Okay, I've probably been trolled, but the following doesn't really seem to appropriate in a free country...
State mandated religion, and converting to a different religion is punishable by death.
Supporting an opposition government is treason and punishable by death.
Women aren't allowed to get an education or drive.
Televisions are illegal because they contribute to idolitry.
Music is illegal.
Men are required to wear beards, and they must be kept at least a minimum length.
Those are just a few examples. Granted, the U.S. isn't perfect (despite what our leaders want us to believe), but Afganistan is far from a free nation.
The "demo" image was printed in the St. Pete Times, and then sold to U.S. News and World Report which used it in an article. A USN&WR reader in Oklahama misidentified the face as being that of her ex-husband wanted on felony child neglect charges.
She didn't read it in the St. Petersburg Times. Instead, she read it in USN&WR where it is very possible that the caption was changed or removed... as the poster that you replied to pointed out.
Now, what were you saying about the "ass-u-me" jokes?;)
Also, in recent years, pay, cable or subscription television has become a popular means for distributing television type information. In some of these systems, the television type information only was delivered to the consumer at the consumer's home (point of sale location) in response to the consumer requesting such information and paying an appropriate amount to the owner of such information. The television type information distributed in this manner was transitory in nature (existed only for transitory period of time at the point of sale location). These systems still did not permit a material object embodying the owner's information to be produced or manufactured at the point of sale in response to the owner's authorization.
This patent was intended to apply to something like Blockbuster or Suncoast Video, and instead of storing a large inventory of videos, they would have a bunch of blank tapes and a catalog of available movies. A customer would then select a movie, which would then be downloaded and recorded to the tape after a fee was paid to the owner of the movie.
So, regardless of what good intentions you may believe the clean air act had, the end of car modding (till recently when it has become affordable again) was what the big supporters had in mind.
And just why would the auto industry want to prevent people from modifying their cars? Most of those modifications require part, usually more expensive than the original parts, and somebody has to make them.
Throughout the 60s and the early 70s, the American auto industry was heavily involved in various types of racing, and the high performance parts they developed were often available to the public for use in modifying their own cars. Aftermarket modifications resulted in the auto industry being able to sell more stuff and make more money.
And if you think they (the auto industry) were thrilled about putting all the emissions control devices on their cars, think again. Those things severely reduced power output, and cars had to be made smaller to maintain reasonable performance. And smaller cars just happen to have a smaller profit margin than larger cars.
So sure, I can just see some auto company's board of directors sitting around, gleefully plotting on how to screw the consumers and their own profits at the same time...
And just to try to keep this on topic, how does requiring the use of an LCD instead of a CRT considerably cut down on the ability to customize a computer? Sure, it might limit your choice of graphic card somewhat, but don't most of the good graphic cards these days support LCDs? Besides, if they were going to require LCDs instead of CTRs, then there'd be a lot of TVs that'd need replacing too.
My girlfriend went to a Catholic school, and in an attempt to not scare the children, they were told they were practicing fire drills instead of nuclear attack drills. So all these kids were being taught that in case of fire, crawl under your desk and hide...
I generally agree with your line of reasoning, but I just wanted to point out that an object "several AU away" wouldn't reach us any time soon... at the very least not in the next few centuries.
I have to disagree with this, and will use the following well know example to illustrate why:
That means that Halley's Comet is at it's furthest distance from the sun (aphelion) is about 34.75 AU away from the sun, and 33.75 AU from us (assuming both the Earth and Halley's Comet are on the same side of the sun).
Now, I think that 34 counts as 'several', and it only takes half of Halley's orbital period to travel that distance, or 38 years... not centuries as you stated.
From the Microsoft bulletin, and the post you replied to: "VeriSign has revoked the certificates, and they are listed in VeriSign's current Certificate Revocation List (CRL). However, because VeriSign's code-signing certificates do not specify a CRL Distribution Point (CDP), it is not possible for any browser's CRL-checking mechanism to download the VeriSign CRL and use it."
So even though VeriSign lists the certificates in their CRL, they don't provide a way for the browser's CRL-checking mechanism to check it. Looks like its still VeriSign's fault.
First, you're right that this an old idea from the 80's and Reagan's Star Wars program.
But now, Dubyia thinks that some major contributors of his campaign must make some bucks building an eighties-idea with new-millenium technology and Daddy's advice.
However, this thing has been in development during Clinton's administration (he's still president, at least for a few more days) so "Dubyia" has nothing to do with it yet.
That still doesn't change the fact the George W. is an idiot, but I can't say whether we'd be better off if Gore had won... it was pretty much a no win situation:(
If there wasn't a chance, they wouldn't of ever tried the merger in the first place.
Mergers get blocked all the time... like the big Worldcom - Sprint merger earlier this year. They certainly thought it'd go through, but government regulators (both U.S. and E.U.) didn't like the idea.
A recent study (read it in a newspaper, I think L.A. Times but unsure) shows a small $80 per year tax on all tax payers would go a long way to solving the United States poverty siuation.
Right... I already pay around $20,000 in taxes every year. If the government can't take $80 of that to solve the poverty problem, then I really doubt giving them another $80 is going to make much of a difference.
Of course, if it really could make a difference, then I certainly wouldn't mind paying it...
"If your friends want a license, they can call or write me.
480-614-3337 or 480-314-2416. The present terms are $.05 per square inch of screen protector adjusted annually by the change in the COLA voted by Congress for Social Security recipients, plus $5,000.00 administrative fee payable up front or at the rate of $.01 per square inch until paid."
Except, according to the article, the probe needs about 1kg of fuel per day to generate the plasma. So for 400 days of acceleration, you'd need 400kg of fuel... of course, the mass would decrease by 1 kg per day while the force remained constant, so that tends to complicate things somewhat.
Actually, this would make a big difference if you look at it this way. A radio station buys a CD from the record company in order to play it on the air. Whenever it plays this CD, or a song on that CD, it pays royalties to the record company for the privilege to play the song.
Now, mp3.com has you prove that you bought the CD, then allows you to listen to.mp3's that they ripped. Then you are allowed to play this music from the site (w/o paying royalties). While they have checked to see if you own this music, they are in effect acting like the radio station by playing the music that you want.
Except that the radio station allows you to listen to music that you haven't purchased.
Once you've purchased a copy of the music, it shouldn't make a difference if you uploaded a copy of the music to the server, or MP3.com allowed you access to a copy already there, as long as you prove you own your own copy.
Just after that previous post, I went to delete those 16 messages from my deleted items folder... as soon as I selected the first message, the preview pane failed to appear. I immediately jumped to the task manager and saw "Virus - Running". I killed that and Outlook, which had stopped responding. As far as I can tell, nothing was sent, and none of my files were changed.
I thought it simply returned a 2-digit value for the year. At least I had it set up to append '20' to the year once it rolled over to '00'... guess I'll have some code to fix Monday morning.
The Salon article stated that they had a TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun, a 9 mm rifle and a pair of shotguns. None of those are automatic weapons. They're all semi-auto(pull the trigger, fire 1 shot), or manual action (pump, bolt, lever, etc). The.45s you mentioned are most likely the classic Colt 45, Model 1911, which is also a semi-auto, but due to the larger caliber and increased mass of the bullet, it would have most likely inflicted greater injury than the 9 mm.
National Association for the Advancement of African American People? Just doesn't have the same ring to it. Or by colored do they mean all non-white people. In that case I guess it would be the NAANWP. Still doesn't work for me.
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Those are just a few examples. Granted, the U.S. isn't perfect (despite what our leaders want us to believe), but Afganistan is far from a free nation.
The "demo" image was printed in the St. Pete Times, and then sold to U.S. News and World Report which used it in an article. A USN&WR reader in Oklahama misidentified the face as being that of her ex-husband wanted on felony child neglect charges.
She didn't read it in the St. Petersburg Times. Instead, she read it in USN&WR where it is very possible that the caption was changed or removed... as the poster that you replied to pointed out.
Now, what were you saying about the "ass-u-me" jokes? ;)
This patent was intended to apply to something like Blockbuster or Suncoast Video, and instead of storing a large inventory of videos, they would have a bunch of blank tapes and a catalog of available movies. A customer would then select a movie, which would then be downloaded and recorded to the tape after a fee was paid to the owner of the movie.
So no, pay-per-view isn't prior art.
And just why would the auto industry want to prevent people from modifying their cars? Most of those modifications require part, usually more expensive than the original parts, and somebody has to make them.
Throughout the 60s and the early 70s, the American auto industry was heavily involved in various types of racing, and the high performance parts they developed were often available to the public for use in modifying their own cars. Aftermarket modifications resulted in the auto industry being able to sell more stuff and make more money.
And if you think they (the auto industry) were thrilled about putting all the emissions control devices on their cars, think again. Those things severely reduced power output, and cars had to be made smaller to maintain reasonable performance. And smaller cars just happen to have a smaller profit margin than larger cars.
So sure, I can just see some auto company's board of directors sitting around, gleefully plotting on how to screw the consumers and their own profits at the same time...
And just to try to keep this on topic, how does requiring the use of an LCD instead of a CRT considerably cut down on the ability to customize a computer? Sure, it might limit your choice of graphic card somewhat, but don't most of the good graphic cards these days support LCDs? Besides, if they were going to require LCDs instead of CTRs, then there'd be a lot of TVs that'd need replacing too.
My girlfriend went to a Catholic school, and in an attempt to not scare the children, they were told they were practicing fire drills instead of nuclear attack drills. So all these kids were being taught that in case of fire, crawl under your desk and hide...
From the Britannica dictionary we get the following:
And their encyclopedia entry states:
I have to disagree with this, and will use the following well know example to illustrate why:
Halley's Comet has an orbital period of approx 76 years. It's perihelion is 88 million kilometers, and it's aphelion is 5.2 billion kilometers.
An astronomical unit (AU) is 149,604,970 km.
That means that Halley's Comet is at it's furthest distance from the sun (aphelion) is about 34.75 AU away from the sun, and 33.75 AU from us (assuming both the Earth and Halley's Comet are on the same side of the sun).
Now, I think that 34 counts as 'several', and it only takes half of Halley's orbital period to travel that distance, or 38 years... not centuries as you stated.
So even though VeriSign lists the certificates in their CRL, they don't provide a way for the browser's CRL-checking mechanism to check it. Looks like its still VeriSign's fault.
This post was copied almost verbatim (first sentence was changed) from a post back on Feb 20th in the Building The Fastest Desktop Possible article.
But now, Dubyia thinks that some major contributors of his campaign must make some bucks building an eighties-idea with new-millenium technology and Daddy's advice.
However, this thing has been in development during Clinton's administration (he's still president, at least for a few more days) so "Dubyia" has nothing to do with it yet.
That still doesn't change the fact the George W. is an idiot, but I can't say whether we'd be better off if Gore had won... it was pretty much a no win situation :(
Mergers get blocked all the time... like the big Worldcom - Sprint merger earlier this year. They certainly thought it'd go through, but government regulators (both U.S. and E.U.) didn't like the idea.
Right... I already pay around $20,000 in taxes every year. If the government can't take $80 of that to solve the poverty problem, then I really doubt giving them another $80 is going to make much of a difference.
Of course, if it really could make a difference, then I certainly wouldn't mind paying it...
"If your friends want a license, they can call or write me. 480-614-3337 or 480-314-2416. The present terms are $.05 per square inch of screen protector adjusted annually by the change in the COLA voted by Congress for Social Security recipients, plus $5,000.00 administrative fee payable up front or at the rate of $.01 per square inch until paid."
Still, it ends up going REALLY fast :)
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That's almost as bad as the W2K boxes that proudly proclaim it is "Built on NT technology." NT, IIRC, stood for "New Technology."
Or those "NIC Cards" that I'm always hearing about...
Now, mp3.com has you prove that you bought the CD, then allows you to listen to .mp3's that they ripped. Then you are allowed to play this music from the site (w/o paying royalties). While they have checked to see if you own this music, they are in effect acting like the radio station by playing the music that you want.
Except that the radio station allows you to listen to music that you haven't purchased.
Once you've purchased a copy of the music, it shouldn't make a difference if you uploaded a copy of the music to the server, or MP3.com allowed you access to a copy already there, as long as you prove you own your own copy.
Just after that previous post, I went to delete those 16 messages from my deleted items folder... as soon as I selected the first message, the preview pane failed to appear. I immediately jumped to the task manager and saw "Virus - Running". I killed that and Outlook, which had stopped responding. As far as I can tell, nothing was sent, and none of my files were changed.
I had 16 copies of it this morning when I came in, saved a copy to look at in a text editor, and it never activated.
Unless of course you live in Kansas....
You first state that guns have no practical purpose other than killing people, then you give an excellent example of an alternative use... sports.
I thought it simply returned a 2-digit value for the year. At least I had it set up to append '20' to the year once it rolled over to '00'... guess I'll have some code to fix Monday morning.
The Salon article stated that they had a TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun, a 9 mm rifle and a pair of shotguns. None of those are automatic weapons. They're all semi-auto(pull the trigger, fire 1 shot), or manual action (pump, bolt, lever, etc). The .45s you mentioned are most likely the classic Colt 45, Model 1911, which is also a semi-auto, but due to the larger caliber and increased mass of the bullet, it would have most likely inflicted greater injury than the 9 mm.
National Association for the Advancement of African American People? Just doesn't have the same ring to it. Or by colored do they mean all non-white people. In that case I guess it would be the NAANWP. Still doesn't work for me.