Comment Re:Idle (Score 1) 421
Yeah and what if we lost the earth??
Then perhaps we should look behind the couch cushions. You'd be amazed at the kind of things you can find there.
Yeah and what if we lost the earth??
Then perhaps we should look behind the couch cushions. You'd be amazed at the kind of things you can find there.
Look closely at the "tin foil" which the government allows you to buy in stores.
There is _no_tin_ in it. Anywhere.
What are they afraid of?
-- That's funny, because the various levels of US government has provided me with roads, plumbing, housing, access to safe water, electricity, dial-up and then high-speed internet.
Do you understand the differences between state, municipal, and federal government?
Do you understand how that is relevant to this conversation? If so, please share it with the rest of us.
I just don't understand how Slashdot can be flooded with stories of US corporate incompetence and malfeasance at every level, and at everything, and yet people swear up and down they can be trusted with healthcare. No, they cannot. The private sector is filled with bad and/or stupid people. CYA. The US private sector does not have your back. Ever.
Thanks for clearing that up for us.
This (like many others) is actually management error. Management failed to oversee programmers. Management failed implement test. Management failed.
And Management lost potentially incriminating records which contradicted what Management had stated publicly. Management destroyed evidence of unlawful behaviour carried out by Management, and it can no longer be used against Management. And the worst that will happen as a result of this is there will be a mildly embarrassing story in the BBC followed by an increase in the IT budget, ostensibly to prevent further "mistakes".
Management succeeded . Brilliantly.
Call me when he re-writes Dwarf Fortress, which doesn't just build the dungeon but also the countryside around it along with a few more continents and oceans as well as a thousand years of history for each of the major civilizations living there.
My uncle dies. He wrote a book and has a significant estate. In his will he leaves me the revenue from that estate.
I don't see how I could possibly be bound by any contracts involving that estate at all.
Try this. Your uncle writes a book that has significant value. He forms a corporation which owns the rights to that book, has the corporation enter into a number of contracts and then names you as CEO. At that point it doesn't matter if he lives, dies, or is abducted by aliens and carried off to Betelgeuse VI. The corporation, not the individual, is responsible.
You can't challenge Game of Thrones with Wheel of Time.
The heck you can't.
Even if I used every volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, all of the Calendars, Atlases and Graphic Novels, I still couldn't prop up this desk nearly high enough to reach the window. Wheel of Time can do all that and still leave me with two extra books to straighten out the chair.
It might be a web page which was taken down three years ago?
That's pretty scary.
I guess I had better call the bomb squad right away. I just saw a whole bunch of suspicious devices placed near a local high school.
They looked a lot like these, and could be weapons of mass distruction.
Let's read the treaty, shall we?
Article I
[...] Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall be free for exploration and use by all States without discrimination of any kind, on a basis of equality and in accordance with international law, and there shall be free access to all areas of celestial bodies. [...]
Article II
Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
Article VI States Parties to the Treaty shall bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, whether such activities are carried on by governmental agencies or by non-governmental entities, and for assuring that national activities are carried out in conformity with the provisions set forth in the present Treaty. The activities of non- governmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty. [...]
There's a lot more to it, but let's look at these three parts:
Article I: The Moon is free for every country and state to use.
Article II: No country or state can claim the moon in any way
Article VI: Every country is responsible for what its people do. You can't sneak around articles I and II by claiming that it technically wasn't the government that claimed the moon and tried to interdict access to large parts of it. It it's your people doing it, then you're responsible for them.
This would be a lot clearer if the USA had signed The Moon Treaty, but it seems quite clear that if Bigelow Airspace wants to land on the Moon and claim part of it for themselves then the USA would be responsible for their actions there and Bigelow would be unable to do anything that the government of the USA could not also do under the Outer Space Treaty.
The only loophole that I can see is the usual one, which is "I know I'm breaking the rules that we all agreed to, but you can't stop me."
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
