as long as the gas is pure, it can be used for carbonating drinks.
Sounds good so we get carbon out of the air then put it in a drink that releases it back into the air. It seems to me like we are just picking up the cost or supplying carbon to drink manufacturers.
I still think we should just plant bamboo as it grows quickly then we can harvest it like the do in China. This seems like a better plan then building a bunch of towers.
Lowering the price of the PS3? Hmmm... It is an impressive spec, but I don't think I shall buy one because FUCK SONY!
I thought the same thing until I realized I wanted a Blu-ray player and that all of the players cost near the same amount as a PS3 but they did not have nearly the amount of features. I ended up with the PS3 but I still do not own a single game for it I just rent them every once in a while.
This is the real thing the game companies need to worry about I did not buy the system to play games I bought it to play movies with the games as a nice addition. I don't know how many people did this which lowers the attachment rate more so then the price.
No, she can't. As I understand it, the amount is too large for her to be eligible for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Further, this type of civil damages generally cannot be waived through Chapter 7, but even if it could be, a Chapter 7 would mean liquidating her assets. She would literally walk away with nothing but the clothes on her back.
Short of somehow convincing a judge to allow her to dismiss this debt by filing Chapter 7, her only option, AFAIK, is to let the RIAA garnish her wages to the maximum extent allowable by law (25% of her income) for the rest of her life, then take all of her assets upon her death. In effect, she would be reduced to near indentured servitude by this verdict. We might as well have debtors' prisons. There's really little difference when faced with a civil judgment of this magnitude.
Heck I would just stop working and be homeless just so they get nothing out of it going forward.
I was on a jury a few years ago and I have to say I agree I'm not sure how the jury came up with the 80,000 per song if that would send her in to bankrupcy. I'm not sure what the family does for a living but something tells me this verdict will bankrupt them. It also seems excesive for the crime committed.
I say this because when I was on the jury in a fraud case we had specific instructions to fine the guilty party as much as we thought necessary but we could not try to send them into bankrupcy. I believe we came up with 800,000.
It would be almost brain-dead easy to put anything you want on a computer and then change the file properties to look like it was there before you gained access to the machine. I could do it on any given morning before I've even had a sip of coffee.
In Windows wouldn't this be as easy as changing the time on the computer then copying the file over?
I see this as a quick fix, but it's using some strong medicine.
Putting it into.pdf form (or whatever form they might fancy) will only inhibit the ability to think. You can't write down notes in the margins, even if you can highlight sections of text. This is analogous to freehand drawing vs computer aided drawing (creativity vs productivity).
When I was in K-12 I was not allowed to write in my book unless I paid a fee which was normally 75% of the cost of the book. I found this out after I started writing in one of my books during class because the teacher gave extra insight to the reading. After my parents paid I didn't get to keep the book and I was yelled at so I never wrote in a book again.
I think this would work just fine if the schools work like the way I remember. Of course I would think the school system would need to provide some sort of portable reader in case they need the book in the classroom.
Also this would eliminate another current problem of having so many books kids can't even carry bookbags on their shoulders anymore.
I say the US then goes after Microsoft and EULA that they put on their software declaring it illegal and that they must pay a fine as well as return $30 to every person who owns a copy of windows. I say that would make Ballmer shut his trap.
Not to mention I would love to claim a few hundred for the copies of windows I was forced to own.
It sure will be interesting to see how this one plays out. One might assert that the judge made a huge mistake by taking the case and thus wasting a tremendous amount of time and energy for both sides. Rather moronic for a judge, who should be able to see this type of conflicts.
Maybe the judge did it on purpose as he wants the case to go to mistrial and fail in the courts? Either that or he is so full of himself he thinks he can seperate his wants and desires to make a non biased decision. In that case he is full of crap!
Now my downloading of Linux ISO's and pre-release movies is going to be mingled with horse porn. Just what I always wanted.
Nope instead it will always show you downloading a CD from the RIAA so they can send you a bill. This is the new idea to raise money you write a program that makes everyone look like a criminal.
Maybe if we did do this we could invalidate their methods?
What crap. The spin on this story is outrageous. What is described in the article as "alleged fraud" is taken by the Slashdot submitter as "ZOMG, FBI is raiding people because they didn't pay their AT&T bill".
TFA mentions Verizon going to the FBI months ago, believing it had discovered a plan to defraud the telcos out of fees (i.e. illegal access to and use of the telephone network, hence the FBI involvement).
Seriously, it's days like this I hate Slashdot.
Wow you must really dislike Slashdot as this is typical every day.
Might as well just give up and read something else!
The biggest IMHO is "crowd sourcing" grocery lists. So you go to the store and scan in what you're going to buy, punch in the price and it gets added to a database. Use the GPS to determine the store.
Get a few hundred people checking prices and you'll have a fairly accurate database of prices. Then you go home, made a grocery list and have it calculate where the cheapest place to shop is.
I like this idea but I also wish you could get this to work with the local grocery store so I can scan and bag all the items then walk up and check out within seconds. A local Giant store has their own handheld scanners and this is terrific especially the bag as you go part.
T1 gets my vote as one of the best games of all time. PERFECT game-play for the most part. If they had just updated the graphics engine and maps but touched no other code for a T2 and T3 version I would have been happy; while T2 was good it was lacking a certain....something.
I played T1 all the time and T2 seemed to miss the same mods that people came out with. Then again T1 mods seemed to go too far in some cases which caused me to stop playing it as often.
I hope this browser version is like the original as I thought it was an amazing game that caused me to stay up till the sun came up without realizing it.
Who in the world gave them a patent on ebooks in 2007? I could see it in 1999, but this sounds like one of those file then modify deals. I guess the patent office has never heard of a Rocketbook or Gemstar. I think the Rocketbook came out in 1998 and the Gemstar REB1100 with all the fancy DRM came out in 2001. I am pretty sure they were not the first. Lawyers and MBAs, there should be a bounty on them.
According to my Father-in-Law who worked for the patent office over 15 years ago they started to outsource the some of the work and the people they outsourced to did not understand prior art and did not do hours of research on each patent to make sure. Also it is much easier to pass things through then fail things which is why he retired.
He still shakes his head when I tell him some of the things that have gone through and he doesn't know anything about computers.
I agree I purchased a PS3 recently and I had the choice to purchase any of the systems. The PS3 won out because it had Blu-Ray support which I wanted and could play games. While I like the Wii I find it much more fun when other people are playing as it is more of a multiplayer system.
I looked into the Xbox 360 but was thinking I would then purchase a Blu-Ray player that would quickly be higher priced then the PS3 which can play games as well. If the PS3 was $50 or $100 cheaper this would have been a very easy choice.
I also use the PS3 to stream videos and music off my computer which the Xbox can do as well.
at two fee that is a savings of $20 as at the store near me it costs $10 to rent a game.
I have to say the one advantage of the in store return was when I received a damaged disk (3 times over 3 years) I could take it to the store and return it for that movie or another so I could still watch a movie. I could also go online and report the disk so they would ship out the next movie. If they get rid of this I will cancel as they are slow when sending movies and I'm not sure I will be able to wait the standard 3 days for turnaround when I typically watch movies during the weekend.
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I don't get it...
1. Build ISS 2. Deorbit... . . . X. Profit?!?!
This is NASA which is government funded so profit does not happen so instead the last step is infusions of capital from Congress.
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1. Build ISS
2. Talk about Deorbit and deadline
3.
4. Cash Infusion from Congress to keep ISS in obit
5. Deorbit ISS anyhow
as long as the gas is pure, it can be used for carbonating drinks.
Sounds good so we get carbon out of the air then put it in a drink that releases it back into the air. It seems to me like we are just picking up the cost or supplying carbon to drink manufacturers.
I still think we should just plant bamboo as it grows quickly then we can harvest it like the do in China. This seems like a better plan then building a bunch of towers.
Lowering the price of the PS3? Hmmm... It is an impressive spec, but I don't think I shall buy one because FUCK SONY!
I thought the same thing until I realized I wanted a Blu-ray player and that all of the players cost near the same amount as a PS3 but they did not have nearly the amount of features. I ended up with the PS3 but I still do not own a single game for it I just rent them every once in a while.
This is the real thing the game companies need to worry about I did not buy the system to play games I bought it to play movies with the games as a nice addition. I don't know how many people did this which lowers the attachment rate more so then the price.
No, she can't. As I understand it, the amount is too large for her to be eligible for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Further, this type of civil damages generally cannot be waived through Chapter 7, but even if it could be, a Chapter 7 would mean liquidating her assets. She would literally walk away with nothing but the clothes on her back.
Short of somehow convincing a judge to allow her to dismiss this debt by filing Chapter 7, her only option, AFAIK, is to let the RIAA garnish her wages to the maximum extent allowable by law (25% of her income) for the rest of her life, then take all of her assets upon her death. In effect, she would be reduced to near indentured servitude by this verdict. We might as well have debtors' prisons. There's really little difference when faced with a civil judgment of this magnitude.
Heck I would just stop working and be homeless just so they get nothing out of it going forward.
I was on a jury a few years ago and I have to say I agree I'm not sure how the jury came up with the 80,000 per song if that would send her in to bankrupcy. I'm not sure what the family does for a living but something tells me this verdict will bankrupt them. It also seems excesive for the crime committed.
I say this because when I was on the jury in a fraud case we had specific instructions to fine the guilty party as much as we thought necessary but we could not try to send them into bankrupcy. I believe we came up with 800,000.
It would be almost brain-dead easy to put anything you want on a computer and then change the file properties to look like it was there before you gained access to the machine. I could do it on any given morning before I've even had a sip of coffee.
In Windows wouldn't this be as easy as changing the time on the computer then copying the file over?
I see this as a quick fix, but it's using some strong medicine.
Putting it into .pdf form (or whatever form they might fancy) will only inhibit the ability to think. You can't write down notes in the margins, even if you can highlight sections of text. This is analogous to freehand drawing vs computer aided drawing (creativity vs productivity).
When I was in K-12 I was not allowed to write in my book unless I paid a fee which was normally 75% of the cost of the book. I found this out after I started writing in one of my books during class because the teacher gave extra insight to the reading. After my parents paid I didn't get to keep the book and I was yelled at so I never wrote in a book again.
I think this would work just fine if the schools work like the way I remember. Of course I would think the school system would need to provide some sort of portable reader in case they need the book in the classroom.
Also this would eliminate another current problem of having so many books kids can't even carry bookbags on their shoulders anymore.
I say the US then goes after Microsoft and EULA that they put on their software declaring it illegal and that they must pay a fine as well as return $30 to every person who owns a copy of windows. I say that would make Ballmer shut his trap. Not to mention I would love to claim a few hundred for the copies of windows I was forced to own.
In California we have 3 seasons: Spring, Rain and Fire.
Wait they have a rain season, then why are they always having a drought?
That is what the wife is for.
I don't think you should be lighting your wire on fire to check if the nitrogen is leaking.
It sure will be interesting to see how this one plays out. One might assert that the judge made a huge mistake by taking the case and thus wasting a tremendous amount of time and energy for both sides. Rather moronic for a judge, who should be able to see this type of conflicts.
Maybe the judge did it on purpose as he wants the case to go to mistrial and fail in the courts? Either that or he is so full of himself he thinks he can seperate his wants and desires to make a non biased decision. In that case he is full of crap!
Well he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog... Well, replace the word "kinda" with "repeatedly" and the word "dog" with "son,".
Now my downloading of Linux ISO's and pre-release movies is going to be mingled with horse porn. Just what I always wanted.
Nope instead it will always show you downloading a CD from the RIAA so they can send you a bill. This is the new idea to raise money you write a program that makes everyone look like a criminal.
Maybe if we did do this we could invalidate their methods?
What crap. The spin on this story is outrageous. What is described in the article as "alleged fraud" is taken by the Slashdot submitter as "ZOMG, FBI is raiding people because they didn't pay their AT&T bill".
TFA mentions Verizon going to the FBI months ago, believing it had discovered a plan to defraud the telcos out of fees (i.e. illegal access to and use of the telephone network, hence the FBI involvement).
Seriously, it's days like this I hate Slashdot.
Wow you must really dislike Slashdot as this is typical every day. Might as well just give up and read something else!
because google only has beta products so they are joking about releasing CADIE, this is just the launch of the beta.
That would be sweet but alas I believe nothing on April 1st.
The biggest IMHO is "crowd sourcing" grocery lists. So you go to the store and scan in what you're going to buy, punch in the price and it gets added to a database. Use the GPS to determine the store.
Get a few hundred people checking prices and you'll have a fairly accurate database of prices. Then you go home, made a grocery list and have it calculate where the cheapest place to shop is.
I like this idea but I also wish you could get this to work with the local grocery store so I can scan and bag all the items then walk up and check out within seconds. A local Giant store has their own handheld scanners and this is terrific especially the bag as you go part.
what happened to all the stuff we learned in school about proof reading?
Proof reading its easier to just not make missteaks.
I played T1 all the time and T2 seemed to miss the same mods that people came out with. Then again T1 mods seemed to go too far in some cases which caused me to stop playing it as often.
I hope this browser version is like the original as I thought it was an amazing game that caused me to stay up till the sun came up without realizing it.
This must be the problem facing the team creating Duke Nukem Forever.
They needed the AI to be dumb enough so you could hear the comments all the time during the game.
According to my Father-in-Law who worked for the patent office over 15 years ago they started to outsource the some of the work and the people they outsourced to did not understand prior art and did not do hours of research on each patent to make sure. Also it is much easier to pass things through then fail things which is why he retired.
He still shakes his head when I tell him some of the things that have gone through and he doesn't know anything about computers.
I agree I purchased a PS3 recently and I had the choice to purchase any of the systems. The PS3 won out because it had Blu-Ray support which I wanted and could play games. While I like the Wii I find it much more fun when other people are playing as it is more of a multiplayer system.
I looked into the Xbox 360 but was thinking I would then purchase a Blu-Ray player that would quickly be higher priced then the PS3 which can play games as well. If the PS3 was $50 or $100 cheaper this would have been a very easy choice.
I also use the PS3 to stream videos and music off my computer which the Xbox can do as well.
at two fee that is a savings of $20 as at the store near me it costs $10 to rent a game. I have to say the one advantage of the in store return was when I received a damaged disk (3 times over 3 years) I could take it to the store and return it for that movie or another so I could still watch a movie. I could also go online and report the disk so they would ship out the next movie. If they get rid of this I will cancel as they are slow when sending movies and I'm not sure I will be able to wait the standard 3 days for turnaround when I typically watch movies during the weekend.