I don't want everything for free. In fact I have very little pirated content in my music collection - there is some, but it's gotta be less than 10%, maybe less than 5%.
Much of my music collection was bought years ago, before downloading MP3 was even an option. These days, I only really "follow" a handful of mainstream artists and buy CDs when new ones are released. I do this only grudgingly, especially in those cases where the artist releases under a RIAA label. My preference is to buy indie music, preferably at a gig where the artist is playing and I can literally hand cash to them and tell them how much I enjoyed the show.
In general, my response to the RIAAs tactics - even though I'm not a "downloader" - has been to shun them and the bands they work with.
Well there sure must be something appealing about the way the Republicans do politics, because the Conservative Party of Canada (who currently hold a minority government) seem hellbent on replicating it north of the border.
A dead enemy isn't a very effective manipulative tool;
They don't need an enemy, they just need a distraction. Enemies (better still, the shadowy faraway kind who wear scary headgear) can be manufactured at will.
Those sound like real and very painful problems, not something you can just meditate away. Learning to live in the present is good and fine, but the pain and damage to your body are real. I mean, geesh, reading that even breathing hurts, doesn't sound like fun at all.
But if she's under constant medical supervision, then the "damage to your body" part of the equation has been removed from her control. She is voluntarily taking part in a controlled experiment and has chosen to place her long term welfare in the hands of others.
Under these circumstances, her very best bet is to "meditate the pain away" (something that is entirely possible), because lying there agonizing about it will only make it worse, compounding psychological pain on top of physical pain.
Anyway, again, you don't want to be at peace with whatever happens to you, in a passive way. You want to react to it when and where it happens.
If she believes she is harming herself and it's not worth $5k/month then she should end the experiment. Otherwise, she should be at peace with whatever happens to her, in a passive way. Reacting will compound her misery.
Sorry, I just don't see any version of reality in which you share a bed with Nikol Kidman. Best that can probably be arranged is something more along the lines of Nico Bellic. Interested?
I'm thinking meditation practice would be extremely helpful in this situation (and by extension also for long-term space travel)... since there is nothing you can do to alter your current (sucky) situation, you just need to be at peace with it and experience it moment by moment.
As per slashdot standard methodology I didn't read TFA, but I think the difference hinges on whether these were just generic comments from some misogynist, or whether he went further and threatened to rape these women. If it's case of somebody being directly threatened with violence, then there is no reasonable expectation that your anonymity would be protected.
... preferably shaped like a disco ball, and also incorporating a loudspeaker system that plays a continuous loop of The Trampps "Burn baby burn, disco inferno"
Just games? There are lots of people who run windows as their primary OS (because it's what they are used to after spending 15+ years on a MS platform, or maybe because there are apps they rely on that aren't available elsewhere), and they dual boot Linux because they want to be able to hack around, learn more, and generally have fun.
Taking an interest in Linux does not automatically mean somebody will abandon Windows the next morning.
Kinda hard to understand how he thought this would help his cause. When he's caught, he'll probably end up in pound-me-up-the-ass prison rather than the minimum security gig he had before.
something more along the original vision of the BBC and the CBC
The problem I see with a bureaucracy of any kind when dealing with creative arts is that it is not scalable and cannot rapidly react to new material. People get in the way.
I can't speak to the BBC, but in Canada agencies like the CBC and Telefilm Canada are pretty daring in what they'll tackle. The view from my living room sofa is anything but bureaucratic when I see these folks involved with the film Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner at one end of the spectrum all the way to Webdreams or Trailer Park Boys at the other end of the spectrum.
Publically funded arts can most certainly be done right - especially in places that don't share America's outright hostility to anything not driven by the free market.
I don't know what the exact shape of the web will be when we find the right answer.
Here's my guess: the web, TV, movies, games, and other forms of "entertainment" will be riddled with product placements, product storylines, and an overall commercialized experience. The line between "feature" and "commercial" will blur and blur until it ceases to exist. Sometimes this will be well done and the entertainment value will be preserved. Sometimes it will come off as transparent shit, exposing both the "feature" and the advertised product(s) to public ridicule or boycott.
I was about to post the exact same thing (minus the part about the Jew conspiracy)... a visit to anascape.com shows that the domain is for sale, and google turns up nothing at all on this company besides reference to lawsuits they've launched. So basically it seems this company invents nothing, designs nothing, manufactures nothing, and sells nothing.
In a giant floating city on Venus,
there's an aura of sexual free-ness.
With no effort or money,
you can orgy with honey,
or have midgets paint poems on your penis.
The problem is the relative brightness of the parent star. Even if (as in this case) it's a red dwarf, it's still about a bazillion times brighter than the reflected light reaching earth from the planet itself.
To the many, many people who've taken the time to correct my shitty assumption, berate me, mod me down, and otherwise point out that in my rush to post I forgot to turn my brain on... I hang my head in shame. I will now seek out my grade 10 physics teacher (or locate his grave as the case may be) and confess my sins.
And of course, for the angriest among you, this post presents another opportunity to mod me down.
These points, among others, are made by authors Ward and Brownlee in the book Rare Earth
Long story short, complex life as it exists here on Earth is the result of a long series of very happy accidents. The odds against it happening elsewhere are... well... astronomical.
I think that in planetary terms we can safely assume 5x mass will create an environment of roughly 5g... maybe give or take 20%. Enough to ensure that the simple act of getting out of bed would be a gruelling ordeal.
Another problem I noticed after actually reading TFA:
Gliese 581 c, orbits at one fourteenth the distance between Earth and the sun. But the red dwarf is 50 times cooler than the sun. The group estimates that the planet would experience temperatures in the zero-to-40-degree-Celsius (32-to-104-Fahrenheit) range.
It is my understanding that red dwarfs, while generating reduced heat and light output, produce solar flares that are almost as intense as those produced by a G class star. So if a planet exists in the habitable zone it is also exposed to periodic sterilizing blasts of charged particles.
Maybe if we're lucky the planet happens to have a really strong magnetic field... then we just have the crushing g load to contend with.
Slashdot Mirror
any rational individual would choose the alternative with the lower cost
There are a lot of different ways to define cost. Judging something strictly by monetary cost is always a big (though tempting) mistake.
In related news, there are rumours, just recently denied, that Nvidia is exiting the chipset business.
how do we get them concert tickets for free?
Generally, you just have to be caller number 7 and answer some stupid question.
People want *everything* for free.
I don't want everything for free. In fact I have very little pirated content in my music collection - there is some, but it's gotta be less than 10%, maybe less than 5%.
Much of my music collection was bought years ago, before downloading MP3 was even an option. These days, I only really "follow" a handful of mainstream artists and buy CDs when new ones are released. I do this only grudgingly, especially in those cases where the artist releases under a RIAA label. My preference is to buy indie music, preferably at a gig where the artist is playing and I can literally hand cash to them and tell them how much I enjoyed the show.
In general, my response to the RIAAs tactics - even though I'm not a "downloader" - has been to shun them and the bands they work with.
You know what they say ... once you've had a backhoe, you never go back yo.
Well there sure must be something appealing about the way the Republicans do politics, because the Conservative Party of Canada (who currently hold a minority government) seem hellbent on replicating it north of the border.
A dead enemy isn't a very effective manipulative tool;
They don't need an enemy, they just need a distraction. Enemies (better still, the shadowy faraway kind who wear scary headgear) can be manufactured at will.
Those sound like real and very painful problems, not something you can just meditate away. Learning to live in the present is good and fine, but the pain and damage to your body are real. I mean, geesh, reading that even breathing hurts, doesn't sound like fun at all.
But if she's under constant medical supervision, then the "damage to your body" part of the equation has been removed from her control. She is voluntarily taking part in a controlled experiment and has chosen to place her long term welfare in the hands of others.
Under these circumstances, her very best bet is to "meditate the pain away" (something that is entirely possible), because lying there agonizing about it will only make it worse, compounding psychological pain on top of physical pain.
Anyway, again, you don't want to be at peace with whatever happens to you, in a passive way. You want to react to it when and where it happens.
If she believes she is harming herself and it's not worth $5k/month then she should end the experiment. Otherwise, she should be at peace with whatever happens to her, in a passive way. Reacting will compound her misery.
Why was this modded Offtopic?
I'm not at all surprised to read about your experience. Similar research was done in which patients had far worse complaints.
Sorry, I just don't see any version of reality in which you share a bed with Nikol Kidman. Best that can probably be arranged is something more along the lines of Nico Bellic. Interested?
I'm thinking meditation practice would be extremely helpful in this situation (and by extension also for long-term space travel) ... since there is nothing you can do to alter your current (sucky) situation, you just need to be at peace with it and experience it moment by moment.
As per slashdot standard methodology I didn't read TFA, but I think the difference hinges on whether these were just generic comments from some misogynist, or whether he went further and threatened to rape these women. If it's case of somebody being directly threatened with violence, then there is no reasonable expectation that your anonymity would be protected.
The US locks the phone to the carrier. You can't simply whip out the SIM and put in another like you can in Europe.
I can get just about any phone unlocked for five or ten bucks at a nearby electronics mall.
Cover everything in mirrors.
... preferably shaped like a disco ball, and also incorporating a loudspeaker system that plays a continuous loop of The Trampps "Burn baby burn, disco inferno"
Just games? There are lots of people who run windows as their primary OS (because it's what they are used to after spending 15+ years on a MS platform, or maybe because there are apps they rely on that aren't available elsewhere), and they dual boot Linux because they want to be able to hack around, learn more, and generally have fun.
Taking an interest in Linux does not automatically mean somebody will abandon Windows the next morning.
Kinda hard to understand how he thought this would help his cause. When he's caught, he'll probably end up in pound-me-up-the-ass prison rather than the minimum security gig he had before.
something more along the original vision of the BBC and the CBC
The problem I see with a bureaucracy of any kind when dealing with creative arts is that it is not scalable and cannot rapidly react to new material. People get in the way.
I can't speak to the BBC, but in Canada agencies like the CBC and Telefilm Canada are pretty daring in what they'll tackle. The view from my living room sofa is anything but bureaucratic when I see these folks involved with the film Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner at one end of the spectrum all the way to Webdreams or Trailer Park Boys at the other end of the spectrum.
Publically funded arts can most certainly be done right - especially in places that don't share America's outright hostility to anything not driven by the free market.
I don't know what the exact shape of the web will be when we find the right answer.
Here's my guess: the web, TV, movies, games, and other forms of "entertainment" will be riddled with product placements, product storylines, and an overall commercialized experience. The line between "feature" and "commercial" will blur and blur until it ceases to exist. Sometimes this will be well done and the entertainment value will be preserved. Sometimes it will come off as transparent shit, exposing both the "feature" and the advertised product(s) to public ridicule or boycott.
... but that's just my guess
I was about to post the exact same thing (minus the part about the Jew conspiracy) ... a visit to anascape.com shows that the domain is for sale, and google turns up nothing at all on this company besides reference to lawsuits they've launched. So basically it seems this company invents nothing, designs nothing, manufactures nothing, and sells nothing.
In a giant floating city on Venus,
there's an aura of sexual free-ness.
With no effort or money,
you can orgy with honey,
or have midgets paint poems on your penis.
point a big-ass telescope at it
The problem is the relative brightness of the parent star. Even if (as in this case) it's a red dwarf, it's still about a bazillion times brighter than the reflected light reaching earth from the planet itself.
To the many, many people who've taken the time to correct my shitty assumption, berate me, mod me down, and otherwise point out that in my rush to post I forgot to turn my brain on ... I hang my head in shame. I will now seek out my grade 10 physics teacher (or locate his grave as the case may be) and confess my sins.
And of course, for the angriest among you, this post presents another opportunity to mod me down.
These points, among others, are made by authors Ward and Brownlee in the book Rare Earth
Long story short, complex life as it exists here on Earth is the result of a long series of very happy accidents. The odds against it happening elsewhere are ... well ... astronomical.
I think that in planetary terms we can safely assume 5x mass will create an environment of roughly 5g ... maybe give or take 20%. Enough to ensure that the simple act of getting out of bed would be a gruelling ordeal.
Another problem I noticed after actually reading TFA:
Gliese 581 c, orbits at one fourteenth the distance between Earth and the sun. But the red dwarf is 50 times cooler than the sun. The group estimates that the planet would experience temperatures in the zero-to-40-degree-Celsius (32-to-104-Fahrenheit) range.
It is my understanding that red dwarfs, while generating reduced heat and light output, produce solar flares that are almost as intense as those produced by a G class star. So if a planet exists in the habitable zone it is also exposed to periodic sterilizing blasts of charged particles.
Maybe if we're lucky the planet happens to have a really strong magnetic field ... then we just have the crushing g load to contend with.