That might have been a bad subject, but this is my point: If you can check out music from a library, and you can check out books from the library, and you can even check out dvd's from the library, why can't you just get them from the internet?
Why don't the RIAA and MPAA call libraries piracy? Those who go to libraries think that sharing knowledge and "intellectual property" in the form of books is necessary and should be free. Those who "steal" music, etc off the internet do as well.
I don't think that the RIAA should target only the poor college age teenagers when they could get the whole government for property theft!...so why don't we just get a big big big server from the library of congress to hold all books, audiobooks, songs, movies, etc on a web server, and give them free to the public?
very understandable, but my point is that solutions should be final (wow, that kind of sounded bad); they shouldn't lead to more problems.
if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Or, if you're part of the solution, you may still be part of the problem, if your solution sucks.
again, i don't really know enough about it to be a critic; just a skeptic. that was just one thing that immediately hit me.
the only thing i foresee is that if the crystals (which, admittedly, i know little about) are harmful to the world (like plastic), we're still screwed.
when i was a kid my mom made me take tennis lessons, and the tennis teacher always used to say "treat the tennis racquet as an extension of your hand; as if you were hitting the ball with your hand"
instead of the web replacing TV, i think what is more likely is that TV's will be adapted to use the web... this has already started to happen (apple TV uses the web, doesn't it?)
i think that soon, our TV's will be a computer with a rather large, high-definition monitor
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that was my first reaction, but don't forget that entrapment is when you make or somehow get a person do to something that they would normally not do.
ikea does it... the only problem is that I don't happen to live in a metropolis, and the closest one to me is four hours away
boycott all isps and internet and go back to using abaci [or at least floppy disks]
series of twisted, tangled, and altogether screwed up tubes
for caffeine (or any drug, for that matter) to go to through the skin, you'd have to have a carrier.
ebay.
When i read the headline, i was already getting ready to email this to my photography teacher....
it could have already emitted all this gamma radiation like 6499 years ago, and we wouldn't know it.
we're doomed. it's even an ibrick for the guys at mozilla.
That might have been a bad subject, but this is my point: If you can check out music from a library, and you can check out books from the library, and you can even check out dvd's from the library, why can't you just get them from the internet?
...so why don't we just get a big big big server from the library of congress to hold all books, audiobooks, songs, movies, etc on a web server, and give them free to the public?
Why don't the RIAA and MPAA call libraries piracy? Those who go to libraries think that sharing knowledge and "intellectual property" in the form of books is necessary and should be free. Those who "steal" music, etc off the internet do as well.
I don't think that the RIAA should target only the poor college age teenagers when they could get the whole government for property theft!
"I Don't Believe in Intellectual Property Writes:" [insert story here]
very understandable, but my point is that solutions should be final (wow, that kind of sounded bad); they shouldn't lead to more problems. if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Or, if you're part of the solution, you may still be part of the problem, if your solution sucks. again, i don't really know enough about it to be a critic; just a skeptic. that was just one thing that immediately hit me.
the only thing i foresee is that if the crystals (which, admittedly, i know little about) are harmful to the world (like plastic), we're still screwed.
mr. fusion... haha
but also algae, which, given enough food, doubles every few minutes. it can be grown really really quickly and fairly easily.
- Move to a state where power companies have "buy-back" requirements.
- install device effectively taking you off grid and turning your home into a mini-power plant.
- profit.
you forgot the ???what about getting cellulosic ethanol from algae/etc?
it hasn't quite been perfected yet, but i don't see a problem with it once it does. get yeast or bacteria to convert it and do the dirty work for you.
how was this overrated when i didn't have a rating?!?
[insert no-sex-anyway geek jokes here]
10 lines voting and 1000 lines security
when i was a kid my mom made me take tennis lessons, and the tennis teacher always used to say "treat the tennis racquet as an extension of your hand; as if you were hitting the ball with your hand"
instead of the web replacing TV, i think what is more likely is that TV's will be adapted to use the web... this has already started to happen (apple TV uses the web, doesn't it?)
i think that soon, our TV's will be a computer with a rather large, high-definition monitor
this is stupid.
if sony wants me to buy their thing, they need to focus on speed, not some stupid 3cm range wireless.
honestly, guys. you call 3cm wireless? yeah... it's wireless, but not tetherless. still tethered to 3cm, as far as i'm concerned.
we better start building those damn hydrogen cars...
damnit, is within the next 20 million years good enough for you?