Yes, exactly right, a big one in the right direction as opposed to all those small ones, or the big ones that all missed us in the last 15 years. There was a big power cut in Canada in 1989 due to a large solar flare. http://www.ips.gov.au/Educational/1/3/12
...and does "lucrative" only refer to monetary benefit? I think this still leaves the door open to action against P2P, because any file that you are downloading, you are usually also uploading as well. Does that count as "collective use"? If you are uploading in order to maintain your "share ratio", and that share ratio is used to allow you to keep on downloading to acquire more material, does that quid pro quo count as "lucrative"? Wiktionary defines lucrative as "producing a surplus", not necessarily monetary gain, but of course the Spanish ruling may have different subtleties of meaning.
42 isn't the answer to every possible question, it's only the answer to "what do you get when you multiply six by nine". It may be the answer to the only question that has any fundamental relevance in this universe, but I'm sure there are other universes that were designed to answer other questions. Some of them might have got it right.
Those were released as singles, and are probably available as singles, and the band agreed to those being released individually. What EMI can't do, by analogy, is take each of the 12 apostles from The Last Supper and exhibit them as individual works of art or sell prints of them. You can buy the entire work and then select individual parts for personal enjoyment, just like I can play a single track from my CD of Dark Side of the Moon, so your ability to enjoy their art in the way that you wish is not compromised.
Not really that fucked up - another family's child dying because of this family's stupidity is a marginally worse situation. Perhaps "glad" is an exaggeration, I suspect dinkypoo is not actually glad that this accident happened in the first place.
I've thought of one that's nearly as bad - take away the other child. Certainly it's worse if you add the two together (1 dead + 1 taken away > 1 dead), and may be necessary for the safe upbringing of the other child.
Or a rootkit. But if he's working on rootkits (implementation or detection) then he should know more about his subject than the vast majority of the slashdot crowd already.
The presence or absence of water in the craters has had no impact on human history - but I guess you're right that it's *going* to. I suppose it boils down (no pun intended) to how many craters this ice is spread among - if it's thousands, then fencing off a few is an option. If it's three big ones, then good luck getting people to forego that much usable resource.
It's a big rock floating through vacuum. What is there to preserve? There's no ecosystem, no history, no emotional attachment. The only reason I can think of not to use it is that once it's used up, then it's gone, and if you think of an even better way to use it later then it's too late.
Nonetheless, the best way to get rid of a bad law is still to enforce it. Whether it sets a legal precedent on appeal, or whether it prompts the legislature to change the law, or whether it prompts an appeal to a higher court (ECHR) is a minor detail.
Climate change (and I mean that in the broadest sense, be it global warming or the onset of an ice age) is never a simple "everywhere gets a little bit warmer" or "everywhere gets a little bit dryer". Some places change in one way, some in another. The UK had the coldest January in 25 years, but the global average temperature in January was the highest since records began. Some places will have droughts, some places will have more snow, but it's still impossible to predict with any accuracy what will happen in any one place at any one time. That doesn't mean we should throw in the towel and say "it's impossible to be certain, so lets give up".
You're right, we never really had privacy. However, our lack of privacy is now splashed all over the world, rather than just the neighborhood. The anonymity is something that the net has given us that we didn't have before. So it has both given and taken away in this respect.
So what we have in lieu of privacy is occasional access to anonymity. You can maintain that anonymity for a little more of your life for a little more effort, but maintaining it 24/7 for everything you do is increasingly difficult.
The post you are replying to did not mention Kindle or DRM. Yes, some people here will not consider the Kindle because of the DRM. And some people here - maybe other people to the anti-Kindle people - will consider an iPad. We aren't all the same person with the same opinion.
I think you'll be dead of old age before you see that list filled. Point 4 is a big problem, and if it fulfils all points 1-9 then what will a "more functionally versatile" device offer in addition to all this?
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Yes, exactly right, a big one in the right direction as opposed to all those small ones, or the big ones that all missed us in the last 15 years. There was a big power cut in Canada in 1989 due to a large solar flare. http://www.ips.gov.au/Educational/1/3/12
This just adds to the consequences of the inevitable solar flare that will knock out all our satellites.
...and does "lucrative" only refer to monetary benefit? I think this still leaves the door open to action against P2P, because any file that you are downloading, you are usually also uploading as well. Does that count as "collective use"? If you are uploading in order to maintain your "share ratio", and that share ratio is used to allow you to keep on downloading to acquire more material, does that quid pro quo count as "lucrative"? Wiktionary defines lucrative as "producing a surplus", not necessarily monetary gain, but of course the Spanish ruling may have different subtleties of meaning.
You could have stuffed in an "I for one welcome our murderous unmanned aerial overlords" for good measure.
More people read the TV Guide than Yellow Pages.
42 isn't the answer to every possible question, it's only the answer to "what do you get when you multiply six by nine". It may be the answer to the only question that has any fundamental relevance in this universe, but I'm sure there are other universes that were designed to answer other questions. Some of them might have got it right.
...although I've also heard Astronomy Domine on the radio and that was never a single...
Those were released as singles, and are probably available as singles, and the band agreed to those being released individually. What EMI can't do, by analogy, is take each of the 12 apostles from The Last Supper and exhibit them as individual works of art or sell prints of them. You can buy the entire work and then select individual parts for personal enjoyment, just like I can play a single track from my CD of Dark Side of the Moon, so your ability to enjoy their art in the way that you wish is not compromised.
Not really that fucked up - another family's child dying because of this family's stupidity is a marginally worse situation. Perhaps "glad" is an exaggeration, I suspect dinkypoo is not actually glad that this accident happened in the first place.
I've thought of one that's nearly as bad - take away the other child. Certainly it's worse if you add the two together (1 dead + 1 taken away > 1 dead), and may be necessary for the safe upbringing of the other child.
That's like saying "Why do we need XML when we already have HTML?" - better to ask "why not use the official successor to VRML, i.e. X3D?"
Good point.
Or a rootkit. But if he's working on rootkits (implementation or detection) then he should know more about his subject than the vast majority of the slashdot crowd already.
The presence or absence of water in the craters has had no impact on human history - but I guess you're right that it's *going* to. I suppose it boils down (no pun intended) to how many craters this ice is spread among - if it's thousands, then fencing off a few is an option. If it's three big ones, then good luck getting people to forego that much usable resource.
I guess they are talking about mass.
It's a big rock floating through vacuum. What is there to preserve? There's no ecosystem, no history, no emotional attachment. The only reason I can think of not to use it is that once it's used up, then it's gone, and if you think of an even better way to use it later then it's too late.
Nonetheless, the best way to get rid of a bad law is still to enforce it. Whether it sets a legal precedent on appeal, or whether it prompts the legislature to change the law, or whether it prompts an appeal to a higher court (ECHR) is a minor detail.
I heard it on the radio last Friday, but I see others have chipped in with references, thanks to all.
The Sun's output is only around 386,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts. I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
Climate change (and I mean that in the broadest sense, be it global warming or the onset of an ice age) is never a simple "everywhere gets a little bit warmer" or "everywhere gets a little bit dryer". Some places change in one way, some in another. The UK had the coldest January in 25 years, but the global average temperature in January was the highest since records began. Some places will have droughts, some places will have more snow, but it's still impossible to predict with any accuracy what will happen in any one place at any one time. That doesn't mean we should throw in the towel and say "it's impossible to be certain, so lets give up".
You're right, we never really had privacy. However, our lack of privacy is now splashed all over the world, rather than just the neighborhood. The anonymity is something that the net has given us that we didn't have before. So it has both given and taken away in this respect.
So what we have in lieu of privacy is occasional access to anonymity. You can maintain that anonymity for a little more of your life for a little more effort, but maintaining it 24/7 for everything you do is increasingly difficult.
You're effectively asking for a discount in return for some artificial limitations being placed on it. That's just weird.
The post you are replying to did not mention Kindle or DRM. Yes, some people here will not consider the Kindle because of the DRM. And some people here - maybe other people to the anti-Kindle people - will consider an iPad. We aren't all the same person with the same opinion.
I think you'll be dead of old age before you see that list filled. Point 4 is a big problem, and if it fulfils all points 1-9 then what will a "more functionally versatile" device offer in addition to all this?