The tape themselfes are owned by the channel on which it was shown, and AFAIK they released the show for fair use on its full length. Heck, the same tape is on randi.org. Geller cannot pretend to own the copyright on the tape, which is all the DMCA authorize him to take down. As for the trick, I do not see how you can coypright that, since there is prior art in the previous century.
Firstly, as far as I remmember you are not buried *foreever* in a cemetary, after a while (50 years?) you are remain get taken care of. Somebody in the caretaker industry stops me if I am wrong.
Secondly imagine if people would get buried everywhere at the will of their family or their own will. Very quickly you would not be able to dig somewhere without finding half rotten remains, with all the infection danger that they represents. This would be a health catastrophe. So NO the reason you can't burry people whereever you want is not an industry lobby reason, actually most law on burrial I know of are from the 19th century and early 20th, and predate caretaker industry lobbying.
I mean, msot country in EU have a 300%-400% tax on petroleum (80%+ of the price is tax for 20%- gas price). It does not seem to stop much people driving, despite having a dense common transport grid too...
may I suggest making the crew lipstick lesbians, also we would need to fit the ship with webcams in every room
You sir, with a fine stroke of genius, just solved the whole NASA financing problem, as well as most probably half of the whole US deficit...
I was going to do a quite long "poem" with the first word of each sentences based on the hexadecimal number. Which is protected free speech isn't it ? By the way can someone ask the DVDCCA not to make the key longer ? The longer the key, the more work to write that in poem/lyric... Give them 20 more years and we will have to write a full book.
Relevant is this (below are quote):
* Abbott has retaliated by completely withdrawing its new heat-stable version of Kaletra from the Thai market and withdrawing six other new drugs from the country for good measure.
* In fact, the Thai government has a good history of forcing the drug companies to release their wares at more realistic prices and, interestingly, it has broken no laws. The 2001 Doha declaration made it clear that governments should put public health before companies' patent rights, and under the TRIPS agreement from the WTO, governments can sign up to respect a patent, with the caveat that they can make the drug themselves, or import a generic version, in a national emergency.
* So the US, for example, announced its intention to import generic Ciprofloxacin following the anthrax panic, sidestepping the patent on that drug, in the name of practicality in a crisis. The US terrorist anthrax epidemic killed six people, which says a lot about how the definitio
* we are speaking of 100.000's of contaminated and 120.000+ full blown AIDS in Thailand
My take on this : the US administration don't care a slight bit on intellectual property if it is not their own, they don't care a little bit if other country are within their right as soon as they see a bit of $$ loss, they don't care a *shit* about AIDS drug being unaffordable for "poor" people of other country.
But my biggest GRIP is that despite doing something LAWFUL within international treaty bound, and the US admin has the gale of protesting this, Abbott has the gale of taking back half a dozen drug due to that, and NOBODY seems to pick that up on the US side. I am betting there are more than 32 death a day in thailand due to treatment being too expensive (and that's not counting the death in other country due to the same reason).
Rain , snow or sun, I have roughly 25-30 kilometer to do. And if I want to vote per corrrespondance, I have to get the special paper at the same place. Which make this quite useless.
OK. It remind me of the hate law in the EU. People were screaming that such things would not happen in the US, censorship, calling blood on the EU.
And now I elarn today that you can be arrested if you write something which is troubling somebody, and promptly a 18 old was arrested for doing so.
So... Who is the more fucked up ? One country which arrest people which want to cremate/kill/genocide other folk, or police which arrest student for writing an essay calling for killing having sex with body and drug ?
Sound as bad each other IMHO. At least here in Europe we do not have the ILLUSION of having free speech, whereas on the other side of the atlantic, beside free speech being written on a piece of paper, you are as bad or as good off as us...
quote : Sure, the thug could pull a gun and kill you, but you have the ability to do the same. In this country even someones grandmother could be carrying a handgun in the big purse. She might even know how to use it.
If I had to do a crime and was armed with a gun, and know that the average civilian has NO gun, I will feel confident to only threaten with my own gun, and would be less likely to shoot to kill. On the other hand if even the average grandma has a gun and know how to do it, I will be much more likely to SHOOT TO KILL at the slightiest misinterpreted gesture of the persons I am threatening. So true, everybody having gun might lower the numberof crime MAYBE, but it willsurely increase the number of gun violence.
You can use two definition for nuclear war : a war in which one side or both side use a nuclear waepon. In such case WW2 was a nuclear war. You can use the definition of nuclear war=war where both side use nuclear weapon. In such case WW2 was NOT a nuclear war, and most people usually agree on the second definition, NOT the first.
About WW2:I won't dwelve either too much in the debat that at that point the war was already WON, it was only a matter of month, if not week before japan surrender, and if the US had searched a way to allow japan to save face, the massacre of the civilian through the atom bomb would have been avoided. Butthen again they were probably only seen as "collateral damage" jsut like Iraki were seen as collateral damage. Now my opinion is that civilian killing are unjustified no matter the side (London, Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagazaki). The army are there to kill each other. As soon as they turn over killing civilian, then a step ("massacre") is taken which should never be taken.
The assesment might be true for all of your point, except for the nuclear war. Both side actually LOSE. This remind me of the SF novel, where one nuclear holocaust survivor goes out of his shelter, see an incredible destruction in the US cities, then somehow reach a command bunker with a general, see that the destruction is nearly total over the whole country, and ask if they lost the war to the general. And the general answer smiling "what ? no we won !". Naturally the point was that both country lost big times, since both are utterly destroyed, poisonned, sterilisated...
They will write a nice bonus down by the end of the year. I will certainly make sure to buy one version and download all patch / package/service pack offline to be able to reconstruct an XP machine alone.
I can remmember using it 10 years ago for application which needed a good parallelism (quantum physics) on how much processor as I wished (I went up as much as 8). Fortran for the application it is used today is highly parralelisable.
Alternatively, entertainment producer in the US, do produce for the "lowest common" denominator possible, and thus can sell in many country of various culture and still be accepted. In other word, they sell outside because there is "not much brainpower" really left in such entertainment. Mind you it does not seem to work for all country and culture.
Books for example where willfully copied completely from their European counter part publication, and reprinted without royalty in the US for a very long time.
You are idiot. It has to be said. If a business (let us say a restaurant) start advertising "unlimited phone call for a fix price" and you were permanently openning a call with your aunt, you would not be abusing anything, you would be within the bound of your contract. And if the phone company is fucked up because they have only a limited number of switch, well they should NOT HAVE advertised a service they could not sustain in the first place !
P2P user are not ABUSER, they use what was sold to them within the limit of their contract !
Do not blame P2P user for doing something perfectly ok within their contract, or you look like idiot. Switch to an ISP which do not have "unlimited" advertising. Or blame your ISP for offering such contract at unsustainable price. But I repeat do not blame user for using what they were sold by the ISP ! This is especially true since my ISP (T-ONLINE) used to advertise downloading movie and music within minutes !!
Why in the hell would you immediatly think of "Finally, note that sprawl is still desirable as a protection against nuclear terrorism." ? Are you so quaking in fear of the possibility of nuclear terrorism , when there hasn't been any terrosim related to nuclear material, only conventional explosive ? Low density is fine if you IGNORE the cost of transportation. In case you are not aware of it , low density sprawl is terrible for goods distribution and unsustainable if there is a fuel shortage.
If you think the US does not have a myriad of people all over where emergent new tech could be interresting, you are fooling yourself or buying into your own country propaganda. Neither do I fool myself into thinking my country does not do it, and isn't adverse to a bit of wet work (google for rainbow warrior). Don't paint china as the big evil, don't cry wolf during the whole day. After a while people will not hear to you since you were so biased all the time, then when a true horror and human right violation they will remmember how the whole time you painted China as THE DEVIL and will then dismiss you as again crying wolf.
Company do not run a vaccuum. The bottom line is that they need people to buy their goods and services. If you race to bottom the wages, then you cannot sell anymore your goods and services locally. Bear with me, Taking the situation to an hypothetical extrem, you could outsource 100% of the workforce and spare 90% of your cost. What happens ? Witrhin a few weeks or month, you better have market openned oversea, because there won't be anybody locally able to buy your stuff. Thus you follow in the collapse unless you are a pure exporting company. It does not matter on your 3 points if a company can make a larger profit on all goods or service they sell if nobody is here to buy. Finally most of the "cost" saving anyway are passed up on C*O and shareholder, which are NOT the one to sustain the economy. The one to sustain it are the worker for what they buy. Your economy would not live long if all the people which could buy were the top 1% richest.
An OS which is supposed to protect the user against bad driver, sign them, and has got a new novel system where the driver are not anymore on the ekrnel level, should not be taken down by a fucking sound card driver, whether this is a fucking common problem or not. I can accept that from Me, 2000k, XP BUT NOT FROM FREAKING VISTA.
Using a good choosen OUT asm command could bring the bios in a factory reset. This is how I got it to delete a password that my parents had forgotten. Now granted I am not sure if it is the case with the msot resent BIOS or not. It could be that they are now protected against this.
Most of the people which are hired in the IT do not need a CS degree. maybe in academia and in some private big concern research... But that is it. "a well-trained CS major" maybe can demonstrate why P=NP is important and speaks hour long about AI and DNA like design, but if it can't understand the business it will be working in, it will be no better than the average non-cs major.
There is a good reason why physics, mathematic and biology people were hired in the place I work over to the exception of 2 CS major : they have a better grasp at the language used (f77) could adapt better to the business rules, and grew better optimized code than the lonely 2 CS major. Sure you can argue to hell that the 2 CS majors were crap, but my experience is that NOT THE DEGREE make the man, but the ADAPTIBILITY to the job. And it seems all the CS major I know fail more on that part than the other mentionnend study categories.
Well seeing how Matrix was inspired on many level by GITS.... This is not surprising. Rarely film spawn by inspiration of other film surpass their master. It happens, but rarely.
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The tape themselfes are owned by the channel on which it was shown, and AFAIK they released the show for fair use on its full length. Heck, the same tape is on randi.org. Geller cannot pretend to own the copyright on the tape, which is all the DMCA authorize him to take down. As for the trick, I do not see how you can coypright that, since there is prior art in the previous century.
Firstly, as far as I remmember you are not buried *foreever* in a cemetary, after a while (50 years?) you are remain get taken care of. Somebody in the caretaker industry stops me if I am wrong.
Secondly imagine if people would get buried everywhere at the will of their family or their own will. Very quickly you would not be able to dig somewhere without finding half rotten remains, with all the infection danger that they represents. This would be a health catastrophe. So NO the reason you can't burry people whereever you want is not an industry lobby reason, actually most law on burrial I know of are from the 19th century and early 20th, and predate caretaker industry lobbying.
I mean, msot country in EU have a 300%-400% tax on petroleum (80%+ of the price is tax for 20%- gas price). It does not seem to stop much people driving, despite having a dense common transport grid too...
may I suggest making the crew lipstick lesbians, also we would need to fit the ship with webcams in every room
You sir, with a fine stroke of genius, just solved the whole NASA financing problem, as well as most probably half of the whole US deficit...
I was going to do a quite long "poem" with the first word of each sentences based on the hexadecimal number. Which is protected free speech isn't it ? By the way can someone ask the DVDCCA not to make the key longer ? The longer the key, the more work to write that in poem/lyric... Give them 20 more years and we will have to write a full book.
Bad science from ben Goldacre take on the Thailand AIDS dispute
Relevant is this (below are quote):
* Abbott has retaliated by completely withdrawing its new heat-stable version of Kaletra from the Thai market and withdrawing six other new drugs from the country for good measure.
* In fact, the Thai government has a good history of forcing the drug companies to release their wares at more realistic prices and, interestingly, it has broken no laws. The 2001 Doha declaration made it clear that governments should put public health before companies' patent rights, and under the TRIPS agreement from the WTO, governments can sign up to respect a patent, with the caveat that they can make the drug themselves, or import a generic version, in a national emergency.
* So the US, for example, announced its intention to import generic Ciprofloxacin following the anthrax panic, sidestepping the patent on that drug, in the name of practicality in a crisis. The US terrorist anthrax epidemic killed six people, which says a lot about how the definitio
* we are speaking of 100.000's of contaminated and 120.000+ full blown AIDS in Thailand
My take on this : the US administration don't care a slight bit on intellectual property if it is not their own, they don't care a little bit if other country are within their right as soon as they see a bit of $$ loss, they don't care a *shit* about AIDS drug being unaffordable for "poor" people of other country.
But my biggest GRIP is that despite doing something LAWFUL within international treaty bound, and the US admin has the gale of protesting this, Abbott has the gale of taking back half a dozen drug due to that, and NOBODY seems to pick that up on the US side. I am betting there are more than 32 death a day in thailand due to treatment being too expensive (and that's not counting the death in other country due to the same reason).
Rain , snow or sun, I have roughly 25-30 kilometer to do. And if I want to vote per corrrespondance, I have to get the special paper at the same place. Which make this quite useless.
OK. It remind me of the hate law in the EU. People were screaming that such things would not happen in the US, censorship, calling blood on the EU.
And now I elarn today that you can be arrested if you write something which is troubling somebody, and promptly a 18 old was arrested for doing so.
So... Who is the more fucked up ? One country which arrest people which want to cremate/kill/genocide other folk, or police which arrest student for writing an essay calling for killing having sex with body and drug ?
Sound as bad each other IMHO. At least here in Europe we do not have the ILLUSION of having free speech, whereas on the other side of the atlantic, beside free speech being written on a piece of paper, you are as bad or as good off as us...
quote : Sure, the thug could pull a gun and kill you, but you have the ability to do the same. In this country even someones grandmother could be carrying a handgun in the big purse. She might even know how to use it.
If I had to do a crime and was armed with a gun, and know that the average civilian has NO gun, I will feel confident to only threaten with my own gun, and would be less likely to shoot to kill. On the other hand if even the average grandma has a gun and know how to do it, I will be much more likely to SHOOT TO KILL at the slightiest misinterpreted gesture of the persons I am threatening. So true, everybody having gun might lower the numberof crime MAYBE, but it willsurely increase the number of gun violence.
You can use two definition for nuclear war : a war in which one side or both side use a nuclear waepon. In such case WW2 was a nuclear war. You can use the definition of nuclear war=war where both side use nuclear weapon. In such case WW2 was NOT a nuclear war, and most people usually agree on the second definition, NOT the first.
:I won't dwelve either too much in the debat that at that point the war was already WON, it was only a matter of month, if not week before japan surrender, and if the US had searched a way to allow japan to save face, the massacre of the civilian through the atom bomb would have been avoided. Butthen again they were probably only seen as "collateral damage" jsut like Iraki were seen as collateral damage. Now my opinion is that civilian killing are unjustified no matter the side (London, Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagazaki). The army are there to kill each other. As soon as they turn over killing civilian, then a step ("massacre") is taken which should never be taken.
About WW2
The assesment might be true for all of your point, except for the nuclear war. Both side actually LOSE. This remind me of the SF novel, where one nuclear holocaust survivor goes out of his shelter, see an incredible destruction in the US cities, then somehow reach a command bunker with a general, see that the destruction is nearly total over the whole country, and ask if they lost the war to the general. And the general answer smiling "what ? no we won !". Naturally the point was that both country lost big times, since both are utterly destroyed, poisonned, sterilisated...
Posted as Anonymous coward for obvious reason
Link corrected
They will write a nice bonus down by the end of the year. I will certainly make sure to buy one version and download all patch / package/service pack offline to be able to reconstruct an XP machine alone.
I can remmember using it 10 years ago for application which needed a good parallelism (quantum physics) on how much processor as I wished (I went up as much as 8). Fortran for the application it is used today is highly parralelisable.
Alternatively, entertainment producer in the US, do produce for the "lowest common" denominator possible, and thus can sell in many country of various culture and still be accepted. In other word, they sell outside because there is "not much brainpower" really left in such entertainment. Mind you it does not seem to work for all country and culture.
Books for example where willfully copied completely from their European counter part publication, and reprinted without royalty in the US for a very long time.
You are idiot. It has to be said. If a business (let us say a restaurant) start advertising "unlimited phone call for a fix price" and you were permanently openning a call with your aunt, you would not be abusing anything, you would be within the bound of your contract. And if the phone company is fucked up because they have only a limited number of switch, well they should NOT HAVE advertised a service they could not sustain in the first place !
P2P user are not ABUSER, they use what was sold to them within the limit of their contract !
Do not blame P2P user for doing something perfectly ok within their contract, or you look like idiot. Switch to an ISP which do not have "unlimited" advertising. Or blame your ISP for offering such contract at unsustainable price. But I repeat do not blame user for using what they were sold by the ISP ! This is especially true since my ISP (T-ONLINE) used to advertise downloading movie and music within minutes !!
He is not : Starting Score: 1 point Moderation +1 30% Informative 40% Troll 30% Insightful Apparently 40% of the folk moderating saw through him.
Why in the hell would you immediatly think of "Finally, note that sprawl is still desirable as a protection against nuclear terrorism." ? Are you so quaking in fear of the possibility of nuclear terrorism , when there hasn't been any terrosim related to nuclear material, only conventional explosive ? Low density is fine if you IGNORE the cost of transportation. In case you are not aware of it , low density sprawl is terrible for goods distribution and unsustainable if there is a fuel shortage.
If you think the US does not have a myriad of people all over where emergent new tech could be interresting, you are fooling yourself or buying into your own country propaganda. Neither do I fool myself into thinking my country does not do it, and isn't adverse to a bit of wet work (google for rainbow warrior). Don't paint china as the big evil, don't cry wolf during the whole day. After a while people will not hear to you since you were so biased all the time, then when a true horror and human right violation they will remmember how the whole time you painted China as THE DEVIL and will then dismiss you as again crying wolf.
Company do not run a vaccuum. The bottom line is that they need people to buy their goods and services. If you race to bottom the wages, then you cannot sell anymore your goods and services locally. Bear with me, Taking the situation to an hypothetical extrem, you could outsource 100% of the workforce and spare 90% of your cost. What happens ? Witrhin a few weeks or month, you better have market openned oversea, because there won't be anybody locally able to buy your stuff. Thus you follow in the collapse unless you are a pure exporting company. It does not matter on your 3 points if a company can make a larger profit on all goods or service they sell if nobody is here to buy. Finally most of the "cost" saving anyway are passed up on C*O and shareholder, which are NOT the one to sustain the economy. The one to sustain it are the worker for what they buy. Your economy would not live long if all the people which could buy were the top 1% richest.
An OS which is supposed to protect the user against bad driver, sign them, and has got a new novel system where the driver are not anymore on the ekrnel level, should not be taken down by a fucking sound card driver, whether this is a fucking common problem or not. I can accept that from Me, 2000k, XP BUT NOT FROM FREAKING VISTA.
Using a good choosen OUT asm command could bring the bios in a factory reset. This is how I got it to delete a password that my parents had forgotten. Now granted I am not sure if it is the case with the msot resent BIOS or not. It could be that they are now protected against this.
Most of the people which are hired in the IT do not need a CS degree. maybe in academia and in some private big concern research... But that is it. "a well-trained CS major" maybe can demonstrate why P=NP is important and speaks hour long about AI and DNA like design, but if it can't understand the business it will be working in, it will be no better than the average non-cs major. There is a good reason why physics, mathematic and biology people were hired in the place I work over to the exception of 2 CS major : they have a better grasp at the language used (f77) could adapt better to the business rules, and grew better optimized code than the lonely 2 CS major. Sure you can argue to hell that the 2 CS majors were crap, but my experience is that NOT THE DEGREE make the man, but the ADAPTIBILITY to the job. And it seems all the CS major I know fail more on that part than the other mentionnend study categories.
Well seeing how Matrix was inspired on many level by GITS.... This is not surprising. Rarely film spawn by inspiration of other film surpass their master. It happens, but rarely.