work for you). You'll end up in a game where you'll have to spend more than one dollar for every dollar they spend. And since they have practically unlimited funds, the only thing that will happen is that you will run out of money.