The Idea is not to force people out of sharing, but make it inconvenient enough to stop being more useful than going out and cashing money for originals.
Why they don't try to make the originals better and more convenient instead?
Games- Doom had floating eyeballs. Wolfenstein had nazis. Even the versions of street fighter that had gratuitous fountains of "blood" seem tame today.
Rap- I could be waitin, camped out in yo' car, in the backseat with some fuckin chickenwire, soon as you hit the backstreet I jump up like Jack-in-the-Box, strangle the shit out yo' ass -dmx
Games- You can get women pregnant.
One of these is not like the others.
We live in a bizarre society where "OMG sex" is considered as bad as graphic violence.
What the. That doesn't make any sense. Surely books bought by libraries would underestimate total readership? Almost by definition, since a library is about lending out a single copy to multiple readers.
Are you suggesting these judges can ignore precedent and make whatever rulings they feel like? Or are you suggesting there's some tangible difference in the orginal case and the example given?
Parent poster here. Actually, I agree with you. I don't ride in the middle of the road for extended periods of time. There's probably the next set of lights within 90 seconds anyway, where I'll catch right back up to traffic that squeezed past me.
The law here makes it a crime to travel less than 20kph below the speed limit on a highway. This doesn't apply to residential roads, but perhaps it's useful as a guide. That means if you're travelling less than 30k you shouldn't be obstructing traffic flow. Or conversely, motorists should be ready to slow down to 30kph if necessary. If you'd prefer to use a geometric relationship, use 40kph instead. That's probably slightly faster than cruising speed on level ground, but not significantly so.
I don't ride '8 feet out from the curb', indeed that would be almost in the next lane in most cities.
I do however ride a fair distance from the curb when the lane is narrow. The problem with riding close to the curb is that doing so will give impatient motorists the incorrect impression that there is safe room to pass. By riding in the middle of the road drivers with poor spatial awareness won't attempt to pass me while there is insufficient room to do so. When the road is wide enough to allow a cyclist + a car, I hug the white line.
Ultimately, I don't care if you're pissed off that you have to slow down to 35k in a 50k zone as long as you don't crash into me.
Turn in your geek card if you haven't performed the proper energy in / energy out comparisons.
A 65g chocolate bar contains about 250 calories or about 1000kJ. To do 1000kJ of work you could lift a 10kg weight from waist height to head height about 12,000 times. If you did one rep every 2 seconds, that would take you five and a half hours.
Of course this is meaningless since your body isn't a 100% efficient machine and energy is lost both through the digestive process and the mechanical process of using muscles.
You can't neglect differences in the conversion efficiency of different people when performing these comparisons. One person could produce the same energy output but be able to eat many more calories as a result of different conversion efficiencies.
I must admit I've never looked at Nuclear power since it's not used in my country.
Bearing in mind my limited knowledge of Nuclear power, I would expect some penalty for the long term impact of disposal of waste, and also a reasonable penalty for the remote possibility of catastrophic disaster.
Penalty probably isn't the right word. I'm just talking about correctly accounting for externalities. If that can be accomplished by paying for waste storage and insurance, then that would be sufficient.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most places that currently use natural gas for heating could use electricity instead without any major technological advancements. It's not close to impossible anyway.
Replacing oil used for transportation is much more difficult.
If you ignore the externalities from Coal power, sure. However, if you properly account for polution costs it's much closer. I'm not a green nut, but 'alternative' power supplies are becoming cost effective once all real costs are taken into account.
However, I don't think subsidies are the answer, rather it makes more sense to correctly penalize fossils, and possibly nuclear, to account for market inefficiencies. That way you don't get political fads dictating research and growth areas.
Of course penalizing industries is far less popular than subsidizing others, so it's not going to happen.
Tassie is currently experiencing a long drought (of the order of a few years). When the link was built it was sold as allowing excess hydro power to be exported to the mainland, but in reality it hasn't been used in that way.
It's effectively used as pump storage (which slashdot seems to like so much). During times of high mainland demand power flows from tassie to the mainland, draining hydro reserves in tasmania. When there's low demand on the mainland, power flows the other way and hydro reserves recover.
Looking at the numbers it's only going tas to mainland about 5% of the time, but it makes a large difference when it does since the mainland relies on slow coal so much. (Slow coal can't respond quickly to peaks so price spikes very high and a small increase in supply has a large effect)
You don't hire people straight out of University for their skills, you hire them for their potential. (Obvious exceptions like doctors/lawyers excluded)
Like most people, I'm not (directly) using the skills I learnt at University.
I could answer all those questions (who here couldn't?), but if you'd hired me straight out of university I wouldn't have know any of them. Heck, I probably learnt more useful skills in my first 3 months of working than through all of university.
The electric company certainly does care what you do with your kWhs. One of the first things an aspiring commercial indoor plant grower has to do is hack their meter so the excessive power usage isn't noticed and reported to the relevant authorities.
Actually, in many ways it's similar to ISPs tracking the type of packets you're receiving and using that as an indicator of file sharing. Obviously not all file sharing is unlawful, and it's possible to mask your streams, but the precedent is there.
In all seriousness though, wouldn't not having acrobat solve this particular problem? Or are you just suggesting that it's a sign of the increasing number of possible attack vectors?
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The Idea is not to force people out of sharing, but make it inconvenient enough to stop being more useful than going out and cashing money for originals.
Why they don't try to make the originals better and more convenient instead?
Oops, common sense alert!
Games- Doom had floating eyeballs. Wolfenstein had nazis. Even the versions of street fighter that had gratuitous fountains of "blood" seem tame today.
Rap- I could be waitin, camped out in yo' car, in the backseat with some fuckin chickenwire, soon as you hit the backstreet I jump up like Jack-in-the-Box, strangle the shit out yo' ass -dmx
Games- You can get women pregnant.
One of these is not like the others.
We live in a bizarre society where "OMG sex" is considered as bad as graphic violence.
Yeah! He was probably going that way anyway.
Living up to your name again I see. It's not a question of the amount that should be paid. It's a question of who should get paid.
It's more like not paying the pilots on a Seattle to Portland flight.
The ribbon is about the only thing that office 2007 does right.
I've recently upgraded to 2003 so my macros which use solver don't crash Excel every time I use them.
(Legacy issues, I wouldn't build anything in Excel from scratch)
Maybe editor confused size with mass? Electrons have mass, they don't have any classically defined size.
What the. That doesn't make any sense. Surely books bought by libraries would underestimate total readership? Almost by definition, since a library is about lending out a single copy to multiple readers.
Are you suggesting these judges can ignore precedent and make whatever rulings they feel like? Or are you suggesting there's some tangible difference in the orginal case and the example given?
You got in once. That's all it takes. How is that 'pretty good' at security?
Really it is mindboggling the odds stacked against security systems, so it's no wonder they create such elaborate and ultimately futile systems.
Parent poster here. Actually, I agree with you. I don't ride in the middle of the road for extended periods of time. There's probably the next set of lights within 90 seconds anyway, where I'll catch right back up to traffic that squeezed past me.
The law here makes it a crime to travel less than 20kph below the speed limit on a highway. This doesn't apply to residential roads, but perhaps it's useful as a guide. That means if you're travelling less than 30k you shouldn't be obstructing traffic flow. Or conversely, motorists should be ready to slow down to 30kph if necessary. If you'd prefer to use a geometric relationship, use 40kph instead. That's probably slightly faster than cruising speed on level ground, but not significantly so.
It's illegal to ride on footpaths here.
I don't ride '8 feet out from the curb', indeed that would be almost in the next lane in most cities.
I do however ride a fair distance from the curb when the lane is narrow. The problem with riding close to the curb is that doing so will give impatient motorists the incorrect impression that there is safe room to pass. By riding in the middle of the road drivers with poor spatial awareness won't attempt to pass me while there is insufficient room to do so. When the road is wide enough to allow a cyclist + a car, I hug the white line.
Ultimately, I don't care if you're pissed off that you have to slow down to 35k in a 50k zone as long as you don't crash into me.
Turn in your geek card if you haven't performed the proper energy in / energy out comparisons.
A 65g chocolate bar contains about 250 calories or about 1000kJ. To do 1000kJ of work you could lift a 10kg weight from waist height to head height about 12,000 times. If you did one rep every 2 seconds, that would take you five and a half hours.
Of course this is meaningless since your body isn't a 100% efficient machine and energy is lost both through the digestive process and the mechanical process of using muscles.
You can't neglect differences in the conversion efficiency of different people when performing these comparisons. One person could produce the same energy output but be able to eat many more calories as a result of different conversion efficiencies.
This has a bit more on the subject. http://www.mb-soft.com/public2/humaneff.html
I tried to open that file but it didn't work. My norton is working to protect me from malicious files very well thankyou.
I must admit I've never looked at Nuclear power since it's not used in my country.
Bearing in mind my limited knowledge of Nuclear power, I would expect some penalty for the long term impact of disposal of waste, and also a reasonable penalty for the remote possibility of catastrophic disaster.
Penalty probably isn't the right word. I'm just talking about correctly accounting for externalities. If that can be accomplished by paying for waste storage and insurance, then that would be sufficient.
Now read the wikipedia article he linked.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most places that currently use natural gas for heating could use electricity instead without any major technological advancements. It's not close to impossible anyway.
Replacing oil used for transportation is much more difficult.
If you ignore the externalities from Coal power, sure. However, if you properly account for polution costs it's much closer. I'm not a green nut, but 'alternative' power supplies are becoming cost effective once all real costs are taken into account.
However, I don't think subsidies are the answer, rather it makes more sense to correctly penalize fossils, and possibly nuclear, to account for market inefficiencies. That way you don't get political fads dictating research and growth areas.
Of course penalizing industries is far less popular than subsidizing others, so it's not going to happen.
What date was that? I can't see any outages during summer months since jan 2008.
Tassie is currently experiencing a long drought (of the order of a few years). When the link was built it was sold as allowing excess hydro power to be exported to the mainland, but in reality it hasn't been used in that way.
It's effectively used as pump storage (which slashdot seems to like so much). During times of high mainland demand power flows from tassie to the mainland, draining hydro reserves in tasmania. When there's low demand on the mainland, power flows the other way and hydro reserves recover.
Looking at the numbers it's only going tas to mainland about 5% of the time, but it makes a large difference when it does since the mainland relies on slow coal so much. (Slow coal can't respond quickly to peaks so price spikes very high and a small increase in supply has a large effect)
Yes it is!
I like this game.
You don't hire people straight out of University for their skills, you hire them for their potential. (Obvious exceptions like doctors/lawyers excluded)
Like most people, I'm not (directly) using the skills I learnt at University.
I could answer all those questions (who here couldn't?), but if you'd hired me straight out of university I wouldn't have know any of them. Heck, I probably learnt more useful skills in my first 3 months of working than through all of university.
The electric company certainly does care what you do with your kWhs. One of the first things an aspiring commercial indoor plant grower has to do is hack their meter so the excessive power usage isn't noticed and reported to the relevant authorities.
Actually, in many ways it's similar to ISPs tracking the type of packets you're receiving and using that as an indicator of file sharing. Obviously not all file sharing is unlawful, and it's possible to mask your streams, but the precedent is there.
my whole flight was squeezed into a very small (and hot!) space
Sounds like a normal flight to me. Let's see what happened next.
and then they let us out one by one as we passed in front of the scanner
Still sounds like a normal flight. Hmm
and were checked by grumpy old doctors
Ok so this is slightly different. How does this help spread the disease though?
I'd like to tag this comment 'foxit'.
In all seriousness though, wouldn't not having acrobat solve this particular problem? Or are you just suggesting that it's a sign of the increasing number of possible attack vectors?
So essentially what you're saying is that they all stole the ideas from someone else and then improved on them?
Thankfully, modern copyright laws are putting an end to this despicable practice.