well, we DO sample some of the nearby planets in our solar system... that being said, there are probably a nearly infinite amount of planets in our universe... for all we know, some planets' main natural resource is gold
you must not know about the huge conference about the patent system a couple months ago. companies all over the country sent delegates to talk with the guys making the patent rulings(i cant remember what it is called). they came in and discussed the problems of patents in their current forms(this included huge AND small businesses).
big companies are tired of being trolled for settlements, and small companies cant afford the lawsuits and are afraid to make new software because they are afraid of being sued. it isnt jusnt the large companies that want a new system, it is also the little guys
there are a lot of patent trolls out there... and they are ridiculous. it is about damn time that our government is getting around to revamping the ages old system that doesnt work right in modern times... now if only they would go through and rewrite ALL of the ridiculous laws that were created in an age before electricity that somehow apply to our current technology.
they are currently pretty cheap... 50-100$ would be enough to power LED lights in a house... that being said, the price of them will drop dramatically once we have working graphene supercapacitors.
i know a lot of ppl who would install solar panels on their houses in a heartbeat to cut down on their electricity bills if not for all the hoops they have to go through to do so.
noone would be entirely off the grid. solar panels wont keep your house running with maximum power during cloudy days or nights... that being said... solar panels CAN decrease the cost of your energy bills by a lot... and this amount of money would easily pay the cost of solar panel installation over a decade or so.
solar energy installation is incredibly cheap.... like pennies. the only reason why every houshold in the US doesnt have solar panels is because the energy companies lobby our government to increase the cost of them thousandfold..there have been many recent cases in certain states where you have to go through months of bureaucracy and thousands of dollars to install a few feet of solar panels due to all the restrictions and paperwork and permits and whatnot, while in other countries, or even some states, it is as simple as buying the solar panels and having someone install them.
. i believe there was an article about this on slashdot a few months ago.
i dont really like getting into political arguments, however... bestiality porn is NOT against the law in the US. child porn IS because hosting the site creates a larger demand for child porn, which hurts more children. while i do agree that HOSTING child porn should be covered under the free speech laws, i can also see why that would be a bad idea.
that being said, there have been some recent political discussions/lawmaking that i dont agree with. (like the issue of lolicon anime porn). in this case, there are no children harmed, so i think it is ridiculous to go after ppl hosting or creating these as child pornographers. the problem here is that our laws are based on sociopolitical morals and the morals of the bible(the latter should be tossed out because of separation of church and state). morals in general have no place in laws. laws should be specifically designed to keep social order and keep ppl from being harmed. victimless crimes should not be crimes at all.
in the case of real child porn, there is harm, however in the case of anime or even prostitution, there are no victims, therefore it shouldnt be punishable by law.
yea but the guy i was replying to was talking about the NSA... which is an american organization. hes implying that the NSA is doing the right thing in keeping tabs on US citizens as long as ppl like the guy in the article are removed from society.
what is wrong with you? this would be a clear violation of the site owner's rights of freedom of speech in the US. the site owner didnt commit any crimes, he simply uploaded a video of it to his own site, which is protected under free speech.
if you think that the NSA should be spying on people and arresting them for nonconformity... there is something seriously wrong with you. none of us want a conformity state... we want to be able to do whatever we want as long as they are protected under our bill of rights.
there may be different underlying causes as well as different types of cancer, but im sure there are markers that say "hey, this is cancerous".... wait... we already knew there were markers like that. if a doctor can tell if cells are cancerous, why shouldnt a computer be able to do it?
yea, i use aokp and i love it. that being said, it isnt google's fault that they cant get the patches out to everyone as soon as they create them. the problem lies with the cell phone distributors who consistently take forever to install all their adware and crapware onto each patch before deployment. it takes at&t over a year to release the operating systems on their phones, whereas a rooted phone can get it instantly.
the cost of turning a digital file into a dvd is less than 10 cents per disk. assuming they release them by disk and not digitally, they would still make money even if they were selling for a dollar a disk. the internet is free. they can afford to charge as little as they want because they have ZERO cost. they can copy and release a billion copies over the internet if they wanted to... and ppl will pay for them.
1$ a song is ridiculous. i dont pirate songs because i have pandora, where i can listen to all the songs i want whenever i want for 20$ a year. that being said, movies are a different story... 12$ for 2 hrs of entertainment is absurd. i hope at some point the MPAA realizes that piracy isnt the cause for their lack of sales... piracy is the answer to their ridiculous pricing and they dont seem to understand this. any intelligent business would realize that ppl are pirating because they dont want to pay the absurd prices and find some way to decrease the cost so that people would be less inclined to pirate. if there was a system like pandora but for movies, im sure ppl would be willing to pay it. (dont say netflix....netflix also has ridiculous prices, and their online system has almost no good movies)
as soon as you start doing this, people will insist that you test everyone at birth and put "bad seeds" into a list. after this, the list will almost always be targeted for crimes as well as persecution. one step further from this would be culling the bad seeds.... which, while seems to be a good idea on paper for a crimeless society.... it is just one step closer to a conform nation, which is bad.
just because it cant currently be used by someone other than the registered owner doesnt mean that noone can hack it so that it will work with anyone. where there is technology, there are hackers.
any law that makes these guns the only ones usable wont change anything because bad people will still get a hold of guns not registered to them.
there are two types of monopolies, a vertical monopoly and a horizontal monopoly. a vertical monopoly is when a company owns everything up to a finished product... think mc donalds, except they also own the cows, farmers, slaughterhouses, butchers, ect. they can choose to make their product whatever price they want because they have almost zero cost.
the second type of monopoly is a horizontal monopoly, where a company owns a huge share of a single market or large shares of a bunch of markets. this is the category google falls under (at least under EU law(because it is being currently ignored by US law)). they own more than 50% of the search market, 50% of the phone os market, now they are moving into computers and internet.
on its own, a horizontal monopoly doesnt have to be bad. the problem is when they start abusing it. one example would be if google decided to start making their stuff only work with other things they make. because of how much they do, if they were to start forcing ppl to use their products for their other products, they could force people to use their products, which would cause other businesses around them to go bankrupt. once the competition is gone, they could price however they wanted because they will own 100% of the market.
google has yet to do this, which is the only reason it hasnt been broken up as a monopoly.
intellectual property laws should only apply for a certain set amount of time... the problem is that companies continually extend their copyrights and patents... just recently, once again the birthday song copyright got renewed.... it has been 80 years?...
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sorry, 1000megabits... is one gigabit.
neither. it says afterwards "100 megabits per second"... which is one tenth of a gigabit
well, we DO sample some of the nearby planets in our solar system... that being said, there are probably a nearly infinite amount of planets in our universe... for all we know, some planets' main natural resource is gold
you must not know about the huge conference about the patent system a couple months ago. companies all over the country sent delegates to talk with the guys making the patent rulings(i cant remember what it is called). they came in and discussed the problems of patents in their current forms(this included huge AND small businesses). big companies are tired of being trolled for settlements, and small companies cant afford the lawsuits and are afraid to make new software because they are afraid of being sued. it isnt jusnt the large companies that want a new system, it is also the little guys
there are a lot of patent trolls out there... and they are ridiculous. it is about damn time that our government is getting around to revamping the ages old system that doesnt work right in modern times... now if only they would go through and rewrite ALL of the ridiculous laws that were created in an age before electricity that somehow apply to our current technology.
here are links to some articles i found on the first page of google: http://inhabitat.com/nyc/new-york-citys-bureaucracy-slowing-down-construction-of-residential-solar-panels/ http://www.thestate.com/2012/10/14/2480345/why-solar-power-rarely-shines.html http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/solar-at-home/2009/06/04/what-you-really-need-to-install-solar-a-cpa/
they are currently pretty cheap... 50-100$ would be enough to power LED lights in a house... that being said, the price of them will drop dramatically once we have working graphene supercapacitors.
from the first page of google : http://inhabitat.com/nyc/new-york-citys-bureaucracy-slowing-down-construction-of-residential-solar-panels/ http://www.thestate.com/2012/10/14/2480345/why-solar-power-rarely-shines.html http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/solar-at-home/2009/06/04/what-you-really-need-to-install-solar-a-cpa/
i know a lot of ppl who would install solar panels on their houses in a heartbeat to cut down on their electricity bills if not for all the hoops they have to go through to do so.
noone would be entirely off the grid. solar panels wont keep your house running with maximum power during cloudy days or nights... that being said... solar panels CAN decrease the cost of your energy bills by a lot... and this amount of money would easily pay the cost of solar panel installation over a decade or so.
solar energy installation is incredibly cheap.... like pennies. the only reason why every houshold in the US doesnt have solar panels is because the energy companies lobby our government to increase the cost of them thousandfold. .there have been many recent cases in certain states where you have to go through months of bureaucracy and thousands of dollars to install a few feet of solar panels due to all the restrictions and paperwork and permits and whatnot, while in other countries, or even some states, it is as simple as buying the solar panels and having someone install them.
. i believe there was an article about this on slashdot a few months ago.
i dont really like getting into political arguments, however... bestiality porn is NOT against the law in the US. child porn IS because hosting the site creates a larger demand for child porn, which hurts more children. while i do agree that HOSTING child porn should be covered under the free speech laws, i can also see why that would be a bad idea. that being said, there have been some recent political discussions/lawmaking that i dont agree with. (like the issue of lolicon anime porn). in this case, there are no children harmed, so i think it is ridiculous to go after ppl hosting or creating these as child pornographers. the problem here is that our laws are based on sociopolitical morals and the morals of the bible(the latter should be tossed out because of separation of church and state). morals in general have no place in laws. laws should be specifically designed to keep social order and keep ppl from being harmed. victimless crimes should not be crimes at all. in the case of real child porn, there is harm, however in the case of anime or even prostitution, there are no victims, therefore it shouldnt be punishable by law.
yea but the guy i was replying to was talking about the NSA... which is an american organization. hes implying that the NSA is doing the right thing in keeping tabs on US citizens as long as ppl like the guy in the article are removed from society.
what is wrong with you? this would be a clear violation of the site owner's rights of freedom of speech in the US. the site owner didnt commit any crimes, he simply uploaded a video of it to his own site, which is protected under free speech. if you think that the NSA should be spying on people and arresting them for nonconformity... there is something seriously wrong with you. none of us want a conformity state... we want to be able to do whatever we want as long as they are protected under our bill of rights.
there may be different underlying causes as well as different types of cancer, but im sure there are markers that say "hey, this is cancerous".... wait... we already knew there were markers like that. if a doctor can tell if cells are cancerous, why shouldnt a computer be able to do it?
yea, i use aokp and i love it. that being said, it isnt google's fault that they cant get the patches out to everyone as soon as they create them. the problem lies with the cell phone distributors who consistently take forever to install all their adware and crapware onto each patch before deployment. it takes at&t over a year to release the operating systems on their phones, whereas a rooted phone can get it instantly.
if the lottery costed 100$ a ticket... do you think the lottery organization will make more money than they do when they sell it for 1 or 2$ a ticket?
the cost of turning a digital file into a dvd is less than 10 cents per disk. assuming they release them by disk and not digitally, they would still make money even if they were selling for a dollar a disk. the internet is free. they can afford to charge as little as they want because they have ZERO cost. they can copy and release a billion copies over the internet if they wanted to... and ppl will pay for them.
1$ a song is ridiculous. i dont pirate songs because i have pandora, where i can listen to all the songs i want whenever i want for 20$ a year. that being said, movies are a different story... 12$ for 2 hrs of entertainment is absurd. i hope at some point the MPAA realizes that piracy isnt the cause for their lack of sales... piracy is the answer to their ridiculous pricing and they dont seem to understand this. any intelligent business would realize that ppl are pirating because they dont want to pay the absurd prices and find some way to decrease the cost so that people would be less inclined to pirate. if there was a system like pandora but for movies, im sure ppl would be willing to pay it. (dont say netflix....netflix also has ridiculous prices, and their online system has almost no good movies)
as soon as you start doing this, people will insist that you test everyone at birth and put "bad seeds" into a list. after this, the list will almost always be targeted for crimes as well as persecution. one step further from this would be culling the bad seeds.... which, while seems to be a good idea on paper for a crimeless society.... it is just one step closer to a conform nation, which is bad.
just because it cant currently be used by someone other than the registered owner doesnt mean that noone can hack it so that it will work with anyone. where there is technology, there are hackers. any law that makes these guns the only ones usable wont change anything because bad people will still get a hold of guns not registered to them.
mosquitos are attracted to carbon dioxide... im guessing some ppl exhale more/more often than others
there is already a safe mode... all he would have had to do is put on a child filter on his own computer... problem solved
there are two types of monopolies, a vertical monopoly and a horizontal monopoly. a vertical monopoly is when a company owns everything up to a finished product... think mc donalds, except they also own the cows, farmers, slaughterhouses, butchers, ect. they can choose to make their product whatever price they want because they have almost zero cost. the second type of monopoly is a horizontal monopoly, where a company owns a huge share of a single market or large shares of a bunch of markets. this is the category google falls under (at least under EU law(because it is being currently ignored by US law)). they own more than 50% of the search market, 50% of the phone os market, now they are moving into computers and internet. on its own, a horizontal monopoly doesnt have to be bad. the problem is when they start abusing it. one example would be if google decided to start making their stuff only work with other things they make. because of how much they do, if they were to start forcing ppl to use their products for their other products, they could force people to use their products, which would cause other businesses around them to go bankrupt. once the competition is gone, they could price however they wanted because they will own 100% of the market. google has yet to do this, which is the only reason it hasnt been broken up as a monopoly.
intellectual property laws should only apply for a certain set amount of time... the problem is that companies continually extend their copyrights and patents... just recently, once again the birthday song copyright got renewed.... it has been 80 years?...