Yeah.. you wouldn't want a company pulling its own strings. I mean heck.. whats the government gonna do if it doesn't get to tell the businesses how to operate?
However it is possible to be both incredibly unique and ubiquitous at the same time. A famous movies star is likely to be very unique (no one else like her), yet with her face on posters and screens all over the world, she is also ubiquitous (omnipresent).
So these words can be used as opposites in certain contexts, but in others they do not contradict. A better general antonym for "unique" would probably be "ordinary".
"For every kilowatt-hour requested by customers and provided by a Vermont farm, CVPS will pay the farmer the market price for energy plus the Cow Power charge of 4 cents for the environmental benefits of the generation. If not enough kilowatt-hours are available from participating CVPS farms, CVPS will attempt to acquire and retire Renewable Energy Certificates from other regional renewable generation, issued by the regional system operator, to support renewable generation in a broader sense. If no certificates are available in the regional market for 4 cents per kWh or less, the company will deposit Cow Power payments into the CVPS Renewable Development Fund. This fund, overseen by an independent board, will provide incentives to farmers to stimulate further renewable farm generation in the CVPS service area. CVPS will not profit from the program. "
What's the value in clean air? Does it make you feel better? How much would you pay for clean air? I can go out and bottle plenty of it all day. It's pretty cheap stuff. I've got it all around me. It may have value one day when it is scarce.
It's generally agreed upon by people who hate pop music. Unfortunately, by definition, it is the most popular music out there. Now that may be the result of it being almost force fed on people while they are determining their likes and dislikes, but the end result is that more people liked the Backstreet Boys than Magnetic Field -- even if it just means they've never heard of Magnetic Field.
The music executives are very good at listening to their customers. They listen to their wallets. Americans, in my opinion, have horrible taste in music. But most of the "Indy" music fans have worse taste than the pop fans - especially the fans of all the off-pitch, whiney noisemakers singing about their ambiguous sexual frustrations.
You cannot own the facts themselves, and that is not the point here. The fact that George Washington was a general in the American army during the war of independence is not ownable. But if you copy the article in the encyclopedia about George Washington and reprint it, or otherwise use the text in a way that is not covered by fair use clauses, you have to have the permission of the copyright owner.
In this case the copyrighted material is the data about privately organized events which occurred on on private property (for legal purposes, although some of the stadiums have city ownership involved). If you attended the game, or know someone who did, you can certainly recount the game as you saw it. But if you are looking at a published list of statistics and recounting that for commercial purposes, you need to have the permission of the person who published the list of statistics.
Now, if there were no money to be made in the publishing of statistics, MLB would not do it. At least not to the detail that it does now. The data is used by fantasy leagues and the gambling industry for predicting victory margins, and so MLB builds very extensive statistics. It is nice that that is then available for the history books, but it is not essential to the teams playing the game. They keep track of things for themselves.
If this service was not worth paying for, they wouldn't be able to charge for it.
I suspect a lot of the American ideas about this come from the time of the cultural revolution, where people were widely persecuted, not only for having the wrong opinions, but also for lots of other things, more or less at random. China has moved on from that - this is a common thing in the world: societies change over time; well, maybe not America, what so I know, but certainly China - how could anyone doubt that? Also, are you absolutely sure that you can get away with having the wrong opinions in America?
From the news today:
A blind activist in China and his family have been placed under house arrest for four months and he was beaten by thugs when he tried to venture out, after exposing forced abortions in his home province on the east coast." More
It's obvious that the author of the parent post is either a propogandist for the Chinese government or a deranged lunatic with no grasp of reality (i.e. European). Judging by his well written English, I'll go with the latter.
And to answer the question posed in the excerpt: Yes. I have no fear at all of being persecuted by the U.S. government or local governments for saying anything which does not directly incite violence against another person. However, if I said things like you are saying, I would definitely exepect to be ridiculed by any person who is aware of international events.
That would be interesting if there were any promising fetal stem cell treatments. But there are not. The most promising stem cell research is on multipotent stem cells from adults or umbilical cords.
That seems to be true mostly in elective drugs. Erectile Dysfunction, Acid Reflux and other drugs which a large portion of the market would not even ask their doctor about if they weren't bombarded by commercials.
Your solution would help in situations where there are competing drugs for the same disease, but would hurt the industry in areas where a lack of marketing would result in an overall drop in sales rather than an alternate distribution of sales.
Most prescription drug advertisements on TV, radio and print are aimed at the consumer drug market and very few go towards drugs like vaccines and antibiotics, which they market directly to doctors. Marketing to doctors is much cheaper.
It doesn't seem that limiting marketing expenses would help lower the cost of life-saving drugs, just drugs that make us feel better.
-Jacob
I watch BBC News and I agree that it has much more international news than the US channels, but that has nothing to do with our "ignorance of the world".
Lets say there are 10 breaking stories one evening on each station. In the US, regional coverage gets news stories from US, Canada and Mexico. Every once in a while something interesting happens in Canada, but it usually is related to drug legalization. And Mexico isn't exactly a huge player in international politics. Meanwhile, all kinds of stuff is happening all over the states that is much more interesting.
On the BBC you get the same thing. Most of the news is related to the US, however in the UK thats international news. The rest of the international news is regional with about the same number of Asian/African coverage as the US stations.
-Jacob
The court can interperet the law and in some cases can shape it around the constitution. They cannot create new laws or change the constitution.
Since the trademark laws are created by congress, the courts must interperet them as being limited by the constitution. The owner of fallwell.com can say whatever he wants about the nutcase who he dislikes, as long as it is not libelous. However he cannot represent himself as a person or business without permission. By registering that domain, he is representing himself as Jerry Falwell. The primary purpose is to get people who are trying to find Jerry's site and let them see his own site instead.
If on the other hand he wanted to have a sight called jerryfalwellisamoron.com, I would be less likely to criticize his use of the trademark.
-Jacob
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It was the Republican senate. But if you look at it, it makes sense. it says a "manual recount may not be conducted of undervotes on touch-screen machines".
You cannot recount undervotes with a computer system, even if you print out receipts. An undervote is when the total number of votes for a race are less than the number of ballots cast. In punch card or other manual voting methods, the electronic system can miss a mark or a punch that is obviously a vote to a human eye.
However, there is no way for a human to look for an uncounted vote. If they user pressed the button on the computer it will be recorded. If they do not, it will warn them that they have not voted for races that they did not pick a candidate for. If it prints out a paper, the paper will not have the vote either. No stray marks, no hanging chads.
What does have a paper trail is the precinct by precinct totals. So each ballot location prints a summary from their machines which they verify and turn in. The summaries can be compared to the electronic totals.
I would promote a receipt system for the voter. The voter should be able to take a small receipt with some type of unidentifiable hash result on it. If there is an accusation of tampering or lost votes it could be compared to the records in the database to make sure it was counted appropriately. In order to prevent people from being held accountable by nefarious entities for their voting decisions, it should not be able to be reversed into a proof of voting.
In fact they could get one and leave one in a box for auditing of the computer system. Technically this is not a recount. When you check a manual count against a computer record, it is an audit, since there was no "counting" done in the first place.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, directly responsible to Congress. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by
radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions.
You have to have some sort of implementation in order for the patent to be granted. Now, certainly if you were patenting something that you couldn't quite do usefully yet, you could run into patent lifetime issues. But you wouldn't be able to patent a vague use of nanotechnology without the means to implement some sort of prototype or proof of concept.
-Jacob
I'm inclined to think that a private company would not have come up with a re-entry shield that is composed of hundreds of ceramic tiles, all of which have to be inspected pre and post launch.
No private company would have anything to do with those tiles!
What if they made the new one with a video and power pass-through and a short video and power cable so that you could stack the new one onto the old one to save space?
-Jacob
I would love a textbook like that. One that could constantly adapt itself to the reader's style.
Some people really do well with a linear presentation of information, and get very lost when they can dig around as far and deep as they feel they need in any particular topic.
I, on the other hand, learn very well when I have to dig around. I didn't quite grow up on the internet, but having submerged myself in it since I was 13 has made me want everything to be available in its uniquely puzzle like arrangement of esoteric information for which the reliability must be carefully scrutinized.
The internet, for the most part, has not attempted to create the fiction of definitive source. And in fact it is the case that none of our media has accomplished that. But so many books try to present the reader a narrative of subject matter that gives the appearance of being whole. Such that if you read it, then you are done. Quite opposite, it is entirely incomplete.
If I were to put together a source for online class material, I would rather make it the wikipedia. Create a process for defining a course curiculum that could be defined as an outline of wikipedia subjects. Give it the ability to link together the subjects coherently, but let the user dig through them in their own manner as well.
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Yeah.. you wouldn't want a company pulling its own strings. I mean heck.. whats the government gonna do if it doesn't get to tell the businesses how to operate?
However it is possible to be both incredibly unique and ubiquitous at the same time. A famous movies star is likely to be very unique (no one else like her), yet with her face on posters and screens all over the world, she is also ubiquitous (omnipresent).
So these words can be used as opposites in certain contexts, but in others they do not contradict. A better general antonym for "unique" would probably be "ordinary".
From their FAQ:
"For every kilowatt-hour requested by customers and provided by a Vermont farm, CVPS will pay the farmer the market price for energy plus the Cow Power charge of 4 cents for the environmental benefits of the generation. If not enough kilowatt-hours are available from participating CVPS farms, CVPS will attempt to acquire and retire Renewable Energy Certificates from other regional renewable generation, issued by the regional system operator, to support renewable generation in a broader sense. If no certificates are available in the regional market for 4 cents per kWh or less, the company will deposit Cow Power payments into the CVPS Renewable Development Fund. This fund, overseen by an independent board, will provide incentives to farmers to stimulate further renewable farm generation in the CVPS service area. CVPS will not profit from the program. "
Wait a minute. Why would sunset provision have an indefinite extension? I think thats like having a rule that there are no rules :)
What's the value in clean air? Does it make you feel better? How much would you pay for clean air? I can go out and bottle plenty of it all day. It's pretty cheap stuff. I've got it all around me. It may have value one day when it is scarce.
"You cannot shut up discord, any more than you can small-pox." - E.C. Stanton
I think you're just a little too psychologically invested in slashdot readers' approval of your beliefs.
Maybe you've gotten fat.
It's generally agreed upon by people who hate pop music. Unfortunately, by definition, it is the most popular music out there. Now that may be the result of it being almost force fed on people while they are determining their likes and dislikes, but the end result is that more people liked the Backstreet Boys than Magnetic Field -- even if it just means they've never heard of Magnetic Field.
The music executives are very good at listening to their customers. They listen to their wallets. Americans, in my opinion, have horrible taste in music. But most of the "Indy" music fans have worse taste than the pop fans - especially the fans of all the off-pitch, whiney noisemakers singing about their ambiguous sexual frustrations.
You cannot own the facts themselves, and that is not the point here. The fact that George Washington was a general in the American army during the war of independence is not ownable. But if you copy the article in the encyclopedia about George Washington and reprint it, or otherwise use the text in a way that is not covered by fair use clauses, you have to have the permission of the copyright owner.
In this case the copyrighted material is the data about privately organized events which occurred on on private property (for legal purposes, although some of the stadiums have city ownership involved). If you attended the game, or know someone who did, you can certainly recount the game as you saw it. But if you are looking at a published list of statistics and recounting that for commercial purposes, you need to have the permission of the person who published the list of statistics.
Now, if there were no money to be made in the publishing of statistics, MLB would not do it. At least not to the detail that it does now. The data is used by fantasy leagues and the gambling industry for predicting victory margins, and so MLB builds very extensive statistics. It is nice that that is then available for the history books, but it is not essential to the teams playing the game. They keep track of things for themselves.
If this service was not worth paying for, they wouldn't be able to charge for it.
From the news today:
And some older ones (last few weeks):
Forced labor for writing an article about forced labor camps.
Jailed for organizing a signature campaign against a textbook.
It's obvious that the author of the parent post is either a propogandist for the Chinese government or a deranged lunatic with no grasp of reality (i.e. European). Judging by his well written English, I'll go with the latter.
And to answer the question posed in the excerpt: Yes. I have no fear at all of being persecuted by the U.S. government or local governments for saying anything which does not directly incite violence against another person. However, if I said things like you are saying, I would definitely exepect to be ridiculed by any person who is aware of international events.
That would be interesting if there were any promising fetal stem cell treatments. But there are not. The most promising stem cell research is on multipotent stem cells from adults or umbilical cords.
That seems to be true mostly in elective drugs. Erectile Dysfunction, Acid Reflux and other drugs which a large portion of the market would not even ask their doctor about if they weren't bombarded by commercials. Your solution would help in situations where there are competing drugs for the same disease, but would hurt the industry in areas where a lack of marketing would result in an overall drop in sales rather than an alternate distribution of sales. Most prescription drug advertisements on TV, radio and print are aimed at the consumer drug market and very few go towards drugs like vaccines and antibiotics, which they market directly to doctors. Marketing to doctors is much cheaper. It doesn't seem that limiting marketing expenses would help lower the cost of life-saving drugs, just drugs that make us feel better. -Jacob
At least they didn't call it Aggie.
-Jacob
Sorry... Somewhere in there I was planning on breaking down those ten stories... guess I forgot.
I watch BBC News and I agree that it has much more international news than the US channels, but that has nothing to do with our "ignorance of the world". Lets say there are 10 breaking stories one evening on each station. In the US, regional coverage gets news stories from US, Canada and Mexico. Every once in a while something interesting happens in Canada, but it usually is related to drug legalization. And Mexico isn't exactly a huge player in international politics. Meanwhile, all kinds of stuff is happening all over the states that is much more interesting. On the BBC you get the same thing. Most of the news is related to the US, however in the UK thats international news. The rest of the international news is regional with about the same number of Asian/African coverage as the US stations. -Jacob
I would say he's so poor he can't afford those expensive periods.
The court can interperet the law and in some cases can shape it around the constitution. They cannot create new laws or change the constitution.
Since the trademark laws are created by congress, the courts must interperet them as being limited by the constitution. The owner of fallwell.com can say whatever he wants about the nutcase who he dislikes, as long as it is not libelous. However he cannot represent himself as a person or business without permission. By registering that domain, he is representing himself as Jerry Falwell. The primary purpose is to get people who are trying to find Jerry's site and let them see his own site instead.
If on the other hand he wanted to have a sight called jerryfalwellisamoron.com, I would be less likely to criticize his use of the trademark.
-Jacob
It was the Republican senate. But if you look at it, it makes sense. it says a "manual recount may not be conducted of undervotes on touch-screen machines".
You cannot recount undervotes with a computer system, even if you print out receipts. An undervote is when the total number of votes for a race are less than the number of ballots cast. In punch card or other manual voting methods, the electronic system can miss a mark or a punch that is obviously a vote to a human eye.
However, there is no way for a human to look for an uncounted vote. If they user pressed the button on the computer it will be recorded. If they do not, it will warn them that they have not voted for races that they did not pick a candidate for. If it prints out a paper, the paper will not have the vote either. No stray marks, no hanging chads.
What does have a paper trail is the precinct by precinct totals. So each ballot location prints a summary from their machines which they verify and turn in. The summaries can be compared to the electronic totals.
I would promote a receipt system for the voter. The voter should be able to take a small receipt with some type of unidentifiable hash result on it. If there is an accusation of tampering or lost votes it could be compared to the records in the database to make sure it was counted appropriately. In order to prevent people from being held accountable by nefarious entities for their voting decisions, it should not be able to be reversed into a proof of voting.
In fact they could get one and leave one in a box for auditing of the computer system. Technically this is not a recount. When you check a manual count against a computer record, it is an audit, since there was no "counting" done in the first place.
You have to have some sort of implementation in order for the patent to be granted. Now, certainly if you were patenting something that you couldn't quite do usefully yet, you could run into patent lifetime issues. But you wouldn't be able to patent a vague use of nanotechnology without the means to implement some sort of prototype or proof of concept. -Jacob
No private company would have anything to do with those tiles!
What if they made the new one with a video and power pass-through and a short video and power cable so that you could stack the new one onto the old one to save space? -Jacob
Neither of those were as good as Bladerunner
I would love a textbook like that. One that could constantly adapt itself to the reader's style.
Some people really do well with a linear presentation of information, and get very lost when they can dig around as far and deep as they feel they need in any particular topic.
I, on the other hand, learn very well when I have to dig around. I didn't quite grow up on the internet, but having submerged myself in it since I was 13 has made me want everything to be available in its uniquely puzzle like arrangement of esoteric information for which the reliability must be carefully scrutinized.
The internet, for the most part, has not attempted to create the fiction of definitive source. And in fact it is the case that none of our media has accomplished that. But so many books try to present the reader a narrative of subject matter that gives the appearance of being whole. Such that if you read it, then you are done. Quite opposite, it is entirely incomplete.
If I were to put together a source for online class material, I would rather make it the wikipedia. Create a process for defining a course curiculum that could be defined as an outline of wikipedia subjects. Give it the ability to link together the subjects coherently, but let the user dig through them in their own manner as well.
-Jacob