yup, you would volunteer. but when your spacecraft blows up, your family will sue the nasa for a bajillion dollars. this is the reason manned spaceflight is so expensive: lawsuits, where the specific amount of compensation for a life lost is not fixed. it can be anything from a million to the entire annual nasa budget.
this is probably the closest to a solution i've ever seen. it might actually work! lets say an artist makes his album, and the total cost came out to be $60k, including the time (eg, if it took a year to make, and the artist considers 60k to be reasonable compensation for a year's work). then add some amount to this 'cost'. say 15%. so start a kickstarter for $68k, give every contributor a copy of the album, and complete rights to distribute it any way they want. even commercially.
slightly offtopic here. i usually try to guess how someone could make a particular spelling or grammatical error. one extremely common mistake is this:
This is where mod points would of come in handy.
the word 'of' has absolutely nothing to do with the correct word to be used 'have'. then why do so many people make the same mistake? i don't have any problem with wrong grammar, but it just makes me nervous if i can't find a nice explanation ):
i don't understand your complaint regarding facebook. you can choose not to friend people, and you can even choose to not see updates from friends who keep posting stupid crap. facebook is as bad and as good as you can make it.
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Bye ACTA, Hello CETA
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i'm not anti-company or anti-profit. i'm just stating the reality, generic drugs will be made. regardless of legality. so it does not make sense to criminalize it. as for a solution that is fair to everyone, i don't know any such solution. either we have to start serious r&d or you guys will take a stand and decide to block all medicines from export.
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What biotech company is going to invest hundreds of millions of dollarsresearching a new drug if it can be copied by the next company cheaply.
the problem is that people here (india), and many other countries simply can't pay the same prices for life-saving drugs as you guys, without going bankrupt. so, we will copy the drug and sell it close to zero profit, regardless of whatever international treaty is passed. regardless of it being illegal or legal. so it makes no sense to criminalize it.
Re:Ok, can the charade and let's get over with it.
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and lets face it, how bad can acta/ceta be? i mean, piratebay will still work, right? they'll figure out a way. and as far as generic drugs are concerned, my government has been very open about not following any patents and allowing all sorts of cheaper versions, regardless of what others try to force.
and its a good thing. stupid illiterate people ranting about stuff they don't understand is never good. seriously, people here have made entire careers out of protesting random new laws, without valuating the pros and cons. they don't do anything, just leech of the ignorance of the public.
i've always preferred google reader to igoogle and any other feed reader out there (online or offline). i'm really scared that google will kill it too i sometime. seems like they are going to reduce everything to g+. is there any other feed reader that is as good?
this. i can't understand why people modded this as flamebait. grub 1 was good, nobody needed a dumbed down grub2, fucking up compatibility and removing features.
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yup, you would volunteer. but when your spacecraft blows up, your family will sue the nasa for a bajillion dollars. this is the reason manned spaceflight is so expensive: lawsuits, where the specific amount of compensation for a life lost is not fixed. it can be anything from a million to the entire annual nasa budget.
i suppose they might bring back all six. walking around ain't that difficult on the moon!
fuck the pedestrians/cyclists. why don't they buy a car?
he's referring to virgin galactic, i suppose.
this is probably the closest to a solution i've ever seen. it might actually work! lets say an artist makes his album, and the total cost came out to be $60k, including the time (eg, if it took a year to make, and the artist considers 60k to be reasonable compensation for a year's work). then add some amount to this 'cost'. say 15%. so start a kickstarter for $68k, give every contributor a copy of the album, and complete rights to distribute it any way they want. even commercially.
slightly offtopic here. i usually try to guess how someone could make a particular spelling or grammatical error. one extremely common mistake is this:
This is where mod points would of come in handy.
the word 'of' has absolutely nothing to do with the correct word to be used 'have'. then why do so many people make the same mistake? i don't have any problem with wrong grammar, but it just makes me nervous if i can't find a nice explanation ):
google's prototype priuses don't depend on google maps. they have this ultra futuristic laser rotating thing on top.
i don't understand your complaint regarding facebook. you can choose not to friend people, and you can even choose to not see updates from friends who keep posting stupid crap. facebook is as bad and as good as you can make it.
i'm not anti-company or anti-profit. i'm just stating the reality, generic drugs will be made. regardless of legality. so it does not make sense to criminalize it. as for a solution that is fair to everyone, i don't know any such solution. either we have to start serious r&d or you guys will take a stand and decide to block all medicines from export.
What biotech company is going to invest hundreds of millions of dollarsresearching a new drug if it can be copied by the next company cheaply.
the problem is that people here (india), and many other countries simply can't pay the same prices for life-saving drugs as you guys, without going bankrupt. so, we will copy the drug and sell it close to zero profit, regardless of whatever international treaty is passed. regardless of it being illegal or legal. so it makes no sense to criminalize it.
and lets face it, how bad can acta/ceta be? i mean, piratebay will still work, right? they'll figure out a way. and as far as generic drugs are concerned, my government has been very open about not following any patents and allowing all sorts of cheaper versions, regardless of what others try to force.
and its a good thing. stupid illiterate people ranting about stuff they don't understand is never good. seriously, people here have made entire careers out of protesting random new laws, without valuating the pros and cons. they don't do anything, just leech of the ignorance of the public.
yes. yes it is.
also, google goggles solves the sudoku using google's servers, not your phone. so it doesn't matter that you used an s3.
maybe i'm a super programmer then, since i wrote a brute force sudoku solver in 10 min that can solve sudokus in max 100ms on my aging laptop.
except the laser wont stop at the snowflake, burning anything in front of it.
i find google reader nice for reading all my rss feeds. but they may close it down, too.
i've always preferred google reader to igoogle and any other feed reader out there (online or offline). i'm really scared that google will kill it too i sometime. seems like they are going to reduce everything to g+.
is there any other feed reader that is as good?
you don't. that's what's scary.
this. i can't understand why people modded this as flamebait. grub 1 was good, nobody needed a dumbed down grub2, fucking up compatibility and removing features.
but word 2010 has the feature! it works pretty well, too.
its called folders. just like win7.
if you've been using windows anytime in the last 5 years, you should have known its called snipping tool. how do you think search is supposed to work?
there's no lag. no more than the start menu in win7. if your pc lags in showning the start menu, maybe its time to put mint on it, or buy a newer one.
pdf viewer is built-in, iirc. so, it should support out-of-the-box searching also.