Is there any existing case law that confirms that "IRL" speech with "intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten" is a felony? If so, then just because it's online, doesn't mean you can get away with it.
I can see "defraud" (I promise a 15% return on your investment) and "threaten" (Steal my girl and I'll cap your knees) as speech types that aren't protected, but I'm not so sure about "harm" and "intimidate". We'll just have to see. One things for certain, it'll make an interesting case to watch.
The display on my monitor is now copyright Acer.
The output of Garage Band is now copyright Apple.
The document I just wrote in Word is now copyright Microsoft.
The text message I just sent is copyright Verizon.
The photo I just took is copyright Canon.
This opens Pandora's box like you wouldn't believe. We should be restraining copyright, not expanding it.
Laser TVs:
- Have higher contrast ratios (talk about true black)
- Produce a range of colors broader than HDTV
- Use less energy
Unfortunately, they're still expensive. The only one that's available that I know of is the Mitsubishi Laservue. It's $7000 over at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001IAAD3K).
Hopefully, this green laser will make Laser TVs more of an (afforable) reality.
I was using corn as an example, since there's lots of farm land. There are lots of ways to make money off of one acre of land. Open a big box retail store and you'll make more than $23,000 per year. But, open too many of them and at some point, some of them will go out of business.
Here's why (assuming the 20,000 gal/yr pans out) I don't think more than 1% of land would be converted:
- Startup costs would be too high.
- Increased supply would drive prices down until weaker businesses go out of business.
If 1% converts, the price of some crops will go up. This could be an incentive for others to grow and sell that crop (maybe they don't have the startup capital to get into biofuel) and the price would eventually come back down.
There needs to be an equivalent of Donald Knuth's
"Art of Computer Programming" as a definitive reference for parallel algorithms. Until then, I don't care how many cores you have, you won't get the most out of them.
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Is there any existing case law that confirms that "IRL" speech with "intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten" is a felony? If so, then just because it's online, doesn't mean you can get away with it.
I can see "defraud" (I promise a 15% return on your investment) and "threaten" (Steal my girl and I'll cap your knees) as speech types that aren't protected, but I'm not so sure about "harm" and "intimidate". We'll just have to see. One things for certain, it'll make an interesting case to watch.
Just use Linux.
Courts have ruled that a phone directory is copyright-able,
Not in the USA.
Wow. Talk about a SCOTUS smack down.
IANAL, but this may preclude the Wolfram|Alpha output from being copyrightable. We'll just have wait until a related case makes it to court.
The display on my monitor is now copyright Acer.
The output of Garage Band is now copyright Apple.
The document I just wrote in Word is now copyright Microsoft.
The text message I just sent is copyright Verizon.
The photo I just took is copyright Canon.
This opens Pandora's box like you wouldn't believe. We should be restraining copyright, not expanding it.
Xtools is free and the iPhone developer account is as little as $99
Myst?
Yes, it was great, but it could be a lot better with more modern game engines.
Goodbye DLP and LCD TVs and projectors.
Laser TVs:
- Have higher contrast ratios (talk about true black)
- Produce a range of colors broader than HDTV
- Use less energy
Unfortunately, they're still expensive. The only one that's available that I know of is the Mitsubishi Laservue. It's $7000 over at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001IAAD3K).
Hopefully, this green laser will make Laser TVs more of an (afforable) reality.
In the last sentence I said "depending on the cost of conversion and cost versus revenue".
I probably should have said "Revenue from" biofuel and corn instead of "Value of", though.
I was using corn as an example, since there's lots of farm land. There are lots of ways to make money off of one acre of land. Open a big box retail store and you'll make more than $23,000 per year. But, open too many of them and at some point, some of them will go out of business.
Here's why (assuming the 20,000 gal/yr pans out) I don't think more than 1% of land would be converted:
- Startup costs would be too high.
- Increased supply would drive prices down until weaker businesses go out of business.
If 1% converts, the price of some crops will go up. This could be an incentive for others to grow and sell that crop (maybe they don't have the startup capital to get into biofuel) and the price would eventually come back down.
Only time will tell.
Yeah, but it all boils down to dollars...
Assumptions:
- They can actually generate 20,000 gallons per acre per year
- 1 gallon of biofuel will get you the same mileage as 1 gallon of gasoline
US gasoline usage = 378,000,000 gallons/day = 137,970,000,000 gallons/year
Source: http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/quickoil.html
Area needed: 137,970,000,000 gallons/year / 20,000 gallons/acre/year = 6,898,500 acres = 10,779 sq.mi.
Comparative area: Massachusetts is 10,555 sq.mi.
So, we'd need an area slightly larger than MA to generate the needed biofuel. This may seem like alot, but...
Farmland in US: 922,095,840 acres = 1,440,774 sq. mi.
Source: http://www.ers.usda.gov/StateFacts/US.htm
Percent farmland to convert to biofuel: 10,555 sq. mi. / 1,440,774 sq. mi. = 0.73%
This isn't much, if you ask me.
Now, for the financial incentive to do so:
Value of 20,000 gallons of biofuel at $50/barrel: 20,000 gallons = 476 barrels * $50/barrel = $23,000
Corn yield of one acre: 162 bushels/acres (Iowa)
Source: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/pdf/a1-14.pdf
Value of 162 bushels of corn: 162 bushels * $4.77/bushel (Estimated 2008 Calendar Year Average) = $772.74
Source: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/pdf/a2-11.pdf
So, converting one acre of corn farmland to one acre of biofuel farmland will increase the revenue from $773 to $23,000, a nearly 30-fold increase.
So, this looks like it might be worth it depending on the cost of conversion and cost versus revenue. It'll certainly be interesting to watch.
There needs to be an equivalent of Donald Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" as a definitive reference for parallel algorithms. Until then, I don't care how many cores you have, you won't get the most out of them.