...and local law trumps EU law... Wrong.
The primacy of EU law over national law is explicit in the EU treaties to which all member countries are signatories. National laws must be amended and regulations recodified to comply with EU law (causing a certain amount of obscene posturing and squealing by local politicians).
Translation: "Get buggered, buyer; get fucked, customer."
A new motto which might suit the RIAA/MPAA.
[Actually adapted from an admonition of Priapus, the biggest dick among the Roman gods]
Play more poker. Or just spend your time ogling any fellow-travellers who look cute. It's easier to avoid suspect behaviour by doing something relatively normal.
nor did it provide keys to unlock the cryptic codes used in the dataset
I'm going to print out the PDF and mastrbate to it Wow, so you figured out it was encrypted porn!
Is it just me or can anyone see a single country with this rating? Yes, it's called NoneOfTheAbove, but that country was inadvertently omitted from the report.
Interestingly NoneOfTheAbove is also the name of the candidate I want to vote for in just about every election, but that candidate is inadvertently omitted from the ballot every time.
And I hate lobstah... Not surprising. I spent a deal of time in Maine, and all that was on offer was boiled lobster with melted butter or dollop of mayo. Gets to be quite uninspiring after a while, especially when some places overcook the poor crustacean. Have you tried homard a la broche, or homard thermidor, or homard armoricaine instead? Quebec is very close to Maine...
There is much research being done on the effects of combined constellations with GPS,GLONASS, Galileo and the Chinese Compass system. The Finnish survey office (Maanmittauslaitos) already uses receivers which use both GPS and GLONASS simultaneously. The fellow who came to measure the coordinates of our land (recently divided from a neighbour's farm) a few months ago said that his equipment used any combination of satellites, but 1 GPS was equivalent to 2 GLONAS in terms of contribution to accuracy. The accuracy required for the maps was about 10cm, which apparently needed the equivalent of 8 GPS signals simultaneously. So combinations of 7 GPS + 2 GLONAS, or 6 GPS + 4 GLONAS, and so forth would be OK.
Consider this, you could pave a 4 lane highway from New York to LA with 1GB flash drives and that road still wouldn't have enough space to hold three exabytes. I considered it and came to a different conclusion.
The distance from New York to Los Angeles is 3930km (great circle route, longer by a real road, of course). A four lane highway is about 15m wide (two lanes each way, wider if there's a hard shoulder or median). Total area of this road is 609150000m^2. A compact flash card is 43mm by 36mm giving an area of 0.001548m^2, so paving the road would require 393507751938 of them. For 1GB CF cards, that would be 393½ exabytes, so you were only out by a factor of 132.
Of course, if 32GB microSDHC (11mm by 15mm) cards were used instead of 1GB CF cards, then paving the road would need 300.2 times as much storage, or a total of 118 zettabytes.
Hang 'em high--after all, they can then say their penis pills caused them to he hung (yeah, hanged, I know, I know). No need to hang them. Poetic justice would suggest making their penises rapidly smaller. This might require cruel and unusual methods, unless suitably fast-acting pills are available...
There's some tough competition when it comes to "most stupid politicans in the world". Do French right wingers have some special advantage, like negative IQs? FYI, a politician's IQ can only be expressed using imaginary numbers. Stiff competition indeed.
Aside from Tibet, how many countries has China invaded in the last 50 years? In addition to invading and annexing Tibet in 1950 (that's 57 years ago, BTW), and invading Korea later the same year, China has:
Invaded Burma in 1956 (OK, 51 years ago), but was driven back by the Burmese forces. Invaded India in 1962 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War, annexing parts of Aksai Chin and Arunchal Pradesh. China claims both these regions in their entirety, and hostilities recurred along the line of control in 1987.
And ironicly, you can't really remove IE, since it is "Part of the Operating System (tm)". You can only make it somewhat invisible, which of course, is the second part of the definition of malware. Someone thinks otherwise http://nixedblog.thenixedreport.com/?p=111. I don't have any windows boxes, so I have no idea whether that method would actually work. It might just open a different can of worms, viruses, trojans, spies, bots, etc.
I look forward to using them in the Paperless Office we'll all have. Experience has shown that the paperless office is as useful as a paperless toilet. Business operations go much better with a sufficient supply of paper.
I'm surprised so many of you in the US have plans around $60/month. I pay 14 euros/month for basic service, but it's plenty enough airtime In Finland, I have basic service for eur0.66 per month, and pay eur0.04 per SMS message and eur0.04 per minute for calls to the same network (same price day or night, all week). In US currency, that would be about $1 per month and $0.05 per SMS or minute. The only time my monthly bill exceeds a few euro is if there are international calls or if I make calls while abroad.
US/UK/Canadian cell phone fees are a major rip off. My service has a basic fee of eur0.66 per month, and it costs eur 0.069 per minute or per text message. The startup fee is eur2.90 http://www.dnafinland.fi/showPrivateProductSubscription.do?selectedMenuItem=AAA0dnaOnni To reach a monthly total of eur15 (about $20), I'd need to blather for 200 minutes per month.
A laser from a DVD burner is 200-250mW or thereabouts. You can legally (in the US, anyway) buy ready-made laser "pointers" of comparable power. For example, wickedlasers.com sells the handheld 200-300mW Spyder II GX green laser with 1.5mm diameter beam and beam divergence below 0.8 mrad. Red lasers up to 125mW and blue lasers up to 30mW are also available.
No, I don't have one. They're almost certainly illegal in my country.
Forget the trucks, 747s, sharks and other clumsy platforms. Forget the incoming missiles, RPGs, seagulls, and other worthless targets. I want a version which fits on my baseball cap and which tracks and zaps mosquitos...
UBC has a telescope whose primary reflector is a spinning liquid mercury mirror http://www.astro.ubc.ca/LMT. It forms a paraboloidal reflective surface, which is one of the optimal reflector shapes, but can only be aimed at the zenith. A larger (6m diameter) version is being constructed for installation at the same facility near Vancouver.
Smaller liquid-mirror telescopes were designed in the late 19th century, and a 51cm diameter example was built in the early 20th century (by Robert Wood) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Wood. Wood's design suffered from intermittent ripples on the surface, but performed well at other times.
At least Canada is closer than the Moon, and easier to get to (not necessarily less inhospitable, of course).
5,443,036 Method of exercising a cat [using a laser pointer] 6,025,810 Hyper-light-speed antenna [claims communication faster than light!!!] 6,368,227 Method of swinging on a swing [all claims cancelled on re-examination]
There are lots more of similar utility, non-obviousness, and inventiveness. The US PTO has indeed been lax.
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Bio-sounds and bio-gas - just what society and the environment need.
...and local law trumps EU law... Wrong.The primacy of EU law over national law is explicit in the EU treaties to which all member countries are signatories. National laws must be amended and regulations recodified to comply with EU law (causing a certain amount of obscene posturing and squealing by local politicians).
Translation: "Get buggered, buyer; get fucked, customer."
A new motto which might suit the RIAA/MPAA.
[Actually adapted from an admonition of Priapus, the biggest dick among the Roman gods]
Interestingly NoneOfTheAbove is also the name of the candidate I want to vote for in just about every election, but that candidate is inadvertently omitted from the ballot every time.
Pictures included. http://mu-in-f104.google.com/search?q=cache:http%3A//www.linux-gamers.net/smartsection.item.81/comparison-of-free-software-shooters.html [There are other cache servers at google.com, try f100, f101, f102, or f103 if f104 is unresponsive]
The distance from New York to Los Angeles is 3930km (great circle route, longer by a real road, of course). A four lane highway is about 15m wide (two lanes each way, wider if there's a hard shoulder or median). Total area of this road is 609150000m^2. A compact flash card is 43mm by 36mm giving an area of 0.001548m^2, so paving the road would require 393507751938 of them. For 1GB CF cards, that would be 393½ exabytes, so you were only out by a factor of 132.
Of course, if 32GB microSDHC (11mm by 15mm) cards were used instead of 1GB CF cards, then paving the road would need 300.2 times as much storage, or a total of 118 zettabytes.
Judicious use of traditional units should be encouraged: "just wait 2/15 of an ounce!"
Invaded Burma in 1956 (OK, 51 years ago), but was driven back by the Burmese forces.
Invaded India in 1962 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War, annexing parts of Aksai Chin and Arunchal Pradesh. China claims both these regions in their entirety, and hostilities recurred along the line of control in 1987.
Fought with the Soviet Union in 1969 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict, over islands along the Amur river. Each side claimed the other started the fighting, of course.
Invaded Vietnam in 1979 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War, as a "punishment" for Vietnam's overthrowing the China-backed despot Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
What's your point? 6*9=42 (in base 13...)
US/UK/Canadian cell phone fees are a major rip off.
My service has a basic fee of eur0.66 per month, and it costs eur 0.069 per minute or per text message. The startup fee is eur2.90
http://www.dnafinland.fi/showPrivateProductSubscription.do?selectedMenuItem=AAA0dnaOnni
To reach a monthly total of eur15 (about $20), I'd need to blather for 200 minutes per month.
...and nvidia graphics!
A laser from a DVD burner is 200-250mW or thereabouts. You can legally (in the US, anyway) buy ready-made laser "pointers" of comparable power. For example, wickedlasers.com sells the handheld 200-300mW Spyder II GX green laser with 1.5mm diameter beam and beam divergence below 0.8 mrad. Red lasers up to 125mW and blue lasers up to 30mW are also available.
No, I don't have one. They're almost certainly illegal in my country.
Forget the trucks, 747s, sharks and other clumsy platforms. Forget the incoming missiles, RPGs, seagulls, and other worthless targets.
I want a version which fits on my baseball cap and which tracks and zaps mosquitos...
UBC has a telescope whose primary reflector is a spinning liquid mercury mirror http://www.astro.ubc.ca/LMT. It forms a paraboloidal reflective surface, which is one of the optimal reflector shapes, but can only be aimed at the zenith. A larger (6m diameter) version is being constructed for installation at the same facility near Vancouver.
Smaller liquid-mirror telescopes were designed in the late 19th century, and a 51cm diameter example was built in the early 20th century (by Robert Wood) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Wood. Wood's design suffered from intermittent ripples on the surface, but performed well at other times.
At least Canada is closer than the Moon, and easier to get to (not necessarily less inhospitable, of course).
5,443,036 Method of exercising a cat [using a laser pointer]
6,025,810 Hyper-light-speed antenna [claims communication faster than light!!!]
6,368,227 Method of swinging on a swing [all claims cancelled on re-examination]
There are lots more of similar utility, non-obviousness, and inventiveness. The US PTO has indeed been lax.