If you follow the letter of the law in Holland possession of, selling and growing weed is illegal.
However exceptions are made for small quantities for personal use and coffeeshops are allowed to have a small stack in their shops for sales.
However it is illegal to grow it.. It's a bit odd to explain to foreigners..:)
The idea with the drone isn't that new really. The police have been doing searches with normal helicopters equiped with heat detectors for quite a while now.. I guess this is the high-tech version of that.
There is no reason to stockpile a regime for every citizen in a country. Not everyone gets sick at the same time.
Most experts agree that in a worst case scenario about 30% of the population will get sick at *some* point. Some being a point in time in about a 2 year timespan.
So they only need to stockpile a small amount of anitvirals, the rest is produced as the disease goes slowly through society
Despite the fact that I agree that the media in general is doing it's fair share of fearmongering..
I don't blame the cameramen in this case. The only thing they know are: There is a new type of flu, a fair number of people *have* died from it. Full details of severity in general are not known yet. So yeah.. i'd be very carefull to if I had to talk to one of the suspected victims. Caution is a virtue.
Newsflash: most animals can feel and remember pain. We still eat them and don't give a damn.
It's called being on top of the food-chain. We are omnivorous and don't really care what we eat, where it comes from and how it died. We just want it in order to survive.
In the last few decades there have been some improvements on how cattle is treated and the way they are killed in the factories, nevertheless the average cow, pig or chicken has quite a hellish life before it ends up on your plate.
Compared to that most crab have a wonderfull life, they mature in open sea. Get fished up and a few hours later killed almost instantly.. Not bad if you look at the way animals are treated in industrial cattle farms.
Not exactly. A computer has to calculate every move possible before it decides which move to execute.
It could very well be that if you set it to calculate 1000 moves before exectution it will chose the first calculation as the best.
A human would spot that a lot sooner, if the first option is "good enough" or "perfect" a human can decide it doesnt need to calculate further. We are still much much more flexible that a computer.
On the other hand, the sheer number of "infringers" means that there is a demand for something that is not satisfied by the normal market. So, either you can beat down on the "infringers" by any means, or you try to make them part of the regular market. You already know where the profit would be.
In this case nowhere. I understand your viewpoint but it's gone to far and it's to late. No matter what business model you will provide, as long as people can get the same product with the same quality for free there is no business model.
When it comes to music there are a few very viable alternatives for downloading digital music for a marginal price. Yet 90% (wild guess) of all digital music is pirated, 1 dollar is still to much it seems. Free is still the more attractive, and usually the easiest, choice
When it comes to software the stakes get higher, the products usually have a hefty price-tag. So the free alternative becomes even more attractive.
As long as there is still no workable, consumer friendly watertight drm the downloading will continue. Whatever the big companies and governments cook up people will find a way around it.
Their goal was the smoothest launch ever, in which they actually succeeded. To accomplish this they opened up loads and loads of servers to ensure players wouldn't end up in queue's when logging on to the game.
The problems started when after a few weeks the biggest hype was over and players started looking at their real lives again. After that the active server population declined rapidly. I think this move to close servers was unavoidable, it's nearly impossible to keep as many active players as right after the launch period.
I hope he was. And I hope he torrented it. In that case I downloaded the album from him.. Thank you Lars. I feel much more comfortable now knowing that a artist shared his music directly with me.
That being said. I call bs on the holier then thou attitude of the article. These guys are musicians, on the road constantly surrounded by lots of people who eat and breathe music. I'm willing to bet anything that one would find shitloads of pirated music on their laptops and ipods..
Ever heard of "hyperfocus"? I'm diagnosed with ADHD and play WoW for quite long stretches of time. While I tend to have quite a short attentionspan for most things games work quite the opposite for me.
Games tend to calm me down and get me in a state which enables me to really focus and concentrate on a single task or goal for much longer periods of time. A state of mind mostly refered to as hyperfocus. Generally it means that if you find something fun or very interresting it enables you to extremely focus on the subject. A thing most people with adhd will recognize I think.
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You can't polish a turd (try it sometime
Actually, according to the mythbusters you can and they did.... :)
Now that is the 1 million dollar question....
And the reason this system is almost impossible to explain to "outsiders".. :)
I think the best way is to use a movie qoute:
"the first rule about selling weed is: you do not talk about growing weed"
If you follow the letter of the law in Holland possession of, selling and growing weed is illegal.
However exceptions are made for small quantities for personal use and coffeeshops are allowed to have a small stack in their shops for sales.
However it is illegal to grow it.. It's a bit odd to explain to foreigners.. :)
The idea with the drone isn't that new really. The police have been doing searches with normal helicopters equiped with heat detectors for quite a while now.. I guess this is the high-tech version of that.
There is no reason to stockpile a regime for every citizen in a country. Not everyone gets sick at the same time.
Most experts agree that in a worst case scenario about 30% of the population will get sick at *some* point.
Some being a point in time in about a 2 year timespan.
So they only need to stockpile a small amount of anitvirals, the rest is produced as the disease goes slowly through society
You're not alone my.... ;)
http://giveupandusetables.com/
Despite the fact that I agree that the media in general is doing it's fair share of fearmongering..
I don't blame the cameramen in this case. The only thing they know are:
There is a new type of flu, a fair number of people *have* died from it. Full details of severity in general are not known yet. So yeah.. i'd be very carefull to if I had to talk to one of the suspected victims. Caution is a virtue.
2009, the year of the open source Jet Fighter.
Newsflash: most animals can feel and remember pain. We still eat them and don't give a damn.
It's called being on top of the food-chain. We are omnivorous and don't really care what we eat, where it comes from and how it died. We just want it in order to survive.
In the last few decades there have been some improvements on how cattle is treated and the way they are killed in the factories, nevertheless the average cow, pig or chicken has quite a hellish life before it ends up on your plate.
Compared to that most crab have a wonderfull life, they mature in open sea. Get fished up and a few hours later killed almost instantly.. Not bad if you look at the way animals are treated in industrial cattle farms.
Still......could it run Crysis on Vista?
From the article:
Fallout from the detonation â"intended to be a secret testâ" poisoned the islanders who inhabited the test site,
How the hell did they want to keep a nuclear explosion in the open secret.
Talk about naive.
That was *the* best show up until now... That truck was literally obliterated.
But now.. a whole town, can't wait!
So....
Now I have to ask my ISP if they have a subscrition plan that can run Crysis?
*confused*
Not exactly.
A computer has to calculate every move possible before it decides which move to execute.
It could very well be that if you set it to calculate 1000 moves before exectution it will chose the first calculation as the best.
A human would spot that a lot sooner, if the first option is "good enough" or "perfect" a human can decide it doesnt need to calculate further. We are still much much more flexible that a computer.
On the other hand, the sheer number of "infringers" means that there is a demand for something that is not satisfied by the normal market. So, either you can beat down on the "infringers" by any means, or you try to make them part of the regular market. You already know where the profit would be.
In this case nowhere.
I understand your viewpoint but it's gone to far and it's to late. No matter what business model you will provide, as long as people can get the same product with the same quality for free there is no business model.
When it comes to music there are a few very viable alternatives for downloading digital music for a marginal price.
Yet 90% (wild guess) of all digital music is pirated, 1 dollar is still to much it seems. Free is still the more attractive, and usually the easiest, choice
When it comes to software the stakes get higher, the products usually have a hefty price-tag. So the free alternative becomes even more attractive.
As long as there is still no workable, consumer friendly watertight drm the downloading will continue. Whatever the big companies and governments cook up people will find a way around it.
Even if the Web had been stunted by throttling, the demand for p0rn would have eventually driven the rise of the Web or at least a super-Gopher.
Fixed it for you.
*Hey buddy, look what I ordered.. the coolest machine ever build to date.. Spend 16k on this little beasty.. bet you are jealous now huh?*
Cool, I bet this can run Crysis pretty damn fast!
*erm, no.....*
Pretty insane if you ask me.. Even if you don't have a use for a graphicscard.. you'd still have some pride right? :)
Way to many. That was their mistake.
Their goal was the smoothest launch ever, in which they actually succeeded.
To accomplish this they opened up loads and loads of servers to ensure players wouldn't end up in queue's when logging on to the game.
The problems started when after a few weeks the biggest hype was over and players started looking at their real lives again. After that the active server population declined rapidly.
I think this move to close servers was unavoidable, it's nearly impossible to keep as many active players as right after the launch period.
Arguably, he demonstrated more foresight and planning than the primates running the investment banks on Wall Street.
This is that far from the truth as you might think ;)
A while ago a Dutch TV show did a experiment on this very subject.
They had let a group of apes handpick a bunch of stocks and let a group of notable bankers do the same.
After 1 month the apes had yielded a higher net profit then the bankers did.....
Of course this was for shits and giggles but very funny nontheless.
I actually miss reason 5
99% of the tv shows are crap, not worth your time or money.
Internet doesnt help improve the quality of the shows but at least you can pick whatever you want when you want for a very reasonable price.
When I first started building multi-OS compatible webpages, I decided I wanted them to be compatible with everything. That means...
So.. you just uploaded some .txt files.
Big deal..
I hope he was. And I hope he torrented it. In that case I downloaded the album from him..
Thank you Lars. I feel much more comfortable now knowing that a artist shared his music directly with me.
That being said. I call bs on the holier then thou attitude of the article. These guys are musicians, on the road constantly surrounded by lots of people who eat and breathe music. I'm willing to bet anything that one would find shitloads of pirated music on their laptops and ipods..
Despair not, Mr Furry was revived and now running Blizzard's instance servers.
If you're just looking for something to look up info there is no need for a browser in WoW.
Install the Questhelper and lightheaded addons and you're all set.
Questhelper points you to the quest locations and lightheaded parses all comments from wowhead on quests in a ingame addon.
What the hell happened with the frontpage? Is slashdot tired of it's visitors or something?
Ever heard of "hyperfocus"?
I'm diagnosed with ADHD and play WoW for quite long stretches of time. While I tend to have quite a short attentionspan for most things games work quite the opposite for me.
Games tend to calm me down and get me in a state which enables me to really focus and concentrate on a single task or goal for much longer periods of time. A state of mind mostly refered to as hyperfocus. Generally it means that if you find something fun or very interresting it enables you to extremely focus on the subject. A thing most people with adhd will recognize I think.