The study referenced hasn't even been officially published. Perusing the comments, I see is religious zealotry from both sides. You don't need a college degree to understand the reasons that climates (plural) are changing and that, globally, it's getting warmer. Educate yourself.
While the public argues, science goes on. Researchers aren't wasting time addressing whether climate change exists, they are focused on understanding and predicting its effects as well as developing mitigation strategies.
Is anyone here old enough to remember the ozone hole? CFCs? Well, that problem was (mostly) fixed despite the inconvenience of finding new refrigerants. Switching energy platforms will also be inconvenient but I, personally, hope the public just gets the fuck with it and does so soon.
Disclaimer: I am an instrument technician & integrator for an atmospheric research laboratory. (read: I know what I'm talking about.)
In the US, administrative interpretations of legislation effectively are law. The DMCA is already written, LoC is administering (interpreting) it, and that interpretation would need to be brought under judicial review in order to get it changed.
IANAL but I'm pretty sure on this. Any lawyers, please?
A lot of citizens have realized the "We the People" petitions are akin to the suggestion box sitting outside the high school office. Just there for looks...
"The no-unlocking rule only applies to “newly purchased” phones, meaning any carrier-locked phone purchased on or after October 28, 2012, the date the new rules went into effect. (A 90-day grace period ended today, January 26.)" -TFA
You own it or you don't.
"Because unlocking a phone requires making changes to its firmware – software that is copyrighted and owned by your carrier – which would be a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)." -TFA
You might own the hardware but you only possess a license for the software. This is generally true for all software (the types of licenses vary widely).
Insofar as the agreement you made with your carrier, they may in fact subsidize the phone but the contract is the contract and I doubt that contract describes it as such. Because of the DMCA, the whole unlocking thing is now criminal law anyway, not contract law.
It was a special case but is no more. You've hit the crux of a much more important issue:
Why do they need to make it illegal to unlock a phone, rather than keeping it completely within contract law?
Try replacing "unlock a phone" with any of the other contract-violation-type acts (violating terms of service, for instance) which the DMCA criminalizes. This isn't an issue of special cases... it's an issue of elected representatives changing mere civil infractions to criminal felonies in order to support failing business models.
Discussion successfully derailed by the first post? By AC no less... Congratulations, sir or madam.
Regarding TFA, I wouldn't be too surprised if more money is spent fighting appeals (and lost due to scaring off investors) than is recovered in back-taxes & interest.
Individuals only possess those rights which are expressly granted to them by their governing state. Those rights usually come with exceptions, too. That's how it works here in reality.
If there was an industry trade group whose sole purpose was to lobby for legislation to prevent businesses from skipping their tax obligations, then it might be different.
It converts matter to other matter and release the potential energy stored within it. There is a theory about some 0.001% of the matter disappearing, but it's nowhere near "converted well".
The even more real irony is that fright, fear and terror are varying degrees of the same emotion and, as you point out, the powers that be rely on fear to gain compliance with their gross infractions of civil liberty. That is to say, there are plenty of terrorists in every airport across the U.S. -- and they wear badges.
Seems like a better idea to use the windmills to pump water into elevated tanks. Put the tank on a hill and you can get a larger pressure differential than seems possible with this method. Make a grated roof and take advantage of the rain...
If they succeed, they will have created every repressive regime's wet dream. Even the U.S. gov't is pining for a national identity card, ostensibly for "security." This would be more like a global ID card.... with built-in profiling and GPS tracking.
Do you mean the plastic grocery bags and vegetable/meat bags? All the ones in my house are marked "2" for HDPE, which is on the list. Of course, they might gum it up still:
Think a meat grinder on top of a pasta maker and you get the general idea.
GP is talking about combustion, not nuclear reaction. In this case, "tiny decrease" is still a huge understatement. For all intents and purposes, the energy released is from the change in chemical bonds, not conversion of mass->energy. Mass-balance is taught in chemistry and thermodynamics because (short of nuclear reactions) it works. Combustion is quite inefficient in engineering terms because (current) technology is incapable of realizing all of that released energy. It often does well enough but we can and should do better.
Sorry, anyway... I'm really excited for the Filabot! It's about time we started closing loops.
Well, to be fair, people today wouldn't understand 'werman' because they speak Modern English, not Old English. I don't actually know why 'wer' was replaced by 'man' circa late 13c. I should have said "I speculate the prevalence..." - it is my fault for not being clear and I stand corrected.
I think context is more important than PC-ness, though, hence my original (attempt at a) joke. I suppose some people feel more strongly about etymological ramifications than I do.
The FBI didn't even create a response. They just cut-n-pasted some intern summary of the court's decision and surrounded it by large black boxes to give the effect of redacted text. The second document containing only black boxes was a nice touch, though.
But as long as you mention it, anywhere that "man" should mean "person", it should be "human". The prevalence of the former in the English language is due to the patriarchal nature of our society.
Not that I support having my hospital equipment on the Interwebs, but there are instances, such as remote robotic-assistance surgery, where it's either that or lay your own cable. Any respectable hospital will use a VPN, yada, etc, but it still requires an internet connection.
This issue will only become thornier unless clear-cut best management practices are established with respect to what gets on the Internet and what doesn't. Robo-surgery? Well, ok but it needs to be securing using A, B and C. My IV drip monitor? No way!
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The study referenced hasn't even been officially published. Perusing the comments, I see is religious zealotry from both sides. You don't need a college degree to understand the reasons that climates (plural) are changing and that, globally, it's getting warmer. Educate yourself.
While the public argues, science goes on. Researchers aren't wasting time addressing whether climate change exists, they are focused on understanding and predicting its effects as well as developing mitigation strategies.
Is anyone here old enough to remember the ozone hole? CFCs? Well, that problem was (mostly) fixed despite the inconvenience of finding new refrigerants. Switching energy platforms will also be inconvenient but I, personally, hope the public just gets the fuck with it and does so soon.
Disclaimer: I am an instrument technician & integrator for an atmospheric research laboratory. (read: I know what I'm talking about.)
In the US, administrative interpretations of legislation effectively are law. The DMCA is already written, LoC is administering (interpreting) it, and that interpretation would need to be brought under judicial review in order to get it changed.
IANAL but I'm pretty sure on this. Any lawyers, please?
A lot of citizens have realized the "We the People" petitions are akin to the suggestion box sitting outside the high school office. Just there for looks...
"after 1/26/13
"The no-unlocking rule only applies to “newly purchased” phones, meaning any carrier-locked phone purchased on or after October 28, 2012, the date the new rules went into effect. (A 90-day grace period ended today, January 26.)" -TFA
You own it or you don't.
"Because unlocking a phone requires making changes to its firmware – software that is copyrighted and owned by your carrier – which would be a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)." -TFA
You might own the hardware but you only possess a license for the software. This is generally true for all software (the types of licenses vary widely).
Insofar as the agreement you made with your carrier, they may in fact subsidize the phone but the contract is the contract and I doubt that contract describes it as such. Because of the DMCA, the whole unlocking thing is now criminal law anyway, not contract law.
It was a special case but is no more. You've hit the crux of a much more important issue:
Why do they need to make it illegal to unlock a phone, rather than keeping it completely within contract law?
Try replacing "unlock a phone" with any of the other contract-violation-type acts (violating terms of service, for instance) which the DMCA criminalizes. This isn't an issue of special cases... it's an issue of elected representatives changing mere civil infractions to criminal felonies in order to support failing business models.
Discussion successfully derailed by the first post? By AC no less... Congratulations, sir or madam.
Regarding TFA, I wouldn't be too surprised if more money is spent fighting appeals (and lost due to scaring off investors) than is recovered in back-taxes & interest.
Individuals only possess those rights which are expressly granted to them by their governing state. Those rights usually come with exceptions, too. That's how it works here in reality.
Don't blur contexts, please. American comes from United States of America, not North America. And, no, Caribbean != North America.
If there was an industry trade group whose sole purpose was to lobby for legislation to prevent businesses from skipping their tax obligations, then it might be different.
Agreed! *clank* To Opportunity and another nine Earth years!
?...Yeah, I'd have to agree. Like you said:
It converts matter to other matter and release the potential energy stored within it. There is a theory about some 0.001% of the matter disappearing, but it's nowhere near "converted well".
It's already an arms-race and now it's their move. And who has the money to do a cost/benefit analysis nowadays?
The even more real irony is that fright, fear and terror are varying degrees of the same emotion and, as you point out, the powers that be rely on fear to gain compliance with their gross infractions of civil liberty. That is to say, there are plenty of terrorists in every airport across the U.S. -- and they wear badges.
when it rains? And fills your donut hole in?
Seems like a better idea to use the windmills to pump water into elevated tanks. Put the tank on a hill and you can get a larger pressure differential than seems possible with this method. Make a grated roof and take advantage of the rain...
Please forgive the digression but I heard about this just today..... and the NRA effectively stymied Congress from funding a CDC study on gun violence. So, no, there are some studies Congress won't fund.
If they succeed, they will have created every repressive regime's wet dream. Even the U.S. gov't is pining for a national identity card, ostensibly for "security." This would be more like a global ID card.... with built-in profiling and GPS tracking.
If something is logging all your keystrokes, it doesn't need to compromise your password manager. It just needs to listen long enough.
Do you mean the plastic grocery bags and vegetable/meat bags? All the ones in my house are marked "2" for HDPE, which is on the list. Of course, they might gum it up still:
Think a meat grinder on top of a pasta maker and you get the general idea.
GP is talking about combustion, not nuclear reaction. In this case, "tiny decrease" is still a huge understatement. For all intents and purposes, the energy released is from the change in chemical bonds, not conversion of mass->energy. Mass-balance is taught in chemistry and thermodynamics because (short of nuclear reactions) it works. Combustion is quite inefficient in engineering terms because (current) technology is incapable of realizing all of that released energy. It often does well enough but we can and should do better.
Sorry, anyway... I'm really excited for the Filabot! It's about time we started closing loops.
Well, to be fair, people today wouldn't understand 'werman' because they speak Modern English, not Old English. I don't actually know why 'wer' was replaced by 'man' circa late 13c. I should have said "I speculate the prevalence..." - it is my fault for not being clear and I stand corrected.
I think context is more important than PC-ness, though, hence my original (attempt at a) joke. I suppose some people feel more strongly about etymological ramifications than I do.
The FBI didn't even create a response. They just cut-n-pasted some intern summary of the court's decision and surrounded it by large black boxes to give the effect of redacted text. The second document containing only black boxes was a nice touch, though.
Cheap and effective.
fauxgrammers
It's funny because it still rhymes!
I could start dictionary-attacking and eventually Mark Zuckerberg's phone number will be revealed. Hmm....
Woosh!
But as long as you mention it, anywhere that "man" should mean "person", it should be "human". The prevalence of the former in the English language is due to the patriarchal nature of our society.
BTW, I am a man and I do say "manhole".
Not that I support having my hospital equipment on the Interwebs, but there are instances, such as remote robotic-assistance surgery, where it's either that or lay your own cable. Any respectable hospital will use a VPN, yada, etc, but it still requires an internet connection.
This issue will only become thornier unless clear-cut best management practices are established with respect to what gets on the Internet and what doesn't. Robo-surgery? Well, ok but it needs to be securing using A, B and C. My IV drip monitor? No way!