It kind of makes you wonder if this God shits. And if so, what does it do with it's sewage?

I've found Bittorrent Sync great for selective syncing... You select a folder to sync and it gives you a hash that you can give to someone else who just needs that hash and they can specify any folder for those files. If you have a project wiki or something you can just put the hash alongside the project name and anyone that wants that synchronized folder can put in that hash. It does LAN syncing so it doesn't always have to hit the web, you could setup a server assign each project to a sync target and share those keys.

It's because they are the same religion. It just happens that they split apart and formed different sects many more years ago than the Protestant, Baptist, Shia, Sunni, or any of the other sects. If religion continues (and it will) for another thousand years people will be bitching about whatever major branch isn't theirs.

Obviously... it's what they use to get people to pay for the church, lands, and minister's salary.

There's no requirement to be a physicist other than practicing physics. To be called a Doctor, you need a doctorate, sure. But there's no such requirement for physicist like there's no degree requirement to be a manager or a programmer.

Webster defines it as: "a specialist in physics"
Oxford defines it as: "an expert in or student of physics."

So by those definitions, it could just be someone studying physics book or extremely learned in the field of physics.

This is why I don't see someone putting a ton of effort to get something on a large body like Mars. I could, however, see someone spending all kinds of money trying to lasso an asteroid made of rare/desirable ores.

It could be argued that I don't have to tell you that you will be charged for calling a number that isn't mine.

You probably don't want a 'yes' in there unless you want them recording you agreeing to something.

They're perfecting the system before putting the implants in at birth. ;)

Well shit... make it out of a million and really scare them!

Cable TV started this way too..

We've had a few of these alerts in the Ohio area and people here pretty much ignore them now. They go off in a conference room, everyone knows what it is and they just keep on doing what they were before. Most don't even read them. "Oh, another Amber alert"

It's not that people "don't care". It's that the alert isn't going to amount to anything to someone sitting on a conference or the office. I certainly don't remember what kind of car the alert mentions on my drive home let alone a license plate number.

He also didn't have a regular phone... so how did he call you? Via horse messenger or was it a shout from across the street?

What is the point of a free society if you are not free from tyranny when in public?

Wouldn't it be acceptable to put these plate scanners around high profile locations like banks/schools/etc. so that when something is reported, the cameras can then dump that data to a local alert system that places all patrol cars on alert? The problem I see is getting the hands of the authorities off those cameras unless that data is needed. Perhaps the banks and schools could retain the rights to that data until they voluntarily release it to the authorities to deal with. It would require standardization of reporting and storage. In this case, the bank would report a getaway car and the case is opened. All data collected in this case is retained for as long as the criminals are on the run. When tried and release/committed, the records could then be purged. If no incidents are reported, the data is purged in a few hours.