Once a few of these huge mega-corps get a good fucking-over, maybe they'll start to behave a bit. As it is now, the government lets them do whatever they want. I'd love to see them seize all the assets of Microsoft.
A receiver has to have an oscillator as a frequency standard in order to lock onto the signal it's trying to get. On poorly designed devices, this can leak out and cause interferance. Since planes use GPS, and the signals are weak to begin with, this is especially a concern.
One good way to tell whether a video is really made by an individual, or by an ad agency, is to notice how good the sound is.
A company typically won't release a video where the sound is hard to hear, and even if the picture is lousy, it'll make the video "feel" too well made. Sound is almost more important than picture.
One area where I think viral marketing would work is for companies to release commercials that are actually entertaining. There have been a number of "real" commercials released, which are too racy/violent/etc. for real television, but they're represented as a commercial. I'd be more likely to watch those because they're not being dishonest.
Granted that I know that microwaves heat up water, but the original article could be interpreted in several ways:
Saying they soaked the sponges could mean that they did that to contaminate them for the test, not necessarily as part of the microwaving procedure.
If the sponges are not wet, they should not get hot, since microwaves only heat up water.
If I was going to try this, I might put a dry sponge in the microwave, along with a bowl of water (since not having any water can damage the microwave). They didn't get into the mechanism, whether the heat kills the microbes, or if the microwaves themselves do something.
Buy it for her once. She'll realize how crappy the food is, and how stupid and boring the games are that come with it. (Of course, the food could have improved in the last 20 years, which is how long it's been...)
I think it's convience. It's worth a few cents to have a known-good, high-quality, easily downloadable song picked from a large selection. (Note that I don't use AllOfMP3, mainly because I just never got around to it)...
The other person wasn't saying that the idea of insurance is bad. They were saying that the insurance companies are total slimebags and do nasty things.
The whole issue isn't about being able to do what you want with your bandwidth. It's about other people using your bandwidth against your wishes. They should block port 25 for everyone, and if you want to run your own mail server, you call them up and tell them, and they unblock the port for you. Surely you wouldn't mind a 5-minute one-time phone call if you actually want to run a server.
It's just as likely that the person you're letting into your house will rob you. They won't necessarily put a gun to your head, but the may leave in the middle of the night with your jewelry and silverware, or even just pocket a few small items when you're not looking.
I see that a lot of people are looking at this whole thing from the point of view of what people should be allowed to do to themsleves, but online gambling is also against the US's interest as a whole.
We have a big trade deficit with China. They make lots of stuff that we buy. Basically, in exchange, we owe them stuff in the future (since the whole idea of money is to exchange for stuff). Hopefully the kind of stuff we'll be selling them is intellectual property, since it takes less effort to produce than real goods. Americans won't work as cheap as the chinese.
We're also going to owe a lot to oil-producing countries for all the oil they send us. It's much better for us both environmentally and financially to produce our energy locally (whether that be solar/wind/biodiesel/nuke/etc.). Coal is better financially, too, even if it's horrible for the environment. God knows *what* we're going to use to pay back all the oil debt.
This brings us to online gambling. Casinos in the US hire US construction workers to build the huge buildings, hire US people to work there, and are at least somewhat owned by US stockholders. Overseas casinos aren't monitored, and thus probably cheat. They also return absolutely nothing of value to the US for the money being sent to them. They contribute nothing to our economy in exchange for the millions of dollars they extract from US citizens.
In other words, I think that prohibiting online gambling is good, even if the libertarian prospective says that people should be allowed to do whatever they want with their money. It will also protect some of the stupider people from casinos that are unregulated and cheat.
I hope this passes, I think it will be good for the country to keep more money here to avoid contributing to the national debt, keep people from being cheated, and avoid contributing to future debt repayment and erosion of the value of the dollar.
If this is true, why is teenage pregnancy dramatically in places such as Europe which aren't as puritanical? Good sex education reduces these problems, it doesn't increase them.
If you've seen the episode of Mr. Wizard's World, he did this with an ultrasonic cleaner like they have in jewelry stores. Works about as well as the Mentos.
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Once a few of these huge mega-corps get a good fucking-over, maybe they'll start to behave a bit. As it is now, the government lets them do whatever they want. I'd love to see them seize all the assets of Microsoft.
A receiver has to have an oscillator as a frequency standard in order to lock onto the signal it's trying to get. On poorly designed devices, this can leak out and cause interferance. Since planes use GPS, and the signals are weak to begin with, this is especially a concern.
Naww, really? Gee, I wonder...
Will the CEO, President, and the other executive officers take a pay cut, in order to help out the company?
Can you cite a source on this? I've only ever heard of this with trademarks, not copyrights.
One good way to tell whether a video is really made by an individual, or by an ad agency, is to notice how good the sound is.
A company typically won't release a video where the sound is hard to hear, and even if the picture is lousy, it'll make the video "feel" too well made. Sound is almost more important than picture.
One area where I think viral marketing would work is for companies to release commercials that are actually entertaining. There have been a number of "real" commercials released, which are too racy/violent/etc. for real television, but they're represented as a commercial. I'd be more likely to watch those because they're not being dishonest.
Granted that I know that microwaves heat up water, but the original article could be interpreted in several ways:
Saying they soaked the sponges could mean that they did that to contaminate them for the test, not necessarily as part of the microwaving procedure.
If the sponges are not wet, they should not get hot, since microwaves only heat up water.
If I was going to try this, I might put a dry sponge in the microwave, along with a bowl of water (since not having any water can damage the microwave). They didn't get into the mechanism, whether the heat kills the microbes, or if the microwaves themselves do something.
Buy it for her once. She'll realize how crappy the food is, and how stupid and boring the games are that come with it. (Of course, the food could have improved in the last 20 years, which is how long it's been...)
I think it's convience. It's worth a few cents to have a known-good, high-quality, easily downloadable song picked from a large selection. (Note that I don't use AllOfMP3, mainly because I just never got around to it)...
Probably from jumping out of the way after "Oh jesus it's coming at my face!"
Maybe if they start giving them away for free when you buy windows.
The other person wasn't saying that the idea of insurance is bad. They were saying that the insurance companies are total slimebags and do nasty things.
The US does not have this type of media tax. Canada does, and perhaps that's why these lawsuits aren't a problem there.
The whole issue isn't about being able to do what you want with your bandwidth. It's about other people using your bandwidth against your wishes. They should block port 25 for everyone, and if you want to run your own mail server, you call them up and tell them, and they unblock the port for you. Surely you wouldn't mind a 5-minute one-time phone call if you actually want to run a server.
Securities manipulation is a very serious crime, and these scammers will spend a long time in jail if they get caught.
It's just as likely that the person you're letting into your house will rob you. They won't necessarily put a gun to your head, but the may leave in the middle of the night with your jewelry and silverware, or even just pocket a few small items when you're not looking.
I see that a lot of people are looking at this whole thing from the point of view of what people should be allowed to do to themsleves, but online gambling is also against the US's interest as a whole.
We have a big trade deficit with China. They make lots of stuff that we buy. Basically, in exchange, we owe them stuff in the future (since the whole idea of money is to exchange for stuff). Hopefully the kind of stuff we'll be selling them is intellectual property, since it takes less effort to produce than real goods. Americans won't work as cheap as the chinese.
We're also going to owe a lot to oil-producing countries for all the oil they send us. It's much better for us both environmentally and financially to produce our energy locally (whether that be solar/wind/biodiesel/nuke/etc.). Coal is better financially, too, even if it's horrible for the environment. God knows *what* we're going to use to pay back all the oil debt.
This brings us to online gambling. Casinos in the US hire US construction workers to build the huge buildings, hire US people to work there, and are at least somewhat owned by US stockholders. Overseas casinos aren't monitored, and thus probably cheat. They also return absolutely nothing of value to the US for the money being sent to them. They contribute nothing to our economy in exchange for the millions of dollars they extract from US citizens.
In other words, I think that prohibiting online gambling is good, even if the libertarian prospective says that people should be allowed to do whatever they want with their money. It will also protect some of the stupider people from casinos that are unregulated and cheat.
I hope this passes, I think it will be good for the country to keep more money here to avoid contributing to the national debt, keep people from being cheated, and avoid contributing to future debt repayment and erosion of the value of the dollar.
Later in the article it mentions the singles top-ten list. Since very few singles are sold these days, 5,500 would be significant.
They probly decided they needed a certian level of certianty, say 95%, plugged the numbers into the statistics equations, and came up with n=49.
I've had a LaserJet 4 about 10 years, still works great. You can get 'em on ebay for about 100 bucks, and the network card thing for like 40-50 more.
If this is true, why is teenage pregnancy dramatically in places such as Europe which aren't as puritanical? Good sex education reduces these problems, it doesn't increase them.
If you've seen the episode of Mr. Wizard's World, he did this with an ultrasonic cleaner like they have in jewelry stores. Works about as well as the Mentos.
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That's incorrect. The nature of one-time-pad is that, given the right "key", the message could decrypt to any given plaintext, with equal probability.
yup