Hey, but while we're on the subject, think about what would happen if we imported a ton of cheap food from other countries. Especially staple crops that we can grow here. I'll tell you, it would put the farmers in the US out of business. Then if we ever went to war with a foreign power or they wanted to control our country they would be able to control our food supply. There are other things that we need to be able to produce within the US that are not actually cost-effective, like metal and lumber. If we allowed unfettered imports of materials from other countries we would kill our own production.
As for your IP example, if you get wind of your neighbors invention and he's registered a patent, you can then register another patent covering your improvement to his invention and profit from that.
The reason we have a patent and copyright system in place is to encourage people to share their ideas freely while still being able to profit from them. We shouldn't dissolve this system as patents catalogue innovation. We should reduce the term of patents to something that's actually sensible.
They probably don't sell those here because it's $1700 for an 11 inch television. That's an order of magnitude more money for something half the size of my computer monitor.
You realise that Baldur's Gate had advertising for other games from the same company in it, right? This was waaaaaay back in the day, before most people even had broadband internet. As I recall most games from that era had trailers for other games. Hell, I recall that a number of multiplayer games had AOL trials bundled with them. Look on the backs of just about any PSX game and you'll see ads for games from the same publisher. There were ads inside manuals.
What's new about what you're describing?
The only thing that would be classifiable as new about this would be if the publisher were selling ads on billboards inside the game.
Except that it's a huge pain in the ass to take notes on a keyboard where you can't insert basic punctuation and can't feel the keys. I'm sure someone will release a 3rd party application to fix the lack of tactile response in the home row. Oh, wait, the entire screen is flat. Do they at least have a stylus and decent handwriting recognition software for the iPhone that doesn't require me to hack it and risk bricking it?
We are adding energy to the system to redirect the energy present in the system. It's similar to what a fighter does when he pats a jab to one side instead of catching the punch. The energy remains in the system, but it no longer gets dissipated all at once in your face.
What I'm really worried about is what happens when we direct one of these storms around the Atlantic for a few days and it builds up strength. As has been mentioned before, we industrialized nations could use this to unleash the storm from hell on our enemies and then sit back and wait for the casualties to roll in. It would be more effective than an atom bomb because it leaves the population intact and doesn't pollute the surrounding area for more than a few days. It's also something that few nations have the resources to do effectively.
Imagine a series of weather control satellites in orbit over the Earth prodding tropical storms at our enemies.
Can a weather scientist give us more information about the feasibility of this type of military tactic?
Which reminds me, I need to go complain to the IT department at my school that there's no OpenOffice on any of the computers managed by their department.
Meanwhile this comes out at the exact time that I'll actually be able to afford to buy DVDs, meaning that I can buy this and finally have a copy of Blade Runner.
More like they bought Vista expecting it to work on their $900 rig of two or three years ago, and expecting to have their peripherals actually be compatible.
Heh. One time I called Charter Communications to get a problem with my cable resolved. I spent half an hour with their automated troubleshooter before finally getting to a real person who proceeded to walk me through the same procedures the troubleshooter did. At the end of the call I felt like I had just wasted 30 minutes of my life.
I'd think Beta expansion refers to a term in one of the Lorentz transformations for Special Relativity. Still, I don't know what the hell he's talking about so you're probably right.
If she's getting her hair cut the same way a man does, then she should be going to a barber shop and not a salon. The reason it costs more is because the salon people can actually style as opposed to cut to a length, block/fade into top, and even out sideburns. The latter is all a lot of men really need.
The question you have to ask yourself is how much more money you'd be making if you got that master's degree, and if the extra cost is equal to the additional amount of money you'd make over the course of your life.
That said, I think the reason a lot of us avoid going to school for additional degrees is because of the substantial debt we accrue while in college. I, for one, am going to be in the hole 17k when I'm finished.
How do the foreign students pay for their schooling?
I was under the impression that the flamethrower was retired because of the severe reduction in life expectancy that results from carrying around 70 pounds of highly explosive flammable liquid in a tank on your back.
Let's also not ignore the consequences if your POS semi-disposable ultimate soldier computer breaks in the middle of a battle because you jostled it the wrong way. What are you going to do, call for suppressing fire while you run back to base to pick up a replacement?
"Hey, guys, could you stop shooting at me for a minute? I have to replace my eyepiece."
I think Heroes has a lot of appeal because it takes two things we're familiar with as a culture, superheroes and real life, and mixes them together. The biggest niche shows always seem to be the ones that combine unfamiliar things into one even more unfamiliar thing, if that makes any sense.
It really helps that in Heroes the characters all appear to be living, breathing people who are reacting to the same situations any of us would find ourselves in if we woke up in the mundane world to find ourselves with superpowers.
As a laborer, even if your buddy is working for free, if he fucks up he's just as responsible for the damage whether or not he actually got paid. The payment for services part is moot from my understanding. That's why you should always have a licensed/bonded contractor and not some yahoo off the streets. The difference between bond and no bond is that if the bonded guy fucks up he doesn't have to sell his house/car in order to pay damages, whereas the guy with no bond will, and will probably end up being unable to pay. A bond is essentially malpractice insurance for contractors. The license ensures that he's able and willing to pay his dues to the state in exchange for legitimacy.
Whether or not you choose to pursue the damages is another issue entirely. Whether or not the legal framework needs to be changed is also another matter.
It is your civic duty to get 100 of your closest personal friends together, dress up like pirates complete with eye patches, and each buy a ticket into the same movie. When you get into the theatre, start yelling "Arr!" and "Shiver me timbers!" and other such things. If they try to throw you out on the grounds that you're a pirate, start with the following questionnaire:
1.) Do we currently possess any stolen property? This may include such things as large chests, sacks full of coins, sacks full of other property, or anything not included on this list but that may reasonably be construed as the personal property of another person not lawfully acquired.
2.) Have we attempted to acquire any property that you may reasonably believe to be that of the theatre's? This may include money from the tills, employees, food, tickets, and hard copies of movies.
3.) Are there any ocean piers about which we may potentially raid after the successful conclusion of the movie?
4.) If so, do you see any ships flying a "Jolly Roger" flag of some sort with large square sails and many cannon and other weapons of war sticking out of them?
5.) Are we in a landlocked city? To clarify, is it even possible for us to raid from a ship? Note that this eliminates any possibility of us pirating.
If they continue to pursue you as pirates, start shouting about discrimination against seamen and how outrageous it is that they could suspect you of theft while on land. Continually claim that you are "water-only" pirates and that the land lubbers with video cameras are not true pirates and do not have sea legs. This part is why it's important to have a large number of co-conspirators.
And remember, you can't spell conspiracy without pirates.
My state supposedly designs standards which are related to a student's mental development while still representing fairly important milestones in their ability to reason and their knowledge.
That's why I like my Zen Sleek. The touchpad is like a scroll wheel with the caveat that if what you're looking for is more than one or two traversals across the pad away you can just stop at the edge and it'll scroll extremely fast until you get where you want.
Mostly I just bought it so that I could have a picture of an ox licking the song I'm listening to as a wallpaper. Also, it was about $50 cheaper than an iPod and uses a 1.8" laptop hard drive which seems like it would be easy to hack.
Does anyone know if the Zen Sleek firmware supports hard disk sizes larger than 20GB? If so that means I can hack in a 32GB or 64GB flash drive.
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Hey, but while we're on the subject, think about what would happen if we imported a ton of cheap food from other countries. Especially staple crops that we can grow here. I'll tell you, it would put the farmers in the US out of business. Then if we ever went to war with a foreign power or they wanted to control our country they would be able to control our food supply. There are other things that we need to be able to produce within the US that are not actually cost-effective, like metal and lumber. If we allowed unfettered imports of materials from other countries we would kill our own production.
As for your IP example, if you get wind of your neighbors invention and he's registered a patent, you can then register another patent covering your improvement to his invention and profit from that.
The reason we have a patent and copyright system in place is to encourage people to share their ideas freely while still being able to profit from them. We shouldn't dissolve this system as patents catalogue innovation. We should reduce the term of patents to something that's actually sensible.
They probably don't sell those here because it's $1700 for an 11 inch television. That's an order of magnitude more money for something half the size of my computer monitor.
You realise that Baldur's Gate had advertising for other games from the same company in it, right? This was waaaaaay back in the day, before most people even had broadband internet. As I recall most games from that era had trailers for other games. Hell, I recall that a number of multiplayer games had AOL trials bundled with them. Look on the backs of just about any PSX game and you'll see ads for games from the same publisher. There were ads inside manuals.
What's new about what you're describing?
The only thing that would be classifiable as new about this would be if the publisher were selling ads on billboards inside the game.
Except that it's a huge pain in the ass to take notes on a keyboard where you can't insert basic punctuation and can't feel the keys. I'm sure someone will release a 3rd party application to fix the lack of tactile response in the home row. Oh, wait, the entire screen is flat. Do they at least have a stylus and decent handwriting recognition software for the iPhone that doesn't require me to hack it and risk bricking it?
We are adding energy to the system to redirect the energy present in the system. It's similar to what a fighter does when he pats a jab to one side instead of catching the punch. The energy remains in the system, but it no longer gets dissipated all at once in your face.
What I'm really worried about is what happens when we direct one of these storms around the Atlantic for a few days and it builds up strength. As has been mentioned before, we industrialized nations could use this to unleash the storm from hell on our enemies and then sit back and wait for the casualties to roll in. It would be more effective than an atom bomb because it leaves the population intact and doesn't pollute the surrounding area for more than a few days. It's also something that few nations have the resources to do effectively.
Imagine a series of weather control satellites in orbit over the Earth prodding tropical storms at our enemies.
Can a weather scientist give us more information about the feasibility of this type of military tactic?
Which reminds me, I need to go complain to the IT department at my school that there's no OpenOffice on any of the computers managed by their department.
Meanwhile this comes out at the exact time that I'll actually be able to afford to buy DVDs, meaning that I can buy this and finally have a copy of Blade Runner.
More like they bought Vista expecting it to work on their $900 rig of two or three years ago, and expecting to have their peripherals actually be compatible.
That's probably why GSM phones support multiple frequency bands.
Heh. One time I called Charter Communications to get a problem with my cable resolved. I spent half an hour with their automated troubleshooter before finally getting to a real person who proceeded to walk me through the same procedures the troubleshooter did. At the end of the call I felt like I had just wasted 30 minutes of my life.
I'd think Beta expansion refers to a term in one of the Lorentz transformations for Special Relativity. Still, I don't know what the hell he's talking about so you're probably right.
Not if we take the limit as the number of lengths approaches infinity. Screw you, Xeno! I know calculus!
I don't do free tech support for anyone outside my immediate family. The going rate for a callout is a 30-pack of beer per 2-hour period.
If she's getting her hair cut the same way a man does, then she should be going to a barber shop and not a salon. The reason it costs more is because the salon people can actually style as opposed to cut to a length, block/fade into top, and even out sideburns. The latter is all a lot of men really need.
He was being SARCASTIC. *woosh*
The question you have to ask yourself is how much more money you'd be making if you got that master's degree, and if the extra cost is equal to the additional amount of money you'd make over the course of your life.
That said, I think the reason a lot of us avoid going to school for additional degrees is because of the substantial debt we accrue while in college. I, for one, am going to be in the hole 17k when I'm finished.
How do the foreign students pay for their schooling?
I was under the impression that the flamethrower was retired because of the severe reduction in life expectancy that results from carrying around 70 pounds of highly explosive flammable liquid in a tank on your back.
Let's also not ignore the consequences if your POS semi-disposable ultimate soldier computer breaks in the middle of a battle because you jostled it the wrong way. What are you going to do, call for suppressing fire while you run back to base to pick up a replacement?
"Hey, guys, could you stop shooting at me for a minute? I have to replace my eyepiece."
I think Heroes has a lot of appeal because it takes two things we're familiar with as a culture, superheroes and real life, and mixes them together. The biggest niche shows always seem to be the ones that combine unfamiliar things into one even more unfamiliar thing, if that makes any sense.
It really helps that in Heroes the characters all appear to be living, breathing people who are reacting to the same situations any of us would find ourselves in if we woke up in the mundane world to find ourselves with superpowers.
Also, Hiro 4tw.
0.0 is lucrative for anyone who has the balls and the commitment to take and hold a system long enough to rat.
IANAL
As a laborer, even if your buddy is working for free, if he fucks up he's just as responsible for the damage whether or not he actually got paid. The payment for services part is moot from my understanding. That's why you should always have a licensed/bonded contractor and not some yahoo off the streets. The difference between bond and no bond is that if the bonded guy fucks up he doesn't have to sell his house/car in order to pay damages, whereas the guy with no bond will, and will probably end up being unable to pay. A bond is essentially malpractice insurance for contractors. The license ensures that he's able and willing to pay his dues to the state in exchange for legitimacy.
Whether or not you choose to pursue the damages is another issue entirely. Whether or not the legal framework needs to be changed is also another matter.
It is your civic duty to get 100 of your closest personal friends together, dress up like pirates complete with eye patches, and each buy a ticket into the same movie. When you get into the theatre, start yelling "Arr!" and "Shiver me timbers!" and other such things. If they try to throw you out on the grounds that you're a pirate, start with the following questionnaire:
1.) Do we currently possess any stolen property? This may include such things as large chests, sacks full of coins, sacks full of other property, or anything not included on this list but that may reasonably be construed as the personal property of another person not lawfully acquired.
2.) Have we attempted to acquire any property that you may reasonably believe to be that of the theatre's? This may include money from the tills, employees, food, tickets, and hard copies of movies.
3.) Are there any ocean piers about which we may potentially raid after the successful conclusion of the movie?
4.) If so, do you see any ships flying a "Jolly Roger" flag of some sort with large square sails and many cannon and other weapons of war sticking out of them?
5.) Are we in a landlocked city? To clarify, is it even possible for us to raid from a ship? Note that this eliminates any possibility of us pirating.
If they continue to pursue you as pirates, start shouting about discrimination against seamen and how outrageous it is that they could suspect you of theft while on land. Continually claim that you are "water-only" pirates and that the land lubbers with video cameras are not true pirates and do not have sea legs. This part is why it's important to have a large number of co-conspirators.
And remember, you can't spell conspiracy without pirates.
My state supposedly designs standards which are related to a student's mental development while still representing fairly important milestones in their ability to reason and their knowledge.
That's why I like my Zen Sleek. The touchpad is like a scroll wheel with the caveat that if what you're looking for is more than one or two traversals across the pad away you can just stop at the edge and it'll scroll extremely fast until you get where you want.
Mostly I just bought it so that I could have a picture of an ox licking the song I'm listening to as a wallpaper. Also, it was about $50 cheaper than an iPod and uses a 1.8" laptop hard drive which seems like it would be easy to hack.
Does anyone know if the Zen Sleek firmware supports hard disk sizes larger than 20GB? If so that means I can hack in a 32GB or 64GB flash drive.
Praise be to the almighty Torrent, that he may deliver us from data corruption!