You realize that SCO has claimed that they own all UNIX, right? You know that they have also claimed to own BSD, right? And you know that IBM might know something you don't know right? Are you positive Apple didn't give SCO some money to help create FUD about Linux?
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There are advantages to having something flexible against your skin that will harden on impact. One of those is comfort. Hard plastic guards aren't comfortable and are very obvious (and more than likely hurt aerodynamics). In addition the forearms have muscles on them which if you use your muscles at all tend to flex and expand. Having a flexible soft guard on those body parts would be incredible.
It's simple people. ITunes is selling enough songs now and there are no real competitors that they have become aware that if it continues, Apple will have control of a significant percentage of the RIAA's revenue stream. Once ITunes hits 25% of the RIAA revenue Steve Jobs will be able to tell the RIAA what they are going to pay for the songs instead of the RIAA dictating it. This is exactly the reason they wanted to prevent Wallmart from controlling CD sales, for fear that they would then start dictating the prices. The RIAA has become very concious of how popular the ipod's are and how successful Itunes is. As a result they have to do anything they can to reduce Itunes share of the marketplace.
Personally I'm happy it's going this way, the DRM they wanted is now restricting purchases to one single store which is now moving towards a significant portion of the online sales. With how big of an ass Steve Job's is, once it reaches the point where he can dictate prices to the RIAA he will kill their margins in favor of apples margin. On top of that the success of Itunes could end up killing the record companies altogether as people post their own music on it without a record contract with an RIAA company.
Short answer, no. You basically cannot sue the Government or a Government agency directly. It has soverign immunity under the Constitution from most civil suits.
Although difficult but not impossible to sue the government directly it's a hell of a lot easier to sue a governmental employee for which the government will then step in and attempt to defend the person (which it has to do under it's standard employment agreement). Take a look through the most recent high profile governmental lawsuits and you will see they are actually suing Gonzolas, not the government.
This process is recreated by tertiary wastewater treatment plants where bacteria is added to sewer water to digest all the solids. The bacteria are then coagulated with a chemical such as alum and they are allowed to settle out of the water. This treated water is then disinfected by chlorine, chloramine, UV light, or some other method, and is then reused as irrigation water. It's actually clean enough to be used as drinking water, but safety concerns and common sense advise against this.
1. Bacteria aren't added, they are already there.
2. The process you just described is secondary treatment. Primary treatment is a grit seperator and a clarification tank to remove large solids. Secondary treatment is the addition of alum or other floculation chemicals that will bind suspended solids to create large particles that will settle out. Tertiary treatment involves extra treatment protocols to remove such things as phosphates and nitates.
3. The water from secondary treatment is cleaner than what went into the treatment plant to produce the potable water but it's not safe enough to drink without the addition of some heavy tertiary treatment systems to remove the chemicals in our wastewater that aren't good for humans and in particular infants.
All modern cars have an oil-water seperation system as water vapor is already generated from the combustion process. It can't handle a large volume of water, I'm not sure of it's limitations.
I would also like to add that in addition to the article being pure shit there have been a lot of people posting on here like it's a fact that cars don't burn all the gas you put in them, that in fact you spit these hydrocarbons out the tailpipe. This is pure unadultarted bullshit.
In my jurisidcation a car bulit since 1996 has to have hydrocarbon emissions of less than 25ppm. Even from the heavily polluting cars of the early 1970's the near maximum emissions out of a tailpipe were in the range of 270-300ppm of hydrocarbons. The two cars in my houshold generate less than 10ppm of hydrocarbons out of the tailpipe. In fact if it wasn't for the CO emission out of the tailpipe you could easily suck on the tailpipe without adverse problems. I wouldnt' be supprised with how efficient modern cars are at reducing emissions that with a SULEV or ULEV rated automobile if in fact you could run a hose from the tailpipe to inside the car and sit there for an hour or more before the CO overwhelmed you.
The fact is modern cars are just about at the physical limits of efficiency. These cars are sitting right at the theoretical maximum carnot effeciency and absolute minimum possible emissions. The challenge should be to raise the mpg, and just about the only way to do that is to reduce the weight being moved around. Either shrink the cars or build them all out of carbon fiber or other lightweight material. Anyone talking about anything else should be taken with a hefty dose of skepticism, especially when they start with a blatent lie that cars only burn 30% of their fuel.
My HP Deskjet 970 can do fairly close to 15-20 ppm in draft mode. And let me tell you, it throws that paper out of the printer so hard it doesn't land in the tray, it goes flying clear across the desk and onto the floor. Now what is the advantage of 32ppm if you have to pick the papers up from across the room and worry about the paper cutting a bystanders head off it's moving so fast?
HHS is directed by Michael Leavitt the former governer of Utah. It's no coincidence that one of Utah's major IT employeers got the contract with that in mind.
Concrete was the first material that was used in the construction of mass use roadways back in the early days of the automobile as asphalt hadn't been discovered yet.
Asphalt concrete has been in use on roadways since 625BC.
Theres a very good chance that the concrete roads you drive on today were laid back in the 40s and early 50s.
Early transportation acts did not allow for significant participation financially by the federal government so roadways constructed were mostly two lane rural arterials and urban streets and were often very limited. Intestate construction did not begin in force until the Interstate Highway Act of 1954 and the majority of the interstates that americans drive on were constructed during the 60's into the late 70's (the eastern seaboard saw some construction in the late 50's).
When it was discovered that Asphalt, a by-product of oil refining, could be mixed with a small sized aggregate *gravel* and basically smooshed ontop of any roughly prepared surface to create a roadway, well that was the end of using concrete. Most concrete projects were abandoned overnight and roads started being laid at a fraction of the price and at triple the speed.
Portland Cement Concrete is still used in many projects and is often selected for use on the interstates because it's long lifetime allows for user delay costs to be minimized. The lowest cost material is selected during design using amotorized costs and concrete benefits from a design life of 40 years with minimal maintenance costs. Asphalt cement on the other hand has a lifespan of 20 years with high maintenance costs so dollars saved at construction are often used repairing and rehabilitating older pavement in addition to the user costs associated with delay on the highways under construction. With the recent increases in price of oil the price of asphalt has seen a cooresponding increase and even small urban projects may soon see PCCP outpricing them.
The one caveat is that in Northern Areas it was discovered that asphalt roadways were not holding up as long as their concrete breathern. Many asphalt roads were having to be torn up and replaced every other year due to extensive freeze damage. Many cities went back to using concrete for their roads, until better techniques of preparing the roadbeds were discovered. Which were to compress and smooth the roadbed as much as possible, then lay a barrier layer of aggregate *gravel* on top of that to help with drainage and settling, then to finally slope the finished road from the middle to the edges for increased water run-off.
I just don't know how to respond to so many inaccuracies in one paragraph. Superelevation of the roadway has been in use since the first roads were constructed. Asphalt in use on major roadways has always required a substantially prepared subgrade and pavement section because the pavement is flexible and transmits its load directly to the underlying material. Concrete on the other hand usually requires less grade preperation because the pavement is rigid and acts to spread the load over a larger soil area reducing stress on the native material.
The PCCP (Portland Cement Concrete Pavements) constructed in the 60's have far exceeded their lifetime and would have in fact lasted longer had design loadings (from Semi-Trucks) not increased far beyond what was predicted in the 50s. Although nothing matches Asphalt for quietness and smoothness of ride Concrete provides a riding surface that under current construction methods will in all likelyhood last for 50 years with very minor maintenance.
So I have to keep the gun in a charger if I want to ever use it? No thanks.
I'm not really that interested in something that requires energy on an item I could potentially use for self-defense and sensors that operate on how the holder uses the gun would be highly suspectible to stress related malfunction.
Won't it be wonderful when the first officer can't return fire to the suspect because the stress of holding the gun on a suspect changes his holding "pattern" and disables the gun?
Don't they have maps to locate lines, sewers and such? Don't tell me they're digging blindly...
Most states have a requirement for a "call before you dig" service. This service will notify the local utility owners in your area to come out at mark their underground utilities in your area and if you follow the procedure it essentially eliminates the legal liability of breaking the utility if you dig and hit it when it wasn't marked.
The problem is that a LOT of utilities in the US do NOT have good "as-builts". See in construction things are often built differently, or located in a differnt location due to a conflict the designer did not have knowledge of. These field changes are supposed to be cataloged and used to create "as-built" drawings that show the location of the utility as it was actually placed.
Now Verzion hires contractors to place lines, the contractor if it's following procedure has the utilties located and begins digging. If the Contractor then rips a gas line in half because the gas company didn't flag it the Contractor usually can't be held responsible. The same goes for other utilties.
Providing Verzion and their contractors are following the accepted construction practices and complying with the law the problem is not of their making or anything they can fix. The problem is the utilitiy owners that don't know where their lines are and instead of the dealing with the real problem the county halted the operation which is treating the symptom and not the problem.
There was an interesting Outer Limits episode that dealt with something you may not have considered. All our past weapons of destruction have been expensive and difficult to aquire or produce. What happens when Joe can build a weapon of mass destruction in his garage with common supplies he can buy at the hardware store?
In other words what happens when nano-tech is so prolific in society that any Joe consumer with the knowledge can create items that could destroy all of mankind? The inevitible march of technology is bringing the power of massive destruction to the people. Can the Human race survive if every Joe wacko could destroy the planet for whatever reason or cause he/she wanted to?
If I remember the CDC report correctly the only doctors and nurses that got the disease got it from handling patients with unsanitary measures. As soon as the CDC arrived and brought the 50tons of medical supplies with them the outbreak was contained. Availability of gloves, masks and disposable needles and other sanitary medical supplies elimated new cases in something like 3 days. Somewhere out there is a copy of the CDC report on the outbreak, check it out.
We are talking about a lab where they analyze viri and microbes that are deemed Level 4. Ebola is considered Level 4 because it's lethal and incurrable. On the other hand based on research done on the Zimbabwe outbreak Ebola is almost only transmissible in unsanitary hospital conditions (such as sharing needles).
Experimentation with these Level 4 infectious diseases is to develop cures and/or vaccines. The specimens are contained in sealed media, in sealed cabinets, in pressurized rooms protected by airlocks and pressure flow. Given the complete failure of the pressure system and a catastropic release of the specimen out into the building (of which there is probably a better chance that the facility will be hit be a metor) it's still not going to sail miles away and depending on the specimen may not even infect any of the workers even if they were exposed. We are taking about microorganisms here, they dont' get up and walk out of the building. For the vast majority of infectious diseases without a vector to transmit the disease the other microorgasims present in every square inch of this planet will consume the infectious organism.
What clear statement of intent? The $echo article is no statement of intent: it is not a deposition; it is not presented over the signature of a corporate officer, nor on the letterhead of an attorney representing AT&T. It has exactly as much legal force as my trolling here does: none.
Although it is no legal document the $echo article is a statement of ATT's interpretation and intent for what the license covers. In any contract dispute the intentions of the parties are almost as key as the language of the contract, if that intent can be proven. This article provides proof of what ATT intended the contract to mean and is highly relevant to any contract dispute. If ATT and IBM meant something other than they wrote and it can be proved the Judge will rule based on the intent and not the language. The problem in these disputes is often intent is hard to prove, the $echo article lays out exactly what ATT intended, IBM simply has to agree that is how they interpreted it.
The social differences in particular the lack of workforce desire to take risks will prevent India from achieving any type of superpower status. Until there is major cultural change in India the country isn't suited to be anything more than an outsourcing hub for the world.
Bankruptcy does not get you out of legal settlements, just like it doesn't get you out of oweing the government money. But there isn't a debtors prison in this country and short of taking every dime you ever make over the table they can't do anything to you for not paying it other than sue you for more money that you won't pay.
The mormons also tried this, Brigham Young even tried to form his own nation and almost ended up at war with the US. Salt Lake City has the only fort in the nation, that I'm aware of, where the original cannons are aimed into the city.
If you believe that a retail price war wouldn't have put any pressure on wholesale prices you're smoking crack.
Crack smoking aside. If the actual retail monopolization had occured wholesale prices would have been forced down. The music industry desired to prevent major retailers like Target and Walmart from selling CD's at too low of prices. The reason is simple, these stores would have sold at loss leader prices to get people in the store and as a result would have put all independent music retailers out of business. After monopolizing the market between 2-5 of the major retailers, these retailers would have approached the music industry for lower prices at the threat of refusing to carry certain stock. This IS Walmarts operating procedure, and something the Music industry was and IS VERY afraid of.
Now whether or not wholesale prices would have fallen isn't explained by that, but you have to ask yourself something. Why would the music industry collude to fix prices to prevent stores like Walmart from controlling music sales if they didn't think they would have had to lower wholesale prices?
So you want to do 5 years of work in 1 year because you feel that you already know everything there is to know? How interesting....
A degree from an accredited university is more about learning how to write code. Things like learning advanced calculus so that you have a better understanding of math, physics so that you learn to solve complex problems and general education courses to broaden your horizons and make you a better person are part and parcel of getting a BS degree.
Stop looking for the easy way out, find a good program and relish in the education you will recieve. If you truely think you deserve some short of degree for life expenience petition the university and prepare for a little rejection.
But remember anyone that thinks they know everything has already proved they don't know anything.
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You realize that SCO has claimed that they own all UNIX, right? You know that they have also claimed to own BSD, right? And you know that IBM might know something you don't know right? Are you positive Apple didn't give SCO some money to help create FUD about Linux?
There are advantages to having something flexible against your skin that will harden on impact. One of those is comfort. Hard plastic guards aren't comfortable and are very obvious (and more than likely hurt aerodynamics). In addition the forearms have muscles on them which if you use your muscles at all tend to flex and expand. Having a flexible soft guard on those body parts would be incredible.
It's simple people. ITunes is selling enough songs now and there are no real competitors that they have become aware that if it continues, Apple will have control of a significant percentage of the RIAA's revenue stream. Once ITunes hits 25% of the RIAA revenue Steve Jobs will be able to tell the RIAA what they are going to pay for the songs instead of the RIAA dictating it. This is exactly the reason they wanted to prevent Wallmart from controlling CD sales, for fear that they would then start dictating the prices. The RIAA has become very concious of how popular the ipod's are and how successful Itunes is. As a result they have to do anything they can to reduce Itunes share of the marketplace.
Personally I'm happy it's going this way, the DRM they wanted is now restricting purchases to one single store which is now moving towards a significant portion of the online sales. With how big of an ass Steve Job's is, once it reaches the point where he can dictate prices to the RIAA he will kill their margins in favor of apples margin. On top of that the success of Itunes could end up killing the record companies altogether as people post their own music on it without a record contract with an RIAA company.
Short answer, no. You basically cannot sue the Government or a Government agency directly. It has soverign immunity under the Constitution from most civil suits.
Although difficult but not impossible to sue the government directly it's a hell of a lot easier to sue a governmental employee for which the government will then step in and attempt to defend the person (which it has to do under it's standard employment agreement). Take a look through the most recent high profile governmental lawsuits and you will see they are actually suing Gonzolas, not the government.
This process is recreated by tertiary wastewater treatment plants where bacteria is added to sewer water to digest all the solids. The bacteria are then coagulated with a chemical such as alum and they are allowed to settle out of the water. This treated water is then disinfected by chlorine, chloramine, UV light, or some other method, and is then reused as irrigation water. It's actually clean enough to be used as drinking water, but safety concerns and common sense advise against this.
1. Bacteria aren't added, they are already there.
2. The process you just described is secondary treatment. Primary treatment is a grit seperator and a clarification tank to remove large solids. Secondary treatment is the addition of alum or other floculation chemicals that will bind suspended solids to create large particles that will settle out. Tertiary treatment involves extra treatment protocols to remove such things as phosphates and nitates.
3. The water from secondary treatment is cleaner than what went into the treatment plant to produce the potable water but it's not safe enough to drink without the addition of some heavy tertiary treatment systems to remove the chemicals in our wastewater that aren't good for humans and in particular infants.
The little green pieces of paper won that battle a long time ago.
I think this plot classifies this film as a Lorenzo Llamas lead role.
We don't need your stinking metric system! The article uses imperial units, leave it at that.
All modern cars have an oil-water seperation system as water vapor is already generated from the combustion process. It can't handle a large volume of water, I'm not sure of it's limitations.
I would also like to add that in addition to the article being pure shit there have been a lot of people posting on here like it's a fact that cars don't burn all the gas you put in them, that in fact you spit these hydrocarbons out the tailpipe. This is pure unadultarted bullshit.
In my jurisidcation a car bulit since 1996 has to have hydrocarbon emissions of less than 25ppm. Even from the heavily polluting cars of the early 1970's the near maximum emissions out of a tailpipe were in the range of 270-300ppm of hydrocarbons. The two cars in my houshold generate less than 10ppm of hydrocarbons out of the tailpipe. In fact if it wasn't for the CO emission out of the tailpipe you could easily suck on the tailpipe without adverse problems. I wouldnt' be supprised with how efficient modern cars are at reducing emissions that with a SULEV or ULEV rated automobile if in fact you could run a hose from the tailpipe to inside the car and sit there for an hour or more before the CO overwhelmed you.
The fact is modern cars are just about at the physical limits of efficiency. These cars are sitting right at the theoretical maximum carnot effeciency and absolute minimum possible emissions. The challenge should be to raise the mpg, and just about the only way to do that is to reduce the weight being moved around. Either shrink the cars or build them all out of carbon fiber or other lightweight material. Anyone talking about anything else should be taken with a hefty dose of skepticism, especially when they start with a blatent lie that cars only burn 30% of their fuel.
My HP Deskjet 970 can do fairly close to 15-20 ppm in draft mode. And let me tell you, it throws that paper out of the printer so hard it doesn't land in the tray, it goes flying clear across the desk and onto the floor. Now what is the advantage of 32ppm if you have to pick the papers up from across the room and worry about the paper cutting a bystanders head off it's moving so fast?
HHS is directed by Michael Leavitt the former governer of Utah. It's no coincidence that one of Utah's major IT employeers got the contract with that in mind.
The engineers realized the diminishing returns of clock speed years ago, it took them this long to convince the PHB's.
Asphalt concrete has been in use on roadways since 625BC.
Early transportation acts did not allow for significant participation financially by the federal government so roadways constructed were mostly two lane rural arterials and urban streets and were often very limited. Intestate construction did not begin in force until the Interstate Highway Act of 1954 and the majority of the interstates that americans drive on were constructed during the 60's into the late 70's (the eastern seaboard saw some construction in the late 50's).
Portland Cement Concrete is still used in many projects and is often selected for use on the interstates because it's long lifetime allows for user delay costs to be minimized. The lowest cost material is selected during design using amotorized costs and concrete benefits from a design life of 40 years with minimal maintenance costs. Asphalt cement on the other hand has a lifespan of 20 years with high maintenance costs so dollars saved at construction are often used repairing and rehabilitating older pavement in addition to the user costs associated with delay on the highways under construction. With the recent increases in price of oil the price of asphalt has seen a cooresponding increase and even small urban projects may soon see PCCP outpricing them.
I just don't know how to respond to so many inaccuracies in one paragraph. Superelevation of the roadway has been in use since the first roads were constructed. Asphalt in use on major roadways has always required a substantially prepared subgrade and pavement section because the pavement is flexible and transmits its load directly to the underlying material. Concrete on the other hand usually requires less grade preperation because the pavement is rigid and acts to spread the load over a larger soil area reducing stress on the native material.
The PCCP (Portland Cement Concrete Pavements) constructed in the 60's have far exceeded their lifetime and would have in fact lasted longer had design loadings (from Semi-Trucks) not increased far beyond what was predicted in the 50s. Although nothing matches Asphalt for quietness and smoothness of ride Concrete provides a riding surface that under current construction methods will in all likelyhood last for 50 years with very minor maintenance.
So I have to keep the gun in a charger if I want to ever use it? No thanks.
I'm not really that interested in something that requires energy on an item I could potentially use for self-defense and sensors that operate on how the holder uses the gun would be highly suspectible to stress related malfunction.
Won't it be wonderful when the first officer can't return fire to the suspect because the stress of holding the gun on a suspect changes his holding "pattern" and disables the gun?
Don't they have maps to locate lines, sewers and such? Don't tell me they're digging blindly...
Most states have a requirement for a "call before you dig" service. This service will notify the local utility owners in your area to come out at mark their underground utilities in your area and if you follow the procedure it essentially eliminates the legal liability of breaking the utility if you dig and hit it when it wasn't marked.
The problem is that a LOT of utilities in the US do NOT have good "as-builts". See in construction things are often built differently, or located in a differnt location due to a conflict the designer did not have knowledge of. These field changes are supposed to be cataloged and used to create "as-built" drawings that show the location of the utility as it was actually placed.
Now Verzion hires contractors to place lines, the contractor if it's following procedure has the utilties located and begins digging. If the Contractor then rips a gas line in half because the gas company didn't flag it the Contractor usually can't be held responsible. The same goes for other utilties.
Providing Verzion and their contractors are following the accepted construction practices and complying with the law the problem is not of their making or anything they can fix. The problem is the utilitiy owners that don't know where their lines are and instead of the dealing with the real problem the county halted the operation which is treating the symptom and not the problem.
There was an interesting Outer Limits episode that dealt with something you may not have considered. All our past weapons of destruction have been expensive and difficult to aquire or produce. What happens when Joe can build a weapon of mass destruction in his garage with common supplies he can buy at the hardware store?
In other words what happens when nano-tech is so prolific in society that any Joe consumer with the knowledge can create items that could destroy all of mankind? The inevitible march of technology is bringing the power of massive destruction to the people. Can the Human race survive if every Joe wacko could destroy the planet for whatever reason or cause he/she wanted to?
If I remember the CDC report correctly the only doctors and nurses that got the disease got it from handling patients with unsanitary measures. As soon as the CDC arrived and brought the 50tons of medical supplies with them the outbreak was contained. Availability of gloves, masks and disposable needles and other sanitary medical supplies elimated new cases in something like 3 days. Somewhere out there is a copy of the CDC report on the outbreak, check it out.
We are talking about a lab where they analyze viri and microbes that are deemed Level 4. Ebola is considered Level 4 because it's lethal and incurrable. On the other hand based on research done on the Zimbabwe outbreak Ebola is almost only transmissible in unsanitary hospital conditions (such as sharing needles).
Experimentation with these Level 4 infectious diseases is to develop cures and/or vaccines. The specimens are contained in sealed media, in sealed cabinets, in pressurized rooms protected by airlocks and pressure flow. Given the complete failure of the pressure system and a catastropic release of the specimen out into the building (of which there is probably a better chance that the facility will be hit be a metor) it's still not going to sail miles away and depending on the specimen may not even infect any of the workers even if they were exposed. We are taking about microorganisms here, they dont' get up and walk out of the building. For the vast majority of infectious diseases without a vector to transmit the disease the other microorgasims present in every square inch of this planet will consume the infectious organism.
Just remember ff you dont' have a modern art sculpture of foil and coat hangers on your TV you aren't getting good reception!
What clear statement of intent? The $echo article is no statement of intent: it is not a deposition; it is not presented over the signature of a corporate officer, nor on the letterhead of an attorney representing AT&T. It has exactly as much legal force as my trolling here does: none.
Although it is no legal document the $echo article is a statement of ATT's interpretation and intent for what the license covers. In any contract dispute the intentions of the parties are almost as key as the language of the contract, if that intent can be proven. This article provides proof of what ATT intended the contract to mean and is highly relevant to any contract dispute. If ATT and IBM meant something other than they wrote and it can be proved the Judge will rule based on the intent and not the language. The problem in these disputes is often intent is hard to prove, the $echo article lays out exactly what ATT intended, IBM simply has to agree that is how they interpreted it.
The social differences in particular the lack of workforce desire to take risks will prevent India from achieving any type of superpower status. Until there is major cultural change in India the country isn't suited to be anything more than an outsourcing hub for the world.
Bankruptcy does not get you out of legal settlements, just like it doesn't get you out of oweing the government money. But there isn't a debtors prison in this country and short of taking every dime you ever make over the table they can't do anything to you for not paying it other than sue you for more money that you won't pay.
The mormons also tried this, Brigham Young even tried to form his own nation and almost ended up at war with the US. Salt Lake City has the only fort in the nation, that I'm aware of, where the original cannons are aimed into the city.
If you believe that a retail price war wouldn't have put any pressure on wholesale prices you're smoking crack.
Crack smoking aside. If the actual retail monopolization had occured wholesale prices would have been forced down. The music industry desired to prevent major retailers like Target and Walmart from selling CD's at too low of prices. The reason is simple, these stores would have sold at loss leader prices to get people in the store and as a result would have put all independent music retailers out of business. After monopolizing the market between 2-5 of the major retailers, these retailers would have approached the music industry for lower prices at the threat of refusing to carry certain stock. This IS Walmarts operating procedure, and something the Music industry was and IS VERY afraid of.
Now whether or not wholesale prices would have fallen isn't explained by that, but you have to ask yourself something. Why would the music industry collude to fix prices to prevent stores like Walmart from controlling music sales if they didn't think they would have had to lower wholesale prices?
So you want to do 5 years of work in 1 year because you feel that you already know everything there is to know? How interesting....
A degree from an accredited university is more about learning how to write code. Things like learning advanced calculus so that you have a better understanding of math, physics so that you learn to solve complex problems and general education courses to broaden your horizons and make you a better person are part and parcel of getting a BS degree.
Stop looking for the easy way out, find a good program and relish in the education you will recieve. If you truely think you deserve some short of degree for life expenience petition the university and prepare for a little rejection.
But remember anyone that thinks they know everything has already proved they don't know anything.