The worst thing New Orleans, or in fact anywhere, could have is handouts. All they do is provide a source of capital that nobody can compete with, and therefore nobody bothers to work towards restoring an economy.
In case anybody wants to see evidence to support this claim, look at pretty much any country the World Bank/IMF has dealt with. Or, for example, Jamaica, where farmers can't make a living because overflow produce from the US is sent there at prices even Jamaican farmers can't beat.
I hate it when people try to sound smarter than they are, like this one guy who just the other day was talking to myself. Maybe guys like he will learn eventually if they listen to old pros like you and I!
While some courts may require you to represent yourself in court, you can still seek advice from a lawyer.
The courts have no way of knowing for certain whether you came up with a two-inch thick pile of legal documents yourself, from a bunch of friends, or from a team of highly paid lawyers.
The question really is, can you trademark a brand?
Trademark law predates the sadistic corporate notion of companies like Nike, who are popular not because of the quality of their products, but because of their (perceived) popularity.
Just as circular is the concept of trademarking a brand, as a brand and a trademark are the exact same thing.
But that doesn't mean they won't try. The question then turns to whether the courts will let them.
Photosynth allows the aggregation of social picture networks (a la Flickr) into a completed image in addition to allowing a level of depth to image browsing previously unavailable.
That appears to be syntactically tolerable English. Semantically, though, WTF?
This lets you take all sorts of pictures of your room, and will automatically assemble them into a 3D environment. It will assemble your photos to look like an RPG, instead of a slideshow.
Using the example in the video...there are hundreds of online collections of people's photos of Notre Dame cathedral. Each photo is of a different part of it, from a slightly different angle.
This software takes all those different photos and assembles them into a 3D representation of Notre Dame cathedral, where you can look at any of the individual photos.
In addition, if someone identifies one of the saints in a statue on the cathedral, when you take a photo of it and your photo is added to the collection with the software, your photo will also have that saint identified--thereby enhancing the data contained in your photo.
It seems like with the insanity the US government promotes with corporations gone wild and the destruction of human rights, it will be up to the rest of the world to preserve civilization. Well, I guess future Museums of Human History could use a sideshow exhibit!
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Yesterday Slate nicely rounded up increasingly loud rumors "Accumulation of minor setbacks" my ass. They rounded up, when they should have rounded down!
But it seems to me that 'transporting' data, whether or not using quantum entanglement, isn't quite the same thing as transporting matter and really brings us no close the 'transporter' technology as seen on Star Trek.
It's actually a far more advanced version of the Star Trek technology.
Say, for example, that you are in orbit and someone on the surface wants to know what colour shirt a crewman is wearing.
With the inefficient Star Trek model, you'd have to send the crewman down, wearing the shirt.
With this data-teleportation model, you only have to send the message "The crewman is wearing a red shirt."
Unfortunately, since he didn't actually go on an away mission, you'd have to find another way to kill him off.
I know -nobody-, not a single person, that is happy with their mobile phone. I'm quite happy with my phone. It doesn't have a camera, it's not an easy-to-break clamshell, it doesn't have all sorts of data plans that I would never use. And it has a flashlight, which doesn't deter from the fact that it does what a phone is supposed to do.
The only thing I don't like about my phone is how hard it was to find a phone that is simply a phone.
Is USA really the "good guys" as they would claim?
They're phrasing the question to imply that there is "a good guy", as opposed to both sides being "good", or neither.
Once you've gotten people to assume that one side must be good and one must be bad, all you have to do is point out bad things that your opponent is doing, and the sheeple will follow.
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In case anybody wants to see evidence to support this claim, look at pretty much any country the World Bank/IMF has dealt with. Or, for example, Jamaica, where farmers can't make a living because overflow produce from the US is sent there at prices even Jamaican farmers can't beat.
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Hm... why don't you claim that your OS is Intelligently Designed, and that it deserves equal treatment in the classroom?
It'll work in Dover County, at least!
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Yeah, sure, they're all placebos, but which placebo (or combination thereof) is the best?
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I'm sure many creationists would say the same thing about science museums.
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Duh, it was a joke. Obviously by "bigger", they weren't referring to physical dimensions.
Really though, I don't see it getting any bigger than a Terabyte.
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Just wait until the SimUnions get involved. Or worse--the SimBureaucrats!
Now that would make a realistic city simulator.
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Then again, that cute girl in the eyeglasses ad...
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Damn straight!
I hate it when people try to sound smarter than they are, like this one guy who just the other day was talking to myself. Maybe guys like he will learn eventually if they listen to old pros like you and I!
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Get a piece of paper, write "I, [Name], have received [product], from [company], in good condition on [date], signed, so and so."
When the delivery guy complains, he can tell you what it really is that he wants you to sign.
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While some courts may require you to represent yourself in court, you can still seek advice from a lawyer.
The courts have no way of knowing for certain whether you came up with a two-inch thick pile of legal documents yourself, from a bunch of friends, or from a team of highly paid lawyers.
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Now if only they could build a version with a built-in widescreen TV, cooler, and porta-john, it'll be perfect!
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They already can.
And it doesn't take a contraption that shakes the bejeezus out of them, either.
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Hey, you don't need the internet to have companies f*ck with your privacy.
How would you like it if your hotel gave your room key to a guy with a bunch of TV cameras?
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The question really is, can you trademark a brand?
Trademark law predates the sadistic corporate notion of companies like Nike, who are popular not because of the quality of their products, but because of their (perceived) popularity.
Just as circular is the concept of trademarking a brand, as a brand and a trademark are the exact same thing.
But that doesn't mean they won't try. The question then turns to whether the courts will let them.
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This lets you take all sorts of pictures of your room, and will automatically assemble them into a 3D environment. It will assemble your photos to look like an RPG, instead of a slideshow.
Using the example in the video...there are hundreds of online collections of people's photos of Notre Dame cathedral. Each photo is of a different part of it, from a slightly different angle.
This software takes all those different photos and assembles them into a 3D representation of Notre Dame cathedral, where you can look at any of the individual photos.
In addition, if someone identifies one of the saints in a statue on the cathedral, when you take a photo of it and your photo is added to the collection with the software, your photo will also have that saint identified--thereby enhancing the data contained in your photo.
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(and no, before you ask, New York City is not a country)
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It's actually a far more advanced version of the Star Trek technology.
Say, for example, that you are in orbit and someone on the surface wants to know what colour shirt a crewman is wearing.
With the inefficient Star Trek model, you'd have to send the crewman down, wearing the shirt.
With this data-teleportation model, you only have to send the message "The crewman is wearing a red shirt."
Unfortunately, since he didn't actually go on an away mission, you'd have to find another way to kill him off.
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He woke up the next day and told Geordi he didn't think he'd be able to go to the holodeck.
"Sorry, but I woke up feeling really encrypted"
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They also don't work for people who don't have computers...
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The only thing I don't like about my phone is how hard it was to find a phone that is simply a phone.
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They're phrasing the question to imply that there is "a good guy", as opposed to both sides being "good", or neither.
Once you've gotten people to assume that one side must be good and one must be bad, all you have to do is point out bad things that your opponent is doing, and the sheeple will follow.
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You mean not counting the water between his ears?
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No, he's just being an asshole.
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