No, three years is too short. Publishing houses could just wait for copyright to expire, and market the hell out of their new public domain work, with no benefit to the author. 12 to 14 years sounds about right, perhaps with an option to extend to 20. After that I seriously don't care whether or not you could milk it for more money, or its social importance. Thats the point, returning to society its cultural icons for the legitimate creation of derivative works.
Do you pay local authorities, people in crowds you take photos of, or the owners of buildings whose images you resell? I think their rights are being infringed, and they deserve a cut of the profits, to be honest.
It also takes away the power of people like the Vatican screwing over the poor for larger cathedrals, and more power of more people.
You don't need to disprove life after death to do that, and if you did (which these experiments did not) they would always find another hole to hide in.
Far from it being horseshit. This line of study is taking shots at the "horseshit" that is the evidence for there being a god and a soul/spirit. For many people, these near-death experiences are their primary evidence of the existence of a god and that they have an eternal spirit/soul. By explaining yet another "supernatural phenomenon" with science, we continue to chip away at the god myth.
I think you might be confusing spirituality with god myths and religion. While I do agree that most of these myths can be traced back to primitive naturistic practices, which are in turn extended and codified by organised religion, of which 99% are complete nonsense, there is a lot we don't know about the universe and our place in it. Its entirely possible that some day science will discover new realms and concepts that were previously the purview of the religious, just as it has with all the otherconcepts you mentioned, including the persistence of some segment of the consicousness after the biological machine fails for the last time. I don't think it will be what anyone is expecting though.
You clearly said "crime rates skyrocketing out of control". This is demonstrably untrue
Really. Economic problems lead to social instability, which in turn lead to increased crime - so why would the UK government waste money on doing something the ESA can do better, for less, when they could be dealing with more important problems? Oh yes, because we're still a big powerful counttryyy, and if the Indians can do it why aren't we?
are just pulling vitriol out of your arse.
Explain that one to me. Explain how a mortally bankrupt country with endemic social problems can justify starting a space program when contributions to the ESA will probably suffer as a result, and it will almost certainly end up being another quango.
Here's a tip: stop reading rags like The Sun, or the Daily Mail, and stop watching Sky News, or at the very least start analysing the "facts" these news outlets trot out.
Heres another tip, don't trivialise serious social problems by using the red tops as a fig leaf or by comparison to third world hellholes.
Good lad, I'm glad you're happy to live in a society where underaged thugs can and do intimidate old ladies, little children, and the less well off as a matter of course. With a big hard username like c6gunner though, I'm also sure that a herd of charging buffalo would ricochet off your manly chest before skewering themselves on the barbecue fork over the lake of magma you use to cook dinner. The c wouldn't stand for "chuck" by any chance?
Ahahah, touched a nerve have we? Anyway this is what you get for using Wikipedia as your main source of knowledge, and from your own link: "The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by killing warriors of non-industrialized societies"
Reported crime is very different from low level intimidation by welfare bred chav thugs who know exactly how far they can push it before they will get in serious trouble, which is what I was talking about. Anyway the general point wasn't about English people (who I generally like) but about the idiot leadership (who I generally don't) - this is a ridiculous nationalistic move which smacks of jealousy that former vassal state India has a space program and they don't, when the country is running through one of the most serious economic crises of its existence.
Yes we are! We have a worse economic situation than the worst of the PIIGS, we wouldn't be allowed into the Euro even if we wanted to, we have crime rates skyrocketing out of control and antisocial little bastards roaming the streets making going to the shops a gauntlet worthy of mad max, we have an inbred hereditary leadership (we're lucky Prince Charles didn't have antennae!) and an architectural pedigree that looks like later grey prison period, but weee're still a big powerful countttryyy, like we were when we stole the designs for machine guns from the French and used them to shoot spear toting tribesmen the world over and hold that up as infallible evidence of our cultural superiority!
Mod me down as you see fit, but lollers, seriously.
The English have been masters at the spy trade for centuries.
Heh, fewer Bond movies methinks. The Irish, under Michael Collins, infiltrated English intelligence operations so thoroughly in the 1920s that they were able to eliminate all of their bagmen in a single morning's work. To quote Collins, "how did these people ever get an Empire". They were eventually reduced to hiring mercenaries to terrorise old ladies on farms.
Em those numbers are wrong. Even 1960s-era PSH like Turlough Hill in Ireland get in the mid to high 80s returns, and modern systems aget in the 90s very easily. As for the 1991 costing, I'll say nothing.
Hows that, countries like China are putting our PSH as fast as they can - as well as which there are salt water storage PSH facilities currently active in Japan, and recent technological developments allow for much lower height PSH reservoirs. It would appear the compressed air guys haven't been keeping up with the news.
The wind is a very much harder thing to predict. So how much storage is needed? Who knows. What we DO know is that every single wind power station is going to need gas turbine backups for when a) the wind doesn't blow, b) demand is high and c) storage is depleted.
Many studies have been done on this subject. You appear to be a bit confused as to the purpose of load levelling systems in proposed green energy schemes.
Indeed, especially when there are many alternatives available. Pumped storage hydro (which China is rolling out as fast as it can) is a good one, or if you just wanted to string HVDC lines between main networks, you can get a smoothed power supply because the wind is always blowing somewhere, see for reference the European supergrid concept.
It could be feasable if you treat the roads like multi-tier highways. Have say three or four "levels" above the surface, with cars automated to go to those levels for road driving. If tier 1 is slow, go to 2, and so on, with simple collision detection sensors to slow them down in case they get too close to each other. You could line each side of the road with beacons as well to keep the cars within the "tracks", or just use GPS and switch to "road mode". Keeping a maximum height for the whole affair of say 100 meters should be plenty, how many roads have 100m of anything above them? You wouldn't even need to adjust existing infrastructure much. Licensing could be varied, with the lowest level only entitled to drive on main roads on autopilot, basically punch in location A to location B and sit back, while higher level grades could offer greater autonomy, with the top level being equivalent to a commercial pilot's licence.
The benefits would be massive, you could clear up traffic problems overnight, multiplying the capacity of your road network by four or more, you could have a seperate commercial delivery network running drop pods everywhere, it would transform civilisation as we know it.
Now all we need is an electric car/hovercar, roadworthy for bad weather.
Of course there is plenty of evidence that you get good employees if you pay them more money.
Well if it worked for the banks... oh wait. If you start overpaying you get people interested in the money, not the job, which means bad quality teachers. Remember all the dilettantes getting into IT around the time of the dot com boom? Same idea. Yes pay them well, but don't think that more pay = better quality. It just makes the better quality harder to find.
It's kinda funny that the world's most powerful superpower is little more than a sock puppet of a little east mediterranean state in what concerns it's foreign policy on the Middle East...
Don't kid yourself. Its established US policy to create and support "friendly states" near where US interests lie. This is one of the main reasons why Japan was rebuilt and heavily funded by the US in the far east. Its not even completely connected to oil resources I would say, but part of an ideological and strategic conflict. When the oil dries up or becomes irrelevant (possibly within the next couple of decades), most of the middle east is going to be a lot poorer than it is today, and hence a whole lot angrier. Better that they are targeting Israel than the US, in the eyes of policymakers, so the bigger a boogeyman it is the better.
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Yes, because European governments are well known for their light touch hands off safety regulations.
No, three years is too short. Publishing houses could just wait for copyright to expire, and market the hell out of their new public domain work, with no benefit to the author. 12 to 14 years sounds about right, perhaps with an option to extend to 20. After that I seriously don't care whether or not you could milk it for more money, or its social importance. Thats the point, returning to society its cultural icons for the legitimate creation of derivative works.
Do you pay local authorities, people in crowds you take photos of, or the owners of buildings whose images you resell? I think their rights are being infringed, and they deserve a cut of the profits, to be honest.
Down with the herd mind.
It also takes away the power of people like the Vatican screwing over the poor for larger cathedrals, and more power of more people.
You don't need to disprove life after death to do that, and if you did (which these experiments did not) they would always find another hole to hide in.
Far from it being horseshit. This line of study is taking shots at the "horseshit" that is the evidence for there being a god and a soul/spirit. For many people, these near-death experiences are their primary evidence of the existence of a god and that they have an eternal spirit/soul. By explaining yet another "supernatural phenomenon" with science, we continue to chip away at the god myth.
I think you might be confusing spirituality with god myths and religion. While I do agree that most of these myths can be traced back to primitive naturistic practices, which are in turn extended and codified by organised religion, of which 99% are complete nonsense, there is a lot we don't know about the universe and our place in it. Its entirely possible that some day science will discover new realms and concepts that were previously the purview of the religious, just as it has with all the otherconcepts you mentioned, including the persistence of some segment of the consicousness after the biological machine fails for the last time. I don't think it will be what anyone is expecting though.
You clearly said "crime rates skyrocketing out of control". This is demonstrably untrue
Really. Economic problems lead to social instability, which in turn lead to increased crime - so why would the UK government waste money on doing something the ESA can do better, for less, when they could be dealing with more important problems? Oh yes, because we're still a big powerful counttryyy, and if the Indians can do it why aren't we?
are just pulling vitriol out of your arse.
Explain that one to me. Explain how a mortally bankrupt country with endemic social problems can justify starting a space program when contributions to the ESA will probably suffer as a result, and it will almost certainly end up being another quango.
Here's a tip: stop reading rags like The Sun, or the Daily Mail, and stop watching Sky News, or at the very least start analysing the "facts" these news outlets trot out.
Heres another tip, don't trivialise serious social problems by using the red tops as a fig leaf or by comparison to third world hellholes.
You'd only do that if you wanted to buy them a new TV via the court system.
Good lad, I'm glad you're happy to live in a society where underaged thugs can and do intimidate old ladies, little children, and the less well off as a matter of course. With a big hard username like c6gunner though, I'm also sure that a herd of charging buffalo would ricochet off your manly chest before skewering themselves on the barbecue fork over the lake of magma you use to cook dinner. The c wouldn't stand for "chuck" by any chance?
You think this will be anything more than another quango?
Ahahah, touched a nerve have we? Anyway this is what you get for using Wikipedia as your main source of knowledge, and from your own link: "The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by killing warriors of non-industrialized societies"
Reported crime is very different from low level intimidation by welfare bred chav thugs who know exactly how far they can push it before they will get in serious trouble, which is what I was talking about. Anyway the general point wasn't about English people (who I generally like) but about the idiot leadership (who I generally don't) - this is a ridiculous nationalistic move which smacks of jealousy that former vassal state India has a space program and they don't, when the country is running through one of the most serious economic crises of its existence.
Yes we are! We have a worse economic situation than the worst of the PIIGS, we wouldn't be allowed into the Euro even if we wanted to, we have crime rates skyrocketing out of control and antisocial little bastards roaming the streets making going to the shops a gauntlet worthy of mad max, we have an inbred hereditary leadership (we're lucky Prince Charles didn't have antennae!) and an architectural pedigree that looks like later grey prison period, but weee're still a big powerful countttryyy, like we were when we stole the designs for machine guns from the French and used them to shoot spear toting tribesmen the world over and hold that up as infallible evidence of our cultural superiority!
Mod me down as you see fit, but lollers, seriously.
Above poster is trolling with a virus link...
The English have been masters at the spy trade for centuries.
Heh, fewer Bond movies methinks. The Irish, under Michael Collins, infiltrated English intelligence operations so thoroughly in the 1920s that they were able to eliminate all of their bagmen in a single morning's work. To quote Collins, "how did these people ever get an Empire". They were eventually reduced to hiring mercenaries to terrorise old ladies on farms.
Steps are already underway to do exactly that across Europe....
Em those numbers are wrong. Even 1960s-era PSH like Turlough Hill in Ireland get in the mid to high 80s returns, and modern systems aget in the 90s very easily. As for the 1991 costing, I'll say nothing.
Hows that, countries like China are putting our PSH as fast as they can - as well as which there are salt water storage PSH facilities currently active in Japan, and recent technological developments allow for much lower height PSH reservoirs. It would appear the compressed air guys haven't been keeping up with the news.
The wind is a very much harder thing to predict. So how much storage is needed? Who knows. What we DO know is that every single wind power station is going to need gas turbine backups for when a) the wind doesn't blow, b) demand is high and c) storage is depleted.
Many studies have been done on this subject. You appear to be a bit confused as to the purpose of load levelling systems in proposed green energy schemes.
Indeed, especially when there are many alternatives available. Pumped storage hydro (which China is rolling out as fast as it can) is a good one, or if you just wanted to string HVDC lines between main networks, you can get a smoothed power supply because the wind is always blowing somewhere, see for reference the European supergrid concept.
It could be feasable if you treat the roads like multi-tier highways. Have say three or four "levels" above the surface, with cars automated to go to those levels for road driving. If tier 1 is slow, go to 2, and so on, with simple collision detection sensors to slow them down in case they get too close to each other. You could line each side of the road with beacons as well to keep the cars within the "tracks", or just use GPS and switch to "road mode". Keeping a maximum height for the whole affair of say 100 meters should be plenty, how many roads have 100m of anything above them? You wouldn't even need to adjust existing infrastructure much. Licensing could be varied, with the lowest level only entitled to drive on main roads on autopilot, basically punch in location A to location B and sit back, while higher level grades could offer greater autonomy, with the top level being equivalent to a commercial pilot's licence.
The benefits would be massive, you could clear up traffic problems overnight, multiplying the capacity of your road network by four or more, you could have a seperate commercial delivery network running drop pods everywhere, it would transform civilisation as we know it.
Now all we need is an electric car/hovercar, roadworthy for bad weather.
Everyone agrees that wind can't provide baseline power.
No, they don't. Look up the European supergrid concept.
Of course there is plenty of evidence that you get good employees if you pay them more money.
Well if it worked for the banks... oh wait. If you start overpaying you get people interested in the money, not the job, which means bad quality teachers. Remember all the dilettantes getting into IT around the time of the dot com boom? Same idea. Yes pay them well, but don't think that more pay = better quality. It just makes the better quality harder to find.
It's kinda funny that the world's most powerful superpower is little more than a sock puppet of a little east mediterranean state in what concerns it's foreign policy on the Middle East...
Don't kid yourself. Its established US policy to create and support "friendly states" near where US interests lie. This is one of the main reasons why Japan was rebuilt and heavily funded by the US in the far east. Its not even completely connected to oil resources I would say, but part of an ideological and strategic conflict. When the oil dries up or becomes irrelevant (possibly within the next couple of decades), most of the middle east is going to be a lot poorer than it is today, and hence a whole lot angrier. Better that they are targeting Israel than the US, in the eyes of policymakers, so the bigger a boogeyman it is the better.