I mean, obviously P2P users wouldn't write a virus to attack the very services they use. So it must be the RIAA.
But of course, the P2P users must have known that we would think it's the RIAA, so it was likely the P2P users trying to implicate the RIAA.
But the RIAA would be stupid not to know that we would think it's just the P2P users trying to implicate them, so the RIAA probably took advantage of the situation to both hit the P2P networks and implicate those same users at the same time.
This sounds like a good idea. It would be really handy for, say,.wipo to be the "official" site address, and cease the lawsuit problems that have occurred with.com
And, really, the more competition the better. And extra domains would be nice too.
Saying something about the "religious right" is not to say something about Christianity in general. "Christian Science" advocates very likely WOULD say that there are no aliens, in much the same way that they say there were no dinosaurs and that the earth is very much younger than secular science would have us believe.
Note, also, that Christ wouldn't have to visit other planets. His sacrifice, presumably, would apply just as readily even if he didn't make a personal appearance to creatuers on other planets. He didn't, for instance, come to North America, but that doesn't make North Americans any less saved.
"Thankfully, even if the fridge cracks open the vast sounds generated within will not escape because the intense noise can only be generated in the pressurised gas locked inside the cooling system."
In other words, it seems to the case that you wouldn't hear any of the sounds that the fridge generates.
Idiots assume that greenhouse effect = ozone depletion. Obviously, they are two different things - the first is causing the earth to heat up, while the second is causing more UV rays to come in.
Harry Potter? Those movies have both disappointed me...I guess they're basically true to the books, but the acting is crappy enough to make them both fail. Most of the kid actors are horrible, the guy who was supposed to be stuttering REALLY sucked, Hagrid isn't very good, and Dumbledore just sounds bored and unfeeling.
Re:Is Will Smith going to rap in this movie too?
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I really doubt it. If it's a serious movie (and it seems like it would be), then his rap wouldn't really fit. He didn't rap for Bagger Vance (at least, i don't THINK he did).
How would you get the robot to know where it has to go?
Two solutions present themselves immediately to me: either program the whole route into the robot, or have some sort of beacon where the robot will know to go to. Anyone else have any ideas? Could GPS help?
I don't see the ethical concerns, really
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As everyone else already noted, you wouldn't look all that much like the person donating anyway. Your facial bone structure would largely determine what it looks like. However, it would help people with scars, or bad acne, burns, or for any other reason that the actual skin on the face is damaged. I see absolutely no ethical problem with this procedure outside of the realm of ethical concerns about transplants in general.
The deaf person would just talk. Like a normal phone. There would be no reason to complicate things by making deaf guy try to type his response and having a computer monotone it out to the person on the other end.
As we all know, computers are completely idiotic when trying to turn speech into text. This is, of course, due to the fact that a lot of words/phrases sound pretty much the same, and people mumble.
The advantage of this system is that translating sounds to facial movements is relatively easy. Anytime you hear "ow", it's going to be the same facial movement producing it. My guess would be that your interpretation of the facial movement thing will be more accurate than the computer's inane text interpretation.
An amoralist would say, no, it is not that case that killing another human is ethical. They would say that ethics is just a human creation. That there is no inherent right or wrongness to an action.
Does that mean the amoralist would go out and kill someone? Of course not - there are other reason than "IT IS MY DUTY TO NOT KILL" for not killing people. For instance, feelings of compassion, laws against that sort of thing, and so on.
Slashdot Mirror
The Slashdot article is here. Snopes also has a page about the idea, with a few extra links about the validity of it.
Very clever. I'll have to use that some time.
Right, because there are not entire doc HOWTO sites set up for setting up Windows.
Quite right.
I mean, obviously P2P users wouldn't write a virus to attack the very services they use. So it must be the RIAA.
But of course, the P2P users must have known that we would think it's the RIAA, so it was likely the P2P users trying to implicate the RIAA.
But the RIAA would be stupid not to know that we would think it's just the P2P users trying to implicate them, so the RIAA probably took advantage of the situation to both hit the P2P networks and implicate those same users at the same time.
But, clearly, the P2P users...
Even I'm bored with it now.
Everyone lives in the western hemisphere?
This site has a weekly listing of actual piracy. It's really quite fascinating.
You forgot to fix plagiarism.
But again, spoofing wouldn't be a problem because everyone would know the "official" site would be at the .wipo address.
This sounds like a good idea. It would be really handy for, say, .wipo to be the "official" site address, and cease the lawsuit problems that have occurred with .com
.sex domain?
And, really, the more competition the better. And extra domains would be nice too.
Wouldn't it be handy to have a
Are you implying that you think the 8 year old should be prosecuted?
Wrong.
From the article:
Bradley A. Buckles, who served ATF for 30 years and was named director in 1999
He's been there for 30 years.
Only, of course, if it's travelling at the speed of light.
Please link to the project that uses my spare CPU cycles in the quest to get me laid. Thanks!
Saying something about the "religious right" is not to say something about Christianity in general. "Christian Science" advocates very likely WOULD say that there are no aliens, in much the same way that they say there were no dinosaurs and that the earth is very much younger than secular science would have us believe.
Note, also, that Christ wouldn't have to visit other planets. His sacrifice, presumably, would apply just as readily even if he didn't make a personal appearance to creatuers on other planets. He didn't, for instance, come to North America, but that doesn't make North Americans any less saved.
From the article:
"All it takes to make a refrigerator out of this system is to attach heat exchangers to the ends of the stack."
That takes care of the heat that is generated.
From the article:
"Thankfully, even if the fridge cracks open the vast sounds generated within will not escape because the intense noise can only be generated in the pressurised gas locked inside the cooling system."
In other words, it seems to the case that you wouldn't hear any of the sounds that the fridge generates.
Idiots assume that greenhouse effect = ozone depletion. Obviously, they are two different things - the first is causing the earth to heat up, while the second is causing more UV rays to come in.
Harry Potter? Those movies have both disappointed me...I guess they're basically true to the books, but the acting is crappy enough to make them both fail. Most of the kid actors are horrible, the guy who was supposed to be stuttering REALLY sucked, Hagrid isn't very good, and Dumbledore just sounds bored and unfeeling.
I really doubt it. If it's a serious movie (and it seems like it would be), then his rap wouldn't really fit. He didn't rap for Bagger Vance (at least, i don't THINK he did).
How would you get the robot to know where it has to go?
Two solutions present themselves immediately to me: either program the whole route into the robot, or have some sort of beacon where the robot will know to go to. Anyone else have any ideas? Could GPS help?
And it's been said, repeatedly.
As everyone else already noted, you wouldn't look all that much like the person donating anyway. Your facial bone structure would largely determine what it looks like. However, it would help people with scars, or bad acne, burns, or for any other reason that the actual skin on the face is damaged. I see absolutely no ethical problem with this procedure outside of the realm of ethical concerns about transplants in general.
The deaf person would just talk. Like a normal phone. There would be no reason to complicate things by making deaf guy try to type his response and having a computer monotone it out to the person on the other end.
As we all know, computers are completely idiotic when trying to turn speech into text. This is, of course, due to the fact that a lot of words/phrases sound pretty much the same, and people mumble.
The advantage of this system is that translating sounds to facial movements is relatively easy. Anytime you hear "ow", it's going to be the same facial movement producing it. My guess would be that your interpretation of the facial movement thing will be more accurate than the computer's inane text interpretation.
An amoralist would say, no, it is not that case that killing another human is ethical. They would say that ethics is just a human creation. That there is no inherent right or wrongness to an action.
Does that mean the amoralist would go out and kill someone? Of course not - there are other reason than "IT IS MY DUTY TO NOT KILL" for not killing people. For instance, feelings of compassion, laws against that sort of thing, and so on.