Pollution at the power plant is less of a problem than pollution in an urban area where it is concentrated and many people are exposed to it.
Power plants can also be made cleaner than vehicles, which need to be mobile, have weight limits on how heavy the enigine can be, etc. Power plants can concentrate on just be efficient and clean.
If someone started giving away free cars to everyone, would you NOT love it? I mean, the person giving those cars away wouldn't be making any profit from it.
Sure they could profit.
Make it so you can only buy gas from them, charge $10/gal for it, and use the DMCA to enforce the exclusivity requirement.
Try buying anything, cheaper or not, when you've been laid off due to outsourcing.
Don't be stupid.
Cause of people with your attitude the Bay Area is in a depression - they can't even afford to keep the rail system in San Jose running at night anymore, people are fleeing to Las Vegas, screwing up our traffic, etc, etc.
Copyright infringement is NOT taking anything, it is violating a legally enforced monopoly.
Read the law (17 USC in the USA), you see it CREATES exclusive "rights" to do certain things - it makes it so only one party is allowed to do certain things - it creates monopoly rights, not property rights.
Infringement of copyright is NOT stealing even though it is illegal. Heck even the laws (with the exception of the ridiculous "No Electronic Theft" Act don't call it such - and I think that law only refers to theft in its title).
Why is this modded flamebait, it is a legitimate statement?
And stuff in China is often inferior and MADE WITH SLAVE LABOR, so stop thinking your so PC for modding it down.
Stuff should be protected.
I have fans (not CPU fans, people fans) that say thermally protected so if the motor stalls it doesn't burn.
Good computer hardware won't be vulnerable to a "killer poke" (damage via software - don't tell me that doesn't exist - I know how to kill a C64, almost did by accident).
Years ago I saw a stereo with auto-short circuit protection, it'd fail to start and make the power led red if something was wrong.
Or a CD? It gets scratched, just exchange it for a new one. Over an over and over again. For people who listen to CDs in cars - that could be every couple months.
I've seen places with posted policies refusing exchanges without a receipt.
Every retailer has to decide how nice or fascist to be.
Too nice and you lose by getting taken advantage of.
Too fascist and people won't come back and you lose yet again.
I agree with your main point - it is unethical. Too bad that doesn't stop everyone.
Everyone will judge you and you are guaranteed to piss people off.
Example:
Hit your child? Child abuser! (people saying this, let's call them group A) Don't hit your child? Raising an undisciplined kid! (B) No child? Something must be wrong with you! (C)
One of the above 3 groups will be pissed at you no matter what.
Also, there are unjust laws - imagine if you'd get convicted of every law you ever broke.
Most people alive would have over 100 years of jail time.
The court recognized what anyone less stupid than a spammer understands: that you can't make people listen and you can't force them to provide a forum.
Well you can't make them listen without EULAs and the DMCA and the like. The MPAA can make you watch the ads on DVDs.
Spammers know.edu addresses are often students (and staff!) with little discretionary income and thus little profit potential, especially compared to people with.com and.net addresses.
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Pollution at the power plant is less of a problem than pollution in an urban area where it is concentrated and many people are exposed to it.
Power plants can also be made cleaner than vehicles, which need to be mobile, have weight limits on how heavy the enigine can be, etc. Power plants can concentrate on just be efficient and clean.
If someone started giving away free cars to everyone, would you NOT love it? I mean, the person giving those cars away wouldn't be making any profit from it.
Sure they could profit.
Make it so you can only buy gas from them, charge $10/gal for it, and use the DMCA to enforce the exclusivity requirement.
Why not use a light amplification system instead of just a standard periscope?
The human body sees strontium as if it were calcium.
This could cause harm by being incorporate into bones, used in cell signalling, etc where calcium would be.
I'm not talking radiation, but the fact it mimics calcium, yet is chemically different.
There may be a risk, or there may not be. There is at least a theoretical danger.
I'd find myself searching Google for answers instead of asking our teacher a question.
Searching Google is usually the best way to get an answer to a question.
They need to make a Beowulf cluster out of them! :)
Sorry that is THE ONE category of inventions (perpertual motion/free energy machines) that he patent office won't grant a patent for.
You'd have better luck patenting exercising a cat using a laser pointer!
Yeah, I know that's patented already, but will the USPTO? They did allow IBM AND Unisys to patent LZW.
Try buying anything, cheaper or not, when you've been laid off due to outsourcing.
Don't be stupid.
Cause of people with your attitude the Bay Area is in a depression - they can't even afford to keep the rail system in San Jose running at night anymore, people are fleeing to Las Vegas, screwing up our traffic, etc, etc.
no computers filled with potatoes
I've heard of hardrives being replaced with bricks, but that is a new one.
Only time I ever heard of potatoes in a computer was regarding Debian Linux.
Just do a chargeback (you did buy with a credit card, I hope!).
Or sue in small claims court - good chance you'll win by default.
Copyright infringement is NOT taking anything, it is violating a legally enforced monopoly.
Read the law (17 USC in the USA), you see it CREATES exclusive "rights" to do certain things - it makes it so only one party is allowed to do certain things - it creates monopoly rights, not property rights.
Infringement of copyright is NOT stealing even though it is illegal. Heck even the laws (with the exception of the ridiculous "No Electronic Theft" Act don't call it such - and I think that law only refers to theft in its title).
Why is this modded flamebait, it is a legitimate statement?
And stuff in China is often inferior and MADE WITH SLAVE LABOR, so stop thinking your so PC for modding it down.
Stuff should be protected.
I have fans (not CPU fans, people fans) that say thermally protected so if the motor stalls it doesn't burn.
Good computer hardware won't be vulnerable to a "killer poke" (damage via software - don't tell me that doesn't exist - I know how to kill a C64, almost did by accident).
Years ago I saw a stereo with auto-short circuit protection, it'd fail to start and make the power led red if something was wrong.
Every house has circuit breakers or fuses.
Cars have anti-redlining limiters.
Etc.
If you used a CC they should just bill the CC for the difference in price between what you claimed to have returned and what you did return.
Or just turn them into the authorities.
I'm in Nevada, we make it a FELONY to bounce a check (second offense or over a certain dollar amount).
Scary posters wih a picture of our scary DA (or assistant DA or county prosecutor, I forget which) even at a pizza place I go to telling people this.
Exchanges can be abused too.
How'd you like clothes that never wear out?
Or a CD? It gets scratched, just exchange it for a new one. Over an over and over again. For people who listen to CDs in cars - that could be every couple months.
I've seen places with posted policies refusing exchanges without a receipt.
Every retailer has to decide how nice or fascist to be.
Too nice and you lose by getting taken advantage of.
Too fascist and people won't come back and you lose yet again.
I agree with your main point - it is unethical. Too bad that doesn't stop everyone.
Well then, hopefully you are working for a law firm, and screwing that up would be a public service. :) :) :) (don't sue me!) :O :) :) :)
And if you do something people don't like?
Everyone will judge you and you are guaranteed to piss people off.
Example:
Hit your child? Child abuser! (people saying this, let's call them group A)
Don't hit your child? Raising an undisciplined kid! (B)
No child? Something must be wrong with you! (C)
One of the above 3 groups will be pissed at you no matter what.
Also, there are unjust laws - imagine if you'd get convicted of every law you ever broke.
Most people alive would have over 100 years of jail time.
This article would still be believable if it was the US, not China.
That is truly scary.
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Nerd Political Correctness: He doesn't emit photons from 400-700nm.
I think you meant reflect, not emit. People only emit photons if they are on fire or radioactive or something.
The domestic ones need to be arrested, and the international ones... well, that's going to require some more ingenuity.
;)
Declare spam a form of terrorism, and act accordingly.
The court recognized what anyone less stupid than a spammer understands: that you can't make people listen and you can't force them to provide a forum.
Well you can't make them listen without EULAs and the DMCA and the like. The MPAA can make you watch the ads on DVDs.
Spammers know .edu addresses are often students (and staff!) with little discretionary income and thus little profit potential, especially compared to people with .com and .net addresses.
Just telling him you have a home PBX would probably make them think you are an evil hacker terrorist and leave you alone.
:)
(just 1/2 kidding).
Of course, if you're smart enough to actually get Asterisk configured, they might want you anyway.
Tell them you are fat and/or not heterosexual.
They'd never call you again.
An institution doesn't have to comply with those provisions unless it accepts Federal financial aid.
Or do you think an institution should be able to say "yes" to Federal aid and "no" to Federal military recruiters?
That would be, a bit one-sided, don't you think?
"Directory info" is exempted from protection unless the student requests otherwise ("opt-out").
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E-mail addresses are considered directory information.
Here are lists and explanations of what is and isn't considered directory information.
http://www.colin.edu/ADMISSIONS/FERPA.htm
http://www.clarkson.edu/sas/ferpa/directory_info.