His final will stated that he be buried in a glossy white coffin with no visible hinges or latches. RIP Steve.
Not just dead but iDead - a new more stylish type of dead, released just in time for Christmas...
RIP Steve
Not only did they have the shape of the world sorted out,
You don't actually need any eqipment or even maths to work this out - you just need to look out to sea when a ship is arriving on a clear day. The mast & sails come into view over the horizon before the bow & then the rest of the hull. All of which slowly come into view. It's not rocket science to work out that it appears to be comeing over a curved surface.
Oh c'mon. Next thing you're going to say is that there's no Santa.
This is as close as it comes for a geek, anyway. I'm going to bet on a physics revolution overthrowing the Standard Model just because it's long overdue, and because it would be fun, and because maybe now we can get a spare few billion for more research (but then, if true, we sure are going to need them!).
This is the great thing about science & scientists - I'll bet the majority of us want those neutrinos to be going faster than light, even the ones who are trying to find mistakes, because wholesale revolution of scientific consus is *fun* - specially in physics. Just think of the possibilities if we have inadvertantly found a way of FTL communication; good times...
I bet you personally aren't paying for shit, but receiving some government subsidy one way or another and just want others to pay for everything.
I'm gainfully employed and pay my taxes; I'm happy for a portion of those taxes to fund this project - what more do you expect from me?
As to my comments, they are general in nature,
As were mine; I'm quite happy for my taxes to fund fundamental scientific research that has no commercial merit, but expands our understanding of the way the universe works as the private sector has no incentive to do so. Another good example of this type of research is the LHC at CERN. Indeed, I would like a higher proportion of my taxes to go towards scientific endeavour, and less towards things like (for example) over-budget, under performing government IT systems.
Would you really be comfortable walking away from your job just because the pay stopped temporarily? Don't pretend that wouldn't be held against you...
I'd sue for Constructive dismissal, but then I live in the UK where we actually have some employment rights.
What I accept with much less enthusiasm is government spending on it or anything, actually.
From your other posts, I assume you're in the US, so it's not your government spending the money - it's mine. Thanks for your concern, but I'm happy for them to do so as I think fundemental science research, such as this, is an area that government should fund due to the lack of economic incentive.
"This is just catching up to the state of the art of the mid 90s, when people started (perfectly reasonably) ripping unencrypted cds to their hard drives. These people are now no longer criminals."
Just to nit pick. They are making the action legal in the future. However all of us that have done so in the past and might well do so again before the law comes into effect are still filthy criminals. We broke the law and we could technically still be arrested and prosecuted for it even after the law comes into effect.
Not really, this is a civil matter so you'd have to be sued by the BPI (UK equivilent of RIAA) - and even they think that format shifting should be legal: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7299505/Millions-of-iPod-fans-breaking-law-by-copying-CDs.html
Note the last paragraph " we have never taken any action against consumers who rip CDs to computers or portable music players. Nonetheless, we do believe it would be better for personal CD ripping to be legal and the industry has made proposals to Government to achieve that." As they want to legalise format shifting as well, I don't think they're about to sue you for it.
I am not trying to be a pessimist here, but I would think there is some small loophole in the new law, that would give the British equivalent of RIAA or MPAA some leverage. Anyone knows anything about this ?
I would doubt it. If its currently illegal, they would have sued 90% of the UK population by now for breaking it. Anyone who owns an MP3 player would almost certainly be guilty.
Yeah, even the BPI realises that format shifting being against the law is stupid:
"In practice, we have never taken any action against consumers who rip CDs to computers or portable music players. Nonetheless, we do believe it would be better for personal CD ripping to be legal and the industry has made proposals to Government to achieve that.”
day one of a scandal
It most certainly wasn't day one when NoTW closed - this scandal has literally been going on years - an NoTW employee & a private investigator were jailed a couple of years back because of it. No one was paying much attention until it was found they had been hacking a dead girl's phone; at that point there was a lot of public pressure on advertisers who then started to pull out of the NoTW one by one at which point News International decided to call it quits as they had wanted to turn the sun into a 7 day operation anyway...
Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so get used to it.