Comment Re:The answer is... (Score 5, Funny) 821
I thought Windows was freeware... None of the torrent sites ever asked for payment.
Freeware or malware?
I thought Windows was freeware... None of the torrent sites ever asked for payment.
Freeware or malware?
You can also get a compressor unit that will reject the houses heat into the pool. This only works if you have a smaller compressor for example for the upstairs and a larger compressor for downstairs unless you have a really big pool since it will get too warm. In the good old days, people would just run cold tap water through them and dump the hot water into the sewer.
I think the biggest problem is that the employees did not pay their taxes using gold coins. If one gets paid in gold coins and pays their taxes in gold coins there would not be a problem. If one gets paid in gold coins and pays their taxes with fiat money then one is manipulating the system.
What a fucking perversion of the interstate commerce clause. The lawyers twist it to mean anything. How else do you think that states can really legalize pot now, even though that pot could stay within the state's borders the entire time? Via interstate commerce clause, they argue, because it COULD go out of state. Just like I may commit a crime one day, so lock me up now before it happens.
Mail was delivered for 160+ years in this country before the interstate highways. I never once thought "Gee, this highway is here to deliver mail". It never occured to me, because that's a benefit of the highway but not the main purpose. (I'm not saying highways aren't beneficial, but that's a seperate discussion).
The interstate commerce clause is also used to justify the civil right act of 1964. Your argument also applies to segregation as well. The question being, if I have a restaurant in the middle of nowhere and the state is fine with what I do, what right does the federal government have in telling me how to run my business. Without a broad interpretation of the commerce clause, the federal government loses its ability to affect social change. It seems one can not have their cake and eat it too. I am all for state rights but not at any cost.
For a pandemic, it is also helpful to have a war with massive troop movements from one place to the other such as during WWI with everyone living in tight quarters. It is thought to have incubated in the U.S., was carried over to Europe by our troops and then brought back to the U.S. by them.
I believe that Blu-ray is the last physical media format for movies. Movies will instead be distributed electronically. As it has been pointed out in other posts, consumers want convenience. Renting movies and returning them is not convenient. Also, I believe that consumers are tiring of purchasing a shelf full of media in one format and being told that it is now obsolete. It is also hard to justify buying shelves, allocating a bunch of space, having to pack and unpack them every time one moves.
Even with modern electronic equipment. I don't see why you cant just Tap the signal after it has been decoded and before it goes to the display. Sure it is a hardware hack but like all DRM technology it just needs to be broken once for it to be useless and spread on the Internet.
The problem is that the signal being carried over an HDMI connector can be encrypted using the display devices public key. If a brand of device is compromised then the key can be blacklisted for all future disks when they are produced.
Wait until the molting season when the geese can not fly, trap them all and gas them.
http://wcbstv.com/local/bird.strike.prevention.2.1041000.html
Science does not prove things. It establishes them.
If you buy used CDs for $1 each, do you pay taxes on the $1 price or on the original retail value?
If you record FM radio on a cassette player, do you pay taxes based on how much the songs would have cost to buy on a casette tape?
If you record a song from Internet radio on your computer, do you pay tax based on the cost for the radio service to license that song and transmit it to you?
If you download the 30 second sample of a 3 minute song, do you pay tax on 1/6th of the purchase price?
In many cases you pay a blank media tax/levy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
If I won a $10,000 iTunes gift card, I'd have to pay taxes on that. (Assuming deductions/exemptions were unavailable/already used)
If somebody gave me $10,000 as a gift, I'd have to pay taxes on that. (Assuming deductions/exemptions were unavailable/already used)
If somebody "gives" me $10,000 in music via bittorrent, why on earth should that be tax-exempt?
In almost every state, items purchased out-of-state must be declared and a "use tax" is due when imported. There is a reasonable exemption limit so you don't have to declare that bag of Cheetos you bought driving home from trip, but if you purchase a car in New Hampshire to avoid Massachusetts sales tax, you still owe money to Massachusetts, and they will collect it.
Just because you downloaded it doesn't mean you shouldn't pay gift/sale taxes. Taxes are part of life. Deal.
If I collected $2,000 dollars of solar energy falling on my roof, why would this be any different?
If I collected $200 worth of rain water, why would this be any different?
If I breathed $50 worth of second hand smoke, why would this be any different?
I think they would need to prove that
I believe the point is that you will need to pay a lawyer an enormous sum to defend yourself. You may win but it will cost you. The threat of costly litigation is a good deterrent for most people.
I could not agree more with you. You can learn from disasters, but there is no such technology that can prevent disasters completely.
What you can do, is trying to reduce complexity from technology that is potentially dangerous. This and trying to get more direct information instead of indirect information (e.g. being able to actually see the water in the TMI case would have prevented that the incident went into out of control). Complexity, dependencies, and indirections greatly increases the likelihood to make wrong decisions. Combine this with time pressure (e.g. if you cannot fix the problem in TMI within a couple of hours, the incident becomes a disaster) and you have a recipe for normal accidents. BTW: I highly recommend this book, which also analyses the TMI case.
One of the most serious problems is that often times redundant systems are maintained simultaneously. It is highly likely that the same mistake will be repeated by the same person on all of the redundant components. Also, the same faulty batch of replacement parts could be used for all redundant components as well.
True, but mute, since it doesn't actually violate any physical laws, it only "appears" to.
Since it makes the sub invisible, I would say it only "disappears" to.
People in California were driving electric cars every day ten years ago. They were fast, quiet, clean, and reliable. They were also accessible to the everyman, unlike the Tesla roadster.
I don't give a fuck about corn or other combustibles. We could all be driving electric cars today if not for big oil colluding with government regulators.
Give me my electric car!
I believe the real reason they were killed off is that there was not much for the dealer to service and therefore make money e.g. no coolant to flush, no oil to change, no tune ups, etc. GM felt it needed to keep the dealers happy.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
