In Canada it is basically legal for you to copy all my music. It is illegal for me to make copies for you. I believe the courts have stretched this to where it is legal for you to download music from my computer but I can't push it to yours. Of course all the above has to be non-commercial.
On the flip side, Disney is an excellent example of a company that benefited from the public domain with most of their early hits all based on the public domain. They even went so far as delaying Jungle Book until its copyright expired. This raises the question of how many others may of had huge success by taking public domain material and basing new art of of it. Perhaps it would of been much better for society to have multiple Disney like companies making theme parks, investing in animation and who knows what else might of been thought up. As well multiple companies quite likely would see more people employed.
Actually there are 10's of thousands of people in Redmond who have a job due to piracy. Remember it was MS who encouraged pirating. I think it was Gates who said that he'd rather people run a pirated version of DOS/WINDOWS then a legitimate copy of their competitors software. If they'd of tried to stop piracy right away, perhaps by something that checks for legitimate copies of MS software and needs activation, MS would never have got so big.
There is no real reason that industrial hemp can't be highly potent and in the past there were potent varieties. Just political expediency has forced industrial hemp growers to develop low potency strains and market industrial hemp on the basis that it is totally different from psychoactive varieties. As for George Washington, he was interested in separating the male and female plants and commented on Aug 7 that he was to late. Hemp is not usually separated and seed production is usually encouraged, especially in the past as the seed oil is very valuable. Of course hemp for ingesting is much more potent if not fertilized. Cannabis has long been known for its medicinal qualities and it stands to reason that any educated person of the 18th century would of been familiar with this fact. Here is a scan from the George Washington Papers site, unluckily it was the best I could quickly find and seems to be out of a school book. http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgwd/wd01/0398.tif
You mean like rich Saudi Arabian's hiring a bunch of out of work Russian physicists? They don't need quite as much brain power as they do know it can be done and quite possibly are experienced.
Definitely not easy but the comment I was answering basically said it was impossible without supercomputers and lots of testing with live nukes. The Manhattan project proved over wise. Also what percentage of the project was devoted to the implosion device compared to just all the learning that had to be done?
I'm not trying to devalue their work. Still they were starting from the proposition that maybe an atomic explosion was possible and had to break a lot of ground. Probably most of the Manhattan was devoted to discovering how things actually work, how to collect enough fissible material etc. Where as now any organization attempting to make a nuke is starting with the knowledge that an atomic bomb is quite possible and roughly what it involves. Still major engineering and I agree that the average terrorist organization couldn't pull it of. Still I think most any industrial nation could pull it off and a very well financed organization who hired some good nuclear physicists and engineers might be able to.
One possible way around the tidal locking problem is if the habitable planet is actually a satellite of a larger planet. Or the planet has a satellite like our moon. The satellite would be tidally locked to its parent and I'd think that in a relationship like between the Earth and Moon there would be a tendency for them to get tidally locked.
What worries the various *AA's is the opposite effect. When someone downloads the next big thing and discovers it's crap so they don't but it. They would rather just have you buy everything sight unseen. It's not like you can take it back.
You're kidding. Cops taking your blood? Here in Canada they need a warrant to take your blood, a willing Doctor or qualified technician and have to take two samples so you can request one to get independently tested. The warrant is easy for them to get though, phone the magistrate or JP and get it faxed.
In Canada, if they get a search warrant for a blood test (pretty close to automatic if you're in an accident, unconscious and there is suspicion of alcohol) they have to take two samples and you have the right to ask for one and have it independently tested. Also the Doctor (or technician) can refuse to take your blood.
Reading this article http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090115-mars-methane-news.html gives the impression that they're talking months. From the article. The methane plumes started to show up in the northern hemisphere spring of Mars, gradually building up and peaking in late summer. At one point during the study, the primary plume contained about 19,000 metric tons (21,000 tons) of methane, comparable to the amount produced at the massive hydrocarbon seep at Coal Pit Point in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Short-lived
Outside of the plumes, methane concentrations were very low, showing that the gas didn't get very far or last very long in the atmosphere. In fact, its lifetime was even shorter than expected or could be explained by the usual method of methane destruction, photolysis (reaction with sunlight).
OpenOffice.org is only available for money by buying a support agreement. ( http://www.ecomstation.com/openoffice.phtml ) There is nothing wrong with this as money was required to pay the programmers who ported it. As long as anyone who buys it also gets the source code it is still meeting the GPL. It is also stated that you are free to distribute OpenOffice but I believe they ask nicely that you don't as porting costs money.
Yes, I'm all to well aware of what is happening in the UK. Unluckily I'm probably never likely to visit the nation of my birth due to this kind of bullshit. We've been lucky so far here in Canada due to a series of minority governments but I live in fear of one of these elections seeing a Majority as I'm sure the same bullshit will start getting passed here. Our current leader has managed to convince the population that the majority, who did not vote for him, getting their way is undemocratic. Insane, and the future really doesn't look very good:)
Actually it goes back further then that. One of the rights in the Bill of Rights of 1689, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Bill_of_Rights (which covered America before the war of independence) was the freedom to petition the crown, as well as various other rights that are echoed (and improved on) in the US bill of rights. eg the right to bear arms was extended from protestants to everyone and expanded from only for self defence. It's amazing how many Americans think that the Bill of Rights just appeared rather then having evolved as civilization became more civilized.
I think that was only true for American cars. I had some circa 1970 Datsun's that had quite a bit over 100K on them before they rusted out. My last couple of Nissan's ('84 and '86) had about 500,000 km on them before rusting out.
While everything else in your post looks correct, I pretty sure the Pentium was not just two 486 cores, instead being a totally different design. The Pentium Pro was also a new design which lives on with current Intel chips though it has evolved a long ways.
Your government keeps your prints when you haven't been convicted of anything? Here in Canada they take your prints upon arrest and are supposed to destroy them IIRC 6 months after acquittal.
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In Canada it is basically legal for you to copy all my music. It is illegal for me to make copies for you. I believe the courts have stretched this to where it is legal for you to download music from my computer but I can't push it to yours.
Of course all the above has to be non-commercial.
On the flip side, Disney is an excellent example of a company that benefited from the public domain with most of their early hits all based on the public domain. They even went so far as delaying Jungle Book until its copyright expired.
This raises the question of how many others may of had huge success by taking public domain material and basing new art of of it. Perhaps it would of been much better for society to have multiple Disney like companies making theme parks, investing in animation and who knows what else might of been thought up. As well multiple companies quite likely would see more people employed.
Actually there are 10's of thousands of people in Redmond who have a job due to piracy.
Remember it was MS who encouraged pirating. I think it was Gates who said that he'd rather people run a pirated version of DOS/WINDOWS then a legitimate copy of their competitors software.
If they'd of tried to stop piracy right away, perhaps by something that checks for legitimate copies of MS software and needs activation, MS would never have got so big.
There is no real reason that industrial hemp can't be highly potent and in the past there were potent varieties. Just political expediency has forced industrial hemp growers to develop low potency strains and market industrial hemp on the basis that it is totally different from psychoactive varieties.
As for George Washington, he was interested in separating the male and female plants and commented on Aug 7 that he was to late.
Hemp is not usually separated and seed production is usually encouraged, especially in the past as the seed oil is very valuable.
Of course hemp for ingesting is much more potent if not fertilized.
Cannabis has long been known for its medicinal qualities and it stands to reason that any educated person of the 18th century would of been familiar with this fact.
Here is a scan from the George Washington Papers site, unluckily it was the best I could quickly find and seems to be out of a school book. http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgwd/wd01/0398.tif
You mean like rich Saudi Arabian's hiring a bunch of out of work Russian physicists? They don't need quite as much brain power as they do know it can be done and quite possibly are experienced.
Wouldn't a federation of states also include the right of a state to leave the federation?
Definitely not easy but the comment I was answering basically said it was impossible without supercomputers and lots of testing with live nukes. The Manhattan project proved over wise. Also what percentage of the project was devoted to the implosion device compared to just all the learning that had to be done?
I'm not trying to devalue their work. Still they were starting from the proposition that maybe an atomic explosion was possible and had to break a lot of ground. Probably most of the Manhattan was devoted to discovering how things actually work, how to collect enough fissible material etc.
Where as now any organization attempting to make a nuke is starting with the knowledge that an atomic bomb is quite possible and roughly what it involves. Still major engineering and I agree that the average terrorist organization couldn't pull it of. Still I think most any industrial nation could pull it off and a very well financed organization who hired some good nuclear physicists and engineers might be able to.
And yet the first time a team of engineers tried to build one, it worked. They didn't even have a supercomputer to do simulations on.
One possible way around the tidal locking problem is if the habitable planet is actually a satellite of a larger planet. Or the planet has a satellite like our moon.
The satellite would be tidally locked to its parent and I'd think that in a relationship like between the Earth and Moon there would be a tendency for them to get tidally locked.
What worries the various *AA's is the opposite effect. When someone downloads the next big thing and discovers it's crap so they don't but it.
They would rather just have you buy everything sight unseen. It's not like you can take it back.
You're kidding. Cops taking your blood?
Here in Canada they need a warrant to take your blood, a willing Doctor or qualified technician and have to take two samples so you can request one to get independently tested.
The warrant is easy for them to get though, phone the magistrate or JP and get it faxed.
In Canada it is criminal offence to refuse to blow and the penalties are harsher
In Canada, if they get a search warrant for a blood test (pretty close to automatic if you're in an accident, unconscious and there is suspicion of alcohol) they have to take two samples and you have the right to ask for one and have it independently tested.
Also the Doctor (or technician) can refuse to take your blood.
Reading this article http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090115-mars-methane-news.html gives the impression that they're talking months. From the article.
The methane plumes started to show up in the northern hemisphere spring of Mars, gradually building up and peaking in late summer. At one point during the study, the primary plume contained about 19,000 metric tons (21,000 tons) of methane, comparable to the amount produced at the massive hydrocarbon seep at Coal Pit Point in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Short-lived
Outside of the plumes, methane concentrations were very low, showing that the gas didn't get very far or last very long in the atmosphere. In fact, its lifetime was even shorter than expected or could be explained by the usual method of methane destruction, photolysis (reaction with sunlight).
So it sounds seasonal.
It could also be older methane that has been trapped under ice and being released during the summer thaw.
OpenOffice.org is only available for money by buying a support agreement. ( http://www.ecomstation.com/openoffice.phtml ) There is nothing wrong with this as money was required to pay the programmers who ported it. As long as anyone who buys it also gets the source code it is still meeting the GPL.
It is also stated that you are free to distribute OpenOffice but I believe they ask nicely that you don't as porting costs money.
Yes, I'm all to well aware of what is happening in the UK. Unluckily I'm probably never likely to visit the nation of my birth due to this kind of bullshit. :)
We've been lucky so far here in Canada due to a series of minority governments but I live in fear of one of these elections seeing a Majority as I'm sure the same bullshit will start getting passed here. Our current leader has managed to convince the population that the majority, who did not vote for him, getting their way is undemocratic. Insane, and the future really doesn't look very good
Actually it goes back further then that. One of the rights in the Bill of Rights of 1689, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Bill_of_Rights (which covered America before the war of independence) was the freedom to petition the crown, as well as various other rights that are echoed (and improved on) in the US bill of rights. eg the right to bear arms was extended from protestants to everyone and expanded from only for self defence.
It's amazing how many Americans think that the Bill of Rights just appeared rather then having evolved as civilization became more civilized.
One of the nice things about the Apple II was that it had a mini-assembler in the monitor. No labels or anything but at least it knew the opcodes.
I think that was only true for American cars. I had some circa 1970 Datsun's that had quite a bit over 100K on them before they rusted out.
My last couple of Nissan's ('84 and '86) had about 500,000 km on them before rusting out.
While everything else in your post looks correct, I pretty sure the Pentium was not just two 486 cores, instead being a totally different design. The Pentium Pro was also a new design which lives on with current Intel chips though it has evolved a long ways.
Your government keeps your prints when you haven't been convicted of anything?
Here in Canada they take your prints upon arrest and are supposed to destroy them IIRC 6 months after acquittal.
I should add this is Canada.
My son's high school seems to have about a 50/50 ratio of PC's and Mac's. In elementary he used a Mac