Erm... isn't that how the web works? Linking to information on other sites? It was, in fact, the whole reason HTML was invented in order to link one document to another.
"Hallo dere! It's me Captain Stefan Van Der Haast Graacht of the Amsterdam Police again. Viz my partner - and also, I'm very happy to say, my lover..."
It's about reducing the level of risk. Plenty people are stopped from driving because they have a medical condition (epilepsy, recent heart attack etc...). People's reaction times and motor skills, when they are drunk, are highly impaired.
If you are seriously suggesting that you should be allowed to drink alcohol before you drive you maybe need to seriously re-think your attitude to alcohol.
Also, many tests have been done on people's attitudes to their own driving. The majority of people rate their own driving higher than other people rate that same person's driving. It explains your attitude (which is the same attitude that alot of people have) that driving laws shouldn't apply to them.
Not knowing anything about shares this is only a guess, but I assume that when Apple first started trading they were given AAPL. I also assume it's like registration plates and you would have to pay for a custom one. When apple were first listed they were probably more worried about investing the money in RandD.
The point that is being made is not really a point about this case. It is a point about how heinous the crime of copying music/dvds is.
Politicians regard it as a heinous crime because big business stands to loose (and the politicians will loose their consultancy positions on boards etc). The genereal public, I suspect, would regard it as less heinous. In fact I suspect the majority of people have a few downloaded(free, as in not paid for) copies of music/films on their hard drives.
OK, so the guy distrubited his copy. That is probably a different matter.
They have had the same length of time to develop as we have. We have only begun to explore our solar system. The furthest any evidence of our existence has travelled is about 150 light years at most (radio waves) and that is nothing on the scale of things and they will also be very weak by now. Why would they be any further developed that we are?
Remeber, although life does exist(we are the evidence), the things needed for life to start are quite specific. It needs a planet about our size (strength of gravity is important) about the same distance from a sun of about our sun's size and age(the temperature and the stability of the temperature are important).
It also needs polymer forming molecules (C and Si are the usual candidates) and some sort of universal solvent (H2O being the obvious one) and other chemicals that can bond with the polymers and make them unique somehow (so that some polymers become more efficient and survive etc...).
I know what you mean, however I have been to a gigs where no amplification is used at all. The best drummers can tone it down for acoustic instruments. Most bands (and I am talking about jazz bands) that are amplified live seem to need it to get over the drummer bashing away like a chimp and not being responsive to the other instruments.
Surely it depends on how much data compression? If it quite highly lossy compressed then there is less info and therefore being able to tell the difference between 2 tracks (no matter what the actual difference is, even dynamic range) will be more difficult.
I could hear the difference, but it was for the benefit of those who dont appear to think it matters. If there is lossy compression then the difference between the two tracks is reduced and some people are going to say "so what?".
Also, If it is true that there are no dealers, only other drug addicts trying to make money to get out of the way of life then, I don't think selling the drugs, that are causing your problems in the first place, to other users to keep them in the way of life is exactly the good thing to do.
Money should be used to stop people getting hooked in the first place (which generally has nothing to do with drugs but more to do with standards of living that cause politicians all sorts of embarrasment).
Actually, the same thing is happening at live gigs.
I was at a Jazz gig recently (not exactly loud thrash metal;-) ).
It was your typical Jazz club, small, smoky, excellent atmosphere. I could talk quietly at one side of the room and you would be able to hear me with no problems.
But the jazz bands that go there all have amplification. why?
Of course people can turn the volume down. Thats not the point.
RTFA!
The point is that in order for the volume to be turned up in the original track, the dynamic range has to be decreased. Also, form the graphics, it looks like there's a little clipping going on which will give some distortion.
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Erm... isn't that how the web works? Linking to information on other sites? It was, in fact, the whole reason HTML was invented in order to link one document to another.
I noticed that the whois entry for www.warriorsforinnocence.org is anonymous as well, so open debate seems not to be an option.
Solar panels don't need high temperatures/direct sunlight to work, they just need light and they work perfectly well in the UK.
If you read 3 books a week are they all called "how not to spell"?
Doesn't the act of writing a log file of the contents of RAM utilise RAM in itself?
That's an infinite loop right there!
Yes, the Dutch police.
Source: Harry EnfieldTechnically it's frowned in if you smoke it in the streets. You are supposed to go to the Coffee Shops to smoke it.
It's about reducing the level of risk. Plenty people are stopped from driving because they have a medical condition (epilepsy, recent heart attack etc...). People's reaction times and motor skills, when they are drunk, are highly impaired.
If you are seriously suggesting that you should be allowed to drink alcohol before you drive you maybe need to seriously re-think your attitude to alcohol.
Also, many tests have been done on people's attitudes to their own driving. The majority of people rate their own driving higher than other people rate that same person's driving. It explains your attitude (which is the same attitude that alot of people have) that driving laws shouldn't apply to them.
If it's supposed to be hiding something it's not doing a very good job. :-)
Not knowing anything about shares this is only a guess, but I assume that when Apple first started trading they were given AAPL. I also assume it's like registration plates and you would have to pay for a custom one. When apple were first listed they were probably more worried about investing the money in RandD.
The point that is being made is not really a point about this case. It is a point about how heinous the crime of copying music/dvds is.
Politicians regard it as a heinous crime because big business stands to loose (and the politicians will loose their consultancy positions on boards etc). The genereal public, I suspect, would regard it as less heinous. In fact I suspect the majority of people have a few downloaded(free, as in not paid for) copies of music/films on their hard drives.
OK, so the guy distrubited his copy. That is probably a different matter.
But your are putting people at much more risk by bei...
Oh, why bother.
Judging by your sig. you are quite used to making comparisons that don't make any sense. In what way is a terrorist like a hippy?
Mayve he tried to leave his country, but there wasn't another country that would take him.
They have had the same length of time to develop as we have. We have only begun to explore our solar system. The furthest any evidence of our existence has travelled is about 150 light years at most (radio waves) and that is nothing on the scale of things and they will also be very weak by now. Why would they be any further developed that we are?
Remeber, although life does exist(we are the evidence), the things needed for life to start are quite specific. It needs a planet about our size (strength of gravity is important) about the same distance from a sun of about our sun's size and age(the temperature and the stability of the temperature are important).
It also needs polymer forming molecules (C and Si are the usual candidates) and some sort of universal solvent (H2O being the obvious one) and other chemicals that can bond with the polymers and make them unique somehow (so that some polymers become more efficient and survive etc...).
It's full of sta...
I know what you mean, however I have been to a gigs where no amplification is used at all. The best drummers can tone it down for acoustic instruments. Most bands (and I am talking about jazz bands) that are amplified live seem to need it to get over the drummer bashing away like a chimp and not being responsive to the other instruments.
Surely it depends on how much data compression? If it quite highly lossy compressed then there is less info and therefore being able to tell the difference between 2 tracks (no matter what the actual difference is, even dynamic range) will be more difficult.
I could hear the difference, but it was for the benefit of those who dont appear to think it matters. If there is lossy compression then the difference between the two tracks is reduced and some people are going to say "so what?".
I agree.
Also, If it is true that there are no dealers, only other drug addicts trying to make money to get out of the way of life then, I don't think selling the drugs, that are causing your problems in the first place, to other users to keep them in the way of life is exactly the good thing to do.
Money should be used to stop people getting hooked in the first place (which generally has nothing to do with drugs but more to do with standards of living that cause politicians all sorts of embarrasment).
Just a thought. The youtube compression is going to make the two tracks sound much more similar. Isn't it?
But if they find don't need it when they arrive, why use it?
Actually, the same thing is happening at live gigs. I was at a Jazz gig recently (not exactly loud thrash metal ;-) ).
It was your typical Jazz club, small, smoky, excellent atmosphere. I could talk quietly at one side of the room and you would be able to hear me with no problems.
But the jazz bands that go there all have amplification. why?
Of course people can turn the volume down. Thats not the point. RTFA! The point is that in order for the volume to be turned up in the original track, the dynamic range has to be decreased. Also, form the graphics, it looks like there's a little clipping going on which will give some distortion.
Technicaly it's Private Equity firms that are the real downsizers. But your right, Wall street likes it too.