Yes. But you are the one who's gonna have to call the cops. I mean, for all the cops know, your neighbor might just be borrowing all those things with your permission. You're the one who has to tell them otherwise.
To put it another way: the reason copyright-infringing material isn't taken down without a request from the owner is because copyright owners can enforce copyright selectively. A copyright owner can willingly choose to ignore that some site has put its work up without asking it first; if it does, then the material is legal and should not be taken down!
The report implies that the tropical glaciers are all receding. And there are probably fewer of them, so it ought to be easier to tell. But it could be wrong.
Of course, I hear that there's a glacier advancing in New Zealand. Maybe it's tropical.
If all the tropical glaciers are receding, then that means the tropics are getting warmer, regardless of whether the poles are warming or prepping for a "Day After Tomorrow" snowstorm.
"Neither you, Simon, nor the fifty thousand,
Nor the Romans, nor the Jews,
Nor Judas, nor the priests, nor the law-giving scribes,
Nor even doomed Jerusalem itself
Understand what power is,
Understand what glory is,
Understand at all--
Understand at all."
--from Jesus Christ Superstar
I thought the UK was always on DST. Are you saying they are piling a second DST (aka "Summer Time") on top of the first?!
If so, then we have an argument not to make permanent DST in America...
The rule, until this year, was "spring forward, fall back." When DST starts, the clock goes from 1:59am to 3:00am; when it ends, you get two 1:00-1:59 ams (or 2:00-2:59 ams--I'm loose on timing with the clocks that I manually change).
I dislike the change of the start of DST because it now starts before the vernal equinox. This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't unofficially decided in my area that spring starts at the vernal equinox. "Late winter forward" is not a nice mnemonic.
Oops. What I mean is, the only day there could be "six" hours between 0100 and 0600 is the day DST ends. So there will be a problem--but only if the local timezone doesn't change. Since we're trying to get these patches in before DST starts...
They probably fixed the year when they applied the DST patch. I'll bet that for many users, having the correct hour is far more important than having the correct year.
Rules of "ground clearance" for cars:
Any given car must be raised a certain distance above level ground/pavement to be street-legal. In other words, your car must not have side panels or bumpers--or worse, the undercarriage--mere inches from the ground.
I'm not sure about the reason for these rules, but I think it's in part so that a municipality can install full speedbumps without ripping some local car's undercarriage out. I do suspect that there are valid safety reasons to be invoked for such regs. (Pet peeve of mine: SUVs which have 4-wheel drive, but too little ground clearance to go off-road. Unfortunately, they only have on-road ground-clearance rules.)
And MS, marketing genius that it is, is trying to make Vista VM-proof and emulator-proof. People who want to develop for Vista may have no choice but to have a computer with actual Genuine Windows Vista(TM) actually installed on it.
OEMs stopped shipping new computers with XP a few days before Vista was released. There were a few days when big-box computer stores had no MS computers on the shelves because Vista would be released later that week!
You cannot get OEM XP-computers from large stores now--just Vista, OSX, or FreeDOS.
According to your Tim Hortons Wiki article, Tim Hortons was owned by Wendy's (run by Dave Thompson) for a while. I think it's obvious that Wendy's isn't 100% Canadian.
The problem is that this sequence of events has happened before:
1. Parent buys kid game without checking rating--let's say it's "M."
2. Parent discovers that game is far messier than she thought.
3. Parent or advocacy group starts campaign to make retail distribution, or even manufacturing, of messy or "M"-rated games difficult, without mentioning that originally the parent gave the kid the game.
It's okay for parents to ignore ratings if they don't think the ratings necc. or accurate. It's not okay for parents to ignore ratings and then try to legally punish the game designer or retailer for rating games accurately.
But musicians don't own the content. The average record label's contract gives the copyright of all the recordings to the label. Musicians might own some copyrights to the compositions they record, if they write their own work, but they don't own the rights to the recordings.
I believe that the money the RIAA labels pays artists is better than nothing. But it's not much better than nothing, aside from the perks. The perks are excellent, but they come out of the artist's share of record sales, even when they aren't the artist's idea.
Can't that be fixed? Can't some Hollywood production company fund cheap films in Germany to increase the number of films (absolute & American)? Maybe even sneak in some American propoganda? If that worked in France, why not in Germany?
We're not talking about "data." We're talking about a shiny plastic disc, its content, and other copies of the content of that disc.
Is any argument saying that any given shiny plastic disc can be played in only one player at a time fallacious?
I dislike the laws against making copies of CDs for friends, too. But even given that copying is not stealing, it's still copying. After you copy your CD, there is one more material instance of its music than before you copied it--usually on another shiny disc, a hard disk, or a memory card.
Okay. What (besides leave the RIAA) should the Dixie Chicks have done when their crack about being ashamed of GW Bush lost them most of their original fanbase? It doesn't look like they backed down politically--so what am I missing?
The Republicans were not the party of strong military defense before Reagan because Nixon had to promise to get our troops out of Vietnam to get elected, at least the first time. (The troops left Vietnam approx. when he left office, or maybe a lil' later.)
Before WWII, Republicans were both socially and fiscally conservative for the most part, and more the latter. Teddy Roosevelt was actually a social radical, but he left the Republican party around 1912 or so. Coolidge and Hoover left the invisible hand alone for the most part. (What party was Smoot and Hawley in, and are protectionist tariffs fiscally conservative or fiscally radical?)
After 1960, Kennedy effectively made the Democratic Party the party of civil rights. Southerners started switching parties from Democrat to Republican around then, and they made the Republican Party socially conservative. I'm not sure who was the first Republican to be fiscally radical: maybe Reagan, but it could've been as early as Nixon. I mean, foreign military quagmires and wiretapping weren't much cheaper then than they are now.
I think that Senator Brownback doesn't know what he's really suggesting here but is still trying to boost his popularity among people who dislike most modern videogames. I mean, his hometown (outside DC) is about ten to fifteen miles from the nearest real grocery store--and I do mean the entire town.
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Yes. But you are the one who's gonna have to call the cops. I mean, for all the cops know, your neighbor might just be borrowing all those things with your permission. You're the one who has to tell them otherwise.
To put it another way: the reason copyright-infringing material isn't taken down without a request from the owner is because copyright owners can enforce copyright selectively. A copyright owner can willingly choose to ignore that some site has put its work up without asking it first; if it does, then the material is legal and should not be taken down!
Oh, that giant snowstorm starting to form over the Arctic should get your beer nice and frozen...
The report implies that the tropical glaciers are all receding. And there are probably fewer of them, so it ought to be easier to tell. But it could be wrong.
Of course, I hear that there's a glacier advancing in New Zealand. Maybe it's tropical.
If all the tropical glaciers are receding, then that means the tropics are getting warmer, regardless of whether the poles are warming or prepping for a "Day After Tomorrow" snowstorm.
"Neither you, Simon, nor the fifty thousand,
Nor the Romans, nor the Jews,
Nor Judas, nor the priests, nor the law-giving scribes,
Nor even doomed Jerusalem itself
Understand what power is,
Understand what glory is,
Understand at all--
Understand at all."
--from Jesus Christ Superstar
I thought the UK was always on DST. Are you saying they are piling a second DST (aka "Summer Time") on top of the first?!
If so, then we have an argument not to make permanent DST in America...
The rule, until this year, was "spring forward, fall back." When DST starts, the clock goes from 1:59am to 3:00am; when it ends, you get two 1:00-1:59 ams (or 2:00-2:59 ams--I'm loose on timing with the clocks that I manually change).
I dislike the change of the start of DST because it now starts before the vernal equinox. This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't unofficially decided in my area that spring starts at the vernal equinox. "Late winter forward" is not a nice mnemonic.
Oops. What I mean is, the only day there could be "six" hours between 0100 and 0600 is the day DST ends. So there will be a problem--but only if the local timezone doesn't change. Since we're trying to get these patches in before DST starts...
No, no, no. If 0600 is 6 am UTC, then 0100 means 1 am, not midnight!
They probably fixed the year when they applied the DST patch. I'll bet that for many users, having the correct hour is far more important than having the correct year.
Rules of "ground clearance" for cars:
Any given car must be raised a certain distance above level ground/pavement to be street-legal. In other words, your car must not have side panels or bumpers--or worse, the undercarriage--mere inches from the ground.
I'm not sure about the reason for these rules, but I think it's in part so that a municipality can install full speedbumps without ripping some local car's undercarriage out. I do suspect that there are valid safety reasons to be invoked for such regs. (Pet peeve of mine: SUVs which have 4-wheel drive, but too little ground clearance to go off-road. Unfortunately, they only have on-road ground-clearance rules.)
And MS, marketing genius that it is, is trying to make Vista VM-proof and emulator-proof. People who want to develop for Vista may have no choice but to have a computer with actual Genuine Windows Vista(TM) actually installed on it.
OEMs stopped shipping new computers with XP a few days before Vista was released. There were a few days when big-box computer stores had no MS computers on the shelves because Vista would be released later that week!
You cannot get OEM XP-computers from large stores now--just Vista, OSX, or FreeDOS.
"And don't ever forget
A stranger's just a friend you haven't met!"
--From Streetcar! (the play, not the episode name)
According to your Tim Hortons Wiki article, Tim Hortons was owned by Wendy's (run by Dave Thompson) for a while. I think it's obvious that Wendy's isn't 100% Canadian.
The problem is that this sequence of events has happened before:
1. Parent buys kid game without checking rating--let's say it's "M."
2. Parent discovers that game is far messier than she thought.
3. Parent or advocacy group starts campaign to make retail distribution, or even manufacturing, of messy or "M"-rated games difficult, without mentioning that originally the parent gave the kid the game.
It's okay for parents to ignore ratings if they don't think the ratings necc. or accurate. It's not okay for parents to ignore ratings and then try to legally punish the game designer or retailer for rating games accurately.
Thanks for the correction. 8-)
Yes. Halliburton & KBR come to mind.
But musicians don't own the content. The average record label's contract gives the copyright of all the recordings to the label. Musicians might own some copyrights to the compositions they record, if they write their own work, but they don't own the rights to the recordings.
I believe that the money the RIAA labels pays artists is better than nothing. But it's not much better than nothing, aside from the perks. The perks are excellent, but they come out of the artist's share of record sales, even when they aren't the artist's idea.
Can't that be fixed? Can't some Hollywood production company fund cheap films in Germany to increase the number of films (absolute & American)? Maybe even sneak in some American propoganda? If that worked in France, why not in Germany?
We're not talking about "data." We're talking about a shiny plastic disc, its content, and other copies of the content of that disc.
Is any argument saying that any given shiny plastic disc can be played in only one player at a time fallacious?
I dislike the laws against making copies of CDs for friends, too. But even given that copying is not stealing, it's still copying. After you copy your CD, there is one more material instance of its music than before you copied it--usually on another shiny disc, a hard disk, or a memory card.
But Americans already speak English...
Okay. What (besides leave the RIAA) should the Dixie Chicks have done when their crack about being ashamed of GW Bush lost them most of their original fanbase? It doesn't look like they backed down politically--so what am I missing?
Well, we can't prove they do. All the nukes in Canada have been carefully hidden inside suitcases, and none of them are government-registered.
The Republicans were not the party of strong military defense before Reagan because Nixon had to promise to get our troops out of Vietnam to get elected, at least the first time. (The troops left Vietnam approx. when he left office, or maybe a lil' later.)
Before WWII, Republicans were both socially and fiscally conservative for the most part, and more the latter. Teddy Roosevelt was actually a social radical, but he left the Republican party around 1912 or so. Coolidge and Hoover left the invisible hand alone for the most part. (What party was Smoot and Hawley in, and are protectionist tariffs fiscally conservative or fiscally radical?)
After 1960, Kennedy effectively made the Democratic Party the party of civil rights. Southerners started switching parties from Democrat to Republican around then, and they made the Republican Party socially conservative. I'm not sure who was the first Republican to be fiscally radical: maybe Reagan, but it could've been as early as Nixon. I mean, foreign military quagmires and wiretapping weren't much cheaper then than they are now.
I think that Senator Brownback doesn't know what he's really suggesting here but is still trying to boost his popularity among people who dislike most modern videogames. I mean, his hometown (outside DC) is about ten to fifteen miles from the nearest real grocery store--and I do mean the entire town.