While the OP incorrectly calls on Darwin to make his point, there is a subtle wider issue that is not getting the same attention.
What does it mean to be disabled?
This may just be my own prejudice creeping out but I have a.... acquaintance who gets government assistance because of her obesity. She also gets government assistance because she's a single mother, jobless, and whatnot, but best of all do you know what her 1 year old baby's favourite meal is? KFC Chicken Nuggets. But that's not my biggest gripe. My biggest gripe is that she also has a disabled parking permit and again gets another government check for a disease that some people think doesn't really exists and is all in the patients head. Naturally doctors are reluctant to diagnose this "disease" and 10 different doctors told her she's as healthy as a grossly overweight person can get. Doctor 11 caved and now she gets to park her perfectly abled body in a disabled carpark and spend my tax dollars on more Macdonalds.
Another thing unrelated to disabled people, why do shopping centres reserve spots right next to disabled people for parents with prams? If a mother can spend 3 hours pushing a pram through the shopping centre she can spend the extra 1 minute pushing it to her car. In this country though the parents with prams reservation isn't legally enforceable.
The OP may have originally invoked Darwin in a way that offends, but as a society on the whole we are being coddled.
Just because a few fatties may or may not be exploiting a system designed to help people with a genuine need doesn't mean it's a completed screwed up system. If she really is exploiting the system then problem is the 11th doctor (and 12th, 13th etc she would have eventually found if the 11th hadn't played ball), not the existence of disabled parking spots. I think you're venting your frustration at the wrong target here.
now with there was 1 common tag that was easy to get in all citys and was easy to use in rented cars then that's ok but to say some from a city with out a electronic tag is parking improperly is not a good idea. Why should some have to go out of there way just to visit a different city?
It's a means to identify someone who may be parked there illegally. If the traffic cop comes by and see's a legitimate non-electronic tag i doubt he/she is going to write a ticket.
It's only going to become a problem in phase 2 when sharp spikes leap out of the ground and puncture the tyres of cars without an electronic tag.
Didn't that just stop him getting identified? They could still clamp his wheels.
A few anonymous calls to the police like "I saw some guys of middle eastern appearance get out of this car, unscrew the number plates, and drive off really fast in another car" would take care of the problem pretty quickly.
Yup. I said it. Mod me down because it violates your PC ethics.
But seriously, survival of the fittest. Those who cannot walk 50 feet should not be coddled. Half the time it is some overweight heifer who won't take care of herself. The other half it is just someone who survived to 70. But the bottom line is that I am a Darwinist and don't see why we make life easier for those who can't take care of themselves.
Either be in shape or be part of a family network that will take care of you. If you can't do either, then don't go shopping. Simple as that. Survival of the fittest got us where we are today. Quit fucking with evolution.
On the one hand I admire your willingness to admit an opinion (or I would if you put your name to it) that I suspect a lot of able bodied people keep to themselves, but I bet you'd feel different if you or someone you cared about suddenly developed some disease that greatly reduced your mobility.
And even if Darwin was wanting to help evolution along, even he would be smart enough to know that letting a few arthritic 70 year olds die isn't going to make even the tiniest bit of difference to the process. If you want to help evolution along, maybe you should campaign for preventing people with inheritable diseases from passing those diseases on to their kids (either by genetic pre-testing or just stopping them having kids). The truth is that most disabled people aren't disabled because of some genetic trait, but because of some other unfortunate incident along the way.
So maybe keep your unfortunate prejudices to yourself or at least stop pretending that you have evolution on your side.
How many times do we have to keep telling you morons?
COPYING IS NOT STEALING!!!!!
Whether you think copying something should be illegal or not (it shouldn't), it's impossible for copying to be stealing. The original owner is deprived of NOTHING when a copy is made.
This is a view shared by lots of people who have never worked hard to create something that others then took for themselves.
The only counter-argument i've seen to this is "but the record industry already makes billions of dollars" but that's a deeply flawed argument if you examine it closely enough. They make money because some people are willing to pay for the work of others. If we all shared your view then nobody would pay for anything and the whole thing would just fall to pieces.
If you take a copy of my work without paying the value I am asking for it then you deprive me of the motivation to produce further work because i'll need to find another way to feed my family. If it's worth copying then it's worth paying for. And if you think it's not worth paying for then don't copy it. Your life isn't going to fall to pieces just because you can't copy my software (or the latest teen popstar's record if that's your thing).
1) The power wouldn't even _get_ to your house without being wasted on the way if it were DC
I thought the advantage of AC was that you could use a simple transformer to step up the voltage along the way to counteract the drop, not that AC is somehow magically immune to voltage drop. AC leaks electromagnetic radiation too. There isn't an efficient way to step up DC, so AC is still the best for this purpose.
You mean, my light bulbs composed of LEDs? Yes, they're DC.
Hmmm... a single LED is a DC device, but if you used a transformer (a highly efficient device btw) to drop the voltage to a reasonable level and arranged the LED's with opposite polarity, the circuit could run off AC just fine. Each LED would flicker at 1/2 the line frequency which may or may not be a problem (i hate the flicker of old style flouro's so I'm guessing it would be a problem), but you might be able to put some capacitors in there to smooth things out, but i'm too tired to visualise it properly for some reason.
And keeping me between lines when the road ignores the lines -- construction zones, test paint strips, icons, etc. -- is a terrible idea.
What part of your brain stops you thinking that they've already considered this???
but more than anything else, why should I avoid driving drowsy when my car can help me out? you'll get more drowsy drivers, and more drunk drivers, than ever before.
Because you're a sensible and responsible driver? Other people aren't, but I doubt they are going to be any less responsible just because a car exists with this feature. And i'd prefer that other people have cars with this feature because they are less likely to drift across the road and suddenly be driving the wrong way in my lane.
you'll also have a whole host of drivers blaming a crash on this feature, whether or not it's true.
And this is new how? People will try and blame everything else first before accepting responsibility themselves. This is just one more thing to blame it on, but that's not a particularly big deal.
you've just taken both responsibilty and accountability away from the driver, and put it into something that can't be held accountable, and doesn't have a drivers licence. congrats.
As long as it saves more people than it kills, and i'm pretty sure it will by a large amount, then what is your problem?
but hey, here's the truth. this is EXACTLY like letting your 8-year old child steer from the passenger seat, while on a long highway drive. it's very dangerous and very illegal. not because your child can't stay between the lines. because the driver is the driver.
I'm all for car analogies, but that one is stupid.
I think many people would prefer for cars to be less automatic and give them more control
Sure they would, but people are idiots. Almost everyone I know has nodded off at the wheel at least once in their life, a few have even left the road because of it. This feature is going to save lives and not just the lives of the people falling asleep (although I suspect most people falling asleep at the wheel in Australia end up hitting trees but there are still their passengers to consider).
What you need is an override switch to allow the driver to turn off this feature (like they can also turn off the stability control features etc) and ensure that a judge can use that information when sentencing - "Not only did you fall asleep at the wheel, but you disabled the one feature that would have saved the lives of that family you killed.".
I've wondered about this... i'm sure they have a solution but i'd like to know more about it.
The one that bugs me is where they've altered the road and painted over the old lines in black paint and painted on new lines. Under some circumstances (wet road and low sun) the paint on the old lines becomes quite reflective because it's smooth (new paint on old paint makes it more level) and makes the old lines look white while the new lines are almost invisible.
I guess that's a corner case though... the computer should be smart enough to know that if it isn't sure about it to just do nothing.
It will not end until we literally take a stand against stupidity- draw a line in the sand, and say "If you can't comprehend this stuff, you don't deserve to use it"
I see this attitude more and more. I wonder if people had to put up with the same elitist bullshit after the car become affordable to masses... or even the printed book. You might know how to use a computer but I wonder if you'd know how a transistor works and how to build one, or what an IRQL is, or a DPC. And even if you do, there will be someone else that knows more than you who will look down their nose at you and tell you you have no right to use a computer without understanding how it works.
WPS isn't that bad an idea really... it just turns out it has a bug, and unfortunately that bug is going to be unfixable in a lot of cases (end-of-life model AP with no firmware update available)... hopefully those AP's at least have a way to turn it off. If you are pointing the finger of blame at anyone, point it at the people who implemented it - they're the ones who screwed up.
If i'm feeding the trolls... i might as well give them a good meal.
Seriously, what non-malicious purpose would this tool have? Anybody who read about the vulnerability knows how it works; there is no need to have a sample attack because it is obvious how this works; having an exploit tool cannot have any legitimate uses.
Sure it does. If a customer questions why this should be audited and fixed on their network immediately I can tell them that there is exploit code publicly available that anyone can download and use and have access to the network in 4-10 hours instead of talking about theoretical bad guys who might have obtained a theoretical exploit from somewhere. It makes it a "fix this now" problem with a known risk instead of being put off and treated as a low risk security issue and never fixed. In my case hopefully it's just a quick audit to make sure nobody else has put a WPS enabled AP onto the network, but it still needs to be done.
Maybe you don't remember Slammer/Nimda/Code Red, and a few others of that era. The exploits used were well known and patches were available for a while beforehand but a lot of people never bothered patching because of the perceived low risk and "doesn't apply to me". Ditto for a few Linux ssh and ftp exploits.
However, gets this Job needs to change the voice to glaDOS!!!!!!
I'd settle for a patch to the speech system that ends each sentence with "puny human".
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They won't have sentiment or 'feelings'. They'll fight to save our lives and won't be burdened with any negatives, such as ethics or morals... as long as our credit is good.
I was going to post about android doctors and software bugs causing them to remove the wrong extremity or something... but human doctors do that often enough that android doctors couldn't really be any worse... so bring it on I guess.
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Now I've never understood that. What happened to "God's will be done"?
That's always bugged me too. I heard a joke once that best describes that attitude...
A man has slipped and fallen halfway down a cliff by the sea and the old branch he is hanging on to is the only thing preventing him from falling to his death. He prays to God for help. A helicopter comes along and the pilot calls out "I'll lower a rope down, grab hold of it and i'll save you". The man says "No thankyou. I'm a man of faith, God will save me", so the helicopter flies away. A boat comes along, and the captain calls out "Push off from the cliff and fall into the water, i'll save you". The man says "No thankyou. I'm a man of faith, God will save me", so the boat leaves. A hiker walking across the top of the cliff calls down to him "I'm a professional abseiler, i'll come down and rescue you.". The man says "No thankyou. I'm a man of faith, God will save me", so the hiker leaves. A few hours later the man becomes tired and falls to his death. He ascends to heaven and meets God, and expresses his disappointment that God had not saved him. God says "I don't understand what happened... I sent a helicopter, a boat, and a professional abseiler..."
It seems to me that in a lot of cases God gets used as an excuse to justify people doing what they were going to do anyway...
In response, GoDaddy will now have various pictures of Danica Patrick at the top of all of their site's pages, urgently pleading people to register domains with them.
The caption would be:
If everyone reading this registered 5 domains with us, we could end the internet today. Please read a personal appeal. Please help.
OTOH, if everyone donated $5 to Danica Patrick she could end her contract with GoDaddy today and they'd have nothing of value left.
One problem is big ass North Americans taking too much food and space.
That's the problem??? If there were less people on the planet we'd all be able to take up more food and space... seems like the problem is too many people. To take your argument to the ridiculous, if we all lived in 2m x 1m x 1m (taller people would need to bend their knees) boxes being fed nutrients intravenously there would be room for 5 x 10^14 people (assuming the boxes could float on the ocean), and that's only if we stack them 1 box deep. That doesn't mean those people would have a happy existence.
Sounds like generic terms that won't actually be used by a good registrar for anything other than domains used for illegal purposes. Domains used for child pornography sites, for example.
I don't buy that. I want a registrar that will only delete a domain when ordered to do so by a court. That "sole discretion" clause sounds like a bad idea.
Same here, although I transferred my domain about 2 weeks before i'd heard anything about SOPA. The process was simple and trouble free.
A competitor publishing statements to the effect that "GoDaddy is deliberately disrupting the domain transfer process" without hard proof is the sort of thing that gets a lawsuit pointed in their direction. A bunch of transfer requests with missing information is not "hard proof" in itself, you'd have to show deliberate intent. And there is precedent for companies who have lost their core business that suddenly decide to make money by suing others (where is SCO these days?). I'm not saying the accusation isn't true, just that they'd better have some evidence to back up their claims...
why would you assume because I use mythtv I have everything in one box? huh? I have part of my mythtv stuff on a NAS. Like I said, Mythtv rocks.
Yeah I probably shouldn't post late at night. I meant that as an advantage of MythTV as opposed to the OP who has run out of space on his media centre and doesn't know what to do.
There are plenty of nuclear waste disposal options that are cheap, reliable and safe. They are just politically problematic.
The easiest would be to just put it in boxes and throw it down the Mariana Trench. There is no possibility of anyone getting it back, and if it ever comes back up naturally it'll be long after safe decay.
I heard there's also hope that it will slide under the top plate into the core. I can't think of a safer way of getting rid of it except maybe shooting it into the sun... and then only if we don't get the Russian's to do it:)
The problem is political: Throwing nuclear waste in the ocean violates international law, and for some reason no politician wants to start the process of changing that.
"Good morning senators and congressmen. Our pre-sitting movie today is Godzilla. Then we'll get right onto voting on the 'throw the nuclear waste into the ocean' bill"
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Traffic cop? you say that like you don't know New Zealand councils hire private companies to patrol the streets handing out tickets for commission.
As long as they catch the people overstaying their time in a parking spot so I can find somewhere to park I don't really care about the semantics.
While the OP incorrectly calls on Darwin to make his point, there is a subtle wider issue that is not getting the same attention.
What does it mean to be disabled?
This may just be my own prejudice creeping out but I have a .... acquaintance who gets government assistance because of her obesity. She also gets government assistance because she's a single mother, jobless, and whatnot, but best of all do you know what her 1 year old baby's favourite meal is? KFC Chicken Nuggets. But that's not my biggest gripe. My biggest gripe is that she also has a disabled parking permit and again gets another government check for a disease that some people think doesn't really exists and is all in the patients head. Naturally doctors are reluctant to diagnose this "disease" and 10 different doctors told her she's as healthy as a grossly overweight person can get. Doctor 11 caved and now she gets to park her perfectly abled body in a disabled carpark and spend my tax dollars on more Macdonalds.
Another thing unrelated to disabled people, why do shopping centres reserve spots right next to disabled people for parents with prams? If a mother can spend 3 hours pushing a pram through the shopping centre she can spend the extra 1 minute pushing it to her car. In this country though the parents with prams reservation isn't legally enforceable.
The OP may have originally invoked Darwin in a way that offends, but as a society on the whole we are being coddled.
Just because a few fatties may or may not be exploiting a system designed to help people with a genuine need doesn't mean it's a completed screwed up system. If she really is exploiting the system then problem is the 11th doctor (and 12th, 13th etc she would have eventually found if the 11th hadn't played ball), not the existence of disabled parking spots. I think you're venting your frustration at the wrong target here.
So you would get fired from apple over a parking spot?
Having "Got Steve Jobs car impounded" would go down quite well on a resume at a few potential employers I think :)
now with there was 1 common tag that was easy to get in all citys and was easy to use in rented cars then that's ok but to say some from a city with out a electronic tag is parking improperly is not a good idea. Why should some have to go out of there way just to visit a different city?
It's a means to identify someone who may be parked there illegally. If the traffic cop comes by and see's a legitimate non-electronic tag i doubt he/she is going to write a ticket.
It's only going to become a problem in phase 2 when sharp spikes leap out of the ground and puncture the tyres of cars without an electronic tag.
Didn't that just stop him getting identified? They could still clamp his wheels.
A few anonymous calls to the police like "I saw some guys of middle eastern appearance get out of this car, unscrew the number plates, and drive off really fast in another car" would take care of the problem pretty quickly.
Yup. I said it. Mod me down because it violates your PC ethics.
But seriously, survival of the fittest. Those who cannot walk 50 feet should not be coddled. Half the time it is some overweight heifer who won't take care of herself. The other half it is just someone who survived to 70. But the bottom line is that I am a Darwinist and don't see why we make life easier for those who can't take care of themselves.
Either be in shape or be part of a family network that will take care of you. If you can't do either, then don't go shopping. Simple as that. Survival of the fittest got us where we are today. Quit fucking with evolution.
On the one hand I admire your willingness to admit an opinion (or I would if you put your name to it) that I suspect a lot of able bodied people keep to themselves, but I bet you'd feel different if you or someone you cared about suddenly developed some disease that greatly reduced your mobility.
And even if Darwin was wanting to help evolution along, even he would be smart enough to know that letting a few arthritic 70 year olds die isn't going to make even the tiniest bit of difference to the process. If you want to help evolution along, maybe you should campaign for preventing people with inheritable diseases from passing those diseases on to their kids (either by genetic pre-testing or just stopping them having kids). The truth is that most disabled people aren't disabled because of some genetic trait, but because of some other unfortunate incident along the way.
So maybe keep your unfortunate prejudices to yourself or at least stop pretending that you have evolution on your side.
How many times do we have to keep telling you morons?
COPYING IS NOT STEALING!!!!!
Whether you think copying something should be illegal or not (it shouldn't), it's impossible for copying to be stealing. The original owner is deprived of NOTHING when a copy is made.
This is a view shared by lots of people who have never worked hard to create something that others then took for themselves.
The only counter-argument i've seen to this is "but the record industry already makes billions of dollars" but that's a deeply flawed argument if you examine it closely enough. They make money because some people are willing to pay for the work of others. If we all shared your view then nobody would pay for anything and the whole thing would just fall to pieces.
If you take a copy of my work without paying the value I am asking for it then you deprive me of the motivation to produce further work because i'll need to find another way to feed my family. If it's worth copying then it's worth paying for. And if you think it's not worth paying for then don't copy it. Your life isn't going to fall to pieces just because you can't copy my software (or the latest teen popstar's record if that's your thing).
1) The power wouldn't even _get_ to your house without being wasted on the way if it were DC
I thought the advantage of AC was that you could use a simple transformer to step up the voltage along the way to counteract the drop, not that AC is somehow magically immune to voltage drop. AC leaks electromagnetic radiation too. There isn't an efficient way to step up DC, so AC is still the best for this purpose.
You mean, my light bulbs composed of LEDs? Yes, they're DC.
Hmmm... a single LED is a DC device, but if you used a transformer (a highly efficient device btw) to drop the voltage to a reasonable level and arranged the LED's with opposite polarity, the circuit could run off AC just fine. Each LED would flicker at 1/2 the line frequency which may or may not be a problem (i hate the flicker of old style flouro's so I'm guessing it would be a problem), but you might be able to put some capacitors in there to smooth things out, but i'm too tired to visualise it properly for some reason.
Or maybe this is what they do already.
And keeping me between lines when the road ignores the lines -- construction zones, test paint strips, icons, etc. -- is a terrible idea.
What part of your brain stops you thinking that they've already considered this???
but more than anything else, why should I avoid driving drowsy when my car can help me out? you'll get more drowsy drivers, and more drunk drivers, than ever before.
Because you're a sensible and responsible driver? Other people aren't, but I doubt they are going to be any less responsible just because a car exists with this feature. And i'd prefer that other people have cars with this feature because they are less likely to drift across the road and suddenly be driving the wrong way in my lane.
you'll also have a whole host of drivers blaming a crash on this feature, whether or not it's true.
And this is new how? People will try and blame everything else first before accepting responsibility themselves. This is just one more thing to blame it on, but that's not a particularly big deal.
you've just taken both responsibilty and accountability away from the driver, and put it into something that can't be held accountable, and doesn't have a drivers licence. congrats.
As long as it saves more people than it kills, and i'm pretty sure it will by a large amount, then what is your problem?
but hey, here's the truth. this is EXACTLY like letting your 8-year old child steer from the passenger seat, while on a long highway drive. it's very dangerous and very illegal. not because your child can't stay between the lines. because the driver is the driver.
I'm all for car analogies, but that one is stupid.
I think many people would prefer for cars to be less automatic and give them more control
Sure they would, but people are idiots. Almost everyone I know has nodded off at the wheel at least once in their life, a few have even left the road because of it. This feature is going to save lives and not just the lives of the people falling asleep (although I suspect most people falling asleep at the wheel in Australia end up hitting trees but there are still their passengers to consider).
What you need is an override switch to allow the driver to turn off this feature (like they can also turn off the stability control features etc) and ensure that a judge can use that information when sentencing - "Not only did you fall asleep at the wheel, but you disabled the one feature that would have saved the lives of that family you killed.".
You have to concede though, getting rammed from behind would wake them up.
I've wondered about this... i'm sure they have a solution but i'd like to know more about it.
The one that bugs me is where they've altered the road and painted over the old lines in black paint and painted on new lines. Under some circumstances (wet road and low sun) the paint on the old lines becomes quite reflective because it's smooth (new paint on old paint makes it more level) and makes the old lines look white while the new lines are almost invisible.
I guess that's a corner case though... the computer should be smart enough to know that if it isn't sure about it to just do nothing.
It will not end until we literally take a stand against stupidity- draw a line in the sand, and say "If you can't comprehend this stuff, you don't deserve to use it"
I see this attitude more and more. I wonder if people had to put up with the same elitist bullshit after the car become affordable to masses... or even the printed book. You might know how to use a computer but I wonder if you'd know how a transistor works and how to build one, or what an IRQL is, or a DPC. And even if you do, there will be someone else that knows more than you who will look down their nose at you and tell you you have no right to use a computer without understanding how it works.
WPS isn't that bad an idea really... it just turns out it has a bug, and unfortunately that bug is going to be unfixable in a lot of cases (end-of-life model AP with no firmware update available)... hopefully those AP's at least have a way to turn it off. If you are pointing the finger of blame at anyone, point it at the people who implemented it - they're the ones who screwed up.
If i'm feeding the trolls... i might as well give them a good meal.
Seriously, what non-malicious purpose would this tool have? Anybody who read about the vulnerability knows how it works; there is no need to have a sample attack because it is obvious how this works; having an exploit tool cannot have any legitimate uses.
Sure it does. If a customer questions why this should be audited and fixed on their network immediately I can tell them that there is exploit code publicly available that anyone can download and use and have access to the network in 4-10 hours instead of talking about theoretical bad guys who might have obtained a theoretical exploit from somewhere. It makes it a "fix this now" problem with a known risk instead of being put off and treated as a low risk security issue and never fixed. In my case hopefully it's just a quick audit to make sure nobody else has put a WPS enabled AP onto the network, but it still needs to be done.
Maybe you don't remember Slammer/Nimda/Code Red, and a few others of that era. The exploits used were well known and patches were available for a while beforehand but a lot of people never bothered patching because of the perceived low risk and "doesn't apply to me". Ditto for a few Linux ssh and ftp exploits.
However, gets this Job needs to change the voice to glaDOS!!!!!!
I'd settle for a patch to the speech system that ends each sentence with "puny human".
They won't have sentiment or 'feelings'. They'll fight to save our lives and won't be burdened with any negatives, such as ethics or morals ... as long as our credit is good.
I was going to post about android doctors and software bugs causing them to remove the wrong extremity or something... but human doctors do that often enough that android doctors couldn't really be any worse... so bring it on I guess.
Now I've never understood that. What happened to "God's will be done"?
That's always bugged me too. I heard a joke once that best describes that attitude...
A man has slipped and fallen halfway down a cliff by the sea and the old branch he is hanging on to is the only thing preventing him from falling to his death. He prays to God for help. A helicopter comes along and the pilot calls out "I'll lower a rope down, grab hold of it and i'll save you". The man says "No thankyou. I'm a man of faith, God will save me", so the helicopter flies away. A boat comes along, and the captain calls out "Push off from the cliff and fall into the water, i'll save you". The man says "No thankyou. I'm a man of faith, God will save me", so the boat leaves. A hiker walking across the top of the cliff calls down to him "I'm a professional abseiler, i'll come down and rescue you.". The man says "No thankyou. I'm a man of faith, God will save me", so the hiker leaves. A few hours later the man becomes tired and falls to his death. He ascends to heaven and meets God, and expresses his disappointment that God had not saved him. God says "I don't understand what happened... I sent a helicopter, a boat, and a professional abseiler..."
It seems to me that in a lot of cases God gets used as an excuse to justify people doing what they were going to do anyway...
In response, GoDaddy will now have various pictures of Danica Patrick at the top of all of their site's pages, urgently pleading people to register domains with them.
The caption would be:
If everyone reading this registered 5 domains with us, we could end the internet today. Please read a personal appeal. Please help.
OTOH, if everyone donated $5 to Danica Patrick she could end her contract with GoDaddy today and they'd have nothing of value left.
One problem is big ass North Americans taking too much food and space.
That's the problem??? If there were less people on the planet we'd all be able to take up more food and space... seems like the problem is too many people. To take your argument to the ridiculous, if we all lived in 2m x 1m x 1m (taller people would need to bend their knees) boxes being fed nutrients intravenously there would be room for 5 x 10^14 people (assuming the boxes could float on the ocean), and that's only if we stack them 1 box deep. That doesn't mean those people would have a happy existence.
http://true-progress.com/the-earth-can-feed-clothe-and-house-12-billion-people-306.htm
Maybe it could... but just because it could it doesn't mean it's a target we should aim for.
Sounds like generic terms that won't actually be used by a good registrar for anything other than domains used for illegal purposes. Domains used for child pornography sites, for example.
I don't buy that. I want a registrar that will only delete a domain when ordered to do so by a court. That "sole discretion" clause sounds like a bad idea.
Same here, although I transferred my domain about 2 weeks before i'd heard anything about SOPA. The process was simple and trouble free.
A competitor publishing statements to the effect that "GoDaddy is deliberately disrupting the domain transfer process" without hard proof is the sort of thing that gets a lawsuit pointed in their direction. A bunch of transfer requests with missing information is not "hard proof" in itself, you'd have to show deliberate intent. And there is precedent for companies who have lost their core business that suddenly decide to make money by suing others (where is SCO these days?). I'm not saying the accusation isn't true, just that they'd better have some evidence to back up their claims...
why would you assume because I use mythtv I have everything in one box? huh?
I have part of my mythtv stuff on a NAS.
Like I said, Mythtv rocks.
Yeah I probably shouldn't post late at night. I meant that as an advantage of MythTV as opposed to the OP who has run out of space on his media centre and doesn't know what to do.
As for the archiving, I archive because I do not know if I am able to download the same movie in the future.
Ah. I made the flawed assumption that people would actually own the shows/movies they were watching and could just re-load from the original DVD.
There are plenty of nuclear waste disposal options that are cheap, reliable and safe. They are just politically problematic.
The easiest would be to just put it in boxes and throw it down the Mariana Trench. There is no possibility of anyone getting it back, and if it ever comes back up naturally it'll be long after safe decay.
I heard there's also hope that it will slide under the top plate into the core. I can't think of a safer way of getting rid of it except maybe shooting it into the sun... and then only if we don't get the Russian's to do it :)
The problem is political: Throwing nuclear waste in the ocean violates international law, and for some reason no politician wants to start the process of changing that.
"Good morning senators and congressmen. Our pre-sitting movie today is Godzilla. Then we'll get right onto voting on the 'throw the nuclear waste into the ocean' bill"