Exactly. Raise the minimum wage for illegals to $20/hour, and make the businesses liable. Before you know it, lawyers will descend like a plague of locusts, each attempting to uncover underpaid illegals in the hopes of trying to get some class action suit millions.
Excellent. With Walmart now financially committed to reducing the amount of DRM that would interfere in resale, the amount of anti-DRM political lobbying money should increase dramatically.
Several people have done this (google pulls up feelingwaves.blogspot.com/ ). Apparently super gluing to your fingers also works, albeit less effectively.
Yeah, humans are pretty much the Terminators of the animal kingdom.
We can chase prey for days. We can hold grudges forever. Rip out our "claws"? We don't care, we'll pull out new ones and throw them at you. We can warp reality so that everything is trying to kill you. You have a nice adaptation for cold weather? We'll kill you and take it. Gazelle 1: Oh man, I've been running for a whole five minutes and that human's still chasing me! Gazelle 2: It gets worse. The wolves have started teaming up with them. Gazelle 1: Oh God...
Say you have, oh, some sort of nifty game called "Commander Keen". You release the first episode of it as shareware to show off your talent. The second episode is available for payment - BUT - with a special arrangement with an escrow service. People can make legally binding pledges to pay for the product, and when the total of the pledges amounts to some predetermined number (let's say ten thousand dollars for a completely random number), the transactions go through and everyone who pledged gets their own copy of Commander Keen Episode Two.
There you go. The creator gets paid for their work, everyone who bought the game gets to zap aliens, and there's (virtually) no option of piracy before official release.
Are you just posting cause you feel like it. Because if you had the slightest clue as to what you were talking about you would not have posted that. Chlorine gas is deadly. Not deadly if you are allergic to it or deadly if you are a puss. DEADLY. Used as a weapon in war. Deadly.
Yes. It's worked for thousands of years, and I bet chemicals could keep our bodies in tip-top shape for a few more centuries (if we choose to use them wisely). After all, no one has yet had any better ideas.
I'd very much like someone to come up with a method of making foods from non-chemicals, and see how it works out.
Well, I always enjoy having a light salad for lunch.
The real reason not to study "math" in college in the US is because of immigration laws giving people with doctorates in mathematics preferred status for immigration.
That means the supply of people with those degrees is often far higher than the demand, as one portion of the population is assessing their choice of degree taking into account a secondary positive effect.
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The CIA actually investigated Get Smart a couple of times, since some of their stuff was disturbingly close to things used in real intelligence operations. (Including, ironically enough, the shoe phone, although the US didn't know about it at that point)
If I recall correctly, the original cone of silence prop was purchased by the CIA at the conclusion of the show's run.
The real reason is just generalizing the default rates from the small pools of subprime mortgages given to people who had background checks to big steaming piles of freshly-made subprime mortgages, given to whoever comes in the door...
And then somebody offered me a backhoe, and there was a sudden scream, as if a million network admins cried out, and were sudden3ASV3LJ6H263 NO CARRIER
There's also an extremely strong correlation with the lead levels in the surrounding environments. It isn't the whole story, but it's certainly worth investigating.
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Exactly. Raise the minimum wage for illegals to $20/hour, and make the businesses liable. Before you know it, lawyers will descend like a plague of locusts, each attempting to uncover underpaid illegals in the hopes of trying to get some class action suit millions.
Excellent. With Walmart now financially committed to reducing the amount of DRM that would interfere in resale, the amount of anti-DRM political lobbying money should increase dramatically.
Several people have done this (google pulls up feelingwaves.blogspot.com/ ). Apparently super gluing to your fingers also works, albeit less effectively.
Yeah, humans are pretty much the Terminators of the animal kingdom.
We can chase prey for days. We can hold grudges forever. Rip out our "claws"? We don't care, we'll pull out new ones and throw them at you. We can warp reality so that everything is trying to kill you. You have a nice adaptation for cold weather? We'll kill you and take it.
Gazelle 1: Oh man, I've been running for a whole five minutes and that human's still chasing me!
Gazelle 2: It gets worse. The wolves have started teaming up with them.
Gazelle 1: Oh God...
Oh, it's pretty easy to optimize, though, if you subscribe to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Sort it randomly, test it, and if it's wrong, destroy the universe.
In any observable universe, it sorts correctly 100% of the time.
There's a reason the disease is called fatal familial insomnia, and not mildly inconvenient familial insomnia.
Seriously, this is not new knowledge.
And Guiness' "world records" are much shorter than the months-long completely sleepless descent into complete insanity
How about this for an alternate model:
Say you have, oh, some sort of nifty game called "Commander Keen". You release the first episode of it as shareware to show off your talent. The second episode is available for payment - BUT - with a special arrangement with an escrow service. People can make legally binding pledges to pay for the product, and when the total of the pledges amounts to some predetermined number (let's say ten thousand dollars for a completely random number), the transactions go through and everyone who pledged gets their own copy of Commander Keen Episode Two.
There you go. The creator gets paid for their work, everyone who bought the game gets to zap aliens, and there's (virtually) no option of piracy before official release.
Or is this one of those Chinese knockoffs, like "backstroke of the west" or "Harry potter and the big Funnel"?
Apparently a big component of the attraction is that electric-fried fire ants smell really good to other fire ants
Are you just posting cause you feel like it. Because if you had the slightest clue as to what you were talking about you would not have posted that. Chlorine gas is deadly. Not deadly if you are allergic to it or deadly if you are a puss. DEADLY. Used as a weapon in war. Deadly.
The dose makes the poison - Paracelsus
Yes. It's worked for thousands of years, and I bet chemicals could keep our bodies in tip-top shape for a few more centuries (if we choose to use them wisely). After all, no one has yet had any better ideas.
I'd very much like someone to come up with a method of making foods from non-chemicals, and see how it works out.
Well, I always enjoy having a light salad for lunch.
Oh, so *that's* why nobody showed up.
How would they tell the difference?
The real reason not to study "math" in college in the US is because of immigration laws giving people with doctorates in mathematics preferred status for immigration.
That means the supply of people with those degrees is often far higher than the demand, as one portion of the population is assessing their choice of degree taking into account a secondary positive effect.
The CIA actually investigated Get Smart a couple of times, since some of their stuff was disturbingly close to things used in real intelligence operations. (Including, ironically enough, the shoe phone, although the US didn't know about it at that point)
If I recall correctly, the original cone of silence prop was purchased by the CIA at the conclusion of the show's run.
I believe Germany already banned laser sports, although it's possible I'm misinformed.
Nobody else mentions that the car wasn't in motion at the time.
>There was no big secret--he just made every little decision correctly.
Of course! Savescumming!
Yeah, I just have trouble enjoying games with a fixed time limit in general.
It's like those stupid platformer levels with scrolling walls or floors.
The real reason is just generalizing the default rates from the small pools of subprime mortgages given to people who had background checks to big steaming piles of freshly-made subprime mortgages, given to whoever comes in the door...
And then somebody offered me a backhoe, and there was a sudden scream, as if a million network admins cried out, and were sudden3ASV3LJ6H263 NO CARRIER
There's also an extremely strong correlation with the lead levels in the surrounding environments. It isn't the whole story, but it's certainly worth investigating.
Manic lows? That's a contradiction in terms, man.
If the Matrix sequels are any indication, Hollywood will be safe for years to come.
I mean, it was nice of the Wachowski brothers to help produce and market fanfics, but I'm not sure it was the best idea.
I'm pretty sure doing lines doesn't involve smoking anything...