The thing is, I completely understand the price tag. 75 Billion dollars is unrealistic and both sides know it, but what you also have to know is the ethnography of users who utilize Limewire. They mostly fit into the 'casual', starting out into online piracy users who are peered into Limewire by their not so informed friends. Limewire's main userbase I'd say is younger than most of the more secure and reliable p2ps, therefore by putting a high price tag on Limewire, it is more of a deterring factor not to the well advised and knowledgeable pirates but more to the 'noobs' and those who are considering online piracy but are unsure of their own security and resistance to lawsuits. The industry itself knows it can't stop pirates that have been operating for years, their only goal is to stop the next generation of copyright infringers.
And @Ixta, the Girl Model film is also available elsewhere you know . For ease of access...just try 1channel.ch. I've checked, there's a few putlocker/sockshare/vidbux/vidxden....but if you all love the world's most popular video streaming site...its also on youtube.
I'll watch it after work or whenever I have the time.
And no, there is no understanding a price tag like that. if it were billions instead of trillions, sure, but more than the entire planet is worth? That's not "oh we're going to scare off the teenagers just getting into this".
I've long thought that short of charging during transit, making swappable batteries is the best way forward for electric cars. Nobody wants to sit there waiting for hours for their car to charge when a quick swap will do the same job. Here's hoping this takes off and becomes standardized technology.
Swappable battery seems like a great idea to me, and something that could be done fairly cheaply once it's widespread, since you wouldn't be buying or selling, just trading the uncharged for the charged. And heck, if people are really worried, they can just buy an extra battery, and keep it in their trunk like a spare tire, and swap out if they run out of juice. speaking of:
He faces a wall of scepticism. A major concern is "range anxiety": Will the car conk out because its battery is drained, stranding the driver in a dicey neighbourhood, en route to the hospital, or with three wailing kids in back?
I really think this is silly. It's not like they can't make indicators for battery charge. I don't know what the current electric cars have, but it seems like it'd be a no brainer to have something like that. They do it for every other piece of tech. And if you have one, it's just like watching how much gas you have, and it's not like people haven't run out of gas and gotten stranded. you watch the gauge, and go fill up when you're low.
This looks like a cool product, I can see it being very useful and popular for a lot of things; like the example shown, as long as it can be produced cheaply enough to not significantly raise production costs on bottling.
Thank you! I have been telling people this for years everytime something in the news come up about a new cancer risk when the odds a minimal at best.
Anywho, that bottle is quite interesting, i would never have thought of putting the stuff inside bottles though. The other applications they mentioned in the full article makes sense but i'm not 100% sure about using a "structured liquid" as a liner for liquid products. What's wrong with that spray on stuff you showed earlier in the thread?
And that shark is cute i guess, good to see it's handlers are still slipping in some meat though.
The team concentrated on BPA-free baby bottles and water bottles, Bittner says, "and all of them released chemicals having estrogenic activity." Sometimes the BPA-free products had even more activity than products known to contain BPA.
Oh this is reassuring.
And this bit is kind of amusing: "wine and many vegetables also can act like estrogen." This is why real men only eat meat! The vegetables are out to estrogenize you!
I don't think the rollerblades are for use inside the ball... and if you're that worried about getting shit on the outside off the ball (even though it's highly likely that it'll be stained with blood and mud too) then you could always open the entrance/exit and use that instead.
That article is really disturbing, but leaves me slightly confused as to if they are using actual bath salts as a drug, or if "bath salts" is just a slang term for a new drug. It starts out sounding like the latter, and ends up sounding like the former. if it is actual bath salts, I have no idea why they put it in quotes so many times...
Yea, i figured it's a slang term too, and a very confusing one at that.
@ Prime: it's a rigid ball. If you get surrounded just roll over the top of them. They're zombies, the more they push on it, the easier it'll be to escape.
As for NSG's post: Wow, i knew postpartum depression could get bad, but my god, that article and the examples mentioned are quite horrifying...
XD lololololol NZ law working at it's finest! The law has been in effect for about 9 months now and i thought it was bad they didn't start issuing notices until about 3 months in after having an extra month prior to it coming into effect to gather information to set out with issuing said notices. But this?! XD Good job music industry, really sock it to them pirates!
Like i said, unless they manage to get on top of the ball, the collective force of their pushing should force the ball upwards, allowing you to roll away across their shoulders. Think of it like trying to pick up a glass marble with chopsticks. Unless you hold it perfectly at it's equator and if you apply too much pressure the thing will pop out and roll away. If enough fall over they could just act as a ramp to facilitate the escape.
Besides, it wouldn't matter what you're in when surrounded by zombies, you're still stuck regardless. And until electric cars are perfected (in regards to ease of recharge accessibility) then cars aren't exactly ideal either when they run out of fuel. But we're getting off topic so i'm going to stop discussing it here.
This link made me think they took the children away because of the questionable politics of the parents, and I was starting to go, "can you DO that?" But apparently not the case, a linked article said this: "In court filings, the agency says the children were in danger because previous violence in the Campbell home."
I would have thought there were laws in place to prevent parents from giving children offensive names in the first place, plenty of other countries have them. Here's a couple good articles, but just Google "child naming laws" and lots of good stuff relevant to this topic will turn up:
I ended up DLing the article referenced in that third link, it's pretty interesting stuff. I think I agree with a lot of things that got said. While some parents do make appalling choices of names, I definitely think that naming your kid whatever you want is/should be a right, and kids can always change their own names later if they want to. Bullying can be an issue, so there is room for legislation on things like the Adolf Hitler name and some others that are truly horrible (omg at the list in there... "Tiny Hooker, Toilet Queen, Stud Duck, Meat Bloodsaw, Ghoul Nipple... wtf were these people on?), but over regulation would be worse than less in my mind. The California laws about diacritical marks really annoy me, for example, esp since it really targets certain ethnic groups where these are in the traditional names, and have been for a long time. Also, I think we've talked about German naming conventions before, and they're definitely too restrictive in my mind, esp the gender things. The article had a nice little segment about names that shift genders over the years, and i think it's a good thing to keep in mind. I can think of plenty of names in America that have shifted genders, and no one has an issue with them, even if it may have been shocking the first time it happened. It'd be much nicer if we as a society just came to accept a name as a name, rather than as a gendered designate. I think that having different names be no big deal to anyone would be a much better way of dealing with bullying long term than throwing up a thousand laws so that no one can have a name that's not on an approved list.
I saw both of those earlier too. Ditto to both of your comments Ix.
And NSG, of course it's more humane to do that to a dead cat than a live one :P . Do that to a live one and you'll probably be hunted down by a small mob...
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And @Ixta, the Girl Model film is also available elsewhere you know
And no, there is no understanding a price tag like that. if it were billions instead of trillions, sure, but more than the entire planet is worth? That's not "oh we're going to scare off the teenagers just getting into this".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/motoring/news/article.cfm?c_id=9&objectid=10807278
I've long thought that short of charging during transit, making swappable batteries is the best way forward for electric cars. Nobody wants to sit there waiting for hours for their car to charge when a quick swap will do the same job. Here's hoping this takes off and becomes standardized technology.
He faces a wall of scepticism. A major concern is "range anxiety": Will the car conk out because its battery is drained, stranding the driver in a dicey neighbourhood, en route to the hospital, or with three wailing kids in back?
I really think this is silly. It's not like they can't make indicators for battery charge. I don't know what the current electric cars have, but it seems like it'd be a no brainer to have something like that. They do it for every other piece of tech. And if you have one, it's just like watching how much gas you have, and it's not like people haven't run out of gas and gotten stranded. you watch the gauge, and go fill up when you're low.
This looks like a cool product, I can see it being very useful and popular for a lot of things; like the example shown, as long as it can be produced cheaply enough to not significantly raise production costs on bottling.
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/worlds-first-vegetarian-shark-prefers-lettuce.html
I'm getting a "cute!" reaction here.
Anywho, that bottle is quite interesting, i would never have thought of putting the stuff inside bottles though. The other applications they mentioned in the full article makes sense but i'm not 100% sure about using a "structured liquid" as a liner for liquid products. What's wrong with that spray on stuff you showed earlier in the thread?
And that shark is cute i guess, good to see it's handlers are still slipping in some meat though.
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209/study-most-plastics-leach-hormone-like-chemicals
Now you know why you got man-boobs, Mr. Aquafina.
Oh this is reassuring.
And this bit is kind of amusing:
"wine and many vegetables also can act like estrogen."
This is why real men only eat meat! The vegetables are out to estrogenize you!
Uh oh..the zombies are coming!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32171926/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/investigators-stunned-child-dismemberment/#.T8ZXa7DY-Sp
@ Prime: it's a rigid ball. If you get surrounded just roll over the top of them. They're zombies, the more they push on it, the easier it'll be to escape.
As for NSG's post: Wow, i knew postpartum depression could get bad, but my god, that article and the examples mentioned are quite horrifying...
XD lololololol NZ law working at it's finest! The law has been in effect for about 9 months now and i thought it was bad they didn't start issuing notices until about 3 months in after having an extra month prior to it coming into effect to gather information to set out with issuing said notices. But this?! XD Good job music industry, really sock it to them pirates!
Besides, it wouldn't matter what you're in when surrounded by zombies, you're still stuck regardless. And until electric cars are perfected (in regards to ease of recharge accessibility) then cars aren't exactly ideal either when they run out of fuel. But we're getting off topic so i'm going to stop discussing it here.
This link made me think they took the children away because of the questionable politics of the parents, and I was starting to go, "can you DO that?" But apparently not the case, a linked article said this:
"In court filings, the agency says the children were in danger because previous violence in the Campbell home."
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/a-baby-boy-named-q/
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/except_for_numerals_or_symbols.html
http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2011/01/baby-name-law-can-you-name-your-baby-toilet-queen-.html
Interesting TED talk I ran across. I'm definitely sympathetic to this perspective. :P
Rather disturbing imo
And NSG, of course it's more humane to do that to a dead cat than a live one :P . Do that to a live one and you'll probably be hunted down by a small mob...
shit!