Any discussion of climate change will inevitably devolve into a discussion of the poster's local weather. The first poster to make such a comparison immediately loses the thread.
... apologies in advance for responding to trolls...
There was an article in a 1975 edition of Newsweek where scientists were sure of a global cooling. Now it's a global warming?
Scientific hypothosi(sp?) evolve; religious nut jobs stay the same. That's the big difference. I'd be a lot more worried if thirty years of scientific research resulted in no changes in theory.
So what source do you cite that says Christians think it's okay to ignore global warming because of the Second Coming? I'd like to see that article.
You seem to be considering the relationship. Here's a link to your Rapture Index on your site. You have climate at "5" in your "waiting for the end of the world" chart. To be fair, your do say "We cannot take a defeatist attitude and just let things fall apart. Each of us has a responsibility to one another to care for the world around us.". But for us liberals out there, we don't actually see the fundamentalists doing much except burning books and bombing things. Maybe if the fundamentalists occasionally tried to save an endangered species or kept a national park from being turned into a stip mine or simply lobbied for higher fuel efficiency standards, we might think your words meant something.
I think you are thinking of historical examples of HOW a fascists state was imposed, but a definition of fascism does not necessarily (at least at first) require the tactics you describe:
Fascism: An extreme form of nationalism that played on fears of communism [terrorism] and rejected individual freedom, liberal individualism, democracy, and limitations on the state.
I don't believe that we live in a fascist state. However, as a free-thinking liberal, I do think we have a responsibility to fight against fascist trends. One of those trends is the censorship of scientific research in the pursuit of a given political party's political ends.
I second that emotion. Except for some games and hardware specific tasks (like device drivers and oeprating systems) most tasks should not be done in C or C++. Building a front end GUI for a database in C++ is like hanging a picture on your wall with a nailgun. Don't get me wrong. Four years after work made me switch from C++ to Java, I still think of C++ as "real" programming. Probably because it was so much harder to do right.
Funny, it's the "scientists" that are being funded by fossile fuel burning industries that claim that global warming is not real. The quote you provided sure applies, but you just picked the wrong side to apply it to.
So, let me get this straight, your claim that you managed to convey in your second post is that if a corporation sued an individual then/. (as a general entity subtracting, of course, certain enlightened individuals such as yourself) would cry "foul". I disagree. I will now list some hypothetical situations where a company could sue an individual where/. (minus yourself and a few like-"minded" individuals) would not cry "foul".
AOL sues the "Spam King". General agreement reigns on/..
Google sues link and advertising click-bot user. Probably less universal agreement but the consensus would be on the side of Google.
IBM sues Darl for being an asshat. Certainly most/. readers would be in agreement.
OSDN sues AviLazar for wasting bandwidth with mindless posts. Near universial agreement here.
My point with this hypothetical list is that most readers of/. (other than yourself) are generally able to 1. read the article and 2. get a idea of what's at stake. When you grow up you'll realize how that works. Good luck. I hope I've been a help in your learning process.
Actually, your post was about copyright. Here are some choice quotes to help you remember:
he is not a corporation... it is ok that copyright works for him This certainly seem to be a reference to copyright in your post.
I mean come on, it's on paper, in movies, music it should be free The ESL quality of the sentence (my apologies if English really is your second language) makes it hard to tell but your reference to movies and music seems to be a reference, once again, to copyright.
it is OLD (since 39 was it?) Still badgering on about copyright, huh? This is obviously a reference to the theoretical (pre-"George of the Jungle" Act) expiration of copyrights.
I hope this has helped you remember your original post. It is my pleasure to be a service to you in your intellectual growth process. Have a great day.
Not to imply that you are an idiot, but this article is basically about the enforcablity of contracts and, once again, how large corporations will anally rape you if given the chance. If you had RTFA you would have seen the following quote:
He filed the lawsuit in November 2002, pointing out a clause in his contract that entitled him to 10 percent of TV, movie and merchandising deals, an amount he thought was significantly higher than the $1 million-per-year salary he currently receives. Marvel tried to find a loophole in the wording...
In fact, if you HAD read the article and done a search on the word "copyright" you would have found exactly 0 matches in the text. Go back to sleep troll, no need to get you panties in a bunch over this thread.
Do DJ's -- other than in college radio -- actually have any freedom to pick songs? I was under the impression that the suits at ClearChannel or Viacom choose the playlist. I can't imagine that a DJ at a ClearChannel owned radio station is going to have the freedom to play some local artist or, for that matter, the Dixie Chicks.
Considering that for most purposes XML contains a lot of redundant formatting it seems like you could get nearly 10:1 compression simply by using (as has already been mentioned) zip or some other compression algorithm.
However, you wanted to go to a binary encoding you could try for something relatively straight forward like:
If the radius is 1.5 the radius of Jupiter then the volume is over three and a third times Jupiter's (1:3.375). The density is therefore only slightly greater than Jupiter's (and probably due to the relatively higher gravity). My opinion (which is worth what you paid for it) is that this is a star that didn't quite make it.
There are lots of energy storage technologies at various levels of efficiency. Chemical batteries and hydrogen are the most well known, of course. A few years ago (I remember reading a Wired article) the hype was about micro-turbines as the perfect remote location or home-based energy storage technique, but I'm not sure what the progress has been recently.
One comment on additional degrees. If you happen to be living in the pit of despair known as Northern Virginia / DC / Maryland you will find that you are a lot more marketable if you have a Masters. Many of the government contracts and RFP will specify minimum education requirements in lieu of years of experience.
All of the colleges around here make a fair bit of extra money churning out MS in Comp. Sci or Information Technology through evening degree programs. Most of the beltway bandits employing contractors for these government jobs will spring for the tuition.
Around here a Masters is the 2nd best thing you can get (a security clearance tops the list, of course).
You forgot one component. There needs to be a video card strong enough to handle (at least) the 23" Apple CinemaDisplay or the MB should have built-in video that supports it.
You can up your margins a bit if some non-trivial fraction of the min-iMac (damn, I should have been a marketeer) buys a nice, expensive (and very cool) Apple flat screen.
A coproration is basically treated as an individual in the eyes of the law.
That is why you read all the stories about how companies get sentenced to extensive jail terms for breaking the law. If I remember correctly, Haliburton was sentenced to 10 years hard labor in a Feberal prison for their fraud against the Army in Iraq. Once Haliburton is released, it will have 10 years of probation and it will never be able to vote, own a firearm, or register for a Pell grant.
Some ignorant fucker accused me of being a troll... Here's the patent, my dear friend.
United States Patent 5,443,036 Amiss , et al. August 22, 1995 Method of exercising a cat
Abstract
A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct.
It looks like they've gotten more sophisticated.
United States Patent 6,651,591 Chelen November 25, 2003
A pet toy and exerciser which produces an automatically movable, outwardly projected laser beam. The function thereof is to provide virtual "prey" for the stimulation and exercise of an animal. The device, which does not include a conventional motor, is small (e.g., can be handheld), lightweight, battery operated and silent, and has an extremely long potential cycle life. Electrically energized nitinol wires deflect a visible laser module to produce a virtual laser light target moved through three dimensions.
Luckily, the use of a laser pointer as a cat toy is patented and therefore you are required to get a license before engaging in such an activity. A reasonably responsible corporate entity would never grant such a license. (God, I wish I was joking).
I know there's a lot of people scared of dangerous hydrogen (ohh, the Hindenburg) but I'd rather have a hydrogen powered car than one where I'm sitting next to "superheated steam at 400C and at 40-bar pressure (4 million Pa)". Give me the new (not steam) technology any day.
P.S. Have you noticed that there's a lot of losers tossing around Troll points?
Wow, don't provoke the bible-thumping taliban; they'll mod you down for anything. Don't worry, Mr. Mula Omar, I've got 49 more points where that come from.
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There needs to be an update to Goodwin's Law:
Any discussion of climate change will inevitably devolve into a discussion of the poster's local weather. The first poster to make such a comparison immediately loses the thread.
There was an article in a 1975 edition of Newsweek where scientists were sure of a global cooling. Now it's a global warming?
Scientific hypothosi(sp?) evolve; religious nut jobs stay the same. That's the big difference. I'd be a lot more worried if thirty years of scientific research resulted in no changes in theory.
So what source do you cite that says Christians think it's okay to ignore global warming because of the Second Coming? I'd like to see that article.
You seem to be considering the relationship. Here's a link to your Rapture Index on your site. You have climate at "5" in your "waiting for the end of the world" chart. To be fair, your do say "We cannot take a defeatist attitude and just let things fall apart. Each of us has a responsibility to one another to care for the world around us.". But for us liberals out there, we don't actually see the fundamentalists doing much except burning books and bombing things. Maybe if the fundamentalists occasionally tried to save an endangered species or kept a national park from being turned into a stip mine or simply lobbied for higher fuel efficiency standards, we might think your words meant something.
I don't believe that we live in a fascist state. However, as a free-thinking liberal, I do think we have a responsibility to fight against fascist trends. One of those trends is the censorship of scientific research in the pursuit of a given political party's political ends.
I second that emotion. Except for some games and hardware specific tasks (like device drivers and oeprating systems) most tasks should not be done in C or C++. Building a front end GUI for a database in C++ is like hanging a picture on your wall with a nailgun. Don't get me wrong. Four years after work made me switch from C++ to Java, I still think of C++ as "real" programming. Probably because it was so much harder to do right.
Funny, it's the "scientists" that are being funded by fossile fuel burning industries that claim that global warming is not real. The quote you provided sure applies, but you just picked the wrong side to apply it to.
My point with this hypothetical list is that most readers of
This certainly seem to be a reference to copyright in your post.
The ESL quality of the sentence (my apologies if English really is your second language) makes it hard to tell but your reference to movies and music seems to be a reference, once again, to copyright.
Still badgering on about copyright, huh? This is obviously a reference to the theoretical (pre-"George of the Jungle" Act) expiration of copyrights.
I hope this has helped you remember your original post. It is my pleasure to be a service to you in your intellectual growth process. Have a great day.
In fact, if you HAD read the article and done a search on the word "copyright" you would have found exactly 0 matches in the text. Go back to sleep troll, no need to get you panties in a bunch over this thread.
I don't know, living your life as if every day were your first doesn't sound so bad.
Do DJ's -- other than in college radio -- actually have any freedom to pick songs? I was under the impression that the suits at ClearChannel or Viacom choose the playlist. I can't imagine that a DJ at a ClearChannel owned radio station is going to have the freedom to play some local artist or, for that matter, the Dixie Chicks.
However, you wanted to go to a binary encoding you could try for something relatively straight forward like:
original:patented XML encoding algorithm (hexideximal):
Yes, evolution is a theory. Gravity is a theory. The big bang is a theory. Intelligent design isn't a theory; it's a story. There's a difference.
Make that 6.4 Billion. But I guess it's like the deficit; what's a billion and a half in the scheme of things.
I wish I had mod points. This is the most insightful comment I've read in a long, long time.
The formula for volume is 4/3 * pi * r^3.
If the radius is 1.5 the radius of Jupiter then the volume is over three and a third times Jupiter's (1:3.375). The density is therefore only slightly greater than Jupiter's (and probably due to the relatively higher gravity). My opinion (which is worth what you paid for it) is that this is a star that didn't quite make it.
There are lots of energy storage technologies at various levels of efficiency. Chemical batteries and hydrogen are the most well known, of course. A few years ago (I remember reading a Wired article) the hype was about micro-turbines as the perfect remote location or home-based energy storage technique, but I'm not sure what the progress has been recently.
One comment on additional degrees. If you happen to be living in the pit of despair known as Northern Virginia / DC / Maryland you will find that you are a lot more marketable if you have a Masters. Many of the government contracts and RFP will specify minimum education requirements in lieu of years of experience.
All of the colleges around here make a fair bit of extra money churning out MS in Comp. Sci or Information Technology through evening degree programs. Most of the beltway bandits employing contractors for these government jobs will spring for the tuition.
Around here a Masters is the 2nd best thing you can get (a security clearance tops the list, of course).
You forgot one component. There needs to be a video card strong enough to handle (at least) the 23" Apple CinemaDisplay or the MB should have built-in video that supports it.
You can up your margins a bit if some non-trivial fraction of the min-iMac (damn, I should have been a marketeer) buys a nice, expensive (and very cool) Apple flat screen.
That is why you read all the stories about how companies get sentenced to extensive jail terms for breaking the law. If I remember correctly, Haliburton was sentenced to 10 years hard labor in a Feberal prison for their fraud against the Army in Iraq. Once Haliburton is released, it will have 10 years of probation and it will never be able to vote, own a firearm, or register for a Pell grant.
Don't be a dick. It's hillarious that they got the patent. It's tragic that the USPTO granted it.
It looks like they've gotten more sophisticated.
Luckily, the use of a laser pointer as a cat toy is patented and therefore you are required to get a license before engaging in such an activity. A reasonably responsible corporate entity would never grant such a license. (God, I wish I was joking).
I know there's a lot of people scared of dangerous hydrogen (ohh, the Hindenburg) but I'd rather have a hydrogen powered car than one where I'm sitting next to "superheated steam at 400C and at 40-bar pressure (4 million Pa)". Give me the new (not steam) technology any day.
P.S. Have you noticed that there's a lot of losers tossing around Troll points?
Wow, don't provoke the bible-thumping taliban; they'll mod you down for anything. Don't worry, Mr. Mula Omar, I've got 49 more points where that come from.
Oh, so THATs why you can't post and moderate on the same article.... it's quantum mechanics at work!