Thank you for that, TFS made it look like they somehow managed to overcome the laws of thermodynamics. I was going to ask you to explain farther but RTFA instead.
As the researchers explain in their study, the key to achieving a power conversion efficiency above 100%, i.e., âoeunity efficiency,â is to greatly decrease the applied voltage. According to their calculations, as the voltage is halved, the input power is decreased by a factor of 4, while the emitted light power scales linearly with voltage so that itâ(TM)s also only halved. In other words, an LEDâ(TM)s efficiency increases as its output power decreases. (The inverse of this relationship - that LED efficiency decreases as its output power increases - is one of the biggest hurdles in designing bright, efficient LED lights.)
It seems to me that it's just fiddling with the numbers; it isn'r really ">100%", it's "better than 100% when compared to higher power levels."
I did expect a better article from Psysorg. I'm still not completely clear on it, but it seems to have no practical value, only an academic excersize.
Turn in your geek card, son. You're pathetic. Oh, to answer the question, QUAKE. As in the old FPS game. Oh, sorry, you're not a nerd, that's First Person Shooter. A game where you run around an old castle shooting other people who are also running around shooting you, on the internet. It used to be my favorite.
Now go back to your NASCAR show.
Sheesh, we never used to have dweebs like that at slashdot.
But it's really not a big deal for the OS's interface to change - and it's expected. It's been going on for DECADES and for some reason people freak out every time it happens again.
I don't know about Apples, but anyone going from Mandrake a decade ago to kubuntu today would find few changes, all of them improvements. Windows, otoh, is maddening in their insistance that the interface has to change drastically every release (and seemingly with no improvements in the UI), and imo it's simply brain dead stupid. It's one of the biggest things that drove me to Linux.
I wouldn't expect Apple to pull anything so stupid, but I could be wrong. MS? I expect user-hostility from them. And canging the interface for the sake of change IS user-hostile.
...often has problems reading the small font of tool tips etc.
That's a design flaw, and a bad one. Anyone over about 40 or 45 (except me and by bionic eye=) is farsighted because the eye's focusing lenses get hard at that age. And many young people have that problem as well.
The kids at Google are just as bad with the new gray on black links at the top of the page. Is there anybody over 30 working there???? Bad design! Bad bad bad!
Probably the worst is red on green. It is completely invisible to someone color blind (my dad is, I'm glad I'm not). Don't they teach design in college any more? I'd never have made these mistakes when I was in my 20s.
He used IE8 and was used to type into the "Google Box" to search. Along comes the change to IE 9 and all of a sudden he has to use the URL bar to search.
Why? You can still set Google as your homepage. In fact I still do, just to see the ocasionally cool Google Doodles (there's one today but it's lame).
A Hammer is a hammer is a hammer. In the real world tools do not change how they are operated.
Incorrect. In my grandfather's day there were no power tools. A drill had a crank. In my dad's day carpenters used clawhammers to build houses, now they have nail guns.
While *I* love new UIs and shiny things in general, there are lots of people out there who cannot abstract computers and are lost when small things change.
I can't agree. Yes, I can change habits, but change for the sake of change is stupid. It hinders productivity. That's one thing I hated about being married. Are you female? You sound female. Women are notorious for never putting anything in the same place twice; evolution has made them good at hunting for stationary objects while it has made men to see movement.
"Well look for it," she'd say. Well dammit, I shouldn't HAVE to look for it. It should be where I left it.
Now, if the change is actually an improvement, like going from DOS to Windows, that's good. But moving the damned menus around with every new release is just plain stupid. My tools should not hinder my productivity; that's the exact opposite of what tools are for.
I wish you two cowards were logged in. I've had no problems with copyright infringement per se -- I allowed folks to use my stuff with permission and without cost as long as I was given credit, but one part of my old Quake site was perhaps the most plagairized piece of work on the internet.
I sent out a whole bunch of takedown notices on those, and most were.edu domains.
I never sued anybody though, the schools were good at taking the plagairized material down. private ISPs I sometimes had to threaten.
Look, guys, you can't take someone else's work and put your name to it like you created it! You can't understand WHY what you did was way out of bounds? How could someone so dumbb ever pass a college entrance exam?
Trademarks are indeed generally industry-specific indeed, think Apple Computer vs Apple Music as well-known example.
And yet Apple Records started a suit against Apple Computers for that very same thing anyway. Ironically, or perhaps hypocritically, Jobs named his company Apple because he was a Beatles fan.
It was settled out of court, with the settlement saying that Apple was fine until it entered the music business, which got them into more hot water with the iPod and iTunes.
And not only that, but this was FaceBook. The school wouldn't have had any rights regardless. The worst part is, people this incredibly stupid are teaching your children!
As to your "senile old lawyers", age != senility. If a lawyer becomes senile he's not going to be practicing for long.
I think a "menu" style application selection is bad. I can't count how many times I've bounced between different options 2 or 3 levels down and had to start over b/c my mouse moved a few pixels the wrong way.
What infuriates me is that they stopped using "sticky" menus ten or more years ago. You want to open a file, click "file" and edit is open -- damn it, the file menu should STAY open until I make a selection or click outside the menu.
It's a really shitty design that iinm MS started, and unfortunately KDE has emulated it.
While not for the masses, I like dmenu_run tied to a hotkey. There's no mouse involved and just a couple of keystrokes always finds what I need. But that's a linux solution.
It isn't a linux solution on my Linux box. It uses the TV as a monitor, with a wireless keyboard and mouse. The keyboard almost always sits on a shelf unless I need to enter a password or something. And you can use a keyboard in Windows, it's just that few do. Hell, you even have a command line in Windows if you want one.
What REALLY annoys me is applications (in any OS, linux apps are often just as bad) that insist on mousing when the app's main functions need a keyboard. That's incredibly bad design from an ergonomic standpoint -- ever get "mouse elbow"? That comes from having to repeatedly go from keyboard and mouse to back, and is an unforgiveably bad design.
I hope a few developers (esp linux devs) think about this when writing their naxt application.
Does it not need the little tab anymore (that always breaks off)?
That's someothing that's always bugged me. Of course you're going to need mini or submini jacks in a very small device like a transistor radio or an iPod, but I could never figure out why they didn't use RCA jacks in PCs. Not that RCA jacks don't sometimes fail. Heck, they could have used 1/4 inch jacks in PCs, I've yet to see one of those fail, even in a heavily used environment like a guitar amplifier.
It isn't that there weren't repositories fifteen years ago, there were. It's that few of us were on the internet back then. Smartphones didn't change that, everyone getting on the internet did.
I can agree with that. Some on slashdot are for abolishing copyright entirely, that is incredibly foolish. Yet on the other side they've managed to virtually abolish the public domain, and this is nothing but purely evil greed.
Music and literature should belong to culture, and nobody should be allowed to own culture. A limited time monopoly, yes, but they have claimed ownership of what belongs to us all.
Mind you, there are caveats. Sample length has to be infinite.
Exactly! Note that the closer you get to "infinite" the closer you get to "perfect". The higher the sampling rate, the closer to infinite and the closer to perfect.
In any case, what I was trying to get at, is that sampling a sinusoidal waveform, even a 15kHz wave at a 44kHz sampling rate, reproduction is going to be very accurate. The mathematics show it. Certainly orders of magnitude more accurate than capturing a square or sawtooth.
Yet there are more than sine waves in sound. A rock guitar fuzzbox changes the guitar's sine wave to a square or sawtooth (most fuzzboxes and wah wah pedals have a switch to select between square and sawtooth). With three samples (do the math!) it is impossible to discern those three entirely different waveforms. They will be distorted into a sine wave.
Have you ever studied sound with an oscilloscope? One of my undergrad physics classes was about this very thing, although it was in the late '70s and there were no digital samples back then.
Have you seen rock or blues bands with the guitar feeding into a small tube amp, with a mic in fron of it feeding a transistor amp? That's because if you overdrive a transistor amp to clipping levels, you get a perfectly square square wave, but with a tube amp the wave's corners are rounded (as seen in an oscilloscope) at clipping levels.
It is mathematically impossible to do that with three samples.
Besides, the practicality of listening to a cannon and soft flute, at their natural volume level, in the same piece, is rather bewildering.
Those pieces are ancient, and are usually performed outdoors. You would have to have an incredibly good setup to get anywhere close to accuracy with those pieces.
Where does it say that? Here is the entire chapter. It warns against taking communion with one that can lead you away from the path. And it seems like reading it there were some real motherfuckers in the most literal sense of the word. And read the previous chapter, "But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. "
Here is chapter 5
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
He's no idiot, not by a long shot. They don't carry flags saying "Baptist" or "Methodist", they simply converse. And from what I've seen, athiests (and especially antitheists) continually shout "there is no god!" from the rooftops. Seldom is there a single slashdot thread where an antitheist has to inteject theism into the conversation. This thread is a good example.
One of my drinking buddies is an atheist, and like the slashdot atheists he's far from secretive about it. He grew up an a religious family in Kentucky and is insistant about his antireligion, especially when Cherish tends bar -- she's been trying to convert him. I keep telling her she's wasting her time.
Yes, surely there are atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists in the peace corps etc., but they are few enough to be invisible.
There you guys go with your "Ponzi scheme" bullshit again. It isn't a Ponzi Sheme; a Ponzi scheme is designed to defraud, social security is designed to last.
The only fraud was shifting money from SS to the general fund, making it no different fromn any other tax.
What makes it look Ponzi-like is us baby boomers. The "pig in a python." Birth rates are dropping, when your kids hit retirement age, SS will be swimming in money -- if Congress doesn't steal it from them like it has from us.
If Hollywood has taught ME anything, it's that damned near anything that comes from Hollywood is incredibly stupid. Seems like every movie and TV show I see takes a little more effort to ignore the impossibilities they portray.
Not relevant. Quoting your own quote, with the salient part highlighted: "A person who, while engaged in a professional capacity or activity described in subsection (b) of section 226 of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 on Federal land or in a federally operated (or contracted) facility, learns of facts that give reason to suspect that a child has suffered an incident of child abuse"
Besides, I think this happened in Britain. US laws don't apply there.
Just because Christians don't want scientists working with embryonic stem cells harvested from murdered babies doesn't make them anti-science.
Speak for yourself, son. A blastocyct is NOT a baby any more than a wart on your face is. It's simply a few human cells. You shed more humanity when you get a paper cut. And yes, I am a Christian. I would not want an embryo with my DNA removed from its womb, but your sins are not not my business. If you want an abortion, that's none of my business either. And once the embryo is removed, you would have it destroyed rather than further science? That's insane.
Rather than destroying the new Library of Alexandria, they've managed to choke it in its infacy. I should be able to link a fifty year old science fiction story directly rather than linking to a bookstore selling dead mens' books, or a wikipedia article badly describing it.
Nothing published before 1990 should still be under copyright. How is copyright going to entice Jimi Hendrix to record any more music?
No, you have it backwards, Mr velvet Flamebait. The MAFIAA, like the Star Wars emperor, has cajoled a corrupt Senate to give them what they want.
They steal from their own artists, they have stolen much of the public domain, they have sued innocent people who didn't even have computers. Their claims of "PIRACY!" is to make it look like receiving a download from someone kind enough to share what he's paid for is a theif, when what they are really after is the artists who have flipped them the bird and told them "fuck off, I don't need you, recording is cheap and I have the internet to get me noticed." As Cory Doctorow notes, "nobody ever lost money from piracy but many artists have starved from obscurity." Did you know that Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life, for a pittance, to his brother, to repay a loan his brother had made? An Van Gogh was an artistic genius. His fault was he was pretty much an asshole that nobody liked personally, so never got fame.
Which is why they want to destroy the internet. It isn't about pirates; copyright pirates never cost anyone a dime. Study after study shows that pirates are the RIAA's best customers. What kind of evil attacks its best customers?
Darth Vader, that's who. The government is the MAFIAA's stooge (DV's stooge), The "pirates" are the resistance.
What dimwit modded that insightful comment "troll"? You all know who the most famous snitch in history was -- Judas Iscariot.
God hates narcs, so it was probably one of the resident evangelical antitheists or satanists who modded you down.
The worst part of this is, the narc is usually a worse criminal than the one he's snitching on. The cops will bust the biggest dope dealer in town, he'll sing, turn in all his customers and help set up stings to make it look like THEY are dope dealers, then spend half as long in prison than they do.
I agree wholeheartedly, there's a special place in hell for informers. Especially the cowards who inform to save their own asses.
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Thank you for that, TFS made it look like they somehow managed to overcome the laws of thermodynamics. I was going to ask you to explain farther but RTFA instead.
It seems to me that it's just fiddling with the numbers; it isn'r really ">100%", it's "better than 100% when compared to higher power levels."
I did expect a better article from Psysorg. I'm still not completely clear on it, but it seems to have no practical value, only an academic excersize.
Turn in your geek card, son. You're pathetic. Oh, to answer the question, QUAKE. As in the old FPS game. Oh, sorry, you're not a nerd, that's First Person Shooter. A game where you run around an old castle shooting other people who are also running around shooting you, on the internet. It used to be my favorite.
Now go back to your NASCAR show.
Sheesh, we never used to have dweebs like that at slashdot.
I send my kid to private school, there school explicitly states that they will not let anyone police included speak with my child
I see that you, yourself, went to a public school...
But it's really not a big deal for the OS's interface to change - and it's expected. It's been going on for DECADES and for some reason people freak out every time it happens again.
I don't know about Apples, but anyone going from Mandrake a decade ago to kubuntu today would find few changes, all of them improvements. Windows, otoh, is maddening in their insistance that the interface has to change drastically every release (and seemingly with no improvements in the UI), and imo it's simply brain dead stupid. It's one of the biggest things that drove me to Linux.
I wouldn't expect Apple to pull anything so stupid, but I could be wrong. MS? I expect user-hostility from them. And canging the interface for the sake of change IS user-hostile.
Indeed, I'm certainly an oddball (if you're reading this you probably are too), but I'm not gay.
Since I only have two computers on my own network, mine are called Acer and HP. I try to save my creativity for fiction.
...often has problems reading the small font of tool tips etc.
That's a design flaw, and a bad one. Anyone over about 40 or 45 (except me and by bionic eye=) is farsighted because the eye's focusing lenses get hard at that age. And many young people have that problem as well.
The kids at Google are just as bad with the new gray on black links at the top of the page. Is there anybody over 30 working there???? Bad design! Bad bad bad!
Probably the worst is red on green. It is completely invisible to someone color blind (my dad is, I'm glad I'm not). Don't they teach design in college any more? I'd never have made these mistakes when I was in my 20s.
He used IE8 and was used to type into the "Google Box" to search. Along comes the change to IE 9 and all of a sudden he has to use the URL bar to search.
Why? You can still set Google as your homepage. In fact I still do, just to see the ocasionally cool Google Doodles (there's one today but it's lame).
A Hammer is a hammer is a hammer. In the real world tools do not change how they are operated.
Incorrect. In my grandfather's day there were no power tools. A drill had a crank. In my dad's day carpenters used clawhammers to build houses, now they have nail guns.
While *I* love new UIs and shiny things in general, there are lots of people out there who cannot abstract computers and are lost when small things change.
I can't agree. Yes, I can change habits, but change for the sake of change is stupid. It hinders productivity. That's one thing I hated about being married. Are you female? You sound female. Women are notorious for never putting anything in the same place twice; evolution has made them good at hunting for stationary objects while it has made men to see movement.
"Well look for it," she'd say. Well dammit, I shouldn't HAVE to look for it. It should be where I left it.
Now, if the change is actually an improvement, like going from DOS to Windows, that's good. But moving the damned menus around with every new release is just plain stupid. My tools should not hinder my productivity; that's the exact opposite of what tools are for.
I wish you two cowards were logged in. I've had no problems with copyright infringement per se -- I allowed folks to use my stuff with permission and without cost as long as I was given credit, but one part of my old Quake site was perhaps the most plagairized piece of work on the internet.
I sent out a whole bunch of takedown notices on those, and most were .edu domains.
I never sued anybody though, the schools were good at taking the plagairized material down. private ISPs I sometimes had to threaten.
Look, guys, you can't take someone else's work and put your name to it like you created it! You can't understand WHY what you did was way out of bounds? How could someone so dumbb ever pass a college entrance exam?
Trademarks are indeed generally industry-specific indeed, think Apple Computer vs Apple Music as well-known example.
And yet Apple Records started a suit against Apple Computers for that very same thing anyway. Ironically, or perhaps hypocritically, Jobs named his company Apple because he was a Beatles fan.
It was settled out of court, with the settlement saying that Apple was fine until it entered the music business, which got them into more hot water with the iPod and iTunes.
And not only that, but this was FaceBook. The school wouldn't have had any rights regardless. The worst part is, people this incredibly stupid are teaching your children!
As to your "senile old lawyers", age != senility. If a lawyer becomes senile he's not going to be practicing for long.
I think a "menu" style application selection is bad. I can't count how many times I've bounced between different options 2 or 3 levels down and had to start over b/c my mouse moved a few pixels the wrong way.
What infuriates me is that they stopped using "sticky" menus ten or more years ago. You want to open a file, click "file" and edit is open -- damn it, the file menu should STAY open until I make a selection or click outside the menu.
It's a really shitty design that iinm MS started, and unfortunately KDE has emulated it.
While not for the masses, I like dmenu_run tied to a hotkey. There's no mouse involved and just a couple of keystrokes always finds what I need. But that's a linux solution.
It isn't a linux solution on my Linux box. It uses the TV as a monitor, with a wireless keyboard and mouse. The keyboard almost always sits on a shelf unless I need to enter a password or something. And you can use a keyboard in Windows, it's just that few do. Hell, you even have a command line in Windows if you want one.
What REALLY annoys me is applications (in any OS, linux apps are often just as bad) that insist on mousing when the app's main functions need a keyboard. That's incredibly bad design from an ergonomic standpoint -- ever get "mouse elbow"? That comes from having to repeatedly go from keyboard and mouse to back, and is an unforgiveably bad design.
I hope a few developers (esp linux devs) think about this when writing their naxt application.
Does it not need the little tab anymore (that always breaks off)?
That's someothing that's always bugged me. Of course you're going to need mini or submini jacks in a very small device like a transistor radio or an iPod, but I could never figure out why they didn't use RCA jacks in PCs. Not that RCA jacks don't sometimes fail. Heck, they could have used 1/4 inch jacks in PCs, I've yet to see one of those fail, even in a heavily used environment like a guitar amplifier.
It isn't that there weren't repositories fifteen years ago, there were. It's that few of us were on the internet back then. Smartphones didn't change that, everyone getting on the internet did.
Fuck both sides of this issue.
I can agree with that. Some on slashdot are for abolishing copyright entirely, that is incredibly foolish. Yet on the other side they've managed to virtually abolish the public domain, and this is nothing but purely evil greed.
Music and literature should belong to culture, and nobody should be allowed to own culture. A limited time monopoly, yes, but they have claimed ownership of what belongs to us all.
Mind you, there are caveats. Sample length has to be infinite.
Exactly! Note that the closer you get to "infinite" the closer you get to "perfect". The higher the sampling rate, the closer to infinite and the closer to perfect.
In any case, what I was trying to get at, is that sampling a sinusoidal waveform, even a 15kHz wave at a 44kHz sampling rate, reproduction is going to be very accurate. The mathematics show it. Certainly orders of magnitude more accurate than capturing a square or sawtooth.
Yet there are more than sine waves in sound. A rock guitar fuzzbox changes the guitar's sine wave to a square or sawtooth (most fuzzboxes and wah wah pedals have a switch to select between square and sawtooth). With three samples (do the math!) it is impossible to discern those three entirely different waveforms. They will be distorted into a sine wave.
Have you ever studied sound with an oscilloscope? One of my undergrad physics classes was about this very thing, although it was in the late '70s and there were no digital samples back then.
Have you seen rock or blues bands with the guitar feeding into a small tube amp, with a mic in fron of it feeding a transistor amp? That's because if you overdrive a transistor amp to clipping levels, you get a perfectly square square wave, but with a tube amp the wave's corners are rounded (as seen in an oscilloscope) at clipping levels.
It is mathematically impossible to do that with three samples.
Besides, the practicality of listening to a cannon and soft flute, at their natural volume level, in the same piece, is rather bewildering.
Those pieces are ancient, and are usually performed outdoors. You would have to have an incredibly good setup to get anywhere close to accuracy with those pieces.
Where does it say that? Here is the entire chapter. It warns against taking communion with one that can lead you away from the path. And it seems like reading it there were some real motherfuckers in the most literal sense of the word. And read the previous chapter, "But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. "
Here is chapter 5
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
He's no idiot, not by a long shot. They don't carry flags saying "Baptist" or "Methodist", they simply converse. And from what I've seen, athiests (and especially antitheists) continually shout "there is no god!" from the rooftops. Seldom is there a single slashdot thread where an antitheist has to inteject theism into the conversation. This thread is a good example.
One of my drinking buddies is an atheist, and like the slashdot atheists he's far from secretive about it. He grew up an a religious family in Kentucky and is insistant about his antireligion, especially when Cherish tends bar -- she's been trying to convert him. I keep telling her she's wasting her time.
Yes, surely there are atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists in the peace corps etc., but they are few enough to be invisible.
There you guys go with your "Ponzi scheme" bullshit again. It isn't a Ponzi Sheme; a Ponzi scheme is designed to defraud, social security is designed to last.
The only fraud was shifting money from SS to the general fund, making it no different fromn any other tax.
What makes it look Ponzi-like is us baby boomers. The "pig in a python." Birth rates are dropping, when your kids hit retirement age, SS will be swimming in money -- if Congress doesn't steal it from them like it has from us.
Besides, I thought Obi Wan killed DuQu?
If Hollywood has taught ME anything, it's that damned near anything that comes from Hollywood is incredibly stupid. Seems like every movie and TV show I see takes a little more effort to ignore the impossibilities they portray.
Not relevant. Quoting your own quote, with the salient part highlighted: "A person who, while engaged in a professional capacity or activity described in subsection (b) of section 226 of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 on Federal land or in a federally operated (or contracted) facility, learns of facts that give reason to suspect that a child has suffered an incident of child abuse"
Besides, I think this happened in Britain. US laws don't apply there.
Just because Christians don't want scientists working with embryonic stem cells harvested from murdered babies doesn't make them anti-science.
Speak for yourself, son. A blastocyct is NOT a baby any more than a wart on your face is. It's simply a few human cells. You shed more humanity when you get a paper cut. And yes, I am a Christian. I would not want an embryo with my DNA removed from its womb, but your sins are not not my business. If you want an abortion, that's none of my business either. And once the embryo is removed, you would have it destroyed rather than further science? That's insane.
Rather than destroying the new Library of Alexandria, they've managed to choke it in its infacy. I should be able to link a fifty year old science fiction story directly rather than linking to a bookstore selling dead mens' books, or a wikipedia article badly describing it.
Nothing published before 1990 should still be under copyright. How is copyright going to entice Jimi Hendrix to record any more music?
No, you have it backwards, Mr velvet Flamebait. The MAFIAA, like the Star Wars emperor, has cajoled a corrupt Senate to give them what they want.
They steal from their own artists, they have stolen much of the public domain, they have sued innocent people who didn't even have computers. Their claims of "PIRACY!" is to make it look like receiving a download from someone kind enough to share what he's paid for is a theif, when what they are really after is the artists who have flipped them the bird and told them "fuck off, I don't need you, recording is cheap and I have the internet to get me noticed." As Cory Doctorow notes, "nobody ever lost money from piracy but many artists have starved from obscurity." Did you know that Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life, for a pittance, to his brother, to repay a loan his brother had made? An Van Gogh was an artistic genius. His fault was he was pretty much an asshole that nobody liked personally, so never got fame.
Which is why they want to destroy the internet. It isn't about pirates; copyright pirates never cost anyone a dime. Study after study shows that pirates are the RIAA's best customers. What kind of evil attacks its best customers?
Darth Vader, that's who. The government is the MAFIAA's stooge (DV's stooge), The "pirates" are the resistance.
What dimwit modded that insightful comment "troll"? You all know who the most famous snitch in history was -- Judas Iscariot.
God hates narcs, so it was probably one of the resident evangelical antitheists or satanists who modded you down.
The worst part of this is, the narc is usually a worse criminal than the one he's snitching on. The cops will bust the biggest dope dealer in town, he'll sing, turn in all his customers and help set up stings to make it look like THEY are dope dealers, then spend half as long in prison than they do.
I agree wholeheartedly, there's a special place in hell for informers. Especially the cowards who inform to save their own asses.