No. An ISP should not be allowed to do this, plain and simple. A website I've been actively contributing to carries MP3's of our band. If we want to distribute our music over the web then we distribute our music over the web. If our ISP deleted those MP3's I'd sue their ass off. I'm sure I can come up with something. Destruction of intellectual property and highly priced art should do the trick. I mean, deleting an MP3 of (fill in what you consider to be music legend) is the nearly the same thing as carving up the Mona Lisa. The only difference is that the Louvre doesn't have any backups of the Mona Lisa on a Zipdrive.(as far as I know)...
And while listening to an enlightened preacher, the crowd slowly ascending to higher spirits, you whip out your portable matrix printer...sorry, guys, I really needed that Psalm...
In that case please sod off and save the bandwidth for someone who does read these articles. What do you do if you don't like the food in a certain restaurant? You eat somewhere else. You don't barge into the kitchen to tell the French cook the quality of his food is going down the drain. On second thought, maybe you should go tell a French cook his food is bad, he'll probably kill ya..
And I fail to see why you fail to consider all possibilities, no matter how unlikely they might be. That is what science is all about, looking beyond the obvious...not that I believe for one second that those bacteria are really alien, considering they were found in the higher atmoshphere, not in space. But I'm not a scientist.
If the comet is big enough, and I mean like really big. It's quite possible the very core of it would be hardly affected by the impact. OTOH, if it was that big, those bacteria might get really lonely on earth...
Now in a cinema near you! X-Files 2, the revelation.
Watch our heroic bacteria once again take it up against the well known super-villains Mulder and Scully! Will Scully succeed in inventing a antibiotic before our heroes accomplish their heroic task of annihilating the human race? Will Mulder remember to brush his teeth?
Starring in alphabetical order: E. Coli,D. Duchovny and N. Portman
Wanna bet? the N. Portman will cause the -1 Troll...
Bringing a Mugwai in contact with water causes it to multiply. Feeding a Mugwai after midnight causes it to become a Gremlin (bigger, more aggresive etc).
One thing I never got, isn't it always after midnight? The only way to feed the poor creatures is on the last day before Armageddon...
This morning I looked in the mirror and saw something mankind has never seen before. Therefore I am an alien. I will have to refuse any attempts at proving this though, as I'm afraid of needles.
This sudden change could have had something to do with a severe lack of sleep lately, though...
If I were an alien, and i saw the way we(they) Humans treat our(their) planet, I'd put a big four-dimensional sign on the north Pole saying "Thank you for dumping your trash here".
The slight difference between bacteria and your computer is that bacteria are considered a form of life. I assume(hope) your computer does not live up to the definition of "life".
BTW, imagine the amount of overclocking you can do in space:-)
making this stuff obligatory for everybody that wants to use the Internet? That should make tech-support really interesting...Hi, I just put this shiny new AOL CD in my shiny new Compaq Presario, and now it makes me answer all sorts of funny questions. I didn't do anything wrong. This wrong is broken! I want to talk to your supervisor!!!
It did not have Level2 Cache. Nuff said. By the way, those 300A's you mentioned and the current Celeron are the processors that went through as a "Mendocino" for a while. Basically a Celeron with 128k Level2 Cache instead of 512 like on the PII. My Celeron 450 does ok for what I paid for it:-)
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Did you notice he put all the files back? Sounds like he's gonna have a run-in with that fine you mentioned after all:-(
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No. An ISP should not be allowed to do this, plain and simple. A website I've been actively contributing to carries MP3's of our band. If we want to distribute our music over the web then we distribute our music over the web. If our ISP deleted those MP3's I'd sue their ass off. I'm sure I can come up with something. Destruction of intellectual property and highly priced art should do the trick. I mean, deleting an MP3 of (fill in what you consider to be music legend) is the nearly the same thing as carving up the Mona Lisa. The only difference is that the Louvre doesn't have any backups of the Mona Lisa on a Zipdrive.(as far as I know)...
One thing's for sure, the way it looks, I'm going to be the first one who laserprinted it...
Speaking of sueing, did anybody bother to patent the concept of a "Bible"?
And while listening to an enlightened preacher, the crowd slowly ascending to higher spirits, you whip out your portable matrix printer...sorry, guys, I really needed that Psalm...
Sorry, that should have been:
And on the 8th day, He created HTML, and He saw that it was good.
And on the 8th day, he created HTML, and he saw that it was good.
Amen.
We won't be needing horse glue until we start glueing Plaomino's to each other...
In that case please sod off and save the bandwidth for someone who does read these articles. What do you do if you don't like the food in a certain restaurant? You eat somewhere else. You don't barge into the kitchen to tell the French cook the quality of his food is going down the drain. On second thought, maybe you should go tell a French cook his food is bad, he'll probably kill ya..
Mwrah, who needs glue anyway? Gaffa tape is the way to go...a lot easier to dissasemble as well.
From his point of view, or mine?
the fact that it has been living and evolving in low earth orbit means it no longer has terrestrial citizenship
That's it! No more voting for you, filthy bacteria!
Sorry, couldn't resist...
And I fail to see why you fail to consider all possibilities, no matter how unlikely they might be. That is what science is all about, looking beyond the obvious...not that I believe for one second that those bacteria are really alien, considering they were found in the higher atmoshphere, not in space. But I'm not a scientist.
If the comet is big enough, and I mean like really big. It's quite possible the very core of it would be hardly affected by the impact. OTOH, if it was that big, those bacteria might get really lonely on earth...
what do you think bacteria do with their time?
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They find abandoned spaceships to play with, and if they're bored, they hijack a satellite to read
Bringing a Mugwai in contact with water causes it to multiply. Feeding a Mugwai after midnight causes it to become a Gremlin (bigger, more aggresive etc).
One thing I never got, isn't it always after midnight? The only way to feed the poor creatures is on the last day before Armageddon...
This morning I looked in the mirror and saw something mankind has never seen before. Therefore I am an alien. I will have to refuse any attempts at proving this though, as I'm afraid of needles.
This sudden change could have had something to do with a severe lack of sleep lately, though...
If I were an alien, and i saw the way we(they) Humans treat our(their) planet, I'd put a big four-dimensional sign on the north Pole saying "Thank you for dumping your trash here".
The slight difference between bacteria and your computer is that bacteria are considered a form of life. I assume(hope) your computer does not live up to the definition of "life".
BTW, imagine the amount of overclocking you can do in space:-)
No, if you feed them after midnight they'll become bigger and more aggressive. How you define "bigger" for a bacteria I'll leave up to you...
making this stuff obligatory for everybody that wants to use the Internet? That should make tech-support really interesting...Hi, I just put this shiny new AOL CD in my shiny new Compaq Presario, and now it makes me answer all sorts of funny questions. I didn't do anything wrong. This wrong is broken! I want to talk to your supervisor!!!
It did not have Level2 Cache. Nuff said. By the way, those 300A's you mentioned and the current Celeron are the processors that went through as a "Mendocino" for a while. Basically a Celeron with 128k Level2 Cache instead of 512 like on the PII. My Celeron 450 does ok for what I paid for it:-)