It's simple. The games of no value to the publisher anymore. It would cost them time and money to make it open source or otherwise available for free. By giving it to the charity they get a tax deduction which will cover all the legal costs. The charity gets a bit of cash, the Game doesn't disappear from history and you get to play a game you otherwise would have had to pirate.
This will work fine. The issues will arise in the driveline. Specifically the rear axle. Clearly gears, diff and drive shaft will still be steel aloy. But if they try for an aluminum pumpkin and axle tubes it's going to fail. The frame isn't a big deal because they can beef that up as much as they want and the load is fairly predictable (strait down) But lots of people have tried aluminum rear axles and they just don't work in the kind of conditions a work truck operates under.
Exactly. If your solar power system has no storage, and you're just selling your excess to the power company and then buying back power when the suns not out, you're just exacerbating the power companies load issues. Obviously you're selling when there is little need and buying when need is high. The real cost of solar is in the storage. One of my wifes best friends is married to a guy that sells these systems in Hawaii and I was shocked to find out they had no battery systems at all for sale. It isn't even an option.
I know a few geeky guys here in the mid-west with solar power systems and theirs involve a shed full of batteries and inverters. Those guys can actually pull off not buying power. One guy set his up because the cost of running power to the land he bought was going to be more than the solar would cost anyway. These are the kinds of systems that people need to get if they're going to do it. And you damn well better know how to maintain it.
Of course we must bring up the 10th amendment, because this is Slashdot, where we've forgotten that for the last hundred years of political history, national security has been a responsibility of the whole nation rather than the individual states.
"The amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. There is nothing in the history of its adoption to suggest that it was more than declaratory of the relationship between the national and state governments as it had been established by the Constitution before the amendment or that its purpose was other than to allay fears that the new national government might seek to exercise powers not granted, and that the states might not be able to exercise fully their reserved powers" - United States v. Darby Lumber, 312 U.S. 100, 124 (1941) i.e. all rights and powers not granted to the federal government in the constitution remain the rights and powers of the states or individuals. The point of the amendment is to cover "The unknown" The Federal government was not given the right to invade our privacy in the constitution, and now that it's something that's possible to take in near totality it's clear that governance of that privacy should be left to the states should the constitution allow it. Though I believe other amendments protect it from even the states.
I should have been all three but I never was. I invented Beer. Somethings you do in life and once you've done them you say to yourself "Well, alright then... no topping that. Best not try to."
Ok, The 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Possibly more, we don't really know what they've been up to so it's likely they've broken damn near all of them.
POTS and FiOS are NOT profitable at all. I work for a phone company. What are you willing to pay for the fastest internet their is? $50/month? $100 even? It costs nearly a million dollars a mile to lay fiber. $3 million for a remote. They serve, on average, 1000 people. In city centers it'd be tens of thousands. Any investment to improve your service would take over a year to recoup even if you had 100% customer uptake, 0 churn and you excluded all maintenance costs. By the time it would be paid off their will be a new tech to replace it. That's that the telcos have learned. The only reason the telcos still exist is government subsidies and even those are drying up. Buried cable is dieing.
Why are you amazed? Our science can barely explain what's going on in your own body, much less entire biospheres. I've no doubt that we eventually will have the science down, but the difference between what we do know and what we don't know should never be a surprise.
Yesterday I went to a store and bought some items. Today I went back to that store and everything was still the same price,
No they weren't.
and the dollars in my wallet were still worth exactly the same as they were yesterday, and the day before, and the week before and the month before
No, the value of the money in your wallet decreases every day of the year. It has no intrinsic value so it is not volatile, it only looses value.
An unstable currency that changes value from one minute to the next is an unworkable mess.
ALL currency is unstable. Bitcoin is just a bit more unstable. But at least with Bitcoin the instability is solely based on market conditions and not the whims of politicians. I'd argue that the "Stable" value of the dollar is mostly illusion. The dollar could crash just as quickly as bitcoin, we just have a government that's constantly meddling with it to make it appear stable. The problem with that is it's all based on faith. Once 100yrs of faith in a currancy fails, it'll take anouther 100 to get it back. If Bitcoin crashes on you, just wait a week.
The unfortunate fact is, the majority of these people are home users on DSL. They aren't going to pay, we're lucky if they even update, and once they're infected their machines are used in botnets to attack the rest of us. Microsoft should continue to publish security updates for XP for free to protect THE REST of its users.
No, I do not accept your argument. I see no legitimate reason for the police to track innocent people for the purposes of solving crimes that have not happened yet. It would be one thing if they had plate recognition software that was scanning for a list of stolen vehicles but that's not whats happening. They're creating a log of where everyone is at all times of the day, just in case they find out later they were doing something illegal. Reality is not a corporate network and the government are not our sysadmins.
A point the OP failed to grasp. The only oils that spontaneously burst into flame are natural oils that decompose. Motor oils certainly wont. The majority of first are caused by either space heaters or older electrical wiring with too high of a fuse/breaker on it. Who installed this guys charger? Himself? I can't imagine finding a breaker big enough for that charger is easy.
It's a bit more complicated than that since all the carriers in the US use wildly different frequency bands. I've got a Lenovo S750 (waterproof and all that) thatI love, but can't get over 2G speeds due to all the spectrum issues in the US. Also, it has TWO sim cards so I can be on multiple networks at once. Lucky for me I'm usually in range of wifi so its not really a problem. Streaming pandora while I drive down the road is about the only thing I miss, and I didnt do that much anyway.
A "First world" country is a country that was allied with either the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. during the cold world. You were "one of the 2" on one side or the other. The term "third world" came about as a way to refer to those countries unaligned in the conflict. They tended to be poor with little strategic influence and were ignored by the 2 super powers.
Being 3rd world is not a bad thing. It just means you didn't take sides in a war that never happened and has been over for decades. Rousseff has every right to be angry with the US. What the NSA is doing is criminal. We're currently the most powerful country the world has ever known. We have a military that could kill every human being with the flip of the switch. There is not threat to our sovereignty and there's no need for this ridiculous invasion of every person on earths right to privacy.
About 10 years ago I used to work for ATT in their "VPN" section. Basically they had a private VPN on their network that was specifically designed for this sort of situation. The data lines were extremely small, like 8k (they could be bigger if desired) and were used almost exclusively by cash registers. These would connect via the VPN to their primary network. Not only was an attack of the VPN difficult, with an 8k transfer rate it would be pretty difficult to send much up to them anyway. I assumed this was how all stores operated but apparently not target.
Unless they had probable cause to grab his computer and he wasn't savvy enough to have wiped the drive. Cookies for the offending email address would be pretty incriminating.
Moron. I don't care how innocent or guilty you are.
Don't talk Demand a lawyer (only time you can talk) Don't sign anything Don't fucking talk! Did I mention not talking? By the time your lawyer arrives you should need a glass of water because your lips will be stuck together from all the not talking you were doing.
Musicians play because they enjoy it, and enjoy being creative. Art for the sake of an audience is not art. It's the difference between a fine sculpture and a plastic vase you buy at walmart. Are vases still made by hand despite the ease at which they can be extruded from an injection molding machine? Of course.
Big business doesn't feel they have the legal authority to send a hellfire missile into your living due to that data. I'm a little less worried about Netflix tricking me into renting more movies than I had intended. The two just aren't comparable.
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It's simple. The games of no value to the publisher anymore. It would cost them time and money to make it open source or otherwise available for free. By giving it to the charity they get a tax deduction which will cover all the legal costs. The charity gets a bit of cash, the Game doesn't disappear from history and you get to play a game you otherwise would have had to pirate.
This will work fine. The issues will arise in the driveline. Specifically the rear axle. Clearly gears, diff and drive shaft will still be steel aloy. But if they try for an aluminum pumpkin and axle tubes it's going to fail. The frame isn't a big deal because they can beef that up as much as they want and the load is fairly predictable (strait down) But lots of people have tried aluminum rear axles and they just don't work in the kind of conditions a work truck operates under.
Exactly. If your solar power system has no storage, and you're just selling your excess to the power company and then buying back power when the suns not out, you're just exacerbating the power companies load issues. Obviously you're selling when there is little need and buying when need is high. The real cost of solar is in the storage. One of my wifes best friends is married to a guy that sells these systems in Hawaii and I was shocked to find out they had no battery systems at all for sale. It isn't even an option.
I know a few geeky guys here in the mid-west with solar power systems and theirs involve a shed full of batteries and inverters. Those guys can actually pull off not buying power. One guy set his up because the cost of running power to the land he bought was going to be more than the solar would cost anyway. These are the kinds of systems that people need to get if they're going to do it. And you damn well better know how to maintain it.
The 6th? Really? When did the NSA start a criminal prosecution?
Once that prosecution was brought to an actual trial, who was denied a jury per the 7th?
I'm, of course, assuming that they were involved in this:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/al-qaeda-in-yemen/relatives-of-americans-killed-in-yemen-drone-strikes-file-suit-against-u-s/
which would violate both the 6th and 7th amendments
If you want to argue that they weren't involved, I can't say much. To me it just seems logical that they were.
Of course we must bring up the 10th amendment, because this is Slashdot, where we've forgotten that for the last hundred years of political history, national security has been a responsibility of the whole nation rather than the individual states.
"The amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. There is nothing in the history of its adoption to suggest that it was more than declaratory of the relationship between the national and state governments as it had been established by the Constitution before the amendment or that its purpose was other than to allay fears that the new national government might seek to exercise powers not granted, and that the states might not be able to exercise fully their reserved powers" - United States v. Darby Lumber, 312 U.S. 100, 124 (1941)
i.e. all rights and powers not granted to the federal government in the constitution remain the rights and powers of the states or individuals. The point of the amendment is to cover "The unknown" The Federal government was not given the right to invade our privacy in the constitution, and now that it's something that's possible to take in near totality it's clear that governance of that privacy should be left to the states should the constitution allow it. Though I believe other amendments protect it from even the states.
I should have been all three but I never was. I invented Beer. Somethings you do in life and once you've done them you say to yourself "Well, alright then... no topping that. Best not try to."
I invented beer.
Look it up.
Ok, The 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th
Possibly more, we don't really know what they've been up to so it's likely they've broken damn near all of them.
POTS and FiOS are NOT profitable at all. I work for a phone company. What are you willing to pay for the fastest internet their is? $50/month? $100 even? It costs nearly a million dollars a mile to lay fiber. $3 million for a remote. They serve, on average, 1000 people. In city centers it'd be tens of thousands. Any investment to improve your service would take over a year to recoup even if you had 100% customer uptake, 0 churn and you excluded all maintenance costs. By the time it would be paid off their will be a new tech to replace it. That's that the telcos have learned. The only reason the telcos still exist is government subsidies and even those are drying up. Buried cable is dieing.
Why are you amazed? Our science can barely explain what's going on in your own body, much less entire biospheres. I've no doubt that we eventually will have the science down, but the difference between what we do know and what we don't know should never be a surprise.
Yesterday I went to a store and bought some items. Today I went back to that store and everything was still the same price,
No they weren't.
and the dollars in my wallet were still worth exactly the same as they were yesterday, and the day before, and the week before and the month before
No, the value of the money in your wallet decreases every day of the year. It has no intrinsic value so it is not volatile, it only looses value.
An unstable currency that changes value from one minute to the next is an unworkable mess.
ALL currency is unstable. Bitcoin is just a bit more unstable. But at least with Bitcoin the instability is solely based on market conditions and not the whims of politicians. I'd argue that the "Stable" value of the dollar is mostly illusion. The dollar could crash just as quickly as bitcoin, we just have a government that's constantly meddling with it to make it appear stable. The problem with that is it's all based on faith. Once 100yrs of faith in a currancy fails, it'll take anouther 100 to get it back. If Bitcoin crashes on you, just wait a week.
The unfortunate fact is, the majority of these people are home users on DSL. They aren't going to pay, we're lucky if they even update, and once they're infected their machines are used in botnets to attack the rest of us. Microsoft should continue to publish security updates for XP for free to protect THE REST of its users.
No, I do not accept your argument. I see no legitimate reason for the police to track innocent people for the purposes of solving crimes that have not happened yet. It would be one thing if they had plate recognition software that was scanning for a list of stolen vehicles but that's not whats happening. They're creating a log of where everyone is at all times of the day, just in case they find out later they were doing something illegal. Reality is not a corporate network and the government are not our sysadmins.
A point the OP failed to grasp. The only oils that spontaneously burst into flame are natural oils that decompose. Motor oils certainly wont. The majority of first are caused by either space heaters or older electrical wiring with too high of a fuse/breaker on it. Who installed this guys charger? Himself? I can't imagine finding a breaker big enough for that charger is easy.
the rubber isn't there to protect the sim card... unless they permanently embed the battery, you're still in the same boat.
It's a bit more complicated than that since all the carriers in the US use wildly different frequency bands. I've got a Lenovo S750 (waterproof and all that) thatI love, but can't get over 2G speeds due to all the spectrum issues in the US. Also, it has TWO sim cards so I can be on multiple networks at once. Lucky for me I'm usually in range of wifi so its not really a problem. Streaming pandora while I drive down the road is about the only thing I miss, and I didnt do that much anyway.
A "First world" country is a country that was allied with either the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. during the cold world. You were "one of the 2" on one side or the other. The term "third world" came about as a way to refer to those countries unaligned in the conflict. They tended to be poor with little strategic influence and were ignored by the 2 super powers.
Being 3rd world is not a bad thing. It just means you didn't take sides in a war that never happened and has been over for decades. Rousseff has every right to be angry with the US. What the NSA is doing is criminal. We're currently the most powerful country the world has ever known. We have a military that could kill every human being with the flip of the switch. There is not threat to our sovereignty and there's no need for this ridiculous invasion of every person on earths right to privacy.
About 10 years ago I used to work for ATT in their "VPN" section. Basically they had a private VPN on their network that was specifically designed for this sort of situation. The data lines were extremely small, like 8k (they could be bigger if desired) and were used almost exclusively by cash registers. These would connect via the VPN to their primary network. Not only was an attack of the VPN difficult, with an 8k transfer rate it would be pretty difficult to send much up to them anyway. I assumed this was how all stores operated but apparently not target.
Not really... they usually have them BEFORE they are released to the general public.
They will if the target is one of their political opponents :-)
Unless they had probable cause to grab his computer and he wasn't savvy enough to have wiped the drive. Cookies for the offending email address would be pretty incriminating.
Moron. I don't care how innocent or guilty you are.
Don't talk
Demand a lawyer (only time you can talk)
Don't sign anything
Don't fucking talk!
Did I mention not talking?
By the time your lawyer arrives you should need a glass of water because your lips will be stuck together from all the not talking you were doing.
You're not listening to the right music then. Stop shopping at walmart.
Musicians play because they enjoy it, and enjoy being creative. Art for the sake of an audience is not art. It's the difference between a fine sculpture and a plastic vase you buy at walmart. Are vases still made by hand despite the ease at which they can be extruded from an injection molding machine? Of course.
You'd never get invited back, and future legislation would likely be unfavorable to your bottom line.
Big business doesn't feel they have the legal authority to send a hellfire missile into your living due to that data. I'm a little less worried about Netflix tricking me into renting more movies than I had intended. The two just aren't comparable.