Last I checked, 1/3rd of the amount of deaths on 9/11 (1) are attributed to cigarettes in the U.S. daily (3). If you consider war casualties to be a side effect of a war instead of a terrorist attack it really is quite easy to have something kill more people than terrorists in the U.S. DUI related deaths killed more than 3 9/11s in 2009 (2). U.S. citizens attempt to harm themselves at rates of 334 9/11s in 2008 and 12 9/11s worth succeeded.
In the grand scheme of things, very few Americans have died to terrorists. Considering we wasted nearly a decade of war in two countries going after a man that was no where near that theater has me wondering what we could have done in fighting cigarette, alcohol and suicide deaths instead.
I've said this before. All three companies are/were monopolies formed from the ideologies of three of the major desktop computer players: * Microsoft/Gates. * Apple/Jobs. * Google/Wozniak (but with better marketing savvy).
My bicycle, filing cabinents, furniture I've purchased. I'm 6'4" myself so driver's side room is always a major factor for me. I had to pass up a lot of good deals on vehicles just because I couldn't fit in the stupid things comfortably. You just need to know how to handle a Prius.
Unless you are the Doctor. Then everyone lives! Well, he lies. Rule 1. Also people tend to die quite often when he is around, or Daleks, or Cyber Men. Sometimes they all live. Still, life insurance policies probably become temporarily suspended on any planet he visits for the duration of said visit at this point.
You know it is also scientific fact that all people with mental disorders, terrorists and pedophiles have dihydrogen monoxide in their bodies. Surely we must think of the children's mental and physical healthy while punishing terrorists. Ban the stuff!
Well, I remember a year ago people were stating and laughing at UBL for having porn in his hideout when he was killed for being a hypocrite. Others were claiming it was just extra gossipy goodness designed and hoaxed If it wasn't destroyed, maybe it wasn't all porn after all, and should be checked. Heck, if it was left behind some of it might even be this stuff.
Ditto... I'm not so cynical of governments to deny that terrorist attacks have been made at the Olympics in even relatively peaceful times. But surface-to-air missiles? Why?
What is the minimum threshold for an airborne projectile's size to be shot down? After a certain threshold I start having trouble seeing someone lobbing a rocket/missile at the Olympics just because of the Olympics. Not only would it be practically a declaration of war against everyone in the world, but surely there would be more damaging targets if you just wanted to harm the UK.
Not sure if marketing or just cultural perceptions. While it isn't so much now, MP3 players were effectively generically iPods for a while. EReaders (I need to look up how to handle eReader words at the beginning of sentences. That just looks weird) are to many Kindle. For some a tablet is an iPad. Until the iPhone came out it wasn't a smartphone, but a Black Berry.
This was the first color Kindle that was a Kindle. As the summary stated, people are likely buying an eReader instead of a tablet. I know people who are afraid to even sit down at a computer because it is a scary computer (they still exist) who see the Kindle Fire as a fancier and neat book.
poison/poizn/ Noun: A substance that, when introduced into or absorbed by a living organism, causes death or injury, esp. one that kills by rapid action.
Counter: It is. Though everything is in large enough quantities. Even water. It is all about the LD50.
It is the definition. Their view is selling the product for maximum use of copyrightness. He sold it as product. He did not utilize copyright laws. So he didn't monetize his copyright claims, directly.
It makes sense, and is technically right. Whether it is the path we should be taking in the future is another issue all together.
Using Wikipedia, scroll down and you'll get this gem: "The total program cost projected through 2004 was US$44.75 billion in 1997 dollars. This includes development, procurement, facilities, construction, and spare parts. The total program cost averaged US$2.13 billion per aircraft." If you use the $.737 billion in 1997 = $1.07 billion today with inflation as a guide, and apply it to the $2.13 billion you will get ~$3 billion.
So it cost twice the cost of the entire fleet just to research, develop and build the facilities needed to build these fighters. Though originally there was supposed to be another hundred of these things made instead of 21. Had the full fleet of 32 been constructed the price per B-2 would have plummitted to a total cost of ~$1.25 billion per craft in "todays" dollars, but the cost around have been another ~$111 billion inflated adjusted dollars for the project as a whole.
This is a relative slap on the wrist. This is more of a "You made us have to put in extra work on this issue by you playing PR games. Here is how much that time you cost us." than a true fine.
'lose control over the dissemination of their copyrighted programming, disrupts their relationships with licensed distributors and viewers and usurps their right to decide how and on what terms to make available and license content over new internet distribution media.'"
That is the key sentence, I believe. Back when TNN, I think it was them?, tried streaming their cable services to iPads there were comments from the industry that this was causing an up roar. Some being so blatantly honest to admit they were fast nearing the point of no longer even knowing what qualified as a "television". How much of the industry is built around a dumb box which displays images they send to it?
What does it do to the industry now that televisions are increasingly becoming glorified computer monitors for watered-down/specialized computers? How much more is the line blurred when you can get television easily on your computer devices? This sounds like they are trying to halt the coming computer/television singularity by keeping television away from clearly computer devices.
Tell me about it. We should also look back at the old looks at laws to have artificial horse heads mounted to cars to not scare horses back in the day.
Calling logical fallacy and countering with another to show the other.
There is a reason we have LD50 standards for human intake of substances. LD50 for cyanide is 50-200 milligrams. A McDonald's Big Mac weighs 45.4 g. Sprinkle the worst case LD50 for cyanide (200 mg) and it will only make up.44% of the sandwhich. Not even a full percent. Would you feel alright eating that sand which since it is so little? I would hope not. I just finished drinking a liter here of dihydrogen monoxide.
It is never the amount by itself of anything in anything that is the problem. You might be right about everything else, or you might be completely wrong. Either way, you shift the perception against your argument harm by saying "it is just a little bit".
That is what I liked about one of my former bosses, before he moved on. I'd get called in on the weekend to do something, or stayed late, and he was often here as well doing something on his own despite being salaried and able to go. There were times I was leaving on a weekend call-in and he'd be coming in. He lived an hour away.
Coincidentally, he did study management methods used by the Japanese.
I'm a "tech" according to my title, but I'm effectively my companies admin for our servers. I'm also the only IT employee. Hourly to boot. On the negative side, even I am on unofficial 24/7 call. The overtime is nice, though they are starting to notice something is off now that we are on a 40 hour maximum lock down and I'm earning whole days off per pay period.
Keeping in mind the West wasn't all states back then. Jesse James, as a psuedo-example, was an ex-confederate who fled west. How many others did the same after the war, from possibly both sides, looking for a new life.
Hydraulic fracturing being invented in 1940s is like saying that hybrid cars were invented back in 1769 with the invention of the first automobile.
What hydraulic fracturing being performed today is a variant that was first tested back in 1991, horizontal drilling. Those prior studied were concerned with fracturing processes that were drilling straight down. Not down then a 90 degree turn for as far as a 15-3000m meters depending on the region. The ends are a set length, the farther down they go the less than go horizontal.
Secondly, the abstract wasn't directly talking about hydraulic fracturing directly, just a way they are using to dispose of their waste, injection wells. So you might be right even if you weren't talking about the wrong type of hydraulic fracturing. Ohio currently suspended parts of the shale industry after they noticed an uptick in quakes linked to injections wells.
So the good news is, for the industry and those supporting the natural gas industry, it is the waste disposal method that seems to be causing the problem, not the production itself.
At first I read it as "Glasses now have access to everything. Be afraid. Be very afraid." and was going to comment how you can mitigate the security risks of theft/lost by tying these into a smart phone sized device and these being effectively the input/output.
Then I reread it and saw "Google now has access to everything". Welp. I guess they've already taken control of my brain.
I remember VHS, I adopted DVD for videos. I grew up with my parents' records and 8-Tracks, I'm a child a cassettes, and I remember my first CD. I drove my grandparents insane wanting to use my CD player in their corvette. It involved a CD-player to cassette adapter, placed in an cassette to 8-track adapter. I can't remember if I ever got it to work or not, but I remember repeatedly attempting it.
I'm better off just getting digital copies in my opinion. At least if I want to watch old digital copies I just need an old OS emulator if the format becomes that obsolete. VHS and Beta tapes? Soon DVDs and in the future Blue-Ray? Physical space wasted.
Steam works because I own the games. They are digital and will eventually go on sale, and drop in price. There is no shelf space battle to encourage pure digital video games to vanish. Steam also works for me because the games are tied to my account (mostly, I'm sure there are exceptions). New computer? I still have all my games.
Conditions where I feel these companies are going too far: * The games are tied to a console or PC/configuration. I don't want to lose games because faulty hardware fries my console, or a false positive from upgrading my graphics card makes it look like a new machine.
* If the consoles are reliant on disks (or cartridges as some rumors are implying for the new X-Box) then you have a physical good aspect of the game that can be damaged, lost and progressively harder to find as time goes on due to physical real-estate in stores not wanting to house old "new" games. Banning used cartridges/disks is just asking for piracy. I can still buy Half-Life 1 on Steam. Now, point me to where I can buy a new copy of Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (released same year) if I wanted to support the company fully over buying used.
Trolls work on the myth/legend system. They work because in the back of your mind you know people who believe that.
There are people I know who are so cheap that they attempted to use a slice of PVC pipe for their wedding ring because they feel jewelry industry is a racket to sell shiny stones. Not that different than people who feel organized bits are a racket. In the eyes of the company, he is the best procurement employee they've ever had.
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Last I checked, 1/3rd of the amount of deaths on 9/11 (1) are attributed to cigarettes in the U.S. daily (3). If you consider war casualties to be a side effect of a war instead of a terrorist attack it really is quite easy to have something kill more people than terrorists in the U.S. DUI related deaths killed more than 3 9/11s in 2009 (2). U.S. citizens attempt to harm themselves at rates of 334 9/11s in 2008 and 12 9/11s worth succeeded.
In the grand scheme of things, very few Americans have died to terrorists. Considering we wasted nearly a decade of war in two countries going after a man that was no where near that theater has me wondering what we could have done in fighting cigarette, alcohol and suicide deaths instead.
1) Using the figure 2,996 for deaths per the parent comment's questions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11
2) http://www.cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/Impaired_Driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html
3) http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/
4) http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/suicide/suicidal_thoughts.html
I've said this before. All three companies are/were monopolies formed from the ideologies of three of the major desktop computer players:
* Microsoft/Gates.
* Apple/Jobs.
* Google/Wozniak (but with better marketing savvy).
My bicycle, filing cabinents, furniture I've purchased. I'm 6'4" myself so driver's side room is always a major factor for me. I had to pass up a lot of good deals on vehicles just because I couldn't fit in the stupid things comfortably. You just need to know how to handle a Prius.
Unless you are the Doctor. Then everyone lives! Well, he lies. Rule 1. Also people tend to die quite often when he is around, or Daleks, or Cyber Men. Sometimes they all live. Still, life insurance policies probably become temporarily suspended on any planet he visits for the duration of said visit at this point.
You know it is also scientific fact that all people with mental disorders, terrorists and pedophiles have dihydrogen monoxide in their bodies. Surely we must think of the children's mental and physical healthy while punishing terrorists. Ban the stuff!
Well, I remember a year ago people were stating and laughing at UBL for having porn in his hideout when he was killed for being a hypocrite. Others were claiming it was just extra gossipy goodness designed and hoaxed If it wasn't destroyed, maybe it wasn't all porn after all, and should be checked. Heck, if it was left behind some of it might even be this stuff.
Ditto... I'm not so cynical of governments to deny that terrorist attacks have been made at the Olympics in even relatively peaceful times. But surface-to-air missiles? Why?
What is the minimum threshold for an airborne projectile's size to be shot down? After a certain threshold I start having trouble seeing someone lobbing a rocket/missile at the Olympics just because of the Olympics. Not only would it be practically a declaration of war against everyone in the world, but surely there would be more damaging targets if you just wanted to harm the UK.
Not sure if marketing or just cultural perceptions. While it isn't so much now, MP3 players were effectively generically iPods for a while. EReaders (I need to look up how to handle eReader words at the beginning of sentences. That just looks weird) are to many Kindle. For some a tablet is an iPad. Until the iPhone came out it wasn't a smartphone, but a Black Berry.
This was the first color Kindle that was a Kindle. As the summary stated, people are likely buying an eReader instead of a tablet. I know people who are afraid to even sit down at a computer because it is a scary computer (they still exist) who see the Kindle Fire as a fancier and neat book.
poison/poizn/
Noun:
A substance that, when introduced into or absorbed by a living organism, causes death or injury, esp. one that kills by rapid action.
Counter: It is. Though everything is in large enough quantities. Even water. It is all about the LD50.
It is the definition. Their view is selling the product for maximum use of copyrightness. He sold it as product. He did not utilize copyright laws. So he didn't monetize his copyright claims, directly.
It makes sense, and is technically right. Whether it is the path we should be taking in the future is another issue all together.
Typo, full fleet of 132 B-2s, not 32.
Using Wikipedia, scroll down and you'll get this gem: "The total program cost projected through 2004 was US$44.75 billion in 1997 dollars. This includes development, procurement, facilities, construction, and spare parts. The total program cost averaged US$2.13 billion per aircraft." If you use the $.737 billion in 1997 = $1.07 billion today with inflation as a guide, and apply it to the $2.13 billion you will get ~$3 billion.
So it cost twice the cost of the entire fleet just to research, develop and build the facilities needed to build these fighters. Though originally there was supposed to be another hundred of these things made instead of 21. Had the full fleet of 32 been constructed the price per B-2 would have plummitted to a total cost of ~$1.25 billion per craft in "todays" dollars, but the cost around have been another ~$111 billion inflated adjusted dollars for the project as a whole.
This is a relative slap on the wrist. This is more of a "You made us have to put in extra work on this issue by you playing PR games. Here is how much that time you cost us." than a true fine.
Sounds familiar... is this a repost or did they sue other companies already? If the latter, what happened to those cases?
'lose control over the dissemination of their copyrighted programming, disrupts their relationships with licensed distributors and viewers and usurps their right to decide how and on what terms to make available and license content over new internet distribution media.'"
That is the key sentence, I believe. Back when TNN, I think it was them?, tried streaming their cable services to iPads there were comments from the industry that this was causing an up roar. Some being so blatantly honest to admit they were fast nearing the point of no longer even knowing what qualified as a "television". How much of the industry is built around a dumb box which displays images they send to it?
What does it do to the industry now that televisions are increasingly becoming glorified computer monitors for watered-down/specialized computers? How much more is the line blurred when you can get television easily on your computer devices? This sounds like they are trying to halt the coming computer/television singularity by keeping television away from clearly computer devices.
Tell me about it. We should also look back at the old looks at laws to have artificial horse heads mounted to cars to not scare horses back in the day.
CO2 is such a small proportion of the atmosphere
Calling logical fallacy and countering with another to show the other.
There is a reason we have LD50 standards for human intake of substances. LD50 for cyanide is 50-200 milligrams. A McDonald's Big Mac weighs 45.4 g. Sprinkle the worst case LD50 for cyanide (200 mg) and it will only make up .44% of the sandwhich. Not even a full percent. Would you feel alright eating that sand which since it is so little? I would hope not. I just finished drinking a liter here of dihydrogen monoxide.
It is never the amount by itself of anything in anything that is the problem. You might be right about everything else, or you might be completely wrong. Either way, you shift the perception against your argument harm by saying "it is just a little bit".
That is what I liked about one of my former bosses, before he moved on. I'd get called in on the weekend to do something, or stayed late, and he was often here as well doing something on his own despite being salaried and able to go. There were times I was leaving on a weekend call-in and he'd be coming in. He lived an hour away.
Coincidentally, he did study management methods used by the Japanese.
I'm a "tech" according to my title, but I'm effectively my companies admin for our servers. I'm also the only IT employee. Hourly to boot. On the negative side, even I am on unofficial 24/7 call. The overtime is nice, though they are starting to notice something is off now that we are on a 40 hour maximum lock down and I'm earning whole days off per pay period.
Keeping in mind the West wasn't all states back then. Jesse James, as a psuedo-example, was an ex-confederate who fled west. How many others did the same after the war, from possibly both sides, looking for a new life.
Hydraulic fracturing being invented in 1940s is like saying that hybrid cars were invented back in 1769 with the invention of the first automobile.
What hydraulic fracturing being performed today is a variant that was first tested back in 1991, horizontal drilling. Those prior studied were concerned with fracturing processes that were drilling straight down. Not down then a 90 degree turn for as far as a 15-3000m meters depending on the region. The ends are a set length, the farther down they go the less than go horizontal.
Secondly, the abstract wasn't directly talking about hydraulic fracturing directly, just a way they are using to dispose of their waste, injection wells. So you might be right even if you weren't talking about the wrong type of hydraulic fracturing. Ohio currently suspended parts of the shale industry after they noticed an uptick in quakes linked to injections wells.
So the good news is, for the industry and those supporting the natural gas industry, it is the waste disposal method that seems to be causing the problem, not the production itself.
At first I read it as "Glasses now have access to everything. Be afraid. Be very afraid." and was going to comment how you can mitigate the security risks of theft/lost by tying these into a smart phone sized device and these being effectively the input/output.
Then I reread it and saw "Google now has access to everything". Welp. I guess they've already taken control of my brain.
Even then I wouldn't touch a DVD/Blue-Ray.
I remember VHS, I adopted DVD for videos. I grew up with my parents' records and 8-Tracks, I'm a child a cassettes, and I remember my first CD. I drove my grandparents insane wanting to use my CD player in their corvette. It involved a CD-player to cassette adapter, placed in an cassette to 8-track adapter. I can't remember if I ever got it to work or not, but I remember repeatedly attempting it.
I'm better off just getting digital copies in my opinion. At least if I want to watch old digital copies I just need an old OS emulator if the format becomes that obsolete. VHS and Beta tapes? Soon DVDs and in the future Blue-Ray? Physical space wasted.
I have a simple view on that matter.
Steam works because I own the games. They are digital and will eventually go on sale, and drop in price. There is no shelf space battle to encourage pure digital video games to vanish. Steam also works for me because the games are tied to my account (mostly, I'm sure there are exceptions). New computer? I still have all my games.
Conditions where I feel these companies are going too far:
* The games are tied to a console or PC/configuration. I don't want to lose games because faulty hardware fries my console, or a false positive from upgrading my graphics card makes it look like a new machine.
* If the consoles are reliant on disks (or cartridges as some rumors are implying for the new X-Box) then you have a physical good aspect of the game that can be damaged, lost and progressively harder to find as time goes on due to physical real-estate in stores not wanting to house old "new" games. Banning used cartridges/disks is just asking for piracy. I can still buy Half-Life 1 on Steam. Now, point me to where I can buy a new copy of Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (released same year) if I wanted to support the company fully over buying used.
Trolls work on the myth/legend system. They work because in the back of your mind you know people who believe that.
There are people I know who are so cheap that they attempted to use a slice of PVC pipe for their wedding ring because they feel jewelry industry is a racket to sell shiny stones. Not that different than people who feel organized bits are a racket. In the eyes of the company, he is the best procurement employee they've ever had.