I'm also completely free to borrow that game from a friend who has paid the $100... that isn't substantiallly different from downloading a cracked version (I know, presumably if I borrow a CD, the person I borrowed it from can't run the game while I have his copy of the CD). The point is, there are grey areas in the principle of fair use -- which is all the more reason why we shouldn't tolerate vigilantes.
Use excess power to pump water 300 ft uphill, then use the water to drive a turbine to power the A/C. From what I know of air conditioners, it would take a LOT of photovoltaics to drive one... I'd guess at least $20,000 worth.
The following are pictures of women who have historically dated. Although they may not all have accounts with us currently, these and women like these are examples of girlfriends you could meet through date.com!
Is exchanging digital music in person any different than exchanging digital music over p2p networks? Yes. Unless you routinely hang out with RIAA employees, you're much less likely to get caught. Just be careful not to bump MP3 players with anybody that appears to be a lawyer. Does it matter whether or not it is legal, if enforcing any laws against it is impossible?
The domain will not actually be named.mobile, rumours are they are hoping for a coveted one-letter TLD like.m to make it easier to type on a mobile phone. There goes my chance to have an email address of batman@bat.mobile!!!
There isn't much of anything that isn't sold by attatching hot nearly naked women to it. Funeral homes? Churches? Depends undergarments?
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Well, no. Diversity is a survival factor. "Farming" generally tends to limit diversity and encourage monoculture. This is not healthy, especially for trees. Case in point: All the trees around Lake Tahoe are currently dying. Why? Because after clearcutting many years ago, the diversity was eliminated, and all that grew back were Douglas Firs. These are all susceptible to the same diseases and pests, e.g. pine borers. More diversity would have made it more difficult for these problems to spread. Basically, by farming you're committing yourself to ever more intensive (and costly) management - thinning, fertilizing, spraying for pests - to keep the monoculture from collapsing. It just isn't sustainable long term. This doesn't mean we shouldn't attempt to manage our forest resources. It does mean we shouldn't assume the only purpose of a forest is to produce wood for our own use.
should a player with a super-accurate bionic eye be allowed to play professional baseball? Should women with breast implants be allowed to compete in wet T-shirt contests?
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No, it is a moral/ethical belief, but it can also be argued from pure logic. We don't know what resources we may need in the future, biological or otherwise. Therefore, by not preserving diversity now, we may be threatening our own survival as a species in the future. Why do you think we're keeping the smallpox virus in cold storage, instead of completely destroying it? Because we don't know whether or not we may need it in the future! Same argument applies to the spotted owl or snail darter. Religion has nothing to do with it; in fact, the dominant religion here states that Man was put here to have dominion over the Earth and all the creatures in it.
Uh, do you know what a "treaty" is? It is a legally binding contract. Despite having repeatedly violated the treaties, the Interior Department is legally bound to try to honor them. These "payments" are usually part of ongoing compensation for having deprived people of land that they were legally entitled to. The priciple of Eminent Domain does allow the government to kick people off their land, but stipulates that they must be compensated.
As for life there-if it can't fight back who cares? I don't know -- if they are truly TASTY little aliens, we should try to preserve them as a food source...
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Guess what, we humans, as a race, own everything in the solar system. Plus any other planets we can get to and beat up the current inhabitants of!
Guess what, humans don't own jack. We share a planet with millions of other species. That fact that we are able to influence the planet more than most other species gives us a responsibility to act as caretakers. The question of exploiting other celestial bodies is moot until it becomes economically feasible to do so anyhow.
Silly! You don't need to run antenna coax to every room. Just run Cat5 & power to every room, so that you can put a wireless access point with built-in antenna (e.g. AirPort) in every room! Then when you put a computer in that room, you don't need to run Cat5 to it, you can just use an 802.11 card!
Obvious features are intercepting all outgoing fax and data calls to see if they can be routed over the internet to save on toll charges. Less obvious is setting up a special email account which automatically prints attachments of any email received -- just don't give out this address to spammers!
Personally, I think all received faxes should be saved to hard disk and previewed before being printed to prevent wasting paper. But I'm not sure how easy this is to implement currently with open source.
Population of California: 35.4 million Population of Canada: less than 32 million
If the California government was was providing its citizens all the same services that the Canadian goverment was providing its citizens, these budget numbers would not be out of line. But they are not, so there must be something seriously screwed up about California. But then, that's one of the reasons I moved from California to Oregon.
My vision varies widely over the day, especially after staring at a CRT for 12 hours. But then, I have diabetes... have you had your blood sugar checked?
What Oracle did is only legal if you buy the assertion that certain California state employees are too stupid to count the number of employees before ordering software, and that they weren't bribed or encouraged by Oracle in any way to over-order. Having worked for the Oracle Marketing department and having observed first hand them billing customers for work that was never done, I find that very, very difficult to beleive.
Right. And there is no way a big company like Oracle would fool a prospective HUGE customer like the California government and charge them for something they couldn't use like 270,000 licenses for their 230,000 employees, only a quarter of which actually needed to access a database... and yet they did! Now, HP has a slightly better reputation to uphold than Oracle, but still, I wouldn't put it past them. (By the way, doesn't CA (California) have a larger government budget than CA (Canada)?)
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I'm also completely free to borrow that game from a friend who has paid the $100... that isn't substantiallly different from downloading a cracked version (I know, presumably if I borrow a CD, the person I borrowed it from can't run the game while I have his copy of the CD). The point is, there are grey areas in the principle of fair use -- which is all the more reason why we shouldn't tolerate vigilantes.
Use excess power to pump water 300 ft uphill, then use the water to drive a turbine to power the A/C. From what I know of air conditioners, it would take a LOT of photovoltaics to drive one... I'd guess at least $20,000 worth.
The following are pictures of women who have historically dated. Although they may not all have accounts with us currently, these and women like these are examples of girlfriends you could meet through date.com!
For $778, you could have gotten a Dell notebook with a 40GB drive ($699 for 20GB).
So, it only costs twice as much as the Archos players that are already out and that already have the same capabilities! I can't wait!
Is exchanging digital music in person any different than exchanging digital music over p2p networks? Yes. Unless you routinely hang out with RIAA employees, you're much less likely to get caught. Just be careful not to bump MP3 players with anybody that appears to be a lawyer. Does it matter whether or not it is legal, if enforcing any laws against it is impossible?
The domain will not actually be named .mobile, rumours are they are hoping for a coveted one-letter TLD like .m to make it easier to type on a mobile phone. There goes my chance to have an email address of batman@bat.mobile!!!
There isn't much of anything that isn't sold by attatching hot nearly naked women to it. Funeral homes? Churches? Depends undergarments?
Well, no. Diversity is a survival factor. "Farming" generally tends to limit diversity and encourage monoculture. This is not healthy, especially for trees. Case in point: All the trees around Lake Tahoe are currently dying. Why? Because after clearcutting many years ago, the diversity was eliminated, and all that grew back were Douglas Firs. These are all susceptible to the same diseases and pests, e.g. pine borers. More diversity would have made it more difficult for these problems to spread. Basically, by farming you're committing yourself to ever more intensive (and costly) management - thinning, fertilizing, spraying for pests - to keep the monoculture from collapsing. It just isn't sustainable long term. This doesn't mean we shouldn't attempt to manage our forest resources. It does mean we shouldn't assume the only purpose of a forest is to produce wood for our own use.
I'm pretty sure SCO won't exist 25 years from now. However, Darl might be out of prison by then.
should a player with a super-accurate bionic eye be allowed to play professional baseball? Should women with breast implants be allowed to compete in wet T-shirt contests?
No, it is a moral/ethical belief, but it can also be argued from pure logic. We don't know what resources we may need in the future, biological or otherwise. Therefore, by not preserving diversity now, we may be threatening our own survival as a species in the future. Why do you think we're keeping the smallpox virus in cold storage, instead of completely destroying it? Because we don't know whether or not we may need it in the future! Same argument applies to the spotted owl or snail darter. Religion has nothing to do with it; in fact, the dominant religion here states that Man was put here to have dominion over the Earth and all the creatures in it.
Uh, do you know what a "treaty" is? It is a legally binding contract. Despite having repeatedly violated the treaties, the Interior Department is legally bound to try to honor them. These "payments" are usually part of ongoing compensation for having deprived people of land that they were legally entitled to. The priciple of Eminent Domain does allow the government to kick people off their land, but stipulates that they must be compensated.
As for life there-if it can't fight back who cares? I don't know -- if they are truly TASTY little aliens, we should try to preserve them as a food source...
Guess what, humans don't own jack. We share a planet with millions of other species. That fact that we are able to influence the planet more than most other species gives us a responsibility to act as caretakers. The question of exploiting other celestial bodies is moot until it becomes economically feasible to do so anyhow.
Silly! You don't need to run antenna coax to every room. Just run Cat5 & power to every room, so that you can put a wireless access point with built-in antenna (e.g. AirPort) in every room! Then when you put a computer in that room, you don't need to run Cat5 to it, you can just use an 802.11 card!
I say the courts should force all three of them to change their first names to "Dick"!
Obvious features are intercepting all outgoing fax and data calls to see if they can be routed over the internet to save on toll charges. Less obvious is setting up a special email account which automatically prints attachments of any email received -- just don't give out this address to spammers!
Personally, I think all received faxes should be saved to hard disk and previewed before being printed to prevent wasting paper. But I'm not sure how easy this is to implement currently with open source.
normal phone line Can't you just run another Cat5 pair to handle this?
Run wiring for 802.11g to all rooms now!
Population of California: 35.4 million
Population of Canada: less than 32 million
If the California government was was providing its citizens all the same services that the Canadian goverment was providing its citizens, these budget numbers would not be out of line. But they are not, so there must be something seriously screwed up about California. But then, that's one of the reasons I moved from California to Oregon.
My vision varies widely over the day, especially after staring at a CRT for 12 hours. But then, I have diabetes... have you had your blood sugar checked?
What Oracle did is only legal if you buy the assertion that certain California state employees are too stupid to count the number of employees before ordering software, and that they weren't bribed or encouraged by Oracle in any way to over-order. Having worked for the Oracle Marketing department and having observed first hand them billing customers for work that was never done, I find that very, very difficult to beleive.
...is that $160 Canadian or real money? That is $159 million Canadian or $120 million US
Right. And there is no way a big company like Oracle would fool a prospective HUGE customer like the California government and charge them for something they couldn't use like 270,000 licenses for their 230,000 employees, only a quarter of which actually needed to access a database... and yet they did! Now, HP has a slightly better reputation to uphold than Oracle, but still, I wouldn't put it past them. (By the way, doesn't CA (California) have a larger government budget than CA (Canada)?)