It looks like a fiber lens inside the tip connection. Like some kinda combo connector with the form of a normal 1/8" audio plug with electrical connections (for power supply?), plus a fiber inside of that (for the data transfer?)
> The rich get richer and the poor have almost no chance of escaping poverty's > grip! All in America.
I call B.S. The poor in America have an astronomically better chance of escaping poverty than the poor in most of the rest of the world. Many of them do. The ones that don't aren't motivated to try, typically.
When you forward this watermarked MP3 to friends, RIAA can and will track it, for a two weeks time period.
For every person that you forward this e-mail to, RIAA will sue you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, RIAA will sue you $2450.00 and for every third person that receives it, You will be sued $24500.00. Within two weeks, RIAA will contact you for your address and then send you a summons.
This all sounds a but shrill.
But I don't suspect that a National ID system will
Allow cops to simply walk into your house and start looking around;
Require you to testify against yourself;
Require you to give up a DNA sample;
Allow the government to torture you under any circumstance;
Negate your right to Life, Liberty or Pursuit of Happiness (BTW, that's in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution);
Have any effect on the powers or term limits of the President (or any other government official);
Negate your right to assemble and speak; nor even
Negate the REASON WHY OUR CONSTITUTION WAS CREATED.
When they start requiring a RFID chip in my forehead, I might start worrying. So far, it's just a picture ID not much different what current State IDs are with your name and address and birthdate, etc.
As it is, your State ID can be looked up no matter where you are in the USA.
State IDs can be looked up anywhere you are in the US anyway, making them just about equivalent to a national ID.
Just think of the State ID system as a distributed National ID.
> It interests me how few people remember > that the Federal government is about governing > the states, and the state governments > are about governing the people.
We don't remember because it isn't really true any more. The Federal Government has myriads of laws that apply to individuals. It's not clear to me that this was ever not the case.
Corporations don't really care whether the carbon offsets they buy actually do offset their emissions. They only care that they get to claim to be "green."
"Green" is just marketing hype to draw in the narcissistic types who want to feel good about themselves for "doing something," without actually having to do anything other than looking for the buzzword.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
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Say, YOU don't have to feel guilty about emitting all those nasty green house gases. All you gotta do is cough up the money (to me, of course) to pay for Carbon Indulgences... Oh, and don't ask me whether I can show that what I use the money for actually offsets your sinful carbon dioxide effluence. Just trust me....
That's not morality either.
That's called expediency.
It's still all about what gets the most money.
Expediency says that bad press leads to lower profits.
What? No... Who's familiar with subject matter? Not me. I only "get the joke" because the studio audience is laughing. So, it MUST be funny. Therefore I laugh.
I've noticed it's like that with a lot of "comedy" type shows. Has been ever since the days of black and white TV.
Discovery and TLC haven't had truly educational content in a long time, anyway.
More like preaching. They can't just play an interesting show about penguins, or elephants, or the oceans, or the swamp or whatever. They always have to wrap up with how these things are somehow in danger and it's MY fault.
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30 years is the standard length of a mortgage loan.
We'll fix it later.....
It looks like a fiber lens inside the tip connection. Like some kinda combo connector with the form of a normal 1/8" audio plug with electrical connections (for power supply?), plus a fiber inside of that (for the data transfer?)
Fair Use applies to copyright. This is a trademark issue.
> The rich get richer and the poor have almost no chance of escaping poverty's
> grip! All in America.
I call B.S.
The poor in America have an astronomically better chance of escaping poverty than the poor in most of the rest of the world. Many of them do. The ones that don't aren't motivated to try, typically.
When you forward this watermarked MP3 to friends, RIAA can and will track it, for a two weeks time period.
For every person that you forward this e-mail to, RIAA will sue you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, RIAA will sue you $2450.00 and for every third person that receives it, You will be sued $24500.00. Within two weeks, RIAA will contact you for your address and then send you a summons.
You're right, space exploration and exploitation won't be feasible until we get past the rocket-ship-into-space paradigm for leaving Earth.
Once in place, launching missions from space elevators will be much more cost effective.
When they start requiring a RFID chip in my forehead, I might start worrying. So far, it's just a picture ID not much different what current State IDs are with your name and address and birthdate, etc.
As it is, your State ID can be looked up no matter where you are in the USA.
State IDs can be looked up anywhere you are in the US anyway, making them just about equivalent to a national ID. Just think of the State ID system as a distributed National ID.
I wonder how the citizens of NH will feel about not being able to fly?
Prolly just by looking at your drivers license.... You didn't think that being over 50 would release you from having to show ID of some sort, did you?
In other words, abolish states as we know them and reduce them to administrative sub-divisions of the nation at large?
> It interests me how few people remember
> that the Federal government is about governing
> the states, and the state governments
> are about governing the people.
We don't remember because it isn't really true any more.
The Federal Government has myriads of laws that apply to individuals.
It's not clear to me that this was ever not the case.
With that many representatives, they might have to resort to using modern technology for register votes.
Wouldn't that be horrible!
Yup.
Corporations don't really care whether the carbon offsets they buy actually do offset their emissions. They only care that they get to claim to be "green."
"Green" is just marketing hype to draw in the narcissistic types who want to feel good about themselves for "doing something," without actually having to do anything other than looking for the buzzword.
Say, YOU don't have to feel guilty about emitting all those nasty green house gases. All you gotta do is cough up the money (to me, of course) to pay for Carbon Indulgences... Oh, and don't ask me whether I can show that what I use the money for actually offsets your sinful carbon dioxide effluence. Just trust me....
That's not morality either. That's called expediency. It's still all about what gets the most money. Expediency says that bad press leads to lower profits.
But you have to chase down one of their trucks, because they don't have any stores.
What? No... Who's familiar with subject matter? Not me.
I only "get the joke" because the studio audience is laughing.
So, it MUST be funny. Therefore I laugh.
I've noticed it's like that with a lot of "comedy" type shows. Has been ever since the days of black and white TV.
Discovery and TLC haven't had truly educational content in a long time, anyway.
More like preaching. They can't just play an interesting show about penguins, or elephants, or the oceans, or the swamp or whatever. They always have to wrap up with how these things are somehow in danger and it's MY fault.
OK, Man Vs. Wild is pretty cool.
DRM is bad. Let it die, and soon.
Yeah, with a name like that, would you expect him to NOT have porn on his 'puter?
A lot of my dead tree books are falling apart. The bindings are coming apart and the pages are yellowed and disintegrating.
There's only so much you can do with Scotch tape to hold them together a little bit longer.
Which ever one can read PDFs and doesn't insist on DRM.
They want their Ministry of Information back!