I would think the simple solution would be to pump the heat directly to the afterburners so that after firing a laser would could be very easily traced back to your plane (just follow the straight line), you could use the burst of speed to flit away.
You have completely the wrong mentality, and it's scary. Are you a slave? Will your matser beat you if you speak out against him?
SNAP OUT OF IT!
You are both human beings and completely equal in every respect. You simply need to tell him, "Look, I realize you are trying to be helpful, but you have neither the expertise nor the the technical knowledge to make any design descisions on this product. If you really feel a great need to be helpful, then argue for raises for your engineering staff at the next board meeting..."
So is providing pay-for-use downloads, except you save on the cost of CD manufacturing.
Not quite. You have to remember the system only works as long as the record companies get to take a 99% cut out of the net profits of the album. They can only do that now by duping the artists into believing that what they are doing would somehow require a great deal of startup capital (for CD pressing machines, etc). As soon as you start selling downloads, the myth of the cost to produce vanishes, and the artists will suddenly start to produce thier own digital music without any involvement by the RIAA... And they will start giving the record companies 5% of the cut, instead of 95%, and suddenly the RIAA is actually working for a living and not just printing free money.
Another bill by Howard Berman (D-Hollywood) will also be debated, which bill allows record companies to attack peer-to-peer networks without liability for 'accidental' damages.
Any law that gives the power to do harm without consequences is ripe for abuse. The record companies themselves don't even need to be intentionally abusing thier powers, they just need to be predictable. If I don't like little Bobby, and I want his machine trashed, I just put up the latest pop band on Kazaa and spoof his ip address.
I used to work for a starup which is now a "Microsoft Partner". The reason we became a "partner" is very simple, they came to us and said, point blank, "We are going to copy what you did and put you out of business. If you become a 'partner' and give us your code, we will let you survive on your own merits and help you get funding for two years before we make our version. If you don't, we'll put our own version out in a month and crush you before you can even get your next round of funding. It's your call."
That was almost exactly the deal, and my company agreeed with it becuase there was no way to compete.
*bett er - adj Does not have insanely annoying banner ads everywhere, nor advertisements disguised as headlines, or random flash popups or interstitial ads.
Waaaaaaaaaitaminute... Are you honestly trying to tell me that the rest of the world doesn't wait with bated breath for any and all developments that come out of American state legislatures? Come on now, next you'll be telling me that you guys don't celebrate the Fourth of July!
...not *one* business or first class passenger was searched.
I believe most of the 9/11 terrorists were First class passengers, so I doubt First class passengers are now not being checked.
Allow me to enlighten you as to exactly how "secure" this "random" checking of passengers is. First of all, I fly often, and always on one-way tickets in economy. Since 9/11 I have been searched a total of 12 times. That's right, I have been searched on each and every plane I have been on since that day. (I have never, not once in all my 12 plane flights seen a business class passenger get pulled "randomly" out of the search line, and after about the fifth search of your's truly, I have been watching.)
When I fly, I carry two things with me: one (1) hotel sewing kit complete with aluminum scissor that cannot cut paper, and one (1) ultra hot habenero sauce that I keep in a vial inside an official "biohazard" baggie that I purloined at a doctor's office a while ago. It is heavy duty and complete with the bright orange biohazard flower and many various "danger, do not open" labels on it (and it really IS that hot, yum.)
Each and every time I fly since 9/11 I have the tiny one inch no-blade scissors thrown away with rathar contemptuous looks, and the biohazard baggie with the vial of red goo untouched, no questions asked.
THIS is your security in action, my friend.
(Just for the record, I am your typical white male 20-something in jeans and a tee-shirt, you know, the kind that obviously looks like a terrorist)
if (hasFirstClassTicket(p.ticket) || isRichCEO(p.occupation)) {
ignoreAllSecurityThreat();
return; }
This from personal expierence on a flight where my wife and I had to take a multiple connection flight (the seperate planes, we got searched three seperate times), and not *one* business or first class passenger was searched. It was *very* random.
Will there be anywhere in the public or private sectors where people will be able to live outside of a fishbowl?
Oh, fear not! There will most definitly be places that people can go to escape the fishbowl. These places will be in the homes and lives of the congressmen that pass these laws and the corporate businessmen who pay for them.
However, I'm finding it hard to work out what the scam is.
Think about it logically... These 419 folks have stolen thousands of bucks illegally from people all over the world. They can't very well report that incometo thier own governemnt without having to pay away most of it in taxes and kickbacks, so if they happen to be *robbed* of the money, who will they call for help? I'll bet you the next wave of thieves will be those who prey on the fat scammers and suck them dry. It's a lot easier to sneak into your neighbor's house and loot thier safe than to spend months stringing along foreigners with no guarantee of reward.
Discoveries like these reconfirms my beliefthat there really is nothing new under the sun, or at least it is an extreemely rare event. It makes you want to take a closer look at patents of all types and ask yourself if they are *really* original ideas.
Most of these people who plead guilty really had no choice. They could no pay bail, so if they plead innocent they would have found themselves in the holding pen for up to two months, with fees on thier impounded automobiles compunding DAILY (something like $50-$100 a day)... It really is a tradegy. Imagine losing two months of your life (and probably losing your job) and finding a $30,000 fee to get your car out of the impond lot... just for shopping at K-Mart. Sick.
Sure, but there are two issues with what you say. Considering that the company will make hundreds of billions of dollars off the patent, there is no MORAL way for the company to claim it without putting the inventor and his family on easy street for the rest of thier lives. And second, how quickly are the rest of the scientsts going to work now that they know that thier inventions can be taken away... they might as well invent nothing and get paid thier normal salary and then come out with the full-scale inventions after everyone gets laid off. How does that help humanity?
This is a completely new kind of a venture that you are attempting, so it is imperative that you don't enter into it with any preconcieved notions of how it is supposed to work. I strongly believe that one of the reasons why we don't have any real webcasted TV now is that the major TV companies try to just do the same ole same ole and end up with a feed that's too bulky, or too uncreative to really work in the new medium. Forget going and seeing how it's "really" done until you have figured out a system for yourself, THEN go and see if there are any pieces you can improve with conventional techniques.
Remember how all the magazines used to say that the only profitable business on the web is porn? Remember how all the magazines were saying that biotech is the "next big thing" like the internet was a few years ago?
Put two and two together and you have your answer.:)
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I would think the simple solution would be to pump the heat directly to the afterburners so that after firing a laser would could be very easily traced back to your plane (just follow the straight line), you could use the burst of speed to flit away.
You have to have your mittens on to catch the link.
You have completely the wrong mentality, and it's scary. Are you a slave? Will your matser beat you if you speak out against him?
SNAP OUT OF IT!
You are both human beings and completely equal in every respect. You simply need to tell him, "Look, I realize you are trying to be helpful, but you have neither the expertise nor the the technical knowledge to make any design descisions on this product. If you really feel a great need to be helpful, then argue for raises for your engineering staff at the next board meeting..."
Who wrote the software?
True true, well said... but I can't help but think that the best solution would be dogs that shoot bees out of thier mouths. :)
Making CD's is like printing money.
So is providing pay-for-use downloads, except you save on the cost of CD manufacturing.
Not quite. You have to remember the system only works as long as the record companies get to take a 99% cut out of the net profits of the album. They can only do that now by duping the artists into believing that what they are doing would somehow require a great deal of startup capital (for CD pressing machines, etc). As soon as you start selling downloads, the myth of the cost to produce vanishes, and the artists will suddenly start to produce thier own digital music without any involvement by the RIAA... And they will start giving the record companies 5% of the cut, instead of 95%, and suddenly the RIAA is actually working for a living and not just printing free money.
Another bill by Howard Berman (D-Hollywood) will also be debated, which bill allows record companies to attack peer-to-peer networks without liability for 'accidental' damages.
Any law that gives the power to do harm without consequences is ripe for abuse. The record companies themselves don't even need to be intentionally abusing thier powers, they just need to be predictable. If I don't like little Bobby, and I want his machine trashed, I just put up the latest pop band on Kazaa and spoof his ip address.
I used to work for a starup which is now a "Microsoft Partner". The reason we became a "partner" is very simple, they came to us and said, point blank, "We are going to copy what you did and put you out of business. If you become a 'partner' and give us your code, we will let you survive on your own merits and help you get funding for two years before we make our version. If you don't, we'll put our own version out in a month and crush you before you can even get your next round of funding. It's your call."
That was almost exactly the deal, and my company agreeed with it becuase there was no way to compete.
So Jesus is a lawyer?
*bett er - adj Does not have insanely annoying banner ads everywhere, nor advertisements disguised as headlines, or random flash popups or interstitial ads.
Don't you know a "feature" when you see one?
Waaaaaaaaaitaminute... Are you honestly trying to tell me that the rest of the world doesn't wait with bated breath for any and all developments that come out of American state legislatures? Come on now, next you'll be telling me that you guys don't celebrate the Fourth of July!
...not *one* business or first class passenger was searched.
I believe most of the 9/11 terrorists were First class passengers, so I doubt First class passengers are now not being checked.
Allow me to enlighten you as to exactly how "secure" this "random" checking of passengers is. First of all, I fly often, and always on one-way tickets in economy. Since 9/11 I have been searched a total of 12 times. That's right, I have been searched on each and every plane I have been on since that day. (I have never, not once in all my 12 plane flights seen a business class passenger get pulled "randomly" out of the search line, and after about the fifth search of your's truly, I have been watching.)
When I fly, I carry two things with me: one (1) hotel sewing kit complete with aluminum scissor that cannot cut paper, and one (1) ultra hot habenero sauce that I keep in a vial inside an official "biohazard" baggie that I purloined at a doctor's office a while ago. It is heavy duty and complete with the bright orange biohazard flower and many various "danger, do not open" labels on it (and it really IS that hot, yum.)
Each and every time I fly since 9/11 I have the tiny one inch no-blade scissors thrown away with rathar contemptuous looks, and the biohazard baggie with the vial of red goo untouched, no questions asked.
THIS is your security in action, my friend.
(Just for the record, I am your typical white male 20-something in jeans and a tee-shirt, you know, the kind that obviously looks like a terrorist)
You forgot:
if (hasFirstClassTicket(p.ticket) || isRichCEO(p.occupation)) {
ignoreAllSecurityThreat();
return;
}
This from personal expierence on a flight where my wife and I had to take a multiple connection flight (the seperate planes, we got searched three seperate times), and not *one* business or first class passenger was searched. It was *very* random.
Will there be anywhere in the public or private sectors where people will be able to live outside of a fishbowl?
Oh, fear not! There will most definitly be places that people can go to escape the fishbowl. These places will be in the homes and lives of the congressmen that pass these laws and the corporate businessmen who pay for them.
However, I'm finding it hard to work out what the scam is.
Think about it logically... These 419 folks have stolen thousands of bucks illegally from people all over the world. They can't very well report that incometo thier own governemnt without having to pay away most of it in taxes and kickbacks, so if they happen to be *robbed* of the money, who will they call for help? I'll bet you the next wave of thieves will be those who prey on the fat scammers and suck them dry. It's a lot easier to sneak into your neighbor's house and loot thier safe than to spend months stringing along foreigners with no guarantee of reward.
Discoveries like these reconfirms my beliefthat there really is nothing new under the sun, or at least it is an extreemely rare event. It makes you want to take a closer look at patents of all types and ask yourself if they are *really* original ideas.
Apparently, you don't know how the FCC works. The frequencies will be auctioned off to the highest bidder, for private use (probably cellphones).
Didn't you mean to say the frequencies will be GIVEN AWAY FOR FREE to the highest briber?
Most of these people who plead guilty really had no choice. They could no pay bail, so if they plead innocent they would have found themselves in the holding pen for up to two months, with fees on thier impounded automobiles compunding DAILY (something like $50-$100 a day)... It really is a tradegy. Imagine losing two months of your life (and probably losing your job) and finding a $30,000 fee to get your car out of the impond lot... just for shopping at K-Mart. Sick.
Sure, but there are two issues with what you say. Considering that the company will make hundreds of billions of dollars off the patent, there is no MORAL way for the company to claim it without putting the inventor and his family on easy street for the rest of thier lives. And second, how quickly are the rest of the scientsts going to work now that they know that thier inventions can be taken away... they might as well invent nothing and get paid thier normal salary and then come out with the full-scale inventions after everyone gets laid off. How does that help humanity?
You own the IP until they pay you. You need to go to the VCs and tell them that if they buy it they will be guilty of copyright infringment.
I for one would buy myself a space-shuttle, paint it with primer, and leave it up on blocks in my front yard...
Either that or I'd do it the Bart Simpson way:
Me: One billion dollars on black!
Dealer: Aaaaand, it's red.. red is the winner!
Me: Doh!
This is a completely new kind of a venture that you are attempting, so it is imperative that you don't enter into it with any preconcieved notions of how it is supposed to work. I strongly believe that one of the reasons why we don't have any real webcasted TV now is that the major TV companies try to just do the same ole same ole and end up with a feed that's too bulky, or too uncreative to really work in the new medium. Forget going and seeing how it's "really" done until you have figured out a system for yourself, THEN go and see if there are any pieces you can improve with conventional techniques.
How do you feel knowing that you were personally responsible for putting so many companies out of business? Oh wait...
Well, I don't see why you wouldn't bet transmitting one bit of information, namely that the light has struck area X = true.
My question is...why the penis?
:)
Remember how all the magazines used to say that the only profitable business on the web is porn? Remember how all the magazines were saying that biotech is the "next big thing" like the internet was a few years ago?
Put two and two together and you have your answer.