Actually, the products are available through legal channels. They're just importing them from the third world where they are cheaper and selling them to the UK customers, passing on the savings. This is very similar to Canadian prescription drug prices vs USA drug prices. The price is artificially high in the USA and now it's becoming illegal to purchase drugs from Canada.
To me, this is outrageous in a so-called "global" economy. We've got protected pricing in some countries, or places where the normal, higher price just wouldn't fly (say, CD prices in Asia), but in our new "global economy" the "international companies" are restricting trade amongst the various countries. Huh?
Can someone please explain to me what it means to have a global economy again?
Part of the reason for abandoning the Hubble was because of new safety requirements that require a fueled-and-on-the-launch-pad shuttle to be available in the event of a crisis. The reason for this is because a servicing mission to Hubble would not be able to make their way to the ISS if something should go wrong.
If HST is towed to ISS, wouldn't it then be able to be serviced while still allowing the crew an opportunity to be "rescued" by ISS crew or whatever?
Seems to me that the shuttle could be used to service both the ISS and HST. Continue to use Progress ships as well and have a nice big happy family of things floating around together up there.
It would be cool to observe HST, ISS, Shuttle and a Progress all streaking by together on a clear night, wouldn't it?
And in this case, they had to lower their price to *free*, ha, ha, ha. Let's see just how long they can keep that up.
Seriously though, this is a good thing and may backfire on MS. Obviously, they're hoping to pick up a few new customers and hope they'll see the ease of use of Windows, or buy into their bogus TCO figures and go (or go back to) Windows.
On the other hand, I predict most of the benefit from this free app will be that those users who were considering moving to Linux, but were worried about the transition, now have a nice crutch to lean on.
If you think the images from Spirit are cool, just wait until Cassini starts sending back close-ups of Saturn, it's moons, it's rings... and don't even get me started on the Huygens probe... coolness.
Wouldn't it be fun to be an astronaut during one of those bounce 'n roll landings? Maybe the science will determine that the safest way to survive the airbag landing will be to get totally loaded so you don't get hurt, just like drunks in a car crash.
Whoo-who! Frat boys on Mars!
... and read this month's AdBusters. They've been trying to *buy* ad time on TV and radio for more than a decade and they are refused. One simple way to fight the fact that everyone just sits around and takes it is to at least get the memes out there that you don't have to be a product, that you're more than the sum of your purchases, that corporations have been very successful in controlling your life and it's time to do something about it.
This is perhaps slightly off-topic, but it's really the same idea, that these companies can rip you off and there's very little you can do about it. There's a guy in another comment that does not have a personal phone because he got sick of getting screwed over and lied to. There isn't any competitor for him to go to because all the freaking corporations do the same crap! I experience this all the time. There are a lot of messages in here about how mega corp screwed people over and there isn't a whole lot anyone can do about it.
I propose to fight back, and getting some subvertisements on the air are a really good start, and it has lots of serious implications about personal rights versus corporate rights. Check it out.
... is right under our noses through all of this. Look over here *waves hands* these eVoting machines are all corrupt and [insert your demon here] is behind the conspiricy!
Meanwhile, Joe Six-Tooth still shops at Wal*Mart and votes for whatever Republocrat or Demopublican is currently on the boob tube.
Why can't we actually have leaders running for office rather than whomever feels like they can raise the most money?
Sorry, but did I miss something here? The article says that people 1/3 of a mile away would have experienced "broken windows" and people further away would have heard a noise. How the hell is that "Destroying London" ??
Bleah, what a great bunch of excuses for not being healthy. You've only got one body, man. Take care of it.
Easy? Lift weights. Unless you're REALLY serious about it, you aren't going to turn into ah-nold, so don't worry about that. Build some muscle, which will burn calories even when you're not exercising.
You can eat pretty much all you like, just try to avoid fats and eat as much protein as you do carbs.
Lift weights 3 times a week for 30-45 minutes. Stick with the basics: bench press, squats, military press. Throw in some crunches and pull-ups.
I'm serious, do this for 6 weeks and you will be surprised at how much difference it makes. Try it!
Check out NOVA tonight and next Tuesday night. Explains how one would take ship up to such high speeds (among other things). Warning, serious geek stuff inside:
"FCC to Head Off Internet Piracy of TV, Officials Say"
"It will simply prevent consumers from illegal piracy, from mass distribution over the Internet, which is the problem with the music file sharing," Kenneth Ferree, head of the FCC's media bureau, said in a telephone interview.
Ugh, this is a press release, not a news report. It makes my skin crawl just reading it. There's lots more disgusting propoganda in there, I just got ill trying to paste it and quit.
That would be funny, but the main point is that the machine operates with code that is closed source. So really we have the worst of all worlds. Easily hackable by any elementary school script kiddie, while also ripe for having back doors written into the code by the developers for the purpose of swinging elections.
Of course it's a stupid publicity stunt. Of course it's ludicrous. Sci-Fi is doing this so that they'll be able to air a special show on their channel and make a bunch of money from the advertising revenues. The average American moron eats this shit up. Sci-Fi is just serving their constituents.
Hey, if they make enough money, maybe they will bring back Farscape. Or, better yet, they'll pickup Firefly! Yeah!
Then, lasers mounted on Space Shuttles, just like in the movie... Oh, wait... we'll have to mount them on Soyuz instead, since the shuttle fleet is grounded.
Actually, what it really means is that only citizens will face penalties. If you are a commercial infringer (and have made the proper donations to the "right" side) you are not liable.
It's obvious that iTMS has the best deals with the major studios. Better than anything else available online by far. I can't help chuckling when I think that for all the fat cat, big bidness music studio executives thinking they're all that... they finally met their match with Steve Jobs. It sure appears like they gave up a lot of their DRM nonsense with iTunes and the liberal rights that it gives you to burn and share your music library.
Think what you will about Steve Jobs, but it sure looks to me like he showed up and wowed the music studios with his trademark attitude and sold them on this whole deal. Bravo!
Oh sure, I still have my Amiga 1000 (still use the RGB monitor sometimes too) and my Osborne 1 (yep, still works, learned CP/M and dBase II on it) but the oldest hardware still in regular use is the Apple Newton that my daughter uses as her PDA. Totally Retro. Totally Cool. Teachers ask her about it when she takes it out to jot down a note.
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Actually, the products are available through legal channels. They're just importing them from the third world where they are cheaper and selling them to the UK customers, passing on the savings. This is very similar to Canadian prescription drug prices vs USA drug prices. The price is artificially high in the USA and now it's becoming illegal to purchase drugs from Canada.
To me, this is outrageous in a so-called "global" economy. We've got protected pricing in some countries, or places where the normal, higher price just wouldn't fly (say, CD prices in Asia), but in our new "global economy" the "international companies" are restricting trade amongst the various countries. Huh?
Can someone please explain to me what it means to have a global economy again?
Part of the reason for abandoning the Hubble was because of new safety requirements that require a fueled-and-on-the-launch-pad shuttle to be available in the event of a crisis. The reason for this is because a servicing mission to Hubble would not be able to make their way to the ISS if something should go wrong.
If HST is towed to ISS, wouldn't it then be able to be serviced while still allowing the crew an opportunity to be "rescued" by ISS crew or whatever?
Seems to me that the shuttle could be used to service both the ISS and HST. Continue to use Progress ships as well and have a nice big happy family of things floating around together up there.
It would be cool to observe HST, ISS, Shuttle and a Progress all streaking by together on a clear night, wouldn't it?
Or, you can just go there and measure it yourself down to... oh, whatever you like! Take your own electron microscope if you wish.
A little harder to do on Mars...
And in this case, they had to lower their price to *free*, ha, ha, ha. Let's see just how long they can keep that up.
Seriously though, this is a good thing and may backfire on MS. Obviously, they're hoping to pick up a few new customers and hope they'll see the ease of use of Windows, or buy into their bogus TCO figures and go (or go back to) Windows.
On the other hand, I predict most of the benefit from this free app will be that those users who were considering moving to Linux, but were worried about the transition, now have a nice crutch to lean on.
FYI, that was the Cassini probe that they were protesting about, and they're still protesting it.
morons protesting progress
If you think the images from Spirit are cool, just wait until Cassini starts sending back close-ups of Saturn, it's moons, it's rings... and don't even get me started on the Huygens probe... coolness.
neat-o cool sciency-stuff
Oh, where's your sense of adventure?
Wouldn't it be fun to be an astronaut during one of those bounce 'n roll landings? Maybe the science will determine that the safest way to survive the airbag landing will be to get totally loaded so you don't get hurt, just like drunks in a car crash. Whoo-who! Frat boys on Mars!
It views like an ad for Apple,
Gee, did the fact that it was hosted at apple.com clue you in?
... and read this month's AdBusters. They've been trying to *buy* ad time on TV and radio for more than a decade and they are refused. One simple way to fight the fact that everyone just sits around and takes it is to at least get the memes out there that you don't have to be a product, that you're more than the sum of your purchases, that corporations have been very successful in controlling your life and it's time to do something about it.
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This is perhaps slightly off-topic, but it's really the same idea, that these companies can rip you off and there's very little you can do about it. There's a guy in another comment that does not have a personal phone because he got sick of getting screwed over and lied to. There isn't any competitor for him to go to because all the freaking corporations do the same crap! I experience this all the time. There are a lot of messages in here about how mega corp screwed people over and there isn't a whole lot anyone can do about it.
I propose to fight back, and getting some subvertisements on the air are a really good start, and it has lots of serious implications about personal rights versus corporate rights. Check it out.
Hey, then maybe WE can send THEM the blueprints to the super wormhole machine.
... is right under our noses through all of this. Look over here *waves hands* these eVoting machines are all corrupt and [insert your demon here] is behind the conspiricy!
Meanwhile, Joe Six-Tooth still shops at Wal*Mart and votes for whatever Republocrat or Demopublican is currently on the boob tube.
Why can't we actually have leaders running for office rather than whomever feels like they can raise the most money?
I'd prefer blowing up space rocks and bringing home the goodies over blowing up Iraquis and getting...
This guy is such a geek even his *computer* is single. Sheesh.
Sorry, but did I miss something here? The article says that people 1/3 of a mile away would have experienced "broken windows" and people further away would have heard a noise. How the hell is that "Destroying London" ??
Did anyone else get a flashback of the Empire Strikes Back with Bill Gates in his Vader outfit talking to his team of bounty hunters?
geeze, and the article even says, "Sun on Fire"
Try reading the article like it is in the Sports section of the newspaper. Go Sun! Whoo Hoo! Burn, baby, burn!
Bleah, what a great bunch of excuses for not being healthy. You've only got one body, man. Take care of it.
Easy? Lift weights. Unless you're REALLY serious about it, you aren't going to turn into ah-nold, so don't worry about that. Build some muscle, which will burn calories even when you're not exercising.
You can eat pretty much all you like, just try to avoid fats and eat as much protein as you do carbs.
Lift weights 3 times a week for 30-45 minutes. Stick with the basics: bench press, squats, military press. Throw in some crunches and pull-ups.
I'm serious, do this for 6 weeks and you will be surprised at how much difference it makes. Try it!
Well did they say they would support 10.1? 10.0? Did they, huh? huh? The real conspiracy is that they're trying to force upgrades to 10.1! Aha!
Check out NOVA tonight and next Tuesday night. Explains how one would take ship up to such high speeds (among other things). Warning, serious geek stuff inside:
Elegant Universe
"FCC to Head Off Internet Piracy of TV, Officials Say"
"It will simply prevent consumers from illegal piracy, from mass distribution over the Internet, which is the problem with the music file sharing," Kenneth Ferree, head of the FCC's media bureau, said in a telephone interview.
Ugh, this is a press release, not a news report. It makes my skin crawl just reading it. There's lots more disgusting propoganda in there, I just got ill trying to paste it and quit.
That would be funny, but the main point is that the machine operates with code that is closed source. So really we have the worst of all worlds. Easily hackable by any elementary school script kiddie, while also ripe for having back doors written into the code by the developers for the purpose of swinging elections.
Of course it's a stupid publicity stunt. Of course it's ludicrous. Sci-Fi is doing this so that they'll be able to air a special show on their channel and make a bunch of money from the advertising revenues. The average American moron eats this shit up. Sci-Fi is just serving their constituents.
Hey, if they make enough money, maybe they will bring back Farscape. Or, better yet, they'll pickup Firefly! Yeah!
Cool how Moonraker all of a sudden sounds like, totally visionary. Vials of biological agents as the threat to the world? Portable laser weapons?
Next, we'll have space warfare
Then, lasers mounted on Space Shuttles, just like in the movie... Oh, wait... we'll have to mount them on Soyuz instead, since the shuttle fleet is grounded.
Look out! Here comes the battle bus!
Actually, what it really means is that only citizens will face penalties. If you are a commercial infringer (and have made the proper donations to the "right" side) you are not liable.
It's obvious that iTMS has the best deals with the major studios. Better than anything else available online by far. I can't help chuckling when I think that for all the fat cat, big bidness music studio executives thinking they're all that... they finally met their match with Steve Jobs. It sure appears like they gave up a lot of their DRM nonsense with iTunes and the liberal rights that it gives you to burn and share your music library.
Think what you will about Steve Jobs, but it sure looks to me like he showed up and wowed the music studios with his trademark attitude and sold them on this whole deal. Bravo!
Oh sure, I still have my Amiga 1000 (still use the RGB monitor sometimes too) and my Osborne 1 (yep, still works, learned CP/M and dBase II on it) but the oldest hardware still in regular use is the Apple Newton that my daughter uses as her PDA. Totally Retro. Totally Cool. Teachers ask her about it when she takes it out to jot down a note.