So?
So if you can't get enough people to go to the museum, that museum probably won't be sustainable for very long. Either that or make it pretty expensive to go to the museum, which is a surefire way to turn away potential patrons/customers.
Most non-scientists don't go to museums because they want to learn what an RNA hairpin structure is, or to read up on the latest advances in quantum physics...they go to see something cool like some tool used by cavemen or a huge ass dinosaur skeleton. They may not learn stuff like how to draw carbon bonding to oxygen, but they do come away with more knowledge they came in with. The general public is more interested in their physical experience at the museum - where they can say "wow I just saw this new painting/fish/mummy and it was really incredible" not "hey I went to XYZ museum and learned the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle!" Maybe this type of a museum has it's place, but most likely will not draw the huge crowds that most popular museums like the Smithsonian or American Museum of Natural History do.
Are we going to witness the Crusher/Picard relationship? Are we going to see Wesley's birth? Hey Wil, I know you're out there...any part in this for you?
Ok which is worse - A US worker losses his job, goes on unemployment and has to depend on his wife's inadaquate job to try to make ends meet.
Or B, the US worker keeps his job and is happy. Meanwhile, instead of having a job at below the US minimum wage building cars, a man in the third world has to depend on his children and wife working or begging in order to avoid going hungry.
Why don't you ask the person that lost his job and has to go on unemployment, collecting a fraction of his previous salary? I'm sure his wife and kids have an opinion too. The one that is worse is the one that causes problems for you, your family, your friends, and your country. Yes it sucks that people in underdeveloped countries live the way they do. I do feel bad for them and believe they are treated very unfairly by their employers, governments, etc. However if it's a choice between my employment or theirs, I'm going to choose me. It's called self preservation.
Are you saying that if you were laid off due to offshoring, that you would be happy about it because it helps a family in India or China? I'm sure your family would disagree with that view of the situation. "Guess what hun! I just got laid off, but it's ok because Mr Patel in Bombay has my job and he can afford a house and servants now! Isn't life wonderful?"
It's easy to take the moral high ground on a position when it doesn't affect you directly.
I'm assuming you have at least one mac or pc. If you bought a mac or pc in the last 3-5 years, it came with a CD burner. I have not seen any major computer manufacturer recently make a pc without a CD burner, or at least offer one as a "free upgrade" or whatever. With a mac you don't have a choice, they just give you one. What you are trying to do is find an extremely unlikely argument that DRM should not be used at all, probably so you can do something illegal in its absence.
Let me ask, how do you make your Linux installation CDs? Do you download it onto each machine you want to install it on? What's that? You have a CD Burner?
Um...no you don't get it. I don't know where you get off saying the American people want Islam outlawed just because most are Christian. I don't see anything close to a majority here pushing to outlaw Islam.
OTOH, there is this thing called democracy...and if the majority says something should be legal or illegal, then so be it! If the majority wanted Islam outlawed, then let it be outlawed. That's not "tyranny", that's "most people want this, so that's what we get." If you don't like it, then leave! No American completely agrees with every law, etc so we either accept the fact that the majority differs on a particular rule, or we exercise our freedom of speech to influence the majority to change their minds.
So then if not the majority, who else should determine the morality or law of the country - you? Now that is tyranny...
...but they may be more interested in the coders. If they were to merge, I'm sure the people who develop google will also be handed work on Microsoft.com, maybe even new versions of Windows, IE, and Office. Bill sees the creativity and skill of Google's employees and would surely want some of that in Microsoft products.
Think of it - it's just one more way to get the public talking about it even more, increasing its popularity. I wonder if this is as much of a marketing ploy as is "leaked info" about video cards a week before market, etc. Does anybody out there track the sales of hardware/software where some supposed trade secret or other info is leaked before the product hits stores? It would be interesting to see how the leaked information affects sales compared to competing products.
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Yeah, and Doom 3 comes out this summer!
So? So if you can't get enough people to go to the museum, that museum probably won't be sustainable for very long. Either that or make it pretty expensive to go to the museum, which is a surefire way to turn away potential patrons/customers.
Most non-scientists don't go to museums because they want to learn what an RNA hairpin structure is, or to read up on the latest advances in quantum physics...they go to see something cool like some tool used by cavemen or a huge ass dinosaur skeleton. They may not learn stuff like how to draw carbon bonding to oxygen, but they do come away with more knowledge they came in with. The general public is more interested in their physical experience at the museum - where they can say "wow I just saw this new painting/fish/mummy and it was really incredible" not "hey I went to XYZ museum and learned the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle!" Maybe this type of a museum has it's place, but most likely will not draw the huge crowds that most popular museums like the Smithsonian or American Museum of Natural History do.
Are we going to witness the Crusher/Picard relationship? Are we going to see Wesley's birth? Hey Wil, I know you're out there...any part in this for you?
Ok which is worse - A US worker losses his job, goes on unemployment and has to depend on his wife's inadaquate job to try to make ends meet.
Or B, the US worker keeps his job and is happy. Meanwhile, instead of having a job at below the US minimum wage building cars, a man in the third world has to depend on his children and wife working or begging in order to avoid going hungry.
Why don't you ask the person that lost his job and has to go on unemployment, collecting a fraction of his previous salary? I'm sure his wife and kids have an opinion too. The one that is worse is the one that causes problems for you, your family, your friends, and your country. Yes it sucks that people in underdeveloped countries live the way they do. I do feel bad for them and believe they are treated very unfairly by their employers, governments, etc. However if it's a choice between my employment or theirs, I'm going to choose me. It's called self preservation. Are you saying that if you were laid off due to offshoring, that you would be happy about it because it helps a family in India or China? I'm sure your family would disagree with that view of the situation. "Guess what hun! I just got laid off, but it's ok because Mr Patel in Bombay has my job and he can afford a house and servants now! Isn't life wonderful?"
It's easy to take the moral high ground on a position when it doesn't affect you directly.
I'd like to add to this list any Rush album, especially "2112" or "Hemispheres"
I'm assuming you have at least one mac or pc. If you bought a mac or pc in the last 3-5 years, it came with a CD burner. I have not seen any major computer manufacturer recently make a pc without a CD burner, or at least offer one as a "free upgrade" or whatever. With a mac you don't have a choice, they just give you one. What you are trying to do is find an extremely unlikely argument that DRM should not be used at all, probably so you can do something illegal in its absence.
Let me ask, how do you make your Linux installation CDs? Do you download it onto each machine you want to install it on? What's that? You have a CD Burner?
I had no idea penguins had balls!
dude...paper beats rock...
Show me 11 billion from spam and I'll show you a guy with a 4 foot long penis.
Well, don't you think I should cut off the extra foot and a half before you start showing me off?
Um...no you don't get it. I don't know where you get off saying the American people want Islam outlawed just because most are Christian. I don't see anything close to a majority here pushing to outlaw Islam.
OTOH, there is this thing called democracy...and if the majority says something should be legal or illegal, then so be it! If the majority wanted Islam outlawed, then let it be outlawed. That's not "tyranny", that's "most people want this, so that's what we get." If you don't like it, then leave! No American completely agrees with every law, etc so we either accept the fact that the majority differs on a particular rule, or we exercise our freedom of speech to influence the majority to change their minds.
So then if not the majority, who else should determine the morality or law of the country - you? Now that is tyranny...
I wonder what a beowulf cluster smells like...
...I know of another theme park that should go for a decent price... Neverland Valley - Michael Jackson's Kingdom of Dreams and Magic
All your movies are belong to us.
...they don't beat the pictures of Uranus!
...the Mystery Mesons study YOU!!!!!
1) Forget to renew domain
2) Let someone else renew it for you
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!
...how many Libraries of Con...um, oh ok nevermind...
a beowulf cluster of these!
...but they may be more interested in the coders. If they were to merge, I'm sure the people who develop google will also be handed work on Microsoft.com, maybe even new versions of Windows, IE, and Office. Bill sees the creativity and skill of Google's employees and would surely want some of that in Microsoft products.
...how many Libraries of Congress is that?
Think of it - it's just one more way to get the public talking about it even more, increasing its popularity. I wonder if this is as much of a marketing ploy as is "leaked info" about video cards a week before market, etc. Does anybody out there track the sales of hardware/software where some supposed trade secret or other info is leaked before the product hits stores? It would be interesting to see how the leaked information affects sales compared to competing products.
...ptorrone, what say you of your precious segway now?
don't they know that nobody tells a pirate what do to!!! Especially when it be talk like a pirate day!!! Arr...
...the Porsche drives YOU!!!