I don't want to read this kind of stuff on Slashdot. I come here for tech news that has some bearing on the world. This story is specifically about American politics and should have no place on this site.
And if the position of the court swings to support more ridged software patents or towards supporting what is proposed in the ACTA treaty.. won't that have an extreme impact on the technological realms ?
If you tried to apply your "lactose intolerant" analogy, don't you suppose your opponent would point out that the makers of your favorite foods don't project those foods into your home against your wishes?
If these sensitivities were real (though I very much doubt that they are), he would have a point. Just because something has become socially common doesn't mean it's ok to do if it later turns out that it harms others in their own home. The key phrase is if they were real; so this point is moot unless someone can show some credible scientific basis for anything beyond the psychosomatic.
So where do we turn off the electronics.. radio silence for planes flying over New Mexico, no commercial radio or TV broadcasts with in what? a 1000 miles ? Going to ban all medical electronics as well ?
Sorry, in this day and age it is impossible to turn off all intentional and unintentional electronic signals. If he is truly sensitive (not saying he is), then suing the neighbor will not improve anything other than the contents of his bank account.
Personally, the lawyer that is taking this case forward needs to be disbarred.
What we do have is actual written characters dating back to ~1200BC. The earliest Greek texts that we have date back to ~1400BC. So based on this evidence you could say Greek was earlier, but not by nearly as far as you suggest.
No, you just don't understand.
The Greek script has been in continuous use in its modern form since about 1400BC; the modern Chinese script dates back to maybe 200-700AD. The earliest writing systems in the Middle East go back to at least 3400BC, 2200 years before any documented Chinese writing (oracle bone writing, a rather restricted form). In fact, it is far more plausible that China got writing via the Silk Road than that the Chinese invented it independently.
Modern Chinese society is based on the Qin culture which dates back to at least 9th century BC.
And then it split again a few centuries later, then there were civil wars, rebellions, more splits and unifications, religious divisions, even more splits, etc. Not much different from what Europe experienced with Rome and afterwards. But parts of Europe have a history that goes back much further still.
As far as contemporary cultures are concerned, there are very few that can date back as far as 200BC.
Well, at the scale and fuzziness at which you define a "culture", we have four major surviving cultures: China, Europe, India, and the Middle East. Of those, China is the youngest.
USAA has offered "Deposit@Home" for years. Instead of taking a photo you can just scan the check and upload it. The only problem is they require you to have a credit card with them as well to qualify for the service. Hopefully, if other banks offer this service for free than USAA will change that policy. I hate having to mail in checks and sit around for two weeks waiting for them to deposit it.
USAA has been offering services via cell phone including check deposits for better than a year now. Everything you can do via computer and the web you can do via cell phone
The bankers say they want to eliminate "float" while using the float scam on their customers. They do all their internal transactions electronically, yet when you deposit a check it is the next day or longer before your money is available. Meanwhile they're collecting interest on YOUR money.
I deposited my tax return this year, and was not able to access the funds later that afternoon, although they were profiting. I had to wait until the next day to get my money; meanwhile they collected interest.
The bankers call "float" a scam, are all bankers scam artists?
Instead of fixing our own country, we keep trying to "fix" the rest of the world (sometimes with bombs), thinking that if we succeed, we won't have to change anything about ourselves. That's what Americans want to believe, but it's shockingly naive.
"The American way of life is NOT negotiable."
Letters/parcels trains in the UK can run at 100mph (160km/h) (example). Bulk stuff (rocks, grain etc) can travel at 75mph (120km/h). This is just normal railway equipment though. Building a line like that (or a bit better) seems entirely reasonable, as does improving the existing lines (perhaps with some new bits).
I don't see how making it high speed will be economical either.
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