Completely crazy suggestion. why hide a bee-you-tee-full dish under a rock?
As per the article, that's not an option. Even if the poster's parents grudgingly slap on a dish, they're living in an area where there's likely to be local ordinances against blatantly jarring or modern features on houses. As a bonus, hiding the dish under a cover will stop it from vibrating in the wind; not a regular problem for most people, but it might be if you lived on Cape Cod.
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Get a satellite dish. Mount it on the ground. Cover it with a fibreglass imitation rock, or some other feature that's microwave-transparent but blends in with the local scenery.
As a possible tactic to foil China's crippling of internet searching (or, for that matter, any country's policy of censoring its internet input), set up a number of "code word" euphemisms for events happening in China that match phrases that don't initially look suspicious to the authorities, and which will blend into the background of most searches until long after the proverbial cat is out of the bag.
For instance, set up a website that details the Tianenmen Square massacre of 1989; however, instead of plastering "Tianenmen Square Massacre" all over it, refer to it as the "Hunan Blossom Harvest". The language and pictures will make certain to anyone viewing the site that this is anything but horticultural; it's a depiction of a vicious crackdown on a peaceful public demonstration, with plenty of blatant "clues" to when and where it happened. Get plenty of friends to make websites referring to this event in the same manner.
All it takes is for one returning "dissident" armed with the phrase, and I'm fairly certain the news will spread meme-like far faster than the authorities can crack down on it.
Rinse and repeat with clear criticism of the Saudi royal family in slightly euphemistic Arabic, and other fun stuff.
That depends on whether the law is against performing an activity, or possessing an object.
If the law only prohibits the act of copying media you've bought, then you might be in the clear - so long as you can prove they were made before the law was passed. If the law prohibits you from possessing said backup copies, you'll be breaking the law the moment it comes into effect.
Yep, an audio cable with jack plugs going from the radio to whatever machine is doing the recording It's not 100% for fidelity, but it'll work good enough for most people.
Not sure how they plan to stop people from doing that...
Sulu: You guys up for a lycra party? Kirk [begins chanting, drunkenly]: LY-CRA! LY-CRA! LY-CRA! LY-CRA! LY-CRA! Sulu: Ah... I think they like the idea, Pav.
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Young Chekov: May I have ten thousand tribbles please?
What can those of us that are outside [overtly] restrictive regimes (such as Iran, China and Saudi Arabia) do to help ordinary 'net users there express their experiences and opinions to the outside world?
Apparently the judge said a number of the school board had 'repeatedly lied to cover their motives even while professing religious beliefs'. Are any sites out there going into further details about what these particular lies were?
If I binded an action to accesskey F, chances are it'd spawn the File menu.
Just for the record - in IE6, Firefox/Win and Firefox/X11, if you bind a key to accesskey F it overrides the Alt+F that would otherwise bring up the file menu (In Windows you can still hit F10 to browse the menus with the keyboard).
Brief pedant point;
It doesn't really affect your argument in any way, but there's one fact wrong in your post -
Norway isn't actually a member of the EU (It is, however, a member of Europe's 'other trading bloc', EFTA).
Guilty conscience on their part, I suppose. When you've been yelling "only I truly know what Jesus wants, so do what I say", the last thing you want is the Son of God turning up and saying "Well, what I actually meant was..."
On a slightly less jocular note, the power over people that gives those Fundamentalists the power trip they crave relies on an (apparently) imminent apocalypse. Take the sense of impending doom away from their followers and you'll take away a fair portion of their power.
Genetic Engineering: Creating a new organism by directly altering its genetic code (most notably by 'splicing' code from other organisms into it). Understandably, this idea freaks people out. I must say it doesn't make me particularily comfortable.
Selective Breeding: Overriding the subtle hand of Natural Selection in species' evolution with human choice; ie. hand-picking which organism will breed with which. It's the origin of just about every 'domesticated' species, such as wheat, dairy cattle, and (er, I think) brewer's yeast.
Selective Breeding is where Chihuahuas, Pekes and Devon Rexes come from, so it's not entirely in my good books either.
There is such a thing as a car that runs on water. It's called a boat.
Has anyone tried snake-oil as an alternative fuel? It's what I always think of whenever someone mentions a new engine that runs on [Camel dung | Dead cockroaches | Bacon rind | Copies of the Reader's Digest | AOL CDs].
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As per the article, that's not an option. Even if the poster's parents grudgingly slap on a dish, they're living in an area where there's likely to be local ordinances against blatantly jarring or modern features on houses. As a bonus, hiding the dish under a cover will stop it from vibrating in the wind; not a regular problem for most people, but it might be if you lived on Cape Cod.
Get a satellite dish.
Mount it on the ground.
Cover it with a fibreglass imitation rock, or some other feature that's microwave-transparent but blends in with the local scenery.
As a possible tactic to foil China's crippling of internet searching (or, for that matter, any country's policy of censoring its internet input), set up a number of "code word" euphemisms for events happening in China that match phrases that don't initially look suspicious to the authorities, and which will blend into the background of most searches until long after the proverbial cat is out of the bag.
For instance, set up a website that details the Tianenmen Square massacre of 1989; however, instead of plastering "Tianenmen Square Massacre" all over it, refer to it as the "Hunan Blossom Harvest". The language and pictures will make certain to anyone viewing the site that this is anything but horticultural; it's a depiction of a vicious crackdown on a peaceful public demonstration, with plenty of blatant "clues" to when and where it happened. Get plenty of friends to make websites referring to this event in the same manner.
All it takes is for one returning "dissident" armed with the phrase, and I'm fairly certain the news will spread meme-like far faster than the authorities can crack down on it.
Rinse and repeat with clear criticism of the Saudi royal family in slightly euphemistic Arabic, and other fun stuff.
That depends on whether the law is against performing an activity, or possessing an object.
If the law only prohibits the act of copying media you've bought, then you might be in the clear - so long as you can prove they were made before the law was passed. If the law prohibits you from possessing said backup copies, you'll be breaking the law the moment it comes into effect.
is "Should the legislators pass this law, how many of them would simultaneously be breaking it?".
Yep, an audio cable with jack plugs going from the radio to whatever machine is doing the recording It's not 100% for fidelity, but it'll work good enough for most people.
Not sure how they plan to stop people from doing that...
...as long as we, the public, can get to see which web site you've visited, and get to see the emails you're sending and recieving.
What's that, Congressman? "Invasion of privacy" you say? Goodness, so it is.
Sulu: You guys up for a lycra party?
Kirk [begins chanting, drunkenly]: LY-CRA! LY-CRA! LY-CRA! LY-CRA! LY-CRA!
Sulu: Ah... I think they like the idea, Pav.
---
Young Chekov: May I have ten thousand tribbles please?
“Total music sales were down 3% in 2005 according to the IFPI”
It's a start, I suppose. How far does it have to drop so that they won't have the money to sue anyone?
What can those of us that are outside [overtly] restrictive regimes (such as Iran, China and Saudi Arabia) do to help ordinary 'net users there express their experiences and opinions to the outside world?
...having seen the demo video on Google video. Not so much in the structure of the game itself, but because I keep thinking
“It's all very pretty, there's nice graphics, an impressive grand concept and whatever... but is there a compelling game in there?”
And given the state of reviewing these days, a glowing review from a "reputable" source means nothing to me any more.
Apparently the judge said a number of the school board had 'repeatedly lied to cover their motives even while professing religious beliefs'. Are any sites out there going into further details about what these particular lies were?
Much as my marketing-cynical side would like to agree with you, there may be a simpler explanation for the shortage:
Too many of them are failing their electrical QA test before they make it out of the factory.
Just for the record - in IE6, Firefox/Win and Firefox/X11, if you bind a key to accesskey F it overrides the Alt+F that would otherwise bring up the file menu (In Windows you can still hit F10 to browse the menus with the keyboard).
Now please let women get ordained and priests get married
...to each other, if they're so inclined.
Ah, but would you still get paid if you replied with, say, "Generic Cola", "Ceci N'est Pas Un Cola" or "Sugar, Caramel & Battery Acid"?
Maybe someone had patented "Checking whether someone had trademarked a name before you use it" and was asking for £26m before Google could use it.
Still, it'd be nothing like the sense of futility you'd get from a WWIII game.
My first thought was that it's a reference to one of Ubisoft's previous games, XIII.
Maybe it's a bit of both.
Link for those who don't get the connection
Brief pedant point;
It doesn't really affect your argument in any way, but there's one fact wrong in your post - Norway isn't actually a member of the EU (It is, however, a member of Europe's 'other trading bloc', EFTA).
Guilty conscience on their part, I suppose. When you've been yelling "only I truly know what Jesus wants, so do what I say", the last thing you want is the Son of God turning up and saying "Well, what I actually meant was..."
On a slightly less jocular note, the power over people that gives those Fundamentalists the power trip they crave relies on an (apparently) imminent apocalypse. Take the sense of impending doom away from their followers and you'll take away a fair portion of their power.
Genetic Engineering: Creating a new organism by directly altering its genetic code (most notably by 'splicing' code from other organisms into it). Understandably, this idea freaks people out. I must say it doesn't make me particularily comfortable. Selective Breeding: Overriding the subtle hand of Natural Selection in species' evolution with human choice; ie. hand-picking which organism will breed with which. It's the origin of just about every 'domesticated' species, such as wheat, dairy cattle, and (er, I think) brewer's yeast. Selective Breeding is where Chihuahuas, Pekes and Devon Rexes come from, so it's not entirely in my good books either.
There is such a thing as a car that runs on water. It's called a boat.
Has anyone tried snake-oil as an alternative fuel? It's what I always think of whenever someone mentions a new engine that runs on [Camel dung | Dead cockroaches | Bacon rind | Copies of the Reader's Digest | AOL CDs].