There's something I seriously don't understand about his stance that you make me want to ask. He wants us to pay subscription fees to get his news, okay fine makes sense. But there's other news sites that are free, and news is news which hopefully means it's objective and truthful no matter where you get it from (har har objectivity in reporting, I know). If he went subscription based and had all his news pulled from the aggregators I would still get the same news from the other news sites, just with a different editorial slant. So why on earth is he whining about Google when his real competition is, in fact, his competition who have free sites?
Your post is correct about a lot of stuff (as far as history and discovery channel have taught me anyway:P) but as I understand it leeches are coming back into medical science as an effective means for filtering blood-borne diseases, so they obviously do have some kind of medicinal effect in at least a few cases.
Allow me to preface by saying that I do not subscribe to the 'climate change is a scam' newsletter. I do believe it is somewhat misrepresented in the media and government, but also that there is significant scientific background for the theory.
1) Do not fool yourself into believing that nobody makes a profit when we go green. The government itself gives companies free money (via grants and tax cuts) for installing solar panels or otherwise reducing emissions which in some cases far exceeds the cost of the measures they employ. The green companies that research produce and sell green energy production are seeing higher profits because people seek the government incentives and thus are buying more than they would otherwise. A perfect example being the/.ers who have gone solar and taken themselves completely off the grid, which would not have even been possible or desirable until the climate change argument caused our government to react.
2) Historically speaking, volcano eruptions have had greater effects on climate than the entire history of human pollution. In 1816 Mt Tambora erupted, causing snow in the US in June. A year after that, tons of glacial ice melted off the coast of Greenland. You are arguing that the sheer volume of stuff we throw into the air every day has to have an effect. I could just as easily argue that the volume we have managed to reduce or remove through the green movement has had no effect whatsoever and that really leaves both of us with nothing left to say doesn't it?
3) A poll of the climatological community over 27 countries taken in 2003 showed that only about 1/3rd actually agree with the theory, with 1/5th openly disagreeing and more than ½ undecided. Source: Suprynowicz, V. (2007, February 25). Lifting the global warming gag order. Las Vegas Review Journal,p. 3D.
Would it be impossible to have a man-made salt lake to house the little beasties? This way you could more effectively control the environmental aspects and let the critters do their thing. Perhaps it is not a solution due to its small scale, but several lakes set up around particularly populated areas could still help to reduce emissions yes?
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This article details exactly how the creators were able to swindle some investors out of £200,000 by using big computer words to describe common mold.
I'm wondering if they realize just how badly they lost, and that's why they won't attempt to appeal? If the appeals court were to support the verdict (and from the direction the case went that seems guaranteed) it would then become precedent in that circuit, wouldn't it? Which would just screw over anyone who gets sued in the future:|
I don't think they pick and choose who to sue so much as hoping that when they do sue the wrong people they can be intimidating enough to strongarm them into a settlement.
Turn on Highlight on Hover under the game window. Then you can see what spots the buttons change, what color the button has to be to change the spot, and hover over spots to see what button can change it - makes it pretty simple.
Most phone operators are instructed to end and immediately forward a call to a supervisor the moment you ever mention lawyers or legal action. This isn't necessarily a good thing, especially when you're talking to a company that is run almost entirely by lawyers.
I remember from the end of MGS2 when Raiden asks Snake where he keeps all the ammo for his machine gun, and all he does is point at his headband. Hilarity.
I was under the impression revenue information was freely available at the end of every couple financial quarter through SEC regulations anyway - is that not the case?:|
Kazaa and Limewire both had swarm logic long before BitTorrent. You are right in that it was a smaller distributed network, but that just means that it was even less likely for her to ever reach a high share ratio - unless of course she was the only one on the network with a given file which is pretty damned unlikely.
You are correct. The RIAA does indeed have at least some argument on the grounds that music piracy does actually happen, and that is why they have pursued legal action against so many people. The thing you might not have come to understand when you made your comment was that the RIAA will continue to blame piracy for all of their problems whether it really is happening or not. They have brought people to court that never used a computer, let alone downloaded anything. They can't seem to decide how much money they are losing every year from piracy, and every number I've ever seen looks outlandish and impossible; probably due to the fact that their model for determining damages involves things like 'possible downloads' as opposed to 'actual' ones. If every music file on the internet miraculously disappeared today, I can guarantee you tomorrow there will be a press release about how the RIAA believes music piracy has cost them trillions in revenue tomorrow, and now the pirates have moved to sneakernet which is something they can't track and they'll pay the media to demonize it as the next big piracy network without explaining what it actually is. Simply put, they had a successful business model for decades and it fell apart completely but they believe they still have the right to receive all the money, and they won't stop at lying to the government or anyone else as long as it gets what they want.
So to answer the question of whether or not you can safely lend your book to a friend, yes you can. Mayhap I am misinterpreting but it sounds like you can get away with just about anything as long as you don't sell or transfer ownership of what your giving away O.o
I can give out copies for money, as long as it's not to the public? Taking the stance that GNUtella clients/networks are private networks means everything you do with them is legal, then. I can give out copies to the public as long as I am not selling/leasing/lending/'transferring ownership'? I'm not positive what constitutes transferring ownership, but the **AA guys seem to think we never own any of our media so I can't transfer it if I wanted to anyway. I could also apparently give out originals to the public for money, but that one actually makes sense to me;)
If the measurement conversion is really that easy, why would it cost almost $400million for NASA to whip out a calculator and punch some numbers? This confuses me:|
The simple answer is: The grocery store manager doesn't care how many ounces of tomatoes he is ordering. He just wants 200 10 pound bags. If he were ordering 5 kilogram bags instead, he still wouldn't care how many grams it is. So why bother changing it when, for the most part, the benefit is entirely for math geeks?
The same can be said for distances. If I want to cut a 3 foot board I don't care about the fact that it's 36 inches, I care about the fact that it's 3 feet.
Playing devil's advocate: Crohn's Disease comes with infrequent flare-ups and not all symptoms present themselves at any given time. It's easy to say "Over the past 8 years I've had diarrhea, stomach pain, and vomiting," but a doctor looks at what she is having now. They treated her diarrhea with an antibiotic three months ago and it went away, so the vomiting now must be something new, right? If she'd had all the symptoms at once, it would be much more likely diagnosed.
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There's something I seriously don't understand about his stance that you make me want to ask. He wants us to pay subscription fees to get his news, okay fine makes sense. But there's other news sites that are free, and news is news which hopefully means it's objective and truthful no matter where you get it from (har har objectivity in reporting, I know). If he went subscription based and had all his news pulled from the aggregators I would still get the same news from the other news sites, just with a different editorial slant. So why on earth is he whining about Google when his real competition is, in fact, his competition who have free sites?
Your post is correct about a lot of stuff (as far as history and discovery channel have taught me anyway :P) but as I understand it leeches are coming back into medical science as an effective means for filtering blood-borne diseases, so they obviously do have some kind of medicinal effect in at least a few cases.
Allow me to preface by saying that I do not subscribe to the 'climate change is a scam' newsletter. I do believe it is somewhat misrepresented in the media and government, but also that there is significant scientific background for the theory.
1) Do not fool yourself into believing that nobody makes a profit when we go green. The government itself gives companies free money (via grants and tax cuts) for installing solar panels or otherwise reducing emissions which in some cases far exceeds the cost of the measures they employ. The green companies that research produce and sell green energy production are seeing higher profits because people seek the government incentives and thus are buying more than they would otherwise. A perfect example being the /.ers who have gone solar and taken themselves completely off the grid, which would not have even been possible or desirable until the climate change argument caused our government to react.
2) Historically speaking, volcano eruptions have had greater effects on climate than the entire history of human pollution. In 1816 Mt Tambora erupted, causing snow in the US in June. A year after that, tons of glacial ice melted off the coast of Greenland. You are arguing that the sheer volume of stuff we throw into the air every day has to have an effect. I could just as easily argue that the volume we have managed to reduce or remove through the green movement has had no effect whatsoever and that really leaves both of us with nothing left to say doesn't it?
3) A poll of the climatological community over 27 countries taken in 2003 showed that only about 1/3rd actually agree with the theory, with 1/5th openly disagreeing and more than ½ undecided. Source: Suprynowicz, V. (2007, February 25). Lifting the global warming gag order. Las Vegas Review Journal,p. 3D.
Are you accounting for the displacement caused by adding so much mass? Lake Superior would get bigger as we put more bodies in.
Would it be impossible to have a man-made salt lake to house the little beasties? This way you could more effectively control the environmental aspects and let the critters do their thing. Perhaps it is not a solution due to its small scale, but several lakes set up around particularly populated areas could still help to reduce emissions yes?
This article details exactly how the creators were able to swindle some investors out of £200,000 by using big computer words to describe common mold.
The programming equivalent of training with wrist/ankle weights?
I'm wondering if they realize just how badly they lost, and that's why they won't attempt to appeal? If the appeals court were to support the verdict (and from the direction the case went that seems guaranteed) it would then become precedent in that circuit, wouldn't it? Which would just screw over anyone who gets sued in the future :|
I don't think they pick and choose who to sue so much as hoping that when they do sue the wrong people they can be intimidating enough to strongarm them into a settlement.
My ISP should pay me when I transmit packets.
Turn on Highlight on Hover under the game window. Then you can see what spots the buttons change, what color the button has to be to change the spot, and hover over spots to see what button can change it - makes it pretty simple.
Most phone operators are instructed to end and immediately forward a call to a supervisor the moment you ever mention lawyers or legal action. This isn't necessarily a good thing, especially when you're talking to a company that is run almost entirely by lawyers.
I remember from the end of MGS2 when Raiden asks Snake where he keeps all the ammo for his machine gun, and all he does is point at his headband. Hilarity.
Insert joke about honey not coming from flies, and obvious detriment to education caused by 'stupid humor' video game :X
I was under the impression revenue information was freely available at the end of every couple financial quarter through SEC regulations anyway - is that not the case? :|
It seems we already sold this song once in 1977 for Bee Gees tickets... and then again in 1983 for half a mallomar.
I believe that was boilers and propane tanks, not gas tanks...
Kazaa and Limewire both had swarm logic long before BitTorrent. You are right in that it was a smaller distributed network, but that just means that it was even less likely for her to ever reach a high share ratio - unless of course she was the only one on the network with a given file which is pretty damned unlikely.
You are correct. The RIAA does indeed have at least some argument on the grounds that music piracy does actually happen, and that is why they have pursued legal action against so many people. The thing you might not have come to understand when you made your comment was that the RIAA will continue to blame piracy for all of their problems whether it really is happening or not. They have brought people to court that never used a computer, let alone downloaded anything. They can't seem to decide how much money they are losing every year from piracy, and every number I've ever seen looks outlandish and impossible; probably due to the fact that their model for determining damages involves things like 'possible downloads' as opposed to 'actual' ones. If every music file on the internet miraculously disappeared today, I can guarantee you tomorrow there will be a press release about how the RIAA believes music piracy has cost them trillions in revenue tomorrow, and now the pirates have moved to sneakernet which is something they can't track and they'll pay the media to demonize it as the next big piracy network without explaining what it actually is.
Simply put, they had a successful business model for decades and it fell apart completely but they believe they still have the right to receive all the money, and they won't stop at lying to the government or anyone else as long as it gets what they want.
So to answer the question of whether or not you can safely lend your book to a friend, yes you can.
Mayhap I am misinterpreting but it sounds like you can get away with just about anything as long as you don't sell or transfer ownership of what your giving away O.o
I can give out copies for money, as long as it's not to the public? Taking the stance that GNUtella clients/networks are private networks means everything you do with them is legal, then. ;)
I can give out copies to the public as long as I am not selling/leasing/lending/'transferring ownership'? I'm not positive what constitutes transferring ownership, but the **AA guys seem to think we never own any of our media so I can't transfer it if I wanted to anyway.
I could also apparently give out originals to the public for money, but that one actually makes sense to me
If the measurement conversion is really that easy, why would it cost almost $400million for NASA to whip out a calculator and punch some numbers? :|
This confuses me
The simple answer is:
The grocery store manager doesn't care how many ounces of tomatoes he is ordering. He just wants 200 10 pound bags.
If he were ordering 5 kilogram bags instead, he still wouldn't care how many grams it is.
So why bother changing it when, for the most part, the benefit is entirely for math geeks?
The same can be said for distances. If I want to cut a 3 foot board I don't care about the fact that it's 36 inches, I care about the fact that it's 3 feet.
It can't be cured but it can be treated with immunosuppressants when symptoms present
Oh, it wasn't plugged in. I'm glad you always ask me that question!
Playing devil's advocate:
Crohn's Disease comes with infrequent flare-ups and not all symptoms present themselves at any given time. It's easy to say "Over the past 8 years I've had diarrhea, stomach pain, and vomiting," but a doctor looks at what she is having now. They treated her diarrhea with an antibiotic three months ago and it went away, so the vomiting now must be something new, right? If she'd had all the symptoms at once, it would be much more likely diagnosed.