You can almost think of it more as an artist collective than a real "label".
You can almost think of it as what a real "label" will become as more artists break away from the coporate megaliths that form the RIAA and embrace distribution networks that let them retain some control over their music, not seem like part of an "evil empire", and make more money while charging their fans less.
This snowball has barely left the top of the hill.
A scientific theory is not something you believe in. A lot of people on the 'evolution' side of the current debate are just as fervently religious in their views as the ID/Creationism crowd, and that's bad.
Don't believe in evolution. Accept it as the theory that best fits the facts as they are currently known. New discoveries have resulted in changes to the theory of evolution since Darwin's time, just as Relativity forced a modification of Newton's 'laws' (which, in fact, are theories). We may discover something new about mutation in the future that will require another modification. Or, we might discover the corpse of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and find to our surprise that all evolution has suddenly stopped.
Don't believe in a theory. If too many scientists believe in a theory, it will stop evolving, and be intelligently designed instead.
That's a possibility, of course. But considering the fact that NASA tracks 13,000 pieces of junk, they also have a very good fix on the location of every active object in LEO. And considering the accuracy of the average space mission, it shouldn't be too difficult to plot an orbit that would avoid valuable satellites, including course corrections where necessary.
Of course, considering the fact that dumb errors have occurred with certain space probes, launching giant aerogel flyswatters would certainly increase satellite operators' insurance premiums.
Skimming though the replies, I'm surprised I haven't seen any mention of the Kessler syndrome. In a nutshell, space junk creates more space junk through collisions in a chain reaction that eventually renders LEO unusable for many years.
Perhaps NASA and othe space agencies need to launch satellites that will unfold into giant aerogel panels, similar to the collector on the Stardust spacecraft, but on a much larger scale. These giant fly swatters would sweep through space for a few years, picking up paint flecks and other micro-debris before being deorbited.
Of course, these spacecraft would have to steer clear of objects large enough to punch through their panels to avoid contributing to the Kessler syndrome, rather than avoiding it.
I can't count the number of blogs, ad-only sites, and other worthless pages that are formatted specifically to achieve a high placement in a Google search.
Originally, this was done with keyword spamming: filling the Keyword meta tag with "FREE BEER FREE BEER FREE BEER..." a thousand times. Soon, major search engines and directories such as Yahoo! introduced rules that rejected submitted sites with the same word occurring more than a certain number of times in the meta tag.
Then came 'stealth keyword' spamming: web pages that appeared to have a vast blank space at the bottom that was actually filled with "FREE BEER FREE BEER FREE..." in the same color as the page background.
Now it's 'splogs' (spam blogs): blogs that consist of entries like "I really like FREE BEER. I found some great FREE BEER today at a FREE BEER place where they gave me lots of FREE BEER..."
Now more than ever, search results are filled with complete crap because there are so many sites set up for the sole purpose of luring Googlers to click on their ads. It's enough to drive a person to drink. Anyone know where I can get some FREE BEER?
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Quoted for truth. And to add to a response below, I think the solution to the looming energy crisis would be to hook up a generator to Franklin's grave. He's got to be spinning fast enough to power the world.
This damned rootkit certainly continues to be a problem, because 95% of the population has no clue that this fiasco ever occurred, or even cares what label produces their music CDs.
I had someone call me last week, complaining that Nero wouldn't copy her music CD. "It says I have the wrong CD," she said. I went to her office, looked at the CD box, and saw Sony/BMG. Considering the fact that I e-mailed all of my users two months ago about this problem, this called for an immediate and severe penalty: replacement of her computer with The Spare while I cleaned it up.
I have since advised all of my users that if they have any Sony music CDs purchased within the last year, they should take them back where they bought them and demand a refund because of the illegal malware they contain. I don't really expect any action on that request though; rather I expect another few calls like the one last week.
The worst part is that this is my day job, so I can't even bill extra time for it.
I can understand that. As a technical writer, I need to understand a customer's product quickly and thoroughly, which means talking to engineers, operators, service technicians, etc., as well as getting my hands on the product.
But I try to avoid large meetings with everyone at once. I much prefer private interviews with one or two people, where I can concentrate on a particular aspect of the product.
Of course, movies fail to show what actually ever happens in Canada (where I'm from), thus it is my belief in this scenario we would only notice but a small drop in temperature and continue going about our merry ways in our much more winter-adapted persona's.
That's almost exactly what I was thinking as I wasted two hours of my life watching that movie. Wind chill simulating -150 degrees? Been there, done that, got the frostbite. Apart from numb toes and fingers, and a little bit of dead skin on your face that your scarf doesn't quite cover, the temperatures they talk about in that movie ain't gonna do squat.
Of course, I'm writing this in Vancouver, where winter means a little more rain than the rest of the year.
Fancy barcodes that someone sitting a dozen yards away can scan as you walk past. Watch out for that guy with the laptop at the corner coffee shop. That's not Doom 3 he's playing; it's RFID h4xx0rz!
I'd call that the vast majority of computers, but not all computers. What about BSD, Solaris, UNIX, VAX, and assorted obscure operating systems?
As for Mac users being too smug, they probably are... although there is no such thing as a Mac (or Linux) virus. There are worms, trojans, keyloggers, spyware, etc., but no viruses.
I know you're asking if there's any space for you, but I'll answer the other implied question.
I have long thought that the ideal place for a wind farm is the Canadian province of Newfoundland, affectionately known by its residents as the Rock. And for good reason. Almost all of the island of Newfoundland's population lives in the capital city of St. John's, on the coast. Almost all of the rest of the island is a big, barren, windy rock.
Since upstate New York has its share of NIMBY'ers, this could be an ideal opportunity for a cross-border joint venture. Cover the Rock with turbines, pump some badly-needed money and jobs into Newfoundland's economy, sell half the power to New York at cost, and the other half to whoever else wants to buy it at a reasonable profit.
Of course, if the government (any government) is in charge of the project, it will end up being one kid holding up a pinwheel in downtown St. John's and throwing AA batteries southward.
Some time ago, people started getting paranoid about adverse health effects from high-voltage transmission lines near residential areas. Around that time I was back in school, and my Physics instructor did a very good job of debunking some of the pseudo-science.
With a few simple calculations, he demonstrated that the magnetic field strength at a point directly underneath an average high-voltage transmission line was less than that of the Earth's magnetic field.
Susprisingly, no one has launched any class-action suits against the Earth's core.
Er, the court of LAW also judged him to be guilty of a crime, so therefore he faces the punishment for committing a crime. From TFA: But he kept an administrator-level SecureID card with him and used it to enter the network nine times.
NINE times. That's not a quick leaving-day "fuck-you" to the Man, that's premeditated and deliberate.
No, that's an incompetent company not disabling a SecureID card when they dismiss an employee. I know the location and status of every SecureID card I'm responsible for. If we terminate someone, the card is inactive before he even knows he's fired.
Because a lot of sysadmins don't have the luxury of having time to do their jobs properly. If your company has passed its 'boom' stage, and even its 'comfortably profitable' stage, and is into its 'slowly dying' stage, like so many large, bloated corporations, an office of 50 people might have one sysadmin who also handles database, documentation, tech support, and god knows what else. In a company like that, a good security suite, in addition to proper hardware firewalls and remote security services, makes it possible for the company to exist without daily worm shutdowns.
Of course, when I talk about a good security suite, I'm not talking about Symantec. But I've been very impressed with Trend Micro Office Scan.
The dangerous free radicals that antioxidants decrease are not simply oxygen, but hydroxyl ions: OH-
A great deal of biochemistry is governed not by stong covalent bonds, but by comparatively weak ionic bonds. You have dozens of different types of ions flowing through your body, all fulfilling different roles.
Unfortunately, ordinary body processes produce ionic waste, such as free radicals. If you have too many free radicals in your bloodstream, they can bond with positive ions that would otherwise interact with other negative ions.
A simple example of ions in your bloodstream is table salt. (There are many types of salt in your body, but everyone understands table salt.) When you eat salt (sodium chloride, NaCl), it dissolves in your body fluids and disassociates into its component ions, Na+ and Cl-. I'm not sure of the numbers; it's been a long time since high school biology, but different ions have different amounts of charge. I'm pretty sure Na+ and Cl- are both single-charge ions.
So antioxidants don't rob your brain of valuable oxygen; they remove a harmful ionic waste product.
My cheap HP digital is still working after 5 years. The only reason I bought a new one is because I wanted a better camera. I'll keep the old one around as a spare.
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You can almost think of it as what a real "label" will become as more artists break away from the coporate megaliths that form the RIAA and embrace distribution networks that let them retain some control over their music, not seem like part of an "evil empire", and make more money while charging their fans less.
This snowball has barely left the top of the hill.
A scientific theory is not something you believe in. A lot of people on the 'evolution' side of the current debate are just as fervently religious in their views as the ID/Creationism crowd, and that's bad.
Don't believe in evolution. Accept it as the theory that best fits the facts as they are currently known. New discoveries have resulted in changes to the theory of evolution since Darwin's time, just as Relativity forced a modification of Newton's 'laws' (which, in fact, are theories). We may discover something new about mutation in the future that will require another modification. Or, we might discover the corpse of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and find to our surprise that all evolution has suddenly stopped.
Don't believe in a theory. If too many scientists believe in a theory, it will stop evolving, and be intelligently designed instead.
That's a possibility, of course. But considering the fact that NASA tracks 13,000 pieces of junk, they also have a very good fix on the location of every active object in LEO. And considering the accuracy of the average space mission, it shouldn't be too difficult to plot an orbit that would avoid valuable satellites, including course corrections where necessary.
Of course, considering the fact that dumb errors have occurred with certain space probes, launching giant aerogel flyswatters would certainly increase satellite operators' insurance premiums.
Skimming though the replies, I'm surprised I haven't seen any mention of the Kessler syndrome. In a nutshell, space junk creates more space junk through collisions in a chain reaction that eventually renders LEO unusable for many years.
Perhaps NASA and othe space agencies need to launch satellites that will unfold into giant aerogel panels, similar to the collector on the Stardust spacecraft, but on a much larger scale. These giant fly swatters would sweep through space for a few years, picking up paint flecks and other micro-debris before being deorbited.
Of course, these spacecraft would have to steer clear of objects large enough to punch through their panels to avoid contributing to the Kessler syndrome, rather than avoiding it.
...that anyone who has anything to hide will use Google exclusively.
And is there anyone anywhere without a single skeleton in his or her closet?
...and in the darkness bill them.
He probably does, but it has nothing to do with sex. I'm sure Bush's idea of pr0n is reports of the torture of terror suspects.
I can't count the number of blogs, ad-only sites, and other worthless pages that are formatted specifically to achieve a high placement in a Google search.
Originally, this was done with keyword spamming: filling the Keyword meta tag with "FREE BEER FREE BEER FREE BEER..." a thousand times. Soon, major search engines and directories such as Yahoo! introduced rules that rejected submitted sites with the same word occurring more than a certain number of times in the meta tag.
Then came 'stealth keyword' spamming: web pages that appeared to have a vast blank space at the bottom that was actually filled with "FREE BEER FREE BEER FREE..." in the same color as the page background.
Now it's 'splogs' (spam blogs): blogs that consist of entries like "I really like FREE BEER. I found some great FREE BEER today at a FREE BEER place where they gave me lots of FREE BEER..."
Now more than ever, search results are filled with complete crap because there are so many sites set up for the sole purpose of luring Googlers to click on their ads. It's enough to drive a person to drink. Anyone know where I can get some FREE BEER?
You had a BBS that served at 9.6 Mbps?! Wow! All I had was 2400 baud on my Hayes modem attached to my Commodore 64.
(Cue the VIC 20/1200 baud users... now.)
Quoted for truth. And to add to a response below, I think the solution to the looming energy crisis would be to hook up a generator to Franklin's grave. He's got to be spinning fast enough to power the world.
This damned rootkit certainly continues to be a problem, because 95% of the population has no clue that this fiasco ever occurred, or even cares what label produces their music CDs.
I had someone call me last week, complaining that Nero wouldn't copy her music CD. "It says I have the wrong CD," she said. I went to her office, looked at the CD box, and saw Sony/BMG. Considering the fact that I e-mailed all of my users two months ago about this problem, this called for an immediate and severe penalty: replacement of her computer with The Spare while I cleaned it up.
I have since advised all of my users that if they have any Sony music CDs purchased within the last year, they should take them back where they bought them and demand a refund because of the illegal malware they contain. I don't really expect any action on that request though; rather I expect another few calls like the one last week.
The worst part is that this is my day job, so I can't even bill extra time for it.
I can understand that. As a technical writer, I need to understand a customer's product quickly and thoroughly, which means talking to engineers, operators, service technicians, etc., as well as getting my hands on the product.
But I try to avoid large meetings with everyone at once. I much prefer private interviews with one or two people, where I can concentrate on a particular aspect of the product.
That's almost exactly what I was thinking as I wasted two hours of my life watching that movie. Wind chill simulating -150 degrees? Been there, done that, got the frostbite. Apart from numb toes and fingers, and a little bit of dead skin on your face that your scarf doesn't quite cover, the temperatures they talk about in that movie ain't gonna do squat.
Of course, I'm writing this in Vancouver, where winter means a little more rain than the rest of the year.
Fancy barcodes that someone sitting a dozen yards away can scan as you walk past. Watch out for that guy with the laptop at the corner coffee shop. That's not Doom 3 he's playing; it's RFID h4xx0rz!
I'd call that the vast majority of computers, but not all computers. What about BSD, Solaris, UNIX, VAX, and assorted obscure operating systems?
As for Mac users being too smug, they probably are... although there is no such thing as a Mac (or Linux) virus. There are worms, trojans, keyloggers, spyware, etc., but no viruses.
I know you're asking if there's any space for you, but I'll answer the other implied question.
I have long thought that the ideal place for a wind farm is the Canadian province of Newfoundland, affectionately known by its residents as the Rock. And for good reason. Almost all of the island of Newfoundland's population lives in the capital city of St. John's, on the coast. Almost all of the rest of the island is a big, barren, windy rock.
Since upstate New York has its share of NIMBY'ers, this could be an ideal opportunity for a cross-border joint venture. Cover the Rock with turbines, pump some badly-needed money and jobs into Newfoundland's economy, sell half the power to New York at cost, and the other half to whoever else wants to buy it at a reasonable profit.
Of course, if the government (any government) is in charge of the project, it will end up being one kid holding up a pinwheel in downtown St. John's and throwing AA batteries southward.Some time ago, people started getting paranoid about adverse health effects from high-voltage transmission lines near residential areas. Around that time I was back in school, and my Physics instructor did a very good job of debunking some of the pseudo-science.
With a few simple calculations, he demonstrated that the magnetic field strength at a point directly underneath an average high-voltage transmission line was less than that of the Earth's magnetic field.
Susprisingly, no one has launched any class-action suits against the Earth's core.
No, that's an incompetent company not disabling a SecureID card when they dismiss an employee. I know the location and status of every SecureID card I'm responsible for. If we terminate someone, the card is inactive before he even knows he's fired.
...Captain Obvious has been named President of the BBC.
Because a lot of sysadmins don't have the luxury of having time to do their jobs properly. If your company has passed its 'boom' stage, and even its 'comfortably profitable' stage, and is into its 'slowly dying' stage, like so many large, bloated corporations, an office of 50 people might have one sysadmin who also handles database, documentation, tech support, and god knows what else. In a company like that, a good security suite, in addition to proper hardware firewalls and remote security services, makes it possible for the company to exist without daily worm shutdowns.
Of course, when I talk about a good security suite, I'm not talking about Symantec. But I've been very impressed with Trend Micro Office Scan.The dangerous free radicals that antioxidants decrease are not simply oxygen, but hydroxyl ions: OH-
A great deal of biochemistry is governed not by stong covalent bonds, but by comparatively weak ionic bonds. You have dozens of different types of ions flowing through your body, all fulfilling different roles.
Unfortunately, ordinary body processes produce ionic waste, such as free radicals. If you have too many free radicals in your bloodstream, they can bond with positive ions that would otherwise interact with other negative ions.
A simple example of ions in your bloodstream is table salt. (There are many types of salt in your body, but everyone understands table salt.) When you eat salt (sodium chloride, NaCl), it dissolves in your body fluids and disassociates into its component ions, Na+ and Cl-. I'm not sure of the numbers; it's been a long time since high school biology, but different ions have different amounts of charge. I'm pretty sure Na+ and Cl- are both single-charge ions.
So antioxidants don't rob your brain of valuable oxygen; they remove a harmful ionic waste product.
My cheap HP digital is still working after 5 years. The only reason I bought a new one is because I wanted a better camera. I'll keep the old one around as a spare.
So they're selling you a $1500 tennis racquet.
Exactly. Monopoly breeds mediocrity.
"Multiple exclamation marks are the sign of a diseased mind."
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