"They could only find 18 singer-songwriters in Nashville that were desperate enough to talk / suck up to big-record-industry people"
You can tell pretty reliably who the sellouts are by who's willing to shill for the record companies by testifying, appearing in some PSA or suing the fans. No matter what you think of their music, Offspring are true punks who know how to fuck with the man. So to summarize:
Correct response to Napster by a counterculture icon- Sell unauthorized Napster logo caps and shirts on band website Incorrect reponse to Napster by a counterculture icon- Sue to get fans' accounts cancelled
I don't know anything; I'm just a simple, simple man
That story only works if you're really not a computer expert who knows nothing about computers. It'll probably take all of five minutes to check out that story (employment history, ask family if you know about computers, etc.).
Umm.. do you *know* how food is processed these days? If 99 cent hamburgers aren't cheap, I don't know what is. You'd probably never eat another hamburger again if you saw the inside of a meat packing plant. And that just one example.
You still chose to live there. I know there are advantages to living farther out like space and affordability, but the masses of people deciding to live in suburbs that are not walkable is why we, as a country, are so addicted to driving. Many of us could use the exercise too. Good article here.
Well, there is enough solar energy if only there was a way to cheaply capture all the energy falling on uninhabited land. Do you know how big the desert Southwest or Australian Outback is? PVs won't do it. You might be able to do it with saltwater algae ponds or solar towers. Nuclear fusion is the holy grail, but I don't think we'll perfect that by the time we run out of cheap oil.
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This will deliver light to interior offices too. It sounds like they combined a solar concentrator and fiber optic cables.
Exactly, the issue isn't that these powers are already being abused by the feds. The issue is that they've reserved the right to use these powers. Think of it as filling up your plate at the all-you-can-eat buffet only it's a powergrab instead of food. The Justice Dept. asked for and received their wishlist of most every police power they wanted. It doesn't matter if they had immediate plans to use them all.
This is different from previous attempts at regulating decency on TV. The FCC has authority over the airwaves, ie broadcast TV. There's already some mission creep when the FCC is regulating the content of radio and TV broadcasts. Its original mandate was to assign radio frequencies to licensees to prevent interference.
What's happening now is the Senate Commerce Committee is looking at regulating the content of cable and satellite TV under the guise of interstate commerce.
Correct, the power utilities figured prices would drop in a deregulated wholesale market and they would make out by selling at a fixed retail price. The fixed retail prices were tied to a 10% rate cut and a bigger surcharge called the Competition Transfer Charge (CTC), and these were to last for 4 years or until certain bonds were paid off, whichever was earlier. If it sounds confusing, it was. You'd really have to try to come up with a worse deregulation plan than that. Anyway, in 2000 San Diego Gas and Electric had already paid off its bonds and retail prices were no longer fixed. That really was the first warning. Customers saw their power bills triple that summer. More history of the power crisis here.
Civil suits are decided on the preponderance of evidence. They're not like criminal cases with the presumption of innocence and proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
IE blurs the line between standalone app and integral part of the OS. IE is an integral part of every Windows since 98. However it's also available as a standalone installer for Windows 95 and NT 4.0 which never came with a web browser and also to upgrade IE on earlier Windows to a newer version. It's been a while since I installed Office on NT 4.0. Office 97 didn't require IE, but it's possible newer versions do.
There's a lot of spare agricultural capacity out there. Something like 70% of all U.S. farmland is used to grow livestock feed. Cheap hamburgers aren't that important to me. Also, biodiesel doesn't have to come from food crops. We can get biodiesel from algae that grows in salt water and ethanol from cellulosic plant waste (basically straw and plant stalks). Even with soybeans, there's plenty of nutritious stuff left over after you've extracted the oil.
If their cost is $80/barrel, I'd expect the energy cost of processing is included in that price. Since the plant is powered by natural gas from its own process, it doesn't depend on cheap energy from outside except for maybe some electricity from the grid.
Not exactly. Money buys advertising. Advertising can't work miracles if one side is much more popular, but it does make the difference in any competitive race.
Just for another datapoint, my desktop at work blue screens randomly with XP SP2 installed. I never could figure out what was causing it, and fortunately SP2 came with an uninstaller that rolled me back to SP1. It's the only computer in the office that had a problem with SP2, so I suppose it was better than happening to a user's computer.
Whitebox and CentOS are both RHEL compatible distros. The CentOS developers were probably threatened because they were getting popular enough to threaten sales of RHEL. They seem to be the better organized than Whitebox or the others. See here for a shamelessly self-promoting interview with the head of the caos foundation.
You could, but unless you have a lot of surplus electricity from your solar panel, you'd be better off using it to power your house, selling it back to the grid, or charging up your battery bank for use at night. Electrolysis to hydrogen to fuel cell makes for a very inefficient storage battery.
You'd be lucky to pay just $10 for a second line. After taxes and fees my landline from Verizon with no long distance and no calling features cost $28 a month.
The OS isn't analagous to the engine of a car, but aside from that, you don't have a Microsoft engine installed under the hood of every preassembled car on every dealership lot. I understand all the big name brand companies want to sell you a complete working system. The difference here is Microsoft has a monopoly on one component of a complete computer system, and many OEM agreements required computer makes to pay Microsoft for every system shipped even if it had a different OS under the hood.
You'd be amazed what apes can do. I saw an orangutan at the zoo. Some people had thrown popcorn onto the ground (a sloped hillside) outside the cage just out of reach. This ape had a big canvas rag that he pulled through the chain link fence, then swung the rag to knock the popcorn down the hill where he could grab it. Maybe he was a genius ape.
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"They could only find 18 singer-songwriters in Nashville that were desperate enough to talk / suck up to big-record-industry people"
You can tell pretty reliably who the sellouts are by who's willing to shill for the record companies by testifying, appearing in some PSA or suing the fans. No matter what you think of their music, Offspring are true punks who know how to fuck with the man. So to summarize:
Correct response to Napster by a counterculture icon- Sell unauthorized Napster logo caps and shirts on band website
Incorrect reponse to Napster by a counterculture icon- Sue to get fans' accounts cancelled
I don't know anything; I'm just a simple, simple man
That story only works if you're really not a computer expert who knows nothing about computers. It'll probably take all of five minutes to check out that story (employment history, ask family if you know about computers, etc.).
Umm.. do you *know* how food is processed these days? If 99 cent hamburgers aren't cheap, I don't know what is. You'd probably never eat another hamburger again if you saw the inside of a meat packing plant. And that just one example.
Some people give away the information voluntarily like in a wedding or baby registry.
You still chose to live there. I know there are advantages to living farther out like space and affordability, but the masses of people deciding to live in suburbs that are not walkable is why we, as a country, are so addicted to driving. Many of us could use the exercise too. Good article here.
Well, there is enough solar energy if only there was a way to cheaply capture all the energy falling on uninhabited land. Do you know how big the desert Southwest or Australian Outback is? PVs won't do it. You might be able to do it with saltwater algae ponds or solar towers. Nuclear fusion is the holy grail, but I don't think we'll perfect that by the time we run out of cheap oil.
This will deliver light to interior offices too. It sounds like they combined a solar concentrator and fiber optic cables.
Exactly, the issue isn't that these powers are already being abused by the feds. The issue is that they've reserved the right to use these powers. Think of it as filling up your plate at the all-you-can-eat buffet only it's a powergrab instead of food. The Justice Dept. asked for and received their wishlist of most every police power they wanted. It doesn't matter if they had immediate plans to use them all.
You think they got the idea from this bitchin' video card?
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This is different from previous attempts at regulating decency on TV. The FCC has authority over the airwaves, ie broadcast TV. There's already some mission creep when the FCC is regulating the content of radio and TV broadcasts. Its original mandate was to assign radio frequencies to licensees to prevent interference.
What's happening now is the Senate Commerce Committee is looking at regulating the content of cable and satellite TV under the guise of interstate commerce.
The sun won't run out of fuel for another 5 billion years. :-P
Correct, the power utilities figured prices would drop in a deregulated wholesale market and they would make out by selling at a fixed retail price. The fixed retail prices were tied to a 10% rate cut and a bigger surcharge called the Competition Transfer Charge (CTC), and these were to last for 4 years or until certain bonds were paid off, whichever was earlier. If it sounds confusing, it was. You'd really have to try to come up with a worse deregulation plan than that. Anyway, in 2000 San Diego Gas and Electric had already paid off its bonds and retail prices were no longer fixed. That really was the first warning. Customers saw their power bills triple that summer. More history of the power crisis here.
Civil suits are decided on the preponderance of evidence. They're not like criminal cases with the presumption of innocence and proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
IE blurs the line between standalone app and integral part of the OS. IE is an integral part of every Windows since 98. However it's also available as a standalone installer for Windows 95 and NT 4.0 which never came with a web browser and also to upgrade IE on earlier Windows to a newer version. It's been a while since I installed Office on NT 4.0. Office 97 didn't require IE, but it's possible newer versions do.
There's a lot of spare agricultural capacity out there. Something like 70% of all U.S. farmland is used to grow livestock feed. Cheap hamburgers aren't that important to me. Also, biodiesel doesn't have to come from food crops. We can get biodiesel from algae that grows in salt water and ethanol from cellulosic plant waste (basically straw and plant stalks). Even with soybeans, there's plenty of nutritious stuff left over after you've extracted the oil.
If their cost is $80/barrel, I'd expect the energy cost of processing is included in that price. Since the plant is powered by natural gas from its own process, it doesn't depend on cheap energy from outside except for maybe some electricity from the grid.
I'll say they're surviving. They've been profitable for at least the last three years. They made a $577M net profit last fiscal year.
Not exactly. Money buys advertising. Advertising can't work miracles if one side is much more popular, but it does make the difference in any competitive race.
Just for another datapoint, my desktop at work blue screens randomly with XP SP2 installed. I never could figure out what was causing it, and fortunately SP2 came with an uninstaller that rolled me back to SP1. It's the only computer in the office that had a problem with SP2, so I suppose it was better than happening to a user's computer.
Whitebox and CentOS are both RHEL compatible distros. The CentOS developers were probably threatened because they were getting popular enough to threaten sales of RHEL. They seem to be the better organized than Whitebox or the others. See here for a shamelessly self-promoting interview with the head of the caos foundation.
You could, but unless you have a lot of surplus electricity from your solar panel, you'd be better off using it to power your house, selling it back to the grid, or charging up your battery bank for use at night. Electrolysis to hydrogen to fuel cell makes for a very inefficient storage battery.
You'd be lucky to pay just $10 for a second line. After taxes and fees my landline from Verizon with no long distance and no calling features cost $28 a month.
The OS isn't analagous to the engine of a car, but aside from that, you don't have a Microsoft engine installed under the hood of every preassembled car on every dealership lot. I understand all the big name brand companies want to sell you a complete working system. The difference here is Microsoft has a monopoly on one component of a complete computer system, and many OEM agreements required computer makes to pay Microsoft for every system shipped even if it had a different OS under the hood.
You'd be amazed what apes can do. I saw an orangutan at the zoo. Some people had thrown popcorn onto the ground (a sloped hillside) outside the cage just out of reach. This ape had a big canvas rag that he pulled through the chain link fence, then swung the rag to knock the popcorn down the hill where he could grab it. Maybe he was a genius ape.