I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment, but I can't help wondering if linking death -> public domain without any delay would lead to some killings. I don't really see why you would want to provide a motivation to kill someone when there is an easy alternative - in this case simply make the copywrite expire after a fixed period.
Suppose it were technically possible to drill a hole clear through the Earth. If then a rock were dropped into the hole, would it not eventually come to rest, floating right in the center of the planet? Would that not mean that in the exact center there is no gravity to cause pressure on the material in the center either? Your thought experiment is not very well thought through. If you were able to drill a hole straight through the earth, what would happen? It would collapse! Why? Gravitational force!
You are correct that there is a point in the center of the earth where all gravity cancels out, but that does Not mean that there is no pressure at that point. Imagine that particular point was lower pressure surrounded by higher pressure material - the higher pressure material would migrate toward the lower pressure spot, equalizing it. You'd have to have some sort of repulsive force pushing Away all the magma to get a stable low-pressure zone, even in the gravitational center of the earth.
Yes, Ron Paul is nuts. For example, how exactly is he going to move a $7 trillion economy back to the gold standard when there's less than $3 trillion in gold on the planet? Correction. The current US Economy is closer to $14 trillion. (NY Times estimate for 2007)
Correction. The estimation of all the gold ever mined in the world would be worth closer to $4 trillion on today's market value. ((2001 estimate of "all the gold ever mined" + modest production for 6 years) x current market value) So if Ron Paul is elected president, the value of gold can be expected to quadruple (approximately) as demand soars. Invest in gold! - except not, because he's not going to win...
Religion does take a central part in Republican politics, but I don't know that you could say the same thing about Democrats.
On the other hand, it's true that the United States population is simply much more religious than many other first-world nations, so it's natural to expect religion to play a larger part in our politics.
I didn't realize.zip compresses each file seperately. I would have expected it to be able to optimize the compression across multiple files (which would net a better compression ratio than doing each file seperately).
While it's true that the virus is unlikely to be able to find/mutate a replacement gene within its own DNA, we're now inserting it into "monkey kidney cells which contain the protein needed". It's unclear from the article how they get the protein into the monkey kidney cells but my impression is that they added a gene to the monkey cells that produces the protein.
It's not unheard of for DNA fragments to jump cross-species, and the piece that the virus needs is sitting right there in the host cells...
New Hampshire has a law stating that their primary is held 1 week before the next earliest state's primary. Every time another state moves their primary up, NH puts theirs one week earlier.
Iowa is still allowed to be before them because they have a caucus, not a primary.
Yeah, I've Never had AV software on my home computer, and to this day I've never had a virus that's slowed down or screwed up my computer more than anti-virus software does. The cure is worse than the disease!
No, actually.
Under normal competition supply and demand will determine the selling price. Under monopolistic competition it is in the monopoly's interest to restrict supply and substantially raise the price (think diamonds). Microsoft doesn't have a complete monopoly on the console market yet, but it's enough that they can start using some monopolistic type price gouging.
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I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment, but I can't help wondering if linking death -> public domain without any delay would lead to some killings. I don't really see why you would want to provide a motivation to kill someone when there is an easy alternative - in this case simply make the copywrite expire after a fixed period.
That just means the first person to link your name to something awful will have a monopoly on your search results page.
You are correct that there is a point in the center of the earth where all gravity cancels out, but that does Not mean that there is no pressure at that point. Imagine that particular point was lower pressure surrounded by higher pressure material - the higher pressure material would migrate toward the lower pressure spot, equalizing it. You'd have to have some sort of repulsive force pushing Away all the magma to get a stable low-pressure zone, even in the gravitational center of the earth.
Religion does take a central part in Republican politics, but I don't know that you could say the same thing about Democrats. On the other hand, it's true that the United States population is simply much more religious than many other first-world nations, so it's natural to expect religion to play a larger part in our politics.
I didn't realize .zip compresses each file seperately. I would have expected it to be able to optimize the compression across multiple files (which would net a better compression ratio than doing each file seperately).
While it's true that the virus is unlikely to be able to find/mutate a replacement gene within its own DNA, we're now inserting it into "monkey kidney cells which contain the protein needed". It's unclear from the article how they get the protein into the monkey kidney cells but my impression is that they added a gene to the monkey cells that produces the protein. It's not unheard of for DNA fragments to jump cross-species, and the piece that the virus needs is sitting right there in the host cells...
And here I thought earth was already terra-formed.
New Hampshire has a law stating that their primary is held 1 week before the next earliest state's primary. Every time another state moves their primary up, NH puts theirs one week earlier. Iowa is still allowed to be before them because they have a caucus, not a primary.
And we had to code uphill, both ways, in the snow!
Not quite. Since we can observe things that happened in the past we will be able to see what rate they happened then as opposed to now.
Yeah, I've Never had AV software on my home computer, and to this day I've never had a virus that's slowed down or screwed up my computer more than anti-virus software does. The cure is worse than the disease!
Yes, except most people skip the "count to 3" step. And instead of "stop", kind of slow down some...
No, actually. Under normal competition supply and demand will determine the selling price. Under monopolistic competition it is in the monopoly's interest to restrict supply and substantially raise the price (think diamonds). Microsoft doesn't have a complete monopoly on the console market yet, but it's enough that they can start using some monopolistic type price gouging.