Hex is a major improvement in my opinion. I don't know about only having one unit per "square", though I do like that that makes tactical. But sometimes I would rather just let the computer handle that, or design a unit formation and have that whole unit take u a square, with a limit to the number of soldiers/artillery/whatever that could fit in the area. That way you could set up spearmen guarding archers with calvary on the flanks for ancient warfare in open fields, or a core tank unit with infantry in a picket line on either flank for city invasions in late industrial era war.
Why on earth would you join a group of armed men if there was no government if you haven't already today?
And further, the existence of a group of armed men does not imply violence. It's called a militia. This is an important part of any anarchic society. The force exists, but it isn't controlled by any one person, or a small group of people. Rather, they use their own heads. This is good, because then men with rifles would realize that they don't need to be deployed to college campuses full of peaceniks and wait for someone to fire a shot so they can murder everyone. Also, they would refrain from going half way around the world to murder brown people. That seems like a good thing, don't you think? After all, when is the last time a Somalian militia invaded your home country?
No. Property is an extension of the self. You have a right to self ownership, therefore you have a right to own property. If a thing is unowned, someone can claim it as property. They can mix their labor with it and improve it, making it their sole property by any reasonable definition.
Yes, real life, like 30 years of communist government, and literally constant invasion from outside, by people who do NOT follow Xeer, the system of customary law that has ruled the countryside (ie outside of Mogadishu) since 700 AD. This includes religious zealots (ie al-Qaeda), foreign governments by way of strong men, and foreign semi-governmental agencies supporting the "official" government, which controls a few blocks of downtown Mogadishu.
Further, Xeer deviates from a (classical) liberal anarchic society by virtue of the fact that all social insurance is provided by family units (clans), rather than by truly voluntary and profit-seeking organizations (ie insurance agencies).
Incorrect. Any given Walmart store has too keep up with a single tax code. That is done in the back office at each store. You are asking Amazon, and any other online retailer, no matter how small, to keep up with 50 different tax codes. Can you imagine an Ebay store with ten sales a month being forced to do this crap?
And that is NOT a competitive disadvantage. It is an equalizer. Otherwise, the consumer has to pay both taxes AND shipping.
So if I have a 10,000 acre ranch, and someone has a search warrant, I am obligated to take them to the bunker where I keep my supplies for the end of the world/bodies?
You really belong in North Korea. You would no doubt do well there. No secrets from Big Brother. Fuck the constitution. Fuck Miranda Warnings. Fuck freedom. Fuck anything the state doesn't like.
Tell me where you buried the bodies, or I will put you in prison for the rest of your life!
Never mind that there might not be any bodies, or that I might have forgotten them.
The password in this case is NOT analogous to a key, because a key is a physical object. Nor is it analogous to a combination. In reality, it is like a location and a combination for a nearly endless field of safes. If someone owned such a place, could he be forced to tell you which safe had the contents the cops were looking for?
The better analogy is them forcing you to give them the coordinates of where the bodies are buried.
They can search likely locations without your help (by brute forcing your password), but if they actually want to find it, they have to get you to tell them where it is.
This is CLEARLY self incrimination, and EVERYONE has the right to remain silent when they are under arrest. PERIOD.
Anyone who claims otherwise should be disbarred, have their citizenship stripped, and be dumped in North Korean territory.
This is a bit like saying that a deer will evolve to ride a bear to avoid hunters. It's just silly. The point about this material is that it is non-specific, and creates a surface that can't support bacteria or other microbes. That's it. The method of killing is so robust that there is no reasonable way to avoid getting killed other than to simply not grow there. There is no protein or peptide or polysaccharide that can be expressed on the surface that will provide immunity. This is the only reason we see resistance to antibiotics, because proteins or peptides can be added, subtracted, or modified, or pumps can be introduced to stop internal accumulation. Again, this is the difference between a poison and a firearm. You can gain immunity to a poison, but not to a firearm.
Sorry, still not possible. Bacteria already put out sticky stuff that gums up the surface. This is called EPS (extra-cellular polysaccharides). They don't really help, because they can't put out significant quantities of the stuff until they attach to a surface. If they attach to the surface, they die.
I work in the field. These types of technologies can not be resisted by bacteria. Larger organisms might be able to develop defenses, but bacteria are too simple.
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Right, because no-one can ever learn anything on their own. Without that piece of paper from a university with a piece of paper saying they are allowed to give out pieces of paper saying "dis gui noes stuf" you don't know anything.
But then, I guess everybody wants to rule the world, don't they?
No. It is more like shooting a million deer with a rifle (lots of rifles), and having 20,000 survive. The offspring don't develop bullet resistance. In order to develop resistance to this technology, they would have to form not only a new kingdom of microbe, but a new domain of life (ie the difference between cellular life and viruses, which are immune to this technology because they don't have a membrane to disrupt).
Incorrect. Quaternary amines have always been "spray on". The breakthrough here is that the quat is in the backbone of the polymer. This allows for a more robust coating than the previous standard, where the quat was attached via a trimethoxysilane group, which only lasted for some 25 washes or so. That method was also "spray on", or "put into the fabric softener holder in your washing machine and wash the clothes you want to coat", which is available commercially.
It is attached to the surface of the cloth. The cells on the surface of your skin are already dead, and in any event, it would only disrupt the top layer in the really very few points that it actually touches.
Mutagens cause cancer. This is not a mutagen. It disrupts cell membranes. This is not a poison, it's the world's smallest knife. This doesn't cause cancer.
Those are generally either silver, or triclosan, both of which are leachables, and toxic as they accumulate in your liver. This material is not a leachable, and as such does not pose a systemic health risk.
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Hex is a major improvement in my opinion. I don't know about only having one unit per "square", though I do like that that makes tactical. But sometimes I would rather just let the computer handle that, or design a unit formation and have that whole unit take u a square, with a limit to the number of soldiers/artillery/whatever that could fit in the area. That way you could set up spearmen guarding archers with calvary on the flanks for ancient warfare in open fields, or a core tank unit with infantry in a picket line on either flank for city invasions in late industrial era war.
Why on earth would you join a group of armed men if there was no government if you haven't already today?
And further, the existence of a group of armed men does not imply violence. It's called a militia. This is an important part of any anarchic society. The force exists, but it isn't controlled by any one person, or a small group of people. Rather, they use their own heads. This is good, because then men with rifles would realize that they don't need to be deployed to college campuses full of peaceniks and wait for someone to fire a shot so they can murder everyone. Also, they would refrain from going half way around the world to murder brown people. That seems like a good thing, don't you think? After all, when is the last time a Somalian militia invaded your home country?
No. Property is an extension of the self. You have a right to self ownership, therefore you have a right to own property. If a thing is unowned, someone can claim it as property. They can mix their labor with it and improve it, making it their sole property by any reasonable definition.
Yes, real life, like 30 years of communist government, and literally constant invasion from outside, by people who do NOT follow Xeer, the system of customary law that has ruled the countryside (ie outside of Mogadishu) since 700 AD. This includes religious zealots (ie al-Qaeda), foreign governments by way of strong men, and foreign semi-governmental agencies supporting the "official" government, which controls a few blocks of downtown Mogadishu.
Further, Xeer deviates from a (classical) liberal anarchic society by virtue of the fact that all social insurance is provided by family units (clans), rather than by truly voluntary and profit-seeking organizations (ie insurance agencies).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeer
Incorrect. Any given Walmart store has too keep up with a single tax code. That is done in the back office at each store. You are asking Amazon, and any other online retailer, no matter how small, to keep up with 50 different tax codes. Can you imagine an Ebay store with ten sales a month being forced to do this crap?
And that is NOT a competitive disadvantage. It is an equalizer. Otherwise, the consumer has to pay both taxes AND shipping.
Yes, but those aren't imports or exports.
Wow, aren't we an aggressive little shit?
So if I have a 10,000 acre ranch, and someone has a search warrant, I am obligated to take them to the bunker where I keep my supplies for the end of the world/bodies?
You really belong in North Korea. You would no doubt do well there. No secrets from Big Brother. Fuck the constitution. Fuck Miranda Warnings. Fuck freedom. Fuck anything the state doesn't like.
You don't TELL them you burned it. You just misplaced it. Let them find it somewhere in you stack of post it notes with passwords written on them.
Tell me where you buried the bodies, or I will put you in prison for the rest of your life!
Never mind that there might not be any bodies, or that I might have forgotten them.
The password in this case is NOT analogous to a key, because a key is a physical object. Nor is it analogous to a combination. In reality, it is like a location and a combination for a nearly endless field of safes. If someone owned such a place, could he be forced to tell you which safe had the contents the cops were looking for?
The better analogy is them forcing you to give them the coordinates of where the bodies are buried.
They can search likely locations without your help (by brute forcing your password), but if they actually want to find it, they have to get you to tell them where it is.
This is CLEARLY self incrimination, and EVERYONE has the right to remain silent when they are under arrest. PERIOD.
Anyone who claims otherwise should be disbarred, have their citizenship stripped, and be dumped in North Korean territory.
Nope. The air is zero percent humid. It will suck the humidity away VERY quickly, leaving behind cool air.
This is why swamp coolers work so well in the desert.
This is a bit like saying that a deer will evolve to ride a bear to avoid hunters. It's just silly. The point about this material is that it is non-specific, and creates a surface that can't support bacteria or other microbes. That's it. The method of killing is so robust that there is no reasonable way to avoid getting killed other than to simply not grow there. There is no protein or peptide or polysaccharide that can be expressed on the surface that will provide immunity. This is the only reason we see resistance to antibiotics, because proteins or peptides can be added, subtracted, or modified, or pumps can be introduced to stop internal accumulation. Again, this is the difference between a poison and a firearm. You can gain immunity to a poison, but not to a firearm.
Sorry, still not possible. Bacteria already put out sticky stuff that gums up the surface. This is called EPS (extra-cellular polysaccharides). They don't really help, because they can't put out significant quantities of the stuff until they attach to a surface. If they attach to the surface, they die.
I work in the field. These types of technologies can not be resisted by bacteria. Larger organisms might be able to develop defenses, but bacteria are too simple.
Right, because no-one can ever learn anything on their own. Without that piece of paper from a university with a piece of paper saying they are allowed to give out pieces of paper saying "dis gui noes stuf" you don't know anything.
But then, I guess everybody wants to rule the world, don't they?
No. It is more like shooting a million deer with a rifle (lots of rifles), and having 20,000 survive. The offspring don't develop bullet resistance. In order to develop resistance to this technology, they would have to form not only a new kingdom of microbe, but a new domain of life (ie the difference between cellular life and viruses, which are immune to this technology because they don't have a membrane to disrupt).
No, quaternary amine. No build up in the liver, no side effects. Just an antimicrobial surface.
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Incorrect. Quaternary amines have always been "spray on". The breakthrough here is that the quat is in the backbone of the polymer. This allows for a more robust coating than the previous standard, where the quat was attached via a trimethoxysilane group, which only lasted for some 25 washes or so. That method was also "spray on", or "put into the fabric softener holder in your washing machine and wash the clothes you want to coat", which is available commercially.
Uhhh, no. If it doesn't have a membrane that consists of a lipid bilayer, then it isn't just a new kingdom, it's a new domain of life.
It is attached to the surface of the cloth. The cells on the surface of your skin are already dead, and in any event, it would only disrupt the top layer in the really very few points that it actually touches.
Thirty seconds of Google show that it is a polymeric quaternary amine.
Mutagens cause cancer. This is not a mutagen. It disrupts cell membranes. This is not a poison, it's the world's smallest knife. This doesn't cause cancer.
Thalidomide was taken orally. Do you take your socks orally?
Those are generally either silver, or triclosan, both of which are leachables, and toxic as they accumulate in your liver. This material is not a leachable, and as such does not pose a systemic health risk.