>>If the ISS does turn out to be brighter than Venus - which varies in brightness considerably,
>>depending on where in it's orbit it is - relative to earth, then it will be interesting to see
>>if it's visible during daytime passes, too.
The ISS is clearly visible in it's daytime passes, at least it is if you are Michael Fincke or Yuri Lonchakov.
The real reason for this change is that there are tools that rip the old Windows Media stream and let you save the instant movies on your computer. So far I haven't seen a similar tool for the Silverlight streams.
If the IFPI really want sympathy, they should try executing all of the upper management. If that doesn't work, then we can reconvene to discuss further options.
Maybe to you or I the high school principle is not a public figure, but to all of the current students and probably a reasonable number of former students the principle is. Presumably the fake myspace page, whilst being publicly viewable to anybody, was targetted at getting a laugh from this specific group of people.
I heard that it costs around US$20 million to execute someone, whereas to imprison them for life averages out to only something like US$6 million. On the other hand, I know a guy who can execute someone for only US$10,000 - though it's a little extra if you want to make it look like an accident.
In this day and age it makes more sense to pick a common name. For the most part, your name only needs to be unique within a smallish group of people, such as your office/home/circle of friends. If if two people within that sphere have the same name, that's where nicknames come in. On a global scale, with the ubiquity of the internet it's better to have a really common name so that if a potential employer does google you, they can't reliably determine which of the many "yous" really is you. That way if you did do something "bad" in the past (like smoke pot...and inhale!) it will not be an impediment to finding a job in the future. It doesn't have to be bad either...even a simple association with a group or organisation that the employer disagrees with could be enough to strike you from the race.
Let's face it, although in an ideal world you would not want to work for someone who would discount you for some past minor indiscretion or political association, the fact is we do not always have that luxury of choice - especially when the job market is slow. And if an employer gets many resumes for similar quality applicants, they sometimes have to get petty in order to narrow the list down.
>> I'm not holding my breath until they do, but if you don't,
>>you're a hypocrite for exhaling (dumping) your CO2 into the atmosphere.
I think you have misunderstood the whole CO2 issue. We have a large-scale environmental system, which has X amount of carbon in it. When you eat a carrot that was grown in that system, you are ingesting carbon that formed part of that X amount. When you breathe in oxygen and burn up the sugars from that carrot, you produce CO2. However, the X value has not increased, because the carbon from that CO2 was already in the system. The issue here is that there is Y amount of carbon that over millions of years has been removed from the system and buried in the form of coal/oil/natural gas etc. By drilling out that oil and burning it, we are subtracing from Y and adding to X, i.e. introducing new carbon into the system. It's that new carbon that is apparently going to cause the end of the world or something.
I didn't create that admittedly far-fetched example with the purpose of using it in the 27 ninja's scenario that you described. I was thinking more along the lines of "it's better to let 100 guilty men go free than to imprison one innocent man". Just because the scenario is far-fetched, it does not mean that it has not happened (or that other similar scenarios have not occurred). The pirate bay provide a service that has legitimate and legal purposes. If people use it for illegal purposes, the pirate bay should be held no more liable than the telephone company if I make a death threat from a payphone, or the postal service if I send anthrax to the Mongolian embassy.
The pirate bay cannot be expected to analyse and assess every torrent uploader and downloader to determine if downloading/uploading that torrent is legal for that user in the jurisdiction that the user is operating from!
Just because it is not legal for you, does not mean it is not legal for someone else. Let's say I buy a cd. The cd player in my computer is broken and I can't afford to have it repaired. So I download a torrent of the cd. Voila! I have paid for the cd, but I can still listen to it on my computer.
>5. If a page linking to illegal material is itself illegal, then so
>is a page linking to that page, and so on. Almost the whole Web would be illegal.
As a safety mechanism, I made sure that my website doesn't have any links to any other websites, and no websites link to mine.
>For the most part, you can prevent HIV. You can stay monogamous as much as >you can. Don't be a slut, and use a rubber. Don't use needles. Sometimes > >you have to think about what your impact is on society.
That's great advice for everyone who has ever been raped, or contracted HIV from blood transfusions etc. You should go to Africa and tell all those (former) virgins who have been raped by HIV carriers (in the faulty belief that such activities will *cure* aids) that they too should not be sluts.
>Evolution is a mathematical concept that can be applied to physical and biological (and >other) systems. Saying that evolution is false is a lot like saying that optimization is >false, or that group theory is false.
Wrong. Optimization is false, and group theory is false.
Why are they using a breathalyser as the final form of evidence anyway? In Australia they use the breathalyser as a quick and cheap test to see if you are over 0.05 (the legal limit for fully licensed drivers). If the test says "yes", they then withhold you and perform a blood test to get an accurate reading, the latter of which is used for the actual evidence. So if you do use a mouthwash just before the breathalyser, the blood test is going to prove that you are not drunk.
The issue is that in Australia, the HD channels are not counted as part of the ratings. That's why they have shows like "dancing with the stars" in which they will show the finale only in standard def - it ensures that the ratings are counted. Then they do things like put less important things like the morning shows (which are mostly just a long-running infomercial broken up by the occasional guest interviews) in HD, but show the good stuff in SD. That way they can truthfully say they are broadcasting X% HD, even though most of the HD shows are ones not many people care about anyway.
I'm a mega-rich misanthrope, so whenever I receive spam I make sure to purchase moderately large quantities of the items being sold. It gives the spammers incentive to keep going...
P.S. This is a joke. I'm not really mega-rich so I can't afford to purchase anything from spammers:-(
This is similar to an idea that I had years ago: the submacopter. It is basically a cross between a helicopter and a submarine. It flies like a chopper until it is time to submerge, then the wings fold up into a special cavity on the roof (like the landing gear for an aeroplane) and the tail rotor turns 90 so that it is perpendicular to the vehicle. Easy! I'll build one this afternoon!
I'm astonished that you're amazed that people are surprised that an online gambling site has something fraudulent about it...
Witness my highly scientific analysis that proves how unintelligent people are. I googled "idiots" and got 28,600,000 results. I googled "smart people" and got only 5,660,000 results. Now I'm sure if you try *really* hard you'll probably be able to find some minor problem with my scientific method and try to use that to invalidate the entire result. But that strikes me as the act of a desperate person clutching at straws to try and maintain a weak hold on their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence. You're not that kind of person are you?
My understanding of the pipeline project is that they are also going to add some sort of lining to a number of waterways, and some sort of other improvements, so that a lot of the water that is lost due to drainage is recovered. That will increase the overall amount of water collected by the Goulburn system, and they will be piping some of that increase into Melbourne.
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>>If the ISS does turn out to be brighter than Venus - which varies in brightness considerably,
>>depending on where in it's orbit it is - relative to earth, then it will be interesting to see
>>if it's visible during daytime passes, too.
The ISS is clearly visible in it's daytime passes, at least it is if you are Michael Fincke or Yuri Lonchakov.
>>Last I checked, and admittedly It's been almost 12 hours, the sun isn't visible in the sky at night...
It depends which hemisphere you are in.
The real reason for this change is that there are tools that rip the old Windows Media stream and let you save the instant movies on your computer. So far I haven't seen a similar tool for the Silverlight streams.
Check again in about 10 minutes...
If the IFPI really want sympathy, they should try executing all of the upper management. If that doesn't work, then we can reconvene to discuss further options.
Maybe to you or I the high school principle is not a public figure, but to all of the current students and probably a reasonable number of former students the principle is. Presumably the fake myspace page, whilst being publicly viewable to anybody, was targetted at getting a laugh from this specific group of people.
I heard that it costs around US$20 million to execute someone, whereas to imprison them for life averages out to only something like US$6 million. On the other hand, I know a guy who can execute someone for only US$10,000 - though it's a little extra if you want to make it look like an accident.
In this day and age it makes more sense to pick a common name. For the most part, your name only needs to be unique within a smallish group of people, such as your office/home/circle of friends. If if two people within that sphere have the same name, that's where nicknames come in. On a global scale, with the ubiquity of the internet it's better to have a really common name so that if a potential employer does google you, they can't reliably determine which of the many "yous" really is you. That way if you did do something "bad" in the past (like smoke pot...and inhale!) it will not be an impediment to finding a job in the future. It doesn't have to be bad either...even a simple association with a group or organisation that the employer disagrees with could be enough to strike you from the race.
Let's face it, although in an ideal world you would not want to work for someone who would discount you for some past minor indiscretion or political association, the fact is we do not always have that luxury of choice - especially when the job market is slow. And if an employer gets many resumes for similar quality applicants, they sometimes have to get petty in order to narrow the list down.
>> I'm not holding my breath until they do, but if you don't,
>>you're a hypocrite for exhaling (dumping) your CO2 into the atmosphere.
I think you have misunderstood the whole CO2 issue. We have a large-scale environmental system, which has X amount of carbon in it. When you eat a carrot that was grown in that system, you are ingesting carbon that formed part of that X amount. When you breathe in oxygen and burn up the sugars from that carrot, you produce CO2. However, the X value has not increased, because the carbon from that CO2 was already in the system. The issue here is that there is Y amount of carbon that over millions of years has been removed from the system and buried in the form of coal/oil/natural gas etc. By drilling out that oil and burning it, we are subtracing from Y and adding to X, i.e. introducing new carbon into the system. It's that new carbon that is apparently going to cause the end of the world or something.
I didn't create that admittedly far-fetched example with the purpose of using it in the 27 ninja's scenario that you described. I was thinking more along the lines of "it's better to let 100 guilty men go free than to imprison one innocent man". Just because the scenario is far-fetched, it does not mean that it has not happened (or that other similar scenarios have not occurred). The pirate bay provide a service that has legitimate and legal purposes. If people use it for illegal purposes, the pirate bay should be held no more liable than the telephone company if I make a death threat from a payphone, or the postal service if I send anthrax to the Mongolian embassy.
The pirate bay cannot be expected to analyse and assess every torrent uploader and downloader to determine if downloading/uploading that torrent is legal for that user in the jurisdiction that the user is operating from!
Just because it is not legal for you, does not mean it is not legal for someone else. Let's say I buy a cd. The cd player in my computer is broken and I can't afford to have it repaired. So I download a torrent of the cd. Voila! I have paid for the cd, but I can still listen to it on my computer.
>5. If a page linking to illegal material is itself illegal, then so >is a page linking to that page, and so on. Almost the whole Web would be illegal. As a safety mechanism, I made sure that my website doesn't have any links to any other websites, and no websites link to mine.
Or Queensland.
>For the most part, you can prevent HIV. You can stay monogamous as much as
>you can. Don't be a slut, and use a rubber. Don't use needles. Sometimes >
>you have to think about what your impact is on society.
That's great advice for everyone who has ever been raped, or contracted HIV from blood transfusions etc. You should go to Africa and tell all those (former) virgins who have been raped by HIV carriers (in the faulty belief that such activities will *cure* aids) that they too should not be sluts.
>>Wrong. Evolution is false.
>Evolution is a mathematical concept that can be applied to physical and biological (and
>other) systems. Saying that evolution is false is a lot like saying that optimization is
>false, or that group theory is false.
Wrong. Optimization is false, and group theory is false.
Why are they using a breathalyser as the final form of evidence anyway? In Australia they use the breathalyser as a quick and cheap test to see if you are over 0.05 (the legal limit for fully licensed drivers). If the test says "yes", they then withhold you and perform a blood test to get an accurate reading, the latter of which is used for the actual evidence. So if you do use a mouthwash just before the breathalyser, the blood test is going to prove that you are not drunk.
Tolkien himself has said "I detest allegory in all its forms" (I think it's in Letters... somewhere), and that LOTR is not an allegory for anything.
The issue is that in Australia, the HD channels are not counted as part of the ratings. That's why they have shows like "dancing with the stars" in which they will show the finale only in standard def - it ensures that the ratings are counted. Then they do things like put less important things like the morning shows (which are mostly just a long-running infomercial broken up by the occasional guest interviews) in HD, but show the good stuff in SD. That way they can truthfully say they are broadcasting X% HD, even though most of the HD shows are ones not many people care about anyway.
I'm a mega-rich misanthrope, so whenever I receive spam I make sure to purchase moderately large quantities of the items being sold. It gives the spammers incentive to keep going...
:-(
P.S. This is a joke. I'm not really mega-rich so I can't afford to purchase anything from spammers
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!
Yes, but remember that when you cut a slashdotter in half, each end grows into a new slashdotter!
This is similar to an idea that I had years ago: the submacopter. It is basically a cross between a helicopter and a submarine. It flies like a chopper until it is time to submerge, then the wings fold up into a special cavity on the roof (like the landing gear for an aeroplane) and the tail rotor turns 90 so that it is perpendicular to the vehicle. Easy! I'll build one this afternoon!
You must be new here! I've always wanted to say that :-P
I'm astonished that you're amazed that people are surprised that an online gambling site has something fraudulent about it...
Witness my highly scientific analysis that proves how unintelligent people are. I googled "idiots" and got 28,600,000 results. I googled "smart people" and got only 5,660,000 results. Now I'm sure if you try *really* hard you'll probably be able to find some minor problem with my scientific method and try to use that to invalidate the entire result. But that strikes me as the act of a desperate person clutching at straws to try and maintain a weak hold on their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence. You're not that kind of person are you?
Well, that is kind of funny...
Just mod me +1, evil!
My understanding of the pipeline project is that they are also going to add some sort of lining to a number of waterways, and some sort of other improvements, so that a lot of the water that is lost due to drainage is recovered. That will increase the overall amount of water collected by the Goulburn system, and they will be piping some of that increase into Melbourne.