No public education system changes will affect this
I am not so sure about that. From what I have seen of how the public is educated, most people have an inherent curiosity that is slowly and methodically destroyed. Instead of being allowed to explore, they are herded into overcrowded classrooms and forced to learn things through repetition.
We can't have an educated public,
Then we are screwed. No democratic republic will stand long if the population is ignorant. The educational system needs drastic and immediate reform. There needs to be competition and the red tape and various nonsense which is stifling exploration and experimentation needs to go away.
The problem with your interpretation of video games is that not only is it incorrect, but it is exactly the kind of thinking that will be used to censor and regulate video games right into the ground.
We can even detect the composition of stars many light years away from the Earth.
spectral lines from a gas are easy to identify as we only need to match the lines to the lines characteristic of various elements. Solid bodies like the moon are different. You can't just take a look at the light reflected off the moon and know whether there is water there. You can use cosmic radiation generated neutrons to probe the moon's composition but it only tells you what elements are in the soil, not the chemical form they are in. If we were to slam a probe into a section of the moon where we think there's water, the impact could vaporize some water fro mthe regolith if there is any which gives us a higher chance of detecting gaseous water spectrographically. Granted it would be easier still for us to send a probe to the surface and take some actual samples of these areas but when you've got a probe in the area that isn't really doing much else useful, you may as well get your money worth by using it in this fashion.
If someone hasn't been convicted of breaking a law there can be no punishment. If they had anything of substance against someone they wouldn't be pursuing a three strikes law; they'd be in court. If the music industry doesn't want to follow the law but instead act on a hunch then I'd say the entirety of their limited monopoly should be done away with entirely. The law should not be used to intimidate; its purpose is to serve society not serve the greedy to the eclusion of all else.
What scares me about all of it is how bad it will get before the whole thing collapses. It took utter poverty and horrifying corruption to take the soviets down and the results were atrocious to the general population living there. THen after everything collapses and the system "resets" it is only a matter of time before it all happens again.
why is the bank sending customer information through email at all? why is the bank not encrypting all sensitive customer data? answer: because they haven't been forced to do so. Everyone whose information was leaked to this account should sue them right into the ground. It's been far too long that banks carry little responsibility for other peoples' data and it's time they start.
We are already screwed. Congress and friends have already got control of a disturbing amount of power in the US and no one really did anything about it as it is. These less than lethal weapons combined with the slow disarmament of the populace will only make our job as citizens harder.
I am not sure that the provision would have stopped this. After all, they claimed that it wasn't "specifically designed" to cause deafness. Which means that if they could justify this weapon for that reason, then they could also justify high intensity light based weapons as well. It's BS for sure but that doesn't mean that they won't look high and low to find some way to weasel it in somehow.
What that says about human nature, I don't know, it just seemed appropriate to the thread.
It says that human beings make at least a basic calculation of risk and harm. Soft "crimes" are perceived as being low risk, low harm. Otherwise, normal people probably wouldn't be engaging in them as much.
Unlimited downloads of music, movies and games hardly implies copyright infringement.
Sigh... We already know that. That doesn't stop the copyright NAZIs from claiming that the ad implied illegal activity. Now to address your confusion over my post: What I basically said was: piracy does not out weigh legal uses of the internet.
Too bad the "unlimited" plans don't give the telecomms any incentive to upgrade. It would be different if the more bandwisth they provided meant more revenue but in the current system it is more profitable to cap bandwidth use on "unlimited" plans (fraud) and throttle heavy users. The high bandwidth users pay the same as anyone else so as long as the telecomms can hold their local monopolies and insist on their current business model there is no incentive what so ever to change things. If we really wanted to force these telecomms into getting off their arse and upgrading everything, we'd destroy those local monopolies of theirs, go after them for the fraud they call "unlimited" plans and encourage a cahnge to $/TB instead of a flat rate. Done correctly, it wouldn't make economic sense for them to throttle high bandwidth users as that would essentially slit the cash cow's throat. Everyone who uses less bandwidth should pay less (with competition) and it would make sense to put new infrastructure in as it means they can handle more bandwidth and therefore make more money. unfortunately no one is really interested in doing any of that. the locals want their pipe hell or high water, the telecomms want to be able to milk their existing bandwidth until the government gets fed up and subsidizes them... again... and then there's people who stubbornly want their unlimited plans and don't want to get throttled and wonder why there's no real incentive for the telecomms to make it happen.
First let me say that I agree with you. Second, it looks like their beef was with how the isp advertised it. The implication being that any licensing charges associated with music, games and video would make it effectively impossible to make use of all that the isp was offering *legally*. But it is like you said, they *could* use it for those purposes but that doesn't mean that the risk outweighs everything else the internet user could do with the bandwidth.
what about those searches that are not on the border? do those count too? there are reports of these searches being carried out up to 100 miles from the nearest border.
"reasonable"... Someone had to have seen this coming... It's just too easy for the federal government to define a word like "reasonable" to mean what ever it wants to mean... The flaw is in the assumption that the supreme court would understand what reasonable means and act accordingly. The result was not as the framers intended but was predictable.
Apparently the polymer (as far as I can tell) undergoes a cross-linking reaction that acts to slow the movement of Lithium ions following puncture of the battery thus keeping the reaction relatively under control.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated
Apparently this is one of those times where the feds take advantage of that massive loo-pole in the fourth amendment effectively allowing them to disregard it in the case of "reasonable" searches and seizures...
The more we learn about the physics of fusion the more we realize that we did not grasp all of the complexities of building a working fusion reactor. We've gone from Q 10 for a commercial reactor so we are at least getting closer to our goal of commercial fusion. The question is whether the upward trend in Q gains will continue in the future. If they do then it is quite conceivable that we will have a prototype reactor up and running in 30 years, if not, we'll learn a lot about the physics involved.
If you want to get technical about it, we've already harnessed fusion energy... in bombs... a good fifty years ago. We just haven't been able to scale down the process below a few megatons yield yet.
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TFS didn't put anyone down for smoking and it didn't suggest we tax smokers, all it said was *don't smoke*. Which is actually pretty good advice.
That would be fantastic. Except it probably won't happen while Timmy's parents still think he's got an inherent right to shuffle through school.
I am not so sure about that. From what I have seen of how the public is educated, most people have an inherent curiosity that is slowly and methodically destroyed. Instead of being allowed to explore, they are herded into overcrowded classrooms and forced to learn things through repetition.
Then we are screwed. No democratic republic will stand long if the population is ignorant. The educational system needs drastic and immediate reform. There needs to be competition and the red tape and various nonsense which is stifling exploration and experimentation needs to go away.
The problem with your interpretation of video games is that not only is it incorrect, but it is exactly the kind of thinking that will be used to censor and regulate video games right into the ground.
spectral lines from a gas are easy to identify as we only need to match the lines to the lines characteristic of various elements. Solid bodies like the moon are different. You can't just take a look at the light reflected off the moon and know whether there is water there. You can use cosmic radiation generated neutrons to probe the moon's composition but it only tells you what elements are in the soil, not the chemical form they are in. If we were to slam a probe into a section of the moon where we think there's water, the impact could vaporize some water fro mthe regolith if there is any which gives us a higher chance of detecting gaseous water spectrographically. Granted it would be easier still for us to send a probe to the surface and take some actual samples of these areas but when you've got a probe in the area that isn't really doing much else useful, you may as well get your money worth by using it in this fashion.
son of a!! 2997 is a bit far into the future isn't it? :)
Sure thing. The meme started on one of the chans in 2997 based on the show "Pimp my ride" on MTV.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg
If someone hasn't been convicted of breaking a law there can be no punishment. If they had anything of substance against someone they wouldn't be pursuing a three strikes law; they'd be in court. If the music industry doesn't want to follow the law but instead act on a hunch then I'd say the entirety of their limited monopoly should be done away with entirely. The law should not be used to intimidate; its purpose is to serve society not serve the greedy to the eclusion of all else.
What scares me about all of it is how bad it will get before the whole thing collapses. It took utter poverty and horrifying corruption to take the soviets down and the results were atrocious to the general population living there. THen after everything collapses and the system "resets" it is only a matter of time before it all happens again.
why is the bank sending customer information through email at all? why is the bank not encrypting all sensitive customer data? answer: because they haven't been forced to do so. Everyone whose information was leaked to this account should sue them right into the ground. It's been far too long that banks carry little responsibility for other peoples' data and it's time they start.
We are already screwed. Congress and friends have already got control of a disturbing amount of power in the US and no one really did anything about it as it is. These less than lethal weapons combined with the slow disarmament of the populace will only make our job as citizens harder.
I am not sure that the provision would have stopped this. After all, they claimed that it wasn't "specifically designed" to cause deafness. Which means that if they could justify this weapon for that reason, then they could also justify high intensity light based weapons as well. It's BS for sure but that doesn't mean that they won't look high and low to find some way to weasel it in somehow.
It says that human beings make at least a basic calculation of risk and harm. Soft "crimes" are perceived as being low risk, low harm. Otherwise, normal people probably wouldn't be engaging in them as much.
Sigh... We already know that. That doesn't stop the copyright NAZIs from claiming that the ad implied illegal activity. Now to address your confusion over my post: What I basically said was: piracy does not out weigh legal uses of the internet.
Too bad the "unlimited" plans don't give the telecomms any incentive to upgrade. It would be different if the more bandwisth they provided meant more revenue but in the current system it is more profitable to cap bandwidth use on "unlimited" plans (fraud) and throttle heavy users. The high bandwidth users pay the same as anyone else so as long as the telecomms can hold their local monopolies and insist on their current business model there is no incentive what so ever to change things. If we really wanted to force these telecomms into getting off their arse and upgrading everything, we'd destroy those local monopolies of theirs, go after them for the fraud they call "unlimited" plans and encourage a cahnge to $/TB instead of a flat rate. Done correctly, it wouldn't make economic sense for them to throttle high bandwidth users as that would essentially slit the cash cow's throat. Everyone who uses less bandwidth should pay less (with competition) and it would make sense to put new infrastructure in as it means they can handle more bandwidth and therefore make more money. unfortunately no one is really interested in doing any of that. the locals want their pipe hell or high water, the telecomms want to be able to milk their existing bandwidth until the government gets fed up and subsidizes them... again... and then there's people who stubbornly want their unlimited plans and don't want to get throttled and wonder why there's no real incentive for the telecomms to make it happen.
First let me say that I agree with you. Second, it looks like their beef was with how the isp advertised it. The implication being that any licensing charges associated with music, games and video would make it effectively impossible to make use of all that the isp was offering *legally*. But it is like you said, they *could* use it for those purposes but that doesn't mean that the risk outweighs everything else the internet user could do with the bandwidth.
what about those searches that are not on the border? do those count too? there are reports of these searches being carried out up to 100 miles from the nearest border.
"reasonable"... Someone had to have seen this coming... It's just too easy for the federal government to define a word like "reasonable" to mean what ever it wants to mean... The flaw is in the assumption that the supreme court would understand what reasonable means and act accordingly. The result was not as the framers intended but was predictable.
judging by what congress has been doing the last few years, I wouldn't think it would be all that surprising that a toilet *anything* was involved. :)
Apparently the polymer (as far as I can tell) undergoes a cross-linking reaction that acts to slow the movement of Lithium ions following puncture of the battery thus keeping the reaction relatively under control.
http://www.itri.org.tw/eng/Research/Focus-Area/focus-sub-area-category.asp?RootNodeId=0301&NodeId=03013&FieldCD=03200
Apparently this is one of those times where the feds take advantage of that massive loo-pole in the fourth amendment effectively allowing them to disregard it in the case of "reasonable" searches and seizures...
The more we learn about the physics of fusion the more we realize that we did not grasp all of the complexities of building a working fusion reactor. We've gone from Q 10 for a commercial reactor so we are at least getting closer to our goal of commercial fusion. The question is whether the upward trend in Q gains will continue in the future. If they do then it is quite conceivable that we will have a prototype reactor up and running in 30 years, if not, we'll learn a lot about the physics involved.
If you want to get technical about it, we've already harnessed fusion energy... in bombs... a good fifty years ago. We just haven't been able to scale down the process below a few megatons yield yet.
water along with other sources of Hydrogen contain Deuterium which can be used as a fuel for nuclear fusion reactors.