You must live in Europe. Never seen one in the U.S. (and it would have to be able to convert to from PAL to NTSC too, BTW, to be of any use). Maybe I need to look in a different neighborhood.
The problem that I have is that many of us don't WANT to be a pirates, but the studios heavy-handedness and greed make it almost impossible NOT to. I am perfectly happy buying a blu-ray or DVD. But the studios often throw up so many road-blocks to me as a legitimate consumer as to make it impossible.
I DVR "The Color of Money" (one of Scorsese's best, IMHO) in HD and I want to buy a copy that won't disappear the second my DVR dies. But, guess what? The studio says I can't (the only legally available version is a crappy non-anamorphic DVD that looks awful on a modern TV). So I'm left with the option of Pirate Bay or illegally ripping it off my DVR (both of which would make me a pirate in their eyes). I want to buy it legitimately, but the studio says no.
I DVR "Space Race: The Untold Story" (great docudrama, BTW) in HD from the National Geographic Channel. Same deal, want to buy it. But this time the studio won't even let me buy a DVD in the U.S. (much less an HD blu-ray). It's only available in Region 2. So, even if I import it, I would now be forced to illegally modify my DVD player to watch it. Want to buy it. Want to be honest. Nope, I would have to rip it from my DVR if I wanted to own it.
Even with the blu-rays and DVD's I *can* buy, I'm stuck watching 5 or 6 forced trailers at the beginning of each (many studios not even letting me skip them). Don't want to spend several minutes fighting with your player just to watch the goddamn movie you paid for? Better go off to Pirate Bay, because that's the only way you're getting it, buddy.
To Sony, Warner, Paramount, et. al.: Stop forcing people to be pirates with your fucking DRM, your greed, your region coding, your goddamn bizarre distribution rights agreements, etc. and you'll find there are a LOT more people willing to actually pay for your stuff than you think.
A total of four cosmonauts have died in those rockets, the last in 1971. For the last 40 years, not a single incident. Now, remind me how NASA has done in the last 40 years.
We're also going to have to endure at least another 10 years of the "wind and solar can replace coal and oil" pipe dream. Sadly, nuclear actually COULD have achieved this. But thanks to CNN and all the other Chicken Littles playing up this "nuclear disaster" for ratings, everyone is convinced that nuclear energy is going to kill us all. There are no voices of reason.
That "Ruskie spacecraft originally designed in the 1960s" is proven, economical, and has a nearly spotless safety record. Can you say the same of your beloved space shuttle?
What exactly is so shameful about international cooperation in regard to the *international* space station? The Cold War has been over for a long time now, you know. And I'm more than a little sick of the residual pride of some of my fellow Americans. To be honest, it was bad enough to put up with all the cocky nationalism DURING the Cold War, much less 20 years later.
That's about the price of a single shuttle launch. It may wound NASA's pride, but there is little doubt it will indeed save us a considerable amount of money (even if you factor in all the arguments people will no doubt make about all the great experiments you can do on a shuttle mission).
I actually think this sort of cooperation is a good thing. The space race and Cold War have been over for a long time. It's about time we started acting like it.
The only problem that I see with a security career is that I imagine you would almost have to be a grey hat these days to be truly effective in the field (though I'm sure there will be no shortage of white hats who would disagree). Hacking is getting pretty sophisticated, and it would always annoy me to be handicapped by the fact that I could never even skirt the law (much less break it) in trying to keep up with the latest techniques. This is unless you actually work for law enforcement, of course, in which case you could at least go undercover. To use a non-car-related analogy, It's would seem to me like fighting with one hand tied behind your back against a guy wearing brass knuckles on both hands.
I mean, it would really suck to have the FBI knocking on your door just because you were hanging out on a hacker IRC channel. And I somehow doubt they would buy a "But I was just trying to keep up in my field" defense. So that leaves you stuck with more legit outlets, which always seem at least one step behind the bad guys.
Much of the hacking now is government-sponsored too. China, Israel, the U.S., and Russia have all been allegedly involved in this for some time (probably a lot of others too). Stuxnet, theft of Google source code, you name it. Seems like everyone is in the cybercrime (or cyberwarfare if you want to stick a more polite euphemism on it) business these days.
reactor backup power system that survives the earthquake but not the tsunami? A tsunami was not an unexpected event here.
That's what really shocked me about these reactors in Japan. Who builds a reactor on the coast and doesn't protect the backup generators from a sea surge? Even excluding a major earthquake and tsunami combo, the same accidents could have happened with a common typhoon. You build on the coast, or even near a river, and it never occurs to you that your generators could get flooded?!?
In their defense, they have invested a LOT of money in buying off Congress. It's only fair they get a return on that investment. That's the free market at work.
My grandpa (who lived through the Depression) always used to say it was better to buy gold and bury it in your backyard than to put your money in a bank. And to think we used to laugh at him.
I guess this explains why Bank of America's law firm was so willing to buy into HBgary and other's bullshit about being able to take down Anoynymous and Wikileaks.
From even the most optimistic sources I've read, solar costs something along the lines of 3-4 times more than nuclear per KwH. Wind power is supposedly cheaper than solar (by about about half), but can't deliver a consistent supply and is *heavily* dependent on location and weather (i.e., it's only cheaper if you're in a pretty consistently windy location with favorable weather). That's what I meant by "not ready."
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Yeah...not seeing a lot of sites I would trust with my credit card number.
You probably want to avoid any appearance she's made since about the time of the movie Soapdish, then. Trust me on this.
You must live in Europe. Never seen one in the U.S. (and it would have to be able to convert to from PAL to NTSC too, BTW, to be of any use). Maybe I need to look in a different neighborhood.
The problem that I have is that many of us don't WANT to be a pirates, but the studios heavy-handedness and greed make it almost impossible NOT to. I am perfectly happy buying a blu-ray or DVD. But the studios often throw up so many road-blocks to me as a legitimate consumer as to make it impossible.
I DVR "The Color of Money" (one of Scorsese's best, IMHO) in HD and I want to buy a copy that won't disappear the second my DVR dies. But, guess what? The studio says I can't (the only legally available version is a crappy non-anamorphic DVD that looks awful on a modern TV). So I'm left with the option of Pirate Bay or illegally ripping it off my DVR (both of which would make me a pirate in their eyes). I want to buy it legitimately, but the studio says no.
I DVR "Space Race: The Untold Story" (great docudrama, BTW) in HD from the National Geographic Channel. Same deal, want to buy it. But this time the studio won't even let me buy a DVD in the U.S. (much less an HD blu-ray). It's only available in Region 2. So, even if I import it, I would now be forced to illegally modify my DVD player to watch it. Want to buy it. Want to be honest. Nope, I would have to rip it from my DVR if I wanted to own it.
Even with the blu-rays and DVD's I *can* buy, I'm stuck watching 5 or 6 forced trailers at the beginning of each (many studios not even letting me skip them). Don't want to spend several minutes fighting with your player just to watch the goddamn movie you paid for? Better go off to Pirate Bay, because that's the only way you're getting it, buddy.
To Sony, Warner, Paramount, et. al.: Stop forcing people to be pirates with your fucking DRM, your greed, your region coding, your goddamn bizarre distribution rights agreements, etc. and you'll find there are a LOT more people willing to actually pay for your stuff than you think.
A total of four cosmonauts have died in those rockets, the last in 1971. For the last 40 years, not a single incident. Now, remind me how NASA has done in the last 40 years.
You can see the dungeon where Lucas rapes our childhood memories.
We're also going to have to endure at least another 10 years of the "wind and solar can replace coal and oil" pipe dream. Sadly, nuclear actually COULD have achieved this. But thanks to CNN and all the other Chicken Littles playing up this "nuclear disaster" for ratings, everyone is convinced that nuclear energy is going to kill us all. There are no voices of reason.
You forgot the archaic, but still ubiquitous, "NO CARRIER" at the end.
That "Ruskie spacecraft originally designed in the 1960s" is proven, economical, and has a nearly spotless safety record. Can you say the same of your beloved space shuttle?
What exactly is so shameful about international cooperation in regard to the *international* space station? The Cold War has been over for a long time now, you know. And I'm more than a little sick of the residual pride of some of my fellow Americans. To be honest, it was bad enough to put up with all the cocky nationalism DURING the Cold War, much less 20 years later.
That's about the price of a single shuttle launch. It may wound NASA's pride, but there is little doubt it will indeed save us a considerable amount of money (even if you factor in all the arguments people will no doubt make about all the great experiments you can do on a shuttle mission).
I actually think this sort of cooperation is a good thing. The space race and Cold War have been over for a long time. It's about time we started acting like it.
I think most whores would take exception to being compared to politicians. I mean, at least SOME whores still have souls.
It's the corporations' money. They should be free to spend it however they choose. Even the Supreme Court agrees.
Having my nuts bit off by a Laplander, that's the way I want to go.
The only problem that I see with a security career is that I imagine you would almost have to be a grey hat these days to be truly effective in the field (though I'm sure there will be no shortage of white hats who would disagree). Hacking is getting pretty sophisticated, and it would always annoy me to be handicapped by the fact that I could never even skirt the law (much less break it) in trying to keep up with the latest techniques. This is unless you actually work for law enforcement, of course, in which case you could at least go undercover. To use a non-car-related analogy, It's would seem to me like fighting with one hand tied behind your back against a guy wearing brass knuckles on both hands.
I mean, it would really suck to have the FBI knocking on your door just because you were hanging out on a hacker IRC channel. And I somehow doubt they would buy a "But I was just trying to keep up in my field" defense. So that leaves you stuck with more legit outlets, which always seem at least one step behind the bad guys.
Much of the hacking now is government-sponsored too. China, Israel, the U.S., and Russia have all been allegedly involved in this for some time (probably a lot of others too). Stuxnet, theft of Google source code, you name it. Seems like everyone is in the cybercrime (or cyberwarfare if you want to stick a more polite euphemism on it) business these days.
Not if you're like India, building U-233 and Thorium plants:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf53.html
reactor backup power system that survives the earthquake but not the tsunami? A tsunami was not an unexpected event here.
That's what really shocked me about these reactors in Japan. Who builds a reactor on the coast and doesn't protect the backup generators from a sea surge? Even excluding a major earthquake and tsunami combo, the same accidents could have happened with a common typhoon. You build on the coast, or even near a river, and it never occurs to you that your generators could get flooded?!?
In their defense, they have invested a LOT of money in buying off Congress. It's only fair they get a return on that investment. That's the free market at work.
BTW, I'm a total luddite but occasionally hang out in Anon's IRC channel
Citizen, please place your hands in the yellow circles and await a law enforcement action. Thank you.
My grandpa (who lived through the Depression) always used to say it was better to buy gold and bury it in your backyard than to put your money in a bank. And to think we used to laugh at him.
I guess this explains why Bank of America's law firm was so willing to buy into HBgary and other's bullshit about being able to take down Anoynymous and Wikileaks.
From even the most optimistic sources I've read, solar costs something along the lines of 3-4 times more than nuclear per KwH. Wind power is supposedly cheaper than solar (by about about half), but can't deliver a consistent supply and is *heavily* dependent on location and weather (i.e., it's only cheaper if you're in a pretty consistently windy location with favorable weather). That's what I meant by "not ready."
Most summaries are written by the submitter, so I don't think it's fair to blame Taco (though I'm hoping we can find some way to blame it on kdawson).