If it was stored in gas form at atmospheric pressure, it wouldn't be a problem (it would just be silly). The problem is that if it's stored in highly compressed or solid form,
In order to get it into solid form it has to be highly compressed, chilled or both. Other alternative ways of getting rid of it are to react with an alkali metal hydroxide or put it into an actual greenhouse.
Taxes should only be used for things that are better done by a government than a business (like defense, legislation, judicial, etc.).
Governments can also make a bad job of these. e.g. invading countries which are no possible military threat, passing legislation which isn't needed at all, etc.
Government is not optimal for all areas of life.
Nor is business for that matter. It's quite possible for privatisation or outsourcing of government functions to result in something utterly awful.
I presume that price includes software, created by government contractors at high price for a specific purpose,
That specific purpose being better known as "corporate welfare", having the software concerned actually perform a useful task may go against this purpose:)
Nobody ever attempted to clear a country of a race they didn't like by writing to them all and saying "Excuse me, terribly sorry but your skin's the wrong colour. Would you mind very much getting on the next plane and going back to wherever you came from? Thanks. Sorry to be such a trouble."
Probably if they did they'd find that most of those they wanted to get rid of couldn't find an ancestor who came from anyware else. It would be ironic if those advocating "ethnic cleansing" were themselves a more recent immigrant population than those they wanted to get rid of.
Daniel Pipes founded Campus Watch an organisation dedicated to making sure that Americans only get a rabidly pro-Israel view
As if any more help is needed with this, given that this is what US newspapers and TV "news" provide by default. Ironically Israeli media are less biased about the going on in Israel than those in the US.
in a McCarthyesque way, i.e. lists of those who disagree with his own fascist views.
This idea probably didn't come from McCarthy though. Given that other Zionist groups have been known to do exactly the same thing.
Anyone who thinks that Daniel Pipes is an "expert" on "terrorism" - or anything else, has had a neocon blowjob affect their brain function.
He could be an "expert on" by either being one or being closely connected with some.
He invented and promulgates the cognitive dissonance that is summarised by the phrase: "Islamofascism."
He may or may not have invented the term.
He's a real Israeli, dual-loyalist and "newspeak" maker of the first (lowest) rank.
In which case he probably isn't a "dual-loyalist" instead having loyalty to only one place. Which isn't the US, BTW.
Pipes was teh founder of The Middle East Forum - purportedly a 'think-tank', really a propaganda and media policing agent for radical Israeli military/political objectives.
This wouldn't be the first example of a propaganda source pretending to be something else entirely. A country like Israel, which was founded by terrorists and where terrorism still appears to be a common route to political office, probably feels they can't have enough propaganda too.
I'd agree with you there. It's become way too fashionable for us all to throw the TERRIST tag at groups that we don't like.
There's also a lot of effort put into trying to ensure that certain individuals are not called "terrorists". e.g. how often do you see anti-abortionists called "terrorists" in the (mainstream media) even when they carry out a bombing or murder/attempted murder.
Not only I totally agree with your "same yardstick" principle, I also propose following natural application of it: "any guy caught urinating in public should not be allowed to use his penis ever again."
What would you propose to do with women caught urinating in public?
Why is 5 years silly? It's silly to have the copyrights last so long that the work, when it falls into the public domain, is so obsolete that no one would ever use it, and that it may no longer be portable to anything modern, for a lack of people still having the appropriate skills, hardware, etc.
With current copyright terms the only people likely to be interested in software when it does become public domain would be more likely to be archaeologists than programmers.
I'm personally fine with his continuing to sell copies of his own work. Maybe life of the author + 10 years, renewable every 10 years?
The problem with this is that it makes the task of copyright libraries very difficult. Since the "clock" dosn't start until some arbitrary time. There's also the issue of why should anyone other than the original creator be able to renew.
I agree with the GGP, too. I'm so sick of the games software vendors are playing with licenses, EULAs, phoning home and other DRM, I find it much easier and more efficient to just steal the stuff.
This dosn't just happen with games or even just with "software". Effectivly what is happening is that various people are trying to turn copyright, which only applies to creation of copies and distribution of these to third parties, into something better called "use-right". These methods include claiming that ephermeral "copies" need permission and/or that copies which will never be distributed to third parties may be infringement. This action by Blizzard is just the latest development of something which has been going on for a while.
There are a surprising number of cases in my computing life where I've bought a legit license to software, but used the cracked version just because it doesn't fuck with me. In most cases, I don't have anything against the developer, so I don't want to steal from them, but I do not want to be fucked with and pay hundreds of dollars for the privilege.
Such "protected" software can also bite the supplier. Since a a substantial proportion of their support and development can end up being consumed by the "protection".
"Post-collision debris from Lunar creation might have persisted a little bit longer than originally thought in these crazy gravitational slots at a distance of r \approx R \sqrt[3]{\frac{M_2}{3 M_1}} which could be described as being such that the orbital period, corresponding to a circular orbit with this distance as radius around M2 in the absence of M1, is that of M2 around M1, divided by \sqrt{3}\approx 1.73...
Or even "At Earth-Luna L4 and L5". Most orbits are also too eliptical to be approximated as circles.
But this leads to questions such as, what's going to happen to Jupiter's moons? How old are they, how long have they been in orbit? Why hasn't gravity wreaked havoc with them?
It does. Io's volcanos are powered by gravitational effects. Mostly in interaction with the other large Jovian moons, IIRC
Doesn't sound too far fetched since Earth has Cruithne sharing it's orbit, which in it's own way is a "second moon".
Except that this object isn't sharing the Earth's obit at all. It's in a solar orbit which is similar to the Earth's. In order to call something a "moon" of the Earth it would need to be orbiting the Earth.
But overall, I think this move is stupid. First mistake was made when the lawyer sent out the DMCA notice when none should have been sent. The second (as far as CoreCodec goes) was made when the CEO went public with the information.
It's only stupid if CoreCodec continues to use that lawyer (possibly the same legal firm).
The lawyer sends out the takedown notice under the pain of perjury - so b admitting that the notice was a lie, the lawyer can now be tried in court.
Your description of Indian society would apply just as well to any society if you swap the names around a bit. Do you seriously believe that the children of America's super-rich do not receive the best education followed by the best opportunities?
Quite possibly they may not get (or even need) the former. They may well get plenty of good opportunities through the old boys/girls network regardless of education or qualifications.
Look at American boardrooms, and observe what proportion of people there came from low-income families. It is a very small number. It is, I grant, certainly higher than in India -- but I doubt the gap is anything like as wide as America's propogandists would like you to believe, for all their fairy tales about the "American dream".
You also have plenty of people putting out propaganda to the effect that racism and sexism is more relevent that social class here.
Now, do you think the US will tolerate or even trust a middle east consortium to act as a device to ensure no weapon capable uranium is produced?
Especially given that the one country in the region which actually does have nuclear weapons (and hostile intent towards just about everyone) can rely on the unconditional support of the US. About the only thing that could change these countries wanting nuclear weapons would be for the US to change its stance on Israel, which just isn't likely to happen. I wouldn't even be possible for any/all of the other four of the "big 5" to declare Israel a "rogue state" unless the US were to change from "active support" to "indifference". In the case of Iran they can credibly be claim to be under threat from every nuclear armed country, except France.
So yeah, the Mullahs are bad, but most of the blame for them even being in power lies with the US. Imagine... we could have had that "model of democracy" in the Middle East had we supported Mosadegh rather than deposing him. Sure, just like any other sovereign country, there would be no guarantee that they would have "done our will", but frankly, I would rather have had Iran as a democratic ally rather than a theocratic enemy.
Indeed had the US, at that time, applied George Washington's advice of avoiding foreign entanglements there probably wouldn't have been a problem. However the in recent history the US has been just about anything but "non-interventionist" especially when it comes to the "Middle East".
This is also coming from the worthless group that lobbied to allow the federal government to extort money from the states if they didn't raise the drinking age.
Is there any evidence that doing this is actually effective at reducing the number of drunk drivers? There are plenty of other things which could be tried. Including raising the driving age (and seeing if there is any effect depending on relative drinking and driving ages). There is also harsher punishment of people caught driving whilst drunk. (Including charging them with murder if a bystander is killed.)
The whole point of video games is to do things that you couldn't possibly do in real life safely.
Including things which are criminal. Indeed the title of the game (and the three which came before it) is a criminal act.
In my opinion, MADD should be ENCOURAGING people to drive drunk in GTA IV, using this logic:
"See how much harder and more dangerous it is to drive drunk? And this is just in a video game...imagine what would happen if you did it in real life."
There is no way for the game to tell if a player is drunk (or otherwise intoxicated) all the game can do is make the controls work less well. Just as happened in Nethack with a "potion of booze" 20 years ago.
There's also the factor that if someone is "driving drunk" in a game they are not driving anything in the real world. Even without the addition of drugs motor vehicles are the most dangerous machines most people are able to get their hands on.
Your friend is gone; he no longer owns anything. His worldly possessions, including his accounts and passwords, belong to those he left behind. They have asked you to open the locked box, open it.
They probably actually belong to his "estate". If he made a will then it will explicitally list who the executors of his will are. Executors of a will have something similar to "power of attorney" when it comes to distributing a person's estate. Even if someone died "intestate" their estate still exists, where things can get complex is that the act of getting married can perform the equivalent of writing a will, where the terms an conditions depend in exactly where and when the marriage took place. Even if you are an executor (or working for an executor) AFAIK you can't investigate a death. But if your intent is to locate part of their estate then it's ok if you happen to stumble upon information relating to how someone died, though it might be a good idea to share any such information with the police and/or corronor.
No kidding, when will the government stop posing it's morals on it's own people?
If they were actually doing this it might be an improvement. It would be nice if, just once, people in government would either practice what they preach or even preach what they practice.
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If it was stored in gas form at atmospheric pressure, it wouldn't be a problem (it would just be silly). The problem is that if it's stored in highly compressed or solid form,
In order to get it into solid form it has to be highly compressed, chilled or both.
Other alternative ways of getting rid of it are to react with an alkali metal hydroxide or put it into an actual greenhouse.
Taxes should only be used for things that are better done by a government than a business (like defense, legislation, judicial, etc.).
Governments can also make a bad job of these. e.g. invading countries which are no possible military threat, passing legislation which isn't needed at all, etc.
Government is not optimal for all areas of life.
Nor is business for that matter. It's quite possible for privatisation or outsourcing of government functions to result in something utterly awful.
I presume that price includes software, created by government contractors at high price for a specific purpose,
:)
That specific purpose being better known as "corporate welfare", having the software concerned actually perform a useful task may go against this purpose
Nobody ever attempted to clear a country of a race they didn't like by writing to them all and saying "Excuse me, terribly sorry but your skin's the wrong colour. Would you mind very much getting on the next plane and going back to wherever you came from? Thanks. Sorry to be such a trouble."
Probably if they did they'd find that most of those they wanted to get rid of couldn't find an ancestor who came from anyware else.
It would be ironic if those advocating "ethnic cleansing" were themselves a more recent immigrant population than those they wanted to get rid of.
Daniel Pipes founded Campus Watch an organisation dedicated to making sure that Americans only get a rabidly pro-Israel view
As if any more help is needed with this, given that this is what US newspapers and TV "news" provide by default. Ironically Israeli media are less biased about the going on in Israel than those in the US.
in a McCarthyesque way, i.e. lists of those who disagree with his own fascist views.
This idea probably didn't come from McCarthy though. Given that other Zionist groups have been known to do exactly the same thing.
Anyone who thinks that Daniel Pipes is an "expert" on "terrorism" - or anything else, has had a neocon blowjob affect their brain function.
He could be an "expert on" by either being one or being closely connected with some.
He invented and promulgates the cognitive dissonance that is summarised by the phrase: "Islamofascism."
He may or may not have invented the term.
He's a real Israeli, dual-loyalist and "newspeak" maker of the first (lowest) rank.
In which case he probably isn't a "dual-loyalist" instead having loyalty to only one place. Which isn't the US, BTW.
Pipes was teh founder of The Middle East Forum - purportedly a 'think-tank', really a propaganda and media policing agent for radical Israeli military/political objectives.
This wouldn't be the first example of a propaganda source pretending to be something else entirely. A country like Israel, which was founded by terrorists and where terrorism still appears to be a common route to political office, probably feels they can't have enough propaganda too.
I'd agree with you there. It's become way too fashionable for us all to throw the TERRIST tag at groups that we don't like.
There's also a lot of effort put into trying to ensure that certain individuals are not called "terrorists". e.g. how often do you see anti-abortionists called "terrorists" in the (mainstream media) even when they carry out a bombing or murder/attempted murder.
The telephone company knows where the call came from, even if the caller-id data is bogus.
In which case the best option would probably be to either cause the call to fail or route it to the appropriate branch of law enforcement.
Not only I totally agree with your "same yardstick" principle, I also propose following natural application of it: "any guy caught urinating in public should not be allowed to use his penis ever again."
What would you propose to do with women caught urinating in public?
Why is 5 years silly? It's silly to have the copyrights last so long that the work, when it falls into the public domain, is so obsolete that no one would ever use it, and that it may no longer be portable to anything modern, for a lack of people still having the appropriate skills, hardware, etc.
With current copyright terms the only people likely to be interested in software when it does become public domain would be more likely to be archaeologists than programmers.
I'm personally fine with his continuing to sell copies of his own work. Maybe life of the author + 10 years, renewable every 10 years?
The problem with this is that it makes the task of copyright libraries very difficult. Since the "clock" dosn't start until some arbitrary time. There's also the issue of why should anyone other than the original creator be able to renew.
I agree with the GGP, too. I'm so sick of the games software vendors are playing with licenses, EULAs, phoning home and other DRM, I find it much easier and more efficient to just steal the stuff.
This dosn't just happen with games or even just with "software". Effectivly what is happening is that various people are trying to turn copyright, which only applies to creation of copies and distribution of these to third parties, into something better called "use-right". These methods include claiming that ephermeral "copies" need permission and/or that copies which will never be distributed to third parties may be infringement. This action by Blizzard is just the latest development of something which has been going on for a while.
There are a surprising number of cases in my computing life where I've bought a legit license to software, but used the cracked version just because it doesn't fuck with me. In most cases, I don't have anything against the developer, so I don't want to steal from them, but I do not want to be fucked with and pay hundreds of dollars for the privilege.
Such "protected" software can also bite the supplier. Since a a substantial proportion of their support and development can end up being consumed by the "protection".
"Post-collision debris from Lunar creation might have persisted a little bit longer than originally thought in these crazy gravitational slots at a distance of r \approx R \sqrt[3]{\frac{M_2}{3 M_1}} which could be described as being such that the orbital period, corresponding to a circular orbit with this distance as radius around M2 in the absence of M1, is that of M2 around M1, divided by \sqrt{3}\approx 1.73...
Or even "At Earth-Luna L4 and L5". Most orbits are also too eliptical to be approximated as circles.
But this leads to questions such as, what's going to happen to Jupiter's moons? How old are they, how long have they been in orbit? Why hasn't gravity wreaked havoc with them?
It does. Io's volcanos are powered by gravitational effects. Mostly in interaction with the other large Jovian moons, IIRC
Doesn't sound too far fetched since Earth has Cruithne sharing it's orbit, which in it's own way is a "second moon".
Except that this object isn't sharing the Earth's obit at all. It's in a solar orbit which is similar to the Earth's. In order to call something a "moon" of the Earth it would need to be orbiting the Earth.
But overall, I think this move is stupid. First mistake was made when the lawyer sent out the DMCA notice when none should have been sent. The second (as far as CoreCodec goes) was made when the CEO went public with the information.
It's only stupid if CoreCodec continues to use that lawyer (possibly the same legal firm).
The lawyer sends out the takedown notice under the pain of perjury - so b admitting that the notice was a lie, the lawyer can now be tried in court.
Has that ever actually happened?
Your description of Indian society would apply just as well to any society if you swap the names around a bit. Do you seriously believe that the children of America's super-rich do not receive the best education followed by the best opportunities?
Quite possibly they may not get (or even need) the former. They may well get plenty of good opportunities through the old boys/girls network regardless of education or qualifications.
Look at American boardrooms, and observe what proportion of people there came from low-income families. It is a very small number. It is, I grant, certainly higher than in India -- but I doubt the gap is anything like as wide as America's propogandists would like you to believe, for all their fairy tales about the "American dream".
You also have plenty of people putting out propaganda to the effect that racism and sexism is more relevent that social class here.
Now, do you think the US will tolerate or even trust a middle east consortium to act as a device to ensure no weapon capable uranium is produced?
Especially given that the one country in the region which actually does have nuclear weapons (and hostile intent towards just about everyone) can rely on the unconditional support of the US.
About the only thing that could change these countries wanting nuclear weapons would be for the US to change its stance on Israel, which just isn't likely to happen. I wouldn't even be possible for any/all of the other four of the "big 5" to declare Israel a "rogue state" unless the US were to change from "active support" to "indifference".
In the case of Iran they can credibly be claim to be under threat from every nuclear armed country, except France.
So yeah, the Mullahs are bad, but most of the blame for them even being in power lies with the US. Imagine... we could have had that "model of democracy" in the Middle East had we supported Mosadegh rather than deposing him. Sure, just like any other sovereign country, there would be no guarantee that they would have "done our will", but frankly, I would rather have had Iran as a democratic ally rather than a theocratic enemy.
Indeed had the US, at that time, applied George Washington's advice of avoiding foreign entanglements there probably wouldn't have been a problem. However the in recent history the US has been just about anything but "non-interventionist" especially when it comes to the "Middle East".
People have asked why Iran, a country with so much oil, needs nuclear power.
The answer may be as simple as if they can't sell whatever oil (and methane) they use to generate electricity.
The downside (for the spammer) is that the moment they move to their own equipment, filtering them becomes infinitely simpler.
That comes back to "freedom of speech". Just because you are free to say something does not imply that anyone is under any obligation to listen.
This is also coming from the worthless group that lobbied to allow the federal government to extort money from the states if they didn't raise the drinking age.
Is there any evidence that doing this is actually effective at reducing the number of drunk drivers? There are plenty of other things which could be tried. Including raising the driving age (and seeing if there is any effect depending on relative drinking and driving ages). There is also harsher punishment of people caught driving whilst drunk. (Including charging them with murder if a bystander is killed.)
The whole point of video games is to do things that you couldn't possibly do in real life safely.
Including things which are criminal. Indeed the title of the game (and the three which came before it) is a criminal act.
In my opinion, MADD should be ENCOURAGING people to drive drunk in GTA IV, using this logic:
"See how much harder and more dangerous it is to drive drunk? And this is just in a video game...imagine what would happen if you did it in real life."
There is no way for the game to tell if a player is drunk (or otherwise intoxicated) all the game can do is make the controls work less well. Just as happened in Nethack with a "potion of booze" 20 years ago.
There's also the factor that if someone is "driving drunk" in a game they are not driving anything in the real world. Even without the addition of drugs motor vehicles are the most dangerous machines most people are able to get their hands on.
Your friend is gone; he no longer owns anything. His worldly possessions, including his accounts and passwords, belong to those he left behind. They have asked you to open the locked box, open it.
They probably actually belong to his "estate". If he made a will then it will explicitally list who the executors of his will are. Executors of a will have something similar to "power of attorney" when it comes to distributing a person's estate. Even if someone died "intestate" their estate still exists, where things can get complex is that the act of getting married can perform the equivalent of writing a will, where the terms an conditions depend in exactly where and when the marriage took place.
Even if you are an executor (or working for an executor) AFAIK you can't investigate a death. But if your intent is to locate part of their estate then it's ok if you happen to stumble upon information relating to how someone died, though it might be a good idea to share any such information with the police and/or corronor.
No kidding, when will the government stop posing it's morals on it's own people?
If they were actually doing this it might be an improvement. It would be nice if, just once, people in government would either practice what they preach or even preach what they practice.