And I think that the MAFIAA's should stop using the word pirate to talk about people who are infringing on their temporary state granted monopoly handout. Piracy requires the threat or act of violence to capture ships, cargo or hostages at sea. But it isn't going to happen.
You break into a house in the US and you are in the US.
You host pirated movies in Sweden and you can ignore DMCA requests.
Look at it this way...
I sure as hell don't want to get extradited to Saudi Arabia and be executed for premarital sex when the act is only a misdemeanor in Mississippi where it was actually committed.
Extradition, in this case, most certainly does represent a very bad precedent.
"They" also thought that islamic terrorists had anthrax that just so happened to match the exact purity and unique genetic strain that is manufactured in a US government lab...
"They" also thought that there were WMD in Iraq...
"They" also believe that Obama is a non-citizen, born in Africa, Communist, Nazi, anti-Christ, ushering the apocalypse and European new world order......for certain values of "They".
Tell me about it. We're a Canadian company and have sub-contractors in China that are supposed to make parts for us. However we have learned that our Chinese sub-contractors have themselves sub-contracted another company in India, which themselves sub-contracted another company in Mexico, which themselves sub-contracted another company in the USA.
Let me guess, your company was sub-contracted by a company in the USA to make a part remarkably similar to the one you needed?
I wouldn't say there is no such thing as peak nuclear power, we will eventually run out of uranium in easilly accessable areas. And we will eventually run out of "nuclear waste" to fuel feeder reactors, but that is likely to take hundreds or even thousands of years.
Don't forget the right wing libertarian loonies that only really want the government dismantled so that the corporations can more efficiently carve out their fiefdoms for personal gain.
You don't have to be anti-GM to utterly hate Monsanto.
I don't have a problem with GM food if it is well regulated, well tested, clearly labeled and unencumbered by retardation like Genetic Property Rights Management kill-switch genes and patent infringement cases because the wind blew some GM seeds into your field.
Monsanto makes the Umbrella Corp from Resident Evil look kind and gentle in comparison.
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Without copyright, GPL could be implemented as a contractual agreement. It would loose some of its teeth, but it could still bite.
And I think that the MAFIAA's should stop using the word pirate to talk about people who are infringing on their temporary state granted monopoly handout. Piracy requires the threat or act of violence to capture ships, cargo or hostages at sea. But it isn't going to happen.
The record keeper.
I was never in Saudi Arabia.
And McKinnon was never in America (at least while he was supposedly hacking DoD computers).
You break into a house in the US and you are in the US.
You host pirated movies in Sweden and you can ignore DMCA requests.
Look at it this way...
I sure as hell don't want to get extradited to Saudi Arabia and be executed for premarital sex when the act is only a misdemeanor in Mississippi where it was actually committed.
Extradition, in this case, most certainly does represent a very bad precedent.
How about letting the courts in the country where the crime may committed hold the trial? No extradition required.
It is the least I could do.
Half my comments are snarky.
Half my comments are humor.
Half my comments are serious.
Half my comments have more than one meaning.
How prophetic...
This makes me a sad panda...
"They" also thought that islamic terrorists had anthrax that just so happened to match the exact purity and unique genetic strain that is manufactured in a US government lab...
"They" also thought that there were WMD in Iraq...
"They" also believe that Obama is a non-citizen, born in Africa, Communist, Nazi, anti-Christ, ushering the apocalypse and European new world order... ...for certain values of "They".
The more massive the star, the shorter its life as it burns through its fuel more quickly.
Stars smaller than the sun are believed to endure for hundreds of billions or even trillions of years.
Stars of near the suns size last for billions to tens of billions of years.
Large stars are believed to last for tens or hundreds of millions of years.
The largest previously known stars at up to a hundred times the suns mass are believed to live for only a few hundred thousand or million years.
How long will this star last? Millennia? Centuries? Decades?
The thing about records is...
They are not really records until they are recorded.
Tell me about it. We're a Canadian company and have sub-contractors in China that are supposed to make parts for us. However we have learned that our Chinese sub-contractors have themselves sub-contracted another company in India, which themselves sub-contracted another company in Mexico, which themselves sub-contracted another company in the USA.
Let me guess, your company was sub-contracted by a company in the USA to make a part remarkably similar to the one you needed?
I don't want to wait for nuclear powered space ship disasters.
We should have had them a decade ago.
That is all fine and good. Nothing at all wrong with a balanced approach.
Just because I am pro solar does not mean that I am not also pro nuclear.
I wouldn't say there is no such thing as peak nuclear power, we will eventually run out of uranium in easilly accessable areas. And we will eventually run out of "nuclear waste" to fuel feeder reactors, but that is likely to take hundreds or even thousands of years.
And that is why you toss it back into a feeder reactor as fuel to and let the neutron radiation break it down for you.
You can reuse the steam turbines and electric generators with solar thermal power plants as well.
It would probably be cheaper to build hundreds of thousands of fusion energy collectors in the desert.
Sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced stupidity.
Investigative journalism is dead.
The only thing left for journalists to do is put a little spin on corporate and government press releases.
Hey!
Twitter has 5 8's reliability.
That is only 1 less than the 5 9's that people keep raving about!
Don't forget the right wing libertarian loonies that only really want the government dismantled so that the corporations can more efficiently carve out their fiefdoms for personal gain.
You don't have to be anti-GM to utterly hate Monsanto.
I don't have a problem with GM food if it is well regulated, well tested, clearly labeled and unencumbered by retardation like Genetic Property Rights Management kill-switch genes and patent infringement cases because the wind blew some GM seeds into your field.
Monsanto makes the Umbrella Corp from Resident Evil look kind and gentle in comparison.
What are you babbling about?
Even raw steel/aluminum mirrors are +90% efficient, at high temperature steam turbines are ~41% efficient.
Even when you account for reflection, heat loss, less than perfect reflector coverage and everything else you are still looking at +20% efficiency.
It wouldn't.
I was clearly responding to my direct parent post who was talking about the energy scarcity problem in California.