It's not so simple that it's a food-for-fuel in the case of corn ethanol, even though corn ethanol is probably still a bad idea.
The dichotomy can exist, but I'm not convinced it does with corn. The corn the US grows isn't suitable for human consumption, so we have to feed it to cows, which makes our meat (in kind of an abusive manner too, cattle aren't built to have a diet of primarily corn), and a small percent of the corn becomes HFCS as a food sweetener. I've seen it mentioned in a couple places, but cows don't get much if any energy from the starch, and making ethanol converts the starch into something cattle can consume. I don't remember the guest, but it's a guest on Science Friday that pointed this out, and I've seen it indirectly confirmed in the documentary King Corn, the mash that you get left over from brewing alcohol yields very large cattle.
I wonder if the amber has certain properties that exchanges certain materials with its captive animals to aid preservation. Maybe we don't see much larger things because there's not much amber dripping from a tree.
This article seems to say spiders are preserved in amber, but since the bloodsuckers that host the paper want $15 for just one day access to the paper, I'm not that desperate to know what the article says.
I haven't seen surveys or stats that focused on business vs. home use.
I think the proportion can be important, for instance, it can tell vendors how much time and money they can justify spending to satisfy the wants of a vocal group.
The fact that Linux can be installed after purchase is kind of a red herring, because the proportion of people that browse the web using a Linux system hasn't been shown to be much larger than 1% of all browsers. I think to claim that the user base is a lot larger than that, you'd have to say that either Linux users as a group are predisposed to avoiding http, or that they don't visit the top several hundred most popular web sites, which those stats are based on, and that's encroaching into a special pleading argument.
The thing is, people tend to die in confrontations like that. Particularly including the home owner / occupant. You put bullet holes in the first person, whether or not he/she's in the right, and you're going to get ten law officers. You get one of their comrades, they're not going to ask questions first.
The thing is, there should be a procedure that limits it by separated powers. Isn't a warrant required for entry to a private property if the owner objects to a search?
Anyway, Palm is now a could-have-been. Lost out to Smartphones I guess...
Palm didn't lose out to smart phones, they just didn't excite people into buying their smart phones. It didn't help that they kind of fell behind in terms of technology. I like my Zodiac (PalmOS based PDA/game system), it's kind of too bad that they didn't stay in business long enough to make a phone, assuming Palm would let them. The Zodiac was pretty snappy and did everything I needed, it was just too hard to carry multiple devices in my pocket.
The problem I have is that I don't think a person that's supposed to be working on the behalf of their constituents should be able to claim copyrights on what they did while working in that capacity.
As far as I'm concerned, if they want to own the copyright on something, such as a book or video work, they should do that something on their own time and their own resources.
Then why are they suggesting that businesses avoid Vista and cancel existing transitions to Vista? That doesn't sound like a Microsoft party line to me.
I imagine that AT&T customers would still get their plans, but everyone else gets their time credits by buying the establishment's product (in case you don't call it food or drink).
That would be a bonus for McDonald's as that would mean that there's little reason to stick around if you have cellular broadband to nearly anywhere you can walk.
I wonder why they think it's worth spending money patenting stuff like that. Even if you do get the patent, who is going to bother using that idea? Much less pay for using it.
As it is, the equivalent "proof of God" doesn't really seem to exist either, not in a similar manner. Most of the time, the argument grinds down to "I believe", or the argument says that it must be *their* God when the likelihood of life forming in the universe without help is very low. One of the arguments is even about the fact that word used to mean a "day" in the first Hebrew creation story is supposed to mean a literal day because other uses of the same word in the text was a literal day. This sort of interpretation (a word used in the text means the same in every use of the text) is taken to be a form of proof of a literal 168 hour creation cycle.
Interestingly, there is more than one creation story in the text, with slightly different events, but people seem to forget that.
I agree, trashing someone else's server is a dick move, and should be disparaged. Sadly though, even if it's a small percentage of people, the number of dicks like this is higher than zero and it's simply not possible to get rid of them. No amount of anti-dick eugenics is going to fix the problem, generally the people that get caught are the ones that got sloppy, the good ones get away.
So this unfortunate situation should be a warning for people to do off site & off line backups. And I don't know if mocking the people with insufficient backups is a good solution to get people to back up.
There is a difference between active exploits and security holes. There are very few known active exploits, but there are holes as far as I remember, and given a little time, a hole will be exploited if not patched. I don't think the security hole where a contestant won in a MacBook in a recent Pwn-To-Own contest got fixed. I don't recall that one as requiring the user to run as administrator or root, unlike past Pwn-To-Own contests.
It seems to me that they could have a system set up such that you buy something and you can request a code for minutes of WiFi, maybe every dollar you spend on their product gets you a bonus of five minutes internet time. A combo would be half an hour. That way you don't get the people that just buy a coffee (or even not even buy anything) and stick around for an hour. That should cut the average time down and free up the seats.
I think I've heard of some shops turning off WiFi during rush hours simply because they don't have enough seats and would end up losing customers because people that want what they're selling end up going elsewhere.
The length of the cord doesn't seem to be that relevant. To me, I would think the fact that the signal crosses property lines might be enough to call it broadcasting, and it's not a device that the user owns or maintains.
I think the media industries need to lighten up on it though.
Conversely, why should a project wait until the last minute to get all the rights and permissions in order to produce a product, free or not, that derives from a company's trademarks and copyrights?
A dedicated cult fanbase does not automatically mean that it's a marketable audience. It does not take many fans to make a fan game, especially if they aren't shooting for commercial polish.
The thing is, the Randians like to promote this idea that recessions are caused by the presense of the Fed, and I think the opposite is true, I think they tended to act as a moderator that buffer the ridiculous boom-bust cycles. Before there was a Fed, there were many depressions (not just recessions), and the Randians just pretend those never happened.
Regarding that, "legal tender" isn't really what people think it is, people read in what isn't meant to be there. Legal tender really only means that it's money backed by the government, not that people and companies are required by law to take it.
Answer The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
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It's not so simple that it's a food-for-fuel in the case of corn ethanol, even though corn ethanol is probably still a bad idea.
The dichotomy can exist, but I'm not convinced it does with corn. The corn the US grows isn't suitable for human consumption, so we have to feed it to cows, which makes our meat (in kind of an abusive manner too, cattle aren't built to have a diet of primarily corn), and a small percent of the corn becomes HFCS as a food sweetener. I've seen it mentioned in a couple places, but cows don't get much if any energy from the starch, and making ethanol converts the starch into something cattle can consume. I don't remember the guest, but it's a guest on Science Friday that pointed this out, and I've seen it indirectly confirmed in the documentary King Corn, the mash that you get left over from brewing alcohol yields very large cattle.
It's not as if insects won't have bacteria.
I wonder if the amber has certain properties that exchanges certain materials with its captive animals to aid preservation. Maybe we don't see much larger things because there's not much amber dripping from a tree.
http://paleobiol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/3/389
This article seems to say spiders are preserved in amber, but since the bloodsuckers that host the paper want $15 for just one day access to the paper, I'm not that desperate to know what the article says.
I found a picture of what looks like might be a sizable spider in amber:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aranya_fosilitzada_a_l'ambre.JPG
Using Google Images shows a lot of spiders in amber, so maybe something as big as a tarantula might show up there.
Yay! Someone's being a dick in response to an informative post. I suppose that should be expected, this is Slashdot.
I hope most men don't walk around bathrooms with their wang out either.
I haven't seen surveys or stats that focused on business vs. home use.
I think the proportion can be important, for instance, it can tell vendors how much time and money they can justify spending to satisfy the wants of a vocal group.
The fact that Linux can be installed after purchase is kind of a red herring, because the proportion of people that browse the web using a Linux system hasn't been shown to be much larger than 1% of all browsers. I think to claim that the user base is a lot larger than that, you'd have to say that either Linux users as a group are predisposed to avoiding http, or that they don't visit the top several hundred most popular web sites, which those stats are based on, and that's encroaching into a special pleading argument.
The thing is, people tend to die in confrontations like that. Particularly including the home owner / occupant. You put bullet holes in the first person, whether or not he/she's in the right, and you're going to get ten law officers. You get one of their comrades, they're not going to ask questions first.
That explains the email and URL part, but no contact information?
The thing is, there should be a procedure that limits it by separated powers. Isn't a warrant required for entry to a private property if the owner objects to a search?
To me, it sounds like you're advocating reasoning with people that may well be unreasonable. Embarking on that is like arguing with pigs.
Anyway, Palm is now a could-have-been. Lost out to Smartphones I guess...
Palm didn't lose out to smart phones, they just didn't excite people into buying their smart phones. It didn't help that they kind of fell behind in terms of technology. I like my Zodiac (PalmOS based PDA/game system), it's kind of too bad that they didn't stay in business long enough to make a phone, assuming Palm would let them. The Zodiac was pretty snappy and did everything I needed, it was just too hard to carry multiple devices in my pocket.
The problem I have is that I don't think a person that's supposed to be working on the behalf of their constituents should be able to claim copyrights on what they did while working in that capacity.
As far as I'm concerned, if they want to own the copyright on something, such as a book or video work, they should do that something on their own time and their own resources.
Then why are they suggesting that businesses avoid Vista and cancel existing transitions to Vista? That doesn't sound like a Microsoft party line to me.
I imagine that AT&T customers would still get their plans, but everyone else gets their time credits by buying the establishment's product (in case you don't call it food or drink).
That would be a bonus for McDonald's as that would mean that there's little reason to stick around if you have cellular broadband to nearly anywhere you can walk.
I wonder why they think it's worth spending money patenting stuff like that. Even if you do get the patent, who is going to bother using that idea? Much less pay for using it.
As it is, the equivalent "proof of God" doesn't really seem to exist either, not in a similar manner. Most of the time, the argument grinds down to "I believe", or the argument says that it must be *their* God when the likelihood of life forming in the universe without help is very low. One of the arguments is even about the fact that word used to mean a "day" in the first Hebrew creation story is supposed to mean a literal day because other uses of the same word in the text was a literal day. This sort of interpretation (a word used in the text means the same in every use of the text) is taken to be a form of proof of a literal 168 hour creation cycle.
Interestingly, there is more than one creation story in the text, with slightly different events, but people seem to forget that.
I agree, trashing someone else's server is a dick move, and should be disparaged. Sadly though, even if it's a small percentage of people, the number of dicks like this is higher than zero and it's simply not possible to get rid of them. No amount of anti-dick eugenics is going to fix the problem, generally the people that get caught are the ones that got sloppy, the good ones get away.
So this unfortunate situation should be a warning for people to do off site & off line backups. And I don't know if mocking the people with insufficient backups is a good solution to get people to back up.
With it being an approximately once in five hundred year event according to the page that you linked, I don't think it's such a big problem yet.
There is a difference between active exploits and security holes. There are very few known active exploits, but there are holes as far as I remember, and given a little time, a hole will be exploited if not patched. I don't think the security hole where a contestant won in a MacBook in a recent Pwn-To-Own contest got fixed. I don't recall that one as requiring the user to run as administrator or root, unlike past Pwn-To-Own contests.
It seems to me that they could have a system set up such that you buy something and you can request a code for minutes of WiFi, maybe every dollar you spend on their product gets you a bonus of five minutes internet time. A combo would be half an hour. That way you don't get the people that just buy a coffee (or even not even buy anything) and stick around for an hour. That should cut the average time down and free up the seats.
I think I've heard of some shops turning off WiFi during rush hours simply because they don't have enough seats and would end up losing customers because people that want what they're selling end up going elsewhere.
The length of the cord doesn't seem to be that relevant. To me, I would think the fact that the signal crosses property lines might be enough to call it broadcasting, and it's not a device that the user owns or maintains.
I think the media industries need to lighten up on it though.
Conversely, why should a project wait until the last minute to get all the rights and permissions in order to produce a product, free or not, that derives from a company's trademarks and copyrights?
A dedicated cult fanbase does not automatically mean that it's a marketable audience. It does not take many fans to make a fan game, especially if they aren't shooting for commercial polish.
The thing is, the Randians like to promote this idea that recessions are caused by the presense of the Fed, and I think the opposite is true, I think they tended to act as a moderator that buffer the ridiculous boom-bust cycles. Before there was a Fed, there were many depressions (not just recessions), and the Randians just pretend those never happened.
Regarding that, "legal tender" isn't really what people think it is, people read in what isn't meant to be there. Legal tender really only means that it's money backed by the government, not that people and companies are required by law to take it.
http://treasury.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.shtml
Answer The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
Emphasis is mine.