"Sea level is indeed rising. This determination is made when one averages changes in sea level over the entire globe for the past century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated that the global average sea level has risen 10 to 25 cm (4 to 10 inches) in the past century. However, sea level is affected by many factors, including local ones, so sea level change at any single location may be either a rise, a fall, or no change at all."
Of course, nasa and the IPCC may be just lying about this.
So we need to see the counter evidence.
Since you've let the cat out of the bag,
here's another "technique" -- ask for a
temporary suspension of service and see
if they actually turn you off. I did this
one summer when we were gone and it took
them **two years** before they noticed
we hadn't resumed service. Needless to
say, during all that time we had full
cable service.
But really, this is not the sort of thing
you want to be generally known!
You are being obtuse. The difference is that
a "mistake" is not a "wrong action". So to
say that is a mistake *is* to say that is
not wrong. Suppose I trip by mistake and
knock you down. I didn't do anything wrong
(you can still be compensated of course).
Suppose I willfully decide to fake a fall
so that I can knock you over. That is not
a mistake, and it is wrong.
An interesting article that argues for radical
reform of copyright (do not let the words
"intellectual property" spring from
your mouth) can be found (in an unusual place
I think)
here. Maybe the tide is slackening and will begin to
turn soon.
I assume that anybody can declare a file
shareable. But the *user* is the one who
has to make this declaration.
This means LimeWire is not encouraging nor
participating in violation of copyright.
Thus Limewire hopes to survive the lawsuits to come.
No way... "New Hope" is the zero-th
movie, cause the *right* way to index
a list is to start from -3.
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the iss is highly visible and very
beautiful quite regularly. To find
when it is visible at your location
try
Heavens
Above.
I remember one night watching the ISS
and one of the shuttles pass over
together as the shuttle approached the
station. It looked like two brilliant
stars just a moon-width apart passing
over head in perfect synchronization.
Spectacular sight! Everybody who sees
this is impressed and amazed to think
that there are people up there...
But, on the ground, I'm not willing to assume the risk of airplane flying into my building so I would rather have the airport security...
Unless you think that "airport security"
reduces the chances of a random terrorist
strike on you building to exactly zero,
you are just arguing about the **level**
of acceptable risk. Nobody that I know of
advocates completely unimpeded passenger
access to commercial airflights.
So what is the proper balance between
liberty and security? I certainly don't
know, but I have the feeling that wide
FBI powers to avoid due process have gone
way overboard.
Should the FBI have wide powers to prevent
people who unwittingly get them inselves
into a situation where they are killed
by the use of handguns in America. This is so
obvious that I can only imagine that you
are a wild gun control advocate (or do
you think anyone living in America "accepts
the risk of accidental death by firearm";
if so, I see no reason to deny that they
accept the risk of terrorist action on
their buildings).
Especially since the research was paid
for with public funds! Let us hope that
the NINT will declare that they will open
the patented process (to defend against
copycat patenters). But I won't bet on it.
I can see the greedy glint in the U of A's
president's eye from here!
Here's the blurb about the institute:
The National Institute for Nanotechnology is an integrated, multi-disciplinary institution involving researchers in physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, informatics, pharmacy and medicine. Established in 2001, it is operated as a partnership between the National Research Council and the University of Alberta, and is jointly funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta and the university.
Joe Hacker's code is still copyright
Joe Hacker. When did he assign away
his copyright? Not by using the GPL.
Of course, it might be hard for Joe
Hacker to find out where is code has
ended up... but that's life on the
globe of corporate scumbags we call
Earth.
why don't you think that it will soon
*be* law that you keep logs for all
activity for say six months or a year?
If you don't "have the capacity" then
get out of the ISP business - the big
boys will have the capacity...
I hope Lucas is ready to pay out the
huge award the jury will provide since
he is *obviously* responsible for putting
this idea into impressionable young minds.
Well... at least if they can launch
the suit in America.
"The reason why we decided to pull it [O'Gara's hack job] was that when the content, style and the language of the story was perceived as offensive by a group of the readers, a denial-of-service attack was launched against our entire company, interfering with all of our publications and all of our readers."
Leaving aside the incredible moral blindness
of missing what was wrong with the O'Gara
article, this guy admits he is willing
to dump "entertaining" and "accurate"
reporters because of a DOS attack. Nice
guy to work for...
Slashdot Mirror
Say, where is your evidence that global mean sea level (not at some local, selected spot) has fallen since the 19th century.
I read, after 10 seconds on google, here that:
"Sea level is indeed rising. This determination is made when one averages changes in sea level over the entire globe for the past century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated that the global average sea level has risen 10 to 25 cm (4 to 10 inches) in the past century. However, sea level is affected by many factors, including local ones, so sea level change at any single location may be either a rise, a fall, or no change at all."
Of course, nasa and the IPCC may be just lying about this. So we need to see the counter evidence.
In Canada, it is legal to download from the internet, so what's your definition of "stealing"?
Since you've let the cat out of the bag, here's another "technique" -- ask for a temporary suspension of service and see if they actually turn you off. I did this one summer when we were gone and it took them **two years** before they noticed we hadn't resumed service. Needless to say, during all that time we had full cable service.
But really, this is not the sort of thing you want to be generally known!
You are being obtuse. The difference is that a "mistake" is not a "wrong action". So to say that is a mistake *is* to say that is not wrong. Suppose I trip by mistake and knock you down. I didn't do anything wrong (you can still be compensated of course). Suppose I willfully decide to fake a fall so that I can knock you over. That is not a mistake, and it is wrong.
Spider Robinson figured out where this ends long ago in this story. Worth a read.
An interesting article that argues for radical reform of copyright (do not let the words "intellectual property" spring from your mouth) can be found (in an unusual place I think) here. Maybe the tide is slackening and will begin to turn soon.
I assume that anybody can declare a file shareable. But the *user* is the one who has to make this declaration.
This means LimeWire is not encouraging nor participating in violation of copyright.
Thus Limewire hopes to survive the lawsuits to come.
you've hit the nail on the head
Nice example of the fallacy of "false dilemma".
I hear that top of the line *integrated* earplug / earphone is here.
No way ... "New Hope" is the zero-th
movie, cause the *right* way to index
a list is to start from -3.
the iss is highly visible and very beautiful quite regularly. To find when it is visible at your location try Heavens Above.
...
I remember one night watching the ISS and one of the shuttles pass over together as the shuttle approached the station. It looked like two brilliant stars just a moon-width apart passing over head in perfect synchronization.
Spectacular sight! Everybody who sees this is impressed and amazed to think that there are people up there
You are hopefully in America where ripping CDs is (for now) legal. In UK, Australia and New Zealand, for example, it is not legal.
Canada's new copyright law (under study) looks like it will make ripping CDs a copyright violation up here too
Unless you think that "airport security" reduces the chances of a random terrorist strike on you building to exactly zero, you are just arguing about the **level** of acceptable risk. Nobody that I know of advocates completely unimpeded passenger access to commercial airflights.
So what is the proper balance between liberty and security? I certainly don't know, but I have the feeling that wide FBI powers to avoid due process have gone way overboard.
Should the FBI have wide powers to prevent people who unwittingly get them inselves into a situation where they are killed by the use of handguns in America. This is so obvious that I can only imagine that you are a wild gun control advocate (or do you think anyone living in America "accepts the risk of accidental death by firearm"; if so, I see no reason to deny that they accept the risk of terrorist action on their buildings).
Especially since the research was paid for with public funds! Let us hope that the NINT will declare that they will open the patented process (to defend against copycat patenters). But I won't bet on it. I can see the greedy glint in the U of A's president's eye from here!
Here's the blurb about the institute:
The National Institute for Nanotechnology is an integrated, multi-disciplinary institution involving researchers in physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, informatics, pharmacy and medicine. Established in 2001, it is operated as a partnership between the National Research Council and the University of Alberta, and is jointly funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta and the university.
Joe Hacker's code is still copyright Joe Hacker. When did he assign away his copyright? Not by using the GPL. Of course, it might be hard for Joe Hacker to find out where is code has ended up ... but that's life on the
globe of corporate scumbags we call
Earth.
why don't you think that it will soon *be* law that you keep logs for all activity for say six months or a year? If you don't "have the capacity" then get out of the ISP business - the big boys will have the capacity ...
I worry that your head is in the sand on this.
someday, somewhere, the goatse man will seize this opportunity
I hope Lucas is ready to pay out the huge award the jury will provide since he is *obviously* responsible for putting this idea into impressionable young minds.
... at least if they can launch
the suit in America.
Well
in the immortal words of Fuat Kircaali:
...
"The reason why we decided to pull it [O'Gara's hack job] was that when the content, style and the language of the story was perceived as offensive by a group of the readers, a denial-of-service attack was launched against our entire company, interfering with all of our publications and all of our readers."
Leaving aside the incredible moral blindness of missing what was wrong with the O'Gara article, this guy admits he is willing to dump "entertaining" and "accurate" reporters because of a DOS attack. Nice guy to work for
What a piece of work is Fuat Kircaali.
WTF?
From the 'about konqueror' pulldown:
(c) 1999-2004, The Konqueror developers
This program is distributed under the terms of the GPL v2.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Looks like the GPL to me. Care to explain?
you have legal grounds to chew them into dust ...
...
so long as you a million or so to fund the case
there has apparently been a clarification; there will be no more articles by O'Gara, period.
see here.
Have a look here and tell me this design isn't just a prettier soyuz system ...
from the FA:
Now we come to the most profound environmental problem of all, the one that trumps everything: global climate change
I actually don't understand your comment