"If it is intended to send a warning, why do something (spread radiation around London) that causes vast expense and will seriously annoy the UK government?"
The UK government had given Litvienko citizenship shortly before Litvienko was killed. It is possible that this annoyed the killer. The killer may then have decided to handle the annoyance by spreading mild radioactivity everywhere he went in England.
I mean, if the UK hadn't spotted the polonium in Litvienko (slightly too late), they likely wouldn't have spotted polonium anywhere else! We have 120 mildly contaminated Brits now. How many more if no one had thought to decontaminate certain places?
I think he's saying that if you mail a large quantity of polonium, and the postal service is slow, then when it reaches its destination it will have "fizzled" so much that it will no longer be polonium.
You do realize how small the lethal dose of polonium is?
For the CCTV cameras to see the polonium, they would need the zoom capability of CSI's CCTV cameras.
They'd have done about as well with a Geiger counter.
When the 21st Amendment ending Prohibition was passed, it was determined to be the final word on the subject of federally banning alcohol. When they made the list of controlled substances act, Class I (the drugs banned outright) contained drugs which, according to the Feds, were highly addictive, had bad side effects, had no legit medical uses, and were not alcohol!
Tobacco is harder to explain or justify. The reasoning I heard on it was that the gov. can't make tobacco illegal because the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has a mandate to regulate tobacco. You can't regulate a substance that has been banned outright; anyone trying to legalize drugs that are currently illegal will tell you this.
I have not watched the video because I have a general policy of not watching videos online.
Why am I replying anyway? Because I am reasonably sure that the 16th Amendment of the Constitution is, in fact, in the Constitution. Therefore, the taxes it authorizes are, in fact, authorized by the Constitution.
Let me guess which taxes you think are authorized: sales & property?
I'm not saying that the gov. couldn't decide the 16th Amendment is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court pretty much did that to the 9th Amendment when Rehnquist said that the existence of unenumerated rights didn't require the courts to consider what those rights might be. But it looks unlikely from where I sit that the 16th will get that treatment.
I wonder what flying a spacecraft through an aurora would do to the aurora?
I am reasonably certain that flying a spacecraft through an aurora would do something to it. But would it amplify the aurora for those of us on earth, or kill it?
They sell caffiene-free Dr Pepper. Regular CF Dr Pepper comes in gold boxes or bottles. Diet CF Dr Pepper (easier to find, and one of my drinks of choice) comes in white boxes or bottles with gold lettering.
The iTunes Store is a website. The iTunes Manager integrates access to the iTunes Store into its software; if you're always online, then it'll look like the Store is a feature of the managing software app.
They did ban proprietary auto parts--or rather, they banned the system that allowed only automakers to make parts for the cars they made. This is what makes NAPA and Jiffylube possible.
Proprietary razor blades are patented. Patented works are closed only temporarily. Once, only Gillette could sell blades for the Trac II; now, anyone can. Twenty years from now, anyone will be able to sell blades for the Gillette Fusion.
(If Fairplay is patented, it shouldn't be. Software patents are wrong.)
Exactly what do you mean by "proprietary kitchen appliances"?
"Change of contract terms" actually is somewhat relevant.
One set of contract terms Apple Inc. has been known to change is what the user is allowed to do with Fairplay trax. The number of authorizable computers has gone down from what it was originally. You can't burn any given playlist as often as you once could. Judging from comments elsewhere, you used to be able to change Fairplay AACs to non-DRMed MP3s without ripping&replacing, but can't with the most recent vs.
There is a risk if Apple is left alone. If Apple, through tie-ins and light DRM and its iTunes experience, ever becomes an indisputable monopoly--or at least as close to indisputable as Microsoft is--it could pick that time to tighten the DRM significantly...
"What's to stop a competing company opening up a movie theater, and showing different movies?"
A small town generally doesn't have enough movie-going population to support more than one theatre. The demand for entertainment and the supply of resources to be spent on it are finite. Small towns will have either one theater chain or none at all.
If a movie studio owns the sole theater in a small town, the town only gets that company's films. A Columbia-owned theater would never air an MGM film, no matter how big a buzz that MGM film is getting. And even the next small town with a theater might be some distance away; going there could be enough extra trouble to outweigh the benefits of seeing the MGM film there.
The analogy I gave you is based on a real oligopoly. Until the late 1940s, all theater chains were owned by movie studios. Then the US government stepped in, ruled that there was an MPAA vertical monopoly, and separated the theater chains from the studios.
The films actually were better quality on average in the days of the movie oligopolies, since filmmakers didn't have to worry about whether a theater would book the film, but there were almost no indie films back then. There's a reason that the '50s and '60s had an explosion of cheap bad films--many of those were the first independent films. Now, movie fans cherish indie films.
I'll admit it--if the iTunes Store and its experience were shut down, the music-buying experience would become more chaotic and awkward. But it would make it easier for stores like eMusic and Magnatune to hit the popular consciousness.
If some organization has been using Polonium routinely for untraceable executions, then the UK had better start keeping better stats on its cancer and immune-disorder cases. That organization seems out to get the UK for harboring expatriate Russkis...
Why would the UK expect it anyway? It was known from the beginning that Russia does not extradite its citizens.
If the UK is lucky, Russia will try Lugovoi. If they aren't, Russia will ask to try Berezovsky for this murder. (Yes, Russia is doing its own investigation...)
Well, I did hear that British Petroleum was sharing some platforms with a Russian corp. Maybe BP can get the rest of the platforms back.
Or, Russia could simply give the UK St. Petersburg. Remove the Russian citizens first, since Russia cannot legally extradite anyone, but leave the artwork and ships.
Pity that Chernobyl is in the Ukraine...
They will shake and jiggle. They will cause minor earthquakes. And then they will eat more because they're hoping that the caffiene will burn off the calories in the donuts.
The music industry requires that Apple use DRM.
The music industry does not require that Apple's DRM work only on players made by Apple.
Rip& replace requires format shifting. In places where format-shifting is illegal (which include parts of Europe), iTunes Fairplay only working in iPods is lock-in.
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"Let's say I have a computer with Windows on it. I buy many commerical Windows software packages and enjoy them and all is rosy. Then five years later my CPU dies, so I look at what else is available. There are some nice computers from Apple, but, trouble is, I can't run any of my Windows programs on them! My locked to Windows!!!"
You are aware that more than one government has sued Microsoft over that lock-in? MS got off with a wrist-slap in America, but lawsuits are still boiling in the EU. So if Apple Inc.'s situation with iTunes actually is like MS's with Windows, then it's no wonder that Norway is on the warpath.
Norway wants to stop Apple now, before the music-player analogue to Commodore gets driven out of business.
"Also, why should companies using DRM be forced to license it?"
Because if a corp. using DRM doesn't license it and is succeessful anyway, there is a risk of vertical monopoly.
It's like if the most popular movies in your (small) town are all from Columbia because Columbia owns the local theater and won't let it play anyone else's movies. You can always get around it by driving to the next small town, which has only MGM movies, or to the big and distant city with more than one theater chain, but it's inconvenient.
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"If it is intended to send a warning, why do something (spread radiation around London) that causes vast expense and will seriously annoy the UK government?"
The UK government had given Litvienko citizenship shortly before Litvienko was killed. It is possible that this annoyed the killer. The killer may then have decided to handle the annoyance by spreading mild radioactivity everywhere he went in England.
I mean, if the UK hadn't spotted the polonium in Litvienko (slightly too late), they likely wouldn't have spotted polonium anywhere else! We have 120 mildly contaminated Brits now. How many more if no one had thought to decontaminate certain places?
I think he's saying that if you mail a large quantity of polonium, and the postal service is slow, then when it reaches its destination it will have "fizzled" so much that it will no longer be polonium.
You do realize how small the lethal dose of polonium is?
For the CCTV cameras to see the polonium, they would need the zoom capability of CSI's CCTV cameras.
They'd have done about as well with a Geiger counter.
When the 21st Amendment ending Prohibition was passed, it was determined to be the final word on the subject of federally banning alcohol. When they made the list of controlled substances act, Class I (the drugs banned outright) contained drugs which, according to the Feds, were highly addictive, had bad side effects, had no legit medical uses, and were not alcohol!
Tobacco is harder to explain or justify. The reasoning I heard on it was that the gov. can't make tobacco illegal because the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has a mandate to regulate tobacco. You can't regulate a substance that has been banned outright; anyone trying to legalize drugs that are currently illegal will tell you this.
I have not watched the video because I have a general policy of not watching videos online.
Why am I replying anyway? Because I am reasonably sure that the 16th Amendment of the Constitution is, in fact, in the Constitution. Therefore, the taxes it authorizes are, in fact, authorized by the Constitution.
Let me guess which taxes you think are authorized: sales & property?
I'm not saying that the gov. couldn't decide the 16th Amendment is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court pretty much did that to the 9th Amendment when Rehnquist said that the existence of unenumerated rights didn't require the courts to consider what those rights might be. But it looks unlikely from where I sit that the 16th will get that treatment.
Closer to the equator is better for getting spacecraft into space. It is, however, far worse for flying into the aurora borealis.
I wonder what flying a spacecraft through an aurora would do to the aurora?
I am reasonably certain that flying a spacecraft through an aurora would do something to it. But would it amplify the aurora for those of us on earth, or kill it?
They sell caffiene-free Dr Pepper. Regular CF Dr Pepper comes in gold boxes or bottles. Diet CF Dr Pepper (easier to find, and one of my drinks of choice) comes in white boxes or bottles with gold lettering.
Read: "people on the internet who are suspected to be cheating on their taxes."
Never mind the IRS. What are you planning to do if the FBI finds out about your gambling winnings?
The iTunes Store is a website. The iTunes Manager integrates access to the iTunes Store into its software; if you're always online, then it'll look like the Store is a feature of the managing software app.
Yep--assuming Microsoft actually opens it in Norway before allowing a third-party Zune.
They did ban proprietary auto parts--or rather, they banned the system that allowed only automakers to make parts for the cars they made. This is what makes NAPA and Jiffylube possible.
Proprietary razor blades are patented. Patented works are closed only temporarily. Once, only Gillette could sell blades for the Trac II; now, anyone can. Twenty years from now, anyone will be able to sell blades for the Gillette Fusion.
(If Fairplay is patented, it shouldn't be. Software patents are wrong.)
Exactly what do you mean by "proprietary kitchen appliances"?
"Change of contract terms" actually is somewhat relevant.
One set of contract terms Apple Inc. has been known to change is what the user is allowed to do with Fairplay trax. The number of authorizable computers has gone down from what it was originally. You can't burn any given playlist as often as you once could. Judging from comments elsewhere, you used to be able to change Fairplay AACs to non-DRMed MP3s without ripping&replacing, but can't with the most recent vs.
There is a risk if Apple is left alone. If Apple, through tie-ins and light DRM and its iTunes experience, ever becomes an indisputable monopoly--or at least as close to indisputable as Microsoft is--it could pick that time to tighten the DRM significantly...
No, I wasn't. Sorry.
"What's to stop a competing company opening up a movie theater, and showing different movies?"
A small town generally doesn't have enough movie-going population to support more than one theatre. The demand for entertainment and the supply of resources to be spent on it are finite. Small towns will have either one theater chain or none at all.
If a movie studio owns the sole theater in a small town, the town only gets that company's films. A Columbia-owned theater would never air an MGM film, no matter how big a buzz that MGM film is getting. And even the next small town with a theater might be some distance away; going there could be enough extra trouble to outweigh the benefits of seeing the MGM film there.
The analogy I gave you is based on a real oligopoly. Until the late 1940s, all theater chains were owned by movie studios. Then the US government stepped in, ruled that there was an MPAA vertical monopoly, and separated the theater chains from the studios.
The films actually were better quality on average in the days of the movie oligopolies, since filmmakers didn't have to worry about whether a theater would book the film, but there were almost no indie films back then. There's a reason that the '50s and '60s had an explosion of cheap bad films--many of those were the first independent films. Now, movie fans cherish indie films.
I'll admit it--if the iTunes Store and its experience were shut down, the music-buying experience would become more chaotic and awkward. But it would make it easier for stores like eMusic and Magnatune to hit the popular consciousness.
If some organization has been using Polonium routinely for untraceable executions, then the UK had better start keeping better stats on its cancer and immune-disorder cases. That organization seems out to get the UK for harboring expatriate Russkis...
Why would the UK expect it anyway? It was known from the beginning that Russia does not extradite its citizens.
If the UK is lucky, Russia will try Lugovoi. If they aren't, Russia will ask to try Berezovsky for this murder. (Yes, Russia is doing its own investigation...)
Well, I did hear that British Petroleum was sharing some platforms with a Russian corp. Maybe BP can get the rest of the platforms back.
Or, Russia could simply give the UK St. Petersburg. Remove the Russian citizens first, since Russia cannot legally extradite anyone, but leave the artwork and ships.
Pity that Chernobyl is in the Ukraine...
And with the iTunes Store you have to use an iTunes manager or go without. You can't buy iTunes trax from the Windows Media Player.
They will shake and jiggle. They will cause minor earthquakes. And then they will eat more because they're hoping that the caffiene will burn off the calories in the donuts.
The music industry requires that Apple use DRM.
The music industry does not require that Apple's DRM work only on players made by Apple.
Rip& replace requires format shifting. In places where format-shifting is illegal (which include parts of Europe), iTunes Fairplay only working in iPods is lock-in.
"Let's say I have a computer with Windows on it. I buy many commerical Windows software packages and enjoy them and all is rosy. Then five years later my CPU dies, so I look at what else is available. There are some nice computers from Apple, but, trouble is, I can't run any of my Windows programs on them! My locked to Windows!!!"
You are aware that more than one government has sued Microsoft over that lock-in? MS got off with a wrist-slap in America, but lawsuits are still boiling in the EU. So if Apple Inc.'s situation with iTunes actually is like MS's with Windows, then it's no wonder that Norway is on the warpath.
Norway wants to stop Apple now, before the music-player analogue to Commodore gets driven out of business.
"Also, why should companies using DRM be forced to license it?"
Because if a corp. using DRM doesn't license it and is succeessful anyway, there is a risk of vertical monopoly.
It's like if the most popular movies in your (small) town are all from Columbia because Columbia owns the local theater and won't let it play anyone else's movies. You can always get around it by driving to the next small town, which has only MGM movies, or to the big and distant city with more than one theater chain, but it's inconvenient.
In nature, tigers are Eurasian.
I'll bet Kansas has more tigers than Kenya does.