The price was zero in the first place, so getting "whatever you can get for it" implies that the price is not really zero. It's just zero if you market it by saying "you can have it for free but buy it from me anyway."
I wonder how many marketing schools tell their students not to do that.
We've looked at several planets up-close, and hundreds from afar, and really, we think it's special here?
Water is corrosive; so is oxygen. The sun's rays contain frequencies that fight all forms of chemical combination, (and it'd be worse if we didn't have an ozone layer but how arbitrary is its thickness?); the action of wind and sun and rain and freeze-thaw cycles bring down mountains. The entire planet, not long after the formation of its first lifeforms, from which all that we see have descended, was converted into an utter snowball; covered entirely by glacial ice for hundreds of millions of years. Almost all of the life has been trying perpetually to extinct all the other life, making life ironically toxic to itself.
Did they opt-into letting you get them? Can they cut you off at will without cutting off a lot of other receivers? Can you send them a message back through the same channel?
If life really was so resilient we would have found ample traces of it on every other planet.
The fact that we can find it on even one planet implies that here it's pretty resilient. It also implies that here the conditions for it are in the survivable range of a fairly large number of parameters.
The judge is then likely to ask you if you are capable of evaluating the facts of the case fairly and judging it based on their merits. And even if you say no he may decide you're just trying to get out of jury duty.
We all have prejudices. We're supposed to put them aside when the trial starts. And it's up to the prosecution and defense to decide whether to tolerate them, but they only get a couple of chances to do that, then it's first-come, first-empaneled.
Twitter and Facebook are both designed around the idea of one-to-many missives.
No, you have to opt-in to see the missives, and the other person opts-in or out at will. It's not a private message, but it's also not nearly as broadcasty as RSS, and it's a 2-way conversation, just one that other people can listen in on. RSS is between a high-bandwidth newspaper and a low-bandwidth radio or TV system. It lacks personalization entirely, and that limits the information it can communicate (there's a lot of meta-information in personal conversations).
NB: The reason for Twitter's short messages is that it is designed to deliver the text via SMS, which has a 140-byte payload limit. (Albeit the online data retrieved by apps on smartphones over IP is much more rich). The decision was purely technical. There's no psychological, social, or even economic meaning behind it.
Apropos, I just this morning heard a commercial on the radio for a company that offers to ensure that positive results for searches for your company name appear in the upper results on Google, and negative information disappears into the nether pages.
Twitter and facebook are direct person-to-person communications media. More like glorified email than glorified RSS. Email was core internet technology long before search existed.
And don't underestimate their import. Neither of these companies has really commercialized its operations. Neither is public. Recent news indicates facebook just started a revolution in the middle east. I'm pretty sure search, even instant search, never did that.
We're currently facing a growing threat from advancing cruise-missile technology. The Chinese in particular have some that we're pretty sure we can't stop no matter what we do. Not a good thing when your ability to win a war depends on keeping your aircraft carriers secure so that you can project air superiority over a major theater and a fleet and your ground troops.
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And putting in a foreign place of birth is not proof that you're not a citizen, either.
Total #fail on google's part, here.
Avatar was priced 30% higher than the movie next door that wasn't 3-D.
I bet those get replenished by outgassing at the surface, too.
It's essentially the process by which our planet developed its coating of water.
"so the price quickly drops to zero"
The price was zero in the first place, so getting "whatever you can get for it" implies that the price is not really zero. It's just zero if you market it by saying "you can have it for free but buy it from me anyway."
I wonder how many marketing schools tell their students not to do that.
I'm not even sure it's illegal to do it without telling anyone they're buying GPL'ed software until they open the box...
You should see the one I just posted there.
But "even one" doesn't imply "one out of one".
We've looked at several planets up-close, and hundreds from afar, and really, we think it's special here?
Water is corrosive; so is oxygen. The sun's rays contain frequencies that fight all forms of chemical combination, (and it'd be worse if we didn't have an ozone layer but how arbitrary is its thickness?); the action of wind and sun and rain and freeze-thaw cycles bring down mountains. The entire planet, not long after the formation of its first lifeforms, from which all that we see have descended, was converted into an utter snowball; covered entirely by glacial ice for hundreds of millions of years. Almost all of the life has been trying perpetually to extinct all the other life, making life ironically toxic to itself.
But here there be whales.
Pretty resilient.
Did they opt-into letting you get them? Can they cut you off at will without cutting off a lot of other receivers? Can you send them a message back through the same channel?
He doesn't want your login. He's just asking to see things you make public to people you make them public to. You can always say no.
See Venus. Tell us how it really keeps its atmosphere.
Thus creating an atmosphere, clouding up, and cooling them down again.
Could take some time before the whole run-out-of-water thing happens. Time enough to start up the magnetosphere again.
If life really was so resilient we would have found ample traces of it on every other planet.
The fact that we can find it on even one planet implies that here it's pretty resilient. It also implies that here the conditions for it are in the survivable range of a fairly large number of parameters.
Exactly. It's overbuilt.
Venus' atmosphere is heavier (almost all CO2) and is constantly replenished by outgassing at the 800F surface.
Venus also does have a magnetic field large enough to disperse the solar wind.
Okay. I'll wait now while you go ahead and bring back the first time machine...
The judge is then likely to ask you if you are capable of evaluating the facts of the case fairly and judging it based on their merits. And even if you say no he may decide you're just trying to get out of jury duty.
We all have prejudices. We're supposed to put them aside when the trial starts. And it's up to the prosecution and defense to decide whether to tolerate them, but they only get a couple of chances to do that, then it's first-come, first-empaneled.
Can I just have the cash?
A couple of years back, "social networking" was something monkeys did in behavior studies.
The world moves fast.
Restrict it to "friends of the victim".
You'll get sent home.
No, he isn't. Any feeb can click a box in a form.
It takes real guile to come up with a method of getting out of jury duty that is both specious and legal.
Because all the genuine ones are legal and take no brains, and all the known specious ones will get you into trouble.
Twitter and Facebook are both designed around the idea of one-to-many missives.
No, you have to opt-in to see the missives, and the other person opts-in or out at will. It's not a private message, but it's also not nearly as broadcasty as RSS, and it's a 2-way conversation, just one that other people can listen in on. RSS is between a high-bandwidth newspaper and a low-bandwidth radio or TV system. It lacks personalization entirely, and that limits the information it can communicate (there's a lot of meta-information in personal conversations).
NB: The reason for Twitter's short messages is that it is designed to deliver the text via SMS, which has a 140-byte payload limit. (Albeit the online data retrieved by apps on smartphones over IP is much more rich). The decision was purely technical. There's no psychological, social, or even economic meaning behind it.
Apropos, I just this morning heard a commercial on the radio for a company that offers to ensure that positive results for searches for your company name appear in the upper results on Google, and negative information disappears into the nether pages.
This war is on.
RSS is a broadcast medium.
Twitter and facebook are direct person-to-person communications media. More like glorified email than glorified RSS. Email was core internet technology long before search existed.
And don't underestimate their import. Neither of these companies has really commercialized its operations. Neither is public. Recent news indicates facebook just started a revolution in the middle east. I'm pretty sure search, even instant search, never did that.
"super-conducting electron power" is a series of words that, when strung together, don't mean a fucking thing.
in fact, they're oxymoronic
electrons flowing in 0 resistance generate 0 power
We're currently facing a growing threat from advancing cruise-missile technology. The Chinese in particular have some that we're pretty sure we can't stop no matter what we do. Not a good thing when your ability to win a war depends on keeping your aircraft carriers secure so that you can project air superiority over a major theater and a fleet and your ground troops.