Why do this? Seriously? If you're not into traditional funerals, why not just be cremated and save the land for someone living? It seems like this is a series of inventive ways of mangling an unnecessary tradition. Is there someone out there saying "I want to be buried the traditional way, but inside some morbid transformer that can drill me into my final resting place"?
I always think of it like the casting call for a family-oriented sitcom. If the girl missing would make a likable, mother, daughter, or love interest for the former bad-boy who's two seasons away from going to college and turning his life around, then it's time to breakout the clue notepads. We all get to play detective.
Yes. FDR destroyed this country. If only seedy businessmen had saved us from the post-FDR hell we now live in...
Seriously, you should reread that last paragraph, the one where you seem to be implying that the government will need to be overthrown if liberals keep getting elected, and ask yourself if you haven't blown things out of proportion a bit.
I have always been a fan of multiple prioritized voting. You prioritize each candidate, with your vote going to your first choice. Then, whomever would have come in dead last is disqualified, and every vote that went to him is redistributed to the voter's next preference. Repeat until there is only one candidate left.
This allows ever Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich supporter to back the horse they want to see in office, rather than the one with the best choice of winning. I also feel that this would help reduce the problem of partisanship, as voters will worry less about "supporting the team" and will have to think more about "who do I support the most?"
Been there. Windows activation, when XP first came out. Of course this was exacerbated by concerns that hardware upgrades, re-installs, and failures that require replacement parts would require the user to buy a new copy of Windows (and partly by the concern that it would be harder to get a "free" copy).
I have found that smart people can often have some of the most unusual ideas in fields outside their specialty. I don't know if they're just freethinkers, if they're right and most of the world is wrong, or if it is that they have questioned just enough to be dangerous. Whatever the reason, I would not be surprised if/. had more deniers than the general population.
I am becoming increasingly jaded at the USian right wing... Congrats, I am becoming increasingly jaded at/. retards who think they're being clever when avoiding using the phrase American to describe people from the United States of America. Oh and big suprise a left leaning site, sorry a progressive/liberal activist news service finds that the evil conseravtives are silencing their voice.
And it isn't any surprise that foxNews, 90% of talk radio, a good portion of hte print media, and a significant portion of the blogosphere consist of right-wingers complaining that there is nowhere for them to state their opinion. The problem arises when people accept abuse of any system, and shrug it off as "i know the other side does it. I'll complain when they get caught!"
If it becomes affordable, they could flip the concept around and use it in survival horror games to determine where the next enemy comes from, and when to strike. (Too much eye movement, let things calm down...Ok, the player seems a little too relaxed, have something nasty jump out at him).
I am at a loss lately with Intel model numbers, so I didn't get it. Is the 286 the one without the turbo core, or the one lacking VT-x? Oh, maybe it is the one with integrated graphics?
Commonly thought to be a requirement for applications, such as Netscape navigator and web sites, such as http://geocities.com/ , 286 is both the model number of the processor used to power such technologies, and triple the age of the median user.
Maybe I'm be sloppy with my wording. I'm not necessarily talking about device drivers, just as I would not consider Windows to have hardware support for hard drives, if it had no application that could write a file system to them.
When I said hardware support, I was referring more to the user interface that would interact with the drivers to allow the user to burn a CD. The situation as it existed was analogous to requiring the user to buy a third party print spooler (or expecting the printer manufacturer to provide one), because Microsoft was dragging their feet on an existing technology.
IANAL, but the actual decision there was that the functional parts could not be copyrighted. For example, I cannot copyright the order or placement of buttons on a navigation menu, because those serve a functional purpose. you can, however, copyright specific images and UI components whose only purpose is decorative.
So, the look of pacman, the walls of the pacman maze, the ghosts, and the fruit may be copyrightable. (I know pacman could be trademarked, but the image could also be copyrighted). But the placement of the high score would not.
Also, the Apple vs Ms case hinged primarily on a licensing agreement between the two, which overrode general copyright law.
At my workplace, when we moved to a windows 2000 active directory layout, we had several pcs that had Windows XP home edition on them. Our sysadmin found that it was cheaper, in most cases to buy a new PC, that came with the professional edition of either XP or Vista, than it was to buy just the XP/Vista license. Of course, he was obsessed with ubid.com, so he probably found several deals that the normal person may not find.
To add a ten-year old gripe to that, why is it that the web browser and the media player are "part of the operating system", but hardware support for CD burning didn't come along until XP, and support for common cd standards, such as ISO format still hasn't become common?
Once this became a political issue, it became a guarantee that people would take ideological stances. I think you have a great point, but the point of whether we should be looking at the effects of exposure to violence is also worthwhile, so long as it is done scientifically, by a group with no agenda, other than the truth. (And I am naive enough to believe they exist.)
To me, it seems like China is the best example of a society that is currently arising and prospering. This may be attributable to their disregard for IP, but it could also be for other reasons. They do have regard for the IP of Chinese businesses, but not of those of foreign countries. Either they succeed because of their lax IP, or they have to steal from other countries that are better at producing innovative ideas.
Another possibility is that the reduced standard of living and the efficiency of living in an authoritarian society with little regard for human rights makes them a better competitor on the store shelf of wealthier nations. Of course the problem, if you want to look at it from a natural selection perspective (and I am not a biologist, or economist) is that you have to look at whether they are an evolutionarily stable strategy. You have a country with low consumer resources, and plenty of cheap labor, competing with a country that has the opposite. Of course they will succeed, as long as the rest of the world is wealthy enough to buy their products. But, as our manufacturing infrastructure corrodes, the administrative infrastructure propped upon it will also collapse; our status as the world's bankers, lawyers, and salesmen, will collapse, if the only thing we export is money. And the fact that 1/6 of our economy is now health-care costs, should also be seen as a red flag. Any of that spending that is not being exported to foreign countries should be seen as an example of the Broken Window fallacy at work.
So, the question is, if the entire world were like China, would we have an economy? Would there be a market for anything more than food, and remnants of what was built when we had a healthy consumer market? I know, I'm getting completely off topic, but my point, if I have one, is that I see no reason to believe that IP will be the most important factor in the health of any economy.
you can copyright the look and feel of something. I would consider it analogous to making a new painting and saying "no you can't photocopy it, and no, you cannot hand-paint an identical replica". But, had they changed the stages, maybe added a new feature, or changes some play mechanic, and used slightly different images, then they would have been fine.
Yeah. It's not a hard problem to solve. It's just the thought that someone saw it as a problem in the first place. He'd might as well have called the DMV asd said
all the stop signs are confusing. They don't tell me what to stop. I suggest you make news ones that say "stop driving".
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Why do this? Seriously? If you're not into traditional funerals, why not just be cremated and save the land for someone living? It seems like this is a series of inventive ways of mangling an unnecessary tradition. Is there someone out there saying "I want to be buried the traditional way, but inside some morbid transformer that can drill me into my final resting place"?
Maybe shelves have evolved a defense against being put up. Have you ever considered that?
I'm thinking of calling it "The IKEA Gene"
Thank you for the link.
I always think of it like the casting call for a family-oriented sitcom. If the girl missing would make a likable, mother, daughter, or love interest for the former bad-boy who's two seasons away from going to college and turning his life around, then it's time to breakout the clue notepads. We all get to play detective.
Identity theft and missing persons aren't costing $500 billion a year, are they?
Shouldn't that be "identity sharing"? </ducks>
What if they use letters cut out of a newspaper? Does that count as fair use?
Yes. FDR destroyed this country. If only seedy businessmen had saved us from the post-FDR hell we now live in...
Seriously, you should reread that last paragraph, the one where you seem to be implying that the government will need to be overthrown if liberals keep getting elected, and ask yourself if you haven't blown things out of proportion a bit.
I have always been a fan of multiple prioritized voting. You prioritize each candidate, with your vote going to your first choice. Then, whomever would have come in dead last is disqualified, and every vote that went to him is redistributed to the voter's next preference. Repeat until there is only one candidate left.
This allows ever Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich supporter to back the horse they want to see in office, rather than the one with the best choice of winning. I also feel that this would help reduce the problem of partisanship, as voters will worry less about "supporting the team" and will have to think more about "who do I support the most?"
I'm sorry, but that bill cannot be passed until some old ones get repealed.
Been there. Windows activation, when XP first came out. Of course this was exacerbated by concerns that hardware upgrades, re-installs, and failures that require replacement parts would require the user to buy a new copy of Windows (and partly by the concern that it would be harder to get a "free" copy).
I have found that smart people can often have some of the most unusual ideas in fields outside their specialty. I don't know if they're just freethinkers, if they're right and most of the world is wrong, or if it is that they have questioned just enough to be dangerous. Whatever the reason, I would not be surprised if /. had more deniers than the general population.
I am becoming increasingly jaded at the USian right wing... /. retards who think they're being clever when avoiding using the phrase American to describe people from the United States of America. Oh and big suprise a left leaning site, sorry a progressive/liberal activist news service finds that the evil conseravtives are silencing their voice.
Congrats, I am becoming increasingly jaded at
And it isn't any surprise that foxNews, 90% of talk radio, a good portion of hte print media, and a significant portion of the blogosphere consist of right-wingers complaining that there is nowhere for them to state their opinion. The problem arises when people accept abuse of any system, and shrug it off as "i know the other side does it. I'll complain when they get caught!"
People in the comments section of the article were universally of the opinion that he got off on a technicality.
This reminds me of a Futurama quote:
"We've petitioned the governor but he doesn't want to appear soft on people who've been falsely imprisoned."
Some people are so intent on not letting any "bad guys" get away, that they seem to think not being guilty is a technicality.
But it would be tough to do that if everyone were open-carrying, anyway.
If everyone were open-carrying, I would be sure to do all my banking online.
If it becomes affordable, they could flip the concept around and use it in survival horror games to determine where the next enemy comes from, and when to strike. (Too much eye movement, let things calm down...Ok, the player seems a little too relaxed, have something nasty jump out at him).
I am at a loss lately with Intel model numbers, so I didn't get it. Is the 286 the one without the turbo core, or the one lacking VT-x? Oh, maybe it is the one with integrated graphics?
Commonly thought to be a requirement for applications, such as Netscape navigator and web sites, such as http://geocities.com/ , 286 is both the model number of the processor used to power such technologies, and triple the age of the median user.
I hope this helps.
Maybe I'm be sloppy with my wording. I'm not necessarily talking about device drivers, just as I would not consider Windows to have hardware support for hard drives, if it had no application that could write a file system to them.
When I said hardware support, I was referring more to the user interface that would interact with the drivers to allow the user to burn a CD. The situation as it existed was analogous to requiring the user to buy a third party print spooler (or expecting the printer manufacturer to provide one), because Microsoft was dragging their feet on an existing technology.
IANAL, but the actual decision there was that the functional parts could not be copyrighted. For example, I cannot copyright the order or placement of buttons on a navigation menu, because those serve a functional purpose. you can, however, copyright specific images and UI components whose only purpose is decorative.
So, the look of pacman, the walls of the pacman maze, the ghosts, and the fruit may be copyrightable. (I know pacman could be trademarked, but the image could also be copyrighted). But the placement of the high score would not.
Also, the Apple vs Ms case hinged primarily on a licensing agreement between the two, which overrode general copyright law.
At my workplace, when we moved to a windows 2000 active directory layout, we had several pcs that had Windows XP home edition on them. Our sysadmin found that it was cheaper, in most cases to buy a new PC, that came with the professional edition of either XP or Vista, than it was to buy just the XP/Vista license. Of course, he was obsessed with ubid.com, so he probably found several deals that the normal person may not find.
To add a ten-year old gripe to that, why is it that the web browser and the media player are "part of the operating system", but hardware support for CD burning didn't come along until XP, and support for common cd standards, such as ISO format still hasn't become common?
Once this became a political issue, it became a guarantee that people would take ideological stances. I think you have a great point, but the point of whether we should be looking at the effects of exposure to violence is also worthwhile, so long as it is done scientifically, by a group with no agenda, other than the truth. (And I am naive enough to believe they exist.)
Like whom?
To me, it seems like China is the best example of a society that is currently arising and prospering. This may be attributable to their disregard for IP, but it could also be for other reasons. They do have regard for the IP of Chinese businesses, but not of those of foreign countries. Either they succeed because of their lax IP, or they have to steal from other countries that are better at producing innovative ideas.
Another possibility is that the reduced standard of living and the efficiency of living in an authoritarian society with little regard for human rights makes them a better competitor on the store shelf of wealthier nations. Of course the problem, if you want to look at it from a natural selection perspective (and I am not a biologist, or economist) is that you have to look at whether they are an evolutionarily stable strategy. You have a country with low consumer resources, and plenty of cheap labor, competing with a country that has the opposite. Of course they will succeed, as long as the rest of the world is wealthy enough to buy their products. But, as our manufacturing infrastructure corrodes, the administrative infrastructure propped upon it will also collapse; our status as the world's bankers, lawyers, and salesmen, will collapse, if the only thing we export is money. And the fact that 1/6 of our economy is now health-care costs, should also be seen as a red flag. Any of that spending that is not being exported to foreign countries should be seen as an example of the Broken Window fallacy at work.
So, the question is, if the entire world were like China, would we have an economy? Would there be a market for anything more than food, and remnants of what was built when we had a healthy consumer market? I know, I'm getting completely off topic, but my point, if I have one, is that I see no reason to believe that IP will be the most important factor in the health of any economy.
you can copyright the look and feel of something. I would consider it analogous to making a new painting and saying "no you can't photocopy it, and no, you cannot hand-paint an identical replica". But, had they changed the stages, maybe added a new feature, or changes some play mechanic, and used slightly different images, then they would have been fine.
I just downloaded a demo of MsPacman from xbox marketplace, two weeks ago. I don't know if Pacman is available, however.
Yeah. It's not a hard problem to solve. It's just the thought that someone saw it as a problem in the first place. He'd might as well have called the DMV asd said
all the stop signs are confusing. They don't tell me what to stop. I suggest you make news ones that say "stop driving".