I volunteered to count paper and pen based ballots here in Germany. There were two separate votes to count on each ballot. It took us 90 minutes. With better preparation, it could have been done in 60 minutes. The process scales without problems.
AFAIK Article II is only relevant if the US is formally at war. Only the congress has the right to declare war, and hasn't done so since World War II. So I don't understand the whole argument about Article II. Perhaps someone from the US can enlighten me?
So the CIA could claim to have produced the terror video and demand to take it down. And YouTube would have to comply unless the terrorists send a counter notice and appear before an US court? Sounds like an easy solution to me.
The Zeppelin NT is not new. The first one was completed in 1997. Three of these Zeppelins exist and they've transported over 50.000 passengers. The only thing new is that they plan to build one in the US. It is normally built in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
When a math student I knew threw parties, there always were a lot of different sorts of beer. He pinned some sheets to the wall so that everyone could vote for their favorite kind.
If the party is not going so well, voting mechanisms are an interesting enough topic. If the party is going well, everybody is just happy that there's plenty of beer.
You mean the "Sexual and Violent Offender Registry". I recently read an article about it. Somehow I don't think that it will be effective against cyber criminals.
It's nearly a full blown computer that's first and foremost used as a phone. Where's the contradiction? One statement is about technology, the other is about usage.
No. Thompson manages the patents for the Fraunhofer institute. They have nothing to do with this. Sisvel manages another stack of patents that they claim to be relevant to the mp3 format.
Apparently, the most important of those patents is for a padding bit. The idea is to add zeros to a VBR file so that a CBR only decoder can handle the file.
... I think it would be better if they apologized for supporting dictatorships and benefiting from them (as they did in Spain for 40 years, for example). And to really drive the point home, the pope beatified the catholic "victims" of the Spanish war last fall. Most of them were fascists.
I live in Germany and sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Bin Laden had been around here. German laws forbid extraditions without adequate proof. More importantly, they also forbid extraditions in cases where the death penalty might be applied.
I'm convinced that the German government would have broken the law and extradited Bin Laden anyway. But I wonder how the US would have responded if our government acted legally in this situation.
Jury is an outrageous abuse of both democracy and legal system. It is basically a competition between lawyers who will manipulate better the ignorant randomly selected civilians. Would you make similar claims about elections? If not, what is the critical difference?
There's an interesting article by the RuneScape development team on the problems scammers and real world traders cause for the game and about possible solutions that they are implementing: http://www.runescape.com/kbase/view.ws?guid=diary06
Excerpts: The majority of bots that we ban from members have been paid for with stolen credit card numbers. Such accounts don't earn us money, they cost us money in bank refund charges.
During 2006, we banned bot and real-world trader accounts carrying RuneScape gold and items worth over 200 billion gp. During 2007, so far, we've banned over 525 billion, which has a real-world value of over $2.6 million US - that's an increase of over 250%.
In theory, this is exactly how it works in Germany. In practice, no one seems to be too interested. The counting is mostly done by teachers and other state employees that couldn't shirk the task. I recently volunteered to help out and I think everybody who cares about democracy should do so, too.
Look at it from this perspective: how much resources do you imagine the FBI is dedicating to copyright infringement given the number of embarrassing gaffes that the entertainment industry is making? The work will probably pay for itself. That's the most dangerous part of the law. Look at how many resources are being used to fight the "war on drugs".
Unlike the author of the letter claimed, creating a mix-cd for personal use is not necessarily copyright infringement. Follow the link in the article and you'll see the author admitting that he was misinformed.
However, AFAIK it would have been illegal if the songs came from copy restricted ("protected") media.
Wow. That is like a keyboard with a keyboard template _stuck_on_ . I guess you can get around that patent by providing a regular cardboard keyboard template and some glue. Or maybe a self-adhesive template.
There is a petition against the Vorratsdatenspeicherung with an unusual amount of signatures. Wolgang Schäuble called it "größte Verfassungsbeschwerde aller Zeiten" (greatest petition of all times) in allusion to the term "größter Feldherr aller Zeiten - GröFaZ" (greatest leader of all times). Schäuble has received more criticism for this pun than for all the outrageous and unconstitutional ideas he presented (like killing suspected terrorists without a trial). I can only presume that the nick is an allusion to this incident.
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I volunteered to count paper and pen based ballots here in Germany. There were two separate votes to count on each ballot. It took us 90 minutes. With better preparation, it could have been done in 60 minutes. The process scales without problems.
AFAIK you're free to refuse. But you won't be allowed to enter the US.
AFAIK Article II is only relevant if the US is formally at war. Only the congress has the right to declare war, and hasn't done so since World War II.
So I don't understand the whole argument about Article II. Perhaps someone from the US can enlighten me?
So the CIA could claim to have produced the terror video and demand to take it down. And YouTube would have to comply unless the terrorists send a counter notice and appear before an US court? Sounds like an easy solution to me.
The Zeppelin NT is not new. The first one was completed in 1997. Three of these Zeppelins exist and they've transported over 50.000 passengers. The only thing new is that they plan to build one in the US. It is normally built in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
When a math student I knew threw parties, there always were a lot of different sorts of beer. He pinned some sheets to the wall so that everyone could vote for their favorite kind.
If the party is not going so well, voting mechanisms are an interesting enough topic. If the party is going well, everybody is just happy that there's plenty of beer.
xkcd has some forums. Given the quality of the replies that I've read so far, you should better ask there.
You mean the "Sexual and Violent Offender Registry". I recently read an article about it. Somehow I don't think that it will be effective against cyber criminals.
It's nearly a full blown computer that's first and foremost used as a phone. Where's the contradiction? One statement is about technology, the other is about usage.
No. Thompson manages the patents for the Fraunhofer institute.
They have nothing to do with this. Sisvel manages another stack
of patents that they claim to be relevant to the mp3 format.
Apparently, the most important of those patents is for a padding
bit. The idea is to add zeros to a VBR file so that a CBR only
decoder can handle the file.
... I think it would be better if they apologized for supporting dictatorshipsand benefiting from them (as they did in Spain for 40 years, for example). And to really drive the point home, the pope beatified the catholic "victims"
of the Spanish war last fall. Most of them were fascists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7066094.stm
Interesting. Do you know the history of wavelets as well?
Were they discovered for a specific purpose or were they
invented as a curiosity?
It's a good thing that US citizens are immune to such thinking.
I live in Germany and sometimes I wonder what would have
happened if Bin Laden had been around here. German laws
forbid extraditions without adequate proof. More importantly,
they also forbid extraditions in cases where the death
penalty might be applied.
I'm convinced that the German government would have broken
the law and extradited Bin Laden anyway. But I wonder how
the US would have responded if our government acted legally
in this situation.
Great! Given the three year backlog of the USPTO, the patents will expire before they are granted.
Are you clueless or are you a Prolog programmer?
There's an interesting article by the RuneScape development team on the problems scammers and real world traders cause for the game and about possible solutions that they are implementing:
http://www.runescape.com/kbase/view.ws?guid=diary06
Excerpts:
The majority of bots that we ban from members have been paid for with stolen credit card numbers.
Such accounts don't earn us money, they cost us money in bank refund charges.
During 2006, we banned bot and real-world trader accounts carrying RuneScape gold and items worth over 200 billion gp. During 2007, so far, we've banned over 525 billion, which has a real-world value of over $2.6 million US - that's an increase of over 250%.
In theory, this is exactly how it works in Germany. In practice, no one seems to be too interested. The counting is mostly done by teachers and other state employees that couldn't shirk the task. I recently volunteered to help out and I think everybody who cares about democracy should do so, too.
Unlike the author of the letter claimed, creating a mix-cd for personal use is not necessarily copyright infringement. Follow the link in the article and you'll see the author admitting that he was misinformed.
However, AFAIK it would have been illegal if the songs came from copy restricted ("protected") media.
Lung cancer progresses quickly. AFAIK, insurance companies claimed that smokers place a lower burden on them because they tend to die younger.
Wow. That is like a keyboard with a keyboard template _stuck_on_ .
I guess you can get around that patent by providing a regular
cardboard keyboard template and some glue. Or maybe a self-adhesive
template.
There is a petition against the Vorratsdatenspeicherung with an unusual amount of signatures. Wolgang Schäuble called it "größte Verfassungsbeschwerde aller Zeiten" (greatest petition of all times) in allusion to the term "größter Feldherr aller Zeiten - GröFaZ" (greatest leader of all times). Schäuble has received more criticism for this pun than for all the outrageous and unconstitutional ideas he presented (like killing suspected terrorists without a trial). I can only presume that the nick is an allusion to this incident.