Iris closure happens in seconds. What you are experiencing is a secondry, slow method by which the eye adapts to different light levels. The concentration of rhodopsin is actually changing. Light breaks it down, but the photosensitive cells continually regenerate it - so when you're in the dark, levels build up and increase sensitivity.
From my understanding, the term was first used in relation to copyright a long time ago and was intended to be insulting - but since then, those pirates have adopted the term as their own and see no shame in it. Many of them deliberatly take naval piracy as a theme inspiration and adopt the associated symbols, as The Pirate Bay does. So, viable or not, it seems to be a term both sides can agree on.
But if you do have DRM your games will *still* be pirated. I have yet to encounter even one piece of single-player DRM for games that defeated the pirates - it only takes one cracker, and their work will be all over the p2p networks in hours. Multiplayer is a different story, yes - you can use things like requiring unique serials then that really do bother the pirates - but single player? No, DRM is useless. Might buy a couple of days.
It shouldn't even be that hard. The spam-botnet itsself can't be easily taken down, true - decentralised C&C, that sort of thing - but they are using it for pharmacutical scams. That means the spam is there to promote a website. Remove the website - which must be hosted *somewhere* and the spam ceases to be profitable. Where is the megaupload-style international police operation to shut that down? Instead we have a bunch of vigilantee hackers, hardly an ideal solution.
It is - that close, the pupil is not a single point but a disc, so the image of the display needs to depend on the angle at which photons leave it. It can be done using some additional focusing, quite easily - that's how existing head-worn displays work. The hard part is packing optics that usually need a few inches into a space less than a milimeter thick. Even for fresnel lenses, that's going to be difficult.
Standardise the world on English. It'll be easier. It's already the second-most-spoken language, and Chinese is a real nightmare of character encoding in itsself. Then we can go back to good old ASCII.
Plus anti-gay. Got to keep their grassroots happy somehow, and nothing does that so effectively for them as a good dose of 'the homosexual agenda seeks to destroy your marriage!"
Seems they have changed it. It would be more precise to say they believed that before the fall, there existed a plant which grew meat-like bark upon which carnivorous creatures would feed (Needing their sharp claws to strip the bark off). They have now reconsidered that, and decided on grounds of more precise bible translation that carnivores actually could survive based on any plant, and it was only after the fall that they became unable to survive except on meat due to a divine rewriting of their DNA. Presumably, though I cannot find them saying so directly, the process was slow enough that carnivores were still capable of living off an all-plant diet at the time of the flood, which they place only 1000-2000 years after the fall.
So then, according to Genesis 1:29–30, God originally created men and animals to be plant eaters. God’s statement in Genesis 9:3 strengthens this restriction placed on man.... if man obeyed God, he would not have eaten meat until after the Flood and most certainly not before the Fall of Adam.... There is another confirmation that the finished creation was to be vegetarian. We can see this by the change in both the animals and man, and that this change took place at the Fall of Adam.
They are quite clear on the means by which herivores suddenly grow teeth, claws and a taste for meat though:
A clear examination of the biblical record suggests that a sudden change in nature took place. The suggestion that God reprogrammed the genetic material of animals and plants does have support from the text.
Perfectly clear ice does exist. It just forms under only very specific conditions that are very, very rarely found in nature. If you want clear ice, you'll have to make some yourself.
It'd also have to be a hollow sphere so people could live under it, with the planet perfectly balanced in the middle - and it'd have to be perfect ice too, as Genesis describes stars pre-flood, which means it must have been optically clear.
I didn't even get to the bit where they believe the upper atmosphere used to be a giant hollow sphere of crystal-clear ice.
Again, not making it up... though that one is a minority view even to young-earth creationists.
They also believe sin causes mutations. That is their explanation for why mutation-rate dating gives species divergence figures millions of years in the past: Before modern culture started spreading sin all over the place, the mutation rate was much lower.
They *could* just claim 'God did it' for all points, but they consider that to be bad form. Cheating, in a way. They'll use it if they have to, but their first choice is always to try to find an explanation that at least sounds vaguely scientific. Thus you end up with things like hypertectonics, the claim that continential drift used to be really fast (Kilometers per day) so that pangea broke up only a few thousand years ago, but slowed down before we could measure it. This explains how it was possible for the ark to repopulate the entire world from a single landing point. They *could* just say that God teleported the animals around, but that is the cheating answer. Pseudoscience is better for them than outright miracles, strangely enough.
Liberal responding, and... no, you got it about right. Exploit the anti-big-business angle, that should work. Make sure to include mention of the obscene wealth of the sponsor organisations, and how they continue to rake in money even with rampant piracy, so it is quite clear that the various major copyright holders would happily trample over the rights of all in order to earn a few more percent.
If you just take that perjury bit our of your fake-notice, I doubt anyone would notice. The victim of this hoax is unlikely to be versed in legal form.
Even under SOPA, a court order would be needed. Not much in the way of evidence, just a court order on the authority of one judge and no penalty for filing frivilous requests, but a court order nontheless... and you can be sure that any judge good enough to stay in the position more than a week knows that you don't grant court orders against any company that earns more in a week than he does in a lifetime, unless the other side is just as well-funded.
Depends whose side you are on. There are plenty of situations where something is illegal yet still commonplace: Piracy, littering, the less-harmful narcotics. When you reach a point where something is illegal yet common, there really are only two options: Either give up enforcing the law, or get out the giant mallet and start whacking.
Backups are proof against hardware failure, not against deletion. Once the backups cycle - which they will in a very short time, storage is expensive - the data is still gone.
The creationists thought of that long ago. Their answer, simplified for convenience, is roughly that *just enough* evolution happened to make it possible... and no more. Eg, the ark carried two 'cats' which then evolved-but-not-in-the-nasty-darwinist-way into wildcats, domestic cats, lions, tigers, lynxes and all the other cats big and small. They also claim that this isn't due to natural selection, but divine preemptive inclusion of the DNA for all modern cats into the ark proto-cat.
If you really want to stump them, ask why the predatory species didn't immediatly render the prey species extinct. Their answer - and I am not making this up, really, this is the official Answers in Genesis position - is that the ark also carried a plant that grew meat, and the predators all ate that until the herbivores established a sustainable population. The plant is conveniently extinct without trace now, of course.
Firstly, I'm British. Secondly, I spent a good part of the morning going through the CDPA 1988 looking for a loophole. There is one that states that showing a work in an educational setting isn't public performance, but it still requires we buy an officially authorised DVD - all the teacher in question had was a file that looks like they recorded it off of a TV program. If they want to show it, they need to buy the DVD... and then they won't show it, because searching through a department to determine where the DVD has been lost and finding a specific place on a DVD with play-and-reverse buttons is just too much hastle.
Taking down megaupload took a lot of work, international cooperation, the use of political capital and no doubt all sorts of slow playing of games. For what? Taking down a single site, when there are about twenty more still running. With SOPA/PIPA, copyright organisations could kill ten of them with a single letter - the only way to whack the moles quickly enough.
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Iris closure happens in seconds. What you are experiencing is a secondry, slow method by which the eye adapts to different light levels. The concentration of rhodopsin is actually changing. Light breaks it down, but the photosensitive cells continually regenerate it - so when you're in the dark, levels build up and increase sensitivity.
From my understanding, the term was first used in relation to copyright a long time ago and was intended to be insulting - but since then, those pirates have adopted the term as their own and see no shame in it. Many of them deliberatly take naval piracy as a theme inspiration and adopt the associated symbols, as The Pirate Bay does. So, viable or not, it seems to be a term both sides can agree on.
But if you do have DRM your games will *still* be pirated. I have yet to encounter even one piece of single-player DRM for games that defeated the pirates - it only takes one cracker, and their work will be all over the p2p networks in hours. Multiplayer is a different story, yes - you can use things like requiring unique serials then that really do bother the pirates - but single player? No, DRM is useless. Might buy a couple of days.
US politics are also rather more theatrical and entertaining than the politics of most countries. People like a show, and US politics has it.
It shouldn't even be that hard. The spam-botnet itsself can't be easily taken down, true - decentralised C&C, that sort of thing - but they are using it for pharmacutical scams. That means the spam is there to promote a website. Remove the website - which must be hosted *somewhere* and the spam ceases to be profitable. Where is the megaupload-style international police operation to shut that down? Instead we have a bunch of vigilantee hackers, hardly an ideal solution.
Myxomatosis did the job very well though.
It is - that close, the pupil is not a single point but a disc, so the image of the display needs to depend on the angle at which photons leave it. It can be done using some additional focusing, quite easily - that's how existing head-worn displays work. The hard part is packing optics that usually need a few inches into a space less than a milimeter thick. Even for fresnel lenses, that's going to be difficult.
It'd raise the price hugely though. Easier solution: Wear glasses. Might have to get really rugged ones for military use.
Drop the accents, people will know what you mean... and in a long enough period of time, only historians will care.
Standardise the world on English. It'll be easier. It's already the second-most-spoken language, and Chinese is a real nightmare of character encoding in itsself. Then we can go back to good old ASCII.
Plus anti-gay. Got to keep their grassroots happy somehow, and nothing does that so effectively for them as a good dose of 'the homosexual agenda seeks to destroy your marriage!"
They are quite clear on the means by which herivores suddenly grow teeth, claws and a taste for meat though:
I remember the old meat-plant quite clearly, but it looks like my memory is just outdated: AiG favor a new theory now. http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/tj/v5/n2/diet
Perfectly clear ice does exist. It just forms under only very specific conditions that are very, very rarely found in nature. If you want clear ice, you'll have to make some yourself.
It'd also have to be a hollow sphere so people could live under it, with the planet perfectly balanced in the middle - and it'd have to be perfect ice too, as Genesis describes stars pre-flood, which means it must have been optically clear.
I didn't even get to the bit where they believe the upper atmosphere used to be a giant hollow sphere of crystal-clear ice.
Again, not making it up... though that one is a minority view even to young-earth creationists.
They also believe sin causes mutations. That is their explanation for why mutation-rate dating gives species divergence figures millions of years in the past: Before modern culture started spreading sin all over the place, the mutation rate was much lower.
They *could* just claim 'God did it' for all points, but they consider that to be bad form. Cheating, in a way. They'll use it if they have to, but their first choice is always to try to find an explanation that at least sounds vaguely scientific. Thus you end up with things like hypertectonics, the claim that continential drift used to be really fast (Kilometers per day) so that pangea broke up only a few thousand years ago, but slowed down before we could measure it. This explains how it was possible for the ark to repopulate the entire world from a single landing point. They *could* just say that God teleported the animals around, but that is the cheating answer. Pseudoscience is better for them than outright miracles, strangely enough.
Liberal responding, and... no, you got it about right. Exploit the anti-big-business angle, that should work. Make sure to include mention of the obscene wealth of the sponsor organisations, and how they continue to rake in money even with rampant piracy, so it is quite clear that the various major copyright holders would happily trample over the rights of all in order to earn a few more percent.
If you just take that perjury bit our of your fake-notice, I doubt anyone would notice. The victim of this hoax is unlikely to be versed in legal form.
Even under SOPA, a court order would be needed. Not much in the way of evidence, just a court order on the authority of one judge and no penalty for filing frivilous requests, but a court order nontheless... and you can be sure that any judge good enough to stay in the position more than a week knows that you don't grant court orders against any company that earns more in a week than he does in a lifetime, unless the other side is just as well-funded.
Depends whose side you are on. There are plenty of situations where something is illegal yet still commonplace: Piracy, littering, the less-harmful narcotics. When you reach a point where something is illegal yet common, there really are only two options: Either give up enforcing the law, or get out the giant mallet and start whacking.
Backups are proof against hardware failure, not against deletion. Once the backups cycle - which they will in a very short time, storage is expensive - the data is still gone.
The creationists thought of that long ago. Their answer, simplified for convenience, is roughly that *just enough* evolution happened to make it possible... and no more. Eg, the ark carried two 'cats' which then evolved-but-not-in-the-nasty-darwinist-way into wildcats, domestic cats, lions, tigers, lynxes and all the other cats big and small. They also claim that this isn't due to natural selection, but divine preemptive inclusion of the DNA for all modern cats into the ark proto-cat.
If you really want to stump them, ask why the predatory species didn't immediatly render the prey species extinct. Their answer - and I am not making this up, really, this is the official Answers in Genesis position - is that the ark also carried a plant that grew meat, and the predators all ate that until the herbivores established a sustainable population. The plant is conveniently extinct without trace now, of course.
Firstly, I'm British. Secondly, I spent a good part of the morning going through the CDPA 1988 looking for a loophole. There is one that states that showing a work in an educational setting isn't public performance, but it still requires we buy an officially authorised DVD - all the teacher in question had was a file that looks like they recorded it off of a TV program. If they want to show it, they need to buy the DVD... and then they won't show it, because searching through a department to determine where the DVD has been lost and finding a specific place on a DVD with play-and-reverse buttons is just too much hastle.
Taking down megaupload took a lot of work, international cooperation, the use of political capital and no doubt all sorts of slow playing of games. For what? Taking down a single site, when there are about twenty more still running. With SOPA/PIPA, copyright organisations could kill ten of them with a single letter - the only way to whack the moles quickly enough.