Yeah, you'll probably be dead before global climate change impacts you. And if not, well, you can always kill yourself. Looks like your bases are covered.
yeah, I missed out on the themesong too. Also, no Burger King tie-in. I was definitely hoping for more explicit product placement for the world's favorite burger.
what is with this cult of personal responsibility and why, oh why, doesn't responsibility ever apply to banks?
shouldn't the banks be taking responsibility about who they lend their money to? it seems to me that if the banks gave some loser a big ass loan merely because this loser claimed to be you, then this is a problem the bank needs to address. Only if the consumer explicitly violates policies or laws should he be held accountable. It's an absolute pervsion to hold a victim legally accountable for the perpetraitors actions.
how many toilets have you unclogged at your school? Zero. Why? Because when you're a student you already have enough work to do and, get this, it really isn't your job to go around gluing desks back together and fixing toilets. And if you're doing manual labor to maintain a facility that you pay to use, then you're a sucker and you're too stupid to be an engineer.
No, Halliburton's non-bid contracts are a give away to the rich. Municipal internet is something I (and the rest of the middle-class) might actually use. Meanwhile, those who are truly rich don't care what the rest of us do to get our internet.
How soon can we rush these to Abu Ghraib? As a true Patriot (USA #1), I want to ensure that information that might damage our government is never ever released.
Whether or not the woman is innocent or guilty is irrelevant. The proof she has that she's innocent is going to be far, far, less that the proof the RIAA has to demonstrate that it's lawsuits are well-founded.
You're making convenient speculations about a lawyer's risk evaluation. If you were one of those big bad ambulance chasers, which would you rather do? chase down more ambulances? or defend some working class single mom who's only evidence of innocence is her own protest? In the 2nd case, mind you, proving the woman innocent is only the first enormous hurdle. A lawyer going after the punitive damages you suggest would also need to establish that the RIAA filled the case in bad faith. Without incriminating internal communications or testimony (good luck getting those), this will be almost impossible.
Whether or not this woman is innocent, she isn't going to have the resources to fight a civil case against the RIAA. The idea that legions of predatory lawyers are going to come to her aid merely because she claims she's innocent is laughable.
ignoring your misunderstanding of the notorious McDonald's coffee case, I'd like to point out that the underlying dynamics of these RIAA lawsuits are very different.
In the McDonald's case:
The lady sued the company. Her lawyers decided there was a good chance that significant punitive damages (where the real money is) would be awarded and took up her case. By ceding a percentage of any punitive damages awarded, the lady was able to get affordable representation.
In the RIAA case:
The women are being sued. The chance that they will be awarded damages is zero. How many lawyers are going to come running to some woman's defense simply because she denies downloading music? Zero. Nobody is going to help her because there isn't any money, and lawyers that work pro bono have their plates full with more important matters.
So, in this case the big money has the big advantage. And that's why the RIAA will always win these lawsuits.
Scientists may struggle for recognition among their peers by exposing the truth in a rigorous framework. You suggest there is money/power/fame for the scientist who upholds the scientific concensus, but there isn't any money/power/fame to be made by expounding commonly accepted theories. There is, in fact, far, far more money/power/recognition to the scientist who can convincingly buck the trend and establishes a more compelling theory.
Your suggestion that environmental catestrophe is our "desired conclusion" is equally puzzling. It would be my preference if human activity were not causing climate change. However, it's not up to me to decide how nature operates. And that's why I, like other scientists, believe that what's really important is determining the truth.
the only reason scientists would have an incentive to support the idea that human actions are affecting climate would be because the idea has scientific validity.
In America it's not so much Goebbel's "Big Lie" that sways the crowds, but Bush's "Dumb Lie". The stupider the lie, the more Americans want to hear it repeated.
People like u that hate America think America is the problem. Well America isn't the problem. America is the solution. The terrorists are the problem. If u don't like that then go blow yourself up in Iraq before and spare your commie-terrorist self the horror of watching freedom spread.
Did you hear about that time in the 90s when Jeff Bezos totally killed a man and UPS'd his dead body to a library in Tijuana? Apparently somebody caught the whole thing on one of Amazon's digital cameras and a few years later the shit was about to come down. That's when Bezos got congress to write provisions in the DMCA, barring the use of copyrighted digital images as courtroom evidence. After that the criminal case was dismissed for lack of evidence and the Tijuana public library was forced to settle for only 12 million pesos.
I am a POV and can attest to what you say as far as POVs go. I don't have any cash, so even though I don't pirate a lot, I would be forced to curtail my consumption if I had to pay for the occasional turn based strategy or porn that I might pirate. Maybe once a blue moon I would shell out $15 for a used copy of Rome: Total War, but the fact is that I don't have lots of money to spend so I couldn't be spending it. I look forward to the day when my salary promotes me to lookie loo status.
And you're absolutely right that the industry's claims of lost revenue are bogus. The industry claims they are losing 3 billion dollars a year. That amounts to 1/4000 of the Gross Domestic Product of the entire US economy to losses in piracy. That 3 billion isn't just sitting in people's pockets. That money doesn't exist.
We as a nation, are a POV, buying what we can when we can, and sometimes resorting to piracy when buying is not an option. Even if you could stop the piracy, you could never collect that "lost" revenue.
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yes. I see the summary did misquote the original article so I will retract my original contention, despite your tarting off like a rummy little bastard.
1) Resistance isn't an issue for a superconductor as long as it remains a superconductor. Even without electrical resistance, a mere million amp pulse implodes metals and releases immense heat. This heat will destroy the sensitive superconductivity properties. These are the types of limitations I refer to when I say superconductors have their limitations.
2) No. Even if your battery had no internal resistance, it still wouldn't have enough energy to produce 19 million amps.
3) Therefore, those who naively believe they can use V=IR to create an arbitrarily high current by using a zero-resistance superconductor are mistaken and should consider their vast ignorance before broadcasting their opinions.
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people, the parent pulled some numbers out of his ass while confusing power with amperage, came to some completely bullshit conclusion, and then ratcheted up the hypocrisy by explicitly claiming others can't do math.
Dude, if we could just hook up any AA battery to a superconductor and get 19,000,000 Amps, don't you think we would have done that already?
Off the top of my head, I can think of several issues with this approach:
1) Superconductors have their limitations.
2) Your shitty battery isn't going to be able to drive 19 million amps.
3) Going from 0.00 amps to 19 million amps in a fraction of a second is going to induce massive electric fields. These will rip the electrons off the air and cause a counter current that will severely curtail ones ability to build up current.
USA isn't winning the war in Iraq, Iran is winning the war in Iraq. The election brought the Shiites into power and Iran is openly peddling its influence with Iraq's majority Shiite party while the Sunnis keep killing off any of their own that participate in the government.
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thank you for this excerpt of Ayn Rand. I now have the courage to face a lifetime.
Yeah, you'll probably be dead before global climate change impacts you. And if not, well, you can always kill yourself. Looks like your bases are covered.
yeah, I missed out on the themesong too. Also, no Burger King tie-in. I was definitely hoping for more explicit product placement for the world's favorite burger.
what is with this cult of personal responsibility and why, oh why, doesn't responsibility ever apply to banks? shouldn't the banks be taking responsibility about who they lend their money to? it seems to me that if the banks gave some loser a big ass loan merely because this loser claimed to be you, then this is a problem the bank needs to address. Only if the consumer explicitly violates policies or laws should he be held accountable. It's an absolute pervsion to hold a victim legally accountable for the perpetraitors actions.
how many toilets have you unclogged at your school? Zero. Why? Because when you're a student you already have enough work to do and, get this, it really isn't your job to go around gluing desks back together and fixing toilets. And if you're doing manual labor to maintain a facility that you pay to use, then you're a sucker and you're too stupid to be an engineer.
wow. you guys are making some really good arguments against municipal broadband.
No, Halliburton's non-bid contracts are a give away to the rich. Municipal internet is something I (and the rest of the middle-class) might actually use. Meanwhile, those who are truly rich don't care what the rest of us do to get our internet.
true: in most places broadband is a duopoly, not a monopoly.
yes this is true: pittsburgh was in imminent danger of being overrun by islamic extremists up until we invaded iraq.
How soon can we rush these to Abu Ghraib? As a true Patriot (USA #1), I want to ensure that information that might damage our government is never ever released.
Whether or not the woman is innocent or guilty is irrelevant. The proof she has that she's innocent is going to be far, far, less that the proof the RIAA has to demonstrate that it's lawsuits are well-founded.
You're making convenient speculations about a lawyer's risk evaluation. If you were one of those big bad ambulance chasers, which would you rather do? chase down more ambulances? or defend some working class single mom who's only evidence of innocence is her own protest? In the 2nd case, mind you, proving the woman innocent is only the first enormous hurdle. A lawyer going after the punitive damages you suggest would also need to establish that the RIAA filled the case in bad faith. Without incriminating internal communications or testimony (good luck getting those), this will be almost impossible.
Whether or not this woman is innocent, she isn't going to have the resources to fight a civil case against the RIAA. The idea that legions of predatory lawyers are going to come to her aid merely because she claims she's innocent is laughable.
In the McDonald's case:
The lady sued the company. Her lawyers decided there was a good chance that significant punitive damages (where the real money is) would be awarded and took up her case. By ceding a percentage of any punitive damages awarded, the lady was able to get affordable representation.
In the RIAA case:
The women are being sued. The chance that they will be awarded damages is zero. How many lawyers are going to come running to some woman's defense simply because she denies downloading music? Zero. Nobody is going to help her because there isn't any money, and lawyers that work pro bono have their plates full with more important matters.
So, in this case the big money has the big advantage. And that's why the RIAA will always win these lawsuits.
Your suggestion that environmental catestrophe is our "desired conclusion" is equally puzzling. It would be my preference if human activity were not causing climate change. However, it's not up to me to decide how nature operates. And that's why I, like other scientists, believe that what's really important is determining the truth.
the only reason scientists would have an incentive to support the idea that human actions are affecting climate would be because the idea has scientific validity.
please don't mention those nursery rimes they come up with to help people avoid understanding even fundamental of equations.
In America it's not so much Goebbel's "Big Lie" that sways the crowds, but Bush's "Dumb Lie". The stupider the lie, the more Americans want to hear it repeated.
People like u that hate America think America is the problem. Well America isn't the problem. America is the solution. The terrorists are the problem. If u don't like that then go blow yourself up in Iraq before and spare your commie-terrorist self the horror of watching freedom spread.
Did you hear about that time in the 90s when Jeff Bezos totally killed a man and UPS'd his dead body to a library in Tijuana? Apparently somebody caught the whole thing on one of Amazon's digital cameras and a few years later the shit was about to come down. That's when Bezos got congress to write provisions in the DMCA, barring the use of copyrighted digital images as courtroom evidence. After that the criminal case was dismissed for lack of evidence and the Tijuana public library was forced to settle for only 12 million pesos.
And you're absolutely right that the industry's claims of lost revenue are bogus. The industry claims they are losing 3 billion dollars a year. That amounts to 1/4000 of the Gross Domestic Product of the entire US economy to losses in piracy. That 3 billion isn't just sitting in people's pockets. That money doesn't exist.
We as a nation, are a POV, buying what we can when we can, and sometimes resorting to piracy when buying is not an option. Even if you could stop the piracy, you could never collect that "lost" revenue.
yes. I see the summary did misquote the original article so I will retract my original contention, despite your tarting off like a rummy little bastard.
2) No. Even if your battery had no internal resistance, it still wouldn't have enough energy to produce 19 million amps.
3) Therefore, those who naively believe they can use V=IR to create an arbitrarily high current by using a zero-resistance superconductor are mistaken and should consider their vast ignorance before broadcasting their opinions.
people, the parent pulled some numbers out of his ass while confusing power with amperage, came to some completely bullshit conclusion, and then ratcheted up the hypocrisy by explicitly claiming others can't do math.
Dude, if we could just hook up any AA battery to a superconductor and get 19,000,000 Amps, don't you think we would have done that already?
Off the top of my head, I can think of several issues with this approach:
1) Superconductors have their limitations.
2) Your shitty battery isn't going to be able to drive 19 million amps.
3) Going from 0.00 amps to 19 million amps in a fraction of a second is going to induce massive electric fields. These will rip the electrons off the air and cause a counter current that will severely curtail ones ability to build up current.
USA isn't winning the war in Iraq, Iran is winning the war in Iraq. The election brought the Shiites into power and Iran is openly peddling its influence with Iraq's majority Shiite party while the Sunnis keep killing off any of their own that participate in the government.