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You misrepresented the story:
It worked out fine. He gathered his ministers at the shore and then ordered the sea to turn back so it would not wet his feet. It didn't listen. Then, he castigated his ministers for continually appealing to him to order things that also weren't within his power.
Canute was a brighter man than you give him credit for.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#Ruler_of_the_waves
Yes. But more for the higher payload an equitorial launch allows than legal reasons.
"And dogs are sent to Washington, DC."
I don't think that's what they meant when they said "All dogs go to heaven."
Reduce Atmospheric Use!
All that oxygen you're greedily sucking down when you go jogging just to make yourself look thinner and trimmer could be use by someone in the third world or animals. Ditto the food calories you burn up. And you exploited thir world labor for those
running shorts to be made.
How can you bear to keep existing and keeping others under the thumbs of your use of resources. Your existence prevents other more worthy beings like microbes from existing.
Commit suicide today in an environmentally friendly way, but make sure you put your body somewhere it can be reused. Like a compost heap. Or, at least sit around and do nothing so you use less.
(The rest of us will follow along right after you. We promise!)
I'm all for improving worldwide quality of life, increasing efficiency and righting wrongs, but IMHO, much of the motivation for this sort of silliness is not making it better, but assuaging guilt. Instead, you buy the same bloody thing from a company that greenwashes it. That way you can go right along with your life but get to think "I'm better than those people who didn't get a fair trade coltan sticker (or whatnot) for their cellphone.
Put all of the more than half of computer users that admit to using pirated software in jail forever where they can never buy software again.
By the BSA/MPAA/RIAA 's logic that will more than double the amount of software they sell, right?
If that's right, won't it also double the amount of taxes the government will collect from them?
He invented the regenerative, super regenerative and superheterodyne radio receiver circuits. He also invented wide band FM transmission.
He ended up spending years fighting bitter patent battles with David Sarnoff and others.
"empower my organization's biggest asset: people"?
The best way to do that?
"unemploy my organization's biggest asshats: about 2% of the people."
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.