To attest to this, I've shadowed a variety of state legistlators, senators and lobbyists in the Oklahoma Capitol building for various civics programs. Once, I was with a legislator from a very rural part of the state, and we went to lunch with him and his cronies. Among the questions he had asked me were about the conditions of my highschool, if there were black boys on the basketball and football team, if whites and blacks were allowed to date, if people were doing 'the heroin' and 'the acid'... some of the most backwater questions to be asking in 2003. It is a very backwater place run by some backwater people.
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." Godwins' Law, as stated by Mike Godwin.
You're wrong....there was no discussion to grow longer and you cannot invoke the law to any effect at this time.
Because they are gaining stats in something that's not acceptable in the United States? Would a judge not side with the police getting stats on drug users to see where they congregate and what kinds of drugs they prefer?
Your analogy is flawed. The police and RIAA both have different profit incentives. The RIAA is charged by record labels to not only enforce copyrights but also get info about music, as well as help distribute said music. Police are essentially a protective force that is charted by citizens through social contract theory. One is interested in your safety, the other your wallet.
I've dealt with that mastic before, it a serious pain in the ass. If the water and detergent solution doesn't work, you can try chiseling it but there is a trick. Get a block of dry ice and some heavy rubber gloves because you need to literally freeze the section that you're chiseling to make it brittle enough to chip away. Good luck and YMMV
I'll second the canon XL1S camera. I've used it for some amateur work before and it gets the job done well. It is a very versatile camera, with the right training/experience its worthy for real studio quality work.
Asimov was always light on explainations of the science behind his fiction. That being said, the positronic brain was just a plot device. It was made of layers of platinum and irridium and was the part of a robot that gave it the spark of life.
Asimov started writing his robot stories sohrtly after positrons were discovered, and the best I can speculate is that he choose "positronic brain" to make it sound neat. People that kept up with modern science were in on the joke and casual sci-fi readers had a cool word.
too many pitfalls. What if you got a leak in the middle of the night? The idea isn't new; if it could work well enough more people would do it. Submerged computing is really really niche.
Then the President signs it into law. As soon as that happens a lawsuit will happen and likely make its way to the SC with great haste, considering there have been two federal courts already rule against the do not call list. As nice as a DNC list might be, it _does_ create two classes of speech, something the government cannot regulate.
Comeone guys, you haven't forgotten about Goergy Russel and her desire for an instant runoff voting recall election. I would use an optical scan system with paper ballots, the merits of which have been previously covered by other posters. I would also incorporate IRV into the voting, where people select preferences from a list of candidates.
Billions? All 1.1-1.3 billions of people. Anyhow I don't think a law or regulation like that simply would fly, because laws that Americans disregard are practically unenforcable.
Thats not the point. The original poster's point was that people will take stabs at a man who is far better off economically than they are regardless of how he gets the money.
If your are not the intended recipient, then you can't do anything with this letter. If you are the intended recipient, than you can do anything, take out a full page ad in the New York Times and publish it...read it very carefully.
Funny yet serious at the same time and I didn't know it...go figure. Yes, I was joking, but wouldn't be too terribly surprised if Microsoft tried to DRM digital cameras.
Ah. The power of assumimg things. It has a great way of making people blubbering idiots. I can draw swastikas on anything, and people instantly think it is nazi because it is a swastika, they look no deeper than the adopted symbol of a rather dead facist/socialist party of germany. People look without context. I was at an event at my state's (oklahoma) captial building, and someone thought there were swastikas on the wall in the molding on the ceiling. They first reaction was nazism, I had to explain to them that was part of the alternating pattern. The power that assuming things has over people is too good, and turns them into idiots.
Woah..slow down there. Digital film doesn't expire? You haven't heard about the latest Microsoft DRM scheme have you? You must have your pictures developed at their approved stores or you'll end up with a bunch of expired pictures.
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To attest to this, I've shadowed a variety of state legistlators, senators and lobbyists in the Oklahoma Capitol building for various civics programs. Once, I was with a legislator from a very rural part of the state, and we went to lunch with him and his cronies. Among the questions he had asked me were about the conditions of my highschool, if there were black boys on the basketball and football team, if whites and blacks were allowed to date, if people were doing 'the heroin' and 'the acid' ... some of the most backwater questions to be asking in 2003. It is a very backwater place run by some backwater people.
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." Godwins' Law, as stated by Mike Godwin.
You're wrong....there was no discussion to grow longer and you cannot invoke the law to any effect at this time.
Its called a bandstop filter. It is relatively simple way to cut out a specific freqeuncy in such a manner, before doing anything else to the signal.
Because they are gaining stats in something that's not acceptable in the United States? Would a judge not side with the police getting stats on drug users to see where they congregate and what kinds of drugs they prefer?
Your analogy is flawed.
The police and RIAA both have different profit incentives.
The RIAA is charged by record labels to not only enforce copyrights but also get info about music, as well as help distribute said music.
Police are essentially a protective force that is charted by citizens through social contract theory.
One is interested in your safety, the other your wallet.
Sweet 503 Service Unavailible Error; I never knew they could be so lifelike!
I've dealt with that mastic before, it a serious pain in the ass. If the water and detergent solution doesn't work, you can try chiseling it but there is a trick. Get a block of dry ice and some heavy rubber gloves because you need to literally freeze the section that you're chiseling to make it brittle enough to chip away. Good luck and YMMV
I'll second the canon XL1S camera. I've used it for some amateur work before and it gets the job done well. It is a very versatile camera, with the right training/experience its worthy for real studio quality work.
Asimov was always light on explainations of the science behind his fiction. That being said, the positronic brain was just a plot device. It was made of layers of platinum and irridium and was the part of a robot that gave it the spark of life.
Asimov started writing his robot stories sohrtly after positrons were discovered, and the best I can speculate is that he choose "positronic brain" to make it sound neat. People that kept up with modern science were in on the joke and casual sci-fi readers had a cool word.
too many pitfalls. What if you got a leak in the middle of the night? The idea isn't new; if it could work well enough more people would do it. Submerged computing is really really niche.
I'd rather have the reliability of a T-1 for my business than some business DSL account.
Were you in my Mad Science 101 class? The dude who managed to almost lose all his fingers from that nasty Hydroflouric Acid spill?
You mean you don't have a jiggawatt microwave gun?
That goes next on the list to a lime pit for all mad scientists.
Because you have a telephone pluged in does not mean you must recieve incomming calls.
They are the courts, not the legistlators. Calling the courts only increases bureacratic workload, calling your legistlators gets things changed.
Then the President signs it into law. As soon as that happens a lawsuit will happen and likely make its way to the SC with great haste, considering there have been two federal courts already rule against the do not call list. As nice as a DNC list might be, it _does_ create two classes of speech, something the government cannot regulate.
Comeone guys, you haven't forgotten about Goergy Russel and her desire for an instant runoff voting recall election. I would use an optical scan system with paper ballots, the merits of which have been previously covered by other posters. I would also incorporate IRV into the voting, where people select preferences from a list of candidates.
Billions? All 1.1-1.3 billions of people. Anyhow I don't think a law or regulation like that simply would fly, because laws that Americans disregard are practically unenforcable.
Thats not the point. The original poster's point was that people will take stabs at a man who is far better off economically than they are regardless of how he gets the money.
If your are not the intended recipient, then you can't do anything with this letter. If you are the intended recipient, than you can do anything, take out a full page ad in the New York Times and publish it...read it very carefully.
Funny yet serious at the same time and I didn't know it...go figure. Yes, I was joking, but wouldn't be too terribly surprised if Microsoft tried to DRM digital cameras.
Ah. The power of assumimg things. It has a great way of making people blubbering idiots. I can draw swastikas on anything, and people instantly think it is nazi because it is a swastika, they look no deeper than the adopted symbol of a rather dead facist/socialist party of germany. People look without context. I was at an event at my state's (oklahoma) captial building, and someone thought there were swastikas on the wall in the molding on the ceiling. They first reaction was nazism, I had to explain to them that was part of the alternating pattern. The power that assuming things has over people is too good, and turns them into idiots.
Woah..slow down there. Digital film doesn't expire? You haven't heard about the latest Microsoft DRM scheme have you? You must have your pictures developed at their approved stores or you'll end up with a bunch of expired pictures.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/ its like the Hitchhikers Guide, but for our real world.
www.howstuffworks.com has been stated, and is a staple of mine.
Half the state is the sea level.
Just fixing the typo.