This is... way late =) But yes - the corporations pass on those costs to their customers in one way or another. Not only do they have far more money to allocate to whatever they need to, but they pull that money from other people/places to make up for frivilous spendings. This is beside the point, however... The point I was trying to highlight was that they can make it prohibitively expensive to sue them through delays, and could sue you as much as they want to. A few examples... Record labels from hell... Another one - Microsoft (this one is more on the edges of being sued and putting up with it because it's cheaper).
I would not have sued mcdonnalds because I spilt a hot cup of coffee... I didn't sue Wendys when their poor cup design sent soda all over my interior. I am in favor of taking responsibility for your actions, instead of pointing the finger at others. I pretty much agree with you: For corporations, lawsuits are a way of life - and they ARE expensive... but we as consumers bear the brunt of that expense. Using lawsuits as a way for us to control corporations? ha... Shooting ones self in the foot would be more effective.
Except it actually works the other way around... Corporations have bottomless wallets while the people don't. Your best bet is a class action lawsuit that returns almost nothing per individual, while the corporations can sue you instead. I cite the RIAA and the sony rootkit incident.
Anyway, I see your point, but it's a two way street. Those with money can, and some do, abuse the system. In doing so, they ruin its reputation.
You might first consider that Hitler's violence brought down violence upon himself.
While you imply that violence was effective and valid against him, I say that it never would have been necessary in the first place, were he not out for genocide. Also, a lot of his inspiration was WWI, and Germany's spectacular defeat.
It's kind of a silly argument, but perhaps the pacifist's realize that while they cannot control other's actions, they can control their own and NOT be Hitler. Not everything is about some evil villain from our history, or about lives lost in battles fought.
Behold! For I have speculated an answer! Ok, not really.
But based off of what you said, the key factor of heat generation is the drag from the air. As you ecounter drag on the atmosphere (however light) your velocity decreases and thus so does the outward force you exibit from that velocity.
That outward force decreasing, means that you'll go yet deeper into the atmosphere and encounter more drag. Also, the rate of the atmosphere's density will increase faster than linear, I assume.. (Probably has a lot more to do with the density of gasses but meh)
Anyway... From what you've posted, wouldn't the secret to success be creating enough lift to slow the descent, allowing the lighter atmosphere to also lower the velocity at a tolerable rate?
Ignoring the structural integrity having to withstand the high speed winds, of course... The only thing giving this plane such force is the pure velocity, but this thing isn't a 100 pound rock.... surely it would exhibit enough drag on its own to slow down that velocity - you just need enough lift so it doesn't immediately do a nose dive.
Really? My understanding was that dogs can't get the vitamines any other way. While their poop is broken down in their intestines, they can't absorb any vitamines, and must intake them again.
Personally, I think you're getting a bit too stuck-up over it. While I have to admit, I've never heard of your game, if I pirate it, I probably wouldn't have bought it anyway. The only thing you're losing is the imaginary money you think you had but somehow missed counting - before the chicken laid her eggs.
Then again, your post seems more like a shameless plug than anything, and that's cool =)
"It's a shame that the Pirate Bay are being set up as these renegade folk heroes, but I guess that's what happens when a smaller villain tweaks the nose of a larger one."
I think it has a lot more to do with supporting the underdog than anything else. These sites have existed as long as I've known the internet, so its not like shutting down the site will make a substantial difference.
As a closure, I think you should be flattered that people think your game is worth making available to others, and have more faith in people than you do. Or more realistically, stop counting your eggs before they hatch - even if imaginary. That or be a lot more pissed off at the RIAA/MPAA for jading the public's view in favor of pirates....
These stories are useful, just not on slashdot. The more people that get burned by drm, the more public outcry there will be against it.
Lets face it, our power as purchasers is to not purchase that media. People aren't inclined to just go without. If there are alternatives, they may well choose them, if educated - but if all the outlets for this type of media decide to implement DRM in one way or another, what power do we have?
Unless, of course, they piss off enough people.... I've tried telling all my friends about the flaws in DRM, and its implementation in the PS3 and Vista, as examples. So far it has stopped no one from using vista, and isn't the reason people don't buy PS3's.
They figure that someone will just make a crack and they'll be able to do whatever. Never mind they may have their video degraded for using an unsupported video source, or whatever other nonsense is implemented... More people need to get pissed off. Stories like this are good. Stories like this need to happen more often, and publicized in more mainstream media outlets.
That and the same people that bitch about the "bait and switch" technique are also the same people who ignore the one per customer limitation...
For those that don't get it.. the Bait and Switch is when a retailer posts a sale on an item without having adequate stock, forcing customers them to get something else.
I've gone to Fry's to buy spools of threade cat5e cable... but they are very expensive. The solid core ones are cheap though. 30-50 a roll. Just not very useful =) In the end, I already have several 50' cat5e threaded cables premade. Yes - I spent more. No, I don't go out and buy them every day, or even every year... Otherwise I'd probably go through the trouble of ordering a roll online for as cheap as possible, and then waiting for it to arrive.
Although, I didn't understand the remark about the sun being the hardest place to get to. Couldn't you just set it on it's way to the sun, during the time of year where it will be the least affected by the, what... 2 or 3 planets inbetween, and let the suns gravity do it's thing?
What Science does the space station actually advance, and how is it meaningful to us? From what I know of, most of our useful scientific advances from the space program have been because of trying to get out into space. I honestly don't know of a single advance made from actually being out there. We know a bit more about the planets surface, and that there aren't any living sentient beings in our region of space. However, we also know that its hugely impractical to relocate to these planets as well, and that even if we did, we wouldn't be safe from our own sun.
Knowledge is power and I don't dispute this, but other than what we've gained in making these attempts, have we really practically applied anything we currently know? Or is it really just the practice that benefits us?
It's 30 miles one way to work, so riding a bike is not an option for me. Really, neither is moving to the same city I work in either - as the property value is really high and I cannot afford to rent from there, despite my above average wages.
So I drive, since taking the bus would be at minimum 2 hours, and only available one way, due to schedules.
Density has a lot to do with making things like subways and trains feasible. Here, the best we have are buses on a 30 minute schedule - your screwed if one of the buses shows up too early or too late at a connection.
I agree with you completely, however there is one applicable use that I can think of. Cleaning donated blood.
This exists outside of the human body and is a vector for infection, even with our current processes of testing and then destroying what we believe to be contaminated blood.
To add to your point - There is a number for "Too fast" that merits jail time. It's criminal speeding.
It's somewhere between 20 and 25mph over the speed limit, and I do know of someone who has gotten pulled over for it and not let off, btw. (As in, it wasn't just downgraded to a civil offense, however it was extreme: 144mph in a 65mph zone)
Plus going 120 on a deserted stretch of road doesn't mean it's "reasonably safe" either, because your visibility is not as great as your speed. If someone is there, you wouldn't know until it was too late.
You of course, do realise that by killing someone while they are driving endangers everyone else on the road - and thus by that logic, they can kill you.
"As fast or as slow as they want. The one single condition is this: if you threaten my life by your driving habits, I get to shoot you. I can pull a weapon out right there on the road and KILL you.
I'm not trying to be facetious, sarcastic, or anything. I'm dead serious. Yes, by all means, let people drive however they want. But give me the right to defend myself on the road against psychotics."
You're sounding pretty damn psychotic to me.
Your point is well appreciated, but I don't think even you'd want to agree to your own terms.
I take that route home from work every day, and I work nights so there is very rarely anyone on that road but me.
Those camara's are definitely not accurate. One day you could be cruising along at 74 and it won't go off, the next you could be cruising along at 70 and get your picture taken. Same lane, different night. (FYI, they shouldn't go off until you go 11 mph over the speedlimit, so 76mph) I have no feasable defense, so I'm pretty much SOL. I realise that my spedometer is probably innacurate, but it is a requirement on the manufacturor to make it such that it will never read below the speed you're going, and I have stock tire sizes. The smaller the tire gets, the greater the difference will be between actual speed and what the spedometer shows (In my favor)
It's also worth noting that at the time of most of those pictures, My tires were pretty well worn out and in need of replacement...
I also question the safety of having such a bright light flashing suddenly at people's faces when they least expect it. I'm waiting for someone to be caught off guard and flip out into a wall or something.
Well, I don't have a very recent recollection of any Shakespeare, but I did recently read the a tale of Two cities (or try to, after chapter 3 I read the cliff notes for 1-4 and boy... was I off...), and the problems I had were these.
1) Most of the words had the same base root, so deciphering what they meant was dooable, except for a few. I wound up coming out of the first chapter thinking they were looking for whores... or something totally off base like that...
and 2) This one is probably the most important. I spent so much time trying to translate words in sequences so foreign to me that I kind of missed the point. Those may have mostly been words that I understood, but they might as well have been french because the story was lost on me.
It's something like this - You use a language in a very foreign way and add in metaphors, and I don't know wither to take them literally or not...
I bet you that most of that can be made fun, at least certain parts of it.
Programming - less emphasis on syntax and actual stare at letters programming and more of thought process development. Solve puzzles ! try to find faster ways of doing them and understand how you took this abstract solution to make it step by step. Obviously you incorporate this into a game of some sort.
Chemistry - you can make things go boom. 'Nough said
Shakespeare was fun when you read an Ebonics version. Stories are stories, but if you take out the hard to get past old english, it becomes an enjoyable story once again. You can also read them side by side to help translate the ideas in your head.
Managing personal finances is a lot like Juggling - there's an idea;)
Sure, you can't make the nitty gritty stuff fun, but so what. You can still impart valuable lessons and at least teach the concept of something in an entertaining way. Let them specialize later on in life and learn the boring stuff...
The problem is that different things interest different people - so making a curriculum that is this abstract has definite drawbacks from a teacher perspective..
The ozone quantity drops dramatically when you are farther away from the unit.
These things may be harmful if they are 1 foot away from you, and are below limits at 3 feet, but really... who sticks that close to an air purifier? The filter ones are obnoxiously loud, where this unit isn't, but still.. The ozone levels in a ppm sense go way down the farther away you are.
Even if a unit was at my feet while sitting, I'm a minimum of 3 feet away, closer to 4 or 5 - depending on height.
I'd normally put it in a clear part of my room and let it do it's thing..
Also, if your room is well ventilated, the ozone is even less of a problem.
Ford generally leaves Mazda alone. The things they have contributed have historically been poor and ruined the brand in terms of reliability. (Automatic Tranny's in the early 90's iirc)
Thinks like the RX8 and Miata's are solely Mazda by design and implementation. So Having a mazda has very little to do with ford. Thus the relation to Ford owning (a part of) Mazda and therefore being the same diff does not apply.
However, Ford does like to use Mazda designs and parts to make their own cars better.
the european focus is basically a Mazda 3. The MZR engine was designed by Mazda, but paid for by Ford. The The Suspension is of Mazda design.
The Ford Fusion is mechanically a Mazda6
If anything Owning a Ford is a lot like owning a Mazda.
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No, you aren't wrong. It may have had the opposite effect for this particular person, but in general it does lower your sex drive.
This is ... way late =) ... Record labels from hell ... Another one - Microsoft (this one is more on the edges of being sued and putting up with it because it's cheaper).
... I didn't sue Wendys when their poor cup design sent soda all over my interior. I am in favor of taking responsibility for your actions, instead of pointing the finger at others. ... but we as consumers bear the brunt of that expense. Using lawsuits as a way for us to control corporations? ha... Shooting ones self in the foot would be more effective.
But yes - the corporations pass on those costs to their customers in one way or another. Not only do they have far more money to allocate to whatever they need to, but they pull that money from other people/places to make up for frivilous spendings. This is beside the point, however...
The point I was trying to highlight was that they can make it prohibitively expensive to sue them through delays, and could sue you as much as they want to. A few examples
I would not have sued mcdonnalds because I spilt a hot cup of coffee
I pretty much agree with you: For corporations, lawsuits are a way of life - and they ARE expensive
Except it actually works the other way around ...
Corporations have bottomless wallets while the people don't. Your best bet is a class action lawsuit that returns almost nothing per individual, while the corporations can sue you instead.
I cite the RIAA and the sony rootkit incident.
Anyway, I see your point, but it's a two way street. Those with money can, and some do, abuse the system. In doing so, they ruin its reputation.
You might first consider that Hitler's violence brought down violence upon himself.
While you imply that violence was effective and valid against him, I say that it never would have been necessary in the first place, were he not out for genocide. Also, a lot of his inspiration was WWI, and Germany's spectacular defeat.
It's kind of a silly argument, but perhaps the pacifist's realize that while they cannot control other's actions, they can control their own and NOT be Hitler. Not everything is about some evil villain from our history, or about lives lost in battles fought.
Behold! For I have speculated an answer!
.. (Probably has a lot more to do with the density of gasses but meh)
Ok, not really.
But based off of what you said, the key factor of heat generation is the drag from the air. As you ecounter drag on the atmosphere (however light) your velocity decreases and thus so does the outward force you exibit from that velocity.
That outward force decreasing, means that you'll go yet deeper into the atmosphere and encounter more drag. Also, the rate of the atmosphere's density will increase faster than linear, I assume
Anyway... From what you've posted, wouldn't the secret to success be creating enough lift to slow the descent, allowing the lighter atmosphere to also lower the velocity at a tolerable rate?
Ignoring the structural integrity having to withstand the high speed winds, of course... The only thing giving this plane such force is the pure velocity, but this thing isn't a 100 pound rock.... surely it would exhibit enough drag on its own to slow down that velocity - you just need enough lift so it doesn't immediately do a nose dive.
Really? My understanding was that dogs can't get the vitamines any other way. While their poop is broken down in their intestines, they can't absorb any vitamines, and must intake them again.
It's probably a combination of both, though.
Personally, I think you're getting a bit too stuck-up over it.
While I have to admit, I've never heard of your game, if I pirate it, I probably wouldn't have bought it anyway. The only thing you're losing is the imaginary money you think you had but somehow missed counting - before the chicken laid her eggs.
Then again, your post seems more like a shameless plug than anything, and that's cool =)
"It's a shame that the Pirate Bay are being set up as these renegade folk heroes, but I guess that's what happens when a smaller villain tweaks the nose of a larger one."
I think it has a lot more to do with supporting the underdog than anything else. These sites have existed as long as I've known the internet, so its not like shutting down the site will make a substantial difference.
As a closure, I think you should be flattered that people think your game is worth making available to others, and have more faith in people than you do. Or more realistically, stop counting your eggs before they hatch - even if imaginary. That or be a lot more pissed off at the RIAA/MPAA for jading the public's view in favor of pirates....
These stories are useful, just not on slashdot. The more people that get burned by drm, the more public outcry there will be against it.
Lets face it, our power as purchasers is to not purchase that media. People aren't inclined to just go without. If there are alternatives, they may well choose them, if educated - but if all the outlets for this type of media decide to implement DRM in one way or another, what power do we have?
Unless, of course, they piss off enough people....
I've tried telling all my friends about the flaws in DRM, and its implementation in the PS3 and Vista, as examples. So far it has stopped no one from using vista, and isn't the reason people don't buy PS3's.
They figure that someone will just make a crack and they'll be able to do whatever. Never mind they may have their video degraded for using an unsupported video source, or whatever other nonsense is implemented... More people need to get pissed off. Stories like this are good. Stories like this need to happen more often, and publicized in more mainstream media outlets.
That damn session saver actually pisses me off.. If I shut windows down while the browser is open it pops up every time.
There also doesn't seem to be a way to disable this feature, either. At least not in the regular options window.
The helmet of god wasn't enough?
That and the same people that bitch about the "bait and switch" technique are also the same people who ignore the one per customer limitation...
For those that don't get it.. the Bait and Switch is when a retailer posts a sale on an item without having adequate stock, forcing customers them to get something else.
I've gone to Fry's to buy spools of threade cat5e cable... but they are very expensive. The solid core ones are cheap though. 30-50 a roll. Just not very useful =) In the end, I already have several 50' cat5e threaded cables premade. Yes - I spent more. No, I don't go out and buy them every day, or even every year... Otherwise I'd probably go through the trouble of ordering a roll online for as cheap as possible, and then waiting for it to arrive.
I imagine spent uranium ore is pretty heavy too..
Although, I didn't understand the remark about the sun being the hardest place to get to. Couldn't you just set it on it's way to the sun, during the time of year where it will be the least affected by the, what... 2 or 3 planets inbetween, and let the suns gravity do it's thing?
What Science does the space station actually advance, and how is it meaningful to us?
From what I know of, most of our useful scientific advances from the space program have been because of trying to get out into space. I honestly don't know of a single advance made from actually being out there. We know a bit more about the planets surface, and that there aren't any living sentient beings in our region of space. However, we also know that its hugely impractical to relocate to these planets as well, and that even if we did, we wouldn't be safe from our own sun.
Knowledge is power and I don't dispute this, but other than what we've gained in making these attempts, have we really practically applied anything we currently know? Or is it really just the practice that benefits us?
You might think me insane for thinking this but..
I really do think that punching someone should be a last resort as well.
Where does a verbal situation turn into a physical one? And why do the cops get to decide this, despite having a clear advantage?
It's 30 miles one way to work, so riding a bike is not an option for me.
Really, neither is moving to the same city I work in either - as the property value is really high and I cannot afford to rent from there, despite my above average wages.
So I drive, since taking the bus would be at minimum 2 hours, and only available one way, due to schedules.
Density has a lot to do with making things like subways and trains feasible. Here, the best we have are buses on a 30 minute schedule - your screwed if one of the buses shows up too early or too late at a connection.
I agree with you completely, however there is one applicable use that I can think of.
Cleaning donated blood.
This exists outside of the human body and is a vector for infection, even with our current processes of testing and then destroying what we believe to be contaminated blood.
To add to your point - There is a number for "Too fast" that merits jail time. It's criminal speeding.
It's somewhere between 20 and 25mph over the speed limit, and I do know of someone who has gotten pulled over for it and not let off, btw. (As in, it wasn't just downgraded to a civil offense, however it was extreme: 144mph in a 65mph zone)
Plus going 120 on a deserted stretch of road doesn't mean it's "reasonably safe" either, because your visibility is not as great as your speed. If someone is there, you wouldn't know until it was too late.
You of course, do realise that by killing someone while they are driving endangers everyone else on the road - and thus by that logic, they can kill you.
"As fast or as slow as they want. The one single condition is this: if you threaten my life by your driving habits, I get to shoot you. I can pull a weapon out right there on the road and KILL you.
I'm not trying to be facetious, sarcastic, or anything. I'm dead serious. Yes, by all means, let people drive however they want. But give me the right to defend myself on the road against psychotics."
You're sounding pretty damn psychotic to me.
Your point is well appreciated, but I don't think even you'd want to agree to your own terms.
I take that route home from work every day, and I work nights so there is very rarely anyone on that road but me.
Those camara's are definitely not accurate. One day you could be cruising along at 74 and it won't go off, the next you could be cruising along at 70 and get your picture taken. Same lane, different night.
(FYI, they shouldn't go off until you go 11 mph over the speedlimit, so 76mph)
I have no feasable defense, so I'm pretty much SOL. I realise that my spedometer is probably innacurate, but it is a requirement on the manufacturor to make it such that it will never read below the speed you're going, and I have stock tire sizes. The smaller the tire gets, the greater the difference will be between actual speed and what the spedometer shows (In my favor)
It's also worth noting that at the time of most of those pictures, My tires were pretty well worn out and in need of replacement...
I also question the safety of having such a bright light flashing suddenly at people's faces when they least expect it. I'm waiting for someone to be caught off guard and flip out into a wall or something.
Well, I don't have a very recent recollection of any Shakespeare, but I did recently read the a tale of Two cities (or try to, after chapter 3 I read the cliff notes for 1-4 and boy... was I off ...), and the problems I had were these.
1) Most of the words had the same base root, so deciphering what they meant was dooable, except for a few. I wound up coming out of the first chapter thinking they were looking for whores... or something totally off base like that...
and 2) This one is probably the most important. I spent so much time trying to translate words in sequences so foreign to me that I kind of missed the point. Those may have mostly been words that I understood, but they might as well have been french because the story was lost on me.
It's something like this - You use a language in a very foreign way and add in metaphors, and I don't know wither to take them literally or not...
I bet you that most of that can be made fun, at least certain parts of it.
;)
Programming - less emphasis on syntax and actual stare at letters programming and more of thought process development. Solve puzzles ! try to find faster ways of doing them and understand how you took this abstract solution to make it step by step. Obviously you incorporate this into a game of some sort.
Chemistry - you can make things go boom. 'Nough said
Shakespeare was fun when you read an Ebonics version. Stories are stories, but if you take out the hard to get past old english, it becomes an enjoyable story once again. You can also read them side by side to help translate the ideas in your head.
Managing personal finances is a lot like Juggling - there's an idea
Sure, you can't make the nitty gritty stuff fun, but so what. You can still impart valuable lessons and at least teach the concept of something in an entertaining way. Let them specialize later on in life and learn the boring stuff...
The problem is that different things interest different people - so making a curriculum that is this abstract has definite drawbacks from a teacher perspective..
The ozone quantity drops dramatically when you are farther away from the unit.
These things may be harmful if they are 1 foot away from you, and are below limits at 3 feet, but really... who sticks that close to an air purifier? The filter ones are obnoxiously loud, where this unit isn't, but still.. The ozone levels in a ppm sense go way down the farther away you are.
Even if a unit was at my feet while sitting, I'm a minimum of 3 feet away, closer to 4 or 5 - depending on height.
I'd normally put it in a clear part of my room and let it do it's thing..
Also, if your room is well ventilated, the ozone is even less of a problem.
I highly recommend watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 6, episode 7 entitled Once more, With Feeling
Not that you will of course, because you couldn't take the time to log in and thus be notified of replies to an obvious troll, but enjoy =)
Not especially, and here's why.
Ford generally leaves Mazda alone. The things they have contributed have historically been poor and ruined the brand in terms of reliability. (Automatic Tranny's in the early 90's iirc)
Thinks like the RX8 and Miata's are solely Mazda by design and implementation. So Having a mazda has very little to do with ford. Thus the relation to Ford owning (a part of) Mazda and therefore being the same diff does not apply.
However, Ford does like to use Mazda designs and parts to make their own cars better.
the european focus is basically a Mazda 3.
The MZR engine was designed by Mazda, but paid for by Ford.
The The Suspension is of Mazda design.
The Ford Fusion is mechanically a Mazda6
If anything Owning a Ford is a lot like owning a Mazda.