More importantly, if you are of mixed race, do you have to pay reparations to yourself?
Yes, I beleive we should acknowledge that slavery was wrong and appologize for it. But the whole concept of reparations is flawed on two fundamental issues: who should receive reparations, and who should pay?. Ancestry is nearly impossible to trace; should someone whose great-great-great grandparent was a slave receive 1/32 of a reparation payment? Not all blacks are descended from slaves. A few blacks were even slave owners! This issue is simply not as black-and-white as everybody seems to think...
Obviously it's a honeypot designed to lure in terrorists so they can capture them! The actual plutonium is being delivered by a lorry driven through the chunnel...
TV is also a primary source of information in the event of a natural disaster Right... 'cause everybody's TV still works when the power goes out! I think radio is the primary source of information in the event of a natural disaster, because citizens are much more likely to have battery operated radio than battery operated televisions!
In my opinion, we don't need over-the-air television at all!
They should be keeping all the old DL photos on line, to make sure any person renewing a license isn't committing identity theft. In which case, a 3270 terminal isn't going to do them much good, is it?
Why the hell do their license computers need to be on the net anyways? A local net to talk to your databases and internal email, sure. But internet access? Uh, maybe because there is more than one DMV office, they a geographically distributed over the state, and putting in your own WAN is a lot more expensive than just piggybacking on the internet? Maybe they would like to be able to answer questions emailed to them from citizens? Maybe all their machines have floppy drives; why are you assuming the viruses were spread through the internet? I'm sure there are a lot of reasons why isolation is not the answer. I beleive their best bet would be a serious firewall and a competent IT staff. But if they are anything like Oregon ("Want to work for the state? We'll pay you half what you're making now!") then I can understand why they have the problem...
The pressure sensor arrays could be used in pressure carpets that distinguish family members from strangersHmm... this could be very usefull in front of a pet door! Think it can distinguish between a cat and a skunk?
once you have a 40 gig player, I can't imagine needing much more But, I already have over 60 GBytes of mp3 (just from converting my own CD collection). I can certainly imagine wanting to carry more than 40 GBytes of music around with me. Never mind that it would take more than a month to listen to it all -- when I'm in the mood for a certain song, I'm in the mood for that song!
Hardly. Making sure the consumer is given enough information to make informed buying decisions is one of the few really useful purposes of government. This is just an extension of "truth in labelling".
So now to distribute movies, you simply have to create a hotmail account, even though you never have to actually log in and check your mail? Just wait 30 days, Microsoft automatically deletes any Cease and Desist letters, and you're home free! I'm not quite clear on what this law accomplishes...
Wrong on both counts. He was trying to create a benevolent virus that would eliminate other virii from machines. But he was so incompetent that it caused massive damage instead! Hiring him was a stupid move that seriously damaged the company's credibility, and one that they will be attempting to explain for years to come...
Yes, but only if assured nobody would ever find out. The point is, you don't want to go around rewarding harmful behaviour -- that will only encourage more people to engage in it.
try running with a large newspaper held in front of you and see how much more difficult it is.Well, yeah, because you keep running into things because you can't see! Also, a newpaper does not remain flat when subjected to wind resistance. Methinks using a stiff piece of cardboard or even a windsurfer sail would be a much better example...
Wouldn't rotational mass be a bigger problem for a car tire at 100mph than for a bicycle tire at 10mph? I'm not talking about replacing racing bike tires here, I'm talking about wide tires. Plus, I imagine they are using a foamed product that isn't much denser than compressed air.
By the way, I beleive the problem with wheel weight relates to turning and accelerating/decelerating, since each wheel is essentially a large gyroscope. It really shouldn't effect your steady velocity straight-ahead performance any more than, say, carrying a tire pump and flat repair kit!
Yes, there is a lot to be said for taking advantage of over 100 years worth of incremental improvements. Plus, the energy density of gasoline beats just about any other reasonably safe fuel source I can think of...
And if you don't like internal combustion, try powering your car with a pulse-jet and see how many complaints you get!
Well, yes, offsite backup of data is a no-brainer. I was referring more to physical objects. It seems you have a choice -- either put them away somewhere where nobody can access them to keep them "safe", or keep them where people can actually enjoy them with all the attendant risks. (And I beleive there is still a small chance of water seepage or theft even at Iron Mountain.)
Storing priceless items in the path of a possible hurricane or any other forseeable natural disaster is very short sighted in my opinion. Right. They should have stored them on the west coast. No risks of earthquakes or landslides there! Or maybe in Kansas. No risk of tornadoes there! Where exactly are you proposing that "priceless items" be kept where there is zero risk? Iron Mountain?
Uh, solar sails don't help much in getting into orbit... in fact, space elevators and solar sails are complementary technologies, not competing technologies.
Yes, but you still need to worry about somebody flying a plane into it, either intentionally or accidentally. This is something that aircraft carriers are good for. Last time I checked, not that many private companies owned their own aircraft carrier...
...you don't trust other players to not be using bots, but you trust the house to not add their own player to every game and fix the host software to guarantee that the house's player wins???
Another area that people sometimes neglect when working out how much energy they use is watering their garden. This is especially true here in Portland, Oregon. Our monthly water bill is based not just on how much water we consume, but how much rainfall there is, on the theory that all the downspouts get dumped into the one sewer system. So we pay to get rid of rainwater, then pay again to pump water from the reservior back to water our lawns!!! Plus, because they were so short-sighted that they only put in a single sewer system with all the storm drains connected to it, every time there is a heavy rain they have to dump untreated sewage directly into the rivers!
What we need is separate rainwater, greywater, and black water systems. I should be able to store the water from the downspouts and from my upstairs showers/baths and use that water for irrigation. Unfortunately, that is not how the houses are designed, and it is probably even against building codes to do so. (Interestingly, in the Bahamas all the houses do have cisterns for storing rainwater, as fresh water is in very short supply.)
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Yes, I beleive we should acknowledge that slavery was wrong and appologize for it. But the whole concept of reparations is flawed on two fundamental issues: who should receive reparations, and who should pay?. Ancestry is nearly impossible to trace; should someone whose great-great-great grandparent was a slave receive 1/32 of a reparation payment? Not all blacks are descended from slaves. A few blacks were even slave owners! This issue is simply not as black-and-white as everybody seems to think...
Obviously it's a honeypot designed to lure in terrorists so they can capture them! The actual plutonium is being delivered by a lorry driven through the chunnel...
In my opinion, we don't need over-the-air television at all!
They should be keeping all the old DL photos on line, to make sure any person renewing a license isn't committing identity theft. In which case, a 3270 terminal isn't going to do them much good, is it?
Why the hell do their license computers need to be on the net anyways? A local net to talk to your databases and internal email, sure. But internet access? Uh, maybe because there is more than one DMV office, they a geographically distributed over the state, and putting in your own WAN is a lot more expensive than just piggybacking on the internet? Maybe they would like to be able to answer questions emailed to them from citizens? Maybe all their machines have floppy drives; why are you assuming the viruses were spread through the internet? I'm sure there are a lot of reasons why isolation is not the answer. I beleive their best bet would be a serious firewall and a competent IT staff. But if they are anything like Oregon ("Want to work for the state? We'll pay you half what you're making now!") then I can understand why they have the problem...
The pressure sensor arrays could be used in pressure carpets that distinguish family members from strangersHmm... this could be very usefull in front of a pet door! Think it can distinguish between a cat and a skunk?
once you have a 40 gig player, I can't imagine needing much more But, I already have over 60 GBytes of mp3 (just from converting my own CD collection). I can certainly imagine wanting to carry more than 40 GBytes of music around with me. Never mind that it would take more than a month to listen to it all -- when I'm in the mood for a certain song, I'm in the mood for that song!
Hardly. Making sure the consumer is given enough information to make informed buying decisions is one of the few really useful purposes of government. This is just an extension of "truth in labelling".
So now to distribute movies, you simply have to create a hotmail account, even though you never have to actually log in and check your mail? Just wait 30 days, Microsoft automatically deletes any Cease and Desist letters, and you're home free! I'm not quite clear on what this law accomplishes...
Wrong on both counts. He was trying to create a benevolent virus that would eliminate other virii from machines. But he was so incompetent that it caused massive damage instead! Hiring him was a stupid move that seriously damaged the company's credibility, and one that they will be attempting to explain for years to come...
Yes, but only if assured nobody would ever find out. The point is, you don't want to go around rewarding harmful behaviour -- that will only encourage more people to engage in it.
Yes, and if I put your feet in boiling water and your head in a bucket of ice, then on the average you should be quite comfortable!
try running with a large newspaper held in front of you and see how much more difficult it is.Well, yeah, because you keep running into things because you can't see! Also, a newpaper does not remain flat when subjected to wind resistance. Methinks using a stiff piece of cardboard or even a windsurfer sail would be a much better example...
By the way, I beleive the problem with wheel weight relates to turning and accelerating/decelerating, since each wheel is essentially a large gyroscope. It really shouldn't effect your steady velocity straight-ahead performance any more than, say, carrying a tire pump and flat repair kit!
What we really need these for is bicycles... and I'll bet there is a bigger market in India and China for bicycle tires than for automobile tires.
And if you don't like internal combustion, try powering your car with a pulse-jet and see how many complaints you get!
Well, yes, offsite backup of data is a no-brainer. I was referring more to physical objects. It seems you have a choice -- either put them away somewhere where nobody can access them to keep them "safe", or keep them where people can actually enjoy them with all the attendant risks. (And I beleive there is still a small chance of water seepage or theft even at Iron Mountain.)
Storing priceless items in the path of a possible hurricane or any other forseeable natural disaster is very short sighted in my opinion. Right. They should have stored them on the west coast. No risks of earthquakes or landslides there! Or maybe in Kansas. No risk of tornadoes there! Where exactly are you proposing that "priceless items" be kept where there is zero risk? Iron Mountain?
Oh my god, I can't play starwars online!!! And pinball machines were destroyed! This is a real disaster!!!
Uh, solar sails don't help much in getting into orbit... in fact, space elevators and solar sails are complementary technologies, not competing technologies.
... you forgot "Microsoft security" and "fighting for peace"
Yes, but you still need to worry about somebody flying a plane into it, either intentionally or accidentally. This is something that aircraft carriers are good for. Last time I checked, not that many private companies owned their own aircraft carrier...
There are also laws to prevent spam... [checks mailbox] ... funny, they don't seem to be working!
...you don't trust other players to not be using bots, but you trust the house to not add their own player to every game and fix the host software to guarantee that the house's player wins???
What we need is separate rainwater, greywater, and black water systems. I should be able to store the water from the downspouts and from my upstairs showers/baths and use that water for irrigation. Unfortunately, that is not how the houses are designed, and it is probably even against building codes to do so. (Interestingly, in the Bahamas all the houses do have cisterns for storing rainwater, as fresh water is in very short supply.)