Because they signed a contract that said EMI could only sell the records if they were intact, EMI tried to weasel out by saying they weren't selling records
Wow. I'm surprised they'd claim that. Isn't that.. worse? Assuming the contract didn't have a "anything but records" section?
The disturbing thing about that show was the apparent ease with which they were able to obtain real human skulls for research. Is there a company out there just selling human remains to any ol' joker who asks? Where does said company get these remains? I've heard of people donating their bodies "for research" or for medical students, but I've never heard anyone ever say, "When I pass, I'd like my body to be donated for some company's profit."
I've got a much better plan. Just sell aqueous Lye and Muriatic Acid to restaurants and add them to the food separately. Oh and a table of pre-calculated stoichiometric quantities so that the chefs don't have to do math. You don't really want any left-over reagents in the food.
There's nothing wrong with pure oxygen, I breathe it all the time, diving. The problem is when you've got pure oxygen at high partial pressure in an environment with lots of flammable stuff and potentially sparking electronics.
The pure oxygen environment on Apollo I was intended to be 8psia, but the test they were doing was on the ground, so they pumped it up to 8psig, which is nearly 3x the design volume and 7x the atmospheric ppO2, because they pumped it up with oxygen rather than an inert diluent.
And the problem was further exacerbated by a design change to the hatch, preventing it from opening outwards.
Yah yeah, a "ducted fan VTOL" which is so much easier to say than helicopter. Further, the point I was making is that it's no more jet(or fan)-pack than a motorcycle is a wheel-pack.
Even if the Fed does do it, you still have to deal with the vast array of possibly conflicting regulations and the differences between them across state lines.
Further, I can cite two high-profile projects in New England alone that would be privately funded and whose construction and subsequent operation would provide jobs in the depressed region: Cape Wind and Weaver's Cove LNG. Both of which are being stymied by myopic local leaders and demagogues.
Frankly, I'm amazed at the Cape Wind company's tenacity: it's been like a decade since they started trying to get permission to build. That must be some valuable wind they're trying to tap.
Yeah, but Pickens' whole plan was to get the easement rights to put in power lines and somehow use that to put in a pipeline for the thing he really thought he could sell: the water in the ground under the wind farm.
I find it very difficult to believe that a CFL could have triggered a seizure. The frequency those things operate is just too high to register with the human eye. Now, maybe a regular tube operating at line frequency would do it (similarly a LED using the LED itself as the rectifier), but that is not what you're railing against.
Yes, and that's the trap of using lumens as your measure. If you want to know how much light is going to fill a room, you need a unit that reflects the whole sphere of output, not the flux over some unspecified solid angle of it.
Ironically, Watts actually is the proper unit for the total spherical luminous intensity or radiant flux, although you want to be careful to weight it for the human eye's wavelength sensitivity.
Not the watts printed on the side of the package, though, which is just extra frustrating. If the watts of output and the watts of draw (ok, floodlights should also print the "gain" of the beam, so you can get an idea for the spot intensity) were the only thing on the package people could see instantly (after a little bit of conditioning no worse than converting from imperial to metric) both how many devices they'd need to fill their room and how abysmally poor the conversion ratio of an incandescent bulb really is.
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And that's why so many people "need jobs." There is "stuff that needs to get done" so that's not the problem, the problem is that "stuff that needs to get done" is being held up for reasons other than, "not enough benefit for the effort of the stuff that needs doing."
One of those things is financing, to be sure, but one of those things is the regulatory quagmire you have to wade through before you can even break ground on any new project of substantial size. Hell, it'll take you a year to get through all the hurdles (disclaimer:not all of which are regulatory) to renovate an unoccupied building into a restaurant where the former use of said building was also a restaurant.
I don't know what the answer is. One possible answer in this case to go full-federal and dissolve the states as independent bodies, so at least you'd only have to deal with a single monolithic federal morass instead of that plus forty-eight smaller but in aggregate hugely complex systems, but that comes with its own attendant issues.
Yeah, I find it humorously absurd that because the advertisers don't trust the content producers to properly report impressions, the users are asked to trust an entire industry of shady third-parties not to F-up their computers with malicious code, and in addition to that, the content producers are further asked to trust these said-same third parties to have enough bandwidth and latency to not be too much of a detriment to the users' experience, driving them away.
But then, the content producers agree to this faustian bargain and are upset at their users for not wanting to put up with that shit.
WIth Linux, when updates come in, I can enter my admin password once and apply all or a selection of the patches at once. No waiting until I run each piece of software, which is the moment when I'm least likely to have the time and inclination to apply patches and restart the program or possibly the OS: If I'm running the application, that means I need it to get something done now.
Yes, the upstream sources are always going to be more up-to-date than the repositories and if you go off repository, you can't expect apt to handle that situation any better than just staying out of the way.
The thing is, the maintainers adapt the packages for their distribution, and that takes time, so they're always going to be slightly behind. But they're usually not too far behind, and Ubuntu will try to go to the latest major release with very six-month distribution upgrade.
But you don't have as much to fear as you might think. The decimal upgrades might just be feature upgrades; bug and security patches may (and are fairly likely to have been) be applicable/adaptable to the earlier revision, and that's one of the jobs of the package maintainers to handle.
You're not just high and dry with the repositories, and while it could be even better, it's still a fair sight superior to not having a centralized patch distribution method at all.
Ahh, but I wonder why NASA would be the ones to pay for the testing. You'd think camera manufacturers would jump over themselves to be able to stamp "approved for use in the space program" on their devices. Particularly in light of your link to Olympus doing precisely that.
Oh, and if you don't have a credit card associated with it, but you have a balance of even $1.20, first you have to associate it with a credit card to establish...something.. about your claim to the pittance, then you can begin the closeout process...
Maybe people feel teaching is a more rewarding job than janit-ing, so they're willing to take less pay for it? Maybe it's harder to find a skilled janitor than a skilled teacher? Maybe its easier to evaluate the skill or quality of a janitor, so it seems harder to find a decent one than it is to find a body sit in a box of kids?
Another interesting point is that the man, who worked as a janitor in a public school, sent his own kid to a private school (as many public school teachers also do. Something about "not eating dog food" I'm lead to understand.)
That's because you didn't ask the right way. The photographer makes money by selling copies of the pictures to your relatives and additional copies to you, as well (and incidentally provides the service of off-site backup, but it is not out of altruism, so I think we can safely ignore it as a mere side-benefit). Therefore the rights to the images have value to him or her, and conversely the photographer can afford to offer a lower price for the circumstance where the rights are not assigned to you.
Regardless of which party has the "right to the rights" the ultimate assignment of the rights has an effect on the ultimate price, and many (though a diminishing number) photographers' standard offer assumes the rights will be assigned to the photographer.
You can't expect to get full control of the images for the same price as just making sure good quality pictures are available for subsequent purchase, so the proper thing to do is not to demand that the photographer assign all the rights to you, but to ask how much for the option where you get the rights instead of the photographer.
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Because they signed a contract that said EMI could only sell the records if they were intact, EMI tried to weasel out by saying they weren't selling records
Wow. I'm surprised they'd claim that. Isn't that.. worse? Assuming the contract didn't have a "anything but records" section?
The disturbing thing about that show was the apparent ease with which they were able to obtain real human skulls for research. Is there a company out there just selling human remains to any ol' joker who asks? Where does said company get these remains? I've heard of people donating their bodies "for research" or for medical students, but I've never heard anyone ever say, "When I pass, I'd like my body to be donated for some company's profit."
I've got a much better plan. Just sell aqueous Lye and Muriatic Acid to restaurants and add them to the food separately. Oh and a table of pre-calculated stoichiometric quantities so that the chefs don't have to do math. You don't really want any left-over reagents in the food.
There's nothing wrong with pure oxygen, I breathe it all the time, diving. The problem is when you've got pure oxygen at high partial pressure in an environment with lots of flammable stuff and potentially sparking electronics.
The pure oxygen environment on Apollo I was intended to be 8psia, but the test they were doing was on the ground, so they pumped it up to 8psig, which is nearly 3x the design volume and 7x the atmospheric ppO2, because they pumped it up with oxygen rather than an inert diluent.
And the problem was further exacerbated by a design change to the hatch, preventing it from opening outwards.
I'd like to know how they know what she was thinking. Did they ask her?
There's a workaround for that, too. Option+CTRL+click
Yah yeah, a "ducted fan VTOL" which is so much easier to say than helicopter. Further, the point I was making is that it's no more jet(or fan)-pack than a motorcycle is a wheel-pack.
No, it's a very small helicopter. Which is still pretty cool.
Yeah, in the movies. In real life, they'd probably be used to replace cherry pickers for certain applications.
But hey... chocolate rations are up.
Not obvious enough. Do you really think the members of this forum read the books that they claim analogies to?
Even if the Fed does do it, you still have to deal with the vast array of possibly conflicting regulations and the differences between them across state lines.
Further, I can cite two high-profile projects in New England alone that would be privately funded and whose construction and subsequent operation would provide jobs in the depressed region: Cape Wind and Weaver's Cove LNG. Both of which are being stymied by myopic local leaders and demagogues.
Frankly, I'm amazed at the Cape Wind company's tenacity: it's been like a decade since they started trying to get permission to build. That must be some valuable wind they're trying to tap.
Yeah, but Pickens' whole plan was to get the easement rights to put in power lines and somehow use that to put in a pipeline for the thing he really thought he could sell: the water in the ground under the wind farm.
I find it very difficult to believe that a CFL could have triggered a seizure. The frequency those things operate is just too high to register with the human eye. Now, maybe a regular tube operating at line frequency would do it (similarly a LED using the LED itself as the rectifier), but that is not what you're railing against.
Unfortunately, LEDs are highly directional
Yes, and that's the trap of using lumens as your measure. If you want to know how much light is going to fill a room, you need a unit that reflects the whole sphere of output, not the flux over some unspecified solid angle of it.
Ironically, Watts actually is the proper unit for the total spherical luminous intensity or radiant flux, although you want to be careful to weight it for the human eye's wavelength sensitivity.
Not the watts printed on the side of the package, though, which is just extra frustrating. If the watts of output and the watts of draw (ok, floodlights should also print the "gain" of the beam, so you can get an idea for the spot intensity) were the only thing on the package people could see instantly (after a little bit of conditioning no worse than converting from imperial to metric) both how many devices they'd need to fill their room and how abysmally poor the conversion ratio of an incandescent bulb really is.
And that's why so many people "need jobs." There is "stuff that needs to get done" so that's not the problem, the problem is that "stuff that needs to get done" is being held up for reasons other than, "not enough benefit for the effort of the stuff that needs doing."
One of those things is financing, to be sure, but one of those things is the regulatory quagmire you have to wade through before you can even break ground on any new project of substantial size. Hell, it'll take you a year to get through all the hurdles (disclaimer:not all of which are regulatory) to renovate an unoccupied building into a restaurant where the former use of said building was also a restaurant.
I don't know what the answer is. One possible answer in this case to go full-federal and dissolve the states as independent bodies, so at least you'd only have to deal with a single monolithic federal morass instead of that plus forty-eight smaller but in aggregate hugely complex systems, but that comes with its own attendant issues.
Bad news my friend. Apple decided to go the other route and switch to a zero button mouse...
ABC employs reporters and Cablevision doesn't?
Yeah, I find it humorously absurd that because the advertisers don't trust the content producers to properly report impressions, the users are asked to trust an entire industry of shady third-parties not to F-up their computers with malicious code, and in addition to that, the content producers are further asked to trust these said-same third parties to have enough bandwidth and latency to not be too much of a detriment to the users' experience, driving them away.
But then, the content producers agree to this faustian bargain and are upset at their users for not wanting to put up with that shit.
Still twitter, but they take pains to be very polite.
WIth Linux, when updates come in, I can enter my admin password once and apply all or a selection of the patches at once. No waiting until I run each piece of software, which is the moment when I'm least likely to have the time and inclination to apply patches and restart the program or possibly the OS: If I'm running the application, that means I need it to get something done now.
Yes, the upstream sources are always going to be more up-to-date than the repositories and if you go off repository, you can't expect apt to handle that situation any better than just staying out of the way.
The thing is, the maintainers adapt the packages for their distribution, and that takes time, so they're always going to be slightly behind. But they're usually not too far behind, and Ubuntu will try to go to the latest major release with very six-month distribution upgrade.
But you don't have as much to fear as you might think. The decimal upgrades might just be feature upgrades; bug and security patches may (and are fairly likely to have been) be applicable/adaptable to the earlier revision, and that's one of the jobs of the package maintainers to handle.
You're not just high and dry with the repositories, and while it could be even better, it's still a fair sight superior to not having a centralized patch distribution method at all.
Ahh, but I wonder why NASA would be the ones to pay for the testing. You'd think camera manufacturers would jump over themselves to be able to stamp "approved for use in the space program" on their devices. Particularly in light of your link to Olympus doing precisely that.
Oh, and if you don't have a credit card associated with it, but you have a balance of even $1.20, first you have to associate it with a credit card to establish...something.. about your claim to the pittance, then you can begin the closeout process...
Maybe people feel teaching is a more rewarding job than janit-ing, so they're willing to take less pay for it? Maybe it's harder to find a skilled janitor than a skilled teacher? Maybe its easier to evaluate the skill or quality of a janitor, so it seems harder to find a decent one than it is to find a body sit in a box of kids?
Another interesting point is that the man, who worked as a janitor in a public school, sent his own kid to a private school (as many public school teachers also do. Something about "not eating dog food" I'm lead to understand.)
That's because you didn't ask the right way. The photographer makes money by selling copies of the pictures to your relatives and additional copies to you, as well (and incidentally provides the service of off-site backup, but it is not out of altruism, so I think we can safely ignore it as a mere side-benefit). Therefore the rights to the images have value to him or her, and conversely the photographer can afford to offer a lower price for the circumstance where the rights are not assigned to you.
Regardless of which party has the "right to the rights" the ultimate assignment of the rights has an effect on the ultimate price, and many (though a diminishing number) photographers' standard offer assumes the rights will be assigned to the photographer.
You can't expect to get full control of the images for the same price as just making sure good quality pictures are available for subsequent purchase, so the proper thing to do is not to demand that the photographer assign all the rights to you, but to ask how much for the option where you get the rights instead of the photographer.