In perfect freefall, you would weigh zero (you would still have mass, but no weight, at least not weight due to gravity of the planet). Yes, you would have a weight caused by the gravity being generated by the ship you are in, but if the ship if pretty uniform, that gravity would cancel itself out.
That was the most significant award given all evening. In case you weren't paying atttention, that was the first Best Actress award to go to an African-American. Ever.
It's only signifigant because we make believe it's signifigant. Has the acadamy awards made a *point* of chosing winners in a racist way over the past 74 years? Have they sat around the table and said, you know, I'd really like to vote for so-and-so, but she's black, and I hate blacks, so I'll vote for Jodie Foster instead?
Sorry to break it to you, but no.
Before you start saying that this actress somehow has a special place, or that some great event has been achieved here, ask yourself where the Eskimo, Japanese, Indian and Afgani women getting thier "Best Actress" awards are? Is it just super racism that now only black and white women have won? No, it's just that everyone else isn't busy making the kind of tripe movies that get nominated for Oscars.
Well, there is no reason why you couldn't break out of orbit, just so long as the machine part is on earth. There is no reason why this couldn't be used to hurl things into space, assuming it's real.
Not exatly, let's say the amount of energy needed to keep the disk spinning up and down and float the piston up (out of the gravity well) happens to be more than the energy that is gained by dropping the ball, then energy is conserved.
It's all about the money. Never forget that. These companies (Disney, News Corp., and the other media companies) are in business to make lots of money, and this will let them do that.
In the business of making money, THAT is what is wrong. Not in the business of selling movies or creating content or reporting the news, they are in the business of making money, anything else that happens in the mean time is incedental. If they could cut out the actually producing content part, and just have people directly send money to thier bank accounts, they would do it...... and guess what? This law will let them do it. Pay per watch of your 101 Dalmations DVD? Sounds like money forever to me.
So while I will certainly concede that this could have a devastating effect on the tech industry, it's not clear to me exactly how, except for one thing: it would completely destroy the ability of American tech companies to compete in the world market, unless the tech companies develop parallel product lines, which would have a large negative effect on the benefits of mass production.
The answer is simple, the market is not inside the US, but outside. While we are struggling for years to implement the impossible, other companies will be making strides forward. When we finally do finish, either without DRM or with some half baked idea that we simply decide to implement in the name of expidiency, the rest of the world will have the cutting edge software that is going to be driving tomorrrows world, and they WON'T be selling it to us, becuase it will be very cost prohibitive to try and get anything "up to code" for the US. The US will become a pariah, where nothing gets in, and everything that gets out will be so shoddy and backwards that nobody wants it.
In your letters, don't go on and on about "fair use". That is all well and good, but doesn't register with senators. Talk about how this bill with DECIMATE the tech/hardware industry and set us back years, which in the tech industry, is tantamount to complete economic collapse. Talk about how many jobs will be lost, nay, GIVEN to foreign interests, talk about the money and the talent that will be streaming from this country out into the rest of the world. Most importantly, be nice, be pragmatic, be logical, but never stray from the message: If this bill passes, the senators that vote for it will go down in the history books as the men who destroyed the American economy.
Once Mom gets the idea that SPAM is crap she'll stop paying attention to it (she already has really... it doesn't take long). So it won't be long before the click rates fall through the floor... right now it's just the suckers (and there are a lot of 'em... but the number isn't infinite.)
The problem is, as long as there is ONE sucker out there, spam is viable. If you send out 100 billion spams, at zero cost to you, and get 1 single sell, then you have made money.
In Japan, literally for years and years, they have been using self-heating cans to heat machine-dended sake in the winter. Way to redesign the wheel guys!
If they wish to own the copyrights to all the work you produce, and that means ALL the work, then start writing child porn stories. They don't belong to you, after all, right?
In not child porn, then just really poor quality work, viruses, anything. Make them pay dearly for wishing to own your mind.
If it pierced the atmosphere, the approximately 70-meter-long rock could have disintegrated and unleashed the energy equivalent of a 4-megaton nuclear bomb, researchers said.
"If it were over a populated area, like Redmond, Washington, it would have basically flattened it," said Gareth Williams, associate director of the International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center in Boston, Massachusetts, "and in the process, prove that there is a God and he does listen to the prayers of free sofware developers. This asteroid would, however, cause no damage were it to strike Hillary Rosen in her BMW. As everyone who's read the SSSCA knows, the RIAA is above the laws of physics."
That's because rich Americans would rather spend $20,000 on a stereo that does everything, or a handheld that can drive your car, instead of a robot that sings and dances at karaoke parties.
That, my friend, is EXACTLY what is wrong with this country...
It stands to reason that if some data needs to be transfered from point A to point B to get the synchronization started, then that data needs to be secured. How do you secure that without a SECOND set of codes, which also need to be secured, ad infinitum. Of course, you could just physically deliver the codes, but if you are doing that, you could just physically deliver the secret messages you wanted to send in the first place, right? As cool as I think this is, it still doesn't seem to be enough.
True story: I was working in a corner of a cafe late at night when I guy came in, sat beside me, stuck a knife to my side and said "put the laptop in the bag".
My laptop was locked to the table, but I gladly unlocked it in return for my safety.
I know this is a little bit off topic, but while the technology is cool, you'd get some really kooky translations if you went around some foreign country translating the signs. I used to live in Japan, and after I learned a little of the language, I started thinking that the Japanese have very odd naming schemes. My house was loaced between the train stops "Cherry Blossom Palace" and "Happy Island" and I lived on the street "Middle of the rice field" right across from the megamart "Big Circle". Needless to say, there were neither palaces nor islands anywhere in sight, and the closest thing to a "field" was the parking lot, and I never saw any rice there... I did see some circles, but none of them were particularly large:) Still, I'll bet it would be great for reading menues in korean resturants and finding out just which part of the cow that last slice of beef came from... or I HOPE it was a cow!
The Department of Justice is an enforcement agency. All it does is enforce laws that are already on the books. If you don't like the laws, bitch about the people who made them, not the ones doing their job and enforcing them.
No sir, I will happily bitch about both. If those who enforce the laws are not able to make descisions based on judgement, then they are not fit to serve in this position. If I were a police officer, and a new law was passed proclaiming that I must shoot all red-head people on sight, I would not do so, even if it cost me my job. Yes, it makes me responsible for the power that I am given, but at the same time, it makes my concience guide my actions. And when the concience guides law enforcement, the only people who need to fear are those who are morally wrong but legally right.
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In perfect freefall, you would weigh zero (you would still have mass, but no weight, at least not weight due to gravity of the planet). Yes, you would have a weight caused by the gravity being generated by the ship you are in, but if the ship if pretty uniform, that gravity would cancel itself out.
That was the most significant award given all evening. In case you weren't paying atttention, that was the first Best Actress award to go to an African-American. Ever.
It's only signifigant because we make believe it's signifigant. Has the acadamy awards made a *point* of chosing winners in a racist way over the past 74 years? Have they sat around the table and said, you know, I'd really like to vote for so-and-so, but she's black, and I hate blacks, so I'll vote for Jodie Foster instead?
Sorry to break it to you, but no.
Before you start saying that this actress somehow has a special place, or that some great event has been achieved here, ask yourself where the Eskimo, Japanese, Indian and Afgani women getting thier "Best Actress" awards are? Is it just super racism that now only black and white women have won? No, it's just that everyone else isn't busy making the kind of tripe movies that get nominated for Oscars.
Well, there is no reason why you couldn't break out of orbit, just so long as the machine part is on earth. There is no reason why this couldn't be used to hurl things into space, assuming it's real.
Yes, in space your weight will be reduced by 2% by this device. Since you "weigh" zero, and 2% of zero is also zero, it won't seem like much...
keeping it cool, however, does.
Not exatly, let's say the amount of energy needed to keep the disk spinning up and down and float the piston up (out of the gravity well) happens to be more than the energy that is gained by dropping the ball, then energy is conserved.
It's all about the money. Never forget that. These companies (Disney, News Corp., and the other media companies) are in business to make lots of money, and this will let them do that.
In the business of making money, THAT is what is wrong. Not in the business of selling movies or creating content or reporting the news, they are in the business of making money, anything else that happens in the mean time is incedental. If they could cut out the actually producing content part, and just have people directly send money to thier bank accounts, they would do it...... and guess what? This law will let them do it. Pay per watch of your 101 Dalmations DVD? Sounds like money forever to me.
So while I will certainly concede that this could have a devastating effect on the tech industry, it's not clear to me exactly how, except for one thing: it would completely destroy the ability of American tech companies to compete in the world market, unless the tech companies develop parallel product lines, which would have a large negative effect on the benefits of mass production.
The answer is simple, the market is not inside the US, but outside. While we are struggling for years to implement the impossible, other companies will be making strides forward. When we finally do finish, either without DRM or with some half baked idea that we simply decide to implement in the name of expidiency, the rest of the world will have the cutting edge software that is going to be driving tomorrrows world, and they WON'T be selling it to us, becuase it will be very cost prohibitive to try and get anything "up to code" for the US. The US will become a pariah, where nothing gets in, and everything that gets out will be so shoddy and backwards that nobody wants it.
In your letters, don't go on and on about "fair use". That is all well and good, but doesn't register with senators. Talk about how this bill with DECIMATE the tech/hardware industry and set us back years, which in the tech industry, is tantamount to complete economic collapse. Talk about how many jobs will be lost, nay, GIVEN to foreign interests, talk about the money and the talent that will be streaming from this country out into the rest of the world. Most importantly, be nice, be pragmatic, be logical, but never stray from the message: If this bill passes, the senators that vote for it will go down in the history books as the men who destroyed the American economy.
Change it to "The friendly place to drink java, discuss politics in Java, and talk about code."
Once Mom gets the idea that SPAM is crap she'll stop paying attention to it (she already has really... it doesn't take long). So it won't be long before the click rates fall through the floor... right now it's just the suckers (and there are a lot of 'em... but the number isn't infinite.)
The problem is, as long as there is ONE sucker out there, spam is viable. If you send out 100 billion spams, at zero cost to you, and get 1 single sell, then you have made money.
Pi is exactly 4!
In Japan, literally for years and years, they have been using self-heating cans to heat machine-dended sake in the winter. Way to redesign the wheel guys!
LEGOS!
If they wish to own the copyrights to all the work you produce, and that means ALL the work, then start writing child porn stories. They don't belong to you, after all, right?
In not child porn, then just really poor quality work, viruses, anything. Make them pay dearly for wishing to own your mind.
If it pierced the atmosphere, the approximately 70-meter-long rock could have disintegrated and unleashed the energy equivalent
of a 4-megaton nuclear bomb, researchers said.
"If it were over a populated area, like Redmond, Washington, it would have basically flattened it," said Gareth Williams, associate director of the International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center in Boston, Massachusetts, "and in the process, prove that there is a God and he does listen to the prayers of free sofware developers. This asteroid would, however, cause no damage were it to strike Hillary Rosen in her BMW. As everyone who's read the SSSCA knows, the RIAA is above the laws of physics."
That's because rich Americans would rather spend $20,000 on a stereo that does everything, or a handheld that can drive your car, instead of a robot that sings and dances at karaoke parties.
That, my friend, is EXACTLY what is wrong with this country...
Use the self installed screen saver: CLOSE YOUR EYES!
This will work perfectly guys! Why? Because, all child porn comes from a few computers with IP addresses that NEVER CHANGE! It's true!
It stands to reason that if some data needs to be transfered from point A to point B to get the synchronization started, then that data needs to be secured. How do you secure that without a SECOND set of codes, which also need to be secured, ad infinitum. Of course, you could just physically deliver the codes, but if you are doing that, you could just physically deliver the secret messages you wanted to send in the first place, right? As cool as I think this is, it still doesn't seem to be enough.
...I wanna make sno-cones. Forever.
True story:
I was working in a corner of a cafe late at night when I guy came in, sat beside me, stuck a knife to my side and said "put the laptop in the bag".
My laptop was locked to the table, but I gladly unlocked it in return for my safety.
You, sir, are a terrorist enabler!
Magnets right next to the CPU, eh? This is a good idea?
I know this is a little bit off topic, but while the technology is cool, you'd get some really kooky translations if you went around some foreign country translating the signs. I used to live in Japan, and after I learned a little of the language, I started thinking that the Japanese have very odd naming schemes. My house was loaced between the train stops "Cherry Blossom Palace" and "Happy Island" and I lived on the street "Middle of the rice field" right across from the megamart "Big Circle". Needless to say, there were neither palaces nor islands anywhere in sight, and the closest thing to a "field" was the parking lot, and I never saw any rice there... I did see some circles, but none of them were particularly large :) Still, I'll bet it would be great for reading menues in korean resturants and finding out just which part of the cow that last slice of beef came from... or I HOPE it was a cow!
The Department of Justice is an enforcement agency. All it does is enforce laws that are already on the books. If you don't like the laws, bitch about the people who made them, not the ones doing their job and enforcing them.
No sir, I will happily bitch about both. If those who enforce the laws are not able to make descisions based on judgement, then they are not fit to serve in this position. If I were a police officer, and a new law was passed proclaiming that I must shoot all red-head people on sight, I would not do so, even if it cost me my job. Yes, it makes me responsible for the power that I am given, but at the same time, it makes my concience guide my actions. And when the concience guides law enforcement, the only people who need to fear are those who are morally wrong but legally right.