The TP has no economic sense whatsoever and are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.
Apparently fiscal responsibility is no economic sense. That doesn't even compute man.
Car analogy, fiscal responsibility is not cutting down on oil changes, putting off the tune up and still buying a nice pair of fuzzy dice to impress someone even though you are saving money.
Australians are among the most avid users of pirating websites in the world. For example, Australians accounted for 16 per cent of all illegal downloads of television program Breaking Bad.
Having never watched "Breaking Bad" I did a quick search and found it is a TV series which anyone with a Personal Video Recorder can actually copy if they wish to do so however this show is not a so called Hollywood movie and many people who have missed one or more episodes can actually catch up by going on-line and watch the shows at selected legitimate sites (a quick search will find them).
Of course you can download via torrent (no money changes hands) which I think the government would like to stop but there lies the problem, without snooping programs which can determine if a torrent download infringes copyright you have no way of knowing and ISP's would not be happy running this type of software since it would take up resources all for the sake of possibly catching an "illegal" down-loader. This type of thing would not be a vote winner.
The problem is that many TV shows can be caught up by going on-line and watching them at "legitimate" web sites. Bringing in legislation to block so called illegal torrent downloading will have an enormous voter backlash which no sane government in their right mind would want.
While it may be true that Americans can go to "legitimate" web sites, it is not true in most countries and in most countries you can't get it any other legal way either, at least in a timely manner, so no using a PVR to record.
It's complicated deciding how far a countries rights go in another jurisdiction. As an example is the case of Canada vs Schmidt ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... ) where some one was acquitted of kidnapping by an American federal court and then charged with child stealing in Ohio and Ohio moved for extradition. The Canadian Supreme Court found that even though in Canada it was obviously a breach of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, section 11h due to the similarity of the laws of kidnapping and child theft
11. Any person charged with an offence has the right...
(h) if finally acquitted of the offence, not to be tried for it again and, if finally found guilty and punished for the offence, not to be tried or punished for it again;
The extradition request was granted as American law did not consider it double jeopardy and the Canadian Charter of Rights does not restrict foreign governments. Another example is that both Canada and the USA extradite people to countries where the legal system does not recognize the presumption of innocence even though it is a basic right in both our constitutions.
Third try, the first was a hard landing in 2009 after a successful 16 month lunar oribting mission, second a repeat of the first except instead of doing a hard lunar landing, it went to L2 and then visited the asteroid 4179 Toutatis and is still going to give the Chinese experience in deep space tracking and control. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
They're planning another more advanced rover then a lunar soil sample return mission in 2018. Considering this mission was mostly successful I doubt that they'll change their plans much, perhaps a bit of delay while trying to figure what failed on this mission.
Actually current Catholic teachings are that God caused the big bang which led to evolution and our current world. Not something that science can currently have a say in as it just describes the process. The strange thing is that all these other religions so limit God that he couldn't spend 13.5 odd billion years at creation.
Creationism lies within the realm of science and there are clear tests on whether it stands up to scrutiny. Of course, as a theory, creationism fell down at the beginning of multiple science disciples. Best example is geology which started out with creationism as established fact, yet all the evidence pointed it to being wrong. The Earth was obviously very old, and all that stuff that at a quick glance supported a flood, well no, flooding did not explain it, but glaciation did. It is just that as a theory, creationism has totally failed.
Creationism makes predictions. Young Earth where the major geological event was a global flood. Geology discounted it as a theory centuries ago by showing much evidence for an old Earth and periods of glaciation being much better explanations for observations. So what creationism is is a very good example of a failed theory, but it was the leading theory in the west until actually tested.
It's as much of a theory as the Earth being the centre of the Universe with epicycles to explain retrograde orbits of planets and stars being painted on the firmament. And just like that theory it has been thoroughly rejected. In the case of creationism, it was rejected at the beginning of modern science. Geologists went out to study the aftereffects of the flood and it pretty quickly became obvious that the flood did not explain the Earths history and in the course of studying they came to our current theories of the origin of the Earth. Meanwhile the study of astronomy has led to our current theory of the beginning of the Universe. As a failed theory, creationism belongs right besides the theories such as everything rotating around the Earth, spontaneous formation of life, as in maggots just appearing in rotting meat, fresh air making people sick and such. They all served as early points in science and as theories they fell really quick as they were so divorced from reality.
Actually I'd guess creationism agrees with Muslim beliefs in a general way. Their religion does include a different translation of the Bible, they consider Adam a prophet along with Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. Basically they just have a different interpretation along with an extra book as the Christians or 2 books compared to the Jews, along with various supporting texts. Of course there are thousands of religions that don't agree with the Judeo Christian thing, all that at least at one point, believed their story was true.
I think you mean Ooligans rather then sardines. Dry them and light them and you have a candle, perfect for lighting up those long Lunar nights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
And the near side is also lit up by the Earth. This quite noticeable around full Earth with the dark side easily visible besides the sun lit crescent in the evening/morning.
I remember lots of hate towards the "fisher price" themed interface and lots of hatred towards XP phoning home to be validated with many people planning on sticking with 2K. Perhaps it is just confirmation bias with those hating XP noticing agreeing posts and those thinking of it as a step forward noticing posts that agreed with their viewpoint.
Here in Canada we seem to be going to the American system of elections and it is the right wing Conservative Party that is leading the way with attack ads, dirty tricks, now gutting the election officials because they feel being called out every time they break the law is partisan even though it is them breaking or skimming the edge of the law. So far the center and left have resisted dropping to the same level but as it has been shown that attack ads do work. even if total lies as it seems to be human to pay more attention to bad stuff I'm sure the center and left will be doing the same.
Until the trolls show up. Gets tiring spending more time adding things to the kill file rather then discussing. Currently most of usenet is great because the idiots are on web forums.
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Iceland? There's a few colonies such as the Falkland Islands as well.
That was how technology was then. I find it interesting as well as other things about the age, like the problems caused by all the horse shit.
Wake up. Shit is not "pollution" by any rational reckoning. Shit is plant food.
[rant on how the EPA forces us to not shit in our water supplies]
The TP has no economic sense whatsoever and are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.
Apparently fiscal responsibility is no economic sense. That doesn't even compute man.
Car analogy, fiscal responsibility is not cutting down on oil changes, putting off the tune up and still buying a nice pair of fuzzy dice to impress someone even though you are saving money.
Australians are among the most avid users of pirating websites in the world. For example, Australians accounted for 16 per cent of all illegal downloads of television program Breaking Bad.
Having never watched "Breaking Bad" I did a quick search and found it is a TV series which anyone with a Personal Video Recorder can actually copy if they wish to do so however this show is not a so called Hollywood movie and many people who have missed one or more episodes can actually catch up by going on-line and watch the shows at selected legitimate sites (a quick search will find them).
Of course you can download via torrent (no money changes hands) which I think the government would like to stop but there lies the problem, without snooping programs which can determine if a torrent download infringes copyright you have no way of knowing and ISP's would not be happy running this type of software since it would take up resources all for the sake of possibly catching an "illegal" down-loader. This type of thing would not be a vote winner.
The problem is that many TV shows can be caught up by going on-line and watching them at "legitimate" web sites. Bringing in legislation to block so called illegal torrent downloading will have an enormous voter backlash which no sane government in their right mind would want.
While it may be true that Americans can go to "legitimate" web sites, it is not true in most countries and in most countries you can't get it any other legal way either, at least in a timely manner, so no using a PVR to record.
The real solution is Netflix
Not in most countries probably including Australia.
Assuming no large satellite or the inhabitable world being a satellite or twin planet system.
It's complicated deciding how far a countries rights go in another jurisdiction. As an example is the case of Canada vs Schmidt ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... ) where some one was acquitted of kidnapping by an American federal court and then charged with child stealing in Ohio and Ohio moved for extradition. The Canadian Supreme Court found that even though in Canada it was obviously a breach of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, section 11h due to the similarity of the laws of kidnapping and child theft
11. Any person charged with an offence has the right ...
(h) if finally acquitted of the offence, not to be tried for it again and, if finally found guilty and punished for the offence, not to be tried or punished for it again;
The extradition request was granted as American law did not consider it double jeopardy and the Canadian Charter of Rights does not restrict foreign governments.
Another example is that both Canada and the USA extradite people to countries where the legal system does not recognize the presumption of innocence even though it is a basic right in both our constitutions.
Third try, the first was a hard landing in 2009 after a successful 16 month lunar oribting mission, second a repeat of the first except instead of doing a hard lunar landing, it went to L2 and then visited the asteroid 4179 Toutatis and is still going to give the Chinese experience in deep space tracking and control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
They're planning another more advanced rover then a lunar soil sample return mission in 2018. Considering this mission was mostly successful I doubt that they'll change their plans much, perhaps a bit of delay while trying to figure what failed on this mission.
Actually current Catholic teachings are that God caused the big bang which led to evolution and our current world. Not something that science can currently have a say in as it just describes the process.
The strange thing is that all these other religions so limit God that he couldn't spend 13.5 odd billion years at creation.
Well at least Hinduism creationism story has the right time scales so stands up slightly better then most.
Creationism lies within the realm of science and there are clear tests on whether it stands up to scrutiny.
Of course, as a theory, creationism fell down at the beginning of multiple science disciples. Best example is geology which started out with creationism as established fact, yet all the evidence pointed it to being wrong. The Earth was obviously very old, and all that stuff that at a quick glance supported a flood, well no, flooding did not explain it, but glaciation did.
It is just that as a theory, creationism has totally failed.
Creationism makes predictions. Young Earth where the major geological event was a global flood. Geology discounted it as a theory centuries ago by showing much evidence for an old Earth and periods of glaciation being much better explanations for observations. So what creationism is is a very good example of a failed theory, but it was the leading theory in the west until actually tested.
It's as much of a theory as the Earth being the centre of the Universe with epicycles to explain retrograde orbits of planets and stars being painted on the firmament. And just like that theory it has been thoroughly rejected.
In the case of creationism, it was rejected at the beginning of modern science. Geologists went out to study the aftereffects of the flood and it pretty quickly became obvious that the flood did not explain the Earths history and in the course of studying they came to our current theories of the origin of the Earth.
Meanwhile the study of astronomy has led to our current theory of the beginning of the Universe.
As a failed theory, creationism belongs right besides the theories such as everything rotating around the Earth, spontaneous formation of life, as in maggots just appearing in rotting meat, fresh air making people sick and such.
They all served as early points in science and as theories they fell really quick as they were so divorced from reality.
Actually I'd guess creationism agrees with Muslim beliefs in a general way. Their religion does include a different translation of the Bible, they consider Adam a prophet along with Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. Basically they just have a different interpretation along with an extra book as the Christians or 2 books compared to the Jews, along with various supporting texts.
Of course there are thousands of religions that don't agree with the Judeo Christian thing, all that at least at one point, believed their story was true.
A lot of things have gone up 4x faster then inflation.
I think you mean Ooligans rather then sardines. Dry them and light them and you have a candle, perfect for lighting up those long Lunar nights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
There would be concentrations around some meteor strikes. Even on Earth some of the best nickel mines are old meteorite sites.
And the near side is also lit up by the Earth. This quite noticeable around full Earth with the dark side easily visible besides the sun lit crescent in the evening/morning.
So you'd rather get on the bad side of the Mafia or perhaps the Mexican drug cartels?
I remember lots of hate towards the "fisher price" themed interface and lots of hatred towards XP phoning home to be validated with many people planning on sticking with 2K.
Perhaps it is just confirmation bias with those hating XP noticing agreeing posts and those thinking of it as a step forward noticing posts that agreed with their viewpoint.
Try loading it on a slow connection.
Here in Canada we seem to be going to the American system of elections and it is the right wing Conservative Party that is leading the way with attack ads, dirty tricks, now gutting the election officials because they feel being called out every time they break the law is partisan even though it is them breaking or skimming the edge of the law.
So far the center and left have resisted dropping to the same level but as it has been shown that attack ads do work. even if total lies as it seems to be human to pay more attention to bad stuff I'm sure the center and left will be doing the same.
Until the trolls show up. Gets tiring spending more time adding things to the kill file rather then discussing. Currently most of usenet is great because the idiots are on web forums.