The reason password lengths were limited is because people were retarded and storing the password in a database. Now, good policy dictates that you never store a password, only its hash and salt. The only reasons to limit length is to limit the bandwidth required in case someone decides to use the unabridged works of Shakespeare as his pass phrase.
"clean coal" is about as expensive as nuclear power and it has a lot of problems because it sequesters CO2 by pumping it underground at high pressure. In the event of a fracture event the sudden release of CO2 can prove fatal for anyone living in low areas. A similar effect occurs naturally in certain areas of Africa where CO2 suddenly released from deep lakes occasionally wipes out entire villages. If that happens in a suburban or urban area, 10s or hundreds of thousands could die. The risks are just too great.
Antimatter? really? Please realize that science fiction is indeed science fiction. Antimatter can not be harvest as a natural resource, it is at best a really really expensive form of energy storage because we have to create antimatter before we can use it.
Fusion may be possible sometime this century, maybe.
As for solar? in the southeast we can get about 1kw per meter a day at 20% efficiency. With a 1 square mile array we could get a little over 2.2 gw. 20% is entirely doable with solar thermal, and it can even generate a base load at night with a large enough thermal reservoir.
As for wind, Not a fan of it myself. To unreliable and needs an energy storage system of either pumped or chemical storage. Neither is very efficient and pumped storage has issues with land destruction.
I am still very much pro nuclear with these newer safer reactor designs.
maybe, my grandparents are grandfathered in with a $9 unlimited calling plan. Though they recently had to replace their rotary phone with a push button one.
In Mississippi, parents are not allowed to define their own curriculum. And the only pre approved curriculum (at least when I was younger) was PACE christian studies.
Most home schooled children are done so for religious reasons. For instance, PACE homeschooling was one of, if not the, only homeschooling system endorsed by the state of Mississippi when I was younger. And it was heavily Christian. Had to memorize biblical passages, every math example involved biblical characters, the science sections had disclaimers about how evolution was only a theory right next to quotes from genesis, etc.
That isn't the only one I am aware of, there are also systems aimed at orthodox jews, muslims, etc.
This is one of the things we did for for senior projects at my university before smart phones became popular.
We developed a system for audio-visual telepresence for counseling and rehabilitation for people unable to visit a facility either from disability, lack of transportation or by legal restraint.
A now dead company I used to work for was actually trying to market a similar service by pushing advertising over P2P. RIAA didn't want to do it. RIAA also didn't want to pay analytical details of P2P traffic. They DID want the IP's of people torrenting their music, but again they didn't want to pay for it.
That isn't a good comparison if you are trying to make your point. Using your numbers Memento had an 8 times return on investment and Inception only had a 5.16 times return on investment. Memento was the more profitable movie from an investment standpoint.
They have moved on to calling it theft now that "pirate" has been ingrained in the public mind. Maybe in a few years it will be called copyright rape or intellectual property murder.
It is all part of a war on language to guide the arguments, demonize those who would defend sharing (like Jesus?), and brainwash people into being incapable of forming a rational opinion on the subject.
Or you can use firebug to inspect and delete the annoying popup. Its what I do when I find a site that I really need to use, but is broken without javascript and more broken with javascript.
Paragraph 1: Sexual orientation can not be a meme as it exists in species that do not have the capacity for memes. It can not be a meme because it is observed to occur spontaneously in species where no prior behavior has occurred. The idea that it is a genetic defect would require that non heterosexuality causes harm, it does not. It may not even reduce the likelihood of spreading genes.
Paragraph 2: I will not argue that humanity is not weak and flawed.
Paragraph 3-5: this fails for the same reason that paragraph 1 does, orientation is not a meme. You don't need to know precisely what causes it to be able to objectively demonstrate that certain causes are not valid.
For most people religion isn't a choice, it is forced onto them through brainwashing while their minds are still developing. I am not attacking religion, or discriminating against it, I am explaining it and defending against its onslaught against humanity. I do this because it the the right thing to do. I take a hard line in the stand against evil, and if you see that as "viciously attacking" or "vitriolic attacks" against yourself or your beliefs, perhaps you should take a long deep look at the things you have been made to believe.
And what is wrong with that? An app distributed outside of itunes does not use apples infrastructure for distribution, why would they need to be paid for it?
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The reason password lengths were limited is because people were retarded and storing the password in a database. Now, good policy dictates that you never store a password, only its hash and salt. The only reasons to limit length is to limit the bandwidth required in case someone decides to use the unabridged works of Shakespeare as his pass phrase.
Marketing yourself and achieving initial recognition is what bands do when they play at bars and small clubs and produce a local following.
"clean coal" is about as expensive as nuclear power and it has a lot of problems because it sequesters CO2 by pumping it underground at high pressure. In the event of a fracture event the sudden release of CO2 can prove fatal for anyone living in low areas. A similar effect occurs naturally in certain areas of Africa where CO2 suddenly released from deep lakes occasionally wipes out entire villages. If that happens in a suburban or urban area, 10s or hundreds of thousands could die. The risks are just too great.
Antimatter? really? Please realize that science fiction is indeed science fiction. Antimatter can not be harvest as a natural resource, it is at best a really really expensive form of energy storage because we have to create antimatter before we can use it.
Fusion may be possible sometime this century, maybe.
As for solar? in the southeast we can get about 1kw per meter a day at 20% efficiency. With a 1 square mile array we could get a little over 2.2 gw.
20% is entirely doable with solar thermal, and it can even generate a base load at night with a large enough thermal reservoir.
As for wind, Not a fan of it myself. To unreliable and needs an energy storage system of either pumped or chemical storage. Neither is very efficient and pumped storage has issues with land destruction.
I am still very much pro nuclear with these newer safer reactor designs.
maybe, my grandparents are grandfathered in with a $9 unlimited calling plan. Though they recently had to replace their rotary phone with a push button one.
In Mississippi, parents are not allowed to define their own curriculum. And the only pre approved curriculum (at least when I was younger) was PACE christian studies.
Most home schooled children are done so for religious reasons. For instance, PACE homeschooling was one of, if not the, only homeschooling system endorsed by the state of Mississippi when I was younger. And it was heavily Christian. Had to memorize biblical passages, every math example involved biblical characters, the science sections had disclaimers about how evolution was only a theory right next to quotes from genesis, etc.
That isn't the only one I am aware of, there are also systems aimed at orthodox jews, muslims, etc.
The problem with homeschooling is finding one that isn't rife with ridiculous religious indoctrination.
This is one of the things we did for for senior projects at my university before smart phones became popular.
We developed a system for audio-visual telepresence for counseling and rehabilitation for people unable to visit a facility either from disability, lack of transportation or by legal restraint.
In Bismark's day they were still making sausage with rotten meat and borax to hide the rotten meat flavor. So the comparison to ACTA is apt.
A now dead company I used to work for was actually trying to market a similar service by pushing advertising over P2P. RIAA didn't want to do it. RIAA also didn't want to pay analytical details of P2P traffic. They DID want the IP's of people torrenting their music, but again they didn't want to pay for it.
That isn't a good comparison if you are trying to make your point.
Using your numbers Memento had an 8 times return on investment and Inception only had a 5.16 times return on investment. Memento was the more profitable movie from an investment standpoint.
Its leaches all the way down.
I have heard one of their mouthpieces say that "downloading movies funds terrorism" at least once.
They have moved on to calling it theft now that "pirate" has been ingrained in the public mind. Maybe in a few years it will be called copyright rape or intellectual property murder.
It is all part of a war on language to guide the arguments, demonize those who would defend sharing (like Jesus?), and brainwash people into being incapable of forming a rational opinion on the subject.
"When all you have is a railgun, everything starts to look like a smoking crater."
Or you can use firebug to inspect and delete the annoying popup. Its what I do when I find a site that I really need to use, but is broken without javascript and more broken with javascript.
I would hope so, because that is hot.
The problem for a lot of people is meeting face to face.
I don't go to bars.
I don't go to church.
I work in a field with very few women.
I work in a field that doesn't predictable free time.
Nearly all of my friends live over 150 miles away.
Paragraph 1: Sexual orientation can not be a meme as it exists in species that do not have the capacity for memes. It can not be a meme because it is observed to occur spontaneously in species where no prior behavior has occurred. The idea that it is a genetic defect would require that non heterosexuality causes harm, it does not. It may not even reduce the likelihood of spreading genes.
Paragraph 2: I will not argue that humanity is not weak and flawed.
Paragraph 3-5: this fails for the same reason that paragraph 1 does, orientation is not a meme. You don't need to know precisely what causes it to be able to objectively demonstrate that certain causes are not valid.
For most people religion isn't a choice, it is forced onto them through brainwashing while their minds are still developing. I am not attacking religion, or discriminating against it, I am explaining it and defending against its onslaught against humanity. I do this because it the the right thing to do. I take a hard line in the stand against evil, and if you see that as "viciously attacking" or "vitriolic attacks" against yourself or your beliefs, perhaps you should take a long deep look at the things you have been made to believe.
You shouldn't have too.
He is working on it.
Add me to the list of "both those phones suck" people who prefer a full sized qwerty keyboard on their phone.
The Epic 4g has a 50 key slide out physical keyboard more than 4 inches wide.
And what is wrong with that? An app distributed outside of itunes does not use apples infrastructure for distribution, why would they need to be paid for it?
Yes, that is exactly how you would do it.