3) A special interest in protecting or promoting that which is to ones own personal advantage.
Groups such as this (ETC Group) do use this for personal advantage. They take this pseudo-science and use it in their fund raising.
Claims such as "Big Nano-tech doesn't want you to know they are plotting to kill every living thing on the planet!" then get sent out in fund-raising letters and they cite their own pet researcher as the hero that will expose the evil only they can stop for a contribution for $25, or we would really like $1000 to make you a gold level Hero Of The Farms.
The last few years I've gone out of my way to avoid trailers for films I'm interested in.
Trailers lie most of the time. Sometimes they give too much away, sometimes they don't. I don't like to read much about films I want to see because I hate spoilers.
I love the Matrix, and I've been waiting for the sequals to come out. I trust the Brothers W to not screw up my film experience with the trailer. In some ways, some things are given away. But in others, I have so many new questions I can't wait to get the answers to.
I just hope they have a midnight screening near me the night it opens, because this trailer is hot.
Come on, fair is fair. He didn't dodge the draft by going to Canada. Keep criticism honest or it is meaningless, like the stuff below.
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You make some very interesting points, but there is so much unsaid. If you poke below the surface of what you descibe as vision, I think you might hit some of the underpinnings of the actual culture. Just to elucidate on the three cultures you mentioned:
Japanese: Hi-tech, but also hi-tech dependant. They have a very high population density and need the hi-tech for continued survival. (Food, power, infrastructure.) In some ways they run to stay in place.
Finland: Lots of communication. Internet, cell phones, etc. Don't they get rather cold and isolated during the winter? Could this be part of it?
United State: Exploration and moving onwards. The country has been doing that since founding, but there is not much land left to explore.
I hear Jackie Chan say he only uses the stunt doubles for some scenes in his American movies because the insurance underwriters demand it. No insurance (for movie completion) no movie. The Hong Kong movies are still him. (Last I heard at least.)
Do you think that AudioGalaxy connects to all its partners in real time when it comes to sharing email addresses?
Good point. The question is what does the law say about how long until the SALE stops? Remember, once somebody has purchased the list, it may not be able to be revoked by the seller. In which case, you have to track down who it was sold too and remove yourself from their bright shiny new list.
This comment hilights what struck me when I saw the headline here. There are two types of piracy. There are the physical pirates, who clone disks and perhaps manuals, then sell a product in a store, VAR, or bazzar.
The second type is the software exchanging type. They don't do it for money, just to use for free or just to collect.
One type sees software as something to have, the other as something to sell. Do both cause economic damage? Maybe. The sales pirate (for want of a better name yet), depending on how they move their product, is cutting into legit sales. The copy pirate may or may not buy the software if they can't get it free.
This situation is akin to the "hacker" naming problem. One set of hackers is good, the others are better called crackers, but the media can't understand the difference.
Would they fail you if your dad were the Governor of the state, responsible for their state funding?
WTF? Could you please tell me when George H. W. Bush was the governor of Massachusets or Connecticut? Did I miss something here or are stoned out of your mind?
bombing the f*ck out of Iraqi children (when inspectors have been there for months and not found any solid evidence of an active weapons program)
TWEET! L0k11, out of the gene pool for excessive stupidity.
You may not have heard about a bunch of missles which are Iraq has illegally. They were found by the "weapons inspectors." Saddam denied they existed. But he might just destroy them he said today. But they don't really exist.
You really are stupid... (oh, and you might have also missed hearing about chemical warhead shells that were found that didn't exist, too.)
Please note: This is not an ad hominum attack. It is a statement of fact.
No you aren't stupid, but it isn't really intuitive. Let me try to detail this.
Each orbit can beslightly different in terms of angle and velocity, or drastically differnt (say a polar vs. equitoria orbit.). Now the word slightly is misleading. The real difference in speed can be hundreds of feet per second up to several thousand miles per hour. Small items moving quickly (say a paint chip) moving at a relative speed of 2000 miles per hour packs a lot of kinetic energy. Enough to cause it to flash to plasma on impact, causing a flare through the material.
There were pictures shown of what that amount of energy does. The inside of a box had burns from the hole shot through it.
Won't work. I saw a show on Discovery or TLC, so I'm an expert now:-)
It turns out that the relative energy of the impact causes the faster particle to turn into a plasma jet when the impact happens. It is pretty nasty.
The other problem is that any sweeper you make is going to be small compared to the size of the orbital paths with junk in them. And it takes an enormous amount of delta V to change orbit significantly.
Maybe now you understand why making generalizations about people is a bad thing.
Making generalizations is not a bad thing. It is vital to A) survival, and B) it creates a baseline of "knowledge" that can be modified in individual instances. I'll bet you generalize all the time but rationalize it. Try these on for size:
Republicans want to starve children and take health care away from the elderly
People who drive SUVs are bad
African-Americans vote for Democrats
Whites are greedy bastards who oppress everybody else
So why is it important for survival to generalize? Imagine that a group is out trying to gather some food. One of them eats some red berries and keels over dead. The intelligent berry picker thinks, "Aha. Red berries bad. Kill Thag," and then avoids them. The non-generalizing berry picker thinks, "Thag ate bad berries. They must have been bad. But these berries are from a different bush next to those bad berries, so they are OK." Next thing you know, Ogg is taking a dirt nap with Thag.
Absurd? Not really. This is the way survival goes. Humans need to generalize in order to process the vast amounts of information available to us. Generalizations for individuals may not be valid, but over a statistical sampling, they are. (If you don't believe me, don't bother taking any medication. It gets approved via generalized studies over a test group.)
All stereotypes have some basis, either from group observations, or from a deliberatly propaganda myth. (Observation about Group X being evil because they eat live babies goes here as an exmple of a propaganda myth that gets believed.)
Back in the old days, before every household got a cd burner, it was possible to return open software, music, etc.
Interesting. I don't know what country you are from, but I don't think CDs, audio tapes, vinal albums, video tapes, or any other type of recordable meda, have been returnable since before 1980 (and probably long before that). The RIAA theory is that anything opened has been recored to tape and returning it is piracy.
At one point, all software installation disks came in a EULA sealed envelope. If that envelope was unopened, you could return the software.
That of course doesn't work in a pre-installed or downloadable software age where you have to purchase before you can get to the prize inside, er, EULA.
If Corporation A wants to have it's license to manufacture devices in that spectrum yanked, hey, more power to them.
I think a quicker and more effective solution will be to have a couple companies of Marines re-negotiate with the manufacturer until it sees the errors of its ways. The Marine engineers are especially good at "removing" obstacles.
As an engineer you also know that you take sample points for data consistently, which is not done when talkng about global warming. Most of those data points come from measuring points in cities where the termerature may indeed be rising. Not because of global temperature but because of increased thermal capacity. All the new asphalt and concrete poured in the last 20 years holds a lot of heat, some of which is radiated.
More accurate measurements would happen away from large asphalt areas, but those are the first measuring sites closed down. It was also discovered last year that the data being interpreted from ocean buoys (water temp and air temp) don't have the correlation that was assumed, so all the models that used that data have/had to be changed again.
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Groups such as this (ETC Group) do use this for personal advantage. They take this pseudo-science and use it in their fund raising.
Claims such as "Big Nano-tech doesn't want you to know they are plotting to kill every living thing on the planet!" then get sent out in fund-raising letters and they cite their own pet researcher as the hero that will expose the evil only they can stop for a contribution for $25, or we would really like $1000 to make you a gold level Hero Of The Farms.
Urgh. Ogg make fire. Fire burn Thag. Fire bad. Cold cave good.
Ogg bad. KILL OGG!
Remember the toner in your local printer or copier? It is carcinogenic. Don't breath it in.
The nano-particles would be about 3 feet across and weigh 500 pounds.
Trailers lie most of the time. Sometimes they give too much away, sometimes they don't. I don't like to read much about films I want to see because I hate spoilers.
I love the Matrix, and I've been waiting for the sequals to come out. I trust the Brothers W to not screw up my film experience with the trailer. In some ways, some things are given away. But in others, I have so many new questions I can't wait to get the answers to.
I just hope they have a midnight screening near me the night it opens, because this trailer is hot.
November is going to be a long time away...
Bye. Don't let the border smack you on the ass on the way out.
Er, you do know that there is no right to free speech in the Canada constitution, right?
Come on, fair is fair. He didn't dodge the draft by going to Canada. Keep criticism honest or it is meaningless, like the stuff below.
Japanese: Hi-tech, but also hi-tech dependant. They have a very high population density and need the hi-tech for continued survival. (Food, power, infrastructure.) In some ways they run to stay in place.
Finland: Lots of communication. Internet, cell phones, etc. Don't they get rather cold and isolated during the winter? Could this be part of it?
United State: Exploration and moving onwards. The country has been doing that since founding, but there is not much land left to explore.
I hear Jackie Chan say he only uses the stunt doubles for some scenes in his American movies because the insurance underwriters demand it. No insurance (for movie completion) no movie. The Hong Kong movies are still him. (Last I heard at least.)
Hey! We all know Al Gore invented the web... :-)
Good point. The question is what does the law say about how long until the SALE stops? Remember, once somebody has purchased the list, it may not be able to be revoked by the seller. In which case, you have to track down who it was sold too and remove yourself from their bright shiny new list.
And so on, and so on, and so on...
This comment hilights what struck me when I saw the headline here. There are two types of piracy. There are the physical pirates, who clone disks and perhaps manuals, then sell a product in a store, VAR, or bazzar.
The second type is the software exchanging type. They don't do it for money, just to use for free or just to collect.
One type sees software as something to have, the other as something to sell. Do both cause economic damage? Maybe. The sales pirate (for want of a better name yet), depending on how they move their product, is cutting into legit sales. The copy pirate may or may not buy the software if they can't get it free.
This situation is akin to the "hacker" naming problem. One set of hackers is good, the others are better called crackers, but the media can't understand the difference.
You're grasping at straws now :-) But Ivy League schools do give preference to children of graduates.
I assume you meant did, and I really doubt it. Look at this timeline from George W. Bush's bio.
Bachelor's from Yale, 1968
Fighter pilot
MBA, 1975 His father did head the CIA, but not until 1976, after he finished his MBA.
Interestingly. looking up when GHWB was head of the CIA, I found out he was involved in the assasination of JFK, and the Bay of Pigs invasion.
WTF? Could you please tell me when George H. W. Bush was the governor of Massachusets or Connecticut? Did I miss something here or are stoned out of your mind?
TWEET! L0k11, out of the gene pool for excessive stupidity.
You may not have heard about a bunch of missles which are Iraq has illegally. They were found by the "weapons inspectors." Saddam denied they existed. But he might just destroy them he said today. But they don't really exist.
You really are stupid... (oh, and you might have also missed hearing about chemical warhead shells that were found that didn't exist, too.)
Please note: This is not an ad hominum attack. It is a statement of fact.
Let me count the ways... And you did itemize some of them.
Bulk mail (i.e. junk mail) is sender paid
I get more Spam than junk mail
Junk mail isn't always trying to sell me sex. Er, ignore the Victoria's Secret catalog for a minute. That's literature
I can always find out who sent me junk mail
I get junk mail once a day. I get Spam throughout the day.
Spam clogs the internet and slows down the transfer of useful pr0n
Faked headers and bounces, etc., can lead to a lot of wasted disk space and admin time, overflow of legitimate mailboxes, etc.
Sorry, I just can't help myself...
I'm OK, you're a bit OFF
Surviving Data Loss
Recovering From the Loss of Loved Pr0n
Mommy, Do Dead Disks Go To Heaven?
Each orbit can beslightly different in terms of angle and velocity, or drastically differnt (say a polar vs. equitoria orbit.). Now the word slightly is misleading. The real difference in speed can be hundreds of feet per second up to several thousand miles per hour. Small items moving quickly (say a paint chip) moving at a relative speed of 2000 miles per hour packs a lot of kinetic energy. Enough to cause it to flash to plasma on impact, causing a flare through the material.
There were pictures shown of what that amount of energy does. The inside of a box had burns from the hole shot through it.
Depends on if it is dead or alive, I suppose.
It turns out that the relative energy of the impact causes the faster particle to turn into a plasma jet when the impact happens. It is pretty nasty.
The other problem is that any sweeper you make is going to be small compared to the size of the orbital paths with junk in them. And it takes an enormous amount of delta V to change orbit significantly.
Republicans want to starve children and take health care away from the elderly
People who drive SUVs are bad
African-Americans vote for Democrats
Whites are greedy bastards who oppress everybody else
So why is it important for survival to generalize? Imagine that a group is out trying to gather some food. One of them eats some red berries and keels over dead. The intelligent berry picker thinks, "Aha. Red berries bad. Kill Thag," and then avoids them. The non-generalizing berry picker thinks, "Thag ate bad berries. They must have been bad. But these berries are from a different bush next to those bad berries, so they are OK." Next thing you know, Ogg is taking a dirt nap with Thag.
Absurd? Not really. This is the way survival goes. Humans need to generalize in order to process the vast amounts of information available to us. Generalizations for individuals may not be valid, but over a statistical sampling, they are. (If you don't believe me, don't bother taking any medication. It gets approved via generalized studies over a test group.)
All stereotypes have some basis, either from group observations, or from a deliberatly propaganda myth. (Observation about Group X being evil because they eat live babies goes here as an exmple of a propaganda myth that gets believed.)
Interesting. I don't know what country you are from, but I don't think CDs, audio tapes, vinal albums, video tapes, or any other type of recordable meda, have been returnable since before 1980 (and probably long before that). The RIAA theory is that anything opened has been recored to tape and returning it is piracy.
At one point, all software installation disks came in a EULA sealed envelope. If that envelope was unopened, you could return the software.
That of course doesn't work in a pre-installed or downloadable software age where you have to purchase before you can get to the prize inside, er, EULA.
I think a quicker and more effective solution will be to have a couple companies of Marines re-negotiate with the manufacturer until it sees the errors of its ways. The Marine engineers are especially good at "removing" obstacles.
As an engineer you also know that you take sample points for data consistently, which is not done when talkng about global warming. Most of those data points come from measuring points in cities where the termerature may indeed be rising. Not because of global temperature but because of increased thermal capacity. All the new asphalt and concrete poured in the last 20 years holds a lot of heat, some of which is radiated.
More accurate measurements would happen away from large asphalt areas, but those are the first measuring sites closed down. It was also discovered last year that the data being interpreted from ocean buoys (water temp and air temp) don't have the correlation that was assumed, so all the models that used that data have/had to be changed again.