This mud I used to play had a great help file for why the idea of player-owned shops would never be coded. It's very applicable to the above sentiment.
If you really like killing rats, collecting herbs, or weaving baskets, you can probably swing the job in real life, and get paid for it to boot.
The problem with what you suggest is that eventually physical violence will be necessary in order for individuals to exercise their rights.
Um, yeah. That's pretty much how it's been for every single empire in history. Except India, maybe. But even then Ghandi had to die before they really got into it.
It's a good thing most of the first world is working on getting RFID part of a de facto national ID. Nothing bad could possibly happen.
British policeman 1: Look lively, bloke. Me magic box says that 80-year old wheelchair-bound Inuit woman is really a terrorist!
British policeman 2: (cocking pistol) Seven shots to' the back 'o the head. Like usual, eh?
Just build a spacedock first and we can start focusing on vehicles that don't need a re-entry heat shield, huge engines, or anywhere close to the same structural itegrity (in space, atmospheric pressure is zero)
A barrel-roll in zero-g would actually be kinda cool. Everyone in the cabin would be floating still while the shuttle revolved around them. Would you still get dizzy?
May be apocryphal, but more than one of my ROTC buddies from college have stories about needing to go to a high-level government or military installation in Iraq, stopping at the security gate to make sure they don't have a bomb, then being handed back their M-16 so they can continue on their way.
We can't let a couple of accidents throw away everything we've worked for.
Too late. You think the nation went absolutely bonkers when a shuttle and 7 people were killed? How about when the 2050 Moon Shuttle snuffs 1,000 on liftoff and wipes out most of a city?
Actually, the logical design of the clock will last 40 billion years until it produces an error. I'm quite sure we will never design any sort of mechanical device can actually last that long to find out.
I was trying to make a joke but hadn't heard of reverse 911. That just seems like a poor way to go about doing things. I'm sure if I asked a number of people in my town (New York City), they wouldn't have the foggiest idea such a program even existed. If it rang at 4 in the morning, I'd definitely dismiss it as a prank.
As much as I hate the police helicopters patrolling at dawn for "more tur'ists", this is exactly the sort of thing "shock and awe" is good at motivating (assuming they use bullhorns).
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This mud I used to play had a great help file for why the idea of player-owned shops would never be coded. It's very applicable to the above sentiment.
If you really like killing rats, collecting herbs, or weaving baskets, you can probably swing the job in real life, and get paid for it to boot.
Ah yes, but don't you have to put on your robe and wizard hat first before casting that level 13 Scroll of Engorging?
Getting busted for ordering untaxed cigarettes and booze is up there with High Treason now, right?
Um, I don't think you can get rid of an entire protocol. I mean... how??!?! Command ISPs to dump all packets over that port?
Sound like that old guy in the 1920s-themed Onion rants. "Aw hell, let's not have telnet anymore!"
Democracy belongs IN A MUSEUM!
The problem with what you suggest is that eventually physical violence will be necessary in order for individuals to exercise their rights.
Um, yeah. That's pretty much how it's been for every single empire in history. Except India, maybe. But even then Ghandi had to die before they really got into it.
They stole from me, now I get to take it back.
Actually, you just get to stop them from stealing from you now . They still have the money they taxed away last week.
In this case, it is an un terior motive as well, since it's not working.
Tell that to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Charles_de_Menez es
Why not just blame the IRC Protocol?
Because McAfee has an unterior motive and wants to discredit the competition.
With there be anything else?
Somehow, I don't think I thought my cunning plan all the way through.
It's a good thing most of the first world is working on getting RFID part of a de facto national ID. Nothing bad could possibly happen.
British policeman 1: Look lively, bloke. Me magic box says that 80-year old wheelchair-bound Inuit woman is really a terrorist!
British policeman 2: (cocking pistol) Seven shots to' the back 'o the head. Like usual, eh?
Isn't the "launch vehicle" the whole problem?
Just build a spacedock first and we can start focusing on vehicles that don't need a re-entry heat shield, huge engines, or anywhere close to the same structural itegrity (in space, atmospheric pressure is zero)
A barrel-roll in zero-g would actually be kinda cool. Everyone in the cabin would be floating still while the shuttle revolved around them. Would you still get dizzy?
May be apocryphal, but more than one of my ROTC buddies from college have stories about needing to go to a high-level government or military installation in Iraq, stopping at the security gate to make sure they don't have a bomb, then being handed back their M-16 so they can continue on their way.
But you have to admit, fuloffles -- however tasty they might be -- can't even begin to compare with Astronaut Ice Cream
We can't let a couple of accidents throw away everything we've worked for.
Too late. You think the nation went absolutely bonkers when a shuttle and 7 people were killed? How about when the 2050 Moon Shuttle snuffs 1,000 on liftoff and wipes out most of a city?
Actually, the logical design of the clock will last 40 billion years until it produces an error. I'm quite sure we will never design any sort of mechanical device can actually last that long to find out.
//unless you socket it with a zod rune...
IT managers are the workplace equivalent of administrators on internet forums?
"Don't run exes or I'll TELL THE MODS on you!!!oneone"
Maybe, just maybe, our elected legislators have our best interest in heart this time.
The job of elected legislators is not to look after our best interests. It is to serve our stated interests.
The internet: Homework Help for both teenagers and network administrations :)
I don't think you get this whole "government" thing. See, they already have the money. Why would they give a flying fuck what you think?
I was trying to make a joke but hadn't heard of reverse 911. That just seems like a poor way to go about doing things. I'm sure if I asked a number of people in my town (New York City), they wouldn't have the foggiest idea such a program even existed. If it rang at 4 in the morning, I'd definitely dismiss it as a prank.
As much as I hate the police helicopters patrolling at dawn for "more tur'ists", this is exactly the sort of thing "shock and awe" is good at motivating (assuming they use bullhorns).
Except if you speak spanish or ching-chang-chong
You should've paid attention. I heard chocolate rations may be going up!