A request under the Freedom of Information Act resulted in a response which at odds with this response. to quote:
1. The Gallery spent £18,000 to put its collections online in 1999. During a ten year period up to 2008 another £10,000 was spent on minor developments and adjustments and in 2008 and 2009 a further £11,000 was spent. This gives a total figure of £39,000.
Their costs in the last 5 years were thus £11,000 plus some fraction of the £10,000 spent between 1999-2008. Why are they now claiming their costs were about 50 times that?
In 1840 the term of copyright was 28 years, renewable for an additional 14 years. (Copyright started in the US at 14 years renewable for another 14 in 1790, but was increased to 28 renewable for an additional 14 years in 1831.) Mark Twain could have kept a work created in 1840 (when he was 5 years old) in copyright until 1882, when he was 47.
The rights were sold 40 years ago, per the article. At the time, the Tolkien estate did not exist- the author himself was alive to negotiate the conditions under which his works would be used. So, it is your opinion that Tolkien was 'naive' to not have spelled out in detail who would be entitled to what percentage of the DVD sales revenue when he negotiated the deal in 1969?
If anything, it looks like he did pretty well for an agreement made in 1969 by trying to require a percentage of the gross, but he did permit certain expenses to be deducted which were then gamed by Hollywood accounting.
Guns are capable of lethal, criminal uses, but less than.001% of the ten billion rounds of ammunition sold annually in the US are used in a violent crime.
so ?
I cannot imagine that it would take decades or centuries for dissolved CO2 to diffuse a few miles through water, even with a pressure gradient. I'd imagine months at most, more likely days.
As an added disadvantage, the resulting carbonic acid would only speed up ocean acidification.
Well, but this is a chemical experiment, though the physics aspects are certainly interesting. Of course, all chemistry is physics but not all physics is chemistry.
18 microseconds is on the short lived side for chemistry. On the other hand, The time that it takes a chemical bond to form or break is typically measured in femtoseconds, so this is long enough to demonstrate that it lasts several orders of magnitude longer than just a random chance approach of unbonded atoms.
Which Disney was involved in the passage of the Copyright Act of 1790, which allowed 14 years with an optional extension for a second 14 years if the copyright holder was alive? Or the Copyright Act of 1909, which doubled that to 28 years renewable for a second 28? Blaming everything on Disney is/. trendy but ignores history.
Well, let's take an example from the past and compare speed of federal government response. How about the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906? Surely we've improved since then. Here's a bit of the timeline:
April 18, 1906: 5:13 a.m. Earthquake hits
A messenger arrived at Ft. Mason at 6:30 a.m. with orders from Gen. Funston to send all available troops to report to the mayor at the Hall of Justice.
First army troops from Fort Mason reported to Mayor Schmitz at the Hall of Justice around 7 a.m.
At 8 a.m., the 10th, 29th, 38th, 66th, 67th, 70th and 105th Companies of Coast Artillery, Troops I and K of the 14th Cavalry and the First, Ninth and 24th Batteries of Field Artillery arrived Downtown to take up patrol.
War Department received a telegram from Gen. Funston at 8:40 p.m., Pacific Coast time, that asked for thousands of tents and all available rations. Funston placed the death toll at 1000.
April 19, 1906
Secretary of War Taft at 4 a.m. ordered 200,000 rations sent to San Francisco from the Vancouver Barracks.
Secretary Taft ordered all hospital, wall and conical tents sent to San Francisco from army posts at Vancouver; Forts Douglas, Logan, Snelling, Sheridan and Russell, from San Antonio and the Presidio of Monterey.
Secretary Taft wired Gen. Funston at 4:55 a.m. that all tents in the U.S. Army were en route to San Francisco.
The Federal government did a better job helping after a disaster in 1906- even in the first 24 hours- than they did about a century later.
The US constitution describes the process required for the US to go to war. The last time we followed this process was June 5, 1942. Constitutionally, the US has not been at war since the Treaty of Paris on February 10, 1947.
Congress did give the president permission to use military force, but we did not and have not declared war on anyone.
It would be much healthier if we did go through the Constitutionally mandated process to go to war, but who cares about some silly old document like that when there are bogeymen to kill? I guess the 'war' in Iraq is better than the 'war' on terrorism, Iraq is at least somewhat defined rather the patent absurdity of declaring war on a tactic.
And also may I point out: You are required by law in every state to carry your drivers' license, automobile registration and proof of insurance papers, if you are driving a vehicle (car, truck, minivan, etc). When such vehicles are crossing the border, the US government has a real and important interest in doublechecking that the driver is not either (a) entering or (b) leaving the country with a STOLEN vehicle.
This is false. There is no requirement for any of that to drive a vehicle.
Those requirements only apply to driving on public roads (and, in some cases, public land.) None of those apply to someone driving on private property. We allow the government to require as to have these things in exchange for the use of public facilities- it's not a blanket right of the government.
Neither the article or the poster seem to have any clue about intergalactic space, the above comment is rather disinformative.
What matter there is in Intergalactic space is at roughly 100000-10000000 K or more, in a plasma state. The matter in space tends to be colder the closer to a planet it is, which is why near-Earth space is cold. Even interplanetary space within the solar system is pretty hot, though.
Heating something to 1/100 of the temperature of intergalactic space would depend on where in the range you were shooting for. 1000K, at the low end of that range would require a standard furnace, not particularly expensive, and you could have that in your office without much trouble. Heating to the higher end of that range to 100000 K would require a much more elaborate apparatus.
It appears that whoever wrote that press release for McGill was incompetant.
It is unfortunate that in modern times we seem to have abandoned the Constitutional requirement for the Congress to declare war in favor of 'military actions' and undeclared 'war'.
The word war seems to be used for many nonsensical things these days, from a 'war on drugs' to 'war on terrorism'. How can you declare war on a tactic? Did the ancient Persians declare war on the phalanx?
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." - Al Gore
While he did not use the word 'invent', he was nonetheless was arrogant as hell in this statement, and well deserving of mockery. Yes, I know he got some funding legislation passed. Politicians who think they deserve all the credit for the things they spend the people's money on are deeply arrogant and mistaken, and should be held to account.
One clear counterexample is Switzerland. With one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world with the majority of adults having ready access to a military rifle, has a lower rate of intentional homicide than neighbor Germany. The problem of crime cannot by solved by the simplistic solution of governmental restrictions on tools. The stats simply do not show that less people die when there are gun controls in place. Period.
Also glossed over here is that the vast majority of the deaths of gun owners using their own guns are suicides, far more commonly than accidents. It's quite deceptive to place all the blame for these suicides on the guns.
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1. The Gallery spent £18,000 to put its collections online in 1999. During a ten year period up to 2008 another £10,000 was spent on minor developments and adjustments and in 2008 and 2009 a further £11,000 was spent. This gives a total figure of £39,000.
Their costs in the last 5 years were thus £11,000 plus some fraction of the £10,000 spent between 1999-2008. Why are they now claiming their costs were about 50 times that?
In 1840 the term of copyright was 28 years, renewable for an additional 14 years. (Copyright started in the US at 14 years renewable for another 14 in 1790, but was increased to 28 renewable for an additional 14 years in 1831.) Mark Twain could have kept a work created in 1840 (when he was 5 years old) in copyright until 1882, when he was 47.
The rights were sold 40 years ago, per the article. At the time, the Tolkien estate did not exist- the author himself was alive to negotiate the conditions under which his works would be used. So, it is your opinion that Tolkien was 'naive' to not have spelled out in detail who would be entitled to what percentage of the DVD sales revenue when he negotiated the deal in 1969?
If anything, it looks like he did pretty well for an agreement made in 1969 by trying to require a percentage of the gross, but he did permit certain expenses to be deducted which were then gamed by Hollywood accounting.
There weren't a lot of dirty video games when Lehrer said that, in 1965.
Just store it in orbit, and regardless of the media it'll be weightless!
Guns are capable of lethal, criminal uses, but less than .001% of the ten billion rounds of ammunition sold annually in the US are used in a violent crime.
so ?
You're just trying to trick me into removing my hat!
I cannot imagine that it would take decades or centuries for dissolved CO2 to diffuse a few miles through water, even with a pressure gradient. I'd imagine months at most, more likely days.
As an added disadvantage, the resulting carbonic acid would only speed up ocean acidification.
Well, but this is a chemical experiment, though the physics aspects are certainly interesting. Of course, all chemistry is physics but not all physics is chemistry.
18 microseconds is on the short lived side for chemistry. On the other hand, The time that it takes a chemical bond to form or break is typically measured in femtoseconds, so this is long enough to demonstrate that it lasts several orders of magnitude longer than just a random chance approach of unbonded atoms.
Which Disney was involved in the passage of the Copyright Act of 1790, which allowed 14 years with an optional extension for a second 14 years if the copyright holder was alive? Or the Copyright Act of 1909, which doubled that to 28 years renewable for a second 28? Blaming everything on Disney is /. trendy but ignores history.
Well, let's take an example from the past and compare speed of federal government response. How about the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906? Surely we've improved since then. Here's a bit of the timeline:
April 18, 1906: 5:13 a.m. Earthquake hits
A messenger arrived at Ft. Mason at 6:30 a.m. with orders from Gen. Funston to send all available troops to report to the mayor at the Hall of Justice.
First army troops from Fort Mason reported to Mayor Schmitz at the Hall of Justice around 7 a.m.
At 8 a.m., the 10th, 29th, 38th, 66th, 67th, 70th and 105th Companies of Coast Artillery, Troops I and K of the 14th Cavalry and the First, Ninth and 24th Batteries of Field Artillery arrived Downtown to take up patrol.
War Department received a telegram from Gen. Funston at 8:40 p.m., Pacific Coast time, that asked for thousands of tents and all available rations. Funston placed the death toll at 1000.
April 19, 1906
Secretary of War Taft at 4 a.m. ordered 200,000 rations sent to San Francisco from the Vancouver Barracks.
Secretary Taft ordered all hospital, wall and conical tents sent to San Francisco from army posts at Vancouver; Forts Douglas, Logan, Snelling, Sheridan and Russell, from San Antonio and the Presidio of Monterey.
Secretary Taft wired Gen. Funston at 4:55 a.m. that all tents in the U.S. Army were en route to San Francisco.
The Federal government did a better job helping after a disaster in 1906- even in the first 24 hours- than they did about a century later.
The US constitution describes the process required for the US to go to war. The last time we followed this process was June 5, 1942. Constitutionally, the US has not been at war since the Treaty of Paris on February 10, 1947.
Congress did give the president permission to use military force, but we did not and have not declared war on anyone.
It would be much healthier if we did go through the Constitutionally mandated process to go to war, but who cares about some silly old document like that when there are bogeymen to kill? I guess the 'war' in Iraq is better than the 'war' on terrorism, Iraq is at least somewhat defined rather the patent absurdity of declaring war on a tactic.
Back at the height of the mania, a May 3, 1989 NYT article reported that the fiasco was a result of bad science rather than of ill intent:
I thought it was Patrick Swayze who delivered the victory to the American militias by using guerrilla warfare.
And also may I point out: You are required by law in every state to carry your drivers' license, automobile registration and proof of insurance papers, if you are driving a vehicle (car, truck, minivan, etc). When such vehicles are crossing the border, the US government has a real and important interest in doublechecking that the driver is not either (a) entering or (b) leaving the country with a STOLEN vehicle.
This is false. There is no requirement for any of that to drive a vehicle.
Those requirements only apply to driving on public roads (and, in some cases, public land.) None of those apply to someone driving on private property. We allow the government to require as to have these things in exchange for the use of public facilities- it's not a blanket right of the government.
According to wikipedia, Intergalactic space is between 100000 and 10000000 K. Reading comprehension much?
I don't want my PC to be running between 1000K and 1000000K, that's way too hot!
Neither the article or the poster seem to have any clue about intergalactic space, the above comment is rather disinformative.
What matter there is in Intergalactic space is at roughly 100000-10000000 K or more, in a plasma state. The matter in space tends to be colder the closer to a planet it is, which is why near-Earth space is cold. Even interplanetary space within the solar system is pretty hot, though.
Heating something to 1/100 of the temperature of intergalactic space would depend on where in the range you were shooting for. 1000K, at the low end of that range would require a standard furnace, not particularly expensive, and you could have that in your office without much trouble. Heating to the higher end of that range to 100000 K would require a much more elaborate apparatus.
It appears that whoever wrote that press release for McGill was incompetant.
The last time the United States Congress formally declared war was June 5, 1942 during World War II.
The "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" was not a formal declaration of war. Military action was authorized, but your claim that a war was authorized by the congress is false.
It is unfortunate that in modern times we seem to have abandoned the Constitutional requirement for the Congress to declare war in favor of 'military actions' and undeclared 'war'.
The word war seems to be used for many nonsensical things these days, from a 'war on drugs' to 'war on terrorism'. How can you declare war on a tactic? Did the ancient Persians declare war on the phalanx?
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that no email address is needed to subscribe to Science magazine!
The bad news is that you'll have to pay for it. This is not NY Times, this is actual cash. You need to use a different rant for this one.
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." - Al Gore While he did not use the word 'invent', he was nonetheless was arrogant as hell in this statement, and well deserving of mockery. Yes, I know he got some funding legislation passed. Politicians who think they deserve all the credit for the things they spend the people's money on are deeply arrogant and mistaken, and should be held to account.
You are aware that the French monarchy that gave this support was overthrown by a revolution shortly afterward, right?
People from {whatever country you're from} really should also learn more history, too.
Once you arm them, you have to keep them. It's in the constitution.
1. Sequence cocoa DNA
2. Publish in the public domain
3. ???
4. Profit!
One clear counterexample is Switzerland. With one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world with the majority of adults having ready access to a military rifle, has a lower rate of intentional homicide than neighbor Germany. The problem of crime cannot by solved by the simplistic solution of governmental restrictions on tools. The stats simply do not show that less people die when there are gun controls in place. Period.
Also glossed over here is that the vast majority of the deaths of gun owners using their own guns are suicides, far more commonly than accidents. It's quite deceptive to place all the blame for these suicides on the guns.