It's a patent so you can't just reverse engineer it unlike if it was only copyrighted. Even if you totally independently invent it, you can't use it due to MS patent. This is one of the problems with patents, sometimes it is just time for an invention and whoever gets the patent wins. Phones were a good example, the technology was there and one day two different inventors showed up at the patent office (with another that week) to patent the phone. First one got the patent which led to the AT&T monopoly. MS didn't actually patent the Office file formats as far as I know, probably due to not themselves knowing how they work or perhaps they weren't patentable at the time.
Actually Robertson screws are a good example of a superiour product that didn't catch on (at least in the States, they've always been common in Canada) due to licensing. P. L. Robertson refused to license manufacturer to most everyone including Henry Ford who found using Robertson screws cut a couple of hours off building a Model T so Ford used Philips instead, at least in America. I curse every time I deal with a Philips and smile when using a Robertson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
And the original copyright (in English type law systems), specifically said that copyright was to advance learning by allowing copyright for a limited time (14+14 years with a 20 yr grandfather clause). Even back then in 1702 the publishers were pushing for unlimited copyright "for the authours" while buying all rights cheap and the elected part of government was willing to go along with them. Unluckily in the UK and Canada copyright is not a Constitutional matter so Parliament can pass whatever copyright laws they please, which is why in the UK the King James Bible and Peter Pan are copyrighted forever. At least in the case of Peter Pan the proceeds fund a childrens hospital. In Canada our current government uses copyright to be secretive and not publish tax payer funded studies that are embarrassing.
I believe Harold LLoyds stuff is still under copyright, partly due to the re-releases and his estate is protective of the copyright. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
OTOH, our reason for being in Afghanistan was that one of their best buddies leveled a couple office buildings and they wouldn't turn him over to face the music.
Actually they asked for prove before they'd hand him over. Pretty normal when a country asks for an extradition.
It's very easy to poke holes in our Afghanistan policy. What I have yet to see, from anyone, is an alternative plan that would have a) been politically possible on S12, and b) would have worked a tenth as well as what we actually did.
Yet America found a way to deal with him when it turned out that he was actually hanging out with a different best buddy.
Its been tried, the first thing that happens is the corporations or other moneyed interests do is pay the government to expand its power so they can sell laws. In the extreme cases they hire mercenaries to push regime change to get their obedient government. There has been times in history where the government was weak and the moneyed interests were strong and having private armies fighting for power did not make a better society. At least in a representative democracy the government has to pay some attention to the wants of the people. It's just a shame that propaganda works so well.
Well American Revolution I was a total failure, I don't think anything changed in the government of Great Britain. It did morph into a successful war of American Secession though with the American people going their own way from the people and government of Great Britain. The second war of American Secession was a failure, and that was a pretty clear line with the southern states deciding to form their own government and the northern states deciding to make a stronger federal government. Now, it might work if the States can agree that some of them can go their separate ways, which would mean a constitutional amendment, but plain old revolutions, especially violent ones, hardly ever actually result in improvement for the common person. Your best bet might be to follow the advice of your founding fathers and have another Constitutional Convention and write a better Constitution.
Strictly speaking a Pacific storm is termed a typhoon so hurricanes are almost impossible (one could cross Central America and continue on). The last major one was Typhoon Freda, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1... which caused significant damage and deaths along the Pacific coasts of America and Canada. Here in BC and south of us we also get some major winter storms where the winds hit hurricane strength and can cause quite a bit of damage.
We have a big dual VHF/UHF antenna on a 30 ft pole that can be rotated along with a VHF/UHF amplifier. The antenna needed to be rotated for the best signal from the 2 good signals. This is another disadvantage of digital, with analog rotating the pole you could watch the signal improving from zero to clear and back off when rotated too far. Digital needs time to lock in so you have to rotate really slow and hope you catch the signal.
When the power goes down here, I have a hand cranked radio so am still in contact with the outside world. Someone up the page commented that DAB radios are power pigs. I don't have experience with DAB but if true it wouldn't be good in a natural disaster situation.
You get best possible* image with DTV where you would get unwatchable static-covered picture.
The problem with the switch to digital TV was all the channels moved into the UHF band which does not carry as far. Here I used to get ch. 2 and 6 clear and a couple of other ones were sometimes watchable, after the switch to digital we don't get any channels. Being 30 miles outside of one of the biggest cities in Canada means no other options, satellite blocked by hills and trees, no cable, no cell coverage and with the privatized phone system 3 9's means that every 9 days the phone is out for 9 hours (18 hours last time), usually due to cable theft. FM radio is still good but I'm sure if it switched to digital that would also be gone. This raises the question about Norway and how good the DAB coverage is compared to FM
Yes it is a wonderful tool, just like so many other tools, it can be of benefit but just like we have axe murders, GMO can also be abused. The thing with tools is that it's actually the use that has to be judged, not just the fact that the axe amplifies the wedge principal or GMO's actually do have genes spiced in.
Glyphosate itself is actually pretty harmless (the included surfactants are an unknown as they're not tested), the real danger is when the weeds become resistant and we have to switch to more toxic herbicides. Same with insecticides, BK is very safe but the more insects are exposed to it the more chance of resistance evolving and the farmers needing more toxic insecticides. It's an arms race where the bugs will win. As an aside, I took a pesticide applicators course a long time back.The guy giving it did talk about when he was in industry and some of his fellow workers would drink 2-4-D to prove how safe it was. Seems they're all dead of cancer now, probably from second hand smoke:)
If that pesticide leads to herbicide resistant noxious weeds or insecticide resistant insect larvae it can still be a problem. Even though you run Linux, you interact with systems running Windows so if your bank catches a Windows virus that wipes out your bank account, your personal computer being resistant doesn't help much.
Genetic engineering (and selective breeding) is a tool, not the end product. Like so many tools it can be used for good or bad, eg creating more nutritious crops versus creating crops that ship better and are more appealing to the eye but have no nutrition. Even traits that are good in the short term can be bad when overdone in the long term, much like antibiotics, saved umptillion lives but due to misuse (overuse) becoming useless. Think of glyphosate resistant crops leading to overuse of glyphosate leading to common noxious weeds becoming round-up resistant leading to having to use more toxic herbicides and/or only genetically engineered crops being viable with the side affects that PopeRatzo talks about. The only science with regards to GMO crops in general is that we can genetically alter crops. Science makes no general claims that those alterations are beneficial or not.
So you're talking about taking someones router? But how does that affect music downloading? Whether I borrow a CD and make a copy or steal someones router and use it to help make a copy of someones music should not make the copy made with the stolen router illegal. The law is pretty simple, personal copies are legal around here so whether I come to your house and copy every piece of music you have or connect over the internet and copy the music doesn't matter. I agree that taking someones router is bad but I don't see how that relates to copying music.
Why the fuck would illegally using the internet, I guess by driving and operating a mobile device, or perhaps being on probation with the condition of not using the internet, make downloading music, something that is always usually legal, make it stealing? And does that make reading/. stealing as well?
One of the purposes of the first amendment is to allow petitioning the government and no where in the American Constitution is the government allowed to stop petitioners from arriving by air to exorcise their free speech right to petition Congress.
Besides what tepples said, there are also the boxed sets, the new mixes, the alternate mixes and alternate versions including live. Think of Dark Side of The Moon, hundreds and hundreds of weeks on the best sellers list and still there (with a few short breaks when it didn't get so much airtime) after 43 odd years of selling. Not only are there kids first getting exposed to it but there are also people buying the 5:1 version which from what I remember of the Quadrophonic version is worth buying.
Was that who it was that pushed through the anti-privacy laws, including being able to access our browsing habits from the ISPs with no oversight, to stop bullying?
But if you change the crime of the homeowner from "child rape" to "had a bunch of weed out on the table in plain view of anyone entering the home" the Internet will explode with rage about the horrible violation of the poor innocent cannabis enthusiast who was just minding his own business, eating some funyuns, not bothering nobody. "Asshole cop! Police state! Barging in to somebody's home like that! He should be free to go, the cops should apologize and give him back his weed!"
There was a similar case here a while back, cops entered a home with an unrelated warrant, spotted a bunch of pot plants, and then left and while keeping the house under surveillance went and got a warrant for searching for pot plants. Then returned with a proper warrant to search for pot plants which led to an arrest. Your rape scenario would allow the cops to act because some one was in imminent danger. The pot one doesn't work because it was off topic to the reasons for the cops to enter the home though it does give them probable cause to get a warrant. Canada instead of the States but similar rights and justice system.
It was easy back in the day as, at least some, overseas long distance was over shortwave so anyone could listen. The first satellites were also likely easy to listen in on, at least given having the equipment.
The problem wit ME was that there were 2 different driver models, one that was backwards compatible with 9x and one that was forward compatible with XP IIRC. As long as you stuck with the new driver model it was fine, start mixing them and it was shit.
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It's a patent so you can't just reverse engineer it unlike if it was only copyrighted. Even if you totally independently invent it, you can't use it due to MS patent. This is one of the problems with patents, sometimes it is just time for an invention and whoever gets the patent wins. Phones were a good example, the technology was there and one day two different inventors showed up at the patent office (with another that week) to patent the phone. First one got the patent which led to the AT&T monopoly.
MS didn't actually patent the Office file formats as far as I know, probably due to not themselves knowing how they work or perhaps they weren't patentable at the time.
Actually Robertson screws are a good example of a superiour product that didn't catch on (at least in the States, they've always been common in Canada) due to licensing. P. L. Robertson refused to license manufacturer to most everyone including Henry Ford who found using Robertson screws cut a couple of hours off building a Model T so Ford used Philips instead, at least in America.
I curse every time I deal with a Philips and smile when using a Robertson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
And the original copyright (in English type law systems), specifically said that copyright was to advance learning by allowing copyright for a limited time (14+14 years with a 20 yr grandfather clause).
Even back then in 1702 the publishers were pushing for unlimited copyright "for the authours" while buying all rights cheap and the elected part of government was willing to go along with them.
Unluckily in the UK and Canada copyright is not a Constitutional matter so Parliament can pass whatever copyright laws they please, which is why in the UK the King James Bible and Peter Pan are copyrighted forever. At least in the case of Peter Pan the proceeds fund a childrens hospital. In Canada our current government uses copyright to be secretive and not publish tax payer funded studies that are embarrassing.
I believe Harold LLoyds stuff is still under copyright, partly due to the re-releases and his estate is protective of the copyright. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
OTOH, our reason for being in Afghanistan was that one of their best buddies leveled a couple office buildings and they wouldn't turn him over to face the music.
Actually they asked for prove before they'd hand him over. Pretty normal when a country asks for an extradition.
It's very easy to poke holes in our Afghanistan policy. What I have yet to see, from anyone, is an alternative plan that would have a) been politically possible on S12, and b) would have worked a tenth as well as what we actually did.
Yet America found a way to deal with him when it turned out that he was actually hanging out with a different best buddy.
Its been tried, the first thing that happens is the corporations or other moneyed interests do is pay the government to expand its power so they can sell laws. In the extreme cases they hire mercenaries to push regime change to get their obedient government.
There has been times in history where the government was weak and the moneyed interests were strong and having private armies fighting for power did not make a better society. At least in a representative democracy the government has to pay some attention to the wants of the people. It's just a shame that propaganda works so well.
Well American Revolution I was a total failure, I don't think anything changed in the government of Great Britain. It did morph into a successful war of American Secession though with the American people going their own way from the people and government of Great Britain.
The second war of American Secession was a failure, and that was a pretty clear line with the southern states deciding to form their own government and the northern states deciding to make a stronger federal government.
Now, it might work if the States can agree that some of them can go their separate ways, which would mean a constitutional amendment, but plain old revolutions, especially violent ones, hardly ever actually result in improvement for the common person.
Your best bet might be to follow the advice of your founding fathers and have another Constitutional Convention and write a better Constitution.
Strictly speaking a Pacific storm is termed a typhoon so hurricanes are almost impossible (one could cross Central America and continue on). The last major one was Typhoon Freda, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1... which caused significant damage and deaths along the Pacific coasts of America and Canada.
Here in BC and south of us we also get some major winter storms where the winds hit hurricane strength and can cause quite a bit of damage.
Where I live I get much better reception and many more channels on FM then AM during the day, at least on my emergency hand cranked radio.
We have a big dual VHF/UHF antenna on a 30 ft pole that can be rotated along with a VHF/UHF amplifier. The antenna needed to be rotated for the best signal from the 2 good signals. This is another disadvantage of digital, with analog rotating the pole you could watch the signal improving from zero to clear and back off when rotated too far. Digital needs time to lock in so you have to rotate really slow and hope you catch the signal.
When the power goes down here, I have a hand cranked radio so am still in contact with the outside world. Someone up the page commented that DAB radios are power pigs. I don't have experience with DAB but if true it wouldn't be good in a natural disaster situation.
You get best possible* image with DTV where you would get unwatchable static-covered picture.
The problem with the switch to digital TV was all the channels moved into the UHF band which does not carry as far. Here I used to get ch. 2 and 6 clear and a couple of other ones were sometimes watchable, after the switch to digital we don't get any channels. Being 30 miles outside of one of the biggest cities in Canada means no other options, satellite blocked by hills and trees, no cable, no cell coverage and with the privatized phone system 3 9's means that every 9 days the phone is out for 9 hours (18 hours last time), usually due to cable theft.
FM radio is still good but I'm sure if it switched to digital that would also be gone. This raises the question about Norway and how good the DAB coverage is compared to FM
Yes it is a wonderful tool, just like so many other tools, it can be of benefit but just like we have axe murders, GMO can also be abused.
The thing with tools is that it's actually the use that has to be judged, not just the fact that the axe amplifies the wedge principal or GMO's actually do have genes spiced in.
Glyphosate itself is actually pretty harmless (the included surfactants are an unknown as they're not tested), the real danger is when the weeds become resistant and we have to switch to more toxic herbicides. Same with insecticides, BK is very safe but the more insects are exposed to it the more chance of resistance evolving and the farmers needing more toxic insecticides. It's an arms race where the bugs will win. :)
As an aside, I took a pesticide applicators course a long time back.The guy giving it did talk about when he was in industry and some of his fellow workers would drink 2-4-D to prove how safe it was. Seems they're all dead of cancer now, probably from second hand smoke
If that pesticide leads to herbicide resistant noxious weeds or insecticide resistant insect larvae it can still be a problem.
Even though you run Linux, you interact with systems running Windows so if your bank catches a Windows virus that wipes out your bank account, your personal computer being resistant doesn't help much.
Genetic engineering (and selective breeding) is a tool, not the end product. Like so many tools it can be used for good or bad, eg creating more nutritious crops versus creating crops that ship better and are more appealing to the eye but have no nutrition. Even traits that are good in the short term can be bad when overdone in the long term, much like antibiotics, saved umptillion lives but due to misuse (overuse) becoming useless. Think of glyphosate resistant crops leading to overuse of glyphosate leading to common noxious weeds becoming round-up resistant leading to having to use more toxic herbicides and/or only genetically engineered crops being viable with the side affects that PopeRatzo talks about.
The only science with regards to GMO crops in general is that we can genetically alter crops. Science makes no general claims that those alterations are beneficial or not.
So you're talking about taking someones router? But how does that affect music downloading? Whether I borrow a CD and make a copy or steal someones router and use it to help make a copy of someones music should not make the copy made with the stolen router illegal. The law is pretty simple, personal copies are legal around here so whether I come to your house and copy every piece of music you have or connect over the internet and copy the music doesn't matter. I agree that taking someones router is bad but I don't see how that relates to copying music.
Why the fuck would illegally using the internet, I guess by driving and operating a mobile device, or perhaps being on probation with the condition of not using the internet, make downloading music, something that is always usually legal, make it stealing? And does that make reading /. stealing as well?
Unluckily our government is paying very close attention.
One of the purposes of the first amendment is to allow petitioning the government and no where in the American Constitution is the government allowed to stop petitioners from arriving by air to exorcise their free speech right to petition Congress.
Besides what tepples said, there are also the boxed sets, the new mixes, the alternate mixes and alternate versions including live. Think of Dark Side of The Moon, hundreds and hundreds of weeks on the best sellers list and still there (with a few short breaks when it didn't get so much airtime) after 43 odd years of selling. Not only are there kids first getting exposed to it but there are also people buying the 5:1 version which from what I remember of the Quadrophonic version is worth buying.
Was that who it was that pushed through the anti-privacy laws, including being able to access our browsing habits from the ISPs with no oversight, to stop bullying?
But if you change the crime of the homeowner from "child rape" to "had a bunch of weed out on the table in plain view of anyone entering the home" the Internet will explode with rage about the horrible violation of the poor innocent cannabis enthusiast who was just minding his own business, eating some funyuns, not bothering nobody. "Asshole cop! Police state! Barging in to somebody's home like that! He should be free to go, the cops should apologize and give him back his weed!"
There was a similar case here a while back, cops entered a home with an unrelated warrant, spotted a bunch of pot plants, and then left and while keeping the house under surveillance went and got a warrant for searching for pot plants. Then returned with a proper warrant to search for pot plants which led to an arrest.
Your rape scenario would allow the cops to act because some one was in imminent danger. The pot one doesn't work because it was off topic to the reasons for the cops to enter the home though it does give them probable cause to get a warrant.
Canada instead of the States but similar rights and justice system.
It was easy back in the day as, at least some, overseas long distance was over shortwave so anyone could listen. The first satellites were also likely easy to listen in on, at least given having the equipment.
The problem wit ME was that there were 2 different driver models, one that was backwards compatible with 9x and one that was forward compatible with XP IIRC. As long as you stuck with the new driver model it was fine, start mixing them and it was shit.