Is concentrating solar power into "power plants" the best way? Wouldn't it make more sense to distribute the collection over a large area, namely every persons house?
Big businesses make better campaign contributors than "every persons"
This is for recorded performances. About 9 cents per mp3, for example. Overpriced, but simple and straightforward. The simple and straightforward are why I'm using it as an example.
The situation with live performances is waaaaaay more confusing. As my friend the musician drunkenly explained once, the venue (in his case, dive bars) pays ASCAP directly, he does not pay a penny. If he sells a CD of a live performance he gets to pay a second license fee on the recording for each unit sold. I remember this discussion distinctly as he was infuriated about "double taxation" etc. I would assume that if another dive-bar played his already doubly taxed live music CD, they'd get to pay a third time because they own a jukebox.
The recorded performance structure sucks, but the live-cover-recorded performance structure really really sucks.
The way the statute is written... It would now criminalize anybody that performs a copyrighted work, which is essentially nowadays any song under the sun.
I'm mystified how this works with a copyrighted song released under a CC-SA license that explicitly permits that soon to be criminal act...
That said, if you want to see an app that reflects political reality more precisely, you'll have to wait for v2.0. It will have two (or more) versions of the positioning statement, depending on what it thinks you want to hear.
Do you think google and facebook have enough information on "us" that they could automate this process? I shouldn't be saying this out loud, I should be selling this idea to election committees for crazy sums of money... I do believe we are nearing the era of automated individualized campaign ads. Next election cycle I expect to get spam about which candidate prefers vim or emacs... We're already only a step away from hearing "Vote for Gnome or KDE, don't throw your vote away on 3rd party candidates like XFCE."
I think I've finally figured it out. "current topics" are what I'd consider irrelevant noise, such as "what is the honorable senator's opinion of Sarah Palin's daughter's performance on american idol last night" and "Tell us how you feel about the recent tornadoes, senator"
Microsoft started it... at least that was my first exposure to it, in the context of application "consumers" of messages or services. But it's not correct, and I cringe every time I see it.
For one thing, the reason it isn't proper in the current context is that "consuming" implies that the thing being consumed is being used up. Obviously, someone who "consumes" web content in the context given, isn't using it up. Therefore "consuming" is not the correct word.
Probably the same gang of geniuses that confuse digital duplication with the era of swashbucklers, wooden ships, and iron men.
I think it's a symptom of inflated opinion about the topic. I don't care about Drupal, although obviously the review author cares. Sort of a halo effect from drupal to the book.
Somebody into ancient religions would 8/10 that kind of stuff in ground breaking discoveries. For example:
As with most dead sea scrolls, the copyediting is quite poor, with inconsistent punctuation and plenty of errata that should have been caught in the production process:
However, this latest Packt book is not an ancient religious document worshiped by millions (as far as I know). Maybe if Packt would republish some Ayn Rand, after adding in some typos for authenticity.... Or maybe they could print and publish the "heads up VIM in 24 hours for dummies" as a box set with an emacs manual...
find in real-time information on the Senator's positions on current political topics
I don't know anything about the guy, but when you need networked computer automation to track how a politician flip flops on issues, something's wrong.
I've often wondered since then how much more effective that process would have been if it had been possible to attach a team of computer scientists and structural engineers to an Army unit.
Do we know anything about these rebels other than they don't like Gaddafi? How do we know we're not helping an Al Queada style organisation get into power? I have a bad feeling about this.
A kid who's family doesn't own a computer might become fascinated by the subject after being exposed to it in school and maybe he'll actually learn a useful skill other than how to take a bong rip and shotgun a beer.
In other words, getting a business degree, to become our bosses.
Unless the government is claiming ownership of your body (which apparently the UK government is), you should be able to terminate yourself any time you want
Nice try, but speaking as a libertarian worshipper of the free-market I would counter that you can't have a free market contractual obligation if one of the participants is bonkers crazy. And the assumption made by the doctors is anyone planning to off themselves is bonkers crazy. Furthermore that bonkers crazy dude, while perfectly sane, paid into the medical-industrial complex to receive mental health treatment when he's bonkers, just as he paid into the system to receive treatment for any other illness such as broken leg, so they need to uphold the contract and "treat" him. Much as a business contract is invalid if one of the signatories is bonkers crazy, a lunatic can't formally legally decide to off themselves.
Most of the people trying to off themselves are, in fact, bonkers, which makes this pretty complicated. I suppose a legal competency hearing would probably be required for a judge to make a judgement that the dude is not, in fact, bonkers crazy.
The place this needs fixing is in the mental health profession, not the contract upholding laws, etc. The other problem is the UK is horrifically infested with do-gooderism types of unnecessary laws, so you'd need to remove some clutter. The primary problem is the docs, not the lawyers/politicians.
The end of Western Civilization's downward slope is televising a man making his own decision about how to die in dignity, fighting for all the others that are denied this right today? That's what you call da nightmare? I seriously don't want to know the rest of your so-called "morals"...
Possibly is the type that doesn't want "people profiting off a man's" life, either. From each according to their ability and to each according to their need, and all that.
It is every person's right to decide how they die. Not the governments.
Its the UK, a different culture. There they believe its the governments right to totally control how you live... death is just the endgame, and not surprisingly, the govt wants to stay in charge right till the end.
The situation in the USA is weirder, with religious whackos trying to write their gods words into law, kind of an "American Taliban" thing.
The 32 gb iPod Touch is basically the same device and only costs $300. The iPod lacks a modem, GPS and camera, but that hardly accounts count for the extra $450.
My ipod touch has a camera and microphone and all that. I used facetime for about 30 seconds until I got bored with it.
Does the iphone have a GPS inside it, or is it the deal where it triangulates off the cell towers to guess where it is, and to the masses, any electrical device that tells you where it is, is a "GPS" (even ancient LORAN machines are "GPS", etc)
I agree that Paypal is very similar. However Paypal's exchange rate is fixed at Paypal$1 == US$1, which makes it less risky than Bitcoin.
No, no it is not fixed at all. I've paypal-ed donation money to addresses where I don't even know what continent they live on, much less their country or currency or the fluctuating exchange rate.
Furthermore, the whole point of sweeping money out of a PP account is to keep PP from making it disappear... Essentially every PP transaction has a risk PP will screw it up, so "$1" on PP is really only worth "95 cents" to a merchant. Close to credit cards, where the merchant eats the CC transaction fee, but closer to personal paper checks, where X percent of them bounce and you get nothing.
So, don't exchange. Its not necessary for webhosting and probably other services and products.
In addition to having 200 or so BTC, I also have a small cloth baggie of Euro coins. Probably about 5 euro worth in different denominations and different stamped countries. I can trade those at the local coin store for all manner of (cheap) things. I don't need to trade them into $ first.
It's expected that the market value of Bitcoins will settle at just above the cost of mining, if you mine very efficiently.
And... if you mine legally using your own hardware and electricity.
Its extremely hard to run the accounting net-present-value calculations on mining BTC using a bot-net, even assuming you don't get caught. Botnets are not free nor so they spring to existence in the morning dew nor fall from clouds. An intelligently run botnet would not kill the performance of the victims... better to run 5% slower for 3 years than to run 100% fast for about a week, assuming it takes more than a week to set up the next exploit.
If you want to account for getting caught, its even more complicated. If you run 10 separate operations each earning $1M, and get busted for five years in the hole for one of the operations, is $9M for five plus years a good rate of return for a botnet operator, or a bad rate of return for a CEO, or what?
And as a followup how do you feel about people in non-western countries violating their countries laws by purchasing bibles and non-burqua women's clothing using BTC?
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Is concentrating solar power into "power plants" the best way? Wouldn't it make more sense to distribute the collection over a large area, namely every persons house?
Big businesses make better campaign contributors than "every persons"
No matter how famous and how many hits the band on stage had, they played at least 1 or 2 cover songs.
Shit like that is why you go see bands live in the first place. Is that illegal now too?
Or has it always been illegal and it's just that nobody gave a damn?
http://www.songclearance.com/
This is for recorded performances. About 9 cents per mp3, for example. Overpriced, but simple and straightforward. The simple and straightforward are why I'm using it as an example.
The situation with live performances is waaaaaay more confusing. As my friend the musician drunkenly explained once, the venue (in his case, dive bars) pays ASCAP directly, he does not pay a penny. If he sells a CD of a live performance he gets to pay a second license fee on the recording for each unit sold. I remember this discussion distinctly as he was infuriated about "double taxation" etc. I would assume that if another dive-bar played his already doubly taxed live music CD, they'd get to pay a third time because they own a jukebox.
The recorded performance structure sucks, but the live-cover-recorded performance structure really really sucks.
The way the statute is written... It would now criminalize anybody that performs a copyrighted work, which is essentially nowadays any song under the sun.
I'm mystified how this works with a copyrighted song released under a CC-SA license that explicitly permits that soon to be criminal act...
Agreed, that's bad. But, look on the bright side, I haven't heard of any politicians tweeting a self made goatse... at least, not yet...
I love the combination of your signature and your post's last line. Took a second to realize that sig was not the last line of your post.
That said, if you want to see an app that reflects political reality more precisely, you'll have to wait for v2.0. It will have two (or more) versions of the positioning statement, depending on what it thinks you want to hear.
Do you think google and facebook have enough information on "us" that they could automate this process? I shouldn't be saying this out loud, I should be selling this idea to election committees for crazy sums of money... I do believe we are nearing the era of automated individualized campaign ads. Next election cycle I expect to get spam about which candidate prefers vim or emacs... We're already only a step away from hearing "Vote for Gnome or KDE, don't throw your vote away on 3rd party candidates like XFCE."
I think I've finally figured it out. "current topics" are what I'd consider irrelevant noise, such as "what is the honorable senator's opinion of Sarah Palin's daughter's performance on american idol last night" and "Tell us how you feel about the recent tornadoes, senator"
Microsoft started it... at least that was my first exposure to it, in the context of application "consumers" of messages or services. But it's not correct, and I cringe every time I see it.
For one thing, the reason it isn't proper in the current context is that "consuming" implies that the thing being consumed is being used up. Obviously, someone who "consumes" web content in the context given, isn't using it up. Therefore "consuming" is not the correct word.
Probably the same gang of geniuses that confuse digital duplication with the era of swashbucklers, wooden ships, and iron men.
I think it's a symptom of inflated opinion about the topic. I don't care about Drupal, although obviously the review author cares. Sort of a halo effect from drupal to the book.
Somebody into ancient religions would 8/10 that kind of stuff in ground breaking discoveries. For example:
As with most dead sea scrolls, the copyediting is quite poor, with inconsistent punctuation and plenty of errata that should have been caught in the production process:
However, this latest Packt book is not an ancient religious document worshiped by millions (as far as I know). Maybe if Packt would republish some Ayn Rand, after adding in some typos for authenticity.... Or maybe they could print and publish the "heads up VIM in 24 hours for dummies" as a box set with an emacs manual...
find in real-time information on the Senator's positions on current political topics
I don't know anything about the guy, but when you need networked computer automation to track how a politician flip flops on issues, something's wrong.
I've often wondered since then how much more effective that process would have been if it had been possible to attach a team of computer scientists and structural engineers to an Army unit.
http://www.usace.army.mil/
US Army Corps of Engineers
Do we know anything about these rebels other than they don't like Gaddafi? How do we know we're not helping an Al Queada style organisation get into power? I have a bad feeling about this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transitional_Council#Aims_and_objectives_of_the_national_council
They certainly know how to write a press release that will appeal to their western helpers. Is any of it real? Who knows.
They mean text editors (as opposed to word processors), compilers, interpreters, etc. Pretty much anything with a command line.
A kid who's family doesn't own a computer might become fascinated by the subject after being exposed to it in school and maybe he'll actually learn a useful skill other than how to take a bong rip and shotgun a beer.
In other words, getting a business degree, to become our bosses.
Speaking as a libertarian:
Unless the government is claiming ownership of your body (which apparently the UK government is), you should be able to terminate yourself any time you want
Nice try, but speaking as a libertarian worshipper of the free-market I would counter that you can't have a free market contractual obligation if one of the participants is bonkers crazy. And the assumption made by the doctors is anyone planning to off themselves is bonkers crazy. Furthermore that bonkers crazy dude, while perfectly sane, paid into the medical-industrial complex to receive mental health treatment when he's bonkers, just as he paid into the system to receive treatment for any other illness such as broken leg, so they need to uphold the contract and "treat" him. Much as a business contract is invalid if one of the signatories is bonkers crazy, a lunatic can't formally legally decide to off themselves.
Most of the people trying to off themselves are, in fact, bonkers, which makes this pretty complicated. I suppose a legal competency hearing would probably be required for a judge to make a judgement that the dude is not, in fact, bonkers crazy.
The place this needs fixing is in the mental health profession, not the contract upholding laws, etc. The other problem is the UK is horrifically infested with do-gooderism types of unnecessary laws, so you'd need to remove some clutter. The primary problem is the docs, not the lawyers/politicians.
The end of Western Civilization's downward slope is televising a man making his own decision about how to die in dignity, fighting for all the others that are denied this right today? That's what you call da nightmare? I seriously don't want to know the rest of your so-called "morals"...
Possibly is the type that doesn't want "people profiting off a man's" life, either. From each according to their ability and to each according to their need, and all that.
It is every person's right to decide how they die. Not the governments.
Its the UK, a different culture. There they believe its the governments right to totally control how you live... death is just the endgame, and not surprisingly, the govt wants to stay in charge right till the end.
The situation in the USA is weirder, with religious whackos trying to write their gods words into law, kind of an "American Taliban" thing.
Neither side understands each other.
The 32 gb iPod Touch is basically the same device and only costs $300. The iPod lacks a modem, GPS and camera, but that hardly accounts count for the extra $450.
My ipod touch has a camera and microphone and all that. I used facetime for about 30 seconds until I got bored with it.
Does the iphone have a GPS inside it, or is it the deal where it triangulates off the cell towers to guess where it is, and to the masses, any electrical device that tells you where it is, is a "GPS" (even ancient LORAN machines are "GPS", etc)
I really do not understand unsubsidized prices of phone anymore.
Here's my mystery equation:
$186 ipod touch (a fair price) + $29 virgin mobile pay as you go phone (a fair price) somehow = $649
Truly a mystery. Of course you don't really need the phone if you've got wifi coverage and facetime, which makes it even weirder.
Hm, perhaps Jobs could achieve some more immortality by donating the source code of OS X to the Free Software Foundation?
They'd probably ask if the BSD licensed parts can be relicensed under the GPL, and/or claim it should be named GNU-OSX
I agree that Paypal is very similar. However Paypal's exchange rate is fixed at Paypal$1 == US$1, which makes it less risky than Bitcoin.
No, no it is not fixed at all. I've paypal-ed donation money to addresses where I don't even know what continent they live on, much less their country or currency or the fluctuating exchange rate.
Furthermore, the whole point of sweeping money out of a PP account is to keep PP from making it disappear... Essentially every PP transaction has a risk PP will screw it up, so "$1" on PP is really only worth "95 cents" to a merchant. Close to credit cards, where the merchant eats the CC transaction fee, but closer to personal paper checks, where X percent of them bounce and you get nothing.
Look at the history of us $ circulation in countries where the us $ officially did/does not circulate.
So, don't exchange. Its not necessary for webhosting and probably other services and products.
In addition to having 200 or so BTC, I also have a small cloth baggie of Euro coins. Probably about 5 euro worth in different denominations and different stamped countries. I can trade those at the local coin store for all manner of (cheap) things. I don't need to trade them into $ first.
It's expected that the market value of Bitcoins will settle at just above the cost of mining, if you mine very efficiently.
And ... if you mine legally using your own hardware and electricity.
Its extremely hard to run the accounting net-present-value calculations on mining BTC using a bot-net, even assuming you don't get caught. Botnets are not free nor so they spring to existence in the morning dew nor fall from clouds. An intelligently run botnet would not kill the performance of the victims... better to run 5% slower for 3 years than to run 100% fast for about a week, assuming it takes more than a week to set up the next exploit.
If you want to account for getting caught, its even more complicated. If you run 10 separate operations each earning $1M, and get busted for five years in the hole for one of the operations, is $9M for five plus years a good rate of return for a botnet operator, or a bad rate of return for a CEO, or what?
And as a followup how do you feel about people in non-western countries violating their countries laws by purchasing bibles and non-burqua women's clothing using BTC?