I have never understood how calling it a "use tax" makes it constitutional when it is effectively the same as an interstate tariff.
Of course, the decision in this case will probably not even touch on that. Instead, it will revolve around whether Amazon's business activities in New York constitute a "nexus".
[...] Now if we could trust the IOC to not allow corruption, I'ld like to see more electronical surveillance in other events, such as tennis (perhaps on the rackets) and also track (maybe on the blocks to see who actually is leaving first).
I eagerly await the day that high res, high speed video cameras and sophisticated software can finally provide objective results for sports like gymnastics and diving.
No offense to your chord keyboard (it's actually rather interesting), but just add some 7-segment LEDs counting down and it would match the pop culture conception of a bomb very well.
The name "Chordite" does not help in this respect.
I looked up the Arch Deluxe thinking it most be some strange, monstrous franken-burger. It's a bacon cheeseburger with tomato, lettuce, onions, mayo-mustard and ketchup... what's deluxe about that?
In the fine print on the wrapper was the disclaimer: "Deluxe relative to a regular McDonald's hamburger"
What contractual relationship? I don't remember signing a contract to play WoW.
All that text that you probably (like me) clicked through when you created your account? Contract. Part of it says (in legalese, of course) that you agree not to run a bot. By providing a means to do so that Blizzard can't readily detect, the makers of Glider are unlawfully interfering with Blizzard's business.
As a non-native English speaker, I always have a problem understanding the use of "a number of" i.e:
Amazon's "slow" growth caused a number of its stockholders to complain.
Does "a number of" means a large number or a small number, or is it just a meaningless quantity?
I would say "a number of" means a number large enough to be noticeable, significant, or memorable. I have also heard the phrase "any number of" used, where "any", instead of its literal meaning, emphasizes that the precise number isn't important.
Using catalysts to crack long molecules is part of what a traditional refinery does. It makes more sense to just directly create the kind of molecules you want, rather than make some sort of synthetic crude oil and then refine that back down.
Why sue everyone in the network? Just obtain a copy of the work via OFF and sue everyone that served up a block used in that copy. Repeat as necessary.
Do you really think "I just served some blocks of data that aren't part of any particular file, I had no idea what the person who downloaded them would use them for" is going to persuade a jury? How about after the plaintiff points out that OFF has no substantial non-infringing use? (It transfers three times as much data as is necessary when copying a freely-licensed work.)
You could reasonably expect that someone downloading OFF blocks from you will use them to infringe. Who would use OFF for freely licensed material when it could be downloaded 3x faster in the clear? I wouldn't take the risk of being held liable for contributing to copyright infringement or worse, the distribution of illicit material.
Much as I would like to believe that there is an Aurora that can fly higher and faster than the Blackbird, it seems likely that the "even better replacement" consists of UAVs like the Global Hawk and Predator. Cheap to buy, cheap to fly, and no pilots to be captured or killed when you have a bad day.
his type reminds of the people who think it's okay to drive 61 mph in a 65 mph zone in the FAST LANE.
Yeah, sure they are technically correct but intentionally and more than a bit arrogantly lack any pragmatic approach to driving on the road.
In Wisconsin at least, left lane squatters are not "technically correct". The statute requires vehicles traveling "at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions" to be driven in the right-hand lane. It doesn't matter what the speed limit is.
Since this behavior tends to provoke unsafe driving by others if not outright road rage, I think citing more people for it would definitely make the roads safer.
I truly believe that George Bush is a very evil man, whose real purpose in getting us into this war was to destabilize the middle east so the price of oil would skyrocket and he, his friends, and his family would become even richer.
I'm no Bush apologist, but I can't see chalking this up to one man's greed. I'm certain we'll never know the truth, but consider this (IMO far more likely) scenario: Flush with initial success in Afghanistan, the Bush administration became infatuated with the idea of eliminating terrorism through military action. Intelligence and military analysts told their bosses what they wanted to hear, resulting in overestimation of the terroristic threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq and underestimation the cost and time frame of mitigating that threat militarily. Congressional oversight failed because legislators feared losing their seats by appearing "soft on terror".
the American economy is in ruins By what objective measure is the U.S. economy "in ruins"?
[...]I am just curious, while they operate in very different markets, how does ARM compare to Intel for embedded devices? I can't seem to find much information on the issue. Numerous firms, including Intel, make chips that run ARM code. The overall ARM share of the market for embedded 32-bit processors is about 75%; I couldn't readily find how big Intel's piece of that pie is.
In many ways Win95 was quite an advance as a true preemptive multi-tasking OS that ran on off-the-shelf hardware. Yes, very impressive, only one decade behind the Amiga.
It seems unlikely that a water tank, electrolysis cell, and hydrogen tank would make a better electrical energy storage system than a lithium battery or ultracapacitor bank or some combination of the two.
A better use of this technology might be to combine electrolysis and the Sabatier reaction to make methane, making it possible to distribute low-carbon energy via the existing natural gas infrastructure.
Here are excerpts from my old obsolete articles mentioned above, starting with Useful Dead Technologies:
Volume control knobs
You're driving down the road and that song comes on. You know the one, it really rocks and you must crank that sucker up.
But there's no crank any more. You have to take your eyes off of the road to find the one button on the fifty buttons to turn the damned thing up or down. Thank God they invented cell phones so you can call an ambulance after you wreck your car trying to turn the volume down to answer your cell phone!
It happened to me on the way home yesterday (Boston's "Smokin'"). Fortunately, my car ('07 Accord) has a big round knob smack in the middle of the dash--grab, twist, and there's no way I'll hear the cell phone. Someone at least is still paying attention to human interface design.
You seem to define "matters" as true only if your vote would tie or break a tie. I think it's more like a probability that is close to one if your choice is in a competitive position (Gore or Bush in Florida 2000) and close to zero if your choice isn't close (Kucinich or Paul in any 2008 primary).
One could also argue along the lines of Pascal's Wager: if you don't vote, the probability of affecting the outcome is clearly zero; if you do vote, the probability of affecting the outcome may be small, but non-zero, and the cost of voting is low.
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I have never understood how calling it a "use tax" makes it constitutional when it is effectively the same as an interstate tariff.
Of course, the decision in this case will probably not even touch on that. Instead, it will revolve around whether Amazon's business activities in New York constitute a "nexus".
[...] Now if we could trust the IOC to not allow corruption, I'ld like to see more electronical surveillance in other events, such as tennis (perhaps on the rackets) and also track (maybe on the blocks to see who actually is leaving first).
I eagerly await the day that high res, high speed video cameras and sophisticated software can finally provide objective results for sports like gymnastics and diving.
No offense to your chord keyboard (it's actually rather interesting), but just add some 7-segment LEDs counting down and it would match the pop culture conception of a bomb very well. The name "Chordite" does not help in this respect.
It's good for you if your IRA/401k/pension fund is invested in Exxon, BP, and the rest. To whom do you think those record profits belong?
I looked up the Arch Deluxe thinking it most be some strange, monstrous franken-burger. It's a bacon cheeseburger with tomato, lettuce, onions, mayo-mustard and ketchup ... what's deluxe about that?
In the fine print on the wrapper was the disclaimer: "Deluxe relative to a regular McDonald's hamburger"
What contractual relationship? I don't remember signing a contract to play WoW.
All that text that you probably (like me) clicked through when you created your account? Contract. Part of it says (in legalese, of course) that you agree not to run a bot. By providing a means to do so that Blizzard can't readily detect, the makers of Glider are unlawfully interfering with Blizzard's business.
As a non-native English speaker, I always have a problem understanding the use of "a number of" i.e:
Does "a number of" means a large number or a small number, or is it just a meaningless quantity?
I would say "a number of" means a number large enough to be noticeable, significant, or memorable. I have also heard the phrase "any number of" used, where "any", instead of its literal meaning, emphasizes that the precise number isn't important.
Using catalysts to crack long molecules is part of what a traditional refinery does. It makes more sense to just directly create the kind of molecules you want, rather than make some sort of synthetic crude oil and then refine that back down.
Much work has already been done on this general idea.
I find "in silico" doesn't bother me, it seems a natural extension of "in vitro" and "in vivo".
At the top of my list of technospeak I'd like to banish is "blog".
I would have modded you funny if you had only worked "sesquipedalianism" into your post.
Why sue everyone in the network? Just obtain a copy of the work via OFF and sue everyone that served up a block used in that copy. Repeat as necessary.
Do you really think "I just served some blocks of data that aren't part of any particular file, I had no idea what the person who downloaded them would use them for" is going to persuade a jury? How about after the plaintiff points out that OFF has no substantial non-infringing use? (It transfers three times as much data as is necessary when copying a freely-licensed work.)
You could reasonably expect that someone downloading OFF blocks from you will use them to infringe. Who would use OFF for freely licensed material when it could be downloaded 3x faster in the clear? I wouldn't take the risk of being held liable for contributing to copyright infringement or worse, the distribution of illicit material.
Much as I would like to believe that there is an Aurora that can fly higher and faster than the Blackbird, it seems likely that the "even better replacement" consists of UAVs like the Global Hawk and Predator. Cheap to buy, cheap to fly, and no pilots to be captured or killed when you have a bad day.
his type reminds of the people who think it's okay to drive 61 mph in a 65 mph zone in the FAST LANE.
Yeah, sure they are technically correct but intentionally and more than a bit arrogantly lack any pragmatic approach to driving on the road.
In Wisconsin at least, left lane squatters are not "technically correct". The statute requires vehicles traveling "at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions" to be driven in the right-hand lane. It doesn't matter what the speed limit is. Since this behavior tends to provoke unsafe driving by others if not outright road rage, I think citing more people for it would definitely make the roads safer.
I'm no Bush apologist, but I can't see chalking this up to one man's greed. I'm certain we'll never know the truth, but consider this (IMO far more likely) scenario: Flush with initial success in Afghanistan, the Bush administration became infatuated with the idea of eliminating terrorism through military action. Intelligence and military analysts told their bosses what they wanted to hear, resulting in overestimation of the terroristic threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq and underestimation the cost and time frame of mitigating that threat militarily. Congressional oversight failed because legislators feared losing their seats by appearing "soft on terror".
the American economy is in ruins By what objective measure is the U.S. economy "in ruins"?It'll be stone dead in a moment!
Gamera is really neat.
Gamera is filled with meat.
We've been eating Gamera!
It seems unlikely that a water tank, electrolysis cell, and hydrogen tank would make a better electrical energy storage system than a lithium battery or ultracapacitor bank or some combination of the two.
A better use of this technology might be to combine electrolysis and the Sabatier reaction to make methane, making it possible to distribute low-carbon energy via the existing natural gas infrastructure.
So you're so bothered about people being able to read documents that you wrote your sig in Latin so noone could read it.
Presumably it's something like "windows sucks"? "Windows must be destroyed"
You seem to define "matters" as true only if your vote would tie or break a tie. I think it's more like a probability that is close to one if your choice is in a competitive position (Gore or Bush in Florida 2000) and close to zero if your choice isn't close (Kucinich or Paul in any 2008 primary).
One could also argue along the lines of Pascal's Wager: if you don't vote, the probability of affecting the outcome is clearly zero; if you do vote, the probability of affecting the outcome may be small, but non-zero, and the cost of voting is low.