"Nobody forces companies to accept unions"??? Labor laws do exactly that. Once the majority of workers at a company agree to organize, there isn't anything the company (or even the workers who don't want to be represented) can do to stop it; they have to accept the union & begin negotiating.
And as for a recession, what's a union going to do about it? Force the company to keep you on the payroll when there's nothing for you to do anymore? Yeah, I'll bet companies just LOVE that.
Where I live, AT&T (formerly TCI) has been the only cable company in town for the last 20 years. So many people have complained about the service, though, that the city finally signed an additional contract with another cable company (I don't recall the name). It'll take a couple years for the new company to get their infrastructure in place, but it will be interesting to see whether things improve once people here have a real choice.
Natural gas is mainly methane, which has 4 hydrogen atoms per molecule - twice as much as water.
Also, the GE device in the story combines the hydrogen with oxygen from the air as part of the generation process. If they obtained the hydrogen from water in the first place, they couldn't possibly wind up with any energy left over.
Can you imagine what a tough time they would have selling these things if you also had to replace every single electrical device in your house?
It's a real chicken & egg problem. Nobody will buy an energy source that won't work with their existing appliances & electronics, and nobody will buy a new appliance that won't work with their existing power supply. We're going to be using AC for a long time, even if it isn't the best distribution method around the house.
In other words, back when relatively few people were using Napster, more CDs were sold. That hardly constitutes proof that Napster usage hasn't effected CD sales. This year's sales figures would be relevant, but last year's don't mean a thing.
The BBC store at http://www.bbcshop.com/bbc_shop/ shows HGTTG on both CD & cassette (although the CDs are "temporarily unavailable"). These might be the radio shows (they also might be the re-recorded versions they released on LP at the time).
Who cares whether those eyballs see "regular TV" or "Internet TV" or what ever.
Your local TV station, that's who. They've negotiated exclusive rights to broadcast the network TV signal in your area, and they get cut out if you watch the network from another source.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the major networks were under pressure from the local stations to pursue this. It seems very similar to the battles fought the last couple years over DSS companies providing network signals to their subscribers & cutting out the local stations. Unfortunately, the solution they came up with for DSS doesn't seems as workable on the internet - how can you tell where the viewers are?
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"Nobody forces companies to accept unions"??? Labor laws do exactly that. Once the majority of workers at a company agree to organize, there isn't anything the company (or even the workers who don't want to be represented) can do to stop it; they have to accept the union & begin negotiating. And as for a recession, what's a union going to do about it? Force the company to keep you on the payroll when there's nothing for you to do anymore? Yeah, I'll bet companies just LOVE that.
You can't build up a charge on yourself if you're constantly grounded through the carpet.
Where I live, AT&T (formerly TCI) has been the only cable company in town for the last 20 years. So many people have complained about the service, though, that the city finally signed an additional contract with another cable company (I don't recall the name). It'll take a couple years for the new company to get their infrastructure in place, but it will be interesting to see whether things improve once people here have a real choice.
Natural gas is mainly methane, which has 4 hydrogen atoms per molecule - twice as much as water. Also, the GE device in the story combines the hydrogen with oxygen from the air as part of the generation process. If they obtained the hydrogen from water in the first place, they couldn't possibly wind up with any energy left over.
Can you imagine what a tough time they would have selling these things if you also had to replace every single electrical device in your house? It's a real chicken & egg problem. Nobody will buy an energy source that won't work with their existing appliances & electronics, and nobody will buy a new appliance that won't work with their existing power supply. We're going to be using AC for a long time, even if it isn't the best distribution method around the house.
In other words, back when relatively few people were using Napster, more CDs were sold. That hardly constitutes proof that Napster usage hasn't effected CD sales. This year's sales figures would be relevant, but last year's don't mean a thing.
I don't see why. Under the DMCA, a printed version of DeCSS is no less illegal than an online version, so it's hardly an effective workaround.
The BBC store at http://www.bbcshop.com/bbc_shop/ shows HGTTG on both CD & cassette (although the CDs are "temporarily unavailable"). These might be the radio shows (they also might be the re-recorded versions they released on LP at the time).
Your local TV station, that's who. They've negotiated exclusive rights to broadcast the network TV signal in your area, and they get cut out if you watch the network from another source.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the major networks were under pressure from the local stations to pursue this. It seems very similar to the battles fought the last couple years over DSS companies providing network signals to their subscribers & cutting out the local stations. Unfortunately, the solution they came up with for DSS doesn't seems as workable on the internet - how can you tell where the viewers are?