IN real life even if we could travel at Warp speeds, there's hardly any planets - that we know of today - that can support life within a lifetime of Warp travel
What do you call "a lifetime"? Why do people not question "aging"? Why not grow to maturity (say 25 year-old) and then stay that way, basically forever? Right now people that support research into aging complain about the Earth not being able to support an ever-expanding population, etc. etc. And on the other hand people complain that things can't be done "in a lifetime".
If you are going to travel in space for an extended period of time, you will need a radiation-hardened body. Start researching. DNA re-sequencing nanites, etc.
This is Amazon's own fault. The wife was looking for a ebook reading a long time ago, and the only realistic option was the Sony (the others were el-cheapo "Aluratek" and the like). Because Kindle and Nook were NOT AVAILABLE in Canada. And even when it was, you were importing it from Amazon US - no way to get it straight from Amazon.ca
So Kobo jumped right in the big hole Amazon and B&N left by not offering their products in the Canadian market. People started buying Kobo's, showing it to their friends, who also got Kobos.
"Abd-ar-Rahman III (Abd al-Rahmn ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah) was the Emir and Caliph of Córdoba (912–961) of the Ummayad dynasty in al-Andalus. Called al-Nasir li-Din Allah ("the Defender of God's Faith"), he ascended the throne in his early 20s, and reigned for half a century as the most powerful prince of Iberia. Although people of all creeds enjoyed tolerance and freedom of religion under his rule, he repelled the Fatimids, partly by supporting their Maghrawa enemies in North-Africa, and partly by claiming the title Caliph (ruler of the Islamic world) for himself."
Then there were Al-Hakam II "the second Caliph of Cordoba" and Hisham II "the third Caliph of Cordoba". Especially the Hisham II entry is very insightful as to the climate/atmospherics of the downfall of the Caliphate.
Don't forget the Reconquista, the re-taking of Iberian peninsula (a/k/a/ the Caliphate of Cordoba) from the Islamic invaders.
Regarding the "Halal Earth" I bet you won't be able to find suntanning women (no links provided!), but how about people in for instance France at a cafe terrace drinking wine?
Ahhhh yes, no American Tanks... only burning hulls that our Superior Forces are defeating everywhere! Americans are retreating and begging for mercy!
Yes... it's out now, and I only checked a few places that had nothing at the time I posted previously (obviously I didn't look in the "right" places!).
and if you do, you better not be watching any movie "Ingenuity 13" of "AF Holdings" owns the copyright to... oh, wait... no really oh wait because there has been NOTHING on Slashdot yet re today's Prenda Law hearing.
If I can't sell them, can I just give them away when I am done with them?
No, since you are the licensee. And your kids cannot inherit them since the license is not transferable. Why do you think there are all these calls to action? The Media Industry is very effective at a divide and conquer strategy, but as soon as there is going to be unification of all these little groups/platforms, and they are going to be effective at informing the large, uninformed public, oh boy.
When you were a kid, your parents made the rules and you just had to live by them.
That is not the case in a democracy. Stop thinking about it in a "government knows best", "the rules are the rules", and "I must always obey authorities" way.
If you think you SHOULD be able to sell, or let your kids inherit, your digital music files, and current laws will not allow it, GET THE LAW CHANGED. It's really as simple as that. Rules aren't really there to be broken, but rules are there to be changed with changing circumstances. The circumstances need not change based on the rules if a large majority considers the new circumstances more desirable than the previous ones.
The only PROBLEM is how to get this done. Current legislative and political environments favour Big Business... but a grassroots campaign supported by alternate (I should say: re-purposed) large-scale media can still work, see SOPA/PIPA.
On the other hand, if there is a EULA, like on the website for example, that you have to agree to before the sale, yes it can be binding. For example, if you agree that you are only licensing the product, not buying it. Etc. As long as it's made before the transaction, a "licensing agreement" or "terms of use" can be binding.
But you might argue that if you click on a button on an artist's website that says in huge letters "CLICK TO BUY FROM iTUNES!" that it overrides the small print.
OMFG where have the times of the 60s and 70s gone?!!! Have the PENCIL-PUSHING PRICKS taken over HR now too? I remember the old days where your boss knew if you did a good job or not, and was able to substantiate that using proze and relevant examples that you didn't even knew (s)he knew about. Nowadays the pencil-pushing pricks have taken over, so they are staring over sheets filled with "metrics", comparing "actuals" to "targets". That's a trend going from the Top down, where the COO used to take over when the CEO stepped down; nowadays you will often see the CFO take over.... that's right, a glorified BOOK KEEPER running the company.
And now it trickled down to the HR department... terminating someone's employment over some innuendo in a JOKE? And firing someone for saying that they didn't think it was funny?
Do yourself a favour and go look at some videos from the late 60s, early 70s. How people rose up against the prude bourgeoisie. And in 2013 we're right back...
It only costs $35 to appeal, but it will cost your ISP more than that to go through the appeals process. If everyone appeals, the system will be unworkable, and therefore everyone should appeal.
How do you know it costs the ISP more? Have we seen what this appeal process looks like? Is your ISP just forwarding your appeal to the source of the complaint? A canned response from the Six Strike Tribunal with all the fields filled out from the Monitor (or did you mean: ISP as Internet Surveillance Provider) is hardly $35 to produce.
Aside of costs, first you are volunteering yourself as a party in the process and what evidence are you required to submit, for instance names and addresses of everyone who had access to your Internet connection?
Origin of HONE IN
alteration of home in
First Known Use: 1965
So in the 2048 we will be able to look up "Interweb" as a fully accepted noun (but people will be too busy defending themselves against wave after wave of evil robots to care).
While there is very legitimate evidence being presented elsewhere pointing out that this is a hoax, the story is of course fabulous and the irony wonderful. Internet Freedom being defended from the Copyright Industry by none other than North Korea?
It will be an interesting story to follow and I'm wondering who the RIAA/MPAA (indirectly, of course) are going after next...
We don't see a public outcry against the TPP Agreement's IPR Chapter, we don't see an public outcry against the copyright provisions in CETA, and the defeat of ACTA in Europe was just a by-line. We do seem SOME negative flak for CETA as it relates to the price Seniors have to pay for their meds.
Question: which Canadian MP is a Champion of Internet Freedom and the reigning-in of the Copyright Industry's World-Wide Ratcheting system?
Answer: none!
I'd rather risk jail time than pay the absurd prices they levy on media. Have you seen the price of a Blu-Ray in Japan?
IF you are actually in Japan... can you explain to us how their election system votes and how any person under 30 in Japan can vote for a party that supports these draconic measures? I really can't get my head around it and the only explanation I can find is a rigged system where the bigger established parties always win, with the help of the Usual Suspects (old people that vote for a party because they always voted for that party).
Damned be the Great Goo of Grey Typewriters that are Voters of Habit who distort elections and prevent anything to be done this decade and maybe the next.
The Ada Initiative is a non-profit organization that seeks to increase women's participation in the free culture movement, open source technology and open culture.
So women's "participation" in the "free culture movement" and "open culture" is having expressions censored? How many women feel represented by this "Ada Initiative" now?
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IN real life even if we could travel at Warp speeds, there's hardly any planets - that we know of today - that can support life within a lifetime of Warp travel
What do you call "a lifetime"? Why do people not question "aging"? Why not grow to maturity (say 25 year-old) and then stay that way, basically forever? Right now people that support research into aging complain about the Earth not being able to support an ever-expanding population, etc. etc. And on the other hand people complain that things can't be done "in a lifetime".
If you are going to travel in space for an extended period of time, you will need a radiation-hardened body. Start researching. DNA re-sequencing nanites, etc.
This is Amazon's own fault. The wife was looking for a ebook reading a long time ago, and the only realistic option was the Sony (the others were el-cheapo "Aluratek" and the like). Because Kindle and Nook were NOT AVAILABLE in Canada. And even when it was, you were importing it from Amazon US - no way to get it straight from Amazon.ca
So Kobo jumped right in the big hole Amazon and B&N left by not offering their products in the Canadian market. People started buying Kobo's, showing it to their friends, who also got Kobos.
And now Kobo is HUGE in Canada.
"Abd-ar-Rahman III (Abd al-Rahmn ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah) was the Emir and Caliph of Córdoba (912–961) of the Ummayad dynasty in al-Andalus. Called al-Nasir li-Din Allah ("the Defender of God's Faith"), he ascended the throne in his early 20s, and reigned for half a century as the most powerful prince of Iberia. Although people of all creeds enjoyed tolerance and freedom of religion under his rule, he repelled the Fatimids, partly by supporting their Maghrawa enemies in North-Africa, and partly by claiming the title Caliph (ruler of the Islamic world) for himself."
Then there were Al-Hakam II "the second Caliph of Cordoba" and Hisham II "the third Caliph of Cordoba". Especially the Hisham II entry is very insightful as to the climate/atmospherics of the downfall of the Caliphate.
Don't forget the Reconquista, the re-taking of Iberian peninsula (a/k/a/ the Caliphate of Cordoba) from the Islamic invaders.
Regarding the "Halal Earth" I bet you won't be able to find suntanning women (no links provided!), but how about people in for instance France at a cafe terrace drinking wine?
This is because the English didn't use the -illion and -illiard system, just kept -illion
Rest of Europe: million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard
England: million, billion, trillion
This is something that cannot be "fixed" other than adopting the SI system.
Ahhhh yes, no American Tanks... only burning hulls that our Superior Forces are defeating everywhere! Americans are retreating and begging for mercy! Yes... it's out now, and I only checked a few places that had nothing at the time I posted previously (obviously I didn't look in the "right" places!).
There isn't anything useful that has been leaked.
and if you do, you better not be watching any movie "Ingenuity 13" of "AF Holdings" owns the copyright to... oh, wait... no really oh wait because there has been NOTHING on Slashdot yet re today's Prenda Law hearing.
If I can't sell them, can I just give them away when I am done with them?
No, since you are the licensee. And your kids cannot inherit them since the license is not transferable. Why do you think there are all these calls to action? The Media Industry is very effective at a divide and conquer strategy, but as soon as there is going to be unification of all these little groups/platforms, and they are going to be effective at informing the large, uninformed public, oh boy.
When you were a kid, your parents made the rules and you just had to live by them.
That is not the case in a democracy. Stop thinking about it in a "government knows best", "the rules are the rules", and "I must always obey authorities" way.
If you think you SHOULD be able to sell, or let your kids inherit, your digital music files, and current laws will not allow it, GET THE LAW CHANGED. It's really as simple as that. Rules aren't really there to be broken, but rules are there to be changed with changing circumstances. The circumstances need not change based on the rules if a large majority considers the new circumstances more desirable than the previous ones.
The only PROBLEM is how to get this done. Current legislative and political environments favour Big Business... but a grassroots campaign supported by alternate (I should say: re-purposed) large-scale media can still work, see SOPA/PIPA.
On the other hand, if there is a EULA, like on the website for example, that you have to agree to before the sale, yes it can be binding. For example, if you agree that you are only licensing the product, not buying it. Etc. As long as it's made before the transaction, a "licensing agreement" or "terms of use" can be binding.
But you might argue that if you click on a button on an artist's website that says in huge letters "CLICK TO BUY FROM iTUNES!" that it overrides the small print.
Wow. Even discounting duplicates and irrelevant results, that is a lot of Cease & Desist letters that are going to have to be sent out.
Uhhh.... good thing you weren't posting this at PyCon or you risked being fired if the wrong person read your post.
This is just to illustrate how ridiculous that whole PyCon story is.
As long as we agree that we only have to understand rational people.
OMFG where have the times of the 60s and 70s gone?!!! Have the PENCIL-PUSHING PRICKS taken over HR now too? I remember the old days where your boss knew if you did a good job or not, and was able to substantiate that using proze and relevant examples that you didn't even knew (s)he knew about. Nowadays the pencil-pushing pricks have taken over, so they are staring over sheets filled with "metrics", comparing "actuals" to "targets". That's a trend going from the Top down, where the COO used to take over when the CEO stepped down; nowadays you will often see the CFO take over.... that's right, a glorified BOOK KEEPER running the company.
And now it trickled down to the HR department... terminating someone's employment over some innuendo in a JOKE? And firing someone for saying that they didn't think it was funny?
Do yourself a favour and go look at some videos from the late 60s, early 70s. How people rose up against the prude bourgeoisie. And in 2013 we're right back...
TrueSatan writes in with the latest in the ongoing Aaron Swartz tragedy.
It only costs $35 to appeal, but it will cost your ISP more than that to go through the appeals process. If everyone appeals, the system will be unworkable, and therefore everyone should appeal.
How do you know it costs the ISP more? Have we seen what this appeal process looks like? Is your ISP just forwarding your appeal to the source of the complaint? A canned response from the Six Strike Tribunal with all the fields filled out from the Monitor (or did you mean: ISP as Internet Surveillance Provider) is hardly $35 to produce.
Aside of costs, first you are volunteering yourself as a party in the process and what evidence are you required to submit, for instance names and addresses of everyone who had access to your Internet connection?
^ That should read "the 2048 edition"
So in the 2048 we will be able to look up "Interweb" as a fully accepted noun (but people will be too busy defending themselves against wave after wave of evil robots to care).
Reporting from Europe. Can confirm life. Intelligence yet to be confirmed.
FTFY
Life and intelligence were confirmed July 4th, 2012
While there is very legitimate evidence being presented elsewhere pointing out that this is a hoax, the story is of course fabulous and the irony wonderful. Internet Freedom being defended from the Copyright Industry by none other than North Korea?
It will be an interesting story to follow and I'm wondering who the RIAA/MPAA (indirectly, of course) are going after next...
We don't see a public outcry against the TPP Agreement's IPR Chapter, we don't see an public outcry against the copyright provisions in CETA, and the defeat of ACTA in Europe was just a by-line. We do seem SOME negative flak for CETA as it relates to the price Seniors have to pay for their meds.
Question: which Canadian MP is a Champion of Internet Freedom and the reigning-in of the Copyright Industry's World-Wide Ratcheting system? Answer: none!
I'd rather risk jail time than pay the absurd prices they levy on media. Have you seen the price of a Blu-Ray in Japan?
IF you are actually in Japan... can you explain to us how their election system votes and how any person under 30 in Japan can vote for a party that supports these draconic measures? I really can't get my head around it and the only explanation I can find is a rigged system where the bigger established parties always win, with the help of the Usual Suspects (old people that vote for a party because they always voted for that party).
Damned be the Great Goo of Grey Typewriters that are Voters of Habit who distort elections and prevent anything to be done this decade and maybe the next.
So women's "participation" in the "free culture movement" and "open culture" is having expressions censored? How many women feel represented by this "Ada Initiative" now?