In this thread everyone's saying the MPAA should sue CC for copyright infringement, even though we're supposedly all for 'fair use'.
Instead if a civil lawsuit based on infringement, shouldn't we be hoping for prosecution for breaking the DMCA? If a law was broken, we don't need to wait for the MPAA to decide whether or not it's in their interest to sue, or settle, or whatever. A law has been broken. That's a fact. Evidence of that fact should be easy to round up. This should be treated like a real criminal offense.
If only there was a DA who would be willing to pick this up. I hear their have most of their time taken up by murderers and rapists and the like.
You many many good points, X-Knight. A person prosecuting for this "crime" would have a lot of very difficult obstacles, and might find it impossible to actually get a conviction.
The problem is, these aren't going to court. A huge organization with money is sueing individuals for HUGE sums of money. That's really threatening, especially when the victim can bow out of the whole ordeal by settling out of court for a mew few thousand.
The worst part is this: Even if you were SURE you would win in court, the court costs alone make settling outside the system more affordable.
I do believe you're remembering this incorrectly. Yes, H20 will be the result of burning H2 and O2, but it'll be in the form of water vapor, not a liquid.
Also, remember that H2O expands something like 500+ times in volume when turning into a gas. That would have had to be one helluva balloon to make a "crapload" of water.
I don't question his memory... I think his teacher activated the emergency sprinkler system...
Yes! Best of all, if you have a sex-based algorithm, you can seed it with just two sets, an Adam and an Eve, if you will. These would be, of course, the QWERTY and DVORAK sets. You should still end up with a result superiot to both, that you could brag to be the (un)natural decendant of the two sets!
Of course, if you are good enough, I am sure you could parlay this into the Book, Movie, and merchandise.
No, THEY can parlay it into the Book, Movie, etc, etc. All submissions become their property. If they're offering 100k, you can bet they're the ones hoping to grow in into a cash crop.
Its ok when they misspel something in the body, I can understand that, but in the headline? Somone should have previewed before they posted. Unless Gnoogle is a new gogle ripoff that i havent heard of.
Probably also a factor, is the ease that exists in getting a license,
When I was 24 I had never driven anything other
than bumper cars, but learned that my workplace wanted me to travel to far off places that would require driving. (Before anyone gets angry about that detail, my job wasn't in danger, I could have telecommuted, but I liked the opportunity to travel, and was glad to AT LAST have a reason to learn how to drive.)
Okay, so there I am with no experience at all, and 9 years removed from HS driver's ed. Only 29 days later I was driving. I don't mean I was merely taking lessons. After only 29 days I had gotten my permit, learned to drive, (after TWO lessons from a FRIEND), bought a used car, and insured it.
Yes folks, I was on the road after 4 hours of lessons.
These facts have never stopped terrifying me. If I can go from 0 experience to licensed driver in less than a month, that means anyone... oh, I just shudder to think about it.
Is there any online games that are going to be MS only? I know PSO is coming to all platforms, and I doubt EQ (owned by Sony) will be on MS at all. Is there any killer online app for Xbox? I don't expect MS to launch this service without something special backing it up, but I haven't heard what that would be yet.
Why don't they bottle the oxygen as well, and use that to feed the fuel cells' cathode? It would result in a significant boost in efficiency.
Good question. Your're right about the efficiency,
and it could be done that way. The only problems
aren't really problems as much as they are things
we're too lazy to go out of our way to deal with.
First problem: you've got another thing to tank
up and cart around. You think it's hard trying
to get stations to carry H, try getting them to
carry H and O.
Second problem: Oxygen is dangerous, more volitile
than Hydrogen which, contrary to common belief, isn't the most explosive thing in the world.
Third problem: Maybe there is one, but I haven't
heard of it...
Like I said neither of these are real problems. For instance, looking a number 2, oxygen probably
isn't any more dangerous than carrying around
gallons of something like, say, gasoline. The real issue is more about implementation and the
"why bother" attitude about packaging and transporting something that's 20 percent of the
air around us.
Perhaps after Spidey, Harry Potter, and LotR, Hollywood will finally get a fscking clue that a big budget requires a good PLOT and good ACTING to back it up, but that when you can manage all of those, everyone wins...
Why? All these movie are also effects-laiden. What makes you think they won't just say, "See, we TOLD YOU the people just want to see effects films!"
if they truly respected my concerns there would be a basket of shopper cards at the service counter and I could just grab one and walk away.
My local Safeway issued me a card without name or address. The clerk filled in the zip code (and the card number) on the
application, and that's it. No hassle or anything. It was like she was used to it. (Of course I *do* live in a geek-heavy area more likely to be aware of privacy issues.)
They get to see the profile of someone from my zip, and I get access to all their clubmember savings. I'm pretty okay with that.
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In this thread everyone's saying the MPAA should sue CC for copyright infringement, even though we're supposedly all for 'fair use'.
Instead if a civil lawsuit based on infringement, shouldn't we be hoping for prosecution for breaking the DMCA? If a law was broken, we don't need to wait for the MPAA to decide whether or not it's in their interest to sue, or settle, or whatever. A law has been broken. That's a fact. Evidence of that fact should be easy to round up. This should be treated like a real criminal offense.
If only there was a DA who would be willing to pick this up. I hear their have most of their time taken up by murderers and rapists and the like.
Did Taco actually RTFA? This isn't a review at all, it's just some TNA starved sci-fi geek saying "no, it isn't" a whole bunch.
Well you paid for the five-minute argument. How can there be an argument if he doesn't take a contrary position?
You many many good points, X-Knight. A person prosecuting for this "crime" would have a lot of very difficult obstacles, and might find it impossible to actually get a conviction.
The problem is, these aren't going to court. A huge organization with money is sueing individuals for HUGE sums of money. That's really threatening, especially when the victim can bow out of the whole ordeal by settling out of court for a mew few thousand.
The worst part is this: Even if you were SURE you would win in court, the court costs alone make settling outside the system more affordable.
J
Hey, a similar scheme seemed to work well at Hogwart's.
Mischief managed.
J
There are only three real monsters:
Dracula, Blackula, and Son of Kong
18 years ago a 40 Mb HD has the size of a toaster...
Yep. Generated the same amount of heat, too.
There are also no prime number triples besides the first one: 3,5,7 Okay. Where's your proof?
Recommendations will be particularaly helpful:
"People who registered "cowsex.org" also registered: "grandmasex.org" "verbalsex.net" and "mbate.org"
What the heck drove you to think the NINTENDO Gameboy was made by Sony?
RTFM.
I do believe you're remembering this incorrectly. Yes, H20 will be the result of burning H2 and O2, but it'll be in the form of water vapor, not a liquid.
Also, remember that H2O expands something like 500+ times in volume when turning into a gas. That would have had to be one helluva balloon to make a "crapload" of water. I don't question his memory... I think his teacher activated the emergency sprinkler system...
Everyone will continue to not really care.
Yes! Best of all, if you have a sex-based algorithm, you can seed it with just two sets, an Adam and an Eve, if you will. These would be, of course, the QWERTY and DVORAK sets. You should still end up with a result superiot to both, that you could brag to be the (un)natural decendant of the two sets!
No, THEY can parlay it into the Book, Movie, etc, etc. All submissions become their property. If they're offering 100k, you can bet they're the ones hoping to grow in into a cash crop.
Agreed. This whole thing is a lot more like benchmarking. Those geeks want to find a way to squeeze another nanosecond out of reality.
You expect to get knarma for that pnost?
When I was 24 I had never driven anything other than bumper cars, but learned that my workplace wanted me to travel to far off places that would require driving. (Before anyone gets angry about that detail, my job wasn't in danger, I could have telecommuted, but I liked the opportunity to travel, and was glad to AT LAST have a reason to learn how to drive.)
Okay, so there I am with no experience at all, and 9 years removed from HS driver's ed. Only 29 days later I was driving. I don't mean I was merely taking lessons. After only 29 days I had gotten my permit, learned to drive, (after TWO lessons from a FRIEND), bought a used car, and insured it. Yes folks, I was on the road after 4 hours of lessons.
These facts have never stopped terrifying me. If I can go from 0 experience to licensed driver in less than a month, that means anyone... oh, I just shudder to think about it.
Is there any online games that are going to be MS only? I know PSO is coming to all platforms, and I doubt EQ (owned by Sony) will be on MS at all. Is there any killer online app for Xbox? I don't expect MS to launch this service without something special backing it up, but I haven't heard what that would be yet.
A similar problem exists with solar energy. If we become too dependant on solar, we'll be totally up a creek in just under 5 billion years.
Good question. Your're right about the efficiency, and it could be done that way. The only problems aren't really problems as much as they are things we're too lazy to go out of our way to deal with.
First problem: you've got another thing to tank up and cart around. You think it's hard trying to get stations to carry H, try getting them to carry H and O.
Second problem: Oxygen is dangerous, more volitile than Hydrogen which, contrary to common belief, isn't the most explosive thing in the world.
Third problem: Maybe there is one, but I haven't heard of it...
Like I said neither of these are real problems. For instance, looking a number 2, oxygen probably isn't any more dangerous than carrying around gallons of something like, say, gasoline. The real issue is more about implementation and the "why bother" attitude about packaging and transporting something that's 20 percent of the air around us.
East Coast: Hurricanes, Blizzards, Nor'easters EVERY FUCKING YEAR. Hundreds killed EVERY FUCKING YEAR.
Still prefer the East Coast?
No, the article isn't down. I just figure that in the next few hours we'll have found more comets than the ort cloud could ever hope to serve.
Why? All these movie are also effects-laiden. What makes you think they won't just say, "See, we TOLD YOU the people just want to see effects films!"
Here I am unemployed, and they're giving high-tech jobs to viruses. Talk about a hit to the self-esteem.
My local Safeway issued me a card without name or address. The clerk filled in the zip code (and the card number) on the application, and that's it. No hassle or anything. It was like she was used to it. (Of course I *do* live in a geek-heavy area more likely to be aware of privacy issues.)
They get to see the profile of someone from my zip, and I get access to all their clubmember savings. I'm pretty okay with that.