...companies should stick to making their product known.
They might even want to consider making their product known for it's quality or taste, etc. instead of making stuff cheaper to fund marketing campaigns and research.
They might begin with a mining operation, excavating a pit for moon oil or whatever. With an initial small 'hole' you could trench large blocks out of the perimeter and blast them free in layers, using the resulting blocks to make walls on the surface of the final perimeter. Considering what Egyptians and Romans could do with rock at normal gravity I imagine we could manage a very impressive (probably unimaganitively square and utilitarian but...) dome that would contain an atmosphere as long as the blocks were sufficiently thick. An open pit, if deep enough, might collect heavier gasses on it's own, esp. if there were enough oxygen producing hydroponic space plants at the bottom. If you had horizontal partitons at the right levels and a large garden with the insulating interior of the moon and the lighting producing heat... as long as there were enough occupants, their waste CO2 would favor some particular depth while the O2 produced might favor an upper level and at the top everyone would sound like squeaky mice from the helium - like a big fractional distillery thing. Maybe.
We could kill you but we won't, so relax and no... you don't owe us your life or anything, lol, we're on your side OK. So just remember who your friends are, thas all.
.... would have to be carefully worded....History teaches us laws tend to be far from perfect and I'm sure this would be no different. Instead of passing laws/regulations on this, hopefully just the threat of such laws/regulations will keep the telcos in line.....
This is true, with no laws - when you're cheating and lying and know it, you have to be careful. With law, you just need a lawyer. The Native Americans were initially 'granted' most of the United States all they had to do was agree to the concept of property to lay the groundwork for having it taken.
Sometimes they work marvelously.. with all this free market talk going on I am reminded of a particular example: Recycling duties in the NE USA. One problem(or solution for others) with the free market is that pesky moving target of profit maximization. You sell 1000 sodas a month at.75$, at 1.00$ you sell 900 and for.35$ you sell 1050(saturation). Obvoiusly you go with $1 and it creeps as we grow accostumed to paying the set point. When they mandated a 10 cent recycling duty on cans and plastic bottles so that the consumer pays up front the exchange fee, business still had to sell at a maximised price which isn't any different from what I pay in the SE. I'm sure it was an accident(functional interference), but they get their cans recycled so...
In a way it's like the people who would be willing to pay just a few cents tax on email to cut back on spam - that would simply legitamize spam for whoever could afford the tax. Government regulation can seem like a good idea, right up until it happens. It should be possible to define Net Neutrality in 50 words or less, but then what self respecting congressman would consider a one sentence law. Hrm.
Tiered access would do more than just define whether you lived in an Amazon or Barnes 'n Noble zone - which is bad enough.. it could potentially differientiate Beverly Hills Amazon and my Amazon and would create seperate markets for large file transfers and create well defined video conferencing services. I think video conferencing is the future that is being debated most of all - the backbone providers made a fortune on the telephone and they are considering ther next meal... for it to be universially palletable, in a light that will appeal to the growing majority of people who view the internet as a shopping mall/marketplace near exclusively.
I mean, I dunno... I'm sure there are complications but I don't doubt that any law that is passed, for or against, will lay groundwork for legal monitoring, bandwidth discrimination towards linux ISO distributors, fewer exhibitionist webcam chicks, and all that. Somehow. In a positive scenario, neutrality will be guaranteed but for a few hooks for legitamite anti-terrorist monitoring and then there will be a quasi legal BSA type corporate funded organisation leveraging whatever. It's always the same.
There is no free market when it comes to internet access. The cable and DSL companies have their lines and equipment strung all over public and private property which is all made possible through government granted rights-of-way.
Somebody should backhoe up some fiber that's on their property and install a counter for billing the providers - hehe. That'll learn 'em.
Check these out, they work locally too. I don't see how you would stop a flu with either unless you could irradiate the whole body and selectively kill the bad parts.
Such comments are really nothing but an insult to people who actually did live in...
Whenever anybody compares the decline of civil liberty and freedom release patches there's always a whiner saying that comparing Bush to Hitler, or the PATRIOT Act to a country that has patriot act mentality and abuses it( or "losing freedom is like losing a leg" and someone with two legs always says, "that's an insult to people who have lost a leg."
)...insults somebody.
So what would you have people do, wait until it's too late. Wait until they really are being dragged out of their houses, do you honor oppression by waiting until the last minute when it is more appropriate to propose an analogy? I think they would want that.
I've never heard of a vacuum cap before, must be one of those 'ideal' capacitors they learn you about in physics. The closest thing I could think of are the electromechanical radio tuners, they have pretty low capacitance for their size. You have a problem with ideal capacitors because they become very delicate as the plates become close enough for practical energy storage.
Once you determine the surface area (have to cipher up some squiggles, I forget which ones) you can make your own by cutting a piece of foil ribbon for each plate and sandwich paper soaked in mineral spirits (take care which recipe you use) between them, then you roll it up real tight like and seal it in a canister so it doesn't dry out. I don't understand how this makes them so particular about the polarity though... ?
This way they can take some physical abuse without shorting the plates while maintaining a consistent gap between the plates.
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Maybe Jim Carey could do it.
Just because this is slashdot Google gets a bunch of grief. I'll bet if it was Microsoft out doing evil then..... oh.
They might even want to consider making their product known for it's quality or taste, etc. instead of making stuff cheaper to fund marketing campaigns and research.
That would be a professional mechanic and a specialist.
Why should we have to write our representatives about civil liberties?
towel.blinkenlights.nl, that's who.
If you want to capitalize on wikipedia's flaws then why not make a collection of the funniest vandalizations..
Oh yeah, I guess there won't be moon oil.
They might begin with a mining operation, excavating a pit for moon oil or whatever. With an initial small 'hole' you could trench large blocks out of the perimeter and blast them free in layers, using the resulting blocks to make walls on the surface of the final perimeter. Considering what Egyptians and Romans could do with rock at normal gravity I imagine we could manage a very impressive (probably unimaganitively square and utilitarian but...) dome that would contain an atmosphere as long as the blocks were sufficiently thick. An open pit, if deep enough, might collect heavier gasses on it's own, esp. if there were enough oxygen producing hydroponic space plants at the bottom. If you had horizontal partitons at the right levels and a large garden with the insulating interior of the moon and the lighting producing heat... as long as there were enough occupants, their waste CO2 would favor some particular depth while the O2 produced might favor an upper level and at the top everyone would sound like squeaky mice from the helium - like a big fractional distillery thing. Maybe.
I've had a couple of laptops that were flaky like that until I would append a video=??? mode to the kernel argument string.
In a post 9/11 world, who needs to pay for advertising anymore?
We could kill you but we won't, so relax and no... you don't owe us your life or anything, lol, we're on your side OK. So just remember who your friends are, thas all.
Sometimes they work marvelously.. with all this free market talk going on I am reminded of a particular example: Recycling duties in the NE USA. One problem(or solution for others) with the free market is that pesky moving target of profit maximization. You sell 1000 sodas a month at .75$, at 1.00$ you sell 900 and for .35$ you sell 1050(saturation). Obvoiusly you go with $1 and it creeps as we grow accostumed to paying the set point. When they mandated a 10 cent recycling duty on cans and plastic bottles so that the consumer pays up front the exchange fee, business still had to sell at a maximised price which isn't any different from what I pay in the SE. I'm sure it was an accident(functional interference), but they get their cans recycled so...
In a way it's like the people who would be willing to pay just a few cents tax on email to cut back on spam - that would simply legitamize spam for whoever could afford the tax. Government regulation can seem like a good idea, right up until it happens. It should be possible to define Net Neutrality in 50 words or less, but then what self respecting congressman would consider a one sentence law. Hrm.
Tiered access would do more than just define whether you lived in an Amazon or Barnes 'n Noble zone - which is bad enough.. it could potentially differientiate Beverly Hills Amazon and my Amazon and would create seperate markets for large file transfers and create well defined video conferencing services. I think video conferencing is the future that is being debated most of all - the backbone providers made a fortune on the telephone and they are considering ther next meal... for it to be universially palletable, in a light that will appeal to the growing majority of people who view the internet as a shopping mall/marketplace near exclusively.
I mean, I dunno... I'm sure there are complications but I don't doubt that any law that is passed, for or against, will lay groundwork for legal monitoring, bandwidth discrimination towards linux ISO distributors, fewer exhibitionist webcam chicks, and all that. Somehow. In a positive scenario, neutrality will be guaranteed but for a few hooks for legitamite anti-terrorist monitoring and then there will be a quasi legal BSA type corporate funded organisation leveraging whatever. It's always the same.
Not only that, but the US Constitution doesn't explicitly bestow habeas corpus rights on US citizens.
This is great, now we parse the map data for a blurred area in the woods somewhere and know where secret bases are.
Check these out, they work locally too. I don't see how you would stop a flu with either unless you could irradiate the whole body and selectively kill the bad parts.
He's sort of a lobbyist/blogger.
Which supplement will you take, this stuff or BarleyGreen? They already have cancer curing supplements.
A good mechanic could probably do it.
So what would you have people do, wait until it's too late. Wait until they really are being dragged out of their houses, do you honor oppression by waiting until the last minute when it is more appropriate to propose an analogy? I think they would want that.
This was a pretty wicked nuke. Only a 7 on the Richter Scale though.
We need to start using this stuff. I'd like to see it at Home Depot eventually.
Once you determine the surface area (have to cipher up some squiggles, I forget which ones) you can make your own by cutting a piece of foil ribbon for each plate and sandwich paper soaked in mineral spirits (take care which recipe you use) between them, then you roll it up real tight like and seal it in a canister so it doesn't dry out. I don't understand how this makes them so particular about the polarity though... ?
This way they can take some physical abuse without shorting the plates while maintaining a consistent gap between the plates.