For the purposes of terrorism and creating a crisis, you really don't need to kill literally everyone. A little contamination can go a long way toward causing a panic and lifetimes of distrust of tap water.
I'm not saying it's easy, I don't know that. Just that the bar isn't as high as the one you've chosen.
Terrorists generally want to actually kill people not just abstractly damage public trust in the water supply (or any other random public utility or good).
Sort of. Terrorists definitionally want to create terror to amplify the salience of the threat generally far beyond their actual capabilities.
Note that I did not say kill no one, just that it's not necessary to kill _everyone_ in order to create a crisis. It only takes a relatively small amount of injury and death to achieve the effect. The anthrax crisis in the early 2000s, for example, only had 22 confirmed infections but demonstrates the amplification of emotional salience very well.
They still do kill some people though and the threat of "random" death is where most of the terror comes from. They also generally just want to kill some because they really hate the group they're targeting too.
Yes, I'm just saying that neither killing people nor causing terror in the population is the primary strong motivator, because you should be able to find more effective means for either goal than what is typically attempted.
The software analogies to books (documents of various types like PDF, HTML) don't have pathological obsolescence problems, either. Binary executable code is such a different animal that the comparison isn't instructive at all, or else I suppose you would also complain that you can't fit modern Ford parts onto a Model T because you can still read old books?
> The software analogies to books (documents of various types like PDF, HTML) don't have pathological obsolescence problems, either.
It kind of depends on the document format. PDF tends to display well over time (but there can be issues with complex documents and/or missing fonts), spreadsheets and word processor files are likely to be openable, but they may not display as they originally did. HTML is likely to look rather different than it did when written, but it'll probably be legible.
When running a card as credit, I can't remember ever having to type a pin in the US, although it's possible I've forgotten. As debit, yes, pin, although that may have changed; I run everything as or through a credit card these days so I haven't made a POS debit transaction in a good while.
Ah yes here in the EU we don't really use credit cards for normal payments. Just debit ones.
Racking up credit is frowned upon here, it hurts your credit rating, unlike the US where it is required to build a credit rating. The best credit rating here you get if you don't have any credit at all.
Also, things like payment protection and cashback schemes aren't really a thing here or are much weaker than in the US so there isn't any reason.
They will of course but I don't think kids talking to each other was ever the objection to social media. Very arguably, kids coming together in these ad-hoc online spaces may very well be safer than mainstream social media, whether your complaint with it is advertising or the algorithm or adult content or child predators.
I buy "pickup" orders online all the time through the store's app where you can also buy instacart delivery. It's still shopping online but there's no additional cost nor tip for ordering pickup.
This is where I've always assumed things were going. People talk about one day owning a self-driving car but I look forward to the promise of not owning a car, never needing to buy, maintain, register, insure, or drive one. Not having to buy into a depreciating compromise, do I prioritize economy or seating or cargo or...? Gas, hybrid, electric? Not having to hunt or pay for parking.
Private cars are costly and spend most of their time just taking up space.
We'll see if it ever works out that way but a boy can dream.
It's a fun myth but Parton and Curry already come fast on the heels of a few recent celebrity deaths: Sam Neill, Bonnie Tyler, Daveigh Chase, Hayden Panettiere, and Lindsay Graham.
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