Know why you only hear crap in LA? Because a good chunk of every cd you buy goes to what is basically payolla to get records played on radio stations (http://www.salon.com/ent/clear_channel/).
I would only have a problem if people were passing off the paper as their own without crediting me. When you burn a music cd I assume you aren't claiming that is you singing "Sympathy For The Devil".
I would've asked Ms Rosen, "Have you ever photocopied a page from a book and handed it to someone else? Magazine? Newspaper article? Aren't those copyrighted making you a hypocrite and a criminal?"
I find it disgusting that public funds are being handed over to an industry just because it exists. Why not tax cars to subsidize the horse carriage business? How about a tax on computer monitors to support the chalkboard industries? Farm subsidies are there to keep them from collapsing and the food supply is a hell of a lot more important than the music biz.
If we can separate the church from the state then we should be doing the same to the government and industries.
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The bitter replies on this site sound like they are all coming from the comicbook guy on the Simpsons
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So instead of backing your argument up you can only come up with curses and vague accusations? How about some specific examples? Put up or shut up.
I guess if his goal is to alienate those who followed his first 3 SW movies then yes, he succeeded.
It is possible to make something that appeals to kids without talking down to them by resorting to cartoonish pratfalls and baby-talk while still retaining the interest of adults.
Why are product descriptions written by marketroids? They have this obsession with using as many vague buzzwords as possible and refuse to define terms. I think the idea is to make the product sound advanced and powerful by baffling the reader (Pointy Haired Boss: Well, if I can't understand it it must be powerful!). The problem with that is that I won't buy it if I can't figure out what the hell it is supposed to do!
As soon as Mr Gonzalez gets out of jail (or whatever his sentence) or even in jail, he'll tell everyone the details of the car. They'll have to keep rigging up new cars to prevent the local car thieves from identifying them and avoiding them.
It is only a matter of time before the average crook figures out how to jam GPS. The motivation (jail) is certainly there to learn how.
It is one thing to "poo poo" an idea but don't confuse rigorous questioning with outright dismissal. All to often those who have radically new ideas like this are quick to deny information to those who want confirmation. Schroedinger proposed a rather radical idea (quanta) but put his idea up for testing and experimental verification. Einstein proposed possible experiments to confirm his theory of general relativity (one was the shifting of starlight by the near occultation of the sun during an eclipse). If you make a dramatic claim such as room temperature fusion or anti-gravity be prepared to defend your idea both in theory and in the laboratory.
One problem with researchers such as Pons/Fleishmann was that they were quick to run to the press and gave the appearance that the matter was settled and was a fact before it had been subject to reproducability. This is becoming a bigger and bigger problem as hungry media outlets desperate for stories publish anything and everything.
If I could listen to tracks before buying them, and better yet buy only those tracks I liked it would beat the hell out of the current system of buying a whole cd based on maybe hearing one track and getting $20 worth of crapola. A lot of 1 hit wonders force you to buy a whole cd of their greatest misses just to get the one decent song (assuming you can't find it on a compilation) so I pass because I can't justify buying a whole cd for one song. On the other hand I've had a few downloaded tracks from Radiohead and Rage ATM and since they were consistantly good I bought a bunch of their cds.
Any industry that forces you to buy sight unseen alientates consumers. The book industry at least has a system where you can peruse a book in the store before justifying buying it. The music industry, at best, plays a handful of tracks over and over on the radio and a couple of cds at listening stations. Sorry suits but at $20+ a cd I'm not about to impulse buy.
I'd say we don't truly understand the need for sleep yet. For an animal to risk their lives by shutting down and being almost totally vulnerable for 8 or so hours a day and for sleep to have survived evolution for so long and amoung so many different species of animals means it must be pretty damn important.
How about not running like a rat on a wheel to the point of needing drugs to function. Where do you go from here, electric shock? Warp time-space so you can work more than 24hrs a day? What the hell is so important to do this to yourself? Whatever happened to maintaining perspective and keeping balance in your life?
If it requires more energy to extract a energy source than the energy it will yield upon extraction then it is not viable. If it takes 1.5 barrels of oil to extract that 1 barrel then it will never be economical to extract it. Even if you use another energy source you have to look at the economics of ENERGY not cash. Using 1000 Watts of energy to extract 100 Watts isn't profitable. Same goes for hydrogen.
Ok, I read the article and I'm wondering where is all the quicklime needed for the process going to come from? Doesn't creating it involve high-temperatures and generate CO2? Where is the energy for creating the quicklime and then running the CO2 extraction process going to come from? Fossil fuels?
Funny how the one system that has been proven to work, costs nothing to maintain, is self-constructing, uses only water and solar energy, and produces valuable products including oxygen as byproducts is never considered by government scientists...TREES.
So when is someone going to hack the simulation system? I can see it now, nuke scientists start recommending building silly-putty warheads, "The computer told us to!"
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Know why you only hear crap in LA? Because a good chunk of every cd you buy goes to what is basically payolla to get records played on radio stations (http://www.salon.com/ent/clear_channel/).
I would only have a problem if people were passing off the paper as their own without crediting me. When you burn a music cd I assume you aren't claiming that is you singing "Sympathy For The Devil".
I would've asked Ms Rosen, "Have you ever photocopied a page from a book and handed it to someone else? Magazine? Newspaper article? Aren't those copyrighted making you a hypocrite and a criminal?"
I find it disgusting that public funds are being handed over to an industry just because it exists. Why not tax cars to subsidize the horse carriage business? How about a tax on computer monitors to support the chalkboard industries? Farm subsidies are there to keep them from collapsing and the food supply is a hell of a lot more important than the music biz.
If we can separate the church from the state then we should be doing the same to the government and industries.
The bitter replies on this site sound like they are all coming from the comicbook guy on the Simpsons
So instead of backing your argument up you can only come up with curses and vague accusations? How about some specific examples? Put up or shut up.
Ahhh, to look up into the night sky and see the unblemished moon, uncorrupted by man...oh well, so much for that.
I guess if his goal is to alienate those who followed his first 3 SW movies then yes, he succeeded.
It is possible to make something that appeals to kids without talking down to them by resorting to cartoonish pratfalls and baby-talk while still retaining the interest of adults.
He got your attention so I'd say he was somebody.
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares...
Why are product descriptions written by marketroids? They have this obsession with using as many vague buzzwords as possible and refuse to define terms. I think the idea is to make the product sound advanced and powerful by baffling the reader (Pointy Haired Boss: Well, if I can't understand it it must be powerful!). The problem with that is that I won't buy it if I can't figure out what the hell it is supposed to do!
As soon as Mr Gonzalez gets out of jail (or whatever his sentence) or even in jail, he'll tell everyone the details of the car. They'll have to keep rigging up new cars to prevent the local car thieves from identifying them and avoiding them.
It is only a matter of time before the average crook figures out how to jam GPS. The motivation (jail) is certainly there to learn how.
It is one thing to "poo poo" an idea but don't confuse rigorous questioning with outright dismissal. All to often those who have radically new ideas like this are quick to deny information to those who want confirmation. Schroedinger proposed a rather radical idea (quanta) but put his idea up for testing and experimental verification. Einstein proposed possible experiments to confirm his theory of general relativity (one was the shifting of starlight by the near occultation of the sun during an eclipse). If you make a dramatic claim such as room temperature fusion or anti-gravity be prepared to defend your idea both in theory and in the laboratory.
One problem with researchers such as Pons/Fleishmann was that they were quick to run to the press and gave the appearance that the matter was settled and was a fact before it had been subject to reproducability. This is becoming a bigger and bigger problem as hungry media outlets desperate for stories publish anything and everything.
If I could listen to tracks before buying them, and better yet buy only those tracks I liked it would beat the hell out of the current system of buying a whole cd based on maybe hearing one track and getting $20 worth of crapola. A lot of 1 hit wonders force you to buy a whole cd of their greatest misses just to get the one decent song (assuming you can't find it on a compilation) so I pass because I can't justify buying a whole cd for one song. On the other hand I've had a few downloaded tracks from Radiohead and Rage ATM and since they were consistantly good I bought a bunch of their cds.
Any industry that forces you to buy sight unseen alientates consumers. The book industry at least has a system where you can peruse a book in the store before justifying buying it. The music industry, at best, plays a handful of tracks over and over on the radio and a couple of cds at listening stations. Sorry suits but at $20+ a cd I'm not about to impulse buy.
I'd say we don't truly understand the need for sleep yet. For an animal to risk their lives by shutting down and being almost totally vulnerable for 8 or so hours a day and for sleep to have survived evolution for so long and amoung so many different species of animals means it must be pretty damn important.
But try telling that to a heroin addict. Not all chemicals are the same.
How about not running like a rat on a wheel to the point of needing drugs to function. Where do you go from here, electric shock? Warp time-space so you can work more than 24hrs a day? What the hell is so important to do this to yourself? Whatever happened to maintaining perspective and keeping balance in your life?
If it requires more energy to extract a energy source than the energy it will yield upon extraction then it is not viable. If it takes 1.5 barrels of oil to extract that 1 barrel then it will never be economical to extract it. Even if you use another energy source you have to look at the economics of ENERGY not cash. Using 1000 Watts of energy to extract 100 Watts isn't profitable. Same goes for hydrogen.
Actually it will look more like an abandoned mall.
Just that the landscape would be plagued with hydrogen tapping rigs. Your landscape would resemble Kuwait.
And the power to do this energy demanding process would come from where? The oxidization of H?
Ok, I read the article and I'm wondering where is all the quicklime needed for the process going to come from? Doesn't creating it involve high-temperatures and generate CO2? Where is the energy for creating the quicklime and then running the CO2 extraction process going to come from? Fossil fuels?
Funny how the one system that has been proven to work, costs nothing to maintain, is self-constructing, uses only water and solar energy, and produces valuable products including oxygen as byproducts is never considered by government scientists...TREES.
We'll never have to learn self-control or willpower, some technology will always bail us out! Yay!
Sorry but the Earth was blocking my view of Venus.
So when is someone going to hack the simulation system? I can see it now, nuke scientists start recommending building silly-putty warheads, "The computer told us to!"