Fair, but there have to be some diminishing returns there. If there had been two 9/11 style events in short succession, would we have gone to twice as many wars?
We didn't really go to war because of 9/11. It was a direct result of existing interventionist foreign policy. 9/11 just escalated an ongoing conflict.
You're right, though, the impact of each successive event is less.
Well, the ones we can see are! They're very very very distant objects that are very very bright, but they mostly emit along their axes. So, we can only detect the ones that are pointing at us.
Hmm. If the only ones that we can see are pointing at us then it seems really unspooky that we should be able to look at quasars that are very far apart and see that they all appear to have the same orientation. The ones which have any other orientation are being filtered out. I'm guessing the astronomers must have somehow accounted for this though? Seems like if all of the quasars really were aligned then there would appear to be a lot more quasars when observing in a direction which was parallel to the common direction along which they emit light.
This is not an observation of axes visible from Earth (since that is obviously biased):
The team could not see the rotation axes or the jets of the quasars directly. Instead they measured the polarisation of the light from each quasar and, for 19 of them, found a significantly polarised signal.
Even if it had been the case that they were directly observing axes visible from Earth, those wouldn't appear to be parallel unless they were also proximate in the sky.
Sure! If I trust your site but not my ISP, then https allows me to trust the connection between us. That means that nobody can tamper with the content and inject some malicious JS. Also, the ISP could only tell that I am talking to your server, and not anything beyond that.
"Course and speed" are necessary, even vital, but not sufficient.
Two airline pilots fell asleep while cruising over Hawaii last February, flying past their destination toward open ocean for 18 minutes before waking up and returning for a safe landing, federal accident investigators revealed Tuesday.
If Verizon feels that Netflix should pass the costs on to the consumers, how would they go about that? Much like Verizon can't know if a user will be using Netflix, Netflix can't know what networks a specific user will come in from, so they'd have to spread the costs over all subscribers, just like Verizon.
That's a fair point, but Verizon is at least claiming apparently that it's Netflix's problem to solve, not theirs.
Maybe varied subscription prices based on ISP. Say, a "base" $5/month you pay to Netflix, and then you can subscribe to "performance" plans that cost an extra $1/$2 per month and get you access to the peering agreements for those ISPs.
Though I'm pretty sure that'd start riots. But at least your ISPs wouldn't be offering "fast" lanes! Your products would do that!
If I remember correctly, there's a probability that a line will end with "...hic!" or that s will be replaced with sh. It won't happen every time, so your first message could go through fine. A checksum is probably best.
Character names will never contain punctuation, so expecting a possible terminating "...hic!" and ignoring it is fine.
That's not true. There are many elected positions with the title of commissioner. For example, Port commissioner, County commissioner, or a PUD commissioner.
