China may delay the backlash longer because its authoritarian state suppresses workers' dissent, but I doubt they can maintain those kinds of conditions for that long.
China will escape the backlash longer because the media is tightly controlled there. Other workers won't hear about riots and strikes to inspire them to go on the rampage as well. Unions there are non-existant. And if the company has to kill off a few hundred workers due to a strike, there's a couple billion more where they came from.
Well, I applied for a customer service job in Vegas about 4 years ago through an ad in the paper. They were looking for females only, between 18 & 25, with big tits. Seems that 'customer service job' was with an escort service. And in Vegas, 'escort' means hooker. Prob is, I'm a male, at the time I was in my mid-50's, & haddn't started growin my mantits yet.
ATM, I'm back in Ohio, getting close to 60 again, and pounding the pavement one more time. A McJob here pays about 9 bucks an hour and it's maybe 25 hrs a week. You can get it only if you're in high school or retired already, no middle agers need apply. Oh, and they're not hiring atm.
Those are for the college students that work there over the summer, and they have to pay a certain amount for rent. Sandusky doesn't have much of a housing market for college kids.
Try making a movie about a public domain fairy tale, you'll have Disney lawyers up your ass in a heartbeat claiming you created a derivitive work based on their copyright. Derivitive works are covered under the owner's original copyright. It's why Star Trek fan films, technically infringing, are allowed to be created by Paramount/CBS just as long as nobody makes a dime off them.
Ion drives are more efficient, but they don't have enough thrust to take off in a gravity field. You need something with high thrust like a NERVA or a conventional rocket to pull that off. Otherwise, all us space cadets would have built ion rockets and left already.
Also, an NTR is something that a private company could theoretically build,
Yeah, they can build it, they just won't be able to fuel the reactor. Governments get nervous at the thought of plutonium in private hands that can leave an easily monitored site.
It's clear to everyone what is being meant, and you should stop nit-picking.
Why should he, the *AAs won't stop nit-picking. Create your own content anyway, and the *AAs will sue you for ripping off their ideas. There's a reason why SyFy has such shitty inhouse movies, it's because if they produce absolute unbelievable shit, nobody'll sue them for idea theft & they'll still scrape by on advertising revenues. 'Intellectual property' means they'll copyright every idea they can and sue you to prove that you came by it on your own. Good luck with that. They have better lawyers and the law is on their side.
Orion was the one you set off nuclear bombs under a heavy plate as a thrust mechanism. BiFrost is basically an upgraded NERVA system, from what little I can gleam from the article. Not a lot of hard science in it.
NERVA basically pumps liquid hydrogen through a fission reactor core. The core heats up the hydrogen, it expands, escapes through the bottom of the reactor and the nozzle providing thrust. Think 'tea kettle'. It'll help you visualise it.
The best reaction mass for this concept is stabilized monotomic hydrogen ('single-H', as Heinlein put it).
We need innovation from the media companies; they need to embrace the digital platform and build distribution systems around it. Piracy will drop drastically if they make the media easy and cheap to buy.
Netflix. Movies on demand.
The technology and distribution system is in place. However, the distribution system breaks their business plan. The *AAs want expensive media sales, it's better for their bottom lines. Thus, the attempts to shut down the internet to protect their business plan.
Imagine if, in order to stop murder, we created a law that said anyone who suspects someone of murdering their family member may hold them prisoner, possibly indefinately, with the burden of proof on the accused to show that he is not guilty. We would be legalizing vigilante enforcement at the hands of the most biased party, with the presumption of guilt until proven innocent.
This is what SOPA does, and it is incidious. It is not establishing the rule of law. It is using the cloak of law to legitimize lawless percecution. And I don't think for one moment that it's accidental.
Thing is, when the government does the beating, it's not vigilanteism. What SOPA is doing is, elevating the *AAs up to a government department without oversight and hijacking the law enforcement agencies of the government to do their dirty work.
If you're lucky, the cloud provider may provide you with a one-time access to your account, but isn't it far safer to assume that if your cloud provider goes down, you've lost everything you put in? Not just data, either - if you've prepaid your account, you probably lost all that stored value as well.
If your cloud's servers got raided by the government, you ain't getting your data back. No way they're gonna let you into your cloud account, you could go up there and try to delete incrimnating evidence. What do they consider incriminating evidence? These days, it looks like having an account on a 'pirate' server and actually using it, even if the data is totally legit.
Dunno about your ISP, but mine specifically says I'm not allowed to host files on my home system(s) to serve out to the net. It's a TOS violation. SOPA would give them an extra hammer to use on me if they decided they wanted to cut my access off.
Funny thing is, all my ISP has to do is run a packet sniffer against anybody signed up with them with high traffic totals per the useage log. That'll tell them where my packets are coming from. If the source is say, somewhat shady, there's probable cause that I'm one of those 'eeevil pirates and terrorrorrorrorrists' and they can pull my plug.
Pretty much, yeah. Especially in today's climate of 'guilty by association, no trial needed'. Post your legit files on a pirate fileserver, get busted with 'the rest of the pirates' and shame on you! Shoulda just did a full backup and took it home like we did in the old days.
Irrelevant. They're located outside the US, therefore US law does not apply to them.
You know that and I know that and I suspect the MAFIAA and the US government also know that, but how do you get the US government to admit it without having to spend time in Gitmo?
If they took down Megaupload without SOPA or PIPA then what purpose would those bills serve? I thought it was to give them the power to do what they just did.
Because now the MAFIAA can go before Congress and argue that they need more power, more power, MORE POWER to rinse and repeat without probable cause and other such legal niceties. "We shut them down without too much hassle, but we coulda done it FASTER and EASIER and more importantly, CHEAPER, with this new legislation. Well, cheaper for US, anyways. Oh, and here's a campaign contribution, carry on!"
I'm certain the feds can back-track the traffic and find more ip addresses to servers which were compromised and home addresses which controlled them
That's why open wireless networks are so great.
Especially when you're seriously pissed off at your neighbor. Figure out his home net, download some kiddyporn to the bitbucket, and microwave some popcorn for the show when the cops show up. Rinse and repeat.
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China will escape the backlash longer because the media is tightly controlled there. Other workers won't hear about riots and strikes to inspire them to go on the rampage as well. Unions there are non-existant. And if the company has to kill off a few hundred workers due to a strike, there's a couple billion more where they came from.
Well, I applied for a customer service job in Vegas about 4 years ago through an ad in the paper. They were looking for females only, between 18 & 25, with big tits. Seems that 'customer service job' was with an escort service. And in Vegas, 'escort' means hooker. Prob is, I'm a male, at the time I was in my mid-50's, & haddn't started growin my mantits yet.
ATM, I'm back in Ohio, getting close to 60 again, and pounding the pavement one more time. A McJob here pays about 9 bucks an hour and it's maybe 25 hrs a week. You can get it only if you're in high school or retired already, no middle agers need apply. Oh, and they're not hiring atm.
Those are for the college students that work there over the summer, and they have to pay a certain amount for rent. Sandusky doesn't have much of a housing market for college kids.
Try making a movie about a public domain fairy tale, you'll have Disney lawyers up your ass in a heartbeat claiming you created a derivitive work based on their copyright. Derivitive works are covered under the owner's original copyright. It's why Star Trek fan films, technically infringing, are allowed to be created by Paramount/CBS just as long as nobody makes a dime off them.
Ion drives are more efficient, but they don't have enough thrust to take off in a gravity field. You need something with high thrust like a NERVA or a conventional rocket to pull that off. Otherwise, all us space cadets would have built ion rockets and left already.
Yeah, they can build it, they just won't be able to fuel the reactor. Governments get nervous at the thought of plutonium in private hands that can leave an easily monitored site.
I'm thinking recalculate for http://www.thorium.tv/en/thorium_reactor/thorium_reactor_1.phpthorium reactors. Thorium reactors don't go 'boom'.
Profit!
I'm thinkin the mission director will tell them to land at night when it's not so hot.
Why should he, the *AAs won't stop nit-picking. Create your own content anyway, and the *AAs will sue you for ripping off their ideas. There's a reason why SyFy has such shitty inhouse movies, it's because if they produce absolute unbelievable shit, nobody'll sue them for idea theft & they'll still scrape by on advertising revenues. 'Intellectual property' means they'll copyright every idea they can and sue you to prove that you came by it on your own. Good luck with that. They have better lawyers and the law is on their side.
Orion was the one you set off nuclear bombs under a heavy plate as a thrust mechanism. BiFrost is basically an upgraded NERVA system, from what little I can gleam from the article. Not a lot of hard science in it.
NERVA basically pumps liquid hydrogen through a fission reactor core. The core heats up the hydrogen, it expands, escapes through the bottom of the reactor and the nozzle providing thrust. Think 'tea kettle'. It'll help you visualise it.
The best reaction mass for this concept is stabilized monotomic hydrogen ('single-H', as Heinlein put it).
Because it's an election year and the *AAs are financing their reelection campaigns. Silly citizen, you thought you had free elections or something???
Nononono.
Nuke the sites from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Netflix. Movies on demand.
The technology and distribution system is in place. However, the distribution system breaks their business plan. The *AAs want expensive media sales, it's better for their bottom lines. Thus, the attempts to shut down the internet to protect their business plan.
Tonight on Pay-Per-View!
Tomorrow, on P2P!!
Thing is, when the government does the beating, it's not vigilanteism. What SOPA is doing is, elevating the *AAs up to a government department without oversight and hijacking the law enforcement agencies of the government to do their dirty work.
Of course not. Ma Bell has great lawyers and lobbyists. MegaUpload had neither. They probably didn't think they needed them. Ain't hindsight a bitch?
Course, it could be a Feeb sting site. Get out yer tinfoil hats, kids, we're gonna have some REAL fun now!!
If your cloud's servers got raided by the government, you ain't getting your data back. No way they're gonna let you into your cloud account, you could go up there and try to delete incrimnating evidence. What do they consider incriminating evidence? These days, it looks like having an account on a 'pirate' server and actually using it, even if the data is totally legit.
Dunno about your ISP, but mine specifically says I'm not allowed to host files on my home system(s) to serve out to the net. It's a TOS violation. SOPA would give them an extra hammer to use on me if they decided they wanted to cut my access off.
Funny thing is, all my ISP has to do is run a packet sniffer against anybody signed up with them with high traffic totals per the useage log. That'll tell them where my packets are coming from. If the source is say, somewhat shady, there's probable cause that I'm one of those 'eeevil pirates and terrorrorrorrorrists' and they can pull my plug.
Pretty much, yeah. Especially in today's climate of 'guilty by association, no trial needed'. Post your legit files on a pirate fileserver, get busted with 'the rest of the pirates' and shame on you! Shoulda just did a full backup and took it home like we did in the old days.
Oh, where they talk about spending the extra 3 bucks for the heavy duty triple oil filter?
You know that and I know that and I suspect the MAFIAA and the US government also know that, but how do you get the US government to admit it without having to spend time in Gitmo?
Welcome to the Reichstad.
Got a light?
Because now the MAFIAA can go before Congress and argue that they need more power, more power, MORE POWER to rinse and repeat without probable cause and other such legal niceties. "We shut them down without too much hassle, but we coulda done it FASTER and EASIER and more importantly, CHEAPER, with this new legislation. Well, cheaper for US, anyways. Oh, and here's a campaign contribution, carry on!"
Especially when you're seriously pissed off at your neighbor. Figure out his home net, download some kiddyporn to the bitbucket, and microwave some popcorn for the show when the cops show up. Rinse and repeat.