Comment Re:Lousy t-shirt (Score 1) 255
You're just complaining that they're too expensive and difficult to use.
You're just complaining that they're too expensive and difficult to use.
If it didn't, significant quantities of it would annihilate at the boundary, creating an outward force that would tend to keep the two apart, would they not?
Now, I don't see any reason why there wouldn't still be interactions, and consequently why we wouldn't see the proper gamma rays, so it seems unlikely that that much antimatter does exist, but...
Once you have that viewpoint, then climate engineering becomes the strategy of "do something rather than nothing".
Point 1: Supreme Court Justices can be impeached the same was as presidents.
Point 2: "Treason" has a very specific definition in the Constitution that doesn't include making bad decisions.
What could possibly go wrong with programming T-cells to multiply by a factor of 1000 upon reentering your body?
Now, if you download the source code, check the algorithm carefully for real randomness (preferably by having a crypto expert look at it), and generate it yourself on your own computer, it's *probably* pretty safe.
Constitutional issues aside, this does nothing but decrease the revenue of California Amazon affiliate businesses, resulting in lower tax revenues.
He said an *operating system*.
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"Have a machine first do A, then do B, then do C". That's an idea. That's all it can ever be. That's all patents can do, protect ideas.
If you want to say that patents should only cover exact copies of a specific implementation, fine, but just call for all patents to be repealed in that case, because that's useless.
This problem *does* occur with considerable regularity to all brands. Some get attention at some times more than others, that's about all you can say.
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android