...it'll be terrorists who use the piblished literature to develop the mutant variations, infect themselves and travel the world to cause a true pandemic!
Oh great... Then we'll have to pick a "volunteer" from amongst our prison population to send back in time to try to establish a link between the outbreak and the Army of the 12 Monkeys only to learn that we've missed the mark...
I think you've been here long enough that you should know better. Reading TFA is cheating -/. is a place for blind speculation and getting excited about misunderstood non-issues, dismissing valid issues in favor of supporting random ideals, and car analogies. Take your rational analysis somewhere else.
Hardly a fair comparison - Stealing water from the bottling company deprives the company of water that they paid for. This is more like a canned air company that pulls air (in this case literally) out of the air and cans it. And then suing you for breathing what they could have otherwise canned and sold to you resulting in a "lost sale."
The only real difference (albeit a big one) is that music/movies/games have to be created before being distributed. It's illegal copying or piracy, not theft as the company is deprived of nothing other than a potential or more likely imaginary lost sale.
Megaupload have no system in place to stop people uploading material they don't own. Simple as that. They would still be in business today if they did.
YouTube only marginally does. Their main defense is that they take down or suspend uploads that receive DMCA complaints. Just like Megaupload does (or did or at least claims to have done)... But the DOJ doesn't have the cojones to go after YouTube remotely as aggressively as Megaupload.
"Don't worry ma'am, we'll get rid of that tree for you." [BLAM] "That will be $90k. Here's your USAF lapel pin and novelty US flag for Mr. Wiggles's funeral and seven cap guns for his 21-gun salute - We'll bill you for those later. You're welcome, have a nice day."
I know you're joking and it's amusing. But, pardon several stereotypes here, my fiancee's daughter got her provisional license yesterday meaning she can drive solo. She's a teenage Asian girl - Read that again - Teenager+Asian+Female. The perfect storm. Her first statement getting behind the wheel of the van was, "I haven't driven in a couple of weeks, I forget. Which one is the gas and which one's the brake again?" I wish I was making that up.
Be afraid, be very afraid. And stay off the sidewalks.
Any criminal worth his salt knows better than to use flashlights. If you break in and turn on lights as you loot the place, neighbors figure that either it's the resident or that the resident simply has a friend doing something for them in the house. If they see a dark house with somebody skulking around with a flashlight from room to room, they know something's awry and call the cops.
In White Rock (outside Los Alamos, NM), this is done every 2-3 months during the new moon. There's a large park (Overlook Park for anyone who cares) with no nearby houses. The street lights all go dark and the local astronomy nerds all bring out their telescopes (starting at about $1k and going well beyond $30k) to train on interesting stuff in the sky and talk to anyone interested about their gear and whatever they're trained on for people to come see. Really nice event for nerds and families alike. Nerdy families especially.
Wrong, it takes far less energy to extract an ounce of reactor-grade uranium from the earth than it will produce in a nuclear reactor.
I didn't say energy to extract, I said energy to produce. Ethanol stores solar energy in a medium that can be transported and burned, but does not yield enough energy to continually use it to harvest and refine more. But you're right in that extraction is all we really care about.
Now, oil/gasoline, does yield enough energy to continue to harvest and refine more (until some point many years from now when it's no longer cost-effective to drill for due to lack of supply.) The energy has already been stored there through solar storage in the decayed source.
And it's certainly true with Uranium - The energy was stored there back when elements were forming - Energy source left to speculation. It's especially true there because we begin to approach the whole E=mc^2 thingy.
But the fact that producing or indeed doinganything results in a net loss of energy all sources considered is taught on day 5 of Physics or day 0 of Thermodynamics.
Agreed - In at least some recent cases the US has been taken the only steps that are available and effective for mitigating a very real and dangerous threat. I wasn't trying to challenge the premise, just a very flawed analogy. Perhaps a better one would be taking out a sniper who has so thoroughly barricaded himself in a tower - Maybe even one with a guarded, privately owned first floor denying access to response teams - that he cannot possibly be reached any other way before he manages to start (or continue) taking lives.
So, when a SWAT team shoots someone who has already killed people, has said he's going to kill more people, and shows every sign of preparing to do just that, that's self defense (of the inevitable victims), or not?
No, that's not self defense. In that case, unless the suspect was immediately threatening the SWAT team there to execute the warrant or another innocent, if they shoot him they're in serious trouble. If he has a gun to somebody's head or pointed at the team, they can drop him. But even if they know he's already blown up a dozen crowded churches and they find him with blueprints of the church he said he's targeting next, a van full of ANFO, and a manifesto announcing his intent to light it up in 30 minutes time, they'd better take him alive unless there are lives in immediate danger or they'll be facing charges. So, if I understand your purposed case correctly, that is not self-defense.
Ethanol is a net loss of energy. It takes more energy to produce a gallon than you get by burning it.
Isn't that true for, well, everything? Gas is just nice because most of the energy has already been deposited so we just have to drill it and refine it so that we can extract the stored energy.
I'm not backing burning ethanol here, just the good old laws of thermodynamics. Essentially: The best you can do as far as energy-in vs energy-out is break even, and you can only do that at absolute zero.
Also I don't think we'd give up seattle without a fight, need a pacific ocean seaport.
Unless there's a MAJOR seismic event causing massive geometric shift, I don't think that a California cessation would have much effect on Seattle remaining within the US political boundaries... It's something like 500 miles away.
I think that saying that FB is "sharing" the personal messages and such is a little bit of a stretch though. Yes, they have partnered with Politico (they've been working with them for years), but according to their announcement, the only things that are viewed or shared to anything but the automated analysis program are stats on how many mentions each candidate gets and aggregations of positive or negative "sentiment."
It's uncomfortable, and I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I don't think it violates the TOS that I, of course, read thoroughly before agreeing to it. The only part that really chaps me is that, if I were offended enough that they were doing this, I'd have no way of retracting posts that I'd already made even if I discontinued my account.
Google is taking data that users are providing them, and doing statistical analysis on that data. There's no issue with this, because it's not leaving Google.
Umm... Sure it is. In fact, you can go look at anonymized aggregate search trends from Google yourself. Forfree.
I am a huge Google fan, but don't think that anything you do with them is kept private unless they specifically tell you so.
Actually, I'd argue that there's evidence that he's simply a crazed MS fanatic who wants to bash all of it's competitors. Here's a list of what I've compiled supporting this:
*Microsoft would only pay him if he could even marginally make them look better instead of looking like a hare-brained MS-loving lunatic.
OK, I admit it was a short list, but I think a valid one.
If it's a rag small enough to scrub the inside of a fuel line, it could easily go unnoticed on its way onto the assembly platform. Or, if one was too large, it could have been sectioned and still taken out as "one rag." But in any case, signed in or signed out, how hard is it to test whether or not the line is partially or fully plugged? Put a controlled pressure on one end and measure flow rate on the other.
To my recollection, Lister was the only one to have babies on the show. It's only appropriate. Although I don't remember their names. Maybe Frankenstein to honor two of the Crew.
Just as a point of interest, we STILL haven't stopped the Black Death. Sure we know how to treat it and how it spreads to help slow it, but there are still cases in New Mexico every year. And that's the US - Not where the Plague was really partying. It's a tough little bug and probably worth studying even if it isn't the huge threat it once was.
1) Upload a pirated file to BayFiles and tell everyone you can. 2) It gets downloaded and a torrent posted to TPB. 3) Take-down notice is issued to Bayfiles and they immediately remove the content. 4) It lives on as long as people are interested enough to seed.
Plus, TPB has done due diligence by immediately and without question removing all infringing content from their sites.
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...it'll be terrorists who use the piblished literature to develop the mutant variations, infect themselves and travel the world to cause a true pandemic!
Oh great... Then we'll have to pick a "volunteer" from amongst our prison population to send back in time to try to establish a link between the outbreak and the Army of the 12 Monkeys only to learn that we've missed the mark...
I think you've been here long enough that you should know better. Reading TFA is cheating - /. is a place for blind speculation and getting excited about misunderstood non-issues, dismissing valid issues in favor of supporting random ideals, and car analogies. Take your rational analysis somewhere else.
Hardly a fair comparison - Stealing water from the bottling company deprives the company of water that they paid for. This is more like a canned air company that pulls air (in this case literally) out of the air and cans it. And then suing you for breathing what they could have otherwise canned and sold to you resulting in a "lost sale."
The only real difference (albeit a big one) is that music/movies/games have to be created before being distributed. It's illegal copying or piracy, not theft as the company is deprived of nothing other than a potential or more likely imaginary lost sale.
Megaupload have no system in place to stop people uploading material they don't own. Simple as that. They would still be in business today if they did.
YouTube only marginally does. Their main defense is that they take down or suspend uploads that receive DMCA complaints. Just like Megaupload does (or did or at least claims to have done)... But the DOJ doesn't have the cojones to go after YouTube remotely as aggressively as Megaupload.
Iran is under the 'I's between Indonesia and Ivory Coast... I notice though that at a minimum, North Korea, Cuba, Bahrain, and Namibia are missing.
Do those taps run directly into the bottling plants tanks?
For about 1 bottle in 4, yes. Yes they do.
"Help! Help! Mr. Wiggles is stuck in that tree!"
"Don't worry ma'am, we'll get rid of that tree for you." [BLAM] "That will be $90k. Here's your USAF lapel pin and novelty US flag for Mr. Wiggles's funeral and seven cap guns for his 21-gun salute - We'll bill you for those later. You're welcome, have a nice day."
I know you're joking and it's amusing. But, pardon several stereotypes here, my fiancee's daughter got her provisional license yesterday meaning she can drive solo. She's a teenage Asian girl - Read that again - Teenager+Asian+Female. The perfect storm. Her first statement getting behind the wheel of the van was, "I haven't driven in a couple of weeks, I forget. Which one is the gas and which one's the brake again?" I wish I was making that up.
Be afraid, be very afraid. And stay off the sidewalks.
Any criminal worth his salt knows better than to use flashlights. If you break in and turn on lights as you loot the place, neighbors figure that either it's the resident or that the resident simply has a friend doing something for them in the house. If they see a dark house with somebody skulking around with a flashlight from room to room, they know something's awry and call the cops.
In White Rock (outside Los Alamos, NM), this is done every 2-3 months during the new moon. There's a large park (Overlook Park for anyone who cares) with no nearby houses. The street lights all go dark and the local astronomy nerds all bring out their telescopes (starting at about $1k and going well beyond $30k) to train on interesting stuff in the sky and talk to anyone interested about their gear and whatever they're trained on for people to come see. Really nice event for nerds and families alike. Nerdy families especially.
Isn't that true for, well, everything?
Wrong, it takes far less energy to extract an ounce of reactor-grade uranium from the earth than it will produce in a nuclear reactor.
I didn't say energy to extract, I said energy to produce. Ethanol stores solar energy in a medium that can be transported and burned, but does not yield enough energy to continually use it to harvest and refine more. But you're right in that extraction is all we really care about.
Now, oil/gasoline, does yield enough energy to continue to harvest and refine more (until some point many years from now when it's no longer cost-effective to drill for due to lack of supply.) The energy has already been stored there through solar storage in the decayed source.
And it's certainly true with Uranium - The energy was stored there back when elements were forming - Energy source left to speculation. It's especially true there because we begin to approach the whole E=mc^2 thingy.
But the fact that producing or indeed doing anything results in a net loss of energy all sources considered is taught on day 5 of Physics or day 0 of Thermodynamics.
Agreed - In at least some recent cases the US has been taken the only steps that are available and effective for mitigating a very real and dangerous threat. I wasn't trying to challenge the premise, just a very flawed analogy. Perhaps a better one would be taking out a sniper who has so thoroughly barricaded himself in a tower - Maybe even one with a guarded, privately owned first floor denying access to response teams - that he cannot possibly be reached any other way before he manages to start (or continue) taking lives.
I'd like that better if it were a Fat Man and a Little Boy.
So, when a SWAT team shoots someone who has already killed people, has said he's going to kill more people, and shows every sign of preparing to do just that, that's self defense (of the inevitable victims), or not?
No, that's not self defense. In that case, unless the suspect was immediately threatening the SWAT team there to execute the warrant or another innocent, if they shoot him they're in serious trouble. If he has a gun to somebody's head or pointed at the team, they can drop him. But even if they know he's already blown up a dozen crowded churches and they find him with blueprints of the church he said he's targeting next, a van full of ANFO, and a manifesto announcing his intent to light it up in 30 minutes time, they'd better take him alive unless there are lives in immediate danger or they'll be facing charges. So, if I understand your purposed case correctly, that is not self-defense.
Ethanol is a net loss of energy. It takes more energy to produce a gallon than you get by burning it.
Isn't that true for, well, everything? Gas is just nice because most of the energy has already been deposited so we just have to drill it and refine it so that we can extract the stored energy.
I'm not backing burning ethanol here, just the good old laws of thermodynamics. Essentially: The best you can do as far as energy-in vs energy-out is break even, and you can only do that at absolute zero.
Also I don't think we'd give up seattle without a fight, need a pacific ocean seaport.
Unless there's a MAJOR seismic event causing massive geometric shift, I don't think that a California cessation would have much effect on Seattle remaining within the US political boundaries... It's something like 500 miles away.
I think that saying that FB is "sharing" the personal messages and such is a little bit of a stretch though. Yes, they have partnered with Politico (they've been working with them for years), but according to their announcement, the only things that are viewed or shared to anything but the automated analysis program are stats on how many mentions each candidate gets and aggregations of positive or negative "sentiment."
It's uncomfortable, and I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I don't think it violates the TOS that I, of course, read thoroughly before agreeing to it. The only part that really chaps me is that, if I were offended enough that they were doing this, I'd have no way of retracting posts that I'd already made even if I discontinued my account.
Google is taking data that users are providing them, and doing statistical analysis on that data. There's no issue with this, because it's not leaving Google.
Umm... Sure it is. In fact, you can go look at anonymized aggregate search trends from Google yourself. For free.
I am a huge Google fan, but don't think that anything you do with them is kept private unless they specifically tell you so.
Actually, I'd argue that there's evidence that he's simply a crazed MS fanatic who wants to bash all of it's competitors. Here's a list of what I've compiled supporting this:
*Microsoft would only pay him if he could even marginally make them look better instead of looking like a hare-brained MS-loving lunatic.
OK, I admit it was a short list, but I think a valid one.
If it's a rag small enough to scrub the inside of a fuel line, it could easily go unnoticed on its way onto the assembly platform. Or, if one was too large, it could have been sectioned and still taken out as "one rag." But in any case, signed in or signed out, how hard is it to test whether or not the line is partially or fully plugged? Put a controlled pressure on one end and measure flow rate on the other.
But in this case, BayFiles WILL be sharing the content. But they only really need to post it long enough for one person to post a torrent and seed.
To my recollection, Lister was the only one to have babies on the show. It's only appropriate. Although I don't remember their names. Maybe Frankenstein to honor two of the Crew.
Here's the first hit off google talking about the first human case this year in Santa Fe. A week in the hospital - Could be worse.
http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/10/first-case-of-bubonic-plague-in-2011-appears-in-new-mexico/
Just as a point of interest, we STILL haven't stopped the Black Death. Sure we know how to treat it and how it spreads to help slow it, but there are still cases in New Mexico every year. And that's the US - Not where the Plague was really partying. It's a tough little bug and probably worth studying even if it isn't the huge threat it once was.
This is a step further though.
1) Upload a pirated file to BayFiles and tell everyone you can.
2) It gets downloaded and a torrent posted to TPB.
3) Take-down notice is issued to Bayfiles and they immediately remove the content.
4) It lives on as long as people are interested enough to seed.
Plus, TPB has done due diligence by immediately and without question removing all infringing content from their sites.