Contrast that with the Airbus A380 that the [TV] networks appeared not to get fed up of when it made its first commercial flight When you're a socialist country, you don't even think of advertising. I mean, a custormer? What is this thing you call a 'customer', tovarich?
Here we have candidate #1: the home-grown favorite, familiar with the local chemistry, which has to propagate a maximum of 13,000 miles to cover every last spot on the globe, a jaunt that is relatively well protected from cosmic rays.
And here is candidate #2: the extraterestrial, which has to make a journey of at least 10^13 miles ( and probably one or two orders of magnitude more to give it a reasonable chance of existing ) through interstellar space, subject to cosmic rays. It has to travel fast enough to get here before the sun goes nova, yet enter the atmoshere at a slow enough speed to avoid burning up. And if it gets here, it has to adjust to a foreign chemistry, and it has to avoid being eaten by all the decendants of #1.
1) A judge would have to rule on the relevance of the state secret to the issue at hand. You couldn't be allowed to subpoena all the NSA's secrets because you had a speeding ticket.
2) Some may consider me to be a tad cavalier with state secrets. To those I say: the world is a dangerous place, so that sometimes state secrets and individual rights may come into conflict. How we handle that problem determines what kind of country we are.
If we subjugate the right to due process or the right to confront one's accusers or habeas corpus to national security, then what are we defending? A nation of slaves, not free people. It is better to have to fear foreigners than one's own government.
Refusing to permit information into the court denies the plaintif due process. So let's admit any state secret, with the understanding that someone has to do time for it's release to the world. If the plaintif loses the case, then he goes to a criminal trial for having forced the state to reveal secrets. If the defendant loses, then he goes on trial.
So when a secret is revealed, someone does time for it. This would compel all government bureaucrats who aree in charge of secret projects to make sure that those projects do not get out of hand.
It works the same here in the US. There are many types of shares: some voting, some non-voting, some that confer a vote only in special circumstances. So a person can own 100 percent of the non-voting shares - which may be the vast majority of the value of the company - and still not be able to vote.
What is the motive for playing songs? Maybe the Japanese, with their radically different sense of aesthetics, will play songs. But Americans will have advertising:
Sorry, I wish you were right. It is only the year of the Linux desktop when they decide to keep them in stock permanently. Which means they would have to have some other ongoing source. This was just smart Walmart management making a few quick bucks when the opportunity arose.
Great. Another party to which I'm not invited.. Well, they did say that they were spending it on "...talented, productive people...", and you're posting on slashdot.
The site assumes that if people rate products highly or write good things about a product then they consent to being used in an advertisement for it. No. The site assumes that if you post something about a product where the whole world can see it, then you consent to being used in an ad. Which seems quite reasonable to me. ( As an example, by writing this post on slashdot, I am implicitly giving the whole world permission to say "H Botch says that the above quote is stupid".)
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Parent's last paragraph is the most coherent comment on this article so far. Someone please mod him up.
Here we have candidate #1: the home-grown favorite, familiar with the local chemistry, which has to propagate a maximum of 13,000 miles to cover every last spot on the globe, a jaunt that is relatively well protected from cosmic rays.
And here is candidate #2: the extraterestrial, which has to make a journey of at least 10^13 miles ( and probably one or two orders of magnitude more to give it a reasonable chance of existing ) through interstellar space, subject to cosmic rays. It has to travel fast enough to get here before the sun goes nova, yet enter the atmoshere at a slow enough speed to avoid burning up. And if it gets here, it has to adjust to a foreign chemistry, and it has to avoid being eaten by all the decendants of #1.
Those are phenomonal odds in favor of #1.
You probably enjoyed it more that way. :)
Can't we just throttle the spammers?
I, fir one, welcome our new motherless overlords.
Google says it was the drugs.
Amendment to the above:
1) A judge would have to rule on the relevance of the state secret to the issue at hand. You couldn't be allowed to subpoena all the NSA's secrets because you had a speeding ticket.
2) Some may consider me to be a tad cavalier with state secrets. To those I say: the world is a dangerous place, so that sometimes state secrets and individual rights may come into conflict. How we handle that problem determines what kind of country we are.
If we subjugate the right to due process or the right to confront one's accusers or habeas corpus to national security, then what are we defending? A nation of slaves, not free people.
It is better to have to fear foreigners than one's own government.
Refusing to permit information into the court denies the plaintif due process. So let's admit any state secret, with the understanding that someone has to do time for it's release to the world. If the plaintif loses the case, then he goes to a criminal trial for having forced the state to reveal secrets. If the defendant loses, then he goes on trial.
So when a secret is revealed, someone does time for it. This would compel all government bureaucrats who aree in charge of secret projects to make sure that those projects do not get out of hand.
It works the same here in the US. There are many types of shares: some voting, some non-voting, some that confer a vote only in special circumstances. So a person can own 100 percent of the non-voting shares - which may be the vast majority of the value of the company - and still not be able to vote.
I had a relapse.
I've cut back to only 4 letters a day now. I'm almost cured!
Wha?? It's dark in here...Where am I??? Hellppp!! Get me out of this box!!
No need; Ms Jenkins is reputed to be quite competent. ;-)
Hi-five? No, they will mug the Russian rover for batteries and spare parts.
Well, let's see...42 has no infinities. That makes it better than a lot of the theories out there.
And it has as much experimental evidence to back it up as most of the other theories have.
And roads.
Torture a fish in front of her. She'll talk if she knows the answer.
What is the motive for playing songs? Maybe the Japanese, with their radically different sense of aesthetics, will play songs. But Americans will have advertising:
rummmble...rumbble..Today's...screee...special...rummble...at..Wal-Mart...rummble...voice...suppression...rummble...tires!
Sorry, I wish you were right. It is only the year of the Linux desktop when they decide to keep them in stock permanently. Which means they would have to have some other ongoing source. This was just smart Walmart management making a few quick bucks when the opportunity arose.
Ok, you are being productive. Nice post. :)
"Even the Nigerian government knows that it's wrong."
It only took a month of work, but this is the first we've heard from them because the've been DOSed to oblivion by botnets for the last two years.