Well, the government tends to frown on corporations building power plants on public land without, you know, checking with them first.
I think you don't understand what's going on here. The Bureau of Land Management is in charge of those vast stretches of deserted desert in the southwest. This isn't private land - indeed, the alternative to dealing with the BLM is to build on private land instead.
These companies are submitting applications to get the BLM to let them build on public land. The BLM has to decide whether to let the applicant build power generation facilities on the particular piece of public land they're looking at. Oftentimes, many different applications will be submitted for the same patch of land, and BLM has to decide whether to let one build the proposed plant, or to hold out for something else.
If you want to build some solar plant on your own private land, that's another matter, and you don't have to send an application to the BLM. There will be regulations and approvals and so forth, but you can still do it.
There is no freeze on the building of all solar power generation stations - this is a freeze on applications for using public land managed by the BLM only.
They probably should have done this sooner, but it's better to do the EIS before the explosive growth of solar plants.
This way, they have a much better idea what the effects will be, and have more clear, consistent, comprehensive information and data on which to judge applications.
I think the companies are just upset because it might prevent them from securing investors during the time they can't even submit an application. But for the people, and the industry, it's probably not that big of a deal.
It's the law, period. It is specifically against the law for a 21 year old man to have sex with a 15 year old girl.
The law deliberately does not care who initiated it, who seduced who, etc. The law very clearly and unequivocally defines this as rape, and that's not a technicality.
And you say that men have the urge to look at child porn? And that guys don't stand much of a chance against a 15 year old girl? You have a dim view of men... and I don't doubt that this view comes from hanging around with the types of 21+ males that would bang a 15 year old girl.
In other words, this view of men comes from associating with rapists.
There's nothing special about the Caesar salad versus any of their others. It's just lettuce, cabbage, spinach, tomato, and a little parmesan. In fact it's the most basic salad they have.
They have an Asian salad with oranges and almonds, a Southwest salad with lime and tortilla strips, a Bacon Ranch salad with bacon bits, and I think one or two others.
Offtopic, but those McDonald's salads are very good. A grilled chicken salad with balsamic vinegarette dressing isn't even 300 calories, but very filling and quite tasty.
First of all, there is the assumption that the only difference between the two boards is that one is moderated (censored? give me a break) and the other is not. There is no accounting for differences in advertising, domain names, partnerships, ease of use and navigation, bad moderators, abusive members, on-page advertising, site speed, yadda yadda.
Second of all, there is a difference between quantity and quality. Many Usenet groups still get many more posts than online forums covering the same topics, but 90%+ of Usenet posts are just garbage.
If the product is produced on the same production line but carted off and sold without the client's knowledge, it's tantamount to theft. It's a direct contract violation.
It's not like it would be actual DFI motherboards that DFI sold or shipped to someone. These aren't gray market motherboards. They're illegally produced and sold without DFI's knowledge by a factory who violated their contract to produce boards to DFI's spec without their knowledge or consent.
This is how some technologies, such as CRT and plasma, work.
This is not how LCD screens work.
A pixel on an LCD monitor emits a single color. There is no dithering involved. The pixel filters out a set of wavelengths from a white light source to produce a single pixel with a single, even color.
The pixels on Apple's new 6-bit iMac displays are only capable of about 262,000 individual color states. The 24-inch iMacs are capable of over 16 million color states.
The article admits that the game is a classic. Read the blurb:
Premise: A horror shooter, in which you battle through over 50 levels of zombies, destroying them with an imaginative variety of weapons. Think Resident Evil meets Half Life 2.
This has to be one of the greats. Dozens of levels, all essentially the same, big bosses at the ends of stages, gallons of shooting and piles of mutants. The tongue-in-cheek title may have killed its chances of success, but it reflected the innocence with which the game approached mindless violence. Published by Konami, this genuine cult classic was the precursor of the amazing Silent Hill games.
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This is a Bureau of Land Management halt. If the BLM doesn't manage it, it's not affected.
Well, the government tends to frown on corporations building power plants on public land without, you know, checking with them first.
I think you don't understand what's going on here. The Bureau of Land Management is in charge of those vast stretches of deserted desert in the southwest. This isn't private land - indeed, the alternative to dealing with the BLM is to build on private land instead.
These companies are submitting applications to get the BLM to let them build on public land. The BLM has to decide whether to let the applicant build power generation facilities on the particular piece of public land they're looking at. Oftentimes, many different applications will be submitted for the same patch of land, and BLM has to decide whether to let one build the proposed plant, or to hold out for something else.
If you want to build some solar plant on your own private land, that's another matter, and you don't have to send an application to the BLM. There will be regulations and approvals and so forth, but you can still do it.
There is no freeze on the building of all solar power generation stations - this is a freeze on applications for using public land managed by the BLM only.
They probably should have done this sooner, but it's better to do the EIS before the explosive growth of solar plants.
This way, they have a much better idea what the effects will be, and have more clear, consistent, comprehensive information and data on which to judge applications.
I think the companies are just upset because it might prevent them from securing investors during the time they can't even submit an application. But for the people, and the industry, it's probably not that big of a deal.
Well, read the article. The notable thing is that with its inclusion in RealPlayer, Real Networks legitimized ripping software.
Average Joe has no idea wtf MPlayer or DownloadHelper are. In reality those are just small free projects.
But he knows what RealPlayer is, and he knows there's the all-important corporation behind it. If RealPlayer lets you do this stuff, it must be OK.
Google owns Youtube.
And Quicktime doesn't let you rip movies from Youtube, etc.
Then it will only be a matter of time before they drop USENET entirely, just like Time Warner will do on June 23.
A $5000 potentiometer.
Yes, I'm serious.
Except that copyright infringement is not stealing, according to the law.
And having sex with a 15 year old girl is indeed rape, according to the law.
This is more of a survey than a study, isn't it?
I mean, they just asked people if it made them more productive. People aren't really going to have much of an idea about their productivity rates.
A "study" would be if they actually quantified and examined the effects on productivity with and without instant messaging.
It's not legal semantics.
It's the law, period. It is specifically against the law for a 21 year old man to have sex with a 15 year old girl.
The law deliberately does not care who initiated it, who seduced who, etc. The law very clearly and unequivocally defines this as rape, and that's not a technicality.
And you say that men have the urge to look at child porn? And that guys don't stand much of a chance against a 15 year old girl? You have a dim view of men... and I don't doubt that this view comes from hanging around with the types of 21+ males that would bang a 15 year old girl.
In other words, this view of men comes from associating with rapists.
I want to meet that one person in Burundi who has pledged to download Firefox 3.
There's nothing special about the Caesar salad versus any of their others. It's just lettuce, cabbage, spinach, tomato, and a little parmesan. In fact it's the most basic salad they have.
They have an Asian salad with oranges and almonds, a Southwest salad with lime and tortilla strips, a Bacon Ranch salad with bacon bits, and I think one or two others.
The Premium Caesar Salad with grilled chicken is 220 calories.
Add 40 calories for the dressing and you're looking at 260 calories for the whole thing.
Offtopic, but those McDonald's salads are very good. A grilled chicken salad with balsamic vinegarette dressing isn't even 300 calories, but very filling and quite tasty.
The fact that you don't have to install to a console-only and not apt-get every package that you want.
And, uh, what are you going to do when you can't buy a new motherboard without one?
The problems are obvious and numerous.
First of all, there is the assumption that the only difference between the two boards is that one is moderated (censored? give me a break) and the other is not. There is no accounting for differences in advertising, domain names, partnerships, ease of use and navigation, bad moderators, abusive members, on-page advertising, site speed, yadda yadda.
Second of all, there is a difference between quantity and quality. Many Usenet groups still get many more posts than online forums covering the same topics, but 90%+ of Usenet posts are just garbage.
Eh.
We're going to burn all the coal and oil eventually anyway.
What difference does it really make how fast we do it?
If we can shove some of the carbon back underground where we got it, that's a good thing.
It's either charge the widow or charge the collective taxpayers of the state.
Why should I be on the hook for some megarich yahoo adventurer/thrill-seeker who got himself lost in the middle of nowhere?
She's a control freak because she won't sell out her creation to make money by licensing it for an RPG?
What a jerk.
I'm glad there are people like Rowling and Watterson in publishing who will not allow themselves to pimp their creative works for licensing revenue.
It's not about "proper distribution channels."
If the product is produced on the same production line but carted off and sold without the client's knowledge, it's tantamount to theft. It's a direct contract violation.
It's not like it would be actual DFI motherboards that DFI sold or shipped to someone. These aren't gray market motherboards. They're illegally produced and sold without DFI's knowledge by a factory who violated their contract to produce boards to DFI's spec without their knowledge or consent.
NATO is not the US.
Think of it like this:
I place a pair of gloves on a park bench and walk away.
versus:
I walk up to someone sitting on a park bench and offer them a pair of gloves.
This is how some technologies, such as CRT and plasma, work.
This is not how LCD screens work.
A pixel on an LCD monitor emits a single color. There is no dithering involved. The pixel filters out a set of wavelengths from a white light source to produce a single pixel with a single, even color.
The pixels on Apple's new 6-bit iMac displays are only capable of about 262,000 individual color states. The 24-inch iMacs are capable of over 16 million color states.
It's a list of dumb titles.
The article admits that the game is a classic. Read the blurb:
Premise: A horror shooter, in which you battle through over 50 levels of zombies, destroying them with an imaginative variety of weapons. Think Resident Evil meets Half Life 2.
This has to be one of the greats. Dozens of levels, all essentially the same, big bosses at the ends of stages, gallons of shooting and piles of mutants. The tongue-in-cheek title may have killed its chances of success, but it reflected the innocence with which the game approached mindless violence. Published by Konami, this genuine cult classic was the precursor of the amazing Silent Hill games.