"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
I'm certain I've heard of contests on old TV shows that use this sort of incentive. Someone with a knowledge of TV history should be able to point to prior art.
I would just like to point out that, up until as late as the late 50's, it was believed that radiation was actually good for you.
There's a lot of evidence that low dosages of radiation are good for you. Google "hormesis" or check out this article.
There's also a psychological issue about radiation or toxic exposure. To make up some numbers, let's say 10,000 soldiers get exposed during a nuclear bomb test in the '50s. Let's say that based on normal demographic statistics, 1,000 of them would have gotten cancer 50 years later. However, the radiation exposure increases the number of cancers by 50%, so 1,500 get cancer. In other words, only 1/3 of the men who got cancer did so because of the exposure, but I guarantee you that nearly all of the 1,500 would be sure that their cancer must have been caused by the bomb test.
You're almost right. They did get tons of silver (not all of it) to make electromagnets (not just wire), which were so huge and powerful that when turned on, people standing many yards away could feel the pull on the nails in their shoes and on their belt buckles!
I have similar mixed feelings, and in addition, I object to the further dilution of the term "bill of rights." The original Bill of Rights restricted the power the government had over citizens. This "bill of rights" consists of the government ordering one group of citizens (cellular phone service providers) to provide certain services to another group of citizens (their customers). Not really the same sort of thing, is it?
The B-52 undercarriage was quite an innovation at the time, and was kept a secret for a while. It allowed the plane to land in pretty strong crosswinds.
An interesting page on the development of the B-52:
GIFs compress very well, especially with source material that's in limited colors. Try making a page into an 8-color or even 4-color GIF at about 150 dpi. The handwriting should be about as readable as the original.
Also, if you're scanning material with copy on both sides, you might get some visible bleed-through. Try scanning such pages with a sheet of black paper between the page and the lid of the scanner, then adjust contrast to ensure white whites and black blacks.
All this free WiFi stuff is great, but...
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...how long before spammers just load their software onto laptops and start blasting out spam from the nearest hotspot? Are there any safeguards that will prevent this?
I order a product that comes with a big rebate, product arrives with no rebate. I call, am told they can't give me the rebate after all, but will give me equivalent $$ in credit toward future purchase. I grudgingly go along. Months later, I try to use this "credit." Strange, they have no record of it! I'm S.O.L.
Last December, the South Park folks got an image of a bearded Saddam Hussein and a reference to a "spider hole" into an episode broadcast roughly 80 hours after his capture! Very impressive speed for animation.
I have a partial solution that hits one item on the list ("Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers"), but I still think it's worth a try. It's called "Spammers are Scammers." We create a TV/radio/print/web advertising campaign to drive home the point that all spammers are scammers, selling fake products, stealing credit card numbers, lying about taking you off their lists, etc. Anyone who buys anything from them is humorously but mercilessly mocked as an idiot. The ads would be created cheaply with volunteer labor and contributions, and run as free public service spots. The goal is to make it common knowledge that buying from spammers is stupid, the same way Smokey the Bear taught generations about preventing forest fires.
Yes, I know this isn't a 100% solution. However, it requires no new laws, technology, taxes, blacklists, whitelists, or anything else. It's 100% voluntary and could be run in an Open Source way. Yes, it smears all spammers with the same brush, but is any spammer going to step forward to sue? I doubt it. If it only convinced one spam-responder in five to not respond, it would be a huge hit on the spam industry.
The big cornering problem looks like it would be those cool-looking hemispherical "hubcaps." It wouldn't be hard to touch one down on a turn, and if that happened it'd be all over....
I think everyone should wear white headphones in solidarity, whether or not they have an iPod (or any music device). Like the Danes all wearing yellow stars under the Nazis: "You can't get us all, you bastards!"
A friend of mine speaks German fluently and worked for a while in Germany. Sometimes just for fun he would speak German with an exaggerated Southern (American) accent. It was always puzzling to the Germans because they could easily understand him, but could not place the accent. "Are you from Austria?" was the most common response.
Why not just offer large enlistment bonuses and perhaps raise the age limits? I'll bet there are a lot of 40-something geeks who'd be willing to sign up. It would also be a lot easier politically than restarting the draft, and probably get better results: volunteers tend to do better work than draftees.
1) Tap the Slashdot and creative communities to produce a series of anti-spam TV/radio/print ads on the theme of "Spammers are Scammers." Smear all spammers as scam artists who sell fake merchandise and steal credit cards, and their customers as stupid losers. 2) Get media outlets to run them for free as public service ads.
Yes, I know this isn't a 100% solution. However, it is relatively low cost, and requires no new laws, software upgrades, or Internet standards.
That could work. Back in the '70s, there was a small Japanese pickup that was sold in the U.S. with a pair of rear-facing, plastic seats in the bed. With those, it became a "car" instead of a "truck," and avoided the tariff on imported trucks.
The Pinto did get a semi-bum rap on the rear-end/gas tank issue. Other cars of the time were even worse, but got no bad press because they were so rare. Check out the rear of the Opel GT:
Very snazzy-looking car, but look at those tiny rear bumpers and the gas cap right at the edge of the spoiler. You don't want to get rear-ended in one of those.
The Trabant has an interesting place in economic history. Once the Berlin Wall fell, economists could examine the books of the Trabant factory. Of course, manufacturing businesses work by taking raw materials and adding labor to produce a finished product, and if the value of the finished project doesn't exceed costs, they lose money. That's not uncommon, but with the Trabant, the value of the car was *less* than the value of the raw steel, glass, plastic, etc. used to make it, not even counting the labor! I love the irony of East Germany disproving Marx's labor theory of value by producing a "value-subtracted" product....
The most amusing thing about the Pacer is that it was designed with a small engine compartment to hold the then-forthcoming GM Wankel engine. Oops. GM dropped its Wankel plans, and AMC had to shoehorn in a conventional piston engine. As a result, in order to change the spark plugs, you had to pull the motor off its mounts!
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"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
I'm certain I've heard of contests on old TV shows that use this sort of incentive. Someone with a knowledge of TV history should be able to point to prior art.
This will bring a whole new meaning to the term "memory dump"....
They might also want to make it work in IE (5.1) on the Mac. All I get is a background color.
I would just like to point out that, up until as late as the late 50's, it was believed that radiation was actually good for you.
There's a lot of evidence that low dosages of radiation are good for you. Google "hormesis" or check out this article.
There's also a psychological issue about radiation or toxic exposure. To make up some numbers, let's say 10,000 soldiers get exposed during a nuclear bomb test in the '50s. Let's say that based on normal demographic statistics, 1,000 of them would have gotten cancer 50 years later. However, the radiation exposure increases the number of cancers by 50%, so 1,500 get cancer. In other words, only 1/3 of the men who got cancer did so because of the exposure, but I guarantee you that nearly all of the 1,500 would be sure that their cancer must have been caused by the bomb test.
You're almost right. They did get tons of silver (not all of it) to make electromagnets (not just wire), which were so huge and powerful that when turned on, people standing many yards away could feel the pull on the nails in their shoes and on their belt buckles!
I have similar mixed feelings, and in addition, I object to the further dilution of the term "bill of rights." The original Bill of Rights restricted the power the government had over citizens. This "bill of rights" consists of the government ordering one group of citizens (cellular phone service providers) to provide certain services to another group of citizens (their customers). Not really the same sort of thing, is it?
The B-52 undercarriage was quite an innovation at the time, and was kept a secret for a while. It allowed the plane to land in pretty strong crosswinds.
An interesting page on the development of the B-52:
http://www.vectorsite.net/avb52_1.html
GIFs compress very well, especially with source material that's in limited colors. Try making a page into an 8-color or even 4-color GIF at about 150 dpi. The handwriting should be about as readable as the original.
Also, if you're scanning material with copy on both sides, you might get some visible bleed-through. Try scanning such pages with a sheet of black paper between the page and the lid of the scanner, then adjust contrast to ensure white whites and black blacks.
...how long before spammers just load their software onto laptops and start blasting out spam from the nearest hotspot? Are there any safeguards that will prevent this?
I order a product that comes with a big rebate, product arrives with no rebate. I call, am told they can't give me the rebate after all, but will give me equivalent $$ in credit toward future purchase. I grudgingly go along. Months later, I try to use this "credit." Strange, they have no record of it! I'm S.O.L.
Last December, the South Park folks got an image of a bearded Saddam Hussein and a reference to a "spider hole" into an episode broadcast roughly 80 hours after his capture! Very impressive speed for animation.
Yup, if you snub the genre, the genre may well snub you.
I have a partial solution that hits one item on the list ("Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers"), but I still think it's worth a try. It's called "Spammers are Scammers." We create a TV/radio/print/web advertising campaign to drive home the point that all spammers are scammers, selling fake products, stealing credit card numbers, lying about taking you off their lists, etc. Anyone who buys anything from them is humorously but mercilessly mocked as an idiot. The ads would be created cheaply with volunteer labor and contributions, and run as free public service spots. The goal is to make it common knowledge that buying from spammers is stupid, the same way Smokey the Bear taught generations about preventing forest fires.
Yes, I know this isn't a 100% solution. However, it requires no new laws, technology, taxes, blacklists, whitelists, or anything else. It's 100% voluntary and could be run in an Open Source way. Yes, it smears all spammers with the same brush, but is any spammer going to step forward to sue? I doubt it. If it only convinced one spam-responder in five to not respond, it would be a huge hit on the spam industry.
The big cornering problem looks like it would be those cool-looking hemispherical "hubcaps." It wouldn't be hard to touch one down on a turn, and if that happened it'd be all over....
I think everyone should wear white headphones in solidarity, whether or not they have an iPod (or any music device). Like the Danes all wearing yellow stars under the Nazis: "You can't get us all, you bastards!"
A friend of mine speaks German fluently and worked for a while in Germany. Sometimes just for fun he would speak German with an exaggerated Southern (American) accent. It was always puzzling to the Germans because they could easily understand him, but could not place the accent. "Are you from Austria?" was the most common response.
Why not just offer large enlistment bonuses and perhaps raise the age limits? I'll bet there are a lot of 40-something geeks who'd be willing to sign up. It would also be a lot easier politically than restarting the draft, and probably get better results: volunteers tend to do better work than draftees.
1) Tap the Slashdot and creative communities to produce a series of anti-spam TV/radio/print ads on the theme of "Spammers are Scammers." Smear all spammers as scam artists who sell fake merchandise and steal credit cards, and their customers as stupid losers.
2) Get media outlets to run them for free as public service ads.
Yes, I know this isn't a 100% solution. However, it is relatively low cost, and requires no new laws, software upgrades, or Internet standards.
That could work. Back in the '70s, there was a small Japanese pickup that was sold in the U.S. with a pair of rear-facing, plastic seats in the bed. With those, it became a "car" instead of a "truck," and avoided the tariff on imported trucks.
I'm afraid that NASA is too much of an entrenched, CYA bureaucracy to do this job right. My simple plan:
1) Tell Burt Rutan we need a moon base and a cheap way to get there and back.
2) Give him a check for, say, $8 billion.
3) Stand back.
We'd be there in less than 10 years, guaranteed.
The Pinto did get a semi-bum rap on the rear-end/gas tank issue. Other cars of the time were even worse, but got no bad press because they were so rare. Check out the rear of the Opel GT:
http://home.att.net/~johncline/opel_gt.htm
Very snazzy-looking car, but look at those tiny rear bumpers and the gas cap right at the edge of the spoiler. You don't want to get rear-ended in one of those.
The Trabant has an interesting place in economic history. Once the Berlin Wall fell, economists could examine the books of the Trabant factory. Of course, manufacturing businesses work by taking raw materials and adding labor to produce a finished product, and if the value of the finished project doesn't exceed costs, they lose money. That's not uncommon, but with the Trabant, the value of the car was *less* than the value of the raw steel, glass, plastic, etc. used to make it, not even counting the labor! I love the irony of East Germany disproving Marx's labor theory of value by producing a "value-subtracted" product ....
The most amusing thing about the Pacer is that it was designed with a small engine compartment to hold the then-forthcoming GM Wankel engine. Oops. GM dropped its Wankel plans, and AMC had to shoehorn in a conventional piston engine. As a result, in order to change the spark plugs, you had to pull the motor off its mounts!
The original plan was to call it ServeX, but someone pointed out it sounded like "cervix." Strange but true!