You also get shows and other stuff that would not be considered mainstream enough to make money...
In other words, you get everyone paying for shows that only a few people (relatively speaking) are interested in watching. That's a problem with publicly funded 'arts/entertainment'.
Because they are not actually being "subsidized". Use of that term is mostly just political theatrics. The 3 largest "subsidies" are:
1: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
2: Tax expemptions for farm fuel (because that fuel is not used on roads).
3: HEAP - Low income Home Energy Assistance Program
These 3 programs account for about $2.5 billion of the about $4 billion that are considered "Oil Subsidies". source
Ha, Ha... This was the exact storyline of a Southpark episode where one of the characters becomes cynical with life and the music he listened to began to literally sound like shit. I think the title of the episode was called "You're Getting Old".
What? Who cares about that stuff. The only thing I care about is if I like the music or not. Some of my favorite songs were recorded by people with little education of any kind. I don't think RL Burnside, Horace Silver, Muddy Waters and their ilk studied musical theory.
The best education for a musician is practice and experience. The best education for a songwriter are the bitter lessons of life.
The mineral deposits described are formed in water here on Earth. They would have a different chemical composition if they were deposited in something other than water. What would be interesting to know would be the age of the rocks.
The state of the art has been pretty good at predicting rates and ranges of maximum and minimum temperatures.
From the article:
"The hottest day, which today occurs once every 20 years, is expected to occur once every second year by the end of the 21st century," said climate physicist Thomas Stocker.
This isn't a 7 day weather forecast. The quote from the article is talking about predicting the rate of record breaking temperatures through the end of the century. That's longer than an 85 year period. They have extrapolated, but there's no way of knowing how accurate these long term climate predictions are. We should think long and hard about making any political decisions based on long term predictions like these.
And, despite gaps in knowledge, weather events once deemed a freak are likely to become more frequent or more vicious, inflicting a potentially high toll in deaths, economic damage and misery, it said.
I wonder how life has survived on for so long on this planet? For a majority of the Earth's history, the temperature has been warmer than it is now and there have been no polar ice caps. A phenomenon like the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum must have had a very detrimental effect on life on this planet, but the geologic record doesn't show that. It shows there was an explosion of diversification of species during that time, particularly with mammals.
Plus the name of the group; "Learning and Forgetting Lab"?? That sounds like something from Hogwort's, not a real academic university. It's hard to take something seriously when it sounds so whimsically fictitious.
citation needed.
The Tea Party has always been a single issue, grassroots voter advocacy group. Their platform has always consisted of 3 planks: Fiscal Responsibility Constitutionally Limited Government Free Markets
That's it. Nothing about race and nothing about religion. The TEA Party has Libertarian roots, not Christian Conservative roots.
Benoit has not posted it on Youtube because he is asking to be compensated. But it sounds as if he won’t have much trouble getting compensated through a settlement with the police department.
However, he first must post the video for the world to see.
So, he can't post the video because he asking to be compensated, however he must post the video first to do that??? Contradict much? FN reporter should have been a writer for Monty Python.
He probably took out the memory card after they put the smashed phone back in his pocket. But who knows? If the reporter screwed up facts like 'SIM cards don't store video', who knows what other facts they got wrong in this story.
Once again, news reporting appears to the be the most technically clueless profession. (and if this video actually exists, I guess the police would be the second).
Also from TFA: "Mr. Spitz’s information, Mr. Blaze pointed out, was not based on those frequent updates, but on how often Mr. Spitz checked his e-mail." His phone must automatically check for new email every 7.5 minutes or so. Those would be a data transfers possibly subject to charges, taxes and inter-carrier charges that are based his location, so it's not surprising or conspiratorial that his location data is retained.
They at least need to retain your location when you use your phone for customer billing, taxing, and inter-carrier billing. The taxing and inter-carrier data could possibly be anonymized, but I would expect that data would still be retained by the phone companies to cover their asses. Cell phone usage is taxed at the federal, state and city level (in the US) and inter-carrier charges/reciprocating agreements add up to big bucks, so I can understand why they might be hesitant to toss out data, particularly the original switch data, which contains all the originating and terminating information.
Because that's how cell phones work. Cell phone companies must know where you are so that they can route your calls and data to the nearest cell phone tower.
In other shocking news... your landline provider, cable provider and isp know where you live. OMG!
Right. If they portrayed computer technology realistically, people would be bored. If they portrayed anything realistically, people would be bored.
Every aspect of CSI, every premise, plot, prop and storyline, is ridiculous. But if you can enjoy Star Trek, there's no reason you couldn't enjoy CSI.
They found lots of ways to break in. In fact, attacks over Bluetooth, the cellular network, malicious music files and via the diagnostic tools used in dealerships were all possible, if difficult to pull off, Savage said. "The easiest way remains what we did in our first paper: Plug into the car and do it," he said.
and
Car hacking is "unlikely to happen in the future," said Tadayoshi Kohno, an assistant professor with the University of Washington who worked on the project. "But I think the average customer will want to know whether the car they buy in five years... will have these issues mitigated."
if we have no time to teach students how to do science
Concepts about methods of scientific testing can be taught in a couple of lessons. The basic concepts like postulating and testing theories, repeatability, precision vs. accuracy, double blind studies, etc. are not difficult, so to say there's not enough time to teach them is a just lame excuse. The real reason for declining participation in science fairs is given later in the article: "One obvious reason for flagging interest in science fairs is competing demands for high school students' extracurricular attention." Nothing the president or dept of education does will change that.
June 9, 1991, Kings Island amusement park, Mason, OH - Around 8:00 PM, a 20-year-old man entered the Oktoberfest pond, apparently to retrieve a lost hat. He was electrocuted instantly, and two people entered the pond to rescue him. Both the man who originally entered the pond and one of the rescuers died at a local hospital, and the other rescuer had serious injuries. The accident was linked to a faulty water pump, which had short-circuited, electrifying the water. - http://kiextreme.com/history_timeline.php
Forget Google Instant, this is about pre-emptively pushing data at users before they know they need it, said Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of geographic and local services, who was speaking at the LeWeb internet conference in Paris this week.
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What happens if you refuse to pay? A civil suit? A fine?
In other words, you get everyone paying for shows that only a few people (relatively speaking) are interested in watching.
That's a problem with publicly funded 'arts/entertainment'.
Because they are not actually being "subsidized". Use of that term is mostly just political theatrics. The 3 largest "subsidies" are:
1: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
2: Tax expemptions for farm fuel (because that fuel is not used on roads).
3: HEAP - Low income Home Energy Assistance Program
These 3 programs account for about $2.5 billion of the about $4 billion that are considered "Oil Subsidies". source
Ha, Ha... This was the exact storyline of a Southpark episode where one of the characters becomes cynical with life and the music he listened to began to literally sound like shit.
I think the title of the episode was called "You're Getting Old".
What?
Who cares about that stuff. The only thing I care about is if I like the music or not.
Some of my favorite songs were recorded by people with little education of any kind. I don't think RL Burnside, Horace Silver, Muddy Waters and their ilk studied musical theory.
The best education for a musician is practice and experience. The best education for a songwriter are the bitter lessons of life.
I'd like one that I could strap onto my forearm.
The mineral deposits described are formed in water here on Earth. They would have a different chemical composition if they were deposited in something other than water.
What would be interesting to know would be the age of the rocks.
From the article:
This isn't a 7 day weather forecast. The quote from the article is talking about predicting the rate of record breaking temperatures through the end of the century. That's longer than an 85 year period. They have extrapolated, but there's no way of knowing how accurate these long term climate predictions are. We should think long and hard about making any political decisions based on long term predictions like these.
I wonder how life has survived on for so long on this planet? For a majority of the Earth's history, the temperature has been warmer than it is now and there have been no polar ice caps.
A phenomenon like the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum must have had a very detrimental effect on life on this planet, but the geologic record doesn't show that. It shows there was an explosion of diversification of species during that time, particularly with mammals.
Plus the name of the group; "Learning and Forgetting Lab"??
That sounds like something from Hogwort's, not a real academic university. It's hard to take something seriously when it sounds so whimsically fictitious.
Can America afford to ignore the bitter lessons of the Community Reinvestment Act?
citation needed.
The Tea Party has always been a single issue, grassroots voter advocacy group. Their platform has always consisted of 3 planks:
Fiscal Responsibility
Constitutionally Limited Government
Free Markets
That's it. Nothing about race and nothing about religion.
The TEA Party has Libertarian roots, not Christian Conservative roots.
Psychic damage... lol.
Maybe he used some sort of telepathy. Hacked their brains and their router.
You'd think that attorneys representing the government would know the difference between psychic and psychological.
Because in politics everything is so sensationalist. That's our problem.
So, he can't post the video because he asking to be compensated, however he must post the video first to do that???
Contradict much? FN reporter should have been a writer for Monty Python.
He probably took out the memory card after they put the smashed phone back in his pocket.
But who knows? If the reporter screwed up facts like 'SIM cards don't store video', who knows what other facts they got wrong in this story.
Once again, news reporting appears to the be the most technically clueless profession. (and if this video actually exists, I guess the police would be the second).
Also from TFA: "Mr. Spitz’s information, Mr. Blaze pointed out, was not based on those frequent updates, but on how often Mr. Spitz checked his e-mail."
His phone must automatically check for new email every 7.5 minutes or so. Those would be a data transfers possibly subject to charges, taxes and inter-carrier charges that are based his location, so it's not surprising or conspiratorial that his location data is retained.
They at least need to retain your location when you use your phone for customer billing, taxing, and inter-carrier billing. The taxing and inter-carrier data could possibly be anonymized, but I would expect that data would still be retained by the phone companies to cover their asses. Cell phone usage is taxed at the federal, state and city level (in the US) and inter-carrier charges/reciprocating agreements add up to big bucks, so I can understand why they might be hesitant to toss out data, particularly the original switch data, which contains all the originating and terminating information.
Because that's how cell phones work. Cell phone companies must know where you are so that they can route your calls and data to the nearest cell phone tower.
In other shocking news... your landline provider, cable provider and isp know where you live. OMG!
Right. If they portrayed computer technology realistically, people would be bored. If they portrayed anything realistically, people would be bored.
Every aspect of CSI, every premise, plot, prop and storyline, is ridiculous. But if you can enjoy Star Trek, there's no reason you couldn't enjoy CSI.
and
Concepts about methods of scientific testing can be taught in a couple of lessons. The basic concepts like postulating and testing theories, repeatability, precision vs. accuracy, double blind studies, etc. are not difficult, so to say there's not enough time to teach them is a just lame excuse. The real reason for declining participation in science fairs is given later in the article: "One obvious reason for flagging interest in science fairs is competing demands for high school students' extracurricular attention." Nothing the president or dept of education does will change that.
Don't know if it was a polarity problem.
Don't push your data on me, pusher man.
"conservafags"?
Go back to 4chan, THIS IS SLASHDOT!!