First hard sci fi book I have read in a while, but I enjoyed it. Posthumans and emergent AIs--the theme of TFA--feature heavily, but don't get in the way. First 30 pages are a little slow, but after that it rocks.
The theory is that Parliament just sets a penalty for each statutory contravention in Penalty Units according to its perceived seriousness, and can update them all automatically eg to account for inflation by amending a single section of a single piece of legislation (the Crimes Act) rather than every section imposing a penalty (which would be a nightmare). It's quite elegant for the legal profession.
It's likely that there will be a maximum penalty of 2000 Penalty Units for the contravention, which today = $220k, and in future may rise.
What's interesting is that some Acts I have dealt impose penalties in the range of 1 to 30 Penalty Units, so this is quite a big fine, relatively speaking.
disclaimer - i'm a lawyer but i'm not your lawyer and this is not legal advice. don't rely on it!
I remember searching this out extensively when I took on a colour Epson printer from my brother. I don't have links to the sources, but I recall that the nutshell answer was that some manufacturers' prices were better or comperable to the generics, and some were worse.
Apart from factoring in cost of replacing print heads more often, and potential problems with DRM or voiding your warranty if they allege damage was caused by use of non-original ink (which I think in the US is in violation of the Magnuson-Moss Act, but I don't think is so here in Oz, tho I haven't checked) I recall there were two main factors:
One was capacity of generic cartridges - some have a smaller volume than the original, and hence this has to be factored in against their cheaper cost. Off the bat, this made the generics only marginally cheaper than the original for my printer. (I'm talking new cartridges, not refills).
The other was the quality of the print job. I was looking for a colour printer for photos, and it matters to me that the printouts would last perhaps 1-2 yrs before fading for the generics, versus a much longer (supposed) lifestyle for the Epson ink. Why save a couple of bucks if the photo will fade in its frame?
For me the answer was simple, and the Epson was much better value than the generic stuff. I recall finding material that suggested that it wasn't so clear cut for ink from other manufacturers, in particular HP. But I didn't chase that down.
fwiw, reading other peoples' experiences that it took a number of printouts before the generic ink replaced the original in the printer heads, and to expect smearing and poor quality until then, didn't exactly engender confidence that the inks were of comparable makeup.
I have simply had them printed in colour on A4 pages, and tendered in evidence. Judges seem to prefer things that old-fashioned way.:)
So far, there's never been a problem about anyone alleging the photos are fake, or retouched, which I assume underlies your question.
If that arose, it would be settled similarly to such an allegation about a regular film picture (ie silver deposited negative), or any document for that matter: ie, bringing along appropriate experts to testify.
Hey, what about Chem (and Phys and Bio)?
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There are olympiads for those things too. And you get to do a practical exam too, which is surely more "sporty" than using a calculator:p
I'm not sure exactly how the process works in the US, but in Australia registering the body which runs or supports Wiki would let gifts be tax-deductible.
This mightn't just apply to donations--it might mean that a web-hosting company gets a tax-break by donating otherwise unused bandwidth/server space to Wiki.
The recent rise in cracking in the last couple of months is probably a result of US summer holidays...
But Telstra doesn't make it hard for wannabes - when I recently changed my password, it required: 8 letters max, only from charsets [az][AZ], numbers and _
Not brilliant for security...
i think Katz meant to say that The Dish is the highest-grossing *independent* australian film.
i saw the film with my american fiancee - she loved it (as did i). it's the sort of quirky, fun movie that Hollywood would never make precisely because it has no stars or obvious tag line but which is (for those reasons) well worth seeing. as everyone else says, go rent "The Castle" by the same team - i've watched it with aussies, brits (both northerners & southerner), americans, south africans & kiwis and they all see something of themselves in it. it's a cultural thing...
to correct something someone posted above, our Prime Minister isn't actually short - he's around 6 foot tall, from memory. the media just portrays him thus to belittle him.
and one other thing off-topic: anyone else read "the blue nowhere" by jeffery deaver? were you as disappointed as i about his lack of grasp of technology?
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SunDog ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunDog:_Frozen_Legacy ) - such a great game when it came out
No, just a Dothraki army
"Spin State" by Chris Moriarty. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553382136
First hard sci fi book I have read in a while, but I enjoyed it. Posthumans and emergent AIs--the theme of TFA--feature heavily, but don't get in the way. First 30 pages are a little slow, but after that it rocks.
The theory is that Parliament just sets a penalty for each statutory contravention in Penalty Units according to its perceived seriousness, and can update them all automatically eg to account for inflation by amending a single section of a single piece of legislation (the Crimes Act) rather than every section imposing a penalty (which would be a nightmare). It's quite elegant for the legal profession.
It's likely that there will be a maximum penalty of 2000 Penalty Units for the contravention, which today = $220k, and in future may rise.
What's interesting is that some Acts I have dealt impose penalties in the range of 1 to 30 Penalty Units, so this is quite a big fine, relatively speaking. disclaimer - i'm a lawyer but i'm not your lawyer and this is not legal advice. don't rely on it!
> and look the other way while you make your own Oxford Englsh Dictionary at 5 cents a page.
:-)
you didn't copy all the pages, did you?
I remember searching this out extensively when I took on a colour Epson printer from my brother. I don't have links to the sources, but I recall that the nutshell answer was that some manufacturers' prices were better or comperable to the generics, and some were worse.
Apart from factoring in cost of replacing print heads more often, and potential problems with DRM or voiding your warranty if they allege damage was caused by use of non-original ink (which I think in the US is in violation of the Magnuson-Moss Act, but I don't think is so here in Oz, tho I haven't checked) I recall there were two main factors:
One was capacity of generic cartridges - some have a smaller volume than the original, and hence this has to be factored in against their cheaper cost. Off the bat, this made the generics only marginally cheaper than the original for my printer. (I'm talking new cartridges, not refills).
The other was the quality of the print job. I was looking for a colour printer for photos, and it matters to me that the printouts would last perhaps 1-2 yrs before fading for the generics, versus a much longer (supposed) lifestyle for the Epson ink. Why save a couple of bucks if the photo will fade in its frame?
For me the answer was simple, and the Epson was much better value than the generic stuff. I recall finding material that suggested that it wasn't so clear cut for ink from other manufacturers, in particular HP. But I didn't chase that down.
fwiw, reading other peoples' experiences that it took a number of printouts before the generic ink replaced the original in the printer heads, and to expect smearing and poor quality until then, didn't exactly engender confidence that the inks were of comparable makeup.
Yes. Why wouldn't they be?
:)
I have simply had them printed in colour on A4 pages, and tendered in evidence. Judges seem to prefer things that old-fashioned way.
So far, there's never been a problem about anyone alleging the photos are fake, or retouched, which I assume underlies your question.
If that arose, it would be settled similarly to such an allegation about a regular film picture (ie silver deposited negative), or any document for that matter: ie, bringing along appropriate experts to testify.
I can see it now: the 400 metre titration...
Now let's see, how many decades before 1845 was the US Constitution drafted...
And why not cast Darl as a Vogon?
This mightn't just apply to donations--it might mean that a web-hosting company gets a tax-break by donating otherwise unused bandwidth/server space to Wiki.
Wait
> "Relax, everyone - the risk of a gigantic asteroid colliding with Earth just got smaller!"
Surely the risk hasn't changed, just our estimate of it...
...to get robots with the capabilities of five year olds. Just clone Congress a couple of times.
The recent rise in cracking in the last couple of months is probably a result of US summer holidays... But Telstra doesn't make it hard for wannabes - when I recently changed my password, it required: 8 letters max, only from charsets [az][AZ], numbers and _ Not brilliant for security...
i saw the film with my american fiancee - she loved it (as did i). it's the sort of quirky, fun movie that Hollywood would never make precisely because it has no stars or obvious tag line but which is (for those reasons) well worth seeing. as everyone else says, go rent "The Castle" by the same team - i've watched it with aussies, brits (both northerners & southerner), americans, south africans & kiwis and they all see something of themselves in it. it's a cultural thing...
to correct something someone posted above, our Prime Minister isn't actually short - he's around 6 foot tall, from memory. the media just portrays him thus to belittle him.
and one other thing off-topic: anyone else read "the blue nowhere" by jeffery deaver? were you as disappointed as i about his lack of grasp of technology?