i find imperial units rather handy for ad-hoc measurements when i don't have a ruler/tape measure/etc. with me. my foot is literally 1 foot to a reasonable degree of accuracy. the width of my thumb is similarly close to 1 inch.
the LD50 for caffeine is something like 200mg/kg. for 14 shorts X 80mg is 1120mg. for, say, 90kg man, you'd need 18000mg to reach LD50, so you're not real close to it, though it does come close to the recommended daily limit of 1200mg (according to my box of caffeine tablets), as more than that on an ongoing basis can cause your heart to do interesting things.
does that not negate the copyright? Or is that patents?
that's with trademarks. AFAIK, no such thing exists with patents or copyrights, though i believe the right to sue over a patent may fade (cases may get tossed) if they basically cherry-pick only large, profitable-to-sue infringers (even application of the law or something), though i'm not entirely sure.
i'm personally not having any problems with my service providers (Sasktel, up here in Saskatchewan, Canada. who says government-owned, tightly-regulated service doesn't work? granted, i currently work for them, but i never had a problem with them before i worked here either.), though what i described seems to affect everyone else i speak to outside the province, either in this country or in the US.
aside from the fact their contracts usually require you go take it to "mandatory arbitration" with their choice of arbritator. while i believe that was thrown out by the courts, getting past that could still eat up a large quanity of time/money, which most people don't have.
well, depends on your definition of "insignificant".
estimated difference of $0.06/gallon, which is about $0.70 per fill for me, and since i need to fuel my car about every other week, about $19.60/year, which is roughly 1 hour of work at my current wage.
as far as i understand it, after a certain time of no oxygen, a "suicide bit" gets set and once oxygen comes back, the cell dies, but not until then.
this would prevent that. the cells might not work for long, but hopefully long enough for replacements to come in, as a sizable number of cells spontaneously dying in the heart or brain tends to lead to death for everything else, but a few cells dying at a time and being replaced wouldn't, which i presume is the intent.
though i can't RTFA (the server is probably on fire), so i dunno if i am even close on this.
You have some tough choices to make and you need to start thinking about them now. Not when an offer of settlement becomes a summons into court.
yes, like not going to that university.
when they [RIAA] will continue to pursure a lawsuit on you AFTER they KNOW that there is NO POSSIBLE WAY you are the right person, due to minor details like not even having a computer or internet connection, i would say the ONLY course of action that should be taken by the university would be to tell them to fuck off and come back if/when they have legally creditable evidance.
Not true. A lot of terrestrial radio stations also broadcast a stream over the Internet
and, AFAICT, they are exempt from these new rules. they get to stay with the same rules as they currently have with terrestrial radio, so they get to have their current market and keep the new market all to themselves.
then again, i could be wrong, so someone please correct me if i am.
IOW, their addiction consumes them to the point that it has a large negative impact on their life, such as loss of a job, destruction of their marriage, etc
and unless it is causing a reasonably negative impact on the rest of their life, it should not be considered an addiction! if i play WoW all weekend when i have nothing else i need to be doing, it's not an addiction. if i skip out on work to play, then that would likely qualify.
and for the reasons you mentioned in the 2nd sentence, it shouldn't be defined as "X addiction", but rather a more broad, person-oriented thing, such as "addictive personality disorder", which would be suitably descriptive, as such people are likely able to become addicted to anything that could be found pleasurable.
I don't disagree that a person can have an addiction to videogames (or pretty much anything else), but I don't think it's necessary to be so damn specific. It's not the videogames itself that is the problem, same as it is with alcohol, or gambling, or whatever else. It's the person, hence the disorder should focus on the person.
Some people can become addicted to anything they find pleasurable. I would prefer a disorder such as "addictive personality disorder" for it rather than having a mile-long list of various addictions to specific things, which also helps dodge the "This guy is seriously addicted to *suchandsuch* and he's lost him life savings/job/wife/etc. because of that. Nope, not in the DSM, no treatment for him" problem that you mention.
yes, but fiscal responsibility never seems to win over anyone [that matters] down in the US. i may not like the fact, but the thoughts of the corporations need to be considered in such matters for anything to get down the way things are in government now.
though I'm just fine with pure paper ballots, as the system up here in Canada has worked just fine and in all likelihood will continue to work fine for the foreseeable future, and even my grandma (who is 94 and legally blind) can use our big, simple ballots.
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i find imperial units rather handy for ad-hoc measurements when i don't have a ruler/tape measure/etc. with me. my foot is literally 1 foot to a reasonable degree of accuracy. the width of my thumb is similarly close to 1 inch.
the LD50 for caffeine is something like 200mg/kg. for 14 shorts X 80mg is 1120mg. for, say, 90kg man, you'd need 18000mg to reach LD50, so you're not real close to it, though it does come close to the recommended daily limit of 1200mg (according to my box of caffeine tablets), as more than that on an ongoing basis can cause your heart to do interesting things.
does that not negate the copyright? Or is that patents?
that's with trademarks. AFAIK, no such thing exists with patents or copyrights, though i believe the right to sue over a patent may fade (cases may get tossed) if they basically cherry-pick only large, profitable-to-sue infringers (even application of the law or something), though i'm not entirely sure.
i'm personally not having any problems with my service providers (Sasktel, up here in Saskatchewan, Canada. who says government-owned, tightly-regulated service doesn't work? granted, i currently work for them, but i never had a problem with them before i worked here either.), though what i described seems to affect everyone else i speak to outside the province, either in this country or in the US.
How can a consumer ever get out of a cell phone contract without paying a crazy termination fee?
call inceasantly until they decide to drop you as a customer.
aside from the fact their contracts usually require you go take it to "mandatory arbitration" with their choice of arbritator. while i believe that was thrown out by the courts, getting past that could still eat up a large quanity of time/money, which most people don't have.
because the alternative is not have a phone (as all the contracts are practically identical), which is really a hobson's choice.
well, depends on your definition of "insignificant".
estimated difference of $0.06/gallon, which is about $0.70 per fill for me, and since i need to fuel my car about every other week, about $19.60/year, which is roughly 1 hour of work at my current wage.
ah. thank you.
I believe there is an similar concept in civil law that would likely get their cases thrown out in this, though damn if I remember what it's called.
the legal definition of entrapment, not the dictionary definition of the word.
How difficult would it be to bypass the immobilizer
presumablely harder than smashing the window and hot-wiring it.
as far as i understand it, after a certain time of no oxygen, a "suicide bit" gets set and once oxygen comes back, the cell dies, but not until then.
this would prevent that. the cells might not work for long, but hopefully long enough for replacements to come in, as a sizable number of cells spontaneously dying in the heart or brain tends to lead to death for everything else, but a few cells dying at a time and being replaced wouldn't, which i presume is the intent.
though i can't RTFA (the server is probably on fire), so i dunno if i am even close on this.
what makes you think mere bolts would stop him?
You have some tough choices to make and you need to start thinking about them now. Not when an offer of settlement becomes a summons into court.
yes, like not going to that university.
when they [RIAA] will continue to pursure a lawsuit on you AFTER they KNOW that there is NO POSSIBLE WAY you are the right person, due to minor details like not even having a computer or internet connection, i would say the ONLY course of action that should be taken by the university would be to tell them to fuck off and come back if/when they have legally creditable evidance.
Not true. A lot of terrestrial radio stations also broadcast a stream over the Internet
and, AFAICT, they are exempt from these new rules. they get to stay with the same rules as they currently have with terrestrial radio, so they get to have their current market and keep the new market all to themselves.
then again, i could be wrong, so someone please correct me if i am.
What solutions to DRM does open source software offer though?
never including DRM in the first place sounds like a good solution to me.
what school/country/state/province/etc. is this in? it's a profoundly interesting idea.
IOW, their addiction consumes them to the point that it has a large negative impact on their life, such as loss of a job, destruction of their marriage, etc
and unless it is causing a reasonably negative impact on the rest of their life, it should not be considered an addiction! if i play WoW all weekend when i have nothing else i need to be doing, it's not an addiction. if i skip out on work to play, then that would likely qualify.
and for the reasons you mentioned in the 2nd sentence, it shouldn't be defined as "X addiction", but rather a more broad, person-oriented thing, such as "addictive personality disorder", which would be suitably descriptive, as such people are likely able to become addicted to anything that could be found pleasurable.
i wonder if the next rank of that spell is gonna be conjure firewater.
I don't disagree that a person can have an addiction to videogames (or pretty much anything else), but I don't think it's necessary to be so damn specific. It's not the videogames itself that is the problem, same as it is with alcohol, or gambling, or whatever else. It's the person, hence the disorder should focus on the person.
Some people can become addicted to anything they find pleasurable. I would prefer a disorder such as "addictive personality disorder" for it rather than having a mile-long list of various addictions to specific things, which also helps dodge the "This guy is seriously addicted to *suchandsuch* and he's lost him life savings/job/wife/etc. because of that. Nope, not in the DSM, no treatment for him" problem that you mention.
N00b! you aren't a REAL cook until you max out master!
i believe Konqueror is also fully-complient in this regard.
latest version of firefox is slightly better than IE7 (357 for FF vs. 330 for IE), but that isn't much differance.
Can somebody answer me why someone would buy a web bowser these days?
they wouldn't. which is why opera has been free for some time now.
yes, but fiscal responsibility never seems to win over anyone [that matters] down in the US. i may not like the fact, but the thoughts of the corporations need to be considered in such matters for anything to get down the way things are in government now.
though I'm just fine with pure paper ballots, as the system up here in Canada has worked just fine and in all likelihood will continue to work fine for the foreseeable future, and even my grandma (who is 94 and legally blind) can use our big, simple ballots.