you could just give the money directly to engineers and scientists to invent cool stuff
Have you ever actually worked with R&D engineers and scientists? They don't convert money into cool stuff. They convert cool problems into cool stuff, given sufficient resources to allow solving the given cool problem.
the perennial favorite thermo-nuclear war. Though the last one would actually be pretty boring. The players would have to do nothing to compete.
The real problem with thermonuclear war as Olympic sport? The only way to win is not to play.
Not just that. The only way to win is to make sure nobody plays.
I'm continually amazed how humanity has managed to successfully keep winning this particular game for almost 70 years now! But how long can this winning streak continue?
...but was it 4K?
Well, I don't know about that, but at least it was better than Oculus Rift, if images in TFA are anything to go by. Something like semi-spherical 320 by 240 degrees with 3D zone of maybe 120 by 240 degrees in the middle, or thereabouts.
Also, it's not just the vision, the display system goes with lateral twin ultra low bass audio arrays, capable of generating fully spherical acoustic environment awareness experience.
Without concrete suggestion on which games to play, or how to select the games, and all the practicalities involved, this is a pointless suggestion.
that we're entirely made of meat.
But, at the point we're going to be intelligent machines too...
I'd suggest EU countries of central Europe. That's such a mess that it will be very difficult to clamp certain basic freedoms down, especially considering how there are still people who experienced various dictatorships first hand. Of course non-EU citizen staying there would depend on your own country keeping your passport valid, but if things really got so bad that you would not get a new visa, you could probably apply for political asylum...
And of course moving out of the country, or just going abroad for holiday or business certainly qualifies as exporting or publishing technology, if you happen to know anything which qualifies as restricted information. Australians, better move out while you can!
Is your point that the Cuban government is more successful than Iraq?
Or Afghanistan. Or North Korea. Iran... maybe not but Iran has oil money and is much bigger. Anyway, pretty well among enemies of US.
The Cuban people survived 55 years of near total trade embargo, with universal healthcare intact, and no one starving in the streets.
Cuba survived by getting huge payments from the USSR, then from Venezuela. I hope 'no one starving in the streets' isn't how you measure success these days.
No, success for a small country under US hostilities is not having having thousands upon thousands of civilian deaths while under US occupation/protection to establish democratic government. I think Cuba qualifies.
This very much depends on "what average IT job". I am in Finland and work a "very average IT job" and a major telco, me and my colleagues don't just have to provide our criminal record to the employer - the Finnish intelligence services (not regular police) do a full background check on us.
But it is worth mentioning, that content of the background check is not revealed, the employer only gets "yes" or "no" result from the check for the particular job. So in fact you are not providing your criminal records to anybody, you just provide permission for the background check.
I have to work with Java after a long while, and it is just... Suffocating. Archaic. Kludgey. Oracle. Ask! toolbar. trWTF.
C#, please come and rescue us! F#, deliver us from evil! MS has a chance to do some real good on the backend/server side landscape here. Let's hope they'll somehow manage to not screw it up!
I don't wish for Java to disappear or fail, mind you, I just wish I don't need to work with it in future...
A rich person lives in a House. The money for maintaining it comes from somewhere. He eats with his family, money comes from somewhere. He uses a car for personal purposes, money for that comes from somewhere. He does a personal investment with money.
In my idea, all that money came to him as taxable income, no loopholes. Anybody spending a lot of money would have to (either eat into existing savings or) use taxable money for it. If company pays directly, it's still income and company needs to pay the tax toi. Flat tax rate is important here, no deductions, so there isn't complex tax calculation to be done, just $X (money or benefit) received by the person, then $Y paid in taxes would come directly from flat tax rate.
I think that with BLS there should be no progressive tax rate. Instead, there should be flat tax rate from any income, to be paid immediately, preferably automatically, no excemptions. You get money, you pay your share and rest is yours. The more you work (or smarter you invest), the more you get, linearily.
Also no tax evasion or loopholes, and no bureaucracy.
This would apply to individuals, whether they were employed or self-employed, and taxation would only get more complex with bigger businesses.
How did they know the harpoons would be able to remain lodged in the target?
That is easy: They didn't.
Unless they are capturing pure noise, it should be compressable.
Well, it's raw data from physical instruments. It probably is quite noisy, so it will not compress much, except with jpeg-like lossy compression, but that would kinda defeat the purpose I think.
When it is incorrect, it is, at least *authoritatively* incorrect. -- Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy
