This argument might have held true at one point. That point would have been when people only had network TV or a small number of basic cable channels. There are so many options of content available to watch now that two people could spend the majority of their free time watching TV and not see anything in common.
I'd rather listen to a guy tell me all about some eccentric project he's working on that keeps him in the basement for most of his free time, than some other guy tell me all about what happened on some TV show I will never watch.
I like how they mention that the 23 row by 73 column interpretation is "jumbled garbage". The correct image also looks like jumbled garbage. I especially like the image of a human. How the hell is an alien supposed to figure out what that is without having seen a human before?
It is really expecting a lot out of an alien to receive this signal in all the space they could be looking at, determine that the modulation of the signal corresponds to binary digits, then determine this number of bits is semi-prime and can be arranged in a grid to pictorially represent the data, make sure they arrange it correctly, decipher what is essentially a cave drawing made by a species that may have close to nothing in common with them, and actually care enough to write back.
There has been close to 4 billion years of life on Earth. All it would take is another world that started that chain of evolution just a few hundred years earlier, or to have, by chance, evolution form sentient life a few hundred years faster, or one of countless other variable changes, and we are not the first sentient life in the universe. When time lines are that long, you can't just hand-wave and say, "yeah, there was enough time for humans to evolve, but no way could it have happened already"
Would you expect them to lobby for technology and laws that destroy all of their profits? They are really just doing what every other corporation and business wants to do. The real problems are the politicians that allow their votes to be purchased.
It's not a legal defense, just a public opinion defense.
The odds are really against him not serving time in action during WWII. The NY Times mentions his time in "the Pacific". Unless he scored a spot in Hawaii for his entire service, he was definitely out of the country.
I would personally be less likely to care about this because of the man's age than his previous service.
That's funny. The American part of NATO would sure as hell be fighting against any revolution, and I'd wager the other NATO members would stay the hell away until they know which way it is heading.
No. Why didn't you mention VOD before? I believe it is Time Warner that is selling and inserting those ads. I really don't know how the business is set up, but I imagine that those ads are intended to pay the studio that created the show for being able to air it on-demand.
I don't want to sound like a corporate apologist. It is highly likely that Time Warner IS screwing their customers with higher rates and increasing levels of advertisement.
Organic farming doesn't exclude all vaccines. They are certainly discouraged, but can be used as needed. There is also a large difference between a child catching a preventable disease and an animal that was destined for a slaughterhouse being culled for a disease.
I'd like to see a citation that organic beef is where a lot of bovine diseases are, rather than the conventionally raised beef that generally live shoulder to shoulder with each other.
The point he was making is that Time Warner is just providing a service of showing you the channels. The number of ads you see is determined by the channels individually. Time Warner may own some of the channels they are broadcasting though.
Your worrying about things that are extremely unlikely. How many landlords replace fridges with expensive touchscreen models. The fridge without the touchscreen will be a lot less than $30 lower in price and that's what would be used.
It is obviously not legal advise because it is NOT advising anyone to do anything!
The statement "This is clearly such a case." can easily be construed to imply reference to legal precedent.
Reference to legal precedent is not giving legal advice.
So if I tell you to take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut, or take a long walk off a short pier, et. al., and you actually do it, it's my fault for telling you to? Do you not have a responsibility for your own actions, regardless of what advice you're given?
According to the state of NC, no, you do not have responsibility for your own actions in regards to nutrition. They have relegated it to a topic like medicine that you must be licensed to practice. If you disagree with that, that would be a valid discussion, but for this story, the only discussion is if his web site and interactions with people meet the definition of being a practicing nutritionist in NC.
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You say that voting for third party candidates does no good, but you proceed to show that the nations top 2 parties have not always been the same. There was some point in time when Whigs were a third party, and then they were one of the top two.
What I'm trying to say is that the precedent set is that someday a third party may rise up and knock one of the current two parties out of power. That will never happen if you give up and think it's useless to vote for them.
If game publishers really want to recapture some of the used game sales money WITHOUT crap that prevents used game sales, they need a pricing structure that reduces game costs over time after release. Hell, that's how the used game prices are at GameStop. Game was released last week, used price is ~$5 off, a month ago and maybe its $20 off, last years games are $40 of the original price. All they have to do, is reduce the difference between the new price and the used price.
Compare these two hypothetical situations
You're looking for a game that is about a year old, the used price is $20, but brand new it is still $45 (if you can find it). What would you buy.
You're looking for the same game. The used price is still $20, but the publisher has reduced the price of the new version to $25. Do you think they might get some people that would just buy it new now?
Even their cohorts in Hollywood allow movie theaters to have a second run of movies after they are getting stale with lower ticket prices. The used to be $1 theaters, but now they're probably closer to $3. Basically, in the world of media and media related products. The older something is, the less you can get from it. These really are depreciating assets. If you don't want GameStop to profit by selling a used copy of your game for $5 less than new price, cut the damn new price. Used game prices are a much better reflection of the true market value of these games. The publishers have unrealistic ideas of their games market values.
That is a shyster really trying to reach to grab some cash. He's even trying to package the cash flow, securitize it and resell it on the open market. This idiot learned nothing from the securitization of sub-prime loans and is also doing what sounds to me like purely unethical behavior. No mention or notice to potential buyers at all? I don't see this one lasting too long.
The operator depends. the set of Slashdot posts consists of "News for Nerds" AND "Stuff that matters". A particular post is "News for Nerds" OR "Stuff that matters". I think it makes sense to use the operator that describes all of the sites posts for the tagline.
I have to disagree with this being a story of national interest. How exactly does this affect people in Idaho, Maine, Kansas, etc.? It's only getting national attention because the media (and I'm including/. with that because they are running this article) are pushing it all over. How will any fallout from this story affect people nationwide?
That doesn't change the fact that the CO is what kills you. As a poster further down mentioned, hemoglobin preferentially and strongly bonds to CO over oxygen causing your blood to not be able to transport oxygen leading to your death. It is extremely common to have CO2 in your lungs, as that is what we breathe out.
Dude, he didn't say Apple did it wrong. He said Apple did it and it is wrong. It was a flippant reply to "why go after Apple", so don't expect a serious response.
Yes. Yes, I would make it an issue with Lotus still. Considering I didn't buy a Toyota, I could care less about them. Lotus would be the one that has to go after Toyota for the issue and keep their customers happy.
Are you also implying that we should never fault Apple for any manufacturing defects in their products if they are made by a third party? Good luck pursuing a Chinese factory for replacements if anything breaks.
That's just language. Saying a bottle top "doesn't want to come off" doesn't imply that the speaker truly believes the bottle top is sentient and wants to stay capped to the bottle. Likewise saying "this car does not like you to use full throttle until its warmed up" would be a way to communicate to someone that the engine doesn't function properly at cold temps and full throttle. I don't see how those types of sayings equate to someone believing in "magic".
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Who is trying to get a file transfer protocol declared illegal? Should they make http file transfers illegal too?
This argument might have held true at one point. That point would have been when people only had network TV or a small number of basic cable channels. There are so many options of content available to watch now that two people could spend the majority of their free time watching TV and not see anything in common.
I'd rather listen to a guy tell me all about some eccentric project he's working on that keeps him in the basement for most of his free time, than some other guy tell me all about what happened on some TV show I will never watch.
I like how they mention that the 23 row by 73 column interpretation is "jumbled garbage". The correct image also looks like jumbled garbage. I especially like the image of a human. How the hell is an alien supposed to figure out what that is without having seen a human before?
It is really expecting a lot out of an alien to receive this signal in all the space they could be looking at, determine that the modulation of the signal corresponds to binary digits, then determine this number of bits is semi-prime and can be arranged in a grid to pictorially represent the data, make sure they arrange it correctly, decipher what is essentially a cave drawing made by a species that may have close to nothing in common with them, and actually care enough to write back.
There has been close to 4 billion years of life on Earth. All it would take is another world that started that chain of evolution just a few hundred years earlier, or to have, by chance, evolution form sentient life a few hundred years faster, or one of countless other variable changes, and we are not the first sentient life in the universe. When time lines are that long, you can't just hand-wave and say, "yeah, there was enough time for humans to evolve, but no way could it have happened already"
Would you expect them to lobby for technology and laws that destroy all of their profits? They are really just doing what every other corporation and business wants to do. The real problems are the politicians that allow their votes to be purchased.
It's not a legal defense, just a public opinion defense.
The odds are really against him not serving time in action during WWII. The NY Times mentions his time in "the Pacific". Unless he scored a spot in Hawaii for his entire service, he was definitely out of the country.
I would personally be less likely to care about this because of the man's age than his previous service.
That's funny. The American part of NATO would sure as hell be fighting against any revolution, and I'd wager the other NATO members would stay the hell away until they know which way it is heading.
No. Why didn't you mention VOD before? I believe it is Time Warner that is selling and inserting those ads. I really don't know how the business is set up, but I imagine that those ads are intended to pay the studio that created the show for being able to air it on-demand.
I don't want to sound like a corporate apologist. It is highly likely that Time Warner IS screwing their customers with higher rates and increasing levels of advertisement.
Organic farming doesn't exclude all vaccines. They are certainly discouraged, but can be used as needed. There is also a large difference between a child catching a preventable disease and an animal that was destined for a slaughterhouse being culled for a disease.
I'd like to see a citation that organic beef is where a lot of bovine diseases are, rather than the conventionally raised beef that generally live shoulder to shoulder with each other.
The point he was making is that Time Warner is just providing a service of showing you the channels. The number of ads you see is determined by the channels individually. Time Warner may own some of the channels they are broadcasting though.
Your worrying about things that are extremely unlikely. How many landlords replace fridges with expensive touchscreen models. The fridge without the touchscreen will be a lot less than $30 lower in price and that's what would be used.
It is obviously not legal advise because it is NOT advising anyone to do anything!
The statement "This is clearly such a case." can easily be construed to imply reference to legal precedent.
Reference to legal precedent is not giving legal advice.
So if I tell you to take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut, or take a long walk off a short pier, et. al., and you actually do it, it's my fault for telling you to? Do you not have a responsibility for your own actions, regardless of what advice you're given?
According to the state of NC, no, you do not have responsibility for your own actions in regards to nutrition. They have relegated it to a topic like medicine that you must be licensed to practice. If you disagree with that, that would be a valid discussion, but for this story, the only discussion is if his web site and interactions with people meet the definition of being a practicing nutritionist in NC.
You say that voting for third party candidates does no good, but you proceed to show that the nations top 2 parties have not always been the same. There was some point in time when Whigs were a third party, and then they were one of the top two.
What I'm trying to say is that the precedent set is that someday a third party may rise up and knock one of the current two parties out of power. That will never happen if you give up and think it's useless to vote for them.
Compare these two hypothetical situations
Even their cohorts in Hollywood allow movie theaters to have a second run of movies after they are getting stale with lower ticket prices. The used to be $1 theaters, but now they're probably closer to $3. Basically, in the world of media and media related products. The older something is, the less you can get from it. These really are depreciating assets. If you don't want GameStop to profit by selling a used copy of your game for $5 less than new price, cut the damn new price. Used game prices are a much better reflection of the true market value of these games. The publishers have unrealistic ideas of their games market values.
That is a shyster really trying to reach to grab some cash. He's even trying to package the cash flow, securitize it and resell it on the open market. This idiot learned nothing from the securitization of sub-prime loans and is also doing what sounds to me like purely unethical behavior. No mention or notice to potential buyers at all? I don't see this one lasting too long.
Where is the damn firehose? I just spent five minutes looking for it to no avail.
I wish I could express to you how little this matters to me and everyone I know in my part of America, far from this incident.
The operator depends. the set of Slashdot posts consists of "News for Nerds" AND "Stuff that matters". A particular post is "News for Nerds" OR "Stuff that matters". I think it makes sense to use the operator that describes all of the sites posts for the tagline.
Perhaps it should be changed to "Slashdot: News for tinfoil hatters, AND some mainstream bullshit"
I have to disagree with this being a story of national interest. How exactly does this affect people in Idaho, Maine, Kansas, etc.? It's only getting national attention because the media (and I'm including /. with that because they are running this article) are pushing it all over. How will any fallout from this story affect people nationwide?
The monkeys were immediately able to fling shit at them once they regained movement in their hands.
That doesn't change the fact that the CO is what kills you. As a poster further down mentioned, hemoglobin preferentially and strongly bonds to CO over oxygen causing your blood to not be able to transport oxygen leading to your death. It is extremely common to have CO2 in your lungs, as that is what we breathe out.
Dude, he didn't say Apple did it wrong. He said Apple did it and it is wrong. It was a flippant reply to "why go after Apple", so don't expect a serious response.
Yes. Yes, I would make it an issue with Lotus still. Considering I didn't buy a Toyota, I could care less about them. Lotus would be the one that has to go after Toyota for the issue and keep their customers happy.
Are you also implying that we should never fault Apple for any manufacturing defects in their products if they are made by a third party? Good luck pursuing a Chinese factory for replacements if anything breaks.
That's just language. Saying a bottle top "doesn't want to come off" doesn't imply that the speaker truly believes the bottle top is sentient and wants to stay capped to the bottle. Likewise saying "this car does not like you to use full throttle until its warmed up" would be a way to communicate to someone that the engine doesn't function properly at cold temps and full throttle. I don't see how those types of sayings equate to someone believing in "magic".