So, countries - including YOURS - cannot exert control over what happens in their borders?
Glad we got that uncertainty out of the way. Though as we've discovered form President TACO, he too doesn't believe that other countries should be able to choose what or how they conduct their business.
150 million of your idiots would be about 1.5e11 litres or organic matter which would be roughly sufficient organic matter to fertilise 7.5e12 litres of regolith into something approaching "soil". Chopped finely, of course. That would, unless I've slipped a digit, make soil for a few square km of ground.
Musk needs you to breed more idiots so that he can actually eat food as King of Mars when he gets deported there. There is no point in being a king without subjects.
No, Mr (? almost certainly) AC, that's not the issue. It's more (if you RTFS, which you probably didn't) like "If you don't have an employee contactable in this country, with some responsibility for what happens on your site in this country, you can't operate in this country."
Which is actually quite a reasonable thing to require of a global corporation. A small operation - say an internet cafe which operates a number of mailing lists for local issues - is a very different thing.
They don't even require that there be some person in the country - just that the company have an address in the country. Which you can get in any capital city in the world for a lot less than an employee costs.
Consider another SM issue on Slashdot at the moment - the lawsuit between Mark Zuckerberg (middle-aged lawyer of a town on the same planet as Nepal) and Mar Zuckerberg (CEO of a SM company) ; if Mr Zuckerberg didn't have a legal "point of presence" in his country, it would be considerably harder for Mr Zuckerberg to sue Mr Zuckerberg for things Mr Zuckerberg's employees did causing costs and difficulties for Mr Zuckerberg.
There are currently about 200 "countries" on the planet (including a few entities like the Vatican City and Monaco which are probably subsumed into Italy - maybe France, for Monaco), and having to maintain a mailing address in each of, say, the smallest 25% of them would cost something like 2 or 3 employees, world wide. You'd probably need more employees to handle advertising SALES in those countries.
Aren't arse-doctors agreed that using sit-on toilets is just all-round worse for arse-health then squatting onto your own ankles like most of the world today - and everyone in the first million years of genus Homo did.
For those suffering from a severe case of "Hangin' down Like Grapevines" (a parody of "Heard it on the Grapevine" by the excellent "Fartin' Martin", a Hash House Harrier party group), remember that you largely brought it on yourself (aided by almost every bathroom supply company you dealt with in the West).
Snowflake.
Some of us have had to literally shovel shit for a living. Complete with the wriggling maggots when you come back to work after a hot weekend and everything has got sweaty.
Don't they, like, have a "verified account" scam? I thought there was something about having blue lice, or feet like a blue booby which was important on Social Medja which was important. And by the time the lawsuits actually start to bite, probably FarceBook Inc have to some extent "verified" it?
Zuck should require anyone receiving a promotion at FarceBook to do a search for name-sharers, and flag them as "verified" if they actually know of them through their families - since in many (not all) societies, parts of names tend to get re-used within families, and the possibility of a namespace collision is relatively high.
Note : for promotions - raw recruits have probably got 37 thousand other things of "corporate culture" to learn, while doing all the dogsbody work. And if you get another promotion, you have to find so-many more namespace collisions.
Will nobody think of the poor bloody icepick?
I shall be painting this name on my compost bin (the closest thing I have to a putrid festering pile of shit) forthwith.
No I won't. The compost bin has a useful productive future ahead of it.
God help us if we ever try swanny-kazoo on them.
What do they thing Stradivarius did after his apprenticeship on violins?
try Just a Minute. It's an incredibly simple format but often very funny;
We're talking to Americans (mostly) here, who might struggle with such a challenging attention span.
How about recommending "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", with complex rule games like "One Song To the Tune of Another", or games with unbelievably simple rule sets such as "Mornington Crescent".
Calm, intelligent explanation of a topic (history, literature, science,
...). Genuine experts invited to go through it with Bragg
And occasionally disagree with each other. Politely, and with vituperation expressed using long words (TM) to express depths of mutual contempt which short words just cannot plumb.
It's almost as much fun as being invisible at an academic conference.
1960s was when the first round of licenses went out.
I haven't worked in the north sea since doing Xmas cover for a friend in
Whatever. Watching the theft has been a powerful driver for Scottish pro-independence in the intervening decades, and is still important up here. And, as our Norwegian colleagues proved to their governments in the 1980s, those who have their hands on the valves are the dogs and the politicians are the tails to be wagged.
You consume
If you kept a substantial conservatory, fairly densely packed with plants, you'd cover your oxygen consumption. By day. With a 50% duty cycle on the sky-mounted thermonuclear reactor, you'd need a second conservatory - which would approximately double your personal minimal requirements for living volume.
There are perfectly adequate reasons for having house plants - even this geologist hasn't quite killed all mine off over the years, though my mortality rate is high and their fossilisation rate low (they go into the compost heap, not the river mouth). But individual oxygenation isn't one of those reasons. Between a third and a half of your personal consumption comes from single-celled oxygenic photosynthetic eukaryotes floating in (sub-)tropical oceans.
these plants will end up spreading in the outdoor environment,
TFA makes a point that the nanoparticles are "injected" into the plants as an alternative to "genetic engineering" of any sort.
Without genetic engineering you're not going to get these propagating into the next generation. Unless you deliberately (and successfully) get the nanoparticles into the plant's ovary or anthers (or stem cells destined for there), when you might get one or several particles per seedling. Which would not then reproduce, because, by definition, you have not introduced the instructions for making these particles (chemicals and structures) into any cell's genetic code, let alone the pre-gamete cells.
Didn't you learn anything form your "birds and bees" grade sex education? Or were you in one of those parts of the world where the God-Squad deliberately stopped you from being polluted with such knowledge of how biology works? In which case, they really equipped you well for handling reality.
But of the many that should, the Scottish Police, and the judicial system are one of the few that have to deal directly with written law guaranteeing a separate and distinct system on each side of the border - as per the Act of Union, 1707.
Even this non-Scot (though resident in Scotland, of choice, for 42 years now) knows that.
And every lawyer I've ever known (in Scotland, of course) knows it too, since they were warned form Year 1 of training that they'd go back at least 2 years if they chose to transfer to an English university after 2nd year.
It's legally dodgy enough getting Scottish officers to work in an English jurisdiction and vice versa
"Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich." -- "Ali Baba Bunny" [1957, Chuck Jones]
