Holy mackeral. Such outrage at what (for a lawyer) was a fairly straightforward request. Is is possible that there might be a middle ground, allowing partial or logged access to the images with the permission of TiVo.
Sure, TiVo has had issues with some of the hacking done, especially wrt video extraction. Overall, however, they have been very laid back about the tinkering with the internals of a consumer electronics box. They appear to be scared stiff about running afoul of content distribtuion laws, but they don't want their business model (and hard work) to go up in smoke because of over zealous users to whomo they provided assistance. The assistance of TiVo is what has given it the core of it's cult following.
Perhaps if abs.net opened a dialog, a solution might be found which keeps some or all of the images online. And of course, as mentioned in other posts, if the host goes down the folks who are smart enough to use the images are also smart enough to know where to find 'em without an ftp site.
Cracking/theft of service...now that's just not nice, and TiVo has every right to pound 'em into the ground.
Actually, Mozart survived on a combination of royal grants (govermental pork) and income generated from commissions and students (workaday stuff). Works were rarely "pirated" because of the extreme talent needed to transcribe from memory based only on real-time in situ listenings. No recording devices. No photocopiers.
Mozart was one fo the few who could remember a full score from a listening...and IIRC he pissed off at least one composer by transcribing a symphony (from memory, from a single? listening) and then mailing the copy to the composer.
Yes, until the advent of recording and playback devices, one of the few ways to make money was to be a performer or your own art. Writing might be considered in the same boat, with stories and non-fiction being "performed." But since writing came along with the post-(forage/hunt,barter) economy there isn't really a good parallel for written prose.
I do agree that copyright terms have gotten completely out of hand. 20 years from date of publish, or date of register, or claim of ownership should be sufficient. If I patent a new invention (just as "creative" as a written work) I will not receive exclusive right ot that invention for more than 20 years (I think). I suppose in the event of death, the remainder of the term shall be treated as property for the survivors.
(re: Microsoft's designs on entering the music world)
"And Apple is in a pretty interesting position. Because, as you may know, almost every song and CD is made on a Mac -- it's recorded on a Mac, it's mixed on a Mac, the artwork's done on a Mac. Almost every artist I've met has an iPod, and most of the music execs now have iPods."
And this affects what system the music gets played on in what way? Most american homes are made from Canadian lumber, but that doesn't make me more likely to want to become a Canadian. I suppose it's nice self-back-scratching.
And, of course, most of those top music execs probably got their iPods for free during the negotiations. Heck, if I knew somebody who didn't have a PC or email in 2001, I sure as heck wouldn't try to get them to use a 2 year old Archos jukebox!
I can't tell you the headaches I had trying to get my mother off of AOL mail. If it doesn't work _exactly_ as she is used to, she is totally lost. I pity the fool who tries to convert her to anything other than windows. She can't figure it out when it works correctly, and would - no doubt - get utterly lost with a mac (though that one button thing might help her).
I suppose I'm lucky because she's not savvy enough to get most of the spyware/malware out there, so XP, by and large, works quickly and reliably for her.
You should get business cards if you ever talk to someone other than yourself in person. Heck, even if you just correspond, you should have them. Don't print them yourself - you've just proven to every other buisness that you're a temporary endeavor. Get simple business cards printed by your local shop or big-box office supply. One color on decent stock. The basic variety is about $20/1000. You can't print 'em, on your inkjet for that much. Spend a whopping $40-45 and you can get a nice linen cardstock.
When you send out contact letters, drop a pair of cards into the envelope when you send it. One for the recipient, and one for they guy he knows who might be interested in what you do.
Unless you really need the extra space of a small apartment, you might find lower rents in an all-professional office park. You only need 250-300SF, why pay for 500? Good, cheap office space runs about the same - or less - than residential space, and there's no worry of you getting kicked out for violating local zoning laws or your lease. I happen to have found a room in a local rec center for my office. It was the library on an old high school. I have 1000SF and pay $150/mo. (FYI - that's warehouse rates, don't expect to find it many places). It's not beautiful, but it has character, and it works wel for me. Heck, I'm only using 250SF of the whole thing right now - I'm the only employee.
If you can subcontract work or have "employees" work shorter hours/at their home you can save money. I'm close to needing an office manager, but I know I can't hire one for 2080hr/yr, even if he/she ends up as receptionist. Just by talking to people I've found one woman who is highly recommended and does office mgmt for two or three other businesses. A few hours a month is worth her while and mine.
Definitely on the equipment, and if you're careful keep an eye on ebay. That's how I got my main printer - a HP5siMX. With the duplexer and shipping it set me back $330, plus another $135 for a new fuser. Now I do short runs for three local non-profits at half the Kinkos rate, and it has paid me back for the fuser and a new toner. That's pennies, you say? Yes. And every one counts.
Matematically true, but what's bothersome is that there are a lot of people in the "smart" half that can't find their own @ss, even if they use both hands.
All of a sudden there seems to be idiots everywhere. What's worse is that it's the dumb ones which seem to breed so damned efficiently.
Now that's the kind of ROI I want on my 401k. The market spends the last few years tanking, and these guys invest 300M six years ago and the total return is projected somewhere in the 3B range. Sure there's marketing and distribution, but 900% over 7-8 years?!? If my quick math is right, that's somewhere in the mid to high 30's compounded anually.
If I'd made that kind of money from '97 to today, I'd be sitting on the beach, sipping coladas, and reading slashdot on the wireless laptop rather than wasting my companies time sitting at my desk, sipping their coffee, and reading slashdot.
He's a bright kid (in the computer sense), and yet - apparently - stupid enough to pick on a 600 pound gorilla (RIAA/MPAA). I suppose the only thing to say is, "Thank you." Even US corporations with fat legal warchests aren't willing to take such a chance. Every revolution must start somewhere, and most truly successful ones start at the bottom.
No, OJ dis not face criminal prosecution twice for the same crime. The key is the governments ability to restrict or revoke an individual's liberties.
Both trials were a farce. The criminal trial demonstrated how flawed the legal system is. A jury of your peers has turned into a jury of the uneducated and unemployed who understand neither the legal system nor the law, much less the simple physics of everyday life. The civil trial demostrated the inequity of the legal system. If OJ had been a penniless street kid he wouldn't have gotten sued. He had money, and the family decided to punish him financially via the courts. OF course, as a penniless street kid, he would have hanged after his court appointed attorney slept through most of the trial.
The ability to participate, spending additional time (=money) in helping to develop a product. Even free (beer) software costs money when you're paying someone to maintain it. Put more in, you get more out.
You mean like the logo in the lower right hand corner. The one that jumps and mutates, telling us what's coming up next, or when the hot program is going to be on, or what URL to type to get "expanded information" on the program we're now watching.
Heck Discovery (I think) will vertically anamorphic to provide that "critical" website information at the bottom of the screen. I've stopped wathcing Discovery 'cause it bothers me. Now I've found other channels and programs which I enjoy.
Oh, and Alton Brown, please stop plugging foodtv in the middle of your show. I know, they provide funding, balh blah blah, but it's really getting annoying. The little logo is at the bottom of the screen, and I know I can go there (and I do) if I need the recipe in print.
On screen ads are here. They sucks. It can only get worse.
Because they're going to drop your precious analog broadcast and render any channel but "3" useless. Then you'll go out and buy a set top box like a good little lemming.
Don't worry, it's still a couple of years off. If you don't agree willingly, you'll be beaten into submission. There's still time to repent.;-)
I'd say something about Law and ethics but...well...
I'm a Professional Engineer
A professional is anyone who engages in a function for money. I could be a professional slashdot reader if CmdrTaco would just drop a dollar in the mail to me each month for my loyal readership. now a Professional (note the capitalization) has traditionally been someone from one of the service businesses who trades on his or her intellectual abilities. Several professions are traditional, and I would include accountants and maybe even architects in your list. I'm sure there are others who might qualify. Some might go so far as to include most upper corporate management.
Since you've included engineers, I will assume you are one, since the purists tend to stop at Medicine and Law. Accountants usually get added because they have to take a test and they have good a marketing arm of their national society. Engineers used to hold higher regard than they do nowadays, partly due to the reduced role of the professional engineer in consumer products and partly due to negligible marketing. Most folks outside of my profession who see my signature appended with "PE" ask what it means. I don't think that would be the case for an MD, DDS, or CPA.
Radio's version is more insideous. They can fit two to three additional commercials in per half-hour with the silence-reduction software. Rush Limbaugh hates it because the technology compresses his "dramatic" pauses. Of course, I'm not sure which would be worse, more Rush or more commercials. Brrrrr...gives me the chills just thinking about him being back on the air, infecting young minds with hate.
I agree. A good ad and I'll "forget" to skip forward. An annoying one and away we go.
Here are my worst bets, in no special order:
anything of a Christian nature
anything sold with an Aussie accent
anything with Oxy in the title
any "sporty" car with more than 2 seats
any movie trailer for a romantic comedy
any ad for the channel I'm already watching
any ad for a channel I'm not watching
anything for Microsoft
anything pitched by John Madden, George Foreman, Martha Stewart, or Jared.
Here are my best best, also in no special order:
16:9 (or 21:9) movie trailers for movies I'll like
humorous beer ads (even though I don't drink beer)
humorous IBM ads (I don't use IBM prod/scvs either)
okay, just about any ad with humor, which I find funny - don't worry, I can wait the 25 seconds for the punchline. Oh, and subtlety works for me.
The funniest thing is when my wife and I watch something live (football) and one or both of us tries to grab the remote at the first commercial break. Damn. Man, some of those breaks are looooooong after you get used to skipping 80% of them.
Hmmmm, this sounds familiar. An old powerful entity sees a shift in the marketplace which could damage current revenue streams. The fear of the loss of billions of unearned dollars sparks new legislation to make sure the money keeps flowing into the established machine.
Is this the RIAA? Nope, its local and federal government realizing that there's more than one way to place a phone call now, and they don't have their hand in that pocket yet. They may even run afoul of the "no internet tax" laws they just passed (I have no I idea, I haven't read the legislation- I just assumed it was proposed so that unpopular amendments about 's could be added)
The difference is that this time the injured party has the ability to actually write and pass laws (oh...right). Okay, so at least this time the money comes back to the populations, either as jobs, or pork, or both.
Ahhhh, I love Mondays... a whole weekend of cynicism saved up and ready to pour forth.
...The trivial stuff is mostly harmless. Sometimes what appears trivial on the surface is actually a major cause of resentment. The word 'redskin' was used in pretty much the same way that 'nigger' was. If you know that you can see how a football team called the Washington Redskins might be unpopular with native americans the way a team called the Atlanta Niggers would be unpopular with african americans....
Actually, Atlanta would be a poor choice as there is netiher rhyme not alliteration in the moniker. However, I was quite relieved to see that, during the expansion, Tennesee managed to avoid making Washington the second-most (PC) offensive name in NFL football.
Campaigns take money these days. Lots of it. If you don't have name recognition, it takes even more. I live in a county with a population of 17,000 and we just had a well constested Sheriff's race. The winner (and - thank goodness - the best man for the job) spent over $8,000, and he was pretty cash strapped. I would guess he did about 1/2 the advertising as the other two top candiates, and I know he painted some of his own signs to save money. He probably talked to more than half the residents in the county face to face, door to door. There are no radio or television stations which cater to this county, and there is single weekly newspaper, so there was no big $$$ media.
Why are candidates so dependent on cash? VOTER APATHY! Yes, it's still our fault. We don't do research, we vote by name recognition and the "message" which has been tested and massaged by the political machine. Now, I'm not foolish enough to believe that I'll get a chance to talk one-on-one with the next presidential candidates, but I'll be doing a little legwork prior to the democratic primary elections.
I already know that Dubya is not a man I can trust to protect my values. IMHO, his eye's are bigger than his stomach, and his mouth is faster than his brain - I probably wouldn't vote for him if we mostly agreed on how the country should be run.
I don't know much about Dean, yet, but I will. He doesn't carry the baggage a congresman usually carries, but he's got a record to follow. I find looking at the "other" sides literature is a good starting point. Find out why they think he shouldn't be in office. Once you know how he handles his missteps, then look at his purported successes. Look at how he's handles problems, then judge his actions based on intent and available data. When you invest money in mutual funds, do you take a look at the historical data or do you look at the methods and values of the manager? Most folks who choose based on the former are sorely disappointed in their investments over time - you're constantly moving money into last year's great performer.
Now, I'm nearly as lazy as the next guy, so I won't even look at the candiates until a moth or so before the primary, when I'm stuck with four or five lousy choices from the original field of fifteen or so. But hey, at least that's manageable.
Whether legilstive or judicial, it does have an exemption. Courts interpret law, and the courts have interpreted, and upheld, that anti-trust legislation does not apply to MLB. You admit yourself that the courts have ruled that congress must pass a law _including_ MLB in order for them to be bound by it.
The courts have made MLB exempt by requiring their explicit inclusion in legislation. Until congress makes it illegal for anti-trust behavior to occur in baseball, it is legal. There's no exemption written into the law, but it's not necessary - the exemption exists nonetheless.
To compare with another popular/. topic - Time-shifting of video is legal. It is not explicitly allow for under US law, but it is legal because the courts have viewed it as fair use. They've essentially changed the legislation to include timeshifting, and in order for it to become illegal, congress must act to include timeshifting as an infringing act.
I just can't help but respond here. Given little good information about the positions of candiataes (and sometimes there is very little to go on), I will vote for the democrat over the republican. Why? If the dem spends all my money via taxes, I can always vote him/her out and make more later. If the rep lets the environment go to waste, there's not enough money in the world to put it back correctly. I may make the wrong decision in the voting booth, but I want to know that I've got a shot at fixing that error once it's found. It must be the engineer in me - fault tolerance ranks high in my decision-making process.
Actually, that appears to be 1000lbs-mass worth of cooling hardware. That's 31 slugs, give or take, for those considering non-terrestrial applications and are American or are thinking of designing with 19th century units just for fun.
While I'm suspicious that a 1000lb-m unit can pump 10T-30T of heat, if you discount the heat exchanger it's entirely possible. A 25T roof mounted heat exchanger, for example, may run from 2000-10000 pounds in weight, but the fan-coil unit rarely weights more than a few hundred pounds.
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Holy mackeral. Such outrage at what (for a lawyer) was a fairly straightforward request. Is is possible that there might be a middle ground, allowing partial or logged access to the images with the permission of TiVo.
Sure, TiVo has had issues with some of the hacking done, especially wrt video extraction. Overall, however, they have been very laid back about the tinkering with the internals of a consumer electronics box. They appear to be scared stiff about running afoul of content distribtuion laws, but they don't want their business model (and hard work) to go up in smoke because of over zealous users to whomo they provided assistance. The assistance of TiVo is what has given it the core of it's cult following.
Perhaps if abs.net opened a dialog, a solution might be found which keeps some or all of the images online. And of course, as mentioned in other posts, if the host goes down the folks who are smart enough to use the images are also smart enough to know where to find 'em without an ftp site.
Cracking/theft of service...now that's just not nice, and TiVo has every right to pound 'em into the ground.
Actually, Mozart survived on a combination of royal grants (govermental pork) and income generated from commissions and students (workaday stuff). Works were rarely "pirated" because of the extreme talent needed to transcribe from memory based only on real-time in situ listenings. No recording devices. No photocopiers.
Mozart was one fo the few who could remember a full score from a listening...and IIRC he pissed off at least one composer by transcribing a symphony (from memory, from a single? listening) and then mailing the copy to the composer.
Yes, until the advent of recording and playback devices, one of the few ways to make money was to be a performer or your own art. Writing might be considered in the same boat, with stories and non-fiction being "performed." But since writing came along with the post-(forage/hunt,barter) economy there isn't really a good parallel for written prose.
I do agree that copyright terms have gotten completely out of hand. 20 years from date of publish, or date of register, or claim of ownership should be sufficient. If I patent a new invention (just as "creative" as a written work) I will not receive exclusive right ot that invention for more than 20 years (I think). I suppose in the event of death, the remainder of the term shall be treated as property for the survivors.
(re: Microsoft's designs on entering the music world)
"And Apple is in a pretty interesting position. Because, as you may know, almost every song and CD is made on a Mac -- it's recorded on a Mac, it's mixed on a Mac, the artwork's done on a Mac. Almost every artist I've met has an iPod, and most of the music execs now have iPods."
And this affects what system the music gets played on in what way? Most american homes are made from Canadian lumber, but that doesn't make me more likely to want to become a Canadian. I suppose it's nice self-back-scratching.
And, of course, most of those top music execs probably got their iPods for free during the negotiations. Heck, if I knew somebody who didn't have a PC or email in 2001, I sure as heck wouldn't try to get them to use a 2 year old Archos jukebox!
...I'm going back to school to study cryptography. It's just too damned cool (and I used to be a rocket scientist, a cool vocation itself).
OMG - Linux?
I can't tell you the headaches I had trying to get my mother off of AOL mail. If it doesn't work _exactly_ as she is used to, she is totally lost. I pity the fool who tries to convert her to anything other than windows. She can't figure it out when it works correctly, and would - no doubt - get utterly lost with a mac (though that one button thing might help her).
I suppose I'm lucky because she's not savvy enough to get most of the spyware/malware out there, so XP, by and large, works quickly and reliably for her.
You should get business cards if you ever talk to someone other than yourself in person. Heck, even if you just correspond, you should have them. Don't print them yourself - you've just proven to every other buisness that you're a temporary endeavor. Get simple business cards printed by your local shop or big-box office supply. One color on decent stock. The basic variety is about $20/1000. You can't print 'em, on your inkjet for that much. Spend a whopping $40-45 and you can get a nice linen cardstock.
When you send out contact letters, drop a pair of cards into the envelope when you send it. One for the recipient, and one for they guy he knows who might be interested in what you do.
Unless you really need the extra space of a small apartment, you might find lower rents in an all-professional office park. You only need 250-300SF, why pay for 500? Good, cheap office space runs about the same - or less - than residential space, and there's no worry of you getting kicked out for violating local zoning laws or your lease. I happen to have found a room in a local rec center for my office. It was the library on an old high school. I have 1000SF and pay $150/mo. (FYI - that's warehouse rates, don't expect to find it many places). It's not beautiful, but it has character, and it works wel for me. Heck, I'm only using 250SF of the whole thing right now - I'm the only employee.
If you can subcontract work or have "employees" work shorter hours/at their home you can save money. I'm close to needing an office manager, but I know I can't hire one for 2080hr/yr, even if he/she ends up as receptionist. Just by talking to people I've found one woman who is highly recommended and does office mgmt for two or three other businesses. A few hours a month is worth her while and mine.
Definitely on the equipment, and if you're careful keep an eye on ebay. That's how I got my main printer - a HP5siMX. With the duplexer and shipping it set me back $330, plus another $135 for a new fuser. Now I do short runs for three local non-profits at half the Kinkos rate, and it has paid me back for the fuser and a new toner. That's pennies, you say? Yes. And every one counts.
Matematically true, but what's bothersome is that there are a lot of people in the "smart" half that can't find their own @ss, even if they use both hands.
All of a sudden there seems to be idiots everywhere. What's worse is that it's the dumb ones which seem to breed so damned efficiently.
Now that's the kind of ROI I want on my 401k. The market spends the last few years tanking, and these guys invest 300M six years ago and the total return is projected somewhere in the 3B range. Sure there's marketing and distribution, but 900% over 7-8 years?!? If my quick math is right, that's somewhere in the mid to high 30's compounded anually.
If I'd made that kind of money from '97 to today, I'd be sitting on the beach, sipping coladas, and reading slashdot on the wireless laptop rather than wasting my companies time sitting at my desk, sipping their coffee, and reading slashdot.
...for fighting the good fight.
He's a bright kid (in the computer sense), and yet - apparently - stupid enough to pick on a 600 pound gorilla (RIAA/MPAA). I suppose the only thing to say is, "Thank you." Even US corporations with fat legal warchests aren't willing to take such a chance. Every revolution must start somewhere, and most truly successful ones start at the bottom.
No, OJ dis not face criminal prosecution twice for the same crime. The key is the governments ability to restrict or revoke an individual's liberties.
Both trials were a farce. The criminal trial demonstrated how flawed the legal system is. A jury of your peers has turned into a jury of the uneducated and unemployed who understand neither the legal system nor the law, much less the simple physics of everyday life. The civil trial demostrated the inequity of the legal system. If OJ had been a penniless street kid he wouldn't have gotten sued. He had money, and the family decided to punish him financially via the courts. OF course, as a penniless street kid, he would have hanged after his court appointed attorney slept through most of the trial.
I hope they don't use a linux box to play the video daily double from a commercial DVD.
The ability to participate, spending additional time (=money) in helping to develop a product. Even free (beer) software costs money when you're paying someone to maintain it. Put more in, you get more out.
You mean like the logo in the lower right hand corner. The one that jumps and mutates, telling us what's coming up next, or when the hot program is going to be on, or what URL to type to get "expanded information" on the program we're now watching.
Heck Discovery (I think) will vertically anamorphic to provide that "critical" website information at the bottom of the screen. I've stopped wathcing Discovery 'cause it bothers me. Now I've found other channels and programs which I enjoy.
Oh, and Alton Brown, please stop plugging foodtv in the middle of your show. I know, they provide funding, balh blah blah, but it's really getting annoying. The little logo is at the bottom of the screen, and I know I can go there (and I do) if I need the recipe in print.
On screen ads are here. They sucks. It can only get worse.
Because they're going to drop your precious analog broadcast and render any channel but "3" useless. Then you'll go out and buy a set top box like a good little lemming.
;-)
Don't worry, it's still a couple of years off. If you don't agree willingly, you'll be beaten into submission. There's still time to repent.
I'd say something about Law and ethics but...well...
I'm a Professional Engineer
A professional is anyone who engages in a function for money. I could be a professional slashdot reader if CmdrTaco would just drop a dollar in the mail to me each month for my loyal readership. now a Professional (note the capitalization) has traditionally been someone from one of the service businesses who trades on his or her intellectual abilities. Several professions are traditional, and I would include accountants and maybe even architects in your list. I'm sure there are others who might qualify. Some might go so far as to include most upper corporate management.
Since you've included engineers, I will assume you are one, since the purists tend to stop at Medicine and Law. Accountants usually get added because they have to take a test and they have good a marketing arm of their national society. Engineers used to hold higher regard than they do nowadays, partly due to the reduced role of the professional engineer in consumer products and partly due to negligible marketing. Most folks outside of my profession who see my signature appended with "PE" ask what it means. I don't think that would be the case for an MD, DDS, or CPA.
Radio's version is more insideous. They can fit two to three additional commercials in per half-hour with the silence-reduction software. Rush Limbaugh hates it because the technology compresses his "dramatic" pauses. Of course, I'm not sure which would be worse, more Rush or more commercials. Brrrrr...gives me the chills just thinking about him being back on the air, infecting young minds with hate.
I agree. A good ad and I'll "forget" to skip forward. An annoying one and away we go.
Here are my worst bets, in no special order:
anything of a Christian nature
anything sold with an Aussie accent
anything with Oxy in the title
any "sporty" car with more than 2 seats
any movie trailer for a romantic comedy
any ad for the channel I'm already watching
any ad for a channel I'm not watching
anything for Microsoft
anything pitched by John Madden, George Foreman, Martha Stewart, or Jared.
Here are my best best, also in no special order:
16:9 (or 21:9) movie trailers for movies I'll like
humorous beer ads (even though I don't drink beer)
humorous IBM ads (I don't use IBM prod/scvs either)
okay, just about any ad with humor, which I find funny - don't worry, I can wait the 25 seconds for the punchline. Oh, and subtlety works for me.
The funniest thing is when my wife and I watch something live (football) and one or both of us tries to grab the remote at the first commercial break. Damn. Man, some of those breaks are looooooong after you get used to skipping 80% of them.
Hmmmm, this sounds familiar. An old powerful entity sees a shift in the marketplace which could damage current revenue streams. The fear of the loss of billions of unearned dollars sparks new legislation to make sure the money keeps flowing into the established machine.
Is this the RIAA? Nope, its local and federal government realizing that there's more than one way to place a phone call now, and they don't have their hand in that pocket yet. They may even run afoul of the "no internet tax" laws they just passed (I have no I idea, I haven't read the legislation- I just assumed it was proposed so that unpopular amendments about 's could be added)
The difference is that this time the injured party has the ability to actually write and pass laws (oh...right). Okay, so at least this time the money comes back to the populations, either as jobs, or pork, or both.
Ahhhh, I love Mondays... a whole weekend of cynicism saved up and ready to pour forth.
...The trivial stuff is mostly harmless. Sometimes what appears trivial on the surface is actually a major cause of resentment. The word 'redskin' was used in pretty much the same way that 'nigger' was. If you know that you can see how a football team called the Washington Redskins might be unpopular with native americans the way a team called the Atlanta Niggers would be unpopular with african americans. ...
Actually, Atlanta would be a poor choice as there is netiher rhyme not alliteration in the moniker. However, I was quite relieved to see that, during the expansion, Tennesee managed to avoid making Washington the second-most (PC) offensive name in NFL football.
Campaigns take money these days. Lots of it. If you don't have name recognition, it takes even more. I live in a county with a population of 17,000 and we just had a well constested Sheriff's race. The winner (and - thank goodness - the best man for the job) spent over $8,000, and he was pretty cash strapped. I would guess he did about 1/2 the advertising as the other two top candiates, and I know he painted some of his own signs to save money. He probably talked to more than half the residents in the county face to face, door to door. There are no radio or television stations which cater to this county, and there is single weekly newspaper, so there was no big $$$ media.
Why are candidates so dependent on cash? VOTER APATHY! Yes, it's still our fault. We don't do research, we vote by name recognition and the "message" which has been tested and massaged by the political machine. Now, I'm not foolish enough to believe that I'll get a chance to talk one-on-one with the next presidential candidates, but I'll be doing a little legwork prior to the democratic primary elections.
I already know that Dubya is not a man I can trust to protect my values. IMHO, his eye's are bigger than his stomach, and his mouth is faster than his brain - I probably wouldn't vote for him if we mostly agreed on how the country should be run.
I don't know much about Dean, yet, but I will. He doesn't carry the baggage a congresman usually carries, but he's got a record to follow. I find looking at the "other" sides literature is a good starting point. Find out why they think he shouldn't be in office. Once you know how he handles his missteps, then look at his purported successes. Look at how he's handles problems, then judge his actions based on intent and available data. When you invest money in mutual funds, do you take a look at the historical data or do you look at the methods and values of the manager? Most folks who choose based on the former are sorely disappointed in their investments over time - you're constantly moving money into last year's great performer.
Now, I'm nearly as lazy as the next guy, so I won't even look at the candiates until a moth or so before the primary, when I'm stuck with four or five lousy choices from the original field of fifteen or so. But hey, at least that's manageable.
Whether legilstive or judicial, it does have an exemption. Courts interpret law, and the courts have interpreted, and upheld, that anti-trust legislation does not apply to MLB. You admit yourself that the courts have ruled that congress must pass a law _including_ MLB in order for them to be bound by it.
/. topic - Time-shifting of video is legal. It is not explicitly allow for under US law, but it is legal because the courts have viewed it as fair use. They've essentially changed the legislation to include timeshifting, and in order for it to become illegal, congress must act to include timeshifting as an infringing act.
The courts have made MLB exempt by requiring their explicit inclusion in legislation. Until congress makes it illegal for anti-trust behavior to occur in baseball, it is legal. There's no exemption written into the law, but it's not necessary - the exemption exists nonetheless.
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I just can't help but respond here. Given little good information about the positions of candiataes (and sometimes there is very little to go on), I will vote for the democrat over the republican. Why? If the dem spends all my money via taxes, I can always vote him/her out and make more later. If the rep lets the environment go to waste, there's not enough money in the world to put it back correctly. I may make the wrong decision in the voting booth, but I want to know that I've got a shot at fixing that error once it's found. It must be the engineer in me - fault tolerance ranks high in my decision-making process.
Actually, that appears to be 1000lbs-mass worth of cooling hardware. That's 31 slugs, give or take, for those considering non-terrestrial applications and are American or are thinking of designing with 19th century units just for fun.
While I'm suspicious that a 1000lb-m unit can pump 10T-30T of heat, if you discount the heat exchanger it's entirely possible. A 25T roof mounted heat exchanger, for example, may run from 2000-10000 pounds in weight, but the fan-coil unit rarely weights more than a few hundred pounds.
I get about 20 years, given that moore's law holds.
Okaaaaaay....so...
"Fool me once, shame on you"
"Fool me twice, shame on me"
How gullible to you have to be to fall for ATI's cr@p three times in a row?
Sorry, just couldn't resist. It's been one of those days.