a copyrighted work != property!!
I can personally guarantee you that these people are certainly NOT communist. They just realize that capitalism should sometimes change to better serve the people AND the corporations, and that is what this initiative is trying to accomplish.
Coincidentally the very same youth party that proposed this resolution, last year voted that the ban on soft drugs should only be maintained if they could be proven harmful.
Puh-lease... Norway IS in the European Union, (most)Norwegians just won't admit it.
Essentially, Norway has traded it's voting rights in the EU in return for the exception of Norwegian Fishing and Farming from the common market.
Norway implements ALL EU-law (faster than any otherEU-country to boot), we're in fact participating in more stuff (Schenge e.t.c) tha a lot of "full" EU-members.
I'm Norwegian and love metric, lately I have been trying to research gasoline usage of various cars and trucks and compare them. Not easy, MPG drives me nuts - especially the fact that UK and US gallons are different!! How? Why?
I suck at math, so I would have been completely lost on this without online conversion tools...
You seem to have forgot the most important bits:
Bush's lie about "saddam having weapons of mass destruction" Cost...
o ~ 4-600.000 (no, that's not a typo) Iraqi lives since the invasion
o Doubling the rate of death (deaths per 1000 people per year)
o Bush managing to be more deadly than Saddam! How is it possible?
Saddam is finished as a leader, regardless of death sentence or lifetime in prison.
There's no way he will ever be able to take power in Iraq again.
Giving him the death sentence is immoral and no better than cold-blooded murder.
How is killing Saddam going to bring peace and democracy to Iraq??
What is the point of "liberating" Iraq by bringing the worst parts of the American judicial system to them?
How is the disaster that is the current international intervention in Iraq, going to result in freedom and democracy for the people of Iraq?
Norwegians taking over/.
The real cost of gasoline is not integrated into the price anywhere in the world.. To do so would also be impossible. Because cleaning the atmoshpere of co2 is not like removing some barrels of toxic waste - the cost is almost impossible to predict. If we should try to predict the cost of 5m+ of rising oceans anyway, and integrate into gas prices, the prices would have to be ridicoulusly high. The only remainding option is the Northern European way: to tax gasoline as much as politically possible. High gas prices is gaining acceptance in our societies, and we should keep the pressure on to increase taxation even more - to force the world to usde climate-neutral alternatives.
I nedd to get my Karma up..
TECHBUZZ
Old technology proves a modern-day classic
By Eric Benderoff
Published September 4, 2006
One of my favorite things in the technology universe doesn't surf the Web or plug into your ears. The end result doesn't do anything actually, yet the process has thrilled millions of people for four decades.
Odds are strong that if you've visited a zoo or museum since the Johnson administration, you've bought at least one of the delightfully kitschy and colorful products these bubble-topped time machines create: an Abe Lincoln bust, a triceratops or a charging rhino.
The best part is they look the same today as they did back when Elvis ruled Las Vegas. Perhaps better, at $1.50 a pop they remain the most affordable souvenirs one can buy during an afternoon marveling at elephants or a World War II-era submarine at the Field Museum.
The Mold-a-Rama machine still delights because you watch the made-on-the-spot process before gingerly picking up your still-warm memento.
I bought five Mold-a-Rama creations this summer, an elephant and rhino from a recent trip to Brookfield Zoo and three dinosaurs from a visit to the Field Museum.
"The Field Museum is all dinosaurs. We used to have a gorilla mold there, but it wasn't selling very well, so we turned it into a T-Rex mold," said Bill Jones, who, with his two sons, keeps the 21 Mold-a-Ramas in the Chicago area humming. (A gorilla from the Field Museum recently sold for $85 on eBay, by the way.)
Keeping the machines working is no small feat, considering a Mold-a-Rama machine hasn't been built in 40 years.
There are 11 Mold-a-Ramas at Brookfield Zoo, two at the Lincoln Park Zoo, four at the Field Museum and four at the Museum of Science Industry, where you can buy Bill's favorite, a replica of the U-505 submarine.
The William A. Jones Co., based out of Bill's home in Brookfield, operates 68 Mold-a-Rama machines across the Midwest and in Texas. You can buy a bat mold at the Milwaukee County Zoo, a Komodo dragon in San Antonio or an "antique car" at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich.
"We couldn't do a Model A or a Model T, so it's a combination," said Bill, who got into the business in 1969. "I thought the machines were 40 years old then."
As the end of summer looms this Labor Day, the efforts of a 70-year-old man who gets to the Field Museum before 6:30 a.m. once a week to make sure a toddler and his dad still can enjoy the spectacle of making a plastic T-Rex should be applauded.
"We'll all be working Monday," said Paul Jones, Bill's 40-year-old son. "We just don't know where yet."
The charm of the Mold-a-Rama is its mesmerizing and simple technology. In the left-hand corner of each machine, you see the mold each makes. If you want one, and Bill figures roughly one of every 10 people who pass a Mold-a-Rama do, you pop your money in to activate the machine.
Four hydraulic cams start to move. The first and last closes the two sides of the mold together. Then another cam pushes plastic between the molds, followed by one that blows hot air in to make the figure hollow. Coolant then chills the mold because the figure was cooked between 225 and 250 degrees.
After roughly a minute, the two sides of the mold open, revealing your dinosaur or dolphin, before the final cam, that operates the scrapper, pushes your mold forward and drops it into the holding bin. But you need to wait a moment: It is still too hot to pick up right away, as my son always warns.
The dolphin at Brookfield Zoo is Jones' top producer.
"It outsells everything," he said, noting that machine produced 350 molds in one day during the height of summer.
Across the country, there are 130 machines working at 28 locations, said avid Mold-a-Rama collector Brennan Murphy, who owns 600 to 700 of the figures.
Murphy, 45, who grew up in Riverside but now lives in Florida, has 30 different colored T-Rex molds.
"The colors are different than the ones today," he said.
A Paul Bunyan figure from a Minnesota machine no longer in operation recently fetched $210, the highest price Murphy
Maybe we'd have survived the last millennium on vegetables, but without meat we wouldn't have become humans. The ironic thing is this: To become humans we have needed easy access to large amounts of protein to be able to evolve a big brain which makes us intelligent enough to have empathy which makes us wonder if it's OK to eat other animals.. (what a sentence....)
But it's true
Greenpeace sucks. They only care about keeping up their donation stream from stupid hollywood celebrities and Germans who have never seen nature. Don't listen to them. And don't let them destroy the reputation of people (like me) who cares about the future of our environment.
I agree that we should have priorites. And the priorites should be:
1: Stopping climate change, by getting rid of as much fossil fuel burning as possible. Nuclear power is a great way to replace coal.
2: Working to reduce the effect of poisons such as PCB and flame retardants used in electronics.
Climate change is a BIG challenge, and where our focus should be.
Well, I live in Norway and so has some experience from the European POV. There's definetely racism here to, except most of what's going on is not really racism - it's fear of a different culture, especially islamic. There has been quite big amount of adoption from Korea and China to Norway and all studies show that children who are adopted young, blend in quite good and usually don't have problem because of racism and xenophobia e.t.c.
Here in Norway we have first-hand experience at how "competent" Mossad is. In 1973, they killed Ahmed Bouchikhi in front of his pregnant wife in Lillehammer, Norway. Mossad made a mistake and shot down an innocent man on foreign soil because his face looked like on of the Munich Olympics terrorists.
That's how competent they are.
PS: the whole thing has been publicly admitted by Mossad, the terrorist target's name was Hassan Salameh, and they have even paid reparations to the victims family, although the reputation of Israel in the Norwegian population has taken a big hit..
"I'd say the public's morals are just about right, and it's time for the government to take notice and change its backward policies."..and the first thing that should be done, is to impose a global-warming tax on all fossil fuels.
This is maybe the single most effective thing that can be done in the short term, but it remains to be seen if the American people _really_ are willing to make the sacrifices of a doubled (at least) gas price...
Personally, I think not. Maybe after some more Katrinas hit the big cities people will realise that nature means business and will adapt their lifestyle, but until then....
British House??
Everytime i go to the U.K I'm amazed about the poor standard and ridiculous bathroom solutions.. Carpet around the toilet? Don't tell med you English gents always hit the bowl. And how come you havent't discovered the mixing faucet? Having to mix cold and warm in the basin just sucks..
..as a Norwegian who has visited England a few times, what I wonder about is why the British insist on carpets on their bathroom floors? Do you never miss when you pee? don't you drip when you come out of the shower? And why haven't the wonders of mixing faucets (insted of one hot and one cold) reached England?
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a copyrighted work != property!!
Therefore, this is not "basically communist legislation."
a copyrighted work != property!!
I can personally guarantee you that these people are certainly NOT communist. They just realize that capitalism should sometimes change to better serve the people AND the corporations, and that is what this initiative is trying to accomplish.
The Red Electoral Campaign is a communist party. Enough said
Coincidentally the very same youth party that proposed this resolution, last year voted that the ban on soft drugs should only be maintained if they could be proven harmful.
Puh-lease... Norway IS in the European Union, (most)Norwegians just won't admit it. Essentially, Norway has traded it's voting rights in the EU in return for the exception of Norwegian Fishing and Farming from the common market. Norway implements ALL EU-law (faster than any otherEU-country to boot), we're in fact participating in more stuff (Schenge e.t.c) tha a lot of "full" EU-members.
No, ZFS http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/ FTW!! Soon on Linux *drool*
I'm Norwegian and love metric, lately I have been trying to research gasoline usage of various cars and trucks and compare them. Not easy, MPG drives me nuts - especially the fact that UK and US gallons are different!! How? Why? I suck at math, so I would have been completely lost on this without online conversion tools...
I think "hype" is more correct than "crisis," regarding BSE. In short: Total death toll: 170, of which 160 in the UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_enc ephalopathy#BSE_statistics_by_country
You seem to have forgot the most important bits: Bush's lie about "saddam having weapons of mass destruction" Cost... o ~ 4-600.000 (no, that's not a typo) Iraqi lives since the invasion o Doubling the rate of death (deaths per 1000 people per year) o Bush managing to be more deadly than Saddam! How is it possible?
Another good one from the Liberal Democrats.. (I'm not British but i root for the LibDems anyways :-)
Saddam is finished as a leader, regardless of death sentence or lifetime in prison. There's no way he will ever be able to take power in Iraq again. Giving him the death sentence is immoral and no better than cold-blooded murder. How is killing Saddam going to bring peace and democracy to Iraq?? What is the point of "liberating" Iraq by bringing the worst parts of the American judicial system to them? How is the disaster that is the current international intervention in Iraq, going to result in freedom and democracy for the people of Iraq?
RTFS! How is the Village Voice and anatomy sites high bandwidth?
Norwegians taking over /.
The real cost of gasoline is not integrated into the price anywhere in the world.. To do so would also be impossible. Because cleaning the atmoshpere of co2 is not like removing some barrels of toxic waste - the cost is almost impossible to predict. If we should try to predict the cost of 5m+ of rising oceans anyway, and integrate into gas prices, the prices would have to be ridicoulusly high. The only remainding option is the Northern European way: to tax gasoline as much as politically possible. High gas prices is gaining acceptance in our societies, and we should keep the pressure on to increase taxation even more - to force the world to usde climate-neutral alternatives.
I nedd to get my Karma up.. TECHBUZZ Old technology proves a modern-day classic By Eric Benderoff Published September 4, 2006 One of my favorite things in the technology universe doesn't surf the Web or plug into your ears. The end result doesn't do anything actually, yet the process has thrilled millions of people for four decades. Odds are strong that if you've visited a zoo or museum since the Johnson administration, you've bought at least one of the delightfully kitschy and colorful products these bubble-topped time machines create: an Abe Lincoln bust, a triceratops or a charging rhino. The best part is they look the same today as they did back when Elvis ruled Las Vegas. Perhaps better, at $1.50 a pop they remain the most affordable souvenirs one can buy during an afternoon marveling at elephants or a World War II-era submarine at the Field Museum. The Mold-a-Rama machine still delights because you watch the made-on-the-spot process before gingerly picking up your still-warm memento. I bought five Mold-a-Rama creations this summer, an elephant and rhino from a recent trip to Brookfield Zoo and three dinosaurs from a visit to the Field Museum. "The Field Museum is all dinosaurs. We used to have a gorilla mold there, but it wasn't selling very well, so we turned it into a T-Rex mold," said Bill Jones, who, with his two sons, keeps the 21 Mold-a-Ramas in the Chicago area humming. (A gorilla from the Field Museum recently sold for $85 on eBay, by the way.) Keeping the machines working is no small feat, considering a Mold-a-Rama machine hasn't been built in 40 years. There are 11 Mold-a-Ramas at Brookfield Zoo, two at the Lincoln Park Zoo, four at the Field Museum and four at the Museum of Science Industry, where you can buy Bill's favorite, a replica of the U-505 submarine. The William A. Jones Co., based out of Bill's home in Brookfield, operates 68 Mold-a-Rama machines across the Midwest and in Texas. You can buy a bat mold at the Milwaukee County Zoo, a Komodo dragon in San Antonio or an "antique car" at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. "We couldn't do a Model A or a Model T, so it's a combination," said Bill, who got into the business in 1969. "I thought the machines were 40 years old then." As the end of summer looms this Labor Day, the efforts of a 70-year-old man who gets to the Field Museum before 6:30 a.m. once a week to make sure a toddler and his dad still can enjoy the spectacle of making a plastic T-Rex should be applauded. "We'll all be working Monday," said Paul Jones, Bill's 40-year-old son. "We just don't know where yet." The charm of the Mold-a-Rama is its mesmerizing and simple technology. In the left-hand corner of each machine, you see the mold each makes. If you want one, and Bill figures roughly one of every 10 people who pass a Mold-a-Rama do, you pop your money in to activate the machine. Four hydraulic cams start to move. The first and last closes the two sides of the mold together. Then another cam pushes plastic between the molds, followed by one that blows hot air in to make the figure hollow. Coolant then chills the mold because the figure was cooked between 225 and 250 degrees. After roughly a minute, the two sides of the mold open, revealing your dinosaur or dolphin, before the final cam, that operates the scrapper, pushes your mold forward and drops it into the holding bin. But you need to wait a moment: It is still too hot to pick up right away, as my son always warns. The dolphin at Brookfield Zoo is Jones' top producer. "It outsells everything," he said, noting that machine produced 350 molds in one day during the height of summer. Across the country, there are 130 machines working at 28 locations, said avid Mold-a-Rama collector Brennan Murphy, who owns 600 to 700 of the figures. Murphy, 45, who grew up in Riverside but now lives in Florida, has 30 different colored T-Rex molds. "The colors are different than the ones today," he said. A Paul Bunyan figure from a Minnesota machine no longer in operation recently fetched $210, the highest price Murphy
Maybe we'd have survived the last millennium on vegetables, but without meat we wouldn't have become humans. The ironic thing is this: To become humans we have needed easy access to large amounts of protein to be able to evolve a big brain which makes us intelligent enough to have empathy which makes us wonder if it's OK to eat other animals.. (what a sentence....) But it's true
Greenpeace sucks. They only care about keeping up their donation stream from stupid hollywood celebrities and Germans who have never seen nature. Don't listen to them. And don't let them destroy the reputation of people (like me) who cares about the future of our environment. I agree that we should have priorites. And the priorites should be: 1: Stopping climate change, by getting rid of as much fossil fuel burning as possible. Nuclear power is a great way to replace coal. 2: Working to reduce the effect of poisons such as PCB and flame retardants used in electronics. Climate change is a BIG challenge, and where our focus should be.
Well, I live in Norway and so has some experience from the European POV. There's definetely racism here to, except most of what's going on is not really racism - it's fear of a different culture, especially islamic. There has been quite big amount of adoption from Korea and China to Norway and all studies show that children who are adopted young, blend in quite good and usually don't have problem because of racism and xenophobia e.t.c.
what about importing some poor african children, that have no future otherwise, to sustain poulation in these countries?
Here in Norway we have first-hand experience at how "competent" Mossad is. In 1973, they killed Ahmed Bouchikhi in front of his pregnant wife in Lillehammer, Norway. Mossad made a mistake and shot down an innocent man on foreign soil because his face looked like on of the Munich Olympics terrorists. That's how competent they are. PS: the whole thing has been publicly admitted by Mossad, the terrorist target's name was Hassan Salameh, and they have even paid reparations to the victims family, although the reputation of Israel in the Norwegian population has taken a big hit..
*standing ovations* Mod Parent UP, UP and away!
big and flat lake the Salt Lakes, baby
"I'd say the public's morals are just about right, and it's time for the government to take notice and change its backward policies." ..and the first thing that should be done, is to impose a global-warming tax on all fossil fuels.
This is maybe the single most effective thing that can be done in the short term, but it remains to be seen if the American people _really_ are willing to make the sacrifices of a doubled (at least) gas price...
Personally, I think not. Maybe after some more Katrinas hit the big cities people will realise that nature means business and will adapt their lifestyle, but until then....
well, my grandparents are 75 and has bben smoking 30 a day since they were 17. That doesn't prove anything.
British House?? Everytime i go to the U.K I'm amazed about the poor standard and ridiculous bathroom solutions.. Carpet around the toilet? Don't tell med you English gents always hit the bowl. And how come you havent't discovered the mixing faucet? Having to mix cold and warm in the basin just sucks..
..as a Norwegian who has visited England a few times, what I wonder about is why the British insist on carpets on their bathroom floors? Do you never miss when you pee? don't you drip when you come out of the shower? And why haven't the wonders of mixing faucets (insted of one hot and one cold) reached England?