Sure we might lose mainstream music radio, but most of them are Clearchannel anyway.
That might be one outcome. Alternately, we might just lose the independent stations and be stuck with all Clear Channel. This sort of regulation always hurts the little guys more than the big conglomerates.
All of these simulations have trained me well in the off chance I am ever presented with the ability to be an omnipotent, immortal, time traveling, alien, city building, world conquering, sword wielding, post apocalyptic, giant fire breathing, car jacking last great hope for humanity...who also happens to be a complete and total bastard.
In those countries they reverse the period and the comma (period for digit grouping, comma for decimal separator). However, according to international standard, to avoid ambiguity it is recommended that you use spaces for digit grouping, and either comma or period as decimal separator.
Anyone else sick of the current Mickey Mouse copyright laws we have now?
Hear, hear! It's funny calling our current copyright laws "Mickey Mouse", what with Steamboat Willy still under copyright, and continuing to be so until 2023.
...the "let's solve all the problems on Earth before we start exploring space" mantra. ...
Personally, between 6 billion of us, I think we should be capable of working on more than one project at once.
EULAs have never really been tested in court. I personally feel that they should be unenforcable because no one reads them, and they are too complicated for the average person. If they are enforceable, it makes it too easy for entities to slip in one-sided terms.
If an EULA were tested in court and the verdict were to agree with your position, where, if anywhere, would that leave the GPL and other similar licenses?
I'm a tech guy, so I understand there will be issues with support/breakage, but it isn't going to be very much more expensive than the "breakage" we already have in textbooks. And you can lock the desktops down to a great degree, such that the students don't have admin privileges. Install Defender and AVG and you have a pretty good package.
Are you talking about software "breakage" or hardware "breakage"? Software can be an easily fixable issue, but hardware-wise books are alot more robust. You can pretty soundly beat someone to death with a big hardcover textbook and it'll be fine, but if you try anything anywhere near that with a netbook you'll probably crack the screen and totally screw up the hard drive (unless it's an SSD). You can get liquids on a book and, while it'll suck, you can often still use it. Hell, I wouldn't even want to accidentally sit on a netbook, or any of the dozens of things kids will end up doing to them. And don't forget that they'll be a target for being stolen, which you'd rarely otherwise see with a textbook.
I guess that if you figure how much loss you're going to have, and what that cost will be, it might still be less than the cost of physical textbooks, but I'd be very surprised if it was.
Given the fact that Robot Chicken is entirely composed of the ever so popular "short clip of something funny that relies on toilet humor and pop culture references" that Family Guy is known for (and that Seth MacFarlane and Seth Green do voice acting on eachother's shows) one could be forgiven for mistakenly thinking they are produced by the same entity.
There's also a bunch of different international versions that are either modified HMMWVs (the military Humvee) or are based on the HMMWV chassis, including the versions from two different Chinese companies. There's also the variety of similar vehicles out there, the one from Toyota also being somewhat derived from the US model.
I dunno. Have you ever lived in Poughkeepsie? PCBs and agrichem runoff in the water supply would certainly explain a few things about the people around here.
Either way, nothing's worse than the East River. There's a joke that one year they dyed the river green for St. Patrick's Day, and nobody noticed.
That's funny, since Asimov invented them because he was sick of the whole "man makes robot, robot rebels/goes crazy, robot kills man" trope and wanted to explore new areas. I guess everything new is bound to become old, and everything fresh and original is bound to become cliche and overused.
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It's simple! Just set your firewall to filter the evil bit! Everybody knows that!
That might be one outcome. Alternately, we might just lose the independent stations and be stuck with all Clear Channel. This sort of regulation always hurts the little guys more than the big conglomerates.
Oh, so you're training to be God then.
In those countries they reverse the period and the comma (period for digit grouping, comma for decimal separator). However, according to international standard, to avoid ambiguity it is recommended that you use spaces for digit grouping, and either comma or period as decimal separator.
*downloads music as fast as the tubes will allow*
Yeah, we are!
Hear, hear! It's funny calling our current copyright laws "Mickey Mouse", what with Steamboat Willy still under copyright, and continuing to be so until 2023.
A friend of mine once said that the two biggest cities in New Jersey aren't even in the state, namely New York City and Philadelphia.
In Star Trek: First Contact, Zefram Cochrane launched the Phoenix from a missile silo just outside Bozeman, Montana. But yeah, that's about it.
If we shut them down then how are we supposed to justify our filter, eh smartypants? Jeez, it's like you want free speech or something. Freak.
Not to mention that the solutions to our problems might be found out there or along the way.
The Professor: Where's the device that lets to speed up or slow down the passage of time?
Fry: [pulls out a bong] Under the seat.
They're killing independent George!
If an EULA were tested in court and the verdict were to agree with your position, where, if anywhere, would that leave the GPL and other similar licenses?
Any idea what other hosting providers, if any, might use HyperVM?
Are you talking about software "breakage" or hardware "breakage"? Software can be an easily fixable issue, but hardware-wise books are alot more robust. You can pretty soundly beat someone to death with a big hardcover textbook and it'll be fine, but if you try anything anywhere near that with a netbook you'll probably crack the screen and totally screw up the hard drive (unless it's an SSD). You can get liquids on a book and, while it'll suck, you can often still use it. Hell, I wouldn't even want to accidentally sit on a netbook, or any of the dozens of things kids will end up doing to them. And don't forget that they'll be a target for being stolen, which you'd rarely otherwise see with a textbook.
I guess that if you figure how much loss you're going to have, and what that cost will be, it might still be less than the cost of physical textbooks, but I'd be very surprised if it was.
Given the fact that Robot Chicken is entirely composed of the ever so popular "short clip of something funny that relies on toilet humor and pop culture references" that Family Guy is known for (and that Seth MacFarlane and Seth Green do voice acting on eachother's shows) one could be forgiven for mistakenly thinking they are produced by the same entity.
There's also a bunch of different international versions that are either modified HMMWVs (the military Humvee) or are based on the HMMWV chassis, including the versions from two different Chinese companies. There's also the variety of similar vehicles out there, the one from Toyota also being somewhat derived from the US model.
Exactly! Only a Sith deals in absolutes!
Tell that to the audiophiles.
I dunno. Have you ever lived in Poughkeepsie? PCBs and agrichem runoff in the water supply would certainly explain a few things about the people around here.
Either way, nothing's worse than the East River. There's a joke that one year they dyed the river green for St. Patrick's Day, and nobody noticed.
That's funny, since Asimov invented them because he was sick of the whole "man makes robot, robot rebels/goes crazy, robot kills man" trope and wanted to explore new areas. I guess everything new is bound to become old, and everything fresh and original is bound to become cliche and overused.
But what if it's "the rest of the world", or the large majority of it, that's unreasonable?
Oops, too late for that one.
So are you saying that the media industry eats babies?