The works protected by copyright were typically owned by the aristocrats. Works protected by patents were typically owned by artisans and blue collar workers, historically speaking. No wonder copyright got better treatment than patents.
See how the smileys are written like this::-):-), it shows the correct orientation to read the text on ASCII displays. So infinity symbol is simply written as 8. How do you write the numeral eight, you might ask. Please sit down, as it might come as a shock. For most people in the world, 8 IS infinity.
Similar thing happened in India. Tanker truck carrying kerosene overturned, villagers gathered around to collect the leaking kerosene. Dozens died. There was this oil worker in texas who lit a lighter to because it was too dark to inside the gasoline storage tank. There was a squatter's slum in a beach in Ennore, Tamil Nadu, India near the refinery. The oil pipeline from the jetty to the refinery was passing under. Some enterprising slum dweller dug a pit to find the pipeline, built a hut over the pit, punctured the pipeline. The crude oil collected in the pit and he was selling them by the bucketfuls. Till he or one of his customers took a smoking break.
Every damn email they suctioned up has stern boilerplate warning: "This email is intended for XYZ only. If you are not XYZ and you got this email, and if you don't delete it and forget what you have read immediately we are going to pretend we could come after you like gangbusters". Let us see if that stupid boilerplate text has any legal standing.
Anyway, of the 20 Gig they collected, I am sure 19.9 Gig was this boilerplate text.
It is actually the age old puzzle, "two doors, tiger behind one, princess behind the other. One guard always tells the truth, the other always lies. What question would you ask...". Some poor Estonian tried to translate this puzzle from Sanskrit to Estonian and ended up writing it as a research paper instead.
You might not even need to find such a vein of gold.
There is more gold and other rare metals in the sea water any one can imagine. A breakthrough technology in electrolysis or something could crash the price of all the precious and rare metals.
[Correcting the wrong formatting of my posting. sorry]
You might not even need to find such a vein of gold. There is more gold and other rare metals in the sea water any one can imagine. A breakthrough technology in electrolysis or something could crash the price of all the precious and rare metals.
When we the people fund through our governments fund fundamental research, we don't know who is going to be the ultimate beneficiary. But we do it on good faith that it will benefit us. Amazon benefited by our investments in internet infrastructure, countless hours donated by volunteers at the early stages, our governments enforcement of its dubious intellectual property rights like "one-click patent". After availing all these benefits, Amazon is arguing that collecting sales tax on the sales is too onerous and it is impossible. It is the same company that can predict what you book you are going to be interested in next. But it can't calculate some stupid sales tax? Can't it publish an xml template and ask every jurisdiction to file its sales tax rules in that xml file?
With Coporate citizens like Amazon in our midst, we don't need any external enemies to completely destroy America.
Forge a cheque for 14 trillion dollars made out to U S Treasury from the personal checking account of Steven Colbert. Encase it in clear plastic and claim it is art.
Once the government has been shrunk small enough to be drowned in a bathtub, I wonder who will be able to enforce the property rights and the rule of law.
You need to study more about the cultural values and taboo systems that keep these hunter gatherer bands together. Boasting, hoarding and any kind of selfish and self aggrandizing behavior is highly discouraged. The only rewards for taking the risk and doing the hunt is likely to be better mate choices rather than first dibs on the dinner table.
The article mentions that the electronic gadgetry needed to drive such high res displays is the bottleneck.
But I also think there are defects. The bigger screen version of Kindle has much higher rate of failures and faults. All it takes is one stuck pixel. I think they print such a long sheet, and punch out defect free rectangles out and discard the rest. But this is just speculation on my part.
restaM is a security teacher. restaM is Master written backwards. To learn from a restaM you do everything the opposite way. If they do A you do !A. If they advice you to do B you do !B. This is how Apple can learn from Microsoft the security lessons. oops sorry. snossel !
1. Punish does not mean you have to go ultra nasty on them. Most of the time, simple withdrawal is punishment enough. You treat me bad, I just simply walk away. If you care enough to notice it and ask why, you will know, and that will be the opportunity to correct misunderstandings and cement a strong relationship. You know about the trading systems outside the paper-written-contract world? Jewish diamond merchants who do million dollar trades on just a word of promise? Gujarati traders who swap multi-million dollar properties around the world sitting on the floor of the Swami Narayan temple without any written contract? The Hawala traders who take dollars from you in New York and deliver rupees to your designee in Bangaladesh? All these are very lucrative trades. Simple banishment is a huge punishment. There you see the nicest behavior, keeping the promise even if it means million dollar loss.
2. Golden rule might incentivize a few to treat you nicely. If you treat everyone the same why should anyone be nice to you? Golden rule attracts free loaders. The free-loaders have a very finely developed sense of smell about these saintly people. They come from far and near and leech off the Golden rule following Samaritans. Sounds cynical and exaggerated. But you know there is a kernel of truth there.
3. Don't take my word for it. Read the Chapter 13 of The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, titled Nice Guys finish First. Or Carl Sagan's article in Parade magazine circa 1992 about these rules. Start with the phrase "evolution of cooperation" and follow the links dished out by scholar.google.com. Science explains altruism, and why it is good for you and the society to be nice, forgiving and non-jealous.
You like coding and want to do coding. But you are likely to be far more productive using your skills to make sure more people benefit by your experience. And it would be more rewarding to you financially too.
In WW-II Japanese air force promoted their combat aces to ranks so high they out ranked their base commanders. They kept assigning themselves most dangerous and glorious combat missions, eventually all of them died. But Japanese did have a few aces notching up dozens of kills. US, on the other hand, does not have any reaching even 10 kills. The moment a combat pilot notches up 5 and qualifies to be an ace, he is transferred to the training command and is made to teach those skills to a new crop of young pilots. Some of them eventually transferred to NASA test missions and flew research aircraft.
So though you love coding, switch to project management. I am speaking from experience. I loved coding, and stayed in programming for far too long. I am doing project management now. You can always code in your spare time, doing what you like.
Friends don't spam friends for farmville tools. If someone you friended does, it reveals an interesting characteristic trait of that person, that he/she is willing to nag friends and family for a very modest personal gain. Better to de-friend them and tell them why.
At any rate, you can not run away from your core problem. You have friends who suck. Suck the life out of you, nag you, who don't care about you. Your fundamental problem is, you mistake them for friends. You can not solve this problem by running away from it. These so called friends will follow you in facebook, google, real life. Stand firm, follow the modified Silver Rule[*], to take your life back.
Rules to live by:
Golden Rule: Treat others as you would like to be treated by them. You will never punish abusers and never give an incentive to treat you nice. Stupid rule.
Silver Rule: Treat others as they treat you. Very good rule, except for endless feud. So forgive once in a while, retaliate nasty behavior with slightly less aggressive way and reward nice behavior by a little bit extra niceness on your part. Very good rule for you and for building a lasting good soceity.
Iron Rule: Be nasty to everyone. Very bad rule. Evolution strongly discourages this kind of selfishness.
Weasel rule: Be nice to people stronger than you, and be nasty to people weaker than you. This is a surprisingly enduring rule. Led to very long periods of stability in history, but with very little economic growth, bad life for most of the population, usually ends in being defeated by a stronger neighbor.
Most Asian languages use a suffix to indicate respectful reference. Japanese uses -san as in Suzuki-san or Yamomoto-san or Admiral Nakudo-san. Similarly Hindi uses ji. As in Obama-ji met the Senator Liberman-ji.
Most cell phone companies use the suffix G to add respectability to what is otherwise a meaningless number.
That is liberty as defined by the Republicans. Liberty is only for corporations, profiteers oops sorry Job Creators. You say, "I just want to use my gray water in my home" they laugh at you. They will sit in the medicare provided scotters, sniffing medicare provided oxygen tanks and rail against the government take over of healthcare.
The number of predictions made by these analysts, talking heads, policy wonks, think tank shills etc far exceed the actual number of companies. There is a constant stream of such predictions. At some point some one has to be right. Then the guy who won the lottery, i.e. the guy who predicted it exactly at the right moment, is going to beat his chest and make loud noises about how he got it right, when everyone else was wrong. The prize for winning that lottery is a life time supply of meal tickets. Essentially this guy will be invited to occupy one square in the talking heads matrix that is de regour (sp?) in the business news channels.
In the worst case scenario USA will just print a few trillion dollars and discharge the debt. Of course, dollar will be devalued and the purchasing power of the money paid to retire the debt will be much less. But strictly speaking, your bond matured, you got the promised number of dollars. So how the hell can USA default?
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The works protected by copyright were typically owned by the aristocrats. Works protected by patents were typically owned by artisans and blue collar workers, historically speaking. No wonder copyright got better treatment than patents.
See how the smileys are written like this: :-) :-), it shows the correct orientation to read the text on ASCII displays. So infinity symbol is simply written as 8. How do you write the numeral eight, you might ask. Please sit down, as it might come as a shock. For most people in the world, 8 IS infinity.
Just some monochromatic green glow. Call me when the skin of the cat is a 1920x1080p display with 24bit color.
Similar thing happened in India. Tanker truck carrying kerosene overturned, villagers gathered around to collect the leaking kerosene. Dozens died. There was this oil worker in texas who lit a lighter to because it was too dark to inside the gasoline storage tank. There was a squatter's slum in a beach in Ennore, Tamil Nadu, India near the refinery. The oil pipeline from the jetty to the refinery was passing under. Some enterprising slum dweller dug a pit to find the pipeline, built a hut over the pit, punctured the pipeline. The crude oil collected in the pit and he was selling them by the bucketfuls. Till he or one of his customers took a smoking break.
Anyway, of the 20 Gig they collected, I am sure 19.9 Gig was this boilerplate text.
It is actually the age old puzzle, "two doors, tiger behind one, princess behind the other. One guard always tells the truth, the other always lies. What question would you ask ...". Some poor Estonian tried to translate this puzzle from Sanskrit to Estonian and ended up writing it as a research paper instead.
You might not even need to find such a vein of gold.
There is more gold and other rare metals in the sea water any one can imagine. A breakthrough technology in electrolysis or something could crash the price of all the precious and rare metals. [Correcting the wrong formatting of my posting. sorry]
You might not even need to find such a vein of gold. There is more gold and other rare metals in the sea water any one can imagine. A breakthrough technology in electrolysis or something could crash the price of all the precious and rare metals.
What's the intrinsic value of gold?
Gold is the most preferred material to cover the roof of Vishnu Temples. http://www.bharatwaves.com/portal/uploads/original_TTD_4d4d73b65b1b3.jpg Also it is the most recommended material to make armor for Vishnu and his consorts. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/4894875010_e7c89e86c7.jpg The highest possible use for any material is to be in service of The Lord. So yeah, Gold has lots of intrinsic value.
With Coporate citizens like Amazon in our midst, we don't need any external enemies to completely destroy America.
Forge a cheque for 14 trillion dollars made out to U S Treasury from the personal checking account of Steven Colbert. Encase it in clear plastic and claim it is art.
Once the government has been shrunk small enough to be drowned in a bathtub, I wonder who will be able to enforce the property rights and the rule of law.
You need to study more about the cultural values and taboo systems that keep these hunter gatherer bands together. Boasting, hoarding and any kind of selfish and self aggrandizing behavior is highly discouraged. The only rewards for taking the risk and doing the hunt is likely to be better mate choices rather than first dibs on the dinner table.
Sarif Industries? Do they have a leg to stand on? [Warning: mods modding this off topic should look up and see the oooosh flying past]
But I also think there are defects. The bigger screen version of Kindle has much higher rate of failures and faults. All it takes is one stuck pixel. I think they print such a long sheet, and punch out defect free rectangles out and discard the rest. But this is just speculation on my part.
restaM is a security teacher. restaM is Master written backwards. To learn from a restaM you do everything the opposite way. If they do A you do !A. If they advice you to do B you do !B. This is how Apple can learn from Microsoft the security lessons. oops sorry. snossel !
2. Golden rule might incentivize a few to treat you nicely. If you treat everyone the same why should anyone be nice to you? Golden rule attracts free loaders. The free-loaders have a very finely developed sense of smell about these saintly people. They come from far and near and leech off the Golden rule following Samaritans. Sounds cynical and exaggerated. But you know there is a kernel of truth there.
3. Don't take my word for it. Read the Chapter 13 of The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, titled Nice Guys finish First. Or Carl Sagan's article in Parade magazine circa 1992 about these rules. Start with the phrase "evolution of cooperation" and follow the links dished out by scholar.google.com. Science explains altruism, and why it is good for you and the society to be nice, forgiving and non-jealous.
Yes, My recollection is totally incorrect. Many posters have pointed out. I stand corrected. Thanks for all who pointed out my mistake.
In WW-II Japanese air force promoted their combat aces to ranks so high they out ranked their base commanders. They kept assigning themselves most dangerous and glorious combat missions, eventually all of them died. But Japanese did have a few aces notching up dozens of kills. US, on the other hand, does not have any reaching even 10 kills. The moment a combat pilot notches up 5 and qualifies to be an ace, he is transferred to the training command and is made to teach those skills to a new crop of young pilots. Some of them eventually transferred to NASA test missions and flew research aircraft.
So though you love coding, switch to project management. I am speaking from experience. I loved coding, and stayed in programming for far too long. I am doing project management now. You can always code in your spare time, doing what you like.
At any rate, you can not run away from your core problem. You have friends who suck. Suck the life out of you, nag you, who don't care about you. Your fundamental problem is, you mistake them for friends. You can not solve this problem by running away from it. These so called friends will follow you in facebook, google, real life. Stand firm, follow the modified Silver Rule[*], to take your life back.
Rules to live by:
Golden Rule: Treat others as you would like to be treated by them. You will never punish abusers and never give an incentive to treat you nice. Stupid rule.
Silver Rule: Treat others as they treat you. Very good rule, except for endless feud. So forgive once in a while, retaliate nasty behavior with slightly less aggressive way and reward nice behavior by a little bit extra niceness on your part. Very good rule for you and for building a lasting good soceity.
Iron Rule: Be nasty to everyone. Very bad rule. Evolution strongly discourages this kind of selfishness.
Weasel rule: Be nice to people stronger than you, and be nasty to people weaker than you. This is a surprisingly enduring rule. Led to very long periods of stability in history, but with very little economic growth, bad life for most of the population, usually ends in being defeated by a stronger neighbor.
Most cell phone companies use the suffix G to add respectability to what is otherwise a meaningless number.
Thanks.
That is liberty as defined by the Republicans. Liberty is only for corporations, profiteers oops sorry Job Creators. You say, "I just want to use my gray water in my home" they laugh at you. They will sit in the medicare provided scotters, sniffing medicare provided oxygen tanks and rail against the government take over of healthcare.
The number of predictions made by these analysts, talking heads, policy wonks, think tank shills etc far exceed the actual number of companies. There is a constant stream of such predictions. At some point some one has to be right. Then the guy who won the lottery, i.e. the guy who predicted it exactly at the right moment, is going to beat his chest and make loud noises about how he got it right, when everyone else was wrong. The prize for winning that lottery is a life time supply of meal tickets. Essentially this guy will be invited to occupy one square in the talking heads matrix that is de regour (sp?) in the business news channels.
In the worst case scenario USA will just print a few trillion dollars and discharge the debt. Of course, dollar will be devalued and the purchasing power of the money paid to retire the debt will be much less. But strictly speaking, your bond matured, you got the promised number of dollars. So how the hell can USA default?