What was wrong with each of these superbrands being a.com?
Besides the "we already hit diminishing returns on major corporations trying to lock in all the domains they might want" problem ICANN had?
Maybe this is so companies can be their own registrar, once they have a.tld, so newflavor.coke can be held until newflavor's announcement date, without people seeing that it has been registered (or speculators buying them up before coke even decides on the newflavor's name?) - this is a marginal problem at most.
I guess having your own domain and creating subdomains as you see fit wasn't good enough for these companies. people might confuse newflavor.coke.com and (unaffiliated speculator site) newflavor.com.
I see this as one more step toward corporatizing the internet - you'll need the backing of some major company for your content to be visible.
There is a difference between vigilante justice and self defense. If you think "vigilante justice" is the only way legal gun ownership can impact the crime rate, you are sorely mistaken.
So far none of my guns have caused accidents or deaths - necessary or otherwise.
What measure are you using to evaluate "crimes prevented?" You use that 'n' word ("never"), but you concede it might happen, not not enough to be statistically significant.
With such an epidemic of murders involving guns, you'd be surprised just how prevalent they actually are. Why don't we make some comparisons:
in 2007 (last year I have quick access to data)
Gun homicide deaths in United States: 12,632
Gun deaths, accidental: 613
Gun deaths, suicide: 17,352
drunk-driving deaths: 12,998
The fact that violent crime (including gun crime) has gone down in recent years, even as gun ownership has increased dramatically (and legal concealed carry of firearms has gone up even faster) should tell you something.
Do you also argue that rape victims should not fight back at all, because injuring a rapist has a cost to society? Does locking doors hurt the GDP, by causing thieves to work harder at their occupation?
Or what about adding on accessories, with pre-recorded memories? If we know the structure of how a memory is stored, down the road we have external memory devices...
A quick sample of all the guns I own... wait a minute, they must be defective. Not a single one has killed a person.
Next they'll bring up "ammo control," as if the 21 billion rounds of ammunition manufactured annually are each personally responsible for killing a child.
What about the situations where a victim survived, and an attempted murderer was shot? Are you saying it is unfair that a gun was the deciding factor in that situation, and that the life of the attacker should have been preserved, at the expense of the life of the victim?
Crime has economic costs. Self-defense turns out a net positive, as I see it.
We could act with no remorse, knowing we would have no regrets once we removed the bad stuff. The only thing limiting our actions might be fear of getting caught external punishement - which we could promptly erase all memory of.
We could all be sociopaths. Brilliant!
Maybe we should be turned off by ghastly things. Maybe we should abhor violence, once we've seen it close-up.
Not just his code... He could have patented any single-tone representation of characters or communication that depended on timing for coding.
Then we'd probably be stuck with telecommunications monopoly/duopoly situations... oh wait, that happened anyway.
We can make diesel substitutes pretty easily form all sorts of biomass - alcohol is trickier and more expensive, and isn't really a good gasoline substitute anyway.
All this talk about ethanol for fuel has pretty well distracted us from the reality that biodiesel is the future.
In Texas, having 3 pieces of labware is enough to be convicted of intent to manufacture methamphetamine. For example: Pyrex flask, filtration funnel, electric hotplate/heating element. These elements are all found in just about every coffee maker in the state.
There are more than enough examples of this sort of thing already.
They put marijuana in the same drug category as heroin, GHB, MDMA, and LSD (schedule I).
They put opium, cocaine, ritalin, and morphine into the same category (schedule II).
The rules are not made by the experts, they are made by Congress.
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Not to mention Shortwave, marine band, etc.
Screw it, lets just make the thing a 500kHz-2.5GHz software-controlled scanner.
What was wrong with each of these superbrands being a .com?
Besides the "we already hit diminishing returns on major corporations trying to lock in all the domains they might want" problem ICANN had?
Maybe this is so companies can be their own registrar, once they have a .tld, so newflavor.coke can be held until newflavor's announcement date, without people seeing that it has been registered (or speculators buying them up before coke even decides on the newflavor's name?) - this is a marginal problem at most.
I guess having your own domain and creating subdomains as you see fit wasn't good enough for these companies. people might confuse newflavor.coke.com and (unaffiliated speculator site) newflavor.com.
I see this as one more step toward corporatizing the internet - you'll need the backing of some major company for your content to be visible.
Maybe there are multiple trolls? They certainly appear to be succeeding.
You think corporations were any better at that time?
Of course. They hadn't invented the paper shredder.
"old age" being defined as "that's when everything was worn out and quit working."
There is a difference between vigilante justice and self defense. If you think "vigilante justice" is the only way legal gun ownership can impact the crime rate, you are sorely mistaken.
So far none of my guns have caused accidents or deaths - necessary or otherwise.
What measure are you using to evaluate "crimes prevented?" You use that 'n' word ("never"), but you concede it might happen, not not enough to be statistically significant.
With such an epidemic of murders involving guns, you'd be surprised just how prevalent they actually are. Why don't we make some comparisons: in 2007 (last year I have quick access to data)
Gun homicide deaths in United States: 12,632
Gun deaths, accidental: 613
Gun deaths, suicide: 17,352
drunk-driving deaths: 12,998
The fact that violent crime (including gun crime) has gone down in recent years, even as gun ownership has increased dramatically (and legal concealed carry of firearms has gone up even faster) should tell you something.
Do you also argue that rape victims should not fight back at all, because injuring a rapist has a cost to society? Does locking doors hurt the GDP, by causing thieves to work harder at their occupation?
And make the mistakes all over again?
Or what about adding on accessories, with pre-recorded memories? If we know the structure of how a memory is stored, down the road we have external memory devices...
A quick sample of all the guns I own... wait a minute, they must be defective. Not a single one has killed a person. Next they'll bring up "ammo control," as if the 21 billion rounds of ammunition manufactured annually are each personally responsible for killing a child.
And yet, Dr. Lott in "More Guns, Less Crime" showed that when more law-abiding citizens owned (and carried) guns, violent crime goes down.
What about the situations where a victim survived, and an attempted murderer was shot? Are you saying it is unfair that a gun was the deciding factor in that situation, and that the life of the attacker should have been preserved, at the expense of the life of the victim? Crime has economic costs. Self-defense turns out a net positive, as I see it.
We could all be sociopaths. Brilliant!
Maybe we should be turned off by ghastly things. Maybe we should abhor violence, once we've seen it close-up.
Not just his code... He could have patented any single-tone representation of characters or communication that depended on timing for coding. Then we'd probably be stuck with telecommunications monopoly/duopoly situations... oh wait, that happened anyway.
Maybe that means lions will become very common?
Go for triple damages, then ask them if they would like to work for you - at regular price.
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We need to stop subsidizing monoculture crops, find a way to encourage many different varieties of food (but no Monsanto/GM crops).
We can make diesel substitutes pretty easily form all sorts of biomass - alcohol is trickier and more expensive, and isn't really a good gasoline substitute anyway. All this talk about ethanol for fuel has pretty well distracted us from the reality that biodiesel is the future.
Won't stop them from simpy redefining terms though. Like when they say "this tax isn't a tax," in law, it isn't a tax - but you still have to pay it.
And yet we take all the silly names made up in previous centuries as "well, that's just how they did things, and they needed a catchy name."
You mean after she promised she wouldn't quit?
In Texas, having 3 pieces of labware is enough to be convicted of intent to manufacture methamphetamine. For example: Pyrex flask, filtration funnel, electric hotplate/heating element. These elements are all found in just about every coffee maker in the state. There are more than enough examples of this sort of thing already.
That's right. crude milk is on a separate list.
They put opium, cocaine, ritalin, and morphine into the same category (schedule II).
The rules are not made by the experts, they are made by Congress.
and oh look, they want to restrict access to bacillus anthracis, a soil-borne bacteria with spores that can be found on every continent.