Cloud computing is useless for the average user. Who in their right mind would wants to store everything important to them on an advanced cluster for a monthly fee? They should pay me for all my data, as much as they want to hold on to it. Cloud computing == 0% privacy rate Cloud computing is only useful for private industry, maybe the government, and nothing else.

It's a trick, big labels don't even sign small artists any more. At the very most they have a sub-sub-label sign them (usually run by an artist that made their name on a small label and then signed a lucrative contract with the big label to run a label themselves). The reason is that the big labels no longer have the power to turn a small artist into a big artist on their own, so they don't bother signing the small artists, they just wait until someone hits a certain threshold of popularity, then sign them to the ridiculous contract that ends up with the medium-sized artist spending money to produce albums that make money for the label, which the artists hope to get back on touring and merchandise (if they even realize how much money they're losing making albums).

a magnetic field begins at a particle/ bar magnet/ planetary core, loops around, and ends at the other end of the same particle/ bar magnet/ planetary core

does the magnetic field begin somewhere, issue forth without anchor?

what is such a thing? its not magnetism. its simply not the same thing conceptually. and its also impossible

make believe our planet had a monopole at its core. it would interact with the sun's magnetic field lines, and start moving along those lines, looking for equilibrium. but it wouldn't find it, because unlike a normal magnet, its a monopole

so our planet would loop around, move through the core of the sun, and whatever aspect of our planet that was still in existence as a monopole would still continue along those field lines, never stopping movement, just looping forever along a field line

thats a perpetual motion machine. thats a monopole. thats impossible

And people wonder why the US is loosing so many people who can think logically, and make informed choices. When the culture is against the logical thinking people, and you have the chance to be able to move most people jump at it. Its better to be able to look back and go thank God I'm not there anymore, than to sit and watch your neighbors and country fall into social patterns seen more often in 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451.

Why look to Orwell and Rand - if they want something for keeping tabs on things in the legal market. Disney; who keeps managing to hold on to the copyright for their products multiple years after the original copyright should have left it in the hands of public domain.

I think the only thing that is safe to exist in Public Domain is patents atm, but if we let intellectual property slip how long till patents hold the same weight as copyright?