I propose a year with 13 months of exactly 4 weeks plus the odd intercalary day. The year would start on the spring equinox, southern hemisphere (its our turn).
The advantage of my plan is that the thirteenth month would have no rent, interest or taxes payable.
There is one turkey who sends a picture of a guy spreading the cheeks of his ass to posters at a migraine forum (http://s-2000.com/bam/). This turkey continually creates new logins and sends the same picture over and over.
I guess he's just an a**hole!
Unfortunately the administrator seems to be on stress leave.
The spammers also send 100 junk mail per day to an email address of mine which has been rendered unusable.
Personally I think it is not regarded seriously enough as a criminal offence.
Sounds fair, when you consider the actual costs of production and the real return from a cd, the online drm versions are a total rip off. Also the internet provides opportunities for scale. Do the manufacturers of ipods etc expect their customers to pay drm prices for 10,000 songs? I prefer the Russian site because I am paying but getting it at a fair price.
Its fairly obvious that the solar wind, not sunlight would be propelling this object in the inner solar system. The solar wind is made up of ions expelled by the Sun
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast31jan_1.htm
There is a deeper evil in US corporate behaviour that needs to be stopped. A small shoe company in Australia making generic sheep skin boots was taken over and first thing the US owners did is try to stop all others from making this style of boot, and only buy their expensive variety.
See article for the "microsoft of shoes" http://bluemountains.yourguide.com.au/deta il.asp?c lass=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&s tory_id=282021&y=2004&m=1
Using bogus patents for Monopoly.
This is the flip side to vigorous corporations or valid protection of genuine creativity.
Hey, we have taxation without representation, America is asserting global control, we just get to watch from the stands. It would help if more Americans were less wrapt up in themselves and could relate one to one with the rest of the world.
However I agree that in this case Dow Jones wrote an article about Gutnick's activities in the US market, therefore it was aimed at a US audience and he should sue there.
Although I wouldn't mind a computer controlled setup with ccd, I think many people who buy the 8" computer driven models would not use them as 1) it is not really good enough aperture, you want 10" or more 2) you need to do the hardyards and learn the night sky. For me finding an object takes around 20-30 minutes. I then get the satisfaction and knowledge that I found it. Once you do have a grounding in the sky then it has uses obviously for advanced amertures who are basically doing professional standard work. And yes light pollution is a problem as any one who has been looking at the sky will tell you.
This is a result of poorly designed public lighting which shines a large percentage into the sky making it glow brighter than many faint objects. Also the lighting is usually unshielded so that the light source causes the pupil to contract. Answer, even brighter lights. The only real reason for this is utility companies want to keep their generators going at night - and the public pays. It is a serious cultural issue and a greenhouse gas source. David.
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The problem for Microsoft is it is too heavy handed on owning the OS.
With Linux we all own it, provided we respect it and others.
Microsoft is a phenomenon of the consumer society, it is adequate enough, like a popular brand of hamburgers, but is it cuisine?
Some good comes from the process, but this goodness is a reaction to it, not caused by it.
This company still wants to own everything, can it reform? can it work with others and play fairly?
It is in Microsoft's hands. The courts may set heavy controls, but they won't breathe life into the company. Consumerism is passive, the company is dominant. Linux requires involvement, and to me that is the difference.
I have been reading a discussion of this in Australia we used to have wombats, burrowing marsupials related to koalas (about same size) as big as rhinoceros. This was in a Paleontology newsletter.
They said that climate change occured at the same time.
Areas that are now rain forest became open savanah, for instance, so loss of habitat is more likely it.
Personally I don't think the numbers on human beings on the planet at the time would have done it, and in Australia there are sites which were not occupied by Aboriginals until about 5000 years ago, such as Grampians in Victoria.
I think the idea of the "noble savage" is bull, but it smells of a campaign to invalidate native people, and their rights.
In the Australian Review of Books, August 1999, Louis Nowra wrote an interesting article on the "plot theory" of films. Standard plots have the opening full of action to get your attention, build the plot, develop a crisis - often ridiculous where the supposedly dead baddie rises and grabs the heroine - and finale where all is resolved.
But there are spins. I put it to you all, do such spins impose a theory of the mind on unsuspecting movie goers?
Nowra writes: "In 'The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters' (1988) Christopher Vogler has taken the stereotyped theories of Joseph Campbell and applied them to story structure. His idea of a story is a 12 part journey: a hero who begins in the ordinary world has a "Call to Adventure" and progresses through such things as "the Ordeal" "the Resurection" and finally "the Return with the Elixir"....Titanic (1997) a shocker of a screenplay, touched all the story bases of the hero's 12 part journey. George Lucas is a fan of Vogler's and his Star Wars characters plod through the hero's journey in such an obvious way that they resemble cardboard cut-outs."
Of course the audience usually does not see the plot structure, they are mesmerised by the flickering images.
I wrote an article about this in my local Astronomy newsletter 6 or so years ago. This asteroid stuff is just beaten up in an attempt to get funds. The medicos use this sort of blackmail, but I think in science we should have higher ethics. Science should enlighten and this is fear merchant stuff.
Most asteroids hit in the first 500 mil years, or 4 bil years ago. There is a slight risk, best solution is to promote mining of the asteroids belt, and let capitalism pay for astronomers to do their stuff without the blackmail for public money.
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I just downloaded it and its pretty cool. Sounds like another Microsoft scare campaign. First impressions, I like it.
Well, kill the golden goose, the return that a record comapny makes from a retail cd is at least a fifth of what they charge on line.
You idiots, set a reasonable fee, like 5 cents, and watch 200 million people download your song. Charge $1 and get nothing.
I use Allofmp3 because they do pay royalties, I do not condone illegal copyright violations.
Dave from Downunder
I propose a year with 13 months of exactly 4 weeks plus the odd intercalary day. The year would start on the spring equinox, southern hemisphere (its our turn).
The advantage of my plan is that the thirteenth month would have no rent, interest or taxes payable.
Vote for Dave, world dictator!
More power to Linus!
There is one turkey who sends a picture of a guy spreading the cheeks of his ass to posters at a migraine forum (http://s-2000.com/bam/). This turkey continually creates new logins and sends the same picture over and over.
I guess he's just an a**hole!
Unfortunately the administrator seems to be on stress leave.
The spammers also send 100 junk mail per day to an email address of mine which has been rendered unusable.
Personally I think it is not regarded seriously enough as a criminal offence.
Just don't call the capsule computer HAL9000
Sounds fair, when you consider the actual costs of production and the real return from a cd, the online drm versions are a total rip off.
Also the internet provides opportunities for scale.
Do the manufacturers of ipods etc expect their customers to pay drm prices for 10,000 songs?
I prefer the Russian site because I am paying but getting it at a fair price.
Perhaps they could add a patch that deletes windows operating systems and installs a new one.
Its fairly obvious that the solar wind, not sunlight would be propelling this object in the inner solar system. The solar wind is made up of ions expelled by the Sun http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast31jan_1 .htm
There is a deeper evil in US corporate behaviour that needs to be stopped. A small shoe company in Australia making generic sheep skin boots was taken over and first thing the US owners did is try to stop all others from making this style of boot, and only buy their expensive variety.
a il.asp?c lass=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&s tory_id=282021&y=2004&m=1
See article for the "microsoft of shoes"
http://bluemountains.yourguide.com.au/det
Using bogus patents for Monopoly.
This is the flip side to vigorous corporations or valid protection of genuine creativity.
Meteorites are quite pricey, just put it on ebay.
Put the house on ebay too.
I thought it was overhyped but then the story was sarcastic.
Its not a new concept but would be a nice toy.
Yeah, its because the Chinese are going into space.
But why just talk about Governments? As soon as industry finds some commercial reason real space exploration will start.
I think Mandrake ought to sell its distro for a week or two first before the iso download is available.
Mandrake 7.0 with Lothar soundconfig setup an isa sb16 card in my old pc in seconds, win 98 it won't work, I've tried all the drivers.
Hey, we have taxation without representation, America is asserting global control, we just get to watch from the stands. It would help if more Americans were less wrapt up in themselves and could relate one to one with the rest of the world.
However I agree that in this case Dow Jones wrote an article about Gutnick's activities in the US market, therefore it was aimed at a US audience and he should sue there.
Although I wouldn't mind a computer controlled setup with ccd, I think many people who buy the 8" computer driven models would not use them as 1) it is not really good enough aperture, you want 10" or more
2) you need to do the hardyards and learn the night sky. For me finding an object takes around 20-30 minutes. I then get the satisfaction and knowledge that I found it. Once you do have a grounding in the sky then it has uses obviously for advanced amertures who are basically doing professional standard work.
And yes light pollution is a problem as any one who has been looking at the sky will tell you.
This is a result of poorly designed public lighting which shines a large percentage into the sky making it glow brighter than many faint objects. Also the lighting is usually unshielded so that the light source causes the pupil to contract. Answer, even brighter lights. The only real reason for this is utility companies want to keep their generators going at night - and the public pays. It is a serious cultural issue and a greenhouse gas source.
David.
The problem for Microsoft is it is too heavy handed on owning the OS.
With Linux we all own it, provided we respect it and others.
Microsoft is a phenomenon of the consumer society, it is adequate enough, like a popular brand of hamburgers, but is it cuisine?
Some good comes from the process, but this goodness is a reaction to it, not caused by it.
This company still wants to own everything, can it reform? can it work with others and play fairly?
It is in Microsoft's hands. The courts may set heavy controls, but they won't breathe life into the company. Consumerism is passive, the company is dominant. Linux requires involvement, and to me that is the difference.
I like Opera but I find that it crashes.
Konqeror is almost there, impressive.
Nautilus is not bad as well.
-Thing that needs the most attention: plugins.
I have been reading a discussion of this in Australia we used to have wombats, burrowing marsupials related to koalas (about same size) as big as rhinoceros. This was in a Paleontology newsletter. They said that climate change occured at the same time. Areas that are now rain forest became open savanah, for instance, so loss of habitat is more likely it. Personally I don't think the numbers on human beings on the planet at the time would have done it, and in Australia there are sites which were not occupied by Aboriginals until about 5000 years ago, such as Grampians in Victoria. I think the idea of the "noble savage" is bull, but it smells of a campaign to invalidate native people, and their rights.
In the Australian Review of Books, August 1999, Louis Nowra wrote an interesting article on the "plot theory" of films. Standard plots have the opening full of action to get your attention, build the plot, develop a crisis - often ridiculous where the supposedly dead baddie rises and grabs the heroine - and finale where all is resolved. But there are spins. I put it to you all, do such spins impose a theory of the mind on unsuspecting movie goers? Nowra writes: "In 'The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters' (1988) Christopher Vogler has taken the stereotyped theories of Joseph Campbell and applied them to story structure. His idea of a story is a 12 part journey: a hero who begins in the ordinary world has a "Call to Adventure" and progresses through such things as "the Ordeal" "the Resurection" and finally "the Return with the Elixir". ...Titanic (1997) a shocker of a screenplay, touched all the story bases of the hero's 12 part journey. George Lucas is a fan of Vogler's and his Star Wars characters plod through the hero's journey in such an obvious way that they resemble cardboard cut-outs."
Of course the audience usually does not see the plot structure, they are mesmerised by the flickering images.
I wrote an article about this in my local Astronomy newsletter 6 or so years ago. This asteroid stuff is just beaten up in an attempt to get funds. The medicos use this sort of blackmail, but I think in science we should have higher ethics. Science should enlighten and this is fear merchant stuff. Most asteroids hit in the first 500 mil years, or 4 bil years ago. There is a slight risk, best solution is to promote mining of the asteroids belt, and let capitalism pay for astronomers to do their stuff without the blackmail for public money.