Screw annoyance, my ISP charges by the bit! If that's how it's going to be, then you're damn skippy I want more control over what bits get sent down my pipe.
If the advertisers want to bitch, they should bitch to Comcast/Mediacon/whoever.
The websites you visit have their own ISP and they pay by the bit as well.
The opposite is likely more true. For example, Einstein wrote all is great papers in his 20's.
Maybe if Einsteins 20's lasted 100+ years he would have accomplished more.
Ill be ok with spending tons of money on space when our sick are taken care of instead of left dying for lack of coverage.
Ill be ok with spending tons of money when the elderly are taken care of properly , same with our war veterans we abandoned.
Ill be ok with it then
Do you have any idea how much we spend on healthcare and on NASA??
Maybe this is part of the reason why SETI hasn't picked up anything yet...
They're great trends unless you enjoy smoking, drinking, drugs, lawn darts, transfats, soda, raw milk, bloody steak, buckyballs, gambling... I'm sure I'm missing plenty...
I think our society has become too risk averse. Not only are many people more terrified of 1 in a million occurrences like terrorism and serial killers than truly dangerous activities like driving, many want the government to prevent others from engaging in risky behavior even when they only risk harm to themselves.
Case in point, I'm pretty sure if this was attempted there would be considerable debate on whether someone should be allowed to volunteer for a suicide mission like this. Yet no one ever questioned the sanity of anyone wishing to fly on the space shuttle with it's 1 out of 67.5 chance per flight of killing you in a massive fireball..
Regulations = safety... right?
I thought that he was talking about when 17th century Europeans _finally_ got their hands on Calculus and figured out how to design effective cannons, resulting in endless wars
my bad
Yeah, cause there wasn't endless war before that.
And speaking of commercial filtering programs... come on!! Are you serious?? Is like Windows XP been virus resistant, don't make me laugh.
What do you think you are going to get if such a law is passed?? You're going to get one of those commercial filtering programs that you find so funny.
Really. All this work for a lousy student government election which in the real world means absolutely nothing!?!
He should have remembered that episode of the Simpsons where Bart runs for class president and loses.
Homer: Bart, does the class president get paid?
Bart: No.
In this case the class president gets $8,000 a year.
The conversation was about the current Air Force. Sure you could use drones against known stationary targets, same as a cruise missile, but letting them pick their own targets could lead to all sorts of problems. And do you need to outfly your opponent or his missile?
Drones can have several times the combat radius / on station loiter time of a manned plane.
Drones can withstand G Forces that would turn a person into soup.
Drones can be sent on missions that would be deemed too high risk for a human.
Drones can be smaller and stealthier than airplanes with life support systems.
I think the advantages of drones would be even more pronounced in a "real war".
Drones require RF transmitters that can be jammed or destroyed.
Drones are effective for some things but I doubt they'd be effective in a real war vs a competent adversary.
Loss of reputation.
How is that even possible for somebody that nobody has ever even heard of in the first place? You can't lose a reputation until you have one.
Mr. Thordarson, your resume is very impressive. All we have left to do is google your name and you're hired! Hmm.. seems you sold out your last employer to the US Government... Yeah, we'll let you know..
That's the phrase everyone has wanted to hear, including myself. Microsoft may have backpedaled, but that was the right thing to do.
What good is a start button without a start menu?
To thine own self be true. (If not that, at least make some money.)
