I would argue those are a little short- I would be happy with 24 years, or hell, anything shy of 50 years (maybe a 25 year with one extension if the author, and not his estate/corporate interest, desires). Software, on the other hand, should probably only have a 10 year copyright, at least until the pace of technological advance slows down massively. At that point we could revisit software copyrights...
Hmmm- I'm sympathetic to your point, particularly due to the fact that you presented your comments in a rational, clear way, unlike RIAA and ASCAP usually does. However, I think your post more clearly indicates how ASCAP fails you far more than it helps you- if you've had works broadcast hundreds of times on networks as established as the Discovery channel, and ASCAP can't realize it, what good are they doing?
In this day and age, why the hell don't they have a website where you can plunk in a time that your stuff got played so they can turn their dogs on the right people- the ones truly publicly performing as opposed to the bar owner in an earlier post who only hired acts who played public domain tunes only?
ASCAP clearly is not looking out for the little producer of content, and seems to only target the little business owner for their shakedowns. Sounds a lot like a racket to me...
We don't know all the details yet, but I won't be surprised when it turns out that the makers did licence everything appropriately. The problem here is probably going to end up being the ASCAP representative acting just like "RIAA sending SWAT teams to take down grandmothers." Except in this case, it will be ASCAP instead of RIAA, and "teams of lawyers" instead of the SWAT.
So in 2005, when they introduced the Daylight Saving Time changes, they did so to save approximately 15-20,000 barrels of oil a year (if I recall correctly). This engine, if made mandatory, would save around 30 times as much? Well get legislating, American Politicos!
Remember that when the rotor hits the ground, it has considerable angular velocity (barring a complete transmission failure and lockup, which is far far more likely to asplode the transmission than halt the main rotor), so many (most?) of those flying bits you're referring to are a danger to others at the crash site, not the occupants of the craft.
Autorotation works just fine during a tail rotor failure. In my two years working for a helicopter company (which happened to be a unusually bad couple years for crashes in our area), the causes of crashes were mostly main rotor blade touches (ie, smacking the rotor into something, losing lift, and rolling down the mountain), or long line incidents (water bucket caught in tree, with predictable "inverted pendulum" motion).
I agree with the parent post- ePub is a dog's breakfast when it comes to anything other than a novel; it has all of the "advantages" of HTML- no real formatting, no real way to keep tables, charts, pictures etc. in position with their text.
I work for a publisher who does a lot of nature guides, bird books, and the like, and the current state of ePub is almost completely useless for us. If we want to take a Bird Guide and convert it to ePub, we end up almost completely hand tweaking it to fit each individual device, application, and screen size. The parallels to coding web pages for IE5, IE6 IE5 on Mac, etc. are staggering- it's like the industry didn't learn a single lesson from the development of the web.
Currently, we feel that device specific apps are just about the only* possible way for us to publish our content electronically, and that obviously raises the cost of development considerably. If the reflowable PDF format the parent mentioned helps, but we almost need a "fat" PDF that has tweaks for different screen resolutions embedded directly in it...
Or you might run into one of those morons that insist on going 10-20km/h under the limit, right up until the moment you try to pass, at which time they'll gladly go 10-20 over* out of spite / stupidity / machoism / whatever. It's just about the most aggravating thing I run into while driving...
Not to mention chiralism- even if life rising independently settling on RNA/DNA for it's encoding, if left or right handed chiralism is equally likely, it's 50% likely to be completely different than ours. To the point where we could not process a single amino acid if we ate those alien critters...
It's not what I would normally consider a vaccine- I was going to post that it wasn't a vaccine at all, but a quick examination of the definition of the word indicates I was about to firmly place foot-in-mouth had I done so.
A fantastic breakthrough if it works, though. I have been hearing about potential strategies to enable a cancer victim's own immune system to attack tumors, but this is the furthest along that I've heard of. Good jorb!
There was a scene on Babylon 5 where Sheridan and Garibaldi are killing time in a public restroom waiting for someone to leave (yeah, a Sci-Fi show that admits people go to the bathroom!), and Sheridan is shown "washing" his hands under what appears to be a disinfecting device...
Funny how you can often find references in fiction to things that later become reality...
...and I think you'd have to attribute Desktop Publishing to Aldus (Pagemaker), Adobe (Postscript), and Canon (Laserprinting)- though it was Apple that swept all those goodies together in one pile.
Just before reading your post, I was commenting to coworkers about how the lack of intelligence in an average internet post, and then had to read yours aloud to them as an exact example of the idiocy of the posts in this thread.
Stop fear-mongering. Diverting 1/50th to 1/100th (an estimate on my part) of the mouth of a river might (note the MIGHT) have a small impact on a small area of that mouth. Possibly. Certainly worth studying, and certainly worth being careful about- since you are right, often times there are unexpected consequences of human actions.
But to say that "every animal moving in or out of that river entry, or living there, will be completely fucked" is the most ridiculous hyperbole that makes any intelligent person immediately stop listening to any point you have. I repeat: You are an idiot. You do your entire cause and the environmental cause in general a massive disservice when you completely overstate your point. For the forty plus years I've been on this planet, I've heard non-stop about how "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE IN TEN YEARS UNLESS WE DO (insert environmental issue here)". Guess what? We're still here. Recently I heard an "expert" interviewed who said that (and I hope I get the quote correctly, but the gist is accurate): "if CO2 levels rise above 350ppm ALL LIFE ON EARTH WILL CEASE, and we're at 375ppm already!"
You know, I read the original post and thought almost exactly the same thing you did- the hyperbole was astonishing in that post, and clearly indicated that the poster did not RTFA. However, it is too early in the morning, I haven't had enough coffee yet to work up enough energy to reply to them.
I do have enough energy though to say, "Yeah! What he* said!"
You might consider Final Fantasy XI (or, if you prefer, you could wait for XIV next year). I've been in it off and on for 5-6 years and I'm still uncovering backstory, plot lines, and colour that I never expected- and much of this is content that has been there for the entire time.
Yes, it is an MMO. Yes, it can be a repetitive grind. Yes, I enjoy the game.:P
I agree with this- TFA read as a "RPG's are time sinks and reinforce a behaviour I don't like and therefore harm THE CHILDREN". It was oversimplified and kind of insulting. Personally, I cannot stand* Sudoku puzzles, yet a good crossword or, as the poster above me stated, Portal are great- I had to solve the challenge puzzles in Portal. And yet, I *gasp* really enjoy a good RPG as well, which often have a time and* a skill component.
Perhaps some (many?) games and people don't fall into neat "A or B" boxes?
I'm curious as to what would be the "wrong" kind of water heater in this scenario- I'd think that taking cooler showers, therefore using less hot water, would have a positive environmental impact regardless of the technology. Gas, electric, on demand- all of them would benefit from a reduction of use...
A quick search shows that Sony's Bravia 52" TVs (quick and dirty comparison, I know) draw between 320-180W max rated draw), for a slightly larger screen.
So, no, LCD's don't consume anywhere near the power your plasma does.
And the 80's propaganda was pulled out of the 70's propaganda, which was pulled from the 60's propaganda, which was pulled... you see where I'm going with this.
As far as anyone can tell, there has never* been any scientific or rational reason marijuana should be illegal. Oh, apart from keeping the lawyers, cops, judges and the privately run prisons busy...
I've heard this ridiculous claim that marijuana is "more potent" for years now- if it were getting that much more potent for 50 years, it'd be over 150% THC by now!
I think what has happened is that possibly it has been bred to have on average 1-5% more THC overall, or they have realized that strain A generally produces more potent smoke than strain B, so it gets grown more often. But the major effect is that unlike the 1940's and 1950's, they don't take the entire plant, grind it up, and sell it all- now they harvest only the flowering buds, where the THC is concentrated, and you aren't getting the "filler" of branches, stems, fan leaves, etc.
So the marijuana isn't really all that more potent, it's just that it's not "cut" with as much garbage as it used to be. This is a good thing, since it means that you'll actually smoke less for the same effect, thus minimizing side effects of the act of smoking.
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I would argue those are a little short- I would be happy with 24 years, or hell, anything shy of 50 years (maybe a 25 year with one extension if the author, and not his estate/corporate interest, desires). Software, on the other hand, should probably only have a 10 year copyright, at least until the pace of technological advance slows down massively. At that point we could revisit software copyrights...
Hmmm- I'm sympathetic to your point, particularly due to the fact that you presented your comments in a rational, clear way, unlike RIAA and ASCAP usually does. However, I think your post more clearly indicates how ASCAP fails you far more than it helps you- if you've had works broadcast hundreds of times on networks as established as the Discovery channel, and ASCAP can't realize it, what good are they doing?
In this day and age, why the hell don't they have a website where you can plunk in a time that your stuff got played so they can turn their dogs on the right people- the ones truly publicly performing as opposed to the bar owner in an earlier post who only hired acts who played public domain tunes only?
ASCAP clearly is not looking out for the little producer of content, and seems to only target the little business owner for their shakedowns. Sounds a lot like a racket to me...
We don't know all the details yet, but I won't be surprised when it turns out that the makers did licence everything appropriately. The problem here is probably going to end up being the ASCAP representative acting just like "RIAA sending SWAT teams to take down grandmothers." Except in this case, it will be ASCAP instead of RIAA, and "teams of lawyers" instead of the SWAT.
Alcor, the star in question, is the middle star on the "handle" of the dipper.
So in 2005, when they introduced the Daylight Saving Time changes, they did so to save approximately 15-20,000 barrels of oil a year (if I recall correctly). This engine, if made mandatory, would save around 30 times as much? Well get legislating, American Politicos!
Remember that when the rotor hits the ground, it has considerable angular velocity (barring a complete transmission failure and lockup, which is far far more likely to asplode the transmission than halt the main rotor), so many (most?) of those flying bits you're referring to are a danger to others at the crash site, not the occupants of the craft.
Autorotation works just fine during a tail rotor failure. In my two years working for a helicopter company (which happened to be a unusually bad couple years for crashes in our area), the causes of crashes were mostly main rotor blade touches (ie, smacking the rotor into something, losing lift, and rolling down the mountain), or long line incidents (water bucket caught in tree, with predictable "inverted pendulum" motion).
I agree with the parent post- ePub is a dog's breakfast when it comes to anything other than a novel; it has all of the "advantages" of HTML- no real formatting, no real way to keep tables, charts, pictures etc. in position with their text.
I work for a publisher who does a lot of nature guides, bird books, and the like, and the current state of ePub is almost completely useless for us. If we want to take a Bird Guide and convert it to ePub, we end up almost completely hand tweaking it to fit each individual device, application, and screen size. The parallels to coding web pages for IE5, IE6 IE5 on Mac, etc. are staggering- it's like the industry didn't learn a single lesson from the development of the web.
Currently, we feel that device specific apps are just about the only* possible way for us to publish our content electronically, and that obviously raises the cost of development considerably. If the reflowable PDF format the parent mentioned helps, but we almost need a "fat" PDF that has tweaks for different screen resolutions embedded directly in it...
Or you might run into one of those morons that insist on going 10-20km/h under the limit, right up until the moment you try to pass, at which time they'll gladly go 10-20 over* out of spite / stupidity / machoism / whatever. It's just about the most aggravating thing I run into while driving...
Ugh the intarwebs are ruining my reading comprehension- I could have sworn you wrote "Especially when it's spelled rite in the title." /sigh
The oxygen turbopump is roughly 2x2x4 feet, and in that space generates and consumes the entire power output of the Titanic in that 16 cubic feet...
Not to mention chiralism- even if life rising independently settling on RNA/DNA for it's encoding, if left or right handed chiralism is equally likely, it's 50% likely to be completely different than ours. To the point where we could not process a single amino acid if we ate those alien critters...
Well, most of them are extremely safe bombs.
As bombs, virtually all chemically powered vehicles are complete failures...
Gerald Bull, is that you? No, wait, he's dead...
Gerald Bull's ghost, is that you?
It's not what I would normally consider a vaccine- I was going to post that it wasn't a vaccine at all, but a quick examination of the definition of the word indicates I was about to firmly place foot-in-mouth had I done so.
A fantastic breakthrough if it works, though. I have been hearing about potential strategies to enable a cancer victim's own immune system to attack tumors, but this is the furthest along that I've heard of. Good jorb!
There was a scene on Babylon 5 where Sheridan and Garibaldi are killing time in a public restroom waiting for someone to leave (yeah, a Sci-Fi show that admits people go to the bathroom!), and Sheridan is shown "washing" his hands under what appears to be a disinfecting device...
Funny how you can often find references in fiction to things that later become reality...
...and I think you'd have to attribute Desktop Publishing to Aldus (Pagemaker), Adobe (Postscript), and Canon (Laserprinting)- though it was Apple that swept all those goodies together in one pile.
You sir, are an eco-idiot.
Just before reading your post, I was commenting to coworkers about how the lack of intelligence in an average internet post, and then had to read yours aloud to them as an exact example of the idiocy of the posts in this thread.
Stop fear-mongering. Diverting 1/50th to 1/100th (an estimate on my part) of the mouth of a river might (note the MIGHT) have a small impact on a small area of that mouth. Possibly. Certainly worth studying, and certainly worth being careful about- since you are right, often times there are unexpected consequences of human actions.
But to say that "every animal moving in or out of that river entry, or living there, will be completely fucked" is the most ridiculous hyperbole that makes any intelligent person immediately stop listening to any point you have. I repeat: You are an idiot. You do your entire cause and the environmental cause in general a massive disservice when you completely overstate your point. For the forty plus years I've been on this planet, I've heard non-stop about how "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE IN TEN YEARS UNLESS WE DO (insert environmental issue here)". Guess what? We're still here. Recently I heard an "expert" interviewed who said that (and I hope I get the quote correctly, but the gist is accurate): "if CO2 levels rise above 350ppm ALL LIFE ON EARTH WILL CEASE, and we're at 375ppm already!"
/facepalm
You know, I read the original post and thought almost exactly the same thing you did- the hyperbole was astonishing in that post, and clearly indicated that the poster did not RTFA. However, it is too early in the morning, I haven't had enough coffee yet to work up enough energy to reply to them.
I do have enough energy though to say, "Yeah! What he* said!"
You might consider Final Fantasy XI (or, if you prefer, you could wait for XIV next year). I've been in it off and on for 5-6 years and I'm still uncovering backstory, plot lines, and colour that I never expected- and much of this is content that has been there for the entire time.
:P
Yes, it is an MMO. Yes, it can be a repetitive grind. Yes, I enjoy the game.
I agree with this- TFA read as a "RPG's are time sinks and reinforce a behaviour I don't like and therefore harm THE CHILDREN". It was oversimplified and kind of insulting. Personally, I cannot stand* Sudoku puzzles, yet a good crossword or, as the poster above me stated, Portal are great- I had to solve the challenge puzzles in Portal. And yet, I *gasp* really enjoy a good RPG as well, which often have a time and* a skill component.
Perhaps some (many?) games and people don't fall into neat "A or B" boxes?
I'm curious as to what would be the "wrong" kind of water heater in this scenario- I'd think that taking cooler showers, therefore using less hot water, would have a positive environmental impact regardless of the technology. Gas, electric, on demand- all of them would benefit from a reduction of use...
A quick search shows that Sony's Bravia 52" TVs (quick and dirty comparison, I know) draw between 320-180W max rated draw), for a slightly larger screen.
So, no, LCD's don't consume anywhere near the power your plasma does.
And the 80's propaganda was pulled out of the 70's propaganda, which was pulled from the 60's propaganda, which was pulled... you see where I'm going with this.
As far as anyone can tell, there has never* been any scientific or rational reason marijuana should be illegal. Oh, apart from keeping the lawyers, cops, judges and the privately run prisons busy...
I've heard this ridiculous claim that marijuana is "more potent" for years now- if it were getting that much more potent for 50 years, it'd be over 150% THC by now!
I think what has happened is that possibly it has been bred to have on average 1-5% more THC overall, or they have realized that strain A generally produces more potent smoke than strain B, so it gets grown more often. But the major effect is that unlike the 1940's and 1950's, they don't take the entire plant, grind it up, and sell it all- now they harvest only the flowering buds, where the THC is concentrated, and you aren't getting the "filler" of branches, stems, fan leaves, etc.
So the marijuana isn't really all that more potent, it's just that it's not "cut" with as much garbage as it used to be. This is a good thing, since it means that you'll actually smoke less for the same effect, thus minimizing side effects of the act of smoking.