Late 90's to 2001 worked mostly third-shift in a store. Kids (legal teens to mid- late-twenties) would come in to get their Whip-Its, papers, browse, and I'd be playing whatever, some Cream, Spirit, Leonard Cohen, Buffalo Springfield, Drifters, Rotary Connection, Eric Burdon and the Animals, It's A Beautiful Day, Chambers Brothers, stuff like that. Often they'd say "Man, what is that shit?" Five, ten minutes later they'd say "Man, what _is_ that shit? I gotta get me some of that!"
Over the years I've come to think that it's the music; good stuff is appreciated - the music engages the senses, good lyrics infiltrate the intellect, (and even when music and lyrics are fairly standard, if it's different and catchy, it's a spark, and rock'n'roll is forever) and another human thinks to explore more beyond what they automatically hear every day. Heck, one kid, about five months later, comes in and tells me that among other things he's started listening to a bit of Bach - by a roundabout chain of listening that started with him grooving on some Steppenwolf I was playing! I think it's neat stuff.
Sure there's a generational thing. We didn't have that many records when I was growing up - Fred Waring, Tschaikowsky (sp?), Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Victor Borge, Burl Ives, a hodgepodge smattering of stuff. So when I built my first crystal set, I naturally sought out rockabilly, rock, R&B, anything but what we had at home. But the music of my youth stuck and led me, from time to time, to explore things I might not have otherwise.
Yup, hadn't forgotten MOL, which I thought at the time could have been pursued usefully, but thanks for the tip. So far as I know none of the MOL missions involved anti-sat weaponry. According to what I've read, at least one of Almaz stations was armed with a cannon ~23mm and test fired. Somewhere I still might have some links, but can't find them. (my lack of organization is really pissing me off these days) This link gives some good info on Almaz:
Came across something interesting regarding the hassle of selecting orbits - if we go high enough to avoid more atmosphere and thus drag we start to run into the inner Van Allen belt, but there've been serious proposals to remove it, which would give us a lot more flexibility for putting things where we'd like them. Higher orbits would cost more, though.
This to me is astounding, a brand new (to me) nifty idea. It would give us a lot more room to play with and maybe give time for folks to begin seriously cleaning LEO of debris.
I'd add one other use: since the craft working as tugboat could take sats from LEO out to geostationary or geosynchronous orbit it could bring back satellites that are operational but for needing fuel or minor repairs and then put them back.
Right now, companies have to eat the cost of those satellites that have run out of fuel needed to refine orbit and point their antennas. Some of those fuels are toxic and require careful handling; IIRC hyrazine is one of them. I suppose repairs would be on a case basis.
As you say, this refueling and repair role could be a perfect fit for the ISS. Absent any 'show-stoppers' this could add years of demonstrably pragmatic and income-producing use of the station, and the added time would allow both new and continuing research.
Well, for mainstream general use I agree, because that's mostly what I do as well - general surfing, email, some TV and movie streaming, checking out a distro in a vm, nothing fancy. Not much of a challenge for my system - 1090T, 8GB DDR2, ~3TB storage, put together in '09, originally with a first-gen Phenom quad. The six-core is its third processor, and I've replaced the used 8800GT that burned out with a 460GTX (best I could afford nVidia side)
Except.... I've been running World Community Grid since Christmas Eve '04 starting on a 533MHz Celeron-A (an old Dell Optiplex 100-something) while the screensaver was on. Now I have BOINC set to run the grid stuff full-time at 100%.
When I want to do something that wants a fair bit of CPU, BOINC quickly gives way gracefully. I don't currently run CUDA stuff because the 460GTX, while a nice enough old card for what it is, is simply too under-powered to handle the load and still let me do stuff without lag. Now, if I could get a second card.... but that's gonna have to wait until the next build, and that's gonna have to wait a long time until I can save up - or miraculously manage to get some work for which I'm still capable.
When I think of the power of the computer sitting next to my table compared to even ten years ago it's mind-blowing. Sure, I want moar. Do I need it? Maybe not, but I bet I could find something. [grin]
And maybe I'm the last idiot on the planet to see this, but sometimes in the wee hours, way past crash time, I'll press a key and see the character appear on the screen...and think back, to the first time I saw that on our house machine, maybe '79, and back further, typewriters, making my own ink and quill pen just as was done 3, 4 and more centuries ago, to charcoal on bleached skins, and it is truly and simply a shiver-up-the-spine magic. Ah, well, maybe too many mushrooms in the Sixties. And not enough sleep today.
IIRC, the way it worked is that a provider offered a city a cable TV (and later, Internet access) package but only IF they were the solely-allowed provider. Many cities swallowed the bait and then, eternal lock-in. Some cities set up their own stuff if they could get away with it. (Wasn't there a recent case where a court said a city could not provide for their own citizens?)
So I think it really started with the combination of cities rolling over, there being only one company available in their area, or an effective ban on competition.
Read about this happening in a few places at the time and I watched this happen where I lived in early '70's. There were two companies bidding, and the city also had the realistic choice of doing the infrastructure themselves, after which they could have invited bids for content. (We formed an ad hoc group to propose a cable ordinance we wrote - and that later was accepted with but few changes.)
Nope, they got lazy, un-imaginative, and spineless. (Our ordinance wasn't put in place until after they'd decided - there were some 'interesting' scheduling things done on committee work and ballot inclusion) Turns out that they could have saved roughly 20% rolling their own, and presuming content bids in line with the industry. Only got worse after several price hikes in first decade or so - some "public utility" committee they had.
Just a reminder about AT&T - from the initial disclosure some years back, apparently their traffic goes through DPI with semantic filtering; whether that's just for the coastal nodes or all in-country stuff, I don't know. However, while I rarely use BT for anything but distro iso's, or open, public domain, or paid software and other media, the only time I got a letter about 'forbidden' activities, it was from AT&T - but that was after they got into the content-provider stuff, so I'm guessing they watch your stuff on behalf of studios and networks.
"This is not the 21st century I was told to expect."
There's a lot of that going around.
I remember in the '50s, in the midst of the post-war return to 'normalcy' euphoria, the glowing visions depicted of the future for the '60s and '70s. It's laughable, almost pathetic, in hindsight.
Did a search on "soviet secret space stations" because I remembered reading of them - my memory was refreshed about the Almaz program, in itself fascinating reading.
Further, if one reads the linked article and at the end clicks to the main page, there is a wealth of researched and referenced material on all manner of space efforts, manned and unmanned.
If you or anyone has interest, you may wish to check it out:
"All computers must be 100% organic since they are made of Silicone, Copper, Gold, etc..."
I suspect I need more sleep (or therapy) because as I read your list of ingredients I flashed on 'conductive, malleable, programmable breast implants.'
Knowledge? Sure. Get some definitions, numbers, all kinds facts.
Understanding? Not so much. That needs thinking (and the capacity for so doing). Lots and lots of thinking, and that means some effort expended, i.e., work. And there's the rub.
That's the way, I think, except for those who flat out don't care. I've given a few people, the same that I've named and filed with my advanced directive, an envelope with master password to 'The Vault' so that they can unload what they please and close the accounts. Still have to write a will and have it notarized.
It's not so much that I care a lot about digital stuff vanishing into mass storage somewhere but I don't want to leave the people I care about with possibly vexing dangling digital details.
Computer goes to a friend anyway, so no worries about anything embarrassing on the drives; my home folder will be available to family and friends - family pics, favorite comics, possibly useful links and documents and some stray writing. They don't want it, erase it.
I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with Google's approach to a dead man switch, but it's a helluva good start; it's a nice thing to do and it could help keep things smooth for them as well.
But I'd suggest doing the bulk of arrangements in meat space. Do it now: we don't know our time, so it doesn't hurt to not leave as much of a mess behind as doing nothing. Folks above are right, tho - when I'm gone I'm likely not going to care anymore. Dead is probably just that. If there is anything after, whatever one's beliefs, you won't find out until it happens.
I've been lucky, mostly, with drivers and the rest, on both Linux and Windows. Three real problems in a dozen-odd years, two Windows, one Linux, but I'm not playing favorites. It may've helped that most of my hardware has been fairly generic. So I use what I can afford for my needs, and try to get along with it.
No, I _read_ the news; the stories are sometimes longer, with one hopes more depth, and no yammering on-air personalities or commercials. Besides, I read much more quickly than they can talk.
Don't have a TV, haven't for going on six years. I watch a few shows off network sites and Hulu. When I had TV I like to think that at least for many decades I had a reasonable picture of what was what and filtered accordingly, always augmented by reading several newspapers of goodly variety.
Um, unless you're outing yourself as a member of a different species, you're also in the audience that you address, no?
But you're right. Recently was news of an augmented sky survey group for the Southern Hemisphere, so at least we have a few people looking, both amateur and pro. IIRC NASA in conjunction with others have an effort going and set up an infos clearinghouse. (too lazy now to look it up) Better than nothing so far. Enough? I'm WAGging insufficient data. [splat]
Speaking truth to power works so well, yes? And speaking truth to apathy works even better.
"Ay, hand me a beer, ay? Who's playing tonight? How 'bout them Mets? [Braaaap]"
Whoa. I read the same blog you did. Then I got curious and looked to see what I could find about when the term "piracy" was first used in reference to copyright infringement. When you asked I repeated that search, looked at a few more things, and gave links, cited a few passages and footnotes that I found illustrative or amusing. That's it. That's all.
I claim nothing. Why you want to make something of it I can't fathom.
Apropos of mostly nothing:
Heinlein once proposed that it take a 3/4 majority to pass a law and a simple majority to remove a law. Further, that for a certain length of time, ten years, say, for every law that went on the books two would come off.
The real annoying part of it all is that without law, we'd have even more troubles than we have now. The forlorn hope is getting people into the various legislatures to write good law and get rid of the bad. I truly do not know if that is possible just now. I'd like to hope it is.
I haven't the quote exactly but one of the wiser things I've come across on the 'interwebs' is "All operating systems suck, they just suck in different ways."
If I was going to have a Windows issue as host OS, it'd be 7, no doubt. I had it on my laptop for about a year, then decided I was getting really tired of dealing with a lot of the little stuff on a continual basis so found something else to get really tired of dealing with. (grin)
I watched four clips, lost track of how many times I startled in my chair. Nosferatu reminds me more of some of the better-done Hammer films - dark, Gothic, chilling, little touches that prime the suspense and horror and add to the verisimilitude, and the deft handling of the shocks. You know what I mean.
Thanks for the encouragement; hey, even if I suck at getting through the game, I do believe I'm gonna put it on my short list of things to save for.
Whatever the game, I prefer ones with good story, good play, a place to get lost in for a while.
I saw some references to people and dates relating to material of which I have no ready access, although it was simple enough to establish the reality of those people and material. I had no way to confirm accuracy of items cited in the blog such as page numbers and whatnot.
What I did find and read and skim were (along with the blog in question):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne (Yay, John Locke!) and from that article the following, e.g.: "and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, "One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price... these things call for an Act of Parliament".[32]"
Did you do a search? Did you not follow up by reading or at least skimming three or four likely-looking results? Did you read the linked piece on the blog?
I agree about the poisonous bit. The piece cited is not, I submit, an example of it. It does need some reasoning to arrive at why that is so. YMMV.
For that matter I've never quite fathomed the twisty mentality of someone who finds joy in plucking legs from ants. Trolls and bullies remind me of people such as that. Now why did I think of that? It certainly couldn't have been something you said.
At the moment the only way NK could get a nuke into SK is by truck through one of their tunnels, or just possibly by boat. And that's assuming they have the odd extra device laying around.
It's "ordnance", not a misdemeanor charge. Sixty-year old tubes work fine if they've been maintained and not suffering fatigue. It would seem reasonable that shells are of more recent manufacture. For that matter a fair amount of all their arty is not particularly old, and they also do live-fire training with it. At least, according to bits and bobs I've read about it over time.
well, looking at a map, and the relevant missile sites as best I can puzzle out from recent news re which ones we're monitoring, I gather most of 'em are on NK's east coast; historically they've aimed their stuff east or south-east, out to sea. For one of them to hit, say, Seoul, it'd have to do one hell of a u-turn. One wonders if the missiles have destruct packages. I'd expect them to, it's basic self-protection.
Think is, they haven't issued any warnings to ships or aircraft (I fergit the acronyms, something like NOTAMS) as they normally do. So, either they're still huffing and puffing, or they're gonna launch a few for 'exercise' and run the risk of hitting the stray freighter or fishing boat. That could get... interesting. Still, not much happened after they shelled an island or sunk that destroyer and killing 46 crew (if memory serves they never admitted the latter).
Interesting times and all. What I find at least as disturbing as anything else so far is the level and kind of bullshit rhetoric coming out of US media. One can almost imagine an off-stage conductor waving his baton. Or maybe I just need more sleep.
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This is another of those "it depends" I think.
Late 90's to 2001 worked mostly third-shift in a store. Kids (legal teens to mid- late-twenties) would come in to get their Whip-Its, papers, browse, and I'd be playing whatever, some Cream, Spirit, Leonard Cohen, Buffalo Springfield, Drifters, Rotary Connection, Eric Burdon and the Animals, It's A Beautiful Day, Chambers Brothers, stuff like that. Often they'd say "Man, what is that shit?" Five, ten minutes later they'd say "Man, what _is_ that shit? I gotta get me some of that!"
Over the years I've come to think that it's the music; good stuff is appreciated - the music engages the senses, good lyrics infiltrate the intellect, (and even when music and lyrics are fairly standard, if it's different and catchy, it's a spark, and rock'n'roll is forever) and another human thinks to explore more beyond what they automatically hear every day. Heck, one kid, about five months later, comes in and tells me that among other things he's started listening to a bit of Bach - by a roundabout chain of listening that started with him grooving on some Steppenwolf I was playing! I think it's neat stuff.
Sure there's a generational thing. We didn't have that many records when I was growing up - Fred Waring, Tschaikowsky (sp?), Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Victor Borge, Burl Ives, a hodgepodge smattering of stuff. So when I built my first crystal set, I naturally sought out rockabilly, rock, R&B, anything but what we had at home. But the music of my youth stuck and led me, from time to time, to explore things I might not have otherwise.
Yup, hadn't forgotten MOL, which I thought at the time could have been pursued usefully, but thanks for the tip. So far as I know none of the MOL missions involved anti-sat weaponry. According to what I've read, at least one of Almaz stations was armed with a cannon ~23mm and test fired. Somewhere I still might have some links, but can't find them. (my lack of organization is really pissing me off these days) This link gives some good info on Almaz:
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/almazops.htm
Came across something interesting regarding the hassle of selecting orbits - if we go high enough to avoid more atmosphere and thus drag we start to run into the inner Van Allen belt, but there've been serious proposals to remove it, which would give us a lot more flexibility for putting things where we'd like them. Higher orbits would cost more, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt#Implications_for_space_travel
This to me is astounding, a brand new (to me) nifty idea. It would give us a lot more room to play with and maybe give time for folks to begin seriously cleaning LEO of debris.
I'd add one other use: since the craft working as tugboat could take sats from LEO out to geostationary or geosynchronous orbit it could bring back satellites that are operational but for needing fuel or minor repairs and then put them back.
Right now, companies have to eat the cost of those satellites that have run out of fuel needed to refine orbit and point their antennas. Some of those fuels are toxic and require careful handling; IIRC hyrazine is one of them. I suppose repairs would be on a case basis.
As you say, this refueling and repair role could be a perfect fit for the ISS. Absent any 'show-stoppers' this could add years of demonstrably pragmatic and income-producing use of the station, and the added time would allow both new and continuing research.
and @benthurston27 - either phrasing of law seems about right.
Nice. Saves me doing a "whooosh" on Taco Cowboy, also.
Well, for mainstream general use I agree, because that's mostly what I do as well - general surfing, email, some TV and movie streaming, checking out a distro in a vm, nothing fancy. Not much of a challenge for my system - 1090T, 8GB DDR2, ~3TB storage, put together in '09, originally with a first-gen Phenom quad. The six-core is its third processor, and I've replaced the used 8800GT that burned out with a 460GTX (best I could afford nVidia side)
Except.... I've been running World Community Grid since Christmas Eve '04 starting on a 533MHz Celeron-A (an old Dell Optiplex 100-something) while the screensaver was on. Now I have BOINC set to run the grid stuff full-time at 100%.
When I want to do something that wants a fair bit of CPU, BOINC quickly gives way gracefully. I don't currently run CUDA stuff because the 460GTX, while a nice enough old card for what it is, is simply too under-powered to handle the load and still let me do stuff without lag. Now, if I could get a second card.... but that's gonna have to wait until the next build, and that's gonna have to wait a long time until I can save up - or miraculously manage to get some work for which I'm still capable.
When I think of the power of the computer sitting next to my table compared to even ten years ago it's mind-blowing. Sure, I want moar. Do I need it? Maybe not, but I bet I could find something. [grin]
And maybe I'm the last idiot on the planet to see this, but sometimes in the wee hours, way past crash time, I'll press a key and see the character appear on the screen...and think back, to the first time I saw that on our house machine, maybe '79, and back further, typewriters, making my own ink and quill pen just as was done 3, 4 and more centuries ago, to charcoal on bleached skins, and it is truly and simply a shiver-up-the-spine magic. Ah, well, maybe too many mushrooms in the Sixties. And not enough sleep today.
Onward.
IIRC, the way it worked is that a provider offered a city a cable TV (and later, Internet access) package but only IF they were the solely-allowed provider. Many cities swallowed the bait and then, eternal lock-in. Some cities set up their own stuff if they could get away with it. (Wasn't there a recent case where a court said a city could not provide for their own citizens?)
So I think it really started with the combination of cities rolling over, there being only one company available in their area, or an effective ban on competition.
Read about this happening in a few places at the time and I watched this happen where I lived in early '70's. There were two companies bidding, and the city also had the realistic choice of doing the infrastructure themselves, after which they could have invited bids for content. (We formed an ad hoc group to propose a cable ordinance we wrote - and that later was accepted with but few changes.)
Nope, they got lazy, un-imaginative, and spineless. (Our ordinance wasn't put in place until after they'd decided - there were some 'interesting' scheduling things done on committee work and ballot inclusion) Turns out that they could have saved roughly 20% rolling their own, and presuming content bids in line with the industry. Only got worse after several price hikes in first decade or so - some "public utility" committee they had.
Just a reminder about AT&T - from the initial disclosure some years back, apparently their traffic goes through DPI with semantic filtering; whether that's just for the coastal nodes or all in-country stuff, I don't know. However, while I rarely use BT for anything but distro iso's, or open, public domain, or paid software and other media, the only time I got a letter about 'forbidden' activities, it was from AT&T - but that was after they got into the content-provider stuff, so I'm guessing they watch your stuff on behalf of studios and networks.
"This is not the 21st century I was told to expect."
There's a lot of that going around.
I remember in the '50s, in the midst of the post-war return to 'normalcy' euphoria, the glowing visions depicted of the future for the '60s and '70s. It's laughable, almost pathetic, in hindsight.
Did a search on "soviet secret space stations" because I remembered reading of them - my memory was refreshed about the Almaz program, in itself fascinating reading.
Further, if one reads the linked article and at the end clicks to the main page, there is a wealth of researched and referenced material on all manner of space efforts, manned and unmanned.
If you or anyone has interest, you may wish to check it out:
Space History Notes
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/histind1.htm
"All computers must be 100% organic since they are made of Silicone, Copper, Gold, etc..."
I suspect I need more sleep (or therapy) because as I read your list of ingredients I flashed on 'conductive, malleable, programmable breast implants.'
Knowledge? Sure. Get some definitions, numbers, all kinds facts.
Understanding? Not so much. That needs thinking (and the capacity for so doing). Lots and lots of thinking, and that means some effort expended, i.e., work. And there's the rub.
That's the way, I think, except for those who flat out don't care. I've given a few people, the same that I've named and filed with my advanced directive, an envelope with master password to 'The Vault' so that they can unload what they please and close the accounts. Still have to write a will and have it notarized.
It's not so much that I care a lot about digital stuff vanishing into mass storage somewhere but I don't want to leave the people I care about with possibly vexing dangling digital details.
Computer goes to a friend anyway, so no worries about anything embarrassing on the drives; my home folder will be available to family and friends - family pics, favorite comics, possibly useful links and documents and some stray writing. They don't want it, erase it.
I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with Google's approach to a dead man switch, but it's a helluva good start; it's a nice thing to do and it could help keep things smooth for them as well.
But I'd suggest doing the bulk of arrangements in meat space. Do it now: we don't know our time, so it doesn't hurt to not leave as much of a mess behind as doing nothing. Folks above are right, tho - when I'm gone I'm likely not going to care anymore. Dead is probably just that. If there is anything after, whatever one's beliefs, you won't find out until it happens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OpenGL_programs
the first section lists games using OpenGL. If it's only a handful, then it's for a hand with many, many, many fingers.
Yup, no sweat, Nosferatu is on my short list.
I've been lucky, mostly, with drivers and the rest, on both Linux and Windows. Three real problems in a dozen-odd years, two Windows, one Linux, but I'm not playing favorites. It may've helped that most of my hardware has been fairly generic. So I use what I can afford for my needs, and try to get along with it.
No, I _read_ the news; the stories are sometimes longer, with one hopes more depth, and no yammering on-air personalities or commercials. Besides, I read much more quickly than they can talk.
Don't have a TV, haven't for going on six years. I watch a few shows off network sites and Hulu. When I had TV I like to think that at least for many decades I had a reasonable picture of what was what and filtered accordingly, always augmented by reading several newspapers of goodly variety.
"Screw you humans. You'll get yours."
Um, unless you're outing yourself as a member of a different species, you're also in the audience that you address, no?
But you're right. Recently was news of an augmented sky survey group for the Southern Hemisphere, so at least we have a few people looking, both amateur and pro. IIRC NASA in conjunction with others have an effort going and set up an infos clearinghouse. (too lazy now to look it up) Better than nothing so far. Enough? I'm WAGging insufficient data. [splat]
Speaking truth to power works so well, yes? And speaking truth to apathy works even better.
"Ay, hand me a beer, ay? Who's playing tonight? How 'bout them Mets? [Braaaap]"
Whoa. I read the same blog you did. Then I got curious and looked to see what I could find about when the term "piracy" was first used in reference to copyright infringement. When you asked I repeated that search, looked at a few more things, and gave links, cited a few passages and footnotes that I found illustrative or amusing. That's it. That's all.
I claim nothing. Why you want to make something of it I can't fathom.
Apropos of mostly nothing:
Heinlein once proposed that it take a 3/4 majority to pass a law and a simple majority to remove a law. Further, that for a certain length of time, ten years, say, for every law that went on the books two would come off.
The real annoying part of it all is that without law, we'd have even more troubles than we have now. The forlorn hope is getting people into the various legislatures to write good law and get rid of the bad. I truly do not know if that is possible just now. I'd like to hope it is.
I haven't the quote exactly but one of the wiser things I've come across on the 'interwebs' is "All operating systems suck, they just suck in different ways."
If I was going to have a Windows issue as host OS, it'd be 7, no doubt. I had it on my laptop for about a year, then decided I was getting really tired of dealing with a lot of the little stuff on a continual basis so found something else to get really tired of dealing with. (grin)
I watched four clips, lost track of how many times I startled in my chair. Nosferatu reminds me more of some of the better-done Hammer films - dark, Gothic, chilling, little touches that prime the suspense and horror and add to the verisimilitude, and the deft handling of the shocks. You know what I mean.
Thanks for the encouragement; hey, even if I suck at getting through the game, I do believe I'm gonna put it on my short list of things to save for.
Whatever the game, I prefer ones with good story, good play, a place to get lost in for a while.
I saw some references to people and dates relating to material of which I have no ready access, although it was simple enough to establish the reality of those people and material. I had no way to confirm accuracy of items cited in the blog such as page numbers and whatnot.
What I did find and read and skim were (along with the blog in question):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement good, but I skimmed much of it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne (Yay, John Locke!) and from that article the following, e.g.: ... these things call for an Act of Parliament".[32]"
"and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, "One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price
http://www.copyhype.com/2011/03/what-is-piracy/ see footnote 4, e.g.
http://copyrightandtechnology.com/2010/07/07/piracy-throughout-history/ is short and makes interesting reading
That was my one my larnings for the day, now on to other things. YMMV.
Did you do a search? Did you not follow up by reading or at least skimming three or four likely-looking results? Did you read the linked piece on the blog?
I agree about the poisonous bit. The piece cited is not, I submit, an example of it. It does need some reasoning to arrive at why that is so. YMMV.
For that matter I've never quite fathomed the twisty mentality of someone who finds joy in plucking legs from ants. Trolls and bullies remind me of people such as that. Now why did I think of that? It certainly couldn't have been something you said.
At the moment the only way NK could get a nuke into SK is by truck through one of their tunnels, or just possibly by boat. And that's assuming they have the odd extra device laying around.
It's "ordnance", not a misdemeanor charge. Sixty-year old tubes work fine if they've been maintained and not suffering fatigue. It would seem reasonable that shells are of more recent manufacture. For that matter a fair amount of all their arty is not particularly old, and they also do live-fire training with it. At least, according to bits and bobs I've read about it over time.
well, looking at a map, and the relevant missile sites as best I can puzzle out from recent news re which ones we're monitoring, I gather most of 'em are on NK's east coast; historically they've aimed their stuff east or south-east, out to sea. For one of them to hit, say, Seoul, it'd have to do one hell of a u-turn. One wonders if the missiles have destruct packages. I'd expect them to, it's basic self-protection.
Think is, they haven't issued any warnings to ships or aircraft (I fergit the acronyms, something like NOTAMS) as they normally do. So, either they're still huffing and puffing, or they're gonna launch a few for 'exercise' and run the risk of hitting the stray freighter or fishing boat. That could get... interesting. Still, not much happened after they shelled an island or sunk that destroyer and killing 46 crew (if memory serves they never admitted the latter).
Interesting times and all. What I find at least as disturbing as anything else so far is the level and kind of bullshit rhetoric coming out of US media. One can almost imagine an off-stage conductor waving his baton. Or maybe I just need more sleep.
If the information is credible, what's the problem?
Did you perchance _read_ it? Or were you passing by and felt the need to drop a bit of standard /. snide?
That's a good read, and thanks to your memory. Love me some good ol' boy engineering.