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I don't quite agree with you. You can have an open standard for DRM, and therefore an open reference on how to implement that DRM standard. Now, that reference can' be released under something like the GPL, I agree. However, I don't see why it couldn't be released under a license like BSD or something similar. So, open source and DRM is okay, but GPL and DRM is not.
...Michael Jackson...a few moghuls and poster children excepted... ...when Michael Jackson was the poster child, and not wanting a sleepover with the poster child.
Anybody who knows more then me, would be able to soothe my thoughts and tell me someone on such a shuttle would have a chance of survival is this were to leak?
Given the track record of the US shuttle (0 survivors out of 2 explosions, one actually involving LOX), I'd say none.
About the dubious legality. I believe, in the US, evidence from a government search is inadmissable unless obtained under a warrant, with some special cases. But, if a citizen enters the location, retrieves any evidence, and presents it to the government officials, it IS admissable. I don't think they can ask a private citizen to do that - it would make a travesty of the law, and most legal systems will only let that go so far. I also would imagine that paying citizens for the information that they present would imply that you asked them to find the information for you. That would be the tack to take with this - what private organization is going to collect the information, and provide it to the government with no payment? The other half, what information should they provide to the government, is easily bypassed - which information that we have gathered indicates either civil or criminal law being broken?
Of course, all this is under the premise that a private citizen can provide information to the government that was obtained in a manner which the government is not allowed to use.
The difference is, in selective breeding, etc., God set the rules (DNA) and we played within them. IMO, this applies to correcting genetic diseases as well - we just added new equipment to the game. OTOH, when we create DNA strands that never existed before (at least not now), we're making a whole new game, possibly one where we don't know how it ends. We still run into huge problems when we introduce an existing organism into a new ecology, and we already have a good idea about how they work. We're still guessing what all the ramifications are when we look at the building blocks.
Also, if you can't keep these viruses, etc. contained, what right do you have to expose me to them? Do you honestly think we can use those and guarantee that when you walk out the the biocontainment structure that you aren't taking even one of them with you?
An ethanol economy is not quite as desirable as a hyrdrogen economy, but it can still be very good. I would imagine you could find at least a billion people who desire an ethanol economy over a hydrogen economy, and they seem to think it is very good.
Likely, but not necessarily true. They also get the money up front, and the extended warranty usually doesn't kick in until the manufacturer warranty is over. This means they have access to cash for possibly years before any pressure is going to be put on it. Use that cash flow to float your business for the duration of the manufacturer warranty, and it's better than getting a loan. If you look at it that way, they could even lose a little (compared to what you paid) and still be ahead.
That said, I think they're a bit of a scam, too (note the sig;).
This seems to work based on the theory of 'how to avoid a rare event.' For all the thousands of people (many novice) running with the bulls, relatively few get gored. Another good example is how not to get struck by lightning. All I can tell you so far is, 'keep breathing.' Another term for this might be 'exception analysis.' Look at the smaller pool of results to determine how to achieve your results. From everything that's happened in the last 40 years, I don't think this applies to computer programming...
Well, if you're going to throw theories out about what the graphs mean, why not turn them around. What if the source of the reduction in temperature (another side-effect of solar energy) caused a reduction in CO2. Just imagine, the worlds flora gets less solar energy, and can't produce as well, and can't produce CO2 as well. Incidentally, the temperature goes down, which doesn't help the plants either. When things go the other way, both graphs spike.
Oh, and as to your heavier rain showers, particles in the air cause heavier rain showers, too. Ever hear of cloud seeding? My city is large enough to cause local weather variations, too. I've seen blizzards split around the city - clouds and snow in all directions, and a partially clear sky above. It looks really cool on weather maps, but I'm not attributing that local variation to global warming, either.
I'm not saying I believe this, but you can't take two disparate elements, and guess you know what the whole ecosystem was doing.
All the scientists are guessing, to one degree or another. They don't have 100% certainty with most of the big things, wich is why the theories keep evolving. Obviously, there is one right answer, and we might even find it. The likelier option is that more than one thoery is partly right.
Of course, we may never know, at least until we've been able to collect a decent sample ourselves. Personally, I'll keep guessing.;)
Obviously, you're not trying hard enough. A few months ago, I could generate a BSOD on my Win2K laptop at will. Fortunately, one patch or other took care of that, but I still get them every month or two. Not that I'm complaining, it used to be worse when I wasn't trying to crash the system.
Rereading that, I realize just how much I've come to accept BSODs. God, I need to start using a different OS...someday.
Thereby implying that Linus' work is "less free" and slapping him in the face? Keep in mind that, at least in the earlier versions (I can't say about currently), I could make a fork of any GNU product and call it mdielmann software under the GPL. With no changes to the code, no less.
I'm not saying that RMS & Co. doesn't deserve some (lots of) credit, but that doesn't give him a right to tack his name to it.
Note that forking over for a business account here will cost you...exactly the same as the personal account.
Translation: 'For $40/mo, you can have all the surfing, etc. you can handle, OR you can have all the servers and crap you want with a 5 GB/mo cap. If you choose option 2, we'll be happy to sell you more throughput at $3/GB.'
So, I think they agree with you. IF you pay for your bandwidth, THEN you can use all you want. Otherwise, you're stuck with surfing really* fast.
I completely agree. I would go further in saying that there are probably still eureka moments in mature sciences, but that these happen to exceptional members of the field who find the last piece or pieces of a puzzle mostly put together with the help of the rest of the team.
And how are these the same? In each of your examples, there isn't patent or copyright law that applies to them.
Beer? Been around for hundreds (thousands?) of years. No laws against making your own. Duplicating the formula for Milwaukee (why you would duplicate an American beer aside) may be a different issue.
Clothes? Good Grief! Can I have whatever you're smoking? Again, unless I do knockoffs, I'm untouchable.
The bike joke is just as bad as the clothes one.
The thing you're overlooking is that, for good or bad, there is a law saying who owns the lyrics, the music, and the voice [not]talent of the material on those CDs. The RIAA et al can't crack down on indy music because they don't have any share in it! You can sing every Briney Spears song in your own crappy (or not so crappy) voice, and now you're only breaking the law concerning the lyrics and music. We've already covered what happens if you replace those two components, too (indy music), so let's not rehash that.
Well, they want $0.05. Per day. Preferably in $10.00 increments. So, pony up or take the platitudes elsewhere. Now you know what $.02 gets you nowadays...:D
Please don't take me seriously - no one else does and I don't want to break that record.
You've fallen into the common belief that money brings happiness. The question however is this: What good is money if you have to sacrifice your mental well being to get it?
My mental well-being? That's it? I'll get to retain my standards, ethics, and physical well-being, too? This game testing 'job' keeps looking better and better...
I think your WalMart example is entirely unrealistic. I can't remember the last time I saw someone in WalMart wearing a suit and tie (not including a few of the staff)...
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I don't quite agree with you. You can have an open standard for DRM, and therefore an open reference on how to implement that DRM standard. Now, that reference can' be released under something like the GPL, I agree. However, I don't see why it couldn't be released under a license like BSD or something similar. So, open source and DRM is okay, but GPL and DRM is not.
...Michael Jackson...a few moghuls and poster children excepted...
...when Michael Jackson was the poster child, and not wanting a sleepover with the poster child.
Anybody who knows more then me, would be able to soothe my thoughts and tell me someone on such a shuttle would have a chance of survival is this were to leak?
Given the track record of the US shuttle (0 survivors out of 2 explosions, one actually involving LOX), I'd say none.
About the dubious legality. I believe, in the US, evidence from a government search is inadmissable unless obtained under a warrant, with some special cases. But, if a citizen enters the location, retrieves any evidence, and presents it to the government officials, it IS admissable. I don't think they can ask a private citizen to do that - it would make a travesty of the law, and most legal systems will only let that go so far. I also would imagine that paying citizens for the information that they present would imply that you asked them to find the information for you. That would be the tack to take with this - what private organization is going to collect the information, and provide it to the government with no payment? The other half, what information should they provide to the government, is easily bypassed - which information that we have gathered indicates either civil or criminal law being broken?
Of course, all this is under the premise that a private citizen can provide information to the government that was obtained in a manner which the government is not allowed to use.
I for one welcome our insect...I mean gnomish...overlords...
CmdrTaco!!!
The difference is, in selective breeding, etc., God set the rules (DNA) and we played within them. IMO, this applies to correcting genetic diseases as well - we just added new equipment to the game. OTOH, when we create DNA strands that never existed before (at least not now), we're making a whole new game, possibly one where we don't know how it ends. We still run into huge problems when we introduce an existing organism into a new ecology, and we already have a good idea about how they work. We're still guessing what all the ramifications are when we look at the building blocks.
Also, if you can't keep these viruses, etc. contained, what right do you have to expose me to them? Do you honestly think we can use those and guarantee that when you walk out the the biocontainment structure that you aren't taking even one of them with you?
Yes, we put them in machines that haven't had their design specs updated in 20 years.
An ethanol economy is not quite as desirable as a hyrdrogen economy, but it can still be very good.
I would imagine you could find at least a billion people who desire an ethanol economy over a hydrogen economy, and they seem to think it is very good.
Likely, but not necessarily true. They also get the money up front, and the extended warranty usually doesn't kick in until the manufacturer warranty is over. This means they have access to cash for possibly years before any pressure is going to be put on it. Use that cash flow to float your business for the duration of the manufacturer warranty, and it's better than getting a loan. If you look at it that way, they could even lose a little (compared to what you paid) and still be ahead.
;).
That said, I think they're a bit of a scam, too (note the sig
This seems to work based on the theory of 'how to avoid a rare event.' For all the thousands of people (many novice) running with the bulls, relatively few get gored. Another good example is how not to get struck by lightning. All I can tell you so far is, 'keep breathing.' Another term for this might be 'exception analysis.' Look at the smaller pool of results to determine how to achieve your results. From everything that's happened in the last 40 years, I don't think this applies to computer programming...
Well, if you're going to throw theories out about what the graphs mean, why not turn them around. What if the source of the reduction in temperature (another side-effect of solar energy) caused a reduction in CO2. Just imagine, the worlds flora gets less solar energy, and can't produce as well, and can't produce CO2 as well. Incidentally, the temperature goes down, which doesn't help the plants either. When things go the other way, both graphs spike.
;)
Oh, and as to your heavier rain showers, particles in the air cause heavier rain showers, too. Ever hear of cloud seeding? My city is large enough to cause local weather variations, too. I've seen blizzards split around the city - clouds and snow in all directions, and a partially clear sky above. It looks really cool on weather maps, but I'm not attributing that local variation to global warming, either.
I'm not saying I believe this, but you can't take two disparate elements, and guess you know what the whole ecosystem was doing.
All the scientists are guessing, to one degree or another. They don't have 100% certainty with most of the big things, wich is why the theories keep evolving. Obviously, there is one right answer, and we might even find it. The likelier option is that more than one thoery is partly right.
Of course, we may never know, at least until we've been able to collect a decent sample ourselves. Personally, I'll keep guessing.
- Well, that explains it, off I go in my SUV.
- Bull, all the SUVs are the worst part.
- Other
And, of course, the comments that fall into 'Other' will be the interesting ones.I wouldn't call a reaction that is expected to continue for billions of years uncontrolled.
I always knew there was a reasonable explanation for why Exchange was so slow. Thanks for clearing that up.
Obviously, you're not trying hard enough. A few months ago, I could generate a BSOD on my Win2K laptop at will. Fortunately, one patch or other took care of that, but I still get them every month or two. Not that I'm complaining, it used to be worse when I wasn't trying to crash the system.
Rereading that, I realize just how much I've come to accept BSODs. God, I need to start using a different OS...someday.
And how would the emails get past your spam filter...
Thereby implying that Linus' work is "less free" and slapping him in the face? Keep in mind that, at least in the earlier versions (I can't say about currently), I could make a fork of any GNU product and call it mdielmann software under the GPL. With no changes to the code, no less.
I'm not saying that RMS & Co. doesn't deserve some (lots of) credit, but that doesn't give him a right to tack his name to it.
Note that forking over for a business account here will cost you...exactly the same as the personal account.
Translation: 'For $40/mo, you can have all the surfing, etc. you can handle, OR you can have all the servers and crap you want with a 5 GB/mo cap. If you choose option 2, we'll be happy to sell you more throughput at $3/GB.'
So, I think they agree with you. IF you pay for your bandwidth, THEN you can use all you want. Otherwise, you're stuck with surfing really* fast.
* Depending on site/route conditions, etc.
I completely agree. I would go further in saying that there are probably still eureka moments in mature sciences, but that these happen to exceptional members of the field who find the last piece or pieces of a puzzle mostly put together with the help of the rest of the team.
...Virgin Apache developers are fairly easy to find...
And how are these the same? In each of your examples, there isn't patent or copyright law that applies to them.
Beer? Been around for hundreds (thousands?) of years. No laws against making your own. Duplicating the formula for Milwaukee (why you would duplicate an American beer aside) may be a different issue.
Clothes? Good Grief! Can I have whatever you're smoking? Again, unless I do knockoffs, I'm untouchable.
The bike joke is just as bad as the clothes one.
The thing you're overlooking is that, for good or bad, there is a law saying who owns the lyrics, the music, and the voice [not]talent of the material on those CDs. The RIAA et al can't crack down on indy music because they don't have any share in it! You can sing every Briney Spears song in your own crappy (or not so crappy) voice, and now you're only breaking the law concerning the lyrics and music. We've already covered what happens if you replace those two components, too (indy music), so let's not rehash that.
I just want to put my $.02 in for Salon.
:D
Well, they want $0.05. Per day. Preferably in $10.00 increments. So, pony up or take the platitudes elsewhere. Now you know what $.02 gets you nowadays...
Please don't take me seriously - no one else does and I don't want to break that record.
You've fallen into the common belief that money brings happiness. The question however is this: What good is money if you have to sacrifice your mental well being to get it?
My mental well-being? That's it? I'll get to retain my standards, ethics, and physical well-being, too? This game testing 'job' keeps looking better and better...
I think your WalMart example is entirely unrealistic. I can't remember the last time I saw someone in WalMart wearing a suit and tie (not including a few of the staff)...