Besides the humor value, interesting in that we're creating another species with qualities that suit humans but unsuitable for life on its own.
Well, if you had READ the article instead of just looking at the picture, you would have seen that these chickens actually have a HIGHER survival rate in tropical areas (where it is originally designed to be introduced) becuase the feathers would trap heat that would otherwise kill the bird.
Here so you don't have to strain your eyes actually reading that tiny 12 point font from the first few paragraphs:
"(Boiler chickens) consume a lot of energy in order to grow rapidly but in the process they generate a lot of heat and they have to get rid of it otherwise their internal body temperature will go too high and they will die."
"That's why the growth rate of boiler (chickens) is significantly reduced in hot seasons or hot countries and that is why the poultry meat is expensive in these countries."
By keeping the chickens feather-free, the birds would direct their energy to growing larger rather than keeping cool.
This is a particularly absurd claim for application programmer interfaces (APIs) - by definition, APIs are disclosed to other developers, so the only reason to "hide" them is to prevent competition.
Well, they may have a point though. Thier "hidden" APIs can be a big security risk, such as:
Unless it happens to be the "dc-stuff" mailing list (Have some fun, mail to majordomo@dis.org), in which case you'll find that your account has been deleted by your ISP, your IP addresses will all entered into the "Do Not Remove" section of the RBL, your credit cards will all mysteriously get canceled, but not before they were used to buy hammers mail-order from NASA at $9,000 a pop, and you'll STILL somehow recieve messages from the list...
of how much of the "work" is really yours. If your music could not sell a single copy, but for some reson somone is able to add something to it that now is worth millions, then you still have your original work, it just happens to be worthless.
Imagine a different scenario. Let's say some brilliant mixing artists takes a recording of a busy intersection and somehow turns be honks, beeps and shouted curses and turns it into a hit song, is there really anything owed to the original people honking and cursing?
Admitedly, your goat analogy is a little off the wall, but if somone can make a million from selling goat bleets over your music, it stands to reason he could have made just as much selling goat bleets over ANYONE'S music, so the fact that he happened to chose your is moot. If anything, he will be generating sales for your de-goated original, that you still own, that otherwise you would never have gotten.
My cat had a way of mimicing my speech in a limited scope. If I would walk into a room and say "hi" she would respond with a very short "mmw" but if I sait "hello" (two sylables) she would respond with two of her own "mmw meow". I wonder if other cat owners had seen similar things...
This is an INTELLIGENT solution to the problem. Just how do you expect this to be even the least bit helpful? The AOL/TW execs aren't just going to grow brains here at the last moment are they? PLEASE PEOPLE! If you are going to be suggesting ideas, make sure they are IRRATIONAL, POORLY THOUGHT OUT, and above all else, ANTI-INNOVATIVE (preferably sucking the life out a previous innovation through both legislation *and* poor technological replacements). If you can't keep your ideas in line with the status quo, you are part of the problem, not the solution?
My replayTV tends to leave a half a second or so of ad still on the screen right before the show starts again, so I do "see" ads, albiet on thier way out... and you know what? It's just enough for me to catch the product name and mentally jot it down as a company pr product I will NEVER buy from. Yes, that's right, I intentionally *don't* buy anything that I see on TV, and I even go so far as to tell my friends no to buy it either. Watching ads, in my case, is "theft", so I do the rigth thing and keep my eyes away from them.
A chat room is no more dangerous than the society that is communicating through it. There is nothing inhereantly wrong about a particular communications medium. I fkids are getiing stalked and preyed upon through chat rooms, it's just a symptom of an even larger problem in soicety itself. The answer will not be changing chatrooms, the answer will be changing ourselves.
I'm sorry, that's the fattest load of bullshit I've ever heard in my life. That's like Apple putting a big tempting red button on the side of their iMac labeled "Self Destruct" and then trying to claim that they are somehow absolved of all liability if someone actually (or accidentally) pushes it.
NO, it is nothing like that *at all*. It's like putting a 5.25" floppy drive on a computer and claiming absolution of liability when somone inserves a proccessed cheese slice in it. It's perfectly valid...
Now claiming a CD to be an official "CD" when it's NOT, *that* is bullshit.
Aren't we always told that some plastics take bazillions of years to naturally break down, why not build this site out of plastic? It can't even be re-used to build anything else.
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If MS really were allowed to have even a reletivly "short" period of time (a few months, as much as ayear), they could easily push super hard and complete th e"next" version of windows, so when the states finally present thier modular windows, MS can respond, "Oh, hey look at atht. You guys were rigth after all. Ok we'll start making modular XP. Oh, but we stopped selling XP two months ago, now we sell Windows ZP, where every single system call must first be translated into html and passed to the internal webserver to be proccessed, we call it 'local web services'."
The thing that I find amazing is that these spammers are flat out lying. They claim that ficticious entities "opt in" when they clear could not have done so. Doesn't this constitute some kind of fraud? Is there no legal recourse?
I remember somone joking about putting a link to the goggle cache in the stories on slashdot... Or at least I THOUGHT it was a joke, now it looks suspisciously like a Good Idea.
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They were trying to make a buck off of you. By giving them your resume before you got to it, if you do get hired, they can claim a signifigant chunk of money as a finders fee...
Well, since your resume is copyrighted, and they are trying to make money (albiet indirectly) from a copyrighted work, get your lawyer to whip out the BIG guns... copyright infringment.
I love how Microsoft's grred seems to be thier very undoing. If they weren't trying to exapand ameoba-like into every single area that they could to suck up more tasty cash, then they would never have made XP Embedded.
For you decision makers out there, take thsi to heart: Blind Greed will NOT make you more successful. No matter how much shareholder value you *think* you can add by being unethical, greedy, or sleazy, you will find that you will be losing twice as much value when your actions catch up to you. Stop basing your decisions on thier results for next week and start basing them on their value in the next decade!
Not true, these movies took place a "long long time ago" when all of the hydrogen in between the planets and such had not completely dispersed. It's why you can see the laser blasts too.
I remember making a few of these in the past. I made one that was virtually unbeatable. what was the secret? It's motion was almost totally random (forward, backward, cha cha cha, left right left, cha cha cha) until there was only one other tank left... then it started hunting for real. Attrition is a great way to win!
Hell, that's cheaper than cable is, I'm all for it! Oh wait, you mean they won't be cutting thier profit margin any? I keep forgetting that they are guaranteed a certian level of profit by law...
What they SHOULD have done was cut them off, and when the judge asks them why they proceded with teh cut off, despote the court order, simply retort, "We did NOT cut them off. We cut off a spammer. Since they have already admited to NOT being a spammer, logic dictates that we did not cut them off."
I really don't think the RIAA has anything to worry about. If they were cut out of the picture, the artist would have to do all the promotion, marketing, recording, and distribution on their own. With the amount of energy it takes to tour and play shows, this would be an impossibility (especially withou initial capital).
Not true, not true. How much does promotion, marketing and distribution cost? I mean how much does it really cost. Lets say you are the kind of artist that can sell a million albums at $20 each. As it stands now, you will get maybe 2% at the most (after all the slicing and dicing is taken out of your cut). So, in this model it costs you, the artists, $19,600,000 in "promotion and marketing" money for a return of (possibly) $400,000. Do these people sound like fantastic marketing gurus to you? A high school student with no expierence could take $19.6 million dollar and promote your band just as well.
In a non-RIAA world, you would put up the initial costs, just like any small business. Take out a $25,000 loan (or have each band member save money working at McDonalds all summer) for *local* promotion (flyers, word of mouth, cable access, etc.) and home-recording (blow a few grand on a nice computer system that will work magic for you). Sell 1,000 CDs at $25 and you have your money back, or 5,000 CDs at $5. That's not too tough, actually, it can be done. Bootstrap up from there. When you eventually DO get to the stage where you are selling 10 million albums, guess what? The numbers will be reversed. You will be paying $400,000 to an advertising agency to run a campaign for you, and you will be pocketing the $19.6 million for youself.
What isn't this happeneing now? The RIAA has a lock in the market. Go and try to bet blockbuster to sell your album, or 104.1FM to play your latest song... Ah, they tell you "no way" unless you go through the RIAA's cronies... too bad for you!
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Besides the humor value, interesting in that we're creating another species with qualities that suit humans but unsuitable for life on its own.
Well, if you had READ the article instead of just looking at the picture, you would have seen that these chickens actually have a HIGHER survival rate in tropical areas (where it is originally designed to be introduced) becuase the feathers would trap heat that would otherwise kill the bird.
Here so you don't have to strain your eyes actually reading that tiny 12 point font from the first few paragraphs:
"(Boiler chickens) consume a lot of energy in order to grow rapidly but in the process they generate a lot of heat and they have to get rid of it otherwise their internal body temperature will go too high and they will die."
"That's why the growth rate of boiler (chickens) is significantly reduced in hot seasons or hot countries and that is why the poultry meat is expensive in these countries."
By keeping the chickens feather-free, the birds would direct their energy to growing larger rather than keeping cool.
This is a particularly absurd claim for application programmer interfaces (APIs) - by definition, APIs are disclosed to other developers, so the only reason to "hide" them is to prevent competition.
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Well, they may have a point though. Thier "hidden" APIs can be a big security risk, such as:
BecomeRootUserWithoutNeedingPassword()
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DecryptAllFiles
and, of course the one Outlook and Word uses:
MakeProgramsRun90PercentFasterButTurnOffAllSecu
Unless it happens to be the "dc-stuff" mailing list (Have some fun, mail to majordomo@dis.org), in which case you'll find that your account has been deleted by your ISP, your IP addresses will all entered into the "Do Not Remove" section of the RBL, your credit cards will all mysteriously get canceled, but not before they were used to buy hammers mail-order from NASA at $9,000 a pop, and you'll STILL somehow recieve messages from the list...
of how much of the "work" is really yours. If your music could not sell a single copy, but for some reson somone is able to add something to it that now is worth millions, then you still have your original work, it just happens to be worthless.
Imagine a different scenario. Let's say some brilliant mixing artists takes a recording of a busy intersection and somehow turns be honks, beeps and shouted curses and turns it into a hit song, is there really anything owed to the original people honking and cursing?
Admitedly, your goat analogy is a little off the wall, but if somone can make a million from selling goat bleets over your music, it stands to reason he could have made just as much selling goat bleets over ANYONE'S music, so the fact that he happened to chose your is moot. If anything, he will be generating sales for your de-goated original, that you still own, that otherwise you would never have gotten.
My cat had a way of mimicing my speech in a limited scope. If I would walk into a room and say "hi" she would respond with a very short "mmw" but if I sait "hello" (two sylables) she would respond with two of her own "mmw meow". I wonder if other cat owners had seen similar things...
This is an INTELLIGENT solution to the problem. Just how do you expect this to be even the least bit helpful? The AOL/TW execs aren't just going to grow brains here at the last moment are they? PLEASE PEOPLE! If you are going to be suggesting ideas, make sure they are IRRATIONAL, POORLY THOUGHT OUT, and above all else, ANTI-INNOVATIVE (preferably sucking the life out a previous innovation through both legislation *and* poor technological replacements). If you can't keep your ideas in line with the status quo, you are part of the problem, not the solution?
My replayTV tends to leave a half a second or so of ad still on the screen right before the show starts again, so I do "see" ads, albiet on thier way out... and you know what? It's just enough for me to catch the product name and mentally jot it down as a company pr product I will NEVER buy from. Yes, that's right, I intentionally *don't* buy anything that I see on TV, and I even go so far as to tell my friends no to buy it either. Watching ads, in my case, is "theft", so I do the rigth thing and keep my eyes away from them.
A chat room is no more dangerous than the society that is communicating through it. There is nothing inhereantly wrong about a particular communications medium. I fkids are getiing stalked and preyed upon through chat rooms, it's just a symptom of an even larger problem in soicety itself. The answer will not be changing chatrooms, the answer will be changing ourselves.
I'm sorry, that's the fattest load of bullshit I've ever heard in my life. That's like Apple putting a big tempting red button on the side of their iMac labeled "Self Destruct" and then trying to claim that they are somehow absolved of all liability if someone actually (or accidentally) pushes it.
NO, it is nothing like that *at all*. It's like putting a 5.25" floppy drive on a computer and claiming absolution of liability when somone inserves a proccessed cheese slice in it. It's perfectly valid...
Now claiming a CD to be an official "CD" when it's NOT, *that* is bullshit.
Aren't we always told that some plastics take bazillions of years to naturally break down, why not build this site out of plastic? It can't even be re-used to build anything else.
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Free as in Freedom: As told by Bill Gates
If MS really were allowed to have even a reletivly "short" period of time (a few months, as much as ayear), they could easily push super hard and complete th e"next" version of windows, so when the states finally present thier modular windows, MS can respond, "Oh, hey look at atht. You guys were rigth after all. Ok we'll start making modular XP. Oh, but we stopped selling XP two months ago, now we sell Windows ZP, where every single system call must first be translated into html and passed to the internal webserver to be proccessed, we call it 'local web services'."
The thing that I find amazing is that these spammers are flat out lying. They claim that ficticious entities "opt in" when they clear could not have done so. Doesn't this constitute some kind of fraud? Is there no legal recourse?
I remember somone joking about putting a link to the goggle cache in the stories on slashdot... Or at least I THOUGHT it was a joke, now it looks suspisciously like a Good Idea.
They were trying to make a buck off of you. By giving them your resume before you got to it, if you do get hired, they can claim a signifigant chunk of money as a finders fee...
Well, since your resume is copyrighted, and they are trying to make money (albiet indirectly) from a copyrighted work, get your lawyer to whip out the BIG guns... copyright infringment.
I live in San Francisco, I'm vocal, I can rant just like the rest of em, and sometimes I even make sense (50 karma, baay, for years) Pick me! Pick me!
I love how Microsoft's grred seems to be thier very undoing. If they weren't trying to exapand ameoba-like into every single area that they could to suck up more tasty cash, then they would never have made XP Embedded.
For you decision makers out there, take thsi to heart: Blind Greed will NOT make you more successful. No matter how much shareholder value you *think* you can add by being unethical, greedy, or sleazy, you will find that you will be losing twice as much value when your actions catch up to you. Stop basing your decisions on thier results for next week and start basing them on their value in the next decade!
Not true, these movies took place a "long long time ago" when all of the hydrogen in between the planets and such had not completely dispersed. It's why you can see the laser blasts too.
I remember making a few of these in the past. I made one that was virtually unbeatable. what was the secret? It's motion was almost totally random (forward, backward, cha cha cha, left right left, cha cha cha) until there was only one other tank left... then it started hunting for real. Attrition is a great way to win!
Hell, that's cheaper than cable is, I'm all for it! Oh wait, you mean they won't be cutting thier profit margin any? I keep forgetting that they are guaranteed a certian level of profit by law...
I'm wondering if the DMCA ever have been used in legitimate cases?
Nope, becuase when it actually is legit *copyright* laws already cover it, and the DMCA adds nothing.
Oh my god! The server has suddenly gone down! I can't read the page that slashdot has linked to! It must the the conspiracy at work....
What they SHOULD have done was cut them off, and when the judge asks them why they proceded with teh cut off, despote the court order, simply retort, "We did NOT cut them off. We cut off a spammer. Since they have already admited to NOT being a spammer, logic dictates that we did not cut them off."
Tada!
I really don't think the RIAA has anything to worry about. If they were cut out of the picture, the artist would have to do all the promotion, marketing, recording, and distribution on their own. With the amount of energy it takes to tour and play shows, this would be an impossibility (especially withou initial capital).
Not true, not true. How much does promotion, marketing and distribution cost? I mean how much does it really cost. Lets say you are the kind of artist that can sell a million albums at $20 each. As it stands now, you will get maybe 2% at the most (after all the slicing and dicing is taken out of your cut). So, in this model it costs you, the artists, $19,600,000 in "promotion and marketing" money for a return of (possibly) $400,000. Do these people sound like fantastic marketing gurus to you? A high school student with no expierence could take $19.6 million dollar and promote your band just as well.
In a non-RIAA world, you would put up the initial costs, just like any small business. Take out a $25,000 loan (or have each band member save money working at McDonalds all summer) for *local* promotion (flyers, word of mouth, cable access, etc.) and home-recording (blow a few grand on a nice computer system that will work magic for you). Sell 1,000 CDs at $25 and you have your money back, or 5,000 CDs at $5. That's not too tough, actually, it can be done. Bootstrap up from there. When you eventually DO get to the stage where you are selling 10 million albums, guess what? The numbers will be reversed. You will be paying $400,000 to an advertising agency to run a campaign for you, and you will be pocketing the $19.6 million for youself.
What isn't this happeneing now? The RIAA has a lock in the market. Go and try to bet blockbuster to sell your album, or 104.1FM to play your latest song... Ah, they tell you "no way" unless you go through the RIAA's cronies... too bad for you!
And when they finally DO opt out, sell their name to a fellow flogger and label it as "responds to flogging".