One in 1909 measured 6 on the Richter scale. Nothing of note since then. I would expect that mechanical failures and flooding are orders of magnitude more likely, and a deliberate attack is also possible.
Indeed that is what became of classified material I have dealt with. Shredded using a military cross-cut shedder (output pieces smaller than 1x10mm), mixed thoroughly, and then incinerated using a purpose built belt-fed, gas fired machine.
It would also help validate the perception of GPL works as legally risky propositions for downstream users.
I have, of late, come to the conclusion that doing anything with a computer more complex operating the power switch is a legally risky proposition. If you write code then chances are high that there is someone else out there who feels entitled to a cut through patent, copyright or trademark (specious or not). Always a cut of the profits but never a cut of the costs/losses.
Indeed, that's why it is called a global problem. Maintaining an isolationist position or insisting that "the other" act first is to totally miss the point.
China’s rapid emissions growth and global climate change policy table 8.1 lists China's emissions growth 2000-05 as 10.6% p.a. If continued, this rate means a doubling of emissions in approximately 7 years. If you take figures published in China of 33.6% between 2006-10, equating to a 7.5% p.a. growth, or a doubling period of approximately 10 years (6.0% and ~12 years if you treat that as a 5 yr period). Contrast that with figures for Australia which are essentially flat this year (-0.4%).
Once a quarter (in my case) I tally the 10% GST I took from sales, the GST I paid in supplies to run the business, and remit the difference to the tax office. It is simple enough until you buy/sell a mix of items that includes exempt or zero-rated items (most basic foods, medical supplies, educational services), try to run a service on a barter basis, or export items... then it becomes more fun to administer. However, it seems from this side of the puddle to be a much easier system than the mess that exists in the US.
Do you have many people graduating with student loan debt that's the equivalent of $250,000 US?
No. Australia holds on to those quaint notions that education and healthcare serve a general public good and are therefore funded to a large degree out of public coffers. At tertiary level there is a moderate contribution required from (Australian) students based on the course type and subjects, but it is nothing like the charges demanded of US students from what I can see. The University of Queensland guidance for an undergraduate engineering course is AU$6,699 pa (http://www.uq.edu.au/myadvisor/index.html?page=25540). You can pay those fees up front for a 20% discount or defer them until your income exceeds a set level ($47,196 this FY, effectively a low-interest loan). The system dates to 1989 but the scheme is adjusted (aka eroded) routinely, and some want to see a US-style system here (although I cannot fathom why).
Foreign students that come here to study generally pay something closer to the "full" cost of their tuition. The UQ engineering example is $29,575 pa.
Nothing. Customs controls import and export, not use within the country. However, if you use such a device in a dangerous manner you will fall foul of state law. For example, in Queensland, Section 26 of the Summary Offences Act 2005 (possibly superseded, but you get the idea):
(1) A person must not unlawfully—... (c) direct a beam of light from a laser at or near a vehicle that is in the course of travelling;
in a way that endangers or is likely to endanger the safe use of the vehicle. Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.
(Vehicle includes aircraft) The Weapons Act 1990 and related regulations have recently been amended to include laser pointers as restricted items, and their use only need cause alarm in the target to be an offence (Sect 58). Sect 67 allows for reasonable excuse to possess an otherwise restricted laser device (for example a member of a bona fide astronomical group).
Having done the Singapore-London, Brisbane-LAX trans-Pacific hop in economy, business and first I can attest to the magnificent difference that the flat (or near flat) bed makes to both your state at arrival and your credit card balance. The current full list price for Qantas business BNE-LAX is AU$10274 versus AU$2231 for economy (that's one way folks). Nobody actually pays full price (I think we paid $14500 return), but the ratio is still ugly. I am glad I wasn't paying the bill.
So, just how much damage does a LOC, when dropped from a great height, do to an urban area?
One line of code? Not much, but you better make sure that line is appropriately licensed or the damage done by thousands of lawyers descending on your location will be devastating.:)
Cash on delivery (COD) exists in Australia through Australia Post but I have always considered it prohibitively expensive. For example the current rate is $8.05 + postage to send the item, $11.30 + postage to return the payment to you, and $16.50 if the delivery cannot be made. It adds nearly $20 to the price of an item but does provide a small transit insurance. I have never heard of anybody using COD here.
In the latest edition of the Apple vs. Samsung patent fight, the ABC is reporting that Samsung has filed in Australian and Japanese courts seeking an injunction to halt sales of the iPhone 4S for alleged 3G patent violations. It remains to be seen whether Samsung has any better luck with the retaliatory strike in Australian and Japanese courts than it did with courts in the Netherlands. I expect that Samsung will fail partly because of overseas precedent, but mostly because their patents are technical and narrow in scope.
Happier now?
For the record I do not own any Apple product, any Android based device (Samsung or other), or a mobile phone. I hold shares in neither company. Ultimately, I couldn't care less about these particular two devices, but I do care about the collateral damage to innovation caused by the patents-as-weapons mentality regardless of who is wielding it.
Most of the Stuart highway in the NT has a 130 km/hr (~81 mph for those so inclined) limit and 110 km/hr in SA. The average speed for last year's winner was approx 100 km/h, so they must be touching these limits at times. At the moment it also has a day time temperatures in the 30-40 degrees Celsius range (~86-104 deg. Fahrenheit). Bags not being in a cramped, non-airconditioned, low slung vehicle on top of the tarmac.
Failing to hold station above divers in a diving bell potentially adds life threatening risk but is not likely to cause injury without other factors. On the whole I agree, this is an inconvenience not a threat.
Fishing area boundaries are charted but not typically physically marked and GPS is used by the vessel to maintain licence compliance, and fishery management agencies to monitor compliance. Buoys work in shallow water only and even a fully functional Royal Navy ship can hit charted rocks:).
What happened to being able to read a chart, keeping a sextant on-board, triangulating your position with a compass, and all the other skills people used to be taught?
They still are taught (certainly to military navigators), but these techniques are only useful for relatively coarse navigation. Fine to get your boat home to port, but not very useful to accurately locate a particular crab pot, trawl a particular area while avoiding no-go zones or known obstructions, hold station over an dive site, oil or gas well head etc.
Took me a moment to work this out also. I can only assume that "PSA" is a common term in the writer's world. Is it really that difficult to spell it out the first time you use an acronym or initialism in an article? The difficulty in determining the meaning of PSA (public service announcement) is compounded by the observation that the whole exercise is one of crass self-interest on the part of large corporations, not employees, and not serving the public in any way.
All the hot air added by including the politicians will surely help lift the craft out of the densest parts of Earth's atmosphere, allowing a smaller rocket. I call this a win-win.
The lawyer's fees to write and send the demand letters are a loss to Innovatio IP Ventures. That this "loss" occurs only after the decision to sue/extort seems lost on the management and bean counters. This is a very common malaise in the corporate world: where money that could possibly be made, but was never actually earned, is considered a "loss".
Having just travelled the bulk of this route in relative automotive comfort I'm not sure I'd be happy to put myself in a shoebox and run the gauntlet of road trains and roos (although I saw more camels than kangas). Road trains shake even largish vehicles as they pass.
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The problem with statistics they have and always will be complete bull shit.
Casino operators love people like yourself.
One in 1909 measured 6 on the Richter scale. Nothing of note since then. I would expect that mechanical failures and flooding are orders of magnitude more likely, and a deliberate attack is also possible.
Perhaps they are trying to lure Google/Yahoo/Microsoft data centres to Ulan Bator with a surfeit of coolness?
Indeed that is what became of classified material I have dealt with. Shredded using a military cross-cut shedder (output pieces smaller than 1x10mm), mixed thoroughly, and then incinerated using a purpose built belt-fed, gas fired machine.
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Imagine a world without Slashdot, for surely, without this stuff as fodder you'd be able to hear a pin drop in here.
It would also help validate the perception of GPL works as legally risky propositions for downstream users.
I have, of late, come to the conclusion that doing anything with a computer more complex operating the power switch is a legally risky proposition. If you write code then chances are high that there is someone else out there who feels entitled to a cut through patent, copyright or trademark (specious or not). Always a cut of the profits but never a cut of the costs/losses.
Indeed, that's why it is called a global problem. Maintaining an isolationist position or insisting that "the other" act first is to totally miss the point.
China’s rapid emissions growth and global climate change policy table 8.1 lists China's emissions growth 2000-05 as 10.6% p.a. If continued, this rate means a doubling of emissions in approximately 7 years. If you take figures published in China of 33.6% between 2006-10, equating to a 7.5% p.a. growth, or a doubling period of approximately 10 years (6.0% and ~12 years if you treat that as a 5 yr period). Contrast that with figures for Australia which are essentially flat this year (-0.4%).
Once a quarter (in my case) I tally the 10% GST I took from sales, the GST I paid in supplies to run the business, and remit the difference to the tax office. It is simple enough until you buy/sell a mix of items that includes exempt or zero-rated items (most basic foods, medical supplies, educational services), try to run a service on a barter basis, or export items... then it becomes more fun to administer. However, it seems from this side of the puddle to be a much easier system than the mess that exists in the US.
The JPL Small-Body Database Browser has an interactive approximation of the orbit (requires Java for the applet).
Do you have many people graduating with student loan debt that's the equivalent of $250,000 US?
No. Australia holds on to those quaint notions that education and healthcare serve a general public good and are therefore funded to a large degree out of public coffers. At tertiary level there is a moderate contribution required from (Australian) students based on the course type and subjects, but it is nothing like the charges demanded of US students from what I can see. The University of Queensland guidance for an undergraduate engineering course is AU$6,699 pa (http://www.uq.edu.au/myadvisor/index.html?page=25540). You can pay those fees up front for a 20% discount or defer them until your income exceeds a set level ($47,196 this FY, effectively a low-interest loan). The system dates to 1989 but the scheme is adjusted (aka eroded) routinely, and some want to see a US-style system here (although I cannot fathom why).
Foreign students that come here to study generally pay something closer to the "full" cost of their tuition. The UQ engineering example is $29,575 pa.
Nothing. Customs controls import and export, not use within the country. However, if you use such a device in a dangerous manner you will fall foul of state law. For example, in Queensland, Section 26 of the Summary Offences Act 2005 (possibly superseded, but you get the idea):
(1) A person must not unlawfully— ... (c) direct a beam of light from a laser at or near a vehicle that is in the course of travelling;
in a way that endangers or is likely to endanger the safe use of the vehicle. Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.
(Vehicle includes aircraft) The Weapons Act 1990 and related regulations have recently been amended to include laser pointers as restricted items, and their use only need cause alarm in the target to be an offence (Sect 58). Sect 67 allows for reasonable excuse to possess an otherwise restricted laser device (for example a member of a bona fide astronomical group).
Having done the Singapore-London, Brisbane-LAX trans-Pacific hop in economy, business and first I can attest to the magnificent difference that the flat (or near flat) bed makes to both your state at arrival and your credit card balance. The current full list price for Qantas business BNE-LAX is AU$10274 versus AU$2231 for economy (that's one way folks). Nobody actually pays full price (I think we paid $14500 return), but the ratio is still ugly. I am glad I wasn't paying the bill.
So, just how much damage does a LOC, when dropped from a great height, do to an urban area?
One line of code? Not much, but you better make sure that line is appropriately licensed or the damage done by thousands of lawyers descending on your location will be devastating. :)
Cash on delivery (COD) exists in Australia through Australia Post but I have always considered it prohibitively expensive. For example the current rate is $8.05 + postage to send the item, $11.30 + postage to return the payment to you, and $16.50 if the delivery cannot be made. It adds nearly $20 to the price of an item but does provide a small transit insurance. I have never heard of anybody using COD here.
Sure:
In the latest edition of the Apple vs. Samsung patent fight, the ABC is reporting that Samsung has filed in Australian and Japanese courts seeking an injunction to halt sales of the iPhone 4S for alleged 3G patent violations. It remains to be seen whether Samsung has any better luck with the retaliatory strike in Australian and Japanese courts than it did with courts in the Netherlands. I expect that Samsung will fail partly because of overseas precedent, but mostly because their patents are technical and narrow in scope.
Happier now?
For the record I do not own any Apple product, any Android based device (Samsung or other), or a mobile phone. I hold shares in neither company. Ultimately, I couldn't care less about these particular two devices, but I do care about the collateral damage to innovation caused by the patents-as-weapons mentality regardless of who is wielding it.
Most of the Stuart highway in the NT has a 130 km/hr (~81 mph for those so inclined) limit and 110 km/hr in SA. The average speed for last year's winner was approx 100 km/h, so they must be touching these limits at times. At the moment it also has a day time temperatures in the 30-40 degrees Celsius range (~86-104 deg. Fahrenheit). Bags not being in a cramped, non-airconditioned, low slung vehicle on top of the tarmac.
Failing to hold station above divers in a diving bell potentially adds life threatening risk but is not likely to cause injury without other factors. On the whole I agree, this is an inconvenience not a threat.
Fishing area boundaries are charted but not typically physically marked and GPS is used by the vessel to maintain licence compliance, and fishery management agencies to monitor compliance. Buoys work in shallow water only and even a fully functional Royal Navy ship can hit charted rocks :).
What happened to being able to read a chart, keeping a sextant on-board, triangulating your position with a compass, and all the other skills people used to be taught?
They still are taught (certainly to military navigators), but these techniques are only useful for relatively coarse navigation. Fine to get your boat home to port, but not very useful to accurately locate a particular crab pot, trawl a particular area while avoiding no-go zones or known obstructions, hold station over an dive site, oil or gas well head etc.
Clearly the author subscribed to the "Capitalise Every Word to Make it Seem More Important" meme.
Took me a moment to work this out also. I can only assume that "PSA" is a common term in the writer's world. Is it really that difficult to spell it out the first time you use an acronym or initialism in an article? The difficulty in determining the meaning of PSA (public service announcement) is compounded by the observation that the whole exercise is one of crass self-interest on the part of large corporations, not employees, and not serving the public in any way.
All the hot air added by including the politicians will surely help lift the craft out of the densest parts of Earth's atmosphere, allowing a smaller rocket. I call this a win-win.
The lawyer's fees to write and send the demand letters are a loss to Innovatio IP Ventures. That this "loss" occurs only after the decision to sue/extort seems lost on the management and bean counters. This is a very common malaise in the corporate world: where money that could possibly be made, but was never actually earned, is considered a "loss".
Care to do the experiment and report back?
Having just travelled the bulk of this route in relative automotive comfort I'm not sure I'd be happy to put myself in a shoebox and run the gauntlet of road trains and roos (although I saw more camels than kangas). Road trains shake even largish vehicles as they pass.