"Conservatives sure are a funny (insane?) bunch nowadays"
The worst part is that they do actually have a few good ideas and positions - but the heavily polarised nature of US politics makes it very difficult to mix elements of the 'conservative package' and 'liberal package.' Doing so just means both sides will oppose you.
Because the benefits of fossil fuel usage are local, while the costs are global. It's your basic tragedy of the commons thing: The optimal strategy for each individual actor is to exploit the available resources maximally, but if everyone does that then it ends in disaster for all.
I can interpret the verses any way I want because fundamentalists do the same.
That 'he stretches out the heavens like a tent' for example. I've seen creationists use that one many times to claim that the bible predicted an expanding universe, that this demonstrates scientific foreknowledge in the bible, and this proves the book is divinely inspired.
Your oil must have shorter chains than mine. Much like hydrocarbon oil, it comes in a variety of thicknesses and other properties depending on chain length. I thought I had one of the shorter mixes, but not the shortest.
It's a bit more than that. There's no way to be sure data wasn't already leaked before you got the patching in - you know there will be hopefuls scanning the entire internet for vulnerable hosts and grabbing everything they can. That means you have to assume your SSL cert is compromised, which means generating a new one and getting it signed. And anything else the compromised process might have in memory space - SSH auth keys, user password database, that sort of thing. It's just annoying. There's nothing really difficult, but if you've got a few servers it could take up a significant amount of time re-securing everything.
Yes, it can. I've got a little bitcoin miner chip running right now as a proof of this. I'm not a bitcoin enthusiast, just wanted something hot and expendable to test immersion cooling on.
There is one downside: Viscosity. It's thick stuff, so it takes a powerful pump to keep it actively circulating. It also tends to pool in spaces underneath components and anywhere not exposed to easy circulation, impeding cooling.
See? It can work. That's a little under one-tenth of the diameter of the moon. Not sure how you'd sustain fusion with such low size and mass, but... maybe a wizard did it.
A problem easily solved by making the sun smaller and closer. Just assume the sun is moon-sized and moon-orbit, and you get a day a month. Now move it in closer, and smaller, and... day!
People have an inherent bias to trust successful people. Celebrities are the ultimate successful people. For a good example, see how many people trusted Jenny McCarthy when she started her campaign saying vaccines cause autism. She's a model, actress and television host with no medical or scientific education or qualifications at all - but she is also rich and famous, so a lot of people believed her.
It's worse than that. Almost all non-discrimination laws have exceptions for religious institutions. They openly want to be exempt from the very laws that protect them.
The current legal fuss over contraceptive cover and Hobby Lobby is really a dispute over what religion means. The contraceptive coverage does have an exemption for explicitly religious organisations - charities, churches, religious schools, etc. The owners of Hobby Lobby are arguing that even though their company is actually a chain store, it's also wholly owned by just a few people who are all in agreement that contraception is sinful, and their own freedom of religion is violated if they are compelled to run their company in a way that violates that religion.
You're right, except for one detail: All the 32-bit support is still in there! Backwards compatibility was too important to abandon, and even 64-bit operating systems often have 32-bit bootloaders. What we have now are 64-bit processors designed to be backwards compatible with 32-bit processors designed to be backwards compatible with 16-bit processors designed to be backwards compatible with the chip that started the whole chain, the 8-bit 8080.
Fair use has a valuable role even when it isn't used: It prevents copyright holders bringing frivilous suits as a means to intimidate or harass critics or fans who are making noncommercial, noncompeting use of extracts. The copyright holder isn't going to file suit if they know that any judge is likely to accept a fair use defense and throw it out, and perhaps have them pay the defendant's costs too. That is what would likely have protected my video - it was just a joke, perhaps in rather bad taste, but textbook fair use. No commercial benefit for me, no significent part of the work used, not in competition with their own business. That doesn't work now that courts have been replaced by DMCA takedowns and automated processing: There's no longer any risk or cost to fileing a takedown, so copyright holders often tend towards an 'if in doubt, take it out' policy.
There have been many well-known incidents of this overzealous automation going horribly wrong - an independant game called 'Doom 3' being hit by takedowns after ID released their own game of the same title, a student being threatened after sharing their school report on Snow White on a p2p network and a bot mistaking it for the Disney movie, the livestream of the Hugo Award being taken offline for showing an extract from a TV program with permission because the copyright holder had neglected to inform the operators of the enforcement-bot that the showing was authorised, videos of a space shuttle launch being taken down because a local TV news channel had the policy of automatically adding all their broadcasts to the bot list even if it was just footage they relayed from NASA's cameras. The only way to keep up with the sheer volume of video and other content the internet transmits is to rely heavily on automation, but this automation cannot apply the good judgement of a human and, in order to avoid liability, will block content upon even the hint of a suspicion.
It's hard to say on the music, but it syncronises the action in a way that shows it must have been composed specifically, and the presence of artifacts and horrible sound quality would indicate it is certainly old. Just how old there is no way I could determine. No credits for composer, just producer/animator and distributor.
Good question. The video itsself was 'Gertie the Dinosaur,' made in 1914. The opening title indicates it was released by 'The Box Office Attraction Company'*, suggesting it was a work for hire and thus even under the 95-year term would expire in 2009 - or 2004, if you assume it was just a project of Window McCay and thus expired seventy years after his death. The music is difficult though: No credit, seemingly no record of who composed or played it or when, and it may have been added later as the film is silent. I was able to determine an extract was reused for the later film 'Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend in 1921 though - same animator, so it was likely something composed specifically for use in Gertie. It is certainly written to fit the action of Gertie.
*Still around. They changed name, and are now better known as Fox.
Perhaps this is the problem: Youtube has just become too big and too important. It's not just a hosting service - it's also by far the world's most influential video recormendation engine. A clip uploaded on youtube can go viral, the same clip uploaded anywhere else will remain in obscurity.
Yet the search engine division refuses to penalise pirate sites or remove them from the rankings, and even when forced to by law they put up the DMCA informational notice complete with the removed links as a soft of 'fuck you' to the copyright holder.
There's clearly a different approach to copyright in different divisions.
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"Conservatives sure are a funny (insane?) bunch nowadays"
The worst part is that they do actually have a few good ideas and positions - but the heavily polarised nature of US politics makes it very difficult to mix elements of the 'conservative package' and 'liberal package.' Doing so just means both sides will oppose you.
Because the benefits of fossil fuel usage are local, while the costs are global. It's your basic tragedy of the commons thing: The optimal strategy for each individual actor is to exploit the available resources maximally, but if everyone does that then it ends in disaster for all.
I can interpret the verses any way I want because fundamentalists do the same.
That 'he stretches out the heavens like a tent' for example. I've seen creationists use that one many times to claim that the bible predicted an expanding universe, that this demonstrates scientific foreknowledge in the bible, and this proves the book is divinely inspired.
Your oil must have shorter chains than mine. Much like hydrocarbon oil, it comes in a variety of thicknesses and other properties depending on chain length. I thought I had one of the shorter mixes, but not the shortest.
It's a bit more than that. There's no way to be sure data wasn't already leaked before you got the patching in - you know there will be hopefuls scanning the entire internet for vulnerable hosts and grabbing everything they can. That means you have to assume your SSL cert is compromised, which means generating a new one and getting it signed. And anything else the compromised process might have in memory space - SSH auth keys, user password database, that sort of thing. It's just annoying. There's nothing really difficult, but if you've got a few servers it could take up a significant amount of time re-securing everything.
They'll just call it the 'Googlebook.'
Besides, how can you know you are rich if you don't have some poor people for comparison?
Yes, it can. I've got a little bitcoin miner chip running right now as a proof of this. I'm not a bitcoin enthusiast, just wanted something hot and expendable to test immersion cooling on.
There is one downside: Viscosity. It's thick stuff, so it takes a powerful pump to keep it actively circulating. It also tends to pool in spaces underneath components and anywhere not exposed to easy circulation, impeding cooling.
Got it.
Altitude: 35,786km.
Angular diameter: 32 arcminutes.
Required diameter: 330km.
See? It can work. That's a little under one-tenth of the diameter of the moon. Not sure how you'd sustain fusion with such low size and mass, but... maybe a wizard did it.
A problem easily solved by making the sun smaller and closer. Just assume the sun is moon-sized and moon-orbit, and you get a day a month. Now move it in closer, and smaller, and... day!
See parent comment.
She spent the entire series in a skin-tight suit. She was added to be the object of fans lust, the writers didn't even try to pretend otherwise.
People have an inherent bias to trust successful people. Celebrities are the ultimate successful people. For a good example, see how many people trusted Jenny McCarthy when she started her campaign saying vaccines cause autism. She's a model, actress and television host with no medical or scientific education or qualifications at all - but she is also rich and famous, so a lot of people believed her.
"He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." - Psalm 104:5
"The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises." - Ecclesiastes 1:5
So long as you wear a saw-proof collar.
It's worse than that. Almost all non-discrimination laws have exceptions for religious institutions. They openly want to be exempt from the very laws that protect them.
The current legal fuss over contraceptive cover and Hobby Lobby is really a dispute over what religion means. The contraceptive coverage does have an exemption for explicitly religious organisations - charities, churches, religious schools, etc. The owners of Hobby Lobby are arguing that even though their company is actually a chain store, it's also wholly owned by just a few people who are all in agreement that contraception is sinful, and their own freedom of religion is violated if they are compelled to run their company in a way that violates that religion.
Thwump-thwump-thwump-thwump-thwump.
We used to. Sixty-odd million years ago. There was more oxygen in the air then.
" Virgin (the only cable provider in the UK)"
Because they acquired all their competitors. There used to be more, Virgin bought them all up.
You're right, except for one detail: All the 32-bit support is still in there! Backwards compatibility was too important to abandon, and even 64-bit operating systems often have 32-bit bootloaders. What we have now are 64-bit processors designed to be backwards compatible with 32-bit processors designed to be backwards compatible with 16-bit processors designed to be backwards compatible with the chip that started the whole chain, the 8-bit 8080.
Winsor McCay, rather. Behold the fearsome power of the spellchecker.
Fair use has a valuable role even when it isn't used: It prevents copyright holders bringing frivilous suits as a means to intimidate or harass critics or fans who are making noncommercial, noncompeting use of extracts. The copyright holder isn't going to file suit if they know that any judge is likely to accept a fair use defense and throw it out, and perhaps have them pay the defendant's costs too. That is what would likely have protected my video - it was just a joke, perhaps in rather bad taste, but textbook fair use. No commercial benefit for me, no significent part of the work used, not in competition with their own business. That doesn't work now that courts have been replaced by DMCA takedowns and automated processing: There's no longer any risk or cost to fileing a takedown, so copyright holders often tend towards an 'if in doubt, take it out' policy.
There have been many well-known incidents of this overzealous automation going horribly wrong - an independant game called 'Doom 3' being hit by takedowns after ID released their own game of the same title, a student being threatened after sharing their school report on Snow White on a p2p network and a bot mistaking it for the Disney movie, the livestream of the Hugo Award being taken offline for showing an extract from a TV program with permission because the copyright holder had neglected to inform the operators of the enforcement-bot that the showing was authorised, videos of a space shuttle launch being taken down because a local TV news channel had the policy of automatically adding all their broadcasts to the bot list even if it was just footage they relayed from NASA's cameras. The only way to keep up with the sheer volume of video and other content the internet transmits is to rely heavily on automation, but this automation cannot apply the good judgement of a human and, in order to avoid liability, will block content upon even the hint of a suspicion.
It's hard to say on the music, but it syncronises the action in a way that shows it must have been composed specifically, and the presence of artifacts and horrible sound quality would indicate it is certainly old. Just how old there is no way I could determine. No credits for composer, just producer/animator and distributor.
Good question. The video itsself was 'Gertie the Dinosaur,' made in 1914. The opening title indicates it was released by 'The Box Office Attraction Company'*, suggesting it was a work for hire and thus even under the 95-year term would expire in 2009 - or 2004, if you assume it was just a project of Window McCay and thus expired seventy years after his death. The music is difficult though: No credit, seemingly no record of who composed or played it or when, and it may have been added later as the film is silent. I was able to determine an extract was reused for the later film 'Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend in 1921 though - same animator, so it was likely something composed specifically for use in Gertie. It is certainly written to fit the action of Gertie.
*Still around. They changed name, and are now better known as Fox.
Perhaps this is the problem: Youtube has just become too big and too important. It's not just a hosting service - it's also by far the world's most influential video recormendation engine. A clip uploaded on youtube can go viral, the same clip uploaded anywhere else will remain in obscurity.
Yet the search engine division refuses to penalise pirate sites or remove them from the rankings, and even when forced to by law they put up the DMCA informational notice complete with the removed links as a soft of 'fuck you' to the copyright holder.
There's clearly a different approach to copyright in different divisions.