They estimate that geothermal fields are good for 50-100 years.
So in 50-100 years we've used all the lava flows, cooled the volcanoes and some small percentage of the earth's mantle? What then, drill deeper and start fracking for geothermal energy? In 200 or 500 hundred years we've killed our planet's core and we've made a slightly warmer version of Mars?
Terrorist attacks have the word "terror" in them for a reason. The killing of innocent victims is just a vehicle for the ultimate goal of instilling paranoia and apprehension to influence behavior, and now we're fretting over jarred cupcakes.
Who is fretting? It's plausible that the dimwits at TSA have been brainwashed to be genuinely terrified of the world, but I don't believe the scared masses exist, and if they do it's a result of the paranoia instilled by the US government and not some angry muppets on the other side of the world. NOBODY I've talked to or know of is personally concerned about exploding cupcakes or nail-files being used to break down the cabin door. It's bullshit and it's time to treat it as such.
Umm, no it isn't. The current length of copyright (for works published in 1978 or after) in the U.S. for individuals is 70 years AFTER THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. For corporations, it is 120 years after creation, or 95 years after publication, whichever is shorter. (For works before 1978, the current term is 95 years.)
My bad. I thought it was 70 years, not life + 70 years. Yes, it is insane to have such long terms and has no benefit to society.
Firstly, I agree that 14 years or so is plenty of time for a copyright, but I'd like to comment on this point:
There is no reason to restrict works for nearly a century
The current length of copyright is approximately a lifetime, ostensibly to ensure their works can benefit the author until their death. However it's approximately the lifetime of a person. A corporation can easily live longer.
If we agree that:
a) a lifetime that is a valid length of time for copyright
b) companies can create work and/or own copyright
c) corporate person-hood is a valid concept
Then why not extend copyright to the lifetime of a corporation too? Or to generalize, the lifetime of the rights-holder... and keeping in mind that these rights are transferable, it's clear that appropriate wording would make it easy to extend copyright in perpetuity.
It's not a big leap from here to there, and I wouldn't be surprised if a draft has already been written and is in a draw somewhere today.
Physical stores in the USA used to be difficult to buy from too. An international transfer was scary, and filling out a shipping form too hard. That's changed in a big way over the last few years and lots of folks are making money selling things outside the country... you know, exporting... bringing new money into the economy... offsetting debt and stuff...
Hopefully these guys will eventually realise their bean counters estimated wrong and opening their markets to billions of new customers is actually a good idea.
That would be pretty cool. You'd want to include topology in that calculation too, because 10 miles on a flat freeway is very different to 10 miles of mountain road.
Perhaps Nissan knows something about their batteries and BMS that he doesn't, and the false zero reading is there to ensure the batteries last as long as they're intended to? Last I heard, you weren't supposed to completely discharge lithium batteries if you wanted to ensure a usefully long service life.
Have you done troubleshooting online? It is the same thing!
Nice, you figured it out. The trick here is to offload your support costs to "the cloud" so to speak. Crowd-source your support and get better results for minimal cost. And no recourse.
Could such an aircraft be configured for mapping the surface of Mars?
Try it and see. X-Plane lets you fly on Mars. Yes, there's a Linux version too, and you can find a bunch of electric (and/or rocket) aircraft for Mars on X-Plane.org.
(that is, that the universe seem to have a lot of mass that we can't see)
My guess is we need an experiment that lets us "see" 4 (or more) dimensional things.
Imagine a flat-lander trying to figure out why his circle seems to pull other things towards it when he's not aware of the 3rd dimension which makes it a sphere with large mass... or why different circles of the same size behave differently, because he can't see how far through his 2D plane they are.
If we can do that (and maybe we can't) then we'll be closer to making some sense of this invisible mass.
Distributed networking, but you need to be able to trust your neighbours.
Which is how it started, back in the day, albeit with a different definition of neighbour. I expect it'll be wireless and encrypted this time around though.
It's a global scam. I had some guys call me up, telling me they're from "Microsoft Windows" and that my PC had problems. I'm assuming they're hitting up people that have learned about the online scams but are more trusting of a real person, even if they're from whichever Asian country it is they're working out of.
Slashdot Mirror
So SOPA was a diversion?
They estimate that geothermal fields are good for 50-100 years.
So in 50-100 years we've used all the lava flows, cooled the volcanoes and some small percentage of the earth's mantle? What then, drill deeper and start fracking for geothermal energy? In 200 or 500 hundred years we've killed our planet's core and we've made a slightly warmer version of Mars?
Terrorist attacks have the word "terror" in them for a reason. The killing of innocent victims is just a vehicle for the ultimate goal of instilling paranoia and apprehension to influence behavior, and now we're fretting over jarred cupcakes.
Who is fretting? It's plausible that the dimwits at TSA have been brainwashed to be genuinely terrified of the world, but I don't believe the scared masses exist, and if they do it's a result of the paranoia instilled by the US government and not some angry muppets on the other side of the world. NOBODY I've talked to or know of is personally concerned about exploding cupcakes or nail-files being used to break down the cabin door. It's bullshit and it's time to treat it as such.
Umm, no it isn't. The current length of copyright (for works published in 1978 or after) in the U.S. for individuals is 70 years AFTER THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. For corporations, it is 120 years after creation, or 95 years after publication, whichever is shorter. (For works before 1978, the current term is 95 years.)
My bad. I thought it was 70 years, not life + 70 years. Yes, it is insane to have such long terms and has no benefit to society.
Firstly, I agree that 14 years or so is plenty of time for a copyright, but I'd like to comment on this point:
There is no reason to restrict works for nearly a century
The current length of copyright is approximately a lifetime, ostensibly to ensure their works can benefit the author until their death. However it's approximately the lifetime of a person. A corporation can easily live longer.
If we agree that:
a) a lifetime that is a valid length of time for copyright
b) companies can create work and/or own copyright
c) corporate person-hood is a valid concept
Then why not extend copyright to the lifetime of a corporation too? Or to generalize, the lifetime of the rights-holder... and keeping in mind that these rights are transferable, it's clear that appropriate wording would make it easy to extend copyright in perpetuity.
It's not a big leap from here to there, and I wouldn't be surprised if a draft has already been written and is in a draw somewhere today.
So you'd be OK with paying Babbages descendents a royalty for every computing device implemented since then?
Yeah anything over $40k is well into the "rich guy toy" range, good deal or not.
Rubbish. Cars are insanely cheap in the US, and $40K USD is typical medium-sized family car price in many places.
This has been seen in pretty much every high tech military hardware purchase in the last two decades. And it keeps happening.
Clearly it's industry best practice.
Physical stores in the USA used to be difficult to buy from too. An international transfer was scary, and filling out a shipping form too hard. That's changed in a big way over the last few years and lots of folks are making money selling things outside the country... you know, exporting... bringing new money into the economy... offsetting debt and stuff...
Hopefully these guys will eventually realise their bean counters estimated wrong and opening their markets to billions of new customers is actually a good idea.
That would be pretty cool. You'd want to include topology in that calculation too, because 10 miles on a flat freeway is very different to 10 miles of mountain road.
Perhaps Nissan knows something about their batteries and BMS that he doesn't, and the false zero reading is there to ensure the batteries last as long as they're intended to? Last I heard, you weren't supposed to completely discharge lithium batteries if you wanted to ensure a usefully long service life.
Have you done troubleshooting online? It is the same thing!
Nice, you figured it out. The trick here is to offload your support costs to "the cloud" so to speak. Crowd-source your support and get better results for minimal cost. And no recourse.
Could such an aircraft be configured for mapping the surface of Mars?
Try it and see. X-Plane lets you fly on Mars. Yes, there's a Linux version too, and you can find a bunch of electric (and/or rocket) aircraft for Mars on X-Plane.org.
I'm surprised actually, because E Ink does have a colour product available. Maybe it just came too late for Amazon product development.
http://www.eink.com/display_products_triton.html
(that is, that the universe seem to have a lot of mass that we can't see)
My guess is we need an experiment that lets us "see" 4 (or more) dimensional things.
Imagine a flat-lander trying to figure out why his circle seems to pull other things towards it when he's not aware of the 3rd dimension which makes it a sphere with large mass... or why different circles of the same size behave differently, because he can't see how far through his 2D plane they are.
If we can do that (and maybe we can't) then we'll be closer to making some sense of this invisible mass.
Distributed networking, but you need to be able to trust your neighbours.
Which is how it started, back in the day, albeit with a different definition of neighbour. I expect it'll be wireless and encrypted this time around though.
So... you mean they fine you $10,000 if you catch them watching you?
Yes, because they're already on the list.
Is there any USEFUL information on this car out there, like whose design the powerplant is, where it's being built, et cetera?/
It appears to be a VM Motori / GM Daewoo powerplant.
Corporate Death Penalty and Billion Dollars in Penalties, arresting all senior officers and the Board of Directors. The Buck stops THERE.
But, but, but... shareholders!
Could this mean we will have "Chip RAM" & "Fast RAM" again ? :)"
That would actually make sense, given the current difference in graphics card RAM speed/cost vs system RAM speed/cost.
"Legitimate." What, only terrorists know what the URL bar is for?
Fixed that for you.
And what do turtles like to live in? That's right - water!
CBA probably couldn't reveal the bank or retailer either, as they would probably end up fighting a defamation lawsuit.
Is speaking the truth not a defense against such lawsuits?
Bad ass septuagenarian mutherfucker
He'd still kick your ass.
It's a global scam. I had some guys call me up, telling me they're from "Microsoft Windows" and that my PC had problems. I'm assuming they're hitting up people that have learned about the online scams but are more trusting of a real person, even if they're from whichever Asian country it is they're working out of.