Not only that, but the letter claims the infringement under penalty of perjury, then in the next sentence affirms that the entire contnets of the letter are 'without prejudice', and not guaranteed to be accurate.
I very much doubt that the employees at Jodrell live in Alderley Edge (Congleton has some lower cost housing, so they may live there), but Jodrell Bank has produced some outstanding science over the years, and costs a fraction of the ALICE type extravagance that high energy physicists fetishise about.
I've paid my taxes in too - but it's spending on multiculturalism, free houses for immigrants and the like that piss me off, not a few quid for a centre of excellence like Jodrell Bank.
Americans are allowed to live in Manchester - in fact we'd welcome any and all who have had enough of Bush and his cronies to the fragrant streets of Moss Side and Rusholme, not to mention the peculiar delights of Gorton.
The curry mile - now that would put the fear up them!
Unfortunately the RIAA isn't some isolated entity that can be vanquished, it's made up of a lot of major multi-nationals with massive amounts of resources that can be pooled from other business areas if need be.
I can't see a (rational) manager of a multinational business taking money from a profitable area of business to piss it away on what is obviously a failed business model - I foresee the big labels shutting down, or at least not producing new content unless it's by established 'artists' in whom they have a major investment.
If I were in charge of Sony, I'd be looking to sell off the music part of my business, because there just isn't the return on investment anymore.
Hopefully some complete arse of a venture capitalist would buy it, like the clueless clowns that bought EMI, and they'd piss all their money down the drain rather than mine.
How many rockets did they launch at Israeli civilians today?
Not enough, and none with serious warheads.
The rockets are a nuisance - sure, they kill the odd unlucky Israeli, but compared to the death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza, it's minimal.
Fact is, Israel should never have been recognised as a state - it was founded on terrorism against the British Mandate, and has been a terrorist state ever since.
The sooner the world wakes up and imposes some serious sanctions against the Zionists the better.
Well, Hamas is actively engaged in trying to avert war crimes - settlements in occupied territory are in fact a war crime, and the war criminals in this case are the Israelis.
I think what you meant to say was that 'not too many of the middle classes are happy...', which is true, but unfortunately for you, Venezuela is a democracy and poor people can vote too, and will continue to vote for Chavez so long as he delivers the improvements they desire.
It's a shame that he has to act against American economic interests, but don't believe everything you see on Fox.
Even in the US we don't offer Jews their own representative seat
But you do kow-tow to Israeli interests at the expense of American interests, and the Jewish representation in Congress far exceeds the proportion of Jews in the population, not to mention the disproportionate number of Jews among the neocons currently raping America.
It's called an embargo, not censorship. And it's what's necessary and just to put pressure on Cuba to stop being a vicious dictatorship and actually respect its citizens' human rights. I'm not being sarcastic.
It's what's necessary (justice has no place here) to whore to the ex-Batistaists in Florida, purely for electoral advantage.
Get a clue, Brian - there is precisely zero moral or ethical reasoning behind the embargo, and engagement with the Nationalists in Cuba would have resulted in a far more democratic and just regime rather than pushing them into the arms of the Soviets.
It's a historical mistake, just like the Balfour declaration, but slightly more limited in extent - kill the embargo, engage Cuba in trade, and see the situation improve.
The only reason why there is such a group is because there is a way to get it for practically nothing, but that way should never have existed.
Should never have existed from whose point of view?
The sharing of copyrighted material over networks was inevitable once the decision was made by the content providers to issue their material digitally - i.e. as long ago as the inception of the CD as a medium.
Personally, I neither download nor share music (more from apathy than anything else), but the business model of copyright breaks down in the digital era, and nothing short of draconian enforcement will allow that model to work this century in the same way as it did in the last.
I don't like draconian, so my opinion is that the copyright holders need to get a clue and work out some other way of adding value to their (currently very poor) product.
Added to which, ultracapacitors are easy to recharge from regenerative braking systems, so much better use can be made of the energy you store in them from an external source.
That factor alone makes them a highly attractive solution.
Relational databases: Micro DBMS (1969)
Journaling: I believe Ingres had it in the mid 70s
Parallel programming: Burroughs D825 (1962)
Distributed computing: OK - I'll concede that's fairly recent (mid 90s?), but that's more to do with networking improvements making it feasible than any other factor
Functional programming: LISP (1958)
OOP: Simula 67 (1967)
All old, old technology.
Software patents do nothing except enrich trolls and lawyers, and the fact of the matter is that people will continue to invent new ways of doing things in order to better achieve their goals, patents or not.
It's actually 83mpg imperial, hence the 70mpg figure in Wired (click on the link in the Wired article to see the UK article with the numbers in imperial).
83mpg is pretty good for a Golf-sized vehicle, but a carefully driven 2.0 TDI gets almost 70mpg on a trip, when kept within the speed limit;0)
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Which idiot makes claims like that?
I've paid my taxes in too - but it's spending on multiculturalism, free houses for immigrants and the like that piss me off, not a few quid for a centre of excellence like Jodrell Bank.
Ditto, and on a fine day I could walk up Werneth Low and see Jodrell in the distance - it's a part of my childhood that I'd hate to see go.
The curry mile - now that would put the fear up them!
Still, I keep my bottle of Cristal and my dancing feet for the news of Maggie's death :o)
Oh, and by the way - get off my lawn :P
I can't see a (rational) manager of a multinational business taking money from a profitable area of business to piss it away on what is obviously a failed business model - I foresee the big labels shutting down, or at least not producing new content unless it's by established 'artists' in whom they have a major investment.
If I were in charge of Sony, I'd be looking to sell off the music part of my business, because there just isn't the return on investment anymore.
Hopefully some complete arse of a venture capitalist would buy it, like the clueless clowns that bought EMI, and they'd piss all their money down the drain rather than mine.
But then that's just the surrealist in me :P
Not enough, and none with serious warheads.
The rockets are a nuisance - sure, they kill the odd unlucky Israeli, but compared to the death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza, it's minimal.
Fact is, Israel should never have been recognised as a state - it was founded on terrorism against the British Mandate, and has been a terrorist state ever since.
The sooner the world wakes up and imposes some serious sanctions against the Zionists the better.
Your point was what, exactly?
Wicked irony - keep it up!
The vast majority of his people are behind him.
I think what you meant to say was that 'not too many of the middle classes are happy...', which is true, but unfortunately for you, Venezuela is a democracy and poor people can vote too, and will continue to vote for Chavez so long as he delivers the improvements they desire.
It's a shame that he has to act against American economic interests, but don't believe everything you see on Fox.
But you do kow-tow to Israeli interests at the expense of American interests, and the Jewish representation in Congress far exceeds the proportion of Jews in the population, not to mention the disproportionate number of Jews among the neocons currently raping America.
It's what's necessary (justice has no place here) to whore to the ex-Batistaists in Florida, purely for electoral advantage.
Get a clue, Brian - there is precisely zero moral or ethical reasoning behind the embargo, and engagement with the Nationalists in Cuba would have resulted in a far more democratic and just regime rather than pushing them into the arms of the Soviets.
It's a historical mistake, just like the Balfour declaration, but slightly more limited in extent - kill the embargo, engage Cuba in trade, and see the situation improve.
Home Taping is Killing Music!
Ah, nostalgia...
Should never have existed from whose point of view?
The sharing of copyrighted material over networks was inevitable once the decision was made by the content providers to issue their material digitally - i.e. as long ago as the inception of the CD as a medium.
Personally, I neither download nor share music (more from apathy than anything else), but the business model of copyright breaks down in the digital era, and nothing short of draconian enforcement will allow that model to work this century in the same way as it did in the last.
I don't like draconian, so my opinion is that the copyright holders need to get a clue and work out some other way of adding value to their (currently very poor) product.
There's no picture of them on the Morgan site, but possibly the coolest thing about the concept car is the wooden seats - they look well comfy :o)
That factor alone makes them a highly attractive solution.
I won't get that damn song out of my head all afternoon now, you insensitive clod!
An a physicist would have worked it out to the first approximation - hence the skid marks.
OTOH, this would make a wickedly light version of a tinfoil hat...
It could suck cool air over your RAM before using that air to dissipate heat from the sink?
Just a thought ;P
Journaling: I believe Ingres had it in the mid 70s
Parallel programming: Burroughs D825 (1962)
Distributed computing: OK - I'll concede that's fairly recent (mid 90s?), but that's more to do with networking improvements making it feasible than any other factor
Functional programming: LISP (1958)
OOP: Simula 67 (1967)
All old, old technology.
Software patents do nothing except enrich trolls and lawyers, and the fact of the matter is that people will continue to invent new ways of doing things in order to better achieve their goals, patents or not.
Let's just go back to Plato - every time there's another anomaly, just chuck another epicycle in :P
83mpg is pretty good for a Golf-sized vehicle, but a carefully driven 2.0 TDI gets almost 70mpg on a trip, when kept within the speed limit ;0)