Because SOLAR radiation does not occur due to a NUCLEAR reaction .... oh wait "Solar energy is created at the core of the sun when hydrogen atoms are fused into helium by nuclear fusion" ;)
"I understand the frustration people are all feeling about the retro-arcade business but take a step back and think for one minute. The CNN story was bogus and misguided. It totally hyped the emotional side of the story and left out the real reasons for the closure and challenges in re-writing the law.
The issue is noise and only noise. The business next to the arcade and the residents above it had a legitimate complaint about NOISE. The owner changed his business model from one that was legal to one that was not permitted. A complaint was filed with the building department. Should the City of Beacon ignore the complaints from its businesses and residents and allow an illegal operation to continue? Which laws do you suggest we enforce and which shall we ignore? There are always two sides to a story and two groups ready to complain.
I am a huge supporter of the retro-arcade business. I think it is great for Beacon’s Main Street economy. I helped the owner to try to keep the business open but in the end when complaints are filed the law must be enforced. Meanwhile, according to the arcade owner, the landlord of the building took several actions and intended to deny a renewal of the lease – claiming that other tenants were disturbed by the noise.
Knowing his business was at stake I tried to act quickly. My next step was to change the ordinance to allow a vintage arcade to operate without causing problems to adjacent businesses. I made phone calls to help him to relocate. I had the city planner rewrite the ordinance to allow the council to give it special permission to operate (a special use permit). The council worked to find a way to allow any vintage arcade business to operate without opening the door to other problems identified by other municipalities in their laws, and to protect the adjacent businesses and apartments from noise impacts. We also had to protect the arcade business owner from being closed down again a second time due to frivolous or malicious complaints. We rejected ides such as making the room sound proof and ended up leaving it to the business owner to reduce the noise in any way he wanted. Enforcement would be objectified by a decibel meter reading taken at adjacent unites.
I am sure if you lived above a business that had constant pinging sounds you would want the city council to protect your quality of life. I am also sure if you owned a business you would want the municipality to write laws that would protect your right to stay in business (like the arcade owner). Well to get all of this right, it sometimes takes time.
We all hope we can resolve this quickly so this very fascinating and beneficial business can open again.
the coffee shop owner is selling coffee, if she stops paying for them they will no longer be delivered. If she plays the radio she is liable for thousands of dollars in penalties. If I am inline at the coffee shop listening to the exact same radio station through my headphones all is cool.
A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way...
Completely unrelated but I just learned read it and posted into the first patent related post on techdirt I could find
If the names where scrubbed by the leaker- which I do not think they were, I think Wikileaks and the newspapers did the scrubbing. If he leaked the docs with the names in tact then it does not get him out of anything even if he was assured someone else was going to scrub them.
would you like a free sample of my Patent-Pending Literary Osmosis Suppositories? The good news is the information is absorbed quickly. There are some downsides aside from the obvious physical comfort issues it takes a little awhile for the info to make it all the way up to the brain... but we are working on it!
Which would be different than text to speech. If a publisher wants to change their actor read audio book business to a mechanically read audio book by marking up the text so the machine sounds more human that is fine, but that still goes beyond what the Library of Congress just allowed here.
Google is guilty of poor quality control on the WiFi mapping portion of it's stretview project. That poor QC caused them to unintentionally write data to disk that they did not require to complete the project as designed. That is about it. I have seen no evidence of any conspiracy to collect the data or do ANYTHING with the data they unintentionally collected.
I do not see ANY threat from Mike to reveal the information. He is reminding the poster that (techdirt) can see that the poster has an outside agenda and invites the poster to man up and stop hiding behind the AC name. Mike did not say "Would you like Techdirt to reveal this?" He challenged the poster to stop being a dick ;)
The difference appears to be that in the latter case, the school claimed that the fake profile resulted in disruption in the classroom because "students were talking about the profile rather than paying attention to class."
I hope that school deals harshly with any students that are found talking about the Super Bowl rather than paying attention in class.
Or he inadvertently said what he really believes- You paid for it but you are using it in a manner that we didn't think of or intend so you are stealing!
in the case of the boxee-hulu connection they did address it and it has even been posted in this thread
"I’d like to set the record straight regarding Boxee’s access to Hulu. Boxee uses a web browser to access Hulu’s content – just like Firefox or Internet Explorer. Boxee users click on a link to Hulu’s website and the video within that page plays. We don’t “take” the video. We don’t copy it. We don’t put ads on top of it. The video and the ads play like they do on other browsers or on Hulu Desktop. And it certainly is legal to do so."
Requiring users to 'join' is more the norm than an exception for free services especially services that pitchthemselves as a social networking experience.
Ya think Apple will let Microsoft setup the warning letter on the millions of iPhones they sell ditto Google droid?
smartphones are already one of the fastest groing gadgets going and I doubt it is slowing...
Do I need a license if I don't use a phone or a browser? I use my xbox on the internet every day. When the Boxee Box comes out is there a new 'test' I need to take before I plug that in?
And they blocked the people watching through a BROWSER on the ps3 (no reformatting/re-presenting etc) because of the same reason. Content Providers said so. They seem to think watching through a device connected to a tv is just to dang scary
Until the suits in charge of the content licensing abandon the attitude that "Watching the content including the advertisements from Hulu on anything other than a computer is stealing" this lunacy will continue.
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http://www.beaconcitizen.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2195795:BlogPost:66881&commentId=2 195795:Comment:66974&xg_source=activity
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According to the mayor..
The issue is noise and only noise. The business next to the arcade and the residents above it had a legitimate complaint about NOISE. The owner changed his business model from one that was legal to one that was not permitted. A complaint was filed with the building department. Should the City of Beacon ignore the complaints from its businesses and residents and allow an illegal operation to continue? Which laws do you suggest we enforce and which shall we ignore? There are always two sides to a story and two groups ready to complain.
I am a huge supporter of the retro-arcade business. I think it is great for Beacon’s Main Street economy. I helped the owner to try to keep the business open but in the end when complaints are filed the law must be enforced. Meanwhile, according to the arcade owner, the landlord of the building took several actions and intended to deny a renewal of the lease – claiming that other tenants were disturbed by the noise.
Knowing his business was at stake I tried to act quickly. My next step was to change the ordinance to allow a vintage arcade to operate without causing problems to adjacent businesses. I made phone calls to help him to relocate. I had the city planner rewrite the ordinance to allow the council to give it special permission to operate (a special use permit). The council worked to find a way to allow any vintage arcade business to operate without opening the door to other problems identified by other municipalities in their laws, and to protect the adjacent businesses and apartments from noise impacts. We also had to protect the arcade business owner from being closed down again a second time due to frivolous or malicious complaints. We rejected ides such as making the room sound proof and ended up leaving it to the business owner to reduce the noise in any way he wanted. Enforcement would be objectified by a decibel meter reading taken at adjacent unites.
I am sure if you lived above a business that had constant pinging sounds you would want the city council to protect your quality of life. I am also sure if you owned a business you would want the municipality to write laws that would protect your right to stay in business (like the arcade owner). Well to get all of this right, it sometimes takes time.
We all hope we can resolve this quickly so this very fascinating and beneficial business can open again.
Steve Gold, mayor "
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Yeah makes sense to me
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A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way...
Completely unrelated but I just learned read it and posted into the first patent related post on techdirt I could find
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the googles have amazing technology that defies the laws of physics!
(ironic post about uninformed people is ironic)
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I hope that school deals harshly with any students that are found talking about the Super Bowl rather than paying attention in class.
/sarc
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in the case of the boxee-hulu connection they did address it and it has even been posted in this thread
"I’d like to set the record straight regarding Boxee’s access to Hulu. Boxee uses a web browser to access Hulu’s content – just like Firefox or Internet Explorer. Boxee users click on a link to Hulu’s website and the video within that page plays. We don’t “take” the video. We don’t copy it. We don’t put ads on top of it. The video and the ads play like they do on other browsers or on Hulu Desktop. And it certainly is legal to do so."
Requiring users to 'join' is more the norm than an exception for free services especially services that pitchthemselves as a social networking experience.
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smartphones are already one of the fastest groing gadgets going and I doubt it is slowing...
Do I need a license if I don't use a phone or a browser? I use my xbox on the internet every day. When the Boxee Box comes out is there a new 'test' I need to take before I plug that in?
Stupid idea is stupid ;)
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Until the suits in charge of the content licensing abandon the attitude that "Watching the content including the advertisements from Hulu on anything other than a computer is stealing" this lunacy will continue.
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