..hardware upgradeable? Or is everything hard soldered to the board? RAM, Flash, etc are pretty cheap now, some price drops even since the original specs were determined. Seems like buying the parts in millions of units they could double the RAM and Flash capacity for pennies per machine, maybe not even an entire dollar.
Clinton got investigated for that because he was the president, and lied to a grand jury about it. That was the real crime, the lie to the grand jury. People actually go to jail about that all the time, and it doesn't matter what the lie was. Why it was a big deal-the BJ- is that such and similar things can open up a person to blackmail or extortion, and being the president, it was rather important. The potential is rather severe. In the intelligence games, such a gambit is common, the IT world has even borowed the original term in fact, it is called a honeypot trap. Not saying it happened in that case (it might have, we still don't know), but the potential is there. Impeachment is the only crime you can really use against a standing president, it's a weird exception to normal jurisprudence.
As to shrub and company lying, heck ya they should be investigated about it and possibly be impeached. It is still the lying part that is important. If they took intel analysis and re-arranged it to sell an agenda, or just cooked it up wholesale (which I think they did) yep, that's most likely a crime, even if they have given themselves some sort of get out of jail free card with the recent military commissions act.
Before there were mountain bikes. I built a fat tired low geared 10 speed in the mid 70s. Had to cut and rethread the spokes to make a rear wheel with a box frame config so caliper brakes would work, then build caliper mounts for the brakes, etc, etc. I was doing a lot of off road bicycling then and kept destroying regular skinny tired wheels and got tired of it, so set down and heavily modified a one speed bike. It was gosh darn spiffy, tell ya what, every biker who saw mine wanted one. There wasn't anything on the market like that at the time, that I was aware of anyway. I've built other stuff I was proud of, but they were more in the biological field, I called them living sculptures, using wired together trees, etc, but the bike was the most hard-tech thing.
...it is what I was thinking but I don't have any knowledge of the physical layout. Can anyone else elaborate on it better? Perhaps a cyber attack in conjunction with some physical attacks?
With the ongoing and spreading polonium problem, there's another apparently easy vector, how much would it take to shut down huge areas of NYC if it looked like a radiological attack had happened? Even with all the heightened security all over, apparently a lot of places got contaminated, and no one knew until some bigshot ex spy got nailed. I am wondering why this is.
...I knew I was getting there when one day we were hanging out in the living room and I am thinking "go outside, take the dogs for a walk, or go try to chase the old lady around?" hmmmm....ponder.....went for the walk.....
The theory with having a few nukes and missiles to tote them is not to be able to take on superpowers and win, it is to have enough of a credible threat to avoid being invaded or bombed or regime changed. North korea could not hope to invade the US and take over, nukes or not, but if they had the ability to hit some west coast cities or hawaii-we would never attack them. As it is now, just with conventionals, they have enough destructive potential to avoid getting invaded. They could order "fire" and half an hour later most of south korea's largest cities would be poisonous rubble, just from old plain vanilla cannon fire and some cheap chemicals. You would have to pull a surprise neutron weapon saturation strike to avoid that happening, and even then they are dug in soo well a lot of them might be able to counterattack. They are well known as being heavy diggers.
As to the consumer products ban, it is a big fat joke, that is just easily avoided by them, they will get whatever they want a few steps away from directly, that's all.
They told me at the store where I ordered it that their biggest problem and expense and headache was renting space on the towers. They sad the cell phone guys who own the towers hated to give up the space and just stalled/delayed/obstructed for a long time, as can be expected as it is a threat totheir business in general terms. As to their inhouse equipment expense, I don't know, never tried to find out. I pay 5 bucks a month for the stuff at my house though.
I looked into getting either a verizon cellphone based data account or t-mobile, both were unacceptzble due to cost and availability. The verizon guys were the worst, they didn't even know verizon had such a thing! I kid thee not, I had to tell them that their company could do internet connections/data. T-mobile just doesn't offer their data plan around here.
Not really, and I don't know all that much about it. According to one trollish response I got, it isn't even wimax, it's something else, but I went and looked and it is "near wimax" or something. wimax itself is still undergoing standards agreements and whatnot, although pre wimax stuff is out there now, like what I have. Not much to it, you have a small yagi antenna that has to be aimed well (at least in my case being near the edge of the range), and a dongle, then a normal ethernet plug. that's it. Automagical after that point. I kept my landline and dialup connection for a couple months just to see if it worked out OK, it did, so I was able to drop that expense then.
802.16 whatever, licensed freq-close enough for discussion purposes as far as I care-watch, I'll do it again "wimax"
yes they are, talked to them
satellite- too late now and still way more expensive. Sat guys wanted beaucoup hundreds of dollars downpayment for install than like 80 bucks a month-no thanks. If I lived out in east moose droppings alaska and that's all I could get, sure, I would muddle through a sat connection. As it i8s, this is what I got. They insist on a windows connection, the tech install guy does it inside your house-I called them up and asked them, they won't even come out without it and I don't run windows. Go argue with them, that's what they told me after several emails back and forth plus talking to their local installer.
If that ain't good enough for ya'all, well...tough fuckin' shit. Damn if I am arguing about it. You want to sell me a wired broadband connection, is that the business you are in or something?-what are your terms and offerings? Oh, you don't have any? Somehow it's wrong that I finally can get broadband or something? What the hell is you guys big problem anyway? Don't answer, I honestly don't give a fuck with you trolls now, I was talking up what I saw as neat tech that worked, ya'all ranking me for it-go to hell man, you and the other trolls, go to *fucken hell*
For what it is good for inside the US it seems to be fine. We have huge geographical areas outside the the top 200 urbanareas with zero broadband besides this sort of tech, or much more expensive satellite. The cable Tv guys ignored these areas for years, now satellite dishes are very common. If the potential subscriber base was high enough, you could most likely get some sort of broadband wired connection. if it isn't, and isn't likely to be, then I don't see this saturation problem happening, because if it did, there would then exist the incentive to *go* to the wired solution.
Either way, I am enjoying it, same as I enjoy having some solar PV bought and paid off, despite any number of people over the years telling me it doesn't work or it's too expensive or something. Works fine for me and I own it outright (ya, I skipped the bigscreen TV and some doo dads with zero ROI and never any "energy payback" in order to get it) and always have some power immediately available even when the grid supplied fails. I don't care if it doesn't scale for 50 bucks for someones backyard aluminum smelter, for my purposes it got affordable enough years ago. Same with this wimax stuff. Same with buying just *computers* years ago, sheesh, they were expensive..;but worth it. They didn't scale like they do now..but it sure helped having a lot of earlier adopters, for the industry in general, didn't it? I bet you are like me and dropped some serious coin on what we think of as quaint junk now, right? Same deal. Why did we do that? Because we knew computers were cool, we wanted it, and we knew it would just get better the more people bought into the whole personal computer thing? Am I right?
I have a very simple philosophy with economics - support what you want to see better/cheaper/faster in the future by buying in today.
I like doing and taking advantage of the tech I need, as soon as I can and it's there in some form, when I saw this wimax offered I took it, it isn't theoretical for me and if none of the other sort of net providers want to even try-well, to hell with them!
I guess because I am on a small mom and pop ISP that uses wimax??? If it helps they use canopy gear. All I know is bell south-broadband=unobtanium where I live, 3+ miles from nearest switchbox, too far for xDSL, comcast (local cable ) HAHAHAHAHA!That falls into the "in your dreams" state. These guys? Saw it was available, little flyer at local whitebox shop, called them up, they come over in a coupla days, set it up, works fine. Got to dump the landline and the dialup account, now have better service for less money. Now whether or not it is sustainable biz-wise for a long time for them, I don't know, but they have been in both the local dialup and and then wifi biz for awhile now, then on to wimax, and they like this the best (what they told me anyway). I'm several hills from theirt tower, plus down ina little dip of a valley, but I still get-according to them-a 90% signal. It's certainly good enough now that I can download and tryout linux distros, and I have gotten a few free to copy and view videos so far as well ( I don't pirate anything). I called the satellite guys, they wanted a LOT more downpayment, and they only offered windows service, no linux connections at all, wouldn't even consider it, and their monthly fee was 30 bucks a month higher to boot. So I went with these guys. I have been on the web since 95 and this is my first broadband, so of course I am medium thrilled with it.
All I can offer is keep plugging away at it and keep checking around and see how maybe you can pull it off for your potential customers, it is the shitznitz.
...I was scrolling down through all the replies and was *amazed* no one had spotted how to fight the counterfeits. When I got to the bottom I was going to post the solution, but now I'll just reply to yours and give serious brain props to Creative if this is the case. This is the ONLY practical way to counter the counterfeits. I you invent the thing, and manufacturing is the same, just kill them off with price and flood the market. That's it. I am glad at least one company "gets it". Now , if only the RIAA and MPAA would get it with their stupid entertainment disks and ridiculous over pricing schemes, all they need to do is match the pirates cost on disks or close to allofmp3 on download.
OK, there is technically one other way that can work with manufactured items. You ONLY build to spec for a specific client or clients, so much down, so much on delivery, and don't even try to just generally sell the whatevers, and then don't care if they are counterfeited then, just ignore it. Get the idea, design to spec for a customer or customers, do your limited manufacturing run, then move on to the next product. And there you have it, the high volume anything goes way and the limited volume guaranteed money way.
Support wimax as much as possible-it works, and it is cheap enough to let the mom and pops ISPs in and hits that last mile for you folks rural and in the burbs. Sign up, show enthusiasm, get the costs down more. I couldn't get broadband from either the local telco nor cable, nor were they planning on it anytime this century near as I could see-they didn't care about my cash they could have, all I heard from them is a hearty FU. I got direct from the landline guy from hellsouth-they will NEVER run good enough copper out to folks unless they are ORDERED to by the government. And the cable doofuses-same deal, unless you get stuck in some new expensive gated community or something, they don't give a crap either. Then wimax hit this area, WHAM, I was on that baby (and the tower is around 10 miles or so away!) and I am now quite the loyal customer. Couldn't sign up fast enough.
How does that work in the software world? In meatspace there are certain set rules, such as posting notices in the official newspapers, etc. before something that has been abandoned can be auctioned or used or kept.
In the US a lot of crap is technically illegal. For the most part, when it is really stupid, we just ignore it. See "prohibition" for one instance. See "speed limits" for another. And so on. It may take us some years, and unfortunately, some times it takes decades, but eventually a lot of stuff gets sorted out for the better.
Really, you nailed it well, nailed and counter-sunk. And now we can take it further, what is software, anyway, that it can be patented? Looks to me like a buncha stuff some dude or dudes typed up in a language or languages. Now, what is a novel? Why can't we patent novels?
Just to shake the landscape up, I wish these chilean tribesman well on their pursuits, see if there is a precdent or three that can be set (or un-set actually).
this is only the US ruling, you can go google for other nations rulings, I believe also they have some problems at least in japan and korea (perhaps, don't recall)
In the US the case still isn't over yet either, there is at least one more state going after them, Iowa, and the head cheeses have to travel and go testify in person
They couldn't even hang onto and keep track of the freaking moonshot vids master tapes and supposedly even if they did have them there was only oneold machine thaty could view them. And no telling how much private sector video and stills have been lost because someone's precious was kept locked up and people couldn't make copies and keep transferring it as tech improved. We've already lost a ton of golden age of TV for example-just gone, unobtanium. If anything in the rapidly changing digital world, copyright terms should be drastically shortened, so that archieving human knowledge can be spread out in a much wider fashion, hopefully so that at least some records remain that are readable. All the eggs in one basket approach is the suxorz.
Not only soldiers but tourists and misionaries have gotten bitten by that drug. Makes some folks just go bonkers, but I think the drug companies and the DOD are still kinda not admitting it, but I would have to check on it to be sure.
Well, I certainly would have said that if I had known it. Not living in denial, just never read about that, but the germans and bersererks I had. Now I do know, no reason to get nasty about it and stuff...! Most vets (combat styled) I know are from my generation so they are nam vets-they smoked a lot of pot and opium from what I hear.
Germans used amphetamines in ww2. It's not much of a secret that armies have used drugs since they became available. Originally all they had was booze and stuff like magic mushrooms (berserkers), but it's been going on a long time. The scary stuff to me is the reverse manchurian candidate stuff,the work to make drugs that make them lose all sense of right or wrong, just follow orders, no matter what the orders might be.....anything... then blank out the memories so they don't suffer remorse or PTSD type effects.
The air is planned in and out, for this very reason, and it usually quite filtered, and using the heat exchanger you can save a lot of energy. It is *better* than normal household air, which slips in around windowframes, cracks in the walls, where plumbing pipes enter and leave, etc.. a lot of dirty places. Really, read up on the technique, it's pretty slick. It's more in use in upscale housing in scandinavia and like canada now, but a lot of places in the US are using it.
The primary energy uses for joe average are heating, cooling, lighting and transportation, that is where most of the energy goes.
Now we have a dandy set of solutions that can cut all of that in half or more, but it isn't "sexy", there's not a whole lot more "research" that is needed. It's boring to most folks, to most industries, and there isn't enough profit there.
We know how to build smaller and more fuel efficient cars now, this is doable, we could double the US CAFE requirements and eliminate the exceptions. Just be done with it and mandate it. I have owned 60's and 70's cars that got mid 20s to around 30 MPG on the highway,it was the most basic of construction, nothing exotic to it at all, so here we are decades later, and we have cars that can do that and are orders of magnitudes more complex to build, and near impossible to repair at home for most people. This is progress? I don't see it. My old 74 Dart got 25 MPG, seated six and had a decent sized trunk and would break 100 MPH. Uhh, that actually compares pretty well to a lot of cars now, so where is the progress again? More geegaws on the dashboard? Big deal.
We just let the major builders get away with FUD for too long. Just *order* them to do it, order them to do one more MPG a year for 20 years or so, or they can't sell cars, period. They'll do it. If they try gouging or pull any crap,like GM with their EV1 sabotage and FUD, pull their corporation papers, someone else will play nice and do the work, someone will want to sell cars that work, are affordable and get good mileage.
Heating and cooling can be addressed easily with building code laws. I am completely serious now. I have worked on both new construction and remodelling in "superinsulation" projects, private residences. It is beyond easy, quite doable, to reduce heating and cooling costs to 50% (or less) of what they are now using a combo of off the shelf, nothing exotic techniques. If you have never seen a super insulated home you wouldn't believe it, it is astounding how much the furnace and airconditioning *don't* come on. And it's just planned air in and planned air out, tighter construction, with a small heat exchanger to recover some energy(if you want to), and a lot more insulation all over and better windows and doors. and that's it. It works. You can go to ground effect heat pumps with it, meaning more savings. Building code laws and mortgage restrictions would do it, ie, mandated energy conservation on new construction, mandated upgrades to new standards on mortgage transfer/sales (sorry house flippers, you would need to work just a little harder for your profit). We could adapt to it, and it certainly would be easier to pull off than any of the wild schemes we are looking at now. New homes now are being allowed to be built (pass "code") and sold around that are beyond pitiful, absolutely zero improvements in insulation or energy efficiency since years and years ago. Simple, just mandate better standards. We have done it with plumbing and wiring, we can mandate better framing and a lot more insulation.
Lighting can be addressed with a big switch to LED lighting, I think everyone is aware how efficient that sort of lighting is and could be.
There ya go, bascially same lifestyle, 50% reduction in energy demand, no mr. fusion needed.
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..hardware upgradeable? Or is everything hard soldered to the board? RAM, Flash, etc are pretty cheap now, some price drops even since the original specs were determined. Seems like buying the parts in millions of units they could double the RAM and Flash capacity for pennies per machine, maybe not even an entire dollar.
Clinton got investigated for that because he was the president, and lied to a grand jury about it. That was the real crime, the lie to the grand jury. People actually go to jail about that all the time, and it doesn't matter what the lie was. Why it was a big deal-the BJ- is that such and similar things can open up a person to blackmail or extortion, and being the president, it was rather important. The potential is rather severe. In the intelligence games, such a gambit is common, the IT world has even borowed the original term in fact, it is called a honeypot trap. Not saying it happened in that case (it might have, we still don't know), but the potential is there. Impeachment is the only crime you can really use against a standing president, it's a weird exception to normal jurisprudence.
As to shrub and company lying, heck ya they should be investigated about it and possibly be impeached. It is still the lying part that is important. If they took intel analysis and re-arranged it to sell an agenda, or just cooked it up wholesale (which I think they did) yep, that's most likely a crime, even if they have given themselves some sort of get out of jail free card with the recent military commissions act.
nasa assembly building?
Before there were mountain bikes. I built a fat tired low geared 10 speed in the mid 70s. Had to cut and rethread the spokes to make a rear wheel with a box frame config so caliper brakes would work, then build caliper mounts for the brakes, etc, etc. I was doing a lot of off road bicycling then and kept destroying regular skinny tired wheels and got tired of it, so set down and heavily modified a one speed bike. It was gosh darn spiffy, tell ya what, every biker who saw mine wanted one. There wasn't anything on the market like that at the time, that I was aware of anyway. I've built other stuff I was proud of, but they were more in the biological field, I called them living sculptures, using wired together trees, etc, but the bike was the most hard-tech thing.
...it is what I was thinking but I don't have any knowledge of the physical layout. Can anyone else elaborate on it better? Perhaps a cyber attack in conjunction with some physical attacks?
With the ongoing and spreading polonium problem, there's another apparently easy vector, how much would it take to shut down huge areas of NYC if it looked like a radiological attack had happened? Even with all the heightened security all over, apparently a lot of places got contaminated, and no one knew until some bigshot ex spy got nailed. I am wondering why this is.
...I knew I was getting there when one day we were hanging out in the living room and I am thinking "go outside, take the dogs for a walk, or go try to chase the old lady around?" hmmmm....ponder.....went for the walk.....
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The theory with having a few nukes and missiles to tote them is not to be able to take on superpowers and win, it is to have enough of a credible threat to avoid being invaded or bombed or regime changed. North korea could not hope to invade the US and take over, nukes or not, but if they had the ability to hit some west coast cities or hawaii-we would never attack them. As it is now, just with conventionals, they have enough destructive potential to avoid getting invaded. They could order "fire" and half an hour later most of south korea's largest cities would be poisonous rubble, just from old plain vanilla cannon fire and some cheap chemicals. You would have to pull a surprise neutron weapon saturation strike to avoid that happening, and even then they are dug in soo well a lot of them might be able to counterattack. They are well known as being heavy diggers.
As to the consumer products ban, it is a big fat joke, that is just easily avoided by them, they will get whatever they want a few steps away from directly, that's all.
They told me at the store where I ordered it that their biggest problem and expense and headache was renting space on the towers. They sad the cell phone guys who own the towers hated to give up the space and just stalled/delayed/obstructed for a long time, as can be expected as it is a threat totheir business in general terms. As to their inhouse equipment expense, I don't know, never tried to find out. I pay 5 bucks a month for the stuff at my house though.
I looked into getting either a verizon cellphone based data account or t-mobile, both were unacceptzble due to cost and availability. The verizon guys were the worst, they didn't even know verizon had such a thing! I kid thee not, I had to tell them that their company could do internet connections/data. T-mobile just doesn't offer their data plan around here.
Not really, and I don't know all that much about it. According to one trollish response I got, it isn't even wimax, it's something else, but I went and looked and it is "near wimax" or something. wimax itself is still undergoing standards agreements and whatnot, although pre wimax stuff is out there now, like what I have. Not much to it, you have a small yagi antenna that has to be aimed well (at least in my case being near the edge of the range), and a dongle, then a normal ethernet plug. that's it. Automagical after that point. I kept my landline and dialup connection for a couple months just to see if it worked out OK, it did, so I was able to drop that expense then.
802.16 whatever, licensed freq-close enough for discussion purposes as far as I care-watch, I'll do it again "wimax"
yes they are, talked to them
satellite- too late now and still way more expensive. Sat guys wanted beaucoup hundreds of dollars downpayment for install than like 80 bucks a month-no thanks. If I lived out in east moose droppings alaska and that's all I could get, sure, I would muddle through a sat connection. As it i8s, this is what I got. They insist on a windows connection, the tech install guy does it inside your house-I called them up and asked them, they won't even come out without it and I don't run windows. Go argue with them, that's what they told me after several emails back and forth plus talking to their local installer.
If that ain't good enough for ya'all, well...tough fuckin' shit. Damn if I am arguing about it. You want to sell me a wired broadband connection, is that the business you are in or something?-what are your terms and offerings? Oh, you don't have any? Somehow it's wrong that I finally can get broadband or something? What the hell is you guys big problem anyway? Don't answer, I honestly don't give a fuck with you trolls now, I was talking up what I saw as neat tech that worked, ya'all ranking me for it-go to hell man, you and the other trolls, go to *fucken hell*
For what it is good for inside the US it seems to be fine. We have huge geographical areas outside the the top 200 urbanareas with zero broadband besides this sort of tech, or much more expensive satellite. The cable Tv guys ignored these areas for years, now satellite dishes are very common. If the potential subscriber base was high enough, you could most likely get some sort of broadband wired connection. if it isn't, and isn't likely to be, then I don't see this saturation problem happening, because if it did, there would then exist the incentive to *go* to the wired solution.
Either way, I am enjoying it, same as I enjoy having some solar PV bought and paid off, despite any number of people over the years telling me it doesn't work or it's too expensive or something. Works fine for me and I own it outright (ya, I skipped the bigscreen TV and some doo dads with zero ROI and never any "energy payback" in order to get it) and always have some power immediately available even when the grid supplied fails. I don't care if it doesn't scale for 50 bucks for someones backyard aluminum smelter, for my purposes it got affordable enough years ago. Same with this wimax stuff. Same with buying just *computers* years ago, sheesh, they were expensive..;but worth it. They didn't scale like they do now..but it sure helped having a lot of earlier adopters, for the industry in general, didn't it? I bet you are like me and dropped some serious coin on what we think of as quaint junk now, right? Same deal. Why did we do that? Because we knew computers were cool, we wanted it, and we knew it would just get better the more people bought into the whole personal computer thing? Am I right?
I have a very simple philosophy with economics - support what you want to see better/cheaper/faster in the future by buying in today.
I like doing and taking advantage of the tech I need, as soon as I can and it's there in some form, when I saw this wimax offered I took it, it isn't theoretical for me and if none of the other sort of net providers want to even try-well, to hell with them!
I guess because I am on a small mom and pop ISP that uses wimax??? If it helps they use canopy gear. All I know is bell south-broadband=unobtanium where I live, 3+ miles from nearest switchbox, too far for xDSL, comcast (local cable ) HAHAHAHAHA!That falls into the "in your dreams" state. These guys? Saw it was available, little flyer at local whitebox shop, called them up, they come over in a coupla days, set it up, works fine. Got to dump the landline and the dialup account, now have better service for less money. Now whether or not it is sustainable biz-wise for a long time for them, I don't know, but they have been in both the local dialup and and then wifi biz for awhile now, then on to wimax, and they like this the best (what they told me anyway). I'm several hills from theirt tower, plus down ina little dip of a valley, but I still get-according to them-a 90% signal. It's certainly good enough now that I can download and tryout linux distros, and I have gotten a few free to copy and view videos so far as well ( I don't pirate anything). I called the satellite guys, they wanted a LOT more downpayment, and they only offered windows service, no linux connections at all, wouldn't even consider it, and their monthly fee was 30 bucks a month higher to boot. So I went with these guys. I have been on the web since 95 and this is my first broadband, so of course I am medium thrilled with it.
All I can offer is keep plugging away at it and keep checking around and see how maybe you can pull it off for your potential customers, it is the shitznitz.
OK, there is technically one other way that can work with manufactured items. You ONLY build to spec for a specific client or clients, so much down, so much on delivery, and don't even try to just generally sell the whatevers, and then don't care if they are counterfeited then, just ignore it. Get the idea, design to spec for a customer or customers, do your limited manufacturing run, then move on to the next product. And there you have it, the high volume anything goes way and the limited volume guaranteed money way.
Support wimax as much as possible-it works, and it is cheap enough to let the mom and pops ISPs in and hits that last mile for you folks rural and in the burbs. Sign up, show enthusiasm, get the costs down more. I couldn't get broadband from either the local telco nor cable, nor were they planning on it anytime this century near as I could see-they didn't care about my cash they could have, all I heard from them is a hearty FU. I got direct from the landline guy from hellsouth-they will NEVER run good enough copper out to folks unless they are ORDERED to by the government. And the cable doofuses-same deal, unless you get stuck in some new expensive gated community or something, they don't give a crap either. Then wimax hit this area, WHAM, I was on that baby (and the tower is around 10 miles or so away!) and I am now quite the loyal customer. Couldn't sign up fast enough.
How does that work in the software world? In meatspace there are certain set rules, such as posting notices in the official newspapers, etc. before something that has been abandoned can be auctioned or used or kept.
In the US a lot of crap is technically illegal. For the most part, when it is really stupid, we just ignore it. See "prohibition" for one instance. See "speed limits" for another. And so on. It may take us some years, and unfortunately, some times it takes decades, but eventually a lot of stuff gets sorted out for the better.
Really, you nailed it well, nailed and counter-sunk. And now we can take it further, what is software, anyway, that it can be patented? Looks to me like a buncha stuff some dude or dudes typed up in a language or languages. Now, what is a novel? Why can't we patent novels?
Just to shake the landscape up, I wish these chilean tribesman well on their pursuits, see if there is a precdent or three that can be set (or un-set actually).
this is only the US ruling, you can go google for other nations rulings, I believe also they have some problems at least in japan and korea (perhaps, don't recall)
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In the US the case still isn't over yet either, there is at least one more state going after them, Iowa, and the head cheeses have to travel and go testify in person
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2
They couldn't even hang onto and keep track of the freaking moonshot vids master tapes and supposedly even if they did have them there was only oneold machine thaty could view them. And no telling how much private sector video and stills have been lost because someone's precious was kept locked up and people couldn't make copies and keep transferring it as tech improved. We've already lost a ton of golden age of TV for example-just gone, unobtanium. If anything in the rapidly changing digital world, copyright terms should be drastically shortened, so that archieving human knowledge can be spread out in a much wider fashion, hopefully so that at least some records remain that are readable. All the eggs in one basket approach is the suxorz.
Most interesting. Are you more susceptible to "subtle persuasion" at the time as well?
Not only soldiers but tourists and misionaries have gotten bitten by that drug. Makes some folks just go bonkers, but I think the drug companies and the DOD are still kinda not admitting it, but I would have to check on it to be sure.
Well, I certainly would have said that if I had known it. Not living in denial, just never read about that, but the germans and bersererks I had. Now I do know, no reason to get nasty about it and stuff...! Most vets (combat styled) I know are from my generation so they are nam vets-they smoked a lot of pot and opium from what I hear.
Germans used amphetamines in ww2. It's not much of a secret that armies have used drugs since they became available. Originally all they had was booze and stuff like magic mushrooms (berserkers), but it's been going on a long time. The scary stuff to me is the reverse manchurian candidate stuff,the work to make drugs that make them lose all sense of right or wrong, just follow orders, no matter what the orders might be.....anything... then blank out the memories so they don't suffer remorse or PTSD type effects.
The air is planned in and out, for this very reason, and it usually quite filtered, and using the heat exchanger you can save a lot of energy. It is *better* than normal household air, which slips in around windowframes, cracks in the walls, where plumbing pipes enter and leave, etc.. a lot of dirty places. Really, read up on the technique, it's pretty slick. It's more in use in upscale housing in scandinavia and like canada now, but a lot of places in the US are using it.
break it down
The primary energy uses for joe average are heating, cooling, lighting and transportation, that is where most of the energy goes.
Now we have a dandy set of solutions that can cut all of that in half or more, but it isn't "sexy", there's not a whole lot more "research" that is needed. It's boring to most folks, to most industries, and there isn't enough profit there.
We know how to build smaller and more fuel efficient cars now, this is doable, we could double the US CAFE requirements and eliminate the exceptions. Just be done with it and mandate it. I have owned 60's and 70's cars that got mid 20s to around 30 MPG on the highway,it was the most basic of construction, nothing exotic to it at all, so here we are decades later, and we have cars that can do that and are orders of magnitudes more complex to build, and near impossible to repair at home for most people. This is progress? I don't see it. My old 74 Dart got 25 MPG, seated six and had a decent sized trunk and would break 100 MPH. Uhh, that actually compares pretty well to a lot of cars now, so where is the progress again? More geegaws on the dashboard? Big deal.
We just let the major builders get away with FUD for too long. Just *order* them to do it, order them to do one more MPG a year for 20 years or so, or they can't sell cars, period. They'll do it. If they try gouging or pull any crap,like GM with their EV1 sabotage and FUD, pull their corporation papers, someone else will play nice and do the work, someone will want to sell cars that work, are affordable and get good mileage.
Heating and cooling can be addressed easily with building code laws. I am completely serious now. I have worked on both new construction and remodelling in "superinsulation" projects, private residences. It is beyond easy, quite doable, to reduce heating and cooling costs to 50% (or less) of what they are now using a combo of off the shelf, nothing exotic techniques. If you have never seen a super insulated home you wouldn't believe it, it is astounding how much the furnace and airconditioning *don't* come on. And it's just planned air in and planned air out, tighter construction, with a small heat exchanger to recover some energy(if you want to), and a lot more insulation all over and better windows and doors. and that's it. It works. You can go to ground effect heat pumps with it, meaning more savings. Building code laws and mortgage restrictions would do it, ie, mandated energy conservation on new construction, mandated upgrades to new standards on mortgage transfer/sales (sorry house flippers, you would need to work just a little harder for your profit). We could adapt to it, and it certainly would be easier to pull off than any of the wild schemes we are looking at now. New homes now are being allowed to be built (pass "code") and sold around that are beyond pitiful, absolutely zero improvements in insulation or energy efficiency since years and years ago. Simple, just mandate better standards. We have done it with plumbing and wiring, we can mandate better framing and a lot more insulation.
Lighting can be addressed with a big switch to LED lighting, I think everyone is aware how efficient that sort of lighting is and could be.
There ya go, bascially same lifestyle, 50% reduction in energy demand, no mr. fusion needed.