Well, a little research discovers that the primary adult person doing the manipulating is this boy's father, which suggests that this whole thing may have been a set-up.
And the teacher, principal and police fell for it in a scary way.
I know you jest, but fundamentalists never believed in Carbon Dating, why would they start now?
This will not shake the faith of the believers a single bit.
One of the bonuses of saving the info on the amiibo is that you can bring it to your friend's and use it there.
Have you heard about this new thing called "Internet"? It is great! It can be used to transfer data between computing equipments all around the world!
More seriously now, XBox Live has this. I once went to a friend's house and logged my account in his console and was able to recover my on-cloud data (some games allow you to save on the cloud storage). The Amiibo doll could function as a loging key.
Some centuries ago, crossbows were "modern technology the government could use to control the world". Nutjobs seem to lack hindsight when they blame technology, they fail to see that even fire and the wheel are technologies. They issue flyers against technology forgetting that printing is a technology. People like this should be sent to the loony bin, since they can't perceive reality.
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Besides, you have to compare what are the stakes here. My ex-wife had my bank account password, but I wouldn't dare give her access to my Gmail account!!!
Sometimes it was used and you didn't even notice. One notable example is Toy Story's DVD from region 4. It had dubbing and subtitles for english, spanish and portuguese, and since Pixar had the trouble to translate some in-scene texts (like the text in Buzz's box/spaceship), the DVD changed the "angle" for the right language and match the language you picked at the start of the movie.
People get kidnapped off the streets for a paltry few hundred dollars' ransom.
This is past. Now they just call random phone numbers and say something like "I got your daughter here with me, if you want to see her well again transfer 2000 bucks to this account". All this using smuggled cell phones, in the comfort of the penitentiary they are in!
My father once got one of those calls and since he didn't know where my sister was, he was scared. He KNEW that 99.9% of those ransom calls are fake, but when that's about your kid and you are not 100% they are ok, you fall prone to this fear. Luckly he was able to tell his wife to call my sister and check she was ok, before hanging up. Another friend's mother didn't have the same luck and lost about 2000 US dollars for one of those calls.
Counterfeiting money in an ink jet printer wouldn't pay, the bills would end up costing more to make than their face value. Have you checked the price of printer ink lately?
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I prefer a O'Neill Cylinder... but a rotating space station would be a good start. Baby steps!
Mars is a deep gravity well, and there's little evidence that there is anything in it we want.
We would probably want some gravity, actually. We are used to it. I enjoy it most when it's around 9.8 m/s^2.
Well, a little research discovers that the primary adult person doing the manipulating is this boy's father, which suggests that this whole thing may have been a set-up.
And the teacher, principal and police fell for it in a scary way.
Why not a North Korean flag instead? I got plenty of results for it. Iran's flag as well.
... computers communicate through you!
I know you jest, but fundamentalists never believed in Carbon Dating, why would they start now?
This will not shake the faith of the believers a single bit.
None, because Islam is the religion of peace.
Elon Musk 3D-prints solar cells and supercapacitors!
One of the bonuses of saving the info on the amiibo is that you can bring it to your friend's and use it there.
Have you heard about this new thing called "Internet"? It is great! It can be used to transfer data between computing equipments all around the world!
More seriously now, XBox Live has this. I once went to a friend's house and logged my account in his console and was able to recover my on-cloud data (some games allow you to save on the cloud storage). The Amiibo doll could function as a loging key.
The pressure cooker should not have resisted arrest.
But... was the pressure cooker black?
After reading bout XOR, ROT13 would be just about as good.
I use ROT26, it is twice as strong as ROT13!
Some centuries ago, crossbows were "modern technology the government could use to control the world". Nutjobs seem to lack hindsight when they blame technology, they fail to see that even fire and the wheel are technologies. They issue flyers against technology forgetting that printing is a technology. People like this should be sent to the loony bin, since they can't perceive reality.
I probably deserved this alert message, because I have no idea what it means.
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Besides, you have to compare what are the stakes here. My ex-wife had my bank account password, but I wouldn't dare give her access to my Gmail account!!!
Sometimes it was used and you didn't even notice. One notable example is Toy Story's DVD from region 4. It had dubbing and subtitles for english, spanish and portuguese, and since Pixar had the trouble to translate some in-scene texts (like the text in Buzz's box/spaceship), the DVD changed the "angle" for the right language and match the language you picked at the start of the movie.
[...] and my house (that I own) cost me 1/10th of similar housing in the GTA.
That's not fair when you compare the cost of a real house with a house from a video game.
what, so you can sleep through the traffic jams?
You say like that was a bad idea.
There is where the article lost me.
You need a power source
Man, it's right in the summary... I know people here aren't supposed to read the articles, but stop right after the headline is too much!
People get kidnapped off the streets for a paltry few hundred dollars' ransom.
This is past. Now they just call random phone numbers and say something like "I got your daughter here with me, if you want to see her well again transfer 2000 bucks to this account". All this using smuggled cell phones, in the comfort of the penitentiary they are in!
My father once got one of those calls and since he didn't know where my sister was, he was scared. He KNEW that 99.9% of those ransom calls are fake, but when that's about your kid and you are not 100% they are ok, you fall prone to this fear. Luckly he was able to tell his wife to call my sister and check she was ok, before hanging up. Another friend's mother didn't have the same luck and lost about 2000 US dollars for one of those calls.
Don't apologize, it's from Mars, not from Uranus.
Counterfeiting money in an ink jet printer wouldn't pay, the bills would end up costing more to make than their face value. Have you checked the price of printer ink lately?