Mars will need a good Deep Space Internet connection with Earth with no extended black-out periods so there will be a 24 minute delay tops (and about 4 minutes best-case). So I can send a message home and have a 3D virtual reality video reply back within the hour. That's not really isolation.
One thing that needs to be taken care of is to make sure there is no copyright or any other form of so-called "intellectual property" on Mars. Not only will this save lifes by not having to worry about patents / design marks and whatever they come up with next, this also allows the Martians to have complete, full access to whatever media they want (think U.S.S. Enterprise-class storage systems with "the complete cultural accomplishments of planet Earth"), and create and share freely among themselves.
Just goes to prove that the majority of voters in Australia are conservative. Do they complain as much as the Americans about their government?
Since this is Slashdot, you didn't read TFA. But if you had, it's clear that the US Government is the Australians' government.
TF keeps calling them "police" so they keep answering their inquiries. We're talking here about "The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the municipal governing body of the City of London" (source: Wikipedia). Part of this is PIPCU, which is funded with taxpayer money.
"Since at least 2011 the BPI (= the british branch/version of RIAA, C.) had built close ties with the City of London Police's National Fraud Intelligence Bureau as well as advertising agencies to remove payment channels from pirate sites. The dedicated unit itself was first announced in December 2012 by Vince Cable MP. It was funded by £2.5m over two years of public money via the Intellectual Property Office and became operational in September 2013. In April 2014 Mike Weatherley, the Prime Minister's Intellectual Property Advisor called on the Prime Minister to commit to the permanent funding of the unit to extend its existence beyond 2015. In October 2014 additional funding was revived to operate until 2017."
Don't be as dependent on scraps like TF and stop referring to them as "City of London Police" which might to the ininitiated be the metropolitan police of the British capital, while in fact it's some corporate task force that abuses the old City situation to give themselves public powers. Think of them like a Omni Consumer Products enforcement group, by Big Business, for Big Business, and paid for by the taxpayer. Can it get any better?
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and finally landed safely in the the Pacific Ocean
Good thing there were no passengers, or they'd be in need of their IXV seat cushions which double as flotation devices just in the event of a water landing like this.
"The trophy would not fit in the brown suitcase because it was too big. What was too big?"
If you change this to "The trophy would not fit in the brown suitcase snugly because it was too big" I wouldn't be able to answer it, either.
"You shouldn't make my toaster angry." -- Household security explained in "Johnny Quest"
