I have tried all sorts of alarms to wake up. Nothing seems to work. I have suggested that the solution may be to get a BIG dog. The dog could be trained to wake me up in the morning by dragging me out of bed, acrossed the house, to the front door.:-P
OK, maybe I missed something here, aside from responding to a message with a score of 0. How do you put goatse.cx through/dev/dsp? Me thinks wget, piped, but I am not so sure that will work.
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I have been using ogg also, and it is cool to have an encoder that is not encumbered by patents. However, I don't think an ftp database and crawler for ogg-vorbis encoded files would send the right message. Personal copies of ogg encoded files are fine, files from close friends may be a grey line, but widespread music file trading with strangers is not what I would consider a good thing.
Remember that MP3s being traded on Napster isn't really the issue, the issue is that massive trading with complete strangers cheats the artists. I don't want to sound like a complete lamer, but copyright law was designed to protect artists. If they have no incentive for making there music, there would be less and less music worth listening to.
I think ogg-vorbis is a good encoding algorithm for audio files, we shouldn't ruin it by creating a target for copyright lawsuits.
Ozon depletion is still somewhat skeptical. There is a newsgroup devoted to its discussion. Some argue that the ozone hole over Antartica is natural, something to do with the ice crystals. Others argue that the ozone hole and its relation to CFCs became a big media event around about the time that DuPont's patents were running out. That sort of makes sense, they hold the patents on the replacements.
I am not convinced by the paranoid, claiming conspiracy. I trust that NASA knows what it is doing, you can see images of the "hole" on there website(s).
Nuclear fission is not the energy we need to expand on. The U.S.A. has not effectively answered the question of radioactive waste disposal. Plus, what are the long term effects of all that gamma radiation?
Nuclear fusion may be part of the answer, but there is still radioactive waste in the form of reactor components. It would be a nice replacement for coal and oil powerplants, in my opinion.
I am from a northern state, with lots of wind, and I am still wondering why wind generators are not more prominent here. We seem to rely to heavily on coal. Of course the loss of our reliance on coal seriously impacts the jobs of many people, but I don't see why they couldn't learn the new task of maintaining solar powerplants.
Conclusion: Ozone depletion is real, we may not know the exact cause, but there seems to be a correlation with CFCs.
Renewable energy is something we need to expand on: wind and solar power.
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I have tried all sorts of alarms to wake up. Nothing seems to work. I have suggested that the solution may be to get a BIG dog. The dog could be trained to wake me up in the morning by dragging me out of bed, acrossed the house, to the front door. :-P
OK, maybe I missed something here, aside from responding to a message with a score of 0. How do you put goatse.cx through /dev/dsp? Me thinks wget, piped, but I am not so sure that will work.
I have been using ogg also, and it is cool to have an encoder that is not encumbered by patents. However, I don't think an ftp database and crawler for ogg-vorbis encoded files would send the right message. Personal copies of ogg encoded files are fine, files from close friends may be a grey line, but widespread music file trading with strangers is not what I would consider a good thing.
Remember that MP3s being traded on Napster isn't really the issue, the issue is that massive trading with complete strangers cheats the artists. I don't want to sound like a complete lamer, but copyright law was designed to protect artists. If they have no incentive for making there music, there would be less and less music worth listening to.
I think ogg-vorbis is a good encoding algorithm for audio files, we shouldn't ruin it by creating a target for copyright lawsuits.
Ozon depletion is still somewhat skeptical. There is a newsgroup devoted to its discussion. Some argue that the ozone hole over Antartica is natural, something to do with the ice crystals. Others argue that the ozone hole and its relation to CFCs became a big media event around about the time that DuPont's patents were running out. That sort of makes sense, they hold the patents on the replacements.
I am not convinced by the paranoid, claiming conspiracy. I trust that NASA knows what it is doing, you can see images of the "hole" on there website(s).
Nuclear fission is not the energy we need to expand on. The U.S.A. has not effectively answered the question of radioactive waste disposal. Plus, what are the long term effects of all that gamma radiation?
Nuclear fusion may be part of the answer, but there is still radioactive waste in the form of reactor components. It would be a nice replacement for coal and oil powerplants, in my opinion.
I am from a northern state, with lots of wind, and I am still wondering why wind generators are not more prominent here. We seem to rely to heavily on coal. Of course the loss of our reliance on coal seriously impacts the jobs of many people, but I don't see why they couldn't learn the new task of maintaining solar powerplants.
Conclusion: Ozone depletion is real, we may not know the exact cause, but there seems to be a correlation with CFCs.
Renewable energy is something we need to expand on: wind and solar power.