>No one else has any right to own, use or copy it unless I grant them those rights.
No, NO NO! You are the one who isn't getting it! Why should you have the power to tell me that I can't use my own labor and resources to make a chair that looks exactly like yours.
I agree that I can't own or use your chair (without your permission) because that deprives you of your chair. But if I build my own duplicate chair, then we BOTH have nice chairs and its win-win for both of us.
Abolishing copywrite would put us back in the natural state of things. If Ogg the caveman discovered that by weaving palm fronds together he could make a door for his cave; then Ook from a nearby cave sees him do it and weaves his own palm fronds to make a door for himself, should Ogg go club Ook for "stealing" his idea? No! Ogg should just be happy that his cave is no longer cold and drafty and not worry that Ook also no longer has a cold and drafty cave (or even be happy for Ook).
Similarly, if I go to the local night club wearing a pokka-dot wide-lappeled tuxedo jacket with high-water pants, and other people think it looks cool and start wearing the same thing, I can deride them for being unoriginal copy-cats, but I hardly have the moral authority to force them not to wear the same clothes as me.
>> why would he make those creations
>> dislike worship so much?
>What do you mean by "dislike worship"? Do you >mean "dislike going to church"? I don't >understand...
I don't think he meant "dislike going to church". I think he meant the way that having a higher power ruling over your life makes us all unhappy and angst-ridden. Humans have an innate desire for freedom and independance, and having anyone or anything that away, even if it's a perfectly benevolent ruler, riles up feelings of unfairness and anguish that causes us to suffer.
Living in a world with a god in it is kind of like living in your parents house...forever! Even assuming that your parents weren't abusive or anything, it just isn't possible to be happy living under someone elses roof like that. That's why we all get out as soon as we are 18 and never go back. Life just isn't worth living if somebody else has so much power over you.
There was a line in the pilot episode, where Carter talks about the DHD. She mentions that it took a long time to "McGyver" thier own dialing device for the gate. The camera cuts briefly to to O'neall just as she says "McGyver". It was hilarious!
It could still be possible that time travel is inventable. The trick is that maybe you need a time machine to be the "receiver" of the time traveler. In other words, you can only travel back to a time when there is a time machine already built.
Umm, what maintenance and upkeep? Its just non-moving stands of copper. I've never had a phone line go bad on me. And when you want to change the wiring around (add a new wall socket or whatever) it's pretty easy to just do it yourself.
Yeah I guess I missed the main point that capitalism is not compatable with robots. My point was that capitalism will collapse and we won't need to pay for things. The robots will give us everything for free and they'll be programmed to like giving us free stuff.
All we have to do is program the robots to not kill us, and make them like "wasting" resources keeping us alive and comfortable. Then we can all live on permanent vacation while the robots do all the nasty working.
I know I'm much happier when I'm at home "wasting" time doing nothing productive.
The one place that I know of that Americans use "backward" dates (such as 5 November 2004) is in the military. All the official documents write out dates like that. After people have been in the military for a while, they start verbally saying "5 November" just like they start saying "1400" instead of "2:00pm"
This sort of story (legend?) has been circulating for years. There was an article in this months IEEE Spectrum magazine debunking it.
Basically the reserchers put a cell phone in a room filled with an ideal-for-combustion mixture of air and gasoline fumes. They called the phone, turned the phone on and off (remotely, I assume), and even pulled the battery out with the phone turned on and then reinstalled the battery. It never ignited the fumes in any of the experiments.
How the heck did this ever become accepted practice? IT'S A LIE! A factually correct quote would say "[Insert PR guy's name] said 'This product is the great!' and [insert executive's name] concured."
Oh you just reminded me of that old Farside cartoon where one scientist is carefully hammering a panel onto the side of a nuclear bomb, and another scientist is carefully sneaking up behind him holding an inflated paper bag in one hand...
I think the only protection here is that since shelter is a basic human neccesity so the court might be reluctant to force you out of your home. If you change it to a yacht or a private jet or some other luxury item then yes, I'm pretty sure you would lose it. IANAL of course.
Holy crap, it happened to me! I am in Vegas for work this month. Anyway yesterday my car wouldn't open when I tried to push the button. It thought the battery in my key chain fob thingy was dead, but when I got to work (which is somewhat away from Vegas) it worked fine.
Then I thought maybe my cell phone was interfering with my keyless thing (I was talking on my cell phone yesterday as I got in the car). This morning I went out and the thing worked fine, but when I came back to the hotel the keyless wouldn't lock the door. I had to manually lock it. Then I came inside and saw this article. Wierd!
Sometimes I have to yell into my cellphone because my girlfriend on the other end of the phone often tries to call me when she is on the subway and its very noisy on her end. I don't do this in public though.
My cell phone dumps all the time in my home, and I live in the LA area. It seams to particulary hate the left side of my bed and the downstairs bathroom.
Well before cell phones life just sucked a lot in situations that don't suck anymore. People in emergency situations just died tragically, busness poeple lost deals because their customers were frustrated that they couldn't reach them when they were needed, my girlfried couldn't contact my unless I was at home (which is practically never now).
Yeah poeple survived (for the most part) without cell phones, it just sucked a lot. Why would you want to go back to that?
I've taken a course on using AED's at work, and part of the reason it's called "automatic" is that the device itself knows when the situation warrents its use.
When you stick the paddles on the person, it analyses their heart rhythem. If the machine determines that the person needs a shock, it tells you. Usually verbally, a speaker actually says "Shock advised!" then you can push the button to zap them.
If the machine doesn't detect a problem that can be solved with a shock, it says something like "Shock not advised, continue CPR."
So if there is a problem, the victim would probably need to sue the AED manufacturer, not the user.
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If you want to have dinner in peace, I recomend you eat at home.
Restaurants are noisy places by nature anyway, with the restaurant's music system playing, couples chatting with eachother, co-workers laughing and joking, single guys hitting on the waitresses, people at the bar cheering or booing at whatever sports thing is on the TV sets, etc.
Where does this notion that restaurants are innapropriate places for cell-phones come from?
>I meant situations where you actually don't ever convert the time to numbers
You analog watch folks keep saying that, and it's really freaking me out! Time is numbers! My work day starts at 7:00. That's seven colon zero zero (colon zero zero secons). That's what I picture in my head when I think of the time I need to be at work not 210 degrees. Yeah we all learned how to do the analog clock thing as kids in school, but I promtly forgot it (just like doing multiplication tables in my head) and continued using my digital watch.
Every writen schedule uses numerals and every verbal appointment is spoken as numbers, these are the things I need my watch to match up with. Time is not some vague thing about where the sun is in the sky. It's about being in the conference room at 9:20am (that's nine colon two zero). On the few occasions I've needed to rely on analog clocks, I always have to convert the hand positions into numbers before I could figure out anything else.
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No, NO NO! You are the one who isn't getting it! Why should you have the power to tell me that I can't use my own labor and resources to make a chair that looks exactly like yours.
I agree that I can't own or use your chair (without your permission) because that deprives you of your chair. But if I build my own duplicate chair, then we BOTH have nice chairs and its win-win for both of us.
Abolishing copywrite would put us back in the natural state of things. If Ogg the caveman discovered that by weaving palm fronds together he could make a door for his cave; then Ook from a nearby cave sees him do it and weaves his own palm fronds to make a door for himself, should Ogg go club Ook for "stealing" his idea? No! Ogg should just be happy that his cave is no longer cold and drafty and not worry that Ook also no longer has a cold and drafty cave (or even be happy for Ook).
Similarly, if I go to the local night club wearing a pokka-dot wide-lappeled tuxedo jacket with high-water pants, and other people think it looks cool and start wearing the same thing, I can deride them for being unoriginal copy-cats, but I hardly have the moral authority to force them not to wear the same clothes as me.
>> dislike worship so much?
>What do you mean by "dislike worship"? Do you
>mean "dislike going to church"? I don't
>understand...
I don't think he meant "dislike going to church". I think he meant the way that having a higher power ruling over your life makes us all unhappy and angst-ridden. Humans have an innate desire for freedom and independance, and having anyone or anything that away, even if it's a perfectly benevolent ruler, riles up feelings of unfairness and anguish that causes us to suffer.
Living in a world with a god in it is kind of like living in your parents house...forever! Even assuming that your parents weren't abusive or anything, it just isn't possible to be happy living under someone elses roof like that. That's why we all get out as soon as we are 18 and never go back. Life just isn't worth living if somebody else has so much power over you.
...how does a manned NASA rocket n' shuttle do it?
Um, with a rocket.
That's different than a scramjet.
There was a line in the pilot episode, where Carter talks about the DHD. She mentions that it took a long time to "McGyver" thier own dialing device for the gate. The camera cuts briefly to to O'neall just as she says "McGyver". It was hilarious!
It could still be possible that time travel is inventable. The trick is that maybe you need a time machine to be the "receiver" of the time traveler. In other words, you can only travel back to a time when there is a time machine already built.
Umm, what maintenance and upkeep? Its just non-moving stands of copper. I've never had a phone line go bad on me. And when you want to change the wiring around (add a new wall socket or whatever) it's pretty easy to just do it yourself.
Yeah I guess I missed the main point that capitalism is not compatable with robots. My point was that capitalism will collapse and we won't need to pay for things. The robots will give us everything for free and they'll be programmed to like giving us free stuff.
Who said we have to compete with the robots?
All we have to do is program the robots to not kill us, and make them like "wasting" resources keeping us alive and comfortable. Then we can all live on permanent vacation while the robots do all the nasty working.
I know I'm much happier when I'm at home "wasting" time doing nothing productive.
Maybe someday you'll be taught that that was the Civil War, and not the "Revolutionary War".
The one place that I know of that Americans use "backward" dates (such as 5 November 2004) is in the military. All the official documents write out dates like that. After people have been in the military for a while, they start verbally saying "5 November" just like they start saying "1400" instead of "2:00pm"
This sort of story (legend?) has been circulating for years. There was an article in this months IEEE Spectrum magazine debunking it. Basically the reserchers put a cell phone in a room filled with an ideal-for-combustion mixture of air and gasoline fumes. They called the phone, turned the phone on and off (remotely, I assume), and even pulled the battery out with the phone turned on and then reinstalled the battery. It never ignited the fumes in any of the experiments.
AND NO, it's NOTHING DIRTY!!!!! (for once)
Actually, buckyballs are a component of soot, so I think they might be quite dirty.
How the heck did this ever become accepted practice? IT'S A LIE! A factually correct quote would say "[Insert PR guy's name] said 'This product is the great!' and [insert executive's name] concured."
If those are the three data points, it looks like a 700,000 year cycle to me. And we're safe for 100,000 more years.
Oh you just reminded me of that old Farside cartoon where one scientist is carefully hammering a panel onto the side of a nuclear bomb, and another scientist is carefully sneaking up behind him holding an inflated paper bag in one hand...
I think the only protection here is that since shelter is a basic human neccesity so the court might be reluctant to force you out of your home. If you change it to a yacht or a private jet or some other luxury item then yes, I'm pretty sure you would lose it. IANAL of course.
What did you miss this article?
Actually the government already took care of tin foil. Go try to buy some tin foil some time. All you find in the stores now is aluminum foil.
Holy crap, it happened to me! I am in Vegas for work this month. Anyway yesterday my car wouldn't open when I tried to push the button. It thought the battery in my key chain fob thingy was dead, but when I got to work (which is somewhat away from Vegas) it worked fine.
Then I thought maybe my cell phone was interfering with my keyless thing (I was talking on my cell phone yesterday as I got in the car). This morning I went out and the thing worked fine, but when I came back to the hotel the keyless wouldn't lock the door. I had to manually lock it. Then I came inside and saw this article. Wierd!
Sometimes I have to yell into my cellphone because my girlfriend on the other end of the phone often tries to call me when she is on the subway and its very noisy on her end. I don't do this in public though.
My cell phone dumps all the time in my home, and I live in the LA area. It seams to particulary hate the left side of my bed and the downstairs bathroom.
I wonder how people survived before cell phones.
Well before cell phones life just sucked a lot in situations that don't suck anymore. People in emergency situations just died tragically, busness poeple lost deals because their customers were frustrated that they couldn't reach them when they were needed, my girlfried couldn't contact my unless I was at home (which is practically never now).
Yeah poeple survived (for the most part) without cell phones, it just sucked a lot. Why would you want to go back to that?
I've taken a course on using AED's at work, and part of the reason it's called "automatic" is that the device itself knows when the situation warrents its use.
When you stick the paddles on the person, it analyses their heart rhythem. If the machine determines that the person needs a shock, it tells you. Usually verbally, a speaker actually says "Shock advised!" then you can push the button to zap them.
If the machine doesn't detect a problem that can be solved with a shock, it says something like "Shock not advised, continue CPR."
So if there is a problem, the victim would probably need to sue the AED manufacturer, not the user.
If you want to have dinner in peace, I recomend you eat at home.
Restaurants are noisy places by nature anyway, with the restaurant's music system playing, couples chatting with eachother, co-workers laughing and joking, single guys hitting on the waitresses, people at the bar cheering or booing at whatever sports thing is on the TV sets, etc.
Where does this notion that restaurants are innapropriate places for cell-phones come from?
>I meant situations where you actually don't ever convert the time to numbers
You analog watch folks keep saying that, and it's really freaking me out! Time is numbers! My work day starts at 7:00. That's seven colon zero zero (colon zero zero secons). That's what I picture in my head when I think of the time I need to be at work not 210 degrees. Yeah we all learned how to do the analog clock thing as kids in school, but I promtly forgot it (just like doing multiplication tables in my head) and continued using my digital watch.
Every writen schedule uses numerals and every verbal appointment is spoken as numbers, these are the things I need my watch to match up with. Time is not some vague thing about where the sun is in the sky. It's about being in the conference room at 9:20am (that's nine colon two zero). On the few occasions I've needed to rely on analog clocks, I always have to convert the hand positions into numbers before I could figure out anything else.