But unfortunately it will have to go through a decade-long FDA approval process and of course be ridiculously expensive because of royalties, despite the fact that it is a hormone that the body naturally produces and it will only be used in concentrations similar to what is found in normal tissue, so it is extremely unlikely it could have any significant bad side effects.
On a similar note gene-sequence patenting is absurd and malicious. What if someone had patented Vitamin C?
This reminds me of the Star Trek courses that several colleges have had over the years. What a laugh riot. One syllabus I saw was basically watching 3 select star trek episodes a week, discussing them in class, and writing 5 papers analyzing them over the course of the semester.
But still, that would be a great way to fulfill a GenEd humanities requirement or whatnot.
More than half of all the expenses go to advertizing and promotion. (not even counting concerts, because those pay for themselves and make a profit) In fact, it's an even larger expense than royalties. For a $12 album, I estimate $4 goes to the retail store, 100,000 copies regardless of filesharing or watnot. It can easily be produced for $20,000 + $0.50 packaging per copy + $3 royalties per copy. That means guaranteed profits as long as they can produce decent stuff while keeping costs down. Lack of profitibility is entirely the fault of the RIAA for having ridiculously and unnecessarily high espenditures. If they want to be more profitable they should stop spending so much money on bribing senators with campaign contributions, and let the music promote itself for a negligible cost by just mailing out free samples to radio stations.
"Among other alarming things, the proposed law would require all web publications to have an editor-in-chief, who would have a criminal responsibility for all material published in his publication. That would include discussion on web boards and force editors on sites like/. preview and censor all comments before displaying them."
That's the most absurd law I ever heard of. That's exactly like blaming the telephone company when some psycho makes threatening calls to someone. They just have no respect for the immunity of unmoderated mediums anymore.
Now I can, umm yeah, look at the source code for my helix server and, if I feel like it, make a monumental waste of time debugging it myself. Wow, that's great. I'm totally not being sarcastic.
Open source is overrated. When it comes to software, free as in beer is about 100x more important to the average consumer than free as in source code.
The government had access to all the records that Mitnick could have used for his defense, but they arbitrarily withheld the records indefinitely. Each six months Mitnick was given the choice of going to trial with an unprepared defense and some crappy government lawyer with no access to the records necessary to prove his innoccence, or to sign a waiver allowing the government to delay the trial for another 6 months while he stayed in jail. In other words, they were just trying to fuck with him untile he broke, gave in, and pleaded guilty. They never had any intention of giving him a fair trial. It was a total mockery of the legal system and a travesty of justice.
I'd rather have a jacuzi in my car
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Who wants a sauna, honestly? You might as well just get a car without air conditioning.
1.) Cowboyneal will execute all my duties 2.) I will occasionally telecommute from tahiti to check up on him. 3.) I get 200k/year, and CowboyNeal gets minimum wage plus free mousepads. 4.) All rights reserved, biiatch!
Or at least, that's in effect what I would have if I were a millionaire and just threw all that money in the bank and lived off the interest on Daddy's Daddy's money for eternity.
They give you great meals (especially for airplane food), free wine with your dinner, and movies playing all the time. And that wasn't even in first class. It's so cushy, no wonder they're the first to implement that wireless internet on a passenger plane.
Unless... A.) The info falls into the wrong hands (spammers or people who would use it against you even though you haven't done something illegal)
B.) The Gov't abuses the info against people who haven't done anything illegal
C.) You have done something illegal (whether it's a just law or not is another issue entirely; the law is the law)
[/devil's advocate]
The problem arises due to the fact that not all laws are just or should be universally enforced. The very soul of the purpose of having the 4th amendment is to make the government impotent at enforcing unjust and oppressive laws. All laws against "victimless crimes"* are just that, and those are precisely the laws that privacy most inhibits the government from enforcing. It's kind of a fail-safe method of stopping the government from turning into an oppressive majoritarian state that persecutes those who have hurt no one.
*A "Victimless Crime" is any act that does not harm any unconsenting third party or a third party that is not competant to give consent. Any law against a "Victimless Crime" is oppressive, in my book.
Their market share is way down, Hammer is 4-5 months behind schedule, Barton is 4 months behind and won't even surpass 2.3ghz. Plus, Hammer is probably going to end up like the Itanic and suck for desktop use.
"I wonder if this has anything to do with last month's Ariane 5 explosion (ESAs launch vehicle) , which will surely go down in history as one the worlds most expensive fireworks. Let's hope the mission is back on soon."
Actually, the challenger space shuttle, Apollo 1, Apollo 13, and the first 5 (failed) mercury missions were all more expensive than an Ariane 5.
That makes no sense. If objects that are 14 billion years exist in all directions from earth, the only logical explanation is that the universe hasn't been expanding for all of that time.
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But unfortunately it will have to go through a decade-long FDA approval process and of course be ridiculously expensive because of royalties, despite the fact that it is a hormone that the body naturally produces and it will only be used in concentrations similar to what is found in normal tissue, so it is extremely unlikely it could have any significant bad side effects. On a similar note gene-sequence patenting is absurd and malicious. What if someone had patented Vitamin C?
...is whether Q*bert is more closely related to Dilbert or CueCat. You can't tell from the 10-pixel bitmap.
This reminds me of the Star Trek courses that several colleges have had over the years. What a laugh riot. One syllabus I saw was basically watching 3 select star trek episodes a week, discussing them in class, and writing 5 papers analyzing them over the course of the semester. But still, that would be a great way to fulfill a GenEd humanities requirement or whatnot.
More than half of all the expenses go to advertizing and promotion. (not even counting concerts, because those pay for themselves and make a profit) In fact, it's an even larger expense than royalties. For a $12 album, I estimate $4 goes to the retail store, 100,000 copies regardless of filesharing or watnot. It can easily be produced for $20,000 + $0.50 packaging per copy + $3 royalties per copy. That means guaranteed profits as long as they can produce decent stuff while keeping costs down. Lack of profitibility is entirely the fault of the RIAA for having ridiculously and unnecessarily high espenditures. If they want to be more profitable they should stop spending so much money on bribing senators with campaign contributions, and let the music promote itself for a negligible cost by just mailing out free samples to radio stations.
Just when the nerd-wing conspiracy to assasinate Hillary Rosen was about to come to fruition, she has to step down and spoil our fun! :(
That's strange, I thought space was really cold. Maybe they have some kind of generator up there?
"Among other alarming things, the proposed law would require all web publications to have an editor-in-chief, who would have a criminal responsibility for all material published in his publication. That would include discussion on web boards and force editors on sites like /. preview and censor all comments before displaying them."
That's the most absurd law I ever heard of. That's exactly like blaming the telephone company when some psycho makes threatening calls to someone. They just have no respect for the immunity of unmoderated mediums anymore.
Now I can, umm yeah, look at the source code for my helix server and, if I feel like it, make a monumental waste of time debugging it myself. Wow, that's great. I'm totally not being sarcastic.
Open source is overrated. When it comes to software, free as in beer is about 100x more important to the average consumer than free as in source code.
Have they released Rain 1.1 yet, or is this a totally unnecessary umbrello upgrade?
OMG, we'll all be exploded instead of smashed!
The government had access to all the records that Mitnick could have used for his defense, but they arbitrarily withheld the records indefinitely. Each six months Mitnick was given the choice of going to trial with an unprepared defense and some crappy government lawyer with no access to the records necessary to prove his innoccence, or to sign a waiver allowing the government to delay the trial for another 6 months while he stayed in jail. In other words, they were just trying to fuck with him untile he broke, gave in, and pleaded guilty. They never had any intention of giving him a fair trial. It was a total mockery of the legal system and a travesty of justice.
Who wants a sauna, honestly? You might as well just get a car without air conditioning.
Every incompetant dimwit and his mother has A+ certification... Which is why it doesn't mean jack anymore except maybe to get a job at Best Buy.
1.) Cowboyneal will execute all my duties
2.) I will occasionally telecommute from tahiti to check up on him.
3.) I get 200k/year, and CowboyNeal gets minimum wage plus free mousepads.
4.) All rights reserved, biiatch!
Or at least, that's in effect what I would have if I were a millionaire and just threw all that money in the bank and lived off the interest on Daddy's Daddy's money for eternity.
By that do you mean nerds' porn or nerd porn? Like goatse?
They give you great meals (especially for airplane food), free wine with your dinner, and movies playing all the time. And that wasn't even in first class. It's so cushy, no wonder they're the first to implement that wireless internet on a passenger plane.
I couldn't believe this when I first saw it, but some guys actually hacked it so it could run linux...
Unless...
A.) The info falls into the wrong hands (spammers or people who would use it against you even though you haven't done something illegal)
B.) The Gov't abuses the info against people who haven't done anything illegal
C.) You have done something illegal (whether it's a just law or not is another issue entirely; the law is the law)
[/devil's advocate]
The problem arises due to the fact that not all laws are just or should be universally enforced. The very soul of the purpose of having the 4th amendment is to make the government impotent at enforcing unjust and oppressive laws. All laws against "victimless crimes"* are just that, and those are precisely the laws that privacy most inhibits the government from enforcing. It's kind of a fail-safe method of stopping the government from turning into an oppressive majoritarian state that persecutes those who have hurt no one.
*A "Victimless Crime" is any act that does not harm any unconsenting third party or a third party that is not competant to give consent. Any law against a "Victimless Crime" is oppressive, in my book.
Next thing you know they'll be trying to embed linux in spoons, bricks, t-shirts, mechanical pencils, and condoms.
Their market share is way down, Hammer is 4-5 months behind schedule, Barton is 4 months behind and won't even surpass 2.3ghz. Plus, Hammer is probably going to end up like the Itanic and suck for desktop use.
There are rumors of a new iPod that will store 40gb, interface wirelessly, and rip radio to mp3 in realtime. Isn't that cool?
This thing uses wireless networking for transferring mp3's to the mp3 player. That's a really cool feature. Never saw that in an MP3 player before.
...rip CDs to MP3s? It seems like that would be a pretty good feature to have in a portable CD/mp3 player.
"I wonder if this has anything to do with last month's Ariane 5 explosion (ESAs launch vehicle) , which will surely go down in history as one the worlds most expensive fireworks. Let's hope the mission is back on soon."
Actually, the challenger space shuttle, Apollo 1, Apollo 13, and the first 5 (failed) mercury missions were all more expensive than an Ariane 5.
That makes no sense. If objects that are 14 billion years exist in all directions from earth, the only logical explanation is that the universe hasn't been expanding for all of that time.