Doesn't look like it. The crazy thing is that Windows 10's default mail and calendar apps seamlessly work with Google calendar. Are the codebases really so different that they can't import that feature into Outlook 365?
California is trying that, it just takes years to develop these plants. The water from the plants is still more expensive than normal water, but it's a reliable, drought-proof source, which is obviously really desirable right now. See http://www.npr.org/2014/02/26/....
Rights do not disappear because you associate with someone, or because you have more money than them. Rush Limbaugh has just as much right to free speech as I do, despite the fact that he influences a great many more people.
Actually rights can and do disappear because you associate with people. The entire crime of conspiracy is premised on the idea that multiple individuals working together as a group are more dangerous than the individuals working separately. If I say "I am going to rob a bank," I've done nothing illegal. If I say to Person A "Do you want to rob a bank with me?" and Person A responds "Yes," then I've just committed the crime of conspiracy.*
In criminal law it's viewed as suspect when multiple people combine forces, and I don't see why this shouldn't continue to be true in regulation if those people incorporate themselves.
As a kid, I was always interested in math and science and got a B.S. in astrophysics planning on going for a Ph.D. After taking a break from school, i discovered a "higher calling" if you will, and am in law school.
I'm still in my first year, and at the beginning I felt like my science background was completely useless. Now that finals are approaching I realize just how critical having an analytical mind is. To provide some hard evidence, the Legal Essay Exam Writing System (LEEWS) talks about how generally people with math or science backgrounds do better than those with english or poly sci backgrounds because they're better able to view the law as a tool (a formula) and know how to apply it to the facts (the variables).
The fact that the government is taking control of yet another part of life bugs me, but I think I just may have to support this one. I recently went on a trip to Thailand. I was amazed by there television. There was absolutely no risque semi-porn commercials or shows. There was also not a hint of realistic violence. If there was any violence, it was never with guns, only martial arts or other weapons, and even this was given a cartoony feel. The only times I saw real violence (which definitely stood out) was for commercials for western movies.
Now while this is all great and dandy, the really interesting part is how their is almost no violence among their people. I saw plenty of people sleeping outside, without worry of attack on their person or even someone stealing their stuff. Now I know correlation isn't causation, but it still is a very intriquing correlation. While I'm sure there are plenty of societal factors that make Thailand a safe place, I do feel that this lack of violence on TV has an affect. Maybe it could help us, too.
As it mentions at the bottom of the article, this still needs to pass the senate. Specifically, the committiee on communication, science and transportation. Here is a list of the members, please contact them with your opinions as there is still time.
It states clearly in the article that we wont be paying for all those secondary copies: (first paragraph under royalty rates)
The SIRA establishes a royalty-free rate for the making of server and other intermediate copies necessary to facilitate noninteractive webcasting. As the Register of Copyrights has previously testified,(10) intermediate copies made in the course of streaming a licensed public performance of a musical work should be subject either to an exemption or to a statutory license. The Office believes that the SIRA's proposal to create a royalty-free compulsory license to address this situation is a major step in the right direction, primarily because we understand that several of the interested parties have preliminarily agreed to this term and we believe it is a reasonable solution which resolves the "double-dipping" scenario at least in this context. However, we believe that a less burdensome and equally effective approach would be to grant a statutory exemption for this activity. Establishing an administrative apparatus and charging an administrative fee for the issuance of a royalty-free license would offer little or no benefit over an exemption, while creating costs and burdens for both licensees and the designated agent.
The issue is whether to have a blanket rotalty-rate free liscence for intermediate copies, or to simply have them be an exemption. In both cases, the issue of "double-dipping" will be resolved, however, by having them as an exemption will lower administrative fees a bit. This is really a non issue.
Now something that is bad about the bill:
Finally, the SIRA appears to omit a provision governing one of the most significant and necessary aspects of any blanket licensing scheme: there is no provision that addresses how royalties are to be distributed by designated agents to copyright owners.
Once again, the agents (ASCAP and BMI are listed, not the RIAA, btw) aren't looking out for the interests of the copyright owners but their own.
You are right, you CAN become addicted to anything. Does this mean we should regulate everything? No, but it does give people the knowledge to realize that those 6 hrs / day spent on an activity might not be healthy, no matter what the activity is.
Also, as explained in the article, addiction to non chemical activities still has a chemical addiction:
So much dopamine is released while engaging in some behaviors that neurons, our basic brain cells, get accustomed to having that dopamine around. These neurons stimulate the nucleus accumbens, part of the brain. As the brain gets used to this stimulation, it requires more and more dopamine for the same effect. When the dopamine producing behavior is finally stopped, the brain isn't used to the lowered dopamine levels. At this point, craving and addiction enter the picture.
Hmmm - So friction in the revolving gas could will cause it to heat up and possibly glow, while slowing down its rotation, causing it to cross the event horizon and fall in?
Yes. The only way something can fall into a black hole is by losing energy to fall it. If it doesn't lose any energy it will keep revolving around the black hole. Same thing with Earth, if Earth was in the middle of a cloud of gas that could eat away at very large amounts of the Earth's momentum, then the Earth could spiral into the Sun. Since that gas isn't there our Earth keeps revolving around the Sun, which is good for us.
I agree with your view of Europe, but Japan could be viewed as being more competitive than U.S. In Japan, there are far more suicides than any other first world nation (more than double U.S.). And about 1/4 of these suicides are from "joblesses and bankruptcies." You're right in that they don't have much of a "i want it now, society be damned" view, but their view of suicide being acceptable* in the face of economic failure is troubling.
*I'm not saying the society is pro-suicide, but the people in that society are more likely to think (and act on) the idea than in U.S.
Come on man, your logic is awesome, you just didn't fully apply it.
...then double check with Reuters and the AP
Even they screw up. There was a recent "issue" by all the major media, including Reuters and AP. In fact, on the website of the people that made it they talk about the problems of mass media. What is especially amusing is how the media didn't apologize but instead bad mouthed the producers.
I just did a little searching and found that all of the drives I looked at (6 seagate and 6 western digital drives) all have 50,000 minimum* as their start/stop cycle. If someone turns on their computer twice a day everyday, then that person still has 68 years of service out of that drive (if only starting and stoping were the only wear and tear on drives, life would be nice).
*the Western Digital drives all said minimum 50,000, while the seagate drives simply said 50,000.
The reason that the RIAA is doing all this in civil court is because the concept of "innocence until proven guilty" does not apply. It's about whoever has a better story. And a judge is not likely to believe a story about computer hyjacking over a story of "this ip shared this song, and this computer had the ip according to the ISP."
The problem that most guys have is that they don't understand women and thus have no clue to be what they want (hint: asking them directly and following suit will not work).
However, this article says in two pages exactly what is expected for men to be datable. Women wont ever willingly admit that the jerk attatude attracts them, but most of us sensitive guys have seen this occur first hand.
And, when meeting someone new, the key will always be confidence. You can wear a clown suit, but if you are clam, witty and confident, then it wont make a difference.
I was, to say the least, intrigued, by this story, so, I wanted to experiment. I grabbed a new $20 and stuck it in the microwave. I started with 1 second intervels and slowly increased and increased. And, in the end... nothing happened. I longest interval I tried was 4 seconds on high, but nothing happened in the end. The total amount of 'on' time for the microwave was about 30 seconds.
I don't know if my bill was defective, or if I didn't put it in long enough, but I seriously doubt this story. The bill never even got toasty, and the right eye was just as warm as all the other parts of the bill. As other people have said, there are tiny amounts of metal in bills normally, so I find it very unlikely that there is any relatively large strip of metal in as well.
I'm sorry that you live is such a pessimistic world, but most people are honestly good people. I'm a student at UC Santa Cruz, and one of the big reasons I came here is because of how nice people are. People honestly care about other people. One of the biggest anecdotes i still remember is my tour guide telling me how she had left a CD player on a bench for 6 hours and it was still there when she returned. I'm not saying that there aren't people who would ransack stores if they had the chance, but there are lots and lots of good people out in the world.
As a college student i have to tell you that weed is 10x easier to get than alcohol. Alcohol requires driving down to a store where 1) they don't card you or 2) have someone with a fake id or 3) go shoulder tapping. While weed simply involves making a phone call (and there are numerous dealers to call) and it is delivered to your door.
1) RIAA knows it will not lose. Ignorance of which tracks are copywritten and which are allowed to be distributed is not a valid argument. Ignorance of the law has never held up and it wont in this case either. And, 2nd, the judge HAS TO award the huge amounts of money to the RIAA because that is what the law demands. The laws were not meant for petty users sharing a few mp3s, but for blatent mass display of works. That is why the fines are so huge. Since the settlement charge of $2000 is equal to the price of the minimum charge (i believe minimum is $750) for only a few songs, anyone with houndreds of songs should immidiately settle.
Look, sharing files is illegal. When you buy a CD, or a consumer videotape, you DO NOT also buy the rights to distribute that content. Think of the FBI warning that comes before all those tapes saying how public display is against copyright law. And downloading an mp3 is NOT acceptable under fair use, even if you own the CD. And remember, these are civil trials not criminal. Therefore there is no such thing as "innocent until proven guilty" it's all about who has the best story, and if the RIAA can pull out logs of your ip address, and the best thing you can say is 1)someone hacked my machine or 2)i already own CDs for all that music i share [which as said above is still illegal] 3)I didn't do it, it must of been someone i invited over who downloaded all that, well then you are screwed.
I hate the RIAA as much as anyone here, I completely believe that they deserve to suffer. However, when you break the law to get your point across you lose any hope of the people in power to listening to you. Congressmen and judges know the law and follow it because it is their lives. When someone wants to get a point across and does so by breaking the law and from benefitting from it, then you look like a theif (in their eyes copyright infringement=stealing) who is too much of a coward to admit to what you have done. Now if your goal is to Fuck The System, then be my guest and break the law. Instead, if you simply want to change the laws to something a littler nicer, claiming that you download mp3s to fight back is counter-effective. Do cable theives claim that they do it to battle against the cable monoply? And if they did, whould you even bother to listen to them? The only people that are actually doing anything useful are the lawyers and the EFF (and the true boycotters) who are doing the needed work to protect us. So, next time you want to download a song, think about the message you are sending. Are you going to be one of the people that simply yells "Fuck the RIAA" and then does whatever you want? Are you going to be just one more statistic that the RIAA uses on congress for them to change the laws for the RIAA? Or, are you going to actually stop listening to anything coming out of the RIAA, and stop sharing and telling friends about RIAA supported music?
p.s. A great way to download lots of legal mp3s is through IRate
but the rank-and-file people don't have a voice in what software a company gets. If the high level specialists demand the latest and greatest version of Office, and Microsoft offers a nice cheap site wide liscence plan, then don't you think the company would go with that? While Linux might be cheaper, and in fact more cost effective for all the simple computer tasks, if the managers want Windows and they have an excuse to go for it, they will take it.
And, if you were refering more to home users, piracy is how most people get their OS and office suite.
You are perfectly allowed to do what you want with your music, but when you share it with other people, it's considered a public showing. Just like on video tapes/dvds with the fbi warning at the beginning. You are allowed to watch the movie, copy it, destroy it, whatever, however, you did not buy the right for public showing of that copy.
Well, at noon pst or something the auction now returns "invalid item" I don't know if this is because the auction was pulled (must likely) or if it ended normally. One thing I did get to see was that the final price was for $16,000. Unfortunately, if it was pulled, I don't see how this guy is going to be able to keep bringing attention to himself and his cause.
Just telling you, Wc3 works perfectly fine with the free version of winex. I played through the entire single player, and I played constantly on B.net, and it all worked fine. The ONLY differences i've noticed is that, the mouse becomes a crosshair, instead of a hand (No clue why, but it doesn't bother me). I have no experience with Civ3 though.
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The compensation relevant for taxes is the 1000 GBP the stock is worth when Amazon gives it and not its value at the end, right?
Doesn't look like it. The crazy thing is that Windows 10's default mail and calendar apps seamlessly work with Google calendar. Are the codebases really so different that they can't import that feature into Outlook 365?
California is trying that, it just takes years to develop these plants. The water from the plants is still more expensive than normal water, but it's a reliable, drought-proof source, which is obviously really desirable right now. See http://www.npr.org/2014/02/26/....
Rights do not disappear because you associate with someone, or because you have more money than them. Rush Limbaugh has just as much right to free speech as I do, despite the fact that he influences a great many more people.
Actually rights can and do disappear because you associate with people. The entire crime of conspiracy is premised on the idea that multiple individuals working together as a group are more dangerous than the individuals working separately. If I say "I am going to rob a bank," I've done nothing illegal. If I say to Person A "Do you want to rob a bank with me?" and Person A responds "Yes," then I've just committed the crime of conspiracy.*
In criminal law it's viewed as suspect when multiple people combine forces, and I don't see why this shouldn't continue to be true in regulation if those people incorporate themselves.
*Yes, this is a very simplified description of conspiracy. The wiki article has much more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)
As a kid, I was always interested in math and science and got a B.S. in astrophysics planning on going for a Ph.D. After taking a break from school, i discovered a "higher calling" if you will, and am in law school.
I'm still in my first year, and at the beginning I felt like my science background was completely useless. Now that finals are approaching I realize just how critical having an analytical mind is. To provide some hard evidence, the Legal Essay Exam Writing System (LEEWS) talks about how generally people with math or science backgrounds do better than those with english or poly sci backgrounds because they're better able to view the law as a tool (a formula) and know how to apply it to the facts (the variables).
The fact that the government is taking control of yet another part of life bugs me, but I think I just may have to support this one. I recently went on a trip to Thailand. I was amazed by there television. There was absolutely no risque semi-porn commercials or shows. There was also not a hint of realistic violence. If there was any violence, it was never with guns, only martial arts or other weapons, and even this was given a cartoony feel. The only times I saw real violence (which definitely stood out) was for commercials for western movies.
Now while this is all great and dandy, the really interesting part is how their is almost no violence among their people. I saw plenty of people sleeping outside, without worry of attack on their person or even someone stealing their stuff. Now I know correlation isn't causation, but it still is a very intriquing correlation. While I'm sure there are plenty of societal factors that make Thailand a safe place, I do feel that this lack of violence on TV has an affect. Maybe it could help us, too.
As it mentions at the bottom of the article, this still needs to pass the senate. Specifically, the committiee on communication, science and transportation. Here is a list of the members, please contact them with your opinions as there is still time.
It states clearly in the article that we wont be paying for all those secondary copies: (first paragraph under royalty rates)
The issue is whether to have a blanket rotalty-rate free liscence for intermediate copies, or to simply have them be an exemption. In both cases, the issue of "double-dipping" will be resolved, however, by having them as an exemption will lower administrative fees a bit. This is really a non issue.
Now something that is bad about the bill:
Once again, the agents (ASCAP and BMI are listed, not the RIAA, btw) aren't looking out for the interests of the copyright owners but their own.
Also, as explained in the article, addiction to non chemical activities still has a chemical addiction:
Hmmm - So friction in the revolving gas could will cause it to heat up and possibly glow, while slowing down its rotation, causing it to cross the event horizon and fall in?
Yes. The only way something can fall into a black hole is by losing energy to fall it. If it doesn't lose any energy it will keep revolving around the black hole. Same thing with Earth, if Earth was in the middle of a cloud of gas that could eat away at very large amounts of the Earth's momentum, then the Earth could spiral into the Sun. Since that gas isn't there our Earth keeps revolving around the Sun, which is good for us.
I agree with your view of Europe, but Japan could be viewed as being more competitive than U.S. In Japan, there are far more suicides than any other first world nation (more than double U.S.). And about 1/4 of these suicides are from "joblesses and bankruptcies." You're right in that they don't have much of a "i want it now, society be damned" view, but their view of suicide being acceptable* in the face of economic failure is troubling.
*I'm not saying the society is pro-suicide, but the people in that society are more likely to think (and act on) the idea than in U.S.
Come on man, your logic is awesome, you just didn't fully apply it.
...then double check with Reuters and the AP
Even they screw up. There was a recent "issue" by all the major media, including Reuters and AP. In fact, on the website of the people that made it they talk about the problems of mass media. What is especially amusing is how the media didn't apologize but instead bad mouthed the producers.
I just did a little searching and found that all of the drives I looked at (6 seagate and 6 western digital drives) all have 50,000 minimum* as their start/stop cycle. If someone turns on their computer twice a day everyday, then that person still has 68 years of service out of that drive (if only starting and stoping were the only wear and tear on drives, life would be nice).
*the Western Digital drives all said minimum 50,000, while the seagate drives simply said 50,000.
The reason that the RIAA is doing all this in civil court is because the concept of "innocence until proven guilty" does not apply. It's about whoever has a better story. And a judge is not likely to believe a story about computer hyjacking over a story of "this ip shared this song, and this computer had the ip according to the ISP."
The problem that most guys have is that they don't understand women and thus have no clue to be what they want (hint: asking them directly and following suit will not work). However, this article says in two pages exactly what is expected for men to be datable. Women wont ever willingly admit that the jerk attatude attracts them, but most of us sensitive guys have seen this occur first hand.
And, when meeting someone new, the key will always be confidence. You can wear a clown suit, but if you are clam, witty and confident, then it wont make a difference.
I was, to say the least, intrigued, by this story, so, I wanted to experiment. I grabbed a new $20 and stuck it in the microwave. I started with 1 second intervels and slowly increased and increased. And, in the end... nothing happened. I longest interval I tried was 4 seconds on high, but nothing happened in the end. The total amount of 'on' time for the microwave was about 30 seconds.
I don't know if my bill was defective, or if I didn't put it in long enough, but I seriously doubt this story. The bill never even got toasty, and the right eye was just as warm as all the other parts of the bill. As other people have said, there are tiny amounts of metal in bills normally, so I find it very unlikely that there is any relatively large strip of metal in as well.
I'm sorry that you live is such a pessimistic world, but most people are honestly good people. I'm a student at UC Santa Cruz, and one of the big reasons I came here is because of how nice people are. People honestly care about other people. One of the biggest anecdotes i still remember is my tour guide telling me how she had left a CD player on a bench for 6 hours and it was still there when she returned. I'm not saying that there aren't people who would ransack stores if they had the chance, but there are lots and lots of good people out in the world.
As a college student i have to tell you that weed is 10x easier to get than alcohol. Alcohol requires driving down to a store where 1) they don't card you or 2) have someone with a fake id or 3) go shoulder tapping. While weed simply involves making a phone call (and there are numerous dealers to call) and it is delivered to your door.
1) RIAA knows it will not lose. Ignorance of which tracks are copywritten and which are allowed to be distributed is not a valid argument. Ignorance of the law has never held up and it wont in this case either. And, 2nd, the judge HAS TO award the huge amounts of money to the RIAA because that is what the law demands. The laws were not meant for petty users sharing a few mp3s, but for blatent mass display of works. That is why the fines are so huge. Since the settlement charge of $2000 is equal to the price of the minimum charge (i believe minimum is $750) for only a few songs, anyone with houndreds of songs should immidiately settle.
you are correct, copytright infringement is not property theft, but now, repeat after me:
"Copyright infringement is illegal."
"Copyright infringement is illegal."
"Copyright infringement is illegal."
Look, sharing files is illegal. When you buy a CD, or a consumer videotape, you DO NOT also buy the rights to distribute that content. Think of the FBI warning that comes before all those tapes saying how public display is against copyright law. And downloading an mp3 is NOT acceptable under fair use, even if you own the CD. And remember, these are civil trials not criminal. Therefore there is no such thing as "innocent until proven guilty" it's all about who has the best story, and if the RIAA can pull out logs of your ip address, and the best thing you can say is 1)someone hacked my machine or 2)i already own CDs for all that music i share [which as said above is still illegal] 3)I didn't do it, it must of been someone i invited over who downloaded all that, well then you are screwed.
I hate the RIAA as much as anyone here, I completely believe that they deserve to suffer. However, when you break the law to get your point across you lose any hope of the people in power to listening to you. Congressmen and judges know the law and follow it because it is their lives. When someone wants to get a point across and does so by breaking the law and from benefitting from it, then you look like a theif (in their eyes copyright infringement=stealing) who is too much of a coward to admit to what you have done. Now if your goal is to Fuck The System, then be my guest and break the law. Instead, if you simply want to change the laws to something a littler nicer, claiming that you download mp3s to fight back is counter-effective. Do cable theives claim that they do it to battle against the cable monoply? And if they did, whould you even bother to listen to them? The only people that are actually doing anything useful are the lawyers and the EFF (and the true boycotters) who are doing the needed work to protect us. So, next time you want to download a song, think about the message you are sending. Are you going to be one of the people that simply yells "Fuck the RIAA" and then does whatever you want? Are you going to be just one more statistic that the RIAA uses on congress for them to change the laws for the RIAA? Or, are you going to actually stop listening to anything coming out of the RIAA, and stop sharing and telling friends about RIAA supported music?
p.s. A great way to download lots of legal mp3s is through IRate
but the rank-and-file people don't have a voice in what software a company gets. If the high level specialists demand the latest and greatest version of Office, and Microsoft offers a nice cheap site wide liscence plan, then don't you think the company would go with that? While Linux might be cheaper, and in fact more cost effective for all the simple computer tasks, if the managers want Windows and they have an excuse to go for it, they will take it.
And, if you were refering more to home users, piracy is how most people get their OS and office suite.
You are perfectly allowed to do what you want with your music, but when you share it with other people, it's considered a public showing. Just like on video tapes/dvds with the fbi warning at the beginning. You are allowed to watch the movie, copy it, destroy it, whatever, however, you did not buy the right for public showing of that copy.
Well, at noon pst or something the auction now returns "invalid item" I don't know if this is because the auction was pulled (must likely) or if it ended normally. One thing I did get to see was that the final price was for $16,000. Unfortunately, if it was pulled, I don't see how this guy is going to be able to keep bringing attention to himself and his cause.
Just telling you, Wc3 works perfectly fine with the free version of winex. I played through the entire single player, and I played constantly on B.net, and it all worked fine. The ONLY differences i've noticed is that, the mouse becomes a crosshair, instead of a hand (No clue why, but it doesn't bother me). I have no experience with Civ3 though.