Read the article, or at least give a better summary. The law is originally from 1917 and blocks trading with "enemy" contries. Iran is on that list. It's a law of unintended consequences, not a deliberate act.
Taiwan-China, Iraq-Kuwait (formerly, guess thats gone now), China-Japan-Korea (Remember what Japan did to the mainland in WWII). Hell, there's still state sanctioned slavery in Africa, if you want to include that.
The USA has an Equal Time rule when it comes to TV broadcasters. It came into being because the Gov recognized that the power of TV could be abused to promote only one side and is used to help counter it. Essentially, in some cases they "can" be required to broadcast it.
If you don't think the liberals don't use the same tactic I want to get a hold of what you've been smoking. To start with, lets reference "Think of the children" and "Why government should take over parenting from parents". They both do it pretty equally from what I have seen.
On a side note, who came up with "NeoCon" and what exactly is the difference between a "NeoCon" and a "Regular Conservative". All I know is that I started seeing the term used at somepoint but I don't know where it came from.
So remember, AOL caters to the simple/stupid crowd.
Who is also the crowd that generally has massive amounts of spyware/trojaned/infected PCs used for sending out Viri and Spam. And also the same who respond to spam, buy spam products and think "Gee, I'm really glad my bank is verifying my account information" when they get a phishing e-mail.
Then there are the things the semi "anonymous" accounts are used for and a few other illegal things that people use AOL accounts for. Eliminating the AOL crowd would probably make the internet a safer/saner place to be for the rest of us. Especially when you consider it's also the AOL customers that want the governemnt to "protect tehir children" from online content.
People think phonetically. That's why we keep screwing up words that don't sound the way they are spelled ("pho"netic, conec"tion" as an example) or words that have the same pronunciation but multiple spellings(they're, their, there). As a native english speaker I have this problem. One reason why I like phonetic languages so much better (such as Japanese).
Interesting, but a couple of things. First, do they list the "raw numbers" in a non-graphical format (preferably a table)? I usually like to make my own graphs with these things. Lets me get a better comparison.
Second, I notice that temperature falls before CO2 decreases. However, under the CO2=higher temperatures, shouldn't the CO2 fall first?
Third, the graph shows that CO2 levels started rising a bit over 10,000 years ago. Or around the time the last major Ice Age ended. What caused that? I'm pretty sure that there were no SUVs, factories or anything else around back then.
For anything that has "sensitive information" (for us, that means individual tax and financial info), it doesn't go on any networked machine. All updates are transfered via floppy/USB. Files don't leave the machine. We don't bother with encryption simply because if someone is going to break in, they are probably going to steal the computer and don't care what is on it. Not to mention that it isn't worth it (to us) to secure what is on there beyond what we already do. Our main concern is making sure we don't get wiped out by a virus or a hard drive that dies.
Don't confuse knowing very little with knowing nothing at all. Take a pot of water and put it on the stove. Turn on the burner. You know that the water will get warm and eventually boil.
Boiling a pot of watter has been repeated. I have not seen anyone show me that in that past CO2 levels have gone up and temperature went up with it.
Besides, wouldn't the sun be a better analogy for the burner as opposed to CO2? Especially seeing as how solar output has gone up?
The Mayans were gone before the europeans ever got to the Americas. As for the Incas, the spanish simply wiped them out using guns, not diseases such as small pox.
Fine, Lets shut off electricity at the same time while we are at it. NYC would die with out the food and electricity comming into it from outside of it. And all it would take would be one missed food shipment from a ship and you'd all be starving. Cities are generally one step away from starvation as is. Just look at how much food you import per day into NYC.
On the other hand, I know a lot of southerners couldn't be happier to see several northern hypocritical states cecede.
In places in the world (Russia, Taiwan, China, probably the USA as well) Organized Crime, As in the MOB/Mofia/Yakuza/Triad/Etc... and people that do "piracy for a living" are the ones they are talking about. NOT people like you and me on IRC and Bit Torrent and such. They are talking about those who make actual money through piracy.
Ice cores give measurements over 100's or 1000's of years, not day to day data. We can't look at them and say "on this day it was this hot and the next day it was this hot and the next day it was this hot" What we can do is say that around this century/millenium it was this hot, and a 1000 years later is was around this hot and so on.
And don't forget, with everyone consolidated on 1 single scheme, all the pirates have to do is figure out 1 hole in it instead of 1 hole for each previous scheme.
You don't want to get rid of set top boxes, at least any time soon anyway. For DTVs, the TVs themselves are generally nothing more than computer monitors (by design). The integrated tuners in them suck and the 5th generation tuners comming out are supposed to be very, very good (I work at a TV station with Videophiles). The cable cards require either an external or internal tuner that is card compatible. And as the internals suck, an external box (cable or otherwise) you are stuck with if you want good picture.
At least you should (hopefully) be able to use a V.2.0 cable card in a DVR.
You can't filter out the BPL, but there is still going to be a shitload of frequecies that BPL does not interfere with. I think under 10% if the ham freqs are going to be affected.
He forced them to adopt DRM? The content publishers said adopt some form of control or we won't supply HD content. Since his job was to promote HD, he felt he had to do it or get bashed for not doing his job.
I don't support the broadcast flag, but he didn't force the industry to accept it. The content creators are the ones who wanted it. They are already pissed about SD shows on the net, this is all their decision.
On commercials vs. content. In the 80s, one hour shows were 47/48 minutes of show, the rest commercials. By the late 90s they were 42 minutes of show, the rest commercials. Can't back it up with a link right now, unfortunately.
As for commercials and kids, look at the definition of a Commercial vs. a Sponsor or Interstitial (i think thats how its spelled). Or in short compare PBS sponsoships/interstitals to commercials.
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Read the article, or at least give a better summary. The law is originally from 1917 and blocks trading with "enemy" contries. Iran is on that list. It's a law of unintended consequences, not a deliberate act.
Taiwan-China, Iraq-Kuwait (formerly, guess thats gone now), China-Japan-Korea (Remember what Japan did to the mainland in WWII). Hell, there's still state sanctioned slavery in Africa, if you want to include that.
Here's the link to the T&Cs. http://www.theplanet.com/legal/terms.html
The USA has an Equal Time rule when it comes to TV broadcasters. It came into being because the Gov recognized that the power of TV could be abused to promote only one side and is used to help counter it. Essentially, in some cases they "can" be required to broadcast it.
m eru/equaltimeru.htm
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/E/htmlE/equalti
NeoCon's "bogeyman" tactic in depth
If you don't think the liberals don't use the same tactic I want to get a hold of what you've been smoking. To start with, lets reference "Think of the children" and "Why government should take over parenting from parents". They both do it pretty equally from what I have seen.
On a side note, who came up with "NeoCon" and what exactly is the difference between a "NeoCon" and a "Regular Conservative". All I know is that I started seeing the term used at somepoint but I don't know where it came from.
So remember, AOL caters to the simple/stupid crowd.
Who is also the crowd that generally has massive amounts of spyware/trojaned/infected PCs used for sending out Viri and Spam. And also the same who respond to spam, buy spam products and think "Gee, I'm really glad my bank is verifying my account information" when they get a phishing e-mail.
Then there are the things the semi "anonymous" accounts are used for and a few other illegal things that people use AOL accounts for. Eliminating the AOL crowd would probably make the internet a safer/saner place to be for the rest of us. Especially when you consider it's also the AOL customers that want the governemnt to "protect tehir children" from online content.
People think phonetically. That's why we keep screwing up words that don't sound the way they are spelled ("pho"netic, conec"tion" as an example) or words that have the same pronunciation but multiple spellings(they're, their, there). As a native english speaker I have this problem. One reason why I like phonetic languages so much better (such as Japanese).
Interesting, but a couple of things. First, do they list the "raw numbers" in a non-graphical format (preferably a table)? I usually like to make my own graphs with these things. Lets me get a better comparison.
Second, I notice that temperature falls before CO2 decreases. However, under the CO2=higher temperatures, shouldn't the CO2 fall first?
Third, the graph shows that CO2 levels started rising a bit over 10,000 years ago. Or around the time the last major Ice Age ended. What caused that? I'm pretty sure that there were no SUVs, factories or anything else around back then.
For anything that has "sensitive information" (for us, that means individual tax and financial info), it doesn't go on any networked machine. All updates are transfered via floppy/USB. Files don't leave the machine. We don't bother with encryption simply because if someone is going to break in, they are probably going to steal the computer and don't care what is on it. Not to mention that it isn't worth it (to us) to secure what is on there beyond what we already do. Our main concern is making sure we don't get wiped out by a virus or a hard drive that dies.
Baseball has no cheerleaders like American Football (rugby type game) does.
However, I would not call baseball an american sport since I can think of other countries that play it. Such as Canada, China, Cuba and Japan.
I'm currious here, who get the 497 million euro fine? The EU or charities or who?
Don't confuse knowing very little with knowing nothing at all. Take a pot of water and put it on the stove. Turn on the burner. You know that the water will get warm and eventually boil.
Boiling a pot of watter has been repeated. I have not seen anyone show me that in that past CO2 levels have gone up and temperature went up with it.
Besides, wouldn't the sun be a better analogy for the burner as opposed to CO2? Especially seeing as how solar output has gone up?
The Mayans were gone before the europeans ever got to the Americas. As for the Incas, the spanish simply wiped them out using guns, not diseases such as small pox.
Still ending last ice age, Link to wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages#The_Late_ Middle_Ages
Dr. Chick N. Little
Chicken Little.
He's being sued by my law firm - Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe.
Dewey = Do We
Cheatem = Cheat them
and = and
Howe = how
Do we cheat them and how.
Fine, Lets shut off electricity at the same time while we are at it. NYC would die with out the food and electricity comming into it from outside of it. And all it would take would be one missed food shipment from a ship and you'd all be starving. Cities are generally one step away from starvation as is. Just look at how much food you import per day into NYC.
On the other hand, I know a lot of southerners couldn't be happier to see several northern hypocritical states cecede.
In places in the world (Russia, Taiwan, China, probably the USA as well) Organized Crime, As in the MOB/Mofia/Yakuza/Triad/Etc... and people that do "piracy for a living" are the ones they are talking about. NOT people like you and me on IRC and Bit Torrent and such. They are talking about those who make actual money through piracy.
Ice cores give measurements over 100's or 1000's of years, not day to day data. We can't look at them and say "on this day it was this hot and the next day it was this hot and the next day it was this hot" What we can do is say that around this century/millenium it was this hot, and a 1000 years later is was around this hot and so on.
They cand still supply it in SD content which is still DIGITAL. DIGITAL is the new medium, no HD. HD is merely one of the perks.
And don't forget, with everyone consolidated on 1 single scheme, all the pirates have to do is figure out 1 hole in it instead of 1 hole for each previous scheme.
You don't want to get rid of set top boxes, at least any time soon anyway. For DTVs, the TVs themselves are generally nothing more than computer monitors (by design). The integrated tuners in them suck and the 5th generation tuners comming out are supposed to be very, very good (I work at a TV station with Videophiles). The cable cards require either an external or internal tuner that is card compatible. And as the internals suck, an external box (cable or otherwise) you are stuck with if you want good picture.
At least you should (hopefully) be able to use a V.2.0 cable card in a DVR.
You can't filter out the BPL, but there is still going to be a shitload of frequecies that BPL does not interfere with. I think under 10% if the ham freqs are going to be affected.
If you don't want to replace your TV buy a D/A converter box.
He forced them to adopt DRM? The content publishers said adopt some form of control or we won't supply HD content. Since his job was to promote HD, he felt he had to do it or get bashed for not doing his job.
I don't support the broadcast flag, but he didn't force the industry to accept it. The content creators are the ones who wanted it. They are already pissed about SD shows on the net, this is all their decision.
On commercials vs. content. In the 80s, one hour shows were 47/48 minutes of show, the rest commercials. By the late 90s they were 42 minutes of show, the rest commercials. Can't back it up with a link right now, unfortunately.
As for commercials and kids, look at the definition of a Commercial vs. a Sponsor or Interstitial (i think thats how its spelled). Or in short compare PBS sponsoships/interstitals to commercials.