Funny I thought that a few of the Vikings were disapointed at the lack of emegration to the rather pleasent climate of Iceland, primarily because the name sounded cold; so they decided to name cold glaciated Greenland, Greenland to make it sound more inviting.
OBTW my grapes grow just fine in Michigan, which has a thriving wine industry as well as New York, both of which have far harsher winters than the British Isles. Those same Viking named the more northern Nova Scotia, Newfoundland area Vinland, or land of grapes.
Personaly I look at it as the Earth has one main input of heat energy, insolation, and one main output of heat energy direct radiation and when all is said and done, the equation will reduce to either the logistics equation, or something quite close and anybody whose played with fractint knows how that equation graphs out! I would not be at all surprised to find that our climate is in a double-bifricated area of the graph slightly beyond a chaotic band. Because of sensitive dependence on initial conditions, we'll never know where we are going, and it's also impossible to go backwards too.
I'll have a lot more faith in the computer models when somebody announces that they have a GCM that doesn't require the numbers to be fudged to keep the model from becoming a permentant Ice-ball.
Is everything caused by global warming? I don't believe we're having global warming at all, it's just global coming back toward our normal temperatures that's all. The Earth was an Idyllic tropical place back when the dinosaurs roamed it, why are we so arrogent to think that it's not the conditions that are normal for the planet, temps go up and down in their own cycle not ours.
Sure some species are going to selected out and some are going to be selected in. I know that's going to piss off a bunch of soccer mom's driving SUV's while complaining about everybody else's gas-hogs and Hollywood liberal's being driven around in limo's to movie premiers and award shows, but hey screw'em if they can't take a joke. It's not like we chose to live between an ice-age and a warm-spell.
Of course You'll see I said believe, that means I don't know, but anybody who says they do are dellusional. In the mean time ( and before I get modded into troll-hell), I walk to work and have cut my personal gasoline consumption down by a third, I support limiting carbon-based fuels and replacing them as quickly as possible, increasing carbon-based fuel taxes ( but not sadisticaly) in the US and using the money for realistic alternative fuel research, and makeing public transportation1. actualy usable would be a good thing even if CO2 doesn't warm the Earth, it would have a lot of geo-political advantages.
1 ever wonder why you can't ride a bus to the train station to the airport airport to the train to the bus all on one ticket like they do in Europe, to get from one end of the continent to the other?
There's a lot of places in michigan's nothern lower peninsula and upper peninsula where blindly following your magnetic compass will lead you arround in circles and sprials, been there done that.
It takes a lot of magnetic field to do it on purpose or a fair sized deposit of magentite iron ore in the ground. As far as GPS, a ground station with a bad clock can reek havock, and jammers were used in Iraq.
So perhaps, millions of years ago, It was spinning VERY fast not likely, the solid core has a certain angular momentum, like an ice skater doing a spin, as the skater pulls in her arms she spins faster, the Earth's solid core is probably cooling - getting smaller and denser so it's spin should be accelerating compared with the rest of the Earth. Additionaly, the solid core, is inside a liquid core, which would lubricate it slightly from the tidal friction the moon also causing it to spin slightly faster than the rest of the Earth.
yes and television and radio goes all screwey, sometimes it even knocks out power grids, fries satelites and even electrinics on the ground lots of annoying things, all from 4 light-seconds away; imagine it underfoot.
perfect10 to Google, scammingpirates is infringing our copyrights, please de-list.
Google to scammingpirates, perfect10 claims copyright infringement and wants you de-listed
scammingpirates to Google, no way we bought exclusive rights to those images from mega-pron-wholesalers, de-list them
Google to perfect10, scammingpirates claims copyright infringement and wants you de-listed
perfect10 to to Google, no way we bought exclusive rights to those images from mega-pron-wholesalers, de-list them
The only way around this would be for Google to
develope a sophisticated image recognition software, one that wouldn't be fooled by scaling, brightness and contrast changes, color shifts or cropping.
Scan the index for matches
de-list everbody who has images that match untill all parties agree.
posibly cross-reference with the copyright dept, and a photographer's guild.
liciense the technology to the USG to spot terrorists in video survalance images
profit
Another interesting idea would be to use such software to compare the images on the web, with images that a company sent in and wanted protected for a fee, when matches were found, the protection purchaser could be sent a notice.
This software would be very difficult and bleeding edge to produce, a worthy challenge for a company like Google
The point is it's more like have your house invaded and your lawn mower stolen, then sue the news paper for publishing your address that was contained in the public record police report, making it easier for the next crook to know where some idiot that doesn't lock up lives.
Google only shows a thumbnail of the image, this is assumed to be within the doctrine of fair use as its a small portion, not the full image, to get the full image you have to follow the link to it, where the rights owner is able to distribute the full image on their standards, or to the location of the infringer.
I've poked around the perfect10 site a bit and their FAQ states
Q: Do you purchase film from photographers?
A: Yes, we will need to see a sample of it. We only buy great film of natural models, usually 25 or younger. E-mail a sample to modelsubmissions@perfect10.com, or send a small sample to: Box 3398, Beverly Hills, CA 90212. If you are a photographer who wants to shoot for us, your best chance is if you refer a model to us. Send samples of your work or photos of the model to: Box 3398, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, or email it to the above address.
so for one I doubt they have exclusive rights to all their "Thousands of images", in fact there are quite a few wholesalers that will sell you rights to tons of porn on a non-exclusive basis for the budding pornographer, I'm sure more than a couple of these photo's ended up in their archives, or possibly perfect10 has a subsidiary that wholesales to other sites. Another problem is for example I take a few pictures, while burning through a roll I get a couple that are almost identicle, who's to say I can't sell rights for one to one company, and rights to another. perfect10 definetely has an uphill battle, even proving infringement even took place.
WOW just like in the movies! Do you write movie script for SciFi network too, or are you that guy that retired from the military 15 years ago and is listed in the end credits as the military consultant because you were a supply clerk?
You want physical security, read the current reg's don't guess and don't go by what they did a year ago, don't go by/. read the reg's talk to the official experts officially.
The company is really clueless and has no idea what's involved in doing classified computing.
I suspect soon they'll understand why they got the low bid! This will most likely cost them a bunch.
I once "lost" a SECRET document, that resulted in 3 weeks of holy hell. Luckily I found it in the bottom of the filing cabinet inside the security vault safe and sound. That seemed to satisfy ASA, but it didn't have to unaccounted for is bad, even if it's unaccounted for inside a secure container. The poster shouldn't bullshit around, personally contact real official experts, else you'll be hearing a second click after you hang up the telephone and people following you.
Our city actually has a municipal auditorium, with a real big screen, not one of those pretend big screens in the multi-plex commercial theaters. Pop corn is 25 cents, soda pop 50 cents and "B" run movies are $1.50. The sound is great because it's an auditorium as in it's designed for acustics and the symphony plays there. Their only projector is a bit old and will not let them splice the reels so the is a 15 minute intermission, which is real handy for getting more pop and pop corn or a rest room break without missing anything.
I'd say it's not so much that the movie theaters are obsolete, but that the quality difference between old big screen, the multi-plex screen and the home theater isn't that much anymore so the utility of going to the multi-plex isn't there, beside most new movies are over-hyped crap anyways.
Theaters should have faraday shielding, maybe the MPAA could enforce this under the guise of limiting priracy. Just put up a sign that says "cell phones and beeper will not work in the auditorium" and make it so.
You have too little imagination, my boy as well as take thing too litterally. Woman generally enjoy the effort to play along with a fetish fantasy more than the fullfillmit of the actual fantasty. tentacle-rape hentai, some loose ropes and some swimming pool noodles might lead to something that interests you more.
yup those are the ones, I have quite a bit of fun asking those "christians" who Cain was afraid of, and where this "hell" place is explained in the bible, and how could Moses be confused with an Egyptian.
not correct, what happens is as the appature of a lens decreases compared to the focal length, it's effective depth of focus increases. in optical device it's called speed of the lens, or often called "stops", or "f stops" and is expressed as an f number such that a lens 6mm in diameter, and a focal length of 36mm would be called f6. Unfortunetly as the f stop increases, the brightness of the image goes down, so while increasing the f stop increases the focal depth, it also increases exposure time making it more likely you'll shake the camera.
Squinting reduces the appature of the eye, which inturn increases the depth of focus. you can make a camera with no lens, but a pinhole, some focal length divided by almost nothing gives a pretty high f number.
I've heqard that in russia you have to be very careful to keep your vodka warm in the Siberian winter; it's actualy possible to take a swigg of vodka that has chilled to -50F with fatal results.
A big part of the problem is instant gratifaction is glorified in the media, long gone are the people who not only worried about their own economic well-being, but that of their children and grand-children. Today a CEO worries more about the next quarter as a final goal rather than an intermediate step to what the company will be in 10 years. A good and strong legacy for your progeny also means the morons will have it better as well.
Boy oh Boy is that something to think about when they talk about space elevators made out of carbon nanotubes, a lightening rod sticking 120 miles up into the sky and a thunderstorm is scarey stuff!
complain about / to the companies that advertise in such a way. That's what they are doing, if that fails they take it up the the companies website service provider. These guys are a commercial service, but average joes like us can help them, we submit our spam to them, then they analyse it to find out who benefits from the spam, that's who they complain to first, the beneficiary, after their client gets a spam, if that doesn't work they start sending complaints to the spammer's ISP, to ineternic if the contact data is bogus ect. they make it easier for everbody to get angry with the spammer and get the spammer kicked off the net. Their clients benefit, and we benefit by proxy.
If buyExpiredV1age4a.com's poor over worked email server can't stand the rush of business communications they generate, then they should have bought bigger iron and a fatter pipe! I just did a big snail mail marketing campaine and was very careful not to let my alligator mouth over load my canary ass; while should I pity a spammer who hasn't done the same!
Now if the spammer's generated load is knocking out other paying customer's web site, they get some sympathy from me and I hope the ISP has enough of a clue to kick the spammer the hell off their servers, which is of course the goal. A lot of ISP prohibit porn because they don't want their net-block black-listed, with a little traffic and a bunch of compliants to both the web site, the web-sites ISP, people have a tendency to get off their asses and do the right thing.
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Funny I thought that a few of the Vikings were disapointed at the lack of emegration to the rather pleasent climate of Iceland, primarily because the name sounded cold; so they decided to name cold glaciated Greenland, Greenland to make it sound more inviting.
OBTW my grapes grow just fine in Michigan, which has a thriving wine industry as well as New York, both of which have far harsher winters than the British Isles. Those same Viking named the more northern Nova Scotia, Newfoundland area Vinland, or land of grapes.
Personaly I look at it as the Earth has one main input of heat energy, insolation, and one main output of heat energy direct radiation and when all is said and done, the equation will reduce to either the logistics equation, or something quite close and anybody whose played with fractint knows how that equation graphs out! I would not be at all surprised to find that our climate is in a double-bifricated area of the graph slightly beyond a chaotic band. Because of sensitive dependence on initial conditions, we'll never know where we are going, and it's also impossible to go backwards too.
I'll have a lot more faith in the computer models when somebody announces that they have a GCM that doesn't require the numbers to be fudged to keep the model from becoming a permentant Ice-ball.
Is everything caused by global warming? I don't believe we're having global warming at all, it's just global coming back toward our normal temperatures that's all. The Earth was an Idyllic tropical place back when the dinosaurs roamed it, why are we so arrogent to think that it's not the conditions that are normal for the planet, temps go up and down in their own cycle not ours.
Sure some species are going to selected out and some are going to be selected in. I know that's going to piss off a bunch of soccer mom's driving SUV's while complaining about everybody else's gas-hogs and Hollywood liberal's being driven around in limo's to movie premiers and award shows, but hey screw'em if they can't take a joke. It's not like we chose to live between an ice-age and a warm-spell.
Of course You'll see I said believe, that means I don't know, but anybody who says they do are dellusional. In the mean time ( and before I get modded into troll-hell), I walk to work and have cut my personal gasoline consumption down by a third, I support limiting carbon-based fuels and replacing them as quickly as possible, increasing carbon-based fuel taxes ( but not sadisticaly) in the US and using the money for realistic alternative fuel research, and makeing public transportation1. actualy usable would be a good thing even if CO2 doesn't warm the Earth, it would have a lot of geo-political advantages.
1 ever wonder why you can't ride a bus to the train station to the airport airport to the train to the bus all on one ticket like they do in Europe, to get from one end of the continent to the other?
There's a lot of places in michigan's nothern lower peninsula and upper peninsula where blindly following your magnetic compass will lead you arround in circles and sprials, been there done that.
It takes a lot of magnetic field to do it on purpose or a fair sized deposit of magentite iron ore in the ground. As far as GPS, a ground station with a bad clock can reek havock, and jammers were used in Iraq.
So perhaps, millions of years ago, It was spinning VERY fast
not likely, the solid core has a certain angular momentum, like an ice skater doing a spin, as the skater pulls in her arms she spins faster, the Earth's solid core is probably cooling - getting smaller and denser so it's spin should be accelerating compared with the rest of the Earth.
Additionaly, the solid core, is inside a liquid core, which would lubricate it slightly from the tidal friction the moon also causing it to spin slightly faster than the rest of the Earth.
yes and television and radio goes all screwey, sometimes it even knocks out power grids, fries satelites and even electrinics on the ground lots of annoying things, all from 4 light-seconds away; imagine it underfoot.
The only way around this would be for Google to
Another interesting idea would be to use such software to compare the images on the web, with images that a company sent in and wanted protected for a fee, when matches were found, the protection purchaser could be sent a notice.
This software would be very difficult and bleeding edge to produce, a worthy challenge for a company like Google
The point is it's more like have your house invaded and your lawn mower stolen, then sue the news paper for publishing your address that was contained in the public record police report, making it easier for the next crook to know where some idiot that doesn't lock up lives.
Google only shows a thumbnail of the image, this is assumed to be within the doctrine of fair use as its a small portion, not the full image, to get the full image you have to follow the link to it, where the rights owner is able to distribute the full image on their standards, or to the location of the infringer.
states
so for one I doubt they have exclusive rights to all their "Thousands of images", in fact there are quite a few wholesalers that will sell you rights to tons of porn on a non-exclusive basis for the budding pornographer, I'm sure more than a couple of these photo's ended up in their archives, or possibly perfect10 has a subsidiary that wholesales to other sites. Another problem is for example I take a few pictures, while burning through a roll I get a couple that are almost identicle, who's to say I can't sell rights for one to one company, and rights to another. perfect10 definetely has an uphill battle, even proving infringement even took place.
WOW just like in the movies! Do you write movie script for SciFi network too, or are you that guy that retired from the military 15 years ago and is listed in the end credits as the military consultant because you were a supply clerk?
/. read the reg's talk to the official experts officially.
You want physical security, read the current reg's don't guess and don't go by what they did a year ago, don't go by
I know I saw the obligatory "Contains ... BSD" in my copy of original Windows95 upgrade (from win 3.11) cd.
The company is really clueless and has no idea what's involved in doing classified computing.
I suspect soon they'll understand why they got the low bid! This will most likely cost them a bunch.
I once "lost" a SECRET document, that resulted in 3 weeks of holy hell. Luckily I found it in the bottom of the filing cabinet inside the security vault safe and sound. That seemed to satisfy ASA, but it didn't have to unaccounted for is bad, even if it's unaccounted for inside a secure container. The poster shouldn't bullshit around, personally contact real official experts, else you'll be hearing a second click after you hang up the telephone and people following you.
Our city actually has a municipal auditorium, with a real big screen, not one of those pretend big screens in the multi-plex commercial theaters. Pop corn is 25 cents, soda pop 50 cents and "B" run movies are $1.50. The sound is great because it's an auditorium as in it's designed for acustics and the symphony plays there. Their only projector is a bit old and will not let them splice the reels so the is a 15 minute intermission, which is real handy for getting more pop and pop corn or a rest room break without missing anything.
I'd say it's not so much that the movie theaters are obsolete, but that the quality difference between old big screen, the multi-plex screen and the home theater isn't that much anymore so the utility of going to the multi-plex isn't there, beside most new movies are over-hyped crap anyways.
Theaters should have faraday shielding, maybe the MPAA could enforce this under the guise of limiting priracy. Just put up a sign that says "cell phones and beeper will not work in the auditorium" and make it so.
Saving Private Ryan creeped out my wife. I thought it was the best and most realistic war movie I'd ever seen; which is what creeped out the wife.
I remember the kids saying "those are cool worms Dad" , they were 12 - 16, so I guess you bought your UID on Ebay.
You have too little imagination, my boy as well as take thing too litterally. Woman generally enjoy the effort to play along with a fetish fantasy more than the fullfillmit of the actual fantasty. tentacle-rape hentai, some loose ropes and some swimming pool noodles might lead to something that interests you more.
yup those are the ones, I have quite a bit of fun asking those "christians" who Cain was afraid of, and where this "hell" place is explained in the bible, and how could Moses be confused with an Egyptian.
I'm in town and geophraphy and bizzar cable routes put me 28,800 ft from the co so no dsl. 5 .4 mile of copper to cover 2.8 mile straight line!
I think there are some patent issues that will be problematic for put Solaris code into Linux even if the code is free and open.
not correct, what happens is as the appature of a lens decreases compared to the focal length, it's effective depth of focus increases. in optical device it's called speed of the lens, or often called "stops", or "f stops" and is expressed as an f number such that a lens 6mm in diameter, and a focal length of 36mm would be called f6. Unfortunetly as the f stop increases, the brightness of the image goes down, so while increasing the f stop increases the focal depth, it also increases exposure time making it more likely you'll shake the camera.
Squinting reduces the appature of the eye, which inturn increases the depth of focus. you can make a camera with no lens, but a pinhole, some focal length divided by almost nothing gives a pretty high f number.
I've heqard that in russia you have to be very careful to keep your vodka warm in the Siberian winter; it's actualy possible to take a swigg of vodka that has chilled to -50F with fatal results.
A big part of the problem is instant gratifaction is glorified in the media, long gone are the people who not only worried about their own economic well-being, but that of their children and grand-children. Today a CEO worries more about the next quarter as a final goal rather than an intermediate step to what the company will be in 10 years. A good and strong legacy for your progeny also means the morons will have it better as well.
Boy oh Boy is that something to think about when they talk about space elevators made out of carbon nanotubes, a lightening rod sticking 120 miles up into the sky and a thunderstorm is scarey stuff!
complain about / to the companies that advertise in such a way.
That's what they are doing, if that fails they take it up the the companies website service provider. These guys are a commercial service, but average joes like us can help them, we submit our spam to them, then they analyse it to find out who benefits from the spam, that's who they complain to first, the beneficiary, after their client gets a spam, if that doesn't work they start sending complaints to the spammer's ISP, to ineternic if the contact data is bogus ect. they make it easier for everbody to get angry with the spammer and get the spammer kicked off the net. Their clients benefit, and we benefit by proxy.
If buyExpiredV1age4a.com's poor over worked email server can't stand the rush of business communications they generate, then they should have bought bigger iron and a fatter pipe! I just did a big snail mail marketing campaine and was very careful not to let my alligator mouth over load my canary ass; while should I pity a spammer who hasn't done the same!
Now if the spammer's generated load is knocking out other paying customer's web site, they get some sympathy from me and I hope the ISP has enough of a clue to kick the spammer the hell off their servers, which is of course the goal. A lot of ISP prohibit porn because they don't want their net-block black-listed, with a little traffic and a bunch of compliants to both the web site, the web-sites ISP, people have a tendency to get off their asses and do the right thing.