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The no violence thing was obviously aimed at the parents. There were apparently no green blocks so you couldn't create anything military related. So the tanks I built were red. I never even realized that there were no green blocks until I was older.
Parent post is the obvious and correct answer. Next question please. I know that insulting people isn't a good way to conduct an argument but if you ask this question and can't even come up with this answer yourself (yes I rtfa) you're an idiot.
And for the "it's a game, not work", this is such a ridiculous argument which translates to: "It should be exactly like I want it to be even though it's a MM(ultiplayer)O game. It doesn't matter at all what other people like, in fact I won't even consider thinking about it because they're all there to screw me over anyway. I want instant gratification because that's the only way I can be entertained.
Anyway, I used to play Everquest (a lot) and one of the biggest disappointments was when they introduced the city portals. When I first started playing (as an ogre) traveling from the Oggok (ogre city) to Neriak (dark elves) was quite a trip, which I had to prepare for and I had to be constantly alert so I wouldn't die (those damn madmen and sand giants). Not to mention traveling to for example Ak'Anon or Erudin, for which trip you actually needed to sneak through human controlled cities to take a ship. That was awesome to me. I can understand that it's not fun for everyone but when discussing these features at least consider this!
Or make the sensitive area square like they always are but make the sensitive are triangular. Easier on the eyes and same effect. And why not make the sensitive area round? Then you wouldn't have each key touching three other keys.
Duh. Has anyone ever got in jail for killing someone in WoW? Why should trademark work differently?
LL should put up a splash screen saying "This is not the U.S. Its laws do not apply here, motherfucker". Then again, most Americans wouldn't understand it, and everyone else already knows.
Uhhh. I don't think you really understand how this works. There is dividing line between offline (real) life and online (virtual) life. Virtual worlds are part of the real world and have to obey the same laws. This can get confusing at times, with virtual property and virtual identities which are not the same as their real life counterparts. basically you can easily get confused by word games. It also gets difficult because of the easily crossed borders and anonymity.
A virtual person is not the same as a real person. That's why you don't go to jail for killing someone in WOW. If you infringe on a trademark you can get in trouble, no matter in what way (using what medium) you did it.
You can't make an online country either and say that laws don't apply there. Online characters don't perform crimes, the real persons controlling them do. Anyone has to obey the laws of the country they're residing in, no matter whether they perform their activities online or any other way.
Very good advise above, but I would like to add: be very, very careful how you word your report. Don't use words like "illegal" and "gray zone". The software was mismanaged, fixing it is going to cost a lot of money and there is an illegal situation. Most managers do not like to hear this and above all they don''t want this in writing. Write that you have software for which the licenses are running out very soon, and some for which the licenses are unclear. Give an inventory and detailed recommendations. Spread out the costs as much as possible and make sure to mention the extra benefits like support and updated versions. Sweeten the pill as much as possible. Explain verbally that there are cases where there are no licenses at all, and that can get the company in trouble.
I have a friend who is a decent guitar player (or whatever it is called when people sit around a campfire listening to your music). He did invest quite a bit of time to be a decent player. Yet what did he learn? To play an instrument. Not to play a game. I'm fairly sure, the same time he spent on practicing playing guitar would have made him a Guitar Hero master.
While it might be annoying to turn around a question like that I think it illustrates my point very well. Both are fun things to do, neither train essential life skills. Guitar hero is not a simulation of playing guitar, it's a game based on it. You are not asking why people are playing whack a mole instead of hunting moles in real life either. Or playing Mario instead of doing real athletics?
As correlation is a statistic which describes how strong two variables are related, this can't be the causation by definition (correlation is an observation afterwards, causation is why something happens).
I think your question is more of philosophical nature though. You can break down every causation into more detailed and specific parts until you're on a molecular level, and then what? Your example is an excellent illustration of this. In the end you'll run out of knowledge about how stuff works.
I don't agree with the "this is just correlation" phrase you throw in at every step though. As soon as you identify a direct link between two variables, it isn't "just correlation" anymore. It'll be "possible cause", "probable cause" or even just "cause".
For practical purposes we'll say that something is a causation when something else follows from it. This doesn't mean that one causation can't have a causation itself. It usually doesn't matter that you can break a causation down into a bunch of molecules either. Unless you're doing pure theoretical research, you'll stop delving deeper into the chain of causations once you've reached a good causation, which you can use for practical purposes.
Apart from this, I think it's rather unnecessary to tag every article that speaks of a correlation with "correlationisnotcausation". The only time when this tag is really warranted is when someone (politicians...) wants to take action on a piece of research which only identified a correlation, but not a causation. In all other cases, a newly discovered correlation is just interesting, as it almost always gives food for thought and can lead to new insights, even when there is no causation. Tagging with "correlationisnotcausation" has become a knee jerk reaction.
The day that we can joke about black, Jewish or Chinese people as light hearted as we do about blondes will be a great day. Doing harm by making a blonde joke? Yeah right.
It probably didn't hurt because they don't care about insignificant little me, but their sales went down by at least one copy. I was going to buy Spore, but now I am not. It's as simple as it gets.
The justice system is designed to deal with suspects, and suspects with Aspergers and other disorders think differently than the majority of suspects. So he possibly was different than most suspects. Significant.
Criminals who think differently shouldn't be treated differently, but you shouldn't be assumed to be criminal because you think differently.
His suspicious actions and the suspicious way he defended himself in court could be caused by Aspergers instead of guilt. Not saying he is innocent and or has Aspergers, just trying to explain.
This is like saying you lock a door and put the key away somewhere. Under the doormat. You know there are a lot of bad guys. The bad guys always look under the doormat.
Why don't you see this is a major security issue?
That's only true if you base your level around discovery. I always use game editors to create challenges for myself.
Obviously you will know every detail of how the level is put together; the trick is to work around that fact. Consider chess: you know everything: the layout of the board, what the pieces can do and where they are (even those of the opponent) Yet the game can be fun and challenging for a long time.
Furthermore, a lot of editors support randomizing in some way, so you can make use of that to keep an element of surprise.
To say he scammed them seems a bit harsh. He didn't do this for any personal gain, which is implied when you call it a scam. It was silly and he shouldn't have done it, but it wasn't as serious as a scam. No harm done, except maybe a little time lost and some advertisment money. On the other hand, Youtube has learned a lesson.
Ok, seriously, what does it matter that terrorists are also freedom fighters? The fact that they are freedom fighters is rather overshadowed by them also being terrorists. They are also human beings. So what.
They're just being called by their most defining description, which is a very common thing to do.
And of course it matters that they are terrorists. It might give insight in why they hacked it, and with what intentions (propaganda maybe?). It also gives a warning about the inventiveness of some terrorists and illustrates why it is important to secure satelites. (communication- and other.)
That would only work if the cloak was completely transparant to all frequencies except the one it's bending. I seriously doubt that. More likely, the outside cloak will bend one frequency around it and reflect the others like normal materials.
"The guidelines specify that the car must be appealing to buyers and easy to mass produce -- warning that concept cars or "science projects" won't qualify.
The vehicles will compete in real-world driving tests, in two categories -- mainstream (four or more passengers and four wheels) and alternative (two or more passengers and no requirement on the number of wheels)."
Well this is a rather pointless discussion as it comes down to work circumstances and personal preference. I was merely pointing out some things that won't work well with two seperate computers. For you they are obviously not important, but for me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, they are.
Maybe it's different in the USA, but where I live (also a capitalist country) most salaries are based on a fixed work time, usually 38 or 40 hours a week. Overtime is paid, usually at 130% wage or more. So you can correctly convert a monthly salary to an hourly one.
Employers very well understand that increasing an employees productivity is a good thing. They just don't always understand that a second monitor will do that.
But even if overtime is unpaid, letting your employers work efficiently is still a good thing. They might even start doing other useful things in the time they gained! I know I do.
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Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address (but not the e-mail address), when you visit our sites. Your IP address does not contain personally identifiable information, nor does it identify you personally.
We will not share individual user information with third parties unless the user has specifically approved the release of that information. In some cases, however, we may provide information to legal officials as described in “Compliance with Legal Process” below.
I checked a can and it clearly states it cleans, lubricates and protects against rust. (among other things)
I do agree with you though that it's not really the best choice for all that. I mainly use it for loosening stuck bolts and parts.
But it does say so on the can.
The no violence thing was obviously aimed at the parents. There were apparently no green blocks so you couldn't create anything military related. So the tanks I built were red. I never even realized that there were no green blocks until I was older.
Parent post is the obvious and correct answer. Next question please. I know that insulting people isn't a good way to conduct an argument but if you ask this question and can't even come up with this answer yourself (yes I rtfa) you're an idiot.
And for the "it's a game, not work", this is such a ridiculous argument which translates to:
"It should be exactly like I want it to be even though it's a MM(ultiplayer)O game. It doesn't matter at all what other people like, in fact I won't even consider thinking about it because they're all there to screw me over anyway. I want instant gratification because that's the only way I can be entertained.
Anyway, I used to play Everquest (a lot) and one of the biggest disappointments was when they introduced the city portals.
When I first started playing (as an ogre) traveling from the Oggok (ogre city) to Neriak (dark elves) was quite a trip, which I had to prepare for and I had to be constantly alert so I wouldn't die (those damn madmen and sand giants).
Not to mention traveling to for example Ak'Anon or Erudin, for which trip you actually needed to sneak through human controlled cities to take a ship.
That was awesome to me. I can understand that it's not fun for everyone but when discussing these features at least consider this!
Or make the sensitive area square like they always are but make the sensitive are triangular. Easier on the eyes and same effect. And why not make the sensitive area round? Then you wouldn't have each key touching three other keys.
Duh. Has anyone ever got in jail for killing someone in WoW? Why should trademark work differently? LL should put up a splash screen saying "This is not the U.S. Its laws do not apply here, motherfucker". Then again, most Americans wouldn't understand it, and everyone else already knows.
Uhhh. I don't think you really understand how this works. There is dividing line between offline (real) life and online (virtual) life. Virtual worlds are part of the real world and have to obey the same laws. This can get confusing at times, with virtual property and virtual identities which are not the same as their real life counterparts. basically you can easily get confused by word games. It also gets difficult because of the easily crossed borders and anonymity.
A virtual person is not the same as a real person. That's why you don't go to jail for killing someone in WOW. If you infringe on a trademark you can get in trouble, no matter in what way (using what medium) you did it.
You can't make an online country either and say that laws don't apply there. Online characters don't perform crimes, the real persons controlling them do. Anyone has to obey the laws of the country they're residing in, no matter whether they perform their activities online or any other way.
Very good advise above, but I would like to add: be very, very careful how you word your report. Don't use words like "illegal" and "gray zone". The software was mismanaged, fixing it is going to cost a lot of money and there is an illegal situation. Most managers do not like to hear this and above all they don''t want this in writing.
Write that you have software for which the licenses are running out very soon, and some for which the licenses are unclear.
Give an inventory and detailed recommendations. Spread out the costs as much as possible and make sure to mention the extra benefits like support and updated versions. Sweeten the pill as much as possible.
Explain verbally that there are cases where there are no licenses at all, and that can get the company in trouble.
I have a friend who is a decent guitar player (or whatever it is called when people sit around a campfire listening to your music). He did invest quite a bit of time to be a decent player. Yet what did he learn? To play an instrument. Not to play a game. I'm fairly sure, the same time he spent on practicing playing guitar would have made him a Guitar Hero master. While it might be annoying to turn around a question like that I think it illustrates my point very well. Both are fun things to do, neither train essential life skills. Guitar hero is not a simulation of playing guitar, it's a game based on it. You are not asking why people are playing whack a mole instead of hunting moles in real life either. Or playing Mario instead of doing real athletics?
Really? I guess that means that the Nintendo DS won't be a success then either...
As correlation is a statistic which describes how strong two variables are related, this can't be the causation by definition (correlation is an observation afterwards, causation is why something happens).
I think your question is more of philosophical nature though. You can break down every causation into more detailed and specific parts until you're on a molecular level, and then what? Your example is an excellent illustration of this. In the end you'll run out of knowledge about how stuff works.
I don't agree with the "this is just correlation" phrase you throw in at every step though. As soon as you identify a direct link between two variables, it isn't "just correlation" anymore. It'll be "possible cause", "probable cause" or even just "cause".
For practical purposes we'll say that something is a causation when something else follows from it. This doesn't mean that one causation can't have a causation itself. It usually doesn't matter that you can break a causation down into a bunch of molecules either. Unless you're doing pure theoretical research, you'll stop delving deeper into the chain of causations once you've reached a good causation, which you can use for practical purposes.
Apart from this, I think it's rather unnecessary to tag every article that speaks of a correlation with "correlationisnotcausation". The only time when this tag is really warranted is when someone (politicians...) wants to take action on a piece of research which only identified a correlation, but not a causation. In all other cases, a newly discovered correlation is just interesting, as it almost always gives food for thought and can lead to new insights, even when there is no causation. Tagging with "correlationisnotcausation" has become a knee jerk reaction.
The day that we can joke about black, Jewish or Chinese people as light hearted as we do about blondes will be a great day. Doing harm by making a blonde joke? Yeah right.
It probably didn't hurt because they don't care about insignificant little me, but their sales went down by at least one copy. I was going to buy Spore, but now I am not. It's as simple as it gets.
The justice system is designed to deal with suspects, and suspects with Aspergers and other disorders think differently than the majority of suspects. So he possibly was different than most suspects. Significant.
Criminals who think differently shouldn't be treated differently, but you shouldn't be assumed to be criminal because you think differently.
His suspicious actions and the suspicious way he defended himself in court could be caused by Aspergers instead of guilt. Not saying he is innocent and or has Aspergers, just trying to explain.
Nice! What a strangely romatic idea.
This is like saying you lock a door and put the key away somewhere. Under the doormat. You know there are a lot of bad guys. The bad guys always look under the doormat. Why don't you see this is a major security issue?
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=tap has a list. I'd copy paste it but the lameness filter throws a fit.
Even if it was a "hard and fast physical law" it could still be moot. The whole show basically revolves around breaking the laws of physics anyway.
That's only true if you base your level around discovery. I always use game editors to create challenges for myself.
Obviously you will know every detail of how the level is put together; the trick is to work around that fact. Consider chess: you know everything: the layout of the board, what the pieces can do and where they are (even those of the opponent) Yet the game can be fun and challenging for a long time.
Furthermore, a lot of editors support randomizing in some way, so you can make use of that to keep an element of surprise.
To say he scammed them seems a bit harsh. He didn't do this for any personal gain, which is implied when you call it a scam. It was silly and he shouldn't have done it, but it wasn't as serious as a scam. No harm done, except maybe a little time lost and some advertisment money. On the other hand, Youtube has learned a lesson.
Ok, seriously, what does it matter that terrorists are also freedom fighters? The fact that they are freedom fighters is rather overshadowed by them also being terrorists. They are also human beings. So what.
They're just being called by their most defining description, which is a very common thing to do.
And of course it matters that they are terrorists. It might give insight in why they hacked it, and with what intentions (propaganda maybe?). It also gives a warning about the inventiveness of some terrorists and illustrates why it is important to secure satelites. (communication- and other.)
That would only work if the cloak was completely transparant to all frequencies except the one it's bending. I seriously doubt that. More likely, the outside cloak will bend one frequency around it and reflect the others like normal materials.
Uuh, what about covering everything except the eyes?
Or use it on robots which don't need to see?
From your own linked article:
"The guidelines specify that the car must be appealing to buyers and easy to mass produce -- warning that concept cars or "science projects" won't qualify.
The vehicles will compete in real-world driving tests, in two categories -- mainstream (four or more passengers and four wheels) and alternative (two or more passengers and no requirement on the number of wheels)."
Well this is a rather pointless discussion as it comes down to work circumstances and personal preference. I was merely pointing out some things that won't work well with two seperate computers. For you they are obviously not important, but for me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, they are.
Maybe it's different in the USA, but where I live (also a capitalist country) most salaries are based on a fixed work time, usually 38 or 40 hours a week. Overtime is paid, usually at 130% wage or more. So you can correctly convert a monthly salary to an hourly one.
Employers very well understand that increasing an employees productivity is a good thing. They just don't always understand that a second monitor will do that.
But even if overtime is unpaid, letting your employers work efficiently is still a good thing. They might even start doing other useful things in the time they gained! I know I do.