I've seen a lot of lives destroyed via their addiction to the State Lotto. Instead the government should be providing assistance to these people to help them stop (as we do with anti-drink and drive campaigns).
Yeah, I've seen a lot of lives destroyed too via addiction to government handouts ^W^W state welfare. The government should be providing assistance to these... oh wait...
There are even better reasons to draw sharp, arbitrary lines - to make the outcome of the law predictable. If the line between between old-enough-to-drink and not-old-enough-to-drink was fuzzy, or the court was required to decide if you were mature enough to drink, it would be almost impossible for the individual to determine when it was safe to drink.
That's why old-enough-to-drink should not be regulated by law. Parents, on the other hand, are good at fuzzy.
FTFS:"So it is gratifying to see that our good friends at DARPA are finally going to do something about it." The project is called Transformer TX."
I wish my wife was as enthusiastic about my garage projects as ColdWetDog is about DARPA's little project. Then again, maybe he doesn't know that he probably has a joint credit card with DARPA.
TFS: He says the fundamental problem is that an evolved mind must pay attention to indirect cues of biological fitness, rather than tracking fitness itself, and that although evolution favors brains that tend to maximize fitness (as measured by numbers of great-grandkids), no brain has capacity enough to do so under every possible circumstance.
Not really, it's more like the highway operators charging motorists tolls, and then trying to get the destination cities/towns/villages to pay as well.
Youtube is not being singled out because of traffic. It is being singled out because of bandwidth use. So, the correct analogy would be a destination that attracts not just a high number of users, but also all of them driving SUVs, as opposed to a just-as-popular site (say, Twitter) which attracts mostly Smart car drivers.
This is like suing a car manufacturer because somebody got run over by a car they created.
A better car analogy might be highway operators trying to charge manufacturers of SUVs as they take up more space when driven by motorists on the toll-road.
We did have a dosimeter with us, at the closest point to the sarcophagus, the SV was reading a 3.57 (I have a picture of it). On average though, it was reading about 0.1. To put in in perspective, an X-ray tech during a year gets an annual dosage of 32, so I'm honestly not too worried about it, and the pictures are worth it!
I pity the schmuck who brought along his medium-format film camera.
Read the US constitution if you'd like to understand why the time frame must be reasonable. We get to define what reasonable means in this case, through legislation. But it must, theoretically, be a limited time. Patents are still limited to a reasonable time, IMHO, but copyright terms are ridiculous and counter to the stated purpose of encouraging the arts.
Agree fully. But if the stated purpose is to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Art", in this Age of the Digital Reproduction of Works, I think the "reasonable" limited Time to be secured to Authors and Inventors for optimal promotion of Progress and useful Art would be on the millisecond scale.
I believe the very first such experiment was where we split the world between Americans, who were given high fructose corn syrup, and everyone else, who continued to use sucrose. The results were pretty conclusive.
A meta-analysis of all past obesity and HFC intake studies is in order.
Hmmm.... I don't own an MP3 player. Any MP3 files I might have are stored on my hard disk drive. If I wanted to play them on an MP3 player I'd probably build one myself (plans are available on the Internet) and store the MP3s on a USB drive. Surprising that they are stopping at simple MP3 players (which tend to be overpriced anyway) and not going after any and all data storage devices.
Broken model --> Broken solutions.
All the music I listen to are re-performances in the Zenph sense (http://www.zenph.com/reperformance.html). Except where they use a piano and high-def MIDI, I use a different kind of electro-acoustic transducer and a different encoding scheme.
AC is quoting Chris Walken's spiel in True Romance, just putting in Spain for Sicily... not really that funny in the context of this thread so just "mini-whoosh".
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The house always wins. Gamblers know this. Maybe a 2% spread. Now the government wants a 8% vig?
I've seen a lot of lives destroyed via their addiction to the State Lotto. Instead the government should be providing assistance to these people to help them stop (as we do with anti-drink and drive campaigns).
Yeah, I've seen a lot of lives destroyed too via addiction to government handouts ^W^W state welfare. The government should be providing assistance to these... oh wait...
"Working" as in, you pull the chord and the ear moves?
Or "working" as in, you go for the chord, but the things runs off and starts multiplying and plotting the demise of your species?
Both. How strange the change from major to minor!
So many failures...Betacam, CD, Hi8, miniDV, HDV, DAT, S/PDIF, AIBO; (some in collaboration)
If you consider these failures, how would you describe the minidisc?
You wanted higher DPI?
There are even better reasons to draw sharp, arbitrary lines - to make the outcome of the law predictable. If the line between between old-enough-to-drink and not-old-enough-to-drink was fuzzy, or the court was required to decide if you were mature enough to drink, it would be almost impossible for the individual to determine when it was safe to drink.
That's why old-enough-to-drink should not be regulated by law. Parents, on the other hand, are good at fuzzy.
FTFS:"So it is gratifying to see that our good friends at DARPA are finally going to do something about it." The project is called Transformer TX."
I wish my wife was as enthusiastic about my garage projects as ColdWetDog is about DARPA's little project. Then again, maybe he doesn't know that he probably has a joint credit card with DARPA.
Arthur Levitt: The longest-serving SEC chairman (1993 to 2001). Hired by Goldman in June 2009 as an adviser on public policy and other matters.
SEC sues Goldman Sachs.
Compare and contrast.
TFS: He says the fundamental problem is that an evolved mind must pay attention to indirect cues of biological fitness, rather than tracking fitness itself, and that although evolution favors brains that tend to maximize fitness (as measured by numbers of great-grandkids), no brain has capacity enough to do so under every possible circumstance.
Extinction just means insufficient evolution.
Not really, it's more like the highway operators charging motorists tolls, and then trying to get the destination cities/towns/villages to pay as well.
Youtube is not being singled out because of traffic. It is being singled out because of bandwidth use. So, the correct analogy would be a destination that attracts not just a high number of users, but also all of them driving SUVs, as opposed to a just-as-popular site (say, Twitter) which attracts mostly Smart car drivers.
This is like suing a car manufacturer because somebody got run over by a car they created.
A better car analogy might be highway operators trying to charge manufacturers of SUVs as they take up more space when driven by motorists on the toll-road.
We did have a dosimeter with us, at the closest point to the sarcophagus, the SV was reading a 3.57 (I have a picture of it). On average though, it was reading about 0.1. To put in in perspective, an X-ray tech during a year gets an annual dosage of 32, so I'm honestly not too worried about it, and the pictures are worth it!
I pity the schmuck who brought along his medium-format film camera.
Juana tell us more about her and her experiences in Escalante's class?
Hey B.A.G., that was a pun not an analogy. Maybe you should expand your nick to BadTropeGuy.
The key to Artificial Intelligence is to ignore the "intelligence" part and just think of it as Artificial Behavior.
However, the frames between the monitors would drive me insane.
That's okay, I only play Tie figher sims anyway.
Blackmail is not extortion. While both may be dubious business practices, the former may be defensible from a free-speech perspective.
On a related note, Yelp co-founder Stoppelman's name seems strangely germane to the affair: estoppel
Well, if Intellectual Property aspires to the same ontological status as plain old property, such restrictions shouldn't be necessary, should it?
Read the US constitution if you'd like to understand why the time frame must be reasonable. We get to define what reasonable means in this case, through legislation. But it must, theoretically, be a limited time. Patents are still limited to a reasonable time, IMHO, but copyright terms are ridiculous and counter to the stated purpose of encouraging the arts.
Agree fully. But if the stated purpose is to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Art", in this Age of the Digital Reproduction of Works, I think the "reasonable" limited Time to be secured to Authors and Inventors for optimal promotion of Progress and useful Art would be on the millisecond scale.
Reasonable timeframe, reasonable period of time?
Heck, since we're using weasel words anyway, let's just reduce all laws to:"You are free to do anything as long as it's reasonable.
Better?
I believe the very first such experiment was where we split the world between Americans, who were given high fructose corn syrup, and everyone else, who continued to use sucrose. The results were pretty conclusive.
A meta-analysis of all past obesity and HFC intake studies is in order.
Who better than Bill to distribute it?
Have you ever seen Bill Gates and Montgomery Burns in the same room?
Just like energy, time is also discrete and no two things can exist in the same quantum of time.
Hmmm.... I don't own an MP3 player. Any MP3 files I might have are stored on my hard disk drive. If I wanted to play them on an MP3 player I'd probably build one myself (plans are available on the Internet) and store the MP3s on a USB drive. Surprising that they are stopping at simple MP3 players (which tend to be overpriced anyway) and not going after any and all data storage devices.
Broken model --> Broken solutions.
All the music I listen to are re-performances in the Zenph sense (http://www.zenph.com/reperformance.html). Except where they use a piano and high-def MIDI, I use a different kind of electro-acoustic transducer and a different encoding scheme.
AC is quoting Chris Walken's spiel in True Romance, just putting in Spain for Sicily... not really that funny in the context of this thread so just "mini-whoosh".