Modded Funny? Perhaps, but it's quite true. There is a theory about this AND the effects of sugar on the population via importation from the Americas. Although beet sugar was reasonably available in Europe and the Continent, it was hard to process and expensive, with most people using honey (mead)for cooking and general consumption. With cheap sugar imports, the population generally had more energy 'to burn'. But if you examine all the factors leading on to the industrial revolutions of the major European powers, they really all had different causes: The French Enlightenment (Diderot): Early start via a change of mindset, wars helped build industry. The English Industrial Revolution: Let's NOT discount technological achievement here as well as class! The Russian Industrial Revolution: Really late in the scheme of things, beginning effectively from 1917 political revolution onwards to WWII The German Industrial Revolution:Although industry was present, it was not till after the Crimea-1914 war that industry began to develop. Note also that Russia and Germany had few colonies as opposed to France and England (Britain). However the English Industrial Revolution could not be easily pinned down to a set of common causes. Treatment of the working classes was generally appalling in the cities- Many infants were drowned by their parents, real poverty, poor nutrition, no work ethic and a supportive religion (Protestantism), that made it all ok in the eyes of the middle class. To say that this (IR) is the cause of the disappearance of the working class is a very long bow to draw. I'll be interested to see how the peer network react to his theory!
Does my memory serve me correct? Wasn't the physics of a nice cup of tea discussed a few years ago? Brownian motion and all that! I think it came with fairy cake too.....
This is going back a bit, but if you have a text terminal, you could write a widget that'll carry out actions on a remote computer. You could do more than that if you put your mind to it. (COMS 101)
Stressing environmentally friendly best practices would inevitably lower the reflective particle concentrations in the atmosphere, thus allowing more radiant heat onto the planet's surface. That will only exacerbate warming.
It's not a simple as shutting down pollutants, but also reduction of C from CO2. It has to a specific solution, not a generic one.
Yeah well I bet that it doesn't come with a monitor. I've seen these sort of deals before, and they'll only sell you the box and the monitor, keyboard and mouse is all extra. What a bummer!
Well my electrical engineering friend once told me that it is only the 'outside' of a wire that actually carries current, so (if that is true), then you could make the wire out of anything, as long as it's plated with copper or other highly conductive material and it'll work the same!
6 minute TV episodes!!! Does that include commercials? That's brilliant but... Why not movies? Every time I think of something, someone else gets there first. 1. MP3 player - I thought of sticking a bit of ram to a simple prog on a rom, a small amp and presto! About 35 years before the first ones came around. 2. Holographic memory - Simple, but thought that reading it would be the task. 3. 15 min Titanic! I'm sure I can edit the whole damn movie down to 15mins or less... Never got around to it!
AND: The next brilliant idea that I have is a new theory of evolution!
That's why traditions are so important. Universities were the 'bastions' of knowledge. Check out the old gates at Oxford Uni (UK) and you will find that it shows axe and sword damage as authorities and other groups wanted to enter its domain without invitation. I know that in the early years of Australian universities, police had to be invited in and generally had no access otherwise! Although I can't speak on US universities, you will find that in other countries, universities are(were) a protected institution with their own governance (Chancellor), disciplinary laws and so on.
Some of these are still in operation. For example, in recent times, an Oxford student sitting for a long exam, demanded a pint of ale from the supervisor. Prior to the exam, the student went through the charter of the university and found this as a standing rule(15th Century). The supervisor had to call out for a pint of ale and gave it to the student. The next day, the supervisor fined the student a pound sterling for not wearing his sword!
If you received a 'Bachelor' of Arts, Science, Law, Medicine etc, then your 'Masters' was automatically given to you on proof of marriage!
So I think that the university has some right in standing up to a commercial group like the RIAA, to protect their students' anonymity, regardless of the charges. In lieu, the university should make its own investigation, and discipline those if warranted. That's the proper course of action for a university. A similar thing happened at a local school here (Australia), when a staff member was almost charged by police for a misdemeanor just outside school grounds. The police dropped the charge when they were assured by the school principal that it would be handled internally.
So morally, the university does have a right to protect their student body.
Agreed! You buy it-You own it. It is as simple as that. If you want to pirate your own stuff, then you're an idiot. You're buying a track that you are giving away.
However this raises another issue. If I bought a CD and resold it on Ebay (which is my right to do), then could I do the same with a purchased track? I should be able to do that shouldn't I?
Yes, you missed Stephan Grossman - the wonderful guy who 'transcribed' some blues and made a heap of money out if it. He also claimed to have invented tab 500 years after John Dowland, Cutting, and others, whose music was noted in tab in the late 1500s. Not to forget that there are numerous tab formats, from the English, the German, the Italian from the 16th century. I think I may even have some 15th century stuff as well (I play the lute).
Tab isn't sheet music, but it was/is contemporary to musical notation. There is no timing in tab, and I suggest that is because pieces originally were classified by types eg: A 'Toy' or 'Currant (courante)' 'Pavan' (sombre) 'Volte' and so on.
But when I try and work out some Robert Fripp and listen intently to "Moonchild" to work out the guitar lead which disappears into the background, I grab a tab of it, sit and work it out. There's no way I can buy that anywhere.
Tabs will just go underground on P2P sharing sites. It's just too important a resource to deny us musicians.
I've read your response carefully, although its very late, I can't see the distinction. If what you are saying is that the license fees pays for BBC's accalimed service, then what about the non-BBC channels? What about models from other countries like Australia, where there is no licensing fees, however the cost of running the ABC is taken from taxes. Everyone pays whether they watch FTA or not. Also, the BBC does fundraise otherwise - sales of video, series, sat rights for video and audio. So if we are still talking about 'Free To Air' then where's the point?
I ask this as I'm not sure, but how does mobile TV fit into the picture? (pun intended). Would I pay $150+ pounds sterling on top of my 3G mobile/cell phone to watch a broadcast? In fact, if I own a monitor (no tuner) and hook it up to a Sat/Cable setup, then would I still pay a license fee??? even though I'm a subscriber?
Technically then, you guys don't get FTA (Free to air) TV do you? A misnomer, as you have to pay a yearly fee to see it in the first place! Is it expensive? Would it compare in price to get a sat?
Forget about all this hollow graphic stuff! For $18,000 you can buy a lot of vellum (the stuff that very very very old books are made from), or even parchments, and print the 600gb of data onto that! It won't go away for thousands of years! And, if you find a nice dry cave and some large clay pots, it'll preserve them for thousands of years!
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Modded Funny? Perhaps, but it's quite true. There is a theory about this AND the effects of sugar on the population via importation from the Americas. Although beet sugar was reasonably available in Europe and the Continent, it was hard to process and expensive, with most people using honey (mead)for cooking and general consumption. With cheap sugar imports, the population generally had more energy 'to burn'.
But if you examine all the factors leading on to the industrial revolutions of the major European powers, they really all had different causes:
The French Enlightenment (Diderot): Early start via a change of mindset, wars helped build industry.
The English Industrial Revolution: Let's NOT discount technological achievement here as well as class!
The Russian Industrial Revolution: Really late in the scheme of things, beginning effectively from 1917 political revolution onwards to WWII
The German Industrial Revolution:Although industry was present, it was not till after the Crimea-1914 war that industry began to develop.
Note also that Russia and Germany had few colonies as opposed to France and England (Britain).
However the English Industrial Revolution could not be easily pinned down to a set of common causes. Treatment of the working classes was generally appalling in the cities- Many infants were drowned by their parents, real poverty, poor nutrition, no work ethic and a supportive religion (Protestantism), that made it all ok in the eyes of the middle class.
To say that this (IR) is the cause of the disappearance of the working class is a very long bow to draw. I'll be interested to see how the peer network react to his theory!
A little bit of caster sugar makes it yum!
Does my memory serve me correct? Wasn't the physics of a nice cup of tea discussed a few years ago? Brownian motion and all that!
I think it came with fairy cake too.....
This is going back a bit, but if you have a text terminal, you could write a widget that'll carry out actions on a remote computer.
You could do more than that if you put your mind to it. (COMS 101)
Ok then, if you don't like to 20yr old slim blonde as a mole, then describe the typical mole?
That's interesting, cause if the moon is full of Helium, then that's why it's so light!
Hey! It makes sense to me!......
Yeah! Gaseous! It's probably a big balloon full of CO2.
Don't forget Global Dimming.
Stressing environmentally friendly best practices would inevitably lower the reflective particle concentrations in the atmosphere, thus allowing more radiant heat onto the planet's surface.
That will only exacerbate warming.
It's not a simple as shutting down pollutants, but also reduction of C from CO2.
It has to a specific solution, not a generic one.
Yeah well I bet that it doesn't come with a monitor.
I've seen these sort of deals before, and they'll only sell you the box and the monitor, keyboard and mouse is all extra.
What a bummer!
Don't forget 7 of 9... What a remarkable body!
Well my electrical engineering friend once told me that it is only the 'outside' of a wire that actually carries current, so (if that is true), then you could make the wire out of anything, as long as it's plated with copper or other highly conductive material and it'll work the same!
Hey does anyone know how to read Russian?
You mean everybody who's got a computer hooked to another with a network cable has a nas? Geez! And I thought I didn't have one!
I hope they go down in flames.....
6 minute TV episodes!!! Does that include commercials? That's brilliant but...
Why not movies?
Every time I think of something, someone else gets there first.
1. MP3 player - I thought of sticking a bit of ram to a simple prog on a rom, a small amp and presto! About 35 years before the first ones came around.
2. Holographic memory - Simple, but thought that reading it would be the task.
3. 15 min Titanic! I'm sure I can edit the whole damn movie down to 15mins or less... Never got around to it!
AND: The next brilliant idea that I have is a new theory of evolution!
Yes well don't forget microwave ovens!
That's why traditions are so important.
Universities were the 'bastions' of knowledge. Check out the old gates at Oxford Uni (UK) and you will find that it shows axe and sword damage as authorities and other groups wanted to enter its domain without invitation.
I know that in the early years of Australian universities, police had to be invited in and generally had no access otherwise!
Although I can't speak on US universities, you will find that in other countries, universities are(were) a protected institution with their own governance (Chancellor), disciplinary laws and so on.
Some of these are still in operation. For example, in recent times, an Oxford student sitting for a long exam, demanded a pint of ale from the supervisor. Prior to the exam, the student went through the charter of the university and found this as a standing rule(15th Century). The supervisor had to call out for a pint of ale and gave it to the student.
The next day, the supervisor fined the student a pound sterling for not wearing his sword!
If you received a 'Bachelor' of Arts, Science, Law, Medicine etc, then your 'Masters' was automatically given to you on proof of marriage!
So I think that the university has some right in standing up to a commercial group like the RIAA, to protect their students' anonymity, regardless of the charges. In lieu, the university should make its own investigation, and discipline those if warranted. That's the proper course of action for a university.
A similar thing happened at a local school here (Australia), when a staff member was almost charged by police for a misdemeanor just outside school grounds. The police dropped the charge when they were assured by the school principal that it would be handled internally.
So morally, the university does have a right to protect their student body.
irregardlessness is the way to go here!
Or irregardlessnessly
or.....
Agreed!
You buy it-You own it. It is as simple as that.
If you want to pirate your own stuff, then you're an idiot. You're buying a track that you are giving away.
However this raises another issue. If I bought a CD and resold it on Ebay (which is my right to do), then could I do the same with a purchased track? I should be able to do that shouldn't I?
Hmmm....
Reality is female?
OMG! So that's where I went wrong!!!!
Yes, you missed Stephan Grossman - the wonderful guy who 'transcribed' some blues and made a heap of money out if it. He also claimed to have invented tab 500 years after John Dowland, Cutting, and others, whose music was noted in tab in the late 1500s.
Not to forget that there are numerous tab formats, from the English, the German, the Italian from the 16th century. I think I may even have some 15th century stuff as well (I play the lute).
Tab isn't sheet music, but it was/is contemporary to musical notation. There is no timing in tab, and I suggest that is because pieces originally were classified by types eg: A 'Toy' or 'Currant (courante)' 'Pavan' (sombre) 'Volte' and so on.
But when I try and work out some Robert Fripp and listen intently to "Moonchild" to work out the guitar lead which disappears into the background, I grab a tab of it, sit and work it out. There's no way I can buy that anywhere.
Tabs will just go underground on P2P sharing sites. It's just too important a resource to deny us musicians.
Hey? Anyone work out the theme to Ren and Stimpy?
I've read your response carefully, although its very late, I can't see the distinction. If what you are saying is that the license fees pays for BBC's accalimed service, then what about the non-BBC channels?
What about models from other countries like Australia, where there is no licensing fees, however the cost of running the ABC is taken from taxes. Everyone pays whether they watch FTA or not.
Also, the BBC does fundraise otherwise - sales of video, series, sat rights for video and audio.
So if we are still talking about 'Free To Air' then where's the point?
I ask this as I'm not sure, but how does mobile TV fit into the picture? (pun intended). Would I pay $150+ pounds sterling on top of my 3G mobile/cell phone to watch a broadcast? In fact, if I own a monitor (no tuner) and hook it up to a Sat/Cable setup, then would I still pay a license fee??? even though I'm a subscriber?
Technically then, you guys don't get FTA (Free to air) TV do you?
A misnomer, as you have to pay a yearly fee to see it in the first place!
Is it expensive? Would it compare in price to get a sat?
Hey we've got computers that can drive laser cutters, and scanners too!
Frankly, I don't see the problem.
Forget about all this hollow graphic stuff!
For $18,000 you can buy a lot of vellum (the stuff that very very very old books are made from), or even parchments, and print the 600gb of data onto that! It won't go away for thousands of years!
And, if you find a nice dry cave and some large clay pots, it'll preserve them for thousands of years!