Incorrect. The only part under penalty is that the notice is filed with authorisation of the copyright holder. There's no requirement the rest of the information be accurate. This is what makes it possible to, say, google every site hosting a file with the words 'justin bieber' in the filename and extension '.mp3' and send automatic takedowns. Sure, there will be a few errors - but it's prohibatively expensive to actually manually download and listen to every one of those files.
- Lobby for copyright reform that actually makes it harder to bring false accusations or imposes a penalty for notices sent in error. Problem there is going up against some of the best lobbyists in the world: By the time they are done rewriting any such proposal, it'd make things worse.
- Turn to crypto-anarchism and set up communications systems that are resistant to takedown, like freenet. Problem here is that such systems come with nasty overheads and would be just as popular with the more criminal element.
It would be an impressive miracle indeed, aside from the bit about having an immune system and mitosis-capable cells. Life is actually pretty good at fixing itsself without supernatural aid. It seems suspicious that God is so eager to heal infections, yet never helps out any amputees.
Typically they pray to god for healing, then see a doctor and take medical treatment, then thank god when they get better. The order of the first two steps varies. A few will skip the doctor part and either heal spontaneously (praise the lord!) or die, but most are quite happy to live with the contradiction.
Windows 8 was supposed to flop. It's a strategic release, not tactical. Microsoft management knew full well that everyone will hate it, but they still have the power to force it out, and use it to establish new technologies that are of great benefit to Microsoft in the long term. Things like the Windows store - they've seen how successful Apple was with that business model, and they want to copy it. Or Secure Boot, which offers up a screw which may one day be tightened to seriously harm linux on the desktop. The problem with selling operating systems is that once people are happy with what they have they won't be paying for an upgrade (See XP) - so Microsoft is aiming to stop just selling the OS, and start selling the whole ecosystem around it. OS, software distribution, cloud services.
The Internet of Things offers many benefits - just not for most people. Pair it up with big data analytics and you've some potential for really useful things. Like a power grid that can dynamically manage demand on a second-by-second basis by modulating things like car chargers and air conditioning, or a city that can anticipate traffic congestion in real time and adjust signal timings to avert it.
I've seen some groundless speculation from dubious non-experts that modern connected parenting is detrimental to childrens' development, well into their teenage years. They are so well supervised and protected they can't properly develop their independance - just a generation or two ago it was fairly common practice for children to go out and play with other children, yet any parent who allowed that today would be seen as neglectful in exposing their child to danger. Because society has become hyper-sensitive to any threats to children, they no longer get to do this - every non-trivial action they take is either supervised or outright organised by an adult. This results in teenagers who are still utterly helpless without their parents around.
No such thing as an 'NSA letter' - you're thinking of a National Security Letter, the super-secret demands that are so classified recipients aren't even permitted to tell their own lawyers they received one.
Jobs died of pancreatic cancer, not anal cancer. Mock him correctly, please. For example, you could remind everyone that he might still be around had he accepted some real treatment from actual doctors as soon as the cancer was diagnosed, rather than delayed for nine months trying some 'alternative medicine' nonsense - he went through several diets, accupuncture, herbal cures and some sort of enema-based detox regime before finally admitting that the cancer wasn't getting better and going for surgery - by which time it was too late.
A problem that could be solved the same way it is solved for any other service: Simple competition. If you don't like the insurance company offer, you just turn to their competitor instead.
And in doing so, they acknowledged that bitcoins have value and can be auctioned. This is the government implicitly declaring that bitcoins are real property, rather than worthless tokens in the latest online nerd-game.
It's fairly common practice when drugs are concerned - I'm not really knowledgeable on the legal theory, but they are essentially 'convicting the property.' They can prove that the coins are proceeds of crime, even if they can't prove ownership, which is good enough to seize them.
Or you could just separate the insurance from the employment. Why does the employers have to provide insurance, rather than just paying the equivilant cost in salary for the employee to buy their own?
Pure gold won't do anything to help arthritis, but some real drugs used to treat it are gold compounds. Gold doesn't form compounds easily, but it can be done.
" I'm afraid that that haggling over the charges and the sentence is _normal_ for prosecutors."
Which is part of the problem. Prosecutors are under a lot of pressure to get a guilty plea, and often resort to intimidation to secure it. Thus the standard deal: Confess and we promise five years, or fight in court and we'll do our best to lock you up for fifty.
Silver does have a niche where that lower resistance does matter: Very compact inductors and transformers. Lower resistance means you can use thinner wire, which means denser packing of coils. It's not often seen due to price, but for some weight/volume-critical applications (missiles, spacecraft) it's worth the extra cost to make parts smaller.
Even to them, it was still a precious metal. They only had it in relative abundance - a lot of their gold decorations were actually alloys, to make their gold stretch further.
Gold actually isn't that useful. It has a few niche applications in engineering that need tiny quantities as a corrosion-resistant coating or ultra-thin foil, but that's all. It's not even a very good electrical conductor - copper is better. The main use for gold is to be expensive - people wear it in order to flaunt their wealth. Like designer clothing, if it weren't so expensive people wouldn't want to wear it.
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Now that's the kind of talk that makes me want to swap retroshare keys.
Incorrect. The only part under penalty is that the notice is filed with authorisation of the copyright holder. There's no requirement the rest of the information be accurate. This is what makes it possible to, say, google every site hosting a file with the words 'justin bieber' in the filename and extension '.mp3' and send automatic takedowns. Sure, there will be a few errors - but it's prohibatively expensive to actually manually download and listen to every one of those files.
Proposals, then? I have two:
- Lobby for copyright reform that actually makes it harder to bring false accusations or imposes a penalty for notices sent in error. Problem there is going up against some of the best lobbyists in the world: By the time they are done rewriting any such proposal, it'd make things worse.
- Turn to crypto-anarchism and set up communications systems that are resistant to takedown, like freenet. Problem here is that such systems come with nasty overheads and would be just as popular with the more criminal element.
You don't need religion to be deluded, but it helps.
It's alive.. it's alive. It's alive, it's alive. IT'S ALIVE!
It would be an impressive miracle indeed, aside from the bit about having an immune system and mitosis-capable cells. Life is actually pretty good at fixing itsself without supernatural aid. It seems suspicious that God is so eager to heal infections, yet never helps out any amputees.
Typically they pray to god for healing, then see a doctor and take medical treatment, then thank god when they get better. The order of the first two steps varies. A few will skip the doctor part and either heal spontaneously (praise the lord!) or die, but most are quite happy to live with the contradiction.
You could also have been refering to a scene near the end of Matrix 1, where Neo tests out his new godlike powers.
Windows 8 was supposed to flop. It's a strategic release, not tactical. Microsoft management knew full well that everyone will hate it, but they still have the power to force it out, and use it to establish new technologies that are of great benefit to Microsoft in the long term. Things like the Windows store - they've seen how successful Apple was with that business model, and they want to copy it. Or Secure Boot, which offers up a screw which may one day be tightened to seriously harm linux on the desktop. The problem with selling operating systems is that once people are happy with what they have they won't be paying for an upgrade (See XP) - so Microsoft is aiming to stop just selling the OS, and start selling the whole ecosystem around it. OS, software distribution, cloud services.
The Internet of Things offers many benefits - just not for most people. Pair it up with big data analytics and you've some potential for really useful things. Like a power grid that can dynamically manage demand on a second-by-second basis by modulating things like car chargers and air conditioning, or a city that can anticipate traffic congestion in real time and adjust signal timings to avert it.
I've seen some groundless speculation from dubious non-experts that modern connected parenting is detrimental to childrens' development, well into their teenage years. They are so well supervised and protected they can't properly develop their independance - just a generation or two ago it was fairly common practice for children to go out and play with other children, yet any parent who allowed that today would be seen as neglectful in exposing their child to danger. Because society has become hyper-sensitive to any threats to children, they no longer get to do this - every non-trivial action they take is either supervised or outright organised by an adult. This results in teenagers who are still utterly helpless without their parents around.
It's human on its father's side.
No such thing as an 'NSA letter' - you're thinking of a National Security Letter, the super-secret demands that are so classified recipients aren't even permitted to tell their own lawyers they received one.
Jobs died of pancreatic cancer, not anal cancer. Mock him correctly, please. For example, you could remind everyone that he might still be around had he accepted some real treatment from actual doctors as soon as the cancer was diagnosed, rather than delayed for nine months trying some 'alternative medicine' nonsense - he went through several diets, accupuncture, herbal cures and some sort of enema-based detox regime before finally admitting that the cancer wasn't getting better and going for surgery - by which time it was too late.
A problem that could be solved the same way it is solved for any other service: Simple competition. If you don't like the insurance company offer, you just turn to their competitor instead.
And in doing so, they acknowledged that bitcoins have value and can be auctioned. This is the government implicitly declaring that bitcoins are real property, rather than worthless tokens in the latest online nerd-game.
It's fairly common practice when drugs are concerned - I'm not really knowledgeable on the legal theory, but they are essentially 'convicting the property.' They can prove that the coins are proceeds of crime, even if they can't prove ownership, which is good enough to seize them.
It doesn't even work very well. The US tails the rest of the developed world in almost every metric of public health, except cancer survival rate.
The life expectancy is longer in Cuba. That's just embarrassing.
Or you could just separate the insurance from the employment. Why does the employers have to provide insurance, rather than just paying the equivilant cost in salary for the employee to buy their own?
Pure gold won't do anything to help arthritis, but some real drugs used to treat it are gold compounds. Gold doesn't form compounds easily, but it can be done.
"The law can't punish you for what you say"
As if what you say makes any difference.
" I'm afraid that that haggling over the charges and the sentence is _normal_ for prosecutors."
Which is part of the problem. Prosecutors are under a lot of pressure to get a guilty plea, and often resort to intimidation to secure it. Thus the standard deal: Confess and we promise five years, or fight in court and we'll do our best to lock you up for fifty.
Silver does have a niche where that lower resistance does matter: Very compact inductors and transformers. Lower resistance means you can use thinner wire, which means denser packing of coils. It's not often seen due to price, but for some weight/volume-critical applications (missiles, spacecraft) it's worth the extra cost to make parts smaller.
Even to them, it was still a precious metal. They only had it in relative abundance - a lot of their gold decorations were actually alloys, to make their gold stretch further.
Gold actually isn't that useful. It has a few niche applications in engineering that need tiny quantities as a corrosion-resistant coating or ultra-thin foil, but that's all. It's not even a very good electrical conductor - copper is better. The main use for gold is to be expensive - people wear it in order to flaunt their wealth. Like designer clothing, if it weren't so expensive people wouldn't want to wear it.