The rest of the spectrum will be auctioned off to the highest bidders -- probably tech companies. The sale of this valuable, scarce real estate is expected to bring in about $10 billion, maybe more. That will help reduce the federal budget deficit.
Wrong, because I guarantee that the above number is based on spectrum space now.
Spectrum space commands such a high price because it is limited right now. Open up the supply, with the same demand, and price goes down. This is economics 101.
They really throw the word "famous" around nowadays.
I mean, the Wikipedia concept isn't even completely saturated among the geek community, much less the other 90% of the world (Grandma Cornfarmer, of Podunk Kansas comes to mind). That's like saying Fark/Slashdot/4Chan are "famous," even when they're all taking a slice from the same pie and have no measurable "more famousness" than each other.
This whole wikipedia craze in the geek news sites reminds me so much of the collective pants-wetting conventional media has over hurricaines lately. "This just in ladies and gentlemen, we hate to break into the report of an asteroid on a collision course with earth, but apparently the founder of Internet Site Wikipedia is personally asking visitors for funding! We go live now to this story."
You're telling me that there isn't a caveat that if Company X has discontinued Product Y, it automatically goes into the public domain? How do all those "25 nintendo games on your TV" joysticks get made, then?
So, like, if Scrooge ran Phizer, and the company discovered a cure for AIDS, he could simply say "nya nya, you can't have any!" and sit on it for 90 years or so?
Your right to free speech not being restricted is viable until you start violating other people's right to free speech by issuing a tiriade during their meeting.
As long as you're selling crazy on the street, that's perfectly okay.
I think it's just as apt to say that Orwell's "1984" is what we end up withn when we see capitalism taken to it's ultimate extreme
Oh my, no.
Capitalism is "profit at all costs", right? Then capitalism to it's ultimate extreme is actually fairly simple, and much darker.
1) Bribe government to give you complete immunity from any crime
2) Ignore business, proceed directly to herding, harvesting your customers for base resources (food, wood, gold, etc)
3) Profit
This is akin to saying "All people should be imprisoned, because they keep committing crimes."
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Even if the US had the best patent law in the world, what stops other countries from ignoring it?
They'll have a hard time selling the patented goods in the US. Take China, which flouts computer/video game patents openly. However, they're very careful to obey the law regarding textile/electronics exports, because it's a large part of their economy.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work, because there are simply large groups of people who have the majority in places that want to do something that is plain wrong.
In America there's the fundies who want to ban pornography and make homosexuality a capital crime. In the middle east you have the fundies who (even if they don't go as far as teh ter'ists), think that it would be really keen if the world was conquered under an islamic theocracy. And that's just the two biggest groups on the planet right now, there's plenty of other crazies to take your pick of.
It turns out that what these meteoroids lack in mass they make up for in speed, and this is what causes the flash of light in the sky. Meteoroids enter the atmosphere at extremely high speeds -- 7 to 45 miles per second
So how big does a meteoroid have to be to make it to the surface of the earth? Surprisingly, most of the meteoroids that reach the ground are especially small -- from microscopic debris to dust-particle-size pieces. They don't get vaporized because they are light enough that they slow down very easily. Moving about 1 inch per second through the atmosphere, they don't experience the intense friction that larger meteoroids do. In this sense, most all meteoroids that enter the atmosphere make it to the ground, in the form of microscopic dust.
As for meteoroids big enough to form visible meteors, estimates for the minimum size vary. This is because there are factors other than size involved. Most notably, a meteoroid's entry speed affects its chances of reaching the surface, because it determines the amount of friction the meteoroid experiences. Typically, though, a meteoroid would have to be about the size of a marble for a portion of it to reach the earth's surface. Smaller particles burn up in the atmosphere about 50 to 75 miles (80 to 120 kilometers) above the earth.
The meteorites a person is likely to find on the ground probably came from significantly larger meteoroids -- pieces of debris at least the size of a basketball, typically, since larger meteoroids usually break up into smaller chunks as they travel through the atmosphere.
You can already do all of these things. It's called "sort."
Prioritize based on the "relationship of the sender?" Without a doubt, crap like this 100% of the time works against you, because it keeps choking on anomalies and changing things. There's no need to automate something that will eventually cost more time than it saves, other than the "ooh, shiny newstuff!!" factor.
"It is a period of civil war. Rebel starships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire."
Yes, even the United States. And it will be bloody. Songs will be sung about this day...
Well, I was sorta speaking out of my ass. But I figure that most FPSs keep a tally of your kills and deaths. Logging in for a day of Halo stoned and getting your ass handed to you all afternoon would be noticeable to other on your profile, correct?
As for MMORPGs, the mud I used to play took 1/3 of your experience and 1/10 of your stats if maxxed (as well as all your equipment). I imagine there are some that have equally strong arguements on both, but I'd always thought it was about 50/50 for "harmless death" versus "you need to be taught a lesson for playing badly"
Simple answer: If someone passes a law that is later determined to be unconstitutional, everyone who voted for that law tried to do something illegal. So send the 50%+ of both the congress and senate to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass-prison and things should straighten out real quick.
You can't outrun them. You can't destroy them. If you damage them, the essence of what they are remains -- they regenerate and keep coming... eventually you will weaken -- your reserves will be gone... they are relentless.
The RIAA would go to customers' houses, brutally murder them, and grind up the body as organ meat for third world countries if they could get away with it.
Slashdot Mirror
You forget, though, that asian people are actually robots
The net gain ($10b - $1.5b) would still be a revenue influx of $8.5b.
The net gain ($10b - $1.5b) for Halliburton would still be a revenue influx of $8.5b.
fixed.
The rest of the spectrum will be auctioned off to the highest bidders -- probably tech companies. The sale of this valuable, scarce real estate is expected to bring in about $10 billion, maybe more. That will help reduce the federal budget deficit.
Wrong, because I guarantee that the above number is based on spectrum space now.
Spectrum space commands such a high price because it is limited right now. Open up the supply, with the same demand, and price goes down. This is economics 101.
-insert zerg rush joke here-
your saves will be erased
Babelfish cannot effectively translate japanese, and I do not see any other mention of this phenomenon on google. Can you explain?
Except people would just stop logging in to try and be the last guy and you'd have to pull the plug anyway
They really throw the word "famous" around nowadays.
I mean, the Wikipedia concept isn't even completely saturated among the geek community, much less the other 90% of the world (Grandma Cornfarmer, of Podunk Kansas comes to mind). That's like saying Fark/Slashdot/4Chan are "famous," even when they're all taking a slice from the same pie and have no measurable "more famousness" than each other.
This whole wikipedia craze in the geek news sites reminds me so much of the collective pants-wetting conventional media has over hurricaines lately. "This just in ladies and gentlemen, we hate to break into the report of an asteroid on a collision course with earth, but apparently the founder of Internet Site Wikipedia is personally asking visitors for funding! We go live now to this story."
You're telling me that there isn't a caveat that if Company X has discontinued Product Y, it automatically goes into the public domain? How do all those "25 nintendo games on your TV" joysticks get made, then?
So, like, if Scrooge ran Phizer, and the company discovered a cure for AIDS, he could simply say "nya nya, you can't have any!" and sit on it for 90 years or so?
Your right to free speech not being restricted is viable until you start violating other people's right to free speech by issuing a tiriade during their meeting.
As long as you're selling crazy on the street, that's perfectly okay.
now, i'm not convinced the US constitution has overcome the deep rooted selfishness and greed inherent within humanity...
Of course not.
It doesn't work very well when the people who's power you're trying to rein in can change the document that defines their limits.
I think it's just as apt to say that Orwell's "1984" is what we end up withn when we see capitalism taken to it's ultimate extreme
Oh my, no.
Capitalism is "profit at all costs", right? Then capitalism to it's ultimate extreme is actually fairly simple, and much darker.
1) Bribe government to give you complete immunity from any crime
2) Ignore business, proceed directly to herding, harvesting your customers for base resources (food, wood, gold, etc)
3) Profit
You Are Wrong Because:
_x_ The part is not equal to the whole
This is akin to saying "All people should be imprisoned, because they keep committing crimes."
Even if the US had the best patent law in the world, what stops other countries from ignoring it? They'll have a hard time selling the patented goods in the US. Take China, which flouts computer/video game patents openly. However, they're very careful to obey the law regarding textile/electronics exports, because it's a large part of their economy.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work, because there are simply large groups of people who have the majority in places that want to do something that is plain wrong.
In America there's the fundies who want to ban pornography and make homosexuality a capital crime. In the middle east you have the fundies who (even if they don't go as far as teh ter'ists), think that it would be really keen if the world was conquered under an islamic theocracy. And that's just the two biggest groups on the planet right now, there's plenty of other crazies to take your pick of.
Howstuffworks.com has some neat pointers:
It turns out that what these meteoroids lack in mass they make up for in speed, and this is what causes the flash of light in the sky. Meteoroids enter the atmosphere at extremely high speeds -- 7 to 45 miles per second
So how big does a meteoroid have to be to make it to the surface of the earth? Surprisingly, most of the meteoroids that reach the ground are especially small -- from microscopic debris to dust-particle-size pieces. They don't get vaporized because they are light enough that they slow down very easily. Moving about 1 inch per second through the atmosphere, they don't experience the intense friction that larger meteoroids do. In this sense, most all meteoroids that enter the atmosphere make it to the ground, in the form of microscopic dust.
As for meteoroids big enough to form visible meteors, estimates for the minimum size vary. This is because there are factors other than size involved. Most notably, a meteoroid's entry speed affects its chances of reaching the surface, because it determines the amount of friction the meteoroid experiences. Typically, though, a meteoroid would have to be about the size of a marble for a portion of it to reach the earth's surface. Smaller particles burn up in the atmosphere about 50 to 75 miles (80 to 120 kilometers) above the earth.
The meteorites a person is likely to find on the ground probably came from significantly larger meteoroids -- pieces of debris at least the size of a basketball, typically, since larger meteoroids usually break up into smaller chunks as they travel through the atmosphere.
M-O-O-N, that spells explosion...
You can already do all of these things. It's called "sort."
Prioritize based on the "relationship of the sender?" Without a doubt, crap like this 100% of the time works against you, because it keeps choking on anomalies and changing things. There's no need to automate something that will eventually cost more time than it saves, other than the "ooh, shiny newstuff!!" factor.
Aww, finish Grandia 2! You don't know what you're missing!
Yeah, the battle system is pretty painful (Grandia Xtreme is the better bet), but the story is well worth it.
I'm pretty sure brackets are use to add words only, not replace. For clarification when you are quoting something out of contest. Like:
"No [Luke], I am your father"
Otherwise, it's just paraphrasing, and you can leave out the quotes entirely.
"It is a period of civil war. Rebel starships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire." Yes, even the United States. And it will be bloody. Songs will be sung about this day...
Well, I was sorta speaking out of my ass. But I figure that most FPSs keep a tally of your kills and deaths. Logging in for a day of Halo stoned and getting your ass handed to you all afternoon would be noticeable to other on your profile, correct?
As for MMORPGs, the mud I used to play took 1/3 of your experience and 1/10 of your stats if maxxed (as well as all your equipment). I imagine there are some that have equally strong arguements on both, but I'd always thought it was about 50/50 for "harmless death" versus "you need to be taught a lesson for playing badly"
You do realize that the Army has a video game out with the specific intention of recruiting people for service?
(lol, like a video game could really prepare you for sweating to death inside an APC...)
Simple answer: If someone passes a law that is later determined to be unconstitutional, everyone who voted for that law tried to do something illegal. So send the 50%+ of both the congress and senate to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass-prison and things should straighten out real quick.
You can't outrun them. You can't destroy them. If you damage them, the essence of what they are remains -- they regenerate and keep coming... eventually you will weaken -- your reserves will be gone... they are relentless.
The RIAA would go to customers' houses, brutally murder them, and grind up the body as organ meat for third world countries if they could get away with it.