When I started reading this article, my first thought was "I don't seem the similarity" - but after a few (of the many) paragraphs, I begin to see the similarities between the race to open up the west, and the opening up of the "final frontier".
For example: Expiditions into the west, just like flights into space today, were enormously sensitive and complex. Just like spaceflight, a slight glitch or design flaw in a wagon could cause the, usually spectacular, instantaneous death of everyone on board the wagon in the first few minutes of the expidition. Often with damage to others who happened to be near the site that the wagon set off from.
Also, before wagons full of supplies started arriving, the American west was TOTALLY devoid of life. In fact, if you just sent a naked person or animal, or even bacterium into the west, it would die almost immediately from any number of causes - asphyxiation, radiation, extreme cold or heat. Before the original Americans started sending wagons into the west, it had been utterly uninhabited, and totally inhospitable to human life.
Thank god private individuals were able to overcome all of these nearly impossible scientific and technological challenges and open up a radiation blasted sterile wasteland to human habitation.
So the lesson is that all we have to do is convince ourselves that space travel really isn't inherently difficult or expensive, and blame everything on big government.
IANAL, but a thought experiment: I try to get a restraining order against someone. I'm turned down right away. I then decide to ask that person "nicely": "Will you please stay away from me anyway?" Is that contempt of court? I don't think there's anything wrong with the fact that MS is 'asking' companies to remove Windows from their product names.
Of cource, if a case can be made they're *coercing* companies - then that opens up the whole "abusive monopoly" thing again..
If you want to convince anybody that copying movies and music is bad, you might start with explaining why the amount of people stealing music and movies is so much higher than people who steal ungaurded physical objects. You'd probably also want to make sure that you viewed the rampant cassette copying of the 80s as highly immoral as well for consistancy (in addition to recording TV, recording the radio, etc).
The explanation is that it's really hard to catch people who steal music and movies by copying them. If I go around stealing hubcaps, I'm going to piss off a lot of people, and stand a pretty good chance of getting caught, what with all those police reports being filed, and all those hubcaps on hand as damning evidence (or maybe a paper trail leading from the people I sold them to). If I copy music, chances are no-one is even going to notice, let alone try to prosecute me. And if they do try to prosecute me, then what? All I have is a bunch of magnetic signals on a disk. Gotten rid of fairly easily, and maybe not even conclusive evidence anyway.
People steal music and movies because they think they won't get caught - and by and large they're right.
Only the last bit ("... I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance.." ) in Jules quotation is from Ezekiel 25:17. The rest is from elsewhere (some have suggested Psalm 23)... walk through the valley of the shadow of death etc..
But just as likely something that Tarantino just thought sounded good. And who's going to argue with Tarantino on that point..
I think you're exaggerating, I don't know if Jupiter's gravity is strong enough to pull solid matter..
On a serious note, tidal forces are not caused by "tidal waves" from Jupiter, but by the difference in gravitational force between the near (closer to Jupiter) and far sides of IO (gravity diminishes as distance squared).
Jupiter's gravity is essentially trying to pull poor little IO apart, and IO by resisting is converting all that energy into motion and heat
200 bucks can get me a internal CD burner (good for other things), a 50 pack of blank CD's, and a internal MP3 car deck. I ow have a few days worth of uninterruptible music, and 49 more CD's to add stuff to, with no additional costs incurred monthly.
Not that I want to open up this can of worms again, but you're forgetting the cost of the music...
And as a general appeal to anyone reading this, we don't need another free music vs. artists rights vs. riaa or whatever debate..;-P
Man, I am so sick of "why is this article posted, it's dumb" comments. Look, the article was posted not even 3 hours ago and already it's generated more comments than almost all the other articles today. You're proving my point here, but remember a major part of slashdot's existence is to promote discussions. This article does a good job of that, so I say good choice in posting it.
Is this a new category? I don't remember ever seeing it before.
Also, does anyone have any idea if this is a permanent category? I'm not sure if I like the idea - automatically takes animated films out of contention for best picture (hey, Beauty and the Beast COULD have won)
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When I started reading this article, my first thought was "I don't seem the similarity" - but after a few (of the many) paragraphs, I begin to see the similarities between the race to open up the west, and the opening up of the "final frontier".
For example:
Expiditions into the west, just like flights into space today, were enormously sensitive and complex. Just like spaceflight, a slight glitch or design flaw in a wagon could cause the, usually spectacular, instantaneous death of everyone on board the wagon in the first few minutes of the expidition. Often with damage to others who happened to be near the site that the wagon set off from.
Also, before wagons full of supplies started arriving, the American west was TOTALLY devoid of life. In fact, if you just sent a naked person or animal, or even bacterium into the west, it would die almost immediately from any number of causes - asphyxiation, radiation, extreme cold or heat. Before the original Americans started sending wagons into the west, it had been utterly uninhabited, and totally inhospitable to human life.
Thank god private individuals were able to overcome all of these nearly impossible scientific and technological challenges and open up a radiation blasted sterile wasteland to human habitation.
So the lesson is that all we have to do is convince ourselves that space travel really isn't inherently difficult or expensive, and blame everything on big government.
Great article. Great analogy.
IANAL, but a thought experiment: I try to get a restraining order against someone. I'm turned down right away. I then decide to ask that person "nicely":
"Will you please stay away from me anyway?"
Is that contempt of court?
I don't think there's anything wrong with the fact that MS is 'asking' companies to remove Windows from their product names.
Of cource, if a case can be made they're *coercing* companies - then that opens up the whole "abusive monopoly" thing again..
You clearly don't know the difference between what you talking to a lawyer costs, and what talking to the slashdot-crowd costs :)
Yes, the cost of a lawyer is a few hundred $ an hour, while the cost of posting a question to slashdot may be your very soul
... that it sounds like a good episode for Junkyard Wars? :)
If you want to convince anybody that copying movies and music is bad, you might start with explaining why the amount of people stealing music and movies is so much higher than people who steal ungaurded physical objects. You'd probably also want to make sure that you viewed the rampant cassette copying of the 80s as highly immoral as well for consistancy (in addition to recording TV, recording the radio, etc).
The explanation is that it's really hard to catch people who steal music and movies by copying them. If I go around stealing hubcaps, I'm going to piss off a lot of people, and stand a pretty good chance of getting caught, what with all those police reports being filed, and all those hubcaps on hand as damning evidence (or maybe a paper trail leading from the people I sold them to). If I copy music, chances are no-one is even going to notice, let alone try to prosecute me. And if they do try to prosecute me, then what? All I have is a bunch of magnetic signals on a disk. Gotten rid of fairly easily, and maybe not even conclusive evidence anyway.
People steal music and movies because they think they won't get caught - and by and large they're right.
The translations don't differ that much.
Only the last bit ("... I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance.." ) in Jules quotation is from Ezekiel 25:17. The rest is from elsewhere (some have suggested Psalm 23) ... walk through the valley of the shadow of death etc..
But just as likely something that Tarantino just thought sounded good. And who's going to argue with Tarantino on that point..
And yeah, I did just notice that I spelled Io in all caps.. IO.. I obviously spend too much time thinking about computers..
I think you're exaggerating, I don't know if Jupiter's gravity is strong enough to pull solid matter..
On a serious note, tidal forces are not caused by "tidal waves" from Jupiter, but by the difference in gravitational force between the near (closer to Jupiter) and far sides of IO (gravity diminishes as distance squared).
Jupiter's gravity is essentially trying to pull poor little IO apart, and IO by resisting is converting all that energy into motion and heat
200 bucks can get me a internal CD burner (good for other things), a 50 pack of blank CD's, and a internal MP3 car deck. I ow have a few days worth of uninterruptible music, and 49 more CD's to add stuff to, with no additional costs incurred monthly.
Not that I want to open up this can of worms again, but you're forgetting the cost of the music...
And as a general appeal to anyone reading this, we don't need another free music vs. artists rights vs. riaa or whatever debate.. ;-P
Man, I am so sick of "why is this article posted, it's dumb" comments. Look, the article was posted not even 3 hours ago and already it's generated more comments than almost all the other articles today. You're proving my point here, but remember a major part of slashdot's existence is to promote discussions. This article does a good job of that, so I say good choice in posting it.
that won't win him friends among old-time Star Wars fandom, that's to be sure
No, but it will probably make him (more) millions of dollars.
And, really, which would you rather have?
Is this a new category? I don't remember ever seeing it before.
Also, does anyone have any idea if this is a permanent category? I'm not sure if I like the idea - automatically takes animated films out of contention for best picture (hey, Beauty and the Beast COULD have won)