Earth rotates, the moon not so much, so while there is a high tide and a low tide in the oceans of the Earth due to the moons orbit, the gravitational pull of the Earth on the moon is always in the same direction. There may well be some stretching in the moon from centripetal forces and indeed there are other forces not being taken into account such as the rotation of the Earth-Moon system around the sun or the Solar system around the Galaxy.
I don't think you know what you are talking about any more than I do.:)
I would hazard a guess that if the core is more liquid than the crust then the Earth's gravity might tend to draw it towards the near side more when it gets hit on that side than the far side. Hits on the far side might be more restrained as there is not as much expansion pressure. Over millions of years the effect could become quite pronounced.
Just talking through my hat, of course, and probably full of it.
Can I claim that anything I do on my Ubuntu computer is published by me and thus covered by copyright? I do not own the operating system and the company can access what I do in dash so isn't it like I am publishing my activities to them and their clients? Hit them with a take-down notice.
I admit this thought is not well formulated buy it is the germ of an idea, no?
I never liked Ubuntu from the getgo and like it even less now but I have to admit that it has produced some benefits to the Linux community.
What I want to know is when the politician are going to start legislating the con-committal responsibilities that go with these so called "rights." I was taught that being granted rights meant there were a whole range of responsibilities that went with them. Let us come up with a few for Copyright.
1. If a protected work is out of active circulation (new copies promoted for sale in a currently readable format) for 10 years by any distributer who has purchased the right then the copyright returns to the author. If the author (or his heirs or assigns) is unable to offer the work for sale for an additional 10 years the work falls into the public domain.
2. Should a corporation owning copyrights outright through works for hire be guilty of any serious infraction - environmental, securities, labor, etc. - such work are forfeit to the public domain. Settlement of such charges without any admission of guilt shall not be deemed sufficient to avoid the penalty.
3. Format changes must be updated for similar platforms. If the content is electronic then the producer cannot create a new format for the sole purpose of reselling the content. Product support for older formats must be maintained.
Other idea or refinements?
Of course once copyright law has been expanded to give sole rights to broadcasters, google will own all your stuff because they are hosting it and broadcasting it to the world.
As someone who had an eye operation to (unsuccessfully) correct such a condition when I was 4 years old, I can assure you it can be quite debilitating. I never could use those stereographs back in Geography class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabismus
Educate yourself.
I felt this on the 16th floor in my apartment, At first I thought it was a couple of rhinos going at it but it lasted too long. Strongest quake I have felt here ever (~50 years.)
All the same it occurred to me after a bit that it probably wasn't too wise to be standing on the balcony.
when government is prorogued or dissolved for a general election, just like every other time.
It is completely obvious that the public has no desire for these draconian measures but something must be done to appease the lobbyists.
All the same once ACTA comes in Canadians will be effectively screwed.
Not having read more than the headline but having followed the copyfight with more than a passing interest, I have an idea which I haven't seen expressed anywhere. That is the biggest problem with copyright isn't anything to do with copyright per se, it is that it is a privelege granted without the compensating responsibilities that go along with it. Make it so that anything out of circulation, that is anything copywritten that cannot be purchased new at a reasonable cost in any five year window reverts the rights to the author/artist who will have a further five year period to find a new publisher/distributer or to make it available in an digital format for non-commercial use. The copyright traders should not be allowed to pick and choose what the public can use. If the industry chooses to abandon their products by not offering them for sale their exclusive rights should go along with it.
Every time I have seen one of these topic and I go look at the page it have been vandalized by someone seeing it here. This time I look at the page and someone had stapled the slashdot entry to the bottom of the gracenote page. It is the same thing with Fark, posting about wikipedia controversies on popular forums like this just makes the problem worse.
I am concerned about this because it allows them to jack up my cost if I should post something they don't like.
for example:
You have 10 days to remove your link at xxxxxxxxx.info/icann_sucks.html (fake link for arguments sake)or we will raise your registration fees one billion percent.
from the rogers web-site: $43.95 Monthly Service Fee... plus $3.00/mth modem rental so that is 46.95 plus pst + gst (15%) =53.99 is not too far off from 60 and last I checked a tilde applied to an amount means approximate value not exact amount. Oh my, I was off by 10% Whoop-ti-dooo
while it is true I exagerrated somewhat and I was doing some other stuff as well, the topic is video not audio. Consumer quality video streams are considerably larger that audio streams. A quick look at video torrent site is indicative. Videos range from about 700 megs to over 1 gig. Let us say that a 90 minute movie is on the low side at 700 megs. Let us further suppose that I want to watch a lot of tv ( after all I post on slashdot so clearly I have no life;>.) We'll say that is from 6 to midnight. 6 hours of tv a night times 30 nights is 180 hours of media. So we have 180 hours divided by 1.5 hours per 700 meg unit is 120 units multiplied by 700 megs to get the bandwidth total gives roughly 84 gigabytes just for me. Now since we are clearly in la-la land lets suppose that my wife hates every show I watch but she is also a couch potato. So she watches her 84 gigs in the evening but I am a successful IT maven so she gets to stay home keep house. That gives her another 8 hours with the tv on, not necessarily being watched but keeping her company. Then we come to the standard 2.5 kids...
Oh gees there I go exaggerating again but how much bandwidth have I used, and what did it cost me?
Then we start to get into hi-def tv.
Of course Rogers can sell me 30-odd channels of basic cable tv for around 30 dollars a month and I can hook up a tv to each of those stations and leave them on 24/7. How odd they can do that so cheaply. Of course in reality if I split the signal that many times the reception would be atrocious even with in-line signal boosters. So what exactly is IPTV good for? Seems to me it is just another excuse to reduce service and jack up prices.
Other people may not have such a jaundiced view of big business.
Here I am in Canada's capital close to down town and I can't even get 3Mb dsl. Best deal I can get on cable internet @ 3Mb is ~60 bucks with a 60 gig limit and traffic shaped to oblivion. I used up that 60gigs in 2 weeks just playing the radio... IPTV is all about consuming the bandwidth so that the home user can't contribute to culture. God knows they don't plan on lighting up sufficient dark fibre to let everybody play. If I was in the States I'd apply to use eminent domain to grab me some of that dark fibre and light it up. They shouldn't be allowed to restrict the available bandwith just to keep prices high. Use it or lose it!
Of course I'm just ranting here as I don't have money to do any of that but I am sure someone does.
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Earth rotates, the moon not so much, so while there is a high tide and a low tide in the oceans of the Earth due to the moons orbit, the gravitational pull of the Earth on the moon is always in the same direction. There may well be some stretching in the moon from centripetal forces and indeed there are other forces not being taken into account such as the rotation of the Earth-Moon system around the sun or the Solar system around the Galaxy.
I don't think you know what you are talking about any more than I do. :)
I would hazard a guess that if the core is more liquid than the crust then the Earth's gravity might tend to draw it towards the near side more when it gets hit on that side than the far side. Hits on the far side might be more restrained as there is not as much expansion pressure. Over millions of years the effect could become quite pronounced.
Just talking through my hat, of course, and probably full of it.
I threw it on the fire when we burnt Alexandria.
Can I claim that anything I do on my Ubuntu computer is published by me and thus covered by copyright? I do not own the operating system and the company can access what I do in dash so isn't it like I am publishing my activities to them and their clients? Hit them with a take-down notice.
I admit this thought is not well formulated buy it is the germ of an idea, no?
I never liked Ubuntu from the getgo and like it even less now but I have to admit that it has produced some benefits to the Linux community.
Don't tell me who did it, I want to figure out who killed Laura Palmer all on my own!
What I want to know is when the politician are going to start legislating the con-committal responsibilities that go with these so called "rights." I was taught that being granted rights meant there were a whole range of responsibilities that went with them. Let us come up with a few for Copyright. 1. If a protected work is out of active circulation (new copies promoted for sale in a currently readable format) for 10 years by any distributer who has purchased the right then the copyright returns to the author. If the author (or his heirs or assigns) is unable to offer the work for sale for an additional 10 years the work falls into the public domain. 2. Should a corporation owning copyrights outright through works for hire be guilty of any serious infraction - environmental, securities, labor, etc. - such work are forfeit to the public domain. Settlement of such charges without any admission of guilt shall not be deemed sufficient to avoid the penalty. 3. Format changes must be updated for similar platforms. If the content is electronic then the producer cannot create a new format for the sole purpose of reselling the content. Product support for older formats must be maintained. Other idea or refinements?
Of course once copyright law has been expanded to give sole rights to broadcasters, google will own all your stuff because they are hosting it and broadcasting it to the world.
Really specious arguments are not meant to be taken seriously. Why did so many of you do so?
As someone who had an eye operation to (unsuccessfully) correct such a condition when I was 4 years old, I can assure you it can be quite debilitating. I never could use those stereographs back in Geography class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabismus Educate yourself.
I felt this on the 16th floor in my apartment, At first I thought it was a couple of rhinos going at it but it lasted too long. Strongest quake I have felt here ever (~50 years.) All the same it occurred to me after a bit that it probably wasn't too wise to be standing on the balcony.
Wouldn't it be a little expensive to replace all the panels every time they get sandblasted by a windstorm?
when government is prorogued or dissolved for a general election, just like every other time. It is completely obvious that the public has no desire for these draconian measures but something must be done to appease the lobbyists. All the same once ACTA comes in Canadians will be effectively screwed.
Not having read more than the headline but having followed the copyfight with more than a passing interest, I have an idea which I haven't seen expressed anywhere. That is the biggest problem with copyright isn't anything to do with copyright per se, it is that it is a privelege granted without the compensating responsibilities that go along with it. Make it so that anything out of circulation, that is anything copywritten that cannot be purchased new at a reasonable cost in any five year window reverts the rights to the author/artist who will have a further five year period to find a new publisher/distributer or to make it available in an digital format for non-commercial use. The copyright traders should not be allowed to pick and choose what the public can use. If the industry chooses to abandon their products by not offering them for sale their exclusive rights should go along with it.
Every time I have seen one of these topic and I go look at the page it have been vandalized by someone seeing it here. This time I look at the page and someone had stapled the slashdot entry to the bottom of the gracenote page. It is the same thing with Fark, posting about wikipedia controversies on popular forums like this just makes the problem worse.
All the unaccounted for dark matter is covered in nanotubes.
Didn't they already do that when they filled our schools with their software?
I am concerned about this because it allows them to jack up my cost if I should post something they don't like.
for example:
You have 10 days to remove your link at xxxxxxxxx.info/icann_sucks.html (fake link for arguments sake)or we will raise your registration fees one billion percent.
regards ICAAN
that is all
just saying...
Trickle trickle head I want to be a tricklehead. seriously man where can I plug in my headjack?
from the rogers web-site: $43.95 Monthly Service Fee ... plus $3.00/mth modem rental
so that is 46.95 plus pst + gst (15%) =53.99 is not too far off from 60 and last I checked a tilde applied to an amount means approximate value not exact amount. Oh my, I was off by 10% Whoop-ti-dooo
while it is true I exagerrated somewhat and I was doing some other stuff as well, the topic is video not audio. Consumer quality video streams are considerably larger that audio streams. A quick look at video torrent site is indicative. Videos range from about 700 megs to over 1 gig. Let us say that a 90 minute movie is on the low side at 700 megs. Let us further suppose that I want to watch a lot of tv ( after all I post on slashdot so clearly I have no life ;> .) We'll say that is from 6 to midnight. 6 hours of tv a night times 30 nights is 180 hours of media. So we have 180 hours divided by 1.5 hours per 700 meg unit is 120 units multiplied by 700 megs to get the bandwidth total gives roughly 84 gigabytes just for me. Now since we are clearly in la-la land lets suppose that my wife hates every show I watch but she is also a couch potato. So she watches her 84 gigs in the evening but I am a successful IT maven so she gets to stay home keep house. That gives her another 8 hours with the tv on, not necessarily being watched but keeping her company. Then we come to the standard 2.5 kids...
Oh gees there I go exaggerating again but how much bandwidth have I used, and what did it cost me?
Then we start to get into hi-def tv.
Of course Rogers can sell me 30-odd channels of basic cable tv for around 30 dollars a month and I can hook up a tv to each of those stations and leave them on 24/7. How odd they can do that so cheaply. Of course in reality if I split the signal that many times the reception would be atrocious even with in-line signal boosters. So what exactly is IPTV good for? Seems to me it is just another excuse to reduce service and jack up prices.
Other people may not have such a jaundiced view of big business.
Here I am in Canada's capital close to down town and I can't even get 3Mb dsl. Best deal I can get on cable internet @ 3Mb is ~60 bucks with a 60 gig limit and traffic shaped to oblivion. I used up that 60gigs in 2 weeks just playing the radio... IPTV is all about consuming the bandwidth so that the home user can't contribute to culture. God knows they don't plan on lighting up sufficient dark fibre to let everybody play. If I was in the States I'd apply to use eminent domain to grab me some of that dark fibre and light it up. They shouldn't be allowed to restrict the available bandwith just to keep prices high. Use it or lose it! Of course I'm just ranting here as I don't have money to do any of that but I am sure someone does.
are you sirius? baaad pun, sorry
it is evil and green
but if you shape it in the form of a light bulb how can you tell the difference?