Sadly, even though you kept the original DVDs as proof of purchase, you still broke the law by ripping them. You'd still be labeled a "pirate" by the content industries.
It the most maddening bit of the DMCA that by using your DVD the way you want, you're still violating the law.
Ironically, UAV's are another option for Earth Observation.
The only problem is the (well deserved) very bad rap they get for being used for surveillance. i.e. how do you tell a climate monitoring drone from a big brother drone?
But, they can pair up quite nicely with satellite's to enhance our gathering of Earth Science data.
We need no carbon emission power generation right?
Then we should be building nuclear power plants all over the place. I'd even be willing to see one built within 50 miles of my home (it'd actually be a great location for one, rural area, stable geology, access to water, and close tie ins to the grid from other power plants/windfarms in the area).
BUT!!!!! That's not allowed!! Those advocating change eliminate and forbid the one change that could drastically lower emissions WITHOUT crushing the economy with regulations and taxes.
Its almost like they don't want to see the problem solved at all, and instead they just want more political power......
Back when there was the whole mess with Hurricane Katrina, everyone wanted the higher ups in government to have more responsibility and accountability when disasters happened.
But the REAL answer is that the folks on the front lines during a disaster need to be given the authority to do what needs to be done.
More stringent guidelines and procedures does not work.
You're example is bad. That story needed to make the news on every site. I remember looking for details in that discussion during the day.
The concept you talk about is the same, but I have trouble calling out the falling of/. due to non-tech stories. The seemingly never-ending Katz postings were NEVER really tech relevant and preceded 9/11 by years (of course they eventually went away).
I think the falloff is due to there being a falloff in editorial focus (can't believe I can even make that comment with a straight face, but it has gotten worse).
Another thing driving the falloff is the prevalence of other sites and specifically other tech news sites.
But it does say something that I'm posting this here and you put your post here too. While I haven't visited digg since their horrendous site update screwup a few years ago.
It's because BluRay's DRM was the New and Improved DRM, upgradable by network (WTF, my player needs to be networked now?).
BluRay DRM is waaaaay worse than the, what turned out to be laughable, CSS.
Sure BluRay DRM has been cracked and will be able to stay that way, but it took longer than CSS to crack.
I didn't get into DVD's until the DRM was cracked and I waited on BluRay until then too. It's just with BluRay, I'm still waiting because it still isn't very compelling and I don't have the time right now to fuck with trying to get it to work on my Linux DVR, which would require utilizing DRM circumvention which, as you said, is technically illegal.
So to close, BluRay isn't compelling to me because of the D fucking R fucking M.
The interesting thing about th 9/11 posts was how quickly a lot of the discussion went to the impact the attacks had on the communications networks in and around New York.
Please look at the UK and the US on a map and then tell me which one is generally impacted more by increasing fuel prices.....
US gas prices are roughly $4 per gallon, imposing a tax to double those prices would be disasterous.
The solutions that work in population dense European counties do not necessarily work in the much much less population dense US.
Ironically, I wouldn't have been so sarcastic in my response if the original poster had said: Mandate that every US state build at least ONE new nuclear power plant in the next 5 years.
Don't tell me you're going to double the price of gas and encourage everyone to get an electric car if you don't have a plan to get rid of the coal power plants!!
Both sides should take some time for serious reflection and ask if their proposes solutions or resistance to solutions is more derived from their political desires or from their actual concerns.
If the answer is: we need to do everything I believe in politically to resolve this, you should not be surprised to see resistance.
A chemical reaction is used to get energy out of a fuel. A by-product of that reaction is a greenhouse gas.
But, your stating that some energy comes out of the reaction and the rest of the energy is thrown into the sky????
The by-product of the reaction that generates the energy is the issue here. Efficiency losses on energy conversion has nothing to do with the reactions by-products impact on the makeup of the atmosphere.
The risk to SpaceX of a failure in a Dragon capsule with a crew aboard has huge consequences. Notably the loss of all future NASA contracts for sending people into space.
Dragon has to be safe, or they won't use it. This cost cutting excuse is just that, and excuse.
Also, they will have to send quite a few Dragon cargo missions to the space station before they'll even get the chance at a manned mission.
I'll be very surprised if their first manned launch ends with the loss of the whole crew.
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I'd have to agree with the gp post. I'm not terribly interested in reading crap from someone proposing implementing the mark of the beast.
The only correct responses to this are no, hell no, and then bullets.
Sure, that'll do it.
Because once we switch to electric cars charged by coal plants, we'll be fine.
We need to switch to nuclear power to but the greenies always miss that step.
Sadly, even though you kept the original DVDs as proof of purchase, you still broke the law by ripping them. You'd still be labeled a "pirate" by the content industries.
It the most maddening bit of the DMCA that by using your DVD the way you want, you're still violating the law.
There's a 0 in 12?
Ironically, UAV's are another option for Earth Observation.
The only problem is the (well deserved) very bad rap they get for being used for surveillance. i.e. how do you tell a climate monitoring drone from a big brother drone?
But, they can pair up quite nicely with satellite's to enhance our gathering of Earth Science data.
Heck, it probably disqualifies you.
Thanks for the nice response.
I just posted my comment in response to the tired old atheist line "Religion has killed more...."
Its just not true.
But as you and other responses have noted. Mass killings are much more political than they are religious. That is, in fact, the truth.
Nope, Mao, Stalin, and Hitler have a combined death toll that is hard to beat.
The line that religions killed more people is simply a lie. The godless commies saw to that.
Here's my take.
We need no carbon emission power generation right?
Then we should be building nuclear power plants all over the place. I'd even be willing to see one built within 50 miles of my home (it'd actually be a great location for one, rural area, stable geology, access to water, and close tie ins to the grid from other power plants/windfarms in the area).
BUT!!!!! That's not allowed!! Those advocating change eliminate and forbid the one change that could drastically lower emissions WITHOUT crushing the economy with regulations and taxes.
Its almost like they don't want to see the problem solved at all, and instead they just want more political power......
Bingo!!
Back when there was the whole mess with Hurricane Katrina, everyone wanted the higher ups in government to have more responsibility and accountability when disasters happened.
But the REAL answer is that the folks on the front lines during a disaster need to be given the authority to do what needs to be done.
More stringent guidelines and procedures does not work.
Bad Example.
You're example is bad. That story needed to make the news on every site. I remember looking for details in that discussion during the day.
The concept you talk about is the same, but I have trouble calling out the falling of /. due to non-tech stories. The seemingly never-ending Katz postings were NEVER really tech relevant and preceded 9/11 by years (of course they eventually went away).
I think the falloff is due to there being a falloff in editorial focus (can't believe I can even make that comment with a straight face, but it has gotten worse).
Another thing driving the falloff is the prevalence of other sites and specifically other tech news sites.
But it does say something that I'm posting this here and you put your post here too. While I haven't visited digg since their horrendous site update screwup a few years ago.
But all in all I think /. is still relevant.
It always struck me as really weird how Samsung was a major supplier for parts for Apple products AND the target of lawsuits by them.
It just seems terribly terribly inefficient. Instead of haggling over an agreement to a suit, just haggle over the cost of the parts.
Sort of like Samsung saying "how about we do away with this lawsuit and just discount price of the massive amount of memory you're buying from us?"
It's because BluRay's DRM was the New and Improved DRM, upgradable by network (WTF, my player needs to be networked now?).
BluRay DRM is waaaaay worse than the, what turned out to be laughable, CSS.
Sure BluRay DRM has been cracked and will be able to stay that way, but it took longer than CSS to crack.
I didn't get into DVD's until the DRM was cracked and I waited on BluRay until then too. It's just with BluRay, I'm still waiting because it still isn't very compelling and I don't have the time right now to fuck with trying to get it to work on my Linux DVR, which would require utilizing DRM circumvention which, as you said, is technically illegal.
So to close, BluRay isn't compelling to me because of the D fucking R fucking M.
The interesting thing about th 9/11 posts was how quickly a lot of the discussion went to the impact the attacks had on the communications networks in and around New York.
This is probably only the beginning. We'll probably get a whole series of articles about the post
-Trevon world.....
What's the downside again?
D fucking R fucking M....
Yet people still remember who Erlich is, but no one knows who Borlaug was.
This is a gross injustice, that the whiner is so much more popular than the achiever.
Are you serious?
Mao outlawed religion and while he managed to solve and get rid of a lot of his problems (people), I think he made the world's problems worse.
I am so sick of all of this, "just get rid of religion and everything will be peachy" crap.
The biggest killers the world has ever know killed for the nation, the party, their culture and for themselves, not for religion.
An also, how do you plan to get rid of religions, are you going to round up the faithful and send them to camps?
Please look at the UK and the US on a map and then tell me which one is generally impacted more by increasing fuel prices.....
US gas prices are roughly $4 per gallon, imposing a tax to double those prices would be disasterous.
The solutions that work in population dense European counties do not necessarily work in the much much less population dense US.
Ironically, I wouldn't have been so sarcastic in my response if the original poster had said: Mandate that every US state build at least ONE new nuclear power plant in the next 5 years.
Don't tell me you're going to double the price of gas and encourage everyone to get an electric car if you don't have a plan to get rid of the coal power plants!!
Dang, I'm looking for the -1 Wooosh mod, but I can't seem to find it....
Great post.
Both sides should take some time for serious reflection and ask if their proposes solutions or resistance to solutions is more derived from their political desires or from their actual concerns.
If the answer is: we need to do everything I believe in politically to resolve this, you should not be surprised to see resistance.
Your idea sounds good. Any ideas on what you're going to do about the massive unemployment, starvation, and misery that will result from your changes?
I just kinda have to respond to this.
A chemical reaction is used to get energy out of a fuel. A by-product of that reaction is a greenhouse gas.
But, your stating that some energy comes out of the reaction and the rest of the energy is thrown into the sky????
The by-product of the reaction that generates the energy is the issue here. Efficiency losses on energy conversion has nothing to do with the reactions by-products impact on the makeup of the atmosphere.
The risk to SpaceX of a failure in a Dragon capsule with a crew aboard has huge consequences. Notably the loss of all future NASA contracts for sending people into space.
Dragon has to be safe, or they won't use it. This cost cutting excuse is just that, and excuse.
Also, they will have to send quite a few Dragon cargo missions to the space station before they'll even get the chance at a manned mission.
I'll be very surprised if their first manned launch ends with the loss of the whole crew.
And her I thought regulatory uncertainty and IP law we stifling innovation.
The Indians are taking innovation killing to a whole new level.