What's this thing coming suddenly coming towards me very fast, so big and flat and round it needs a big
wide-sounding name like... ow... ound...round... ground! That's it, ground! I wonder if
it'll be friends with me?
I actually got stopped for this at a regional airport in England. Luckily I had time to return it to my car. But I got all the rest of my carry on bomb sniffed and swabbed.
If I do a days work I get paid a days wage, I don't see why it should be that much different for Musicians.
If it takes 6 months to record an album why should they still get paid for the work in 90 years? Copyright time should be reduced, not increased After this time it would become freely distributable. If the time was reduced to 7-10 years this would surely promote creativity.
However the artist should keep control if music was going to be used for other purpose other than listening (movie soundtrack or advert ) and be allowed to permit or deny such use.
Suppressive Person, often abbreviated SP, is a term used in Scientology to describe the "antisocial personalities" who, according to Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard, make up about 2.5% of the population. Another 18% are PTS (Potential Trouble Source).
Actually it was, I was young 18, very shy and I didn't like to be rude, Also the had just done one of their psych tests so they knew where to hit me, anyway it did teach me a valuable lesson of telling anyone is the street trying sell anything is likely a con.
Any "Church" that charges for its teachings and also has them copyrighted to prevent free distribution is not a church it's a scam at best and a dangerous cult at worst.
I had dealings with them about 10 years ago. I ended up paying GBP30 for a course just to get out of the hard sell and even though I never did the course the often phoned and wrote letters of about 5 years after.
See the Operation Clambake pages for more details to their activities. http://www.xenu.net/
But iTunes offers this too, but they have an entire online only store to choose from and then 100,000 x the amount of tracks of Sony, and you don't need to buy entire albums for most tracks.
Surely the EU will overrule this law with regard to Human Rights Legislation. UK national law has been deemed illegal on a number of occasions by the EU, so I'd expect the same with this.
Also how are they going to stop it. It'll be difficult to prove as the bloggers can use proxies and the like and how are the authorities going to prosecute 1000's of people.
The reason why Firefly and BSG works so well is that the episodes are character driven first, great plots second and cemented with FX. You get to know them, hate them, love them, feel for them, with Firefly who wouldn't would to travel aboard Serenity.
Joss wrote them as people you'd meet down the street, Star Wars and the Trek canon, its all to black and white goodies and baddies, life ain't like that. Picard trolls around the galaxy with his shiny Starship that can blow nearly anything out of the black, so they can afford their Prime Directive and when they can't they, the writers use some Dues Ex Machina to get round the problem. Thats turns boring real soon. In BSG and Firefly you have to fight, fight or die. It becomes interesting, right and wrong are shades of grey and you might think that some of the things the 'good' characters do are wrong and the 'bad' characters good.
Mal shot First!! (Shiny)
"The proposed rules would require a permit for "activity involving a tripod and a crew of 5 or more people at one site for 10 minutes or more" (the 10 minutes include the time to set up the tripod) or or the same activity among two people at a single site for more than 30 minutes. The permit process also requires the photographer to carry 1 million dollars in liability insurance. Although the city believes that this is rare for "recreational" photographers, most amateurs I know would require a permit a good percentage of the time."
But BBC6 Music plays quite a of new music, this is a digital station available on DAB, but a lot radio commercial i.e. non BBC stations play the same songs and are mostly owned by the company GWR with the same playlist. My local GWR station is called 2CR (2 Counties Radio) but has been know for years as '2 crap records' for their limited playlist.
Surely if one key has been cracked then it will either be quicker to crack the new key as the crackers will know what sort of algorithm was used to produced the key. Or if it was a brute force attack then about the same time on average. So surely in a few weeks there will be a new Hex string doing the rounds on the internet.
I don't think pregnancy would be an issue, that is one thing that would definitely not allowed, as after experiments on animals 0g gestations give rise to either unviable fetuses or massive birth defects
IIRC that after the NASA incident with unfortunate female astronaut who had the nervous breakout at attempted to kill another women, NASA stated they needed to re-evualate what kind of psyche is best suited for space work, while high-achieving goal orientated people are best suited for short term missions, more introverted people, who have are more adaptable may be better for long term work. So instead of having feelings of failure when things don't work, just think meh and think of a workaround. Also they will be quite happy to sit quietly and read or contemplate things; so IT types maybe just the ticket.
And they'll have avoided the sex problem too!!
If you read TFA, it actually states the Chinese test is a entrance exam but the UK test is while studying in the first year at uni. I learnt the knowledge to answer the UK test school at 14. I have not idea how to start the Chinese test.
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What's this thing coming suddenly coming towards me very fast, so big and flat and round it needs a big wide-sounding name like ... ow ... ound...round ... ground! That's it, ground! I wonder if
it'll be friends with me?
I actually got stopped for this at a regional airport in England. Luckily I had time to return it to my car. But I got all the rest of my carry on bomb sniffed and swabbed.
If it takes 6 months to record an album why should they still get paid for the work in 90 years? Copyright time should be reduced, not increased After this time it would become freely distributable. If the time was reduced to 7-10 years this would surely promote creativity.
However the artist should keep control if music was going to be used for other purpose other than listening (movie soundtrack or advert ) and be allowed to permit or deny such use.
This would be a fairer system all round.
From the cult of wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressive_Person
Actually it was, I was young 18, very shy and I didn't like to be rude, Also the had just done one of their psych tests so they knew where to hit me, anyway it did teach me a valuable lesson of telling anyone is the street trying sell anything is likely a con.
I had dealings with them about 10 years ago. I ended up paying GBP30 for a course just to get out of the hard sell and even though I never did the course the often phoned and wrote letters of about 5 years after.
See the Operation Clambake pages for more details to their activities. http://www.xenu.net/
But iTunes offers this too, but they have an entire online only store to choose from and then 100,000 x the amount of tracks of Sony, and you don't need to buy entire albums for most tracks.
Mod Parent Up. Mr Adams would have a point if the universe was a VR simulation
The beam will be subject to refraction so making accurate pin-point targeting impossible, especially from 20Km
Twinkle Twinkle little star!!
Surely the EU will overrule this law with regard to Human Rights Legislation. UK national law has been deemed illegal on a number of occasions by the EU, so I'd expect the same with this.
Also how are they going to stop it. It'll be difficult to prove as the bloggers can use proxies and the like and how are the authorities going to prosecute 1000's of people.
The reason why Firefly and BSG works so well is that the episodes are character driven first, great plots second and cemented with FX. You get to know them, hate them, love them, feel for them, with Firefly who wouldn't would to travel aboard Serenity. Joss wrote them as people you'd meet down the street, Star Wars and the Trek canon, its all to black and white goodies and baddies, life ain't like that. Picard trolls around the galaxy with his shiny Starship that can blow nearly anything out of the black, so they can afford their Prime Directive and when they can't they, the writers use some Dues Ex Machina to get round the problem. Thats turns boring real soon. In BSG and Firefly you have to fight, fight or die. It becomes interesting, right and wrong are shades of grey and you might think that some of the things the 'good' characters do are wrong and the 'bad' characters good. Mal shot First!! (Shiny)
So that's whats going to happen when the Mayan calender rolls over in 2012.
MOD PARENT UP. This guy sums up the math nicely
So it's pretty clear
HTH
So I'll have to remember to bring my sunglasses too now if I want to cross into the USA illegally, as well as the tinfoil suit to ward off their microwave guns http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg187250 95.600
As well as being fun, its an amazing ad for the company, everything they but into their blenders ends up as toxic dust!!!
5. Stress test - failed Slashdotted at 13:50UTC Never underestimate the power of the /.
But BBC6 Music plays quite a of new music, this is a digital station available on DAB, but a lot radio commercial i.e. non BBC stations play the same songs and are mostly owned by the company GWR with the same playlist. My local GWR station is called 2CR (2 Counties Radio) but has been know for years as '2 crap records' for their limited playlist.
Surely if one key has been cracked then it will either be quicker to crack the new key as the crackers will know what sort of algorithm was used to produced the key. Or if it was a brute force attack then about the same time on average. So surely in a few weeks there will be a new Hex string doing the rounds on the internet.
I don't think pregnancy would be an issue, that is one thing that would definitely not allowed, as after experiments on animals 0g gestations give rise to either unviable fetuses or massive birth defects
IIRC that after the NASA incident with unfortunate female astronaut who had the nervous breakout at attempted to kill another women, NASA stated they needed to re-evualate what kind of psyche is best suited for space work, while high-achieving goal orientated people are best suited for short term missions, more introverted people, who have are more adaptable may be better for long term work. So instead of having feelings of failure when things don't work, just think meh and think of a workaround. Also they will be quite happy to sit quietly and read or contemplate things; so IT types maybe just the ticket. And they'll have avoided the sex problem too!!
Damn... My Bullshit Detector has just exploded!
If you read TFA, it actually states the Chinese test is a entrance exam but the UK test is while studying in the first year at uni. I learnt the knowledge to answer the UK test school at 14. I have not idea how to start the Chinese test.
D'oh I could do with mod points today, Mod Parent Up
Mod parent funny