'I was about to write a press release to congratulate Cape Wind for getting their approval,' says Jim Suydam, press secretary of the Texas General Land Office, 'and let them know when they're done jumping through hoops up there they can come build off the Texas Coast.'
Is this really the best time to be bragging about lax regulation of offshore energy production in Texas?
Putting data into peoples hands whoa aren't experts often leads to bad things. See every non expert who believed Wakefield study because they didn't understand how to interpret data.
Are you arguing against your own point? Wakefield collected his own data (and falsified some of it). He was disproved by other researchers who could not duplicate his results with independently collected data, and when his conflict-of-interest was exposed. The Wakefield case should be a huge argument in FAVOUR of forcing researchers to release their raw data. As far as the non-experts go, they don't look at the data anyway; they choose which expert to believe based on who makes the better (or more emotional) argument (or the argument that fits better with their pre-existing opinions). Releasing the raw data won't effect that one way or the other.
If this article actually had some new and useful information about iPad I might agree, however this article (like most recent iPad articles) is nothing but fluff. I'm an iPhone user and had some interest in the iPad when it came out but even I am sick of the constant stream of non-news about the iPad. It's even drowning out more important Apple news like iPhoneOS4.
As I understand it, the studies showed that subliminal advertising wasn't effective, but that doesn't necessarily mean that subliminal communication isn't happening. Most advertising is about distinguishing your brand from your competitor, not about creating demand. If I flash a McDonald's logo at someone and they feel hungry and go to Wendy's, I've failed as an advertiser, despite that fact that something is clearly being communicated.
Copyright is (or at least is supposed to be) a deal between the creator and society as a whole. We grant artists exclusive monopoly control (both financial and creative) on their creations for a limited time. In exchange, at the end of that time the work becomes part of the common cultural heritage and the property of the public (i.e. Public Domain) to be reproduced and expanded upon by others. If artists want the first part of the deal, they have to agree to the second part as well. If artists want to maintain absolute control of their work forever, they can do that by not publishing it.
When copyright terms were extended, a greater benefit was given to artists with no corresponding benefit to society. Returning copyright terms to reasonable periods of time restores the balance.
In effect, no one will ever see it again. Why can't NASA give it to a museum?
If you want to see it, go to the item listing page at Bonhams. You can see a high-resolution photo of both sides of the sheet. For the purposes of research or curiosity that's a much closer look than you would get if it were behind glass in a museum. Besides, even though the Air & Space museum is huge (they've got a Concorde, 727, SR-71, Space Shuttle, etc), they don't have room to preserve and display every piece of paper that an astronaut ever wrote on. This is ONE PAGE out a binder with hundreds of pages, which is one of thousands of binders NASA used in the space program. It's autographed on one side by Lovell, so I suspect this is from his personal binder and a some point he was using pages out of it for autographs instead of using photos. Just because something is collectible, doesn't mean it's historically significant.
I assume your comment is meant to imply that planes fly in a manner that is more similar to how birds fly than helicopters do. In fact, that's not the case at all. Planes may glide in a manner similar to how birds glide, but powered flight is something else entirely. Birds and helicopters (and insects, and bats, and pterosaurs) use their wings for both lift and thrust, something a fixed-wing-aircraft cannot do. Planes use their wings for lift only and must use jets or propellers for thrust.
Road Fatalities per Vehicle-Kilometers (or miles) is indeed how this statistic is normal measured. However, the results still favor the UK over the US (but stay the hell off the road in the United Arab Emirates).
Country Road Fatalities per Billion Vehicle-Kilometers
Border guards have always had the right to dig through your luggage and look at your underwear, even strip search you if you look at them the wrong way. How is there ANY expectation of privacy at a border crossing?
That would be a grammar course, not law. While we're on the topic; what would be the possessive form of attorney general? Would you write "the attorney general's office" or "the attorney's general office"? And if the plural form doesn't match the possessive form, I'd sure like to hear your explanation for it.
I would think that if your CDs are free, it's a gift and not really an export. I know many Cuban-Americans have been sending gifts to family in Cuba for years with no problems (at least, no problems on the US end).
That's the beauty of the metric system: 1 liter of water weighs 1 kilogram (and can be contained in a cube that measures 10 cm on each side). 1 metric ton = 1000 kilograms. Therefore 600 million metric tons = 600 billion kilograms = 600 billion liters (approx 158 billion US gallons).
So then how do you distribute tickets, other than having a mad, random rush to sell them in the first few seconds they are on sale?
How about an auction? The first tickets released would get bid up to insane levels by superfans/rich a-holes who want to guarantee they get a seat. Once that high demand level is filled, the medium demand audience bids up tickets to medium prices, then whatever is left over purchased at lower prices by the low demand audience. This type of price discrimination allows multiple price points for otherwise identical products without having a middleman (i.e. the scalper) cutting into the profits of the artists/promoters/venues.
They're around, you just have to look for them. I bought an 80GB Pioneer DVR a couple of years ago and it works great for me. Programming it is a little VCR-like, but there's no monthly fee like with TiVo or cable company boxes, and no complicated schedule "scraping" and noisy PC in the living room like with MythTV or Boxee. And it's also a decent upconverting DVD player.
It's true that Homeopathy and Naturopathy are not the same thing, in the way that Astrology and Palmistry are not the same thing, but that doesn't mean they aren't all pseudo-scientific bullshit.
Maybe that is not so surprising when you consider that the report states that every enterprise, yes 100 percent, experienced cyber losses in 2009. The top three losses being intellectual property theft, customer credit card data theft and the theft of other personally identifiable customer data. These losses translated into a financial cost 92 percent of the time mainly in terms of productivity, revenue, and tanking customer trust.
I wonder what percentage of these "cyber" losses were the result of an employee losing a laptop/USB key rather than an actual internet-based cyber attack. Not that losing a laptop isn't still a problem; it just isn't a "cyber" problem (they could just as easily have lost a briefcase full of paper files with customer data on them).
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Is this really the best time to be bragging about lax regulation of offshore energy production in Texas?
Are you arguing against your own point? Wakefield collected his own data (and falsified some of it). He was disproved by other researchers who could not duplicate his results with independently collected data, and when his conflict-of-interest was exposed. The Wakefield case should be a huge argument in FAVOUR of forcing researchers to release their raw data. As far as the non-experts go, they don't look at the data anyway; they choose which expert to believe based on who makes the better (or more emotional) argument (or the argument that fits better with their pre-existing opinions). Releasing the raw data won't effect that one way or the other.
Anti-porn is one of the few things that ultra-liberals ("objectifies women") and ultra-conservatives ("makes Jesus cry") can agree on.
If this article actually had some new and useful information about iPad I might agree, however this article (like most recent iPad articles) is nothing but fluff. I'm an iPhone user and had some interest in the iPad when it came out but even I am sick of the constant stream of non-news about the iPad. It's even drowning out more important Apple news like iPhoneOS4.
The future is now (actually, since 2006).
As I understand it, the studies showed that subliminal advertising wasn't effective, but that doesn't necessarily mean that subliminal communication isn't happening. Most advertising is about distinguishing your brand from your competitor, not about creating demand. If I flash a McDonald's logo at someone and they feel hungry and go to Wendy's, I've failed as an advertiser, despite that fact that something is clearly being communicated.
When copyright terms were extended, a greater benefit was given to artists with no corresponding benefit to society. Returning copyright terms to reasonable periods of time restores the balance.
If you want to see it, go to the item listing page at Bonhams. You can see a high-resolution photo of both sides of the sheet. For the purposes of research or curiosity that's a much closer look than you would get if it were behind glass in a museum. Besides, even though the Air & Space museum is huge (they've got a Concorde, 727, SR-71, Space Shuttle, etc), they don't have room to preserve and display every piece of paper that an astronaut ever wrote on. This is ONE PAGE out a binder with hundreds of pages, which is one of thousands of binders NASA used in the space program. It's autographed on one side by Lovell, so I suspect this is from his personal binder and a some point he was using pages out of it for autographs instead of using photos. Just because something is collectible, doesn't mean it's historically significant.
Yes, I was picturing Gates and Jobs swinging Medieval weapons at each other.
I assume your comment is meant to imply that planes fly in a manner that is more similar to how birds fly than helicopters do. In fact, that's not the case at all. Planes may glide in a manner similar to how birds glide, but powered flight is something else entirely. Birds and helicopters (and insects, and bats, and pterosaurs) use their wings for both lift and thrust, something a fixed-wing-aircraft cannot do. Planes use their wings for lift only and must use jets or propellers for thrust.
Road Fatalities per Vehicle-Kilometers (or miles) is indeed how this statistic is normal measured. However, the results still favor the UK over the US (but stay the hell off the road in the United Arab Emirates).
Country Road Fatalities per Billion Vehicle-Kilometers
Sweden 5.9
UK 6.3
Australia 7.9
France 8.5
USA 9.0
Canada 9.2
NZ 10.1
Japan 10.3
South Korea 19.3
UAE 310
Source: List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
That's a bit of stretch, especially since the iPhone currently doesn't support any of the alternatives to Flash either (Silverlight, Java, HTML5).
Border guards have always had the right to dig through your luggage and look at your underwear, even strip search you if you look at them the wrong way. How is there ANY expectation of privacy at a border crossing?
That would be a grammar course, not law. While we're on the topic; what would be the possessive form of attorney general? Would you write "the attorney general's office" or "the attorney's general office"? And if the plural form doesn't match the possessive form, I'd sure like to hear your explanation for it.
That would explain why I'm always pressing it on my iPhone and expecting to get the GPS app.
Even if it did, it would be banned from the app store.
Other than hardware-based features (like GPS & compass) what new features do 3G/GS have that 2G does not? Have you updated your firmware lately?
I would think that if your CDs are free, it's a gift and not really an export. I know many Cuban-Americans have been sending gifts to family in Cuba for years with no problems (at least, no problems on the US end).
That's the beauty of the metric system: 1 liter of water weighs 1 kilogram (and can be contained in a cube that measures 10 cm on each side). 1 metric ton = 1000 kilograms. Therefore 600 million metric tons = 600 billion kilograms = 600 billion liters (approx 158 billion US gallons).
How about an auction? The first tickets released would get bid up to insane levels by superfans/rich a-holes who want to guarantee they get a seat. Once that high demand level is filled, the medium demand audience bids up tickets to medium prices, then whatever is left over purchased at lower prices by the low demand audience. This type of price discrimination allows multiple price points for otherwise identical products without having a middleman (i.e. the scalper) cutting into the profits of the artists/promoters/venues.
That's a function of supply and demand. We virile Canadian men don't need Viagra, so that drives down the price.
Yes, brake and throttle position are not Boolean values (although some people I know drive as if they were).
They're around, you just have to look for them. I bought an 80GB Pioneer DVR a couple of years ago and it works great for me. Programming it is a little VCR-like, but there's no monthly fee like with TiVo or cable company boxes, and no complicated schedule "scraping" and noisy PC in the living room like with MythTV or Boxee. And it's also a decent upconverting DVD player.
It's true that Homeopathy and Naturopathy are not the same thing, in the way that Astrology and Palmistry are not the same thing, but that doesn't mean they aren't all pseudo-scientific bullshit.
I wonder what percentage of these "cyber" losses were the result of an employee losing a laptop/USB key rather than an actual internet-based cyber attack. Not that losing a laptop isn't still a problem; it just isn't a "cyber" problem (they could just as easily have lost a briefcase full of paper files with customer data on them).