All land and property seized and auctioned as a result of a criminal conviction has proceeds remitted back to the government
Became the government's right there, so they kept the money when it was sold.
Under that system, where would the money from the auction go? To the government? To the original inventor? To the previous owner of the IP? I don't see how you could possibly think that it would go anywhere but to the previous owner. Is there any instance where the sale of something at an auction (a non charity one, at least) leads to somebody other than the previous owner getting the money?
With the scenario of $megaCorp, the original owner could bid however much he wants (ten trillion trillion), and then he'll pay himself (so he doesn't actually need to have any money). However if he does that, his taxes will go way up, and he has to decide if the IP is really worth that much, and if it really is worth a BILLION dollars, and no more, he'll sell. If he's emotionally attatched to it and doesn't want it to fall into the hands of $megaCorp, he can just release to the public domain.
There are US states that outlaw guns? I was under the impression that federal laws, and of course the constitution, trumped any laws the states could make.
Silverlight doesn't run only on windows. Mac and most linux people won't have any problems, and the rest of the linux people are probably smart enough to make it work.
no, not really
You would never be allowed to steal one of the power connectors themselves, but the design has also been protected, and the design is also just information.
If two homosexuals reproduce, it doesn't matter if it isn't being done naturally, it'll have the same effect on the gene pool that normal reproduction does.
"Let us make man in our image" is just the majestic plural. It's like when the queen says "we are not amused". However if there's more when you look at it in context I'll give it to you, but that quote isn't enough.
Sure, I agree that defense needs to be well funded (I'm looking into attending the naval academy in '09), but since the cold war ended it seems that we didn't decrease spending sufficiently to reflect that. Currently we are the source of over half the world's military spending. We spend almost ten times the next biggest spender (Britain, coming in at 70B versus our 623B), and double the EU as a whole, despite their slightly larger GDP. While this ensures military supremacy, it also makes us look bad, and leaves less money for other stuff.
Parent is not off topic, I've seen similarly connected comments on other stories with +5 insightful on them. Don't mod down just because you (and I) disagree with him.
We've already got the telescope up there. To let it die would be a bigger waste of the money. And the "Space isn't the biggest waste of money in the budget" one is a valid argument. Instead of spending 15 minutes convincing nobody to stop spending a few hundred million, you could make people aware of the billions being wasted elsewhere and instantly win converts.
I've seen that the ones who win are the ones who have NASA build their robots for them. Usually NASA "mentors" a couple of the teams from my region, so they end up with the exact same robot (except for the paint color). Yes, I'm bitter, especially because the competition specifically condoned this kind of "collaboration" for this year.
Actually, most years the initial autonomous period (which was only like 10-15 second long...) was really completely independent, but this year we can use tv remotes and a provided IR receiver to have limited control of the robot even during this period. These really aren't "robots" anymore, but just complicated RC cars with arms. I'm not complaining though, my team has enough problems without having to worry about programming the thing. All we have to do is reconfigure the wheel-joystick relationship and we're set.
Wouldn't the highest temperature be when the particles of the substance are moving at the speed of light? Find the largest element (that is, with the largest atomic mass), and find what it's temperature is when the particles are going at 3x10^11 m/s.
If you're taking it that far, everything is nuclear: Wind comes from uneven heating thanks to the sun, ocean currents come from the same thing, hydroelectric comes from the sun powered water cycle, the only exception being geothermal.
In an insurgency, if you fail to blow somebody up, the chances of facing the exact same driver again are slim to none, and though that driver will again face people trying to blow him up, they'll all have different tactics and styles, making it difficult for anything, human or machine, to really learn to stay out of trouble. Besides, looking at Iraq now, if American troops had really been learning for these last 4 years, IEDs wouldn't be such a problem any more.
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Except if a person had actually tested it, it would have become pretty obvious that something was wrong.
It's obvious. The vast majority of content creators are American, and it's easier to sue if you aren't crossing international borders.
But it's cooler to have a signed xbox that works.
...and the original owner would have enough money, since $megaCorp just paid them the original amount.
Became the government's right there, so they kept the money when it was sold.
With the scenario of $megaCorp, the original owner could bid however much he wants (ten trillion trillion), and then he'll pay himself (so he doesn't actually need to have any money). However if he does that, his taxes will go way up, and he has to decide if the IP is really worth that much, and if it really is worth a BILLION dollars, and no more, he'll sell. If he's emotionally attatched to it and doesn't want it to fall into the hands of $megaCorp, he can just release to the public domain.
There are US states that outlaw guns? I was under the impression that federal laws, and of course the constitution, trumped any laws the states could make.
Silverlight doesn't run only on windows. Mac and most linux people won't have any problems, and the rest of the linux people are probably smart enough to make it work.
no, not really You would never be allowed to steal one of the power connectors themselves, but the design has also been protected, and the design is also just information.
If two homosexuals reproduce, it doesn't matter if it isn't being done naturally, it'll have the same effect on the gene pool that normal reproduction does.
I'd like to see the differences when you physically aim a gun and when you move the mouse while playing bf2.
How much time and money could this possibly take?
"Let us make man in our image" is just the majestic plural. It's like when the queen says "we are not amused". However if there's more when you look at it in context I'll give it to you, but that quote isn't enough.
Sure, I agree that defense needs to be well funded (I'm looking into attending the naval academy in '09), but since the cold war ended it seems that we didn't decrease spending sufficiently to reflect that. Currently we are the source of over half the world's military spending. We spend almost ten times the next biggest spender (Britain, coming in at 70B versus our 623B), and double the EU as a whole, despite their slightly larger GDP. While this ensures military supremacy, it also makes us look bad, and leaves less money for other stuff.
Parent is not off topic, I've seen similarly connected comments on other stories with +5 insightful on them. Don't mod down just because you (and I) disagree with him.
We've already got the telescope up there. To let it die would be a bigger waste of the money. And the "Space isn't the biggest waste of money in the budget" one is a valid argument. Instead of spending 15 minutes convincing nobody to stop spending a few hundred million, you could make people aware of the billions being wasted elsewhere and instantly win converts.
I knew a fair number of people like you existed, but I wouldn't in a million years have expected them to read slashdot...
I've seen that the ones who win are the ones who have NASA build their robots for them. Usually NASA "mentors" a couple of the teams from my region, so they end up with the exact same robot (except for the paint color). Yes, I'm bitter, especially because the competition specifically condoned this kind of "collaboration" for this year.
Actually, most years the initial autonomous period (which was only like 10-15 second long...) was really completely independent, but this year we can use tv remotes and a provided IR receiver to have limited control of the robot even during this period. These really aren't "robots" anymore, but just complicated RC cars with arms. I'm not complaining though, my team has enough problems without having to worry about programming the thing. All we have to do is reconfigure the wheel-joystick relationship and we're set.
oh yea
Wouldn't the highest temperature be when the particles of the substance are moving at the speed of light? Find the largest element (that is, with the largest atomic mass), and find what it's temperature is when the particles are going at 3x10^11 m/s.
rtfa, or rather, the other link, the edit history on wikipedia. He's not fixing typos, and there really are grounds for NPOV accusations.
If you're taking it that far, everything is nuclear: Wind comes from uneven heating thanks to the sun, ocean currents come from the same thing, hydroelectric comes from the sun powered water cycle, the only exception being geothermal.
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In an insurgency, if you fail to blow somebody up, the chances of facing the exact same driver again are slim to none, and though that driver will again face people trying to blow him up, they'll all have different tactics and styles, making it difficult for anything, human or machine, to really learn to stay out of trouble. Besides, looking at Iraq now, if American troops had really been learning for these last 4 years, IEDs wouldn't be such a problem any more.
Oh yea, since dead people are so good at learning, and people with limbs blown off are going to be driving tanks.