Japan is the perfect example of an entire country utilizing a completely different business model. First and foremost, "piracy" is deeply embedded into the cultural fabric of the country. By way of example, in 2012, Japan had 3 albums & 3 singles go platinum and 8 albums & 8 singles go gold.
As a result, the entire music industry revolves around concerts and merchandise. Albums are a footnote; a marketing tool, not a profit center.
Second, Japan is the perfect example of generic genres. J-Pop groups are manufactured from start to finish and tightly controlled by corporate handlers.
It's no surprise that Iron Maiden is rolling in dough by focusing on concert tickets and t-shirts, instead of obsessing about marketing campaigns and album sales.
You mean the "Plan B" that had absolutely no Republican input (they were locked out of the committee rooms)
Plan A was a single payer system. The most generous way to describe the Republican position on Plan B (the individual mandate) is that they were for it before they were against it.
The entire ACA/ObamaCare was/is/and will be a DEMOCRAT/LIBERAL caused problem! Republicans/Conservatives had NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!
You can have your own opinion, but you can't have your own facts. The legislative and ideological history of the law is out there for you to read. You must have slept through a year of headlines and negotiations to have such a poor grasp of the what happened with the law.
Wolf Blitzer: Congressman [Ron Paul], are you saying that society should just let him die? Audience: Yeah! Ron Paul: No. Audience: YEAH! Audience:::laughter:: Ron Paul: I practiced medicine, ummm, before we had medicaid in the early 1960s, when I got out of medical school. I practiced in Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio and the churches took care of them.
The audience members didn't have to dissemble like Ron Paul did.
Between these two sets of functionality, I think the submitter should be able to full automate his workflow. If you want someone to actually set it up for you... that's what starving grad students are for
Sorry, but no. Car companies don't just do recalls. Like all other companies, they first calculate the cost of potential lawsuits vs. the cost of a recall. Then if the cost of the potential lawsuits outweigh the cost of a recall, they'll do the recall.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration can force a recall. Their record of forcing recalls is *spotty, but it happens every once in a while.
*Spotty because first they ask a company to recall the vehicle(s) and sometimes the company says "no," then the NTSA doesn't make them.
While I respect everything Schneier has accomplished, I'd go with Snowden's appraisal of the NSA's (in)ability to crack certain forms of encryption.
Snowden is obviously not going to write a how-to for us, but it's been reported multiple times that he's using layers of encryption. If it's possible for Snowden to craft something the NSA can't break, then it's possible for Schneier too.
Massive currency volatility makes long term business planning impossible. Unless bitcoin settles down, it'll never become a viable mainstream alternative.
Our enemies are laughing their asses off, and using the damage Snowden caused to defeat us and roll back our influence all over the world, at every turn.
Our enemies? Our allies are furious at us. There's been widespread public outrage amongst our closest allies.
Then, when it turned out we were spying on the UN and various heads of state, the governments (which had been mostly quiet) became furious with us as well.
That said, I'd be interested in hearing more about which enemies are using Snowden's information against the USA and how they're doing so.
There are companies you can hire to screen your calls. All your calls are forwarded to them and they'll answer the phone. You give them instructions on how to handle your calls and they'll only pass through the calls that you want.
I imagine battery performance would be seriously hurt by the cold as well. I don't know how bad NiMH and Li-ion drop off in cold, maybe not as much as lead acid but still quite a lot I imagine, being how chemistry works... Get a big battery blanket, I guess.
The battery packs all have built-in heaters. The power draw for heating the battery means less range, but your battery's life/performance is more or less safe.
Because the story more or less proves (inspite of its hate mongering) that Viable wind and viable Solar can spring up with out Government picking winners.
There are at least 12 companies working on Micro and Mini Nuclear plants, some of which can be trucked to a city, set into semi-buried location and trucked out again when their fuel or life is exhausted.
12 companies? Let's see who they are! Small (25 MWe up) reactors operating
but the free-marketeers can never resist the fact that 'dumping' is another word for "Crazy low prices, right now!"
What you're describing are not "free marketeers," they're somewhere between free market anarchists and laissez faire advocates
Actual free markets (according to the textbook definition) require competition. Chinese dumping is an anti-competitive act because its end goal is the elimination of a free market.
I'm not jumpy about dumping because of nationalism or nativism, but because I have a basic comprehension of what healthy and competitive markets need to work in the real world.
It matters not what the USA and Europe do, our populations will be overwhelmed by China and India's use of coal in that time.
China is closing coal plants and building nuclear power plants like there's no tomorrow. I have no idea what India is doing, but I imagine they'll do the same once their local pollution reaches Chinese levels.
My primary complaint is that people who talk about renewables simply are working from emotion and not from numbers and math. The math is not on renewables side, I'm sorry to say.
[Citation Needed] The price for solar has been dropping steadily and the efficiency of solar cells has been increasing steadily. So what if it takes another 15 years for solar to reach the 'correct' price point? Once we get there, it'll change the way power is used and distributed across the country.
The problem with subsidizing Solar manufacturing is that you can't ever compete with China. Effectively, companies like Solyndra feed off the funding and quickly fold leaving an empty husk in the process. This is the "choosing winers and losers" that Republicans don't like. It simply isn't fair.
China was dumping solar panels onto the world market. Not fair indeed.
Now subsidizing Solar ENERGY, now that I can get onboard with
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "subsidizing Solar ENERGY," Do you think it's more cost efficient to subsidize the purchase price of expensive solar panels, or more effective to subsidize research into better & cheaper solar panels?
It has nothing to do with picking winners and losers. It never did.
It's always been about entrenched interests maintaining the status quo. Interestingly, the entrenched interests in this case aren't gas/oil companies, they already started diversifying years ago, it's the power utilities who are resistant to the change.
Remind me... how many Republican's voted for this monstrosity of a law which is forcing people to lose their health insurance plans and pay even more out of pocket for the replacements? Right... ZERO.
Don't blame the Republicans when the liberals couldn't come up with enough votes to implement single payer.
How rich. The initial healthcare proposal was single payer and Republicans hated it so much that they effectively brought Congress business to a halt. The mess we're all dealing with now is a result of the President's repeated compromises with Republicans, none of whom ended up voting for the law anyways.
You have to be deaf dumb and blind to not have noticed the pattern of Republicans crying that Obama isn't negotiating with them, then, when he negotiates, they water down the ideas and refuse to vote on it anyways, with some filibusters thrown in for good measure.
The primary downside the US GPS system is that it limits high precision navigation to military purposes. For anything not needing to be super precise, GPS works just fine.
Anyone can get extremely high precision GPS (sub-inch) with off the shelf hardware. You just not going to be using low cost consumer grade hardware and you need a fixed base station.
One of the things I read is that it took centuries.
The British Empire fell apart in decades, not centuries. My point being that the pace of these types of changes has significantly accelerated. Anyone that thinks America's hegemony can or will linger for centuries is delirious.
Perhaps in a few hundred years my descendants in North America will live like characters from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
15 The FISC and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ("Court of Review") only have jurisdiction to hear petitions by the Government or recipient of the FISC Order, and neither party to the order represents EPIC's interests. Other federal courts have no jurisdiction over the FISC, and thus cannot grant the relief that EPIC seeks.
The only people that can appeal the order are the Feds and the people that the feds are ordering around. EPIC, despite having their metadata vacuumed up, have no standing under the law to appeal to the FISA court.
It's easy for you and others to say "[Epic] didn't follow the proper appeals process" but AFAIK none of you have actually elucidated what the proper appeals process is under the law.
EPIC has, with citations, laid out their case, starting on Page 14 (PDF) "Nuh uh" isn't an insightful or interesting rebuttal.
like, what the flying fucktonmeister fuck? why do you think it would be exempt from the "don't tell the victim of surveillance" rules because it's a metatag?
Because laws are rarely written to cover every variation that could possibly circumvent them. People regularly take advantage of this until legislation is written to patch the loopholes.
There might be less wiggle room because "national security," but there is undoubtedly room to maneuver. And as TFA mentioned, the issue of government compelled speech is much thornier than government compelled silence. I'd love to see the Supreme Court argument on why the government can compel you to continue digitally signing a certificate that says the government is not spying on you (even when they really are).
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Japan is the perfect example of an entire country utilizing a completely different business model.
First and foremost, "piracy" is deeply embedded into the cultural fabric of the country.
By way of example, in 2012, Japan had 3 albums & 3 singles go platinum and 8 albums & 8 singles go gold.
As a result, the entire music industry revolves around concerts and merchandise.
Albums are a footnote; a marketing tool, not a profit center.
Second, Japan is the perfect example of generic genres.
J-Pop groups are manufactured from start to finish and tightly controlled by corporate handlers.
It's no surprise that Iron Maiden is rolling in dough by focusing on concert tickets and t-shirts,
instead of obsessing about marketing campaigns and album sales.
also, don't use Google, since they can always watch your referer tags and see 3/4 of your pages that way.
It's trivial to spoof or remove referrer tags, but you'll discover it breaks some websites in interesting ways.
You mean the "Plan B" that had absolutely no Republican input (they were locked out of the committee rooms)
Plan A was a single payer system.
The most generous way to describe the Republican position on Plan B (the individual mandate) is that they were for it before they were against it.
Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans October 1, 1989
http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/assuring-affordable-health-care-for-all-americans
Obamacare's hidden parentage
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/10/daily-chart-1
Timeline of the health care law
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/28/politics/supreme-court-health-timeline
A healthcare history lesson for the GOP
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/15/opinion/la-oe-mansbridge-obamacare-democrats-single-payer-20131015
The entire ACA/ObamaCare was/is/and will be a DEMOCRAT/LIBERAL caused problem! Republicans/Conservatives had NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!
You can have your own opinion, but you can't have your own facts.
The legislative and ideological history of the law is out there for you to read.
You must have slept through a year of headlines and negotiations to have such a poor grasp of the what happened with the law.
I do not think a civilized person can think "let them die in the streets" to be an option.
CNN's 2012 GOP Presidential Debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yva0VSN1_T4&t=41s
Wolf Blitzer: Congressman [Ron Paul], are you saying that society should just let him die? ::laughter::
Audience: Yeah!
Ron Paul: No.
Audience: YEAH!
Audience:
Ron Paul: I practiced medicine, ummm, before we had medicaid in the early 1960s, when I got out of medical school.
I practiced in Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio and the churches took care of them.
The audience members didn't have to dissemble like Ron Paul did.
You know how we could have avoided all this mess?
Single-payer health care.
Instead we're implementing a Plan B that Republicans have been actively working against at both the State and Federal levels.
https://aws.amazon.com/datapipeline/
https://aws.amazon.com/swf/
Between these two sets of functionality, I think the submitter should be able to full automate his workflow.
If you want someone to actually set it up for you... that's what starving grad students are for
the world's marine shipping industry would fight like dogs to give you their money if you could paint this stuff on...
There's two ways to do it:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_ion_etching
2. Pulsed lasers
AFAIK, this only works on silicon, which doesn't strike me as something that's durable enough for marine applications.
Sorry, but no. Car companies don't just do recalls. Like all other companies, they first calculate the cost of potential lawsuits vs. the cost of a recall. Then if the cost of the potential lawsuits outweigh the cost of a recall, they'll do the recall.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration can force a recall.
Their record of forcing recalls is *spotty, but it happens every once in a while.
*Spotty because first they ask a company to recall the vehicle(s) and sometimes the company says "no," then the NTSA doesn't make them.
Schneier is right,
Snowden was working hand in glove with the NSA.
While I respect everything Schneier has accomplished,
I'd go with Snowden's appraisal of the NSA's (in)ability to crack certain forms of encryption.
Snowden is obviously not going to write a how-to for us,
but it's been reported multiple times that he's using layers of encryption.
If it's possible for Snowden to craft something the NSA can't break, then it's possible for Schneier too.
Massive currency volatility makes long term business planning impossible.
Unless bitcoin settles down, it'll never become a viable mainstream alternative.
Our enemies are laughing their asses off, and using the damage Snowden caused to defeat us and roll back our influence all over the world, at every turn.
Our enemies? Our allies are furious at us.
There's been widespread public outrage amongst our closest allies.
Then, when it turned out we were spying on the UN and various heads of state,
the governments (which had been mostly quiet) became furious with us as well.
That said, I'd be interested in hearing more about which enemies are using Snowden's information against the USA and how they're doing so.
There are companies you can hire to screen your calls.
All your calls are forwarded to them and they'll answer the phone.
You give them instructions on how to handle your calls and they'll only pass through the calls that you want.
I imagine battery performance would be seriously hurt by the cold as well. I don't know how bad NiMH and Li-ion drop off in cold, maybe not as much as lead acid but still quite a lot I imagine, being how chemistry works... Get a big battery blanket, I guess.
The battery packs all have built-in heaters.
The power draw for heating the battery means less range, but your battery's life/performance is more or less safe.
Fast, cheap, long range.
Pick two.
Because the story more or less proves (inspite of its hate mongering) that Viable wind and viable Solar can spring up with out Government picking winners.
There are at least 12 companies working on Micro and Mini Nuclear plants, some of which can be trucked to a city, set into semi-buried location and trucked out again when their fuel or life is exhausted.
12 companies? Let's see who they are!
Small (25 MWe up) reactors operating
CNNC - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Nuclear_Corporation = government chartered corporation
NPCIL - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Power_Corporation_of_India = government owned corporation, publicly traded
Small (25 MWe up) reactor designs under construction
CNEA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Atomic_Energy_Commission = government agency
INVAP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INVAP = government owned corporation
INET - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Nuclear_and_New_Energy_Technology = research institute attached to a univeristy
Huaneng - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Huaneng_Group = government owned power company
Small (25 MWe up) reactors for near-term deployment -- development well advanced
OKBM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKBM_Afrikantov = subsidiary of a state corporation
Westinghouse - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Company = private multinational, partly owned by a state corporation
Babcock & Wilcox - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babcock_&_Wilcox = private company
Bechtel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel = private company
Holtec - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holtec_International = private company
Guodian - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Guodian_Corporation = state owned corporation
KAERI - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAERI = government created and government funded research institute
NuScale Power - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuScale_Power = private company spun off of federally funded research
Fluor - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation = private company
PBMR - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_modular_reactor = private company formerly funded by the South African government, now funded by the US Government
NPMC - http://nationalpmc.com/about-npmc/ = private company, must be new
GE-Hitachi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Hitachi_Nuclear_Energy = private multinational
RDIPE - ??? = subsidiary of a state corporation
AKME - ?? = spinoff of a state corporation
Small (25 MWe up) reactor designs at earlier stages
3 private companies, 4 government companies/agencies, 1 spinoff of a government research lab
The clowns in Congress can't even keep the streets paved. Don't look to them for a solution to energy.
The Dept of Energy has $300~$400 million in grant money for nucl
but the free-marketeers can never resist the fact that 'dumping' is another word for "Crazy low prices, right now!"
What you're describing are not "free marketeers," they're somewhere between free market anarchists and laissez faire advocates
Actual free markets (according to the textbook definition) require competition.
Chinese dumping is an anti-competitive act because its end goal is the elimination of a free market.
I'm not jumpy about dumping because of nationalism or nativism, but because I have a basic comprehension of what healthy and competitive markets need to work in the real world.
It matters not what the USA and Europe do, our populations will be overwhelmed by China and India's use of coal in that time.
China is closing coal plants and building nuclear power plants like there's no tomorrow.
I have no idea what India is doing, but I imagine they'll do the same once their local pollution reaches Chinese levels.
My primary complaint is that people who talk about renewables simply are working from emotion and not from numbers and math. The math is not on renewables side, I'm sorry to say.
[Citation Needed]
The price for solar has been dropping steadily and the efficiency of solar cells has been increasing steadily.
So what if it takes another 15 years for solar to reach the 'correct' price point?
Once we get there, it'll change the way power is used and distributed across the country.
The problem with subsidizing Solar manufacturing is that you can't ever compete with China. Effectively, companies like Solyndra feed off the funding and quickly fold leaving an empty husk in the process. This is the "choosing winers and losers" that Republicans don't like. It simply isn't fair.
Last year, the US Department of Commerce slapped tariffs on Chinese solar panels after the WTO agreed that the Chinese were dumping (too late for Solyndra).
Solyndra is suing 3 Chinese solar companies under the Sherman anti-trust act for driving the company out of business
China was dumping solar panels onto the world market.
Not fair indeed.
Now subsidizing Solar ENERGY, now that I can get onboard with
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "subsidizing Solar ENERGY,"
Do you think it's more cost efficient to subsidize the purchase price of expensive solar panels,
or more effective to subsidize research into better & cheaper solar panels?
Personally, I'd choose to fund R&D.
Slashdot summaries have always been a wall of text.
You're not new here, maybe you need new glasses?
It has nothing to do with picking winners and losers.
It never did.
It's always been about entrenched interests maintaining the status quo.
Interestingly, the entrenched interests in this case aren't gas/oil companies,
they already started diversifying years ago, it's the power utilities who are resistant to the change.
Remind me... how many Republican's voted for this monstrosity of a law which is forcing people to lose their health insurance plans and pay even more out of pocket for the replacements? Right... ZERO.
Don't blame the Republicans when the liberals couldn't come up with enough votes to implement single payer.
How rich.
The initial healthcare proposal was single payer and Republicans hated it so much that they effectively brought Congress business to a halt.
The mess we're all dealing with now is a result of the President's repeated compromises with Republicans, none of whom ended up voting for the law anyways.
You have to be deaf dumb and blind to not have noticed the pattern of Republicans crying that Obama isn't negotiating with them,
then, when he negotiates, they water down the ideas and refuse to vote on it anyways, with some filibusters thrown in for good measure.
The primary downside the US GPS system is that it limits high precision navigation to military purposes. For anything not needing to be super precise, GPS works just fine.
Anyone can get extremely high precision GPS (sub-inch) with off the shelf hardware.
You just not going to be using low cost consumer grade hardware and you need a fixed base station.
One of the things I read is that it took centuries.
The British Empire fell apart in decades, not centuries.
My point being that the pace of these types of changes has significantly accelerated.
Anyone that thinks America's hegemony can or will linger for centuries is delirious.
Perhaps in a few hundred years my descendants in North America will live like characters from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
Anyone that's watched enough sci-fi knows that in the future, everyone is speaks English with a British accent
From their petition:
15
The FISC and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ("Court of Review") only
have jurisdiction to hear petitions by the Government
or recipient of the FISC Order, and neither party to
the order represents EPIC's interests. Other federal
courts have no jurisdiction over the FISC, and thus
cannot grant the relief that EPIC seeks.
The only people that can appeal the order are the Feds and the people that the feds are ordering around.
EPIC, despite having their metadata vacuumed up, have no standing under the law to appeal to the FISA court.
It's easy for you and others to say "[Epic] didn't follow the proper appeals process"
but AFAIK none of you have actually elucidated what the proper appeals process is under the law.
EPIC has, with citations, laid out their case, starting on Page 14 (PDF)
"Nuh uh" isn't an insightful or interesting rebuttal.
like, what the flying fucktonmeister fuck? why do you think it would be exempt from the "don't tell the victim of surveillance" rules because it's a metatag?
Because laws are rarely written to cover every variation that could possibly circumvent them.
People regularly take advantage of this until legislation is written to patch the loopholes.
There might be less wiggle room because "national security," but there is undoubtedly room to maneuver.
And as TFA mentioned, the issue of government compelled speech is much thornier than government compelled silence.
I'd love to see the Supreme Court argument on why the government can compel you to continue digitally signing a certificate that says the government is not spying on you (even when they really are).