The article concentrates on downloading music. Then why the strange tie in to organized crime? How is organized crime oging to profit from p2p downloading?
Actually, the Federal judges quite properly turned to Florida State law to see how the recounts were to be handled. Florida State law allows only one recount, and it has to be a complete state-wide recount.
Well, consider this then. During the First gulf war Sagan ran around with printouts from the Global Warming model. These predicted that if the Kuwaiti oilfields were set on fire it would lead to an ecological catastrophe. The words "Nuclear Winter" were bandied about in his more frenzied moments, but at the very best there was going to be massive famines in India and elsewhere due to the fires.
The model was wrong. Dead wrong.
Then, amusingly enough, Mt. Pinantubo erupted and had a noticable, albeit short term, impact on the Earth's climate.
Something is seriously wrong with the model. Like many, I suspect the fact that it is lubricated with a political and social agenda, goes a long way towards explaining just how flawed that model is.
You grossly underestimate the size and intensity of the Iran/Iraq War. It was easily the largest conflict since WWII.
Casualty figures are difficult to figure, but somewhere between 500,000 and one million people lost their lives during it. There were at least an addition 2 million or so non-lethal casualties.
Whoo-Hoo!!! This is a huge break for me. When I decided to install a Linux Distro I went with SuSe over RedHat. I like SuSe a lot, but when you go to a bookstore the shelves are lined with nothing but RedHat this and RedHat that.
This most certainly guarantees there will be a lot more material geared towards SuSe's style of setup.
It is an interesting dicotomy that many of the folks in here who are decrying Amaerican intervention in Iraq are also decrying the lack of intervention in europe in the beginning dtages of WWII. You are entirely correct that in both geography and in mindset Europe was much further away in the 40s than it is today.
Further, America's model for ending wars was forged by Lincoln at the end of America's Civil War -- with mailice towards none and charity towards all. It was a model that idealistically stressed healing the rifts rather than exacting revenge.
Wilson tried a very similar approach at the end of WWI and was rebuffed by the allies. There is little doubt that the needlessly harsh terms imposed on Germany, particularily since much of the motive of them agreeing to the cease fire at the end of WWI were the terms Wilson was offering, led to a bitterness that was to manifest itself in supporting Hitler and his brand of ultranationalism.
Well, nobody in their right mind would pay such a large amount of money for such a small site, but that isn't the issue.
Without a contract explicitly turning the coyright of the site over to the sheriff's department he still retains copyright over the site. He can do what he wants to with it, including taking it down and asking for a gazillion dollars to put it back up.
Likewise, the sheriff can turn down such a ridiculous offer, but can't pump up a pile of false felony charges to punish somebody for exercising their rights under copyright law.
Anyhoo... sounds to me like both sides in this issue are lunkheads. One side is a lunkhead for charging too much for their work, the other for filing preposterous felony charges. Which would you rather be on the recieving end of -- an easily turned down hosting price or several felony charges you had to hire laywers to defend yourself from? The former is stupid, the later is quite possibly criminal IMHO (IANAL, etc).
If I recall my geography & history -- previous to the US stationing troops in Europe to police the warmongers of that continent -- that's the little country Germany drove through every couple of decades to get France to surrender yet again.
Well, I started reading this piece of flaming crap that is being reviewed, and I can tell you I'm not going to bother finishing it.
The heroine's dark super dooper secret is so obvious even my pet goldfish figured it out by page sixty-seven. BTW, the secret hasn't been revealed yet, but I am 100.00000% certain that the poor girl smothered the rich girl and took over her identity (ooops, hope I did't spoil anything for anybody too brain dead to figure out that clever twist).
Plus the book is a freaking BORE. Absolutely nothing of interest goes on, and on, and on... for page, after, page, after page... Ensign Whats-his-name worries about getting promoted and pops the ocassional boner while thinking about the babe. That's about it.
Basically, this book is a steaming pile of monkey poop.
It is a shame that Everdense sits at +5 insightful while you, who described exactly what most blogs are about, get no moderation boost (not that karma really matters in the least).
I don't write blogs, have read enough of them to know they are -- when viewed from the outside -- pretty vapid and silly sounding. However, most of them are really nothing more than open letters to their friends.
To me that's good. At one time it looked like phones were going to kill the fine art of letter writing, blogs appear to be the infancy of a new style of letter.
Considering the fact that we're coming out of an Ice age, for the majority of Earth's history it has been much warmer than it is now.
I don't recall the Earth's geological record being dominated by long periods of desertification like your post implies. Regardless of the impact on human civilization, the geological record indicates global warming would lead to a warmer moister planet. Your post is littered with hysterical doom and gloom. Oh woe is me, the entire earth will be a barren wasteland.
Eh, what the RIAA claims the penalty would be and what a judge would award are liable to be two radically different amounts of money. It would be interesting to see people start contesting rather than settling and see what the judicial system decided.
I'm guessing it would be far, far less than what they've been settling for so far.
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The article concentrates on downloading music. Then why the strange tie in to organized crime? How is organized crime oging to profit from p2p downloading?
Actually, the Federal judges quite properly turned to Florida State law to see how the recounts were to be handled. Florida State law allows only one recount, and it has to be a complete state-wide recount.
Yea, I know Tesla's first name was Nikola, my wife beat me too the birth certificate.
The model was wrong. Dead wrong.
Then, amusingly enough, Mt. Pinantubo erupted and had a noticable, albeit short term, impact on the Earth's climate.
Something is seriously wrong with the model. Like many, I suspect the fact that it is lubricated with a political and social agenda, goes a long way towards explaining just how flawed that model is.
Casualty figures are difficult to figure, but somewhere between 500,000 and one million people lost their lives during it. There were at least an addition 2 million or so non-lethal casualties.
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Whoo-Hoo!!! This is a huge break for me. When I decided to install a Linux Distro I went with SuSe over RedHat. I like SuSe a lot, but when you go to a bookstore the shelves are lined with nothing but RedHat this and RedHat that.
This most certainly guarantees there will be a lot more material geared towards SuSe's style of setup.
At any rate, claiming you're such a genius that people can't comprehend your humor is kinda bizzare dontcha think?
Face it -- your joke was perceived unfunny because it was trite and unclever. Stop whining about it.
The absence of laughter is usually a pretty good indication of the absence of humor.
Further, America's model for ending wars was forged by Lincoln at the end of America's Civil War -- with mailice towards none and charity towards all. It was a model that idealistically stressed healing the rifts rather than exacting revenge.
Wilson tried a very similar approach at the end of WWI and was rebuffed by the allies. There is little doubt that the needlessly harsh terms imposed on Germany, particularily since much of the motive of them agreeing to the cease fire at the end of WWI were the terms Wilson was offering, led to a bitterness that was to manifest itself in supporting Hitler and his brand of ultranationalism.
Without a contract explicitly turning the coyright of the site over to the sheriff's department he still retains copyright over the site. He can do what he wants to with it, including taking it down and asking for a gazillion dollars to put it back up.
Likewise, the sheriff can turn down such a ridiculous offer, but can't pump up a pile of false felony charges to punish somebody for exercising their rights under copyright law.
Anyhoo... sounds to me like both sides in this issue are lunkheads. One side is a lunkhead for charging too much for their work, the other for filing preposterous felony charges. Which would you rather be on the recieving end of -- an easily turned down hosting price or several felony charges you had to hire laywers to defend yourself from? The former is stupid, the later is quite possibly criminal IMHO (IANAL, etc).
Hey, don't blame me for the bad joke... what are you supposed to say regarding a news conference about an unknown topic?
Umm... actually he assigned Hitler to Miguel.
The heroine's dark super dooper secret is so obvious even my pet goldfish figured it out by page sixty-seven. BTW, the secret hasn't been revealed yet, but I am 100.00000% certain that the poor girl smothered the rich girl and took over her identity (ooops, hope I did't spoil anything for anybody too brain dead to figure out that clever twist).
Plus the book is a freaking BORE. Absolutely nothing of interest goes on, and on, and on... for page, after, page, after page... Ensign Whats-his-name worries about getting promoted and pops the ocassional boner while thinking about the babe. That's about it.
Basically, this book is a steaming pile of monkey poop.
The Navy used airships as radar pickets over the North Atlantic before they decommissioned them. Airships can handle adverse weather just fine.
I don't write blogs, have read enough of them to know they are -- when viewed from the outside -- pretty vapid and silly sounding. However, most of them are really nothing more than open letters to their friends.
To me that's good. At one time it looked like phones were going to kill the fine art of letter writing, blogs appear to be the infancy of a new style of letter.
Reediculously. Happy now?
Dum-de-dum-dum.
I don't recall the Earth's geological record being dominated by long periods of desertification like your post implies. Regardless of the impact on human civilization, the geological record indicates global warming would lead to a warmer moister planet. Your post is littered with hysterical doom and gloom. Oh woe is me, the entire earth will be a barren wasteland.
Eh, you've been had by a 100 year old troll.
I'm guessing it would be far, far less than what they've been settling for so far.