The supervisor muttered "We're screwed!" and the woman handling shipping orders filed a complaint.
I'm not sure I understand how this is a sexist remark (as opposed to a remark sexual connotations). Men are not protected by law from ever hearing any remark with sexual connotations. Are women?
But there are valid reasons to remain anonymous, including avoiding getting fired/not hired by insane employers or staying out of sight of insane people.
Which of these reasons (or any other for that matter) for remaining anonymous are not fundamentally driven by concern regarding repercussions?
So between our two viewpoints, it comes down essentially to what your motivation is in posting. Any way you look at it, the only reason to wish to post anonymously is to avoid some form of repercussion (whether identity theft, stalking/harassment, or simply being outed as a douchetard.)
My Google+ profile is just some bullshit I made to check out the service. I can delete it or fill it with fake info any time I want.
You sure? I think you mean you can ask them and hope they delete it, or you can fill it with fake info which is irrelevant because the contents of your gmail archive contains far more than enough to uniquely identify you./tinfoil >.>
Trolololo- no.
Lack of options in a multiple choice question is almost always a way to manufacture a false N-chotomy for the reader. Referendum-type votes do it all the time to manipulate the results. If the question is "Why would you not like to reveal personally identifiable data online" then one of the fields should be either free-form, or "because I'm not a complete muppet."
Anything more than 10 years old gets run in DOSBox or similar anyway.
If this kind of DRM becomes commonplace, I'll just run all my games in VMs with static 'hardware'. That, or someone will develop an equivalent of DAEMON Tools which lets you spoof an entire hardware setup and not just optical media.
Barring pre-done web apps, or assuming there's gonna be *something* that this library wants done differently, this is probably actually the best way to go about it. Someone in the congregation should know how to whip up an Access app in an afternoon that will do everything you want.
You might want to talk to the women who are currently bemoaning the preponderance of emo and metro 'men' hoping to become girlfriends-with-a-penis. Gender roles are being shaken up all over the joint.
There was an eloquent and impassioned talk given by Stephen Fry (in fact, one could argue it was Vocal, by Fry) that discussed this very thing.
Here it is.
It's one of the few things that's transcended the "that's nice" and "oh, cool" barriers and actually changed the way I think about language. Anyone I work with can attest to the fact that I no longer correct "less problems" to "fewer", or "should of" to "should have".
Aye. That was my first thought: "How the fuck are you 'unable to recover' data these days?" Assuming that you're (a) a company that depends on data. (There is no (b)).
I mean seriously, if you're a web hosting company would you not back things up? Maybe they'd lose a day or a week worth of updates, but losing everything? Geez.
Throughout development, marketing, and distribution, the indie company then charges all of a drug's costs back to the parent company (where the real work is run & done, and to whom most profits will flow), but because it's supposedly autonomous and 'independent', the indie company remains responsible for all potential liabilities related to the drug. Down the road, if the drug fails to make it to market (too low profits) or encounters safety problems (too high costs), I liquidate my share of the indie company and walk away.
This works for any company whose main product is IP. The main company spins off a contract company which does work as directed by the main company. The contract company takes the financial liability if anything goes wrong, and the main company gets any IP as soon as it's generated. At some point the main company stops making payments to the contract company, and (because they pull the strings at the contract company) force the contract company to run up as much debt as possible while continuing to generate value for the parent company. They then wind up the contract company, take the IP, and repeat.
(Disclaimer: Among many others I was a victim of this at a little company called Interzone Games. I was lucky and only lost my holiday and severance entitlements. Some people lost more than a years' wages.)
Also, these guys have been advertising this as a feature of their system for near a decade. The only problem is that (last time I asked) they want $50k a pop for their motor controller.
That's f**king crazy. $4000 / kW - they might as well be using consumer photovoltaics. If that's base load then the figure becomes roughly correct, but still... at the 500mW scale, shouldn't they be getting SOME economies of scale?
I see what you're saying, but I would contend that the difference isn't in the caliber of the law enforcement officials, but rather in the political and social structure surrounding it. It's like the Standford Prison Experiment in reverse; we get more humane results due to the structure of our society, not due to the majority of police officers being "better people" compared with the examples you held up. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that education and freedom being what they are in first world countries, an individual's ability to pursue any chosen career is that much greater, and hence there's an even stronger self-selection towards police forces being filled with power-tripping assholes.
No, but calling them nazis, porcine donut eaters, and crooks (blanket statements all); comparing us to WW2 Germany and Communist China; and calling the majority of cops "psychopaths" (all of these, from this very thread) is certainly a bit much.
How could watchmen win in both categories and lose financially?
Hollywood Financial Magic. I'm not an expert in the subject myself, but from what I've read, you could shoot a movie on a $20 gumstick camera, produce it in a shoebox for another $20, make $100 million in premiere sales, and still not turn a profit.
Why would Blade Runner have 'sucked in 3D'? You can have a grungy dystopian future city in 3D just as well as in 2D. The actual scene that they filmed was three-dimensional and that didn't spoil anything. I think maybe what you see as "3D movies suck" is actually "terrible movies that exist for no other reason than gratuitous use of 3D suck by definition"?
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The supervisor muttered "We're screwed!" and the woman handling shipping orders filed a complaint.
I'm not sure I understand how this is a sexist remark (as opposed to a remark sexual connotations). Men are not protected by law from ever hearing any remark with sexual connotations. Are women?
But there are valid reasons to remain anonymous, including avoiding getting fired/not hired by insane employers or staying out of sight of insane people.
Which of these reasons (or any other for that matter) for remaining anonymous are not fundamentally driven by concern regarding repercussions?
So between our two viewpoints, it comes down essentially to what your motivation is in posting. Any way you look at it, the only reason to wish to post anonymously is to avoid some form of repercussion (whether identity theft, stalking/harassment, or simply being outed as a douchetard.)
My Google+ profile is just some bullshit I made to check out the service. I can delete it or fill it with fake info any time I want.
You sure? I think you mean you can ask them and hope they delete it, or you can fill it with fake info which is irrelevant because the contents of your gmail archive contains far more than enough to uniquely identify you. /tinfoil >.>
Trolololo- no. Lack of options in a multiple choice question is almost always a way to manufacture a false N-chotomy for the reader. Referendum-type votes do it all the time to manipulate the results. If the question is "Why would you not like to reveal personally identifiable data online" then one of the fields should be either free-form, or "because I'm not a complete muppet."
No boson left behind! Mothers Against Quark Abuse! Arts Students for the Ethical Treatment of Subatomic Particles! Land Rights for Higgs!
Note: This comment /must/ be read in Comic Book Guy's voice.
Superconducting doesn't necessarily mean zero impedance. A coil of superconducting wire will still have inductance.
Anything more than 10 years old gets run in DOSBox or similar anyway. If this kind of DRM becomes commonplace, I'll just run all my games in VMs with static 'hardware'. That, or someone will develop an equivalent of DAEMON Tools which lets you spoof an entire hardware setup and not just optical media.
Barring pre-done web apps, or assuming there's gonna be *something* that this library wants done differently, this is probably actually the best way to go about it. Someone in the congregation should know how to whip up an Access app in an afternoon that will do everything you want.
You wouldn't download a wine cask.
You might want to talk to the women who are currently bemoaning the preponderance of emo and metro 'men' hoping to become girlfriends-with-a-penis. Gender roles are being shaken up all over the joint.
There was an eloquent and impassioned talk given by Stephen Fry (in fact, one could argue it was Vocal, by Fry) that discussed this very thing. Here it is. It's one of the few things that's transcended the "that's nice" and "oh, cool" barriers and actually changed the way I think about language. Anyone I work with can attest to the fact that I no longer correct "less problems" to "fewer", or "should of" to "should have".
If some government has already created this ultimate killer bug then further research would just be superfluous.
Oh, you. ;)
That's assuming, as well, that travel is not restricted once an epidemic is identified ( which of course it would be ).
Fucking Madagascar.
Aye. That was my first thought: "How the fuck are you 'unable to recover' data these days?" Assuming that you're (a) a company that depends on data. (There is no (b)).
I mean seriously, if you're a web hosting company would you not back things up? Maybe they'd lose a day or a week worth of updates, but losing everything? Geez.
I'm sorry, your lump was cancer-ass. :(
Throughout development, marketing, and distribution, the indie company then charges all of a drug's costs back to the parent company (where the real work is run & done, and to whom most profits will flow), but because it's supposedly autonomous and 'independent', the indie company remains responsible for all potential liabilities related to the drug. Down the road, if the drug fails to make it to market (too low profits) or encounters safety problems (too high costs), I liquidate my share of the indie company and walk away.
This works for any company whose main product is IP. The main company spins off a contract company which does work as directed by the main company. The contract company takes the financial liability if anything goes wrong, and the main company gets any IP as soon as it's generated. At some point the main company stops making payments to the contract company, and (because they pull the strings at the contract company) force the contract company to run up as much debt as possible while continuing to generate value for the parent company. They then wind up the contract company, take the IP, and repeat.
(Disclaimer: Among many others I was a victim of this at a little company called Interzone Games. I was lucky and only lost my holiday and severance entitlements. Some people lost more than a years' wages.)
Also, these guys have been advertising this as a feature of their system for near a decade. The only problem is that (last time I asked) they want $50k a pop for their motor controller.
That's f**king crazy. $4000 / kW - they might as well be using consumer photovoltaics. If that's base load then the figure becomes roughly correct, but still... at the 500mW scale, shouldn't they be getting SOME economies of scale?
I see what you're saying, but I would contend that the difference isn't in the caliber of the law enforcement officials, but rather in the political and social structure surrounding it. It's like the Standford Prison Experiment in reverse; we get more humane results due to the structure of our society, not due to the majority of police officers being "better people" compared with the examples you held up. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that education and freedom being what they are in first world countries, an individual's ability to pursue any chosen career is that much greater, and hence there's an even stronger self-selection towards police forces being filled with power-tripping assholes.
No, but calling them nazis, porcine donut eaters, and crooks (blanket statements all); comparing us to WW2 Germany and Communist China; and calling the majority of cops "psychopaths" (all of these, from this very thread) is certainly a bit much.
If the boot fits...
No, it's not. A 32GB micro-SD card costs $35 and is small enough that finding space to implant four of them would not be a challenge.
The actual brain / machine interface is the hard bit.
How could watchmen win in both categories and lose financially?
Hollywood Financial Magic. I'm not an expert in the subject myself, but from what I've read, you could shoot a movie on a $20 gumstick camera, produce it in a shoebox for another $20, make $100 million in premiere sales, and still not turn a profit.
Why would Blade Runner have 'sucked in 3D'? You can have a grungy dystopian future city in 3D just as well as in 2D. The actual scene that they filmed was three-dimensional and that didn't spoil anything. I think maybe what you see as "3D movies suck" is actually "terrible movies that exist for no other reason than gratuitous use of 3D suck by definition"?