Easily subdivided by 2 or 4 as well. There's also the Babylon's base 12/60 which still affects our math and might have been the best. 12 is nice and divisible and there's no reason that computers couldn't have evolved with 6/12 bit registers instead of 8/16 bit. Base 10 is actually a crappy base but it has such inertia that it seems natural. Then there are the imaginary beings such as Clarke's Ramans who may have used base 9 (everything in 3's), which is really alien to our way of thinking.
How so? As far as I'm aware, only country is left which actually mints and circulates pennies, and that is due to corruption (metal company paying off politicians)
Two problems with bartering precious metal and official IOUs. The economy expands faster then the supply of precious metal, causing a shortage or the supply of precious metal expands faster then the economy, causing inflation. This isn't even counting the problems with IOUs (printing too many) or the problems with more then one precious metal (price difference changes)
Huh? I'm in Canada and yesterday the official high (at the closest airport) was 7.9C and the low was 3.4C. Sure you need to put on the Stanfield but not exactly ball freezing. Even seen girls in halter tops the other day. Whole winter up till now has had similar temperatures, again. It is finally snowing today, which will protect the flowers when it freezes tonight.
I'm on a LTE connection, a type of wireless. I get about 75 ms to a location 50 miles away. It's hard to imagine how it'll do a third of that when traveling hundreds of miles and still having to convert the signal at the endpoints. >speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Testing from Telus Communications (209.52.xxx.xxx)... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Selecting best server based on ping... Hosted by Tech Futures Interactive Inc. (Burnaby, BC) [20.74 km]: 77.833 ms
I call bullshit. There is plenty of evidence showing the benefits of vaccines. Usually direct benefits. The all too regular outbreaks among the unvaccinated are the counter-examples.
There's plenty of evidence of the dangers of vaccines as well, just that the dangers of vaccination are way less then not getting vaccinated. Extreme example was smallpox inoculation, which reduced the odds of death something like from 75% to 25%. People were lining up to stick someones smallpox scab in their or their childs eye as it tripled the chances of survival. My numbers are probably off but not the idea.
That article is from 2011, I doubt it is about the new legislation. You are right though that the legislation can be very broken, perhaps even as broken as no legislation. I haven't looked at the legislation and have enough problems in my country keeping up with the attacks on net neutrality by the ISP's and the media companies who really want the power to block any site on their say so. With limited numbers of ISP's (I have one choice), it is important for them to be non-discriminatory. Ideally the pipe part of the business should be separated from the content part of the business. There's just too much conflict of interest.
Can't have high occupancy lanes on the tollway as it'll be unfair and break the idea that all street legal vehicles can use the tollway. All net neutrality should do, is make sure things like QoS is non-discriminatory, all VOIP traffic is treated the same rather then just the ISP's VOIP apps traffic. Conversely, all FTP traffic is downgraded equally rather then just competitors. Think roads, all trucks might have to stay in the slow lane, rather then just Fedex trucks and all vehicles with 2 or 3 people in it can use the high occupancy lane rather then just Amazon vehicles.
When your max bandwidth hovers between 1998 and 2005's definition of broadband depending on how many hundreds of dollars you're willing to pay, does it really matter if you don't get things delivered with the same priority as someone else?
There's a lot more at stake then how fast Netflix loads. Commercial considerations, retailer a pays ISP to degrade retailer b's site or because retailer b didn't cough up more money, their site doesn't load in a reasonable time. Political considerations, replace the retailer with political parties a and b. Things like voter registration sites can be degraded in certain areas where people don't vote the right way. Competing services like VOIP or possibly VPN gets degraded without paying protection money. Collateral damage, my ISP blocked the unions web site during a strike, this also included blocking a few hundred other sites that were on the same server. With limited choice in ISP's (I have one choice), it is important for all legal content to be treated equally. Think roads, as long as a vehicle is legal, it should be allowed to use the road, even a toll road. There can be general limits, high occupancy lanes or VOIP lanes as long as they're not discriminatory.
Could it depend on location? I'm in Canada, on the wet coast and it is hard to imagine large line ups for a lousy $15 an hour. Employment is low about 5% here IIRC, wages have started raising and it's expensive as fuck to live. On the east coast, where unemployment is high, the cost of living is low, people would be lining up for one of these jobs.
Statistics disagree with your believe relative to the other western democracies. Odds are very good on being in the same income class as your parents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
America has one of the lowest economic mobility ratings compared to most western countries with peoples incomes usually quite predictable based on their parents incomes, though you are ahead of the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, rereading your post, I may have taken it the wrong way at first. I will add that the balance of copyright has been broken with too much stress on the marketplace and little stress on the public domain, where works can do the most good in promoting advancement of learning. It is hard to judge how you meant that part as it seemed to me you were stressing the marketplace more then anything.
THe rationale for copyright is that by restricting acces it creates market place and thus actually more goods and services will be produced. Any one item will be reproduced less but the profit and creative control of the producer creates and environment we all benefit from. it doesn't matter that its free to copy. it harms the marketplace. so it is a stealing from the common good even if you are giving it away
No. The rationale for copyright is to advance learning. It was right in the first copyright act, which had the full title of,
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Note that in 1789, language was slightly different and the Arts and Sciences basically covered all advanced learning. The rational was pretty simple, give limited monopoly so that works are created and then those works go into the public domain to advance learning (the arts and sciences), not to lock it up for generations in a marketplace. The marketplace was a means to an end, enriching society by having a large public domain, not an end to itself.
I'd think that there would be a ton of christian music out of copyright, it's not like christian music is a recent invention. Still, these stories show some of the problems caused by perpetual copyright. If all copyright was 14 years, it wouldn't be hard to find music of any genre that was out of copyright. I've got a stack of records that are all at least 20 years old and a stack of CD's where most are at least 14 years old.
I have an acquaintance who makes his living busking, it's a job even though he sets his hours and only gets paid by people throwing money at him if they choose and the pay is very erratic.
Apropos, I do think that multi-millionaire recording artists are a sign that there's something wrong with copyright as we know it. Of course, many other things are wrong with copyright also. But as it stands, it's legitimate. Even though I don't like it.
Why? Even with minimal copyright laws, you'd have multi-millionaire recording artists. A top selling artist or band who puts out a top selling album every couple of years can make a lot of money, and then there's the money that can be made touring. Even if all their songs were out of copyright, top selling bands will still sellout arenas doing their own music. The Rolling Stones made something like $558,255,524 on their Bigger bang tour, with U2 even making more. Seems public performance is a job that pays well and just needs enough copyright to protect them when starting out with the original 14 years being plenty to become established.
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Easily subdivided by 2 or 4 as well. There's also the Babylon's base 12/60 which still affects our math and might have been the best. 12 is nice and divisible and there's no reason that computers couldn't have evolved with 6/12 bit registers instead of 8/16 bit. Base 10 is actually a crappy base but it has such inertia that it seems natural.
Then there are the imaginary beings such as Clarke's Ramans who may have used base 9 (everything in 3's), which is really alien to our way of thinking.
My understanding is that the influx of precious metals from the new world to Spain created inflation.
https://history.stackexchange....
Though Wiki seems to show more nuances, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How so? As far as I'm aware, only country is left which actually mints and circulates pennies, and that is due to corruption (metal company paying off politicians)
Wasn't the original example country Iceland? Lots of cities larger in population then Iceland.
Two problems with bartering precious metal and official IOUs. The economy expands faster then the supply of precious metal, causing a shortage or the supply of precious metal expands faster then the economy, causing inflation.
This isn't even counting the problems with IOUs (printing too many) or the problems with more then one precious metal (price difference changes)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is closer (about 400LY) and there may be other cold ones even closer. They're hard to detect
Huh? I'm in Canada and yesterday the official high (at the closest airport) was 7.9C and the low was 3.4C. Sure you need to put on the Stanfield but not exactly ball freezing. Even seen girls in halter tops the other day. Whole winter up till now has had similar temperatures, again. It is finally snowing today, which will protect the flowers when it freezes tonight.
Actually there were groups of people who used the gaps between fingers to count and used base 8. Base 8 is a lot nicer then base 10.
I'm on a LTE connection, a type of wireless. I get about 75 ms to a location 50 miles away. It's hard to imagine how it'll do a third of that when traveling hundreds of miles and still having to convert the signal at the endpoints.
>speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Telus Communications (209.52.xxx.xxx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Tech Futures Interactive Inc. (Burnaby, BC) [20.74 km]: 77.833 ms
I call bullshit. There is plenty of evidence showing the benefits of vaccines. Usually direct benefits. The all too regular outbreaks among the unvaccinated are the counter-examples.
There's plenty of evidence of the dangers of vaccines as well, just that the dangers of vaccination are way less then not getting vaccinated.
Extreme example was smallpox inoculation, which reduced the odds of death something like from 75% to 25%. People were lining up to stick someones smallpox scab in their or their childs eye as it tripled the chances of survival. My numbers are probably off but not the idea.
People in general are really shitty at judging risks. Look at how many parents drive their kids to school to avoid the risk of stranger kidnapping.
You're right, the kids shouldn't get any medical help due to choosing parents who didn't vaccinate them.
That article is from 2011, I doubt it is about the new legislation. You are right though that the legislation can be very broken, perhaps even as broken as no legislation.
I haven't looked at the legislation and have enough problems in my country keeping up with the attacks on net neutrality by the ISP's and the media companies who really want the power to block any site on their say so.
With limited numbers of ISP's (I have one choice), it is important for them to be non-discriminatory. Ideally the pipe part of the business should be separated from the content part of the business. There's just too much conflict of interest.
Can't have high occupancy lanes on the tollway as it'll be unfair and break the idea that all street legal vehicles can use the tollway.
All net neutrality should do, is make sure things like QoS is non-discriminatory, all VOIP traffic is treated the same rather then just the ISP's VOIP apps traffic. Conversely, all FTP traffic is downgraded equally rather then just competitors.
Think roads, all trucks might have to stay in the slow lane, rather then just Fedex trucks and all vehicles with 2 or 3 people in it can use the high occupancy lane rather then just Amazon vehicles.
When your max bandwidth hovers between 1998 and 2005's definition of broadband depending on how many hundreds of dollars you're willing to pay, does it really matter if you don't get things delivered with the same priority as someone else?
There's a lot more at stake then how fast Netflix loads. Commercial considerations, retailer a pays ISP to degrade retailer b's site or because retailer b didn't cough up more money, their site doesn't load in a reasonable time. Political considerations, replace the retailer with political parties a and b. Things like voter registration sites can be degraded in certain areas where people don't vote the right way. Competing services like VOIP or possibly VPN gets degraded without paying protection money. Collateral damage, my ISP blocked the unions web site during a strike, this also included blocking a few hundred other sites that were on the same server.
With limited choice in ISP's (I have one choice), it is important for all legal content to be treated equally. Think roads, as long as a vehicle is legal, it should be allowed to use the road, even a toll road. There can be general limits, high occupancy lanes or VOIP lanes as long as they're not discriminatory.
Could it depend on location? I'm in Canada, on the wet coast and it is hard to imagine large line ups for a lousy $15 an hour. Employment is low about 5% here IIRC, wages have started raising and it's expensive as fuck to live.
On the east coast, where unemployment is high, the cost of living is low, people would be lining up for one of these jobs.
Statistics disagree with your believe relative to the other western democracies. Odds are very good on being in the same income class as your parents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
America has one of the lowest economic mobility ratings compared to most western countries with peoples incomes usually quite predictable based on their parents incomes, though you are ahead of the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, rereading your post, I may have taken it the wrong way at first. I will add that the balance of copyright has been broken with too much stress on the marketplace and little stress on the public domain, where works can do the most good in promoting advancement of learning. It is hard to judge how you meant that part as it seemed to me you were stressing the marketplace more then anything.
THe rationale for copyright is that by restricting acces it creates market place and thus actually more goods and services will be produced. Any one item will be reproduced less but the profit and creative control of the producer creates and environment we all benefit from. it doesn't matter that its free to copy. it harms the marketplace. so it is a stealing from the common good even if you are giving it away
No. The rationale for copyright is to advance learning. It was right in the first copyright act, which had the full title of,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And was also put in the American Constitution as,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Note that in 1789, language was slightly different and the Arts and Sciences basically covered all advanced learning.
The rational was pretty simple, give limited monopoly so that works are created and then those works go into the public domain to advance learning (the arts and sciences), not to lock it up for generations in a marketplace.
The marketplace was a means to an end, enriching society by having a large public domain, not an end to itself.
And the moles will win. Our new underlords.
Yea, 75 odd years of copyrighted performances.
Question, does even correctly licensed such as the gp posters CCLI stop the fraudulent notices/claims?
I'd think that there would be a ton of christian music out of copyright, it's not like christian music is a recent invention.
Still, these stories show some of the problems caused by perpetual copyright. If all copyright was 14 years, it wouldn't be hard to find music of any genre that was out of copyright. I've got a stack of records that are all at least 20 years old and a stack of CD's where most are at least 14 years old.
I have an acquaintance who makes his living busking, it's a job even though he sets his hours and only gets paid by people throwing money at him if they choose and the pay is very erratic.
Apropos, I do think that multi-millionaire recording artists are a sign that there's something wrong with copyright as we know it. Of course, many other things are wrong with copyright also. But as it stands, it's legitimate. Even though I don't like it.
Why? Even with minimal copyright laws, you'd have multi-millionaire recording artists. A top selling artist or band who puts out a top selling album every couple of years can make a lot of money, and then there's the money that can be made touring. Even if all their songs were out of copyright, top selling bands will still sellout arenas doing their own music. The Rolling Stones made something like $558,255,524 on their Bigger bang tour, with U2 even making more.
Seems public performance is a job that pays well and just needs enough copyright to protect them when starting out with the original 14 years being plenty to become established.