I agree fully, often people's moral convictions move them to cause vast social harm, take the laws against prostitution and many forms of sex work - these laws ensure that women involved in sex work can be enslaved, abused, and even murdered without having much of any legal recourse, and serve no purpose other than so someone can get a sick delight from using the legal system to impose their morals on people that don't share their value system.
Age of consent for sex, not 18... if the state thinks your old enough to be doing it they should legally allow you to deal with the consequences yourself, too.
actually, I would think the goal is to get passwords to secure goverment computer enviroments - the easiest way to do that is through people making mistakes, not attacking the systems. If you know from automated datasorting that the owner of the computer this data is comming from works for say the FBI, there's an offchance he's ignorant enough to use the same passwords at home and at work - enough of these and you could get into many systems.
It's been well over two years since I bought an album the RIAA had a hand in, glad it's adding up to something.
I also thing the role of satelite radio in eroding music sales is udnerestimated - you can get so specifically what you want, I think many people would rather just pay their 10$ a month because they get everything they want to hear out of it, no commercials, and no format portablity issues - you just plug the unit into your home or car and the satelite brings all the music to you.
I see nothing wrong with very fresh raw meat of any variety, though I admit the texture on poultry is usually unappealing, beef and most fish seem to make my stomache quite happy even raw, as long as chewed very thoughghly.
engineers do not always control the processes used for their specifications - the plant somewhere in asia where the power supplies are made might just be playing much looser with the specifications to pump out more units, leading to say 1/10 being less stable than the engineering specs dictate because too many components varied from spec.
If you dont' have a book or something to sit it on, I feel bad for you. You have NO IDEA what portion of laptop malfucntions I encounter are general hardware failures in only a couple years do to using the thing on the bed, a practice laptop users don't seem willing to give up.
I have to say, using it to keep ammo boxes sealed doesn't sound right, solely because I have many WWII ammo cans for storage and they ALL have a very waterproof rubber seal built right in.
Most importantly, hydrogen isn't a way to produce energy, it's only a way to STORE energy. Producing biodiesel from waste products or land that we would otherwise pay farmers not to grow corn on gives us a new way to gather tap the sun's near infinity of energy.
I don't think a small business wants more options. It wants what it knows works for 100 other small accounting firms, garrenteeing compatiblity, and to be able to make a reasonable assumption that problems will be fixed in short order. The fact that it's more complex and gives you more options is a big part of why some shy from it.
All I know is that if I were making a decision for my business and I could get a supported version of a software that was closed source or have to deal with any potential bug fixes myself when I'm with an accounting firm and not a computer firm, and therefor don't have or know anyone that knows anything about code, a supported closed source option is looking like a much less risky choice. Paying someone in house to know about and update soure code is not remotely ecconomically resonable for most small businesses.
That the users owe the developers and you can't demand a bug fix is the point. Their's no support, so you can't hold anyone responsible if your decision to use this software creates a problem. So what if it's free instead of a large licensing fee? If a run into a problem 4 months in on my own expensive business venture and my software isn't fixed right away, I'm screwed, and if it's open source, I can't demand it be fixed, and therefor businesses have a lot of trouble being interested in unsuported open source.
Some theories are proposing that memories are patterns of activity in the brain themselves, not something stored in a location persay. Perhaps something chemical from the learned worms enables the new worms to "lock on" to the correct pattern of behavior more quickly - with VERY simple learning like this, chemical messengers may play a more prominent role.
Planarians are NOT worms like earthworms, they're more related to a liver fluke I'd guess. And you can press one through a screen and many of the parts will survive to become worms. Also, they are trainable, you can teach them to always take a certain path at a fork, or train them to go to the side lit by a certain type of light(red or green) It just takes hundreds of trys to do it right everytime. Want REALLY weird - get this - If you juice and inject a trained worm into an untrained worm, it can learn in only a couple dozen trials to do it right everytime.
Silicosis is caused by buildup of microscarring in the lungs from internally processing and removing microshards of essentially a silicate solid. Some glassworkers used to get it from grinding glass dry, too, so if you ever drill glass, keep the drill tip and growing hole in the glass wet.
then it can be copied. Music DRM is impossible, period. If any sound is produced, that you can listen to, then it can be routed into a recorder and replicated, near enough perfectly for anyone to care. It's actually silly to even suggest it DRM on music, I'm pretty sure these "music copy protection" patents will be looked at like turn of the century perpetual motion maachine patents.
Clever, mostly correct, I think the difference is percieved authority - People tend to take situations in "real life" crime drama as theoretically plausable, while video game players are more acutely aware they are playing a game.
If I remember they did a law and order or other crime show on this in which the kid was definately shown to be at fault, not the game. And in an episode of CSI I saw a couple years back there was a crime involving the local BDSM scene, and I felt they were disturbingly fair considering that it's probably something more people have a nagitive view of than video game violence.
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I think this was a response to the ground being too hard and frozen to bury the dead and not wanting bodies to pile up all winter...
Are you channeling Aquinas or something?
I agree fully, often people's moral convictions move them to cause vast social harm, take the laws against prostitution and many forms of sex work - these laws ensure that women involved in sex work can be enslaved, abused, and even murdered without having much of any legal recourse, and serve no purpose other than so someone can get a sick delight from using the legal system to impose their morals on people that don't share their value system.
Age of consent for sex, not 18... if the state thinks your old enough to be doing it they should legally allow you to deal with the consequences yourself, too.
actually, I would think the goal is to get passwords to secure goverment computer enviroments - the easiest way to do that is through people making mistakes, not attacking the systems. If you know from automated datasorting that the owner of the computer this data is comming from works for say the FBI, there's an offchance he's ignorant enough to use the same passwords at home and at work - enough of these and you could get into many systems.
It's been well over two years since I bought an album the RIAA had a hand in, glad it's adding up to something. I also thing the role of satelite radio in eroding music sales is udnerestimated - you can get so specifically what you want, I think many people would rather just pay their 10$ a month because they get everything they want to hear out of it, no commercials, and no format portablity issues - you just plug the unit into your home or car and the satelite brings all the music to you.
I see nothing wrong with very fresh raw meat of any variety, though I admit the texture on poultry is usually unappealing, beef and most fish seem to make my stomache quite happy even raw, as long as chewed very thoughghly.
engineers do not always control the processes used for their specifications - the plant somewhere in asia where the power supplies are made might just be playing much looser with the specifications to pump out more units, leading to say 1/10 being less stable than the engineering specs dictate because too many components varied from spec.
If you dont' have a book or something to sit it on, I feel bad for you. You have NO IDEA what portion of laptop malfucntions I encounter are general hardware failures in only a couple years do to using the thing on the bed, a practice laptop users don't seem willing to give up.
I have to say, using it to keep ammo boxes sealed doesn't sound right, solely because I have many WWII ammo cans for storage and they ALL have a very waterproof rubber seal built right in.
Most importantly, hydrogen isn't a way to produce energy, it's only a way to STORE energy. Producing biodiesel from waste products or land that we would otherwise pay farmers not to grow corn on gives us a new way to gather tap the sun's near infinity of energy.
Should have said "the fact that open source is more complex..." etc
I don't think a small business wants more options. It wants what it knows works for 100 other small accounting firms, garrenteeing compatiblity, and to be able to make a reasonable assumption that problems will be fixed in short order. The fact that it's more complex and gives you more options is a big part of why some shy from it.
All I know is that if I were making a decision for my business and I could get a supported version of a software that was closed source or have to deal with any potential bug fixes myself when I'm with an accounting firm and not a computer firm, and therefor don't have or know anyone that knows anything about code, a supported closed source option is looking like a much less risky choice. Paying someone in house to know about and update soure code is not remotely ecconomically resonable for most small businesses.
That the users owe the developers and you can't demand a bug fix is the point. Their's no support, so you can't hold anyone responsible if your decision to use this software creates a problem. So what if it's free instead of a large licensing fee? If a run into a problem 4 months in on my own expensive business venture and my software isn't fixed right away, I'm screwed, and if it's open source, I can't demand it be fixed, and therefor businesses have a lot of trouble being interested in unsuported open source.
Some theories are proposing that memories are patterns of activity in the brain themselves, not something stored in a location persay. Perhaps something chemical from the learned worms enables the new worms to "lock on" to the correct pattern of behavior more quickly - with VERY simple learning like this, chemical messengers may play a more prominent role.
Planarians are NOT worms like earthworms, they're more related to a liver fluke I'd guess. And you can press one through a screen and many of the parts will survive to become worms. Also, they are trainable, you can teach them to always take a certain path at a fork, or train them to go to the side lit by a certain type of light(red or green) It just takes hundreds of trys to do it right everytime. Want REALLY weird - get this - If you juice and inject a trained worm into an untrained worm, it can learn in only a couple dozen trials to do it right everytime.
Cannonballs bounce nicely when fired very horizontally, but if dropped vertically they bounce little or not.
Silicosis is caused by buildup of microscarring in the lungs from internally processing and removing microshards of essentially a silicate solid. Some glassworkers used to get it from grinding glass dry, too, so if you ever drill glass, keep the drill tip and growing hole in the glass wet.
quinine will kill bacteria in infected still water, and it does taste a lot more palateable with a bit of gin mixed in...
actually I think there are ways to use microwaves to get liquid water significantly above boiling, even if you don't want it that way... http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/superheating.html
then it can be copied. Music DRM is impossible, period. If any sound is produced, that you can listen to, then it can be routed into a recorder and replicated, near enough perfectly for anyone to care. It's actually silly to even suggest it DRM on music, I'm pretty sure these "music copy protection" patents will be looked at like turn of the century perpetual motion maachine patents.
Clever, mostly correct, I think the difference is percieved authority - People tend to take situations in "real life" crime drama as theoretically plausable, while video game players are more acutely aware they are playing a game.
If I remember they did a law and order or other crime show on this in which the kid was definately shown to be at fault, not the game. And in an episode of CSI I saw a couple years back there was a crime involving the local BDSM scene, and I felt they were disturbingly fair considering that it's probably something more people have a nagitive view of than video game violence.
use flashblock, the only irritating advertisement I've seen in a year or so are the still persistent animated gif's.