It's double dipping because the radio station already paid ASCAP and BMI for public performance rights. In addition, the restaurant or other venue is providing an audience for the radio's advertisers. They don't get something for nothing, the listeners have to sit through the advertisements to get their free music.
"Is there maybe a possibility of coating hot air balloons or zeppelins with this algae and letting them float about in the atmosphere until they become so heavy with algae they descend?"
Plants need water to grow, even more so algae, which is an aquatic plant, and balloons have very little bouyancy for their size. I'm guessing you won't be able to life enough water to make this work.
That's certainly what it is. Getting the electrolyte chemicals from the tree is a non-issue. The electrolyte doesn't get consumed in a battery, the electrodes do.
That doesn't sound much different from WMP10. That has links to the MSN Music store and a few other music stores that offer WMA downloads too. I don't get it. Is Urge anything more than just hip, new branding for the MSN Music store?
And pretty good market penetration in portable players too. Nearly every non-ipod digital music player plays non-DRM'ed WMA files, even the no-name $40 MP3 players.
"a completely ridiculous law that (since copyright is subjective to state) wouldn't even serve benefit to the USA?"
The entertainment industry is one of the few export industries that the US still has. It doesn't take a huge leap in logic to argue that strict enforcement of copyright in foreign countries benefits the US economy. Forget about rights, there's too many dollars at stake here.
Sure, you can buy a Dell PC with FreeDOS instead of Windows, but good luck actually finding the web page to order it. If you get as far as ordering it, you might find that it costs more than a regular Dimension with preinstalled Windows because of frequent discounts on regular Dimensions, while the FreeDOS Dimension are a forgotten product that's left to languish with no promotional support.
The Microsoft Tax actually refers to two different things; one is about the impossibility of buying a computer without Windows; the other is about OEM license contracts charge the computer manufacturer per unit shipped regardless of which OS it's shipped with.
It was the day of the final and I locked the keys in my car after I parked on campus. I didn't have AAA, and none of my friends who had AAA were anywhere nearby. I called campus police, and they said the guy who could help me unlock my car was leaving in a few hours, actually right about the time that the class period for my final was over (it was an evening class). So I raced through the final, working as fast as I could. I turned in my test 10 minutes early to the surprise of everyone in the room and ran out to call campus police, but the locksmith left already. Fortunately I still aced the final, and a friend helped me unlock the car with a coat hanger. So it all worked out.
Sure, some dictatorships are worse than others, but let's take China as an example. The economy has liberalized since the 70s. Trade and business are probably as free as any Western democracy. I would say cronyism is more entrenched than the US, so bribes are a cost of doing business. As far as political speech, speaking against the government is dealt with harshly. Maybe not instant gulag for one message board post, but anyone big enough to get some attention will be arrested. For most average people going about their business, going to work and paying the bills, the government just leaves them alone.
Sound familiar? Except for the lack of democratic elections, it's not *that* much different for the average guy.
Well then, it's not that hard to defeat a database lookup by faking a foreign plate, even better from a non-EU country like Switzerland. Or does Customs log the plate numbers of every foreign car on the ferry or train?
Sure, if you want to be thorough you can wipe the disk and reinstall Windows. If you're lucky, you can just uninstall the crapware in Add/Remove Programs. Either way, it's worth it just for the hardware, since Dell always has a sale or coupon deal. I still build my own, but being Mom's Tech Support gets old fast. It works out better to call Dell for warranty or tech support, even if it's crappy tech support.
Your implied example of a "billion dollar sellout to Fox" contradicts your statement of "The 90s are over". If you're talking about Myspace, they started in its current incarnation in 2003.
"How's that making USA produced more engineering graduates? And more importantly, what's the point of producing more of a product when nobody buys from you? This kind of self-comforting is poisonous!"
Yes, that certainly is a problem. Out of my graduating class of ME's, I'd say easily half are doing IT work. I don't want to say the work is beneath us, but compared to the advanced math and science we learned for engineering, most IT work is like being a high-tech janitor. Right now, I couldn't solve a calculus problem to save my life.
In my experience, most of the undergrad engineering students (and the grad students working towards a MS) are American while most of the graduate engineering students working towards a PhD are foreign. I suppose not having a work visa is a good reason to stay in school and be grad student slave labor.
That's interesting because Staples Easyrebates are much better than the competition now. You can submit everything online instead of mailing it in, and the last rebate arrived in less than a month. Compare that to 2-3 months for the legit rebate processors, and a worst case of 7 months for some rebates from a certain crooked processor (stay away from TCA Fulfillment in New Rochelle, NY).
I don't think counting every ballot by hand is practical. You could easily fix that problem by conducting a random hand count of paper ballots in a small percentage of districts and comparing to the machine tabulated results. A large enough error should then trigger a mandatory hand recount.
We had a lot of GX270s at work too. They were ordered in 3 groups about 6 months apart. The 2nd group had the most problems. They were the small-form-factor cases with Maxtor drives. Within 6 months every single drive failed with bad sectors and every single motherboard failed with bulging and leaking capacitors. Fortunately we avoided mass downtime because we found the bad sectors and bulging capacitors before the computers failed completely. The 1st group had fewer problems. They were the tower cases with Maxtor drives. Over the last two years, two or three of the motherboards failed and about the same number of drives, all in different systems. The cooler temps of the tower case probably helped. It would be nice if they did a proactive replacement on the whole bunch, but meanwhile my computer has a new motherboard and a ticking timebomb of a hard drive. The last group had small-form-factor cases with WD drives. They must've worked out the bugs by then because they had no problems at all.
Well, the difference is that in modern history, representative government is only a few hundred years old, and issues of science and technology have only been significant in political discourse in the last century. Yet everybody has to vote based on these very issues. I'm not expecting every person to have the knowledge to rebuild the modern world from the ruins. I think it's reasonable for a high school education to provide the tools to assess scientific arguments on a basic, rudimentary level (here in the context of political debate), but I know I'm dreaming.
What's unfortunate in the US is the pitiful state of scientific literacy makes is easy to subvert voters with propaganda, everything from religious fundamentalism to superstitious pseudoscience like astrology and psychic phenomena. Go ask an average guy on the street to explain basic concepts of chemistry, physics, medicine or astronomy, and you'll see what I mean. All those TVs, microwaves and cell phones may as well run on magic for all they care.
I believe the Brits use Imperial gallons so 1MPG in the UK != 1MPG in the US. Also, petrol cars are just less efficient than diesels. Even the smallest conventional petrol cars sold in the US (Civic and Echo) get about mid 30's MPG.
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There's three different values here.
1. Value of penny as legal tender.
2. Value of penny as rare collectible.
3. Value of penny as commodity value of its metal.
It's double dipping because the radio station already paid ASCAP and BMI for public performance rights. In addition, the restaurant or other venue is providing an audience for the radio's advertisers. They don't get something for nothing, the listeners have to sit through the advertisements to get their free music.
"Is there maybe a possibility of coating hot air balloons or zeppelins with this algae and letting them float about in the atmosphere until they become so heavy with algae they descend?"
Plants need water to grow, even more so algae, which is an aquatic plant, and balloons have very little bouyancy for their size. I'm guessing you won't be able to life enough water to make this work.
That's certainly what it is. Getting the electrolyte chemicals from the tree is a non-issue. The electrolyte doesn't get consumed in a battery, the electrodes do.
Yeah, and it opened a portal to hell. How cliche... You think the writers played Doom?
That doesn't sound much different from WMP10. That has links to the MSN Music store and a few other music stores that offer WMA downloads too. I don't get it. Is Urge anything more than just hip, new branding for the MSN Music store?
And pretty good market penetration in portable players too. Nearly every non-ipod digital music player plays non-DRM'ed WMA files, even the no-name $40 MP3 players.
"a completely ridiculous law that (since copyright is subjective to state) wouldn't even serve benefit to the USA?"
The entertainment industry is one of the few export industries that the US still has. It doesn't take a huge leap in logic to argue that strict enforcement of copyright in foreign countries benefits the US economy. Forget about rights, there's too many dollars at stake here.
Sure, you can buy a Dell PC with FreeDOS instead of Windows, but good luck actually finding the web page to order it. If you get as far as ordering it, you might find that it costs more than a regular Dimension with preinstalled Windows because of frequent discounts on regular Dimensions, while the FreeDOS Dimension are a forgotten product that's left to languish with no promotional support.
The Microsoft Tax actually refers to two different things; one is about the impossibility of buying a computer without Windows; the other is about OEM license contracts charge the computer manufacturer per unit shipped regardless of which OS it's shipped with.
It was the day of the final and I locked the keys in my car after I parked on campus. I didn't have AAA, and none of my friends who had AAA were anywhere nearby. I called campus police, and they said the guy who could help me unlock my car was leaving in a few hours, actually right about the time that the class period for my final was over (it was an evening class). So I raced through the final, working as fast as I could. I turned in my test 10 minutes early to the surprise of everyone in the room and ran out to call campus police, but the locksmith left already. Fortunately I still aced the final, and a friend helped me unlock the car with a coat hanger. So it all worked out.
If this does pass, they'll probably include provisions to simplify sales tax, like have one unified rate for each entire state. Or so you'd hope.
Sure, some dictatorships are worse than others, but let's take China as an example. The economy has liberalized since the 70s. Trade and business are probably as free as any Western democracy. I would say cronyism is more entrenched than the US, so bribes are a cost of doing business. As far as political speech, speaking against the government is dealt with harshly. Maybe not instant gulag for one message board post, but anyone big enough to get some attention will be arrested. For most average people going about their business, going to work and paying the bills, the government just leaves them alone.
Sound familiar? Except for the lack of democratic elections, it's not *that* much different for the average guy.
Well then, it's not that hard to defeat a database lookup by faking a foreign plate, even better from a non-EU country like Switzerland. Or does Customs log the plate numbers of every foreign car on the ferry or train?
Sure, if you want to be thorough you can wipe the disk and reinstall Windows. If you're lucky, you can just uninstall the crapware in Add/Remove Programs. Either way, it's worth it just for the hardware, since Dell always has a sale or coupon deal. I still build my own, but being Mom's Tech Support gets old fast. It works out better to call Dell for warranty or tech support, even if it's crappy tech support.
Your implied example of a "billion dollar sellout to Fox" contradicts your statement of "The 90s are over". If you're talking about Myspace, they started in its current incarnation in 2003.
"How's that making USA produced more engineering graduates? And more importantly, what's the point of producing more of a product when nobody buys from you? This kind of self-comforting is poisonous!"
Yes, that certainly is a problem. Out of my graduating class of ME's, I'd say easily half are doing IT work. I don't want to say the work is beneath us, but compared to the advanced math and science we learned for engineering, most IT work is like being a high-tech janitor. Right now, I couldn't solve a calculus problem to save my life.
In my experience, most of the undergrad engineering students (and the grad students working towards a MS) are American while most of the graduate engineering students working towards a PhD are foreign. I suppose not having a work visa is a good reason to stay in school and be grad student slave labor.
Actually Panasonic's plant produces the media, not the drives.
That's interesting because Staples Easyrebates are much better than the competition now. You can submit everything online instead of mailing it in, and the last rebate arrived in less than a month. Compare that to 2-3 months for the legit rebate processors, and a worst case of 7 months for some rebates from a certain crooked processor (stay away from TCA Fulfillment in New Rochelle, NY).
I don't think counting every ballot by hand is practical. You could easily fix that problem by conducting a random hand count of paper ballots in a small percentage of districts and comparing to the machine tabulated results. A large enough error should then trigger a mandatory hand recount.
The Chinese have terrible taste in pop music. It's all this bland soft adult contemporary like Celine Dion.
We had a lot of GX270s at work too. They were ordered in 3 groups about 6 months apart.
The 2nd group had the most problems. They were the small-form-factor cases with Maxtor drives. Within 6 months every single drive failed with bad sectors and every single motherboard failed with bulging and leaking capacitors. Fortunately we avoided mass downtime because we found the bad sectors and bulging capacitors before the computers failed completely.
The 1st group had fewer problems. They were the tower cases with Maxtor drives. Over the last two years, two or three of the motherboards failed and about the same number of drives, all in different systems. The cooler temps of the tower case probably helped. It would be nice if they did a proactive replacement on the whole bunch, but meanwhile my computer has a new motherboard and a ticking timebomb of a hard drive.
The last group had small-form-factor cases with WD drives. They must've worked out the bugs by then because they had no problems at all.
Well, the difference is that in modern history, representative government is only a few hundred years old, and issues of science and technology have only been significant in political discourse in the last century. Yet everybody has to vote based on these very issues. I'm not expecting every person to have the knowledge to rebuild the modern world from the ruins. I think it's reasonable for a high school education to provide the tools to assess scientific arguments on a basic, rudimentary level (here in the context of political debate), but I know I'm dreaming.
What's unfortunate in the US is the pitiful state of scientific literacy makes is easy to subvert voters with propaganda, everything from religious fundamentalism to superstitious pseudoscience like astrology and psychic phenomena. Go ask an average guy on the street to explain basic concepts of chemistry, physics, medicine or astronomy, and you'll see what I mean. All those TVs, microwaves and cell phones may as well run on magic for all they care.
I believe the Brits use Imperial gallons so 1MPG in the UK != 1MPG in the US. Also, petrol cars are just less efficient than diesels. Even the smallest conventional petrol cars sold in the US (Civic and Echo) get about mid 30's MPG.