Can you guarantee that the area you have to spread your generators over to ensure a steady, certain minimum generating capacity (or the base load for the system) is within acceptable transmission loss levels?
You cant, and thats the problem with generation systems where you don't control the minute to minute generating capacity yourself. Wind and solar also cannot handle the increase in peak production required during certain events.
You do realise, it doesn't matter how much you keep repeating it, its still not true - the music business is far from a failed one, it just isn't kowtowing to all of the incessant demands...
When the vast majority of popular music is no longer represented by the RIAA and other mainstream associations, *then* they have a failed business model. But right now? Its perfectly sound, even if you disagree with it.
Sometimes, thats not quite true - one of the big problems we are having with the British Parliamentary system at the moment is the House of Commons (the elected part) pushing through draconian, far reaching legislation which most of the population is against, and the House of Lords (the unelected part) rightfully shooting that legislation down.
Does it count as irony when the people you depend on in a democratic country were not picked democratically?
The best most experienced pilots used to fly Concorde... It's a sad state that technology has moved backwards and we no longer have commercial supersonic aircraft.
Actually, in both the British Airways and Air France fleets, you had more experienced pilots on the 747 fleets because it paid more than flying Concorde. Concorde was a prestige thing for pilots, not the best paid job, and many did infact pass over the chance.
A modern airliner is actually safer than the usual small plane (Cessna etc).
This isn't in dispute. The GPP is simply saying that a pilot who spent years flying a small plane is probably a better _pilot_ than a pilot who has never flown anything but an Airbus A380 (and consequently knows that "you take off by pressing the take-off button, then you wait 5 hours, then you tell the passengers when it's safe to take their seat belts off after the plane lands itself"). Of course, pilot training involves a lot of hours in small planes.
I will dispute that - a civil airline pilot, flying an Airbus A380 (or similar, 777, A330, 747 et al) is more likely to have more experience flying in heavy traffic patterns, more experience handling engine out scenarios, more experience with flying in heavy weather patterns, more experience with flying at night or under Instrument Flight Rules, and is more likely to have had more current professional training on emergencies since their airline requires them to recertify every so many months.
Also, many civil airline pilots are ex-military to begin with...
In the UK all cars are registered with the DVLA, so vehicle tax status is centrally controlled, and all insured drivers are entered into a industry wide database, so insurance status is centrally controlled.
And it works brilliantly (nope, no sarcasm) - if the car is untaxed or uninsured, and you are stopped because of that, you are liable.
Israel's another story, if Britain were fighting against a war against guerrillas (Scots for arguments sake) then there'd be Royal Marines in every schoolhouse, they're there in Israel because of necessity not choice.
People seem to willingly forget that Britain fought a terrorism war for 30 years not that long ago, against Irish dissidents, this isn't new to us. Oh, and we didn't have Royal Marines, armed police or any other branch of the military stationed in schools on anything approaching regularity.
The situation we face today is not new, its just new politicians in charge.
Most ISPs do indeed block SMTP traffic from their clients to the outside world - you are required to use their servers.
And the 'innocent until proven guilty' thing is to protect you from the government - anyone else can happily consider you guilty to their own standard and theres not a thing you can do about it.
Since we keep getting told to think about the artists, why is no-one listening to what they're saying?
Because most of the artists in question willingly and quickly signed away the right to have a say on the matter when their first contract was placed infront of them.
How much of that $17b will go toward actual licensing costs, and how much of it will go toward actual implementation costs? Buying or creating the system would, by experience, be the much lesser cost when implementation of said system is ever taken into account.
We switched to Office 2007 late last year, and we had near to zero issues across a userbase of 150. Most people love the new interface, and were comfortable with it within an hour.
Yup, and I'm saying that didn't work for me, on any of the installs I had - sure, it disappears from that instance, but open up a new tab or close the browser and reopen it and it pops back.
Any guesses as to how many airline planes you have flown on that has a current, known defect resulting in an inoperative system. Hint - pretty much all of them.
Congratulations - now, how many commercial authors of best sellers (or even good sellers) do the same? Practically none - they are the authors who more than likely will not be authoring works if there was no recompense.
And you also overlook works of production - TV shows, movies et al. Large amount of investment precisely because there is a commercial value in doing so - wheres the enticement to create those works when the commercial value no longer exists?
As I said originally - the vast majority of works traded on TPB, and enjoyed by users of TPB, are commercial works that would have no commercial value in a world without copyright law.
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Can you guarantee that the area you have to spread your generators over to ensure a steady, certain minimum generating capacity (or the base load for the system) is within acceptable transmission loss levels?
You cant, and thats the problem with generation systems where you don't control the minute to minute generating capacity yourself. Wind and solar also cannot handle the increase in peak production required during certain events.
all to keep a failed business model afloat.
You do realise, it doesn't matter how much you keep repeating it, its still not true - the music business is far from a failed one, it just isn't kowtowing to all of the incessant demands...
When the vast majority of popular music is no longer represented by the RIAA and other mainstream associations, *then* they have a failed business model. But right now? Its perfectly sound, even if you disagree with it.
Sometimes, thats not quite true - one of the big problems we are having with the British Parliamentary system at the moment is the House of Commons (the elected part) pushing through draconian, far reaching legislation which most of the population is against, and the House of Lords (the unelected part) rightfully shooting that legislation down.
Does it count as irony when the people you depend on in a democratic country were not picked democratically?
Its been proven time and again that this isn't true - pilots still do do stupid things.
The best most experienced pilots used to fly Concorde... It's a sad state that technology has moved backwards and we no longer have commercial supersonic aircraft.
Actually, in both the British Airways and Air France fleets, you had more experienced pilots on the 747 fleets because it paid more than flying Concorde. Concorde was a prestige thing for pilots, not the best paid job, and many did infact pass over the chance.
A modern airliner is actually safer than the usual small plane (Cessna etc).
This isn't in dispute. The GPP is simply saying that a pilot who spent years flying a small plane is probably a better _pilot_ than a pilot who has never flown anything but an Airbus A380 (and consequently knows that "you take off by pressing the take-off button, then you wait 5 hours, then you tell the passengers when it's safe to take their seat belts off after the plane lands itself"). Of course, pilot training involves a lot of hours in small planes.
I will dispute that - a civil airline pilot, flying an Airbus A380 (or similar, 777, A330, 747 et al) is more likely to have more experience flying in heavy traffic patterns, more experience handling engine out scenarios, more experience with flying in heavy weather patterns, more experience with flying at night or under Instrument Flight Rules, and is more likely to have had more current professional training on emergencies since their airline requires them to recertify every so many months.
Also, many civil airline pilots are ex-military to begin with...
They weren't even convicted, it was a civil case...
In the UK all cars are registered with the DVLA, so vehicle tax status is centrally controlled, and all insured drivers are entered into a industry wide database, so insurance status is centrally controlled.
And it works brilliantly (nope, no sarcasm) - if the car is untaxed or uninsured, and you are stopped because of that, you are liable.
People seem to willingly forget that Britain fought a terrorism war for 30 years not that long ago, against Irish dissidents, this isn't new to us. Oh, and we didn't have Royal Marines, armed police or any other branch of the military stationed in schools on anything approaching regularity.
The situation we face today is not new, its just new politicians in charge.
Looks more like they were bought off...
http://shop.o2.co.uk/promo/iphoneindex/Pay_And_Go/3G
Most ISPs do indeed block SMTP traffic from their clients to the outside world - you are required to use their servers.
And the 'innocent until proven guilty' thing is to protect you from the government - anyone else can happily consider you guilty to their own standard and theres not a thing you can do about it.
Since we keep getting told to think about the artists, why is no-one listening to what they're saying?
Because most of the artists in question willingly and quickly signed away the right to have a say on the matter when their first contract was placed infront of them.
How much of that $17b will go toward actual licensing costs, and how much of it will go toward actual implementation costs? Buying or creating the system would, by experience, be the much lesser cost when implementation of said system is ever taken into account.
Whatever happened to politefulness and manners in this world?
We switched to Office 2007 late last year, and we had near to zero issues across a userbase of 150. Most people love the new interface, and were comfortable with it within an hour.
And how is "this physical hardware" different from "that physical hardware"? Its not a simple case of semantics...
I've tried it on Linux, Windows *and* OSX. I've just retried it on all three platforms and it *still* doesnt permanently get rid of it.
Yup, and I'm saying that didn't work for me, on any of the installs I had - sure, it disappears from that instance, but open up a new tab or close the browser and reopen it and it pops back.
Weirdly enough, that didn't work for me, on any of the installs I had.
Nah, I just switched to Safari, thankyou very much.
Any guesses as to how many airline planes you have flown on that has a current, known defect resulting in an inoperative system. Hint - pretty much all of them.
They (iTunes cards) require activation in the UK.
Congratulations - now, how many commercial authors of best sellers (or even good sellers) do the same? Practically none - they are the authors who more than likely will not be authoring works if there was no recompense.
And you also overlook works of production - TV shows, movies et al. Large amount of investment precisely because there is a commercial value in doing so - wheres the enticement to create those works when the commercial value no longer exists?
As I said originally - the vast majority of works traded on TPB, and enjoyed by users of TPB, are commercial works that would have no commercial value in a world without copyright law.
You are sold a license - there's your sale...