This was on the discovery channel and is being played every other day it seems.
It's sad how the "science" media whores itself out to promote the latest Hollywood fantasies. Remember similar content-free stories about possibilities of giant apes lving on islands a year ago? Of course, Slashdot is always happy to oblige big media by pretendng these are actual news.
he idea was that if you fell down on such a planet, you'd better have uber reflexes or you'd break bones in the fall.
The ultimate high-g planet is the super-jovian Mesklin, in Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity. At the poles it was about 600g. The natives were centipede-like, obviously very strong and fast, but they had no clear idea of "falling". If you dropped something, it disappeared and reappeared on the ground, smashed or squashed flat. More extreme, the astronomer Frank Drake imagined life on a neutron star, based on nuclear reactions rather than chemical, microscopic and extremely fast. Robert Forward did a couple of novels using that idea.
He guessed that Superman would be flying at ~100x faster than Lois would be falling down, or 120,000 mph in order to grab her... It would be awesome to see Superman accidentally slice Lois in half in an attempt to save her
Obviously, Since Lois isn't killed in the many times Superman has caught her; he DOES travel at extreme speed to get there, THEN he matches her velocity, grabs her, and and decelerates. Since he must have some personal anti-gravity field to fly the way he does, possibly he can extend this to cover her so he could then just stop instantaneously without splattering her. Regardless, she can't be falling faster than terminal velocity, 54 m/s, so he could slow her down in about one second at 5g, (or even half a second at 10g if necessary), quite survivable for a human. Though I recall he has caught people very close to the ground, which would mean an extreme deceleration, so let's assume his anti-gravity is in effect.
Actually, having read TFA, it's not, but from one of the sequel series. Despite the impression they try to give, there are hardly any props from TOS. These were all thrown out, stolen, or sold decades ago. They highlight a model of the Enterprise -- but made from a kit for one of the movies. Except for its provenance, the same as thousands hanging from geeks' bedroom ceilings.
When you buy media, you are making an agreement to abide by certain terms.
No, you are not. What an amazing concept. Fraud? WTF? You're just making stuff up.
The only "certain terms" are those provided by law, not the whim of the publisher.
You don't need THAT song or movie.
If I've paid for it, I have certain rights, under fair use; right of first sale, etc, in most countries, regardless of what small print the publisher pastes onto the package. If he doesn't want people to use it, he shouldn't sell it.
I would say that's a touch unfair on Network Ten. They were broadcasting an unscripted show live... I don't really see how they could do much about it,
So put in a delay loop, like most talkback radio does, so someone can hit the kill switch before something nasty goes to air.
In this case, Capital 10 stepped over the line and was enabling children to view filthy content via the Internet. The dominant audience for Big Brother is the 12-14 year old teen market. Do you think it's appropriate for young teens to see a bunch of dimwitted Big Brother contestants teabagging a female contestant who was being held down against her will? I don't.
If the clips linked from other posts are all that happened, without a written descripotion you couldn't tell what happened. You see more filth on page 3. The camera is from behind the guy, it's all very low contrast, you definitely do not see any sexual organs, and the girl seemed slighly exasperated but hardly assaulted. And if parents let their kids watch this at 4am, they have the problem, and the solution.
But on the other hand, if it leads to a ban on "reality" TV, that's fine by me.
It is irrelevant what it is LEGAL to do...when you buy media, you are agreeing to the seller's terms, which may be much more restrictive than the law...and often are. If you do not like their terms, don't buy or suck it up. To break them is illegal.
People who sell goods cannot make terms to restrict what the buyer does with the item, unless there is a contract, (eg a EULA) AGREED between the parties. Not a page of small print on the packaging. And if the purchaser ignores such restrictions, it is not in itself "illegal". This is not to say the seller has no rights, but that he can't create new ones just by saying so.
It's disturbing that people think that Sony by putting a paragraph of text on a box is enough to criminalise an action. Laws are created by governments, not companies (yes, I know about lobbyists, but they still have to go through the legislators).
Perhaps there is a strong technical distinction between theft and copyright infringement, but I see no strong ethical distinction
I do. With theft, the owner has lost an object, and can never use it or earn a cent from it again. With copyright infringement, the owner can continue to enjoy use. He may not make as much if the copies replace sales of authorised goods; but the amount is quite debatable, especially if one is considering a copy of Photoshop sold for $1 in Hainan, China. Did Adobe lose the full retail cost? Unlikely, the user would have done without or found a cheaper product. Consider a bootleg DVD of Spider-man 2 sold for $5 in Chicago. Arguably the owners are losing out here, but not the full price as they claim. Actually, a strong argument can be made that market leaders, Adobe, Microsoft; Madonna, have their market share reinforced by piracy, which discourages any competition based on price. When and if the buyer or market moves to buying legitimate goods, as when they get a good job, or enforcement increases, they opt for the familiar brands. Bill Gates had dinner with Hu Jintao a few weeks ago, Chinese companies signed contracts to preinstall Windows on millions of PCs, a market created by piracy.
One study found that anemia due to mosquito bites was the leading cause of death in wild cariboo in Alaska and northern Canada -- the evil bugglies literally suck more blood than the animals can spare.
I just saw a nature documentary about Scandinavia. With global warming, winters are warmer, one effect is that the reindeer now suffer much more from mosquitoes, have a harder time gettgin food as rain falls instead of snow, whihc ices up.
In Alaska, DEET works for no one; the mosquitoes are just too voracious
Come to tropical Hong Kong, former malarial death trap. Currently the wet season, 30C. Getting in and out the door with the cloud of mosquitoes hovering outside is somewhat like Hitchcok's The Birds. God help us if someone leaves the door open more tha a few seconds.
What's the issue with them mentioning 5 1/4" floppies?
Indicates the story has been circulating for at least 10 years. People collect anecdotes and improve them for dramatic effect, personalise them by saying they happened to them. It's fairly harmless I suppose, and help the geeks to bond.
Isn't it? If the small slap on the wrist I keep getting is my punishment for a very large reward, then it could just as easily be a perfectly rational cost-benefit/risk-reward decision.
He committed more crimes after he'd been charged for earlier ones. If he was rational he'd have kept clean and probably got probation; instead he got a few years in jail. That's not rational.
Should we just get rid of prisons entirely and build more hospitals?
I didn't say he didn't deserve to be in jail. But if he was actually treated as well as (not instead of) being punished, there might be a chance of rehabilitation. Otherwise there's an excellent chance he'll go right back to a criminal life when he gets out.
e just needs to put 'Organic' on the bottle, and people will buy it even if they have no clue what the hell is in there. They'll swear it works too.
Probably add some fruity fragnace to it. Like citronella, the favoured repellent of the New Agers. CITRONELLA DOES NOT WORK. As for this guy, notice he was doing tests to see which of two victims the mosquitoes preferred. What would happen if both had these mystery chemical in the same amount? Would they both be safe? I doubt it. He would have mentioned that if it actually repelled a hungry mosquito.
And is the interface the same, so that when kids graduate and go to office jobs, they will know how to use the office suite which is most likely to be installed on their work machines? If not, then it's as if they used Wordperfect Office or some other proprietary package with minority share
Have you ever used one of these "proprietary packages" (by which you seem to mean non-Microsoft, though there is hardly anything more proprietary than MSOffice)? They all look and feel exactly the same, down to the key shortcuts. You have to be doing something pretty esoteric before you'll notice a difference. When MSWord camne out it had (and probably still does have) "help for WordPerfect" and support for WordPerfect keystrokes; as Excel did for Lotus 123. Now MS is the top dog, so everyone else is mimicking them.
Anyway, very few people working in offices know how to use anything more than what they can point and click at on the formatting bar. The only real "computing" skill I'd advocate schools teach is touch-typing, which of course is almost platform agnostic. Everything else you can pick up in literally 10 minutes.
Look at any city, or country, where the police are powerless, or otherwsie occupied. Eg, Baghdad, New Orleans last year. What's unvarying about post-disaster news stories: looters.
Incidentally, there are more Cambridges in the US than in the UK - at least one of which is also notable for its large univerity. Used to confuse the fuck
The majority of cities in the US are named for British places; or for British surnames, which are often also placenames. Sometimes they add a "New", as in "New York". ANyway, even if it HAD been in the USA, how could the PRC government sue them? China is a different country too, as perhaps you know.
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Thay can revoke the key of the software player. So it couldn't play any new movoes till you "upgraded' it to a new, crippled version.
But real pirates will solve it in hardware.
Of course, this is how the Incredible Hulk does it; jumps like a giant flea.
It's sad how the "science" media whores itself out to promote the latest Hollywood fantasies. Remember similar content-free stories about possibilities of giant apes lving on islands a year ago? Of course, Slashdot is always happy to oblige big media by pretendng these are actual news.
The ultimate high-g planet is the super-jovian Mesklin, in Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity. At the poles it was about 600g. The natives were centipede-like, obviously very strong and fast, but they had no clear idea of "falling". If you dropped something, it disappeared and reappeared on the ground, smashed or squashed flat. More extreme, the astronomer Frank Drake imagined life on a neutron star, based on nuclear reactions rather than chemical, microscopic and extremely fast. Robert Forward did a couple of novels using that idea.
Obviously, Since Lois isn't killed in the many times Superman has caught her; he DOES travel at extreme speed to get there, THEN he matches her velocity, grabs her, and and decelerates. Since he must have some personal anti-gravity field to fly the way he does, possibly he can extend this to cover her so he could then just stop instantaneously without splattering her. Regardless, she can't be falling faster than terminal velocity, 54 m/s, so he could slow her down in about one second at 5g, (or even half a second at 10g if necessary), quite survivable for a human. Though I recall he has caught people very close to the ground, which would mean an extreme deceleration, so let's assume his anti-gravity is in effect.
Actually, having read TFA, it's not, but from one of the sequel series. Despite the impression they try to give, there are hardly any props from TOS. These were all thrown out, stolen, or sold decades ago. They highlight a model of the Enterprise -- but made from a kit for one of the movies. Except for its provenance, the same as thousands hanging from geeks' bedroom ceilings.
What "agreement"? What "consent"?
No, you are not. What an amazing concept. Fraud? WTF? You're just making stuff up.
The only "certain terms" are those provided by law, not the whim of the publisher.
You don't need THAT song or movie.
If I've paid for it, I have certain rights, under fair use; right of first sale, etc, in most countries, regardless of what small print the publisher pastes onto the package. If he doesn't want people to use it, he shouldn't sell it.
So put in a delay loop, like most talkback radio does, so someone can hit the kill switch before something nasty goes to air.
If the clips linked from other posts are all that happened, without a written descripotion you couldn't tell what happened. You see more filth on page 3. The camera is from behind the guy, it's all very low contrast, you definitely do not see any sexual organs, and the girl seemed slighly exasperated but hardly assaulted. And if parents let their kids watch this at 4am, they have the problem, and the solution.
But on the other hand, if it leads to a ban on "reality" TV, that's fine by me.
People who sell goods cannot make terms to restrict what the buyer does with the item, unless there is a contract, (eg a EULA) AGREED between the parties. Not a page of small print on the packaging. And if the purchaser ignores such restrictions, it is not in itself "illegal". This is not to say the seller has no rights, but that he can't create new ones just by saying so.
It's disturbing that people think that Sony by putting a paragraph of text on a box is enough to criminalise an action. Laws are created by governments, not companies (yes, I know about lobbyists, but they still have to go through the legislators).
I do. With theft, the owner has lost an object, and can never use it or earn a cent from it again. With copyright infringement, the owner can continue to enjoy use. He may not make as much if the copies replace sales of authorised goods; but the amount is quite debatable, especially if one is considering a copy of Photoshop sold for $1 in Hainan, China. Did Adobe lose the full retail cost? Unlikely, the user would have done without or found a cheaper product. Consider a bootleg DVD of Spider-man 2 sold for $5 in Chicago. Arguably the owners are losing out here, but not the full price as they claim. Actually, a strong argument can be made that market leaders, Adobe, Microsoft; Madonna, have their market share reinforced by piracy, which discourages any competition based on price. When and if the buyer or market moves to buying legitimate goods, as when they get a good job, or enforcement increases, they opt for the familiar brands. Bill Gates had dinner with Hu Jintao a few weeks ago, Chinese companies signed contracts to preinstall Windows on millions of PCs, a market created by piracy.
I just saw a nature documentary about Scandinavia. With global warming, winters are warmer, one effect is that the reindeer now suffer much more from mosquitoes, have a harder time gettgin food as rain falls instead of snow, whihc ices up.
In Alaska, DEET works for no one; the mosquitoes are just too voracious
Come to tropical Hong Kong, former malarial death trap. Currently the wet season, 30C. Getting in and out the door with the cloud of mosquitoes hovering outside is somewhat like Hitchcok's The Birds. God help us if someone leaves the door open more tha a few seconds.
Indicates the story has been circulating for at least 10 years. People collect anecdotes and improve them for dramatic effect, personalise them by saying they happened to them. It's fairly harmless I suppose, and help the geeks to bond.
He committed more crimes after he'd been charged for earlier ones. If he was rational he'd have kept clean and probably got probation; instead he got a few years in jail. That's not rational.
I didn't say he didn't deserve to be in jail. But if he was actually treated as well as (not instead of) being punished, there might be a chance of rehabilitation. Otherwise there's an excellent chance he'll go right back to a criminal life when he gets out.
So? I didn't say EVERYONE was looting. If even 1 in 50 were, that's enough to make everyone else live in fear.
I'm sure some have a basis in fact, but I've heard many of these over and over through the years. Note that some mention 5.25" floppies.
I really doubt many of these stories told in the first person really happened to the poster. I doubt many happened at all.
Probably add some fruity fragnace to it. Like citronella, the favoured repellent of the New Agers. CITRONELLA DOES NOT WORK. As for this guy, notice he was doing tests to see which of two victims the mosquitoes preferred. What would happen if both had these mystery chemical in the same amount? Would they both be safe? I doubt it. He would have mentioned that if it actually repelled a hungry mosquito.
Have you ever used one of these "proprietary packages" (by which you seem to mean non-Microsoft, though there is hardly anything more proprietary than MSOffice)? They all look and feel exactly the same, down to the key shortcuts. You have to be doing something pretty esoteric before you'll notice a difference. When MSWord camne out it had (and probably still does have) "help for WordPerfect" and support for WordPerfect keystrokes; as Excel did for Lotus 123. Now MS is the top dog, so everyone else is mimicking them.
Anyway, very few people working in offices know how to use anything more than what they can point and click at on the formatting bar. The only real "computing" skill I'd advocate schools teach is touch-typing, which of course is almost platform agnostic. Everything else you can pick up in literally 10 minutes.
RTFA. He kept doing it after he'd been caught three or four times, till finally he got 5 years. That's not rational behaviour.
Look at any city, or country, where the police are powerless, or otherwsie occupied. Eg, Baghdad, New Orleans last year. What's unvarying about post-disaster news stories: looters.
So WTF is it with the BPI suing a Russian company in the UK? (BPI Sue AllOfMp3 In British Courts) I think either case would be fatuous and abusive.
The majority of cities in the US are named for British places; or for British surnames, which are often also placenames. Sometimes they add a "New", as in "New York". ANyway, even if it HAD been in the USA, how could the PRC government sue them? China is a different country too, as perhaps you know.