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Re:Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009) on Monday August 31, 2020 @02:28AM (#24328974)
Where I live a pint is 0.5L and a metric cup is 0.25L.
Its not just about Starlink though, its about setting a precedent before every company and country starts launching competing constellations. When should we start to care after the first few thousand or after hundred of thousands of eventual satellite's?
Australia you just show up and say your name, but we have compulsory voting so fraud is easier to identify.
The US has the 'Hague Invasion Act' if any US person is detained at the Hague so not sure if international law is a problem.
Re:Is It Time to Kill the Penny? on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:30PM (#23839392)
Can ZH stop google from displaying or indexing any of their content?
Can you apply your thinking to petrol stations. We build floating city's to extract oil thousands of meters down. Is running some cables harder then that?
Would it? My local city has electric parking meters, is it hard to add a cable to that?
Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:58AM (#23388408)
Floyd used a $20 note that the store owner thought was counterfeit, called the cops, the cops didn't even check to see that if it was a real $20 note before killing him. It was real...
Re:Why we have so many problems with our teeth on Friday May 29, 2020 @07:44AM (#23348791)
Could it also be from your subconscious realising that starvation is more of a danger then predation?
Yes, but Attractive, fit and intelligent are different in every era.
Re:A Hidden Origin Story of the CBD Craze on Saturday May 23, 2020 @09:01PM (#23288149)
Its definitely hard to be motivated by money when your using cannabis.
The USA strategy unfortunately is the re-election of the current administration, a strategy that will never have widespread support so any tactics you implement will not have widespread adoption without heavy-handed enforcement.

The countries that are dealing with the virus the best, were able to present a strategy to their population which allowed groups to create their own tactics to complement the overarching strategy.

Re:The genuine polymath is still one in a million on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:08PM (#23216384)
Or they just don't want to be Oppenheimer
You should do a web search for cow milking technology. Moral milk? DeLaval International, a large Swedish producer of dairy and other farming equipment, is installing 24 robotic voluntary – meaning the cows approach the stations on their own
Any marketers know what happens once the 1nm name is taken? Dose it go negative, go to decimals, start counting back up or just a new naming convention?
Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:08AM (#23164659)
I was assuming after widespread adoption, some friendly obscurely worded legislation and the current supreme court.
Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:47AM (#23163563)
Yes but who am I going to go after if another car hits me if its autonomous? The manufacturer which is a 10 year plus lawsuit taking up a large portion of my life. I definitely think keeping the responsibility to the person driving the vehicle is the only reason the death toll is somewhat acceptable to society.
It is interesting to consider what the death toll from exporting American food culture worldwide is. I think it would really help put the death toll from corona virus in perspective.
Re:Elon Musk tweet wipes $14bn off Tesla's value on Friday May 01, 2020 @07:05PM (#23047411)
Twitter is a simulation of our world created by users content, the accuracy of the simulation with relevance to our own world is extremely debatable and should be treated thusly.
Re:Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @04:31PM (#22649788)
They also give a hand cleaning product at like every food place before you eat.
Pearl harbor is a bad example as harm prevention was carried out prior to the attack (2 missing aircraft carriers).
Re:Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:25PM (#22438095)
Common sense
Huon valley, Tasmania you wont be going hungry :)
Your probably both right 10% if you get put in a big room on a bed with just basic med care and 2% with the best hospital care we are currently able to provide (antiviral pumped oxygen ect).
Re:Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @05:49PM (#22370940)
In the Podesta emails john ivory laments the fact that the dnc thought the real treat was citizens untied, but turned out the free press from trumps celebrity dwarfed that. This time dnc is banking that Bloomberg billions can outspend even that...
Re:An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:00PM (#22361755)
I think that the problem with all that is the communication barrier gets exacerbated to the point that its a self limiting mechanism for intelligent life.
I wonder in the future if we will look back and see intelligence agency's in the same light as religious institutions from history. Both using there "all knowing" information to influence power.
Re:A Summer from Hell Is Coming to U.S. Airports on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:44PM (#20036452)
Every time there is a massive line for security check I think to myself "why do they allow more people to cogenerate pre security check then on a plane"