I don't get what the problem is. Europe has no problem whatsoever with having it's companies collect VAT tax from interstate commerce and I don't see any whining about it in Europe either.
I don't find that to be true at all. Many 'computer illiterates' I know organise their files and folders to OCD levels, because that's what they do with real files and folders and their desktops tend to end up meticiously neat.
Then there's the computer literate like me that just rather use the search function to find things because that's much simpler.
The movie industry are selling entertainment, people pay for what they find entertaining, if they pay more money to watch the 3d version then the 2d version, then that means that they think that the 3d version is more entertaining.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that everyone else is getting scammed. (However it's worth noting that some movies are scamming in that they're doing really shitty 3D just to get the higher ticket price, but just like anything else shoveled out the door for a quick buck word catches on quick and their sales become abyssmal)
There's plenty of Coop in the FPS genre I find, just look at Halo, Gears of War, Army of Two, Splinter Cell etc, Call of Duty also has coop although there the coop missions are seperate.
There's some coop in the RPG genre, but I find it all lackluster, especially Fable.
Generally it feels like I have to wait atleast 6 months between a game with decent coop to come out (Usually a sequel to Halo/Gears/Army)
They don't do long distance interrogation especially as their next step in the process could be to arrest you, which is hard to do over the phone, and they see it as the defendants duty to come to them rather then them coming to the defendant.
Because obviously those actions are popular. There's plenty of anti-gun lobbyists outside America and Censorship is pretty popular with the family voters which is a huge part of the voting base.
Unless your voting system is insane, then it works the same way it works in Sweden which makes buying votes through the mail in ballot impossible.
Which is that the mail in votes are checked after the standard votes and if a standard vote is present then the mail in vote is discarded. That means that in order to buy a vote you'd have to prevent the person you're buying from from going to the voting locale and vote manually and thus invalidating the one you bought.
Virginity isn't a gift, it has no value, virginity is the lack of experience. Marrying someone that's never had sex is no different then marrying someone that's never cooked before. Sure you can have the fun experience of teaching your partner how to cook, but you shouldn't expect good food any time soon.
It is as far as I know possible to recover after a single pass of 0's, however possible doesn't mean practical. Since you have to do it on a bit by bit basis a good analogy would be that it's possible to count the number of grains of sand in a beach, but you'd have to be insane to actually attempt it.
It would only be practical if you already know exactly which bits on the drive you wanted to extract and the number was fairly low.
According to RTFA they can recover almost 100% of the data from a 0'd HD, 90% of the data from a randomed HD and 1-10% from a HD that has run extremely extensive random HD passes (Like Gutmann)
This is due to SDD's working differently then the standard HD's.
It's because the bits in the harddrive aren't actually binary but rather values that are intepreted as 1 or 0. For instance a value of 0.6 would be interpreted as 1 and 0.4 would be 0.
This means that if you look at the exact value rather then the interpretation you can make a guess at what values it has been before.
I'm not sure, supposedly the girl that got the root password was 16 years and it's not like you have to be a hacking genius to exploit an SQL injection in their page URL and crack the MD5 through a free websites rainbow table.
Neither is it hardcore hacking to google "[Linux flavor vulnerability] and run it on an unpatched machine"
You're doing a horrible abuse to the English language putting all those categories together. When I say that most rape is non-violent I mean that most rape is either with the victim being unable to defend itself at all due to being drugged/sleeping/whatever or acquaintance rape where the person just doesn't take no for an answer.
In most of these cases you're not really risking any physical damage unless you decide to escalate it. "I'll kill him so he doesn't kill me" is rather rarely the case.
I don't know about the US jurisdictions as I'm Swedish, but here the Self Defense laws are pretty harsh, you're only allowed to use violence to defend yourself to the extent it's necessary to defend yourself, any more then that and you're on the line for Assault/Manslaughter yourself.
Sometimes the line can be blurry, but at any point the assailant is already disabled and you continue attacking him it's impossible for any defense attorney to save you. Castration is in that category as it's close to impossible to argue that it was/necessary/.
As far as the economical argument is concerned I do agree that it's quite a lot cheaper to kill the violent criminal then incarcerate him, the moral argument is more complex.
I'm not much different now (23) from when I was 15. If he hasn't grown up by the time he's 19 maybe jail will help him grow up, you can't keep pushing up the legal age just because people are morons.
Depends on what you mean with pretty effective. I've heard of a vanishingly small amount of cases where MA training actually stopped a woman from getting raped or man from being assaulted/robbed.
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It's because Sweden, Norway and Denmark are the same distribution region.
I don't get what the problem is. Europe has no problem whatsoever with having it's companies collect VAT tax from interstate commerce and I don't see any whining about it in Europe either.
I don't find that to be true at all. Many 'computer illiterates' I know organise their files and folders to OCD levels, because that's what they do with real files and folders and their desktops tend to end up meticiously neat.
Then there's the computer literate like me that just rather use the search function to find things because that's much simpler.
80 million in development cost and 20 million in distribution and marketing = 100 million total budget
The movie industry are selling entertainment, people pay for what they find entertaining, if they pay more money to watch the 3d version then the 2d version, then that means that they think that the 3d version is more entertaining.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that everyone else is getting scammed. (However it's worth noting that some movies are scamming in that they're doing really shitty 3D just to get the higher ticket price, but just like anything else shoveled out the door for a quick buck word catches on quick and their sales become abyssmal)
Europe doesn't have that particular flavor of patriotism.
I think you're serverely overvaluing the value of a server, by possibly over half a dozen magnitudes.
It's one word actually, it's because Swedish has a tendency to merge words to achieve slightly different meanings.
En Dansk JÃvel = A danish devil
En DanskjÃvel = A danish bastard
There's plenty of Coop in the FPS genre I find, just look at Halo, Gears of War, Army of Two, Splinter Cell etc, Call of Duty also has coop although there the coop missions are seperate.
There's some coop in the RPG genre, but I find it all lackluster, especially Fable.
Generally it feels like I have to wait atleast 6 months between a game with decent coop to come out (Usually a sequel to Halo/Gears/Army)
There's also the ever popular
3) Buy stuff for an individual while pretending that it's an investment in order to dodge income and consumption taxes
"Why yes, that lamborghini is a company car, and this 100 inch TV is absolutely necessary for my company function"
They don't do long distance interrogation especially as their next step in the process could be to arrest you, which is hard to do over the phone, and they see it as the defendants duty to come to them rather then them coming to the defendant.
Because obviously those actions are popular. There's plenty of anti-gun lobbyists outside America and Censorship is pretty popular with the family voters which is a huge part of the voting base.
Unless your voting system is insane, then it works the same way it works in Sweden which makes buying votes through the mail in ballot impossible.
Which is that the mail in votes are checked after the standard votes and if a standard vote is present then the mail in vote is discarded. That means that in order to buy a vote you'd have to prevent the person you're buying from from going to the voting locale and vote manually and thus invalidating the one you bought.
Virginity isn't a gift, it has no value, virginity is the lack of experience. Marrying someone that's never had sex is no different then marrying someone that's never cooked before. Sure you can have the fun experience of teaching your partner how to cook, but you shouldn't expect good food any time soon.
It is as far as I know possible to recover after a single pass of 0's, however possible doesn't mean practical. Since you have to do it on a bit by bit basis a good analogy would be that it's possible to count the number of grains of sand in a beach, but you'd have to be insane to actually attempt it.
It would only be practical if you already know exactly which bits on the drive you wanted to extract and the number was fairly low.
According to RTFA they can recover almost 100% of the data from a 0'd HD, 90% of the data from a randomed HD and 1-10% from a HD that has run extremely extensive random HD passes (Like Gutmann)
This is due to SDD's working differently then the standard HD's.
It's because the bits in the harddrive aren't actually binary but rather values that are intepreted as 1 or 0. For instance a value of 0.6 would be interpreted as 1 and 0.4 would be 0.
This means that if you look at the exact value rather then the interpretation you can make a guess at what values it has been before.
Because it was irrelevant. They weren't building a jeopardy machine, they were building a natural language processing machine.
Answering trivia questions is just a pretty good way to test if the machine is working and the opponents were largely irrelevant.
I'm not sure, supposedly the girl that got the root password was 16 years and it's not like you have to be a hacking genius to exploit an SQL injection in their page URL and crack the MD5 through a free websites rainbow table.
Neither is it hardcore hacking to google "[Linux flavor vulnerability] and run it on an unpatched machine"
You're doing a horrible abuse to the English language putting all those categories together. When I say that most rape is non-violent I mean that most rape is either with the victim being unable to defend itself at all due to being drugged/sleeping/whatever or acquaintance rape where the person just doesn't take no for an answer.
In most of these cases you're not really risking any physical damage unless you decide to escalate it. "I'll kill him so he doesn't kill me" is rather rarely the case.
I don't know about the US jurisdictions as I'm Swedish, but here the Self Defense laws are pretty harsh, you're only allowed to use violence to defend yourself to the extent it's necessary to defend yourself, any more then that and you're on the line for Assault/Manslaughter yourself.
Sometimes the line can be blurry, but at any point the assailant is already disabled and you continue attacking him it's impossible for any defense attorney to save you. Castration is in that category as it's close to impossible to argue that it was /necessary/.
As far as the economical argument is concerned I do agree that it's quite a lot cheaper to kill the violent criminal then incarcerate him, the moral argument is more complex.
Yes, some of the legal age laws are pretty stupid. He's still responsible for his actions, I wasn't that retarded when I was 19.
I'm not much different now (23) from when I was 15. If he hasn't grown up by the time he's 19 maybe jail will help him grow up, you can't keep pushing up the legal age just because people are morons.
Somehow that lesson never seems to stick however.
Depends on what you mean with pretty effective. I've heard of a vanishingly small amount of cases where MA training actually stopped a woman from getting raped or man from being assaulted/robbed.