The doors are wide open for abuse, though. Unless the domain has expired, no one should be able to legitemately request a domain transfer except the technical contact and the actual owner of the domain.
Respect and support in what? The war in Iraq. Feh. Other environmental matters? The EPA is a joke. I remember a 48 Hours Investigates episode about this Arizona water treatment plant was putting out water cleaner then the natural river water but because the EPA said it had to make it even cleaner or else face fines, they started dirtying the water with fish chum so that the outgoing stuff would be cleaner by a percentage amount demanded by the EPA. I can only seeing us having to increase the reduction of emissions by an additional amount, that amount being the base amount Kyoto demands. There are other things I'm more concerned about then world respect and support for environmentalism, such as world hunger, Middle East peace, etc.
I also don't send them to the local landfill. I'm looking to find a computer recycling center, and a local company that just started up takes common household garbage and turns it into building material that is as strong, if not stronger, then pressure treated lumber.
So while we are moving towards disposable everything, the world of recycling is keeping up.
Agreed, it wouldn't be any good and shouldn't be signed if it is not needed. If, on the other hand, it could help create a new, green economy to replace the oil economy.
Instead of making money on goods, one can make money on services, and that is where I truly think we are headed, to a services based economy where physical goods are only worth what you'll pay for the service to keep them working.
Outsourcing is the natural progression of making jobs easier to do. It's happening faster because of tax loopholes that weren't made by Bush (as much as I hate saying that, being the staunch Libertarian I am).
Secondly, if, as another poster mentioned, we are reducing emissions faster then what Kyoto called for without losing jobs, then screw the Kyoto treaty.
Don't forget that the Earth was molten at the time, and even if it wasn't, look at what is left of the Yuccatan crater due to the forces of erosion. Wind and water are very, very powerful forces.
I completely agree. If the MPAA can use such tactics, I would have no objections to them suing people infringing on their IP. I am trying to go legit myslef, but it's hard w/o a job.
What I really dislike is that they've waited almost 10 years before suing for infringement. Did they just crawl out from under a rock or was this purposeful? There has to be something that says if you don't vigorously enforce your patent from day one and 10 years pass, poo on you. You can only enforce your patent from the day you come out saying "Hey, this is infringing my patent which I filed 10 years ago."
Granted the game companies are equally bad for not checking to see if 3d had been patented (no matter how bad of a patent it is).
The MIT Black Jack team wasn't cheating though. Counting cards and calculating odds is not cheating. If it were no one would be allowed to play black jack or any other card game.
Check out a tool called abcde. It's a shell script frontend that rips and encodes all in one shot. It supports various formats, makes directories based on a predefined set of variables that you can set up as you wish and many other lovely features. It's completely command line based and, of course, GPL'd.
That is a great plan but could humans stay in space continously for 3 years (90days x 10 = 900 days or about 3 years) and still be healthy? Obviously they could probably never return to Earth. Do we have bold explorers willing to live out the rest of their lives in space? What about sexual gratification, law enforcement, etc? If women and men go (single folks or married couples), what about pregnancy? How does microgravity affect the development of the human fetus? How does one give birth? How does one clean up from such an act (giving birth is a fairly messy process under the best of circumstances)?
I think there are a lot of issues that need to be thought out before we go ahead with this. We have the ability to do it technologically, but can we do it biologically?
What's funny is that I play a massive online adventure game called RuneScape that is completely written in Java. Oh yeah, it's also kinda 3D-ish, lag is mainly from so many people playing at once (over 5K+ at any given time spread out over 36+ servers) and it's fairly fun as adventure games go.
Did I mention it was played online through a web browser and that I don't use Sun's vm (I use Blackdown)? If not I think I just did. (;
the amusing thing is that Dell doesn't even make their own monitors. They are Samsung or Sony monitors with the Dell brand name stuck on them. The fact they are a defendent in the case is assinine (having worked for Dell, I am qualified to make the above statement).
Haha. I do agree with some other posters that the PHB's involved as well as the tech should take some of the blame. After all, they chose and installed the software.
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That would be nice but I just don't see that happening.
The doors are wide open for abuse, though. Unless the domain has expired, no one should be able to legitemately request a domain transfer except the technical contact and the actual owner of the domain.
That would be such a funny thing to do.
Respect and support in what? The war in Iraq. Feh. Other environmental matters? The EPA is a joke. I remember a 48 Hours Investigates episode about this Arizona water treatment plant was putting out water cleaner then the natural river water but because the EPA said it had to make it even cleaner or else face fines, they started dirtying the water with fish chum so that the outgoing stuff would be cleaner by a percentage amount demanded by the EPA. I can only seeing us having to increase the reduction of emissions by an additional amount, that amount being the base amount Kyoto demands. There are other things I'm more concerned about then world respect and support for environmentalism, such as world hunger, Middle East peace, etc.
I also don't send them to the local landfill. I'm looking to find a computer recycling center, and a local company that just started up takes common household garbage and turns it into building material that is as strong, if not stronger, then pressure treated lumber.
So while we are moving towards disposable everything, the world of recycling is keeping up.
That would be the same of any President. If I'm not mistaken Clinton was against Kyoto as well.
Agreed, it wouldn't be any good and shouldn't be signed if it is not needed. If, on the other hand, it could help create a new, green economy to replace the oil economy.
Instead of making money on goods, one can make money on services, and that is where I truly think we are headed, to a services based economy where physical goods are only worth what you'll pay for the service to keep them working.
Outsourcing is the natural progression of making jobs easier to do. It's happening faster because of tax loopholes that weren't made by Bush (as much as I hate saying that, being the staunch Libertarian I am).
Secondly, if, as another poster mentioned, we are reducing emissions faster then what Kyoto called for without losing jobs, then screw the Kyoto treaty.
Don't forget that the Earth was molten at the time, and even if it wasn't, look at what is left of the Yuccatan crater due to the forces of erosion. Wind and water are very, very powerful forces.
What's funny is that I just watched the Dark Crystal 3 days ago on a DVD I bought from Wal-Mart for $10.
I completely agree. If the MPAA can use such tactics, I would have no objections to them suing people infringing on their IP. I am trying to go legit myslef, but it's hard w/o a job.
What's worse is they modded it up +3 insightful!
What I really dislike is that they've waited almost 10 years before suing for infringement. Did they just crawl out from under a rock or was this purposeful? There has to be something that says if you don't vigorously enforce your patent from day one and 10 years pass, poo on you. You can only enforce your patent from the day you come out saying "Hey, this is infringing my patent which I filed 10 years ago."
Granted the game companies are equally bad for not checking to see if 3d had been patented (no matter how bad of a patent it is).
They do, it's called MythTV.
The MIT Black Jack team wasn't cheating though. Counting cards and calculating odds is not cheating. If it were no one would be allowed to play black jack or any other card game.
Check out a tool called abcde. It's a shell script frontend that rips and encodes all in one shot. It supports various formats, makes directories based on a predefined set of variables that you can set up as you wish and many other lovely features. It's completely command line based and, of course, GPL'd.
That is a great plan but could humans stay in space continously for 3 years (90days x 10 = 900 days or about 3 years) and still be healthy? Obviously they could probably never return to Earth. Do we have bold explorers willing to live out the rest of their lives in space? What about sexual gratification, law enforcement, etc? If women and men go (single folks or married couples), what about pregnancy? How does microgravity affect the development of the human fetus? How does one give birth? How does one clean up from such an act (giving birth is a fairly messy process under the best of circumstances)?
I think there are a lot of issues that need to be thought out before we go ahead with this. We have the ability to do it technologically, but can we do it biologically?
What's funny is that I play a massive online adventure game called RuneScape that is completely written in Java. Oh yeah, it's also kinda 3D-ish, lag is mainly from so many people playing at once (over 5K+ at any given time spread out over 36+ servers) and it's fairly fun as adventure games go.
Did I mention it was played online through a web browser and that I don't use Sun's vm (I use Blackdown)? If not I think I just did. (;
the amusing thing is that Dell doesn't even make their own monitors. They are Samsung or Sony monitors with the Dell brand name stuck on them. The fact they are a defendent in the case is assinine (having worked for Dell, I am qualified to make the above statement).
While that is true, I imagine it would have been mentioned if the old system had been worse.
Not a friggin' clue.
Probably wanking off to porn. :p
Seriously though, the systems should have been more closely monitored.
Haha. I do agree with some other posters that the PHB's involved as well as the tech should take some of the blame. After all, they chose and installed the software.
That is indeed amusing.
Because the software company provided shity software for way more then it was actually worth.
We use a similar system to reboot all of our NT servers every weekend to help prevent crashes during the week (doesn't work of course, but still).
/sarcasm. (;
You and LAX must not have installed Windows properl.