the last US revolution was just over a hundred years ago. The last English revolution was 1688. I think we're both well overdue a reminder that GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, is talking about promoting and protecting the interests of individual and collective citizenry, not that of the body Corporate!
no three-eyed fish here. From what I understand, the water in the system is pumped back directly into the water table, where any so far negligible temperature difference between it and the ambient water is swiftly negated by the sheer volume of water and rock it meets. Thereafter it becomes so diluted any contaminants would be quickly absorbed by the rocks several hundred, if not thousands of feet underground never to see the light of day again. Water effluent from power stations is generally sterile and has little in the way of dissolved minerals in it; it does have dissolved gases due to the nature of the cooling process, in an approximate mix of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% argon and 0.1% CO2 and trace gases.
No, this is one of the tamer ones. I can't link you right now, but some public authorities have written in heavy fines and custodial penalties for violators!
um... I don't think that's quite how movie revenues work...
AFAICT, actors get paid an agreed fee on completion - they pay their SAG fees from that, they pay their travel and accommodation from that. They pay for *everything* from that. Production crews are salaried. Regardless of how much the movie takes at the Box Office.
Once the cost of the movie is offset, any remaining profits from disc/merchandising goes directly to the label. Actors and production crews get no further royalty (unless like Lucas you play it smart and retain merchandising rights unto perpetuity).
So while the customer is getting fucked up the ass three times for something he legally doesn't own(!) in three different formats, the label is creaming it and paying MPAA a flat fee to do all their legal bullying of six year old Sophie for downloading a copy of some forgotten Disney trash.
Nice people, eh?
In the case of music, what iTunes does for the benefit of the artist (who has to pay out his own pocket for pressing and distribution) is remove the requirement of physical discs. That's not a profit for the artists, it's money he doesn't have to spend (and probably would have to get a loan for, even if your band is called Metallica). HOWEVER, he still has to pay for advertising and airplay, and part with a large portion of the 6c per album he earns after distribution, licensing and the rest, to the MPAA/BPI for "legal" protection against... poor little Sophie. Oh, yes, she deprived Lady Gaga of an entire 6c by downloading an album instead of going to HMV.
Where does the rest of the twelve bucks for a CD go? Straight to the label. Pure unadulterated profit. No wonder they get pissy when technology threatens to take a huge dump on their rug.
So music artists are slaves, basically, actors are guns-for-hire, production crews get regular work as long as the Writers' Guild doesn't stage another walkout, and the labels just *rake it in* while repeatedly sodomising Joe Sixpack-Can't-Wait-For-The-Next-Die-Hard.
voice-controlled DCS scrambling for preprogrammed connections? With a link to a respository/directory of remote DCS codes?
We got the technology for that ~NOW~. Problem is it's in a few separate devices: personal radio transceivers (DCS/CTCSS scrambling/filtering), cellphones (network terminals and (for several years now) voice dialing), 192.com (directory services)... it doesn't need a cloud of satellites (that would end up creating a hazard around the planet), all it needs is a data connection to update the units' repository before debarcation.
Bit like programming your phone or your VX-5R (best HAM radio ever, IMHO).
downloading from a torrent (or any other source) most certainly is not illegal in the UK. What is illegal is the unauthorised availing of copyrighted content (ie uploading), in any format.
What makes it worse in that respect is the fact that public authorities over here in around 2005 enacted ordinances preventing trade in secondhand goods (ie VHS, DVD) without:
1. proof of identity (including address) from transient sellers; 2. booked recorded transactions between transient sellers and shop buyers; 3. open-door access to police, authority agencies and Performing Rights Society, BPI, BSA and other private enforcement agencies to inspect all aspects of the dealers' trade with zero notice; 4. publicly displayed certificates of compliance with the ordinances; 5. Cash transactions only. No credit notes, barter or swapsies.
So if you want rid of your copy of Apocalypse Now Redux or Munch's Oddysey, now you have to give over your ID to the dealer and you can only deal in cash. So HMRC get their unearned piece of the pie as well. If you're dealing music the BPI want their cut in the form of a license, and if you have a radio playing in your shop loud enough to hear from the counter PRS wade in and extort £400/year out of you (though you can get away with this if all you play is KLF! Seriously! Been there, pissed all over BPI in court!).
Mod up! Why'd you post AC? You've made some bloody good points there.
I'm the same. I've got, for instance, all the "24" boxsets, but I want to watch it on my netbook on the many long and boring train journeys I must endure. TPB is extremely handy for me, because while the DVDs are at home I can *legally* download DVD-quality rips on my torrent aggregator for my *own personal use*.
Score one for sensible: no external DVD reader required, no discs to lose or damage (they're nice and safe at home), and only 2lb to carry!
It has a camera. It has a microphone. It has two other input devices (keyboard, touchpad), sometimes three (fingerprint reader). For external sensors, you have one or two USB ports. Pop in a rat tail for a finger pulse oximeter. Kick up the internet connection for the NHS Home Diagnostics page (right here).
I'm not gonna go through the why (I have done it often on/.), but that is wrong: legally, companies are people. They have just as much voice in Congress as individuals, the difference is they have more money. Unfortunately Congress listens to money.
I know, redundant, but I absolutely agree. I would go one step further than that even and say that EVERY company that is losing business because of the *threat* of SOPA should do a public about-face and denounce SOPA to Congress. If one or two large corporations die because of the *threat* of SOPA, that should be enough to tell Congress that it is a bad BAD idea to fuck with those who pay your salaries!
The shitter is, transferring domains usually involves using Visa/Mastercard... though there are ways of getting non-V/M PrePay through cooperatives and credit unions, these seem to be so rare I've actually only ever seen one (Diner's via a local CU). So unless you're lucky enough to have one of these, then V/M will have one last lunge at the cake if you decide you're going the whole hog and giving them the finger as well as GoDaddy.
I don't have any credit or debit cards, and SOPA makes it even less likely that I'll get the urge to suddenly fill my wallet with contact/less chips.
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Release the hounds. >:]
I tried it and turned into Michael Keaton.
the last US revolution was just over a hundred years ago. The last English revolution was 1688. I think we're both well overdue a reminder that GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, is talking about promoting and protecting the interests of individual and collective citizenry, not that of the body Corporate!
no three-eyed fish here. From what I understand, the water in the system is pumped back directly into the water table, where any so far negligible temperature difference between it and the ambient water is swiftly negated by the sheer volume of water and rock it meets. Thereafter it becomes so diluted any contaminants would be quickly absorbed by the rocks several hundred, if not thousands of feet underground never to see the light of day again. Water effluent from power stations is generally sterile and has little in the way of dissolved minerals in it; it does have dissolved gases due to the nature of the cooling process, in an approximate mix of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% argon and 0.1% CO2 and trace gases.
...anyone got a 400 foot long drill bit?
No, this is one of the tamer ones. I can't link you right now, but some public authorities have written in heavy fines and custodial penalties for violators!
Was it Jefferson who said "The tree of Liberty from time to time must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants"?
I think you're both on to something, here.
Suddenly Senior High doesn't sound like such a safe place...
...is another series of murders to consolidate the theory.
Any takers?
um... I don't think that's quite how movie revenues work...
AFAICT, actors get paid an agreed fee on completion - they pay their SAG fees from that, they pay their travel and accommodation from that. They pay for *everything* from that. Production crews are salaried. Regardless of how much the movie takes at the Box Office.
Once the cost of the movie is offset, any remaining profits from disc/merchandising goes directly to the label. Actors and production crews get no further royalty (unless like Lucas you play it smart and retain merchandising rights unto perpetuity).
So while the customer is getting fucked up the ass three times for something he legally doesn't own(!) in three different formats, the label is creaming it and paying MPAA a flat fee to do all their legal bullying of six year old Sophie for downloading a copy of some forgotten Disney trash.
Nice people, eh?
In the case of music, what iTunes does for the benefit of the artist (who has to pay out his own pocket for pressing and distribution) is remove the requirement of physical discs. That's not a profit for the artists, it's money he doesn't have to spend (and probably would have to get a loan for, even if your band is called Metallica). HOWEVER, he still has to pay for advertising and airplay, and part with a large portion of the 6c per album he earns after distribution, licensing and the rest, to the MPAA/BPI for "legal" protection against... poor little Sophie. Oh, yes, she deprived Lady Gaga of an entire 6c by downloading an album instead of going to HMV.
Where does the rest of the twelve bucks for a CD go? Straight to the label. Pure unadulterated profit. No wonder they get pissy when technology threatens to take a huge dump on their rug.
So music artists are slaves, basically, actors are guns-for-hire, production crews get regular work as long as the Writers' Guild doesn't stage another walkout, and the labels just *rake it in* while repeatedly sodomising Joe Sixpack-Can't-Wait-For-The-Next-Die-Hard.
This should explain it quite succinctly for you. That's the ordinance applicable to my local area. See, they've even got yard sales covered!
voice-controlled DCS scrambling for preprogrammed connections? With a link to a respository/directory of remote DCS codes?
We got the technology for that ~NOW~. Problem is it's in a few separate devices: personal radio transceivers (DCS/CTCSS scrambling/filtering), cellphones (network terminals and (for several years now) voice dialing), 192.com (directory services)... it doesn't need a cloud of satellites (that would end up creating a hazard around the planet), all it needs is a data connection to update the units' repository before debarcation.
Bit like programming your phone or your VX-5R (best HAM radio ever, IMHO).
oh, to have mod points... made I larf!
Some people assume WAAAAY too much!
downloading from a torrent (or any other source) most certainly is not illegal in the UK. What is illegal is the unauthorised availing of copyrighted content (ie uploading), in any format.
What makes it worse in that respect is the fact that public authorities over here in around 2005 enacted ordinances preventing trade in secondhand goods (ie VHS, DVD) without:
1. proof of identity (including address) from transient sellers;
2. booked recorded transactions between transient sellers and shop buyers;
3. open-door access to police, authority agencies and Performing Rights Society, BPI, BSA and other private enforcement agencies to inspect all aspects of the dealers' trade with zero notice;
4. publicly displayed certificates of compliance with the ordinances;
5. Cash transactions only. No credit notes, barter or swapsies.
So if you want rid of your copy of Apocalypse Now Redux or Munch's Oddysey, now you have to give over your ID to the dealer and you can only deal in cash. So HMRC get their unearned piece of the pie as well. If you're dealing music the BPI want their cut in the form of a license, and if you have a radio playing in your shop loud enough to hear from the counter PRS wade in and extort £400/year out of you (though you can get away with this if all you play is KLF! Seriously! Been there, pissed all over BPI in court!).
Mod up! Why'd you post AC? You've made some bloody good points there.
I'm the same. I've got, for instance, all the "24" boxsets, but I want to watch it on my netbook on the many long and boring train journeys I must endure. TPB is extremely handy for me, because while the DVDs are at home I can *legally* download DVD-quality rips on my torrent aggregator for my *own personal use*.
Score one for sensible: no external DVD reader required, no discs to lose or damage (they're nice and safe at home), and only 2lb to carry!
CRT TV: electron gun: check.
microwave oven: magnetron: check.
CD player: laser: check.
I have a portable finger pulse oximeter in my home medical kit. Think of it as one third of a tricorder.
Not so outlandish... or large... or expensive.
Netbook: 2lb. Check.
It has a camera. It has a microphone. It has two other input devices (keyboard, touchpad), sometimes three (fingerprint reader). For external sensors, you have one or two USB ports. Pop in a rat tail for a finger pulse oximeter. Kick up the internet connection for the NHS Home Diagnostics page (right here).
I think that surpasses the requirements somewhat.
Epic win.
Where's my prize?
I'm not gonna go through the why (I have done it often on /.), but that is wrong: legally, companies are people. They have just as much voice in Congress as individuals, the difference is they have more money. Unfortunately Congress listens to money.
Not competitors. Replacements.
I know, redundant, but I absolutely agree. I would go one step further than that even and say that EVERY company that is losing business because of the *threat* of SOPA should do a public about-face and denounce SOPA to Congress. If one or two large corporations die because of the *threat* of SOPA, that should be enough to tell Congress that it is a bad BAD idea to fuck with those who pay your salaries!
The shitter is, transferring domains usually involves using Visa/Mastercard... though there are ways of getting non-V/M PrePay through cooperatives and credit unions, these seem to be so rare I've actually only ever seen one (Diner's via a local CU). So unless you're lucky enough to have one of these, then V/M will have one last lunge at the cake if you decide you're going the whole hog and giving them the finger as well as GoDaddy.
I don't have any credit or debit cards, and SOPA makes it even less likely that I'll get the urge to suddenly fill my wallet with contact/less chips.
correction: Webfusion. They haven't been calling themselves Pipex since they gave the brand to TalkTalk.
Pipex have been good to me so far. Been with them since forever.
"So this is how Liberty dies. To the sound of rapturous applause."
Natalie Portman might have said it, but George Lucas wrote it - did he know something we didn't?