Explain please, why would you put a deposit on a 12 pack?
The deposit proivides an incentive to return your cans/bottles instead of discarding them. In Michigan, where the returnable deposit is 10 cents, the volume of highway trash plummeted 90% when the deposit first went into effect.
In short, it works. I can't understand why all states don't have deposits on their cans and bottles.
$16 CDN??? My God, man...I was padding the $9.50 figure to bolster my point...I had no idea things had gotten that bad...but then again, I haven't seen the inside of a movie theater in years...
Theater: Film comes out here long before it's available at the Home Theater. Home Theater: Film comes out several months late.
You know, I've never understood the mad rush to see a given film the instant it's released...it's a movie..it'll keep...it's not like it'll go bad like milk or something if you don't view it within a given time period.
This is what I have been telling everyone for years!
Let's go over the pros and cons, shall we?
Home Theater: You have full control over the movie. You can pause it while fixing a snack or visiting the little moviegoers' room...you can rewind to watch an exciting scene again, you can fast-forward past the boring bits, etc. Theater: You lose. You have no control. Don't you go to the bathroom...cause I'm not gonna tell you what you missed.
Home Theater: You are in the privacy of your own home...you commute is zero, you are among friends. Theater: You drive x number of miles to be squeezed into a packed, filthy theater with unidentifiable gunk coating the floors and other 'movie patrons' who smell like either really bad milk or really good cheese.
Home Theater: You can dress (or undress) as you please...you can watch your movie in your stocking feet, in a bathrobe, or stark naked. Theater: Public area, public standards of decency apply (barely), see above reason for why you should *never* take off your shoes in a movie theater.
Home Theater: You can enjoy whatever food you care to make for yourself at a reasonable cost. Theater: You are forced to purchase the theater's overpriced, low-quality slop.
Home Theater: Private bathroom ('nuff said) Theater: Public restroom. (ick)
Home Theater: Price of movie anywhere from $3.00 to FREE (for whole room). Theater: Price of movie anywhere from $2.00 (no more dollar shows anymore, apparently:( ) to $9.50, and that's PER PERSON.
Now, before I get slammed by Linspire zealots, just let me say one thing:
I'm betting that, among Linux enthusiasts, that Linspire users are in the minority. How do I know? Because among Linux users, $DISTRO users are in the minority. And why is that? Because there are about six jillion distros out there.
Another poster in a previous article referred to this trend as 'the balkanization of Linux', and I believe that that is a very apt description. If Linux really wants to become a player in the regular user market, one distro (or a few, at the most) must claim ascendancy.
the incendiary title was dreamt up by Forbes--it's not a quote by De Raadt.
Actually, I wasn't referencing the title of the article (which was dreamt up by Forbes, and subsequently misquoted on Slashdot), but De Raadt's actual comments in the body of the article.
Here's the quote from TFA I guess I should have included in my previous post, but didn't bother, since it was (a) the second paragraph in TFA, and (b) was also echoed in TFS.
"It's terrible," De Raadt says. "Everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'"
Perhaps next time, before you rail about people not reading TFA, you should check to insure that you do not fall into that category yourself.
So...they've figured out they're not going to stop dedicated music pirates. So instead of making the copy protection stronger, they're making it weaker?
Ostensibly, this is to stop 'schoolyard piracy' (as if your average 'schoolboy/girl' can't rip tracks to MP3), but I'm seeing a slightly darker angle here...hold on...
<tinfoil-hat>
OK. Here we go:
Sony makes copy-protection weaker, while making 'speed bump' obstacle to 'schoolyard piracy'.
Correspondingly, more people turn from 'schoolyard piracy' to 'actual piracy'.
RIAA suddenly has many more viable targets
???
Profit!
</tinfoil-hat>
Whew...wearing that thing sure makes you paranoid...but does it make you paranoid enough?
Ahh...perhaps that's how these things work...the dendrimers sneak in tiny little GIFs of goatse and tubgirl, and the tumor loses its appetite and starves to death.
Actually, strictly speaking, they put the poison next to the folate. That's what the nanotech dendrimers are for...to provide a means to mount two substances next to each other that wouldn't naturally combine.
Dendrimers have a tree-like structure with many branches where scientists can attach a variety of molecules, including drugs. In experiments reported in Cancer Research, U-M scientists attached methotrexate, a powerful anticancer drug, to branches of the dendrimer. On other branches, they attached fluorescent imaging agents and their secret ingredient - a vitamin called folic acid.
Folic acid, or folate, is an important vitamin required for the healthy functioning of all cells. But cancer cells, in particular, seem to need more than average amounts. To soak up as much folate as possible, some cancer cells display more docking sites called folate receptors on their cell membranes. By taking advantage of a cancer cell's appetite for folate, U-M scientists are able to prevent the cells from developing resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs.
Nice argument on the surface, but when you look at the particulars of the case, it just doesn't wash.
From TFA:
A federal agent said Barton's computer contained more than 450 pornographic images, including 156 porn images of children.
Over a third of the pics cached on his system were kiddie porn. That high a percentage cannot be contributed to 'clicking on the wrong link'.
Obviously, some threshold for the distinction between 'accidental' and 'intentional' downloading of contraband pics needs to be enumerated, but it's equally obvious that it's nowhere near 35%.
Last week Barton's lawyers argued that even though the images were on Barton's computer, they did not belong to him, especially since he did not download them or print them.
Sorry, but you can't very well look at the pics without downloading them...the file is just in your cache instead of a location you specify. As for not printing a hard copy, I fail to see how that is at all relevant.
This entire 'defense' is based purely upon the attorney betting that people don't understand how the internet works, and I for one sincerely hope it fails.
Perhaps you ought to read the post I was quoting before you start lecturing me about the meaning of 'sic'.
Just to make things easier on you, here it is:
Mars' atmosphere couldn't permit the spectacular light displays that can be witnessed here on Earth. While Mar's atmosphere stretches further into space than Earth's, its just not substantial enough to allow auroras.
See the part I quoted? See the part you *think* I quoted? Don't you feel silly now?
Actually, I have to correct an error in my previous post...the magnetic field strength of the Martian crust is 400 nT...compared to Earth's 3000 nT, it's a far cry from 'nearly as strong'.
As for the solar winds, an insufficiently strong magnetic field would contribute to the solar wind eroding both the surface and the atmosphere over time.
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Pay...for...cable? I'm sorry...it's just been a while since I've heard those three words in that particular order...
^_^
Explain please, why would you put a deposit on a 12 pack?
The deposit proivides an incentive to return your cans/bottles instead of discarding them. In Michigan, where the returnable deposit is 10 cents, the volume of highway trash plummeted 90% when the deposit first went into effect.
In short, it works. I can't understand why all states don't have deposits on their cans and bottles.
$16 CDN??? My God, man...I was padding the $9.50 figure to bolster my point...I had no idea things had gotten that bad...but then again, I haven't seen the inside of a movie theater in years...
Theater: Film comes out here long before it's available at the Home Theater.
Home Theater: Film comes out several months late.
You know, I've never understood the mad rush to see a given film the instant it's released...it's a movie..it'll keep...it's not like it'll go bad like milk or something if you don't view it within a given time period.
This is what I have been telling everyone for years!
Let's go over the pros and cons, shall we?
Theater: You lose. You have no control. Don't you go to the bathroom...cause I'm not gonna tell you what you missed.
Theater: You drive x number of miles to be squeezed into a packed, filthy theater with unidentifiable gunk coating the floors and other 'movie patrons' who smell like either really bad milk or really good cheese.
Theater: Public area, public standards of decency apply (barely), see above reason for why you should *never* take off your shoes in a movie theater.
Theater: You are forced to purchase the theater's overpriced, low-quality slop.
Theater: Public restroom. (ick)
Theater: Price of movie anywhere from $2.00 (no more dollar shows anymore, apparently
The choice seems clear.
Now, before I get slammed by Linspire zealots, just let me say one thing:
I'm betting that, among Linux enthusiasts, that Linspire users are in the minority. How do I know? Because among Linux users, $DISTRO users are in the minority. And why is that? Because there are about six jillion distros out there.
Another poster in a previous article referred to this trend as 'the balkanization of Linux', and I believe that that is a very apt description. If Linux really wants to become a player in the regular user market, one distro (or a few, at the most) must claim ascendancy.
Just one question...which one will it be?
Yeah but I don't fully trust my ally. I sometimes wonder if he's a traitor.
You know, he said the same thing about you...
^_^
Machine Authentication Codes (MAC)
Oh! I thought he meant 'Media Access Control'...but I couldn't see what the OSI model had to do with this subject...
^_^
Please reference the comment here for your response, as I cannot be bothered to type it all over again.
the incendiary title was dreamt up by Forbes--it's not a quote by De Raadt.
Actually, I wasn't referencing the title of the article (which was dreamt up by Forbes, and subsequently misquoted on Slashdot), but De Raadt's actual comments in the body of the article.
Here's the quote from TFA I guess I should have included in my previous post, but didn't bother, since it was (a) the second paragraph in TFA, and (b) was also echoed in TFS.
Perhaps next time, before you rail about people not reading TFA, you should check to insure that you do not fall into that category yourself.
So...they've figured out they're not going to stop dedicated music pirates.
So instead of making the copy protection stronger, they're making it weaker?
Ostensibly, this is to stop 'schoolyard piracy' (as if your average 'schoolboy/girl' can't rip tracks to MP3), but I'm seeing a slightly darker angle here...hold on...
<tinfoil-hat>
OK. Here we go:
</tinfoil-hat>
Whew...wearing that thing sure makes you paranoid...but does it make you paranoid enough?
Beware of geeks bearing GIFs
Ahh...perhaps that's how these things work...the dendrimers sneak in tiny little GIFs of goatse and tubgirl, and the tumor loses its appetite and starves to death.
Brilliant!
Brilliant!
^_^
They put the poison in the folate.
Actually, strictly speaking, they put the poison next to the folate. That's what the nanotech dendrimers are for...to provide a means to mount two substances next to each other that wouldn't naturally combine.
From TFA:
Are you kidding? With the Linux userbase on this board, I'm betting this article see 1000+ responses before archival.
Talk about throwing gasoline on the fire...why would DeRaat say such hateful things?
From TFA:
Ahh.
Here's another quote from TFA:
Apparently, you also do what you do because you hate Linux...
Don't be hatin'...
and before you know it, 1/3 of your cache is filled with crud.
And the cache would show that these images were all downloaded in a few seconds, demonstrating that they weren't downloaded at the user's behest.
The answer is that in addition to the simple fact of the images being present, intent to view the images must also be present...and proven.
Someone could easily post an illegal picture as a 1-1 pixel image in a post on a site like this and it'd be in your cache.
Really. Do you know what the definition of 'pixel' is? Just how pornographic do you think a '1-1 pixel image' is capable of being?
Nice argument on the surface, but when you look at the particulars of the case, it just doesn't wash.
From TFA:
Over a third of the pics cached on his system were kiddie porn. That high a percentage cannot be contributed to 'clicking on the wrong link'.
Obviously, some threshold for the distinction between 'accidental' and 'intentional' downloading of contraband pics needs to be enumerated, but it's equally obvious that it's nowhere near 35%.
From TFA:
Sorry, but you can't very well look at the pics without downloading them...the file is just in your cache instead of a location you specify. As for not printing a hard copy, I fail to see how that is at all relevant.
This entire 'defense' is based purely upon the attorney betting that people don't understand how the internet works, and I for one sincerely hope it fails.
Apology accepted...and appreciated. Thank you.
but not so much they'd be willing to waste karma on it.
What a joke. If you're not man enough to say what you got to say without huddling under the AC blankie, how can anyone take you seriously?
I say what I want to whom I want when I want...and my karma is 'excellent'. Why is that, do you think?
(Oh, that's right...I forgot. It's 'excellent' because I'm a 'karma whore'. Silly of me to attempt to discuss this rationally...)
Perhaps you ought to read the post I was quoting before you start lecturing me about the meaning of 'sic'.
Just to make things easier on you, here it is:
See the part I quoted?
See the part you *think* I quoted?
Don't you feel silly now?
Actually, I have to correct an error in my previous post...the magnetic field strength of the Martian crust is 400 nT...compared to Earth's 3000 nT, it's a far cry from 'nearly as strong'.
As for the solar winds, an insufficiently strong magnetic field would contribute to the solar wind eroding both the surface and the atmosphere over time.