Depends on the original agreement. Generally you have to start production by a certain date. Sometimes there's extensions of rights based on filming a version. Corman was hired to make an unreleased version of Fantastic Four to extend the rights. It's intended to allow for sequels but they were able to use that provision to retain the rights as well.
The real 800lb gorilla for methane is the Arctic. If the predictions are right then this is the calm before the storm. If the Arctic melts, which it is, it'll release vast amounts of methane. It's likely to dwarf all other greenhouse sources. Everyone seems to be ignoring the Arctic but all the CO2 sources combined can't compare so a melting Arctic should be our primary concern. If it's the canary then the canary isn't just dead but it has been reduced to a skeleton.
Make lawyers a minimum wage job. All the lawsuits are costing the public a fortune and has placed the court system in perminate gridlock. We need to concentrate on crime not petty squabbling. Patents should be for significant inventions not every minor thing some one thinks up. Often times there's no thieft involved it's simply such an obvious idea that others are recovering the same ground and haven't a clue some suit ape patented the idea. Patents should help spur innovantion. If they don't they aren't in the publics interest. Patents are a creation for the publics interest and are not in the Constitution so when they work against the public they need to be revised. There is no inherent right to patents. I'm a big supporter of inventors rights but these aren't inventions they are similar to cybersquatting and need to removed from the patent process.
The most interesting thing to me is the fundimentalist most often quote the old testiment. The old testiment is a jewish text and the jews don't take it literally. I would argue fundimentalists aren't Christians. They don't follow Christian values. The fundimentals of Christianity include helping the poor and tolerance. Christ was quite specific about a seperation between church and state. As a matter of fact I can't think of a single value the fundimentalist preach that is specifically Christian. In truth what fundimentalist preach is preChristian.
There can't be one definition because there are three classes of planets. Gas giants, rocky planets and icy planets. The big argument is whether to include icy planets but icy planets are closer to earth than gas giants so how do you include one but not the other? The sensible definition to come up with three classes and require them to orbit the sun to exclude moons and to have sufficent gravity for a roughly round shape, the Earth isn't perfectly round. What it would leave us with is four rocky planets, four gas giants and a similar number of icy planets. The Oort cloud gets tougher. Since they still orbit the sun it might be wise to come up with a fourth definition of outer planets for any Oort Cloud objects. One excuse for eliminating Pluto was it's eliptical orbit but most planets have eliptical orbits so that factor gets arbitary. Splitting the definition avoids demoting any planets and allows for new objects including some that may not fit well with the current definition.
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The science isn't political in nature except for the fact that politicians in general don't want to know about it. The movie is hardly sensational given that from my own research what he presents is quite conservative. The truth is what was seen as the extreme end of the scale six years ago is now seen as the conservative. The extreme is truly terrifying and is looking like a strong possibility. The numbers are staggering and dramatic changes are already occuring. All evidence points to melting at both poles. I strongly questioned whether Anatartica would begin to melt in out lifetimes but it has started and Greenland is melting at an unsettling pace. Among legitimate climate scientist global warming is a fact it's only the severity that is in question. Even at the most conservative estimates it'll radically change global climates within the next hundred years. People are turning it into a political football because most politicans believe they'll be dead before it hits so they don't care. If they can spin it to get reeleceted great if they can't they deny it because big business wants to bury it. It'll cost us more in the long run but corporate america is interested in short term profits, period. It's like oil. For what we are spending across the board to defend big oil, subsidies, war, polution, we could switch to renewable sources. They have a one track mind. Since oil shortages are unavoidable Bush has responded by pushing coal. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire. Why oil and coal? They are a physical resource and can be controlled. If we shift to two dozen alternative sources, wind, solar, plant oils, alcohol, wave power, etc, the power is decentralized and hard to control. It's tough to control prices when there are so many alternative sources. Anyone that doesn't believe there is price fixing needs to look at the numbers. There's been a glut of oil, I read an article recently that they have run out of storage. The suspicous thing is the prices only dropped just before the US elections yet now shortly after the elections they are headed up again inspite of a surplus that has caused a severe shortage of oil storage space. Alternative sources will cause competition and drive oil prices down. This will not happen so long as the current administration has any power. If everyone switched to efficent bulbs and drove SUVs oil prices would drop because demand would go down. The biggest short term gains would come from conservation. This would give time to develope other sources. We don't need new technology we just need to get what's availible into use. Solar cells work, wind works, hybrid cars work, biodiesel works, alcohol in cars works. There's are literally dozens of sources we can turn to it just takes the will to put them to use. All new houses in the south west should be required to have solar hot water and at least some photovoltaics. Don't want to? Stop building. I'm in Phoenix and there's a massive surge in new house construction and virtually none even have solar hot water. That's obscene.
More than one science fiction writer embraced the Bussard Ramjet. It's an inventive idea especially for it's time. The real issue for interstellar travel has to do with the amount of free hydrogen in interstellar space. The drive avoids the problem of overcoming and the limiting factor of spcaeship mass, it's impossible to excellorate the mass of the fuel to near light speed. The math doesn't work the fuel availible can't overcome it's own weight. Ion drives are the most efficent but they still can't oversome the weight equation. No one has been able to measure the hydrogen availible in interstellar space, not to mention getting a fusion reactor to be self sustaining, so the verdict is still out. No matter what it's still the only concept that has any hope of attaining near light speeds that deals with a known science. Fusion should eventually work so it's more speculative fiction than pure science fiction. If there's enough hydrogen availible given time the drive should approach lightspeed making interstellar travel possible. The bigger question will probably be will the world spend a few trillion dollars on an unmanned mission to a neighboring star when it'll take decades to get there, have a slim chance of making it, and have little or no hope of finding life. We have trouble getting to Mars reliably so the nearest star is a huge risk. No one has much hope of nearby stars having life. The better cannidates are unreachable in a single lifetime with a ramjet and the risk goes up geometrically.
Biggest success since the Moon landing. It proves NASA can still excell they just need to dump some baggage like the shuttle and get back to what they do best, space exploration. I'd love to see them release a disk of all the Mars images. I'd pay good money for a full set of images especially if they included a set of the aerial shots. It could help open up the research to people that don't have direct access. A lot of things have been found just from Google earth. I'd really love to see a similar thing done with all the mars images. I know it's been started but there's a massive number of images availible. Better to have a few million eyes searching them than a few hundred.
Hate to say it but you can get more hard science out of a Hitch Hikers Guide book. Prey wasn't exactly one of Crichton best. The premise was silly and had been done countless times before in lame low budget scifi films. The grey goo senario is interesting but a little too extreme. I'm more concerned with cancer and genetic damage. Otherwise inert materials can be highly reactive on a Nano level. A lot of the materials exist in nature but in tiny trace amounts. In high concentrations it's hard to say what reaction they will have on the human body and the environment. Since they do react differently our current regulations are woefully inadequate to regulate their use. In a sense we're in the same position with nano particles that we were in with the birth of industrialization. Remember lead and mercury were extremely common and even used in medicines. False teeth used lead. In Roman times they used lead for water pipes. They simply didn't know better. The potential for good is extreme but so is the potential for harm. Better to use some common sense and do the testing before the materials are used then find out an explosion in the cancer rate is the result of heavy use of nanoparticles. We can live without them so the bigger concern is can we live with them? I grew up when asbestos was common and all white paint had lead in it. You'd never consider using ceiling tiles with asbestos in them today but they used to be common. They put asbestos in cigarette filters for Christsake. You don't have to be paranoid to want some caution. History shows there's a good chance that some of the materials will prove hazardous to health. Corporations aren't very responsible and they have a bad habit of releasing products and dealing with the lawsuits later.
What about transporting an entangled particle to the ISS? The point being time flows at a different rate the closer you are to a gravitational source. Even on a high mountain atomic clock run at a different rate than at sea level. Over time the difference in the entangled particles should keep increasing.
The current plan for the first flight is convert a passenger jet for space travel so that the US Congress can be relocated to the Moon. A second much larger craft is planned for a trip bearing all the lawyers. Since one in every three americans is a lawyer this should help reduce the populations problems and free up the court system. The Congressmen and lawyers are quite enthusiastic about the plan since the earth will be consumed by a space goat shortly after the second flight. If there's time a third flight is planned for lobbyist and the handfull of remaining conservative leaders. Once all are relocated the earth, err I mean moon should be safe.
Reminds me of back in the late 90s when I was trying to use Microsoft Office products, I did use Word as far back as the late 80s. I kept having compatibility issues with other Microsoft products. I found third party software supported Microsoft formats better than Microsoft did. I finally got sick of it and dropped Microsoft products. Hard to believe a company of that size not supporting their own products. I've worked for large corporations and it generally comes down to departments not talking to each other. There tends to be a lot of internal competition inside the companies. Specifications are often treated as priviledged information even between different departments.
It's not possible to watch ads 24/7. Sorry folks we simply can't do it. Seems to be a great frustriation to advertisers that we don't want to watch their ads all bloody day. After a while you just shut down. CNN is driving me nuts lately with the Head On commercials. They even tried to make a joke of how obnoxious they are. Hate to break it to them but I switch the channel everytime they come on. The scary thing is if I try to switch to the other CNN channel half the time there's one running there too. I swear the Clockwork Orange eyes pried open senerio is an advertisers wet dream. You want advertising to be more effective? How about less of it. People used to watch commercials or at least let them run. I hit mute or switch the channel everytime so it went from say ten minutes plus an hour to zero exposure for me. How effective are your commercials when no one will watch them or worse yet they switch the channel?
Sony has been such an innovative force it's sad to see them go through such hard times. Hopefully they can snap back from the P3 debacle, I think the battery recall hurt them worse reputation wise. Ironically all the problems could lead to a resurgence of the company. I think they got a bit lax and it caught up with them. P3 may end up being a dud but it might lead to a really stunning P4. They just need to avoid the same production problems. I'd say they have a far greater chance of coming up with a gaming platform that was truly innovative than Microsoft has. It takes some risk and Microsoft loathes risk. The risk taking bit them on P3 so I hope they don't go conservative the next time around. The boundaries need to be pushed and they are the best positioned to do so.
If there's a hand in the cookie jar full disclosure is highly unlikely. I said before the election was over that if the Democrats won in some of the close states there wouldn't be an inquiry because it might expose attempts to sway the elections by Republicans. With the Senate so close there hasn't been a whisper of opposition. Given how hard the Republicans fight I find it really telling that they aren't claiming fraud by the Democrats. I have a feeling the election wasn't so close but fraud managed to make it close but still couldn't win them the election. There were multiple claims of fraud and election problems on the day but everyone is letting it pass quietly. There needs to be a paper trail and the representatives from each party need to oversee security at every polling place. Even if it means flying Democrats into the deep south to balance things.
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This could be a real blow to the pig latin version.
Depends on the original agreement. Generally you have to start production by a certain date. Sometimes there's extensions of rights based on filming a version. Corman was hired to make an unreleased version of Fantastic Four to extend the rights. It's intended to allow for sequels but they were able to use that provision to retain the rights as well.
The real 800lb gorilla for methane is the Arctic. If the predictions are right then this is the calm before the storm. If the Arctic melts, which it is, it'll release vast amounts of methane. It's likely to dwarf all other greenhouse sources. Everyone seems to be ignoring the Arctic but all the CO2 sources combined can't compare so a melting Arctic should be our primary concern. If it's the canary then the canary isn't just dead but it has been reduced to a skeleton.
Make lawyers a minimum wage job. All the lawsuits are costing the public a fortune and has placed the court system in perminate gridlock. We need to concentrate on crime not petty squabbling. Patents should be for significant inventions not every minor thing some one thinks up. Often times there's no thieft involved it's simply such an obvious idea that others are recovering the same ground and haven't a clue some suit ape patented the idea. Patents should help spur innovantion. If they don't they aren't in the publics interest. Patents are a creation for the publics interest and are not in the Constitution so when they work against the public they need to be revised. There is no inherent right to patents. I'm a big supporter of inventors rights but these aren't inventions they are similar to cybersquatting and need to removed from the patent process.
Well that explains them ordering 1,000 copies of Doom 3 as "training material" for the Mars mission.
is to find a way to play video games at work. I'd be more inclined to believe it was work related if there really were gun toting zombies on the Moon.
The most interesting thing to me is the fundimentalist most often quote the old testiment. The old testiment is a jewish text and the jews don't take it literally. I would argue fundimentalists aren't Christians. They don't follow Christian values. The fundimentals of Christianity include helping the poor and tolerance. Christ was quite specific about a seperation between church and state. As a matter of fact I can't think of a single value the fundimentalist preach that is specifically Christian. In truth what fundimentalist preach is preChristian.
There can't be one definition because there are three classes of planets. Gas giants, rocky planets and icy planets. The big argument is whether to include icy planets but icy planets are closer to earth than gas giants so how do you include one but not the other? The sensible definition to come up with three classes and require them to orbit the sun to exclude moons and to have sufficent gravity for a roughly round shape, the Earth isn't perfectly round. What it would leave us with is four rocky planets, four gas giants and a similar number of icy planets. The Oort cloud gets tougher. Since they still orbit the sun it might be wise to come up with a fourth definition of outer planets for any Oort Cloud objects. One excuse for eliminating Pluto was it's eliptical orbit but most planets have eliptical orbits so that factor gets arbitary. Splitting the definition avoids demoting any planets and allows for new objects including some that may not fit well with the current definition.
The science isn't political in nature except for the fact that politicians in general don't want to know about it. The movie is hardly sensational given that from my own research what he presents is quite conservative. The truth is what was seen as the extreme end of the scale six years ago is now seen as the conservative. The extreme is truly terrifying and is looking like a strong possibility. The numbers are staggering and dramatic changes are already occuring. All evidence points to melting at both poles. I strongly questioned whether Anatartica would begin to melt in out lifetimes but it has started and Greenland is melting at an unsettling pace. Among legitimate climate scientist global warming is a fact it's only the severity that is in question. Even at the most conservative estimates it'll radically change global climates within the next hundred years. People are turning it into a political football because most politicans believe they'll be dead before it hits so they don't care. If they can spin it to get reeleceted great if they can't they deny it because big business wants to bury it. It'll cost us more in the long run but corporate america is interested in short term profits, period. It's like oil. For what we are spending across the board to defend big oil, subsidies, war, polution, we could switch to renewable sources. They have a one track mind. Since oil shortages are unavoidable Bush has responded by pushing coal. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire. Why oil and coal? They are a physical resource and can be controlled. If we shift to two dozen alternative sources, wind, solar, plant oils, alcohol, wave power, etc, the power is decentralized and hard to control. It's tough to control prices when there are so many alternative sources. Anyone that doesn't believe there is price fixing needs to look at the numbers. There's been a glut of oil, I read an article recently that they have run out of storage. The suspicous thing is the prices only dropped just before the US elections yet now shortly after the elections they are headed up again inspite of a surplus that has caused a severe shortage of oil storage space. Alternative sources will cause competition and drive oil prices down. This will not happen so long as the current administration has any power. If everyone switched to efficent bulbs and drove SUVs oil prices would drop because demand would go down. The biggest short term gains would come from conservation. This would give time to develope other sources. We don't need new technology we just need to get what's availible into use. Solar cells work, wind works, hybrid cars work, biodiesel works, alcohol in cars works. There's are literally dozens of sources we can turn to it just takes the will to put them to use. All new houses in the south west should be required to have solar hot water and at least some photovoltaics. Don't want to? Stop building. I'm in Phoenix and there's a massive surge in new house construction and virtually none even have solar hot water. That's obscene.
Revolutionary 3D systems are anounced about as often as Bigfoot sightings and pan out about as often. I'll believe it when I see one.
Place a six inch ball of pultonium wrapped in one inch of plactic expolsives in microwave. Heat on high until plutonium atoms fuse.
Guess we know what happens when the mousetrap isn't better.
Actually just make them use Zune players. They won't play music so I doubt they'd be any good for hacking bank security.
The ATM charged him for all the illegal download music on his MP3 player so the robbery was a net loss.
More than one science fiction writer embraced the Bussard Ramjet. It's an inventive idea especially for it's time. The real issue for interstellar travel has to do with the amount of free hydrogen in interstellar space. The drive avoids the problem of overcoming and the limiting factor of spcaeship mass, it's impossible to excellorate the mass of the fuel to near light speed. The math doesn't work the fuel availible can't overcome it's own weight. Ion drives are the most efficent but they still can't oversome the weight equation. No one has been able to measure the hydrogen availible in interstellar space, not to mention getting a fusion reactor to be self sustaining, so the verdict is still out. No matter what it's still the only concept that has any hope of attaining near light speeds that deals with a known science. Fusion should eventually work so it's more speculative fiction than pure science fiction. If there's enough hydrogen availible given time the drive should approach lightspeed making interstellar travel possible. The bigger question will probably be will the world spend a few trillion dollars on an unmanned mission to a neighboring star when it'll take decades to get there, have a slim chance of making it, and have little or no hope of finding life. We have trouble getting to Mars reliably so the nearest star is a huge risk. No one has much hope of nearby stars having life. The better cannidates are unreachable in a single lifetime with a ramjet and the risk goes up geometrically.
Biggest success since the Moon landing. It proves NASA can still excell they just need to dump some baggage like the shuttle and get back to what they do best, space exploration. I'd love to see them release a disk of all the Mars images. I'd pay good money for a full set of images especially if they included a set of the aerial shots. It could help open up the research to people that don't have direct access. A lot of things have been found just from Google earth. I'd really love to see a similar thing done with all the mars images. I know it's been started but there's a massive number of images availible. Better to have a few million eyes searching them than a few hundred.
Hate to say it but you can get more hard science out of a Hitch Hikers Guide book. Prey wasn't exactly one of Crichton best. The premise was silly and had been done countless times before in lame low budget scifi films. The grey goo senario is interesting but a little too extreme. I'm more concerned with cancer and genetic damage. Otherwise inert materials can be highly reactive on a Nano level. A lot of the materials exist in nature but in tiny trace amounts. In high concentrations it's hard to say what reaction they will have on the human body and the environment. Since they do react differently our current regulations are woefully inadequate to regulate their use. In a sense we're in the same position with nano particles that we were in with the birth of industrialization. Remember lead and mercury were extremely common and even used in medicines. False teeth used lead. In Roman times they used lead for water pipes. They simply didn't know better. The potential for good is extreme but so is the potential for harm. Better to use some common sense and do the testing before the materials are used then find out an explosion in the cancer rate is the result of heavy use of nanoparticles. We can live without them so the bigger concern is can we live with them? I grew up when asbestos was common and all white paint had lead in it. You'd never consider using ceiling tiles with asbestos in them today but they used to be common. They put asbestos in cigarette filters for Christsake. You don't have to be paranoid to want some caution. History shows there's a good chance that some of the materials will prove hazardous to health. Corporations aren't very responsible and they have a bad habit of releasing products and dealing with the lawsuits later.
If you can't beat 'em sue 'em.
What about transporting an entangled particle to the ISS? The point being time flows at a different rate the closer you are to a gravitational source. Even on a high mountain atomic clock run at a different rate than at sea level. Over time the difference in the entangled particles should keep increasing.
The current plan for the first flight is convert a passenger jet for space travel so that the US Congress can be relocated to the Moon. A second much larger craft is planned for a trip bearing all the lawyers. Since one in every three americans is a lawyer this should help reduce the populations problems and free up the court system. The Congressmen and lawyers are quite enthusiastic about the plan since the earth will be consumed by a space goat shortly after the second flight. If there's time a third flight is planned for lobbyist and the handfull of remaining conservative leaders. Once all are relocated the earth, err I mean moon should be safe.
Reminds me of back in the late 90s when I was trying to use Microsoft Office products, I did use Word as far back as the late 80s. I kept having compatibility issues with other Microsoft products. I found third party software supported Microsoft formats better than Microsoft did. I finally got sick of it and dropped Microsoft products. Hard to believe a company of that size not supporting their own products. I've worked for large corporations and it generally comes down to departments not talking to each other. There tends to be a lot of internal competition inside the companies. Specifications are often treated as priviledged information even between different departments.
I found the name Long Pig Blaster an unfortunate name.
It's not possible to watch ads 24/7. Sorry folks we simply can't do it. Seems to be a great frustriation to advertisers that we don't want to watch their ads all bloody day. After a while you just shut down. CNN is driving me nuts lately with the Head On commercials. They even tried to make a joke of how obnoxious they are. Hate to break it to them but I switch the channel everytime they come on. The scary thing is if I try to switch to the other CNN channel half the time there's one running there too. I swear the Clockwork Orange eyes pried open senerio is an advertisers wet dream. You want advertising to be more effective? How about less of it. People used to watch commercials or at least let them run. I hit mute or switch the channel everytime so it went from say ten minutes plus an hour to zero exposure for me. How effective are your commercials when no one will watch them or worse yet they switch the channel?
Sony has been such an innovative force it's sad to see them go through such hard times. Hopefully they can snap back from the P3 debacle, I think the battery recall hurt them worse reputation wise. Ironically all the problems could lead to a resurgence of the company. I think they got a bit lax and it caught up with them. P3 may end up being a dud but it might lead to a really stunning P4. They just need to avoid the same production problems. I'd say they have a far greater chance of coming up with a gaming platform that was truly innovative than Microsoft has. It takes some risk and Microsoft loathes risk. The risk taking bit them on P3 so I hope they don't go conservative the next time around. The boundaries need to be pushed and they are the best positioned to do so.
If there's a hand in the cookie jar full disclosure is highly unlikely. I said before the election was over that if the Democrats won in some of the close states there wouldn't be an inquiry because it might expose attempts to sway the elections by Republicans. With the Senate so close there hasn't been a whisper of opposition. Given how hard the Republicans fight I find it really telling that they aren't claiming fraud by the Democrats. I have a feeling the election wasn't so close but fraud managed to make it close but still couldn't win them the election. There were multiple claims of fraud and election problems on the day but everyone is letting it pass quietly. There needs to be a paper trail and the representatives from each party need to oversee security at every polling place. Even if it means flying Democrats into the deep south to balance things.