Would these be the same kind of sanctions that are still being applied to Cuba, decades after they stopped being a Russian pawn?
Honestly, the whole thing about congressional sanctions seems to be a low point on the moral landscape to me when I consider that case. Ok, perhaps relevant three or four decades ago, but still?
The idea that you can pass rules in Washington, and somehow bring about magical barriers to the kind of nastiness that can be done with technology at any levelis absurd. After all, the US (and many other countries), spent untold billions preparing high tech weapons for an expected large conventional/nuclear war, and restricted the sale of, or passing of information about, much of this technology. Then what do we find? It's actually nutbars with explosive belts and cheap guns that are the problem.
I recommend we sanction sanctions, that'll fox em..
What I found shocking was that you have to pay tax [bbc.co.uk] to even legally *watch* TV there...
And in return we get the bbc, which provides not only some of the worlds best TV, but provides radio that is listened to worldwide, and one of the best websites on the Internet. Oh, yes, and it has one of the largest, if not the largest collections of free audio and video content in existence.
Want a few months worth of interesting material, try this site: In Our Time (completely fascinating discussions on just about every topic you can imagine) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/
I am forced to agree, but I have a nieve hope that some sense will be made of this problem. Until then I think that defensive patents will be registered. Probably these will worsen the problem, but can you find any reason why a tech company wouldn't do it?
I think the main reason for registering such a patent is most likely defensive. Apple have had lots of experience being hammered in stupid patent suites, as have many tech companies, so if they have a patent, however vague, they can use it to prevent expensive lawsuits.
Not that this justifies silly patents, but it does provide a reason for their registration.
This shouldn't be taken as meaning that Antigua don't care about IP. They just care that they got stomped on by the US for no defensible reason, and got a small (but politically devastating for the US) recompense.
Actually this does pose a threat to us. The gigantic and devastatingly destructive waves of force caused by the post impact 'IMPRESSIVE' are as we read this, heading our way.
do you have some point or are you just running your mouth?
Well, as a human I'm not especially pointed, in fact I'm rather rounded in places, and last I checked it was indeed me that ran my mouth. I'd hardly delegate the task to anyone else, all those nerve endings and all, it could get messy.
The thing with the US is no matter how bad it gets, your culture has within it a tendancy to say 'screw you' to anyone that's in power, and throw them out. Either that or make things so tough that people quit.
I've been surprised at the no-cons apparent ability to just take over and start the conversion to a police state (facism?) though. Why there hasn't been soime sort of mass revolt is beyond me. You're apparently just sitting back and letting them re-institute a pro rich/powerful people nation.
I have a lot of respect for Americans, but as a country your starting to look a bit, well, stupid. Quite aside from the political situation, its what, 80% of your population beleive the earth is less than 10,000 years old? This does not fill me with confidence. I was considering paying for my son to spend his univeristy years in the state, now I have a doubt.
Houses are for living in. Why focus more on resale value than enjoying living where you do?
A house for living in need not be purchased. I have german friends who find our obsession with purchasing our homes to be bizarre, to the point of calling me a fool when I was young because I was saddling myself with a mortgage (I no longer have it, I sold up and went to uni).
If a house is purchased, then by implication, it is to be sold at some point. certainly this is usually the case nowadays. Therefore any modification made to a house should ideally be done with its effect on resale value.
Very pretty, but I don't see how this would add value to a house. Try to sell a home with this fitted and you seriously limit the number of potential buyers. A well put together, neat, and uncluttered home theater is likely to be a greater selling point.
Is I a killjoy? Probably, Should I have my slashdot karma revoked in a fit of outrage? Reckon. But still, these things are important, especially now.
Could help them in some small way in determing what fun we'll have in 2036 with Apophis-99942.
It's already fun. I've approximated its orbit for the next 400 years, and haven't seen it hit yet. The accuracy of this depends on whether I have the parameters (mass mostly) correct tho.
When I was in my local bookstore a few weeks back, they asked me if I wanted a paper bag for the book I'd just bought. I said no, and the counter lady said 'ah yes, save the tree's', to which my son piped up, 'save the tree's? But this is a bookshop.'
If we lived a long, long time, I think we'd stagnate, set in our ways
To be precise, we'd all end up with arthritis, well almost all of us. There has never been a way for evolution to remove that particuler flaw in our genes, because firstly, humans didn't live that long when our species first appeared, and secondly, in virtually all cases it occurs after child rearing age, making it irrellevent to survival, and thus not a factor in natural selection.
Since there is no cure for arthritis at this time, I'll take my three score years and ten, with an option on another twenty or so if possible.
Being charitable, they may have just donkeyed the abstract, and the article might be written by someone who made notes based on the abstract when they didn't change when they read the paper.
You don't usually get to be a post-doc without having some experience in writing papers, and the peer reviewers must have thought it was ok. Abstracts are a bugger to write, and so very easy to screw up, especially if a word limit is strictly enforced, which is usually the case in my experience.
I've read stuff that was in peer reviewed papers which if it appeared in a doctoral thesis would get the red diagonal line treatment, and a request to re-word or remove. Still others (many others) read like they were written by some first year post grad on behalf of a professor who's too busy.
I often find that a paper which is, on close inspection, a pile of poo, will usually be stuffed full of wordy justifications and science speak, so as to obscure the fact that its not good quality work. Its better to find some great work that's hiding behind a crappily written paper, at least you can work on it.
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friends like, ooh, let me see, who was that guy you trained, funded, and supplied with high tech weapons again? Ossama something, wasn't it....
Would these be the same kind of sanctions that are still being applied to Cuba, decades after they stopped being a Russian pawn?
Honestly, the whole thing about congressional sanctions seems to be a low point on the moral landscape to me when I consider that case. Ok, perhaps relevant three or four decades ago, but still?
The idea that you can pass rules in Washington, and somehow bring about magical barriers to the kind of nastiness that can be done with technology at any levelis absurd. After all, the US (and many other countries), spent untold billions preparing high tech weapons for an expected large conventional/nuclear war, and restricted the sale of, or passing of information about, much of this technology. Then what do we find? It's actually nutbars with explosive belts and cheap guns that are the problem.
I recommend we sanction sanctions, that'll fox em..
What I found shocking was that you have to pay tax [bbc.co.uk] to even legally *watch* TV there...
And in return we get the bbc, which provides not only some of the worlds best TV, but provides radio that is listened to worldwide, and one of the best websites on the Internet. Oh, yes, and it has one of the largest, if not the largest collections of free audio and video content in existence.
Want a few months worth of interesting material, try this site:
In Our Time (completely fascinating discussions on just about every topic you can imagine)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/
Like Astronomy? Try this one for many, many hours of video content:
The Sky At night tv show (worlds longest running tv show in fact)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/proginfo.shtml
Like all sorts of Science? Try here, for more content then I can list..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/
And that's without even going near the bbc iPlayer service..
touché sir.
I am forced to agree, but I have a nieve hope that some sense will be made of this problem. Until then I think that defensive patents will be registered. Probably these will worsen the problem, but can you find any reason why a tech company wouldn't do it?
I think the main reason for registering such a patent is most likely defensive. Apple have had lots of experience being hammered in stupid patent suites, as have many tech companies, so if they have a patent, however vague, they can use it to prevent expensive lawsuits.
Not that this justifies silly patents, but it does provide a reason for their registration.
for web hosting
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Thepiratebay could have found their soul mate
This shouldn't be taken as meaning that Antigua don't care about IP. They just care that they got stomped on by the US for no defensible reason, and got a small (but politically devastating for the US) recompense.
Actually this does pose a threat to us. The gigantic and devastatingly destructive waves of force caused by the post impact 'IMPRESSIVE' are as we read this, heading our way.
I thought this was established historical fact. What with the patent clerk who let Bell have the patent owning up and all.
I've known about this for years, since I was a teenager.
do you have some point or are you just running your mouth?
Well, as a human I'm not especially pointed, in fact I'm rather rounded in places, and last I checked it was indeed me that ran my mouth. I'd hardly delegate the task to anyone else, all those nerve endings and all, it could get messy.
Does this assist?
For all bloggers thump their chests about blogs being the new way to report the news, they are in my view just a new way to talk about the news.
What, you mean like slashdot?
but PLEASE learn from our mistakes.
The thing with the US is no matter how bad it gets, your culture has within it a tendancy to say 'screw you' to anyone that's in power, and throw them out. Either that or make things so tough that people quit.
I've been surprised at the no-cons apparent ability to just take over and start the conversion to a police state (facism?) though. Why there hasn't been soime sort of mass revolt is beyond me. You're apparently just sitting back and letting them re-institute a pro rich/powerful people nation.
I have a lot of respect for Americans, but as a country your starting to look a bit, well, stupid. Quite aside from the political situation, its what, 80% of your population beleive the earth is less than 10,000 years old? This does not fill me with confidence. I was considering paying for my son to spend his univeristy years in the state, now I have a doubt.
How long is this going to go on do you think?
That's a very long way of saying you spend too much time on b3ta
Houses are for living in. Why focus more on resale value than enjoying living where you do?
A house for living in need not be purchased. I have german friends who find our obsession with purchasing our homes to be bizarre, to the point of calling me a fool when I was young because I was saddling myself with a mortgage (I no longer have it, I sold up and went to uni).
If a house is purchased, then by implication, it is to be sold at some point. certainly this is usually the case nowadays. Therefore any modification made to a house should ideally be done with its effect on resale value.
Very pretty, but I don't see how this would add value to a house. Try to sell a home with this fitted and you seriously limit the number of potential buyers. A well put together, neat, and uncluttered home theater is likely to be a greater selling point.
Is I a killjoy? Probably, Should I have my slashdot karma revoked in a fit of outrage? Reckon.
But still, these things are important, especially now.
Well, the US is in trouble anyway, after all, they downloaded Cleopatra's Needle, and I've seen copies, so that's uploading too.
I think its still crashed, it's got all these wierd squiggles instead of proper writing...
thats enough for me to say NO to future purchase of any apple products!
Seems to me that aside from the iPod, that's what people have been doing for years anyway.
I think you need a tinfoil hat and a tinfoil air filter. ;-)
Yup, but, um, how did my post get modded insightful? No really..
Could help them in some small way in determing what fun we'll have in 2036 with Apophis-99942.
It's already fun. I've approximated its orbit for the next 400 years, and haven't seen it hit yet. The accuracy of this depends on whether I have the parameters (mass mostly) correct tho.
sooo.
I can has my tin foil hat and be environmentally friendly at the same time?
Um, so first a huge collection of rocks smacks into Jupiter, now another may hit Mars, and they're excited?
They sound awfully like ranging shots to me, I'm more inclined to get Venus to light the third cigarette and then be wery, wery, qwiet...
When I was in my local bookstore a few weeks back, they asked me if I wanted a paper bag for the book I'd just bought. I said no, and the counter lady said 'ah yes, save the tree's', to which my son piped up, 'save the tree's? But this is a bookshop.'
pwned is, I believe, the phrase.
That raises my spider sense
:-)
wuh?
my degrees are in engineering (computer) and economics
For that you got Spider Sense? You barstard, all I got was a boring printed degreee certificate and a course transcript.
I'll bet you had an overdraft though, I didn't, neh neh [rasberry blowing sounds..].
having completed my mission to prove that all scientists are mature adults who only ever act sensibly, I depart.
If we lived a long, long time, I think we'd stagnate, set in our ways
To be precise, we'd all end up with arthritis, well almost all of us. There has never been a way for evolution to remove that particuler flaw in our genes, because firstly, humans didn't live that long when our species first appeared, and secondly, in virtually all cases it occurs after child rearing age, making it irrellevent to survival, and thus not a factor in natural selection.
Since there is no cure for arthritis at this time, I'll take my three score years and ten, with an option on another twenty or so if possible.
Being charitable, they may have just donkeyed the abstract, and the article might be written by someone who made notes based on the abstract when they didn't change when they read the paper.
You don't usually get to be a post-doc without having some experience in writing papers, and the peer reviewers must have thought it was ok. Abstracts are a bugger to write, and so very easy to screw up, especially if a word limit is strictly enforced, which is usually the case in my experience.
I've read stuff that was in peer reviewed papers which if it appeared in a doctoral thesis would get the red diagonal line treatment, and a request to re-word or remove. Still others (many others) read like they were written by some first year post grad on behalf of a professor who's too busy.
I often find that a paper which is, on close inspection, a pile of poo, will usually be stuffed full of wordy justifications and science speak, so as to obscure the fact that its not good quality work. Its better to find some great work that's hiding behind a crappily written paper, at least you can work on it.