Ok, if they win $10,000,000 but everyone only gets $5 minus expenses, then where is the other $5,000,000 going?
I say it stays in the bank for future lawsuits. Then nobody has to donate anything else. When the RIAA finally gives up and stops suing, all the monies collected from them that are left over after paying lawyers get evenly divided between all the people who donated the $$$ in the first place. We could say $10,000 goes to each of the people sued who took the initiative and weren't afraid to stand up.
Sounds like a great idea. How could we go about setting this up?
Most 3rd world countries' rulers would not buy these for their population, I'm guessing. Or even 2nd and 1st. Think of China. Think of how easy this would make it for the people to overthrow the government. Do the rulers there want even the hint of a possibility for an opening to maybe create an uprising that could potentially overthrow the government or reform the social structure? Of course not. I see this as a great initiative, but I simply don't see people thinking here. MOST of the rulers up top will NOT want their people becoming more educated. Goodness knows, if that happened, they might lose their power. They might be ousted and democracy established in their place. We can't have that happen, now can we? If these countries wanted their civilizations to become more educated, they would have found ways. $100 for chickens, rice and other plantable foods, and books (encyclopedia?) would be a much more effective way to educate the masses. Then the country would have an economy ready to be educated. Laptops could educate, but they wouldn't feed the people. Books and food would, however; and my guess is if the rulers wanted this to happen it would have. A country could announce their own initiative like this one, with the plans of feeding AND educating (feeding only if education increases?), and get plenty of funding, methinks. Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think if the countries wanted reform, they'd have done it.
On the compelete other side of things, we have way too many problems here to worry about other countries. We need to get these into the hands of people HERE who can have a direct, positive inpact on our economy. Am I the only one that thinks our country will be a 2nd or 3rd world one in 75 years? The people working to get a decent education are not reproducing like we need them to (because their kids will value education higher, like their parents). However the population that isn't going for a college degree is, and at least twice as fast. Not to mention the foreign immigrants. If we don't do something to fix these problems, we won't be able to help these third world countries much longer. If, on the other hand, we concentrate most our effort on all the issues developing here, we can ensure that we are able to help them 75 years down the road. Call me a troll, but helping another country (especially one that hasn't shown any previous initiative to reform their populace) when ours is bleeding is simply foolish.
Most of the terrorists we get now are one shot deals...they pop up out of nowhere without warning. How is this going to protect against them?
Honestly I'm rather a right winged republican, but things like this coupled with seeing the majority of the repub's voting for the PATRIOT act extentio......making me think stuff over again. At least they are dealing with the social security issue in an EFFECTIVE way.
I don't see why we need to have a rock solid defintion. Its not like the cosmic police are going to come get us for not encluding an orbiter in our list of "planets." We could have a hybrid rule. Why not just say it's going to be the domination rule, with a disclaimer that says Pluto is still a planet? Pluto is by far one of the coolest planets. I don't see why we can't keep it.
On the other hand, the excitement of learning a new acronym for 20 something planets would be much more fun. Imagine if we could say our solar system had 25 planets? How cool would that be? A lot cooler than 15 or however many there are.
Carbon nanotubes self collapse after about 60 some miles, as opposed to Iron's 2. When I say this I mean that the very best structure we could come up with would collapse if we built more than 60 miles of carbon nanotubes vertically.
Another problem is that our current refinement process for carbon nanotubes is anything from controlled. The space elevator idea will become feasable only when we can allign all the nanotubes in one direction and make them much longer (say 2-5 inches) than they currently are (fractions of an inch)
If you take that section in context instead of just reading it itself, you would find that the problem was not that they built a tower, but their motives for building it. They wanted to get closer to God. Theres nothing wrong with that except for when you do it outside of how he tells us to. He didn't tell us to build a tower to him to get to him, he told us to let him come to us. He was disgusted with the Babylonians because of their pride, not because of their tower building prowess.
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Putting masking tape on top of one - four of your cats paws.
At 3-4 my cat can't decide for a long enough time which paw to deal with first....so none of them get fixed, he just keeps changing paws. Funniest thing in the world.
We better find a way to secure our computers without Bill's help. Otherwise he has a major reason for why we "need" the NGSCB....even though it would most likely be used to accomplish other things.
I don't have a problem with the store clerk monitoring what brands I check out, spend time at; what isle's I spend most of my time in. The reason that I don't care is because I can check out the store clerk, find out what he's doing, where he's spending his time, when he's watching me.
Not so with web admins. Don't know what they're doing, where they're looking, when they're watching. The argument isn't "Why do you, the user, not want them, the admins, to know this stuff [through cookies]?" It's "Why do they have a right to obtain that information from me? Why should they have that priviledge?" When its something to do with me, assuming they have the right and then asking why I don't want that is nonsense. I have the right to tell them I don't want them monitoring me, they need to provide me with an adequate reason and option for why they deserve that info.
I don't care if its going to make my browsing experience better, they can collect that from those who don't care about their privacy.
Sure its nit picking now, but it can only get worse as corporations seek more control...and this is one of the ways they do it.
I don't see any reason to even allow them that liberty, since that liberty won't directly benefit me in a way I care about and it can only, from my perspective, become a control mechanism.
a result of looking what this could turn in to. Sure, most of us might not ever be in a riot, but I can easily see myself being involved in a peaceful protest (in the future) where our government has simply gone too far in taking our rights away. Then, while the protest is entirely peaceful, there are so many of us that the authorities simply stop caring, or even worse, plan to ignore the masses. Weapons like these make it all the more difficult for us to overthrow the governing body, should the majority find it inadequate and not sufficiently capable of fair ruling.
Its getting easier and easier for the gov't to supress, rather than acknowledge, the problem at hand, whatever it be; and we are the ones giving ground.
Don't get me wrong, I think stopping violent riots is a good thing. Using this would most likely save more lives than it would take; however this is teatering on the "cruel and unusual" line. I know thats for punishment, but I think the idea ought still apply for contol of the masses. Inducing nausea is simply not humane. Nor is making a person's skin feel like it's on fire. Each law inforcement officer should be subjected to the effects of each weapon they will be using before they are given conrol....say 5 seconds....enough to keep in mind the power they are wielding. Pay them a bit more, I don't care; just make sure they are as sparing as possible in the "non-lethal" weapon's use.
Everybody's fussing about "poorly simulated sex", but thats exactly the point. If gamers found out that it invovled anything but lying on eachother and moving in repetitive patterns, all of them would desert their consoles in search of some. We can't have the gaming industry fail now, can we?
Or wait, thats why it was invented, we never did get any.
task manager takes about 5 (all the time), explorer does about 5 as well (half the time). Azureus and Firefox take some. I usually have about 5 tabs open and am seeding stuff. I just checked and my idle is actually about 20%. I've got an AXP Barton 2500+, too.
Technically, since this is Windows XP we are talking about (thus 10% processor usage in idle), and its running on a Pentium 4, then it IS running at "blazing" speeds.
I don't see why its the hacker's fault for exploiting software....of course they did it, but if the code had been better written they wouldn't even have been able to hack.
Given all the silly court cases for people spilling McD coffee on themselves, I'm sure somebody could make a case that if M$ or said coding company had made a better product, he wouldn't have hacked it.
If talks of the penalty being death for hacking are underway, there should be an equal penalty for having poor quality software that is closed. That should be the price for going proprietary.
Despite all this, the only value we should put on human life is human life....in other words, the death penalty should only come to those who killed another (or maybe rape too). (On a side note with the death penalty, if everyone got the death penalty that murdered someone else, there'd be a lot less murdering as people would know they couldn't get away with it. Having inconsistent authority never gets the job done.)
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I say it stays in the bank for future lawsuits. Then nobody has to donate anything else. When the RIAA finally gives up and stops suing, all the monies collected from them that are left over after paying lawyers get evenly divided between all the people who donated the $$$ in the first place. We could say $10,000 goes to each of the people sued who took the initiative and weren't afraid to stand up.
Sounds like a great idea. How could we go about setting this up?
Most 3rd world countries' rulers would not buy these for their population, I'm guessing. Or even 2nd and 1st. Think of China. Think of how easy this would make it for the people to overthrow the government. Do the rulers there want even the hint of a possibility for an opening to maybe create an uprising that could potentially overthrow the government or reform the social structure? Of course not. I see this as a great initiative, but I simply don't see people thinking here. MOST of the rulers up top will NOT want their people becoming more educated. Goodness knows, if that happened, they might lose their power. They might be ousted and democracy established in their place. We can't have that happen, now can we? If these countries wanted their civilizations to become more educated, they would have found ways. $100 for chickens, rice and other plantable foods, and books (encyclopedia?) would be a much more effective way to educate the masses. Then the country would have an economy ready to be educated. Laptops could educate, but they wouldn't feed the people. Books and food would, however; and my guess is if the rulers wanted this to happen it would have. A country could announce their own initiative like this one, with the plans of feeding AND educating (feeding only if education increases?), and get plenty of funding, methinks. Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think if the countries wanted reform, they'd have done it.
On the compelete other side of things, we have way too many problems here to worry about other countries. We need to get these into the hands of people HERE who can have a direct, positive inpact on our economy. Am I the only one that thinks our country will be a 2nd or 3rd world one in 75 years? The people working to get a decent education are not reproducing like we need them to (because their kids will value education higher, like their parents). However the population that isn't going for a college degree is, and at least twice as fast. Not to mention the foreign immigrants. If we don't do something to fix these problems, we won't be able to help these third world countries much longer. If, on the other hand, we concentrate most our effort on all the issues developing here, we can ensure that we are able to help them 75 years down the road. Call me a troll, but helping another country (especially one that hasn't shown any previous initiative to reform their populace) when ours is bleeding is simply foolish.
Most of the terrorists we get now are one shot deals...they pop up out of nowhere without warning. How is this going to protect against them?
Honestly I'm rather a right winged republican, but things like this coupled with seeing the majority of the repub's voting for the PATRIOT act extentio......making me think stuff over again. At least they are dealing with the social security issue in an EFFECTIVE way.
I don't see why we need to have a rock solid defintion. Its not like the cosmic police are going to come get us for not encluding an orbiter in our list of "planets." We could have a hybrid rule. Why not just say it's going to be the domination rule, with a disclaimer that says Pluto is still a planet? Pluto is by far one of the coolest planets. I don't see why we can't keep it.
On the other hand, the excitement of learning a new acronym for 20 something planets would be much more fun. Imagine if we could say our solar system had 25 planets? How cool would that be? A lot cooler than 15 or however many there are.
Whats wrong with the current design?
In that case the max length would be 120 miles.
Carbon nanotubes self collapse after about 60 some miles, as opposed to Iron's 2. When I say this I mean that the very best structure we could come up with would collapse if we built more than 60 miles of carbon nanotubes vertically.
Another problem is that our current refinement process for carbon nanotubes is anything from controlled. The space elevator idea will become feasable only when we can allign all the nanotubes in one direction and make them much longer (say 2-5 inches) than they currently are (fractions of an inch)
If you take that section in context instead of just reading it itself, you would find that the problem was not that they built a tower, but their motives for building it. They wanted to get closer to God. Theres nothing wrong with that except for when you do it outside of how he tells us to. He didn't tell us to build a tower to him to get to him, he told us to let him come to us. He was disgusted with the Babylonians because of their pride, not because of their tower building prowess.
Putting masking tape on top of one - four of your cats paws.
At 3-4 my cat can't decide for a long enough time which paw to deal with first....so none of them get fixed, he just keeps changing paws. Funniest thing in the world.
We better find a way to secure our computers without Bill's help. Otherwise he has a major reason for why we "need" the NGSCB....even though it would most likely be used to accomplish other things.
So this isn't exactly google chat, the AIM killer. Don't see any reason to bother with this.
Funny how they call it "debris"...instead of saying "part of the shuttle fell off and we don't know if these parts have hit and damaged other areas."
Is it just me or does anyone else think a team of 10 working on the next version of Windows would be further along than this?
We all know this error and the general out-of-date-ness of these photos are clever features, not bugs, in MSN Earth.
yet another "feature" that didn't make it to the release schedule.....thats just too bad, no?
I don't have a problem with the store clerk monitoring what brands I check out, spend time at; what isle's I spend most of my time in. The reason that I don't care is because I can check out the store clerk, find out what he's doing, where he's spending his time, when he's watching me.
Not so with web admins. Don't know what they're doing, where they're looking, when they're watching. The argument isn't "Why do you, the user, not want them, the admins, to know this stuff [through cookies]?" It's "Why do they have a right to obtain that information from me? Why should they have that priviledge?" When its something to do with me, assuming they have the right and then asking why I don't want that is nonsense. I have the right to tell them I don't want them monitoring me, they need to provide me with an adequate reason and option for why they deserve that info.
I don't care if its going to make my browsing experience better, they can collect that from those who don't care about their privacy.
Sure its nit picking now, but it can only get worse as corporations seek more control...and this is one of the ways they do it.
I don't see any reason to even allow them that liberty, since that liberty won't directly benefit me in a way I care about and it can only, from my perspective, become a control mechanism.
I don't know how they should fix it, but its like opium and any other drug.....completely removes the desire to work or do anything else.
I've seen too many people waste hundreds and hundreds of hours on it....neglecting other, more important things. I'm not even going to touch it.
a result of looking what this could turn in to. Sure, most of us might not ever be in a riot, but I can easily see myself being involved in a peaceful protest (in the future) where our government has simply gone too far in taking our rights away. Then, while the protest is entirely peaceful, there are so many of us that the authorities simply stop caring, or even worse, plan to ignore the masses. Weapons like these make it all the more difficult for us to overthrow the governing body, should the majority find it inadequate and not sufficiently capable of fair ruling.
Its getting easier and easier for the gov't to supress, rather than acknowledge, the problem at hand, whatever it be; and we are the ones giving ground.
Don't get me wrong, I think stopping violent riots is a good thing. Using this would most likely save more lives than it would take; however this is teatering on the "cruel and unusual" line. I know thats for punishment, but I think the idea ought still apply for contol of the masses. Inducing nausea is simply not humane. Nor is making a person's skin feel like it's on fire. Each law inforcement officer should be subjected to the effects of each weapon they will be using before they are given conrol....say 5 seconds....enough to keep in mind the power they are wielding. Pay them a bit more, I don't care; just make sure they are as sparing as possible in the "non-lethal" weapon's use.
Next article: Bill Gates is still at Microsoft! Imagine the press that'll get!
Then we'd all be able to get something done. If we actually had a machine that allowed us to be productive..........
Everybody's fussing about "poorly simulated sex", but thats exactly the point. If gamers found out that it invovled anything but lying on eachother and moving in repetitive patterns, all of them would desert their consoles in search of some. We can't have the gaming industry fail now, can we? Or wait, thats why it was invented, we never did get any.
Watching the Java stuff going for a while, it never goes above 2%. I didn't mean it when I said that Windows idles at 10%, but I really think it does.
task manager takes about 5 (all the time), explorer does about 5 as well (half the time). Azureus and Firefox take some. I usually have about 5 tabs open and am seeding stuff. I just checked and my idle is actually about 20%. I've got an AXP Barton 2500+, too.
Technically, since this is Windows XP we are talking about (thus 10% processor usage in idle), and its running on a Pentium 4, then it IS running at "blazing" speeds.
Better put out that fire.
I don't see why its the hacker's fault for exploiting software....of course they did it, but if the code had been better written they wouldn't even have been able to hack.
Given all the silly court cases for people spilling McD coffee on themselves, I'm sure somebody could make a case that if M$ or said coding company had made a better product, he wouldn't have hacked it.
If talks of the penalty being death for hacking are underway, there should be an equal penalty for having poor quality software that is closed. That should be the price for going proprietary.
Despite all this, the only value we should put on human life is human life....in other words, the death penalty should only come to those who killed another (or maybe rape too). (On a side note with the death penalty, if everyone got the death penalty that murdered someone else, there'd be a lot less murdering as people would know they couldn't get away with it. Having inconsistent authority never gets the job done.)