Remember, Clancy deliberately introduced errors into his spy and nuclear weapons tech so that the real intelligence agencies (i.e., KGB and GRU) and real terrorists couldn't use them as formulae. Or at least, so he claimed on talk show appearances.
Remember, time-based split spectrum encoding goes back to Hedy Lamarr's patent from the WWII era. Also, the Soviets were (mis-)using one time pads back in the same period. Any strong encryption algorithm (short of one-time pads of immense size) that you know about is laughed at by the real spy agencies.
> the dozen or so PhD's I'm close enough with to know their beliefs
Which probably self-selects for people who do not think you a self-absorbed asshat.
This is like film critic Pauline Kael claiming that she knew no one who had voted for Nixon, and deciding that George McGovern must have won. Which even she was sane enough not to believe.
Interestingly, it is this group which seems to have lost the most people at the same time as the young earth group gained.
Mainly, it is because people in the less traditionally religious groups don't bother to reproduce themselves, let alone expand their numbers. Early education counts a lot, as Ignatius Loyala and Felix Dzerzinsky both agreed.
I like that that we've been able to quantify the silliness of creationism.
Except that anything having to do with a Transcendent Creator requires a cardinality greater than aleph two. Even at aleph null, x == 2*x if x is transcendental.
No, Google is a magazine publishing a new edition every time you hit Search. The are paid by the ad agencies every time they place one in front of you, then more if you click on it, etc., whereas Time only gets paid for the column-inch of ads.
Seriously, telling users (who aren't customers, after all) what terms to avoid is about as far as Google can go, until they acquire their own nuclear arsenal and demonstrate a willingness to use it. The PRC is doing the censorship, not Google.
At the church you have the organist and the choir, and hire a band rather than a deejay for the reception.
Actually, unless the choir director pays the scores publisher a fee for the performance (which they usually don't, except maybe the Mormon Tabernacle Choir) they are violating the copyright. Likewise if, as my mother did for her choir, one copy of the score was purchased then xeroxed for each choir member.
If only uncopyrighted music is played after being learned by listening to another playing it then imitating the first, then you are free of all worry about copyright fees. Otherwise, include a rider in the contract making the band and choir responsible for all fees for their performances, and let them tote them up.
Almost every karaoke machine I've ever seen, the music is NOT the original artists recording. Why then are the original recording artists entitled to a per performance fee.
The original artists of karaoke music probably aren't the artists who became famous from their version of, say, Knocking On Heaven's Door, but are certainly some band of session players put together by some label which paid for the rights (to release a version) to the original publishers (i.e., of Bob Dylan's musical scores, not his record company nor G&R's). Therefore, the karaoke publishers owe fees to the music publishers for each for-pay performance, which they probably don't bother to collect.
This covers performing recorded music for events, not live performances. Those are covered by other, pre-existing, "shake downs" which your bands should already be playing, if you play copyrighted music (Wedding March from Lohengrin isn't, On Eagle's Wings, famously sung by Bett Midler is). For that matter, they probably have to pay a fee to the publisher to use his transcript of pre-1920 classical scores, too. The jazz standards, however, all are likely covered by copyrights.
The solution is simple: As comedian Gary Muledeer used to do in his act because he was (or claimed to be) unable to afford the license fees, party like it's 1899! Have your jazz band play Campdown Races, or Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight?), or the like. Scott Joplin's stuff may be out of copyright, but Stormy Weather certainly isn't.
E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensmen Series, Hitchhiker's Guide, and Star Trek have both been referenced, already. Just because we haven't referred to your favorite, yet, doesn't mean that we don't read SF, just not Alastair Reynold.
To be fair, basic email is no more secure than a postcard. This may be an improvement on that, even if already done by some commercial entity before them, or PGP and the like.
but doing all that mass-energy conversion and indiscriminate radiating must be slowly changing the sun's size
This assumes that the Sun actually *has* a size, in a real, rather than purely mathematical sense. The outer layers of the Sun are a translucent vacuum. A harder vacuum than we were able to achieve for most of the 20th C, glowing like a neon light so that the visibility through those outer layers is about what the old London Pea Soup fogs were like. If we could view it in infrared, the Sun would have a larger "diameter" than this measurement, and of course smaller if measured from its ultraviolet image, or its X-ray image for that matter.
They have managed to get the exact size of a balloon in the process of being blown up and released. Not its maximum size or its minimum, but merely that of one random moment in the cycle.
It mentioned common law...but in LA here...I think we're still under Napoleonic law...so,not sure how that would work here.
Just to clarify, the "LA" above meant Louisiana, not L.A., California. That got me confused for a bit.:-) Louisiana IS mostly under the Napoleonic Code, rather than Common Law, at least for civil matters.
I'm also wondering...Say I take a picture of person "X" here in New Orleans. Person X is from Utah.
Now..is the publicity laws mentioned..do them emanate for person X from the state of LA, or the state of UT?
The state where the sale is deemed to have occurred, just as, if the Utah resident committed a crime in another state, that state's laws apply, not the home state (ignoring diplomatic immunity, or some treaty rights).
Of course, if the people captured in the photo are not identifiable, then the photographer probably doesn't need to worry about waivers. An image of blobs in the football stadium that correspond to spectators will be safe to use.
If you do the DCF analysis you will see that it is expectations of share price appreciation and not dividends that is the source of most of the valuation for many equities
Providing, of course, that you can find the bigger idiots to buy your no-dividend stock at a higher price than you were conned into paying for it.
Why not just go all the way, and support the REAL Orion rocket, aka Bang-Bang? Who wouldn't want to put a battleship-sized craft into orbit, or to Mars for that matter?
BTW, I knew people who worked on both projects (NERVA and Orion), and they were not the slightest bit insane, except that one of them was a fan of pro basketball.
Quit complaining. I spent $14.50 for IMAX 3D (via Fandango, for the last dollar).
But seriously, who DOESN'T realize that it is a CGI extravaganza? And seriously, if you can see that it is CGI (as opposed to realizing afterwards) then the non-CGI parts of the film are usually to blame.
The pinups were painted using photos as a guide, not actual photos. The paintings were then redone as prints, not photos.
More relevant to the original point, Playboy used airbrushing from very early issues. I cannot say for certain about the first two (featuring one of the secretaries, and Marilyn Monroe by an outside photographer) but certainly by the end of the year.
Once all/most cars are automated, they would be able to go 100+ mph in areas traditionally 50 mph and 150+ mph in areas traditionally 65 mph.
Right, until some deer jumps out from the woods, and commits suicide on your hood at twice the speed that it would have in the good old days.
This is of course weather permitting and the road isn't flagged as craptastic.
Which is to say, never. After all, any problems would be the auto manufacturer's fault, not yours. Thus, EVERYONE is suing GM, Ford, Fiat, Honda, Toyota, etc., for reasons that will be specious, even compared to whatever famous case that you previously thought specious.
You know, I've often wondered why comma delimited became the standard, rather than pipe delimited. You run into a pipe in text data far less often than you run into a comma. No need for text qualifiers with a pipe delimiter. Is MS Excel the culprit?
Comma delimited looks better to humans, but unused char delimited works better with parsers. At AT&T Research, the fraud databases (all on Unix) used pipe delimited as the default separator, the last time that I was there, even when the data was not printable text.
Sorry for ranting on, but I had the same damned argument with a friend who wants to be a Certified Financial Planner.
Free markets obviously exist (see: flea markets, Arab bazzars, etc.); whether social networking websites have anything to do with free markets is another question entirely.
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Remember, Clancy deliberately introduced errors into his spy and nuclear weapons tech so that the real intelligence agencies (i.e., KGB and GRU) and real terrorists couldn't use them as formulae. Or at least, so he claimed on talk show appearances.
Whoosh.
Remember, time-based split spectrum encoding goes back to Hedy Lamarr's patent from the WWII era. Also, the Soviets were (mis-)using one time pads back in the same period. Any strong encryption algorithm (short of one-time pads of immense size) that you know about is laughed at by the real spy agencies.
> the dozen or so PhD's I'm close enough with to know their beliefs
Which probably self-selects for people who do not think you a self-absorbed asshat.
This is like film critic Pauline Kael claiming that she knew no one who had voted for Nixon, and deciding that George McGovern must have won. Which even she was sane enough not to believe.
Interestingly, it is this group which seems to have lost the most people at the same time as the young earth group gained.
Mainly, it is because people in the less traditionally religious groups don't bother to reproduce themselves, let alone expand their numbers. Early education counts a lot, as Ignatius Loyala and Felix Dzerzinsky both agreed.
I like that that we've been able to quantify the silliness of creationism.
Except that anything having to do with a Transcendent Creator requires a cardinality greater than aleph two. Even at aleph null, x == 2*x if x is transcendental.
Ah, but who created ANDY Devine?
No, Google is a magazine publishing a new edition every time you hit Search. The are paid by the ad agencies every time they place one in front of you, then more if you click on it, etc., whereas Time only gets paid for the column-inch of ads.
Seriously, telling users (who aren't customers, after all) what terms to avoid is about as far as Google can go, until they acquire their own nuclear arsenal and demonstrate a willingness to use it. The PRC is doing the censorship, not Google.
That you did not negotiate your pay intelligently is no fault of theirs.
At the church you have the organist and the choir, and hire a band rather than a deejay for the reception.
Actually, unless the choir director pays the scores publisher a fee for the performance (which they usually don't, except maybe the Mormon Tabernacle Choir) they are violating the copyright. Likewise if, as my mother did for her choir, one copy of the score was purchased then xeroxed for each choir member.
If only uncopyrighted music is played after being learned by listening to another playing it then imitating the first, then you are free of all worry about copyright fees. Otherwise, include a rider in the contract making the band and choir responsible for all fees for their performances, and let them tote them up.
Almost every karaoke machine I've ever seen, the music is NOT the original artists recording. Why then are the original recording artists entitled to a per performance fee.
The original artists of karaoke music probably aren't the artists who became famous from their version of, say, Knocking On Heaven's Door, but are certainly some band of session players put together by some label which paid for the rights (to release a version) to the original publishers (i.e., of Bob Dylan's musical scores, not his record company nor G&R's). Therefore, the karaoke publishers owe fees to the music publishers for each for-pay performance, which they probably don't bother to collect.
This covers performing recorded music for events, not live performances. Those are covered by other, pre-existing, "shake downs" which your bands should already be playing, if you play copyrighted music (Wedding March from Lohengrin isn't, On Eagle's Wings, famously sung by Bett Midler is). For that matter, they probably have to pay a fee to the publisher to use his transcript of pre-1920 classical scores, too. The jazz standards, however, all are likely covered by copyrights.
The solution is simple: As comedian Gary Muledeer used to do in his act because he was (or claimed to be) unable to afford the license fees, party like it's 1899! Have your jazz band play Campdown Races, or Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight?), or the like. Scott Joplin's stuff may be out of copyright, but Stormy Weather certainly isn't.
E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensmen Series, Hitchhiker's Guide, and Star Trek have both been referenced, already. Just because we haven't referred to your favorite, yet, doesn't mean that we don't read SF, just not Alastair Reynold.
To be fair, basic email is no more secure than a postcard. This may be an improvement on that, even if already done by some commercial entity before them, or PGP and the like.
my father used to say (i'm taiwanese) "as long as the dick face the earth and the back faces the sun then it's food. "
So eating some man who prefers the Missionary Position is acceptable, there?
but doing all that mass-energy conversion and indiscriminate radiating must be slowly changing the sun's size
This assumes that the Sun actually *has* a size, in a real, rather than purely mathematical sense. The outer layers of the Sun are a translucent vacuum. A harder vacuum than we were able to achieve for most of the 20th C, glowing like a neon light so that the visibility through those outer layers is about what the old London Pea Soup fogs were like. If we could view it in infrared, the Sun would have a larger "diameter" than this measurement, and of course smaller if measured from its ultraviolet image, or its X-ray image for that matter.
They have managed to get the exact size of a balloon in the process of being blown up and released. Not its maximum size or its minimum, but merely that of one random moment in the cycle.
It mentioned common law...but in LA here...I think we're still under Napoleonic law...so,not sure how that would work here.
Just to clarify, the "LA" above meant Louisiana, not L.A., California. That got me confused for a bit. :-)
Louisiana IS mostly under the Napoleonic Code, rather than Common Law, at least for civil matters.
I'm also wondering...Say I take a picture of person "X" here in New Orleans. Person X is from Utah.
Now..is the publicity laws mentioned..do them emanate for person X from the state of LA, or the state of UT?
The state where the sale is deemed to have occurred, just as, if the Utah resident committed a crime in another state, that state's laws apply, not the home state (ignoring diplomatic immunity, or some treaty rights).
Of course, if the people captured in the photo are not identifiable, then the photographer probably doesn't need to worry about waivers. An image of blobs in the football stadium that correspond to spectators will be safe to use.
If you do the DCF analysis you will see that it is expectations of share price appreciation and not dividends that is the source of most of the valuation for many equities
Providing, of course, that you can find the bigger idiots to buy your no-dividend stock at a higher price than you were conned into paying for it.
Why not just go all the way, and support the REAL Orion rocket, aka Bang-Bang? Who wouldn't want to put a battleship-sized craft into orbit, or to Mars for that matter?
BTW, I knew people who worked on both projects (NERVA and Orion), and they were not the slightest bit insane, except that one of them was a fan of pro basketball.
Quit complaining. I spent $14.50 for IMAX 3D (via Fandango, for the last dollar).
But seriously, who DOESN'T realize that it is a CGI extravaganza? And seriously, if you can see that it is CGI (as opposed to realizing afterwards) then the non-CGI parts of the film are usually to blame.
You mean like all those pinup photos from WWII?
The pinups were painted using photos as a guide, not actual photos. The paintings were then redone as prints, not photos.
More relevant to the original point, Playboy used airbrushing from very early issues. I cannot say for certain about the first two (featuring one of the secretaries, and Marilyn Monroe by an outside photographer) but certainly by the end of the year.
Just repeat after me:
Whoosh!
Once all/most cars are automated, they would be able to go 100+ mph in areas traditionally 50 mph and 150+ mph in areas traditionally 65 mph.
Right, until some deer jumps out from the woods, and commits suicide on your hood at twice the speed that it would have in the good old days.
This is of course weather permitting and the road isn't flagged as craptastic.
Which is to say, never. After all, any problems would be the auto manufacturer's fault, not yours. Thus, EVERYONE is suing GM, Ford, Fiat, Honda, Toyota, etc., for reasons that will be specious, even compared to whatever famous case that you previously thought specious.
And Icelandic, where they carefully maintain Old Norse, just in case any einjerer or valkyries turn up and want to gab.
You know, I've often wondered why comma delimited became the standard, rather than pipe delimited. You run into a pipe in text data far less often than you run into a comma. No need for text qualifiers with a pipe delimiter. Is MS Excel the culprit?
Comma delimited looks better to humans, but unused char delimited works better with parsers. At AT&T Research, the fraud databases (all on Unix) used pipe delimited as the default separator, the last time that I was there, even when the data was not printable text.
Sorry for ranting on, but I had the same damned argument with a friend who wants to be a Certified Financial Planner.
Free markets obviously exist (see: flea markets, Arab bazzars, etc.); whether social networking websites have anything to do with free markets is another question entirely.