As a student of atmospheric science, I can see how misinformed you are about the whole topic. Weather prediction is a very difficult science, but it is not limited by our understanding as much as it is limited by our technology. Weather satellites and weather radar have limited resolution, and our modeling computers are only so powerful. We understand whats going on in the atmosphere, but have no way to collect and process all of the data.
Anyway, our ability to predict the weather has nothing to do with our ability to predict climate and climate effects. Weather and Climate are two totally separate topics. We understand the effects of sulfate aerosols on the stratosphere from the changes in the climate system after large volcanic eruptions such as Mt. Pinatubo
I am not a supporter of this SPICE project, since the we would have to inject millions of tons of SO2 into the stratosphere (10 km or higher) constantly, since they're removed within 2 years of injection.
As a college sports fan, these websites were useful to me, as ESPN and the local channels only carry so many games. First off, I don't have cable service; I can't justify paying that kind of money for the few times I watch tv, and the few channels I would watch. Instead, I rely on OTA for football, and some of my college basketball needs. The games on ESPN, or the games that are not picked up by my local stations are now lost to me without these streaming sites.
There is no legal alternative for me to view these events, other than a $1200/yr cable bill, plus a subscription to my favorite team's PPV video stream, which is $10/game. So there you go; you're not converting pirates to legitimate customers, you're just driving us to spend our time/effort/money elsewhere
The 'Bad' entertainment part is the problem for the execs. Millions are gonna pirate, can't stop that, but when the thing they're pirating turns out to be shit, that leaks out to those who were actually going to buy, and thus even less buy. If pirates didn't buy or pirate, then when bad music hits the market, it takes a lot of sales for word to get around that the music sucks
But they shouldn't have this control at all. If I own a dvd, I should be able to play it when I want, wherever I want, for whomever I want. But some lawmakers decided public viewing rights should exist, and wham, there goes my right to use a product that I paid for
People are still required to report the sales tax on their income, but nobody does. Having Amazon and other online companies collect the sales tax is the best, and right solution.
At the end of the day, Amazon may not have a foot in my state, but if they are selling products to my state, then need to be collecting sales tax in my state
If you don't like the prices offered, after taxes and shipping, don't buy it online. However if you think the convience of buying from home, a vast supply of products, and delivery to your door is worth the difference in price, buy online.
How do you expect there to be more competition in the cellular market? There is a HUGE cost of entry to the cell provider business, not to mention it would take 10 years to build out a network to compete with what the current providers have today, let alone what they'll have in 10 years. This isn't a government caused problem.
At the end of the day, corporations will throw their users under a bus if it means higher profits. Net neutrality protects consumers from this.
The only 'sense of entitlement' I have is the entitlement to the things I paid for. I am not being given anything, I am receiving the services that I pay for.
So yeah, if you call that a sense of entitlement, then guilty as charged; I have a sense of entitlement about everything I pay for
The router is a computer, and it is the only thing 'connected' to the 'resnet port' (never heard of THAT connector).
Or you could tell them to kiss your ass. I told my university, "I pay $20,000 a year to go here, and you are not going to tell me what I can and cannot do with the internet connection I PAY FOR"
Everyone who has ever accessed a 'P2P' network to download copyrighted material without permission has used the internet to do so. If you are using the internet, you are downloading copyrighted material illegally
Re: If you think we have problems now, just wait...
This would be applied to the stratosphere, not the troposphere, and would be removed in rain, so there would be no harm to your precious lungs
Re: Climate Engineering
As a student of atmospheric science, I can see how misinformed you are about the whole topic. Weather prediction is a very difficult science, but it is not limited by our understanding as much as it is limited by our technology. Weather satellites and weather radar have limited resolution, and our modeling computers are only so powerful. We understand whats going on in the atmosphere, but have no way to collect and process all of the data.
Anyway, our ability to predict the weather has nothing to do with our ability to predict climate and climate effects. Weather and Climate are two totally separate topics. We understand the effects of sulfate aerosols on the stratosphere from the changes in the climate system after large volcanic eruptions such as Mt. Pinatubo
I am not a supporter of this SPICE project, since the we would have to inject millions of tons of SO2 into the stratosphere (10 km or higher) constantly, since they're removed within 2 years of injection.
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Hey Mike, Fixed it for you
This sucks
As a college sports fan, these websites were useful to me, as ESPN and the local channels only carry so many games. First off, I don't have cable service; I can't justify paying that kind of money for the few times I watch tv, and the few channels I would watch. Instead, I rely on OTA for football, and some of my college basketball needs. The games on ESPN, or the games that are not picked up by my local stations are now lost to me without these streaming sites.
There is no legal alternative for me to view these events, other than a $1200/yr cable bill, plus a subscription to my favorite team's PPV video stream, which is $10/game. So there you go; you're not converting pirates to legitimate customers, you're just driving us to spend our time/effort/money elsewhere
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Someone is shooting for funniest comment of the week
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: But this is EXACTLY what you wanted
So if it is a right that is granted by the public, but the public is disregarding that right, wouldn't that make it worthless?
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I use firefox, and love it. Chrome is a pita, and safari, well, its just not firefox
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This happened in my town. It wasn't the business license that shut them down, but the health-related issues from selling food products
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The 'Bad' entertainment part is the problem for the execs. Millions are gonna pirate, can't stop that, but when the thing they're pirating turns out to be shit, that leaks out to those who were actually going to buy, and thus even less buy. If pirates didn't buy or pirate, then when bad music hits the market, it takes a lot of sales for word to get around that the music sucks
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But they shouldn't have this control at all. If I own a dvd, I should be able to play it when I want, wherever I want, for whomever I want. But some lawmakers decided public viewing rights should exist, and wham, there goes my right to use a product that I paid for
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Whooooooooosh
Re: right and wrong
People are still required to report the sales tax on their income, but nobody does. Having Amazon and other online companies collect the sales tax is the best, and right solution.
At the end of the day, Amazon may not have a foot in my state, but if they are selling products to my state, then need to be collecting sales tax in my state
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Uh, no?
If you don't like the prices offered, after taxes and shipping, don't buy it online. However if you think the convience of buying from home, a vast supply of products, and delivery to your door is worth the difference in price, buy online.
Re: Re: The Freedom to "Steal"
How do you expect there to be more competition in the cellular market? There is a HUGE cost of entry to the cell provider business, not to mention it would take 10 years to build out a network to compete with what the current providers have today, let alone what they'll have in 10 years. This isn't a government caused problem.
At the end of the day, corporations will throw their users under a bus if it means higher profits. Net neutrality protects consumers from this.
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You try using a regular piece of plastic on an ipad, or any capacitive touchscreen, and let me know how that works out for you
Re: Re: Re: UBC actually bans routers! READ THIS!
Haha, that post makes me laugh.
The only 'sense of entitlement' I have is the entitlement to the things I paid for. I am not being given anything, I am receiving the services that I pay for.
So yeah, if you call that a sense of entitlement, then guilty as charged; I have a sense of entitlement about everything I pay for
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No see, lets use some definitions her, shall we?
From merriam-webster: (ironically enough, they won't let me copy and paste the definitions)
Theft: the act of stealing; specifically; the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
Share: to divide and distribute in shares
Now, one of those definitions fits, and one doesn't. Lets see if you can figure it out
Re: UBC actually bans routers! READ THIS!
The router is a computer, and it is the only thing 'connected' to the 'resnet port' (never heard of THAT connector).
Or you could tell them to kiss your ass. I told my university, "I pay $20,000 a year to go here, and you are not going to tell me what I can and cannot do with the internet connection I PAY FOR"
Re: Re: The page got cut off a bit..
Close, its more like:
Everyone who has ever accessed a 'P2P' network to download copyrighted material without permission has used the internet to do so. If you are using the internet, you are downloading copyrighted material illegally
Re: I don't suppose
This is America, we play Football, not Quidditch