So are you saying that the kids should be paid for signing? I'm confused.
Solved!
So we'll make preschoolers pay to licence their singing...but we'll also make the GEMA pay royalties for them singing their songs. Not only is that a win/win, preschoolers get a free economics lesson on top of it all!
Would you get upset if I used a telephoto lens with night vision to film you shagging in your bedroom and posted it online along with your address? Naturally, I would only be filming you from a publicly accessible location.
If you can find a way to pull that off, be my guest.
(How you'll manage to deal with the furniture and walls in the way will be quite the trick, keeping to your publically accessible prerequisite.)
Hypothetical situation: Amateur photographer sees her underthings on the line, sees the framing, thinks it makes a good shot. Posts it online, wins some flickr award, gets lots of attention (remember, hypothetical!). The rest plays out as normal.
Does she deserve more, less or the same amount of sympathy?
If memory serves, the Google van had to traverse a private road to get those shots, making it obvious they strayed off public roads, so there's more to the $1 case than "simply spilling hot coffee in your lap."
A patio or balcony still within view of the street. The underlying point is the Google Maps van didn't have to hop a fence and avoid Chopper to get pics of her underthings.
No. No it is not. This is the kind of thinking that our lawmakers are using "it is different if it involves a computer!" They are wrong, and so are you.
Then what does the year before the new millennium start with?
January 1st. Same as every other year.
What I'm getting from you is the following:
Millenium 1 = 0 to 999. Millenium 2 = 1000 to 1999. Millenium 3 = 2000 to 2999.
Please, explain if I have that wrong, because otherwise the following might not apply:
In the Gregorian system, there is no year zero, so that would make millenium 1 only 999 years long making it...*gasp*...an error. (something you were fond of pointing out in another post.)
If you want your fancy calendar system or arbitrary measure of 1000 years in your reality to start on a 0, you do that. Just don't be surprised when you can't get it accepted as a worldwide standard in places that actually care about accurate recording of relative dates.
Don't muck up accuracy simply because we (arbitrarily, as well,) use a base 10 counting system and apply undeserved additional attention on nice, round numbers. If for some crazy reason the Gregorian calendar started on year 33 and 0 to 32 didn't exist, The new millenium would kick in on 2033.
That being the case, we as a culture have also decided that decades start a year x0, centuries start at x00, and millenniums start at x000.
We as a culture have also decided global warming doesn't exist, the earth was created in 6 days and the current US president was born in Kenya.
What's that say about our culture?
Although, technically, random decades can start whenever we want them to. A 'decade' is just a span of 10 years. I could say a new millenium starts next year: the millenium of 2011 to 2110. Am I wrong?
People just like to apply special meaning to big round numbers.
However, when speaking in relation to the Gregorian calendar, it's 2nd millenium started on 2001. Period. Sure, maybe the guy goofed when he made the system, going 2BC, 1BC, 1AD, 2AD...but it's become a standard and we have accepted it.
It's the same reason electrical diagrams are backwards. Some zidiot mucked up the first one and it's too damn late to change every diagram on the planet. (Oblig xkcd: http://xkcd.com/567/ )
Incidentally, isn't it funny how you say 'we start decades at zero' yet I bet if you asked 100 random people to start counting, 9 out of 10 would begin '1, 2, 3...' with the occassional '0, 1, 2...' and the even more random nonconformist going '17, 18, 19...'
If we start counting with 1, why do we start counting decades with 0?
1) The start is an arbitrarily chosen date, and since the vast majority of people who use the Gregorian calendar agree that millenniums start in x000, that is when they start.
Wrong. The Gregorian calendar (which, yes, is arbitrary, but technically, every system of measurement is arbitrary) has no year zero. Period. End of story. Finito.
You want a link showing the millinium starting in 2000? Here you go. [google.com],
Because people are idiots.
Find me a link saying there is a year zero in the Gregorian calendar. That's the only way you can make centuries start on a zero.
That's why I never liked the joke in the Simpsons where one of Marge's sisters 'sank like a rock' in the dead sea. The joke is she's supposed to be fat, not that she's more built than the Governator in his prime.
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Yes, the jurors are retards, and lawyers make sure of it.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-03-09-column09_ST1_N.htm
And yet I can't help but think you're one of those who wants to cut the Department of Education and keep the DoD intact...
So are you saying that the kids should be paid for signing? I'm confused.
Solved!
So we'll make preschoolers pay to licence their singing...but we'll also make the GEMA pay royalties for them singing their songs.
Not only is that a win/win, preschoolers get a free economics lesson on top of it all!
Wow, someone who'll have a more boring existance than me for an evening...
(Well, ignoring the key point I lack a street facing window)
Would you get upset if I used a telephoto lens with night vision to film you shagging in your bedroom and posted it online along with your address? Naturally, I would only be filming you from a publicly accessible location.
If you can find a way to pull that off, be my guest.
(How you'll manage to deal with the furniture and walls in the way will be quite the trick, keeping to your publically accessible prerequisite.)
Hypothetical situation: Amateur photographer sees her underthings on the line, sees the framing, thinks it makes a good shot. Posts it online, wins some flickr award, gets lots of attention (remember, hypothetical!). The rest plays out as normal.
Does she deserve more, less or the same amount of sympathy?
If memory serves, the Google van had to traverse a private road to get those shots, making it obvious they strayed off public roads, so there's more to the $1 case than "simply spilling hot coffee in your lap."
A patio or balcony still within view of the street. The underlying point is the Google Maps van didn't have to hop a fence and avoid Chopper to get pics of her underthings.
No. No it is not. This is the kind of thinking that our lawmakers are using "it is different if it involves a computer!" They are wrong, and so are you.
I think we need a patent on that.
Public areas...on the internet!!
Common sense says taking a picture from a publically accessable location is fair game. After that the rest of your argument falls apart.
In contrast Wickard v. Filburn can not be justified in any context.
First, justify 239 bushels extra, nearly equivalent to his allotment, for personal use.
Then what does the year before the new millennium start with?
January 1st. Same as every other year.
What I'm getting from you is the following:
Millenium 1 = 0 to 999.
Millenium 2 = 1000 to 1999.
Millenium 3 = 2000 to 2999.
Please, explain if I have that wrong, because otherwise the following might not apply:
In the Gregorian system, there is no year zero, so that would make millenium 1 only 999 years long making it...*gasp*...an error. (something you were fond of pointing out in another post.)
If you want your fancy calendar system or arbitrary measure of 1000 years in your reality to start on a 0, you do that. Just don't be surprised when you can't get it accepted as a worldwide standard in places that actually care about accurate recording of relative dates.
Don't muck up accuracy simply because we (arbitrarily, as well,) use a base 10 counting system and apply undeserved additional attention on nice, round numbers. If for some crazy reason the Gregorian calendar started on year 33 and 0 to 32 didn't exist, The new millenium would kick in on 2033.
That being the case, we as a culture have also decided that decades start a year x0, centuries start at x00, and millenniums start at x000.
We as a culture have also decided global warming doesn't exist, the earth was created in 6 days and the current US president was born in Kenya.
What's that say about our culture?
Although, technically, random decades can start whenever we want them to. A 'decade' is just a span of 10 years. I could say a new millenium starts next year: the millenium of 2011 to 2110. Am I wrong?
People just like to apply special meaning to big round numbers.
However, when speaking in relation to the Gregorian calendar, it's 2nd millenium started on 2001. Period. Sure, maybe the guy goofed when he made the system, going 2BC, 1BC, 1AD, 2AD...but it's become a standard and we have accepted it.
It's the same reason electrical diagrams are backwards. Some zidiot mucked up the first one and it's too damn late to change every diagram on the planet. (Oblig xkcd: http://xkcd.com/567/ )
Incidentally, isn't it funny how you say 'we start decades at zero' yet I bet if you asked 100 random people to start counting, 9 out of 10 would begin '1, 2, 3...' with the occassional '0, 1, 2...' and the even more random nonconformist going '17, 18, 19...'
If we start counting with 1, why do we start counting decades with 0?
1) The start is an arbitrarily chosen date, and since the vast majority of people who use the Gregorian calendar agree that millenniums start in x000, that is when they start.
Wrong. The Gregorian calendar (which, yes, is arbitrary, but technically, every system of measurement is arbitrary) has no year zero. Period. End of story. Finito.
You want a link showing the millinium starting in 2000? Here you go. [google.com],
Because people are idiots.
Find me a link saying there is a year zero in the Gregorian calendar. That's the only way you can make centuries start on a zero.
There is no year zero.
FWIW, the most recent leaks, the State cables, were pretty embarassing to other nations and, surprisingly, flattering to US diplomats.
Yemeni President joking about whisky, in a Muslim nation? Boned.
Saudi King saying the West should bomb Iran? Uh-oh.
Does it look like Buttercup or Blossom then?
FWIW, the methods behind their experiments are usually pretty good.
The catch is...whether or not the experiments answer the question posed.
That's why I never liked the joke in the Simpsons where one of Marge's sisters 'sank like a rock' in the dead sea. The joke is she's supposed to be fat, not that she's more built than the Governator in his prime.
Smack in the middle...starts out around Santa Barbara ends around catalina.
Best I can do right now is this really primitive animated version
http://www.sinecreations.com/GOES.gif
I made a really primitive animated gif out of those shots:
http://www.sinecreations.com/GOES.gif
http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goeswest-lzw/california/vis/ [nasa.gov]
Start at
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and watch the contrail south across the coast through
1011082200G11I01.tif 08-Nov-2010 17:23 484K
I think I found it:
http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goeswest-lzw/california/vis/
Start at
1011081945G11I01.tif 08-Nov-2010 15:03 506K
and watch the contrail go south across the coast through
1011082200G11I01.tif 08-Nov-2010 17:23 484K
Well, the stock footage isn't an aircraft, obviously.
Doesn't really show the mystery object that well.