You do know that there's PLENTY of scientific evidence out there which ISN'T funded by big oil refuting the ridiculous notion that carbon-dioxide is pollution?
What I particularly liked about your post is the large number of sources you included to support the above statement.
...and systematically breaking the law is yielding an much better result?!? Seriously?
We've changed the speed-limits in Denmark, based on technical suggestion, petitioning etc - it IS possible, at least in countries where the citizens are engaged and not simply choosing what laws to follow.
If you think the speed-limit is wrong for a given location, use the next election cycle to vote in someone that will change the limit, instead of start speeding.
Sounds like you're almost describing my KSP launch-platform.
Jet-based initial stage, that gently carries the thing up to the edge of where the jets can breathe. Separate, 'chutes to carry the jets back down for salvage, and separatrons for getting some speed-diff. Rocket engines kick in when the two are a bit away from each-other, goes to space!
Jump on the call, take some notes, send out some emails, fill out some incident reports and I'm done. "I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work."
That sounds pretty much like the corporate HP Support we all know and love - gets nothing done, writes a lot of emails about nothing, sits on occasional phone-meetings (when they remember to join), and in the end, the customer either gives up getting anything fixed, or gets someone else to fix it.
Source: A decade of working with mission-critical systeme for large tier-1/tier-2 Automotive suppliers
1) This is horrible for manned craft, due to the much longer flight-time resulting in higher costs for maintaining the crew 2) This is far from new, though so far only used for getting to the moon 3)... uhm, I'm sure there were more points
Then question becomes, do someone also pay to make to make the calls, that "Mobile phone users in the United States pay to receive" ? Over here I've never heard of this, outside of some (not-wholly-dissimilar) attempts that were shut down immediately.
Call collect? Thats your #1 example? yeah, it is paying to receive a call, but you're reaching from the get-go.
If Americans are stupid enough to pay to receive SMSes, that's just them being silly - in the last 20 years, I've never heard of that over here. As for subscription, again mate, you're reaching.
Sorry, then I'm curious: What are the costs related to attending high-school?
Access to some of the college courses in Denmark is fairly restricted, but at the same time there are others that are trivial to get in to (at least as a Dane); almost anyone who makes it through high-school in DK with semi-decent grades can get into college (from my experience), as long as they are not too picky (there are 1 or 2, where your average has to be above the maximum grade...). From my high-school year, people in my class were informed by the local college that they "were admitted", prior to applying - grades weren't really considered, despite they (my fellow students) were looking at studying Electronic Engineering, and applying was simply a formality.
I guess what I'm saying is, anyone (any Dane) who actually wants to, can attend college in Denmark. They might just have to choose something else than the most restrictive/popular lines.
My initial question is then because, literally any Dane can attend high-school (and basically for free), I'm therefore curious what keep people from having a high-school diploma.
You cannot "replicate" an original, and replication can be detected, so collectors would plausibly pay well for e.g. historical treasures (various TNG+DS9 episodes) You cannot replicate guns or weaponry, at least not legally, so criminal groups would need to find a supply of these (DS9) Non-Starfleet personnel have replicators, but these may have other/additional limits, including limits on energy usages (Voyager-style rationing, but much more lenient)
Besides trade in Originals, you could have religious fanatics (prolly bad theme currently), philosophical extremists, anti-government nuts (Star Fleet's Teaparty?), Romulus-supported insurrectionists, Marquis-style separatists... lots of options for people to behave "criminally" or just undesirably. Heck, they could prolly do a Dark Angel (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099817/) thing in the Roddenberry-universe...either way, I just wish someone would make a Star Trek movie... been over a decade since the last one already.
Repeat guests? C'mon, really? You shop for hotels the same way the rest of us do - Either your employer tells you "you will stay here", or you use a price search and pick the lowest place that doesn't mention rats in the toilet.
Every large customer I've had, have had a list of preferred hotels/chains (rental companies etc), that they could ask us to use. If a given hotel or chain blocked cell-phone usage or got other notable complaints, they'd get removed from the list. Part of the reason for the lists are usually negotiated rates (try calling a random hotel-chain, mention you're from e.g. IBM, TCS or similar consultancy corp.)
Beyond that, if you have a half-decent travel-agency, you can register preferred and black-listed hotels on your personal account - of cause unless you work somewhere that doesn't consider your time worth shite, and simply either have a crap travel-agency where you need to do all the work up-front before booking, or where you don't have anything resembling regular travels, and thus no outside agency.
For personal travels, I can confirm that being a repeat guest at proper hotels have advantages, when they start tracking your visits, preferences, etc. It is silly, but being greeted with just a Welcome Back is actually nice; when it extends to small personalized things in the room upon arrival, you know you're in a good place (unless you're really big on privacy)
Yeah, I skipped listing episodes from The Original Series (TOS) and The Animated Series (TAS), due to not having watched much of either - I simply don't have the base for recommending any. My personal issue is simply that I find watching either difficult, due to the visuals and the acting. Is not that it is bad, simply my preferences and me being spoiled, that makes it a problem. If you are OK with watching TV from that era, I'm sure you can suffer through at least TOS.
Based on other's(!) comments, you can consider these 2 from TOS: * The City on the Edge of Forever (TOS) - Considered by many as the best Star Trek episode ever, and an example on how to do Time Travel right. * The Trouble With Tribbles (TOS) - the episode that Trials and Tribble-ations (DS9) pays homage to - perhaps watch this and then the DS9 episode
For the other end of the spectrum (i.e., horrible Star Trek), you can try... * Code of Honor (TNG) - A planet full of faux-african-villagers * Justice (TNG) - A planet full of people constantly playing at love * The Fight (VOY) - Using Native American rituals to communicate with space-spirits (sort-of) or you can simply enjoy this little video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now, cue the people, who will point out how I cannot talk about Star Trek, if I haven't watched TOS at least once every year since the mid-seventies.....
For as long as I've been working, the size of a EUR-pallet has been pretty fixed at 1200x800x144mm - sure, there are some variations, but the base-size still applies. There are some unofficial half-sized pallets, usually molded plastic, designed to fit 2 in the space of one EUR pallet.
Outside of Europe? You still see EUR pallets, or cheap pallets made to ca the same size (but inferior quality).
As long as software can make the hardware do something, it can make it damage itself.
So data-invariance is not an option on a hardware level? it should be possible to design hardware, where critically-dangerous input is filtered or rejected, such that most attempts to willfully bring it into a dangerous scenario will fail. Yes, emergency-shutdowns should remain possible, though I'd question why that would be something controlled by a computer, and not a big red button that needs to be physically pressed somewhere in the office.
I'd suggest checking out Star Trek, despite that 1 guy who whined a lot. For the purpose, a short-list, and some quick recommendations...
* The Original Series ('66-'69) - dated, and it shows. Only watchable for nostalgic reasons * The Next Generation ('87-'94) - showing its age, 1st season quite bad, rest varies between bad and very good, decent place to start, can be a bit preachy *Deep Space Nine ('93-'99) - Decent visuals, seasons 1-3 pretty poor story-wise, end of season 3 through season 6 pretty decent-to-good, more action-based than previous stuff. Fairly dark, difficult place to start * Voyager ('95-'01) - better production quality than other series, somewhat action-centric at times, less preachy (ignoring certain episodes). Can be used as starting-point * Enterprise ('01-'05) - Actually not Star Trek. Attempt to make a more streamlined, easy-to-watch Trek. Can be used as starting-point, but may be difficult going back to eg. TNG afterwards.
Some episodes you can try watching (even if out-of-sequence and spoilery), to get a feel for Trek: * The Measure of a Man (TNG) * Inner Light (TNG) * In the Pale Moonlight (DS9) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... * Trials and Tribble-ations (DS9, TOS-cross-over) * Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy (Voy) * Year of Hell, Part 1 & 2 (Voy - 2 episodes) * Broken Bow (Ent - 1st episode) * Carbon Creek (Ent) Yeah, these generally considered amongst the better episodes of their series, but shows some of the varied themes and styles of Star Trek (I left the out mirror-universe things, they are generally stupid)
Don't bother with watching any of the movies, they are largely bad (he said, having the complete collection on blu-ray) - shame they haven't made any Star Trek movies since 2002.
The US Government have found out that The Interview is also making fun of it, and of NSA/FBI/CSI, and ordered the cyber-attack as a cover-up for threatening Sony bosses to withdraw the movie. Afterwards, they blamed the attack on North Korea, in a move that is oddly reminiscent of the humor used in The Interview.
C64 Cassette tape (Datasette I think was the name) here.
One of the best parts - the reader/writer head tended to be off alignment, so there were times you couldn't even share cassettes with your friends - though I was the only one with a Commodore computer anyway (the friends in my pay grade had no comp, my rich friends had Apple II series).
And my first computer had 2KB of RAM, I'm typing this from a 12Gb Desktop.
From memory, some loaders/compressors would display a visual "picture" indicating whether the head was aligned according to the data on the tape - then you could use a tiny screwdriver (hole pre-made for the purpose in the device), to properly align the head.
Nearest bus-station, people speak a lot of different languages. Likely the first 15 random people there, speak 15 different languages natively, though most of them likely also have some understanding of French.
How that, by your reasoning, means that Spanish is dominant... yeah, no idea.
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Reading The Fine Excerpt, it even seems 95% of relevant workers live outside of the US
You do know that there's PLENTY of scientific evidence out there which ISN'T funded by big oil refuting the ridiculous notion that carbon-dioxide is pollution?
What I particularly liked about your post is the large number of sources you included to support the above statement.
...and systematically breaking the law is yielding an much better result?!? Seriously?
We've changed the speed-limits in Denmark, based on technical suggestion, petitioning etc - it IS possible, at least in countries where the citizens are engaged and not simply choosing what laws to follow.
If you think the speed-limit is wrong for a given location, use the next election cycle to vote in someone that will change the limit, instead of start speeding.
Sounds like you're almost describing my KSP launch-platform.
Jet-based initial stage, that gently carries the thing up to the edge of where the jets can breathe.
Separate, 'chutes to carry the jets back down for salvage, and separatrons for getting some speed-diff.
Rocket engines kick in when the two are a bit away from each-other, goes to space!
KSP is fun :)
Jump on the call, take some notes, send out some emails, fill out some incident reports and I'm done. "I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work."
That sounds pretty much like the corporate HP Support we all know and love - gets nothing done, writes a lot of emails about nothing, sits on occasional phone-meetings (when they remember to join), and in the end, the customer either gives up getting anything fixed, or gets someone else to fix it.
Source: A decade of working with mission-critical systeme for large tier-1/tier-2 Automotive suppliers
Incorrect - The only people offended are those who specifically looked for something to be offended by - nothing more, nothing less.
Wasn't this already addressed recently?
1) This is horrible for manned craft, due to the much longer flight-time resulting in higher costs for maintaining the crew ... uhm, I'm sure there were more points
2) This is far from new, though so far only used for getting to the moon
3)
Then question becomes, do someone also pay to make to make the calls, that "Mobile phone users in the United States pay to receive" ?
Over here I've never heard of this, outside of some (not-wholly-dissimilar) attempts that were shut down immediately.
Call collect? Thats your #1 example? yeah, it is paying to receive a call, but you're reaching from the get-go.
If Americans are stupid enough to pay to receive SMSes, that's just them being silly - in the last 20 years, I've never heard of that over here.
As for subscription, again mate, you're reaching.
This is the same idiocy that made paying to receive a phone call a marketable thing.
I sorta disbelieve there are anyone stupid enough to pay to RECEIVE a call - that is simply beyond most common levels of stupidity.
(also, never seen that advertised)
You man that their official twitter account showing "Finland" as location, was enough of a hint? :)
Sorry, then I'm curious: What are the costs related to attending high-school?
Access to some of the college courses in Denmark is fairly restricted, but at the same time there are others that are trivial to get in to (at least as a Dane); almost anyone who makes it through high-school in DK with semi-decent grades can get into college (from my experience), as long as they are not too picky (there are 1 or 2, where your average has to be above the maximum grade...).
From my high-school year, people in my class were informed by the local college that they "were admitted", prior to applying - grades weren't really considered, despite they (my fellow students) were looking at studying Electronic Engineering, and applying was simply a formality.
I guess what I'm saying is, anyone (any Dane) who actually wants to, can attend college in Denmark. They might just have to choose something else than the most restrictive/popular lines.
My initial question is then because, literally any Dane can attend high-school (and basically for free), I'm therefore curious what keep people from having a high-school diploma.
Purely because your comment made me think you'd find this interesting: http://studyindenmark.dk/study...
No, not trying to make a point, or anything, really just thinking you might find it worth a look.
hmm
You cannot "replicate" an original, and replication can be detected, so collectors would plausibly pay well for e.g. historical treasures (various TNG+DS9 episodes)
You cannot replicate guns or weaponry, at least not legally, so criminal groups would need to find a supply of these (DS9)
Non-Starfleet personnel have replicators, but these may have other/additional limits, including limits on energy usages (Voyager-style rationing, but much more lenient)
Besides trade in Originals, you could have religious fanatics (prolly bad theme currently), philosophical extremists, anti-government nuts (Star Fleet's Teaparty?), Romulus-supported insurrectionists, Marquis-style separatists ... lots of options for people to behave "criminally" or just undesirably. ...either way, I just wish someone would make a Star Trek movie... been over a decade since the last one already.
Heck, they could prolly do a Dark Angel (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099817/) thing in the Roddenberry-universe
Repeat guests? C'mon, really? You shop for hotels the same way the rest of us do - Either your employer tells you "you will stay here", or you use a price search and pick the lowest place that doesn't mention rats in the toilet.
Every large customer I've had, have had a list of preferred hotels/chains (rental companies etc), that they could ask us to use. If a given hotel or chain blocked cell-phone usage or got other notable complaints, they'd get removed from the list.
Part of the reason for the lists are usually negotiated rates (try calling a random hotel-chain, mention you're from e.g. IBM, TCS or similar consultancy corp.)
Beyond that, if you have a half-decent travel-agency, you can register preferred and black-listed hotels on your personal account - of cause unless you work somewhere that doesn't consider your time worth shite, and simply either have a crap travel-agency where you need to do all the work up-front before booking, or where you don't have anything resembling regular travels, and thus no outside agency.
For personal travels, I can confirm that being a repeat guest at proper hotels have advantages, when they start tracking your visits, preferences, etc. It is silly, but being greeted with just a Welcome Back is actually nice; when it extends to small personalized things in the room upon arrival, you know you're in a good place (unless you're really big on privacy)
How do the ISP know that they are not intercepting a RESTful GET request, and interrupting up some application?
Yeah, I skipped listing episodes from The Original Series (TOS) and The Animated Series (TAS), due to not having watched much of either - I simply don't have the base for recommending any.
My personal issue is simply that I find watching either difficult, due to the visuals and the acting. Is not that it is bad, simply my preferences and me being spoiled, that makes it a problem. If you are OK with watching TV from that era, I'm sure you can suffer through at least TOS.
Based on other's(!) comments, you can consider these 2 from TOS:
* The City on the Edge of Forever (TOS) - Considered by many as the best Star Trek episode ever, and an example on how to do Time Travel right.
* The Trouble With Tribbles (TOS) - the episode that Trials and Tribble-ations (DS9) pays homage to - perhaps watch this and then the DS9 episode
For the other end of the spectrum (i.e., horrible Star Trek), you can try...
* Code of Honor (TNG) - A planet full of faux-african-villagers
* Justice (TNG) - A planet full of people constantly playing at love
* The Fight (VOY) - Using Native American rituals to communicate with space-spirits (sort-of)
or you can simply enjoy this little video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now, cue the people, who will point out how I cannot talk about Star Trek, if I haven't watched TOS at least once every year since the mid-seventies.....
For as long as I've been working, the size of a EUR-pallet has been pretty fixed at 1200x800x144mm - sure, there are some variations, but the base-size still applies.
There are some unofficial half-sized pallets, usually molded plastic, designed to fit 2 in the space of one EUR pallet.
Outside of Europe? You still see EUR pallets, or cheap pallets made to ca the same size (but inferior quality).
yeah, no - I wouldn't send a non-Trekkie to watch "Yesterday's Enterprise" randomly, since it would ruin too many things.
Time-travelling is included in "Trials and Tribble-actions" and "Year of Hell I+II".
As long as software can make the hardware do something, it can make it damage itself.
So data-invariance is not an option on a hardware level?
it should be possible to design hardware, where critically-dangerous input is filtered or rejected, such that most attempts to willfully bring it into a dangerous scenario will fail.
Yes, emergency-shutdowns should remain possible, though I'd question why that would be something controlled by a computer, and not a big red button that needs to be physically pressed somewhere in the office.
I'd suggest checking out Star Trek, despite that 1 guy who whined a lot.
For the purpose, a short-list, and some quick recommendations...
* The Original Series ('66-'69) - dated, and it shows. Only watchable for nostalgic reasons
* The Next Generation ('87-'94) - showing its age, 1st season quite bad, rest varies between bad and very good, decent place to start, can be a bit preachy
*Deep Space Nine ('93-'99) - Decent visuals, seasons 1-3 pretty poor story-wise, end of season 3 through season 6 pretty decent-to-good, more action-based than previous stuff. Fairly dark, difficult place to start
* Voyager ('95-'01) - better production quality than other series, somewhat action-centric at times, less preachy (ignoring certain episodes). Can be used as starting-point
* Enterprise ('01-'05) - Actually not Star Trek. Attempt to make a more streamlined, easy-to-watch Trek. Can be used as starting-point, but may be difficult going back to eg. TNG afterwards.
Some episodes you can try watching (even if out-of-sequence and spoilery), to get a feel for Trek:
* The Measure of a Man (TNG)
* Inner Light (TNG)
* In the Pale Moonlight (DS9) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
* Trials and Tribble-ations (DS9, TOS-cross-over)
* Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy (Voy)
* Year of Hell, Part 1 & 2 (Voy - 2 episodes)
* Broken Bow (Ent - 1st episode)
* Carbon Creek (Ent)
Yeah, these generally considered amongst the better episodes of their series, but shows some of the varied themes and styles of Star Trek (I left the out mirror-universe things, they are generally stupid)
Don't bother with watching any of the movies, they are largely bad (he said, having the complete collection on blu-ray) - shame they haven't made any Star Trek movies since 2002.
Uh, I have one!
The US Government have found out that The Interview is also making fun of it, and of NSA/FBI/CSI, and ordered the cyber-attack as a cover-up for threatening Sony bosses to withdraw the movie.
Afterwards, they blamed the attack on North Korea, in a move that is oddly reminiscent of the humor used in The Interview.
no?
C64 Cassette tape (Datasette I think was the name) here.
One of the best parts - the reader/writer head tended to be off alignment, so there were times you couldn't even share cassettes with your friends - though I was the only one with a Commodore computer anyway (the friends in my pay grade had no comp, my rich friends had Apple II series).
And my first computer had 2KB of RAM, I'm typing this from a 12Gb Desktop.
From memory, some loaders/compressors would display a visual "picture" indicating whether the head was aligned according to the data on the tape - then you could use a tiny screwdriver (hole pre-made for the purpose in the device), to properly align the head.
Nearest bus-station, people speak a lot of different languages.
Likely the first 15 random people there, speak 15 different languages natively, though most of them likely also have some understanding of French.
How that, by your reasoning, means that Spanish is dominant ... yeah, no idea.