If all the aliens/monsters/time travelers/giant mecha/etc. in Japanese anime are required to make a stop in Tokyo, it's not unreasonable for all aliens/monsters/time travelers/giant mecha/etc. in Doctor Who to threaten London or its vicinity.
Or just let the idiots ride. If they get injured, they have to deal with the consequences. If they get hit by a capsule and die, their estates have to pay the costs of scraping them off the sides of the tubes. We go to a lot of trouble to try to thwart Darwin in modern society -- perhaps too much trouble?
I like the way you think, but I see it a little differently.
Google: Okay, we've done as you asked and removed piracy-related terms from autocompletion.
RIAA + MPAA: Excellent!
RIAA + MPAA: What the...? I typed "iron ma" and the only thing that came up was "iron magnets"? Where's "Iron Man" or "Iron Maiden"?
Google: Oh, those terms often came up in searches performed by pirates, so as you requested we removed them from autocompletion. In fact, we went even further and removed them from the search results entirely! Aren't you happy?
The same reason diabetes testing equipment consists of a set of disposable strips that collect the blood and a reusable hand-held device that analyzes the results. Can you imagine what those testing strips would cost if they had to include not just the channels for collecting the blood but also all the electronics to analyze and display the results?
What if there is a God, and he isn't happy about us playing with creation?
Then He/She/It/They shouldn't have created us with a brain that was capable of designing and a body capable of executing those experiments, or He/She/It/They should have kept an eye on us and smacked our hand if we tried. IMO deadbeat deities shouldn't get to wander back into our lives after a long absence without any clear communication with us and immediately get to dictate what we can and cannot do.
the first time a 16-year-old girl decides to take a stand against the scanner. A few cries of "Child molestation!" in a crowded airport would certainly draw general attention to this issue.
Which slogan would win, "If we don't do this, the terrorists win" or "Won't someone please think of the children"?
And yes, I know that Geocities hosted pages from people all around the world, but the majority are probably from the US and so in some sense "under the US LoC's jurisdiction." At the very least it's a good place to start. Then maybe the LoC can work with other national libraries.
That's easy -- B.A. would drive the van next to the unconscious driver's car while Hannibal, Face, or Murdock jumped out the side door onto the car (and the vehicle would start swerving wildly at this point, to add to the sense of danger), busted in a window or the windshield, crawled inside, and brought the car to a stop.
And all the boxes are under watch by representatives of all parties 24/7 throughout the recount process?
Sure, and broadcast on television as well so that ANYONE who wants to can watch the boxes (use the local cable access channel for the day, if you don't want to disrupt network television.)
And none of them could have possibly missed a person dropping two ballots into the box, having brought one that was already filled in with them?
Where I vote, I walk up to the desk, give my name and address, receive a ballot from the volunteer, walk to the booth that has sides and a front but no back, fill out the form, take it over to the box and give my name and address to the volunteer _again_, and slide the ballot into the box. Retrieving a ballot I've hidden somewhere on my person in that kind of environment would be noticed, and the volunteer at the exit would likely ask me what's going on.
And you're certain every box was checked in advance to make sure it didn't come with some votes already in it?
Record the boxes being opened and shown to be empty by the voting area volunteers. [And politely decline the offer of any stage magicians who volunteers to work at the voting area.]
And you're positive that in no location anywhere in the country did someone manage to distract the polling workers long enough to add/swap a box? And even if such an act was caught on camera, you can guarantee that all the film from every station was watched even if there wasn't any indication of tampering?
It's impossible to have ABSOLUTELY secure voting. When electing a new Pope the College of Cardinals holds votes in which they are sworn to secrecy, in a locked cathedral, where only they are present, and in which all the votes are destroyed immediately after the vote. Even then, vote totals sometimes reach the public.
And if you say that Open Source voting will be secure, let me point out two things.
Linux still contains bugs, even though its source code is visible for anyone to read and has been since its creation.
Before heading all the way to Mars like this, let's use this idea to return to the Moon. Escape velocity for the Moon is a lot lower than it is for the Earth (2.4 km/s versus 11.2 km/s according to Wikipedia) so it would require less fuel to launch the longer mission from there. While there doesn't appear to be a whole lot of hydrogen in moon rocks, there is plenty of oxygen.
So instead of getting hit by a bullet, Earth would get hit by buckshot. While that _might_ be better (if the fragments are all or mostly small enough that they don't survive the trip through the atmosphere) it could also be much, much worse.
Think of deflection as playing interplanetary billiards (deflect one asteroid by just a little bit and have it strike another one such that both get out of our way, or deflect it so that instead of hitting Earth it hits Mars or Venus.) Actually, what would be really cool would be if we could deflect it and slow it enough to capture it -- if it's made of the right material, it could sweep up some of the space junk that's already up there, and we could mine it for resources we could use in space that otherwise would be too expensive to ship from Earth into orbit.
Sure, go ahead and use the Holy Hand Grenade. Just be sure to have your mail forwarded to Guantanamo Bay, which is where you'll end up after the TSA gets done with you.
Software cost = programmer's salary... + the cost of the computer the programmer used to write the code... + the cost of the electricity to power said computer... + the cost of the software the programmer used to write the code (which may be $0)... + the salary of the QA staff that test the code... + the salary of the documentation staff that write the documentation for the code... + the salary of the HR staff that hired the programmer, QA staff, documentation staff, etc. and ensures they receive their paychecks... + the rent/mortgage payment for the office where the programmer, QA staff, documentation staff, and HR staff work... etc.
I imagine (hope) there are a LOT of US soldiers who would disobey a direct order to deploy a nuclear weapon against a civilian target in the United States, judging it to not be a lawful order.
... you first, Secretary-General Toure. Let's give every government representing a member-state of the United Nations access to Mr. Toure's Blackberry (or the equivalent, if he has a different mobile device) data. ALL of it, since that's what India is requesting from Research In Motion. It would be interesting to see what discussions he's had with industry lobbyists, wouldn't it? Surely SOME nation would leak that information, like Iran if the "talks between satellite provider Eutelstat and the Iranian government" referred to in the article don't go the way Tehran wants.
Yeah, but sadly common sense isn't all that common anymore. I resisted joining Facebook or using Twitter for a long time for various reasons; I recently joined Facebook, but the first thing I did was to go through the account settings and change just about everything to "Friends only" (which also, of course, includes Facebook staff.) And I _still_ don't post anything via Facebook that I wouldn't be comfortable someone bringing up in a year or five, ten, etc.
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If all the aliens/monsters/time travelers/giant mecha/etc. in Japanese anime are required to make a stop in Tokyo, it's not unreasonable for all aliens/monsters/time travelers/giant mecha/etc. in Doctor Who to threaten London or its vicinity.
Or just let the idiots ride. If they get injured, they have to deal with the consequences. If they get hit by a capsule and die, their estates have to pay the costs of scraping them off the sides of the tubes. We go to a lot of trouble to try to thwart Darwin in modern society -- perhaps too much trouble?
I like the way you think, but I see it a little differently.
Google: Okay, we've done as you asked and removed piracy-related terms from autocompletion.
RIAA + MPAA: Excellent!
RIAA + MPAA: What the ...? I typed "iron ma" and the only thing that came up was "iron magnets"? Where's "Iron Man" or "Iron Maiden"?
Google: Oh, those terms often came up in searches performed by pirates, so as you requested we removed them from autocompletion. In fact, we went even further and removed them from the search results entirely! Aren't you happy?
RIAA + MPAA: *fuming*
Given the topic of the article, I think it's a safe bet that ethics don't matter (or don't matter that much) for a number of this person's clients.
Didn't you catch him in that hit series he did a few years back -- The X-Files?
The same reason diabetes testing equipment consists of a set of disposable strips that collect the blood and a reusable hand-held device that analyzes the results. Can you imagine what those testing strips would cost if they had to include not just the channels for collecting the blood but also all the electronics to analyze and display the results?
Then He/She/It/They shouldn't have created us with a brain that was capable of designing and a body capable of executing those experiments, or He/She/It/They should have kept an eye on us and smacked our hand if we tried. IMO deadbeat deities shouldn't get to wander back into our lives after a long absence without any clear communication with us and immediately get to dictate what we can and cannot do.
the first time a 16-year-old girl decides to take a stand against the scanner. A few cries of "Child molestation!" in a crowded airport would certainly draw general attention to this issue.
Which slogan would win, "If we don't do this, the terrorists win" or "Won't someone please think of the children"?
Just wait a few weeks. Someone's bound to put up a "mirror" of the site using the archived data.
Agreed. I'd love to see them offer a copy of this to the United States Library of Congress, whose mission is "... to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations." As the US Copyright Office is part of the Library, they should know the right way to handle this distribution (or they should realize that there's no right way and that they should create one.)
And yes, I know that Geocities hosted pages from people all around the world, but the majority are probably from the US and so in some sense "under the US LoC's jurisdiction." At the very least it's a good place to start. Then maybe the LoC can work with other national libraries.
That's easy -- B.A. would drive the van next to the unconscious driver's car while Hannibal, Face, or Murdock jumped out the side door onto the car (and the vehicle would start swerving wildly at this point, to add to the sense of danger), busted in a window or the windshield, crawled inside, and brought the car to a stop.
Sure, and broadcast on television as well so that ANYONE who wants to can watch the boxes (use the local cable access channel for the day, if you don't want to disrupt network television.)
Where I vote, I walk up to the desk, give my name and address, receive a ballot from the volunteer, walk to the booth that has sides and a front but no back, fill out the form, take it over to the box and give my name and address to the volunteer _again_, and slide the ballot into the box. Retrieving a ballot I've hidden somewhere on my person in that kind of environment would be noticed, and the volunteer at the exit would likely ask me what's going on.
Record the boxes being opened and shown to be empty by the voting area volunteers. [And politely decline the offer of any stage magicians who volunteers to work at the voting area.]
It's impossible to have ABSOLUTELY secure voting. When electing a new Pope the College of Cardinals holds votes in which they are sworn to secrecy, in a locked cathedral, where only they are present, and in which all the votes are destroyed immediately after the vote. Even then, vote totals sometimes reach the public.
And if you say that Open Source voting will be secure, let me point out two things.
Before heading all the way to Mars like this, let's use this idea to return to the Moon. Escape velocity for the Moon is a lot lower than it is for the Earth (2.4 km/s versus 11.2 km/s according to Wikipedia) so it would require less fuel to launch the longer mission from there. While there doesn't appear to be a whole lot of hydrogen in moon rocks, there is plenty of oxygen.
So instead of getting hit by a bullet, Earth would get hit by buckshot. While that _might_ be better (if the fragments are all or mostly small enough that they don't survive the trip through the atmosphere) it could also be much, much worse.
Think of deflection as playing interplanetary billiards (deflect one asteroid by just a little bit and have it strike another one such that both get out of our way, or deflect it so that instead of hitting Earth it hits Mars or Venus.) Actually, what would be really cool would be if we could deflect it and slow it enough to capture it -- if it's made of the right material, it could sweep up some of the space junk that's already up there, and we could mine it for resources we could use in space that otherwise would be too expensive to ship from Earth into orbit.
Sure, go ahead and use the Holy Hand Grenade. Just be sure to have your mail forwarded to Guantanamo Bay, which is where you'll end up after the TSA gets done with you.
Well, I guess that explains Bun-Bun. Oh wait, I guess he chewed on power cords after Torg bought him at the pet store.
Software cost = programmer's salary ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
+ the cost of the computer the programmer used to write the code
+ the cost of the electricity to power said computer
+ the cost of the software the programmer used to write the code (which may be $0)
+ the salary of the QA staff that test the code
+ the salary of the documentation staff that write the documentation for the code
+ the salary of the HR staff that hired the programmer, QA staff, documentation staff, etc. and ensures they receive their paychecks
+ the rent/mortgage payment for the office where the programmer, QA staff, documentation staff, and HR staff work
etc.
Can they prove it was the property of the federal government? Or is he simply supposed to hand this unknown device over to anyone who asks him for it?
Prometheus is waiting for his licensing check ... and if he ever gets it, Zeus will promptly sue him.
Don't worry -- if the fuselage is transparent when the plane does anything but fly nice and level, it won't be for very long, airsickness bags or no.
I imagine (hope) there are a LOT of US soldiers who would disobey a direct order to deploy a nuclear weapon against a civilian target in the United States, judging it to not be a lawful order.
... you first, Secretary-General Toure. Let's give every government representing a member-state of the United Nations access to Mr. Toure's Blackberry (or the equivalent, if he has a different mobile device) data. ALL of it, since that's what India is requesting from Research In Motion. It would be interesting to see what discussions he's had with industry lobbyists, wouldn't it? Surely SOME nation would leak that information, like Iran if the "talks between satellite provider Eutelstat and the Iranian government" referred to in the article don't go the way Tehran wants.
There are 10 kinds of people in this world:
1) those who are good at math
2) those who aren't good at math
3) those who don't get the joke
4) those who don't make jokes in base 4
Yeah, but sadly common sense isn't all that common anymore. I resisted joining Facebook or using Twitter for a long time for various reasons; I recently joined Facebook, but the first thing I did was to go through the account settings and change just about everything to "Friends only" (which also, of course, includes Facebook staff.) And I _still_ don't post anything via Facebook that I wouldn't be comfortable someone bringing up in a year or five, ten, etc.
Tell that to the United States Department of Defense.