But how much will is cost to license both formats? For that matter, it wouldn't surprise me if the format licenses disallowed it from being bundle with the other format. We'll see though.
Yes? No? Maybe? Does it really matter? Are judges bound by the constitution anyway? I think this case will hinge more on whether or not the judge has a bad bologna sandwich for lunch that day.
"Generally local governments run by the left are wasteful and mismanaged, local governments on the right are.. well wasteful, mismanaged (though by a slightly less degree), and overly authoritarian."
That is a great observation. I have often though that the only difference between the left and the right is that the left is less efficient and focused when trying to line the pockets of the rich. The right is a bit more direct. The mommy state vs the daddy state. The left tries to take care of the people and the right tries to protect the people but both sides end up giving us a bigger gov't. What happened to the small gov't republicans? It's why I am not a republican any more.
I will say this on the original topic though... I would support an energy tax with a concentration on polluting fuels. Especially if it was used to replace the income tax. I want less gov't in every way but protecting the environment it a legitimate concern. They just need to be really damn careful how they try to do that.
And yet, everything the feds touch turns to shit. Regardless of who is in power the gov't will bow to the lobbies and big oil has a big lobby. Hydrogen will happen, but it will happen when big oil figures out how to make lots of money off of it.
Is it possible that women simply don't like computer science as much as men? What about the possibility that what ever it is that seems to draw the geeky or otherwise more socially challenged among us to this field is not as common among women. I am not saying that there aren't geeky, socially challenged woman out there. One of my daughters is a geek girl and is looking to enter engineering as a freshman in a year next year. I am just saying that less woman seem to be so challenged. I would also guess that science minded woman are more likely to enter a profession where they can directly help people such as being a doctor.
Because you won't buy their music they are losing those sales. You must buy their music. It's the patriotic thing to do. Think about all the little children in Antartica who have nothing to listen to. I hope you feel bad about yourself now.
Why should they go to the trouble and expense. It's not like we are very hard to spot us in a crowd. You just have to pick out the poorly dressed, fat white couple yelling "Hello, anyone speak English?"
Much of the beef industry has actually worked pretty hard to keep Canadian, Mexican and South American beef out of the US market. I don't know about the retail food industry but the beef industry is busting its ass to trace all beef back to its origin. Americans tend to want meat that is American. The US cattle industry wants consumers to have this information because they stand to win big on this point. Besides, the ruminant feed ban doesn't apply outside the US. That's why the beef industry made such a big deal out of the case in Washington being canadian cow.
I don't know why this bill failed in Congress and I don't know what's going to have to happen with the retail food industry but beef is going to be traced. The US cattle industry is very big, very rich and has everything to loose.
The industry is already ramping up state level pilot tracing projects and a non-manditory national system is coming on line this next week.
Almost all cattle is tagged. The few that arn't are usually on small ranches where the owner can tell his 8 head apart just by sight. In those cases branding is still used keep things sorted out if one jumps a fence. Yes, a 1 ton bull can jump a 5 foot fence when it wants to get to the neighbor's heifer.
The problem is that this tag information is usually only kept by the individual producers. Sometimes by state vets. The trick now is to pull all this information together at the state and national level. The goal is to allow the gov't to be able to be able to traceback all the animals that have been exposed to an infected animal in less than 48 hours. Right now things can be tracked down but not very quickly.
You are exactly right on the food supply chain comment. A typical animal will come from a Cow-Cafe producer. Go to an auction barn, then a feed lot and finally to a packing plant. Not to mention all the layers in the retail supply chain. Each layer currently has its own way of keeping track of things. Part of the vision is for a consumer to be able to buy a steak from the grocery, take a control number of the side of the package, put it in a web site and see where your steak came from and where it has been.
You are also exactly right on the benefits to producers. The hope is that producers will want to track their cattle closely so they can prove that their animals never came into contact with infected animals. And if your animals have been exposed you don't want to have to deal with the liability. Better to destroy them and collect insurance and start over next year. At first animals with a completely traceable history will be sold for a premium. Eventually you won't be able to sell untraceable animals.
Mad cow is the hot button topic. It is definitly driving everyone to get this done quickly. In reality, it is astronomically unlikely for mad cow to get into our food supply. The FDA as banned the use of mammalian protein in ruminant animal feed since 1997 and even then it was no longer common practice in the US industry. Virtually all beef cattle is slaughtered by age 3, well past 1997. It is expensive to feed cattle so you send it do the packer as soon as it reaches full weight. You are only wasting money after that. The only domestic mad cow cases have been with older dairy cattle and they typically get made into dog food if anything at all. Mad cow doesn't get passed through the milk and even the beef it self is not infected. It is only in the brain, spine and sometimes in the tongue. Beef is now slaughtered in such a way that the spine and head are extracted whole. You really only take a chance if you like to eat these parts and few places will even sell it anymore.
Here is the link to USDA's National Animal Id System information site.
You are right in one way though. The US gov't won't be doing this. They are mandating that it be done but leaving the implementation to industry. Now I know what your thinking. What incentive will the industry have to do a better job. In this case, a lot. Sick customers don't come back and they take a lot of other customers with them.
USDA and NCBA are already all over this like a rash. Several states are a ways ahead of the Feds but a national system is literally month away from startup. Texas started a pilot beef tracking program a few weeks ago. Beef is already tracked to a great degree simply because of the value of each head. The problem has been that the tracking information has never been gathered by the gov't into a single place.
McDonald's is actually doing one big thing to help fix the problem. They are using some of their weight in the market to force producers to verify the origin of the beef they use down to the county level. May not sound like much but providing an economic incentive seems to get things done much faster than the gov't simply passing a law.
I really just like my Blackberry for the thumb keyboard and the thumb scroll wheel. Ease of use is what RIM delivers. It's much easier to reply to emails with it than on a twelve key pad. That and unlimited email and internet access for $30/month.
I doubt they could get away with shutting down the gov't accounts just to get the point across but those gov't account will be shut off soon enough when RIM goes out of business entirely. I am betting they shutdown everything and file bankrupcy before the end of the week if they can't get a new stay. This just sucks. I love my Blackberry and I depend on it every day.
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Did he ask if he could use that name for the ant? Hmmmmm?
What about a private university? They make money off of tuition. What about a publisher of academic journals and books? Are doing it just to make the world a better place? So Google is trying to make money... That's the news flash?
Regardless of who thought of it first or who filed first, if two independant people come up the same idea, assuming neither is aware of the other's work, wouldn't that imply that the invention fails the "not obvious to and expert" test?
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But how much will is cost to license both formats? For that matter, it wouldn't surprise me if the format licenses disallowed it from being bundle with the other format. We'll see though.
Yes? No? Maybe? Does it really matter? Are judges bound by the constitution anyway? I think this case will hinge more on whether or not the judge has a bad bologna sandwich for lunch that day.
Next step: Close up shop, turn off lights.
"Generally local governments run by the left are wasteful and mismanaged, local governments on the right are .. well wasteful, mismanaged (though by a slightly less degree), and overly authoritarian."
That is a great observation. I have often though that the only difference between the left and the right is that the left is less efficient and focused when trying to line the pockets of the rich. The right is a bit more direct. The mommy state vs the daddy state. The left tries to take care of the people and the right tries to protect the people but both sides end up giving us a bigger gov't. What happened to the small gov't republicans? It's why I am not a republican any more.
I will say this on the original topic though... I would support an energy tax with a concentration on polluting fuels. Especially if it was used to replace the income tax. I want less gov't in every way but protecting the environment it a legitimate concern. They just need to be really damn careful how they try to do that.
And yet, everything the feds touch turns to shit. Regardless of who is in power the gov't will bow to the lobbies and big oil has a big lobby. Hydrogen will happen, but it will happen when big oil figures out how to make lots of money off of it.
Is it possible that women simply don't like computer science as much as men? What about the possibility that what ever it is that seems to draw the geeky or otherwise more socially challenged among us to this field is not as common among women. I am not saying that there aren't geeky, socially challenged woman out there. One of my daughters is a geek girl and is looking to enter engineering as a freshman in a year next year. I am just saying that less woman seem to be so challenged. I would also guess that science minded woman are more likely to enter a profession where they can directly help people such as being a doctor.
"In the end, it seems the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment."
I hope this wouldn't be considered a bad thing.
Because you won't buy their music they are losing those sales. You must buy their music. It's the patriotic thing to do. Think about all the little children in Antartica who have nothing to listen to. I hope you feel bad about yourself now.
Because the old passports don't make any money for the RFID industry.
Why should they go to the trouble and expense. It's not like we are very hard to spot us in a crowd. You just have to pick out the poorly dressed, fat white couple yelling "Hello, anyone speak English?"
Much of the beef industry has actually worked pretty hard to keep Canadian, Mexican and South American beef out of the US market. I don't know about the retail food industry but the beef industry is busting its ass to trace all beef back to its origin. Americans tend to want meat that is American. The US cattle industry wants consumers to have this information because they stand to win big on this point. Besides, the ruminant feed ban doesn't apply outside the US. That's why the beef industry made such a big deal out of the case in Washington being canadian cow.
I don't know why this bill failed in Congress and I don't know what's going to have to happen with the retail food industry but beef is going to be traced. The US cattle industry is very big, very rich and has everything to loose.
The industry is already ramping up state level pilot tracing projects and a non-manditory national system is coming on line this next week.
Almost all cattle is tagged. The few that arn't are usually on small ranches where the owner can tell his 8 head apart just by sight. In those cases branding is still used keep things sorted out if one jumps a fence. Yes, a 1 ton bull can jump a 5 foot fence when it wants to get to the neighbor's heifer.
The problem is that this tag information is usually only kept by the individual producers. Sometimes by state vets. The trick now is to pull all this information together at the state and national level. The goal is to allow the gov't to be able to be able to traceback all the animals that have been exposed to an infected animal in less than 48 hours. Right now things can be tracked down but not very quickly.
You are exactly right on the food supply chain comment. A typical animal will come from a Cow-Cafe producer. Go to an auction barn, then a feed lot and finally to a packing plant. Not to mention all the layers in the retail supply chain. Each layer currently has its own way of keeping track of things. Part of the vision is for a consumer to be able to buy a steak from the grocery, take a control number of the side of the package, put it in a web site and see where your steak came from and where it has been.
You are also exactly right on the benefits to producers. The hope is that producers will want to track their cattle closely so they can prove that their animals never came into contact with infected animals. And if your animals have been exposed you don't want to have to deal with the liability. Better to destroy them and collect insurance and start over next year. At first animals with a completely traceable history will be sold for a premium. Eventually you won't be able to sell untraceable animals.
Mad cow is the hot button topic. It is definitly driving everyone to get this done quickly. In reality, it is astronomically unlikely for mad cow to get into our food supply. The FDA as banned the use of mammalian protein in ruminant animal feed since 1997 and even then it was no longer common practice in the US industry. Virtually all beef cattle is slaughtered by age 3, well past 1997. It is expensive to feed cattle so you send it do the packer as soon as it reaches full weight. You are only wasting money after that. The only domestic mad cow cases have been with older dairy cattle and they typically get made into dog food if anything at all. Mad cow doesn't get passed through the milk and even the beef it self is not infected. It is only in the brain, spine and sometimes in the tongue. Beef is now slaughtered in such a way that the spine and head are extracted whole. You really only take a chance if you like to eat these parts and few places will even sell it anymore.
The only mad cow I'm scared of is this one: http://www.totallytom.com/MadCow.html
http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/index.shtml
Here is the link to USDA's National Animal Id System information site.
You are right in one way though. The US gov't won't be doing this. They are mandating that it be done but leaving the implementation to industry. Now I know what your thinking. What incentive will the industry have to do a better job. In this case, a lot. Sick customers don't come back and they take a lot of other customers with them.
USDA and NCBA are already all over this like a rash. Several states are a ways ahead of the Feds but a national system is literally month away from startup. Texas started a pilot beef tracking program a few weeks ago. Beef is already tracked to a great degree simply because of the value of each head. The problem has been that the tracking information has never been gathered by the gov't into a single place.
McDonald's is actually doing one big thing to help fix the problem. They are using some of their weight in the market to force producers to verify the origin of the beef they use down to the county level. May not sound like much but providing an economic incentive seems to get things done much faster than the gov't simply passing a law.
I really just like my Blackberry for the thumb keyboard and the thumb scroll wheel. Ease of use is what RIM delivers. It's much easier to reply to emails with it than on a twelve key pad. That and unlimited email and internet access for $30/month.
I doubt they could get away with shutting down the gov't accounts just to get the point across but those gov't account will be shut off soon enough when RIM goes out of business entirely. I am betting they shutdown everything and file bankrupcy before the end of the week if they can't get a new stay. This just sucks. I love my Blackberry and I depend on it every day.
With support well into the next decade, I would say no, it doesn't count as squashing them out.
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Did he ask if he could use that name for the ant? Hmmmmm?
"the US Attorney handed down charges..."
They don't do that for a civil case.
What about a private university? They make money off of tuition. What about a publisher of academic journals and books? Are doing it just to make the world a better place? So Google is trying to make money... That's the news flash?
Only one? I doubt they will ever buy Microsoft. Will it come down to a two player game? I could see that.
Regardless of who thought of it first or who filed first, if two independant people come up the same idea, assuming neither is aware of the other's work, wouldn't that imply that the invention fails the "not obvious to and expert" test?
They can chip my cold dead body when I am done with it.
Yeah, but a nerd is going to have to pay a few hundred to get either.