In my state of Wisconsin, it is against the law to record a conversation between two parties without the express knowledge of one of the parties. This instance would most likely be inadmissible in any court case. I believe this is the recording law in many states as well, but I only have experience dealing with it here.
that's why it doesn't even make the news when something like that happens
If it's not an unarmed teenager, it doesn't. You would probably be shocked by the number of homicides in the US not deemed newsworthy on any given day.
So what? In coding the system to determine holiday dates, how would they at the time of encoding know that the queen would feel like throwing a party next week?
Being from a certain family means you can just change holidays at will? Fuck that.
Between excessive surveillance and governmental nonsense like this, I am so glad I don't live in the UK.
That would probably line some of the rougher areas of the pipe pretty well, but if you've ever tried to superglue metal, it's almost impossible to get the bond you expect. Glues just don't stick to metal very well - I don't even completely understand why. I doubt superglue down the pipes is going to clog them as much as expected.
The parents will not win a lawsuit against the government for decisions they themselves made, and again, it would be the parents'/child's option. Not saying kick them out of school, just no reason to force them to go.
If I were 10 and dying of cancer, I would sure as hell rather play at parks and go to Sea World and Disneyland and shit than go to school and learn about basic math and 15th-century history.
Saying that "the government could be sued" over this is exactly what is wrong with this fucking country. Anyone who sues someone for a reason that is of their own doing should be shot in the fucking face - cancer notwithstanding. Then again, I also think people who have diseases from drug abuse such as kidney/liver failure from drinking, lung cancer from smoking, hep-_ from shooting up, etc should be completely denied medical care. You made your bed, now die in it./pissed-off rant
They could have achieved this without lighting the engines.
The issue was high pressure in engine number 5. They would NOT be able to achieve this until combustion began, at which point the pressure they are measuring is generated. The guy hosting the webcast said something to the effect of "The computer analyzes everything after we light the engine, but before we release the rocket for flight, and will shut down if it detects a problem before we actually launch."
A safety system worked as intended. All-in-all, a good safety system to have in place.
As I understand it, he didn't charge to download these copied files on his end. This should mean he is not subject to the corporate music store licensing, but he should be held accountable by the Copyright notice that is at the beginning of every movie saying "Hey! $10,000 fine and up to 5 years in the slammer!".
I know if I were given the option of a few years in white-collar jail and a $10k fine versus ~$700k in fines I would take the first option.
It's that he gave that $1 item away for free a multitude of times.
This should help his case, if anything. If he had setup a music downloading site a-la iTunes store, and had taken this music and SOLD it repeatedly without the proper authorization steps, then the fine would be just. As it stands, he did not sell the items, and it is entirely unfair that they charge him an amount based on profit margins from music stores and copyright licensing fees for multimillion dollar companies.
What is so wrong with, say, $100 a song you shared illegally? I think that would be sufficient for a $0.99 item. At this point, the prosecutors are not making an example of him as they thought they were, they are just proving how dickish and out of touch with reality they are.
On the drop-down menu in the upper-right of Google Maps, where you would pick Satellite/Maps/Photos/etc, one of the options I have is a checkbox labeled 'English' which determines if the labels show up in English or their local language.
I don't understand why you're being modded a troll. That is a pretty accurate insight.
The Tea Party and its morons actively campaign to spread disinformation, outright lies, and push extreme and regressive religious agendas.
Nobody who is as smart as this guy could possibly be dumb enough to take that nonsense at face value. Clearly, he found a way to play the system, or someone is offering him mountains of cash.
After all, the driving force of the tech industry AND politics is the quest for mountains of cash.
"First, we fucked them with television. We fucked them too much and they don't watch television on cable anymore. Then, we fucked them with advertising online and through what TV remained, but we advertised too much, and now everyone ignores our ads or pirates our shit. We tried to fuck them with BitTorrent, but even the government wouldn't let that slide. We had to unfuck BitTorrent. Apparently it isn't just for pirating shit. Now they want internet, so we're going to fuck with internet a bit and see if we can't squeeze a few more cents out of them."
I'm not too surprised by this. It reminds me of how the vascular system evolved, how streets frequently have the same length proportions regardless of location, and how the Internet's base structure evolved/continues to evolve.
If you look into it, most of these things follow simple fractal equations.
Even THIS crazy contraption still has rabbit-ear antennas built in it to receive analog signals even through the digital antenna. Just because you never needed one and had cable or satellite doesn't mean a lot of people don't use them on a daily basis.
Microphones: actually haven't changed their shape, but only the really nice and expensive ones still look like that. Microphone Examples
Magnifying Glasses: Still quite widely in use, but apparently not so well-known among the Jersey Shore iPhone OMGLolcats crowd as they are among the Bill Nye vs Niel DeGrasse Tyson awesomeness level debaters. Mag Glass Example
Binoculars: Really? People don't know what these are? They are still the best way to get a stereo 3D view of something at huge distances in a compact device. I have several pair on my shelf right now. People have them at sporting events every time I go. Binocular Example
Television: My television still has an antenna. After the recent switch from analog to digital, however, it is no longer the rabbit ear dual collapsible one in the icon. It now looks vaguely like some sort of alien ship or horrible instrument of torture with alternating flat fins(and sharp edges...). Not sure it's worth changing the icon, though. Antenna Example
Wrenches and Gears: Because what happens under the hood of your car is pure magic, and nobody can explain it. Even if young folks don't know what gears actually do, they recognize them from the steampunk jewelry and stuff. Gears Example
Whether you are conscious of it or not, your brain is wired so it can recognize a pattern, silhouette, or specific color or movement much faster than it can input, decipher, and act on a string of text. This is a remnant of our wilderness instincts where we needed to be able to identify friend, foe, prey or predator in a split second and our lives depended on our reaction time.
If you really don't know what these icons mean, it doesn't matter. People who have never seen the object before will just associate it with its action, whatever that may be. If they need to know the etymology of an icon, they can ask an 'old person' or Google it.
Often your brain doesn't do any more thinking about the action than "click blue and orange swirly thing icon over there". You probably also know that when I said "Blue and orange swirly thing icon" i meant the Firefox logo. If you have seen this icon as much as any reasonable tech head would, your brain has it imprinted and you recognize it at a single glance - even if you don't search the icon for details of what it does(which is apparently encircle a blue marble in an immolated fox of questionable aliveness).
It requires much less in the way of resources to mine them from the moon/asteroids and maneuver them into the right place for construction than it would to launch it all from the ground.
Clearly, the extra-planetary resource gathering would come first. There is no chicken/egg issue.
material science (to name but one) will advance so much in the next 100 years
Not nearly as much as if we had an effort to design materials suitable for long-term space habitation, ship structure, impact/micrometeorite protection, etc.
Even if this project doesn't leave Earth orbit, it would still be a monumental step in the right direction from a planet that values rotten underground dinosaur juice to be more important than any type of space program at all.
I don't remember who said it, or the exact wording, but I think it was something like: "If aliens showed up, we would stop fighting amongst ourselves and unify as Humans very quickly".
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In my state of Wisconsin, it is against the law to record a conversation between two parties without the express knowledge of one of the parties. This instance would most likely be inadmissible in any court case. I believe this is the recording law in many states as well, but I only have experience dealing with it here.
that's why it doesn't even make the news when something like that happens
If it's not an unarmed teenager, it doesn't. You would probably be shocked by the number of homicides in the US not deemed newsworthy on any given day.
So what? In coding the system to determine holiday dates, how would they at the time of encoding know that the queen would feel like throwing a party next week?
Being from a certain family means you can just change holidays at will? Fuck that.
Between excessive surveillance and governmental nonsense like this, I am so glad I don't live in the UK.
That would probably line some of the rougher areas of the pipe pretty well, but if you've ever tried to superglue metal, it's almost impossible to get the bond you expect. Glues just don't stick to metal very well - I don't even completely understand why. I doubt superglue down the pipes is going to clog them as much as expected.
I believe what you meant to say was...
GOD DAMMIT MOTHERFUCKERS! STOP doing this! MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATIONS don't need HUGE FUCKING TAX BREAKS because it suits some politician!
At least, that's what I said when I saw this.
The parents will not win a lawsuit against the government for decisions they themselves made, and again, it would be the parents'/child's option. Not saying kick them out of school, just no reason to force them to go.
If I were 10 and dying of cancer, I would sure as hell rather play at parks and go to Sea World and Disneyland and shit than go to school and learn about basic math and 15th-century history.
Saying that "the government could be sued" over this is exactly what is wrong with this fucking country. Anyone who sues someone for a reason that is of their own doing should be shot in the fucking face - cancer notwithstanding. Then again, I also think people who have diseases from drug abuse such as kidney/liver failure from drinking, lung cancer from smoking, hep-_ from shooting up, etc should be completely denied medical care. You made your bed, now die in it. /pissed-off rant
You forget these "private rockets" are almost fully funded with government grants at this point.
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They could have achieved this without lighting the engines.
The issue was high pressure in engine number 5. They would NOT be able to achieve this until combustion began, at which point the pressure they are measuring is generated. The guy hosting the webcast said something to the effect of "The computer analyzes everything after we light the engine, but before we release the rocket for flight, and will shut down if it detects a problem before we actually launch."
A safety system worked as intended. All-in-all, a good safety system to have in place.
Guess it's funny then that this phenomenon is known as 'jamming'...
I detect a new fetish.
Hmm, I seem to remember seeing this on an episode of Warehouse 13...
That is remarkably coherent for that number of translations, and the legalese it began as.
As I understand it, he didn't charge to download these copied files on his end. This should mean he is not subject to the corporate music store licensing, but he should be held accountable by the Copyright notice that is at the beginning of every movie saying "Hey! $10,000 fine and up to 5 years in the slammer!".
I know if I were given the option of a few years in white-collar jail and a $10k fine versus ~$700k in fines I would take the first option.
It's that he gave that $1 item away for free a multitude of times.
This should help his case, if anything. If he had setup a music downloading site a-la iTunes store, and had taken this music and SOLD it repeatedly without the proper authorization steps, then the fine would be just. As it stands, he did not sell the items, and it is entirely unfair that they charge him an amount based on profit margins from music stores and copyright licensing fees for multimillion dollar companies.
What is so wrong with, say, $100 a song you shared illegally? I think that would be sufficient for a $0.99 item. At this point, the prosecutors are not making an example of him as they thought they were, they are just proving how dickish and out of touch with reality they are.
On the drop-down menu in the upper-right of Google Maps, where you would pick Satellite/Maps/Photos/etc, one of the options I have is a checkbox labeled 'English' which determines if the labels show up in English or their local language.
This is pretty confusing with Japanese prefecture boundaries/labels and 'ward' boundaries/labels as well.
Is this to say that companies like GE, Apple, and most of the other huge multinational corporations will actually have to pay a proper tax rate?
I don't understand why you're being modded a troll. That is a pretty accurate insight.
The Tea Party and its morons actively campaign to spread disinformation, outright lies, and push extreme and regressive religious agendas.
Nobody who is as smart as this guy could possibly be dumb enough to take that nonsense at face value. Clearly, he found a way to play the system, or someone is offering him mountains of cash.
After all, the driving force of the tech industry AND politics is the quest for mountains of cash.
"First, we fucked them with television. We fucked them too much and they don't watch television on cable anymore.
Then, we fucked them with advertising online and through what TV remained, but we advertised too much, and now everyone ignores our ads or pirates our shit.
We tried to fuck them with BitTorrent, but even the government wouldn't let that slide. We had to unfuck BitTorrent. Apparently it isn't just for pirating shit.
Now they want internet, so we're going to fuck with internet a bit and see if we can't squeeze a few more cents out of them."
What the fuck, Comcast? Get a clue.
I'm not too surprised by this. It reminds me of how the vascular system evolved, how streets frequently have the same length proportions regardless of location, and how the Internet's base structure evolved/continues to evolve.
If you look into it, most of these things follow simple fractal equations.
Even THIS crazy contraption still has rabbit-ear antennas built in it to receive analog signals even through the digital antenna. Just because you never needed one and had cable or satellite doesn't mean a lot of people don't use them on a daily basis.
Microphones: actually haven't changed their shape, but only the really nice and expensive ones still look like that.
Microphone Examples
Magnifying Glasses: Still quite widely in use, but apparently not so well-known among the Jersey Shore iPhone OMGLolcats crowd as they are among the Bill Nye vs Niel DeGrasse Tyson awesomeness level debaters.
Mag Glass Example
Binoculars: Really? People don't know what these are? They are still the best way to get a stereo 3D view of something at huge distances in a compact device. I have several pair on my shelf right now. People have them at sporting events every time I go.
Binocular Example
Television: My television still has an antenna. After the recent switch from analog to digital, however, it is no longer the rabbit ear dual collapsible one in the icon. It now looks vaguely like some sort of alien ship or horrible instrument of torture with alternating flat fins(and sharp edges...). Not sure it's worth changing the icon, though.
Antenna Example
Wrenches and Gears: Because what happens under the hood of your car is pure magic, and nobody can explain it. Even if young folks don't know what gears actually do, they recognize them from the steampunk jewelry and stuff.
Gears Example
Whether you are conscious of it or not, your brain is wired so it can recognize a pattern, silhouette, or specific color or movement much faster than it can input, decipher, and act on a string of text. This is a remnant of our wilderness instincts where we needed to be able to identify friend, foe, prey or predator in a split second and our lives depended on our reaction time.
If you really don't know what these icons mean, it doesn't matter. People who have never seen the object before will just associate it with its action, whatever that may be. If they need to know the etymology of an icon, they can ask an 'old person' or Google it.
Often your brain doesn't do any more thinking about the action than "click blue and orange swirly thing icon over there". You probably also know that when I said "Blue and orange swirly thing icon" i meant the Firefox logo. If you have seen this icon as much as any reasonable tech head would, your brain has it imprinted and you recognize it at a single glance - even if you don't search the icon for details of what it does(which is apparently encircle a blue marble in an immolated fox of questionable aliveness).
It requires much less in the way of resources to mine them from the moon/asteroids and maneuver them into the right place for construction than it would to launch it all from the ground.
Clearly, the extra-planetary resource gathering would come first. There is no chicken/egg issue.
Well it sounds like that is a wonderful cause for Moon Base Alpha, and extra-planetary mining and resource collection.
The Enterprise(even in the TV show) was constructed in an orbital ship dock. They didn't build it on the ground and launch it.
We should be able to do it like a giant orbital 3D printer which deposits Titanium alloy instead of plastic.
material science (to name but one) will advance so much in the next 100 years
Not nearly as much as if we had an effort to design materials suitable for long-term space habitation, ship structure, impact/micrometeorite protection, etc.
Even if this project doesn't leave Earth orbit, it would still be a monumental step in the right direction from a planet that values rotten underground dinosaur juice to be more important than any type of space program at all.
I don't remember who said it, or the exact wording, but I think it was something like: "If aliens showed up, we would stop fighting amongst ourselves and unify as Humans very quickly".
Come on, Aliens, give us a hand on this one.