Yes, the British Empire went through the same thing and look how prosperous and powerful they are now.
TONY BLAIR, HEEL, SIT, PUSH WAR IN IRAQ FOR BUSH! Good Tony!
Bravo! That is EXACTLY what has happened in the past, and will happen in the future. If you don't make stuff then all you are doing is moving the wealth around.
Actually there is one, and only one, good reason to move away from plain vanilla ASCII text. Non-Roman alphabets. A perfect example of this is the untranslated Bible. The OT is in Arahmaic, the NT is in Greek.
Other than that I agree with you.
Since you do "research" could you please provide references and citations for your "facts"? I myself was relying on memory of practices that were usual in the food service industry at the time (which was the late 80' or early 90' if memory serves).
By the way, you said McDonalds coffee was 20 Deg. warmer than anywhere else. Did you get that from their ads? I know the coffee was hot. McDonalds was proud of it.
Do not answer if you cannot keep a civil tongue in your head.
1) I fail to see what machismo has to do with this. This has to do with the plaugue of unmerited lawsuits destroying this nation.
2) Standard resturaunt practice is to store the coffee at 180 Deg. F if using an urn type coffee maker. This is set by controlling the temprature of the water jacket. McDonalds was simply following an established industry wide proceedure. The proper remedy for this is legislative, not punative and judicial.
3) I personally worked for 15 years in the resturaunt buisiness. I am presently a chemist. I believe I do know of what I speak.
BTW 160 Deg. F is not several orders of magnitude cooler than 180 Deg. F.
Actually, the settelment was unjust. Coffee is prepared by passing boiling hot water (212 Deg. F or 100 Deg. C) through the grounds. Anyone who expects something different when they order coffee is wrong. The woman should have gotten nothing. And no I am not a fan of McDonalds (my family used to call them the competition).
I think that you are right. Ultimatly all communities are local and are best served by a local broadcaster. These large corporate owned stations broadcasting "National" content may have little or no relevance to a community that has a band that they all like but never hear on the radio. I am quite sure that for every Brittany Spears pushed on us by the RIAA there are a thousand local bands of greater talent who just are not "National" material. All these large corporations really do is filter out everything that they "know" we don't want to hear. Personally I lsten to NPR for the news and buy or download my music.
Sorry, I'm very INSULTED about this whole trusted computing initiative. Basicly, what Microsoft, Intel, and the media providers are saying is that I am a criminal, but I can be trusted with this CRIPPLED system. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
I've copied your partial list of corporate ethics. Another good way to list corporate ethics is to take the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule and reverse them for profit. You know...
DO UNTO OTHERS, THEN SPLIT!
Actually the cones of the eye do "see" the difference because the pigments used to detect light have different sensitivities to different wavelengths. What happens is that the light energies get averaged by the retina. Hence our little artifacts of vision.
Hey, at least it isn't like when his father was President, you know, economy in the toilet, at war with half the world, everyone and their brother is enemployed...
Wait a minute...
From what I've read the chip processes light in the same way as the retina. The mechanics of the eyeball (lenses, autofocus, all that) are already good. This is a good step not only towards photorealistic digital photography but also to true real time color vision. Should also be cheaper than current technologies once it gets rolling due to the decreased number of circuit elements nessacary to reach a certain resolution.
The sin in a sex movie is very particular and personal, and both sides are party to it. Also sex movies are a record of people actually having sexual relations with each other for money, otherwise known as prostitution
The sin in a war movie is not personal or particular, and may actually (as in the case of LOTR) be entirely on the other side. After all, there was warfare in Heaven when the Devil rebelled. Also, no one actually DIED making the LOTR.
I watched the show. I had severe problems with it. Now, I can buy the extinction of the Lion, Tiger, Leopard, Mountain Lion, Lynx, etc. in 5 million years, but Kitty Cats! NO WAY! And if domestic cats survive human dominance, and they will because we protect them, then by 5 million years from now there will be analogs of all the above mentioned creatures (though not as developed). There are other species that are equally well protected by Humans (dogs are the classic). Geneticly engineered species will tend to dissapear as they will be modified for our, not their, benefit, and may not be able to lose the modifications fast enough.
For the longer term the writers of the show seemed to ignore some basic trends in evolution, namely:
Warm blooded life tends to replace cold blooded life in the same ecological niche.
During mass extincions the bias is against large bodied and specialized forms of land life that cannot burrow into the ground. No more deer after the big rock, but lots of rats and ferrets.
Ice ages push everything towards the equator. And I do mean everything! Rocks too!
In the oceans the bias during mass extinctions is against Life that lives in shallow waters of the continental shelves. Deep water species may not notice a problem. Continental coalecence, ice age and meteor stike you say? When did that happen? There is a reason that the mix of life in the deep seas look a lot like it did 500 million years ago, and I don't think it's going to look much different in 200 million years. There will still be fish in the sea. Side note about flish, flying fish exist today. They don't flap their "wings" which are actually fins, but glide instead. Only warm-blooded creatures have the stamina to flap. No gill breathing form of life will ever be warm blooded. Their entire blood supply comes within 1 cell (That's how thick the exchange membranes are in lungs and gills) of the water they live in. They would need a nuclear reactor in their guts to keep warm.
I think I've ranted and raved enough for one day.
Actually I am against copyright in its present form. The period is just too long, the original 14 years with one 14 year extension seems to be plenty of protection for artists, note I did not say corporations, corporations should not be able to copyright anything, just as they can't patent anything.
Of course the ability to transfer the rights to a copyright or patent needs to be restricted also...
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I've got one in my garage, it's called a tablesaw. If you let it get out of alignment (or just use it wrong) it'll chuck wood faster than a woodchuck.
Yeah, but why do they have to win the Darwin Award next to me!
Yes, the British Empire went through the same thing and look how prosperous and powerful they are now. TONY BLAIR, HEEL, SIT, PUSH WAR IN IRAQ FOR BUSH! Good Tony!
Bravo! That is EXACTLY what has happened in the past, and will happen in the future. If you don't make stuff then all you are doing is moving the wealth around.
The best part of this is that these companies pay no dividends. So the workers get unemployed, and the stockholders get nothing. Who profits?
... the thing I'm afraid of is some 15 year old gets a hold of this info and hurts himself or others.
From his resume he appears to be 19 years old.
Actually there is one, and only one, good reason to move away from plain vanilla ASCII text. Non-Roman alphabets. A perfect example of this is the untranslated Bible. The OT is in Arahmaic, the NT is in Greek. Other than that I agree with you.
I had checked the reasearch. It's useless. Goodbye.
So you just insult people. Nice troll.
Since you do "research" could you please provide references and citations for your "facts"? I myself was relying on memory of practices that were usual in the food service industry at the time (which was the late 80' or early 90' if memory serves).
By the way, you said McDonalds coffee was 20 Deg. warmer than anywhere else. Did you get that from their ads? I know the coffee was hot. McDonalds was proud of it.
Do not answer if you cannot keep a civil tongue in your head.
You obviously replied in the heat of the moment.
Regarding your three points
1) I fail to see what machismo has to do with this. This has to do with the plaugue of unmerited lawsuits destroying this nation.
2) Standard resturaunt practice is to store the coffee at 180 Deg. F if using an urn type coffee maker. This is set by controlling the temprature of the water jacket. McDonalds was simply following an established industry wide proceedure. The proper remedy for this is legislative, not punative and judicial.
3) I personally worked for 15 years in the resturaunt buisiness. I am presently a chemist. I believe I do know of what I speak.
BTW 160 Deg. F is not several orders of magnitude cooler than 180 Deg. F.
God does not sue. That's Satans job.
Actually, the settelment was unjust. Coffee is prepared by passing boiling hot water (212 Deg. F or 100 Deg. C) through the grounds. Anyone who expects something different when they order coffee is wrong. The woman should have gotten nothing. And no I am not a fan of McDonalds (my family used to call them the competition).
I think that you are right. Ultimatly all communities are local and are best served by a local broadcaster. These large corporate owned stations broadcasting "National" content may have little or no relevance to a community that has a band that they all like but never hear on the radio. I am quite sure that for every Brittany Spears pushed on us by the RIAA there are a thousand local bands of greater talent who just are not "National" material. All these large corporations really do is filter out everything that they "know" we don't want to hear. Personally I lsten to NPR for the news and buy or download my music.
Congratulations, you have discovered what the SF author Theodore Sturgeon declared years ago during a SF short story writing contest at a convention.
If memory serves he said,
'Ninety percent of this stuff is CRAP!'
Sorry, I'm very INSULTED about this whole trusted computing initiative. Basicly, what Microsoft, Intel, and the media providers are saying is that I am a criminal, but I can be trusted with this CRIPPLED system. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
I've copied your partial list of corporate ethics. Another good way to list corporate ethics is to take the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule and reverse them for profit. You know... DO UNTO OTHERS, THEN SPLIT!
They did for centuries. The corporation is a 19th century invention.
Actually the cones of the eye do "see" the difference because the pigments used to detect light have different sensitivities to different wavelengths. What happens is that the light energies get averaged by the retina. Hence our little artifacts of vision.
Hey, at least it isn't like when his father was President, you know, economy in the toilet, at war with half the world, everyone and their brother is enemployed... Wait a minute...
From what I've read the chip processes light in the same way as the retina. The mechanics of the eyeball (lenses, autofocus, all that) are already good. This is a good step not only towards photorealistic digital photography but also to true real time color vision. Should also be cheaper than current technologies once it gets rolling due to the decreased number of circuit elements nessacary to reach a certain resolution.
The sin in a sex movie is very particular and personal, and both sides are party to it. Also sex movies are a record of people actually having sexual relations with each other for money, otherwise known as prostitution The sin in a war movie is not personal or particular, and may actually (as in the case of LOTR) be entirely on the other side. After all, there was warfare in Heaven when the Devil rebelled. Also, no one actually DIED making the LOTR.
Tim, Tim, Benzedrine! Boo, Hash, Valvoline! First, second, neutral, park! Hie thee hence you leafy narc!
I watched the show. I had severe problems with it. Now, I can buy the extinction of the Lion, Tiger, Leopard, Mountain Lion, Lynx, etc. in 5 million years, but Kitty Cats! NO WAY! And if domestic cats survive human dominance, and they will because we protect them, then by 5 million years from now there will be analogs of all the above mentioned creatures (though not as developed). There are other species that are equally well protected by Humans (dogs are the classic). Geneticly engineered species will tend to dissapear as they will be modified for our, not their, benefit, and may not be able to lose the modifications fast enough. For the longer term the writers of the show seemed to ignore some basic trends in evolution, namely: Warm blooded life tends to replace cold blooded life in the same ecological niche. During mass extincions the bias is against large bodied and specialized forms of land life that cannot burrow into the ground. No more deer after the big rock, but lots of rats and ferrets. Ice ages push everything towards the equator. And I do mean everything! Rocks too! In the oceans the bias during mass extinctions is against Life that lives in shallow waters of the continental shelves. Deep water species may not notice a problem. Continental coalecence, ice age and meteor stike you say? When did that happen? There is a reason that the mix of life in the deep seas look a lot like it did 500 million years ago, and I don't think it's going to look much different in 200 million years. There will still be fish in the sea. Side note about flish, flying fish exist today. They don't flap their "wings" which are actually fins, but glide instead. Only warm-blooded creatures have the stamina to flap. No gill breathing form of life will ever be warm blooded. Their entire blood supply comes within 1 cell (That's how thick the exchange membranes are in lungs and gills) of the water they live in. They would need a nuclear reactor in their guts to keep warm. I think I've ranted and raved enough for one day.
Actually I am against copyright in its present form. The period is just too long, the original 14 years with one 14 year extension seems to be plenty of protection for artists, note I did not say corporations, corporations should not be able to copyright anything, just as they can't patent anything.
Of course the ability to transfer the rights to a copyright or patent needs to be restricted also...