No. In a copyright violation case, the copyright holder gets the fees for violation, not the state. You can bet that if they couldn't make money off of this, the RIAA would never sue. What sense would it make for the government to get the money for someone else's violated copyrights?
Maximum penalty for illegally copying and distributing a single song? $150,000. Maximum penalty for installing security-hole-riddled spyware/malware on a person's computer? $100,000. Number of illegally copied songs on the average college student's PC? Estimated at around 3,000. Number of college students in America? Conservatively estimated at 3,000,000. 3,000,000*3,000*$150,000 = $1,350,000,000,000,000. Number of malware-infested CDs? 20,000,000. 100,000*$20,000,000 = $2,000,000,000,000. Let's see... Sony and co. stand to lose $2 trillion, but earn $1,350 trillion. Maximum. Seems the odds are weighted in their favor.
RIAA: "Sony BMG did nothing wrong. We love Sony BMG. They clean our pool."
Texas Lawyers: "Pardner, yer full o' bull puckey."
Sony BMG: "Can't you sue any better than that?"
Consumers: Yeah, you can all go screw yourselves. Give us some cash.
If you have six frames out of 100 that each clearly show one character of a 6-digit license plate, regardless of how fast the car is moving, then you can have the whole plate number with only 6% of the video. I think that's the main point here.
You apparently missed the point, which is that some information not available in a specific frame may be available in a few frames before or after the one in question. For examlpe, if you've got a grainy video of the license plate "GBR439", and none of the frames of video show the entire plate clearly, but each of six frames shows a different piece clearly, you can get the whole plate. The same with body features - one frame may have a clear shot of the eyes, another of the scar on the cheek, another of the tattoo on the back of the hand, and so on. Interpolation is the same technique they used in The Matrix to create the "bullet time" effect: you can create false frames in between real frames by averaging the two.
People can find meaning in many things other than God. The pursuit of intellectual improvement, the building of a loving family, the accumulation of financial wealth, the search for inner peace; all of these things can be done without God, and can give meaning to life.
Your statement that we have no purpose without God is based on a belief in God. You ONLY believe this because you believe in God. An atheist would not believe this, and knows that there are other ways.
Goedel-Escher-Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Richard Bach)
The Xanth series (Piers Anthony)
The Mode series (Piers Anthony)
The Black Tower series (Stephen King)
THE FSCKING LORD OF THE RINGS. (J.R.R. MotherFSCKIN' Tolkein.)
Evolution is NOT an objection to Christianity. It is an objection to fundamentalism and the irrational denial of Biblical interpretation. Kids are never taught that evolution is the ONLY option, just that it is the one best supported by falsifiable scientific evidence.
Life is not meaningless without God. If it was, we would have no happy atheists.
Lee Strobel became a Christian not because of an examination of creationism, but after interviewing several prominent religious figures and coming to understand WHY they believed what they believed.
You don't need to "stand up" for creationism. The freakin' PRESIDENT already is.
I saw that, too. I just emailed 'muzzy@iki.fi' (the site owner) about it: On your page at http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/, under the section called "Dump from the First4Internet's ocx file", you have a block of hex code in which appears the text "pbclevtug (p) Nccyr Pbzchgre, Vap. Nyy Evtugf Erfreirq". This is a simple ROT13 translation of "copyright (c) Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved". Not sure if you noticed this, but if not, here you go!
When you submit the patent, word it as a "method for recombination of gamete DNA to form offspring." It sounds better than "taking the skin boat to tuna town."
It would have to be a pretty large rock. After all, meteors the size of houses often break up into fist-sized chunks on re-entry.
Besides, I wasn't only thinking of heat. There's immense amounts of friction involved, too. When meteors break apart, there's enough friction between them and the atmosphere that they skip across thin air, like a rock on a pond. The lichen would have to survive this friction, combined with the heat and immense forces of deceleration.
Plus, if this stuff only survived 15 days, it's hard to believe that something like this could make the trip from one planet to another.
What about Current Events? Last week, Japanese scientists explaced... placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water. Sir Godfrey of the Nessie Alliance summoned the help of Scotland's local wizards to cast a protective spell over the lake and its local residents and all those who seek for the peaceful existence of our underwater ally.
Since there's no way to disprove that there were supernatural forces that caused this to be true in at least one universe whose existence need not be proven... it fits the new definition of science.
Mod this 'troll' if you want, but he's right. While the article says it makes things easier for intelligent design's proponents, it doesn't say that the Board has adopted ID. True, the language was drafted by ID proponents, and it did sort of break the concept of science, but TECHNICALLY they didn't say they'd be teaching ID - just that they'd teach things "critical" of evolution.
Did you not read what I said? "Faith - a personal belief - is okay." Never do I mention a school setting. A personal belief is not harmful to anyone but the person who holds it. Nor are all personal beliefs harmful.
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No. In a copyright violation case, the copyright holder gets the fees for violation, not the state. You can bet that if they couldn't make money off of this, the RIAA would never sue. What sense would it make for the government to get the money for someone else's violated copyrights?
Maximum penalty for illegally copying and distributing a single song? $150,000. Maximum penalty for installing security-hole-riddled spyware/malware on a person's computer? $100,000. Number of illegally copied songs on the average college student's PC? Estimated at around 3,000. Number of college students in America? Conservatively estimated at 3,000,000. 3,000,000*3,000*$150,000 = $1,350,000,000,000,000. Number of malware-infested CDs? 20,000,000. 100,000*$20,000,000 = $2,000,000,000,000. Let's see... Sony and co. stand to lose $2 trillion, but earn $1,350 trillion. Maximum. Seems the odds are weighted in their favor.
RIAA: "Sony BMG did nothing wrong. We love Sony BMG. They clean our pool."
Texas Lawyers: "Pardner, yer full o' bull puckey."
Sony BMG: "Can't you sue any better than that?"
Consumers: Yeah, you can all go screw yourselves. Give us some cash.
Yeah, well CSI bought out Magic Tech, Inc. from the Krebulons of Altair 3 back in 2003. So that's OK.
If you have six frames out of 100 that each clearly show one character of a 6-digit license plate, regardless of how fast the car is moving, then you can have the whole plate number with only 6% of the video. I think that's the main point here.
You apparently missed the point, which is that some information not available in a specific frame may be available in a few frames before or after the one in question. For examlpe, if you've got a grainy video of the license plate "GBR439", and none of the frames of video show the entire plate clearly, but each of six frames shows a different piece clearly, you can get the whole plate. The same with body features - one frame may have a clear shot of the eyes, another of the scar on the cheek, another of the tattoo on the back of the hand, and so on. Interpolation is the same technique they used in The Matrix to create the "bullet time" effect: you can create false frames in between real frames by averaging the two.
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There was never a "scrapped" plan, per se. There was a contest to design a new Louvre entrance, and the pyramid was the one they chose as the winner.
People can find meaning in many things other than God. The pursuit of intellectual improvement, the building of a loving family, the accumulation of financial wealth, the search for inner peace; all of these things can be done without God, and can give meaning to life.
Your statement that we have no purpose without God is based on a belief in God. You ONLY believe this because you believe in God. An atheist would not believe this, and knows that there are other ways.
Goedel-Escher-Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Richard Bach)
The Xanth series (Piers Anthony)
The Mode series (Piers Anthony)
The Black Tower series (Stephen King)
THE FSCKING LORD OF THE RINGS. (J.R.R. MotherFSCKIN' Tolkein.)
Evolution is NOT an objection to Christianity. It is an objection to fundamentalism and the irrational denial of Biblical interpretation. Kids are never taught that evolution is the ONLY option, just that it is the one best supported by falsifiable scientific evidence.
Life is not meaningless without God. If it was, we would have no happy atheists.
Lee Strobel became a Christian not because of an examination of creationism, but after interviewing several prominent religious figures and coming to understand WHY they believed what they believed.
You don't need to "stand up" for creationism. The freakin' PRESIDENT already is.
I dare you to translate the following Spanish sentence into English:
Me tienes por el pelo!
I'll tell you how accurate you were.
I saw that, too. I just emailed 'muzzy@iki.fi' (the site owner) about it:
On your page at http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/, under the section called "Dump from the First4Internet's ocx file", you have a block of hex code in which appears the text "pbclevtug (p) Nccyr Pbzchgre, Vap. Nyy Evtugf Erfreirq". This is a simple ROT13 translation of "copyright (c) Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved". Not sure if you noticed this, but if not, here you go!
It's not an abuse of copyright, technically. It follows current copyright law flawlessly. The law itself is the abuse in this situation.
True, but it's intellectually dishonest to claim that the majority of the content on P2P networks has been so declared.
When you submit the patent, word it as a "method for recombination of gamete DNA to form offspring." It sounds better than "taking the skin boat to tuna town."
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It would have to be a pretty large rock. After all, meteors the size of houses often break up into fist-sized chunks on re-entry.
Besides, I wasn't only thinking of heat. There's immense amounts of friction involved, too. When meteors break apart, there's enough friction between them and the atmosphere that they skip across thin air, like a rock on a pond. The lichen would have to survive this friction, combined with the heat and immense forces of deceleration.
Plus, if this stuff only survived 15 days, it's hard to believe that something like this could make the trip from one planet to another.
Sim Antics?
The experiment adds weight to the theory of panspermia - that life could somehow be transported between planets.
I'll believe that as soon as they finish the experiments that show lichen's ability to survive entry into the atmosphere.
I know that. However, it doesn't work the other way around - not all things critical of evolution are related to intelligent design.
I applaud your school district. I wish I'd had chances to learn those things.
What about Current Events?
Last week, Japanese scientists explaced... placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water. Sir Godfrey of the Nessie Alliance summoned the help of Scotland's local wizards to cast a protective spell over the lake and its local residents and all those who seek for the peaceful existence of our underwater ally.
Since there's no way to disprove that there were supernatural forces that caused this to be true in at least one universe whose existence need not be proven... it fits the new definition of science.
Mod this 'troll' if you want, but he's right. While the article says it makes things easier for intelligent design's proponents, it doesn't say that the Board has adopted ID. True, the language was drafted by ID proponents, and it did sort of break the concept of science, but TECHNICALLY they didn't say they'd be teaching ID - just that they'd teach things "critical" of evolution.
Did you not read what I said? "Faith - a personal belief - is okay." Never do I mention a school setting. A personal belief is not harmful to anyone but the person who holds it. Nor are all personal beliefs harmful.