You clearly have interests in engineering. With a Degree in engineering, and Art, you can probably get a good paying career in engineering, using Art to improve your engineering designs. However you choose the opposite route using engineering to improve your are in a career where there is a lot of risk of not getting your next paycheck.

There is the original intent from the creators, then the interpretation of the users.
Being that it is a written document, the intent is not really binding, but the letter of the document needs to show that interpretation is wrong.

Don't mess with the convergent point of the Supply and Demand curve!
If you try to price outside of of that area. Too much or too little things just don't work well.

Yes I'm sure all those students will be greatly upset that they don't have to fuck their professor to be able to learn.

I'm sure they'll also be greatly upset that creeps like you don't get to insist they fuck you if they want anything from you.

Do you give your doctor a blowjob if he asks for one when you go for your flu vaccine? should he really stay in the job if he asks that of you? Is your understanding of ethics and norms so fundamentally broken that you're really that creepy? Or are you just one of those people who can't back down even though they're wrong? It's one or the other, I really just still can't tell which and I'm not sure if that's more or less disturbing than you just out and out admitting you're a creep that prefers to support sexual predators over normal people.

Right now in this political environment, progress will only happen with the few crazy err umm eccentric folks. With the money and resources to attempt it.

Now unlike the government failure is an option. Branson lost a test ship, so he just as a PR issue to fix. If this happened on a government funded watch, you will have congressional hearing (which will never turn out good) The guy who can't point his finger down will take the blame. The next years budget will get cut.

Well there is Arnold Swenager the person and Arnold Swenager the brand.

If the media gets their hold of Arnold in some sort scandal. He cannot force that to be removed.
But if they want to use the Arnold brand for a movie then they will need to do so.

One is free speech, the other is branding rights.

"Once again, nothing in Christian scripture compels Christians to fight other faiths. On contrast, Koran does so compel its followers. That's the fundamental asymmetry.."

It doesn't matter. There are about 1.3 billion muslims in the world and the fraction causing problems in practice is minimal however you try and spin it.

Groups like the LRA and many other African Christian groups, Mexican cartels justifying their actions using Christianity and so on and so forth could make ISIS look tame with the amount of people they've killed and the manner in which they've killed them. ISIS beheads a single Westerner and it's headline news, a Mexican drug cartel beheads 40 people and you've really got to fucking dig to find any news on it.

"IRA's fight was purely secular â" nothing in Catholicism insists nor mandates the sort of things they've done."

How old are you 10? Were you even around when the troubles in Ireland were at their worst? I just don't understand how else someone can be this fucking ignorant. You're so utterly oblivious to what the Irish troubles were really about that you think the IRA's fight is secular? You really don't know about the whole Catholics vs. Protestants thing? How can you even begin to join a discussion like this when you're so profoundly lacking a clue on it?

"Muslims, once again, must fight other religions â" in order to remain good Muslims. Because Koran â" which they believe to be the word of God verbatim â" says so."

The Bible says an awful lot of things that aren't particularly nice either, but guess what? most Muslims like most Christians have learnt that some of what these texts say are plain fucking stupid and opt not to pursue them. This is why we're finally starting to see women bishops in the UK as but one example - because it turns out that although the bible preaches misogyny it's not actually cool in this day and age. We hear about Islamic fundamentalism more in the West because it's currently the biggest threat, 30 years ago in the UK though it was the IRA, a wholly Christian conflict.

You can try and justify this how you want but you'd still be wrong. South and Central Africa is ravaged by Christian fighting but the focus is wholly on the Middle East/North Africa because the West has largely given up on the West of Africa and the middle east is where we're primarily trying to interfere nowadays.

It seems that there are violent thugs from every walk of life and the proportion seems similar whatever they purport their cause to be. Whether it's leftist guerillas in South America, Mexican drug cartels in Central America, Far right fascists in Northern and Eastern Europe, Russian Orthodox imperialists in Russia and surrounding states, Christian fundamentalists in Europe and Africa, Islamic fundamentalists in the middle east, Buddhist fundamentalists in Burma, or whatever else- bad people find reasons to kill, pretending that one group of bad people is somehow worse than another is stupid. There's not even really a metric by which the worst of the worst, ISIS or Al Qaeda can compare to the Mexican drug cartels in terms of amount of kills and level of violence - groups like La Familia and Knights Templar cartels claim religion as being key parts of their foundations just as ISIS do, so you cannot simply claim one is secular whilst the other is not.

What about individual acts of terrorism in the West? Well in recent years Anders Breivik killed more kids in the name of Christianity in Norway than the Ottawa shootings, the current Sydney situation, the London 7/7 bombings, and a few French anti-semitic incidents combined. 9/11? small fry. Want to know what real horror sounds like? Try the Srebrenica massacre of 1995 where Russian backed Serbian Orthodox fighters thought it would be fun to kill roughly 10,000 muslims in a single massacre often using things such as hammers to beat them to death so as not to waste bullets and then dumping them all in mass graves.

So you can say things like "the IRA is secular" or whatever all you like which is complete nonsense, but what you really mean is that you have a very specific hatred of a certain group of people. I even understand that, and understand and sympathise with why - they're targetting us because we're targetting them so it feels like they're the only bad guys in the world if all you have is a very ethnocentric western view of the world as you clearly do, but don't try and dress it up as anything else.

The number of Christians and Muslims in the world is absolutely staggering, 1.2bn - 1.5bn is a big number. People often have trouble with big numbers, and if you're one of those people as you seem to be, then take it from me, the number of actual muslims engaging in violence out of the more than a billion people who identify with muslims is as much a drop in the ocean as the number of Christians doing the same.

Most conflicts have some religious twist to them, you can dispute whether religion is the reason, or the excuse for such conflicts, but cherry picking one conflict and claiming it's the reason and then for the others saying it's just the excuse and they're not really adherents? That's nonsense and smacks of just being an excuse to persecute and attack one specific group over another equally bad group making you as bad as anyone that merely preaches jihad on Twitter or whatever, because it's the exact same twisted bitter logic and justification for division that you're using.

I think you should probably take a tissue and whipe those tears from your eyes. Honestly, it's not the end of the world that you're wrong.

Or maybe you're just upset that you think sexual harassment is okay and are upset that no one's willing to back you on that.

Being an idiot on Slashdot is fine, you're more than welcome to keep being that. Being a sexual predator? that's not okay, don't expect anyone to come and tell you it is so that you can satisfy that blatant perversion of yours. Don't get upset when someone tells you to stop trying to justify sexual harassment as okay. It's not.

For the signal to survive being compressed to MP3, it would pretty much have to be encoded as a modulated audio signal that the encoder would treat as part of the music, and there's no technical reason why you couldn't include 'secret data' on a vinyl LP using the same technique... However, since thousands of copies are stamped out from each master (that applies to vinyl *and* CD) it wouldn't be much good as a way of tracing who made the copy.

Plus, it could interfere with the messages from Satan that you hear when you play your heavy metal LPs backwards, and He really wouldn't like that.

In other news, the last surviving makers of wax cylinders and shellac 78s are probably doing quite well from their own perspective. I'm sure that camera film will continue to be available for enthusiasts and specialist purposes for many years - just not in a high street near you. Since people still ride horses, I assume that there are still a few blacksmiths going strong. Then, a couple of years back, those people build a brand new steam locomotive... That doesn't mean that film cameras, Edison phonographs, horses or steam trains are coming back, or are better than their modern replacements.

I'd be quite unsurprised if "new" vinyl LPs end up being more widely available than "new" Audio CDs. Not because they're better, but they're more iconic and the machines that make them will be easier to keep running without huge economies of scale.

I don't think PKD's opinion counts, since the film was so hugely different from the book, and missed out lots of plot points like the "mood organ", the social pressure to own an animal (or an electric fake), the robot disc jockey and the whole Mercerist religion (which made the VK test look suspiciously like a test of religious dogma). Deckard was human and his memories hadn't been implanted, but everything he remembered and felt had, one way or another, been an artifice.

Yes - in the 1950s, nobody would have batted an eyelid at that (its probably a detail from the real-life memoirs the series was inspired by). My dad was in hospital with a lung infection in the 50s. They came round the ward with a cart handing out free cigarettes.

Really? It shows one aspect of how social practices and attitudes have changed in the last 50 years which is the whole bloody point of the show! Should they have quietly corrected all the now-discredited medical practices while they were at it? Perhaps they should have shown more women in senior positions instead type-casting them as midwifes and nurses?

Perhaps you should stick to watching Life on Mars instead - then you have a modern-day avatar to call the 1970s characters out on any behaviour which would not be acceptable in 2010, lest you thought the producers were endorsing it.

Just because they really are out to get you, it doesn't mean that you're not paranoid.

The power is very clearly in her fear of failure if she doesn't get the help she needs from him.

Stop making a fool of yourself, you were wrong on this one and you just need to accept that you have a really creepy view of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.

However during that time they let the technology stagnate. So the process to make better hi-res screen wasn't in the R&D pipeline.

Ah yes Nostalgia Blinders!.

Guess what it is 2014 and I still have to work with 3270 mainframes. And it good old time.

1. New regulations means we need to add more and more to the screens. 80x24 gets filled fast, adding new screen pathways makes the program more cumbersome to use.

2. Bulk Imports are ugly. Using screen scraping to load bulk data because it is locked down where you can't access the data directly.

3. Changes are scary, one mistake effect the full work load.