The League of Women Voters has been excluding third party candidates from debates for years.
Uh, not quite. As I recall, control over presidential debates was wrested from them after they let Perot take part and was placed in the hands of the Committee for Presidential Debates, an organization that was, last time I checked, co-chaired by former heads of the GOP and DNC. They have, of course, set up rules all but forbidding third parties from taking part. The last time candidates really tried to get into one, they got arrested for their troubles.
The Democrats may not be quite as bad as the Republicans these days, but they are just as enamored of the sick duopoly they helped set up.
Okay, so hand them a couple terabytes from/dev/rand with a few core dumps thrown in to provide the illusion of structure. If the real thing would be gibberish, then real gibberish will do just as well.
You're missing the point. In this case, you cannot know that what you just did (a normal, legal action, withdrawing your own money from your own account) was a crime until you have already committed it and the money was in your hand.
Should the driver of JFK's car in Dallas be held responsible for the assassination? After all, if he had slammed the brakes right before Oswald fired, the President wouldn't have died. It was fundamentally impossible for him to know he could have stopped the crime until after the fact, but should that matter? After all, lack of intent and ignorance of the law are no excuse.
Furthermore, your examples are usually the case of someone doing something stupid or negligent and someone else gets hurt by it. With the ATMs, the entity screwing up is the bank and the entity being hurt is the bank, but the person being held responsible for it is the customer? WTF is that? The customer here is a beneficiary of the mistake, sure, but an unwilling, unknowing one.
Just make the standard at 100F instead of 60F, then temperature sensors will be all the rage, as they apparently are in canada.
The oil companies would respond by trying to accelerate global warming and push the average temperature over 100F so they can start saving money again.
Let's just take the simple approach here, shall we, and not worry about concentric spheres? At the scales we're talking about (1 meter added onto 6700 km) the increased sphere area will be trivial.
Now, Google tells me that earth's water surface area is 362 million sq km. To cover all that with one meter of water will take 3.62e14 m^2 * 1 m = 3.62e14 m^3 = 362,000 cubic kilometers. Wikipedia tells me that Antarctica and Greenland between them hold basically all of the ice on the planet, with a grand total of 30,000,000 cubic km of ice.
What that says to me is that there's enough ice locked up to flood the bottom 100 meters of land. Which would cover pretty much every last piece of dirt for 300 kilometers from where I sit. The Wikipedia article on the Antarctic ice sheet basically agrees with me, citing an increase of 70 meters.
The problem, came from your calculation of the volume of the difference of the concentric spheres. You came up with 500 million cubic km to cover 362 million square km with one meter thickness. Looks like you added an extra _kilometer_ to the radius, not one meter.
No, you keep paying the copyright fee for the photo only so long as you want to be able to claim to be the creator of the photo and receive money for its use. If you stop, then the copyright expires and the publisher/author of the book no longer has to pay you royalties. Likewise, they in turn must continue paying taxes on their copyright of the book, otherwise they get no protection from Uncle Sam when someone starts printing up their own copies.
The point, as has been discussed, is that only a vanishly small fraction of copyrighted works make money after the first year, and virtually nothing after a few decades. Yet we continue to extend copyrights for _all_ works just to keep the owners of the bare handful of long-lived moneymakers happy. The result is that a lot of derivative, or even vaguely related, work is made vastly more difficult, expensive, or downright impossible.
The nominal fee system is the simplest way of weeding out copyrights on works that nobody cares about anymore. It doesn't even have to be as high as $20. $1 would suffice; it is only to serve as a... 'placeholder' is the term that comes to mind. A simple statement of "Yes, I am still here".
Plus there's the possibility that the universe is spatially a hypersphere, which would appear to have infinite volume to our puny 3-dimensional senses. Analagous to a sphere which appears to have infinite surface area to a 2-D citizen of Flatland.
Eh, you're both right. Either we become extinct on this one lousy rock in the next century or two, or we expand out into space and basically become unkillable. After that all we need is time.
One line from Vernor Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_ that caught my attention was the almost casual mention that when the human race had expanded to a volume many hundreds of light years wide, "Earth had had to be recolonized from scratch 4 times" since the civilizations would last for a few thousand years and then self-destruct to totality.
Which is what really pisses me off about NASA. All we need for them to do, all we've _ever_ needed from them, was cheap and reliable access to LEO. Probes, stations, zero-g experiments, even the moon missions, it's all really super cool but we've got universities and companies and throngs of avid would-be astronauts who would do it if they only could afford to.
And several different sorts of robot eyes are a heck of a lot better than human eyes.
Ok. Like what? Or, more specifically, what can a robot do that a human could not do with the right equipment? And better yet, with a robotic explorer, that equipment has to be kept on hand at all times and can only be used in a very limited fashion. With a human, it can be stuffed in a closet and brought out as needed and adapted and adjusted on the fly.
Unmanned missions are cheaper because you can't do shit with them. If your entire goal was to take pictures from a single location and feed a few small surface rocks into a strictly predefined set of testing equipment, then you might have a case. But basically every other type of mission that would be merely expensive for a human could simply not be done by robot, for any amount.
Rebecca Gordon and Jan Adams, two journalists with a San Francisco-based antiwar magazine called War Times
Virgine Lawinger, a nun in Milwaukee and an activist with Peace Action
Doug Stuber, who ran Ralph Nader's Green Party presidential campaign in North Carolina in 2004. Who also "claims he was able to discern a long list of progressive political organizations. Among those he was able to make out clearly on the list: the Green Party, Greenpeace, Earth First! and Amnesty International".
the few unfortunate Muslims from China
A) It was closer to 10% of the prison population at Gitmo, B) You are missing the point entirely, and C) Gee whiz, how truly kind of us to keep them incarcerated because it's too much trouble to turn them loose.
I can see, how this could be the problem for Bush's personal enemies: "we know, he is guilty, but we can't prove it". The rest of us are fine.
Ok, Bush has gone on national TV and admitted that he is guilty about the wiretapping. So there's no question of proof. He just says it doesn't matter, and like a good little lapdog you accept his judgement. The same judgement that got us into Iraq. The same judgement that put Brownie in charge of FEMA. The same judgement responsible for the GOP's faith-based government. The same judgement that turned a budget surplus into record-breaking deficits. The same judgement that tried to appoint to the Supreme Court a woman whose only qualification was that she was a friend of his. The same judgement that signs everything Congress puts in front of him so he can just ignore it when he wants to.
We have checks and balances because it is the surest bet in the world that people will abuse power. Bush ignores them and you say, "I have no problem with that". Well guess what genius, some of us don't blindly trust someone because they have an 'R' next to their name, hate gays and non-christians, and help their friends get rich.
"Bush's personal enemies"? And what does that make you, his personal friend and ally? It is truly awe-inspiring how quickly the Republicans have developed a cult of personality about their Dear Leader. Bush is a true American, he can be trusted with unlimited power to save us! Bush is Christ reincarnate and loves Freedom Fries! Bush has never made a mistake! Personal enemies of Bush are personal enemies of me and of America!
And no, the rest of us are not 'fine'. What are his poll ratings down to? Nixon plus 7%? The only people left who suport him are like you; the man could rape and murder an entire girl scout troop on primetime and you'd swear "it was a dirty liberal plot to help our enemies". Geeez, what a sucker.
Oh this just gets better and better. So not only do I have a highly broken version of the movie that is lower in quality and costs as much as the mostly-unbroken DVD, but the movie won't play without an internet connection.
If they tried to sell a DVD player that had to be plugged into the phone line before it would play anything, and that phone requirement added _nothing_ to the movie, they would not sell a single one. Whether it was intended to be one from the start, this is a really stupid idea.
The headers are identifiable, yes, but the data itself is effectively random. If the connection is over HTTPS and bounced off a remote proxy server, how can a spying third party tell whether the content is a purchase order confirmation for dog chew toys or the Federalist Papers? As has been pointed out, encrypted data is commonplace enough to not warrant suspicion by itself, and to consider it such would effectively preclude the possiblity of online business and banking.
The internet is a big dumb object. Blacklisting what you can do on it leaves whole fields of Interesting Activities, and whitelisting renders it useless.
but there is no evidence whatsoever that Bush uses it as a shit list
There is no evidence whatsoever about what Bush is using it for, good or bad. Which is the whole problem. But considering the people who show up on the No-Fly list (higher-ups of third parties and environmental and anti-war groups) and the fact that people the White House has publicly admitted to be utterly innocent are _still_ being held in Gitmo, I see no reason to think this administration is above abusing phone taps that even the ridiculously tap-happy FISA court wouldn't grant. Shit, look what it took to force them to give Jose Padilla a trial; and he was _nothing_, just a lousy nobody street punk.
And c'mon, who the hell is running that No-Fly list? First, to actually put a name like "T Kennedy" on it, WTF were they thinking? Second, consider for a moment what it actually is. Even if it worked perfectly, it is at it's core a list of people soooo dangerous and lethal that they cannot be allowed onto an airplane for any reason, ever. Oh, but we can't arrest them for anything.
People will abuse power if they can get away with it. Period, end of statement. To suggest otherwise implies the naivete of a child. They have done so for the entirety of human history and there is no reason to think they will stop anytime in the future. And the surest way to get away with it is to keep your abuses secret. So tell me, exactly why I should trust a dishonest, lying scumbag like Dubya not to abuse his secrecy.
In his debate with Larry Lessig a few years back, Larry called him on that statement. Valenti, I shit you not, stood by it and claimed that the VCR was everything he said it would be because it was costing the MPAA member companies billions each and every year.
Where do you get this peculiar notion that copyright lasts one hundred years? Are you daft? That would be ridiculous! No self-respecting artist would allow their work to be held for that long.
No, my friend, copyright has an unknown duration with a theoretical maximum of about two hundred years. Now _that's_ a monopoly guaranteed to make me get out there and produce! Why, if I knew that my as-yet unborn children's children's children might find themselves unable to live off of my work, I daresay I'd be heartbroken and unable to write a single line of code. But security in the knowledge that my descendants out to six generations or so will be able to collect the non-existent royalties off my outdated work is truly inspiring!
Have him arrested? Put on a no-fly-list? Detained indefinitely for giving aid and comfort to 'the enemy'? Decide that Comedy Central needs some attention from the FCC? Any number of things that Bush has declared is well within his right to inflict on the American public.
Determine a congressperson's salary as the average salary of the state/district they represent
That is a really cool idea. And the best part is, that 'average income' would have to be calculated from the individual incomes the IRS can track, right? So increasing the income of corporations and the uber-rich, with untaxed and untaxable income, wouldn't apply towards that amount.
Because it is extremely profitable (and not always in terms of money) to the dealers, the cops, the prisons, the courts, the FBI and DEA, and the politicians.
The idea of a 6000 year old earth has no real literal basis
And young-earth creationists will just as fiercely argue that it does, and with just as much empirical evidence to support them, as the old-earth IDers who claim that it was merely %(unspecified omniscient omnipotent omnibenevolent deity who just happens to love Christians)% lending a helping mutating hand.
Since both groups argue from a position of blind faith in the Babylonian version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, why should I give any more credence to one than the other? Because the ID-ers ignore slightly fewer fields of scientific study than the other? Gee whiz...
It's like watching two kids get into a headed debate over whether Batman or Superman would win in a fight, or the Enterprise vs a Star Destroyer. Obviously Bruce Wayne and the Federation would prevail, but the point is, the only reality checks for such an argument will be found in works of fiction.
Again, no. Nothing is ever observed to be travelling faster than light. Time dilation causes combined velocities to approach ever closer to c but it can still never be exceeded.
To wit: If you and I are both travelling at 0.75c directly towards each other, I would not perceive you to be travelling 1.5c in relation to me nor vice versa. Specfically, we would perceive each other to be doing... 0.96c due to our respective time dilations.
Equation for combined velocities (speeds are % of c): (vA + vB) / (1 + vA * vB)
It's the proximity to those wacky North Koreans. See, their philosophy of Juche claims that illness is caused by insufficient devotion to the Party. Imperialist vaccination with strange western chemicals is no substitute for hard labor for the benefit of the DPRK!
And wholly unsuitable if you are going any great distance, are in a hurry, in inclement weather, need to carry something other than what will fit in a backpack, or any combination thereof.
For me, getting to work and back on a bike would be 4 or 5 hours of my day. And I'm sure as hell not going to haul around great big sheets of plywood in anything but the bed of my truck. And that constitutes 90% of my time on the road on weekdays and weekends, respectively.
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The League of Women Voters has been excluding third party candidates from debates for years.
Uh, not quite. As I recall, control over presidential debates was wrested from them after they let Perot take part and was placed in the hands of the Committee for Presidential Debates, an organization that was, last time I checked, co-chaired by former heads of the GOP and DNC. They have, of course, set up rules all but forbidding third parties from taking part. The last time candidates really tried to get into one, they got arrested for their troubles.
The Democrats may not be quite as bad as the Republicans these days, but they are just as enamored of the sick duopoly they helped set up.
Okay, so hand them a couple terabytes from /dev/rand with a few core dumps thrown in to provide the illusion of structure. If the real thing would be gibberish, then real gibberish will do just as well.
You're missing the point. In this case, you cannot know that what you just did (a normal, legal action, withdrawing your own money from your own account) was a crime until you have already committed it and the money was in your hand.
Should the driver of JFK's car in Dallas be held responsible for the assassination? After all, if he had slammed the brakes right before Oswald fired, the President wouldn't have died. It was fundamentally impossible for him to know he could have stopped the crime until after the fact, but should that matter? After all, lack of intent and ignorance of the law are no excuse.
Furthermore, your examples are usually the case of someone doing something stupid or negligent and someone else gets hurt by it. With the ATMs, the entity screwing up is the bank and the entity being hurt is the bank, but the person being held responsible for it is the customer? WTF is that? The customer here is a beneficiary of the mistake, sure, but an unwilling, unknowing one.
Just make the standard at 100F instead of 60F, then temperature sensors will be all the rage, as they apparently are in canada.
The oil companies would respond by trying to accelerate global warming and push the average temperature over 100F so they can start saving money again.
You have interesting math.
Let's just take the simple approach here, shall we, and not worry about concentric spheres? At the scales we're talking about (1 meter added onto 6700 km) the increased sphere area will be trivial.
Now, Google tells me that earth's water surface area is 362 million sq km. To cover all that with one meter of water will take 3.62e14 m^2 * 1 m = 3.62e14 m^3 = 362,000 cubic kilometers. Wikipedia tells me that Antarctica and Greenland between them hold basically all of the ice on the planet, with a grand total of 30,000,000 cubic km of ice.
What that says to me is that there's enough ice locked up to flood the bottom 100 meters of land. Which would cover pretty much every last piece of dirt for 300 kilometers from where I sit. The Wikipedia article on the Antarctic ice sheet basically agrees with me, citing an increase of 70 meters.
The problem, came from your calculation of the volume of the difference of the concentric spheres. You came up with 500 million cubic km to cover 362 million square km with one meter thickness. Looks like you added an extra _kilometer_ to the radius, not one meter.
No, you keep paying the copyright fee for the photo only so long as you want to be able to claim to be the creator of the photo and receive money for its use. If you stop, then the copyright expires and the publisher/author of the book no longer has to pay you royalties. Likewise, they in turn must continue paying taxes on their copyright of the book, otherwise they get no protection from Uncle Sam when someone starts printing up their own copies.
... 'placeholder' is the term that comes to mind. A simple statement of "Yes, I am still here".
The point, as has been discussed, is that only a vanishly small fraction of copyrighted works make money after the first year, and virtually nothing after a few decades. Yet we continue to extend copyrights for _all_ works just to keep the owners of the bare handful of long-lived moneymakers happy. The result is that a lot of derivative, or even vaguely related, work is made vastly more difficult, expensive, or downright impossible.
The nominal fee system is the simplest way of weeding out copyrights on works that nobody cares about anymore. It doesn't even have to be as high as $20. $1 would suffice; it is only to serve as a
Plus there's the possibility that the universe is spatially a hypersphere, which would appear to have infinite volume to our puny 3-dimensional senses. Analagous to a sphere which appears to have infinite surface area to a 2-D citizen of Flatland.
Eh, you're both right. Either we become extinct on this one lousy rock in the next century or two, or we expand out into space and basically become unkillable. After that all we need is time.
One line from Vernor Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_ that caught my attention was the almost casual mention that when the human race had expanded to a volume many hundreds of light years wide, "Earth had had to be recolonized from scratch 4 times" since the civilizations would last for a few thousand years and then self-destruct to totality.
Which is what really pisses me off about NASA. All we need for them to do, all we've _ever_ needed from them, was cheap and reliable access to LEO. Probes, stations, zero-g experiments, even the moon missions, it's all really super cool but we've got universities and companies and throngs of avid would-be astronauts who would do it if they only could afford to.
That's because "Run as" is an unsatisfactory substitute for su.
It never fucking works. Just tested it right now; I can't even Run As an application in C:\ with the user I'm currently logged in as.
And don't even get me started on simply trying to access a given path as a different user.
And several different sorts of robot eyes are a heck of a lot better than human eyes.
Ok. Like what? Or, more specifically, what can a robot do that a human could not do with the right equipment? And better yet, with a robotic explorer, that equipment has to be kept on hand at all times and can only be used in a very limited fashion. With a human, it can be stuffed in a closet and brought out as needed and adapted and adjusted on the fly.
Unmanned missions are cheaper because you can't do shit with them. If your entire goal was to take pictures from a single location and feed a few small surface rocks into a strictly predefined set of testing equipment, then you might have a case. But basically every other type of mission that would be merely expensive for a human could simply not be done by robot, for any amount.
Rebecca Gordon and Jan Adams, two journalists with a San Francisco-based antiwar magazine called War Times
Virgine Lawinger, a nun in Milwaukee and an activist with Peace Action
Doug Stuber, who ran Ralph Nader's Green Party presidential campaign in North Carolina in 2004. Who also "claims he was able to discern a long list of progressive political organizations. Among those he was able to make out clearly on the list: the Green Party, Greenpeace, Earth First! and Amnesty International".
the few unfortunate Muslims from China
A) It was closer to 10% of the prison population at Gitmo, B) You are missing the point entirely, and C) Gee whiz, how truly kind of us to keep them incarcerated because it's too much trouble to turn them loose.
I can see, how this could be the problem for Bush's personal enemies: "we know, he is guilty, but we can't prove it". The rest of us are fine.
Ok, Bush has gone on national TV and admitted that he is guilty about the wiretapping. So there's no question of proof. He just says it doesn't matter, and like a good little lapdog you accept his judgement. The same judgement that got us into Iraq. The same judgement that put Brownie in charge of FEMA. The same judgement responsible for the GOP's faith-based government. The same judgement that turned a budget surplus into record-breaking deficits. The same judgement that tried to appoint to the Supreme Court a woman whose only qualification was that she was a friend of his. The same judgement that signs everything Congress puts in front of him so he can just ignore it when he wants to.
We have checks and balances because it is the surest bet in the world that people will abuse power. Bush ignores them and you say, "I have no problem with that". Well guess what genius, some of us don't blindly trust someone because they have an 'R' next to their name, hate gays and non-christians, and help their friends get rich.
"Bush's personal enemies"? And what does that make you, his personal friend and ally? It is truly awe-inspiring how quickly the Republicans have developed a cult of personality about their Dear Leader. Bush is a true American, he can be trusted with unlimited power to save us! Bush is Christ reincarnate and loves Freedom Fries! Bush has never made a mistake! Personal enemies of Bush are personal enemies of me and of America!
And no, the rest of us are not 'fine'. What are his poll ratings down to? Nixon plus 7%? The only people left who suport him are like you; the man could rape and murder an entire girl scout troop on primetime and you'd swear "it was a dirty liberal plot to help our enemies". Geeez, what a sucker.
Oh this just gets better and better. So not only do I have a highly broken version of the movie that is lower in quality and costs as much as the mostly-unbroken DVD, but the movie won't play without an internet connection.
If they tried to sell a DVD player that had to be plugged into the phone line before it would play anything, and that phone requirement added _nothing_ to the movie, they would not sell a single one. Whether it was intended to be one from the start, this is a really stupid idea.
The headers are identifiable, yes, but the data itself is effectively random. If the connection is over HTTPS and bounced off a remote proxy server, how can a spying third party tell whether the content is a purchase order confirmation for dog chew toys or the Federalist Papers? As has been pointed out, encrypted data is commonplace enough to not warrant suspicion by itself, and to consider it such would effectively preclude the possiblity of online business and banking.
The internet is a big dumb object. Blacklisting what you can do on it leaves whole fields of Interesting Activities, and whitelisting renders it useless.
but there is no evidence whatsoever that Bush uses it as a shit list
There is no evidence whatsoever about what Bush is using it for, good or bad. Which is the whole problem. But considering the people who show up on the No-Fly list (higher-ups of third parties and environmental and anti-war groups) and the fact that people the White House has publicly admitted to be utterly innocent are _still_ being held in Gitmo, I see no reason to think this administration is above abusing phone taps that even the ridiculously tap-happy FISA court wouldn't grant. Shit, look what it took to force them to give Jose Padilla a trial; and he was _nothing_, just a lousy nobody street punk.
And c'mon, who the hell is running that No-Fly list? First, to actually put a name like "T Kennedy" on it, WTF were they thinking? Second, consider for a moment what it actually is. Even if it worked perfectly, it is at it's core a list of people soooo dangerous and lethal that they cannot be allowed onto an airplane for any reason, ever. Oh, but we can't arrest them for anything.
People will abuse power if they can get away with it. Period, end of statement. To suggest otherwise implies the naivete of a child. They have done so for the entirety of human history and there is no reason to think they will stop anytime in the future. And the surest way to get away with it is to keep your abuses secret. So tell me, exactly why I should trust a dishonest, lying scumbag like Dubya not to abuse his secrecy.
You think _that's_ funny?
In his debate with Larry Lessig a few years back, Larry called him on that statement. Valenti, I shit you not, stood by it and claimed that the VCR was everything he said it would be because it was costing the MPAA member companies billions each and every year.
Where do you get this peculiar notion that copyright lasts one hundred years? Are you daft? That would be ridiculous! No self-respecting artist would allow their work to be held for that long.
No, my friend, copyright has an unknown duration with a theoretical maximum of about two hundred years. Now _that's_ a monopoly guaranteed to make me get out there and produce! Why, if I knew that my as-yet unborn children's children's children might find themselves unable to live off of my work, I daresay I'd be heartbroken and unable to write a single line of code. But security in the knowledge that my descendants out to six generations or so will be able to collect the non-existent royalties off my outdated work is truly inspiring!
Have him arrested? Put on a no-fly-list? Detained indefinitely for giving aid and comfort to 'the enemy'? Decide that Comedy Central needs some attention from the FCC? Any number of things that Bush has declared is well within his right to inflict on the American public.
Determine a congressperson's salary as the average salary of the state/district they represent
That is a really cool idea. And the best part is, that 'average income' would have to be calculated from the individual incomes the IRS can track, right? So increasing the income of corporations and the uber-rich, with untaxed and untaxable income, wouldn't apply towards that amount.
Because it is extremely profitable (and not always in terms of money) to the dealers, the cops, the prisons, the courts, the FBI and DEA, and the politicians.
The idea of a 6000 year old earth has no real literal basis
And young-earth creationists will just as fiercely argue that it does, and with just as much empirical evidence to support them, as the old-earth IDers who claim that it was merely %(unspecified omniscient omnipotent omnibenevolent deity who just happens to love Christians)% lending a helping mutating hand.
Since both groups argue from a position of blind faith in the Babylonian version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, why should I give any more credence to one than the other? Because the ID-ers ignore slightly fewer fields of scientific study than the other? Gee whiz...
It's like watching two kids get into a headed debate over whether Batman or Superman would win in a fight, or the Enterprise vs a Star Destroyer. Obviously Bruce Wayne and the Federation would prevail, but the point is, the only reality checks for such an argument will be found in works of fiction.
Again, no. Nothing is ever observed to be travelling faster than light. Time dilation causes combined velocities to approach ever closer to c but it can still never be exceeded.
... 0.96c due to our respective time dilations.
To wit: If you and I are both travelling at 0.75c directly towards each other, I would not perceive you to be travelling 1.5c in relation to me nor vice versa. Specfically, we would perceive each other to be doing
Equation for combined velocities (speeds are % of c): (vA + vB) / (1 + vA * vB)
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Notice that the numerator of that equation is plain old Newton but the denominator adds in the Lorentz transformations gamma factor.
It's the proximity to those wacky North Koreans. See, their philosophy of Juche claims that illness is caused by insufficient devotion to the Party. Imperialist vaccination with strange western chemicals is no substitute for hard labor for the benefit of the DPRK!
And wholly unsuitable if you are going any great distance, are in a hurry, in inclement weather, need to carry something other than what will fit in a backpack, or any combination thereof.
For me, getting to work and back on a bike would be 4 or 5 hours of my day. And I'm sure as hell not going to haul around great big sheets of plywood in anything but the bed of my truck. And that constitutes 90% of my time on the road on weekdays and weekends, respectively.
Yeah, and their rationale, IIRC, was "Undoing the CTEA and releasing several decades of copyrighted work into the public would be too hard".
My roommate actually got a pre release of Ep.1 and I refused to watch it on his 21" computer monitor at VCD quality. It would ruin the experience.
Heh, I thought the movie itself did a pretty thorough job of that.