I don't know if I'd want locked doors on the cockpit. What if the pilots become incapacitated like in the movie "Airplane!"? Imagine being a passenger on a plane that has become pilotless but nobody can do anything about it because the cockpit is barricaded.
Just what do you think anybody could really do?
Maybe you should watch the movie referenced by GP
If there was widespread adoption of a guaranteed-deflation currency, an early adopter who was heavily invested could set up trust accounts where their ancestors would have growing spending power, without the money in the trust even being invested in anything. A future where the world is controlled by the grandchildren of the current rich, a class of aristocrats who don't have to work, but rule the world. And the more new economic activity happens, the higher percentage the old money controls! New wealth will always be worth less than the old wealth for the same activity.
Having a guaranteed-inflation currency around doens't seem to be doing much to prevent this: if you are wealthy, it's likely you were born wealthy. The problem is, that the currency we use, is just currency, it has no real use. And all the actually usable things, natural resources, have guaranteed deflation built in (assuming continuing population growth and no off-planet resource import). So owning natural resources is a bit like owning Bitcoin. It is always a good time to invest in gold.
I am making the day 1,000,000 seconds long
That is a long day. 24 hours == 86400 seconds.
Maybe these are two different groups of parents...
Quite likely. Similar to how there are parents who buy tobacco and/or alcohol to their underage kids, and parents who report the store for selling to kids (to the effect of the store losing their license to sell these substances) when their little princess manages to buy a bottle of vodka with an id borrowed from her older sister.
Look, it's quite simple: if your solution is to get people to use less power, you're fucked. People won't use less power unless they're entirely unable to do so. You need to work off that fact instead of trying to handwave it away.
That's why the GP said no more power plants allowed (not sure why he objects nuclear though). Prices go up, man becomes entirely unable.
Hopefully the fossils who want to burn fossils start to die off soon. It's time for new kind of thinking and the old folks just are not agile enough. Makes sense, they don't need to stick around for the consequences.
I live in a house that has 24 apartments. There are 5 garages at the ground floor, and parking places for 6 cars in front of the house. Can't see in the garages, but the outside parking is empty on a typical evening. Conclusion: people will stop using cars when they're unnecessary.
Gold mining is very risky. Selling shovels is mundane but presents a consistent, although lower profit. Those who want consistent profits aren't also the types who want a rollercoaster ride of high profit and high losses.
A well-balanced portfolio would include a bit of both.
The fact that California made this non enforcible means the state is dead last if I wanted to start a
If your great idea suddenly stops working when it is revealed to someone else, then it's fundamentally flawed. Anyone "stealing" it would still have to implement both the technical and business sides of it himself, unless he actually steals the implementations from you (in which case you have something to sue with). Just do it better, or lose the competition. Or have them sign an NDA with a nice big penalty.
So can someone explain to me how you can be convicted of both conspiring to do wire fraud AND for doing it? Doesn't the latter cancel out the former, or do you also get convicted of conspiracy to attempt a murder, attempted murder AND murder when you kill someone?
Conspire to murder person A, attempt to murder person B and actually murder person C. Someone else can take the wire fraud analogy.
Replying to undo an accident mod.
But seriously, a TV with built-in video conference features might be useful, as long as they don't go and invent their own standard for it. I have been playing with the thought of setting up sort of "virtual windows" between separate office spaces, to allow a different, ad-hoc mode of communication between people at different locations.
Foreign governments and educational institutions have access to the Windows sources, too.
How do they know it's the same source that was used to compile the binaries? And MS could just deploy a few more back doors any time, using their auto-update infrastructure.
I still think that a more likely place for intentionally placed exploits is in the CPU. Common operating systems have enough unintentional flaws for a long time, with more coming out very major release.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood
