Don't be so crude. Its the process of resolving those tensions that opens you to other possiblities. Its more a statistical measurement your culture's bias and acceptance of such a revellation.
Once a culture starts playing with atomics, a certain amount of oversight is required. So far this has only required a light touch, and you are mostly responding well to responsible use of your technology advances. Keep up the good work.
No. Its because its common for sudden dramatic revelations to cause erratic and detrimental behaviour in your populations. The human psych is very good at shutting out things that don't fit existing world views. We have determine the most favourable approach best suited to humans is to generate questions and for those that think they know the answer to come looking for us - so their discovery of us merely confirms what they already knew. This is the start of that process.
> Plus, how would they have found us? Our radio waves are incredibly weak. Even nuclear blasts are weak on a cosmic scale
You are only considering this with respect to your technology. You'd be suprised at how far atomic entanglements travel in the sub-ether. Though it did take us a couple of years to get there after you began playing with such toys.
> I don't buy the "space alien" story for the simple reason that the "Area 51" aliens look too much like us.
You are almost right. Most of the galatic community would scare the bejeezus out of you. We were chosen as the closest match, to be the most palettable when contact was made with your authorities.
However the hysteria at Roswell made it clear your general populous were not sophisticated enough to handle such a large and sudden paradigm shift. Don't worry, thats quite common. Its also common for populations to implode upon such revelations - so we tread carefully. It normally takes quite a while to lay the groundwork for a whole world to gracefully embrace such a significant revelation. We've been observing how you respond to an accelerating rate of technological and cultural change. We are judging the time is close when most of you will be acccepting of our revellation. This is part of the final stage of that process.
Its a real shame the OP did spend the time to convert it, then spoilt it for the rest of us.
btw, that is "finalised" with an "S" Its curious how you focus on the "English" language. Perhaps, maybe, England would be a good reference on how to spell?
Oh, standards aren't important? Lets be incompatible with the rest of the world. What good are they for? Can you program me a module to land on Mars? Remember its got to ignite landing thrusters at a height of 500.
Which is why there is only one standard type of screw drive head, Flathead. I once heard someone claim that there were other standards, such as Philips (better for automated assembly) and Pozidriv (allows latge torque without gouging the screw); but I reckon they were lying. I mean, how could competition possibly be better than one standard having a monopoly?
Its not too hard to understand the design for a Philips head screw, or Philips head screwdriver. Anyone could build either and have a high chance of being compatible with competitors.
How many pages do you imagine the complete "Philips Head" specification would be, compared to OOXML?
How easy will it be for OOXML competitors to be compatible?
The big issue is who gets to distribute this bucket of money. If its the traditional powers, then none of it will get to fringe players - and creativity will be depressed. However perhaps this might be useful if the population could vote online on who their $5 gets paid to. The payment of $5 is per-IP-address, so one vote per ISP assigned IP.
The issue is NOT about copyright. The photographer is perfectly able to sell a six foot framed picture of the picture of the girl, to which he own the copyright, as an individual artwork.
The issue is about the use of the girl to endorse a product, which requires a model release specifically granting permission for it to be used in that way.
Again, its not about copyright. So CC having anything to do with it is non sequitur.
The girl can really only sue Virgin, who are the ones who paired her image to endorse their ad campaign. Virgin may then on-sue the photographer if he falsely made any assurances about there being a model release - however as standard practice, Virgin really shoudl have had the model release in hand before publication.
A model release is NOT a blanket permission saying "I grant you permission to use my image for anything, in any medium, forever..."
That depends on the specifics of the model release contract.
For instance, someone may be okay with their photo being used "in good taste" but not happy for it being used to sell annal insertion sex toys. More specifically, a supermodel may restrict rights for photos from a shoot for one product, to be used only with that product, in that particular campaign, is a specific magazine publication/edition, for a specific number of prints.
By default the phototographer has NO RIGHTS for the image to be used commercially. The model rlease grants specific rights. However for these to be useful for stock photos, where the purpose is not known in advance, the model relase is generally fairly broad brush.
Also note, that a model release IS a contract. To make it valid you need to make sure that the model receives some valuable consideration (money/free print) and is aware of this point.
Finally, to my mind, CC is completly in the clear as a non-involved third party. The main fault lies with Virgin for not ensuring the image had a model release. Note that the photographer is allow to sell his copyright images without a model release - ie as individual framed artistic images. It is the pairing of the image to endorse a product that is core issue.
My wife and I are planning a family, which prompted me to trawl for "Vitamin D" and "Pregnancy" and I came across this very interesting review of Vitamin D medical research indicating it would be useful for mothers to get a lot more Vitamin D than they are getting.
(Note, the article is quite long, but for those in a similar position, its interesting reading and maybe something to discuss with your obstetrician.)
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wrong!
Want to pick another?
*grin*
Pick a number between one and ten
That looks suspiciously like a JBH. The remote control isn't seen in operation - is it just a prop?
Thats almost but not entirely unlike a meme.
Don't be so crude. Its the process of resolving those tensions that opens you to other possiblities. Its more a statistical measurement your culture's bias and acceptance of such a revellation.
Once a culture starts playing with atomics, a certain amount of oversight is required. So far this has only required a light touch, and you are mostly responding well to responsible use of your technology advances. Keep up the good work.
No. Its because its common for sudden dramatic revelations to cause erratic and detrimental behaviour in your populations. The human psych is very good at shutting out things that don't fit existing world views. We have determine the most favourable approach best suited to humans is to generate questions and for those that think they know the answer to come looking for us - so their discovery of us merely confirms what they already knew. This is the start of that process.
> Plus, how would they have found us? Our radio waves are incredibly weak. Even nuclear blasts are weak on a cosmic scale
You are only considering this with respect to your technology. You'd be suprised at how far atomic entanglements travel in the sub-ether. Though it did take us a couple of years to get there after you began playing with such toys.
> I don't buy the "space alien" story for the simple reason that the "Area 51" aliens look too much like us.
You are almost right. Most of the galatic community would scare the bejeezus out of you. We were chosen as the closest match, to be the most palettable when contact was made with your authorities.
However the hysteria at Roswell made it clear your general populous were not sophisticated enough to handle such a large and sudden paradigm shift. Don't worry, thats quite common. Its also common for populations to implode upon such revelations - so we tread carefully. It normally takes quite a while to lay the groundwork for a whole world to gracefully embrace such a significant revelation. We've been observing how you respond to an accelerating rate of technological and cultural change. We are judging the time is close when most of you will be acccepting of our revellation. This is part of the final stage of that process.
Take care now.
Don't put the soldering iron THERE!!!!
> Spend 2 seconds to convert the damn units.
Its a real shame the OP did spend the time to convert it, then spoilt it for the rest of us.
btw, that is "finalised" with an "S"
Its curious how you focus on the "English" language. Perhaps, maybe, England would be a good reference on how to spell?
Oh, standards aren't important? Lets be incompatible with the rest of the world. What good are they for? Can you program me a module to land on Mars? Remember its got to ignite landing thrusters at a height of 500.
I ask you... Why would someone people sponsor a child in Africa? Why would someone donate to disaster relief? Its not giving THEM any benefit.
Perhaps sometimes its the principle that counts.
...or it could just the self-indulgent pleasure of the economics of philanthropy.
you're far too trusting
> Power goes down, circuit opens.
Except... the power doesn't go down, because you are back-feeding.
So while we can discuss the pros and cons of the situation,
if con- is the opposite of pro-, what is the opposite of Progess?
Of course you know all about the Wooden Horse? Wouldn't shit.
(say it out loud)
Thats poor. The teacher did say "it was a trick question", and literally speaking, she was right - it satisfies the criteria.
Its like, a car crashed somewhere between LA and NY, where do they bury the survivors?
Anyone could build either and have a high chance of being compatible with competitors.
How many pages do you imagine the complete "Philips Head" specification would be, compared to OOXML?
How easy will it be for OOXML competitors to be compatible?
Preferably, we would like to test it any very high bandwidth systems running Linux kernels version 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1.
The big issue is who gets to distribute this bucket of money. If its the traditional powers, then none of it will get to fringe players - and creativity will be depressed. However perhaps this might be useful if the population could vote online on who their $5 gets paid to. The payment of $5 is per-IP-address, so one vote per ISP assigned IP.
Whats this emphasis on Windows "work group" server? I hope not just WfW 3.11 circa 1995 ?
So every time the RIAA sues, more people learn more about how download stuff. I'd never heard of NZB before. Now I have. way-to-go-riaa!!
The issue is NOT about copyright. The photographer is perfectly able to sell a six foot framed picture of the picture of the girl, to which he own the copyright, as an individual artwork.
The issue is about the use of the girl to endorse a product, which requires a model release specifically granting permission for it to be used in that way.
Again, its not about copyright. So CC having anything to do with it is non sequitur.
The girl can really only sue Virgin, who are the ones who paired her image to endorse their ad campaign. Virgin may then on-sue the photographer if he falsely made any assurances about there being a model release - however as standard practice, Virgin really shoudl have had the model release in hand before publication.
A model release is NOT a blanket permission saying "I grant you permission to use my image for anything, in any medium, forever..."
That depends on the specifics of the model release contract.
For instance, someone may be okay with their photo being used "in good taste" but not happy for it being used to sell annal insertion sex toys. More specifically, a supermodel may restrict rights for photos from a shoot for one product, to be used only with that product, in that particular campaign, is a specific magazine publication/edition, for a specific number of prints.
By default the phototographer has NO RIGHTS for the image to be used commercially. The model rlease grants specific rights. However for these to be useful for stock photos, where the purpose is not known in advance, the model relase is generally fairly broad brush.
Also note, that a model release IS a contract. To make it valid you need to make sure that the model receives some valuable consideration (money/free print) and is aware of this point.
Finally, to my mind, CC is completly in the clear as a non-involved third party. The main fault lies with Virgin for not ensuring the image had a model release. Note that the photographer is allow to sell his copyright images without a model release - ie as individual framed artistic images. It is the pairing of the image to endorse a product that is core issue.
See my post above "Vitamin D requirements during pregancy"
Many sources cited including placebo-controlled.
My wife and I are planning a family, which prompted me to trawl for "Vitamin D" and "Pregnancy" and I came across this very interesting review of Vitamin D medical research indicating it would be useful for mothers to get a lot more Vitamin D than they are getting. (Note, the article is quite long, but for those in a similar position, its interesting reading and maybe something to discuss with your obstetrician.)