The BSA president said, "Few if any industries could withstand the theft of $51 billion worth of their products." It's unclear whether that was a brag about the industry's robustness, or a result of the industry's low cost of goods sold.
I'd say what is clear is the proctological origin of the number.
JSo yes, SCO is still getting representation, but it is inexperienced, fresh-out-of-law-school representation... which explains a lot of what you see in their filings.
Well, it explains a little of what you see in their filings. A lot of the explanation is that reality conflicts with their assertions.
In the UK we have lots of 'speed warning' signs. When you approach them, if you are exceeding the speed limit, they light up and tell you (and anyone behind you) how fast you are going. And that's all. No penalties. They seem to make a significant difference in residuntial areas. I think they are often paid for by the local community rather than the state.
In Portugal I saw a cute system - if you pass a sensor driving faster than the speed limit, then a traffic signal 200yards/metres down the road turns red for 10 seconds, making you (and again anyone behind you) stop.
The psychology behind these systems is interesting - both rely on shaming you in front of other drivers. The Portugese system goes further and makes other drivers angry with you for speeding.
We have those in the US as well. We use them to see if our speedometers are calibrated as we fly past them.
Roadside technology that *might* work here would be randomly located (and frequently moved) strobes that flash regardless whether there's a camera attached. Every time I see *that* flash (so far I've not been the driver posing for the closeup) I do pay more attention to my speed.
We'd probably do a better job in reducing "dangerousness" by making the penalty for repeated speeding and reckless driving something more serious than it is. Maybe death
Doesn't work.
The penalty for driving drunk is often death and some people don't seem to mind much.
Quite true. But in those cases when that penalty is applied to the actual drunk driver, repeat offenses do decline somewhat.
Not as great a deterrent when the penalty is arbitrarily applied elsewhere, of course.
Interstellar travel makes for great space opera, but it has no more bearing on reality than unicorns and dragons.
Oh, you can scoff. The only reason why the entire galaxy wasn't colonized millions of years ago is because, as everyone knows, unicorns and dragons lack opposable thumbs and are consequently a little behind on drawing up the specs for their interstellar sleeper warp-drive jumpships.
When you use your office VPN, you should use it for work related stuff only. If you want to do personal stuff (e.g. download non-work-related porn, MP3s), don't use the office VPN.
But my work-related porn, that I should download through the VPN.
It also ignores the fact that most likely the LHC is an order of magnitude too weak to produce the micro black holes at all.
What? Did the contract go to the lowest bidder? First time we fire the thing up it suffers a $21 million failure, and now you tell us it won't even make ineffective black holes? I want my money back.
With the rise of nanotech, grey goo has always been a popular vision of the end of the world. After recently reading Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, however, what I'm more scared of is the combination of nanotech and AI that would reduce human beings to mere drones of a hive mind. Is the human race still human if it's subjugated to the will of our future digital overlords?
It doesn't matter as long as we keep forcing you to ask that question so you think it hasn't already happened.
It would be really cool if they could send back a nice high res picture of one of the old Apollo missions - just to kill of the conspiracy theories once and for all. Although the theorists would no doubt immediately claim them as fakes...
There's a simple solution to that. Somebody's got to take pictures of Chandrayaan, and somebody else needs to take pictures of the somebody taking pictures of Chandrayaan, and so on, and so forth, ad nauseum ad infinitum. Looks like a job for elephants all the way down!
Do you want automatic convictions for those accused of theft, too?
Are you an example of Rule #3?
I've said nothing about people accused of theft (other than those implicated by Rule #0, of course). Please google "The rules of spam" for enlightenment & HAND.
Canada on the other hand has no business being a nice place to live. It's cold for much of the year, and in some places it's dark for almost half of it.
I'm pretty sure, on average, it's dark half the time everywhere.
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We seem to have lots of chickens and cows and pigs. Maybe we should eat endangered species. Then we'd have lots of those animals, too!
I thought the USA was the sue-happy country. Don't we have a patent on it or something? Italy better start preparing for a lawsuit from the U.S.
Hey, US attorneys have to vacation somewhere.
What are we doing to protect our Rhodium supply?
I'd say what is clear is the proctological origin of the number.
JSo yes, SCO is still getting representation, but it is inexperienced, fresh-out-of-law-school representation... which explains a lot of what you see in their filings.
Well, it explains a little of what you see in their filings. A lot of the explanation is that reality conflicts with their assertions.
In the UK we have lots of 'speed warning' signs. When you approach them, if you are exceeding the speed limit, they light up and tell you (and anyone behind you) how fast you are going. And that's all. No penalties. They seem to make a significant difference in residuntial areas. I think they are often paid for by the local community rather than the state.
In Portugal I saw a cute system - if you pass a sensor driving faster than the speed limit, then a traffic signal 200yards/metres down the road turns red for 10 seconds, making you (and again anyone behind you) stop.
The psychology behind these systems is interesting - both rely on shaming you in front of other drivers. The Portugese system goes further and makes other drivers angry with you for speeding.
We have those in the US as well. We use them to see if our speedometers are calibrated as we fly past them.
Roadside technology that *might* work here would be randomly located (and frequently moved) strobes that flash regardless whether there's a camera attached. Every time I see *that* flash (so far I've not been the driver posing for the closeup) I do pay more attention to my speed.
We'd probably do a better job in reducing "dangerousness" by making the penalty for repeated speeding and reckless driving something more serious than it is. Maybe death
Doesn't work.
The penalty for driving drunk is often death and some people don't seem to mind much.
Quite true. But in those cases when that penalty is applied to the actual drunk driver, repeat offenses do decline somewhat. Not as great a deterrent when the penalty is arbitrarily applied elsewhere, of course.
Now there's a crew who know how to make an unstoppable accelerator!
Oh, you can scoff. The only reason why the entire galaxy wasn't colonized millions of years ago is because, as everyone knows, unicorns and dragons lack opposable thumbs and are consequently a little behind on drawing up the specs for their interstellar sleeper warp-drive jumpships.
Are fans really that horrible? They make them fairly quiet now. Is that extra .4 Ghz really worth all that kind of effort?
We used to dream of having .4 GHz computers.
The Eschaton is merely working retroactively to prevent causality violations. Clearly, they've inadvertently created a time machine.
Any word on whether Random House has banned reading out loud yet? Especially for people who speak with artificial voices?
But my work-related porn, that I should download through the VPN.
I think we can anticipate a lot of production problems with that whole tab requirement....
Oh well, at least this way they might actually file instead of suppressing the tech via goons.
Instead of?
It also ignores the fact that most likely the LHC is an order of magnitude too weak to produce the micro black holes at all.
What? Did the contract go to the lowest bidder? First time we fire the thing up it suffers a $21 million failure, and now you tell us it won't even make ineffective black holes? I want my money back.
With the rise of nanotech, grey goo has always been a popular vision of the end of the world. After recently reading Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep , however, what I'm more scared of is the combination of nanotech and AI that would reduce human beings to mere drones of a hive mind. Is the human race still human if it's subjugated to the will of our future digital overlords?
It doesn't matter as long as we keep forcing you to ask that question so you think it hasn't already happened.
It would be really cool if they could send back a nice high res picture of one of the old Apollo missions - just to kill of the conspiracy theories once and for all. Although the theorists would no doubt immediately claim them as fakes...
There's a simple solution to that. Somebody's got to take pictures of Chandrayaan, and somebody else needs to take pictures of the somebody taking pictures of Chandrayaan, and so on, and so forth, ad nauseum ad infinitum. Looks like a job for elephants all the way down!
Do you want automatic convictions for those accused of theft, too?
Are you an example of Rule #3? I've said nothing about people accused of theft (other than those implicated by Rule #0, of course). Please google "The rules of spam" for enlightenment & HAND.
I was sure Rule #1 was "There are no women on the internet"
There are lots of women on the internet. The rule is that none of them is chatting with you.
Then automatic perjury convictions for spammers would be a big win!
Spammers lie. Perjury convictions should be an automatic add-on.
Flamebait? Evidently the Cubans are touchy about being compared to Canadians.
I'd say it's dark about 11/24 of the time on average.
11/24 == one half for a greater portion of the US than any other industrialized country!
Canada on the other hand has no business being a nice place to live. It's cold for much of the year, and in some places it's dark for almost half of it.
I'm pretty sure, on average, it's dark half the time everywhere.