if someone told me they were ghostwritten I'd almost believe it by that logic I'd think the first four written at about a 6th grade reading level would be right up your alley.
I've read the series, I liked them as light reading, but they will never be classics. Rowling just isn't a good enough writer to ever produce a classic. Actually I quite amazed at the improvement that started in book 5, if someone told me they were ghostwritten I'd almost believe it. I'd place her in a category with Horatio Alger, Jr rather than Twain.
The biggest problems I see is first keeping the temps down, this set up would temp to go toward 150 degrees which would probably kill the algea, and secondly would be getting the CO2 into the bioreactors, it takes a lot of CO2 to product that much oil, you would need to either truck it in or extract it locally from the atmosphere. It wouldn't be too far fetched to have to cook down limestone into lime to get enough CO2 to make the fuel, then have the lime react with the atmosphere to recharge the process.
I believe that the optimum depth for algae production is about 5 cm rather than 1M, and at the speed the planes touch down, hydroplaning would be expected so the stress would be gradual rather than abrupt and damaging. Not much different than landing on an icy runway, except the brakes would work after aerodynamic control faded.
My son used to work for a cable installation company. He did the pole to pole installation, not pole to home. During a visit he slapped the wave-meter on my cable and sure enough we had too much signal, too, but then again when your pumping 950 MHz thru a 500Mhz Coax you have to pump pretty hard!
not really at ground-zero your body presents a smaller cross-section for radiation absorbance in IR, gamma and neutrons, not to mention that the blast is deflected by the ground. Your much more likely to survive at ground-zero than you are a 1/4 mile from ground-zero, there are Japanese that survived at ground-zero.
That can't be true because the neuro-toxins work by blocking receptor sites, which are stimulate by chemicals released by nerve conduction. It's plausible that the toxins have an anesthetic effect, so you might not feel the injury before death occurred, I imagine that that would be very advantageous to a snail hunting fish, having it's prey bolt could easily mean dinner got a way and something else is feasting on its kill.
Another consideration is complex organisms don't die evenly it's not like turning off a light switch, all or nothing, it's a process that can take a while even cyanide take a few minutes to poison all of the cells. Frequently what happen is rapid bodily paralysis, while the brain slowly asphyxiates, a rather nasty way to die.
I agree that copyright encourages creative output that might not have been otherwise, yet I don't think that having copyright extend for more that a century nor the breadth of what a copy is is necessarily good for the creative arts either. Somewhere there is an optimum ballance and I suspect that we're weighted to heavily towards the major-corporate rights holders and too far away from both the consumer's and the creator's interests.
I rather suspect that your seven note rule isn't a rule but more of an urban legend, there are artists who can play the same song and most would never recognise it and there are artists who can play completely different notes and have it sound identical. The only rule is that two over-priced lawyers can convince a tone-deaf jury of just about anything without actually lying, then convince a different judge that it's a presidence.
you say that like every halfway funny joke you ever heard isn't run into the ground over the watercooler at work and end up in your Email a few thousand times.
I don't know about the MPIAA but the RIAA really does try to get heavy police involvement with the raids, they want the police to come down like a mailled fist! If they can get the SWAT team out and the forced entry team to batter down your door for the neighbors to see so much the better. They want the bust to look like the police was busting narco-terrorists running the major meth lab for 5 states to instill fear into others. It's not about your rights to have an archival copy, or your fair-use rights, it's about their being the sole distributor; they don't want the artists themselves to be able to distribute their own work. The difference between ripping your own and downloading is the distribution is always illegal unless you have the distribution rights, where ripping can be fair-use, archival, time/media shifting and therefore legal.
those are properties of the plates and the conductors rather than the dielectric, as the conductors electrical resistance approached zero, the max charge rate would approach infinity. The amount of charge on the other hand depends on the surface area of the capacitor's plate, and the dielectric constant of the insulator between the plates; the new material has a very high dielectric constant as well as a high puncture voltage.
Well lets see, the RIAA gives a promotional copy of the CD to a radio station (at $14.95 + $9.95 shipping and handling), and the artist has to cover the cost at ($0.08 / sale) which means he has to sell 312 cd's for every one given away to cover costs! No wonder someone finally said fuck that shit I'd rather give them away! Still I wouldn't be surprised if Prince didn't end up selling more records to replace scratched freebie CD's
well considering that when you take a really good strong antibiotic that kills the E. Coli in you colon you feel like Mike Tyson has been using your belly for a heavy bag and that you would die with out the vitamin K that the E. Coli produces, I'd say it was pretty well assimilated.
DNA evidence isn't as "rock solid" as you imagine. What they do is chop up the DNA just like the article did and measure the lengths, so at best it's a matter of statistics, at worst it's garbage-in, garbage-out.
It may seen crude but if cutting out the HIV genes from the genome causes the infected cell to die, and killing the infected cells cause the host organism to die, then the host was essentially dead to begin with. Even with cancer, there is a point where all you can do is let it go. right now there are two options, 1. do nothing and die of AIDS in 5 or so years, 2. take expensive drugs and die of AIDS in 15-20 years; this will give people a third option, get cured or die of AIDS in 3 months.
I'd think the hard part would be get the gravitational field up to a reasonable level, we might run out of asteroids, at least ones that are easy to drop on Mars. Once the gravity is up to par, we might be able to get some core action going to get a magnetic field. One of the problems now is the water get up so high that the ultraviolet splits it and the hydrogen drifts off into space, more gravity will keep the water lower.
Dude the French think we're spying on them with American made crackberry's, what do you suppose they're doing to us? Everybody is crawling up somebodies ass with a microscope, it's the information age!
I challenge you to tell me what working hours would be distinctly unusual in academia. that's probably far easier than you'd imagine, it would be his peers who'd know best. If the hours work track sticky periods in a project every thing is probably hunkey-dorey; if the whole lab heads down to the pub to cellibrate the break-through at 3 pm, except guy who stays at work until 10 pm (the same guy who used to leave at 3 when everybody else left at 10) you might have a problem.
Uh not quite, the server generates the screen image and sends the data over a TCP/IP link to the client that actually displays the video; normally it's on the same machine and sent through the loopback device, but it can also be sent over the network, the internet or even a dial-up connection.
One thing that can endear you to the developers is to learn how to fix the newbie problems, the ones the the list tends to say "OMG I can't believe somebody is asking for the answer we've answered 10 thousand times" with patience and competence and no "did you RTFM" attitude.
These levels of security require levels over and above what available in BSD as far as I know. The usual unix model of world/group/user isn't fine-grained enough for this. Linux has it only because the NSA has been working on it for years; I don't even pretend to understand SELinux.
They may have been aiming for their foot, but they may have hit their left testicle instead. It may surprise TW and Comcast that a few subscribers use the service almost exclusively for high bandwidth services, but significant number of their subscribers get the service primarily because they occasionally use a high bandwidth service. The case may be that the high users are the ISP's trend-setters, the ones that make have high-speed internet access "cool" enough to attract the profitable masses.
Well that's my point, the formal form of the Government has no iron clad relationship with the freedom's and privileges of the people. Even the biggest Evil Tyrants had delusions of either transitioning to a more demographic government or being a benevolent despot. One of the biggest problems of pure democracy is once a certain size is reached, anonymity sets in which leads to all sorts of abuse. There are advantages and drawbacks to each form of government.
Russia typically has 80% voter turnout, the makes it a democracy, in fact I believe they even have laws requiring the citizens to vote. Democracy is a form of government not a condition of having a choice to vote for.
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if someone told me they were ghostwritten I'd almost believe it
by that logic I'd think the first four written at about a 6th grade reading level would be right up your alley.
I've read the series, I liked them as light reading, but they will never be classics. Rowling just isn't a good enough writer to ever produce a classic. Actually I quite amazed at the improvement that started in book 5, if someone told me they were ghostwritten I'd almost believe it. I'd place her in a category with Horatio Alger, Jr rather than Twain.
The biggest problems I see is first keeping the temps down, this set up would temp to go toward 150 degrees which would probably kill the algea, and secondly would be getting the CO2 into the bioreactors, it takes a lot of CO2 to product that much oil, you would need to either truck it in or extract it locally from the atmosphere. It wouldn't be too far fetched to have to cook down limestone into lime to get enough CO2 to make the fuel, then have the lime react with the atmosphere to recharge the process.
I believe that the optimum depth for algae production is about 5 cm rather than 1M, and at the speed the planes touch down, hydroplaning would be expected so the stress would be gradual rather than abrupt and damaging. Not much different than landing on an icy runway, except the brakes would work after aerodynamic control faded.
My son used to work for a cable installation company. He did the pole to pole installation, not pole to home. During a visit he slapped the wave-meter on my cable and sure enough we had too much signal, too, but then again when your pumping 950 MHz thru a 500Mhz Coax you have to pump pretty hard!
Some do, but they usually get head-hunted into clue-full companies.
not really at ground-zero your body presents a smaller cross-section for radiation absorbance in IR, gamma and neutrons, not to mention that the blast is deflected by the ground. Your much more likely to survive at ground-zero than you are a 1/4 mile from ground-zero, there are Japanese that survived at ground-zero.
That can't be true because the neuro-toxins work by blocking receptor sites, which are stimulate by chemicals released by nerve conduction. It's plausible that the toxins have an anesthetic effect, so you might not feel the injury before death occurred, I imagine that that would be very advantageous to a snail hunting fish, having it's prey bolt could easily mean dinner got a way and something else is feasting on its kill.
Another consideration is complex organisms don't die evenly it's not like turning off a light switch, all or nothing, it's a process that can take a while even cyanide take a few minutes to poison all of the cells. Frequently what happen is rapid bodily paralysis, while the brain slowly asphyxiates, a rather nasty way to die.
I agree that copyright encourages creative output that might not have been otherwise, yet I don't think that having copyright extend for more that a century nor the breadth of what a copy is is necessarily good for the creative arts either. Somewhere there is an optimum ballance and I suspect that we're weighted to heavily towards the major-corporate rights holders and too far away from both the consumer's and the creator's interests.
I rather suspect that your seven note rule isn't a rule but more of an urban legend, there are artists who can play the same song and most would never recognise it and there are artists who can play completely different notes and have it sound identical. The only rule is that two over-priced lawyers can convince a tone-deaf jury of just about anything without actually lying, then convince a different judge that it's a presidence.
you say that like every halfway funny joke you ever heard isn't run into the ground over the watercooler at work and end up in your Email a few thousand times.
I don't know about the MPIAA but the RIAA really does try to get heavy police involvement with the raids, they want the police to come down like a mailled fist! If they can get the SWAT team out and the forced entry team to batter down your door for the neighbors to see so much the better. They want the bust to look like the police was busting narco-terrorists running the major meth lab for 5 states to instill fear into others. It's not about your rights to have an archival copy, or your fair-use rights, it's about their being the sole distributor; they don't want the artists themselves to be able to distribute their own work. The difference between ripping your own and downloading is the distribution is always illegal unless you have the distribution rights, where ripping can be fair-use, archival, time/media shifting and therefore legal.
those are properties of the plates and the conductors rather than the dielectric, as the conductors electrical resistance approached zero, the max charge rate would approach infinity. The amount of charge on the other hand depends on the surface area of the capacitor's plate, and the dielectric constant of the insulator between the plates; the new material has a very high dielectric constant as well as a high puncture voltage.
Well lets see, the RIAA gives a promotional copy of the CD to a radio station (at $14.95 + $9.95 shipping and handling), and the artist has to cover the cost at ($0.08 / sale) which means he has to sell 312 cd's for every one given away to cover costs! No wonder someone finally said fuck that shit I'd rather give them away!
Still I wouldn't be surprised if Prince didn't end up selling more records to replace scratched freebie CD's
well considering that when you take a really good strong antibiotic that kills the E. Coli in you colon you feel like Mike Tyson has been using your belly for a heavy bag and that you would die with out the vitamin K that the E. Coli produces, I'd say it was pretty well assimilated.
DNA evidence isn't as "rock solid" as you imagine. What they do is chop up the DNA just like the article did and measure the lengths, so at best it's a matter of statistics, at worst it's garbage-in, garbage-out.
It may seen crude but if cutting out the HIV genes from the genome causes the infected cell to die, and killing the infected cells cause the host organism to die, then the host was essentially dead to begin with. Even with cancer, there is a point where all you can do is let it go.
right now there are two options, 1. do nothing and die of AIDS in 5 or so years, 2. take expensive drugs and die of AIDS in 15-20 years; this will give people a third option, get cured or die of AIDS in 3 months.
I'd think the hard part would be get the gravitational field up to a reasonable level, we might run out of asteroids, at least ones that are easy to drop on Mars. Once the gravity is up to par, we might be able to get some core action going to get a magnetic field. One of the problems now is the water get up so high that the ultraviolet splits it and the hydrogen drifts off into space, more gravity will keep the water lower.
Dude the French think we're spying on them with American made crackberry's, what do you suppose they're doing to us? Everybody is crawling up somebodies ass with a microscope, it's the information age!
I challenge you to tell me what working hours would be distinctly unusual in academia. that's probably far easier than you'd imagine, it would be his peers who'd know best. If the hours work track sticky periods in a project every thing is probably hunkey-dorey; if the whole lab heads down to the pub to cellibrate the break-through at 3 pm, except guy who stays at work until 10 pm (the same guy who used to leave at 3 when everybody else left at 10) you might have a problem.
Uh not quite, the server generates the screen image and sends the data over a TCP/IP link to the client that actually displays the video; normally it's on the same machine and sent through the loopback device, but it can also be sent over the network, the internet or even a dial-up connection.
One thing that can endear you to the developers is to learn how to fix the newbie problems, the ones the the list tends to say "OMG I can't believe somebody is asking for the answer we've answered 10 thousand times" with patience and competence and no "did you RTFM" attitude.
These levels of security require levels over and above what available in BSD as far as I know. The usual unix model of world/group/user isn't fine-grained enough for this. Linux has it only because the NSA has been working on it for years; I don't even pretend to understand SELinux.
They may have been aiming for their foot, but they may have hit their left testicle instead. It may surprise TW and Comcast that a few subscribers use the service almost exclusively for high bandwidth services, but significant number of their subscribers get the service primarily because they occasionally use a high bandwidth service. The case may be that the high users are the ISP's trend-setters, the ones that make have high-speed internet access "cool" enough to attract the profitable masses.
Well that's my point, the formal form of the Government has no iron clad relationship with the freedom's and privileges of the people. Even the biggest Evil Tyrants had delusions of either transitioning to a more demographic government or being a benevolent despot. One of the biggest problems of pure democracy is once a certain size is reached, anonymity sets in which leads to all sorts of abuse. There are advantages and drawbacks to each form of government.
Russia typically has 80% voter turnout, the makes it a democracy, in fact I believe they even have laws requiring the citizens to vote. Democracy is a form of government not a condition of having a choice to vote for.