You're also missing the point that the media goes and paints nearly everyone as guilty (just watch Nancy Grace and see what I mean). This would mean everyone, nearly regardless as to the facts, would get the death penalty. You have a horrible idea going about how the perceptions should be painted. I think they should be painted only by the defense and prosecution, who just so happen to be the only people who have all of the facts in the case, rather than the American public, who will literally say "death penalty" to everyone even remotely accused of a crime.
I'll give you the fact that everyone should be able to understand the law, and basically represent themselves without having to rely on a defense attorney, but you're completely going overboard in the direction of "mob justice" with your (implied) assertion that everyone should be able to paint the jury's opinion in any way they see fit.
It's not a "tower takes out nation" movie plot. It's a "tower changes nation into crazy people who then waste massive amounts of money thus killing their economy which lets us invade them 50 years later when they have nothing to fight back with and are infighting more than we do" large-amount-of-long-term-strategy plot. You forgot that their entire strategy is to wait, always. They can wait for the economy to fall, as they have literally nothing that's time-sensitive in their society. They're still in the bronze age, and they're gonna stay there until we get back there because of our infighting, then kick our asses because they're much more used to it.
Also, just because it hasn't killed our economy yet, and didn't directly, doesn't mean the events of 9/11 won't lead to the US falling. The changes in our security can lead to changes in our economy, because if the government is allowed control over security, they'll take control over other aspects of life too. The government puts expenses of security on the economy, and constantly add to that burden (with some more of their provocation) until the economy couldn't take it anymore. That would lead to an economic collapse of massive proportions, large enough to prevent us from recovering at any decent speed, which would put us right where Islamic extremists would want us - back in the stone age, where they've been fighting for long periods of time.
They don't need to be put on the internet. Get a phone line, and run it between places where you want connections. Congratulations, you just made a network much more secure by taking it off the general, connected-to-everywhere-in-the-world internet.
Adding to this, if the fraud ratio is 5 frauds : 1 actual needed in the numbers prescribed, it probably saves them money. I doubt the paper pushing within the insurance company is worth the $1000 saved on just the cost of the 2 iPhones. This also assumes Apple sells the iPhones at full retail value, and provides 3GS 32Gig models.
As that's applicable? He's talking about throwing massive amounts of iPhone-type features at a real camera, not something made with 1992's technology. The Quicktake couldn't upload wirelessly to an iPhoto album, GPS tag them, and had no advanced camera features. This is a digital camera designed before Windows 95 hit the market that you brought up!
I imagine handing it over to the police at the scene would be an even better idea. How can you create a video of something that's photorealistic in the span of the 15 minutes that the cops took to get there?
You know what else is open source? Knives. Used to stab people to death. And many people find that a good thing. Surely it must be.
It's not like knives don't have many other uses. I mean, I can use them to cook, put them on a motor and cut the lawn, open boxes.....the possibilities are endless!
Then the light bars and sirens on the cop cars should make them shit themselves and crash immediately. The thing this system has going for it is that you'd be used to it past the first few times it goes off.
Anyone wanna take bets on how long until Leader Technologies comes out with their own social networking site that looks very similar to Facebook, and gets sued for having some technology that infringes on a Facebook patent?
But seriously, shouldn't the court be trying to determine infringement, rather than letting the plaintiff view every piece of code Facebook has written? That's almost like saying "Microsoft infringed on 'using a scroll bar'; let Red Hat view all of the source for Windows so Red Hat can make sure it's not infringing." - if Windows were the only product Microsoft had. It's a crazy statement to make. In industrial terms, it sounds even worse: "Caterpillar might be infringing on a patent for 'method of transporting hydraulic fluid'; give Mitsubishi all of their blueprints for every one of their products so they can make sure it's not infringing".
If you didn't catch it, did you notice the 'obviousness' factor in those examples? Associating data into multiple categories seems pretty obvious, as databases have been doing just that for a long time.
No, we don't have a right to it. You can't, however, say they aren't being dicks to the global community, as that's who they're restricting the exports for, not just the US.
Plants also heat water and return it to the body of water the plant is near. Global warming supporters freak out over 1 degree, most of the time it's even more at a nuclear plant.
They haven't solved the environmental issues. They might have better safety, but what about the fact that they use massive amounts of water, and heat it up about a degree before returning it to the river that the plant is inevitably next to? How about the waste? They still haven't solved that one; all our old waste is still sitting on site at current plants.
There wasn't, and still isn't, anything better than the iPod for your everyday idiot. Unfortunately, GP's gonna be wrong about the N900, again because of your average everyday idiot not seeing commercials and news stories and friends all over the place with them.
It would be great if there wasn't a high likelihood of Sony having it written in the contract that all songs recorded during that time are their property.
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You're also missing the point that the media goes and paints nearly everyone as guilty (just watch Nancy Grace and see what I mean). This would mean everyone, nearly regardless as to the facts, would get the death penalty. You have a horrible idea going about how the perceptions should be painted. I think they should be painted only by the defense and prosecution, who just so happen to be the only people who have all of the facts in the case, rather than the American public, who will literally say "death penalty" to everyone even remotely accused of a crime.
I'll give you the fact that everyone should be able to understand the law, and basically represent themselves without having to rely on a defense attorney, but you're completely going overboard in the direction of "mob justice" with your (implied) assertion that everyone should be able to paint the jury's opinion in any way they see fit.
Thanks for the detailed analysis of your hard numbers. We all appreciate it.
It's not a "tower takes out nation" movie plot. It's a "tower changes nation into crazy people who then waste massive amounts of money thus killing their economy which lets us invade them 50 years later when they have nothing to fight back with and are infighting more than we do" large-amount-of-long-term-strategy plot. You forgot that their entire strategy is to wait, always. They can wait for the economy to fall, as they have literally nothing that's time-sensitive in their society. They're still in the bronze age, and they're gonna stay there until we get back there because of our infighting, then kick our asses because they're much more used to it.
Also, just because it hasn't killed our economy yet, and didn't directly, doesn't mean the events of 9/11 won't lead to the US falling. The changes in our security can lead to changes in our economy, because if the government is allowed control over security, they'll take control over other aspects of life too. The government puts expenses of security on the economy, and constantly add to that burden (with some more of their provocation) until the economy couldn't take it anymore. That would lead to an economic collapse of massive proportions, large enough to prevent us from recovering at any decent speed, which would put us right where Islamic extremists would want us - back in the stone age, where they've been fighting for long periods of time.
They don't need to be put on the internet. Get a phone line, and run it between places where you want connections. Congratulations, you just made a network much more secure by taking it off the general, connected-to-everywhere-in-the-world internet.
Oh, I put them there. Just don't open the cabinets and we'll be fine.
Regulations don't just cause problems in industry; they also artificially inflate industry, as the industry leaders push for said inflation.
Adding to this, if the fraud ratio is 5 frauds : 1 actual needed in the numbers prescribed, it probably saves them money. I doubt the paper pushing within the insurance company is worth the $1000 saved on just the cost of the 2 iPhones. This also assumes Apple sells the iPhones at full retail value, and provides 3GS 32Gig models.
As that's applicable? He's talking about throwing massive amounts of iPhone-type features at a real camera, not something made with 1992's technology. The Quicktake couldn't upload wirelessly to an iPhoto album, GPS tag them, and had no advanced camera features. This is a digital camera designed before Windows 95 hit the market that you brought up!
I suspect they will.
Nice reversal! +2 bonus points!
I imagine handing it over to the police at the scene would be an even better idea. How can you create a video of something that's photorealistic in the span of the 15 minutes that the cops took to get there?
You know what else is open source? Knives. Used to stab people to death. And many people find that a good thing. Surely it must be.
It's not like knives don't have many other uses. I mean, I can use them to cook, put them on a motor and cut the lawn, open boxes.....the possibilities are endless!
Then the light bars and sirens on the cop cars should make them shit themselves and crash immediately. The thing this system has going for it is that you'd be used to it past the first few times it goes off.
They're probably only talking about American competition.
Talk about a quick patch...
We already have many veterans, and you're proposing we have more?
If they sell, and thus make, more in the 16:10 size, they're going to be cheaper, whether you like it or not.
....so they just patented them all without looking.
Anyone wanna take bets on how long until Leader Technologies comes out with their own social networking site that looks very similar to Facebook, and gets sued for having some technology that infringes on a Facebook patent?
But seriously, shouldn't the court be trying to determine infringement, rather than letting the plaintiff view every piece of code Facebook has written? That's almost like saying "Microsoft infringed on 'using a scroll bar'; let Red Hat view all of the source for Windows so Red Hat can make sure it's not infringing." - if Windows were the only product Microsoft had. It's a crazy statement to make. In industrial terms, it sounds even worse: "Caterpillar might be infringing on a patent for 'method of transporting hydraulic fluid'; give Mitsubishi all of their blueprints for every one of their products so they can make sure it's not infringing".
If you didn't catch it, did you notice the 'obviousness' factor in those examples? Associating data into multiple categories seems pretty obvious, as databases have been doing just that for a long time.
Do you use any webmail? I think that construes putting information onto a third party service.
So could China. A billion people's worth.
No, we don't have a right to it. You can't, however, say they aren't being dicks to the global community, as that's who they're restricting the exports for, not just the US.
Plants also heat water and return it to the body of water the plant is near. Global warming supporters freak out over 1 degree, most of the time it's even more at a nuclear plant.
They haven't solved the environmental issues. They might have better safety, but what about the fact that they use massive amounts of water, and heat it up about a degree before returning it to the river that the plant is inevitably next to? How about the waste? They still haven't solved that one; all our old waste is still sitting on site at current plants.
There wasn't, and still isn't, anything better than the iPod for your everyday idiot. Unfortunately, GP's gonna be wrong about the N900, again because of your average everyday idiot not seeing commercials and news stories and friends all over the place with them.
It would be great if there wasn't a high likelihood of Sony having it written in the contract that all songs recorded during that time are their property.