Correct! The only thing Hasbro has in common with Peanuts is in the form of a question (Is this fair use and what is the best legal response?). The answer is different. Hasbro is not in the business of selling images of their toys, and by participating they are continuing to show leverage. If someone actually started producing Hasbro TOYS/products, they would respond more like Peanuts lawyer responded. In the case of the Peanuts strip, setting the precedent of allowing your complete comic to be reproduced with no control over the words, the lawyer would be negligent to allow the easement. If I was running something like the twitterpeanuts, it might occur to me to ASK permission, which would have generated a "nicer" letter (probably still saying no, but who knows).
Hate to break this to everyone, but I don't spend much time looking at other people's avatars. If someone plays this at me, once the novelty wears off, I'll find something else to look at on the dual screen. Interesting question is how much video is actually people looking at themselves rather than looking at the person they are conversing with. Mirrors outsell sock puppets.
Therefore, my advice is, put your finger into a light socket. The fact I did dumb things precedes my luck, so now I can give dumb advice from experience.
It's the cheaper boards and components that fail, not the CRT tubes themselves. As they go down-market, they are no longer made with "solid state" boards.
(Cracks knuckles).... First, the CRTs themselves last a long time (and apparently survive heat waves better). More recently, many of the CRT TV are assembled with cheaper tuner boards and speakers, etc., are not "solid state". The failure to last longer was not the cathode ray tube's fault, and most CRTs exported are rebuilt with a new board (see article on exports of used CRT tubes http://tinyurl.com/5wz37u2). So while the Cathode Ray Tubes themselves last much longer than the LCDs fluorescent lamps (don't know about LED), as the CRT market went downscale, quality suffered, and e-waste may increase if we are not allowed to re-export them to have those tunerboards replaced (the same factories which assembled them buy them back, but that's increasingly illegal because Americans assume the factories are paying $10 apiece and then burning them).
What is incredible at our Vermont "e-waste" recycling plant are the number of flat TVs coming in with a small impact crack in the corner. They are called "Wii Screens" by the staff. Apparently, people "bowling" and doing other arcade stuff on the games tend to forget to attach the wrist strap. So the E-Waste jury is still out - the CRT TVs are heavier, but if they have solid state boards will last longer, and they deflect flying plastic "ewaste" satellite gadgets.
So regarding TFA, the moral is that the "ewaste" volume is not going down, but the "ewaste" export we were worried about was not as bad as we thought it was in the first place.
Finally, if the CEA and industry was really concerned, they'd make the LCDs so you could replace the LCD and the fluorescent lamps. The LCD screens appear to us to be designed to make that virtually impossible.
If I flip a coin 24 times, and 22 times it comes up heads, that is indeed statically relevant. (No I did not RTFA, as I hate 3D and openly advocate for anything that diminishes it. I'm a biased sample, who might report a headache, which would back up your point above).
"Quasar Springs, all natural reverse-spring water. Our time reversal process uses the natural opposite of springs to bring crisp taste to your table, fresh from not being inside a black hole yet, and at under 99 quadrillion bitcoins per serving."
Discoveries which are economically exploitable (like the discovery of North America) tend to generate more interest. Also and also to be ruined. We'd find some way to spill something into the ocean nebula.
Damn it, NONE of us in the USA are in any mood to talk about heating our damn houses or buildings. It's 45 degrees centigrade. Can't we just save this discussion for a couple of months. It's not like a new idea or anything.
Interestingly, the bedoins of Saudi Arabia really are the equivalent of "Ozark Hillbilly" in Muslim history. The most backward and least educated of Islamic culture, by sheer luck, struck the oil (but did not move to Beverly). American images of Islam are, in a way, as inaccurate as if Jethro Clampett were the popular image of Western Culture. If the Beverly Hillbillies really had struck billion dollar oil, we'd probably be dealing with Jihadist Pentacostals. Osama Bin Laden with corncob pipe. And the Buffalo River, twisted into the name "JED", would be visible from space.
With the rapid growth of the internet, and free hi-def porn, males will increasingly re-interpret Onan and his 'seed' in Genesis 38:9-10. At least, I give the porn industry as much of a chance of solving this as Al Gore. You do have to give Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter credit for both having one-child and making it ok for men to lust in our hearts at babes.
I read on a cave wall somewhere that it was one particular, and really hot, Neanderthal chick, "Loose Lucy", who the Neanderthal gene dates back to. Her kids really got around.
So, evidently, Sydney has too many secured wifi points, right? 2.6% unsecured is less than the percentage of people with no financial information or anything interesting enough to steal... grandparents who don't do banking online are buying wireless laptops. Possibly, 2.6% of Sydney wifi administrators are confident of their ability to monitor access to their networks. If the ISPs take over the anti-virus implementation, as they are starting to do in the USA, the only problem would be lost business to the ISPs.
Actually, I just watched the video, and it's related to the story. The "doomsday asteroid" video is mostly an interview with NASA Senior Scientist Joseph A. Nuth III. When Discovery questions him about strategies for the 1/45,000 chance of an asteroid hitting the earth in calendar year 2029. When asked about real strategies for dealing with an impending asteroid impact, Nuth explains that a lack of data or record of observation of the asteroid belt makes strategies rather futile. Whether to paint it to use solar reflection power, or blowing it up, etc., requires closer observation of the asteroid belt... which is background justification for Vesta's trip to the asteroid belt.
As for "juxtaposition", the story appears in July, the seventh month of the year. According to dictionary.com, the seventh month of the "civil year" is also called the "Nisan" or "Nissan" (from the Asyrian calendar) So this article is about the Nissan Vesta.
A- I notice that the lines seem to be moving a little bit faster. I like that.
B- I assume that the security is a deterrent to at least some terrorist wannabes. (Fire extinguishers do not deter or scare away fires).
C- Privacy? Mandatory showers after PE class in 7th grade, perhaps, inured me to TSA scanners. Since they started scanning, how many instances of humiliation have occurred, and how does the risk compare to use of public urinals?
D- I share the suspicions of wastefulness and lobbies, but the economics may balance between making lines move quickly and making planes less attractive targets. The cost of flying would be higher if fewer people flew because they were afraid, or if planes blew up. I haven't done the economic analysis, but presume someone working for the airlines probably has, and doubt the scanner lobbies are stronger than airline lobbies.
E- If I'm at a significant risk of cancer or something, that could be a deal breaker.
F- Thinking outside the box, couldn't they genetically engineer or breed bees to be attracted to terrorists or explosive odors, and place the hives outside of the airport? Ones with frickin' lasers strapped to their heads? That might more efficiently deter terrorist wannabes (B). http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/1925241/Scientists-Breeding-Super-Bees
I work internationally with many repairers, refurbishers, and geeks of many tongues and languages. They are respected in their societies in a way that is more like we respect doctors.
"Bad programmers get fired, and do not continue to have reputations as programmers once they are taxi drivers 20 years later". Programmers who don't get fired, after years and years, have more respect. The same curve would show up with race car drivers and bagel bakers. People in their 20s outnumber other new applicants, and as someone who hires a lot of people, most applicants are not qualified to begin with. I'm a budding codger, but sorry guys, this is data trickery.
Rather than actually doing it, couldn't we just auction the interstellar bandwidth to Google, Verizon, ATT, Sprint, etc.? Then we'd close the federal deficit! Centuries from now, they'd make the money back on roaming charges. We've been passing the buck to our kids, time to exploit the great-great-great-grandkids.
Correct. Not that over-prescription of antidepressants isn't also a problem. But it's basically just an alternative to self-medication (alcohol) used for the same reasons in other nations.
Along with "Polaroid", they have another "Manufacturer", called "Amazon", to contract assembly with. I can't wait to get the "Aunt Jemima", "Uncle Ben's" or "Cap'n Crunch" kindle.
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Correct! The only thing Hasbro has in common with Peanuts is in the form of a question (Is this fair use and what is the best legal response?). The answer is different. Hasbro is not in the business of selling images of their toys, and by participating they are continuing to show leverage. If someone actually started producing Hasbro TOYS/products, they would respond more like Peanuts lawyer responded. In the case of the Peanuts strip, setting the precedent of allowing your complete comic to be reproduced with no control over the words, the lawyer would be negligent to allow the easement. If I was running something like the twitterpeanuts, it might occur to me to ASK permission, which would have generated a "nicer" letter (probably still saying no, but who knows).
Hate to break this to everyone, but I don't spend much time looking at other people's avatars. If someone plays this at me, once the novelty wears off, I'll find something else to look at on the dual screen. Interesting question is how much video is actually people looking at themselves rather than looking at the person they are conversing with. Mirrors outsell sock puppets.
Therefore, my advice is, put your finger into a light socket. The fact I did dumb things precedes my luck, so now I can give dumb advice from experience.
The hypno-toad always wins.
It's the cheaper boards and components that fail, not the CRT tubes themselves. As they go down-market, they are no longer made with "solid state" boards.
(Cracks knuckles).... First, the CRTs themselves last a long time (and apparently survive heat waves better). More recently, many of the CRT TV are assembled with cheaper tuner boards and speakers, etc., are not "solid state". The failure to last longer was not the cathode ray tube's fault, and most CRTs exported are rebuilt with a new board (see article on exports of used CRT tubes http://tinyurl.com/5wz37u2). So while the Cathode Ray Tubes themselves last much longer than the LCDs fluorescent lamps (don't know about LED), as the CRT market went downscale, quality suffered, and e-waste may increase if we are not allowed to re-export them to have those tunerboards replaced (the same factories which assembled them buy them back, but that's increasingly illegal because Americans assume the factories are paying $10 apiece and then burning them).
What is incredible at our Vermont "e-waste" recycling plant are the number of flat TVs coming in with a small impact crack in the corner. They are called "Wii Screens" by the staff. Apparently, people "bowling" and doing other arcade stuff on the games tend to forget to attach the wrist strap. So the E-Waste jury is still out - the CRT TVs are heavier, but if they have solid state boards will last longer, and they deflect flying plastic "ewaste" satellite gadgets.
So regarding TFA, the moral is that the "ewaste" volume is not going down, but the "ewaste" export we were worried about was not as bad as we thought it was in the first place.
Finally, if the CEA and industry was really concerned, they'd make the LCDs so you could replace the LCD and the fluorescent lamps. The LCD screens appear to us to be designed to make that virtually impossible.
"Train stopped ahead of your train involved." Braking, more relevant than lighting.
If I flip a coin 24 times, and 22 times it comes up heads, that is indeed statically relevant. (No I did not RTFA, as I hate 3D and openly advocate for anything that diminishes it. I'm a biased sample, who might report a headache, which would back up your point above).
YES!! I knew 3d was bad, the minute I laid eyes upon it
"Quasar Springs, all natural reverse-spring water. Our time reversal process uses the natural opposite of springs to bring crisp taste to your table, fresh from not being inside a black hole yet, and at under 99 quadrillion bitcoins per serving."
Discoveries which are economically exploitable (like the discovery of North America) tend to generate more interest. Also and also to be ruined. We'd find some way to spill something into the ocean nebula.
Damn it, NONE of us in the USA are in any mood to talk about heating our damn houses or buildings. It's 45 degrees centigrade. Can't we just save this discussion for a couple of months. It's not like a new idea or anything.
Interestingly, the bedoins of Saudi Arabia really are the equivalent of "Ozark Hillbilly" in Muslim history. The most backward and least educated of Islamic culture, by sheer luck, struck the oil (but did not move to Beverly). American images of Islam are, in a way, as inaccurate as if Jethro Clampett were the popular image of Western Culture. If the Beverly Hillbillies really had struck billion dollar oil, we'd probably be dealing with Jihadist Pentacostals. Osama Bin Laden with corncob pipe. And the Buffalo River, twisted into the name "JED", would be visible from space.
With the rapid growth of the internet, and free hi-def porn, males will increasingly re-interpret Onan and his 'seed' in Genesis 38:9-10. At least, I give the porn industry as much of a chance of solving this as Al Gore. You do have to give Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter credit for both having one-child and making it ok for men to lust in our hearts at babes.
That's the temperature I calculated a Kindle will melt at.
I read on a cave wall somewhere that it was one particular, and really hot, Neanderthal chick, "Loose Lucy", who the Neanderthal gene dates back to. Her kids really got around.
As Whitey Bulger proved, it's not who you are, in Massachusetts, it's who you know. And now, who you look like.
So, evidently, Sydney has too many secured wifi points, right? 2.6% unsecured is less than the percentage of people with no financial information or anything interesting enough to steal... grandparents who don't do banking online are buying wireless laptops. Possibly, 2.6% of Sydney wifi administrators are confident of their ability to monitor access to their networks. If the ISPs take over the anti-virus implementation, as they are starting to do in the USA, the only problem would be lost business to the ISPs.
Hmmm.
Actually, I just watched the video, and it's related to the story. The "doomsday asteroid" video is mostly an interview with NASA Senior Scientist Joseph A. Nuth III. When Discovery questions him about strategies for the 1/45,000 chance of an asteroid hitting the earth in calendar year 2029. When asked about real strategies for dealing with an impending asteroid impact, Nuth explains that a lack of data or record of observation of the asteroid belt makes strategies rather futile. Whether to paint it to use solar reflection power, or blowing it up, etc., requires closer observation of the asteroid belt... which is background justification for Vesta's trip to the asteroid belt.
As for "juxtaposition", the story appears in July, the seventh month of the year. According to dictionary.com, the seventh month of the "civil year" is also called the "Nisan" or "Nissan" (from the Asyrian calendar) So this article is about the Nissan Vesta.
A- I notice that the lines seem to be moving a little bit faster. I like that.
B- I assume that the security is a deterrent to at least some terrorist wannabes. (Fire extinguishers do not deter or scare away fires).
C- Privacy? Mandatory showers after PE class in 7th grade, perhaps, inured me to TSA scanners. Since they started scanning, how many instances of humiliation have occurred, and how does the risk compare to use of public urinals?
D- I share the suspicions of wastefulness and lobbies, but the economics may balance between making lines move quickly and making planes less attractive targets. The cost of flying would be higher if fewer people flew because they were afraid, or if planes blew up. I haven't done the economic analysis, but presume someone working for the airlines probably has, and doubt the scanner lobbies are stronger than airline lobbies.
E- If I'm at a significant risk of cancer or something, that could be a deal breaker.
F- Thinking outside the box, couldn't they genetically engineer or breed bees to be attracted to terrorists or explosive odors, and place the hives outside of the airport? Ones with frickin' lasers strapped to their heads? That might more efficiently deter terrorist wannabes (B). http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/1925241/Scientists-Breeding-Super-Bees
I work internationally with many repairers, refurbishers, and geeks of many tongues and languages. They are respected in their societies in a way that is more like we respect doctors.
"Bad programmers get fired, and do not continue to have reputations as programmers once they are taxi drivers 20 years later". Programmers who don't get fired, after years and years, have more respect. The same curve would show up with race car drivers and bagel bakers. People in their 20s outnumber other new applicants, and as someone who hires a lot of people, most applicants are not qualified to begin with. I'm a budding codger, but sorry guys, this is data trickery.
Missing citation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_auction
Rather than actually doing it, couldn't we just auction the interstellar bandwidth to Google, Verizon, ATT, Sprint, etc.? Then we'd close the federal deficit! Centuries from now, they'd make the money back on roaming charges. We've been passing the buck to our kids, time to exploit the great-great-great-grandkids.
Correct. Not that over-prescription of antidepressants isn't also a problem. But it's basically just an alternative to self-medication (alcohol) used for the same reasons in other nations.
Along with "Polaroid", they have another "Manufacturer", called "Amazon", to contract assembly with. I can't wait to get the "Aunt Jemima", "Uncle Ben's" or "Cap'n Crunch" kindle.