Dude, the reason every other states hate you is that your state keep causing trouble during election days. NO OTHER states have that much trouble with voting, not even California.
Um... think what you will. But US has a very lousy and restrictive patent/copyright system.
Regarding intelligent design...
Intelligent Design have ZERO solid evidence backing it. While Evolution, on the other hand, are backed heavily by numerous evidences. The only things Creationists/Anti-evolutionists managed to do is doubting the existing evidences supporting Evolution. But in the end, the number is still the same. Intelligent Design: 0 Evolution: At least 1
Start giving the world proof on Intelligent Design, instead of waving the Bible at them and tell them its the truth.
Bible is good as a moral guidance, not reliable as a scientific writing.
Actually patents were created to protect EVERYONE's invention (including the "big evil" corporation). However, because of the vast sum of money corporations hold, there is pretty little chance for the little guys to hold on to their patent.
Actually, what the statistic said is that murder and violent crimes are committed by people they "know". Following could constitute "knowing".
1. Know them for a few month, which means they could be planning to hurt you. 2. Know them, but are never actually friend.
I mean, realistically, you don't just suddenly decide one day that you'll go out and kill someone (unless you're psychotic). Most murder/violent crime are committed because perpetrator, for most, have a reason why, and most of the time that reason stem from their interaction to the victims.
The problem is that Civ games are almost all Turn-based. Since by definition an MMORPG must have more then 100+ participants (or can support 100+) in a single game (not seperated into several mini-skirmishes), waiting for all 100 participant to make their decision is not feasible.
What this system do is that the person hosting the website won't be burdened with too much bandwidth cost. Consider as a small "fee" to view someone's website.
Technological advancement surpassing America. Perhaps, but the general mindset isn't helping in China (Taiwan would help, if China change their policy, Taiwan will re-join China. At least that's what my family in Taiwan are saying). But speaking from experience, especially those from my relatives in China... social stability will take a LONG while before it stablize (the only stability are from general submission to government and military).
That MAY be true, but since you want to work in their company, they want to see whether you can solve similar problems to the one they're having. Face it, if your can't solve their problem, you have no business being there.
Won't this further erode people's confidence in WMA's DRM format?
Sure we don't like what it does, but just as an objective comment, the hole could further impeded the adoption of any form of DRM format because of the current fear that it might be the next wave of virus carrier.
1. Clone myself. 2. Take assassination contract. 3. Kill said person. 4. Send clone on trial. 5. PROFIT! 6. Repeat from 1 if clone got executed, else from 2.
It's a combination of additives in our food, craps on TV, the stupidity of humanity, and the corruption of the government that led to the election of GWB.
1. Humans are inherently dumb. 2. People tend to vote for people similar to themselves. 3. GWB is dumber then Kerry. 4. Therefore, more people vote for GWB.
I doubt it... since YOU as a person did not create your pet (I seriously hope you did not genetically splice your pet), you merely own it, you cannot claim intellectual property rights. However, you may sue if they took samples of your pet without consent and develope something out of it. Not sure what the penalty is thou.
However, if someone clone you without your consent, then you can sue. I remember there's a law somewhere about tissue sample collection. It basically state that for someone to acquire your tissue, they must have your consent and inform you of the purpose of the collection before the collection takes place. However, the above does not apply if you "discard" your tissue (like a gauzz to cover a bleeding wound). Then I'm not sure if there's a law to cover that at all. However, in a jury trial I will seriously doubt that anyone will let this sort of thing happen even if there's no basis in law.
It does, but remember we're dealing with executives and producers, and I doubt they have an in-depth understanding into genetic cloning. They "believe" that cloning means the ability to reproduce identical looking thing (plant, animal, etc). However, any scientists dealing with cloning know that later environmental condition might create a different outcome.
I remember there's a good example somewhere... can't remember where.
1. They need a look alike animal. 2. The animal need to be trained from a relative young age (harder to train older animals).
For the above two problem, using sheltered/stray animals might be somewhat impossible, unless they're lucky. And for most part, they don't their next movie depend on whether there's is a look alike puppy in an animal shelter.
On the other hand, there are already cases where a former sheltered dog became a acting dog for commercial and provide income to support the shelter it came from. Forgot the dog name, but saw it on Discovery a while back.
Actually, I think the article is saying that the said electromagnetic radiation shield (not magnetic, magnetism gets through fine) will be imbedded into passport cover. So if you close the passport, no EM radiation can get through (at least in radio frequencies that the tag uses).
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Hm... technically all spammer will move out of Canada (maybe into Mexico).
Law in one nation wouldn't help, since spammers could always use servers in countries with no spam legislation.
Getting a bit tired with the nation bashind...
Every nation have their own quirks, advantages, and stuff. Perhaps the lack of an identity is an identity in and of itself.
P.S. Your last line doesn't seems to help you cause much.
Dude, the reason every other states hate you is that your state keep causing trouble during election days. NO OTHER states have that much trouble with voting, not even California.
What the law does is to bring legal weight for potentials to prosecute spammer.
... why not add one that says 1+1 = 2?
The basic idea is...
"If you spam enough to piss us off, we could pound you with lawsuit."
It won't stop all spams, but it will give spammers something to think about next time they decide to send out a million spam-mails.
Regarding the law declaring pi to be equal to 3.14
Um... think what you will. But US has a very lousy and restrictive patent/copyright system.
Regarding intelligent design...
Intelligent Design have ZERO solid evidence backing it. While Evolution, on the other hand, are backed heavily by numerous evidences. The only things Creationists/Anti-evolutionists managed to do is doubting the existing evidences supporting Evolution. But in the end, the number is still the same.
Intelligent Design: 0
Evolution: At least 1
Start giving the world proof on Intelligent Design, instead of waving the Bible at them and tell them its the truth.
Bible is good as a moral guidance, not reliable as a scientific writing.
Actually patents were created to protect EVERYONE's invention (including the "big evil" corporation). However, because of the vast sum of money corporations hold, there is pretty little chance for the little guys to hold on to their patent.
Any attempt in bypassing the Great Firewall of China will result in sudden cerebral hemorphage induced by a bullet in the back of the head.
Actually, what the statistic said is that murder and violent crimes are committed by people they "know". Following could constitute "knowing".
1. Know them for a few month, which means they could be planning to hurt you.
2. Know them, but are never actually friend.
I mean, realistically, you don't just suddenly decide one day that you'll go out and kill someone (unless you're psychotic). Most murder/violent crime are committed because perpetrator, for most, have a reason why, and most of the time that reason stem from their interaction to the victims.
The problem is that Civ games are almost all Turn-based. Since by definition an MMORPG must have more then 100+ participants (or can support 100+) in a single game (not seperated into several mini-skirmishes), waiting for all 100 participant to make their decision is not feasible.
You are paying for the bandwidth.
What this system do is that the person hosting the website won't be burdened with too much bandwidth cost. Consider as a small "fee" to view someone's website.
Technological advancement surpassing America. Perhaps, but the general mindset isn't helping in China (Taiwan would help, if China change their policy, Taiwan will re-join China. At least that's what my family in Taiwan are saying).
But speaking from experience, especially those from my relatives in China... social stability will take a LONG while before it stablize (the only stability are from general submission to government and military).
Um... Mars has an atmosphere. Just because its not very thick, doesn't mean its not going to have an effect on meteorites.
Yes it will, but there are a few events it will go through.
Generally, star dies in 3 ways with 3 end results.
When our sun dies, it just cool and become a white dwarf with a short period with a planetary nebula.
If a star is more then ten times the size of our sun, it supernova, and collapses into a neutron star. Sometimes a black hole.
However, if a star is TRULY massive. It hypernova (an even more violent version of supernova) that is guaranteed to form a large black hole.
It's actually a drug test, not a piss test. They just want to know if you were high on something. If you want to any company, you better not be high.
Exception maybe the patent office. By the type of patents they approve, I wonder if they're all high on drug.
That MAY be true, but since you want to work in their company, they want to see whether you can solve similar problems to the one they're having. Face it, if your can't solve their problem, you have no business being there.
Won't this further erode people's confidence in WMA's DRM format?
Sure we don't like what it does, but just as an objective comment, the hole could further impeded the adoption of any form of DRM format because of the current fear that it might be the next wave of virus carrier.
1. Clone myself.
2. Take assassination contract.
3. Kill said person.
4. Send clone on trial.
5. PROFIT!
6. Repeat from 1 if clone got executed, else from 2.
It's a combination of additives in our food, craps on TV, the stupidity of humanity, and the corruption of the government that led to the election of GWB.
1. Humans are inherently dumb.
2. People tend to vote for people similar to themselves.
3. GWB is dumber then Kerry.
4. Therefore, more people vote for GWB.
Actually, $0.
I do not want a clone of the tiger that likes to eat people.
Um... can we please move away from disturbing thoughts and such...
Back to parent, cloning the olsen twins could be a test to see which cloning technique is better (the natural cloning or artificial?)
I doubt it... since YOU as a person did not create your pet (I seriously hope you did not genetically splice your pet), you merely own it, you cannot claim intellectual property rights. However, you may sue if they took samples of your pet without consent and develope something out of it. Not sure what the penalty is thou.
However, if someone clone you without your consent, then you can sue. I remember there's a law somewhere about tissue sample collection. It basically state that for someone to acquire your tissue, they must have your consent and inform you of the purpose of the collection before the collection takes place. However, the above does not apply if you "discard" your tissue (like a gauzz to cover a bleeding wound). Then I'm not sure if there's a law to cover that at all. However, in a jury trial I will seriously doubt that anyone will let this sort of thing happen even if there's no basis in law.
It does, but remember we're dealing with executives and producers, and I doubt they have an in-depth understanding into genetic cloning. They "believe" that cloning means the ability to reproduce identical looking thing (plant, animal, etc). However, any scientists dealing with cloning know that later environmental condition might create a different outcome.
I remember there's a good example somewhere... can't remember where.
There are several problem for this in Hollywood
1. They need a look alike animal.
2. The animal need to be trained from a relative young age (harder to train older animals).
For the above two problem, using sheltered/stray animals might be somewhat impossible, unless they're lucky. And for most part, they don't their next movie depend on whether there's is a look alike puppy in an animal shelter.
On the other hand, there are already cases where a former sheltered dog became a acting dog for commercial and provide income to support the shelter it came from. Forgot the dog name, but saw it on Discovery a while back.
I think its because barcode does not store enought information and its unmodifiable.
Actually, I think the article is saying that the said electromagnetic radiation shield (not magnetic, magnetism gets through fine) will be imbedded into passport cover. So if you close the passport, no EM radiation can get through (at least in radio frequencies that the tag uses).