we could find a nice sized hole/cave/cavern (something biodome sized+) under the surface on the moon/mars and build inside it. it would solve a lot of problems about high speed impacts/dust storms and maybe even cut down on materal needed to made a habitat. instead of building a huge bubble we would need to only seal the entrance and any holes. bring along equipment to melt/distill water, 50 pounds of seeds, and what ever the soil would need to let them grow and you'd have a nice place after a few decades.
ofc, there are prob. 10,000 things wrong with my idea (quakes?). but i'm still proud of it:D
Those are the absolute minimums. Normally laws just say that a crime is a first, second, third, etc degree misdemeanor/felony. All those are, are preset levels of punishment that corresponds to severity of the crime. A first time DUI and this new law are both first degree misdemeanor. The maximum penalty in Ohio for first degree misdemeanors is 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine, but it is up to the judge to decide the actual penalty. He could fine you the full $1,000/6 months if he thinks it is merited or fine you nothing (or even throw the case out). He can not go over that level though (ie, give out the death penalty for theft). The difference between this law and first time DUI is that first time DUI carries an absolute minimum penalty that the judge HAS to fine. So the two penalties maximums are the same but the minimums are quite different. Also, the DUI has all kinds of little riders like 72-hour alcohol safety traffic school, 6 points against your license and a 6 month license suspension. So in the end the DUI is worse. It still is sick that they made it a jailable offence.
I wrote three letters to the governor last fall, and even offered to meet him to discuss the pitfalls of this law. What did I get back? Three prefab "Thank you for your concern on this matter, but I don't really care what you think. I'll make the best choice for you even if you don't believe that it is." letters back. I'm not kidding either. That's basically what they said and they where all the same, down to the photocopied signature. I bet they have a stack of them and an army of interns mailing them out to whatever return address is on the outside of the letters they get. I wonder if they even read them. Either way I know who I'm not voting for next election. I think I'm going to vote libertarian on everything. They're views are extreme enough to shove a nice sized enema up this corrupt country's ass.
What's really nuts is that the punishment for doing this is worse than the one for a first offense DUI.
Untrue. In Ohio a first offense DUI is a first-degree misdemeanor that has the same punishment as this crime. The difference is that a first offense DUI has a mandatory minimum of 3 days in jail or a 72-hour alcohol safety traffic school, $250 fine, 6 points against your license and a 6 month license suspension (you can get work driving rights). Other than you're right. This law has no place in the books.
Do we have the right? I suppose if you take the really long view, then no
How does taking a really long view at things take away our right to expand? Although I can't state this as fact I would assume that life have been around, birthed, destroyed, expanding, collapsed, exploded, imploded, and frozen/burnt eons before humans ever thought to themselves, "Hey, living in the dirt sucks. Let's make air conditioning and gameboys while flinging voyeuristic webcams into Martian's showers."
I guess it all comes down to what you believe. If you believe in some God/Gods/Omnipotent Force then you just have to ask yourself what was his/her/it's point for us during creation? I would say it was for us to learn. Then what was the point of other life? Well, maybe it was just other tries that didn't work out, or it could be meant for fuel. God did make us so we had to eat something and other life seems to be it.
If you believe that life is just a fluke in an infinite universe then there is no set point and thus no restriction of right, unless you count your moral values as universal law. In which case you would be imposing your morals on others just like they where doing to the non-human life form.
Maybe you where just trolling? I never can tell for sure.
Who would have thought that the German constitution has had this law suit thrown out of court and protect a company while blatantly created a program for copyright violation, while the US constitution allows a collage student to be sued for his life savings by the RIAA for simply creating a search engine.
The US Constitution had nothing to do with that guy. He caved at the pressure and offered the RIAA everything in return. I bet the EFF would have backed him legally and the RIAA would have dropped the case or settled for a slap on the wrist and filtering of the search engine instead of all the guy's gil.
Also, lets not warp things out of perspective. His search engine wasn't without sin. A search engine to catalog shared files across a college campus. Yea, that has a lot more practical applications then simply warez, mp3z, and pr0n doesn't it?
I don't agree with the RIAA in their argument he was responsible for what others shared. I also don't agree with him caving in and then complaining. I doubt it would have held up in court. But we'll never know will we?
BTW. That last question was rhetorical incase you felt like answering it.
Do you know where Indiana is? Can you find it on a map without googling? What is its capital? What about imports and exports? Crops? Climate? Terrain? Population?
No you say? Why is this relevant?
Indiana is bigger then Hungary. It's GSP(Gross State Product) is $190 billion compared to Hungary's $134.7 billion. And Indiana has 4 million less people. (just to name 3 reasons)
And it is just a State.
Why is it so important to you for Americans to know where every 2nd and 3rd world country is? I'm sure you couldn't name every country out there, much less point them all out.
Here is the short, short version. America was created by people, for the people, as a sanctuary from overbearing governments. It was designed to be a low upkeep entity. Everything was spelled out in black and white in the Constitution. The Constitution had one fatal flaw. It counted on politicians doing what was best for the nation, not their wallets.
So, all we have to do is get those people to line up from coast to coast again while hold hands, and then run a moderately large sized modulating electric current thru them and vola! A ping from east coast to west coast not using the internet.
It's not about "Can we, the geeks, mobilize." It's about if we, the geeks, think that it would be worth doing. I would say no. Off the shelf wireless is not up to this task. Sure it can be done but not effectively. And there is no immediate need for a user run Internet (or non-Internet, whatever) backbone. It would be neat but in the end, going thru a few 1000 access points, I don't think the ping time or transfer rate will be close to useful. Thats all that matters to me. If the thing can do what it was designed for. I'll stick with using fiber for distance and wireless for lans/mans.
IBPhoenix have now declared this shock-and-awe stage of their campaign over, heralding it a success.
"We where not expecting this attack at all", stated Mitchell Baker of the Mozilla team. "In fact, we didn't even know we where under assaulted until it was over. I got like, four emails myself and I think a couple other members of the development team got one. At first I thought they where trying to sell me Viagra or something, but as it turns out they where actual pissed at us for naming a web browser the same name as their database."
Later today the Mozilla team unleashed a massive counter offensive consisting of email filter, newsgroup filters, and submitting a story to slashdot.org with links to InterBase web servers. "We figure by this time tomorrow InterBase should be fully neutralized by 'The Slashdot Affect' stopping their waves-- err, wave of emails and general greediness over the name 'Firebird'."
... to go look for small rocks orbiting a bigger rock on the edge of the solar system.
The New Horizons spacecraft would be able to detect Pluto satellites down to 0.62 miles (1 kilometer)... Other satellites might have gone unnoticed and, if there, should tell a great deal about planet and comet formation in the outer solar system.
I'd rather see the money used in general R&D on the space ladder or a plane that can make low orbit. Lets get a better and cheaper system for getting things into space first. Then we can send out 1000's of _cheap_ probes to look for this worthless^H^H^H^Hfull information.
That money may not get us a space ladder, but it will get us 500 million dollars closer to it.
There are hundreds of thousands of song files on personal computers worldwide. They are "swapped" for free using special software, robbing artists and their record companies of royalties.
Should read:
There are hundreds of thousands of record companies worldwide. They are using special contract software, robbing artists of their royalties.
- Lack of previous version's cut scenes (no more Kari Wuhrer --- damn!!!)
Wait, No Tanya in tight army fatuges, or at the end of the game in a thin, small dress waiting to get on a helicopter with YOU to goto the biggest party the world has yet to see?
I think we all need to bow our heads and have a moment of silence please.
I used to be a big fan of C&C. Problem is, Red Alert was just like the original, Tiberian Sun was just like Red Alert, Red Alert II was just like the original Red Alert. Each game has new graphics and different names for the same things.
Isn't that the POINT of a sequel game? Keep the basic game play, which people like, intacted but also add as many new features as you can. Each game had new units with differant special abilities changing the game play just enough to keep it fun and fresh. Yet they kept most of the basic units in some form or another so the learning curve would be small for an old vet.
Game sequels are the game programers remaking the same game to push the latest hardware and add new things that at the time of the orignal game where not possible.
Just send up Bruce Willis, Steve Bushemi, and, Ben Afleck. Billy-Bob will coordinate the whole she-bang from the ground. Good luck and God speed gentlemen
I'll vote for launching Bruce Willis, Steve Bushemi, and, Ben Afleck into space anyways.
Grand Prize is 1,000,000 yen... thats 8,306.775 USD not $10,000.
Award for Promotion 5 works 150,000 yen each (1,246.03 USD) Award for Planning 5 works 50,000 yen each (415.332 USD)
Grand Prix 1 work 1,000,000 yen (8,306.775 USD) Award for Excellence a few works Total 1,000,000 yen Award for Fine Works a few works Total 500,000 yen (4,153.15 USD)
So they are paying people to port applications to IPv6 now? hmp.. I would have thought that the ISP's and telicos would have ported to it automaticly when Internet IP's started to dry up.
Microsoft's position has been that unbundling Media Player would tear an irreparable hole in Windows and stifle future innovation. It has also said that Media Player's main rival, a product made by RealNetworks Inc., has more than three-quarters of the global market
Two points.
1. What exactly does RealNetworks have 3/4+ of the global market in? being the default media player? Or in web streaming? or maybe being a fk'ing annoying resource hog thats only life blood is a closed source streaming protocol that most people think of as "pretty nifty"?
2. If RealNetworks Inc. indeed does have more than three-quarters of the global market (we'll assume default media player) then isn't that proof that Microsoft's bundling of Media Player does NOT have a major affect on competitors?
I see where they are coming from but i'm just worried where the courts draw the line of OS and application. After all, if I make a calc program for windows and try to sell it would Microsoft have to not include "calc.exe" in the next release? Keep in mind this is setting precedence that could possible haunt linux distros and MacOS down the line.
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we could find a nice sized hole/cave/cavern (something biodome sized+) under the surface on the moon/mars and build inside it. it would solve a lot of problems about high speed impacts/dust storms and maybe even cut down on materal needed to made a habitat. instead of building a huge bubble we would need to only seal the entrance and any holes. bring along equipment to melt/distill water, 50 pounds of seeds, and what ever the soil would need to let them grow and you'd have a nice place after a few decades.
:D
ofc, there are prob. 10,000 things wrong with my idea (quakes?). but i'm still proud of it
Those are the absolute minimums. Normally laws just say that a crime is a first, second, third, etc degree misdemeanor/felony. All those are, are preset levels of punishment that corresponds to severity of the crime. A first time DUI and this new law are both first degree misdemeanor. The maximum penalty in Ohio for first degree misdemeanors is 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine, but it is up to the judge to decide the actual penalty. He could fine you the full $1,000/6 months if he thinks it is merited or fine you nothing (or even throw the case out). He can not go over that level though (ie, give out the death penalty for theft). The difference between this law and first time DUI is that first time DUI carries an absolute minimum penalty that the judge HAS to fine. So the two penalties maximums are the same but the minimums are quite different. Also, the DUI has all kinds of little riders like 72-hour alcohol safety traffic school, 6 points against your license and a 6 month license suspension. So in the end the DUI is worse. It still is sick that they made it a jailable offence.
I wrote three letters to the governor last fall, and even offered to meet him to discuss the pitfalls of this law. What did I get back? Three prefab "Thank you for your concern on this matter, but I don't really care what you think. I'll make the best choice for you even if you don't believe that it is." letters back. I'm not kidding either. That's basically what they said and they where all the same, down to the photocopied signature. I bet they have a stack of them and an army of interns mailing them out to whatever return address is on the outside of the letters they get. I wonder if they even read them. Either way I know who I'm not voting for next election. I think I'm going to vote libertarian on everything. They're views are extreme enough to shove a nice sized enema up this corrupt country's ass.
What's really nuts is that the punishment for doing this is worse than the one for a first offense DUI.
Untrue. In Ohio a first offense DUI is a first-degree misdemeanor that has the same punishment as this crime. The difference is that a first offense DUI has a mandatory minimum of 3 days in jail or a 72-hour alcohol safety traffic school, $250 fine, 6 points against your license and a 6 month license suspension (you can get work driving rights). Other than you're right. This law has no place in the books.
Do we have the right? I suppose if you take the really long view, then no
How does taking a really long view at things take away our right to expand? Although I can't state this as fact I would assume that life have been around, birthed, destroyed, expanding, collapsed, exploded, imploded, and frozen/burnt eons before humans ever thought to themselves, "Hey, living in the dirt sucks. Let's make air conditioning and gameboys while flinging voyeuristic webcams into Martian's showers."
I guess it all comes down to what you believe. If you believe in some God/Gods/Omnipotent Force then you just have to ask yourself what was his/her/it's point for us during creation? I would say it was for us to learn. Then what was the point of other life? Well, maybe it was just other tries that didn't work out, or it could be meant for fuel. God did make us so we had to eat something and other life seems to be it.
If you believe that life is just a fluke in an infinite universe then there is no set point and thus no restriction of right, unless you count your moral values as universal law. In which case you would be imposing your morals on others just like they where doing to the non-human life form.
Maybe you where just trolling? I never can tell for sure.
Out of the area clients can use any available delivery service such as UPS, Fed Ex, or the US Mail.
For when your uber sensitive business data must get to the super secure storage facility safely... trust USPS and remember, pack well.
Computer : one that computes
Compute : to determine especially by mathematical means.
Hardware(simplest form) can compute without software(exp).
Software(simplest form) can not computer without hardware.
So, i would say the hardware IS the computer, and software is whats computed.
... since C is now owned by SCO, so is everything written in said language
That explains why SCO isn't going after Microsoft.
Windows being written in VB and all.
I tried this but it kept running away from my shadow. Then it miss-took my head for the moon and turned south.
Who would have thought that the German constitution has had this law suit thrown out of court and protect a company while blatantly created a program for copyright violation, while the US constitution allows a collage student to be sued for his life savings by the RIAA for simply creating a search engine.
The US Constitution had nothing to do with that guy. He caved at the pressure and offered the RIAA everything in return. I bet the EFF would have backed him legally and the RIAA would have dropped the case or settled for a slap on the wrist and filtering of the search engine instead of all the guy's gil.
Also, lets not warp things out of perspective. His search engine wasn't without sin. A search engine to catalog shared files across a college campus. Yea, that has a lot more practical applications then simply warez, mp3z, and pr0n doesn't it?
I don't agree with the RIAA in their argument he was responsible for what others shared. I also don't agree with him caving in and then complaining. I doubt it would have held up in court. But we'll never know will we?
BTW. That last question was rhetorical incase you felt like answering it.
Do you know where Indiana is? Can you find it on a map without googling? What is its capital? What about imports and exports? Crops? Climate? Terrain? Population?
: //www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/prin t/hu.html
No you say? Why is this relevant?
Indiana is bigger then Hungary. It's GSP(Gross State Product) is $190 billion compared to Hungary's $134.7 billion. And Indiana has 4 million less people. (just to name 3 reasons)
And it is just a State.
Why is it so important to you for Americans to know where every 2nd and 3rd world country is? I'm sure you couldn't name every country out there, much less point them all out.
*sources*
http://www.in.gov/doc/compare/
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You don't piss in the face of competitors, laugh at them for it, and then expect them to actually WORK with you.
Unless you're Microsoft.
/* story Ripping Vinyl Via Your Scanner?
Actual site http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/
You must be new to America...
Here is the short, short version. America was created by people, for the people, as a sanctuary from overbearing governments. It was designed to be a low upkeep entity. Everything was spelled out in black and white in the Constitution. The Constitution had one fatal flaw. It counted on politicians doing what was best for the nation, not their wallets.
So, all we have to do is get those people to line up from coast to coast again while hold hands, and then run a moderately large sized modulating electric current thru them and vola! A ping from east coast to west coast not using the internet.
It's not about "Can we, the geeks, mobilize." It's about if we, the geeks, think that it would be worth doing. I would say no. Off the shelf wireless is not up to this task. Sure it can be done but not effectively. And there is no immediate need for a user run Internet (or non-Internet, whatever) backbone. It would be neat but in the end, going thru a few 1000 access points, I don't think the ping time or transfer rate will be close to useful. Thats all that matters to me. If the thing can do what it was designed for. I'll stick with using fiber for distance and wireless for lans/mans.
To help stall the trial until SCO goes out of business?
IBPhoenix have now declared this shock-and-awe stage of their campaign over, heralding it a success.
"We where not expecting this attack at all", stated Mitchell Baker of the Mozilla team. "In fact, we didn't even know we where under assaulted until it was over. I got like, four emails myself and I think a couple other members of the development team got one. At first I thought they where trying to sell me Viagra or something, but as it turns out they where actual pissed at us for naming a web browser the same name as their database."
Later today the Mozilla team unleashed a massive counter offensive consisting of email filter, newsgroup filters, and submitting a story to slashdot.org with links to InterBase web servers. "We figure by this time tomorrow InterBase should be fully neutralized by 'The Slashdot Affect' stopping their waves-- err, wave of emails and general greediness over the name 'Firebird'."
... to go look for small rocks orbiting a bigger rock on the edge of the solar system.
...
The New Horizons spacecraft would be able to detect Pluto satellites down to 0.62 miles (1 kilometer)
Other satellites might have gone unnoticed and, if there, should tell a great deal about planet and comet formation in the outer solar system.
I'd rather see the money used in general R&D on the space ladder or a plane that can make low orbit. Lets get a better and cheaper system for getting things into space first. Then we can send out 1000's of _cheap_ probes to look for this worthless^H^H^H^Hfull information.
That money may not get us a space ladder, but it will get us 500 million dollars closer to it.
Should read:
Whenever the games copyrights expire i'd imagine.
Wait, No Tanya in tight army fatuges, or at the end of the game in a thin, small dress waiting to get on a helicopter with YOU to goto the biggest party the world has yet to see?
I think we all need to bow our heads and have a moment of silence please.
Isn't that the POINT of a sequel game? Keep the basic game play, which people like, intacted but also add as many new features as you can. Each game had new units with differant special abilities changing the game play just enough to keep it fun and fresh. Yet they kept most of the basic units in some form or another so the learning curve would be small for an old vet.
Game sequels are the game programers remaking the same game to push the latest hardware and add new things that at the time of the orignal game where not possible.
Don't dog on a C&C game for being a C&C game.
I'll vote for launching Bruce Willis, Steve Bushemi, and, Ben Afleck into space anyways.
Does this mean the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is wrong???
[Niadh panics]
Grand Prize is 1,000,000 yen... thats 8,306.775 USD not $10,000.
Award for Promotion 5 works 150,000 yen each (1,246.03 USD)
Award for Planning 5 works 50,000 yen each (415.332 USD)
Grand Prix 1 work 1,000,000 yen (8,306.775 USD)
Award for Excellence a few works Total 1,000,000 yen
Award for Fine Works a few works Total 500,000 yen (4,153.15 USD)
So they are paying people to port applications to IPv6 now? hmp.. I would have thought that the ISP's and telicos would have ported to it automaticly when Internet IP's started to dry up.
Microsoft's position has been that unbundling Media Player would tear an irreparable hole in Windows and stifle future innovation. It has also said that Media Player's main rival, a product made by RealNetworks Inc., has more than three-quarters of the global market
Two points.
1. What exactly does RealNetworks have 3/4+ of the global market in? being the default media player? Or in web streaming? or maybe being a fk'ing annoying resource hog thats only life blood is a closed source streaming protocol that most people think of as "pretty nifty"?
2. If RealNetworks Inc. indeed does have more than three-quarters of the global market (we'll assume default media player) then isn't that proof that Microsoft's bundling of Media Player does NOT have a major affect on competitors?
I see where they are coming from but i'm just worried where the courts draw the line of OS and application. After all, if I make a calc program for windows and try to sell it would Microsoft have to not include "calc.exe" in the next release? Keep in mind this is setting precedence that could possible haunt linux distros and MacOS down the line.