The large moon also helps keep up tectonic forces. When the volcanoes die life will follow shortly (in geological terms) thereafter (we're not actually big enough to hold our atmosphere, volcanoes provide a constant supply of new gasses).
You can pry my copy of Applied Cryptography out of my cold dead hands!
Also, I've always found it funny as hell that I'm not allowed to take the contents of my head with me when I leave the country. Which probably explains a lot about how foreigners talk about US tourists online.
Estimates are that the Wii 2 should be able to beat the PS3 graphics and still stay in the black with a 200$ price tag. It won't be anything like the improvement of the theoretical PS4 over the PS3, but if they can bring in all the developers that don't want to make games for the wii because the wii has poor graphics it'll put a lot of pressure on MS and Sony to bring out a new console to steal those developers back.
While its true Bush;'s cronies wanted to go into Iraq from the get go, they sold the idea to Bush because Bush wanted to attack a second country to demonstrate the we were serious about the war on terror, Bush didn't actually give a shit about Iraq himself, despite all the psychobabble about him wanting to follow in his fathers footsteps.
Neither yuri nor yaoi are necessarily hentai. They refer to *anything* that's gay or lesbian in manga and anime. Amazon has only decided these titles are pornographic recently, and at least one of them was classified as romance and not erotica before.
This is of little use to the publisher and writer, who just lost half their sales for the censored titles. Keep in mind Amazon is a massive powerhouse in the book publishing world, so much that they even muscled publishers into signing contracts where the publisher could never allow another retailer to sell any ebook for less than what Amazon charges.
And today there are alternatives yes, but the ebook is here, and its growing fast. Here's the thing, many books aren't sold like normal items, they're sold like magazines. And like Magazines, after a certain period (usually either 90 or 120 days for mass market paperbacks) if the book hasn't sold the book seller can destroy the book and return the cover for a refund. This is horrificly expensive for the publisher when things go a certain way (IE, books being destroyed in one part of the world but selling out in another). So the people in the industry have basically said that once ebooks are dominate (and this will happen soon) the mass market paperback (the business model I described, not paperback the physical object) goes bye bye in favor of ebooks where there's no printing cost to lose when books don't sell well in one part of the country but do sell well in another.
There is another business model for physical books, where the book has to be returned, but anything that's high risk for the bookstore because of shipping costs, (and Amazon isn't going to censor best sellers). So the only things Amazon is going to censor will only be available in ebook format within ~10 years. In terms of my motivation for going after Amazon for this, (the long term fear that they'll score a monopoly that will enable them to outright ban anything LBGT as they attempted to do two years ago, with no fear of backlash from customers who can't buy anywhere else) today's alternatives aren't much use.
There's also the concern that ebooks are expected to be critical to generating best selling authors as time goes on, in the past books that could have gone best seller would fail to do so because they sold out rapidly and there was a delay in reprinting which prevented the book from making the all important extended best seller lists (which in turn generate the kind of sales that push books from authors nobody has heard of to the top of the list), so even if the mass market paperback exists, writing about a subject that's locked out of the ebook market will make an author poison to publishers (book publishing is high risk as hell, 9 out of 10 books by new authors lose money, without the even the slim possibility of becoming a best seller its hard to justify investing in a new writer, because the other 1 in 10 just don't make those kinds of profits).
None of that violates Amazon policies. Erotica is perfectly OK according to them as long as its not hardcore. the problem is that they've decided that being gay means something is hardcore.
There's also the whole homophobic angle to this. These things aren't being censored for being porn (because they aren't, at least according to Amazon until 2 weeks ago), they're being censored for being gay.
You'll note that none of those formats support DRM, which is a problem, as aside from Cory Doctorow and self published books I've never seen an ebook for sale that didn't include DRM. Even the public domain books you can get for 1$ come with DRM (yes you can get them DRM free from Project Gutenburg, I'm just pointing out how hard it is to *buy* a DRM free ebook).
Yes you can strip the DRM and convert to.mobi, but that isn't legal, and not trivial.
Because a ratings system leads to censorship, even when that isn't the purpose. Moviemakers have to make sure their movie gets the right rating or it won't make money, thanks to governments making it illegal for teenagers to go see R rated movies, and the general unmarketability of NC-17 (Jay and Silent Bob movies for example have had a number of drug related scenes deleted because of the ratings system), there have been numerous attempts to interfere in the sale of M rated games (not just to minors, which most stores won't do anyway, but in the way those games are displayed). And Australia has flat out succeeded in censorship by just refusing to give any game that should be classified as a a higher rating a rating at all.
So yes, in principle a ratings system is damned useful, but in practice its really really easy for it to be abused.
None of the censored titles are pornographic. Many of them are erotica (which according to Amazon is fine as long as its straight) and at least one was categorized as romance before Amazon recategorized it as adult.
Do a Google Image search for 'lesbian' with safe search off, I dare you*. Just because a word can bring up porn results doesn't mean it universally refers to porn.
Yaoi can (and often does) refer to porn, and Amazon has always censored hardcore pornographic titles. While I find this problematic in light of the Kindle lockdown (Amazon has done everything they can to prevent people from buying titles from anybody but Amazon), its not the issue here. The problem is that they are declaring Yaoi erotica (erotica is basically any HBO original show, ranging from things like True Blood to whatever that documentary on fetishes is called), which is allowed under Amazon policies if it isn't incest or child related, and declaring it to be hardcore simply because its male/male, and at least one of the titles wasn't even classified as erotica but as romance prior to the Amazon declaring it adult.
*Please don't do it if the results are going to get you into trouble.
That would hold true were it not for Amazon's lockdown of the Kindle. You can't (legally) buy DRMed books (which at the moment, is the only kind that isn't self published or Cory Doctorow) anywhere but Amazon. You also can't transfer your Amazon books to a different reader.
By using DRM to create a state enforced enforced monopoly, this becomes a very big deal.
Windows (at least XP) supports PAE under a different name actually, though you do have to turn it on (a setting in the boot.ini file iirc), and there's a different artificial limit MS put in to keep people from running high RAM servers off a cheap version of windows.
Also, the memory limit includes the graphics card. So you can lose a fair bit more than the first 512MB if you don't do this.
We've all heard the cliche about shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater.
Yes, this is bad. People get trampled to death if you do that. However nobody is put in danger from this kind of speech, they aren't fighting words, and he wasn't advocating criminal activity.
Of course, the fire in a crowded theater argument has always been used to justify crackdowns on legitimate speech. The origin of the phrase was a judge who ruled that people could be arrested for protesting US involvement in WWI.
I can see figuring out a way to diagnose specific diseases, but all of them? And that's in top of needing to actually invent a handheld device capable of grabbing all that data in the first place.
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The large moon also helps keep up tectonic forces. When the volcanoes die life will follow shortly (in geological terms) thereafter (we're not actually big enough to hold our atmosphere, volcanoes provide a constant supply of new gasses).
Hey, this is an improvement. At least they agree a court order is necessary now.
Well, in Orrin Hatch's case he receives ~40,000$ a year in 'royalties' from the music industry.
At least they'll need a freaking court order with this bill.
Dammit.
I have a carefully cultivated hatred of ebay/paypal here, and you're ruining it.
You can pry my copy of Applied Cryptography out of my cold dead hands!
Also, I've always found it funny as hell that I'm not allowed to take the contents of my head with me when I leave the country. Which probably explains a lot about how foreigners talk about US tourists online.
Estimates are that the Wii 2 should be able to beat the PS3 graphics and still stay in the black with a 200$ price tag. It won't be anything like the improvement of the theoretical PS4 over the PS3, but if they can bring in all the developers that don't want to make games for the wii because the wii has poor graphics it'll put a lot of pressure on MS and Sony to bring out a new console to steal those developers back.
Also, the Kinnect is utter shit.
Nah, security has improved.
They put locks on the cockpit doors. This was a great idea.
What do you mean my internet?
The switch will control the WORLDS internet.
I suggest you start kissing up to us American's now to save time.
No, they'll be moving to Dubai to avoid paying taxes.
Halliburton is a foreign firm too, they moved out to avoid paying taxes.
While its true Bush;'s cronies wanted to go into Iraq from the get go, they sold the idea to Bush because Bush wanted to attack a second country to demonstrate the we were serious about the war on terror, Bush didn't actually give a shit about Iraq himself, despite all the psychobabble about him wanting to follow in his fathers footsteps.
Neither yuri nor yaoi are necessarily hentai. They refer to *anything* that's gay or lesbian in manga and anime. Amazon has only decided these titles are pornographic recently, and at least one of them was classified as romance and not erotica before.
This is of little use to the publisher and writer, who just lost half their sales for the censored titles. Keep in mind Amazon is a massive powerhouse in the book publishing world, so much that they even muscled publishers into signing contracts where the publisher could never allow another retailer to sell any ebook for less than what Amazon charges.
And today there are alternatives yes, but the ebook is here, and its growing fast. Here's the thing, many books aren't sold like normal items, they're sold like magazines. And like Magazines, after a certain period (usually either 90 or 120 days for mass market paperbacks) if the book hasn't sold the book seller can destroy the book and return the cover for a refund. This is horrificly expensive for the publisher when things go a certain way (IE, books being destroyed in one part of the world but selling out in another). So the people in the industry have basically said that once ebooks are dominate (and this will happen soon) the mass market paperback (the business model I described, not paperback the physical object) goes bye bye in favor of ebooks where there's no printing cost to lose when books don't sell well in one part of the country but do sell well in another.
There is another business model for physical books, where the book has to be returned, but anything that's high risk for the bookstore because of shipping costs, (and Amazon isn't going to censor best sellers). So the only things Amazon is going to censor will only be available in ebook format within ~10 years. In terms of my motivation for going after Amazon for this, (the long term fear that they'll score a monopoly that will enable them to outright ban anything LBGT as they attempted to do two years ago, with no fear of backlash from customers who can't buy anywhere else) today's alternatives aren't much use.
There's also the concern that ebooks are expected to be critical to generating best selling authors as time goes on, in the past books that could have gone best seller would fail to do so because they sold out rapidly and there was a delay in reprinting which prevented the book from making the all important extended best seller lists (which in turn generate the kind of sales that push books from authors nobody has heard of to the top of the list), so even if the mass market paperback exists, writing about a subject that's locked out of the ebook market will make an author poison to publishers (book publishing is high risk as hell, 9 out of 10 books by new authors lose money, without the even the slim possibility of becoming a best seller its hard to justify investing in a new writer, because the other 1 in 10 just don't make those kinds of profits).
None of that violates Amazon policies. Erotica is perfectly OK according to them as long as its not hardcore. the problem is that they've decided that being gay means something is hardcore.
There's also the whole homophobic angle to this. These things aren't being censored for being porn (because they aren't, at least according to Amazon until 2 weeks ago), they're being censored for being gay.
You'll note that none of those formats support DRM, which is a problem, as aside from Cory Doctorow and self published books I've never seen an ebook for sale that didn't include DRM. Even the public domain books you can get for 1$ come with DRM (yes you can get them DRM free from Project Gutenburg, I'm just pointing out how hard it is to *buy* a DRM free ebook).
Yes you can strip the DRM and convert to .mobi, but that isn't legal, and not trivial.
Because a ratings system leads to censorship, even when that isn't the purpose. Moviemakers have to make sure their movie gets the right rating or it won't make money, thanks to governments making it illegal for teenagers to go see R rated movies, and the general unmarketability of NC-17 (Jay and Silent Bob movies for example have had a number of drug related scenes deleted because of the ratings system), there have been numerous attempts to interfere in the sale of M rated games (not just to minors, which most stores won't do anyway, but in the way those games are displayed). And Australia has flat out succeeded in censorship by just refusing to give any game that should be classified as a a higher rating a rating at all.
So yes, in principle a ratings system is damned useful, but in practice its really really easy for it to be abused.
None of the censored titles are pornographic. Many of them are erotica (which according to Amazon is fine as long as its straight) and at least one was categorized as romance before Amazon recategorized it as adult.
Do a Google Image search for 'lesbian' with safe search off, I dare you*. Just because a word can bring up porn results doesn't mean it universally refers to porn.
Yaoi can (and often does) refer to porn, and Amazon has always censored hardcore pornographic titles. While I find this problematic in light of the Kindle lockdown (Amazon has done everything they can to prevent people from buying titles from anybody but Amazon), its not the issue here. The problem is that they are declaring Yaoi erotica (erotica is basically any HBO original show, ranging from things like True Blood to whatever that documentary on fetishes is called), which is allowed under Amazon policies if it isn't incest or child related, and declaring it to be hardcore simply because its male/male, and at least one of the titles wasn't even classified as erotica but as romance prior to the Amazon declaring it adult.
*Please don't do it if the results are going to get you into trouble.
That would hold true were it not for Amazon's lockdown of the Kindle. You can't (legally) buy DRMed books (which at the moment, is the only kind that isn't self published or Cory Doctorow) anywhere but Amazon. You also can't transfer your Amazon books to a different reader.
By using DRM to create a state enforced enforced monopoly, this becomes a very big deal.
Windows (at least XP) supports PAE under a different name actually, though you do have to turn it on (a setting in the boot.ini file iirc), and there's a different artificial limit MS put in to keep people from running high RAM servers off a cheap version of windows.
Also, the memory limit includes the graphics card. So you can lose a fair bit more than the first 512MB if you don't do this.
If he doesn't, I have one too.
We've all heard the cliche about shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater.
Yes, this is bad. People get trampled to death if you do that. However nobody is put in danger from this kind of speech, they aren't fighting words, and he wasn't advocating criminal activity.
Of course, the fire in a crowded theater argument has always been used to justify crackdowns on legitimate speech. The origin of the phrase was a judge who ruled that people could be arrested for protesting US involvement in WWI.
I can see figuring out a way to diagnose specific diseases, but all of them? And that's in top of needing to actually invent a handheld device capable of grabbing all that data in the first place.