So that would mean, regarding this story, that they can give PhDs to these people all they want. But that could never be seen as a PhD in a scientific field.
Exactly. I can see it as a PhD in Philosophy or Theology, but not Science.
However, having a military background, I can assure you that your belief that small volumes of fluids can't be used to cause catastrophic damage is sorely in need of a reality check.
Agreed. And explosives are fairly easy to improvise from stuff under the kitchen sink if you've had the training to do it.
Any question like "So, your work wasn't good enough for them to hire you full time?" can be answered as follows:
"The contract was finished, I went on to the next project because they weren't hiring at the time. The new contract helped me solidify and expand my skillset."
You provided no cites to back your "facts", it is nice to see that slashdot is working well this morning.
Well, let's see, there's this report claiming that although physical CD sales are down, music profits are UP due to the growth of iTunes, etc. (The article itself is on the front page of/. today.) Kinda like what buggy whip makers must have said when they started selling that new-fangled horseless carriage. "Nobody's buying buggy whips or saddles anymore, they must be STEALING them because EVERYBODY knows you can't live without them!!"
So, people are spending their $.99 on a single iTune track rather than dump $20 on a CD when they only want the one track. Obviously, they're downloading the remaining 8 or 9 or whatever tracks illegally.[/sarcasm]
Dunno bout you, but when we went from vinyl to CDs, I took my time. I had a couple grand in vinyl, and I didn't see the point in rebuying my entire collection just to listen to them on a $200 CD player cause I still had to copy them to cassette tape for my car. How many goddamned times did they expect me to keep buying the same music over and over and over again? Today I know that if they could figure out how to charge me a buck every time at least 3 notes hit my ears from the radio, they'd do it in a heartbeat. This is just 'vinyl to CD' all over again.
Check your email lately? He was cloning the 'pump&dump' 'style' emails I get all the time from chop shop brokerages that generate movement in a stock as they sell out their position. Course, the stock totally tanks once they sell out, cause they're the ones causing all the movement...
Ok, the panel voltage is about 17V. If anything with 17V cannot be the cause of fires, certainly a li-ion battery cannot, since it's cell is only 3.7V.
Then howcome Apple recalled all those batteries for those Powerbooks? Don't own one myself, but I'm going out on a limb and say that the voltage involved is on the order of 5-6V, same as my Thinkpad.
Musicians DO choose the method of music distribution that best suits their needs! they CHOOSE to sign a contract with a studio rather than using the self publishing route. Musicians have the same inalienable rights as the rest of us, they are fully emancipated.
No they don't. The only choice a musician gets to make is, 1) live in slavery to the labels, 2) starve as a garage band artist, 3) get a 'Real Job', or 4) Combo of #3 & #4. It all depends on whether they want to live a life with creativity or in obscurity. The labels could care less, except that they'd have less 'product' to push.
This is especially heinous because college is already so expensive. We need to be looking for ways to make it more affordable to those who are looking to learn. This would increase tuition and distract schools from their mission of education.
Nice idea, lowering the cost of education. Doubt it'll happen, though, because it'll help narrow the gap between the Haves and the Have-Nots. If it wasn't the case, we wouldn't see 2500 students fighting over 10-15 'opennings' for students in various programs, there'd be enough professors and resources to accomodate them. High price of education is just one more way of prescreening the applicants out before telling them they'll never realise their dream of a college degree in the career path of their heart unless they're connected. And don't even get me started on the 'Montgomery GI Bill', et.al.
For your analogy to be valid, music filesharing would have to be a rare incident rather than endemic. It's easily proven to be endemic, hence your analogy is wrong. How is it not evil to use obviously misleading analogies?
What are the criteria you use to define music filesharing as 'endemic'? The ownership of a personal computer and an Internet connection? What is your proof of all this epidemic of unauthorised music filesharing? Cites please. RIAA sources don't count.
As for RIAA claiming infringements and unauthorised downloads, they've been known to sue dead people, senile grandmothers in nursing homes that never had access to a computer in their life, and preteens. Definitely did their research there.
Nice astroturfing, btw. Now go away before I taunt you with facts again.
You really think Obama doesn't come certified and approved by the Great Old Ones? Look at what he has done and look at who he has appointed. Lizards, every one.
At least we know where to go when we need new aligator shoes. Or wallets. Or luggage.
Actually, we have no idea how fair or to what confidence level American Idol singers are voted on. We have nothing except what we're told by the producers.
Sounds like American politics, same as always, to me.
Whether Diebold is a villian here or not is clearly debateable. But the hero is Mitch and anyone working with him to independently verify the results. In this case, he is the check in checks and balances.
Funny, I thought the check clearly stated 'Pay To The Order of Diebold Co'...
But dystopian viewpoints are closer to the reality of things. A lot of people think that if you can just get everybody to sit down and sing Kumbaya, we'll all be in perfect shape. Problem is, I just don't see that happening any time within the lifetimes of my great grand kids.
I'd think that hydrocarbons (petrochemicals) would still be useful for things like plastic feedstocks, some fertilizers (until we figure out a cheap way to not need them anymore), even as possible directly-converted foods, recycleable as needed. There will always be applications for petrochemicals, the hot setup is to figure out how to make them directly recycleable instead of burning them off in a car's engine.
Any system is subject to gaming at some level or another (from voter coercion or inducement all the way to crooked supervisors of election).
True, but to game the paper ballot system to generate a landslide condition for your New Hero, you'll have to get quite a number of people involved. Figure 3 or 4 at every precinct at least. How many precincts would you need to game to steal a Presidency? And keep in mind that the more people involved in the conspiracy, the more likely it is that the conspiracy will be revealed, unless you intend to kill the rest of the conspirators.
E-voting, on the other tentacle, can be gamed easily by a single person.
R Q Riley has had plans for several of the Popular Mechanics/Mechanix Illustrated 'build your own car' plans for ages. Personally, I've always loved the Trimuter, might just build one someday when I scam up some free time & about 5k...
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Exactly. I can see it as a PhD in Philosophy or Theology, but not Science.
Agreed. And explosives are fairly easy to improvise from stuff under the kitchen sink if you've had the training to do it.
You'd have to get Indian citizenship in order to come back to the States on an H1B though. Anybody got any idea on how hard that is?
"The contract was finished, I went on to the next project because they weren't hiring at the time. The new contract helped me solidify and expand my skillset."
Was he pushed or did he jump?
I'm still trying to figure out when Motley Crue became 'classic rock'.
Well, let's see, there's this report claiming that although physical CD sales are down, music profits are UP due to the growth of iTunes, etc. (The article itself is on the front page of /. today.) Kinda like what buggy whip makers must have said when they started selling that new-fangled horseless carriage. "Nobody's buying buggy whips or saddles anymore, they must be STEALING them because EVERYBODY knows you can't live without them!!"
So, people are spending their $.99 on a single iTune track rather than dump $20 on a CD when they only want the one track. Obviously, they're downloading the remaining 8 or 9 or whatever tracks illegally.[/sarcasm]
Dunno bout you, but when we went from vinyl to CDs, I took my time. I had a couple grand in vinyl, and I didn't see the point in rebuying my entire collection just to listen to them on a $200 CD player cause I still had to copy them to cassette tape for my car. How many goddamned times did they expect me to keep buying the same music over and over and over again? Today I know that if they could figure out how to charge me a buck every time at least 3 notes hit my ears from the radio, they'd do it in a heartbeat. This is just 'vinyl to CD' all over again.
Check your email lately? He was cloning the 'pump&dump' 'style' emails I get all the time from chop shop brokerages that generate movement in a stock as they sell out their position. Course, the stock totally tanks once they sell out, cause they're the ones causing all the movement...
Then howcome Apple recalled all those batteries for those Powerbooks? Don't own one myself, but I'm going out on a limb and say that the voltage involved is on the order of 5-6V, same as my Thinkpad.
No they don't. The only choice a musician gets to make is, 1) live in slavery to the labels, 2) starve as a garage band artist, 3) get a 'Real Job', or 4) Combo of #3 & #4. It all depends on whether they want to live a life with creativity or in obscurity. The labels could care less, except that they'd have less 'product' to push.
Naw, I never download Metallica. Not worth the disk space of stealing it.
Nice idea, lowering the cost of education. Doubt it'll happen, though, because it'll help narrow the gap between the Haves and the Have-Nots. If it wasn't the case, we wouldn't see 2500 students fighting over 10-15 'opennings' for students in various programs, there'd be enough professors and resources to accomodate them. High price of education is just one more way of prescreening the applicants out before telling them they'll never realise their dream of a college degree in the career path of their heart unless they're connected. And don't even get me started on the 'Montgomery GI Bill', et.al.
What are the criteria you use to define music filesharing as 'endemic'? The ownership of a personal computer and an Internet connection? What is your proof of all this epidemic of unauthorised music filesharing? Cites please. RIAA sources don't count.
As for RIAA claiming infringements and unauthorised downloads, they've been known to sue dead people, senile grandmothers in nursing homes that never had access to a computer in their life, and preteens. Definitely did their research there.
Nice astroturfing, btw. Now go away before I taunt you with facts again.
Sounds like plausible deniability to me.
At least we know where to go when we need new aligator shoes. Or wallets. Or luggage.
Sounds like American politics, same as always, to me.
Dudes, we're SOOOOOOOOOOO very severely fucked!
Funny, I thought the check clearly stated 'Pay To The Order of Diebold Co'...
But dystopian viewpoints are closer to the reality of things. A lot of people think that if you can just get everybody to sit down and sing Kumbaya, we'll all be in perfect shape. Problem is, I just don't see that happening any time within the lifetimes of my great grand kids.
I'd think that hydrocarbons (petrochemicals) would still be useful for things like plastic feedstocks, some fertilizers (until we figure out a cheap way to not need them anymore), even as possible directly-converted foods, recycleable as needed. There will always be applications for petrochemicals, the hot setup is to figure out how to make them directly recycleable instead of burning them off in a car's engine.
True, but to game the paper ballot system to generate a landslide condition for your New Hero, you'll have to get quite a number of people involved. Figure 3 or 4 at every precinct at least. How many precincts would you need to game to steal a Presidency? And keep in mind that the more people involved in the conspiracy, the more likely it is that the conspiracy will be revealed, unless you intend to kill the rest of the conspirators.
E-voting, on the other tentacle, can be gamed easily by a single person.
They'd only get a few years in a Club Fed if they stole money. These are elections they stole.
Of course not, that's not the way they do business.
Fixed that for ya.
And they wonder why we hate them for scams like this...
R Q Riley has had plans for several of the Popular Mechanics/Mechanix Illustrated 'build your own car' plans for ages. Personally, I've always loved the Trimuter, might just build one someday when I scam up some free time & about 5k...
Sue God. After all, where's He gonna find a lawyer?