I remember visiting a little church in a little town in the Riviera (France) area during a vacation, and learning that it had existed before the Mayflower had landed.
My USified brain couldn't handle the idea of a building which had been used for the same purpose for that long, and just kind of shut down until we left that town...
On the other hand, the clause that you quoted specifically states that the militia be "well-regulated" - not a free-for-all situation where everyone and their dog can stock up on all the high-powered arms & ammunition they can get their hands on.
Actually, I believe that retroactive contraction of copyright lengths would still be legal - since it is just placing a stricter limit on existing copyrights, which fits into the relevant Constitutional phrasing.
The argument against unlimited retroactive expansion of copyright terms is that there would be no effective "limit" in that situation.
I wouldn't be surprised if the big labels probably have the contracts set up so that their bands aren't legally allowed to collect money for themselves - it has to go through the label's services so that the label can take their cut first.
If that's the case, sending checks directly to the band probably won't help much either, since they would be forced to hand them over to their label anyway.
Increased pressure WILL increase the temperature of a system. Ever heard of compression ignition engines (i.e., diesel)? When the fuel is compressed, it heats up.
The temperature will increase - temporarily. In the unclosed system of a planet, and on astronomic time scales, the concentrated heat energy will eventually dissipate & the entire sample will still end up being as cold as space. That's why an additional energy source such as internal radiation and/or sunlight is required to increase temperatures for longer periods of time.
Stick to 100 level classes, my friend.
Sound advice. Using a little common sense before criticising helps too.
Global warming means just what it says: The globe getting warmer.
Just to be clear on this, global "warming" means that the atmosphere is storing more heat energy. In some places, it means that the air temperature goes up. In other places, it means that the air movement will become more violent. It doesn't mean that you take the temperature all over the globe & increment it a few degrees.
This falls under the description of "indefinite time", not "limited time". Plus the fact that if the fee for renewing the copyright is made small enough by Congress (like $0.01 or even $0.00) then big businesses will be perfectly happy to lock those copyrighted works up, preventing their release to the public domain indefinitely, on the off chance they might use the material "some day" - and even if they don't, they don't want a competitor making any money off of "our property".
From what I remember reading about the aftermath, they determined that if they had recounted just the counties that Gore wanted recounted, then Bush would have still won, but if they had recounted the entire state, then Gore would've won.
Well, by the time you can build 10Ghz chips, your transistors will be so small that you'll be able to fit a LOT of transistors in that 3mm. So I don't think it will be a waste to build a chip like that.
I seriously doubt any six year old would voluntarily pose nude without being coerced into it.
Well, I had a 6-year cousin who thought it was a lot of fun to streak naked through the house while guests were having dinner (I think she liked the looks on people's faces). The only "coercion" going on there was trying to stuff her back into her jumpsuit before the guests burst a blood vessel laughing.
Nakedness isn't necessarily a problem for kids - until it becomes associated with making them perform some kind of sex act.
I'd gladly pull the trigger on scumbags who make children perform sex acts, but I'd like to point out that it's the actual act of MAKING the porn which damages the kids for life, not what happens afterward.
Heh - maybe I was overestimating the thickness (and the weight) 'cause I was wearing "beer goggles" at the time (the waitress was looking pretty damn good too:)
On the other hand, with this paradigm, there is the *risk* that the government starts displacing companies by releasing a free product. On a bigger scale, it would be like the US paying a lump sum for a technology that creates free cars for everyone--sure, this would be pretty cool, until the big 3 go out of business and the economy crashes down behind it.
Dunno if this would be as bad as you make out. Sure, for the short term the companies (and their employees) in direct competition with the "free" products would suffer. But every other company (and citizen) would realize HUGE savings by not having to pay for that particular product, would which allow them to reallocate the resources they normally use for that product to other more useful things. Once the people from the obsolete industry got transitioned, it's just as likely that the overall economy will do better than it was before, as there is that the whole economy will crash.
That would be a legitimate function of a "proactive" government (as much as that concept pisses off the libertarians) - if the government can make the case that in the long-term the society will be better off, but to get there will cause some short-term pain, then it'll be up to the government to do what's best for the society as a whole (versus private enterprises, which will keep doing what's best for themselves).
There's a good argument to be made, however, that you can't throw major transitions like that into the economy too frequently, otherwise no one will be able to adjust quickly enough - and everything WILL truly fall apart.
What's really annoying about _all_ the Star Trek stories-to-date is that they are still revolve around the goody-two-shoes in Starfleet!
The Star Trek universe has a LOT of worlds & people who aren't in Starfleet. It would be interesting to see what kind of stories you could get out of a cast of non-Starfleet characters (maybe a poor merchant ship struggling to make a profit on the boundaries of the Federation, for instance).
Don't forget to include the weight of the mug itself - the last one I got to drink out of had at least 1 inch thick walls on the side, if not 2 on the bottom.
Oh well if you're GERMAN, you've been weight training for that kind of thing since you were allowed to drink - those of us hailing from semi-teetotalling societies start with a big disadvantage!:)
Spoken like somebody who hasn't seen the "jumbo"-sized mugs commonly served at popular "biergartens". They make 64-ounce Big Gulps look like Dixie cups.
When they're full, you need two hands to hold them steady at your mouth. (Of course, the drunker you get, the less you worry about holding things steady...)
From what I remember about a web site describing lava cooling, if you don't have a steam vent the chickens have a nasty habit of exploding (due to steam pressure), which also incidentally splatters the cooling lava around.
Well, the RIAA would probably sue each retailer for breach-of-contract, win lots of money from them & use that money to continue sueing the other retailers until they gave in & did what they had legally agreed to do.
Actually, home video editing is a "legitimate" way of eating up just about any amount of hard drive space you can afford (especially since it takes so many CDs to back up your data, you tend to leave all of your old video files on your hard drive anyway, "just in case".)
I guess that falls under my definition of "selective enforcement" - there are no guarantees that they won't change their mind later & start charging non-zero royalties even for non-commercial use.
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I remember visiting a little church in a little town in the Riviera (France) area during a vacation, and learning that it had existed before the Mayflower had landed.
My USified brain couldn't handle the idea of a building which had been used for the same purpose for that long, and just kind of shut down until we left that town...
On the other hand, the clause that you quoted specifically states that the militia be "well-regulated" - not a free-for-all situation where everyone and their dog can stock up on all the high-powered arms & ammunition they can get their hands on.
I've always wonder what happened to Plans 1 through 8.
Actually, I believe that retroactive contraction of copyright lengths would still be legal - since it is just placing a stricter limit on existing copyrights, which fits into the relevant Constitutional phrasing.
The argument against unlimited retroactive expansion of copyright terms is that there would be no effective "limit" in that situation.
I wouldn't be surprised if the big labels probably have the contracts set up so that their bands aren't legally allowed to collect money for themselves - it has to go through the label's services so that the label can take their cut first.
If that's the case, sending checks directly to the band probably won't help much either, since they would be forced to hand them over to their label anyway.
You can probably find it on a P2P network somewhere :)
The temperature will increase - temporarily. In the unclosed system of a planet, and on astronomic time scales, the concentrated heat energy will eventually dissipate & the entire sample will still end up being as cold as space. That's why an additional energy source such as internal radiation and/or sunlight is required to increase temperatures for longer periods of time.
Sound advice. Using a little common sense before criticising helps too.
Just to be clear on this, global "warming" means that the atmosphere is storing more heat energy. In some places, it means that the air temperature goes up. In other places, it means that the air movement will become more violent. It doesn't mean that you take the temperature all over the globe & increment it a few degrees.
This falls under the description of "indefinite time", not "limited time". Plus the fact that if the fee for renewing the copyright is made small enough by Congress (like $0.01 or even $0.00) then big businesses will be perfectly happy to lock those copyrighted works up, preventing their release to the public domain indefinitely, on the off chance they might use the material "some day" - and even if they don't, they don't want a competitor making any money off of "our property".
From what I remember reading about the aftermath, they determined that if they had recounted just the counties that Gore wanted recounted, then Bush would have still won, but if they had recounted the entire state, then Gore would've won.
Well, by the time you can build 10Ghz chips, your transistors will be so small that you'll be able to fit a LOT of transistors in that 3mm. So I don't think it will be a waste to build a chip like that.
Well, I had a 6-year cousin who thought it was a lot of fun to streak naked through the house while guests were having dinner (I think she liked the looks on people's faces). The only "coercion" going on there was trying to stuff her back into her jumpsuit before the guests burst a blood vessel laughing.
Nakedness isn't necessarily a problem for kids - until it becomes associated with making them perform some kind of sex act.
I'd gladly pull the trigger on scumbags who make children perform sex acts, but I'd like to point out that it's the actual act of MAKING the porn which damages the kids for life, not what happens afterward.
Somebody ought to pass this idea onto Larry Flynt :)
Heh - maybe I was overestimating the thickness (and the weight) 'cause I was wearing "beer goggles" at the time (the waitress was looking pretty damn good too :)
Dunno if this would be as bad as you make out. Sure, for the short term the companies (and their employees) in direct competition with the "free" products would suffer. But every other company (and citizen) would realize HUGE savings by not having to pay for that particular product, would which allow them to reallocate the resources they normally use for that product to other more useful things. Once the people from the obsolete industry got transitioned, it's just as likely that the overall economy will do better than it was before, as there is that the whole economy will crash.
That would be a legitimate function of a "proactive" government (as much as that concept pisses off the libertarians) - if the government can make the case that in the long-term the society will be better off, but to get there will cause some short-term pain, then it'll be up to the government to do what's best for the society as a whole (versus private enterprises, which will keep doing what's best for themselves).
There's a good argument to be made, however, that you can't throw major transitions like that into the economy too frequently, otherwise no one will be able to adjust quickly enough - and everything WILL truly fall apart.
What's really annoying about _all_ the Star Trek stories-to-date is that they are still revolve around the goody-two-shoes in Starfleet!
The Star Trek universe has a LOT of worlds & people who aren't in Starfleet. It would be interesting to see what kind of stories you could get out of a cast of non-Starfleet characters (maybe a poor merchant ship struggling to make a profit on the boundaries of the Federation, for instance).
Don't forget to include the weight of the mug itself - the last one I got to drink out of had at least 1 inch thick walls on the side, if not 2 on the bottom.
Oh well if you're GERMAN, you've been weight training for that kind of thing since you were allowed to drink - those of us hailing from semi-teetotalling societies start with a big disadvantage! :)
Spoken like somebody who hasn't seen the "jumbo"-sized mugs commonly served at popular "biergartens". They make 64-ounce Big Gulps look like Dixie cups.
When they're full, you need two hands to hold them steady at your mouth. (Of course, the drunker you get, the less you worry about holding things steady...)
From what I remember about a web site describing lava cooling, if you don't have a steam vent the chickens have a nasty habit of exploding (due to steam pressure), which also incidentally splatters the cooling lava around.
I'd stick with the steam vent myself.
Well, the RIAA would probably sue each retailer for breach-of-contract, win lots of money from them & use that money to continue sueing the other retailers until they gave in & did what they had legally agreed to do.
No problem - we've had so many, we can't keep them straight either.
Actually, home video editing is a "legitimate" way of eating up just about any amount of hard drive space you can afford (especially since it takes so many CDs to back up your data, you tend to leave all of your old video files on your hard drive anyway, "just in case".)
I guess that falls under my definition of "selective enforcement" - there are no guarantees that they won't change their mind later & start charging non-zero royalties even for non-commercial use.