So we are heading to the point where everyone who is subscribed isn't paying anymore, they are just being served content paid for by the advertising dollar.
Then maybe the cable company can offer bundles of channels that you actually DO have to pay with the incentive being that there will be no ads. Now where have I heard of that model before........?
And in the countries the US hasn't gotten to yet, they just stone women who've been raped for adultery, sell daughters into marriage and generally work against any sort of progress.
From Wikipedia:
Current dowry practices
#India
#Bangladesh
#Pakistan
#Nepal
#Afghanistan
#Vietnam
Good luck with getting through that list. Are they starting their way from the bottom and working upwards? Perhaps should have ticked the bottom one off before moving to the next one.
Lost control of the UAV and it crashed into the control cabin. Wow. Seems like a pretty big coincidence that it crashed directly into the control area.
Possibly this is a screwed up version of "return to base" type of failsafe if comms were lost?
Surely the "return to base" would be "return and land safely" rather than "return directly to base and fly straight into it".
Would you bet your life on the fact that there is no US extradition move in place the moment he sets his foot on Swedish soil?
Could be a conspiracy theory, could be unlikely, but would you bet your life on it?
That's what Assange would be doing. Very easy to say "just go and clear your name and that will be the end of it". Not nearly so easy if it's your life on the line.
I'd rather have some people thinking I look guilty fighting extradition, than get to Sweden and immediately be placed on a flight to the USA (or worse). It's not like there is a way out of it by that stage.
I am old enough to remember when cable was new and shiny. At first I was..wow! Great! I pay you and I get to see shows without commercials right? Bzzzt.. no.. I get to pay you AND see commercials..how silly of me.
This exact issue pisses me off immensely. When "pay" TV first came to Australia one of the big selling points was you pay for the service and get sport and show without ads.
Then they realised that TV shows without ads only went for about 22 minutes so didn't fit together too well. So ads for other pay tv programs started to get wedged in. Then ads for other pay tv channels. Now its a free for all with more ads than show.
Now generations growing up with advertising filled pay TV from the start of their TV watching days think this is fine and the norm. When all I see is a massive double-pay.
They had AA in place for the Athens Olypmics. They were clearly visible out beyond the outfield wall at the Softball and Baseball fields. This type of thing:
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6203/6074130550_928b676ecc_z.jpg
Although that was in an open, unpopulated area. Placing them on a residential complex is obviously a step up though.
Thats a great plan. Except that excludes: on-call doctors obstetricians other emergency services workers IT out of hours on-call people expecting fathers/mothers parents with kids at home being babysat anyone with dependents at all who might need to receive a phone call etc. etc.
from being able to go to a restaurant or movie theatre. Just because some people are rude and disrupting on their phone you want to take telecommunications away from anyone and everyone that genuinely depends on it whether they are disruptive or not.
If you want to not be disturbed by mobile phones go and live with the Amish.
Which field exactly is it that suffers from incessant piracy?
I am genuinely curious as plenty of fields claim it, but other than ridiculous claims of massive damages by *AAs against individuals in lawsuits I don't think I have seen any concrete evidence of fields that are being hurt by piracy.
This subject reminds me of a documentary I saw on Daniel Tammet.
A "prodigious savant" with amazing mathematical and memory abilities.
From wikipedia:
In his mind, he says, each positive integer up to 10,000 has its own unique shape, colour, texture and feel. He can intuitively "see" results of calculations as synaesthetic landscapes without using conscious mental effort and can "sense" whether a number is prime or composite. He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and Pi as beautiful. The number 6 apparently has no distinct image yet what he describes as an almost small nothingness, opposite to the number 9 which he calls large and towering. Tammet has described 25 as energetic and the "kind of number you would invite to a party".Tammet not only verbally describes these visions, but has also created artwork, including a watercolour painting of Pi.
You might even be able to use it as a one-way intra-solar-system ferry if the asteroid was going close to the same direction you wanted the probe to go.
If you get your probe up to the same velocity as the asteroid (as you would do to land on it) then you don't really need to use it as a ferry do you?
How does the fact that projects that used to take years now take months account for people who cannot keep their attention on anything for more than a few minutes at a time?
Is there any evidence for this or are you just hypothesizing? Sure sounds like you are pretty certain of it.
Wouldn't it make a lot more sense that people can't keep their attention for more than a few minutes because they watch shitloads of TV from the day that they are born where there is a commercial break every few minutes?
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Flying isn't the only way off Monkey Island.
Drive all the way to the chunnel and drive all the way onto the train. Doesn't have to leave the car at all.
>>>And you can't put in a kill switch for the existence of the fuel.
brb.
filing patent.
So we are heading to the point where everyone who is subscribed isn't paying anymore, they are just being served content paid for by the advertising dollar.
Then maybe the cable company can offer bundles of channels that you actually DO have to pay with the incentive being that there will be no ads. Now where have I heard of that model before........?
Australia isn't one of these banana republics where you actually have to pay to RECEIVE text messages.
And in the countries the US hasn't gotten to yet, they just stone women who've been raped for adultery, sell daughters into marriage and generally work against any sort of progress.
From Wikipedia:
Current dowry practices
#India
#Bangladesh
#Pakistan
#Nepal
#Afghanistan
#Vietnam
Good luck with getting through that list. Are they starting their way from the bottom and working upwards? Perhaps should have ticked the bottom one off before moving to the next one.
Lost control of the UAV and it crashed into the control cabin. Wow. Seems like a pretty big coincidence that it crashed directly into the control area.
Possibly this is a screwed up version of "return to base" type of failsafe if comms were lost?
Surely the "return to base" would be "return and land safely" rather than "return directly to base and fly straight into it".
I'm pretty sure the UAVs in the FA are helicopters......
Would you bet your life on the fact that there is no US extradition move in place the moment he sets his foot on Swedish soil?
Could be a conspiracy theory, could be unlikely, but would you bet your life on it?
That's what Assange would be doing. Very easy to say "just go and clear your name and that will be the end of it". Not nearly so easy if it's your life on the line.
I'd rather have some people thinking I look guilty fighting extradition, than get to Sweden and immediately be placed on a flight to the USA (or worse). It's not like there is a way out of it by that stage.
Easy to say, and you may be completely right.
Would you be willing to bet your life on it though? I know I wouldn't. And seems Assange would prefer not to as well.
Sure.
That will be $1.80 (NZ).
Bitcoins not accepted.
I am old enough to remember when cable was new and shiny. At first I was..wow! Great! I pay you and I get to see shows without commercials right? Bzzzt.. no.. I get to pay you AND see commercials..how silly of me.
This exact issue pisses me off immensely. When "pay" TV first came to Australia one of the big selling points was you pay for the service and get sport and show without ads.
Then they realised that TV shows without ads only went for about 22 minutes so didn't fit together too well. So ads for other pay tv programs started to get wedged in. Then ads for other pay tv channels. Now its a free for all with more ads than show.
Now generations growing up with advertising filled pay TV from the start of their TV watching days think this is fine and the norm. When all I see is a massive double-pay.
Actually they were patriot missiles apparently.
https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=athens+olympics+patriot+missiles
So the pic I linked too wasn't correct. They were the same (or very similar) to the pic in this article.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-311788/Patriot-missiles-form-Olympic-security-barrier.html
They had AA in place for the Athens Olypmics. They were clearly visible out beyond the outfield wall at the Softball and Baseball fields. This type of thing:
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6203/6074130550_928b676ecc_z.jpg
Although that was in an open, unpopulated area. Placing them on a residential complex is obviously a step up though.
Thats a great plan. Except that excludes:
on-call doctors
obstetricians
other emergency services workers
IT out of hours on-call people
expecting fathers/mothers
parents with kids at home being babysat
anyone with dependents at all who might need to receive a phone call
etc. etc.
from being able to go to a restaurant or movie theatre. Just because some people are rude and disrupting on their phone you want to take telecommunications away from anyone and everyone that genuinely depends on it whether they are disruptive or not.
If you want to not be disturbed by mobile phones go and live with the Amish.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. **Attributed to Yogi B and others.
Don't those two examples lean towards NOT paying top dollar?
Or perhaps to stop the world-wide spread of drop-bears.
http://www.rollercon.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/drop-bear.jpg
They have been caught trying to board aircraft in the past standing 3-high on each others shoulders under a trench-coat.
Trust me, you don't want drop-bears to get off this island.
Which field exactly is it that suffers from incessant piracy?
I am genuinely curious as plenty of fields claim it, but other than ridiculous claims of massive damages by *AAs against individuals in lawsuits I don't think I have seen any concrete evidence of fields that are being hurt by piracy.
Can't tell if serious.....
maps.google.com ???
or from meteorite strike.
indeed.
It takes a lot longer to type out "Unsanctioned and illegal invasion toast". So its shortened to "Freedom toast".
A "prodigious savant" with amazing mathematical and memory abilities.
From wikipedia:
In his mind, he says, each positive integer up to 10,000 has its own unique shape, colour, texture and feel. He can intuitively "see" results of calculations as synaesthetic landscapes without using conscious mental effort and can "sense" whether a number is prime or composite. He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and Pi as beautiful. The number 6 apparently has no distinct image yet what he describes as an almost small nothingness, opposite to the number 9 which he calls large and towering. Tammet has described 25 as energetic and the "kind of number you would invite to a party".Tammet not only verbally describes these visions, but has also created artwork, including a watercolour painting of Pi.
You might even be able to use it as a one-way intra-solar-system ferry if the asteroid was going close to the same direction you wanted the probe to go.
If you get your probe up to the same velocity as the asteroid (as you would do to land on it) then you don't really need to use it as a ferry do you?
How does the fact that projects that used to take years now take months account for people who cannot keep their attention on anything for more than a few minutes at a time?
Is there any evidence for this or are you just hypothesizing? Sure sounds like you are pretty certain of it.
Wouldn't it make a lot more sense that people can't keep their attention for more than a few minutes because they watch shitloads of TV from the day that they are born where there is a commercial break every few minutes?