I've got no problem with the concept of people doing bad things -- illegal or otherwise
I have a problem with people doing bad things, legal or otherwise... and "illegal" is not a synonym for "bad" or "wrong". Adultery is perfectly legal and perfectly harmful. Adultery has victims, but it's legal. Smoking pot is illegal, but it's not bad or wrong; it harms no one.
So don't confuse "illegal" with "wrong".
I don't want to be the guy who worked hard to create the content that you didn't pay for.
Then you're both selfish and stupid. I've been posting journals that folks are begging me to publish in a manner that they can pay for them (right now I'm working on a sci-fi series). As Doctorow notes, nobody ever lost money from piracy, but many artists have starved from obscurity, which is why he posts his books, for free, on boingboing and credits that fact for his success (he's on the NYT best seller list).
Piracy causes sales.
Man up. You stole it.
No, you still have it. I have been stolen from (my house was burglarized last year) and plagairized. The plagairists were making money off of work I had done, and not even giving me credit. It dodn't cost me anything, it wasn't theft, but it was still wrong. Especially since if they'd asked permission and given credit, I would have let them post it.
I don't always plan on being nice. Sometimes I plan to be selfish to.
That's "too". And it sounds to me like you're as selfish as they come. To wit:
And I definitely, frequently, and recreationally, drive well above the speed limit -- but not around schools.
So it's OK to endanger peoples' lives, as long as they're not in school? You, sir, are a fucking asshole.
Yay, Google! Glad both that they didn't knuckle under and yank it, and also glad that they care enough about the situation to restrict it in the hotspots where people are dying. Freedom of speech is one of our most important rights, but just because you can say something doesn't mean you should. You have the right both to speak, and to not speak.
BTW, IMO the guy who made the movie is a fucking coward. Rather than hiding, he should let himself be a martyr. It was especially cowardly of him to give the actors a different script, then dub over their voices with different actors. One actress in the movie was on TV this morning decrying that; she said if she'd been given the script for "Innocence of Muslims" instead of "Desert Warrier" she would have never taken the part.
Indeed, you get it. Art is like science and technology, in that everything comes from what has come before. Imagine how technology would stagnate if patents lasted as long as copyrights?
CSI? Wrong site, wrong show! "There's a reflection of an alien shadow off that rock" is a line from STNG, the one where Geordi turns into some sort of weird invisible alien (it's Geordi's line word for word IIRC).
There are already some studies on the effects of commercial wind farms on the micro climate around the farms which seem to indicate some warming at the ground level.
Someone else already answered this WAY above your comment. The effects are purely local and are not an environmental problem.
There are several studies that attempt to quantify the amount of birds killed (per unit of energy delivered).
How are dead birds an environmental problem? Have you ever seen the aftermath of a tornado? I have, there were at least two dead birds on each square meter of ground. A single tornado (and we have hundreds of them every year in the US) will kill far more birds than a wind farm operating all year long.
There are anecdotal horror tales
Again, please get your GED! Once you do, a little Junior College won't hurt, either.
Asking coal fired (or natgas or Hydrocarbon) plants ot NOT have emissions is akin to asking solar farms to produce power without killing all the plant life under them or wind farms not to hurt thousands of birds with spinning blades.
Except that these are not environmentall problems. Vegetation dying from being in the shade, and birds dying, don't harm the environment a bit and affects no one's health. If coal-fired plants had to pay to clean up the nastiness they spew that you must breathe, there would be no coal fired plants.
Shade? I had a hard time finding a sunny spot for my tomato plant -- damned trees. Birds? After the 2006 tornados here, thousands of dead birds littered the ground; one good tornado will kill more birds than a wind farm running 24/7 for a year. But the only natural occurrances that can harm the environment like coal-fired generators are volcanos and abandoned coal mines that catch fire.
Dude, the guy's obviously trolling and you bit. This is a nerd site and Rush is pretty much a nerd band; 2112 was a science fiction musical, many other Rush songs are likewise nerdy.
"Bastille day... the king will kneel and let his kingdom rise"
"...and thye trees are all kept equal by hachet, axe, and storm."
Their poetic and msical abilities are unquestionable.
If this was the AARP site he would have substituted "Rush" with "Scott Joplin" for the same trollish effect. Rush is a great band, everyone knows it, and anyone who says they're no good, even if they don't like Rush, is trolling. Especially on slashdot.
Rush is an impressive band that makes amazing music. But, the Beatles sucked.
I don't know if you're joking, stupid, ignorant, or just a twelve year old. The Beatles had a lot of songs I didn't like, but they produced art that changed music forever. I doubt anybody since Mozart has been so influential in music.
Ever heard "Old Brown Shoe"? Amazing bass riff. Not hard to play but damned original... but you wouldn't know that unless you were around before the song came out (and it was a "B" side that got no airplay).
Now, WTF does this have to do with running out of ip4 addresses? Is that Rush's fault, or the Beatles' fault?
I swear people have become dumber over the last decade.
No, it's just that the nerd/normal distribution on the internet pretty much reversed itself in the last ten years. IRL we're vastly outnumbered by normals, and ten years ago we vastly outnumbered them on the internet. Now that everyone is on the internet, we're outnumbered here, too.
We may even be outnumbered by normals at slashdot now.
Who paid for that rover? Samzepus, slashdot, unnamed_submitter, me, and if you're American, you. NASA couldn't exist without tax money. WE did indeed put Curiosity on Mars.
You are corrrect, except the 300 lines. That's VCR resolution. NTSC is 540 lines. My ten year old 42 inch flatscreen CRT can do 720p, bty placing the scan lines closer together, leaving a black band at the top and bottom; smaller screen with better resolution. Unfortunetaly for me, it won't work with broadcast TV, only a DVD.
Yes, that's how film works, but mix cadmium red with cadmium yellow (the reddest and yellowest pigments) and you get bright orange. Mix cadmium red and cobalt blue and you get a deep purple. Mix cobalt blue and cadmium yellow and you get bright green.
They're using the right colors, just slightly naming them wrong. magenta is a purplish red, cyan is a greenish blue. (I learned this stuff in an undergrad physics class, one of the most interesting classes I took. The part with lasers and holograms was especially cool.)
They've had remotes since TVs were invented. back then, they called remotes "kids" and were voice-activated. Of course a remote is superflous when you have kids!
As to the phone, my charger's charging end sits on the living room end table.
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I wouldn't doubt if Al Quaida made the movie just to stir up revolt.
I've got no problem with the concept of people doing bad things -- illegal or otherwise
I have a problem with people doing bad things, legal or otherwise... and "illegal" is not a synonym for "bad" or "wrong". Adultery is perfectly legal and perfectly harmful. Adultery has victims, but it's legal. Smoking pot is illegal, but it's not bad or wrong; it harms no one.
So don't confuse "illegal" with "wrong".
I don't want to be the guy who worked hard to create the content that you didn't pay for.
Then you're both selfish and stupid. I've been posting journals that folks are begging me to publish in a manner that they can pay for them (right now I'm working on a sci-fi series). As Doctorow notes, nobody ever lost money from piracy, but many artists have starved from obscurity, which is why he posts his books, for free, on boingboing and credits that fact for his success (he's on the NYT best seller list).
Piracy causes sales.
Man up. You stole it.
No, you still have it. I have been stolen from (my house was burglarized last year) and plagairized. The plagairists were making money off of work I had done, and not even giving me credit. It dodn't cost me anything, it wasn't theft, but it was still wrong. Especially since if they'd asked permission and given credit, I would have let them post it.
I don't always plan on being nice. Sometimes I plan to be selfish to.
That's "too". And it sounds to me like you're as selfish as they come. To wit:
And I definitely, frequently, and recreationally, drive well above the speed limit -- but not around schools.
So it's OK to endanger peoples' lives, as long as they're not in school? You, sir, are a fucking asshole.
Yay, Google! Glad both that they didn't knuckle under and yank it, and also glad that they care enough about the situation to restrict it in the hotspots where people are dying. Freedom of speech is one of our most important rights, but just because you can say something doesn't mean you should. You have the right both to speak, and to not speak.
BTW, IMO the guy who made the movie is a fucking coward. Rather than hiding, he should let himself be a martyr. It was especially cowardly of him to give the actors a different script, then dub over their voices with different actors. One actress in the movie was on TV this morning decrying that; she said if she'd been given the script for "Innocence of Muslims" instead of "Desert Warrier" she would have never taken the part.
Indeed, you get it. Art is like science and technology, in that everything comes from what has come before. Imagine how technology would stagnate if patents lasted as long as copyrights?
CSI? Wrong site, wrong show! "There's a reflection of an alien shadow off that rock" is a line from STNG, the one where Geordi turns into some sort of weird invisible alien (it's Geordi's line word for word IIRC).
Lot's of research needs to b done
*facepalm* I wish you guys would get your GEDs.
There are already some studies on the effects of commercial wind farms on the micro climate around the farms which seem to indicate some warming at the ground level.
Someone else already answered this WAY above your comment. The effects are purely local and are not an environmental problem.
There are several studies that attempt to quantify the amount of birds killed (per unit of energy delivered).
How are dead birds an environmental problem? Have you ever seen the aftermath of a tornado? I have, there were at least two dead birds on each square meter of ground. A single tornado (and we have hundreds of them every year in the US) will kill far more birds than a wind farm operating all year long.
There are anecdotal horror tales
Again, please get your GED! Once you do, a little Junior College won't hurt, either.
Asking coal fired (or natgas or Hydrocarbon) plants ot NOT have emissions is akin to asking solar farms to produce power without killing all the plant life under them or wind farms not to hurt thousands of birds with spinning blades.
Except that these are not environmentall problems. Vegetation dying from being in the shade, and birds dying, don't harm the environment a bit and affects no one's health. If coal-fired plants had to pay to clean up the nastiness they spew that you must breathe, there would be no coal fired plants.
Shade? I had a hard time finding a sunny spot for my tomato plant -- damned trees. Birds? After the 2006 tornados here, thousands of dead birds littered the ground; one good tornado will kill more birds than a wind farm running 24/7 for a year. But the only natural occurrances that can harm the environment like coal-fired generators are volcanos and abandoned coal mines that catch fire.
In short, it is YOUR argument that is absurd.
Dude, the guy's obviously trolling and you bit. This is a nerd site and Rush is pretty much a nerd band; 2112 was a science fiction musical, many other Rush songs are likewise nerdy.
"Bastille day... the king will kneel and let his kingdom rise"
"...and thye trees are all kept equal by hachet, axe, and storm."
Their poetic and msical abilities are unquestionable.
If this was the AARP site he would have substituted "Rush" with "Scott Joplin" for the same trollish effect. Rush is a great band, everyone knows it, and anyone who says they're no good, even if they don't like Rush, is trolling. Especially on slashdot.
Rush is an impressive band that makes amazing music. But, the Beatles sucked.
I don't know if you're joking, stupid, ignorant, or just a twelve year old. The Beatles had a lot of songs I didn't like, but they produced art that changed music forever. I doubt anybody since Mozart has been so influential in music.
Ever heard "Old Brown Shoe"? Amazing bass riff. Not hard to play but damned original... but you wouldn't know that unless you were around before the song came out (and it was a "B" side that got no airplay).
Now, WTF does this have to do with running out of ip4 addresses? Is that Rush's fault, or the Beatles' fault?
Go and read up on the shenanigans Watt pulled (if he'd managed to get a business model patent, his descendants could sue Disney).
Except that patents only last 20 years. James Watt died a hundred years before Disney ever went into business.
I've never heard of that. What board and what distro?
Show's how little you know
LOL! Ironic comedy at its finest.
I swear people have become dumber over the last decade.
No, it's just that the nerd/normal distribution on the internet pretty much reversed itself in the last ten years. IRL we're vastly outnumbered by normals, and ten years ago we vastly outnumbered them on the internet. Now that everyone is on the internet, we're outnumbered here, too.
We may even be outnumbered by normals at slashdot now.
A meter is just a little over three feet. 5280 feet is a mile, a km is .6 of a mile. The math is easy, especially if you don't need much precision.
Not In My Back Yard
If course not! Put it on my roof, not in my yard.
Who paid for that rover? Samzepus, slashdot, unnamed_submitter, me, and if you're American, you. NASA couldn't exist without tax money. WE did indeed put Curiosity on Mars.
You are corrrect, except the 300 lines. That's VCR resolution. NTSC is 540 lines. My ten year old 42 inch flatscreen CRT can do 720p, bty placing the scan lines closer together, leaving a black band at the top and bottom; smaller screen with better resolution. Unfortunetaly for me, it won't work with broadcast TV, only a DVD.
16K? Luxury!
Compared to the Altair, yes it was. IINM that one had 256 bytes total memory.
I'm not sure how fast the drives are, but being so much newer I would assume the notebook's drives are faster.
Yes, that's how film works, but mix cadmium red with cadmium yellow (the reddest and yellowest pigments) and you get bright orange. Mix cadmium red and cobalt blue and you get a deep purple. Mix cobalt blue and cadmium yellow and you get bright green.
Thank you for that, time for a little re-reading on my part I guess.
They're using the right colors, just slightly naming them wrong. magenta is a purplish red, cyan is a greenish blue. (I learned this stuff in an undergrad physics class, one of the most interesting classes I took. The part with lasers and holograms was especially cool.)
My friend found God in a church. He'd never been inside a church.
I have another athiest friend who was brought up in a strict Christian home.
If you're trying to find your car keys, you never will unless you look for them.
They've had remotes since TVs were invented. back then, they called remotes "kids" and were voice-activated. Of course a remote is superflous when you have kids!
As to the phone, my charger's charging end sits on the living room end table.
It has internet, email, pac-man, a qwerty keyboard... how is it not a computer?