In looking this up, I noticed a widespread proliferation of this "coffee-nosed" term — always in conjunction with the Python sketch. Seems like someone transcribed it wrong long ago, and everyone has been referring to this or some Nth generation citation of it.
Well, it would certainly be nice if the government resurrected their role of prosecuting corporations in consumers' interest, but the goal posts have been moved so far by now that now the proposal you hear is to do away with even the paltry role of class action lawsuits and just let them run roughshod, as in the great grandparent post.
You forgot the fourth option: redesign all digital circuitry to use ten levels of voltage to represent the numerals 0 to 9, instead of two levels for 0 and 1.
Time to get a Computer Engineering degree for some sweet lucrative redesign money!
Ok, let's cover this one more time. Class action lawsuits are only sometimes intended to give a substantial settlement to all members of the class. The real point of them is not to get you rich, but to take down a wrongdoing company a few notches so that, with any luck, they'll know better next time — or at least think twice.
The whole fiasco is an example of a class of situations I haven't found a name for but which is similar to the Tragedy of the Commons. In these situations, one member of the group does something which gives him an advantage of the others. The others then follow suit to remain competitive, and in doing so eliminate the advantage.
And yet, somehow, oil producing countries continue to make money despite the fact that someone in a poor country pays the same for a barrel of oil as someone in a rich one. How do they do it?
Governments are allowed to censor and suppress their populations. The thing that isn't allowed, is for general populations to have free access to encryption, anonymising and other clandestine enabling technologies that prevent governments from suppressing populations.
I don't see what the legal or moral issue is here...
Either you're a troll most wily, or else a moral vacuum. You don't see what the moral issue is of it being legal for a US company or person to aid in the oppression of the people of another country? Really?
You're forgetting that, to a certain extent, like the evolution of species, the evolution of ideas is subject to getting stuck on local maxima — incomplete optimization. It seems there's a local maximum of societal benefit around the idea of religion, but a greater one further along (atheism). However, it takes a great deal of energy to dislodge the system from the religion maximum. That doesn't mean it's not worth it.
wax 2/wæks/ -verb (used without object), waxed; waxed or (Literary) waxen; waxing. 1. to increase in extent, quantity, intensity, power, etc.: Discord waxed at an alarming rate. 2. (of the moon) to increase in the extent of its illuminated portion before the full moon. Compare wane (def. 4). 3. to grow or become: He waxed angry at the insinuation.
Agreed. At the absolute most the RIAA should have to prove how many people actually downloaded from her and then multiply that with the retail cost of the music. That's an absolute most (a better way would be to prove the people who downloaded from her would otherwise buy the actual song if they couldn't illegally download it. Given the amount of digital piracy that goes on its quite impossible for most to buy all of what they illegally pirate).
You forgot to multiply by the fraction of each file each person got from her.
I seems like a perfectly reasonable solution to one of the big worries over standard solar arrays: land use. These use a fraction of the land a standard array would use.
The crows (and other birds, I think) near my parents' house, where I grew up, did the same thing 20 years ago at least. Not a busy street, though; I think the attempt is to break the shell by impact with the street. Sometimes it takes repeated attempts. And sometimes they use things other than the street (like our roof. Nothing like a sudden unwarranted THUMP from overhead at 11pm to induce consternation).
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Wow. 5, Insightful? Really? It's insightful to say "I hate that show, it sucks"? Great jorb.
MoonRaper — isn't that the hentai Sailor Moon OVA?
"Unduly burdensome" here means they would have to do the RIAA's investigative work for them.
Well, it would certainly be nice if the government resurrected their role of prosecuting corporations in consumers' interest, but the goal posts have been moved so far by now that now the proposal you hear is to do away with even the paltry role of class action lawsuits and just let them run roughshod, as in the great grandparent post.
Sad.
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Yep. And yet Montgomery Ward is dead and gone. Ain't no justice in the world, I tells ya.
You forgot the fourth option: redesign all digital circuitry to use ten levels of voltage to represent the numerals 0 to 9, instead of two levels for 0 and 1.
Time to get a Computer Engineering degree for some sweet lucrative redesign money!
*SIGH*
Ok, let's cover this one more time. Class action lawsuits are only sometimes intended to give a substantial settlement to all members of the class. The real point of them is not to get you rich, but to take down a wrongdoing company a few notches so that, with any luck, they'll know better next time — or at least think twice.
You work on the weekend? Sucks to be you, I guess.
And yet, somehow, oil producing countries continue to make money despite the fact that someone in a poor country pays the same for a barrel of oil as someone in a rich one. How do they do it?
You're forgetting that, to a certain extent, like the evolution of species, the evolution of ideas is subject to getting stuck on local maxima — incomplete optimization. It seems there's a local maximum of societal benefit around the idea of religion, but a greater one further along (atheism). However, it takes a great deal of energy to dislodge the system from the religion maximum. That doesn't mean it's not worth it.
Calm down and get some perspective for a minute there, Captain Moral Outrage.
I agree. The correct spelling is "viri".
Implying that all you can do with desert land is cover it with solar arrays. Believe me, there's plenty else you can do with it.
I seems like a perfectly reasonable solution to one of the big worries over standard solar arrays: land use. These use a fraction of the land a standard array would use.
The crows (and other birds, I think) near my parents' house, where I grew up, did the same thing 20 years ago at least. Not a busy street, though; I think the attempt is to break the shell by impact with the street. Sometimes it takes repeated attempts. And sometimes they use things other than the street (like our roof. Nothing like a sudden unwarranted THUMP from overhead at 11pm to induce consternation).
Clearly, someone already set it off at some Republican convention.