I thought the headline meant that a digital picture frame sitting on grandmas mantle or in a shop window would be infected with malware that causes it to suddenly and unexpectedly show pornography or something.
Write 1 hit song, get exclusive rights to it for 14 years. 13 years later, realize the gravy train is running out and you need to write another song... Sounds like incentive to me.
Wrong! It goes like this: write one hit song, get shafted by the record company contract and their creative accounting of the resultant "profit", end up owing them money by the next year
"The problem is the goverment here in the UK have recently done things that suggest the internet is an essential service like electricity, gas, water, telephone"
They are moving towards mandatory on-line filing of tax returns - does that mean we'll be able to hold off on submitting a tax return if our internet connection are cut off?
"No, but he co-wrote the screenplay, directed and co-edited..."
And most importantly, he didn't squeeze out a great steaming, big-budget t**d, as we have come to expect from studios' movie adaptations.
"Half of the threatened satellites are American owned, not half of the debris."
Yes, but the article said the test cased 20% increase in the debris.
That means that 85% of the (current total of) debris already existed, and 15% is Chinese from the test.
The rest is presumably mostly US and old Soviet Union stuff as I expect they were less careful and competent in the 60s than they are now. I believe that around 5% is natural.
So, I would guess it's something like: 20% Chinese 5% EU 35% US 35% USSR 5% Natural
Of course, the difference with the Chinese test is that it was deliberate action, whereas the others are accidental.
If god is in control of everything then why is it the most religious countries get hit with major earthquakes, flooding and tsunamis?
Well, tsunamii are when Jesus is like: "Give it here dad, you've been playing with it all day" and grabs the earth, and The Father is still holding onto it and they're jerking it back and forth. Then The Father says: "Jesus, watch your fingers, you've ripping that San Andreas fault again"
And all the time, the Holy Ghost is just sitting there quietly as usual, saying muttering it's time for the second coming as there was a lot less aggro when Jesus was on his sabatical to Earth. He probably winds down by appearing as a flying saucer in some hick town or something.
"This is not true. First the party in power has to write a law that makes it a crime to have such a name."
Or they create a blank cheque bill which would allow them in future to, e.g. imprison everyone with a surname starting with A for not longer than 2 years without all that tedious mucking about in parliament:
I wish there had been a camera at the spot where it happened
There must be lots of cases where, if a passer by had happened to be carrying a fire extinguisher with them, they could have prevented a fire and saved lives.
However, that on it's own doesn't justify a manitory fire extinguisher-carrying law.
I would be interested to know the situation when Hitler came to power. There probably were strict gun controls in place early on due to the general restrictions on German arms imposed by the League of Nations, but I don't know.
Of course, millions of people died in the first world war after some political malcontent with a gun decided to take matters into his own hands.
If you had read the original article before posting, you would have realised the above quote has nothing to do with the issue of search engines...
It was in fact disucsing Microsoft's decision to spend 12% of its ad. budget on on-line advertising.
I'm glad that companies (even Microsoft!) spend money on on-line ads as a) I automatically mentally block all such ads anyway and b) that practice helps fund "free" online stuff including Slashdot.
The original poster was misleading, as the above quote was refering to their high proportion of advertising budget going on on-line paid advertisements - completely separate from the section of the talk about search engines.
As far as I know there is no moral or legal reason why companies (even Microsoft) can't pay for advertising space on line.
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However, is this success likely to be duplicated?
No, the most likely outcome is still no money for the artist, but what's new about that?
The difference is that this business model has two outcomes in order or likelyhood:
The traditional model has three outcomes, in order or likelyhood:
I thought the headline meant that a digital picture frame sitting on grandmas mantle or in a shop window would be infected with malware that causes it to suddenly and unexpectedly show pornography or something.
Write 1 hit song, get exclusive rights to it for 14 years. 13 years later, realize the gravy train is running out and you need to write another song... Sounds like incentive to me.
Wrong! It goes like this: write one hit song, get shafted by the record company contract and their creative accounting of the resultant "profit", end up owing them money by the next year
"The problem is the goverment here in the UK have recently done things that suggest the internet is an essential service like electricity, gas, water, telephone"
They are moving towards mandatory on-line filing of tax returns - does that mean we'll be able to hold off on submitting a tax return if our internet connection are cut off?
"No, but he co-wrote the screenplay, directed and co-edited..." And most importantly, he didn't squeeze out a great steaming, big-budget t**d, as we have come to expect from studios' movie adaptations.
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"Half of the threatened satellites are American owned, not half of the debris."
Yes, but the article said the test cased 20% increase in the debris.
That means that 85% of the (current total of) debris already existed, and 15% is Chinese from the test.
The rest is presumably mostly US and old Soviet Union stuff as I expect they were less careful and competent in the 60s than they are now. I believe that around 5% is natural.
So, I would guess it's something like:
20% Chinese
5% EU
35% US
35% USSR
5% Natural
Of course, the difference with the Chinese test is that it was deliberate action, whereas the others are accidental.
Stuart
Well, given a choice between the two, I'd rather you made an unauthrorised copy of our CD than stole bits off my bike with the same value.
"If you eat like a herbivore, you'll look like one."
Sorry to put a dampener on your baseless (but compelling) rhetoric, but I'm slim/fit and I've been a herbivore for 17 years.
A show like Cops here in the UK said that joyriders are leaving random cigarette ends in the cars they steal for exactly this reason.
"This is not true. First the party in power has to write a law that makes it a crime to have such a name."
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Or they create a blank cheque bill which would allow them in future to, e.g. imprison everyone with a surname starting with A for not longer than 2 years without all that tedious mucking about in parliament:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506
Wait, I hear you cry. The ministers' use of this act has to to be proportionate!
But the oversight is as to what is proportionate is proved by - the ministers themselves!
Am I the only one to think that there are two contradictions in that sentence? If not, Ausse politics has got to be a confusing system...
I thought Jesus Christ himself was left wing?
Stuart
There must be lots of cases where, if a passer by had happened to be carrying a fire extinguisher with them, they could have prevented a fire and saved lives.
However, that on it's own doesn't justify a manitory fire extinguisher-carrying law.
But the marketing departments own the customers...
I would be interested to know the situation when Hitler came to power. There probably were strict gun controls in place early on due to the general restrictions on German arms imposed by the League of Nations, but I don't know.
Of course, millions of people died in the first world war after some political malcontent with a gun decided to take matters into his own hands.
Afganistan was awash with guns when the Taliban came to power.
Also, note that the allies often shot at church spires as they were/were thought to be used for artillery spotting.
The five person voting panel voted 57 to 3.14 in favour of getting rid of the Diebold machines...
It won't affect gas prices, it will just sidetrack some petty-minded folks away from the issue.
It's bad enough that clip of him jumping round shouting with his clothes on
It was in fact disucsing Microsoft's decision to spend 12% of its ad. budget on on-line advertising.
I'm glad that companies (even Microsoft!) spend money on on-line ads as a) I automatically mentally block all such ads anyway and b) that practice helps fund "free" online stuff including Slashdot.
The original poster was misleading, as the above quote was refering to their high proportion of advertising budget going on on-line paid advertisements - completely separate from the section of the talk about search engines.
As far as I know there is no moral or legal reason why companies (even Microsoft) can't pay for advertising space on line.