Facts you find can't be copyrighted. Facts you create can be copyrighted. Just try writing a story about a basketball game for your newspaper without a letter in the paper's files from the NBA saying you can publish it.
Under USA law all information and data is in the public domain. Only creative expression is protected by copyright.
Try that with scores for NFL games. Some data is creative expression.
This data isn't, as the atlas was created from other people's facts.
So the problem here is that the TZ database admits it took the data from the atlas.
Personally I see it as fair use of facts that didn't belong to the plaintiff. You'd think their lawyer would see it that way and tell them not to waste their money.
I'm going to post that, despite a decade of Drupal book reviews being posted almost biweekly on/., I still have no earthly clue what Drupal does, how it fits into the web infrastructure, or why so many people should desire to give enough of a crap to write 2,000-word reviews that are basically expanded listings of the book's contents with a few naff comments thrown in.
Right now you can probably get a good rate, and make money on it even if you roll the fees and points into the loan. Even better is if you can shorten the term by more than a few years and end up with roughly the same monthly payment. That's worth tens of thousands over the life of the loan.
Of course, there's a good chance it will end up being sold back to BofA, but you'll be paying less.
No. They still have some of your money, and all it costs them is a few bytes' processing during their nightly updates.
Also, if you aren't using it, they can start charging dormant-account fees. They'll take out a few dollars a month, until you're below the fee limit, then it's a lot of dollars a month, until you're at $0, then they'll bill you for closing the account.
Banks are incredible fucking assholes when they think you are weak or inattentive.
Uranium ore comes out of the ground, where it has spent millennia leaching randomly into the water table. When it's spent, it goes back into the ground, vitrified so it can't leach into the surrounding ground.
Choosing 2007 wasn't cherrypicking. It was showing that during a time when the economy was tanking, so was Gold. It was refuting a basic claim of the gold hawkers. Cash was a better investment than gold when the economy was declining.
Well, for one, I don't live in a glass house. Glass has a high carbon footprint.
For another, I drive a hybrid. I'm far less of a polluter than you are. My next car will likely be all-electric, and my electricity is nuclear, which only pollutes if you let it, and I don't.
I also tend to hold in my farts, while you post yours to the net.
Gold was overbought at the start of the 07-08 crash, and then overbought at the end.
In between, it crashed along with stocks.
You were better off being in cash.
Since then, it's risen slightly better than stocks, but not enough to make up for the fact that it's a bloated commodity with no real value of its own except for electronic contacts and bling. If there's anything on this earth whose value is phony, it's gold's.
Inflation is an increase in prices. It can be caused by an unnatural increase in the supply of currency, but it can also be caused by an overall decrease in supply or by an overall increase in demand.
The price of gold, however, is not related to anything other than the demand for gold (there's way more supply than anyone can use for anything other than swimming in). Gold is no longer a monetary standard. Anyone telling you that it is is a liar. Anyone telling you that Gold retains its value during economic troubles is completely full of shit (see any graph of gold and/or silver prices during the 2007 crash and beyond; it was a less-worse investment than the average equity, but it still declined in value, which means CASH was your best investment during that period). Gold is the classic overspeculated commodity. Its real value is a small fraction of the greed value generated by hucksters. Invest in it at your peril.
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That'd suck. I already wake up too early.
Facts you find can't be copyrighted. Facts you create can be copyrighted. Just try writing a story about a basketball game for your newspaper without a letter in the paper's files from the NBA saying you can publish it.
Under USA law all information and data is in the public domain. Only creative expression is protected by copyright.
Try that with scores for NFL games. Some data is creative expression.
This data isn't, as the atlas was created from other people's facts.
So the problem here is that the TZ database admits it took the data from the atlas.
Personally I see it as fair use of facts that didn't belong to the plaintiff. You'd think their lawyer would see it that way and tell them not to waste their money.
The title of that makes me hungry, and I just ate lunch.
No. But you are the only one who still thinks that's funny. So you got that going for you.
What if you were UP $2e9?
^ THIS.
You don't know why sex is necessary, do you...
I wasn't going to post that Drupal sucks.
I'm going to post that, despite a decade of Drupal book reviews being posted almost biweekly on /., I still have no earthly clue what Drupal does, how it fits into the web infrastructure, or why so many people should desire to give enough of a crap to write 2,000-word reviews that are basically expanded listings of the book's contents with a few naff comments thrown in.
It's little to do with how they did it, and a lot to do with what it does for us.
Having stem-cell factories means having cell factories, organ factories, body factories, etc.
It's more like they turned an egg into an embryo. Ever had sex?* Turns out if you do that, it's really hard not to turn an egg into an embryo.
* - this must always be asked as a serious question on /.
re-fi.
Rates have tanked in the past few months.
Right now you can probably get a good rate, and make money on it even if you roll the fees and points into the loan. Even better is if you can shorten the term by more than a few years and end up with roughly the same monthly payment. That's worth tens of thousands over the life of the loan.
Of course, there's a good chance it will end up being sold back to BofA, but you'll be paying less.
No. They still have some of your money, and all it costs them is a few bytes' processing during their nightly updates.
Also, if you aren't using it, they can start charging dormant-account fees. They'll take out a few dollars a month, until you're below the fee limit, then it's a lot of dollars a month, until you're at $0, then they'll bill you for closing the account.
Banks are incredible fucking assholes when they think you are weak or inattentive.
Get an account that rebates your ATM fees no matter whose ATM you use.
Search online for banks that do that.
Most brokerages have checking accounts that do it, as do almost all online-oriented banks like http://www.ally.com/
Per account, per month?
If not, I hope it gets worse.
Uranium ore comes out of the ground, where it has spent millennia leaching randomly into the water table. When it's spent, it goes back into the ground, vitrified so it can't leach into the surrounding ground.
Nuclear power is un-pollution.
Now that we've decided to renovate the Isle of Kryptos, can we do something about shoring up Greece itself?
Having to enforce your patent is not "patent system still broken".
It will only be broken if Samsung's patent enforcement is not upheld after Apple's was.
Choosing 2007 wasn't cherrypicking. It was showing that during a time when the economy was tanking, so was Gold. It was refuting a basic claim of the gold hawkers. Cash was a better investment than gold when the economy was declining.
Well, for one, I don't live in a glass house. Glass has a high carbon footprint.
For another, I drive a hybrid. I'm far less of a polluter than you are. My next car will likely be all-electric, and my electricity is nuclear, which only pollutes if you let it, and I don't.
I also tend to hold in my farts, while you post yours to the net.
No, my electricity comes from a perfectly clean nuke plant. No pollution at all, as long as Yucca Mountain opens up before we have an earthquake.
Most failed currencies are worth more than face value now.
Why are you measuring from 2000? Why not measure from 1980 to 2000? Oh that's right, because you're cherrypicking your data to suit your conclusion.
http://goldprice.org/charts/history/gold_all_data_o_usd.png
See any similarities there between the 76-80 period and the 00-11 period?
Gold is down 15% in the past month, btw.
If you want to know what's causing the markets to roil, it's the hedgies unwinding their equities to pay margin calls on their gold futures.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=5y&s=GLD&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=&c=^GSPC&c=^IXIC&c=^DJI
Gold was overbought at the start of the 07-08 crash, and then overbought at the end.
In between, it crashed along with stocks.
You were better off being in cash.
Since then, it's risen slightly better than stocks, but not enough to make up for the fact that it's a bloated commodity with no real value of its own except for electronic contacts and bling. If there's anything on this earth whose value is phony, it's gold's.
Wrong.
Inflation is an increase in prices. It can be caused by an unnatural increase in the supply of currency, but it can also be caused by an overall decrease in supply or by an overall increase in demand.
The price of gold, however, is not related to anything other than the demand for gold (there's way more supply than anyone can use for anything other than swimming in). Gold is no longer a monetary standard. Anyone telling you that it is is a liar. Anyone telling you that Gold retains its value during economic troubles is completely full of shit (see any graph of gold and/or silver prices during the 2007 crash and beyond; it was a less-worse investment than the average equity, but it still declined in value, which means CASH was your best investment during that period). Gold is the classic overspeculated commodity. Its real value is a small fraction of the greed value generated by hucksters. Invest in it at your peril.