There are some good comments about that above. This capacitor can't be (dis)charged that quickly, but it takes some minutes. It might melt stuff, but not explosively. So it's quite much saver than putting fuses onto a faster capacitor as the fuse naturally risk being replaced by metal if the capacitor is smashed into pieces.
I was reading porn when I was 11. Now explain to me exactly why this was so horribly wrong and how damaged I am! Give me one single example of someone being hurt by reading porn as a kid!
I don't know how many times I've heard this "Think if small children saw this!!!" on my sites, but every time I ask them "Yes, I have thought of that and I see no problem with it." they totally fail to explain how it would hurt children.
So: Yes, one can ask the parents if one wants to hear from morons who haven't connected their brains and many of them are against all sort of learning that is really useful for the kids to learn about.
The goal is of course to get some means to control the students on their free time. This attitude is spreading like a virus across USA and it's of course one reason why the students are getting dumber and dumber. The school should of course be there to teach students stuff, not to stop them from learning stuff like some people think.
And this idiotic attitude is spreading to the corporate world too and soon companies will stuff filtering computers down their employers' throats. "So the company's computers isn't good enough for you at home because you want so surf porn? Well, go and look for a new job, you pervert!"
Seriously: We need to own our computers and networks by ourselves or we become slaves!
Stop fooling around with crap like this! It's simply not worth the problem and just makes the world a worse place. Maybe it creates a few problems for some competitor, but Amazon's real competitor is that people can buy stuff off-line. Other online competitors help Amazon both selling and inventing, exactly like your lawyers don't.
If you want to use your useless lawyers to something I would suggest suing some banks and fix so that you can deposit my income from you into a non-American bank account.
Another real problem is that it's expensive to order stuff internationally. Just a button with "Buy this from another country" (So that one can see if it's available from a closer Amazon and maybe possible to pre-order for really cheap shipping) would be great for me and my international customers. I personally often don't care if it takes a month to get some stuff, as long as it's cheap (Like the pirate-flags for $2) and the popular stuff is available from all Amazon shops so just ship from the closest.
It's also a pain for affiliates when someone reads their review of a book, and then buy it in Japanese from the Amazon in Japan and the affiliate gets nothing unless they register there too (which demands knowledge in Japanese).
All of this is more important for Amazon to fix than this stupid patent-fight.
I did. If you think that children get better prepared for their life if they don't know stuff, then you're as stupid as half (or more) of the Americans.
I hope you don't believe that people who see porn turn into rapists or something too. That kind of stupidity makes me sick.
"And yet, without the monopoly provision, the high barrier to entry due to infrastructure buildout costs would have resulted in a worse situation: no option for cable service at all."
We have no cable monopoly here in Sweden, and in my apartment I can select from cable (8:1 Mbit), LAN (100-10 Mbit and 5 IPs) or large amount of ADSL Internet connections.
Whenever a stupid (or actually it's mostly about a smart) law is passed in France, they start to block freeways and throw stuff at the ones responsible (and some others).
The divided states of North America
The barely united queendom of small Britain and some part not really on Ireland
The party's one party state of China
The secular dictatorship of Iran
How come the constitution is always brought up when people talk bullshit about they want to have machine guns, but never when it comes to something that is actually important in people's lives?
You have the right to download and upload what-ever you want without getting spied on (unless there is strong reasons to do it like suspected crime), and it's no crime to share information! It's one thing to publish something, but peer-to-peer sharing can't be outlawed. I really doubt that there actually is any law forbidding downloading, and if there is, it's not valid.
You have to remember that judges are humans too, and public opinions matter a lot on how the laws are interpreted, so you can do something about that USA is sinking into the dark age of the Internet.
Yes, the world is changing drastically due to humans.
But even with figures like 1000 times greater than "before", it's still much less than what climate changes like ice ages, huge volcano eruptions and asteroids (with 6 months of no sunlight!) have caused now and then in the past. Forests turned into dumps, lakes killed by pollution and deserts moving around are horrible, but compare that to 3 kilometers of ice and dried out oceans!
The problem with this bullshit article is that it says that it's "global warming", which isn't the case. Without global warming, a lot of other species would have become extinct. The real problem is that humans are using all the land to grow crops, do mining, build roads and destroy what's left with pollution.
If we just handle those problems, even dramatic climate change will not pose such a big threat. Global warming is mostly a threat to species that can't easily move, like farmers. Others couldn't care less if the desert is in Sahara or France.
I'm using Linux and the installation simply sucks.
Please add an installation-script that asks if one wants to install this to replace the current firefox or as a firefox-3.1b2pre that can be run in parallell with one's other firefox.
Now when I run firefox, it will not start the browser, but open a new window in my other version of firefox that I have running.
I would love to be able to run firefox-3.1b2pre that is also using ~/.firefox-3.1b2pre instead of ~/.firefox so that I can run two different versions of firefox at once.
I can't get why the developers don't demand this for themselves too as it makes testing so much easier.
Protecting some company's profits or a politicians power can be very noble.
It's just in this case it's bad because with limited freedom of exchanging information, everyone else is hurt way way way more than the huge profit the one with copying or speaking monopoly benefits.
But we should all be 100% for protecting companies and politicians that do good (even if they get filthy rich in the process).
Obviously you are brainwashed by your copy-monopolist mafia to think that thepiratebay.org has illegal content. Everything illegal there is taken away at once! And with illegal, I'm referring to things like child-porn and military secrets.
Movies are of course not illegal. Not copying them either, even though some people hate that. What is illegal is selling stuff that others have copyrights too, which is highly different. We have to stand up for our right to share information with each other!
There are also lots of content on thepiratebay.org that is put there by the ones who created it. Which even more pisses off the ones who want to sell you a digital copy of something similar for a huge sum.
But well, I bet you think the ones who are selling VCRs are bandits too, so just talk some more because a few people still haven't got that you want to control everyones' daily lives on the Internet and examine all the bits they exchange, so that some monopolists and their heirs can continue to charge people 1000000% more than their own cost of copying the files.
1) We want to the secular government to protect us from countries like Ireland or Poland which can be quite bad depending on who's in power.
2) We want the muslims from Turkey in EU to make it easier to work with the Islam countries.
3) There is a threat that EU becomes "a Christian union" like antichrists keep demanding. Turkey will make such a medieval wording impossible.
4) Turkey in EU will surely have a problem doing things like this.
And by the way: It isn't worse than what they are doing in Australia. What we have is EU that protects us from our own governments and it's just stupid to not give the Turks that protection.
From what we've seen in all other countries that became members "before they were ready", the membership has greatly improved their capability to solve the problems.
I live in Sweden. We have students-lying-in-puddles-of-their-own-vomit-ombudsmen here, so it's taken care of.
And here we're quite used to deal with Americans. I've learnt from Jay Leno that you should call Americans fat, lazy, load, stupid, ignorant and then they will love you, and it seems to be true because when I do, they never speak to me again, which is the greatest compliment there is here!
(Quick Swedish lecture: "Good evening sir! Nice to see you here! What can I do for you?" = "Hej!")
Colleges are put in the very uncomfortable position of ISP for their residential students.
We had that shit here in LinkÃping (Slashdot, fix your encoding in the preview!), Sweden too. But the university soon realized that it shouldn't be an ISP and the student rooms and apartments are now owned by the real estate company, and connected to and run by 2 real ISPs.
I seriously can't get why the stupid US universities are into renting out rooms and also everything around them. They just turn into this communism 1984-state making the students 24h-slaves.
I suggest that you go to Europe and study here instead. You may drink alcohol before you're 21 too!;)
It's a great movie about how insane the drug-war is (And how to make a grow-up and marijuana in general). The police, the criminals and the prison-industry working together to steal common people's money, so that there can be drug-dealers in every corner and enormous amounts of people in prison.
*sigh* Don't start that bullshit about that the government is run by corporations! Corporations are organizations made up of people.
The problem is that the government is corrupt and therefore gives a few corporations and individuals monopolies and power that they shouldn't have.
The copy-monopoly mafia gets most of their income with help of the state, and they therefore spend a lot of money to bribe politicians which hurts all other corporations and individuals. Obama gets most of his money from law-firms and media-companies, for example, while McCain gets it from other not so nice people too.
To keep it simple: You should fight the corruption, not the rich! People should get rich of doing things others can't, not by bribing the government.
The problem has been that for example Citrix is way too expensive for environments like a school.
There an open source, Linux plus Windows solution like Cendio's ThinLinc makes more sense. Unfortunately it's still a small company that so far only has partners in countries like Sweden and Brazil, but I'm sure that will change now when the Software has been proven for years and there're more and more happy customers.
As censorship works so fine for government, we should impose it on our kids?
And to accomplish exactly what? That the kids becomes morons who know nothing about the world? So that they will learn that censorship is great and impose it on you as soon as they can? Or just to destroy their natural curiosity?
Kids (and adults) need to learn, and we all have to fight the evil that is trying to control us just so that they can feel more powerful.
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There are some good comments about that above. This capacitor can't be (dis)charged that quickly, but it takes some minutes. It might melt stuff, but not explosively. So it's quite much saver than putting fuses onto a faster capacitor as the fuse naturally risk being replaced by metal if the capacitor is smashed into pieces.
I don't know how many times I've heard this "Think if small children saw this!!!" on my sites, but every time I ask them "Yes, I have thought of that and I see no problem with it." they totally fail to explain how it would hurt children.
So: Yes, one can ask the parents if one wants to hear from morons who haven't connected their brains and many of them are against all sort of learning that is really useful for the kids to learn about.
The goal is of course to get some means to control the students on their free time. This attitude is spreading like a virus across USA and it's of course one reason why the students are getting dumber and dumber. The school should of course be there to teach students stuff, not to stop them from learning stuff like some people think.
And this idiotic attitude is spreading to the corporate world too and soon companies will stuff filtering computers down their employers' throats. "So the company's computers isn't good enough for you at home because you want so surf porn? Well, go and look for a new job, you pervert!"
Seriously: We need to own our computers and networks by ourselves or we become slaves!
If you want to use your useless lawyers to something I would suggest suing some banks and fix so that you can deposit my income from you into a non-American bank account.
Another real problem is that it's expensive to order stuff internationally. Just a button with "Buy this from another country" (So that one can see if it's available from a closer Amazon and maybe possible to pre-order for really cheap shipping) would be great for me and my international customers. I personally often don't care if it takes a month to get some stuff, as long as it's cheap (Like the pirate-flags for $2) and the popular stuff is available from all Amazon shops so just ship from the closest.
It's also a pain for affiliates when someone reads their review of a book, and then buy it in Japanese from the Amazon in Japan and the affiliate gets nothing unless they register there too (which demands knowledge in Japanese).
All of this is more important for Amazon to fix than this stupid patent-fight.
I did. If you think that children get better prepared for their life if they don't know stuff, then you're as stupid as half (or more) of the Americans.
I hope you don't believe that people who see porn turn into rapists or something too. That kind of stupidity makes me sick.
"And yet, without the monopoly provision, the high barrier to entry due to infrastructure buildout costs would have resulted in a worse situation: no option for cable service at all."
We have no cable monopoly here in Sweden, and in my apartment I can select from cable (8:1 Mbit), LAN (100-10 Mbit and 5 IPs) or large amount of ADSL Internet connections.
So like all monopoly huggers, you're wrong.
So now it's up to the French to DOS http://www.sppf.com/ and raise their voice!
Think about that if you allow people to spread threats to others freely, then you suddenly have less free speech.
So putting all damn KKKs behind bars, would surely increase the general freedom in the USA.
The divided states of North America
The barely united queendom of small Britain and some part not really on Ireland
The party's one party state of China
The secular dictatorship of Iran
You have the right to download and upload what-ever you want without getting spied on (unless there is strong reasons to do it like suspected crime), and it's no crime to share information! It's one thing to publish something, but peer-to-peer sharing can't be outlawed. I really doubt that there actually is any law forbidding downloading, and if there is, it's not valid.
You have to remember that judges are humans too, and public opinions matter a lot on how the laws are interpreted, so you can do something about that USA is sinking into the dark age of the Internet.
With free software you are in control. Don't let anyone fool you that you don't want that control!
But even with figures like 1000 times greater than "before", it's still much less than what climate changes like ice ages, huge volcano eruptions and asteroids (with 6 months of no sunlight!) have caused now and then in the past. Forests turned into dumps, lakes killed by pollution and deserts moving around are horrible, but compare that to 3 kilometers of ice and dried out oceans!
The problem with this bullshit article is that it says that it's "global warming", which isn't the case. Without global warming, a lot of other species would have become extinct. The real problem is that humans are using all the land to grow crops, do mining, build roads and destroy what's left with pollution.
If we just handle those problems, even dramatic climate change will not pose such a big threat. Global warming is mostly a threat to species that can't easily move, like farmers. Others couldn't care less if the desert is in Sahara or France.
Please add an installation-script that asks if one wants to install this to replace the current firefox or as a firefox-3.1b2pre that can be run in parallell with one's other firefox.
Now when I run firefox, it will not start the browser, but open a new window in my other version of firefox that I have running.
I would love to be able to run firefox-3.1b2pre that is also using ~/.firefox-3.1b2pre instead of ~/.firefox so that I can run two different versions of firefox at once.
I can't get why the developers don't demand this for themselves too as it makes testing so much easier.
It's just in this case it's bad because with limited freedom of exchanging information, everyone else is hurt way way way more than the huge profit the one with copying or speaking monopoly benefits.
But we should all be 100% for protecting companies and politicians that do good (even if they get filthy rich in the process).
Movies are of course not illegal. Not copying them either, even though some people hate that. What is illegal is selling stuff that others have copyrights too, which is highly different. We have to stand up for our right to share information with each other!
There are also lots of content on thepiratebay.org that is put there by the ones who created it. Which even more pisses off the ones who want to sell you a digital copy of something similar for a huge sum.
But well, I bet you think the ones who are selling VCRs are bandits too, so just talk some more because a few people still haven't got that you want to control everyones' daily lives on the Internet and examine all the bits they exchange, so that some monopolists and their heirs can continue to charge people 1000000% more than their own cost of copying the files.
Luckily they aren't as bad as USA that simply shuts the sites down. Often regardless of if they are in the USA or not.
We want Turkey because:
1) We want to the secular government to protect us from countries like Ireland or Poland which can be quite bad depending on who's in power.
2) We want the muslims from Turkey in EU to make it easier to work with the Islam countries.
3) There is a threat that EU becomes "a Christian union" like antichrists keep demanding. Turkey will make such a medieval wording impossible.
4) Turkey in EU will surely have a problem doing things like this.
And by the way: It isn't worse than what they are doing in Australia. What we have is EU that protects us from our own governments and it's just stupid to not give the Turks that protection.
From what we've seen in all other countries that became members "before they were ready", the membership has greatly improved their capability to solve the problems.
And here we're quite used to deal with Americans. I've learnt from Jay Leno that you should call Americans fat, lazy, load, stupid, ignorant and then they will love you, and it seems to be true because when I do, they never speak to me again, which is the greatest compliment there is here!
(Quick Swedish lecture: "Good evening sir! Nice to see you here! What can I do for you?" = "Hej!")
Colleges are put in the very uncomfortable position of ISP for their residential students.
We had that shit here in LinkÃping (Slashdot, fix your encoding in the preview!), Sweden too. But the university soon realized that it shouldn't be an ISP and the student rooms and apartments are now owned by the real estate company, and connected to and run by 2 real ISPs.
I seriously can't get why the stupid US universities are into renting out rooms and also everything around them. They just turn into this communism 1984-state making the students 24h-slaves.
I suggest that you go to Europe and study here instead. You may drink alcohol before you're 21 too! ;)
It's a great movie about how insane the drug-war is (And how to make a grow-up and marijuana in general). The police, the criminals and the prison-industry working together to steal common people's money, so that there can be drug-dealers in every corner and enormous amounts of people in prison.
The problem is that the government is corrupt and therefore gives a few corporations and individuals monopolies and power that they shouldn't have.
The copy-monopoly mafia gets most of their income with help of the state, and they therefore spend a lot of money to bribe politicians which hurts all other corporations and individuals. Obama gets most of his money from law-firms and media-companies, for example, while McCain gets it from other not so nice people too.
To keep it simple: You should fight the corruption, not the rich! People should get rich of doing things others can't, not by bribing the government.
There an open source, Linux plus Windows solution like Cendio's ThinLinc makes more sense. Unfortunately it's still a small company that so far only has partners in countries like Sweden and Brazil, but I'm sure that will change now when the Software has been proven for years and there're more and more happy customers.
And to accomplish exactly what? That the kids becomes morons who know nothing about the world? So that they will learn that censorship is great and impose it on you as soon as they can? Or just to destroy their natural curiosity?
Kids (and adults) need to learn, and we all have to fight the evil that is trying to control us just so that they can feel more powerful.
I of course use an alias too, but also my real name. My real name isn't unique, but my nickname and name are unique together.
That's 2 and/or 3.