He's arguing that it may become available if the publishers make one minor change (similar to changing blood from red to green).
Then that version is legal. It doesn't make the original (international) version legal. If you parallel import an unmodified version, you have imported refused classification material.
(I'm not telling people not to import RC games. Or even pirate them. Go nuts. But people who pirate games know that it's against local copyright laws, and are willing to risk the low chance of detection. Telling people that our Parallel Importation laws somehow magically bypass our classification laws is misleading and wrong.)
You can only parallel import legally available material. If it's RC, then it's "Importation of refused classification material". Same as child pornography.
"Banning" means it was "refused classification" by OFLC. So buying a version online is "Importation and possession of refused-classification material." P2P pirating it would also add "Distribution of refused-classification material." And that puts it in the same category as importation, possession and distribution of child pornography. And this remains the case even if the OFLC later reclassifies it after the distributor re-submits a modified version.
(Although a court is likely to take the benign nature of the material into account during sentencing, but not during conviction.)
Firefox made that the default somewhere back in version 4. Eliminating the menu bar was version 3.something. (Much to the horror of people too dumb to right-click on empty space and tick/untick those changes.) Somewhere around then they eliminated the add-on bar at the bottom of the screen. You can even turn off the Navigation bar, which leaves you with the tabs-on-title bar and the render-window and that's it. How much more space can you get?
(However, I don't use Linux, so you may be talking about something OS specific.)
and even those that are Apple users because its a style thing, similar to wearing all the right clothes and driving the right car and shopping in the right places
That's exactly who I was referring to.
(Those and people who rise to any perceived Apple criticism.:)
I just don't get why this is Apple's fault. There are plenty of companies that outsource to Foxconn
When you see some obnoxious eco-warrior driving a Prius, you are allowed to mock them and point out that they could have bought a lighter, more fuel efficient car and paid a third less. If you see some smug urban prat driving an SUV soft-roader you can likewise point and laugh. Apple users are "Apple Users", not just people who use Apple. They aren't buying the product, they are buying the image and mythology. Mocking that mythology, and dirtying that image, is not just fair game, it's almost mandatory. Notice how quickly and automatically you bit at the bait? That's why you're fair game.
Or how about teaching your kids that you have to be careful with some things, or actually supervising them?
One of these tends to preclude the other. Kids need a certain amount of unsupervised, unstructured play. They need to break things they care about. They need to hurt themselves. They need to be nipped by a dog, burn their fingers, bang their head, and fall over... a lot. A small percentage of them will be seriously hurt, even killed, because of that. But if you reduce the percentage of serious harm too low, you also reduce the development of the child, causing a different kind of harm.
(There's apparently a saying in Norway, "a childhood without a broken arm is a wasted childhood.")
The answer to "Kid got hurt" isn't "Hey Parents, stop being so lazy and watch your fucking kids", the answer is, 'Yeah, that happens."
A) There's a difference between the way society views someone being murdered and someone dying in an accident If you can't see that, the topic is already much too deep for you.
B) "10 year ago" is the operative term. Time for you to let it go.
I suppose those other planets would be "the Mars" or "the Venus." I know, it's pedantic, but good grief I how I do hate that article when used in front of the name of our planet.
It's not pedantic, it's just stupid. Unlike every other planet, "earth" has secondary meanings. The definite article lets a speaker quickly assign significance to the name, "the Earth", not just "earth".
Try 1998. That's ninety eight. And no parts were used from "existing orbiting stations" (which would have been Mir.) Nothing up there is "a quarter century" old.
Even without the water. Lunar regolith also contains metallic nickel-iron shards and silicate dust. The iron can be heated up with a simple microwave emitter, which sinters the silicate into glassy rock. Thus you can turn raw regolith into blocks suitable for enclosing and protecting a habitat. AKA Space Lego.
And you can use 3d printing of the regolith to form "sand moulds". Then run some more regolith past a magnet to separate the iron, microwave or solar-heat until melty and pour into the mould. Voila, large heavy cast structural parts, no delivery required. Build an antenna tower, or a roof beam or an axle. AKA Space Meccano.
Actually, the lack of gravity could be an advantage.
Normally you have to provide supports for projected pieces, which then need to be cut away. And if you run the extruder too hot, you get slumping of the part, and not running the extruder hot limits the resolution and detail of the printing. In orbit, you won't have those problems, so you might be able to print parts you couldn't on Earth.
"Jedi" is processed as "Other Religion". Write-in religions aren't usually counted individually. For example, if the codes are 801, 802, etc for the listed religions, "Other" is 899. That's it, doesn't matter what you write, Jedi, Scientologist or Sikh, you are an 899. Only if you tick "No religion" are you separated into that category, say code 900.)
Apparently the Australian Bureau of Statistics did a partial sampling after the main processing to estimate the number of people who'd written Jedi. But this was only because of the media interest in it. (The whole thing stemmed from an email campaign that claimed if they got 10,000 write-ins, ABS was legally required to recognise Jedi as a valid religion. But this isn't true. There's no such law, not even guidelines.)
If enough people put down "Jedi" to make a difference to the "Most Australians are religious" argument, someone is going to dig up exactly what those religions are and make the argument look completely ridiculous.
Then why haven't they done that already? Most religions are pretty stupid to anyone who doesn't already believe in them, and most people who tick a mainstream religion on the Census don't actual practice it. But these stats have been used here in Australia (and apparently in the UK) by god-bothering Government Ministers and Prime Ministers to justify spending tax-payer funds on their favourite religions.
(To clarify, I don't consider the Jedi thing important. "Other religion" gets something like 0.4%. "Did not complete or inadequately defined" gets a full 11%. (Their Gods are Apathy and Poor Handwriting:) But it highlights that there's no distinction made between people who culturally identify as Catholic or Anglican or Jewish or Muslim (or Jedi) and people who actually believe and practice the religions with those names.)
you go there to be indoctrinated. [...] and I don't find anything wrong with that if people choose it for themselves, as long as they don't choose it for others.
So you weren't hectored by your teachers for saying you don't have a religion then? Loudly, in front of several gathered classes? "You have to have something! You can't be nothing! Where do your parents go to Church? Stop lying, they have to go somewhere! <pained sigh> Fine, wait here while I ring them... <implied threat>". I was really made to feel like shit. I know that a lot of the other kids weren't even remotely religious, but off they went every week. And every week I was sent to "wait in the library." Made to serve as a lesson to the others of what not to do.
I guess your school wasn't a decent educator on those two aspects, then.[...] Social Sciences class. It covered all the major religions, [...] History class. Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Norse gods were all covered
Not in primary school. RI was a primary school only phenomena when I was a grommet.
because you can figure out (with a fair degree of accuracy) what parts are most likely to fail well in advance
And for the stuff you miss, there's reprap.:)
You don't need a small number of unique materials, you need dozens of them. You can't just rely on the ability to produce small relatively simple mechanical parts (which is what 3D printing is limited to for the foreseeable future), you also need to be able to produce cables, and motors, and IC's and transformers...
What everyone criticising this program forgets is this isn't about printing every single major component that can fail. This is the 21st not 24th century. It's about all the stupid little plastic things that break easily, but randomly, and are annoying but not fatal to live without. Switch and panel covers, non-critical hose and vent fittings, clips and tie-downs, etc etc. And especially things for bespoke experiments. Things you would prefer not to stock every possible part, but where waiting for three months for a resupply (assuming it's considered important enough to get on the very next flight) will annoy the crap out of everyone.
And it's about researching new technology, and new ways of working. But god forbid NASA should sponsor research.
Worse, the foam insulation on the ET would expand ("popcorn") and break apart in a vacuum, littering surrounding space with crap.
(There's been recent improvements in insulation. One I like is two sheets separated by springy spacers, containing a partial vacuum. Inside the atmosphere, it compresses the springs but still has a near-vacuum between the layers, making it more efficient than foam. In orbit, the springs push the layers apart, creating a thermal and micro-meteorite shield. And no popcorn.)
Its not obviously cheaper than constructing equivalent modules on the ground and putting them in orbit using one or more launches.
Some work could be done on the ground. Install equipment between the tanks and the outer skin. Just needs to be connected to the tank plumbing once the tanks are purged. (Likewise, the tanks can be built with hard-points to simplify installation of internal equipment.) The extra mass reduces the official "payload", but increases the actually usable delivered payload.
I don't see the problem. Religion should be a subject you learn about in school. So much the better if Jediism and FSMism are big enough to be included.
Religious instruction is not a comparative religious class. It's Thursday afternoon "Sunday School."
Personally, I would have liked a decent comparative religion or history of mythology class. When I was young there were three options, Catholic, Church of England and generic Protestant. Each "taught" by the priest from the three respective churches in town. If your parents belonged to any other religion, or if you claimed no religion (which made my teacher very mad), you were sent to the library to sit quietly for two hours. (Still, discovered their golden-age SF collection and bam, nerd.)
More recently, the government introduced "chaplains" into public schools as untrained councillors. And since the program isn't properly funded, the program has been dominated by fundamentalist evangelicals (who, in Australia, have numbers down there with the Jedi, but with much more money.) And indeed, that outcome seems to have been the intention behind the program.
The justification for this is that "the Census shows that most Australian's are religious." Which is what the OP was talking about.
Put down a joke religion and the census processor will mark you as "Other Religion". Add this to the people who put down their cultural identity as their religion (Jewish/Catholic/etc) even though they don't practice the religion, and you have "Religion: >80%. No Religion: <20%", even though surveys by the Churches themselves put regular church attendance in Australia at about 18%. Even "Christmas & Easter" church-goers are unlikely to exceed 50%.
CS was talking about frequency compressed sounds. (AKA audio compression. Same effect as the "Loud" button on your car stereo.) It's not actually "louder", based on the technical definition of "loudness", but it sounds louder (and, as side effect, crappier.)
It doesn't justify their answer, though. If they get a lot of complaints from paying customers about ads doing this then they should punish advertisers that use audio compression by dropping their volume. Encouraging people to flick during the ads reduces the value for other advertisers.
Hardly. Not unless they are investigating a murder and this is the only way of tracing you (and it's a TV show.) The drones who handle traffic fines sure as hell aren't going to track down each and every partial plate. If they don't get a readable plate, they dump it. The resources required to track you down, get a suitable warrant to search your vehicle on private property, get enough guys to serve it (on the assumption that you'll be a drunk/belligerent idiot) would not be worth the result. Seriously, think how few outstanding warrants for unpaid traffic fines are actually executed like that?
The only risk, IMO, is if the device is visible outside the vehicle (like the example in the video) and you get pulled over on another matter and the cop is looking to "pad the bill".
(Under the old "broken window" philosophy they should track down every partial or obscured plate, on the chance that the car was used in other crimes, but these days they seem more driven by revenue maximisation.)
The reason why people are suspicious of trickle down economics is that when you're being trickled upon, the only thing you see above you is cunts and assholes.
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He's arguing that it may become available if the publishers make one minor change (similar to changing blood from red to green).
Then that version is legal. It doesn't make the original (international) version legal. If you parallel import an unmodified version, you have imported refused classification material.
(I'm not telling people not to import RC games. Or even pirate them. Go nuts. But people who pirate games know that it's against local copyright laws, and are willing to risk the low chance of detection. Telling people that our Parallel Importation laws somehow magically bypass our classification laws is misleading and wrong.)
(thank you parallel importing).
You can only parallel import legally available material. If it's RC, then it's "Importation of refused classification material". Same as child pornography.
"Banning" means it was "refused classification" by OFLC. So buying a version online is "Importation and possession of refused-classification material." P2P pirating it would also add "Distribution of refused-classification material." And that puts it in the same category as importation, possession and distribution of child pornography. And this remains the case even if the OFLC later reclassifies it after the distributor re-submits a modified version.
(Although a court is likely to take the benign nature of the material into account during sentencing, but not during conviction.)
Firefox made that the default somewhere back in version 4. Eliminating the menu bar was version 3.something. (Much to the horror of people too dumb to right-click on empty space and tick/untick those changes.) Somewhere around then they eliminated the add-on bar at the bottom of the screen. You can even turn off the Navigation bar, which leaves you with the tabs-on-title bar and the render-window and that's it. How much more space can you get?
(However, I don't use Linux, so you may be talking about something OS specific.)
and even those that are Apple users because its a style thing, similar to wearing all the right clothes and driving the right car and shopping in the right places
That's exactly who I was referring to.
(Those and people who rise to any perceived Apple criticism. :)
He took the bait.
I just don't get why this is Apple's fault. There are plenty of companies that outsource to Foxconn
When you see some obnoxious eco-warrior driving a Prius, you are allowed to mock them and point out that they could have bought a lighter, more fuel efficient car and paid a third less. If you see some smug urban prat driving an SUV soft-roader you can likewise point and laugh. Apple users are "Apple Users", not just people who use Apple. They aren't buying the product, they are buying the image and mythology. Mocking that mythology, and dirtying that image, is not just fair game, it's almost mandatory. Notice how quickly and automatically you bit at the bait? That's why you're fair game.
Or how about teaching your kids that you have to be careful with some things, or actually supervising them?
One of these tends to preclude the other. Kids need a certain amount of unsupervised, unstructured play. They need to break things they care about. They need to hurt themselves. They need to be nipped by a dog, burn their fingers, bang their head, and fall over... a lot. A small percentage of them will be seriously hurt, even killed, because of that. But if you reduce the percentage of serious harm too low, you also reduce the development of the child, causing a different kind of harm.
(There's apparently a saying in Norway, "a childhood without a broken arm is a wasted childhood.")
The answer to "Kid got hurt" isn't "Hey Parents, stop being so lazy and watch your fucking kids", the answer is, 'Yeah, that happens."
In toys? They are the toy.
Magnet set
I think this somehow makes neodymium magnets seem even cooler. They've killed children... not by poisoning them, but by magnetism alone.
Usually.
A) There's a difference between the way society views someone being murdered and someone dying in an accident If you can't see that, the topic is already much too deep for you.
B) "10 year ago" is the operative term. Time for you to let it go.
I suppose those other planets would be "the Mars" or "the Venus." I know, it's pedantic, but good grief I how I do hate that article when used in front of the name of our planet.
It's not pedantic, it's just stupid. Unlike every other planet, "earth" has secondary meanings. The definite article lets a speaker quickly assign significance to the name, "the Earth", not just "earth".
Try 1998. That's ninety eight. And no parts were used from "existing orbiting stations" (which would have been Mir.) Nothing up there is "a quarter century" old.
Did you read the article you linked to?
Even without the water. Lunar regolith also contains metallic nickel-iron shards and silicate dust. The iron can be heated up with a simple microwave emitter, which sinters the silicate into glassy rock. Thus you can turn raw regolith into blocks suitable for enclosing and protecting a habitat. AKA Space Lego.
And you can use 3d printing of the regolith to form "sand moulds". Then run some more regolith past a magnet to separate the iron, microwave or solar-heat until melty and pour into the mould. Voila, large heavy cast structural parts, no delivery required. Build an antenna tower, or a roof beam or an axle. AKA Space Meccano.
Actually, the lack of gravity could be an advantage.
Normally you have to provide supports for projected pieces, which then need to be cut away. And if you run the extruder too hot, you get slumping of the part, and not running the extruder hot limits the resolution and detail of the printing. In orbit, you won't have those problems, so you might be able to print parts you couldn't on Earth.
"Jedi" is processed as "Other Religion". Write-in religions aren't usually counted individually. For example, if the codes are 801, 802, etc for the listed religions, "Other" is 899. That's it, doesn't matter what you write, Jedi, Scientologist or Sikh, you are an 899. Only if you tick "No religion" are you separated into that category, say code 900.)
Apparently the Australian Bureau of Statistics did a partial sampling after the main processing to estimate the number of people who'd written Jedi. But this was only because of the media interest in it. (The whole thing stemmed from an email campaign that claimed if they got 10,000 write-ins, ABS was legally required to recognise Jedi as a valid religion. But this isn't true. There's no such law, not even guidelines.)
If enough people put down "Jedi" to make a difference to the "Most Australians are religious" argument, someone is going to dig up exactly what those religions are and make the argument look completely ridiculous.
Then why haven't they done that already? Most religions are pretty stupid to anyone who doesn't already believe in them, and most people who tick a mainstream religion on the Census don't actual practice it. But these stats have been used here in Australia (and apparently in the UK) by god-bothering Government Ministers and Prime Ministers to justify spending tax-payer funds on their favourite religions.
(To clarify, I don't consider the Jedi thing important. "Other religion" gets something like 0.4%. "Did not complete or inadequately defined" gets a full 11%. (Their Gods are Apathy and Poor Handwriting :) But it highlights that there's no distinction made between people who culturally identify as Catholic or Anglican or Jewish or Muslim (or Jedi) and people who actually believe and practice the religions with those names.)
you go there to be indoctrinated. [...] and I don't find anything wrong with that if people choose it for themselves, as long as they don't choose it for others.
So you weren't hectored by your teachers for saying you don't have a religion then? Loudly, in front of several gathered classes? "You have to have something! You can't be nothing! Where do your parents go to Church? Stop lying, they have to go somewhere! <pained sigh> Fine, wait here while I ring them... <implied threat>". I was really made to feel like shit. I know that a lot of the other kids weren't even remotely religious, but off they went every week. And every week I was sent to "wait in the library." Made to serve as a lesson to the others of what not to do.
I guess your school wasn't a decent educator on those two aspects, then.[...] Social Sciences class. It covered all the major religions, [...] History class. Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Norse gods were all covered
Not in primary school. RI was a primary school only phenomena when I was a grommet.
because you can figure out (with a fair degree of accuracy) what parts are most likely to fail well in advance
And for the stuff you miss, there's reprap. :)
You don't need a small number of unique materials, you need dozens of them. You can't just rely on the ability to produce small relatively simple mechanical parts (which is what 3D printing is limited to for the foreseeable future), you also need to be able to produce cables, and motors, and IC's and transformers...
What everyone criticising this program forgets is this isn't about printing every single major component that can fail. This is the 21st not 24th century. It's about all the stupid little plastic things that break easily, but randomly, and are annoying but not fatal to live without. Switch and panel covers, non-critical hose and vent fittings, clips and tie-downs, etc etc. And especially things for bespoke experiments. Things you would prefer not to stock every possible part, but where waiting for three months for a resupply (assuming it's considered important enough to get on the very next flight) will annoy the crap out of everyone.
And it's about researching new technology, and new ways of working. But god forbid NASA should sponsor research.
Third picture in TFA.
Worse, the foam insulation on the ET would expand ("popcorn") and break apart in a vacuum, littering surrounding space with crap.
(There's been recent improvements in insulation. One I like is two sheets separated by springy spacers, containing a partial vacuum. Inside the atmosphere, it compresses the springs but still has a near-vacuum between the layers, making it more efficient than foam. In orbit, the springs push the layers apart, creating a thermal and micro-meteorite shield. And no popcorn.)
Its not obviously cheaper than constructing equivalent modules on the ground and putting them in orbit using one or more launches.
Some work could be done on the ground. Install equipment between the tanks and the outer skin. Just needs to be connected to the tank plumbing once the tanks are purged. (Likewise, the tanks can be built with hard-points to simplify installation of internal equipment.) The extra mass reduces the official "payload", but increases the actually usable delivered payload.
I don't see the problem. Religion should be a subject you learn about in school. So much the better if Jediism and FSMism are big enough to be included.
Religious instruction is not a comparative religious class. It's Thursday afternoon "Sunday School."
Personally, I would have liked a decent comparative religion or history of mythology class. When I was young there were three options, Catholic, Church of England and generic Protestant. Each "taught" by the priest from the three respective churches in town. If your parents belonged to any other religion, or if you claimed no religion (which made my teacher very mad), you were sent to the library to sit quietly for two hours. (Still, discovered their golden-age SF collection and bam, nerd.)
More recently, the government introduced "chaplains" into public schools as untrained councillors. And since the program isn't properly funded, the program has been dominated by fundamentalist evangelicals (who, in Australia, have numbers down there with the Jedi, but with much more money.) And indeed, that outcome seems to have been the intention behind the program.
The justification for this is that "the Census shows that most Australian's are religious." Which is what the OP was talking about.
Put down a joke religion and the census processor will mark you as "Other Religion". Add this to the people who put down their cultural identity as their religion (Jewish/Catholic/etc) even though they don't practice the religion, and you have "Religion: >80%. No Religion: <20%", even though surveys by the Churches themselves put regular church attendance in Australia at about 18%. Even "Christmas & Easter" church-goers are unlikely to exceed 50%.
CS was talking about frequency compressed sounds. (AKA audio compression. Same effect as the "Loud" button on your car stereo.) It's not actually "louder", based on the technical definition of "loudness", but it sounds louder (and, as side effect, crappier.)
(See also "the loudness wars." Explains the basic science behind it.)
It doesn't justify their answer, though. If they get a lot of complaints from paying customers about ads doing this then they should punish advertisers that use audio compression by dropping their volume. Encouraging people to flick during the ads reduces the value for other advertisers.
Hardly. Not unless they are investigating a murder and this is the only way of tracing you (and it's a TV show.) The drones who handle traffic fines sure as hell aren't going to track down each and every partial plate. If they don't get a readable plate, they dump it. The resources required to track you down, get a suitable warrant to search your vehicle on private property, get enough guys to serve it (on the assumption that you'll be a drunk/belligerent idiot) would not be worth the result. Seriously, think how few outstanding warrants for unpaid traffic fines are actually executed like that?
The only risk, IMO, is if the device is visible outside the vehicle (like the example in the video) and you get pulled over on another matter and the cop is looking to "pad the bill".
(Under the old "broken window" philosophy they should track down every partial or obscured plate, on the chance that the car was used in other crimes, but these days they seem more driven by revenue maximisation.)
The reason why people are suspicious of trickle down economics is that when you're being trickled upon, the only thing you see above you is cunts and assholes.