Why does it seem like the gubmint always wants to start this list or that list and collect this info or that info on normal shmoes? And all in the name of "security" or "anti-terrorism" or some other buzzword. I say that in the interest of homeland security the shmoes should start a database on the gubmint, not the other way around.
I remember hearing once that we've had this kind of technology for 20 years or so but there was no way they could sell it to skeptical public so they sat on it and gradually started introducing new features. Total hearsay, of course...
I can turn my TV off during commercial breaks. I can turn my back, plug my ears, and repeat "lalalala". I can rig up an insanely complicated method of dropping a black sheet over the TV screen and drowning out any sound with severely amplified "Inagadadavida". In short, people don't have to watch ads. They never have. And still the industry has survived. Survived? No, grown stronger.
Sure, the advertisers have a right to try to get me to watch their ads but I also have the right to ignore them... apparently I shouldn't, thinks Congress. It's getting to the point where it's hard to ignore them, what with the AOL First Down Marker, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Viagra Checkout Line, Giant Telco Hat Trick... and now they want to force them on me. Is there no resipte?
Unfortunately, whenever I try patching my Windows box it brings it to a crawl. Literally hours before I can navigate to a point to uninstall it. MS has a KB on the problem with very sketchy details on a workaround.
It has gotten me to use my Mandrake box a little more....
Maybe you don't agree with a lot of their suits or think they waste resources and time on foolish pursuits, but this time they hit the nail on the head. Hopefully we'll open up the little breach in the PATRIOT dam that'll grow big enough to topple it.
And don't forget: "President Bush has been pushing Congress to renew all of the Patriot Act before it expires next year..."
How does the 'free' model differ from the one already in place? Most peer reviewed journals are read by academics and other people that have a vested interest in the materials. These people typically have access to university libraries where they can research and read these journals for free anyway. And by "free" I mean no added cost for specifically viewing the journal.
I think it's been proven that scientific literature is hard to sell or maintain rights over. It's a prime example of the 'information wants to be free' principle. News items decribing the lastest scientific finding give me all the details I really want anyway.
I am not terribly educated on cost and reliability figures for sending payloads into orbit, but it would seem to me that a satellite can't be cheap. When you're looking for options on how to get the bugger into orbit, would you rather choose the status quo for a twice to three times the cost or the upstarts? I guess there will need to be people willing to take the risk and send up a few satellites to show reliability.
But I'm all for it. Competition is a good thing, right?
Dammit, not much more needs to be said on this topic but as a forester in training I've got to jump on one of the few topics on/. that will ever deal with forestry.
A couple more points to consider:
- Forest fires as they happened hundreds of years ago rarely killed healthy trees. Sure fire was important for the propagation of conifer species in many habitats, but the trees developed means to survive fires (thick bark, no low branches). Even with fire, stands survived and continued to grow. It's only been in the past few decades of fire suppression that fuel loads built up to such an extent that fires would burn with the intensity to kill whole stands of trees and denude whole mountain sides.
- There is some debate about the extent of habitat modification the Native Americans were doing pre-Columbian. I've heard theories that our midwestern prairies (that aren't there anymore, of course) depended on large part to fires set regularly by Native Americans.
- Old growth is the typical "climax" of any forest succession. Things build to the point of old growth, which is a basically self-sustaining ecosystem, until something catasptrophic wipes it out and the process starts over again. A closed canopy system lets very little grow under ituntil a tree gets too old, dies, leaves a "gap" in the canopy, and allows enough sunlight to reach the floor so another tree can grow in it's place. This, of course, takes many many years.
As is always the case, I fall flat on coming up with a strong conclusion... so I'll just end abruptly
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Just remember everyone, just because you *can* make money off it means you *should*, right?
I remember hearing once that we've had this kind of technology for 20 years or so but there was no way they could sell it to skeptical public so they sat on it and gradually started introducing new features. Total hearsay, of course...
let's not forget that "exclusively" part
Geez, what an anthropocentric and judeo-christian thing to say.
Sure, the advertisers have a right to try to get me to watch their ads but I also have the right to ignore them... apparently I shouldn't, thinks Congress. It's getting to the point where it's hard to ignore them, what with the AOL First Down Marker, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Viagra Checkout Line, Giant Telco Hat Trick... and now they want to force them on me. Is there no resipte?
I guess it's more concise than "really close to being almost perfectly identical but different"
/checks own post for errors
What was that about the grammar of forum posters?
Sweet! When does GTA: Sicily go gold?!
Be sure to swap out that $15 Belkin surge protector before you fire it up
Evolutionary Tree Gets Bushier
Well, I suppose.... since they didn't have brazilian waxes back then...
Unfortunately, whenever I try patching my Windows box it brings it to a crawl. Literally hours before I can navigate to a point to uninstall it. MS has a KB on the problem with very sketchy details on a workaround.
It has gotten me to use my Mandrake box a little more....
Maybe you don't agree with a lot of their suits or think they waste resources and time on foolish pursuits, but this time they hit the nail on the head. Hopefully we'll open up the little breach in the PATRIOT dam that'll grow big enough to topple it.
And don't forget:
"President Bush has been pushing Congress to renew all of the Patriot Act before it expires next year..."
Vote.
come on, the giggling penguin on the trampoline? golden.
Oh. My. God. Police Quest RULES!!! gawd, that brings back some memories...
How does the 'free' model differ from the one already in place? Most peer reviewed journals are read by academics and other people that have a vested interest in the materials. These people typically have access to university libraries where they can research and read these journals for free anyway. And by "free" I mean no added cost for specifically viewing the journal. I think it's been proven that scientific literature is hard to sell or maintain rights over. It's a prime example of the 'information wants to be free' principle. News items decribing the lastest scientific finding give me all the details I really want anyway.
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I am not terribly educated on cost and reliability figures for sending payloads into orbit, but it would seem to me that a satellite can't be cheap. When you're looking for options on how to get the bugger into orbit, would you rather choose the status quo for a twice to three times the cost or the upstarts? I guess there will need to be people willing to take the risk and send up a few satellites to show reliability.
But I'm all for it. Competition is a good thing, right?
to get emergency services?
Dammit, not much more needs to be said on this topic but as a forester in training I've got to jump on one of the few topics on /. that will ever deal with forestry.
A couple more points to consider:
- Forest fires as they happened hundreds of years ago rarely killed healthy trees. Sure fire was important for the propagation of conifer species in many habitats, but the trees developed means to survive fires (thick bark, no low branches). Even with fire, stands survived and continued to grow. It's only been in the past few decades of fire suppression that fuel loads built up to such an extent that fires would burn with the intensity to kill whole stands of trees and denude whole mountain sides.
- There is some debate about the extent of habitat modification the Native Americans were doing pre-Columbian. I've heard theories that our midwestern prairies (that aren't there anymore, of course) depended on large part to fires set regularly by Native Americans.
- Old growth is the typical "climax" of any forest succession. Things build to the point of old growth, which is a basically self-sustaining ecosystem, until something catasptrophic wipes it out and the process starts over again. A closed canopy system lets very little grow under ituntil a tree gets too old, dies, leaves a "gap" in the canopy, and allows enough sunlight to reach the floor so another tree can grow in it's place. This, of course, takes many many years.
As is always the case, I fall flat on coming up with a strong conclusion... so I'll just end abruptly
the EU will get to the moon and Mars before us.
Civ2. Best. Game. Ever.
I still play it on an almost daily basis. Hell, that's why I got the Radeon 9800...
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...Keith Richards will claim he stole his licks from Elvis!