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Comment Re:Good thing I kept my CRT! (Score 2) 347

Preceding parameters are important:

(B) communication by an establishment of a transmission or retransmission embodying a performance or display of a nondramatic musical work intended to be received by the general public, originated by a radio or television broadcast station licensed as such by the Federal Communications Commission, or, if an audiovisual transmission, by a cable system or satellite carrier, if—
(i) in the case of an establishment other than a food service or drinking establishment, either the establishment in which the communication occurs has less than 2,000 gross square feet of space (excluding space used for customer parking and for no other purpose), or the establishment in which the communication occurs has 2,000 or more gross square feet of space (excluding space used for customer parking and for no other purpose) and—

Comment Re:Pay per pixel? (Score 1) 347

If I'm unhappy with this pricing scheme, I can still rent my movies at 1$ + tx - 20% rebate when I purchase a card worth 100$ or more at my local automated blu ray distribution center, open 24/24, 7/7. If I bring it back in less than 4 hours, I even get a discount on my next movie for the next 48 hours! :)

Comment Re:most lego's are a rip off (Score 2) 355

Actually, there are quite a few nice sets which I`ve purchased for my kids. I agree that there's a lot of bad sets out there, but I look at my old sets instructions advertisement pages, and there was also a lot of bad sets 30 years ago but we didn`t happened to purchase them either :)

http://www.lego.com/en-us/crea...
http://www.lego.com/en-us/crea...
http://www.lego.com/en-us/crea...
http://www.lego.com/en-us/tech...

Ok, that last one`s for me :)

Comment Re:most lego's are a rip off (Score 1) 355

Even if we cut off the symetries, there`s an infinite number of ways that you can assemble them. Don`t believe me ? Hehe let`s start from the beginning ..

Lets say, we use either as the bottom one, but that`s considered symetric, so we only look as a fixed bottom one and another to attach to. You could put exactly over it, then you could move up on the side for a total of 8 positions. Either side are symetric. Then, you could move it to the side by one, and repeat. You could also move it to the other side, but that`s symetric. And the symetry of moving on the other side and off by -1 is ignored too. So, in the same axis, we have 16 non-symetric positions.

Now, they could be installed centered at at 90 degree angle, where you`d have 5 non-symetric positions to move the top one. Then you could move it toward the end of the bottom one, again repeating those 5 positions, and that up to 5 times for a total of 25 non symetric positions in this arrangeemnt. So far we have a total of 41 non-symetric positions.

Finally, that`s where it gets interesting. When you have a single locked point, you can rotate it to any angle you wish (in the valid range, which I don`t happen to know at this time and don`t have the time to try to compute), thus providing an infinite number of positions they can be locked together. And you have 4 of those infinites, 2 points on the bottom one, linking to either of the 2 end points of the top one (the others are symetric to those, again) Have fun trying this with 3 :)

Comment Re:Difficult to defend against (Score 2) 630

GoalKeeper;

The system's reaction time to a Mach 2 sea-skimming missile such as the Russian SS-N-22 Sunburn from automatic detection to kill is reported to be 5.5 seconds with the firing synchronized to start the engagement at a range of 1,500 m and ending with a kill at 300 m.[2]

The SS-N-22 (russian version) has a 2.6 ft diameter, while the railgun `pellet` appear to be a few inches only, thus being much harder to hit. Also, final speed of the railgun pellet should still be much higher than mach 2. And at the range-speed combo they are talking of, the trajectory should be relatively flat. I'd bet against the goalkeeper.

Comment Re:April First????? (Score 1) 219

Actually, last I looked at it it was in 2009, and the only reason they would provide me for the paid service shortcomings were the numerous trees in the path of the signal, which at that point were covered in snow much higher than the pointing direction. I would say that in the ground direction it was pointing to, the trees were at most 15 feet in the horizontal direction and 25 feet higher than the antenna installation.

Comment Re:April First????? (Score 3, Informative) 219

Snow in trees was problematic too. It`s like permanent rain. I live in the middle of a forest and I even took the extra work of bringing electricity, cable and phone through ground entrances, so I wasn`t about to cut trees for my satellite, which I wasn`t using that much at my previous location. And heating trees wasn`t a part of the solution :)

The gear came as a free goodie with a television purchase years before, with free to air access and 3 years of free subscription to a service. I`ve used the service a bit, but the FTA wasn`t worth investing in a bigger or better dish and I didn`t want a large ugly one somewhere either.

Oh well, that was for me. At this time, I get all I want from my internet connection and rented blurays at 1$ a pop in those auto-dispensers.

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