The list is pretty wonky. They have a lot of good games on there, but there are some startling omissions including a lot of the original NES games and some older computer games like the diablos and X-COM. A lot of these hold up very well by gameplay standards.
It seems like the methodology for putting something like this together is going to be almost necessarily full of holes. The articles don't tell how the list was formed other than contributions from those involved with Edge and some group of people in the industry.
It's because he found out that Libby wasn't going to be sent to a 'white-collar resort' prison. No, he was going to a federal 'pound me in the ass' prison.
I'm curious if part of this back and forth is the recording industry trying to see how hard they can push on internet radio before they push too hard and it backfires. Effectively killing internet radio in the US seems like it would be pretty far beyond that point, as it would be hard for congress to look the other way on that. The temporary deal could then just be to ratchet down the tensions so they can find a more viable way to profit from or inhibit internet once it falls out of public awareness.
Or it could just be that they are incompetent with dealing with internet distribution of music. That wouldn't be unprecedented.
Air is a temporary medium that stores information, particularly in the terms of voice communication. Suppose if Torrentspy was storing this information in their air temporarily (say you have one guy telling IP addresses or torrent hosts to another), they are in volation by not recording the contents of that air and presenting it as documentation to the court.
Now, of course that is completely absurd for air. But it really isn't that much less absurd for RAM, given it's nature and the requirements necessary to record it.
Also, I'm getting word that the requirement of creating documents, even if they are simply derivatives of other documents, is illegal. So even if the judge's order was legal, which is HIGHLY questionable, TorrentSpy could get away with presenting her with thousands of pages of indecipherable hex dumps.
It also has the problem of random output that is a function of weather and time of day. For electricity you need to have supply and demand match up pretty much instantaneously, so you still need to hook to the grid and have a bunch of extra generation and transmission ready for if it is cloudy and at nighttime.
That's not to say it's useless, as it solar output correlates well with peak loads, and can offset the most expensive power generation. Solar thermal is making some solid inroads in the southwest.
But building infrastructure for electricity is one of the hardest parts, as it tends to have steep capital costs and the rates of return are such that getting into the market is often unprofitible.
Looks like the paranoid catastrophic failure for this would be to have your fillings or stitches fly out. I'm basing that on nothing other than the fact it involves magnets.
Apparently you are unfamiliar with hedging. Shorting can be used as a mechanism to eliminate certain types of risks depending upon the relationship between two assets. Of course there are other hedging mechanisms that can be used in a similar role, such as options and futures, but shorting may be the specific thing you want. Futures require a margin account as well, but you'd be sort of silly to complain about their existence.
I'm sort of curious what your opposition to speculators is rooted in, as the "taking money from people who produced it" talk doesn't seem very meaningful in general.
I think there was a law in the works to outlaw discrimination based on genetic information. I remember seeing something about it on./
However, the problem with the speeding ticket example is that you made the choice to speed and were then caught on it. People don't get to choose their genes (at least not yet!), and this information is more or less set before birth.
This may also be another argument that free-market health insurance is flawed, since the profit motive to charge more for the genetically at risk people creates a disincentive for the public health motive of diagnosing and treating/preventing these conditions early.
Money talks. Independent labels can't afford to get music on the radio in America, because they don't have the resource to buy the airtime or lobby the execs. The internet is their only hope. The RIAA, as far as I can work out, is accidentally crushing independent artists while they're going after the roaches. So, sure. Blame the RIAA-haters for depriving artists who already have record labels, have a valid form of income. I'll keep blaming the RIAA for keeping the little guy down with its' clumsy antics.
I doubt that it is accidental, at least not completely. But otherwise your point stands.
But as long as you want to talk about Kennedy/Johnson and Vietnam, well, Nixon. Most of those dead were killed by Nixon, who would have killed even more if he hadn't been impeached for the typical Republican high crimes and misdemeanors. Even Ford, the next Republican, spent years actually ending Vietnam, even though it was already over. That is patently false: cumulative battle deaths from
Nixon and Vietnam.
Note how the war deaths from Nixon trail off. This is because he was pulling troops out through his "Vietnamization" strategy. Love or hate Nixon as you will, but these particular charges are baseless.
Interesting choice of wars, you left out the Philippines war, and your inclusion of Grenada and Panama suggest that you should include the Bay of Pigs too. Also, Nixon inherited Vietnam and was the one who started seriously withdrawing us from it. And saying that Republicans haven't won a war in awhile while Democrats haven't lost one? What about the Gulf War under Bush I? Sorta hard to argue that we didn't win that one from the standpoint you are taking.
But really, this isn't all that relevant outside of historical curiosity given how much the parties have changed over time. It seems like you are just stoking the flames when you are just rooting for one team over the other even though that team isn't the same today as it was years ago.
Not like your counterpart was any better, but blind partisanism isn't that healthy for our system, nor when dealing with the specific strengths or weaknesses of a particular candidate.
Saying that unwanted EM radiation violates airspace is an interesting angle. So if my neighbors or passersby are doing something visually repugnant that is visible from my property, could I then say they are violating my airspace with those images?
These guys are probably going to have a hard time making a case on this though. If only they could show that the cell phone companies were using their aether...
This is just a flamewar and flamebait. It's only recently that Republicans have become the war party (among other things...), and prior to this administration they had on parity or less waring than the Democrats.
But McCain seems to have decided from his 2000 primary defeat that selling out to the farther right is in his best interest this time around. I'm just curious if his previous maverick persona was just an act.
The rainforests aren't being cut down to supply paper. They are being cut done for farmland since those farmers use suboptimal farming techniques which necessitate burning through a lot of the land.
Linking those two is disingenous to the end of providing meaningful environmental discussion.
Maybe I was asleep during the carbon cycle part of biology, but the reason why you couldn't just bury some derivative of a plant has escaped me. Since trees, for example, extract carbon from the atmosphere with photosynthesis then release it on decay, couldn't you theoretically extract some of the carbon from the wood then bury in abandoned mine shafts?
The only thing I've heard about that was the proposition to bury charcoal derived from wood, but the counter to that was charcoal was too valuable to justify doing that.
And the wiping out all the trees in the world talk sounds pretty bogus to me. Long before the trees are wiped out the price of wood would skyrocket to the point to either greatly restrict the use of paper or cause for the substitution of some other plant being used for paper, like hemp or reeds.
Yes and no. The Blizzard downloader has an http seed to download from in addition to the swarm, in large part due to the fact that not everyone can use P2P with their connection. However, it still has the P2P section which is bittorrent. I'm not sure if this holds true for current version, but I believe that the.torrent file was extracted from older versions of the downloader (through "unofficial" means) and people used other clients to download the patches.
And what do you mean about ports, are you talking about the tracker's ports? uTorrent has the option to randomize which port it uses for incoming connections, and the Blizzard downloader seems to use port 3724.
This doesn't suprise me in the least that there is investment in these sorts of companies. Speculators will take bets on all sorts of different aspects of the economy. This could just be a don't pass bet on patent reform, since the trolls stand to make money or be bought out if their patent portfolios aren't overturned. Having a buyout target is good because a buyout will inflate the value of the stock.
Or, there is a possibility that this is just hedging against the effects of patent trolls. With hedging the investors could being trying to remove some of the risk of the targets of patent trolls by putting some money on the troll's position. This will dampen the effect on the portfolio as a whole either if trolls get their way or if not, as it is likely the stocks of the trolls and their targets will be negatively correlated.
If it is actually billions being funneled into trolls I doubt it is all hedging though.
Solar power is nice and all, but there is one fundamental problem with it: it is unreliable. The output is a random variable depending upon weather, and it won't work at night. That is a deal breaker for generation, as you need to have supply match demand instantaneously, so solar can't make up the majority of our electric output. Wind power has a similar problem, but is spread out more over the day. Batteries aren't cost effective for storing enough solar to sustain through all conditions.
That's not to say that solar is useless, however. By far the most expensive of electricity is at peak demand throughout the day. And solar output tends to be positively correlated with peak demand, which means it can mitigate the need for other, exceptionally expensive power generation. That sort of setup is the only really sound way to use solar power: using it so you don't always have to use something worse.
Hydroelectric is really good though, since it can be used like a battery with the gravitational potential energy of the water. There are also plans to build hydroelectric storage systems to spread out the demand over the day by pumping water to higher elevation when electricity is cheaper.
Scroll down to numbers 12 and 13, those relevant to this discussion. Evangelical protestants are the only group which are overwhelmingly against evolution. Majorities of the other Christian groups believe that evolution did occur, but that God probablity had his hand in it. The nonevangelical groups answered the evolution being well founded/accepted question significantly more in the affirmative than in the negative.
The issue is that the evangelical protestants constitute the largest Christian group in America.
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I feel vicariously embarrassed for everyone involved.
The list is pretty wonky. They have a lot of good games on there, but there are some startling omissions including a lot of the original NES games and some older computer games like the diablos and X-COM. A lot of these hold up very well by gameplay standards.
It seems like the methodology for putting something like this together is going to be almost necessarily full of holes. The articles don't tell how the list was formed other than contributions from those involved with Edge and some group of people in the industry.
It's because he found out that Libby wasn't going to be sent to a 'white-collar resort' prison. No, he was going to a federal 'pound me in the ass' prison.
And Libby didn't want to go to any prison.
I'm curious if part of this back and forth is the recording industry trying to see how hard they can push on internet radio before they push too hard and it backfires. Effectively killing internet radio in the US seems like it would be pretty far beyond that point, as it would be hard for congress to look the other way on that. The temporary deal could then just be to ratchet down the tensions so they can find a more viable way to profit from or inhibit internet once it falls out of public awareness.
Or it could just be that they are incompetent with dealing with internet distribution of music. That wouldn't be unprecedented.
Air is a temporary medium that stores information, particularly in the terms of voice communication. Suppose if Torrentspy was storing this information in their air temporarily (say you have one guy telling IP addresses or torrent hosts to another), they are in volation by not recording the contents of that air and presenting it as documentation to the court.
Now, of course that is completely absurd for air. But it really isn't that much less absurd for RAM, given it's nature and the requirements necessary to record it.
Also, I'm getting word that the requirement of creating documents, even if they are simply derivatives of other documents, is illegal. So even if the judge's order was legal, which is HIGHLY questionable, TorrentSpy could get away with presenting her with thousands of pages of indecipherable hex dumps.
In any case this is absurd.
It also has the problem of random output that is a function of weather and time of day. For electricity you need to have supply and demand match up pretty much instantaneously, so you still need to hook to the grid and have a bunch of extra generation and transmission ready for if it is cloudy and at nighttime.
That's not to say it's useless, as it solar output correlates well with peak loads, and can offset the most expensive power generation. Solar thermal is making some solid inroads in the southwest.
But building infrastructure for electricity is one of the hardest parts, as it tends to have steep capital costs and the rates of return are such that getting into the market is often unprofitible.
Looks like the paranoid catastrophic failure for this would be to have your fillings or stitches fly out. I'm basing that on nothing other than the fact it involves magnets.
Apparently you are unfamiliar with hedging. Shorting can be used as a mechanism to eliminate certain types of risks depending upon the relationship between two assets. Of course there are other hedging mechanisms that can be used in a similar role, such as options and futures, but shorting may be the specific thing you want. Futures require a margin account as well, but you'd be sort of silly to complain about their existence. I'm sort of curious what your opposition to speculators is rooted in, as the "taking money from people who produced it" talk doesn't seem very meaningful in general.
I think there was a law in the works to outlaw discrimination based on genetic information. I remember seeing something about it on ./
However, the problem with the speeding ticket example is that you made the choice to speed and were then caught on it. People don't get to choose their genes (at least not yet!), and this information is more or less set before birth.
This may also be another argument that free-market health insurance is flawed, since the profit motive to charge more for the genetically at risk people creates a disincentive for the public health motive of diagnosing and treating/preventing these conditions early.
I doubt that it is accidental, at least not completely. But otherwise your point stands.
Note how the war deaths from Nixon trail off. This is because he was pulling troops out through his "Vietnamization" strategy. Love or hate Nixon as you will, but these particular charges are baseless.
Interesting choice of wars, you left out the Philippines war, and your inclusion of Grenada and Panama suggest that you should include the Bay of Pigs too. Also, Nixon inherited Vietnam and was the one who started seriously withdrawing us from it. And saying that Republicans haven't won a war in awhile while Democrats haven't lost one? What about the Gulf War under Bush I? Sorta hard to argue that we didn't win that one from the standpoint you are taking.
But really, this isn't all that relevant outside of historical curiosity given how much the parties have changed over time. It seems like you are just stoking the flames when you are just rooting for one team over the other even though that team isn't the same today as it was years ago.
Not like your counterpart was any better, but blind partisanism isn't that healthy for our system, nor when dealing with the specific strengths or weaknesses of a particular candidate.
Saying that unwanted EM radiation violates airspace is an interesting angle. So if my neighbors or passersby are doing something visually repugnant that is visible from my property, could I then say they are violating my airspace with those images?
These guys are probably going to have a hard time making a case on this though. If only they could show that the cell phone companies were using their aether...
This is just a flamewar and flamebait. It's only recently that Republicans have become the war party (among other things...), and prior to this administration they had on parity or less waring than the Democrats.
But McCain seems to have decided from his 2000 primary defeat that selling out to the farther right is in his best interest this time around. I'm just curious if his previous maverick persona was just an act.
It's not like there isn't an easily available way to circumvent this if you know what you are doing and want to pirate the stuff.
Just keeps honest people and stupid dishonest people honest with minimal intrusion.
That's not good news. That's not good news at all!
Can someone direct me to what laws they believe justify this, if they exist?
Because this sounds to me like the RIAA is just begging to lose a massive class action lawsuit.
The rainforests aren't being cut down to supply paper. They are being cut done for farmland since those farmers use suboptimal farming techniques which necessitate burning through a lot of the land.
Linking those two is disingenous to the end of providing meaningful environmental discussion.
Maybe I was asleep during the carbon cycle part of biology, but the reason why you couldn't just bury some derivative of a plant has escaped me. Since trees, for example, extract carbon from the atmosphere with photosynthesis then release it on decay, couldn't you theoretically extract some of the carbon from the wood then bury in abandoned mine shafts?
The only thing I've heard about that was the proposition to bury charcoal derived from wood, but the counter to that was charcoal was too valuable to justify doing that.
And the wiping out all the trees in the world talk sounds pretty bogus to me. Long before the trees are wiped out the price of wood would skyrocket to the point to either greatly restrict the use of paper or cause for the substitution of some other plant being used for paper, like hemp or reeds.
Yes and no. The Blizzard downloader has an http seed to download from in addition to the swarm, in large part due to the fact that not everyone can use P2P with their connection. However, it still has the P2P section which is bittorrent. I'm not sure if this holds true for current version, but I believe that the .torrent file was extracted from older versions of the downloader (through "unofficial" means) and people used other clients to download the patches.
And what do you mean about ports, are you talking about the tracker's ports? uTorrent has the option to randomize which port it uses for incoming connections, and the Blizzard downloader seems to use port 3724.
This doesn't suprise me in the least that there is investment in these sorts of companies. Speculators will take bets on all sorts of different aspects of the economy. This could just be a don't pass bet on patent reform, since the trolls stand to make money or be bought out if their patent portfolios aren't overturned. Having a buyout target is good because a buyout will inflate the value of the stock.
Or, there is a possibility that this is just hedging against the effects of patent trolls. With hedging the investors could being trying to remove some of the risk of the targets of patent trolls by putting some money on the troll's position. This will dampen the effect on the portfolio as a whole either if trolls get their way or if not, as it is likely the stocks of the trolls and their targets will be negatively correlated.
If it is actually billions being funneled into trolls I doubt it is all hedging though.
The enemy of your enemy isn't necessarily your friend.
Huh?
Solar power is nice and all, but there is one fundamental problem with it: it is unreliable. The output is a random variable depending upon weather, and it won't work at night. That is a deal breaker for generation, as you need to have supply match demand instantaneously, so solar can't make up the majority of our electric output. Wind power has a similar problem, but is spread out more over the day. Batteries aren't cost effective for storing enough solar to sustain through all conditions.
That's not to say that solar is useless, however. By far the most expensive of electricity is at peak demand throughout the day. And solar output tends to be positively correlated with peak demand, which means it can mitigate the need for other, exceptionally expensive power generation. That sort of setup is the only really sound way to use solar power: using it so you don't always have to use something worse.
Hydroelectric is really good though, since it can be used like a battery with the gravitational potential energy of the water. There are also plans to build hydroelectric storage systems to spread out the demand over the day by pumping water to higher elevation when electricity is cheaper.
The poll numbers themselves suggest that faith in God and belief in evolution are not even close to mutually exclusive: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17875540/site/newsweek /
Scroll down to numbers 12 and 13, those relevant to this discussion. Evangelical protestants are the only group which are overwhelmingly against evolution. Majorities of the other Christian groups believe that evolution did occur, but that God probablity had his hand in it. The nonevangelical groups answered the evolution being well founded/accepted question significantly more in the affirmative than in the negative.
The issue is that the evangelical protestants constitute the largest Christian group in America.