It's almost like the Teacher's Union has a vested interest they're protecting, and trying to play the "For the Children!" card. But they're teachers! They'd never put their own interests above their students!
Why do that, when they can just form a cartel and dictate terms? Competition is hard work! Much easier to just set up a revenue stream and start tightening the screws on your customers.
Armored structures built on the surface of Earth are not compatible with space flight.
Any armor sufficient to substantially reduce the risk of space debris damage would be too heavy to lift.
Then again, that's just my judgement on the subject. Maybe we should do an experiment with a large, inflatable structure in space. Maybe it could be "designed to orbit the planet for 5 years while the durability of the design is tested and future flights are planned around it".
I think it would be more accurate to title the article "Scientists question previous assumptions about the way the world works, which have in the past been arbitrarily defined as "Laws of Nature" by previous generations of scientists".
But that's not as sound-bite-y.
"Scientists do exactly what they're supposed to do" doesn't grab the headlines either, does it?
Live by the brand, die by the brand. If brand marketing is not important, why do they spend so much time doing it? If it is important, how do they expect me to overlook the fact that NBC sold out to Microsoft?
"You say religious freaks. How about just moral people"
Not the same set. The loudest religions are frequently the least moral ones. That's certainly not a causal relationship, but it's a decent correlation.
"How about people that don't want their 6 year old calling them a bitch because they heard it on TV."
Don't have a TV. Explain to your child why that word is a wrong thing to say, and that they will be punished if they say it.
"How about cutting out the sex scenes so we reduce the number of teenage pregnancies."
The number of sex scenes that cause teenage pregnancies is zero. The number of teenage pregnancies that are made more likely by parents abdicating their responsibilities to the TV and/or the federal government is not zero.
At the end of the day, I happen to agree with you: I think that CleanFlix or whatever is absolutely within their rights to buy a movie, re-edit it, and sell the movie to a different audience. However, I deny you the moral high ground. There are plenty of people who are a) not religious and b) moral. These two characteristics are not strongly correlated.
"whether or not you can basically take a knife to someone's work, reshape it to an audience and then make money from it. The answer quite clearly is no. "
Spoken like somebody who's never heard of a "hot rod". The answer, quite clearly, is "Yes, yes you may take the Ford frame you found in a junkyard, refurbish it, do whatever you want to it, make it sparkle, and sell it for many tens of thousands of dollars."
"Are you telling me that if the govt wants to, they have every right to come in & check the data on the server just 'because it's connected to the internet.'?"
Certainly not. Do you trust the government to not do things that they have no right to do?
But if their products don't get to market, all the research does is create more submarine patents to destroy other businesses who DO want to bring a product to market.
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Because the solution to our problems is MORE racism and bigotry. Yeah.
It's almost like the Teacher's Union has a vested interest they're protecting, and trying to play the "For the Children!" card. But they're teachers! They'd never put their own interests above their students!
Right.
Why do that, when they can just form a cartel and dictate terms? Competition is hard work! Much easier to just set up a revenue stream and start tightening the screws on your customers.
"Do not confuse scientists knowledge, understanding, and confidence for arrogance."
Yeah, because there have never been arrogant scientists.
"Science has always been a process and because of that process knowledge will continually be refined until it is completely correct."
Gold star for restating the notion that you're apparently taking issue with.
"Your statement is a fallacy in itself. Is it correct to assume your statement is always %100 correct?"
Parse sentences much? I bet you go to bed arguing with yourself about whether you should tolerate intolerance.
Armored structures built on the surface of Earth are not compatible with space flight.
Any armor sufficient to substantially reduce the risk of space debris damage would be too heavy to lift.
Then again, that's just my judgement on the subject. Maybe we should do an experiment with a large, inflatable structure in space. Maybe it could be "designed to orbit the planet for 5 years while the durability of the design is tested and future flights are planned around it".
Oh wait, they are.
"Having a Linux desktop today is not as cool as having one say 10 years ago."
Sorry. It was never that cool. But why do you care?
It's not my job to make your point.
I think it would be more accurate to title the article "Scientists question previous assumptions about the way the world works, which have in the past been arbitrarily defined as "Laws of Nature" by previous generations of scientists".
But that's not as sound-bite-y.
"Scientists do exactly what they're supposed to do" doesn't grab the headlines either, does it?
Live by the brand, die by the brand. If brand marketing is not important, why do they spend so much time doing it? If it is important, how do they expect me to overlook the fact that NBC sold out to Microsoft?
"You say religious freaks. How about just moral people"
Not the same set. The loudest religions are frequently the least moral ones. That's certainly not a causal relationship, but it's a decent correlation.
"How about people that don't want their 6 year old calling them a bitch because they heard it on TV."
Don't have a TV. Explain to your child why that word is a wrong thing to say, and that they will be punished if they say it.
"How about cutting out the sex scenes so we reduce the number of teenage pregnancies."
The number of sex scenes that cause teenage pregnancies is zero. The number of teenage pregnancies that are made more likely by parents abdicating their responsibilities to the TV and/or the federal government is not zero.
At the end of the day, I happen to agree with you: I think that CleanFlix or whatever is absolutely within their rights to buy a movie, re-edit it, and sell the movie to a different audience. However, I deny you the moral high ground. There are plenty of people who are a) not religious and b) moral. These two characteristics are not strongly correlated.
"whether or not you can basically take a knife to someone's work, reshape it to an audience and then make money from it. The answer quite clearly is no. "
Spoken like somebody who's never heard of a "hot rod". The answer, quite clearly, is "Yes, yes you may take the Ford frame you found in a junkyard, refurbish it, do whatever you want to it, make it sparkle, and sell it for many tens of thousands of dollars."
I'm not in favor of free ENTERPRISE, specifically. The entities that should be as free as possible are individuals, and the markets themselves.
Monopolies are every bit as destructive as over-regulation.
You forgot about the fact that they are a) attributed, and b) for purposes of discussion and/or criticism.
So yeah, sounds like fair use to me. Nice try, though.
For somebody who alleges to be able to follow a recipe, you do a rotten job of constructing cogent arguments.
Let me put it bluntly: Your rantings are not worth deciphering. Thanks for sharing them, though.
What kind of PowerPC processor did the Powerbook 520 series (and earlier models) have?
Yeah. You're a tool.
"Are you telling me that if the govt wants to, they have every right to come in & check the data on the server just 'because it's connected to the internet.'?"
Certainly not. Do you trust the government to not do things that they have no right to do?
"It's the inevitable result of the free-enterprise system."
Why do you think that makes it OK?
Your retarded.
Worked great for me. Don't know what to tell you.
I'd prefer getting stabbed in the face.
I'm pretty sure the locals didn't name Nigeria Nigeria.
Colonize other worlds. It's the only long-term solution.
But if their products don't get to market, all the research does is create more submarine patents to destroy other businesses who DO want to bring a product to market.
So that's not a win, either.
Would you commit murder if "murder" was defined as eating a bowl of breakfast cereal?
Just because they call it "hacking", doesn't mean it was anything of any interest to anybody at all ever.
And anybody cares, why?