To be more precise, in France, permanent direct debit can be done by any business, not only the larger ones(but it's a very common way to pay electricity, phone, ADSL, insurance, and even loans or taxes), but you have to fill bank form to allow each particular business to debit your account and you can retract anytime and/or contest a payment if you think it was undue (of course, the bank will not always take your side, but it usualy does in case of doubt).
Yes, but the OP seemed to generalize from the common points between dinausors that existed roughly 100 million years ago and modern mammals to some kind of universality. Repiles and mammals share a lot of things (in particular general anatomy) because they have a not so distant common ancestor (and the differences beside milk production are not that absolute: the platypus lays eggs while some reptiles are warm-blooded or take care of their offspring.
Except that you make the same mistake than the TSA: you focus on one category of vector attack (in your case, the ones that can be stopped by shooting at them after they have expressed their will to blow the plane) and publicly advertize it. Actually do that and the terrorists will put a timebomb in a luggage within a week just to make fun of you.
Although I find that paranoid security theater ridiculously ineffective and politically dangerous, it is unfortunately not the only thing that changed with 9/11: old terrorism was state-sponsored so it was still possible retaliate (Khadafi still remembers the day he was nearly hit by american bombers and in the long run, that raid seemed to have been successful in an unexpected way), today, even invading Al Queida backyard, Afganistan, doesn't really help making the world a safer place.
You're absolutely right, so do you want to live in a society in wich you could be punished your all life for asingle bening stupid thing you have done while you were kid?
I'm a geek, never took drug, didn't party or drank too much and never participated in criminal activities but I know things about my 10 closest friends or coworkers that might have interested the police and I bet almost everyone is in the same situation, so do we put everyone in jail or do we accept for the common good to forgive and forget to a certain extend?
First, life has gone through BILLIONS of years, not just million. Secondly, mammals and reptiles are very closely related. And finaly, (almost ?) all multicellular species that existed in the last 2 billion years use collagen to make their cells stick together.
I'd think the main interest would not be for classical permanent hosting but for special events like big convention or sport competition. These things are already potential target and usually receive corresponding protection. However, I think they might suffer from Google competition with their server on a truck solution (plus their general expertise in deploying full solutions).
Come on, these people need at least a miracle in their career to reach sainthood. Removing one of their major category of surnatural recovery is a direct assault to the religion by those b*stard scientists!
Of course, it won't magically disapear, so it will land someplace and might explode, but a 20kg missile hitting one building and killing a few unlucky persons is nothing compared to a large commercial plane filled with tens of tons of highly flamable fuel hitting the same building plus a few dozen more, potentially killing hundreds, if not thousands, ground victims.
Everyone knows that commercial planes can be misused as WMD, the real question here is wether all the billions spent to prevent a few very specific attack vectors will be of any use.
One way of attack is still far from bein obsolete: (ab)using the low paid airport workers to manually place the explosive inside the plane while it is still on the ground.
Absolutely, moreover, almost no driver is properly trained to handle extreme conditions and one of the very few who can (Hamilton, the genius F1 pilot) just got his driver license suspended by french policemen for reckless driving (or maybe they were bitter Alonso fans).
I have only played it for 10 hours or so and I have still not entered the first city. I really hate those long load/save screen each time I enter or leave a house, and I'm not really fan of the interface, but I really like the quests. Some are obviously sidequests (the dice poker thing, and of course getting laid), but many others are a way to smallstep the main arc one way or another by gaining allies.
I think the real point of this weapon is to motivate your OWN troops. Captain: "Guys, we dropped a gay bomb on the people you are going to fight, so don't EVER surrender or you'll be raped". Privates: "HOURerr..., why did you do that sir?"
Absolutely, it is indeed frightening to see students from the top american technology college show pride in doing grunt physical work instead of using their brain, and even worse to see that on/. instead of Sport Illustrated.
No congressman will ever vote a retroactive death penalty for destruction of evidence, with the incoming elections, I wouldn't bet a cent on the other option.
No, Newton's gravity doesn't happens, period. Gravity happens, we don't know why, and are not totaly sure how. On a logical point of view, Newton's law (wich is only a perception of reality, not the reality) could not happen because of something discovered a few centuries later, but relativity exists because some scientists discovered flaws in Newton's law (namely that it doesn't work when the speed of light cannot be approximated as infinite).
For scientists, there are several categories: -known: anything solid enough to be given to the engineers. -known unknown: they have enough data not matching the "known" to know which question to ask, which is a huge first step. -unknown unknown: anything that is not observed yet, and for which it is too early to ask questions. -unknowable unknow: anything that can't be observed, ever.
Science progress not only by extending the known, but also (and some would say mostly) by extending the known unknown.
While we probably never get a good answer of the "how" question, we know we have a better one than yesterday. On the other hand, we can't tell how good is an answer to the "why" question, or even if there is one (personaly I believe kids have it right by answering "BECAUSE!").
The previous answers are very intersting indeed, but I think they lack focus on one very important point: you are confusing logic and truth.
"Would that mean logic is essentially based upon a matter of faith, a one primal assumption that unfortunately cannot itself be proven (how could you logically prove logic when you first need to prove logic)?"
Yes, but not exactly. Logic has nothing to do with your primal assumptions, it is simply the process that brings up the consequences of accepting that particular set of primal assumptions. And yes, you cannot apply logic without an unprovable ground to build upon.
It probably won't work in pure FPS, but I'd like GTA or Oblivion style games to better handle things like threatening, surrending, suspecting or gauging opponents. For instance, everyone stupidly rushing in to get killed whenever someone sees you do something wrong totally ruins the immersion (and then for GTA, totally forgeting you as soon as you entered your OWN house). More realism doesn't only mean localized/gore wounds.
Obviously, you are not working for one of the biggest publisher, or for for long enough. As a gamer, I would say most games suck because they all feel the same.
Relationship and politics aside, the Ariane launchers and Kourou site are designed for small to medium size cargo (mostly satelites), and even with manned Sozuz, they couldn't (and nothing currently can) replace the shuttle ability to turn into a mobile construction tool for the ISS. So even if it is expensive and bloated, we all need something able to permorm similar tasks, not just lift containers.
Don't worry, if you caused the loss of millions and the death of several highly qualified persons, there will always be a high paying job waiting for you at the FEMA.
The funny thing is that, in most developped countries, the landline usage is actually rising thanks to the ADSL, while in third world countries, everyone has a mobile phone because the infrastructures can be way cheaper than creating a full coverage landline grid from scratch.
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To be more precise, in France, permanent direct debit can be done by any business, not only the larger ones(but it's a very common way to pay electricity, phone, ADSL, insurance, and even loans or taxes), but you have to fill bank form to allow each particular business to debit your account and you can retract anytime and/or contest a payment if you think it was undue (of course, the bank will not always take your side, but it usualy does in case of doubt).
Yes, but the OP seemed to generalize from the common points between dinausors that existed roughly 100 million years ago and modern mammals to some kind of universality. Repiles and mammals share a lot of things (in particular general anatomy) because they have a not so distant common ancestor (and the differences beside milk production are not that absolute: the platypus lays eggs while some reptiles are warm-blooded or take care of their offspring.
Except that you make the same mistake than the TSA: you focus on one category of vector attack (in your case, the ones that can be stopped by shooting at them after they have expressed their will to blow the plane) and publicly advertize it. Actually do that and the terrorists will put a timebomb in a luggage within a week just to make fun of you.
Although I find that paranoid security theater ridiculously ineffective and politically dangerous, it is unfortunately not the only thing that changed with 9/11: old terrorism was state-sponsored so it was still possible retaliate (Khadafi still remembers the day he was nearly hit by american bombers and in the long run, that raid seemed to have been successful in an unexpected way), today, even invading Al Queida backyard, Afganistan, doesn't really help making the world a safer place.
You're absolutely right, so do you want to live in a society in wich you could be punished your all life for asingle bening stupid thing you have done while you were kid?
I'm a geek, never took drug, didn't party or drank too much and never participated in criminal activities but I know things about my 10 closest friends or coworkers that might have interested the police and I bet almost everyone is in the same situation, so do we put everyone in jail or do we accept for the common good to forgive and forget to a certain extend?
First, life has gone through BILLIONS of years, not just million. Secondly, mammals and reptiles are very closely related. And finaly, (almost ?) all multicellular species that existed in the last 2 billion years use collagen to make their cells stick together.
You didn't get the point: the main advantage is free heating for the mission control room, what are millions wasted when you can save hundreds?
I'd think the main interest would not be for classical permanent hosting but for special events like big convention or sport competition. These things are already potential target and usually receive corresponding protection. However, I think they might suffer from Google competition with their server on a truck solution (plus their general expertise in deploying full solutions).
Come on, these people need at least a miracle in their career to reach sainthood. Removing one of their major category of surnatural recovery is a direct assault to the religion by those b*stard scientists!
Of course, it won't magically disapear, so it will land someplace and might explode, but a 20kg missile hitting one building and killing a few unlucky persons is nothing compared to a large commercial plane filled with tens of tons of highly flamable fuel hitting the same building plus a few dozen more, potentially killing hundreds, if not thousands, ground victims.
Everyone knows that commercial planes can be misused as WMD, the real question here is wether all the billions spent to prevent a few very specific attack vectors will be of any use.
One way of attack is still far from bein obsolete: (ab)using the low paid airport workers to manually place the explosive inside the plane while it is still on the ground.
Well, it could make sense, the terrorists are the only one who know that being pulled out by those cowboys won't make their day any worse.
At least it would be better than arrassing anyone that doesn't look WASP, now THAt would be the kind of thing a totalitarian regime would do.
Absolutely, moreover, almost no driver is properly trained to handle extreme conditions and one of the very few who can (Hamilton, the genius F1 pilot) just got his driver license suspended by french policemen for reckless driving (or maybe they were bitter Alonso fans).
I have only played it for 10 hours or so and I have still not entered the first city. I really hate those long load/save screen each time I enter or leave a house, and I'm not really fan of the interface, but I really like the quests. Some are obviously sidequests (the dice poker thing, and of course getting laid), but many others are a way to smallstep the main arc one way or another by gaining allies.
I think the real point of this weapon is to motivate your OWN troops.
Captain: "Guys, we dropped a gay bomb on the people you are going to fight, so don't EVER surrender or you'll be raped".
Privates: "HOURerr..., why did you do that sir?"
Absolutely, it is indeed frightening to see students from the top american technology college show pride in doing grunt physical work instead of using their brain, and even worse to see that on /. instead of Sport Illustrated.
No congressman will ever vote a retroactive death penalty for destruction of evidence, with the incoming elections, I wouldn't bet a cent on the other option.
No, Newton's gravity doesn't happens, period. Gravity happens, we don't know why, and are not totaly sure how.
On a logical point of view, Newton's law (wich is only a perception of reality, not the reality) could not happen because of something discovered a few centuries later, but relativity exists because some scientists discovered flaws in Newton's law (namely that it doesn't work when the speed of light cannot be approximated as infinite).
For scientists, there are several categories:
-known: anything solid enough to be given to the engineers.
-known unknown: they have enough data not matching the "known" to know which question to ask, which is a huge first step.
-unknown unknown: anything that is not observed yet, and for which it is too early to ask questions.
-unknowable unknow: anything that can't be observed, ever.
Science progress not only by extending the known, but also (and some would say mostly) by extending the known unknown.
While we probably never get a good answer of the "how" question, we know we have a better one than yesterday. On the other hand, we can't tell how good is an answer to the "why" question, or even if there is one (personaly I believe kids have it right by answering "BECAUSE!").
The previous answers are very intersting indeed, but I think they lack focus on one very important point: you are confusing logic and truth.
"Would that mean logic is essentially based upon a matter of faith, a one primal assumption that unfortunately cannot itself be proven (how could you logically prove logic when you first need to prove logic)?"
Yes, but not exactly. Logic has nothing to do with your primal assumptions, it is simply the process that brings up the consequences of accepting that particular set of primal assumptions. And yes, you cannot apply logic without an unprovable ground to build upon.
It probably won't work in pure FPS, but I'd like GTA or Oblivion style games to better handle things like threatening, surrending, suspecting or gauging opponents. For instance, everyone stupidly rushing in to get killed whenever someone sees you do something wrong totally ruins the immersion (and then for GTA, totally forgeting you as soon as you entered your OWN house).
More realism doesn't only mean localized/gore wounds.
Obviously, you are not working for one of the biggest publisher, or for for long enough. As a gamer, I would say most games suck because they all feel the same.
Relationship and politics aside, the Ariane launchers and Kourou site are designed for small to medium size cargo (mostly satelites), and even with manned Sozuz, they couldn't (and nothing currently can) replace the shuttle ability to turn into a mobile construction tool for the ISS. So even if it is expensive and bloated, we all need something able to permorm similar tasks, not just lift containers.
Don't worry, if you caused the loss of millions and the death of several highly qualified persons, there will always be a high paying job waiting for you at the FEMA.
The funny thing is that, in most developped countries, the landline usage is actually rising thanks to the ADSL, while in third world countries, everyone has a mobile phone because the infrastructures can be way cheaper than creating a full coverage landline grid from scratch.