All they have to do is mandate a meter be placed at the charging recepticle. Figure the amount of energy being used per mile and then charge it as a tax on the electric bill. Comercial charging stations will already have this stuff in place. Going green right now should have a tax break. There aren't enough electric or alternative fuel cars on the road to make a dent in the current amount of road use taxes colected.
Here's an easier way, but the one way it fails (probably not by much) is when people cross state lines. Have people report their odometer to the DMV. Take the distance between the last measure and the current. Bill based on miles traveled.
Madison's original wording here was "The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretence, infringed."
No national religion, eh? Guess that means that State religions are supposed to be ok?
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Has been interpreted to mean that all parts of the Federal Constitution applies to states as well.
I think this story nicely illustrates how you needn't be religious to be ignorant, insensitive and over-zealous. Also, I have a feeling that if this course was presented in an neutral and objective manner (with a nice boring title like, "Comparing and Contrasting Different Paradigms of Origin") nobody would've cared - not even the students. Indeed, I imagine the talk around campus would be "Don't take Origins, Mirecki's a dick" or "I wrote a 20 page paper where one of my points disagreed with his and he gave me a D!". I'm sure we can all relate to similar professors.
Hell, if it were a true compare and contrast I would attend it. The way this guy talks makes me think he's an asshole. One of the things I find interesting about origin stories (for lack of a better word I use stories) is how similar some are. For Judaic based religions with Adam/Eve, Adam was made from dirt/mud. One of the American India origin stories I remember from elementary had man coming out of a hole in the ground. Always wanted to learn about the similarities in them. Also how widespread "angels" (Valkyries/Tenyo) and "dragons" are in so many different areas of the world.
While I do think we need a new space telescope, the optics in the Hubble are vastly different than the optics used in that camera you point to. Besides being able to pic up light outside the visible spectrum, the Hubble can also pick up much weaker sources of light. The more resolution you require, the more light you need. This is why long rnage lenses have such wide apertures. Also, to give you an idea, if you add enough 2x multipliers on a good zoom lens, point it straight at the sun, and look through the viewfinder on an SLR, you will see nothing but black.
Do they really mean just e-mail, or do they mean a replacement for Outlook?
Full replacement for outlook, including contact sharing, one central server where everything is stored on, calendar and appointment scheduling and so on. Once they have that, businesses will start adopting it. Assuming it is as usable (for users and administrators) as the current MS Outlook system is.
The sun has increased it's output by something like 0.05% per decade over the past 30 years.
From a previous discusion on/.:
* Total average power consumption by humans: 4 TW. This all becomes waste heat.
* Total average solar power irradiating Earth: 170,000 TW. 39% is reflected, the remainder becomes heat.
So 0.05% of 170,000TW is 85TW per decade. Over 21 times higher than the power consumed in a year by everyone, and it has gone up by that amount for the past 3 decades. It would appear the sun has more effect than anything us measly humans can do.
And that albedo # is supposed to be a bit on the high side.
I don't mean to be old school cynical, but maybe we should actually do away with copyrights in order to destroy the entertainment industry and put our resources into something more beneficial to mankind... Like better industrialization, medical, and scientific progress.
I can give you some more reasons to disagree with this. If we did this, then we wouldn't have novels or music either (mind you, I preffer classical music but the individual performances are copyrighted so it still falls under the artists getting compensation). Also, taking this to the extreme, we might as well eliminate theme parks and all TV programs as well.
Also, the human mind needs rest and distraction. Without it, we break down. Some people watch movies, some read books, some listen to music, some ride roller coasters. Humans need entertainment. Also, as you say a lot of progress has come through consoles advancing. The CD would not have taken off as quickly, if ever, without music backing it. The same with DVDs.
Currently the only reason PBS is even on most cable networks is due to the "Must Carry" ruling.
When first passed in 1972, the must-carry rules required that cable companies provide channels for all local broadcasters within a 60-mile (later changed to 50-mile) radius of the cable company's service area.
So in a nutshell, your local PBS station is still on the free portion of the networks, even with a-la-carte programing.
Depending on the stations business model (money from comercials vs. subscribers and how much) some stations may be eliminated and some wouldn't have a problem under a-la-carte. Anyone who gets no moeny from the cable networks and is fully funded by comercials won't have much of a problem. Anyone who is completely subscriber funded (paychanels such as HBO) shouldn't have a problem. The fuzzy area is going to be those channels that are in between relying on both comercials and subscribers.
Personally, I don't think the packages are going to go away anytime soon. I think we are still going to have tiers that are cheaper as a whole than buying them all individually.
I was figuring in how much it would cost someone to live off of for two years. The author says that it costs only a few thousand to write a book, I'm pointing out the minimum needed to write one.
The guys either nuts or doesn't know what he is talking about. Take this for example:
Forget notions of what their rights may be in law; the idea that a band or an author should be paid millions upon millions over the next several decades for something that it cost them at most a few thousand dollars to make, just feels silly to most people.
Lets see... J.K.Rowling took nearly two years to write the latest Harry Potter novel. At a low salary of $50,000/year (yes, I know she is in England), that comes out to $100,000 alone. Yeah, doesn't feel really silly to me, especially given that that doesn't come out to much per book.
Lets see, if Copyright ends, no more GPL, so anyone would then be able to sell software with GPL'd material without having to open source it. Any company/individual can redistribute code someone else wrote for free (Someone writes WoW, someone else copies the code and re-implements it on their own network) so we have the death of programs in one sense.
Studio makes a new hit movie, and now someone else is redistributing it for free without paying the actors or producers a dime.
With Windows CE, "OEM customers worldwide can create and distribute commercial derivatives of the Windows CE 5.0 operating system source code for shipping in commercial devices without notifying Microsoft or sharing their derivative works with the embedded community."
Note that it doesn't say that they can redsitribute the code for WinCE. So even if they are using it, Diebold would need to get a special license from Microsoft to put the WinCE code in Escrow in South Carolina. Also, they would then need to get this list of every programmer who worked on the WinCE code, from Microsoft.
How's this (somewhat) logical reason then? Prior Art. The knowledge has existed for thousands of years. They didn't just figure out what it was for, it's been known for a long time. At least with genes, they are recently figuring out what does what.
I asked my manager why would they bother doing such a thing when the old program worked just fine. He said "The guy who made the program died and know one knows how to code for it."
The HUD office where my father works uses a custom made database for keeping track of the welfare recipients. The sole programer just died the other month. He was the only one who knew the code. They are currently trying to figure out what to do.
(The value of natural compounds is wildly exaggerated because 1) it's a romantic idea and 2) it's a useful carrot with which to encourage poor countries to preserve their forests. If the price gets too high, pharmas will simply ignore natural products and rely entirely on their chemists.)
Option 3) The pharmaceuticals start growing the plants on their own in other countries without paying anything to the country the plant came from.
Or are the countries trying to claim a patent on the platns/animals that came about naturally?
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All they have to do is mandate a meter be placed at the charging recepticle. Figure the amount of energy being used per mile and then charge it as a tax on the electric bill. Comercial charging stations will already have this stuff in place. Going green right now should have a tax break. There aren't enough electric or alternative fuel cars on the road to make a dent in the current amount of road use taxes colected.
Here's an easier way, but the one way it fails (probably not by much) is when people cross state lines. Have people report their odometer to the DMV. Take the distance between the last measure and the current. Bill based on miles traveled.
The closer we get to a biological cause of autism, the sooner we can debunk Aspergers.
Can you explain this a bit more?
Madison's original wording here was "The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretence, infringed."
No national religion, eh? Guess that means that State religions are supposed to be ok?
I have read about a kid building a reactor from smoke detectors
Last I heard, he was working on the USS Enterprise as a nuclear engineer.
I wondered about this the other day.
Amendment XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Has been interpreted to mean that all parts of the Federal Constitution applies to states as well.
I think this story nicely illustrates how you needn't be religious to be ignorant, insensitive and over-zealous. Also, I have a feeling that if this course was presented in an neutral and objective manner (with a nice boring title like, "Comparing and Contrasting Different Paradigms of Origin") nobody would've cared - not even the students. Indeed, I imagine the talk around campus would be "Don't take Origins, Mirecki's a dick" or "I wrote a 20 page paper where one of my points disagreed with his and he gave me a D!". I'm sure we can all relate to similar professors.
Hell, if it were a true compare and contrast I would attend it. The way this guy talks makes me think he's an asshole. One of the things I find interesting about origin stories (for lack of a better word I use stories) is how similar some are. For Judaic based religions with Adam/Eve, Adam was made from dirt/mud. One of the American India origin stories I remember from elementary had man coming out of a hole in the ground. Always wanted to learn about the similarities in them. Also how widespread "angels" (Valkyries/Tenyo) and "dragons" are in so many different areas of the world.
While I do think we need a new space telescope, the optics in the Hubble are vastly different than the optics used in that camera you point to. Besides being able to pic up light outside the visible spectrum, the Hubble can also pick up much weaker sources of light. The more resolution you require, the more light you need. This is why long rnage lenses have such wide apertures. Also, to give you an idea, if you add enough 2x multipliers on a good zoom lens, point it straight at the sun, and look through the viewfinder on an SLR, you will see nothing but black.
Don't award them Sue them
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Exactly what copyright is for
Who said copyright is obsolete in the digital age?
Do they really mean just e-mail, or do they mean a replacement for Outlook?
Full replacement for outlook, including contact sharing, one central server where everything is stored on, calendar and appointment scheduling and so on. Once they have that, businesses will start adopting it. Assuming it is as usable (for users and administrators) as the current MS Outlook system is.
The sun has increased it's output by something like 0.05% per decade over the past 30 years. /.:
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From a previous discusion on
* Total average power consumption by humans: 4 TW. This all becomes waste heat.
* Total average solar power irradiating Earth: 170,000 TW. 39% is reflected, the remainder becomes heat.
So 0.05% of 170,000TW is 85TW per decade. Over 21 times higher than the power consumed in a year by everyone, and it has gone up by that amount for the past 3 decades. It would appear the sun has more effect than anything us measly humans can do.
And that albedo # is supposed to be a bit on the high side.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16246
Not that Kyoto would do jack anyway.U p.htm
http://www.junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/Kyoto_Count_
Maybe if we used tax money for space exploration instead of bombs this wouldn't be an issue; I think we could have been there a long time ago.
I wonder if you realise how much the DoD has helped NASA out over the years.
I don't think "sacrifice" is the right word. I'm sure that there are quite a few people that would go. Even if it meant not coming back.
*raises hand* I volunteer!
I don't mean to be old school cynical, but maybe we should actually do away with copyrights in order to destroy the entertainment industry and put our resources into something more beneficial to mankind... Like better industrialization, medical, and scientific progress.
I can give you some more reasons to disagree with this. If we did this, then we wouldn't have novels or music either (mind you, I preffer classical music but the individual performances are copyrighted so it still falls under the artists getting compensation). Also, taking this to the extreme, we might as well eliminate theme parks and all TV programs as well.
Also, the human mind needs rest and distraction. Without it, we break down. Some people watch movies, some read books, some listen to music, some ride roller coasters. Humans need entertainment. Also, as you say a lot of progress has come through consoles advancing. The CD would not have taken off as quickly, if ever, without music backing it. The same with DVDs.
Currently the only reason PBS is even on most cable networks is due to the "Must Carry" ruling.
r yru/mustcarryru.htm
When first passed in 1972, the must-carry rules required that cable companies provide channels for all local broadcasters within a 60-mile (later changed to 50-mile) radius of the cable company's service area.
So in a nutshell, your local PBS station is still on the free portion of the networks, even with a-la-carte programing.
Depending on the stations business model (money from comercials vs. subscribers and how much) some stations may be eliminated and some wouldn't have a problem under a-la-carte. Anyone who gets no moeny from the cable networks and is fully funded by comercials won't have much of a problem. Anyone who is completely subscriber funded (paychanels such as HBO) shouldn't have a problem. The fuzzy area is going to be those channels that are in between relying on both comercials and subscribers.
Personally, I don't think the packages are going to go away anytime soon. I think we are still going to have tiers that are cheaper as a whole than buying them all individually.
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/mustcar
How the hell did you get 50K a year?
I was figuring in how much it would cost someone to live off of for two years. The author says that it costs only a few thousand to write a book, I'm pointing out the minimum needed to write one.
The guys either nuts or doesn't know what he is talking about. Take this for example:
Forget notions of what their rights may be in law; the idea that a band or an author should be paid millions upon millions over the next several decades for something that it cost them at most a few thousand dollars to make, just feels silly to most people.
Lets see... J.K.Rowling took nearly two years to write the latest Harry Potter novel. At a low salary of $50,000/year (yes, I know she is in England), that comes out to $100,000 alone. Yeah, doesn't feel really silly to me, especially given that that doesn't come out to much per book.
Lets see, if Copyright ends, no more GPL, so anyone would then be able to sell software with GPL'd material without having to open source it. Any company/individual can redistribute code someone else wrote for free (Someone writes WoW, someone else copies the code and re-implements it on their own network) so we have the death of programs in one sense.
Studio makes a new hit movie, and now someone else is redistributing it for free without paying the actors or producers a dime.
With Windows CE, "OEM customers worldwide can create and distribute commercial derivatives of the Windows CE 5.0 operating system source code for shipping in commercial devices without notifying Microsoft or sharing their derivative works with the embedded community."
Note that it doesn't say that they can redsitribute the code for WinCE. So even if they are using it, Diebold would need to get a special license from Microsoft to put the WinCE code in Escrow in South Carolina. Also, they would then need to get this list of every programmer who worked on the WinCE code, from Microsoft.
I mean, the guy presided over an economy with a prime rate of 18% and gas lines like you won't believe. Brainpower....yeah, right.
Correction, Carter CAUSED the prime rate of 18%.
It would be nice to see the majority of society no longer considered to be potential criminals just for existing.
Great! Lets start with gun control laws.
How's this (somewhat) logical reason then? Prior Art. The knowledge has existed for thousands of years. They didn't just figure out what it was for, it's been known for a long time. At least with genes, they are recently figuring out what does what.
Trust me, I don't like that either.
Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to maintain it for the rest of your life.
I asked my manager why would they bother doing such a thing when the old program worked just fine. He said "The guy who made the program died and know one knows how to code for it."
The HUD office where my father works uses a custom made database for keeping track of the welfare recipients. The sole programer just died the other month. He was the only one who knew the code. They are currently trying to figure out what to do.
(The value of natural compounds is wildly exaggerated because 1) it's a romantic idea and 2) it's a useful carrot with which to encourage poor countries to preserve their forests. If the price gets too high, pharmas will simply ignore natural products and rely entirely on their chemists.)
Option 3) The pharmaceuticals start growing the plants on their own in other countries without paying anything to the country the plant came from.
Or are the countries trying to claim a patent on the platns/animals that came about naturally?