re Xzibit, is that you?: . Had to hook it up, dude! . HaHaw! Well, I didn't start that database of databases statement with a "Yo Dawg!", so I'm probably not Xzibiting! It's either turtles all the way down, databases all the way down, zero-one-bits all the way down, or hypercubes all the way down, eh? Or is that a false equivalency to say turtles and hypercubes are the same thing? ? ?
Why not set up a database system which can be used to keep track of which database systems are used (mysql, postgresql, etc) in which opensource projects and which version of the database is used along with the table/memory/thread-usage limitations of each instance? .
Example: firefox uses sqlite for its internal database needs. What do others use? You can populate your database with info like that, and perhaps build a good LAMP/web based front end to allow more entries to be collaboratively updated.
This is just Gas Chromatography using a laser to turn the liquid honey specimen into vapor form to be analyzed with the chromatograph. Nothing seems new except for this specific and particular laser, which is only used as an energy and heat source to vaporize the liquid sample. Am I right?
Re: with each such service having a self-selected audience attuned to their sitegeist. they tend not to expand the horizons of your knowledge... .
I like your neologism "sitegeist", which I presume to mean the "zeitgeist" of the website. Was that intentional or a homonymnal-typo? ;>)
btw, I also agree with your assessment. I've randomly followed a few newslinks to the washingtonpost and been rebuffed with the "this content is for paying subscribers only". But I can see their point also when aggregators like yhoo and google eat and regurgitate the washpo's work product and give enough of a taste that people don't even want or need to click through. .
As for/., every now and then, some of the technically literate (and literally expositorially literate) posters here will write some apropos content in response to an article (e.g. explaining the ins and outs of an airplane's fly-by-wire control system software, or the electrical engineering of a radio system and the underlying carriers, or the arcane but relevent portions of some biomedical system's interacting parts) that actually adds to the information that could not be carried or published in a general news product like a newspaper or magazine. Those kinds of responses make this place worthwhile, as long as the slashvertisements don't get in the way too much.
Re:Is Porn Copyrightable?
Let's change that to "Is obscenity copyrightable?" and conjoin that with another interesting idea "Crazy copyright restrictions are obscene!" . Now let's add those two concepts together and come up with "Is obscenity covered by copyright restrictions when I think the copyright restrictions themselves are obscene?!?!". .
Does the conjunction of those two concepts mean that anything which I feel is obscenely restrictive therefore does NOT have any valid copyright, and thus I may copy it at will? (hyperbole used in this argument; this note added specifically for the sarcasm unaware populace; if this comment whooshes over your head, then please do not bother to reply to it).
Re:Don't be too quick to pass judgement on this one.. .
Please mod parent up, it is not a troll, despite being rated and moderated as a troll! How fucking clueless is it to have a parking brake system that depends on battery power, when every other car has the parking brake as a manual-mechanical linkage to the braking system which allows it to be engaged and disengaged regardless of the battery status of the vehicle? It is silly for tesla to have the parking brakes done this way.
The NYTimes writer drove in circles to draw the battery down!!!
That pretty much clinches it for me to take Tesla's side. And I believe the NYTimes altered the story slightly between print time and what was on the internet on Tuesday. I'll have to find the print copy again to see what they changed. Here's a quote from Elon Musk's rebuttal statement:
The above helps explain a unique peculiarity at the end of the second leg of Broder's trip. When he first reached our Milford, Connecticut Supercharger, having driven the car hard and after taking an unplanned detour through downtown Manhattan to give his brother a ride, the display said "0 miles remaining." Instead of plugging in the car, he drove in circles for over half a mile in a tiny, 100-space parking lot. When the Model S valiantly refused to die, he eventually plugged it in. On the later legs, it is clear Broder was determined not to be foiled again.
I drove more than 100 miles below 55 on cruise control to conserve power.
Yet the graphic presented by Elon Musk ( http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/speeddistance0.jpg ) of speed vs. distance clearly shows that Broder's statement is false, unless Elon Musk is presenting false data logs. Of course, one possible explanation could be an uncalibrated speedometer, which showed Broder the numbers he wrote in his article. But considering the digital-ness of this fancy-schmancy electric car, I expect that the display is a digital display of speed and that the console speed displayed actually matches the speeds logged and graphed by Musk. . Now little things lke "I but the climate control to low at 182 miles" when he really did it at 212 miles (approximately eyeballed by me) which would have seemed like picking at details and mistakes takes on a sadder dirtier note of trying to spin the story the way he wanted it to turn out. :>(
How sad for the nytimes if Elon Musk's allegations turn out to be true and Broder lied.
Hypercard on the Macintosh SE30 using Macintosh operating system 6 or 7 could be programmed in the same "almost natural language way":
go to the last card of this stack
get the last word of the first line
put it on the last line
Note the use of the it variable reference to what was last got by a get command. Cool, eh, and almost twenty years ago...
re If I had the technical skills to pull it off, I would, but unfortunately my skill set is largely non-applicable. .
I thought that the code that runs this/. joint was open-sourced and freely available as slashcode. I was going to include a wikipedia reference, as the good little annotating writer that I am, but I find that searching for slashcode on wikipedia only finds references to slashcode, and no page for slashcode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=slashcode&sourceid=Mozilla-search .
Going to slashcode.com gives us a page with the newest comment dated October 2009 that tell us to go to sourceforge:
http://slashcode.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=slashcode/slashcode;a=tree;h=refs/heads/live;hb=live
where the Changes folder has stuff as new as 2003! and the Slash folder has changes from 2009-09-16. So that's the date that slashcode started to wilt, eh, if not die from lack of attention. Seems like I got to the party too late! (since I just found out about this place last year in the summer and just joined up / registered in september last year!) At least the archived articles are interesting, and everynow and then there are some cool articles visited by 30 people like reading from the ROM masks directly!
re : (_i_)
That's ASCII art of a woman bending over. .
No, that was a very well encoded and compressed version of Scientology's inner doctrine about the ascent into being an Operating Thetan, and all about Xenu. Shut down/. immediately.;>) .
different decryption yields danger, will robinson!
re: is no more "art" than me sitting at my computer typing... .
counter-evidence: Andy Warhol and his "movies":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol_filmography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Factory#Films
mod parent up! Nobody considers the problem of quarterly and annual recurring data batch runs!!! You would be totally screwed up expecting your server to be available an d it turns out to be down just because someone monitored it over a 6-8 week period which just happened to miss the beginning or end of the quarterly reports, eh?
I hate to break it to you, but neither "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters" has been on the headline or newfangled logo for a long time, probably since Dice bought out slashdot. So Dice no longer claims to be running/. to provide either "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters".
Thanks for the link about the Chaser APEC Prank. It is closer in that they were surprised by how far they got:
Morrow pointed out that while they did extensive planning for the stunt, the one thing they "didn't plan for was success"; the participants were confused by the unexpected permission to enter the area, and unsure how to proceed; they clearly sensed danger, but the atmosphere was actually very quiet and subdued.
Very nice linked article about the Zug.com prank team. I particularly like that they did it just a few days after the Boston LED Art prank that everyone thought was part of a bomb, and that they were still able to get away with it. They fucking moved two pallets of shrink-wrapped necklace LED lights that weighed a quarter-ton through security and into the stadium. Astounding that anyone can sneak in if they can pass the cardinal 5 rules listed!
Lost in this spectacle, it was easy for me to slip past the security station by just pretending I belonged. I make this sound easy, but in fact I was just following the five magic rules for getting into any event in the world:
1. Wear a suit.
2. Wear a Bluetooth headset.
3. Pretend to be talking loudly to someone on the other line.
4. Carry a clipboard.
5. Be white.
re: Presumably the person that receives the big end-of-year bonus when everything goes well? .
hahahaha! No, the guys/gals near the top get the bonuses when everything goes well. Scapegoats exist at the lower levels, so the firing most often will happen to those at the lower level who executed the commands, including putting in crappy materials that were ordered when the higher-ups want to save money. At least that seems to be the way of the USA; Japan's older way would have those responsible all the way up to the chair/CEO stepping up and taking blame and getting out of the way or resigning. Over here, the standard is to blame someone else. .
"The buck stops here" for Eisenhower; but notice how Obama stayed out of the way when Hillary Clinton tried to initially take the blame for Benghazi, but ultimately tried to tap-dance her way out of all responsibility when it actually came time for the congressional hearings.
Q for you: is the circuit breaker actually set for $Fixed_value = Current \times Time$ or for a thermal setting which just happens to almost be equivalent to (current draw)x(time drawn) ? Of course I do realize that since the current draw won't be continuously constant, my question simplified what should be the integral of current draw over a running window of time being over a threshold into just the product of time and current draw, but you get the idea... .
I know that a fuse is thermally activated with the current draw through a resistive element which melts when the current flow is high enough to raise the temperature of the resistive element enough.
Cool word, schmorgluck! Had to look it up: . velleity : the lowest degree of volition, a slight wish or tendency, inclination... "the lowest degree of desire or volition, with no effort to act" .
There is definitely a teenager in my house with a lot of velleity!
Yeah, this kind of "authorship misattribution" crime also occurs so frequently in medicine that there are actually peer-reviewed journal articles about it: it's called gift authorship. This is where those who really had no part in or contribution towards the work are given authorship credit for owning the lab or being a graduate student's dissertation advisor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_authorship#Honorary_authorship
Ha! I parsed it in my about-to-go-to-sleep mind as super powers that would be gained by Bubbles from The Wire on HBO. I was wondering if there was going to be a respin of the show with the informant now being given superpowers! Need more sleep...
re A blimp could just sit there with their sensors spying away,
unless, of course, there is more wind than the drive motors can overcome...
re and if you can make the tether long enough,
These are actually untethered, flying with drive motors to keep them in place also. And the large Army one I linked to is a manned and pilot controlled blimp.
Re: astrology (NOT astronomy) ;>)
I have a friend who teaches Physics, and a secretary who was writing/drafting a legal letter for her mislabelled her job as "Professor of Psychics" instead of as a professor of Physics. How very Hogwarts-ian of them if they could have tacked on a professor of potions along with it!
I remember reading about an unmanned blimp crashing: . San Diego Union Tribune article about an unmanned Army blimp brought down in Pa. woods
A remote-controlled, unmanned reconnaissance blimp launched from Ohio by defense contractor Lockheed Martin was brought down Wednesday in a controlled descent in the woods of southwestern Pennsylvania after it was unable to climb to the desired altitude.
The HALE-D blimp was designed to float above the jet stream at 60,000 feet and can be used for reconnaissance, intelligence and other purposes often accomplished by satellites, but at lower cost. The blimp was being tested as a communications relay device as part of a contract Lockheed Martin has with the Army
And another one, found by searching for military and blimps, also found in gizmag and wired, is a dedicated blimp site article about the army preparing and training for using a huge/mammoth spy blimp, an LEMV = US Army's massive Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle:
The Air Force's highly computerized (and potentially missile-armed) Blue Devil 2 airship recently ran into integration problems, forcing the flying branch to cancel a planned test run in Afghanistan. (Although the service had never been too hot on airships in the first place.) The Navy meanwhile grounded its much smaller MZ-3A research blimp for a lack of work until the Army paid to take it over. The LEMV seemed to be losing air, too, as Northrop and the Army repeatedly delayed its first flight and planned combat deployment originally slated for the end of 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers#Diamond_monopoly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC#Economics .
So if Amazon somehow "won" a patent "maintaining scarcity" of goods, doesn't that mean they can go ahead and sue DeBeers and OPEC for what they've been doing for more than 50 years so far? .
Artificial scarcity is what can keep prices up for oil with OPEC and for diamonds for DeBeers, along with the faux-brouhaha about so called "blood diamonds" being made up so as to fool those guillible buyers of compressed carbon into not buying it from non-DeBeers-approved channels. Why if you don't buy it from approved DeBeers vendors, you're buyng "Blood Diamonds" and leading to the killing of human beings; they even got hollywood morons to make a movie about the topic to seriously delude the public. .
And OPEC has been a cartel devoted to controlling the oil output of their nations so as to keep the price of oil buoyed up as necessary. No need to just make prices jump up immedately at any wacky political instability and then drop down never or oh-so-slowly; no need to have made-up pretend refinery fires like they do here in California to justify the rate increases. It's all about keeping the prices as high as the market will bear. .
So it's not as if Amazon has really developed anything new. Why does the patent office keep dropping the ball on the obviousness of things? "Screwing people over with artificial scarcity on the internet or in the fucking cloud" is not really different from "screwing people over with artificial scarcity IRL" as OPEC and DeBeers and other cartels do. There's no reason that doing X on the internet needs patent protection when X has been done IRL for ages, eh? .
autoreply for responses to fucking cloud instead of to the actual topic of this post: Why yes, it is indeed cloud #9 that is the fucking cloud.;>)
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re Xzibit, is that you?:
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Had to hook it up, dude!
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HaHaw! Well, I didn't start that database of databases statement with a "Yo Dawg!", so I'm probably not Xzibiting! It's either turtles all the way down, databases all the way down, zero-one-bits all the way down, or hypercubes all the way down, eh? Or is that a false equivalency to say turtles and hypercubes are the same thing? ? ?
Why not set up a database system which can be used to keep track of which database systems are used (mysql, postgresql, etc) in which opensource projects and which version of the database is used along with the table/memory/thread-usage limitations of each instance?
.
Example: firefox uses sqlite for its internal database needs. What do others use? You can populate your database with info like that, and perhaps build a good LAMP/web based front end to allow more entries to be collaboratively updated.
This is just Gas Chromatography using a laser to turn the liquid honey specimen into vapor form to be analyzed with the chromatograph. Nothing seems new except for this specific and particular laser, which is only used as an energy and heat source to vaporize the liquid sample. Am I right?
Re: with each such service having a self-selected audience attuned to their sitegeist. they tend not to expand the horizons of your knowledge ... /., every now and then, some of the technically literate (and literally expositorially literate) posters here will write some apropos content in response to an article (e.g. explaining the ins and outs of an airplane's fly-by-wire control system software, or the electrical engineering of a radio system and the underlying carriers, or the arcane but relevent portions of some biomedical system's interacting parts) that actually adds to the information that could not be carried or published in a general news product like a newspaper or magazine. Those kinds of responses make this place worthwhile, as long as the slashvertisements don't get in the way too much.
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I like your neologism "sitegeist", which I presume to mean the "zeitgeist" of the website. Was that intentional or a homonymnal-typo?
;>)
btw, I also agree with your assessment. I've randomly followed a few newslinks to the washingtonpost and been rebuffed with the "this content is for paying subscribers only". But I can see their point also when aggregators like yhoo and google eat and regurgitate the washpo's work product and give enough of a taste that people don't even want or need to click through.
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As for
Re:Is Porn Copyrightable?
Let's change that to "Is obscenity copyrightable?" and conjoin that with another interesting idea "Crazy copyright restrictions are obscene!"
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Now let's add those two concepts together and come up with "Is obscenity covered by copyright restrictions when I think the copyright restrictions themselves are obscene?!?!".
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Does the conjunction of those two concepts mean that anything which I feel is obscenely restrictive therefore does NOT have any valid copyright, and thus I may copy it at will? (hyperbole used in this argument; this note added specifically for the sarcasm unaware populace; if this comment whooshes over your head, then please do not bother to reply to it).
Re:Don't be too quick to pass judgement on this one..
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Please mod parent up, it is not a troll, despite being rated and moderated as a troll! How fucking clueless is it to have a parking brake system that depends on battery power, when every other car has the parking brake as a manual-mechanical linkage to the braking system which allows it to be engaged and disengaged regardless of the battery status of the vehicle? It is silly for tesla to have the parking brakes done this way.
Then, on the NYTimes' original response to the controversy (at http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/the-charges-are-flying-over-a-test-of-teslas-charging-network/ ) Broder writes:
I drove more than 100 miles below 55 on cruise control to conserve power.Yet the graphic presented by Elon Musk ( http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/speeddistance0.jpg ) of speed vs. distance clearly shows that Broder's statement is false, unless Elon Musk is presenting false data logs. Of course, one possible explanation could be an uncalibrated speedometer, which showed Broder the numbers he wrote in his article. But considering the digital-ness of this fancy-schmancy electric car, I expect that the display is a digital display of speed and that the console speed displayed actually matches the speeds logged and graphed by Musk.
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Now little things lke "I but the climate control to low at 182 miles" when he really did it at 212 miles (approximately eyeballed by me) which would have seemed like picking at details and mistakes takes on a sadder dirtier note of trying to spin the story the way he wanted it to turn out.
:>(
How sad for the nytimes if Elon Musk's allegations turn out to be true and Broder lied.
I can only wonder if the stripedkau is also a spherical cow? How now, spherical cow,
physical perfection, here and now!
get the last word of the first line
put it on the last line
Note the use of the it variable reference to what was last got by a get command. Cool, eh, and almost twenty years ago...
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I thought that the code that runs this
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Going to slashcode.com gives us a page with the newest comment dated October 2009 that tell us to go to sourceforge: http://slashcode.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=slashcode/slashcode;a=tree;h=refs/heads/live;hb=live
where the Changes folder has stuff as new as 2003! and the Slash folder has changes from 2009-09-16. So that's the date that slashcode started to wilt, eh, if not die from lack of attention. Seems like I got to the party too late! (since I just found out about this place last year in the summer and just joined up / registered in september last year!) At least the archived articles are interesting, and everynow and then there are some cool articles visited by 30 people like reading from the ROM masks directly!
re : (_i_) /. immediately. ;>)
That's ASCII art of a woman bending over.
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No, that was a very well encoded and compressed version of Scientology's inner doctrine about the ascent into being an Operating Thetan, and all about Xenu. Shut down
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different decryption yields danger, will robinson!
re: is no more "art" than me sitting at my computer typing ...
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counter-evidence: Andy Warhol and his "movies": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol_filmography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Factory#Films
mod parent up! Nobody considers the problem of quarterly and annual recurring data batch runs!!! You would be totally screwed up expecting your server to be available an d it turns out to be down just because someone monitored it over a 6-8 week period which just happened to miss the beginning or end of the quarterly reports, eh?
I hate to break it to you, but neither "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters" has been on the headline or newfangled logo for a long time, probably since Dice bought out slashdot. So Dice no longer claims to be running /. to provide either "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters".
Thanks for the link about the Chaser APEC Prank. It is closer in that they were surprised by how far they got: Morrow pointed out that while they did extensive planning for the stunt, the one thing they "didn't plan for was success"; the participants were confused by the unexpected permission to enter the area, and unsure how to proceed; they clearly sensed danger, but the atmosphere was actually very quiet and subdued.
Also another killer quote from the fifth page when they ask the bomb squad to be allowed to borrow a small flatbed truck: http://www.zug.com/pranks/super/index05.html :
The psychology of cat and mouse is that the mouse will never walk up to the cat and ask if he can borrow a forklift. Mice just don't do that.Now of course, they never show the message, and I don't see proof that they plled it off, so is the prank on us? ;>)
re: Presumably the person that receives the big end-of-year bonus when everything goes well?
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hahahaha! No, the guys/gals near the top get the bonuses when everything goes well. Scapegoats exist at the lower levels, so the firing most often will happen to those at the lower level who executed the commands, including putting in crappy materials that were ordered when the higher-ups want to save money. At least that seems to be the way of the USA; Japan's older way would have those responsible all the way up to the chair/CEO stepping up and taking blame and getting out of the way or resigning. Over here, the standard is to blame someone else.
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"The buck stops here" for Eisenhower; but notice how Obama stayed out of the way when Hillary Clinton tried to initially take the blame for Benghazi, but ultimately tried to tap-dance her way out of all responsibility when it actually came time for the congressional hearings.
Q for you: is the circuit breaker actually set for $Fixed_value = Current \times Time$ or for a thermal setting which just happens to almost be equivalent to (current draw)x(time drawn) ? Of course I do realize that since the current draw won't be continuously constant, my question simplified what should be the integral of current draw over a running window of time being over a threshold into just the product of time and current draw, but you get the idea...
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I know that a fuse is thermally activated with the current draw through a resistive element which melts when the current flow is high enough to raise the temperature of the resistive element enough.
Cool word, schmorgluck! Had to look it up: ... "the lowest degree of desire or volition, with no effort to act"
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velleity : the lowest degree of volition, a slight wish or tendency, inclination
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There is definitely a teenager in my house with a lot of velleity!
Yeah, this kind of "authorship misattribution" crime also occurs so frequently in medicine that there are actually peer-reviewed journal articles about it: it's called gift authorship. This is where those who really had no part in or contribution towards the work are given authorship credit for owning the lab or being a graduate student's dissertation advisor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_authorship#Honorary_authorship
Ha! I parsed it in my about-to-go-to-sleep mind as super powers that would be gained by Bubbles from The Wire on HBO. I was wondering if there was going to be a respin of the show with the informant now being given superpowers! Need more sleep...
unless, of course, there is more wind than the drive motors can overcome...
re and if you can make the tether long enough,These are actually untethered, flying with drive motors to keep them in place also. And the large Army one I linked to is a manned and pilot controlled blimp.
Re: astrology (NOT astronomy)
;>)
I have a friend who teaches Physics, and a secretary who was writing/drafting a legal letter for her mislabelled her job as "Professor of Psychics" instead of as a professor of Physics. How very Hogwarts-ian of them if they could have tacked on a professor of potions along with it!
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San Diego Union Tribune article about an unmanned Army blimp brought down in Pa. woods A remote-controlled, unmanned reconnaissance blimp launched from Ohio by defense contractor Lockheed Martin was brought down Wednesday in a controlled descent in the woods of southwestern Pennsylvania after it was unable to climb to the desired altitude. The HALE-D blimp was designed to float above the jet stream at 60,000 feet and can be used for reconnaissance, intelligence and other purposes often accomplished by satellites, but at lower cost. The blimp was being tested as a communications relay device as part of a contract Lockheed Martin has with the Army
And another one, found by searching for military and blimps, also found in gizmag and wired, is a dedicated blimp site article about the army preparing and training for using a huge/mammoth spy blimp, an LEMV = US Army's massive Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle:
The Air Force's highly computerized (and potentially missile-armed) Blue Devil 2 airship recently ran into integration problems, forcing the flying branch to cancel a planned test run in Afghanistan. (Although the service had never been too hot on airships in the first place.) The Navy meanwhile grounded its much smaller MZ-3A research blimp for a lack of work until the Army paid to take it over. The LEMV seemed to be losing air, too, as Northrop and the Army repeatedly delayed its first flight and planned combat deployment originally slated for the end of 2011.also http://www.gizmag.com/lemv-first-flight/22675/ ...
and http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/massive-spy-blimp : Army Readies Its Mammoth Spy Blimp for First Flight
There wass also an auxilliary naval air field north of La Jolla in Del Mar that also was used for blimps: http://www.militarymuseum.org/NAAFDelMar.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers#Diamond_monopoly ;>)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC#Economics
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So if Amazon somehow "won" a patent "maintaining scarcity" of goods, doesn't that mean they can go ahead and sue DeBeers and OPEC for what they've been doing for more than 50 years so far?
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Artificial scarcity is what can keep prices up for oil with OPEC and for diamonds for DeBeers, along with the faux-brouhaha about so called "blood diamonds" being made up so as to fool those guillible buyers of compressed carbon into not buying it from non-DeBeers-approved channels. Why if you don't buy it from approved DeBeers vendors, you're buyng "Blood Diamonds" and leading to the killing of human beings; they even got hollywood morons to make a movie about the topic to seriously delude the public.
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And OPEC has been a cartel devoted to controlling the oil output of their nations so as to keep the price of oil buoyed up as necessary. No need to just make prices jump up immedately at any wacky political instability and then drop down never or oh-so-slowly; no need to have made-up pretend refinery fires like they do here in California to justify the rate increases. It's all about keeping the prices as high as the market will bear.
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So it's not as if Amazon has really developed anything new. Why does the patent office keep dropping the ball on the obviousness of things? "Screwing people over with artificial scarcity on the internet or in the fucking cloud" is not really different from "screwing people over with artificial scarcity IRL" as OPEC and DeBeers and other cartels do. There's no reason that doing X on the internet needs patent protection when X has been done IRL for ages, eh?
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autoreply for responses to fucking cloud instead of to the actual topic of this post: Why yes, it is indeed cloud #9 that is the fucking cloud.