Yet, strangeley enough, neither you nor anyone else can ever cite a case where a court upheld the general validity of a EULA. When challenged to, you reference a slashdot comment and a wikipedia article that specifically states "No Court has ruled on the validity of EULAs generally; decisions are limited to particular provisions and terms."
Interestingly, the most pro-valid judgement I have seen, ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg specifically states in the judgement that the material cannot be copyrighted. It could be argued that the exclusion of copyright is what specifically invalidates the first sale doctrine in that case.
P = V * I
Watts = Volts * Amps
So if you are sending down 1 GW on a 25000 volt line, thats a current of 40 000 amps.
It's a little bit too much for a wire. Air gap insulation doesn't work in space, so you need to add insulators.
However if you beam microwaves at a 1000m square rectenna, then the power density is only 1kw/m^2.
In practice, due to beam spread the rectennas would more likely be 4km by 5 or 6km (depending on lattitude) so your power density would drop by a factor of 20 or so. You could stand under it all day and the sunburn would be far worse than anything the beam would do to you.
The obvious answer is an extra section at the bottom, probably near where you choose shipping method, that has two fields "How much tax do you want to pay?" and "Who do you want to pay it to?" Everybody knows where they live and can look up their tax rate and fill it in themselves. That amount is then added to the sale amount, and every so often the store remits the money as required. No hassles with different rates, you just have to trust the on-line shoppers. Anybody who leaves it blank obviously either lives in a tax-free state, or is otherwise exempt, so you don't have to worry about them.
Neutral is what doesn't dissolve you.:) It is not neccessarily aqueous pH7 for everything. The most likely alternate chemistry for life though, is carbon based, but using ammonia instead of water. At above about 70 psi, and somewhere below zero celsius it has a liquid range and chemistry similar to water. Given a larger, colder planet than earth with a thick atmosphere, life in liquid ammonia is the most probable option.
Don't just send them emails. Learn to write neatly and legibly and send them a handwritten letter on any issue you really care about.
Include your name and address, and write as if you expect a reply.
One handwritten, neat, coherent letter is probably worth 100 emails, even if they get through the spam filter, and having to reply, even if it's just a form letter, will help your letter (and it's points) stick in their minds.
Why don't you just let them become citizens?
Once they are legal then the employers have less of a stick to hold over them and demand they work for low pay. This raises the minimum price of labour, which has a flow on effect for other jobs.
Effectively you move the entire workforce slightly up the scale from low towards middle class, improve everybody's standard of living, and give the economy a much needed kick in the arse.
Isn't that how it worked back when the USA was building its superpower status? "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,"....
No, I bought it, I own it.
There are legal restrictions on what I can do with it, basically I can't make and sell copies, but unless I sign a licence agreement before I pay and accept delivery, then there is no licence. You don't get to add conditions after the sale.
I've seen judgements that involve many things besides straight restitution. Are you trying to tell a judge he can't do something? I bet the judge can do that if he wants too. In fact, I double dare him.
Anything plugged into the same circuit is drawing current directly through the house wiring, not through the breaker. The only current through the breaker(s) is what goes out to the mains cut-off and then back in through another breaker to a different circuit.
But yes they will trip if back-fed an overload. - it's AC current, the breaker doesn't know which way the power is going, it just monitors the current.
However my personal opinion is that anyone stupid anough to use a male to male cord should have one end plugged into a live socket and the other into their arse.
Essentially, a slimmed down PDF-like format, but designed exclusively for digital representation of print media (so no embedded forms, audio, video, etc).
So its basically early PDF. I wonder how long before they start adding all the crap that screwed up PDFs.
If all they offer the Model-T is in black, then you get to liking black or you do without. You don't steal one because it's not your "preferred method".
But once you have bought a black model T, you are free to paint the thing any bloody colour you like. And then re-sell it too.
Sorry, wasn't clear on the 10 volt minimum. Under that won't hurt it or discharge the battery, it just won't charge it. It will probably still run the laptop down to about 8V
So you plug in whatever 12V or higher solar charger you've got, and if it's sunny it charges, if cloud comes over it runs on the battery.
The AC charger came with the get-one XO. Their literature suggested that the give-one XO's had a foot crank and/or solar panel and a different battery.
On the battery life, its about three hours with the backlight on, heavily using the wifi. I haven't managed to run it flat in black and white mode yet, but it seems like it would go about eight hours (comparing battery-meter/run-times with the colour mode).
Actually, the DC input on the XO can handle anything from 10 to 40 volts, and is protected against reverse polarity. The AC adaptor they ship with the get-one XO can run on anything from 100 to 240 volts, 50 to 60 Hz. As far as charging it goes, the damn thing is practically omnivorous.
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Only if you're not self-employed.
You might even find an Unshielded Thermal Exhaust Port!
I think you missed a day in there somewhere.
Yet, strangeley enough, neither you nor anyone else can ever cite a case where a court upheld the general validity of a EULA. When challenged to, you reference a slashdot comment and a wikipedia article that specifically states "No Court has ruled on the validity of EULAs generally; decisions are limited to particular provisions and terms."
Interestingly, the most pro-valid judgement I have seen, ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg specifically states in the judgement that the material cannot be copyrighted. It could be argued that the exclusion of copyright is what specifically invalidates the first sale doctrine in that case.
Am I going rah, rah, rah, and cheering this bill on?
Irony anybody ?
P = V * I
Watts = Volts * Amps
So if you are sending down 1 GW on a 25000 volt line, thats a current of 40 000 amps.
It's a little bit too much for a wire. Air gap insulation doesn't work in space, so you need to add insulators.
However if you beam microwaves at a 1000m square rectenna, then the power density is only 1kw/m^2.
In practice, due to beam spread the rectennas would more likely be 4km by 5 or 6km (depending on lattitude) so your power density would drop by a factor of 20 or so. You could stand under it all day and the sunburn would be far worse than anything the beam would do to you.
Cheap, non-reactive, easily compressible to a liquid for transpot, heavier molecular weight to increase diffusion time.
Liquid argon.
The obvious answer is an extra section at the bottom, probably near where you choose shipping method, that has two fields "How much tax do you want to pay?" and "Who do you want to pay it to?"
Everybody knows where they live and can look up their tax rate and fill it in themselves. That amount is then added to the sale amount, and every so often the store remits the money as required. No hassles with different rates, you just have to trust the on-line shoppers.
Anybody who leaves it blank obviously either lives in a tax-free state, or is otherwise exempt, so you don't have to worry about them.
Neutral is what doesn't dissolve you.:) It is not neccessarily aqueous pH7 for everything.
The most likely alternate chemistry for life though, is carbon based, but using ammonia instead of water. At above about 70 psi, and somewhere below zero celsius it has a liquid range and chemistry similar to water. Given a larger, colder planet than earth with a thick atmosphere, life in liquid ammonia is the most probable option.
No, it borrowed it from the Fed, which is a privately owned bank, which created it by fiat.
If your ion cannon only disables electronics then you're not using enough ions.
Per minute, that's about right.
Don't just send them emails. Learn to write neatly and legibly and send them a handwritten letter on any issue you really care about.
Include your name and address, and write as if you expect a reply.
One handwritten, neat, coherent letter is probably worth 100 emails, even if they get through the spam filter, and having to reply, even if it's just a form letter, will help your letter (and it's points) stick in their minds.
Why don't you just let them become citizens?
Once they are legal then the employers have less of a stick to hold over them and demand they work for low pay. This raises the minimum price of labour, which has a flow on effect for other jobs.
Effectively you move the entire workforce slightly up the scale from low towards middle class, improve everybody's standard of living, and give the economy a much needed kick in the arse.
Isn't that how it worked back when the USA was building its superpower status? "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,"....
No, I bought it, I own it.
There are legal restrictions on what I can do with it, basically I can't make and sell copies, but unless I sign a licence agreement before I pay and accept delivery, then there is no licence. You don't get to add conditions after the sale.
I've seen judgements that involve many things besides straight restitution.
Are you trying to tell a judge he can't do something?
I bet the judge can do that if he wants too. In fact, I double dare him.
It's what the Yanks call an Aluminium Falcon.
Anything plugged into the same circuit is drawing current directly through the house wiring, not through the breaker. The only current through the breaker(s) is what goes out to the mains cut-off and then back in through another breaker to a different circuit.
But yes they will trip if back-fed an overload. - it's AC current, the breaker doesn't know which way the power is going, it just monitors the current.
However my personal opinion is that anyone stupid anough to use a male to male cord should have one end plugged into a live socket and the other into their arse.
Better yet wire a big electrolytic capacitor in parallel with the LED. This way you get an audible alert that the power is back on.
Essentially, a slimmed down PDF-like format, but designed exclusively for digital representation of print media (so no embedded forms, audio, video, etc).
So its basically early PDF. I wonder how long before they start adding all the crap that screwed up PDFs.
Windows has had a 'documents and settings' folder for years. What is so freaking hard about using it?
From a point and click point of view not much.
From a cli, and programming perspective, its mostly the stupidly long pathname that includes spaces.
If all they offer the Model-T is in black, then you get to liking black or you do without. You don't steal one because it's not your "preferred method".
But once you have bought a black model T, you are free to paint the thing any bloody colour you like. And then re-sell it too.
Sorry, wasn't clear on the 10 volt minimum. Under that won't hurt it or discharge the battery, it just won't charge it. It will probably still run the laptop down to about 8V
So you plug in whatever 12V or higher solar charger you've got, and if it's sunny it charges, if cloud comes over it runs on the battery.
The AC charger came with the get-one XO. Their literature suggested that the give-one XO's had a foot crank and/or solar panel and a different battery.
On the battery life, its about three hours with the backlight on, heavily using the wifi. I haven't managed to run it flat in black and white mode yet, but it seems like it would go about eight hours (comparing battery-meter/run-times with the colour mode).
Actually, the DC input on the XO can handle anything from 10 to 40 volts, and is protected against reverse polarity.
The AC adaptor they ship with the get-one XO can run on anything from 100 to 240 volts, 50 to 60 Hz.
As far as charging it goes, the damn thing is practically omnivorous.