I've even got an OEM XP sticker on my PC case, just barely legible, so I don't have to use it without paying.
If I'm not mistaken, one cannot legally virtualise an OEM edition of Windows. That's just not cricket. One is instead required to purchase a full retail version of the software to gain this right.
Assuming my facts are still accurate, that makes Microsoft exactly the sort of greedy fucks Dunbal calls them out to be.
Anything that makes inmates feel like they have a positive connection to greater society is a good thing.
Exactly. Unless we intend to lock up all prisoners for ever, the vast majority will be released back into society eventually.
Do we want released inmates re-integrated with society as smoothly as possible, or do we want them back amongst us harbouring a deep resentment due to the way they were treated in prison? It's our choice.
Exactly. Either there are no souls, or every living being has a soul, right down to viruses and bacteria.
If a soul is more or less how we collectively imagine it to be, what possible value is having a soul if some classes of living beings can exist without it?
The speed limit is c. It's the law.
Absolutely. I too feel this is a pretty well-established fixed upper limit on a body's physical speed through spacetime.
Of course, I live in hope that Humanity will eventually develop methods to 'skip around' the pesky limitations of physics in the universe as we currently know it. That said, no evidence is available to assist me. Even if such a thing is possible we might be talking about a technology tens of thousands of years ahead of our current tech level.
Perhaps in time we'll learn to employ gravity with similar ease to our methods for utilising the electromagnetic force. Likely, this will be only one of many, many prerequisite technologies needed to achieve interstellar travel.
Without the tech itself we can only speculate. However limited we are, the beautifully elegant Alcubierre drive concept (which we're all no doubt familiar with) was still the product of an imagination of our time, even as desperately limited as it is. Some Humans are really very clever. We may well yet crack this nut, only time will tell.
That's genius right there Cap. Lawyers can be among the most challenging clients to support.
Great explanation, thank you very much.
As the AC said, for a very limited torque; 15 Newton-Meters. For a sense of scale, the recommended torque on a lug nut for a car tire is typically around 8-10 times that.
Please forgive my ignorance Smidge but I find that number quite astounding although I have no reason to doubt your comment.
Isn't 150NM about what a small car is putting out in terms of torque? Admittedly one (rightly or wrongly) is supposed to stand on lug nuts to tighten them properly, is this what is meant here?
Just seems quite a lot to me with my limited understanding of the topic.
As a Kiwi who voted for the present government (and would do so again - sane alternatives just don't exist) I'm not sure if your your post is +1 Insightful or -1 DamnTheTruthHurts.
Seems rather hypocritical, to me. But then, they are the big money, changing the nation's laws to suit American interests.
Why would you expect foreign powers to deal with individual persons the same way as they would the democratically-elected governing party of a sovereign nation?
He's guilty of absolutely nothing, and he's actually fairly nice guy.
Oh I'm sure his victims felt just the same, they'd agree he's a charismatic and likeable chap. I imagine it was all very buddy-buddy until he walked away with their money.
To live paycheck-to-paycheck as an adult is to fail at life, or at least to fail at being an adult.
Assuming the adult in question is earning something more than just a basic living wage, I completely agree with you.
Quelle suprise: there are precious few adults to be found amongst an over-abundance of idiotic, petulant children in adult bodies.
There's not enough money in the world to stabilize the middle east.
I beg to differ: the US nuclear stockpile is largely a sunk cost.
Only by those who have no fucking idea what they're talking about.
I'm confused, your response to boristhespider seems a bit harsh as his posts are usually very high quality, in particular his comprehension of advanced astrophysics (from my layman POV). Am I missing something here?
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android
