Really? Surveillance flights along predetermined routes, with people from the country being surveilled on board the aircraft? Besides wasting fuel, what does this accomplish?
It's called "inspections" and agreements about this stuff has been in place since the Cold War.
Transparent [s]pying is so useful that sometimes nations agree to it.
FTFY.
It's the secret, plausibly deniable, no-no-we-are-not-spying spying that is causing the present hubbub.
Strictly speaking, this stuff is inspection not "spying"
Demolishing them would actually free up the land so something useful could be done with it and any metal would be taken to a scrap yard. Just abandoning this stuff is a waste of resources.
Most these old sites are smack dab in the middle of nowhere, it's not exactly highly desired land.
ERROR- They "stabilize rear deflectors". The double front is only for the approach. The script calls for flak. Maybe the shield blocked that.
We never see a shield defend against ANY energy attack, at any point in the original three. We routinely see physical objects (sometimes entire ships) crash and explode versus shielded targets, doing no damage to the shielded objects. The one time a fighter crashing into a capital ship destroys it, they have just lost their shield generator... to incoming laser fire.
Well, given we can't actually *see* the shields, they are obviously transparent, and since the blasters in Star Wars obviously use visible lights (we can see them no screen), stands to reason that the deflector shields would be transparent to the blasters.
Yeah because as alcohol demonstrates, easy access to brain stimulants never causes any problems...
Alcohol sure as fuck isn't a "brain stimulant".
Apparently, Pearson is cutting corners by selling the same test to all the schools no matter what time zone they're located in, or on what day the test is administered, which is the real problem here
The testing wouldn't be very standardized if they gave everyone different versions of the test, would it?
Is that right? I assumed that US law was like UK law - there is no law against using strong encryption but you can be compelled to give the encryption keys to the security services.
You always have the right to remain silent. You cannot be compelled to give testimony, although they might try to slap you with an obstruction of justice rap.
NTP doesn't just 'return a string of numbers'.
No, sometimes it returns A lot of strings of numbers.
It doesn't have the NSA as their IT Security team. If it did we wouldn't get the reports of so many government servers being unsecure. Each department has their own IT and is responsible for their own security. So the State Dept. manages their IT and security which can lead to real issues.
Do you even know how security compliance is handled in Enterprise IT? The NSA would have send out security assessment after security assessment and the administrators that got them, will have read them, then ignored them.
So unless you expect the NSA to also function as the government's IT service line, the NSA has got nothing to do with gov't servers being insecure, that's down to lazy admins.
It isn't motion sickness, it is much deeper than that. Motion sickness is part of VR sickness. But VR sickness includes all sorts of mismatched input that your brain can't cope with. It isn't just nausea, it is a headache and feeling of illness. I've spent many hours in the Rift and still get decompression sickness with VR..
The Occulus Rift makes nitrogen bubbles form in your soft tissue?
p>Anything that would leave spaceflight-capable civilization standing would also leave Earth better suited for food production than the Moon. It's an absurd premise....
To be fair, the human race in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is barely spaceflight capable, the can do bulk travel to the moon, but that is about it.
IIRC parts of Earth were - notably India (and China?), where the populations were too large to otherwise sustain.
The Lunar colonies began as a ginormous prison, but the expense of sending parolees and ex-cons home was too onerous; so they stayed, formed their own society, and grew on their own.
I think the premise is still quite doable, especially if there were some condition on Earth which prevented agricultural production from reaching its current capacity.
The "Lunies" couldn't return home because of physiological changes brought on by the Lunar gravity.
I understood the society that Heinlein was trying to convey in Starship Troopers and A Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, but I also see they're completely impossible. The notion that they're militaristic or fascist is the most logical jump people make in order to make the society fit in with reality. It's a disconnect that breaks suspension of belief, so in order to restore the suspension of belief people's brain makes the connection to systems of governance that do fit. This is pretty much the only thing that turns me off reading more Heinlein.
I'll grant you that the society depicted in SST was, in many ways, rather incredible (as in "not credible"), but I always found the society depicted The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rather credible, given the circumstances it happened in. I mean the "We either make this work, or we all die"-angle on the whole thing, makes it more credible than the SST society.
"The libertarians advocate electing people who are more modest in those determination, who provide for actual needs of citizens, who don't provide mere wants as a mechanism to win favor and re-election."
Not only that, but libertarian leaders all have perfect pitch, play multiple musical instruments, speak multiple languages, can sing, dance, paint, juggle, know higher math, engineering (civil, electrical, chemical, computer), farming, veterinary science, medicine, surgery, and psychiatry. They're also perfect physical specimens, have movie star good looks, excel at all sports, know martial arts, ride horses, are expert with all kinds of guns, know how to build and use archaic weapons, and know military tactics and strategy. They are gourmet chefs. They never have bad breath, body odor, or fart.
In fact, their shit doesn't even stink. Perfect humans, just like you.
You seem angry dude.
Many of his books also featured communal living, with many people living together and freely sharing resources, and even sharing sexual partners. Usually this was not part of the main plot, but just happened to be the way the characters were living.
This sorta thing was actually quite common in sci-fi from that era, Clarke's works also commonly included references to alternative versions of marriage. "Rendevouz With Rama" has numerous references to polygamy and triplet marriages.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
