It is more like "Your house is not as secure as the people who you pay to secure it tell you it is. I can prove it to you. All I need is a rock or baseball bat and I can show you that I can get through the supposedly rock and bat resistant glass that you paid good money for."
Wow. What about me, then? I see hours of adverts and don't buy any of the products! I must be some kind of super-villain or something. "Oh no! It's CynicalGeezer! He will watch the sponsored show and then ignore our lame repetitive ads for crap he doesn't need!"
And also the vast number of these things required to generate a usable amount of power would weigh a lot, so you would build big leg muscles just lumbering about. I can see it now, pasty thin (but lumpy) geeks festooned with wiring and gadgets, stomping around on hulk legs while stuffing their faces with sugary snacks.
Woo. Cognative ability is understood, now? Cool. I always wondered how it worked. Guess those artificial intelligences will be only a few weeks away then?
Are you saying that DNA only works as a whole entire thing and therefore is too complex to have occurred randomly? DNA was most likely a product of an evolutionary development of increasing complexity.
Where are DNA's predecessors? Maybe nowhere as DNA has dominated the planet for a long time.
I didn't think that evolution was supposed to disprove the existence of God.
That is like saying the 'theory of kindly parents' disproves the existence of the tooth fairy. The tooth fairy may enlist parents to replace teeth with money or the parents may ring up the tooth fairy whenever (s)he is needed. It is notoriously difficult to prove a negative, but which is the most likely situation?
I would like to see the religious people refer to their 'Theory of God'.
If you 'Hire a real architecht with serious artistic chops to oversee the design and implementation of cell towers' then you will vastly increase the likelihood of ending up with 'A huge metal eyesore'.
And it will probably not work too good as an aerial either.
If your time is so valuable, why are you watching tv?
The time spent geeking around learning how to make stuff work so that you can record tv is subtracted from the time spent watching crap tv because you haven't got perfect timeshifting. You aren't suggesting there is more good content than you have time to watch, are you?
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That's true. It is well worth the £squillions of tax money that the uk pays the EU for the privilege of belonging to a common market. Now I can buy drugs from amsterdam and guns from all over the EU. Oh, wait. No I can't. The dutch could easily ban the importation of ipods in the same way.
Ha ha ha! You used 'tax' and 'fair' together.
Seriously, the point of tax is not to provide 'fairness' it is to raise money to pay for all the bureaucracy that surrounds the creation of, administration of, and discussion of............taxes.
It may even be lower than $10,000. Nobody will check up whether they actually pay for it, or maybe they will withdraw the offer 'because they don't want to encourage theft', or maybe they have a shill ready.
OMFG. Personal flying machines! This is just what we need here in the UK as the road system is so fecked up.
I can see it now...First I apply for my provisional aircar license, then the months of training for the aircar driving test (£30 an hour for the training, £200 for the test). Once I pass and get my full licence I can buy an aircar (£300,000 + 40% aircar tax + 17.5% Vat) and pay the Air Fund Duty (£2000 a year) and Aircar insurance (£50,000 a year)and then i can fly along the narrow, circuitous and heavily monitored air corridors at a speed of no more than 40knots (penalty for exceeding speed limit, £250 and loss of licence) to an aircar park (parking fee £20 an hour, aircar fuel £20 a gallon) only a few miles from my destination.
Ah, the freedom of the air!
Are the differences from the book typical of the movie making process? In other words, are all films substantially different from the original material?
What are you talking about? Having a gun turns people into homicial maniacs. Far better to outlaw guns, knives, mace, pepper spray, tasers and batons (except for cops protecting important people). That way the criminals cannot possibly get hold of any weapons and we can all live together in peace and harmony. It works for us in the UK.
The individuals that partake in the bottling of water and bringing it to the public are all trying to MAKE A LIVING. They have to compete with God who supplies all areas for free. Incredibly, the water bottlers make $millions. How can this be? Why doesn't Napster God shut them all down in a day? Why are they still expanding?
Could it be that people will pay a reasonable amount for the convenience of not collecting the water themselves? The water bottling industry sets its prices at a level set by the market competition with other sources. How much DRM water would they sell at $20 a pint if free water was still availible?
Wow! that must have been inefficient. You sail into port with the latest issue of 'Saucy Sailors' magazine, the library wants to copy it so they have to send another bozo off to find the intellectual copyright holders and open negotiations for the right to copy the work.... There must have been boatloads of lawyers sailing back and forth all the time. I am suprised they had any room or time for cargo.
You don't understand what a free market is, or how it operates. The advent of the wax cylinder, by your reasoning, should have reduced the ranks of musicians to one orchestra that could record all the new music being composed.
There may be a reduced profit in providing content, but the market will adjust round it. If there is a 'napster' full of millions of songs then there will still be people without access to it, or who want added value with their music. Look at water. It falls out of the sky almost every day here, yet people still pay £1.00 a pint for bottled water. There are huge companies distributing and selling something that anyone can LEGALLY get for free wherever they happen to be using minimal equipment. How does that jibe with your idea of a free market?
HA ha ha ha! That is funny, the idea that you would provide amenities to keep workers at work! If you pay workers a low enough hourly rate they will work every goddam hour they can.
Since you don't need to put a real reel in a projector for every showing, a suddenly popular film (like if you sell all the seats out and there are still people queueing) can be quickly put on in a vacant (ok, less popular) screen of the multiplex. Good for customers and independant film-makers who can 'scale up' to a major release if they have a hit.
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You forgot to mention the MyDSL extensions! They are my favourite part and ideal for linux newbies.
The RIAA can probably afford more soldiers and better equipment than the cash-strapped UK military.
It is more like "Your house is not as secure as the people who you pay to secure it tell you it is. I can prove it to you. All I need is a rock or baseball bat and I can show you that I can get through the supposedly rock and bat resistant glass that you paid good money for."
Wow. What about me, then? I see hours of adverts and don't buy any of the products! I must be some kind of super-villain or something. "Oh no! It's CynicalGeezer! He will watch the sponsored show and then ignore our lame repetitive ads for crap he doesn't need!"
And also the vast number of these things required to generate a usable amount of power would weigh a lot, so you would build big leg muscles just lumbering about. I can see it now, pasty thin (but lumpy) geeks festooned with wiring and gadgets, stomping around on hulk legs while stuffing their faces with sugary snacks.
You wuss! I remember the first mobile phones, they were a box the size of a car battery. And get OFF my DAMNED lawn!
Not surprised nothing's happened to you! And get off my damned lawn!!!!
..........and the wage-slave won't be allowed to sign or approve anything so no booze for you.
Woo. Cognative ability is understood, now? Cool. I always wondered how it worked. Guess those artificial intelligences will be only a few weeks away then?
Are you saying that DNA only works as a whole entire thing and therefore is too complex to have occurred randomly? DNA was most likely a product of an evolutionary development of increasing complexity. Where are DNA's predecessors? Maybe nowhere as DNA has dominated the planet for a long time.
I didn't think that evolution was supposed to disprove the existence of God.
That is like saying the 'theory of kindly parents' disproves the existence of the tooth fairy. The tooth fairy may enlist parents to replace teeth with money or the parents may ring up the tooth fairy whenever (s)he is needed. It is notoriously difficult to prove a negative, but which is the most likely situation?
I would like to see the religious people refer to their 'Theory of God'.
If you 'Hire a real architecht with serious artistic chops to oversee the design and implementation of cell towers' then you will vastly increase the likelihood of ending up with 'A huge metal eyesore'. And it will probably not work too good as an aerial either.
If your time is so valuable, why are you watching tv? The time spent geeking around learning how to make stuff work so that you can record tv is subtracted from the time spent watching crap tv because you haven't got perfect timeshifting. You aren't suggesting there is more good content than you have time to watch, are you?
That's true. It is well worth the £squillions of tax money that the uk pays the EU for the privilege of belonging to a common market. Now I can buy drugs from amsterdam and guns from all over the EU. Oh, wait. No I can't. The dutch could easily ban the importation of ipods in the same way.
Ha ha ha! You used 'tax' and 'fair' together. Seriously, the point of tax is not to provide 'fairness' it is to raise money to pay for all the bureaucracy that surrounds the creation of, administration of, and discussion of............taxes.
It may even be lower than $10,000. Nobody will check up whether they actually pay for it, or maybe they will withdraw the offer 'because they don't want to encourage theft', or maybe they have a shill ready.
OMFG. Personal flying machines! This is just what we need here in the UK as the road system is so fecked up.
I can see it now...First I apply for my provisional aircar license, then the months of training for the aircar driving test (£30 an hour for the training, £200 for the test). Once I pass and get my full licence I can buy an aircar (£300,000 + 40% aircar tax + 17.5% Vat) and pay the Air Fund Duty (£2000 a year) and Aircar insurance (£50,000 a year)and then i can fly along the narrow, circuitous and heavily monitored air corridors at a speed of no more than 40knots (penalty for exceeding speed limit, £250 and loss of licence) to an aircar park (parking fee £20 an hour, aircar fuel £20 a gallon) only a few miles from my destination.
Ah, the freedom of the air!
Are the differences from the book typical of the movie making process? In other words, are all films substantially different from the original material?
What are you talking about? Having a gun turns people into homicial maniacs. Far better to outlaw guns, knives, mace, pepper spray, tasers and batons (except for cops protecting important people). That way the criminals cannot possibly get hold of any weapons and we can all live together in peace and harmony. It works for us in the UK.
Is it better than the lame assed secret cylinder thing he thought up for the da vinci code? crock of poo. I won't be reading anything else of his.
The individuals that partake in the bottling of water and bringing it to the public are all trying to MAKE A LIVING. They have to compete with God who supplies all areas for free. Incredibly, the water bottlers make $millions. How can this be? Why doesn't Napster God shut them all down in a day? Why are they still expanding?
Could it be that people will pay a reasonable amount for the convenience of not collecting the water themselves? The water bottling industry sets its prices at a level set by the market competition with other sources. How much DRM water would they sell at $20 a pint if free water was still availible?
Wow! that must have been inefficient. You sail into port with the latest issue of 'Saucy Sailors' magazine, the library wants to copy it so they have to send another bozo off to find the intellectual copyright holders and open negotiations for the right to copy the work.... There must have been boatloads of lawyers sailing back and forth all the time. I am suprised they had any room or time for cargo.
You don't understand what a free market is, or how it operates. The advent of the wax cylinder, by your reasoning, should have reduced the ranks of musicians to one orchestra that could record all the new music being composed.
There may be a reduced profit in providing content, but the market will adjust round it. If there is a 'napster' full of millions of songs then there will still be people without access to it, or who want added value with their music. Look at water. It falls out of the sky almost every day here, yet people still pay £1.00 a pint for bottled water. There are huge companies distributing and selling something that anyone can LEGALLY get for free wherever they happen to be using minimal equipment. How does that jibe with your idea of a free market?
HA ha ha ha! That is funny, the idea that you would provide amenities to keep workers at work! If you pay workers a low enough hourly rate they will work every goddam hour they can.
Since you don't need to put a real reel in a projector for every showing, a suddenly popular film (like if you sell all the seats out and there are still people queueing) can be quickly put on in a vacant (ok, less popular) screen of the multiplex. Good for customers and independant film-makers who can 'scale up' to a major release if they have a hit.