The result would be the same with a popular nationwide vote and the plus side is that there is no shrub! But in practice the electoral vote does mean that states that would be ignored in a nationwide vote do get focus. And that focus moves around. Missouri and Indiana one election, Colorado and Ohio this election, Pennsylvania in the next election
What about the Girl with the dragon tatoo. That franchise was worth hundreds of millions yet the author died before the first book was published. I am not sure how you would handle that.
Copyright does have a role in feeding your heirs. It is an asset like any other. But i agree it should be limited to 50 years max. An author writing something on his 20th birthday (eg Asimov wrote the Foundation series when quite young), should expect that the royalties would stop on his 70th birthday. By then it has been milked dry. If he is smart he will have written sequels, lets say on his 30th birthday, and that would still be paying royalties and probably boosted when the first books went public domain.
I was surprised to find that Conan Doyle's relatives are still receiving royalties for Sherlock Holmes. Ridiculous.
A 20 metre meteor hits the earth on average every 100 years. A 2 km meteor every couple of million years. So 50-165ft meteor is approx 15 - 50 metres.
A 75 metre iron meteorite would make a crater like Meteor Crater. A stone meteorite would produce airbursts like Tunguska with land impacts destroying the area size of city. None of this pleasant but none of it a world-killer.
According to NASA there are roughly 4,700 PHAs, plus or minus 1,500, with diameters larger than 330 feet (about 100 meters). So far, an estimated 20 to 30 percent of these objects have been found.
Half the distance to moon is close, but that is still a low odds hit and yes, we need more funding to find more of these asteroids. We haven't been looking long and on the other hand, nothing too bad has happened in the past couple of million years so while a killer could be around the corner, the odds remain low. Still, i too would be happy if we knew where everything was.
Eris is large but a long way away. Anything closer than Saturn would be known fairly well in advance. Feel free to hit the panic button but there is a higher risk you will be hit by a bus in the next day. Worry about that more.
i have heard this a couple of times and it makes sense. How do they get stopped? Is there a way to draft a law to stop them from inciting their legal cases? Anti-hate law? Disbarrment?
Funny, i was just thinking the same thing. Onlineschools looks like the usual bottom feeder but they are not one that installs software to push adware.
Presumably itworld submitted this story. Aren't they all doing what they think they need to do to grow their businesses. Onlineschools might be going a bit too far of course...
Cuba and North Korea have one vote. So does the U.S. So does India. You are the one creating the strawmen.
And your concept of the internet as something the U.S. owns is deeply flawed. I suggest you stop watching Fox News.
But it is clearer why the U.S. is one of the few to not use metric, and almost uniquely use MM/DD/YY. I am sure you consider that a badge of honour. The rest of the world considers it a joke.
Well Castro and Kim Jong-un don't own the UN. That is Fox News talking.
And it is not the U.S.'s internet. Hasn't been for a long time. The U.S. controls the root servers but other countries have input into the practices on it. The U.S could be disconnected from the internet and it would keep running. Being the country to start the internet doesn't mean that the U.S. owns in it, in the same sense that China inventing paper and gunpowder doesn't mean they own it (that was the earlier point). This "owning" of the internet is a fiction and seems to be an american pride thing. It is a delusion. So either the U.S. plays fair or the bat and ball will be taken away from them.
Well as a democracy the U.S. is showing the same traits as those dictators you are concerned about. The point is that the U.S.'s concerns are not the same as the concerns of the rest of the world. So the U.S. has to make sure it doesn't push the envelope too far.
And the rest of the world can take the internet, the root servers, off the U.S. anytime they want, i hope you realise. All that is required is for them to choose to change the root servers they trust from the ones in the U.S. to say, ones in europe or asia. So it is convention that has the U.S. "controlling" the root servers. Beyond that the U.S. does not really control the internet. Additionally given that Syria and Egypt basically showed they can cut themselves off at any time countries have the ability to ignore the U.S. whenever they want.
Maths is fine but you used spin. And you didn't make a point. Get to the point of what you are trying to say.
I am assuming you are trying to say that the U.N. should not get control of the internet because there are tinpot dictators controlling some votes. Instead it is better to have one dictator control it, the U.S. But that is fine for you, as that is your dictator.
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That was funny. Were you posting as AC to avoid the bigfoot supporters?
The result would be the same with a popular nationwide vote and the plus side is that there is no shrub! But in practice the electoral vote does mean that states that would be ignored in a nationwide vote do get focus. And that focus moves around. Missouri and Indiana one election, Colorado and Ohio this election, Pennsylvania in the next election
If you don't look, you won't find.
I assume he means Richard Dawkins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins not Richard Dawson from Hogans Heroes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawson
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said
In Australia they use .95 or .99 for exactly the same reason that 9.99 or 9.95 sounds so much less than 10.
You are concerned it will be rounded up
Now you are concerned it will round down.
You are just concerned about any change at all
What about the Girl with the dragon tatoo. That franchise was worth hundreds of millions yet the author died before the first book was published. I am not sure how you would handle that.
Copyright does have a role in feeding your heirs. It is an asset like any other. But i agree it should be limited to 50 years max. An author writing something on his 20th birthday (eg Asimov wrote the Foundation series when quite young), should expect that the royalties would stop on his 70th birthday. By then it has been milked dry. If he is smart he will have written sequels, lets say on his 30th birthday, and that would still be paying royalties and probably boosted when the first books went public domain.
I was surprised to find that Conan Doyle's relatives are still receiving royalties for Sherlock Holmes. Ridiculous.
B! The answer is B!
No? Damn....
You would have to have a high IQ to come up with this study!
A 20 metre meteor hits the earth on average every 100 years. A 2 km meteor every couple of million years. So 50-165ft meteor is approx 15 - 50 metres.
A 75 metre iron meteorite would make a crater like Meteor Crater. A stone meteorite would produce airbursts like Tunguska with land impacts destroying the area size of city. None of this pleasant but none of it a world-killer.
According to NASA there are roughly 4,700 PHAs, plus or minus 1,500, with diameters larger than 330 feet (about 100 meters). So far, an estimated 20 to 30 percent of these objects have been found.
Half the distance to moon is close, but that is still a low odds hit and yes, we need more funding to find more of these asteroids. We haven't been looking long and on the other hand, nothing too bad has happened in the past couple of million years so while a killer could be around the corner, the odds remain low. Still, i too would be happy if we knew where everything was.
Eris is large but a long way away. Anything closer than Saturn would be known fairly well in advance. Feel free to hit the panic button but there is a higher risk you will be hit by a bus in the next day. Worry about that more.
i have heard this a couple of times and it makes sense. How do they get stopped? Is there a way to draft a law to stop them from inciting their legal cases? Anti-hate law? Disbarrment?
Funny, i was just thinking the same thing. Onlineschools looks like the usual bottom feeder but they are not one that installs software to push adware.
Presumably itworld submitted this story. Aren't they all doing what they think they need to do to grow their businesses. Onlineschools might be going a bit too far of course...
None of that new fangled stuff... it will never catch on.
Where's my tractor beam?
I have some old computer stuff to sell. Can i link to my ebay entries from slashdot too?
Cuba and North Korea have one vote. So does the U.S. So does India. You are the one creating the strawmen.
And your concept of the internet as something the U.S. owns is deeply flawed. I suggest you stop watching Fox News.
But it is clearer why the U.S. is one of the few to not use metric, and almost uniquely use MM/DD/YY. I am sure you consider that a badge of honour. The rest of the world considers it a joke.
Especially as there were probably no pigeons at the time :)
But yes, you can see how the evolution would have worked and how the desire to fill every niche selects the fish who can adapt the best.
"So cruel to birds" he says munching on his KFC. "Pass me another bucket of wings!"
Well Castro and Kim Jong-un don't own the UN. That is Fox News talking.
And it is not the U.S.'s internet. Hasn't been for a long time. The U.S. controls the root servers but other countries have input into the practices on it. The U.S could be disconnected from the internet and it would keep running. Being the country to start the internet doesn't mean that the U.S. owns in it, in the same sense that China inventing paper and gunpowder doesn't mean they own it (that was the earlier point). This "owning" of the internet is a fiction and seems to be an american pride thing. It is a delusion. So either the U.S. plays fair or the bat and ball will be taken away from them.
Well as a democracy the U.S. is showing the same traits as those dictators you are concerned about. The point is that the U.S.'s concerns are not the same as the concerns of the rest of the world. So the U.S. has to make sure it doesn't push the envelope too far.
And the rest of the world can take the internet, the root servers, off the U.S. anytime they want, i hope you realise. All that is required is for them to choose to change the root servers they trust from the ones in the U.S. to say, ones in europe or asia. So it is convention that has the U.S. "controlling" the root servers. Beyond that the U.S. does not really control the internet. Additionally given that Syria and Egypt basically showed they can cut themselves off at any time countries have the ability to ignore the U.S. whenever they want.
Maths is fine but you used spin. And you didn't make a point. Get to the point of what you are trying to say.
I am assuming you are trying to say that the U.N. should not get control of the internet because there are tinpot dictators controlling some votes. Instead it is better to have one dictator control it, the U.S. But that is fine for you, as that is your dictator.
If that is what you are saying, say it.
Can i have some of what you are smoking?
Exactly, so china wants paper and gunpowder back.
You mean the UN will try to control the heartland of movies? Mumbai?