my Thesis department basically said "this is a work for hire, we own the rights to it, you can share it personally for academic pursuits" or something along those lines.
That's such bullshit. If the institution paid you to write a thesis, then it would be a work for hire, but actually YOU pay the INSTITUTION to LET you write a thesis for them. How the hell can they claim copyright over it?
It's not really hijacking. Cable networks designate certain ad slots to sell to the providers. They typically end up being used for local advertising, but sometimes are used for On Demand or general ads for the cable company itself. Basically, the network sends out a signal that's encoded into the stream that triggers all the local cable systems to inject their own programming. Any given ad is supposed to be an exact length, but given the shoddy work of many small-time local commercial producers (especially those hired by Comcast Spotlight, etc) sometimes they just can't handle it, so they have to make it slightly shorter than the designated length. Sometimes, too, there may be an issue with the signal sync that causes a little glitch. The networks sell these slots to national advertisers at a steep discount (or sometimes for those who make big buys these slots might even be free) and run national ads that will end up being displayed to providers and markets that didn't buy that slot or aren't equipped for that kind of functionality.
I don't know how local a satellite provider can get with their ads, but they have the same opportunity to buy those same slots and could perhaps run national ads in them if they wanted.
Of course there's no purely objective search. But if Company A builds into their algorithm that their own pages will always appear among the first five results, for example, it seems perfectly sensible for a Company B to point that fact out and say "We never do that. We rank all pages on the basis of a formula that does not consider who provides a particular web page," it would be a selling point for at least some consumers.
Right. Selling point. Competition in the open market of search engines. What we're talking about here is the fact that the government is taking legal action against Google for whatever it is they might be doing.
You do realize that you often times see advertisements for cable on satellite and advertisements for satellite on cable. Not to mention advertisements for shows on a different channel.
The reason why they should be forced to sell the ads at a fair rate is because advertising is heavily dependent upon audience, if you control 60% of the advertising space, then you have a significant advantage over the competition as you can place ads in places where others can't place them, and you have a much bigger pool of places to put ads where they're more likely to be seen by somebody interested in the service.
If the allegations prove to be true, this would pretty much necessitate Google be broken up or in some way be required to reduce it's influence on the market. Considering that Google still gets nearly all of its revenue from the ad business, I think it's something they should be very worried about.
Advertising is sold by the network, not by the telecom provider. Comcast has absolutely no control over what ads a given station can display, so they have absolutely no way of filtering out ads for satellite services. You see ads for shows on other channels (rarely, but they do appear), yes, but do you ever see ads for the news broadcast on other channels? Primetime shows are very different from one another, and generally people are going to watch what people are going to watch. If ABC refuses to display ads for 30 Rock, all they're doing is missing out on delicious revenue when the alternative is pretty much displaying redundant ads for a show everybody already knows about... but ABC is being forced by no one to display ads for anybody in particular. They can turn away whatever advertisers they want for whatever reason.
If you control 60% of the advertising space, then you should be able to charge a premium to your direct competition (and anybody else for that matter). Microsoft is directly in competition with Google in almost every way, and Google should not be forced to be "fair". If Microsoft really wants to advertise on Google that bad, then they had better be ready to pony up and make it worth Google's handful of lost customers.
Greenpeace is pretty batshit crazy, too. The big difference is that the leadership of Greenpeace knows what they're doing (undermining capitalism and promoting communism in the name of saving the planet), while PETA's leadership are just as insane and deluded as their devoted followers.
This is awesome! I'm trying to figure out what part of the earth this is imaging. My best guess is going from the north to south pole along the western side of the Americas, starting somewhere near Vancouver/Seattle passing Mexico, down along Chile, and ending as it gets to Antarctica. Can anyone confirm this?
A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy.
That's strange, I remember NCLB receiving extreme bipartisansupport. Before you bring your stupid partisan politics into a conversation, make sure you know what the hell you're talking about.
(Disclaimer: I don't affiliate with "either" party, and despise our bipartisan system and people blaming "Republicans" or "Democrats" when really they're all to blame.)
I'm not at all apologizing for our horrible public education system, but there's much more to it than per-student spending. Books are much more expensive, wages are much higher. Those one-room schoolhouses were often owned and operated by the one or two teachers that ran the joint and they were able to handle what little administrative needs there were by themselves. Nowadays we have big schools with scores of teachers, large administrative staffs, etc. Plus you need to keep the facilities maintained and have a maintenance staff on daily duty. The districts have their own administrative buildings and staff as well as the need to maintain a fleet of buses, etc. There are nutritional programs because kids often get their food at school rather than packing lunch, etc.
That all being said, our educational system sucks and is in dire need of improvement... but again, it's not just "per-student spending".
I don't really have a problem with them flying somewhere but flying that close to people on the ground is very stupid.
This is the first major accident in the 49 years of the Reno Air Races with injuries to spectators. Unfortunately due to knee-jerk reactions and political showboating, I foresee the event being severely gimped or cancelled altogether. I sure hope not, because I haven't had a chance to see it yet.
What they should do is apply a 1c tax on every trade placed with every major share market. Collect the lot, split it up and wire the funds to a basket of deserving charities.
If there's a charity I wish to donate to, I will do it my own damn self, thank you very much. I don't need the government's guidance in deciding what charities to give my money to, and I certainly don't need to be assisted by having the money be forcefully taken from me to be distributed to them. Taxes should be solely for revenue generation, but for far too long they've been used to influence public behavior by taxing things that are bad for you and/or the environment according to some guy with money, support industries that can't support themselves by handing out subsidies and artificially lowering commodity prices, and line the pockets of politicians and large corporations with huge tax breaks and incentives for just about every industry. We don't need MORE of this bullshit, we need less of it.
The only growing economies are NOT the US and Europe. Thus we have fiscal, monetary and government policies that require growth to succeed, except there is no growth. Classic "can't see the wood for the trees" situation. Every year that the US and Europe fail to put their house in order, China grows another 10% and Latin America grows another 5.
What? Every year we've had a steady growth rate of around 2% (varying slightly... sometimes it's as high as 4% or as low as.5%, but it still averages out to about 2%). That is an ideal rate. Anything higher leads to hyperinflation and a currency that's pretty much useless. By your standards, Yugoslavia should be one of the most powerful countries in the world due to their period of hyperinflation in the early '90s. They went through 4 different currency reforms between 1989 and 1994, exchanging vast amounts of "old" currency for one unit of "new" currency. For instance in their 1993 currency reform, the government was giving people 1 new dinar for 1,000,000 old dinars... but their hyperinflation was still happening and by the end of that year they had to release a 500,000,000,000-dinar denomination. The next year, they were giving people 1 dinar for 1,000,000,000 dinars. By the end of all that madness, one single newest dinar was equivalent to about 1x10^27 pre-1990 dinars. Yeah, extreme growth is great.
Actually, a lot of newer residential installations in the US are using 30-amp breakers these days, although 20-amp ones are probably still more common, even in new installations.
I'm not sure where you heard that, but the required lighting and small appliance circuits in a dwelling as detailed in the National Electrical Code section 210.52 must have overcurrent protection of either 15 or 20 amps. I believe you CAN install general-purpose circuits rated higher than that around the house, but those would be in addition to the required 15/20-amp receptacles (of which there are many: any wall space must be within 6ft of a receptacle, kitchens must have no less than two separate small-appliance circuits feeding not less than two receptacles with any countertop space more than 12-in wide having no point on the wall be further than 24-in from a receptacle, etc, etc, etc), and would require receptacles rated for whatever the circuit is rated for (in most cases). A 15-amp circuit must only have 15-amp receptacles. A 20-amp circuit can have 15-and/or20-amp receptacles. A 30-amp circuit must have only 30-amp receptacles. Basically, if the plugs in your house don't look like this, then you don't have 30-amp circuits... and frankly why would you?
(Setups from the late twentieth century, however, often use 14-2 cable (instead of 12-2 or better) and so tend to have 15-amp breakers for everything except the dryer and range, because a heftier breaker wouldn't be a real great idea with that cabling. Heaven forfend you put a modern thousand-watt microwave oven on such a circuit, because it'll trip the breaker every time you turn around.
Most new construction still runs 15-amp lighting and small-appliance circuits... and therefore usually runs #14 because it's cheaper. And a 1000W microwave on 120V only draws 8.3A or so... if your wiring is planned out properly such that the microwave mostly has a circuit to itself, it should never trip a breaker. And as for "a heftier breaker wouldn't be a real great idea with that cabling"... there are clear requirements in the form of both text and tables that dictate how you are to plan the circuitry for a residential dwelling as well as what size wire, breakers, etc you are to use. It's very clear-cut. Either what you're installing meets code or it doesn't. If it does, you're fine. If it doesn't, you're breaking the law and risking your life and property (or that of whomever you're doing the work for). I hope you're not installing wiring in your own house using fuzzy logic like that.
And don't even get me started on old fusebox installations that you can find in nooks and crannies in the unfinished basements of older homes from the first half of the twentieth century, complete with pairs of non-cabled cloth-insulated wires [shudder] plastered right into the wall, without the benefit of junction boxes or conduit or even a second layer of insulation, running to ceramic standoffs, with no proper grounding anywhere...)
That's called knob and tube wiring. It was common until the 1930s or so and usually uses wire insulated by a cloth/rubber composite... and it was considered proper and perfectly up to code back then. No grounding anywhere because no appliances needed a ground back then (rather, the need for a ground was not recognized). Most existing K&T installations have extremely brittle insulation and nobody in their right mind should dare fuck with it or you'll end up with some extremely hazardous conditions.
That's why there's a jury selection process. Also, jurors can't declare someone guilty just because they refused to talk... There would have to be substantial evidence besides that, and perhaps the refusal to talk would be the proverbial icing on the giant guilty murder cake.
You are NEVER obliged to self incriminate, during any trial civil or criminal. They can interpret your silence however they want, but they cannot force you to speak up. You can ALWAYS plead the 5th, and if you do so, any testimony you give can't be used against you in a criminal trial. The issue is whether what you say can be used against you criminally.
As for the hard drive, it's not a 5th amendment issue anyway because self incrimination only applies to your person, not to property.
It's a 4th amendment issue where they need to get a warrant for your hard drive by showing probable cause, after which if you fail to cough up the keys you can be held for obstruction.
Partially right. They can't interpret your silence however they want. If you have the legal right to remain silent, then silence cannot be used as evidence of anything.
You cannot give a testimony and then plead the Fifth to undo it. "Pleading the Fifth" isn't even really a thing... it's simply the refusal to make a testimony that could incriminate yourself... anything you say before refusing to say anything can be used against you.
The hard drive IS a Fifth Amendment issue because to provide such access to your property would incriminate your person. Under the Fourth Amendment, law enforcement needs a warrant to search your hard drive, but you are protected by the Fifth Amendment from being forced to hand over passwords.
If Windows 8 turns out to be a good OS on tablets, I would predict in a very short amount of time, laptops will start to ship w/ touch-screen interfaces to take advantage of the Windows 8 shell.
Why would I want a shitty touchscreen interface on a laptop? You think I'm going to sit there all day poking the screen with my finger when I could use a keyboard and mouse?
Well if you use a laptop in compact spaces and/or while travelling, your only alternative to "shitty touchscreen interface" would be keyboard and even shittier touchpad.... I'd poke at the screen with my finger all day long before having to use a fucking touchpad. But for real Power Computing(TM) a keyboard and mouse is definitely best.
While voltage may change the wiring still has a similar max wattage handling.
The wiring, outlets, and circuit has maximum current rating, not wattage. The higher the voltage you put through the wires, the more wattage they can handle because you get more power with the same amount of current.
But even if it's 240V at 7.2kW, that's still 30A which I highly doubt a hallway circuit would be rated for.
I really want to think you're trolling, but your low uid and comment history is trying to prove me otherwise, so I shall continue this conversation.
So based on your extremely loose definitions of slavery, how exactly do you propose to save people from lives of bondage? How could society POSSIBLY work without people being, according to you, "slaves" to the system?
So you seem to be set on the idea that the necessity to work in order to support yourself is no different than slavery, and I don't think anybody could convince you otherwise. So I will ask you this: What is your point? Are you trying to push the idea of some kind of communist utopian society in which nobody has to do anything to contribute? If so, then you are fucking delusional.
But yes, most people are slaves of some kind in our society.
So I guess in your world "slave" is defined as anybody who doesn't live a privileged life of near-infinite wealth and no need to work for a living. I have to work for a living... if I didn't I wouldn't be able to do the things I enjoy. That doesn't make me a slave, that makes me a productive member of society.
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my Thesis department basically said "this is a work for hire, we own the rights to it, you can share it personally for academic pursuits" or something along those lines.
That's such bullshit. If the institution paid you to write a thesis, then it would be a work for hire, but actually YOU pay the INSTITUTION to LET you write a thesis for them. How the hell can they claim copyright over it?
It's not really hijacking. Cable networks designate certain ad slots to sell to the providers. They typically end up being used for local advertising, but sometimes are used for On Demand or general ads for the cable company itself. Basically, the network sends out a signal that's encoded into the stream that triggers all the local cable systems to inject their own programming. Any given ad is supposed to be an exact length, but given the shoddy work of many small-time local commercial producers (especially those hired by Comcast Spotlight, etc) sometimes they just can't handle it, so they have to make it slightly shorter than the designated length. Sometimes, too, there may be an issue with the signal sync that causes a little glitch. The networks sell these slots to national advertisers at a steep discount (or sometimes for those who make big buys these slots might even be free) and run national ads that will end up being displayed to providers and markets that didn't buy that slot or aren't equipped for that kind of functionality.
I don't know how local a satellite provider can get with their ads, but they have the same opportunity to buy those same slots and could perhaps run national ads in them if they wanted.
Of course there's no purely objective search. But if Company A builds into their algorithm that their own pages will always appear among the first five results, for example, it seems perfectly sensible for a Company B to point that fact out and say "We never do that. We rank all pages on the basis of a formula that does not consider who provides a particular web page," it would be a selling point for at least some consumers.
Right. Selling point. Competition in the open market of search engines. What we're talking about here is the fact that the government is taking legal action against Google for whatever it is they might be doing.
You do realize that you often times see advertisements for cable on satellite and advertisements for satellite on cable. Not to mention advertisements for shows on a different channel.
The reason why they should be forced to sell the ads at a fair rate is because advertising is heavily dependent upon audience, if you control 60% of the advertising space, then you have a significant advantage over the competition as you can place ads in places where others can't place them, and you have a much bigger pool of places to put ads where they're more likely to be seen by somebody interested in the service.
If the allegations prove to be true, this would pretty much necessitate Google be broken up or in some way be required to reduce it's influence on the market. Considering that Google still gets nearly all of its revenue from the ad business, I think it's something they should be very worried about.
Advertising is sold by the network, not by the telecom provider. Comcast has absolutely no control over what ads a given station can display, so they have absolutely no way of filtering out ads for satellite services. You see ads for shows on other channels (rarely, but they do appear), yes, but do you ever see ads for the news broadcast on other channels? Primetime shows are very different from one another, and generally people are going to watch what people are going to watch. If ABC refuses to display ads for 30 Rock, all they're doing is missing out on delicious revenue when the alternative is pretty much displaying redundant ads for a show everybody already knows about... but ABC is being forced by no one to display ads for anybody in particular. They can turn away whatever advertisers they want for whatever reason.
If you control 60% of the advertising space, then you should be able to charge a premium to your direct competition (and anybody else for that matter). Microsoft is directly in competition with Google in almost every way, and Google should not be forced to be "fair". If Microsoft really wants to advertise on Google that bad, then they had better be ready to pony up and make it worth Google's handful of lost customers.
PETA is not Greenpeace
Greenpeace is pretty batshit crazy, too. The big difference is that the leadership of Greenpeace knows what they're doing (undermining capitalism and promoting communism in the name of saving the planet), while PETA's leadership are just as insane and deluded as their devoted followers.
This is awesome! I'm trying to figure out what part of the earth this is imaging. My best guess is going from the north to south pole along the western side of the Americas, starting somewhere near Vancouver/Seattle passing Mexico, down along Chile, and ending as it gets to Antarctica. Can anyone confirm this?
The description on YouTube says:
A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy.
Republicans [...] NCLB and such
That's strange, I remember NCLB receiving extreme bipartisan support. Before you bring your stupid partisan politics into a conversation, make sure you know what the hell you're talking about.
(Disclaimer: I don't affiliate with "either" party, and despise our bipartisan system and people blaming "Republicans" or "Democrats" when really they're all to blame.)
I'm not at all apologizing for our horrible public education system, but there's much more to it than per-student spending. Books are much more expensive, wages are much higher. Those one-room schoolhouses were often owned and operated by the one or two teachers that ran the joint and they were able to handle what little administrative needs there were by themselves. Nowadays we have big schools with scores of teachers, large administrative staffs, etc. Plus you need to keep the facilities maintained and have a maintenance staff on daily duty. The districts have their own administrative buildings and staff as well as the need to maintain a fleet of buses, etc. There are nutritional programs because kids often get their food at school rather than packing lunch, etc.
That all being said, our educational system sucks and is in dire need of improvement... but again, it's not just "per-student spending".
Oh my bad. I guess I read faulty information elsewhere.
and the pilot knew he was going to die.
He could have ejected to save his own life, but he elected to die.
I don't really have a problem with them flying somewhere but flying that close to people on the ground is very stupid.
This is the first major accident in the 49 years of the Reno Air Races with injuries to spectators. Unfortunately due to knee-jerk reactions and political showboating, I foresee the event being severely gimped or cancelled altogether. I sure hope not, because I haven't had a chance to see it yet.
They paint them.
What they should do is apply a 1c tax on every trade placed with every major share market. Collect the lot, split it up and wire the funds to a basket of deserving charities.
If there's a charity I wish to donate to, I will do it my own damn self, thank you very much. I don't need the government's guidance in deciding what charities to give my money to, and I certainly don't need to be assisted by having the money be forcefully taken from me to be distributed to them. Taxes should be solely for revenue generation, but for far too long they've been used to influence public behavior by taxing things that are bad for you and/or the environment according to some guy with money, support industries that can't support themselves by handing out subsidies and artificially lowering commodity prices, and line the pockets of politicians and large corporations with huge tax breaks and incentives for just about every industry. We don't need MORE of this bullshit, we need less of it.
The only growing economies are NOT the US and Europe. Thus we have fiscal, monetary and government policies that require growth to succeed, except there is no growth. Classic "can't see the wood for the trees" situation. Every year that the US and Europe fail to put their house in order, China grows another 10% and Latin America grows another 5.
What? Every year we've had a steady growth rate of around 2% (varying slightly... sometimes it's as high as 4% or as low as .5%, but it still averages out to about 2%). That is an ideal rate. Anything higher leads to hyperinflation and a currency that's pretty much useless. By your standards, Yugoslavia should be one of the most powerful countries in the world due to their period of hyperinflation in the early '90s. They went through 4 different currency reforms between 1989 and 1994, exchanging vast amounts of "old" currency for one unit of "new" currency. For instance in their 1993 currency reform, the government was giving people 1 new dinar for 1,000,000 old dinars... but their hyperinflation was still happening and by the end of that year they had to release a 500,000,000,000-dinar denomination. The next year, they were giving people 1 dinar for 1,000,000,000 dinars. By the end of all that madness, one single newest dinar was equivalent to about 1x10^27 pre-1990 dinars. Yeah, extreme growth is great.
Actually, a lot of newer residential installations in the US are using 30-amp breakers these days, although 20-amp ones are probably still more common, even in new installations.
I'm not sure where you heard that, but the required lighting and small appliance circuits in a dwelling as detailed in the National Electrical Code section 210.52 must have overcurrent protection of either 15 or 20 amps. I believe you CAN install general-purpose circuits rated higher than that around the house, but those would be in addition to the required 15/20-amp receptacles (of which there are many: any wall space must be within 6ft of a receptacle, kitchens must have no less than two separate small-appliance circuits feeding not less than two receptacles with any countertop space more than 12-in wide having no point on the wall be further than 24-in from a receptacle, etc, etc, etc), and would require receptacles rated for whatever the circuit is rated for (in most cases). A 15-amp circuit must only have 15-amp receptacles. A 20-amp circuit can have 15- and/or 20-amp receptacles. A 30-amp circuit must have only 30-amp receptacles. Basically, if the plugs in your house don't look like this, then you don't have 30-amp circuits... and frankly why would you?
(Setups from the late twentieth century, however, often use 14-2 cable (instead of 12-2 or better) and so tend to have 15-amp breakers for everything except the dryer and range, because a heftier breaker wouldn't be a real great idea with that cabling. Heaven forfend you put a modern thousand-watt microwave oven on such a circuit, because it'll trip the breaker every time you turn around.
Most new construction still runs 15-amp lighting and small-appliance circuits... and therefore usually runs #14 because it's cheaper. And a 1000W microwave on 120V only draws 8.3A or so... if your wiring is planned out properly such that the microwave mostly has a circuit to itself, it should never trip a breaker. And as for "a heftier breaker wouldn't be a real great idea with that cabling"... there are clear requirements in the form of both text and tables that dictate how you are to plan the circuitry for a residential dwelling as well as what size wire, breakers, etc you are to use. It's very clear-cut. Either what you're installing meets code or it doesn't. If it does, you're fine. If it doesn't, you're breaking the law and risking your life and property (or that of whomever you're doing the work for). I hope you're not installing wiring in your own house using fuzzy logic like that.
And don't even get me started on old fusebox installations that you can find in nooks and crannies in the unfinished basements of older homes from the first half of the twentieth century, complete with pairs of non-cabled cloth-insulated wires [shudder] plastered right into the wall, without the benefit of junction boxes or conduit or even a second layer of insulation, running to ceramic standoffs, with no proper grounding anywhere...)
That's called knob and tube wiring. It was common until the 1930s or so and usually uses wire insulated by a cloth/rubber composite... and it was considered proper and perfectly up to code back then. No grounding anywhere because no appliances needed a ground back then (rather, the need for a ground was not recognized). Most existing K&T installations have extremely brittle insulation and nobody in their right mind should dare fuck with it or you'll end up with some extremely hazardous conditions.
(Hint: I'm an electrician.)
That's why there's a jury selection process. Also, jurors can't declare someone guilty just because they refused to talk... There would have to be substantial evidence besides that, and perhaps the refusal to talk would be the proverbial icing on the giant guilty murder cake.
We are working on recognizing a joke when they see it. I can't be sure, but I think even the toddler is ahead of you on that one.
I bet the toddler's ahead of you on that one, too.
Doesn't work that way.
You are NEVER obliged to self incriminate, during any trial civil or criminal. They can interpret your silence however they want, but they cannot force you to speak up. You can ALWAYS plead the 5th, and if you do so, any testimony you give can't be used against you in a criminal trial. The issue is whether what you say can be used against you criminally.
As for the hard drive, it's not a 5th amendment issue anyway because self incrimination only applies to your person, not to property.
It's a 4th amendment issue where they need to get a warrant for your hard drive by showing probable cause, after which if you fail to cough up the keys you can be held for obstruction.
Partially right. They can't interpret your silence however they want. If you have the legal right to remain silent, then silence cannot be used as evidence of anything.
You cannot give a testimony and then plead the Fifth to undo it. "Pleading the Fifth" isn't even really a thing... it's simply the refusal to make a testimony that could incriminate yourself... anything you say before refusing to say anything can be used against you.
The hard drive IS a Fifth Amendment issue because to provide such access to your property would incriminate your person. Under the Fourth Amendment, law enforcement needs a warrant to search your hard drive, but you are protected by the Fifth Amendment from being forced to hand over passwords.
How is a safe combination different than a key? You can be compelled to unlock the door to your house if the police have a search warrant, can't you?
They can't force you to open the door. But they CAN force the door open.
If Windows 8 turns out to be a good OS on tablets, I would predict in a very short amount of time, laptops will start to ship w/ touch-screen interfaces to take advantage of the Windows 8 shell.
Why would I want a shitty touchscreen interface on a laptop? You think I'm going to sit there all day poking the screen with my finger when I could use a keyboard and mouse?
Well if you use a laptop in compact spaces and/or while travelling, your only alternative to "shitty touchscreen interface" would be keyboard and even shittier touchpad.... I'd poke at the screen with my finger all day long before having to use a fucking touchpad. But for real Power Computing(TM) a keyboard and mouse is definitely best.
While voltage may change the wiring still has a similar max wattage handling.
The wiring, outlets, and circuit has maximum current rating, not wattage. The higher the voltage you put through the wires, the more wattage they can handle because you get more power with the same amount of current.
But even if it's 240V at 7.2kW, that's still 30A which I highly doubt a hallway circuit would be rated for.
I'm going to gore myself to death with a Jolt can.
If you do end up doing that, can you please record video and have your closest friend upload it to the site you gored yourself to death waiting for?
I really want to think you're trolling, but your low uid and comment history is trying to prove me otherwise, so I shall continue this conversation.
So based on your extremely loose definitions of slavery, how exactly do you propose to save people from lives of bondage? How could society POSSIBLY work without people being, according to you, "slaves" to the system?
So you seem to be set on the idea that the necessity to work in order to support yourself is no different than slavery, and I don't think anybody could convince you otherwise. So I will ask you this: What is your point? Are you trying to push the idea of some kind of communist utopian society in which nobody has to do anything to contribute? If so, then you are fucking delusional.
But yes, most people are slaves of some kind in our society.
So I guess in your world "slave" is defined as anybody who doesn't live a privileged life of near-infinite wealth and no need to work for a living. I have to work for a living... if I didn't I wouldn't be able to do the things I enjoy. That doesn't make me a slave, that makes me a productive member of society.