According to the bill it would become a felony (punishable by a fine up to $5000 or up to 5 years in prison) to "publish orally or in writing, exhibit, or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature".
I think the summary would be better served if the added tags used above were present there.
I just one want one plug into the wall outlet and several DC connections to the array of external WD MyBook drives instead of having each of them plugged into an outlet of a power squid.
I have not seen any one saying there is something "wrong with a copyright music owner protecting their property".
I'll say it then. Once I've paid my money to get their work in my possession, they should have no say over what I do with it from then on. Only laws passed by Congress should have any say, not some program written by the copyright holder deciding what additional restrictions not granted to them by law they want to impose.
No program should be able to encode new restrictions and have the power of law without ratification, and no law should exist that grants legislative power to non-legislative entities as this denies review by The People by way of their representatives. (DMCA is a usurping of legislative power directly to private entities. Digital Rights Management are shackles on an enslaved culture.)
If the code of law followed the law of code, it would be impossible to do anything.
The only thing wrong with that was that it stole a basic Star Trek trope, the "reversal of polarity".
I was about to object, but then checked the dates and Star Trek (original series) does predate the Third Doctor's "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" (1966-1969 vs. 1970-1974).
You're really willing to rake someone over the coals that hard over a single extra "h"?
You'd have to be pretty thin-skinned to take that cultural reference joke as a severe reprimand. At most I may have knocked a little wind out of his sails from his boast about being well-read, but as the moderator recognized, it was in jest.
What kind of weak-ass coals do you use in your barbecue?
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some back episodes of Bill May-her to catch up on. I'm a bit behind on Real Time.
The Doctor: Um, that big, erm, machine thing - is it supposed to be making that noise? Florence Finnegan: You wouldn't understand. The Doctor: But isn't that a magnetic resonance imaging thing? Like a ginormous sort of a magnet? I did Magnetics GCSE. Well, I failed, but all the same... Florence Finnegan: A magnet with its setting now increased to 50,000 tesla. The Doctor: Ooh, that's a bit strong. Isn't it? Florence Finnegan: It'll send out a magnetic pulse that'll fry the brain stems of every living thing within 250,000 miles. Except for me. Safe in this room. The Doctor: But hold on, hold on. I did Geography GCSE. I passed that one. Doesn't that distance include the Earth? Florence Finnegan: Only the side facing the moon. The other half will survive. Call it my gift.
That's from someone who subscribes to multiple newspapers, and whose idea of a fun afternoon is re-reading articles in The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine.
But apparently not reading the titles of TV shows nor their credits.
The ability to multiply and divide non-integer numbers might be useful in a spreadsheet...
Multiply a non-integer enough times by integers and the result becomes an integer. (In finite memory, there are no transcendental numbers, and complex numbers can be decomposed.)
Violent video games are significantly associated with: increased aggressive behavior, thoughts, and affect; increased physiological arousal; and decreased prosocial (helping) behavior.
All of which are desirable traits needed to become successful in modern society.
Yeah, I thought about indenting it python-style (after I'd already hit Submit, natch) but it would be harder to read wrapped in <ecode></ecode> .
And I should have had another set of parentheses around "( dependencies on packages ) or ( third party software that hasn't been ported to 3.0 yet )" to associate it stronger with "like".
So if ( you are ( not ( held back by ( external requirements like ( dependencies on packages ) or ( third party software that hasn't been ported to 3.0 yet )))) or ( working in an environment where everyone else is using another version )).
The above sentence fragment is apparently a verbal quotation where Guido van Rossum forgot he used the word "if" when he was somewhere in the middle.
Yes, and you have to continually apply force sufficient to lift the entire weight of the aircraft against the force of gravity.
Bullshit.
If you're in VTOL like a Harrier jet, sure, but it doesn't take as much force to push an aircraft forward such that there's enough air pressure below the wing vs. above the wing to make the air pressure differential push the aircraft up than it does to push entirely against the force of gravity. A VTOL craft expends a hell of a lot more fuel in the take-off and landing vertically than it does doing the same horizontally. You certainly don't keep it in VTOL mode during flight!
Consider gliders which produce no thrust of their own, yet they stay aloft carrying their own weight plus a human pilot (or two when training) just from their forward momentum and can travel miles without seeking any updrafts.
If you think an aircraft's engines going dead means it immediately falls straight down like a rock, you've been watching too many cartoons.
We don't have flying trains because it is impractical to build large enough wings with sufficient lift to carry that much mass. It would be equally impractical to build interconnected trucks that long to drive along the roads. Trains are an example of Newton's laws, specifically that an object in motion tends to stay in motion. It takes a lot of power to get it going, it takes a lot to stop it, but it doesn't take nearly as much to keep it moving.
keeping an aircraft up in the air would take more energy, and hence, more fuel, would it not?
Due to aerodynamic lift, keeping a structurally sound aircraft up in the air is simply a matter of keeping it moving forward parallel to the ground at a sufficient speed.
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You could get 5 years in PMITA prison for publishing what PMITA means!
According to the bill it would become a felony (punishable by a fine up to $5000 or up to 5 years in prison) to "publish orally or in writing, exhibit, or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature".
I think the summary would be better served if the added tags used above were present there.
You are fined two credits for violations of the Verbal Morality Statute.
I just one want one plug into the wall outlet and several DC connections to the array of external WD MyBook drives instead of having each of them plugged into an outlet of a power squid.
I have not seen any one saying there is something "wrong with a copyright music owner protecting their property".
I'll say it then. Once I've paid my money to get their work in my possession, they should have no say over what I do with it from then on. Only laws passed by Congress should have any say, not some program written by the copyright holder deciding what additional restrictions not granted to them by law they want to impose.
No program should be able to encode new restrictions and have the power of law without ratification, and no law should exist that grants legislative power to non-legislative entities as this denies review by The People by way of their representatives. (DMCA is a usurping of legislative power directly to private entities. Digital Rights Management are shackles on an enslaved culture.)
If the code of law followed the law of code, it would be impossible to do anything.
as soon as there is a HUGE judgement against the mafias, there won't be equality. to get equality, steal all the music and movies you can.
Are you meaning to say that the only way equality can be attained is through mutual lawlessness? If so, that's a confusing way to say it.
You forgot the bit about the Time Cube!
And being invented by Shampoo!
(A gift of peace in all good faith.)
The only thing wrong with that was that it stole a basic Star Trek trope, the "reversal of polarity".
I was about to object, but then checked the dates and Star Trek (original series) does predate the Third Doctor's "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" (1966-1969 vs. 1970-1974).
Instead I say, well played sir!
You're really willing to rake someone over the coals that hard over a single extra "h"?
You'd have to be pretty thin-skinned to take that cultural reference joke as a severe reprimand. At most I may have knocked a little wind out of his sails from his boast about being well-read, but as the moderator recognized, it was in jest.
What kind of weak-ass coals do you use in your barbecue?
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some back episodes of Bill May-her to catch up on. I'm a bit behind on Real Time.
The Doctor: Um, that big, erm, machine thing - is it supposed to be making that noise?
Florence Finnegan: You wouldn't understand.
The Doctor: But isn't that a magnetic resonance imaging thing? Like a ginormous sort of a magnet? I did Magnetics GCSE. Well, I failed, but all the same...
Florence Finnegan: A magnet with its setting now increased to 50,000 tesla.
The Doctor: Ooh, that's a bit strong. Isn't it?
Florence Finnegan: It'll send out a magnetic pulse that'll fry the brain stems of every living thing within 250,000 miles. Except for me. Safe in this room.
The Doctor: But hold on, hold on. I did Geography GCSE. I passed that one. Doesn't that distance include the Earth?
Florence Finnegan: Only the side facing the moon. The other half will survive. Call it my gift.
4022 journalists saved.
No survivors.
I'd add John Stewart to that list.
The Green Lantern? Seriously?
Seriously.
Wow.
That's from someone who subscribes to multiple newspapers, and whose idea of a fun afternoon is re-reading articles in The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine.
But apparently not reading the titles of TV shows nor their credits.
Assuming there's nothing on CSPAN, of course.
Or Boomerang.
The ability to multiply and divide non-integer numbers might be useful in a spreadsheet...
Multiply a non-integer enough times by integers and the result becomes an integer. (In finite memory, there are no transcendental numbers, and complex numbers can be decomposed.)
Ummmm, there's a big pile of dung in that crater over there.
Posted by timothy ...
from the tastes-like-long-pig dept.
TMI, Timothy.
Violent video games are significantly associated with: increased aggressive behavior, thoughts, and affect; increased physiological arousal; and decreased prosocial (helping) behavior.
All of which are desirable traits needed to become successful in modern society.
"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it."
I once killed my glasses.
Are you human?
Do you think you are human?
Are you a robot that thinks it is human?
Did they hypnotize you?
Did they lobotomize you?
Do you still think you are a human?
Yeah, I thought about indenting it python-style (after I'd already hit Submit, natch) but it would be harder to read wrapped in <ecode></ecode> .
And I should have had another set of parentheses around "( dependencies on packages ) or ( third party software that hasn't been ported to 3.0 yet )" to associate it stronger with "like".
So if ( you are ( not ( held back by ( external requirements like ( dependencies on packages ) or ( third party software that hasn't been ported to 3.0 yet )))) or ( working in an environment where everyone else is using another version )).
The above sentence fragment is apparently a verbal quotation where Guido van Rossum forgot he used the word "if" when he was somewhere in the middle.
Yes, and you have to continually apply force sufficient to lift the entire weight of the aircraft against the force of gravity.
Bullshit.
If you're in VTOL like a Harrier jet, sure, but it doesn't take as much force to push an aircraft forward such that there's enough air pressure below the wing vs. above the wing to make the air pressure differential push the aircraft up than it does to push entirely against the force of gravity. A VTOL craft expends a hell of a lot more fuel in the take-off and landing vertically than it does doing the same horizontally. You certainly don't keep it in VTOL mode during flight!
Consider gliders which produce no thrust of their own, yet they stay aloft carrying their own weight plus a human pilot (or two when training) just from their forward momentum and can travel miles without seeking any updrafts.
If you think an aircraft's engines going dead means it immediately falls straight down like a rock, you've been watching too many cartoons.
We don't have flying trains because it is impractical to build large enough wings with sufficient lift to carry that much mass. It would be equally impractical to build interconnected trucks that long to drive along the roads. Trains are an example of Newton's laws, specifically that an object in motion tends to stay in motion. It takes a lot of power to get it going, it takes a lot to stop it, but it doesn't take nearly as much to keep it moving.
Perhaps it has two fuel tanks?
keeping an aircraft up in the air would take more energy, and hence, more fuel, would it not?
Due to aerodynamic lift, keeping a structurally sound aircraft up in the air is simply a matter of keeping it moving forward parallel to the ground at a sufficient speed.
You think Terrorists are waiting for flying cars to use
I can think of thousands of people just itching for the opportunity to fly cars into parking structures.
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Thank you, but I don't need to know about that aspect of your sex life or drug habit as the case may be.