If spotify had a "tip this artist" button that defaulted to $1 and spotify kept $0.1 of the tip, spotify would make more money, and the artist would make significantly more money. I enjoy the service the spotify give me and am happy to pay £10 a month for it, but strongly resent the fact that the vast majority of that money goes to lawyers, the RIAA, etc etc. Spotify themselves struggle to stay afloat despite a growing user base and the artists themselves receive a derisory amount of money compared to what I'd like them to take from my £10. I'd certainly bung them an extra quid or two after enjoying their album but there's no way to do this.
(Oops I mean the Higgs field! - Just a renaming of Maxwell aether)
The Aether was a hypothesised medium in which electromagnetic waves were thought to be propogated. The Higgs field is the hypothesised field that gives particles mass. They're significantly different propositions.
It's a symptom of trying to avoid experiencing fear of uncertainty, and trying to control what the world is. It's a product of fear, the same fear that generates the hatred necessary to prosecute a war.
Blaming religion for wars is like dying of brain cancer and blaming your death on the headaches. That having been said, though they aren't the root cause, that still doesn't make headaches a good thing.
Antigua was owed an annual $21m in compensatory damages. If the US refused to pay, the WTO authorized Antigua to collect by other means, such as disregarding US copyrights to a value equal to the annual damages owed.
By MPAA/RIAA maths, that's probably 1 Katy Perry album and an episode of Lost.
You say "sense of entitlement" as if this guy is being selfish and greedy, when all he wanted to do was read a book, and was more than happy to pay the copyright holders to do so.
because it wasn't provided he should still have it anyways
It's 3.4.25 with 3 specific features backported to it that were deemed necessary for the kernel to be useful in it's intended purpose. That's still a lot more stable and hardened than just using 3.7.
I heard an interview of Fred Phelps' son (the loyal one - a police chief or sherriff or something) with the Infidel Guy, and the way he laid it out was that their motivation was that Fred Phelps' interpretation of the bible says that God wants his chosen few to go round telling everyone that they're worthless sinners with as much vitriol and sensationalism as possible to ensure that no one has any excuse of ignorance when the end times come. The whole "fags" thing isn't specifically about homosexuality, but rather is taken from a bible verse that talks about "faggots" (as in bundles of firewood) that fall from the fire representing people that stray into sin or some such metaphorical gibberish. They are basically playing a semantic game to wind people up. Internally to their cult, they've redefined the word "fag" to mean sinner. So they bang on and on about fags and call anyone not in their cult a fag, knowing full well that it will provoke a reaction from both homophobes and non-homophobes.
Clearly this whole thing started out as one man projecting his own homophobia on the world, but I imagine Fred Phelps has long since drunk his own kool-aid and genuinely believes all these strained rationalisations for this hateful behaviour, and of course all his pitiable acolytes are held in thrall by the various mechanisms of cult mind control.
I feel more of a sense of "something must be done" in relation to the poor children and vulnerable individuals that get sucked into the cult than the people they provoke and upset. (but obviously that pisses me off too).
In fact thinking about it, that would make sense, otherwise the expansion of space would make light in a vacuum appear to travel at speeds other than c which, as I understand it, is an absolute no-no.
I have no idea if this is true or not, but when space expands, would the light occupying it stretch out too at the same pace? If that were the case, the expansion of space wouldn't add to the amount of time the light would take to get between two points.
I'm 34 and to be honest the idea of having sex with anyone under the age of about 22 is getting creepier and more unappealing with each year that goes by. I think I went off the idea of sleeping with 17 year olds when I was about 20. Should I to expect some kind of mid-life crisis related reversion around 50 r something? How much older are you talking about?
It seems like all the British rulers needed to do was instead of instantly scrapping the dead cobra reward, was put the word out that it was being scrapped in whatever duration of time it takes to rear a cobra from hatchling to redeemable size, that way all the remaining cobras being bred would be eventually "redeemed", and no new cobras would be bred, since it would be pointless.
Just sayin' - I realise this isn't the point of the parable.
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Don't go like that then.
If spotify had a "tip this artist" button that defaulted to $1 and spotify kept $0.1 of the tip, spotify would make more money, and the artist would make significantly more money. I enjoy the service the spotify give me and am happy to pay £10 a month for it, but strongly resent the fact that the vast majority of that money goes to lawyers, the RIAA, etc etc. Spotify themselves struggle to stay afloat despite a growing user base and the artists themselves receive a derisory amount of money compared to what I'd like them to take from my £10. I'd certainly bung them an extra quid or two after enjoying their album but there's no way to do this.
(Oops I mean the Higgs field! - Just a renaming of Maxwell aether)
The Aether was a hypothesised medium in which electromagnetic waves were thought to be propogated. The Higgs field is the hypothesised field that gives particles mass. They're significantly different propositions.
it's ok, you're allowed to say fuck on the internet
One solution that leaps to mind is that someone other than yourself is given the responsiblity of supporting the users and maintaining the software.
If money is required to enable this, couldn't the users or the institutes that benefit from this software be conviced to chip in and fund the support?
Religion is a symptom, rather than a cause.
It's a symptom of trying to avoid experiencing fear of uncertainty, and trying to control what the world is. It's a product of fear, the same fear that generates the hatred necessary to prosecute a war.
Blaming religion for wars is like dying of brain cancer and blaming your death on the headaches. That having been said, though they aren't the root cause, that still doesn't make headaches a good thing.
Antigua was owed an annual $21m in compensatory damages. If the US refused to pay, the WTO authorized Antigua to collect by other means, such as disregarding US copyrights to a value equal to the annual damages owed.
By MPAA/RIAA maths, that's probably 1 Katy Perry album and an episode of Lost.
Go learn
Go and learn.
because it wasn't provided he should still have it anyways
answer me this - why shouldn't he have it?
It's 3.4.25 with 3 specific features backported to it that were deemed necessary for the kernel to be useful in it's intended purpose. That's still a lot more stable and hardened than just using 3.7.
Do you have any examples? - I've never encountered this (unless I have and didn't realise).
How long do you want to wait to learn that GMOs damage the environment
Until we do learn that.
Ever consider he may not have tenants because no one would want to have 1,000,000 watts of light pouring into their office each and every day?
If only there ware some kind of magical material that was opaque to visible light.
I guess smoking doesn't stunt your growth then :)
it's more like buying a car that has the foot pedals attached to the roof, just for the engine.
It's just a method of presentation that's familiar to casual users. It's not causing any harm if it doesn't hamper other choices.
I heard an interview of Fred Phelps' son (the loyal one - a police chief or sherriff or something) with the Infidel Guy, and the way he laid it out was that their motivation was that Fred Phelps' interpretation of the bible says that God wants his chosen few to go round telling everyone that they're worthless sinners with as much vitriol and sensationalism as possible to ensure that no one has any excuse of ignorance when the end times come. The whole "fags" thing isn't specifically about homosexuality, but rather is taken from a bible verse that talks about "faggots" (as in bundles of firewood) that fall from the fire representing people that stray into sin or some such metaphorical gibberish. They are basically playing a semantic game to wind people up. Internally to their cult, they've redefined the word "fag" to mean sinner. So they bang on and on about fags and call anyone not in their cult a fag, knowing full well that it will provoke a reaction from both homophobes and non-homophobes.
Clearly this whole thing started out as one man projecting his own homophobia on the world, but I imagine Fred Phelps has long since drunk his own kool-aid and genuinely believes all these strained rationalisations for this hateful behaviour, and of course all his pitiable acolytes are held in thrall by the various mechanisms of cult mind control.
I feel more of a sense of "something must be done" in relation to the poor children and vulnerable individuals that get sucked into the cult than the people they provoke and upset. (but obviously that pisses me off too).
I tried rot13 and i'm all out of ideas
In fact thinking about it, that would make sense, otherwise the expansion of space would make light in a vacuum appear to travel at speeds other than c which, as I understand it, is an absolute no-no.
I have no idea if this is true or not, but when space expands, would the light occupying it stretch out too at the same pace? If that were the case, the expansion of space wouldn't add to the amount of time the light would take to get between two points.
You have no idea how to punctuate a question, do you?
Why shine a IR laser when you can launch a RPG? On the modern battlefield if they see you, you're dead
Which is why not launching an RPG, which gives away your position, would be advantageous.
I'm 34 and to be honest the idea of having sex with anyone under the age of about 22 is getting creepier and more unappealing with each year that goes by. I think I went off the idea of sleeping with 17 year olds when I was about 20. Should I to expect some kind of mid-life crisis related reversion around 50 r something? How much older are you talking about?
I've heard of stem cell therapy, but this is taking the piss...
It seems like all the British rulers needed to do was instead of instantly scrapping the dead cobra reward, was put the word out that it was being scrapped in whatever duration of time it takes to rear a cobra from hatchling to redeemable size, that way all the remaining cobras being bred would be eventually "redeemed", and no new cobras would be bred, since it would be pointless.
Just sayin' - I realise this isn't the point of the parable.