It's amazing how people are initially unenthusiastic about being given what amounts to worm piss but once they've tried it on their plants you end up with standing orders for it to be delivered whenever you visit.
Now if only alternatives to petrochemical fertilizers would get the same attention alternative fuels do.
Well, wasn't the big draw of Android supposed to be that the big mean ol' bad Apple man couldn't tell your apps what they could or couldn't do? Complete freedom from turtlenecked oppression?
Because you can only have true alternate energy sources when they cost less money than conventional energy sources?
It couldn't be that they are the alternate energy sources because they are less efficient monetarily than "conventional" sources, could it? So what if it doesn't recover the monetary investment? Things would be a lot better off it PROFIT! wasn't the sole motivation behind any decision.
If some big bad evil corp "steals" your code does it disappear off of your harddrive?
Or is it just protecting FOSS developers' egos? So they can feel like they have some power by being able to deny usage of their code to certain people?
Having copyrighted materials never hit the public domain is a steep price to pay to keep your ego inflated. And that's why I'm not a fan of copyright as it is today.
You've obviously never seen anything other than a park flyer. There's some quarter and half scales that could be used by children or midgets.
What do you need a 200 km range for? They don't need to launch these things from the next country over. Heck, as long as there's a tall enough building to put your target within glide range you don't even need propulsion.
Terrorists wouldn't have the same needs as the military. They don't need extreme stand off range. People aren't going to be aware of the terrorist until after the thing blows up. Terrorists can get within the airspace of their target before launch so they won't need stealth materials. If their UAV bomb is detected at all it will be too late anyways. Modern spread spectrum radios would just need line of sight to the UAV.
Paint or powder bombing is already an event (if not entirely AMA sanctioned). A practiced human can be rather accurate without any onboard video, guidance or tracking.
It's almost like "they" want to weaken our vocabulary so that people lose descriptive terms that allow for a spectrum of actions, which would call for debate and actual congressional approval for the more extreme end of the spectrum, whereas with even the most trivial of actions having war appended to it means that real war can be enacted without the express consent of congress since the true value of "war" has been degraded.
We haven't had a real war (declared by congress) since WWII. (What percentage of the population is even aware that it isn't the president that gets to declare war?)
Someone should write a book about this, they could call it 2008, or maybe set it in the past for a retro-futuristic take, so maybe call it 1984.
Soccer moms will be the downfall of western society.
Hordes of unvaccinated kids that live in super sterile conditions so they never develop an actual immune system that then get crammed into overcrowded daycares cause mommy and daddy have to work four jobs to pay for the house, white picket fence and the "think of the children" special edition SUV will be the source of the next great pandemic.
Could you go and remind White Wolf, specifically their ArtHaus (where systems go to die) imprint that demand for an out of print books means they should reprint it?
Considering used BESM 3rd Ed. books are going for around $250 there's obviously a demand for the book, typos and all.
Though sadly, the authors won't benefit either way in this case, only the publisher will.
So you want the US, fresh on its "success" in Iraq and Afghanistan to "liberate" yet another country we don't really understand (and one that we've previously failed in)?
We go in, "liberate" a country and get called the great satan and western pig-dog imperialists.
We don't go in and everyone whines that we're not doing anything.
Somali isn't even a cause of regime change. There is no effective regime. Somali would be like Afghanistan on hell difficulty in hardcore mode. Humanitarian aid doesn't work because you basically need to launch an invasion to get it to where and who it needs to go to. Then you have to make sure it stays where it should be. You've got warlords and factions to deal with, not a government. Each one will try to play you against the others.
Letting the pirates rake in millions of dollars in ransoms isn't helping anyone. They aren't going out in their little boats throwing sunshine and rainbows at their target.
In the long run probably the best thing that could happen would be that they end up sinking a ship. Then the fun and games would be over and the kid gloves would come off.
Now would be the time to invest in Sapho production. Biological storage will be the way of the future.
If there is a future, I wonder if the archeologists will be able to determine it was the lawyers that caused all forms of permanent information to disappear.
The way iTunes stores the songs on the iPod also makes for more efficient searches (for the iPod). Less unnecessary harddrive spinning means longer playtimes.
I'm kidding of course, Apple just wanted to piss off all the anal-retentive types that are still living in the 90's and want to name every song by hand and put each song individually into a specially crafted folder. MP3s just don't sound right without that personal touch.
Paper and pencils are one thing. Books are an entirely different beast.
Sure, you could get a lot of physical supplies for the cost of an XO and in that light it isn't a good deal.
The number of e-books and online information the xo can access versus dead tree books is the kicker. Size and weight matter for shipping, transport and delivery. A collection of bits is a lot easier to move around and copy than ink on paper.
Jail should be enforced. Period. It's theft. Whether you want to admit it or not it is in fact theft.
You work for or invest in a privately run prison corporation don't you? Any other sane, rational person would realize that we can't afford to keep filling the prisons with non-violent petty offenders.
Now if I get a bunch of people together and we all walked into different stores. Pick up a bunch of candy bars, walk out and started selling them on the street should I go to jail... by your logic this is "brainwashing" and the now-defunct business model of retail has no basis as a common social conception of what is and is not morally acceptable because hey "everyone is doing it"
Actually they'd need to into the store with their lossy clone-o-matics and clone up poor quality copies of those candy bars and then try to sell those. Or to make the crime fit your analogy he'd have to of stolen the actual film reels.
Aside from finding out a movie sucks, a crappy cam of a flick won't stop someone from seeing the movie in a theater. You're not just paying money to see a film, you're paying to see a film on a large screen with a good audio system. If you didn't want to pay for access to the extras a theater provides you wouldn't go to the theater anyways.
So then Jehovah's Witnesses get a check in the reasonable column for believed age of earth but they still get a check in the decidedly unreasonable column for their belief in waking people up at 7am on Saturday morning.
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I foresee the sales of tracphone and other pay as you go or prepaid phones increasing.
The teens will just have to remember to not use the unlocked normal phone when calling home.
It's amazing how people are initially unenthusiastic about being given what amounts to worm piss but once they've tried it on their plants you end up with standing orders for it to be delivered whenever you visit.
Now if only alternatives to petrochemical fertilizers would get the same attention alternative fuels do.
And there will still probably be new commercial games released for the PS2 when the PS5 and XBox 720 are new.
Well, wasn't the big draw of Android supposed to be that the big mean ol' bad Apple man couldn't tell your apps what they could or couldn't do? Complete freedom from turtlenecked oppression?
So how about we all just return to the state of lowest energy and call it a day then? Anything other than that would just be wasting energy.
Because you can only have true alternate energy sources when they cost less money than conventional energy sources?
It couldn't be that they are the alternate energy sources because they are less efficient monetarily than "conventional" sources, could it? So what if it doesn't recover the monetary investment? Things would be a lot better off it PROFIT! wasn't the sole motivation behind any decision.
Just because their (Apple) platform exists does not obligate them to cater to everyone's whims, on their dime none-the-less.
So how does copyright protect FOSS?
If some big bad evil corp "steals" your code does it disappear off of your harddrive?
Or is it just protecting FOSS developers' egos? So they can feel like they have some power by being able to deny usage of their code to certain people?
Having copyrighted materials never hit the public domain is a steep price to pay to keep your ego inflated. And that's why I'm not a fan of copyright as it is today.
You've obviously never seen anything other than a park flyer. There's some quarter and half scales that could be used by children or midgets.
What do you need a 200 km range for? They don't need to launch these things from the next country over. Heck, as long as there's a tall enough building to put your target within glide range you don't even need propulsion.
Terrorists wouldn't have the same needs as the military. They don't need extreme stand off range. People aren't going to be aware of the terrorist until after the thing blows up. Terrorists can get within the airspace of their target before launch so they won't need stealth materials. If their UAV bomb is detected at all it will be too late anyways. Modern spread spectrum radios would just need line of sight to the UAV.
Paint or powder bombing is already an event (if not entirely AMA sanctioned). A practiced human can be rather accurate without any onboard video, guidance or tracking.
It's a story about Apple and the iPhone, so it MUST be about their evil draconian DRM schemes. Duh.
Apparently you don't have a hobby store down the street.
There's been this whole hobby of building and flying UAVs that's been around since at least WWII.
It's almost like "they" want to weaken our vocabulary so that people lose descriptive terms that allow for a spectrum of actions, which would call for debate and actual congressional approval for the more extreme end of the spectrum, whereas with even the most trivial of actions having war appended to it means that real war can be enacted without the express consent of congress since the true value of "war" has been degraded.
We haven't had a real war (declared by congress) since WWII. (What percentage of the population is even aware that it isn't the president that gets to declare war?)
Someone should write a book about this, they could call it 2008, or maybe set it in the past for a retro-futuristic take, so maybe call it 1984.
That's why the battle group commander is a human and not a machine.
They can (and should) question questionable orders.
Getting ordered to stand down and move halfway across the globe while CNN is still showing a still very active situation should raise some suspicion.
Of course, we've always been at war with Cyberasia...
He could have been fined A$0.01 and it would still be a very bad thing.
It's the precedent in this case and not the punishment.
(And they say CHILDREN can't tell fantasy from reality. Apparently we now allow judges with a child-like intelligence.)
Soccer moms will be the downfall of western society. Hordes of unvaccinated kids that live in super sterile conditions so they never develop an actual immune system that then get crammed into overcrowded daycares cause mommy and daddy have to work four jobs to pay for the house, white picket fence and the "think of the children" special edition SUV will be the source of the next great pandemic.
Could you go and remind White Wolf, specifically their ArtHaus (where systems go to die) imprint that demand for an out of print books means they should reprint it?
Considering used BESM 3rd Ed. books are going for around $250 there's obviously a demand for the book, typos and all.
Though sadly, the authors won't benefit either way in this case, only the publisher will.
So you want the US, fresh on its "success" in Iraq and Afghanistan to "liberate" yet another country we don't really understand (and one that we've previously failed in)?
We go in, "liberate" a country and get called the great satan and western pig-dog imperialists.
We don't go in and everyone whines that we're not doing anything.
Somali isn't even a cause of regime change. There is no effective regime. Somali would be like Afghanistan on hell difficulty in hardcore mode. Humanitarian aid doesn't work because you basically need to launch an invasion to get it to where and who it needs to go to. Then you have to make sure it stays where it should be. You've got warlords and factions to deal with, not a government. Each one will try to play you against the others.
Letting the pirates rake in millions of dollars in ransoms isn't helping anyone. They aren't going out in their little boats throwing sunshine and rainbows at their target.
In the long run probably the best thing that could happen would be that they end up sinking a ship. Then the fun and games would be over and the kid gloves would come off.
Now would be the time to invest in Sapho production. Biological storage will be the way of the future.
If there is a future, I wonder if the archeologists will be able to determine it was the lawyers that caused all forms of permanent information to disappear.
The way iTunes stores the songs on the iPod also makes for more efficient searches (for the iPod). Less unnecessary harddrive spinning means longer playtimes.
I'm kidding of course, Apple just wanted to piss off all the anal-retentive types that are still living in the 90's and want to name every song by hand and put each song individually into a specially crafted folder. MP3s just don't sound right without that personal touch.
Paper and pencils are one thing. Books are an entirely different beast.
Sure, you could get a lot of physical supplies for the cost of an XO and in that light it isn't a good deal.
The number of e-books and online information the xo can access versus dead tree books is the kicker. Size and weight matter for shipping, transport and delivery. A collection of bits is a lot easier to move around and copy than ink on paper.
I must have completely missed that dialog when upgrading...
Unless you were talking about the beta, where you did have to tie into the battle.net system.
Jail should be enforced. Period. It's theft. Whether you want to admit it or not it is in fact theft.
You work for or invest in a privately run prison corporation don't you? Any other sane, rational person would realize that we can't afford to keep filling the prisons with non-violent petty offenders.
Now if I get a bunch of people together and we all walked into different stores. Pick up a bunch of candy bars, walk out and started selling them on the street should I go to jail... by your logic this is "brainwashing" and the now-defunct business model of retail has no basis as a common social conception of what is and is not morally acceptable because hey "everyone is doing it"
Actually they'd need to into the store with their lossy clone-o-matics and clone up poor quality copies of those candy bars and then try to sell those. Or to make the crime fit your analogy he'd have to of stolen the actual film reels.
Aside from finding out a movie sucks, a crappy cam of a flick won't stop someone from seeing the movie in a theater. You're not just paying money to see a film, you're paying to see a film on a large screen with a good audio system. If you didn't want to pay for access to the extras a theater provides you wouldn't go to the theater anyways.
That sounds something like the Fukuoka Method if I'm remembering the gist of it correctly.
So then Jehovah's Witnesses get a check in the reasonable column for believed age of earth but they still get a check in the decidedly unreasonable column for their belief in waking people up at 7am on Saturday morning.
Sadly it comes down to "body good, brain bad".
Acquiring lifelong injuries from high school sports is an excepted and EXPECTED outcome of our school system.
Now if you had a student chem club that suffered the same injury rate and severity they'd banned. No ifs ands or buts.
Playing with an existing injury and "toughing it out" is a good thing.
Suffering through a chemical burn to finish an experiment would bring lawsuits.