Get copyright extended to such ridiculous lenghts, that once a movie is out of copyright, the only way to see it again is a restored version, which is then covered by copyright again?
That would be Denmark, and not - not a "personal" number. My parrents moved the landline phone number they've had since 1978 to their cell phone, and they're not exactly the only ones who have done so.
Yes, but damnit, they're being gouged by "the free market" and they have the complete freedom to choose who they want to be gouged by, and if they also want to be gouged by paying for people sending unsolicited messages to them. And as a bonus they are free to switch providers after ONLY two years. Think about it - that's only HALF as long as a presidential term!
In Europe (and the rest of the World) Mobiles have separate number ranges, So you can tell you are calling a mobile by the number, and so you (the caller) can be charged extra...
And in the US, they have slaves picking cotton. It MAY have been true, but not any more. You can move your old landline number to a cellphone number any time you want. When you get a phone number it's "yours", in the sense that if you change your carrier (landline and cellphone alike) you can take the number with you.
Being able to own a home and provide for one's family through hard work and self reliance without interference from an oppresive Government is the American Dream.
That may have been the old American Dream. The new American Dream seems to be something along the lines of:
1) Get on TV, preferably some kind of silly talk show or 'reality' show, showing off just how stupid you can be 2) ??? 3) Profit
I suspect 2) is winning some kind of prize, but I'm not sure.
Despite the fact that 2 or 7 of every kind of animal on a boat is still outrageous, you are basing that point on a modern definition of the words "kind" and "species", and ignoring the fact that the bible has been translated/edited so many times it's impossible to know exactly what the meaning was.
Well, here's a slightly leading question. Since so many people from ID/Creationism seem to believe that dinosaurs were alive in biblical times, does that mean they were on the ark?
Even with the kind/species part, it's difficult to believe that apatosaurus, tyrannosaurus, triceratops and pteranodon are the same kind or species. They look nothing alike, so unless the dove was the only kind of bird and lions the only kind of cat, you would have to fit either 4 or 14 of each of them. The pteranondon might not be a problem, but four apatosaurus would be. And just how the hell do you propose feeding 14 tyrannosaurus for 40 days. Well, without having them eat the rest of the animals.
The thing is... used by whom? Sure, they SAY they've been used by the cute girl, but who's to say it's not the fat, sweaty sales guy with a thing for wearing them?
300' long roof? Uhm... then we're definately past homeowners, and I suspect businesses have little problems paying someone to do the cleaning for them. Hell, they might even have proper equipment for staying on the roof.
Well, not exactly, but Peter Hamilton had som pretty interesting ideas in his Commonwealth Universe.
Living indefinately is "solved" through a mix of cloning and computer implants. Basically you have a cell culture backup performed at some point (probably best at birth), and a computer implanted in your brain, which amongst other things is able to make copies of your memories, including the ones formed before the implant.
Backups of the computer stored memories can be performed whenever you want, which solves not only violent deaths where your body is pulp but your computer is okay, but ones where your computer is completely fucked up (i.e. your space ship gets nudged into a star or something similarly violent).
It doesn't prevent your body from growing old, so you still go through an aging with every cycle, starting out young and very hormonal, thus making you question the status quo, pushing culture forward.
Obviously the downside is the lack of natural dying, but cultures would quite likely adapt towards having very few children. Dynasties could form more easily (quite a few dynasties in the books), making family owned and controlled companies the thing again. Space exploration will be a lot more interesting, as you'll "only" lose the time between launch (backup just before lunch) and the time it takes to regrow you a new body.
As I said, the two barcodes I mentioned are from things that are readily available for sale in retail outlets. If things are that easy, why don't you tell us all what they are.
They have been bought in two different retail chains, and they're made by two different companies, so you can't even link a possible failure to find one with the possible failure to find the other.
A good RFID reader would allow gangs to easily discriminate profitable targets from unprofitable targets (i.e. iPhones and plasma TVs from spinach and brussels sprouts.).
That depends entirely on what the tags are encoded with. If they're simply refering to a shipping number or a barcode, how do you know if "5709246111130" or "5709404111897" is what you want to steal? Both are barcodes from items I have lying around. One is a US$2 item, the other is a US$20item.
There is absolutely no reason the tags should have anything more than a simple identifier in them. There's no reason they should have info like
"Sony, 52 inch LCD TV, X3500 BRAVIA, Black"
All you need to have is a simple identifier, which you compare to a database.
So what? The linked statistics clearly points out that the numbers listed are for the center of financial centers. If you expect to buy a house/apartment in the center of a US financial center (that would be central Manhattan, New York, New York) for less than that... I think you're rather naïve.
First hit I find on Google when searching for apartments on Manhattan gives me a real estate agent whose cheapest Manhattan apartment is aprox. 950$/foot^2 or 10,300$/m^2
Sure, still cheaper than the London listing of 18,000/m^2 but it's a hell of a way off from the claimed "125$/foot^2" which incidently is 1,350$/m^2.
That might be the average for all of the US, but that's not what the listed statistics for Europe are about.
Well... while I doubt it's doable, it would be really cool with a PDF->LaTeX program. Transform everything in the pdf into LaTeX files (except pictures). Would give you free text search and an easy way to compress the stuff really well.
3,000 US$ per square foot? Well, statistics can do a lot of things, but are you sure those numbers are even close to realistic?
Think about it.
A king size bed is 76x80 inches or 6.3 * 6.6 feet or close to 40 square foot. That's 120,000 dollars for a house that would only just hold a bed that size.
It might be true if you were planning to buy something smack in the middle of Monaco, but really? If you honestly believe that houses in Europe cost 3,000 dollars/square foot, then I'll be glad to put you in touch with my parrents. They have a nice house about a quarter mile from the ocean side beach, a mile from the lake side beach. 1,400 square feet house, 8,000 square feet lot. I'll be willing to settle for a 10% commission on 375 USD/square foot and we'll throw in the lot for free.
Think about it - it's a massive bargain. 87.5% off.
Richard Armitage admitted to being the source of the leak. At the time of the leak he was the Deputy Secretary of State. Now, while I'm not a U.S. citizen, nor an expert on U.S policy, I'm pretty sure that a Deputy Secretary of State is a member of the government.
So, a member of the U.S. government deliberately told a reporter (according to wikipedia he told Bob Woodward) that Valerie Plame's employment.
But I haven't addressed the scathing critisism of your comment. Is the above ONLY a problem if I DON'T have anything against George W. Bush? In what world is something as serious as a government official leaking the name of their own active agents only problematic, if the person bringing it up is a fan of that government?
I didn't bring it up to throw crap at the Bush administration. I brought it up because it is something pretty much noone would expect from their government - no matter where in the world they live. I brought it up because all that did was ruin someone's active career (not like she could continue working as a covert agent, when the whole world knows she's a covert agent). That it put every contact she's had in foreign countries at risk isn't important, seeing as they're not U.S. citizens.
Do you really WANT everyone to know you bought S&M toys??
So, what you're saying is that anything that can be embarrassing should be excluded from sales-tax (and income tax for the seller)? You think S&M toys should be excluded. Others would say "any kind of sex toy". Most men are embarrassed buying lingerie (be it for their girlfriend or themselves). Some would say that buying fast food is embarrassing if you're overweight. Personally I'd be embarrassed buying jeans, so I'm sure there are others who would manage to cover any kind of clothing. Some think vegetarians are idiots, so I'm sure some people are embarrassed buying vegetables. Etc., etc., etc.
Why not just eliminate all income and sales taxes?
Or a bit simpler - if you're embarrassed about buying something, maybe pay for it in cash. Just go to a different city, show up in person in the store and buy your stuff.
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It's the severed head of soldeed's wife. John Doe wins.
Get copyright extended to such ridiculous lenghts, that once a movie is out of copyright, the only way to see it again is a restored version, which is then covered by copyright again?
That's a biiiig woman.
Yes, cause nothing brings more money to your organization than giving everyting away for free ...
That would be Denmark, and not - not a "personal" number. My parrents moved the landline phone number they've had since 1978 to their cell phone, and they're not exactly the only ones who have done so.
Yes, but damnit, they're being gouged by "the free market" and they have the complete freedom to choose who they want to be gouged by, and if they also want to be gouged by paying for people sending unsolicited messages to them. And as a bonus they are free to switch providers after ONLY two years. Think about it - that's only HALF as long as a presidential term!
It's all good, mate. It's all good.
And in the US, they have slaves picking cotton. It MAY have been true, but not any more. You can move your old landline number to a cellphone number any time you want. When you get a phone number it's "yours", in the sense that if you change your carrier (landline and cellphone alike) you can take the number with you.
That may have been the old American Dream. The new American Dream seems to be something along the lines of:
1) Get on TV, preferably some kind of silly talk show or 'reality' show, showing off just how stupid you can be
2) ???
3) Profit
I suspect 2) is winning some kind of prize, but I'm not sure.
Well, here's a slightly leading question. Since so many people from ID/Creationism seem to believe that dinosaurs were alive in biblical times, does that mean they were on the ark?
Even with the kind/species part, it's difficult to believe that apatosaurus, tyrannosaurus, triceratops and pteranodon are the same kind or species. They look nothing alike, so unless the dove was the only kind of bird and lions the only kind of cat, you would have to fit either 4 or 14 of each of them. The pteranondon might not be a problem, but four apatosaurus would be. And just how the hell do you propose feeding 14 tyrannosaurus for 40 days. Well, without having them eat the rest of the animals.
My boolean algebra is a bit rusty, but I am pretty certain that 1+1+1 DOES evaluate 1.
The thing is ... used by whom? Sure, they SAY they've been used by the cute girl, but who's to say it's not the fat, sweaty sales guy with a thing for wearing them?
300' long roof? Uhm ... then we're definately past homeowners, and I suspect businesses have little problems paying someone to do the cleaning for them. Hell, they might even have proper equipment for staying on the roof.
Easy fix - get brass knuckle implants in your driving gloves.
Is there such a thing as non-pointless car crashes?
Well, not exactly, but Peter Hamilton had som pretty interesting ideas in his Commonwealth Universe.
Living indefinately is "solved" through a mix of cloning and computer implants. Basically you have a cell culture backup performed at some point (probably best at birth), and a computer implanted in your brain, which amongst other things is able to make copies of your memories, including the ones formed before the implant.
Backups of the computer stored memories can be performed whenever you want, which solves not only violent deaths where your body is pulp but your computer is okay, but ones where your computer is completely fucked up (i.e. your space ship gets nudged into a star or something similarly violent).
It doesn't prevent your body from growing old, so you still go through an aging with every cycle, starting out young and very hormonal, thus making you question the status quo, pushing culture forward.
Obviously the downside is the lack of natural dying, but cultures would quite likely adapt towards having very few children. Dynasties could form more easily (quite a few dynasties in the books), making family owned and controlled companies the thing again. Space exploration will be a lot more interesting, as you'll "only" lose the time between launch (backup just before lunch) and the time it takes to regrow you a new body.
As I said, the two barcodes I mentioned are from things that are readily available for sale in retail outlets. If things are that easy, why don't you tell us all what they are.
They have been bought in two different retail chains, and they're made by two different companies, so you can't even link a possible failure to find one with the possible failure to find the other.
There is absolutely no reason the tags should have anything more than a simple identifier in them. There's no reason they should have info like
"Sony, 52 inch LCD TV, X3500 BRAVIA, Black"
All you need to have is a simple identifier, which you compare to a database.
So what? The linked statistics clearly points out that the numbers listed are for the center of financial centers. If you expect to buy a house/apartment in the center of a US financial center (that would be central Manhattan, New York, New York) for less than that ... I think you're rather naïve.
First hit I find on Google when searching for apartments on Manhattan gives me a real estate agent whose cheapest Manhattan apartment is aprox. 950$/foot^2 or 10,300$/m^2
Sure, still cheaper than the London listing of 18,000/m^2 but it's a hell of a way off from the claimed "125$/foot^2" which incidently is 1,350$/m^2.
That might be the average for all of the US, but that's not what the listed statistics for Europe are about.
Well ... while I doubt it's doable, it would be really cool with a PDF->LaTeX program. Transform everything in the pdf into LaTeX files (except pictures). Would give you free text search and an easy way to compress the stuff really well.
3,000 US$ per square foot? Well, statistics can do a lot of things, but are you sure those numbers are even close to realistic?
Think about it.
A king size bed is 76x80 inches or 6.3 * 6.6 feet or close to 40 square foot. That's 120,000 dollars for a house that would only just hold a bed that size.
It might be true if you were planning to buy something smack in the middle of Monaco, but really? If you honestly believe that houses in Europe cost 3,000 dollars/square foot, then I'll be glad to put you in touch with my parrents. They have a nice house about a quarter mile from the ocean side beach, a mile from the lake side beach. 1,400 square feet house, 8,000 square feet lot. I'll be willing to settle for a 10% commission on 375 USD/square foot and we'll throw in the lot for free.
Think about it - it's a massive bargain. 87.5% off.
Would have been more fun (in an intellectual way) if you had simply left out the ".".
Richard Armitage admitted to being the source of the leak. At the time of the leak he was the Deputy Secretary of State. Now, while I'm not a U.S. citizen, nor an expert on U.S policy, I'm pretty sure that a Deputy Secretary of State is a member of the government.
So, a member of the U.S. government deliberately told a reporter (according to wikipedia he told Bob Woodward) that Valerie Plame's employment.
But I haven't addressed the scathing critisism of your comment. Is the above ONLY a problem if I DON'T have anything against George W. Bush? In what world is something as serious as a government official leaking the name of their own active agents only problematic, if the person bringing it up is a fan of that government?
I didn't bring it up to throw crap at the Bush administration. I brought it up because it is something pretty much noone would expect from their government - no matter where in the world they live. I brought it up because all that did was ruin someone's active career (not like she could continue working as a covert agent, when the whole world knows she's a covert agent). That it put every contact she's had in foreign countries at risk isn't important, seeing as they're not U.S. citizens.
Why not just eliminate all income and sales taxes?
Or a bit simpler - if you're embarrassed about buying something, maybe pay for it in cash. Just go to a different city, show up in person in the store and buy your stuff.