Depending on the circumstance, Familial Status is another one.
E.g. you can't deny renting an apartment so someone just because they have kids or deny someone a job because they are married (unless you can somehow prove that the job itself requires being single which would likely be hard).
6. Get caught for stock manipulation and go to jail without passing GO!
A better method would be to set up limit trades so your broker's program would automatically start buying the stock when it went low and then trigger the event. Then you'd be pretty indistinguishable from all the other people who were just grabbing a good value. Not only that, but you can hold on to the stock and sell at any time later, as opposed to having to get rid of the short sale in that short period of time.
Doesn't mean its enforceable. What if I put a website up that had a TOS that said (which of course you had to go to my website to read.)
"By accessing or using our web site at www.youarenowmyslave.com or the mobile version thereof (together the "Site") or by posting a Slave Button on your site, you (the "User") signify that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use ("Terms of Use" or "Agreement"), and are my personal slave forever."
Guess what, not enforceable. There are even more issues with EULA stored online (that you have to seek out to read) plus various things about contracts requiring negotiations and consideration.
And the fundies don't fail by being sceptical, they fail in the latter way.
Ahh, but just being skeptical about some topics and saying that your waiting for more evidence to make any decisions often times leads into personal attacks. Even in your original post, you say that the short and long answer is "Nope" which is an assertion even though TFA says:
If nuclides such as 32Si, 36Cl, and 226Ra
respond to changes in the solar neutrino flux due to the
time-dependence of 1/R2, then they can also respond to
changes in intrinsic solar activity which are known to occur
over time scales both longer and shorter than one
year.
which refutes that and your #2 (since if the period is longer then a year, you would need more then 1 year to calibrate)
Not to mention that the sun is the cause for this study, but isn't required to generate the effects. The field or neutrino flux could come from another possibly stronger source that may only come every 32 million years??? What if it were tied to something like this or the binary star reference in here
Right... Cause there's definitely no way to contain or focus radiation for a finite time.
Also in TFS says the 2 theories are:
sun produces a field that changes the value of the fine structure constant on Earth
and
interaction with the neutrino flux
so I don't think you'd need a sun sized radiation source, but a way to create these affects in a contained manner, Mr. Snarky.
In fact if it is the neutrino flux is what speeds it up, that makes fusion reactors have a secondary purpose... They might be able to reduce radioactive material from fission reactors...
Opensim allows use of either a basic physics engine or OpenDynamicsEngine which has COD 4 on its list (see here)
It supports LSL, OSL, and c# for scripting with a few limitations (see here)
For centralized inventory servers, that depends on the grid owner's implementation since Opensim supports several database types.
I'm not saying that opensim is anywhere close to Second Life's level as a finished product, but I would hardly call it useless, especially since it is impossible to run a Second Life server of your own. But that's just my opinion.
Such as? I've set up some Opensim servers, and it has quite a few. Not to mention, if something doesn't exist, it can be created (since it is open source).
What did people do with early websites in the beggining.
At first, they were just boring static pages that were either a horrible marketing attempt. How far has the internet come now that there are things like collaborative Encyclopedia building (Wiki), Google docs, YouTube, Ebay etc.
It is impossible to tell what this medium will make possible in 5 years.
Also, I wouldn't exactly call IBM a furry or weirdo. Nor would I say that Cisco is either. There are also a growing number of universities colleges using the space.
The thing I try to hint at for most is, look at all the different news articles about 3D virtual worlds in general. How many different categories to they fall into? Economics, scams, porn, politics, social, collaboration, business, marketing, play, serious, military, health care... and more. Something that is looked at in so many different ways has huge potential as a medium. And the more open the server side, the more likely it will be adopted by a larger group and customized for even more possibilities.
How is this different then an Apache server serving a page to a Firefox browser with a link that takes the viewer to an IIS web page?
The only catch is that people in the virtual world may want their virtual stuff to go along with them, and that part will be more difficult. Set that aside, and I don't think it's inconceivable to have pretty good interoperability.
And as for targeted advertising, everyone's got it all wrong. Targeted advertising is the ONE thing that I DO want them to track me for. After all, seeing ads for things I might actually want to buy rather than crap I don't want is a Good Thing. Targeted Advertising IS consumer friendly. It's feeding the data into health insurance eligibility and credit scores and potentially inaccurate data into legal proceedings that's scary.
So everyone needs to stop worrying about advertising and start demanding that congress pass a law stating that if a company collects information about you and shares it with a third party without your explicit consent, that information is considered "public" in that it can count towards liable claims. Don't worry about what they share. Worry about your right to sue them if sharing the info causes you harm.
Hear hear! I think this every time someone goes off on someone doing targeted advertising. "Oh noes they might show me something I want to buy, whatever shall I do???" If its done in a non-intrusive, and non-prejudicial manner, and its based on the current session, then its better then getting random crap like broadcast television.
Funny, my feelings are almost completely reversed. For me, the environment in Oblivion was inviting to explore. Plenty of treasures and unique spots to be found by just wandering around. Mass Effect, however for me, each planet you can land on was almost the same as any others, large areas filled with only 5-10 points of interest. Not to mention, such a pain in the ass to get to most areas, just to see if anything showed up on the radar.
Odd, I loved Oblivion (and still occasionally play). But I absolutely loathe Mass Effect. Its one of the few I wish I'd never bought.
Maybe there's a part of the game I'm missing, but to me it seems like I spend more time waiting to load the next System/planet/building then actually playing. When I do get a chance to play, the action seems short and not particularly engaging, while the conversations slow and not exactly as groundbreaking as it seemed reported.
Actually if you click on the little parent button on the comment you just responded to, you will see that the title is BSA and the text is "I thought they hated open source."
I know you're not new here, but parent != summary...
Finally, the first comment where someone actually thought how it could be done without sucking!
This is actually a way to give people a way to interact with the storyline in a way to move engagement to the next level. People who didn't want to play could still just couch potato it.
They could even do some kind of ranking system and popular or interesting MMO characters could get mentioned or pulled into the show. That would make people even more interested in the game side since there are plenty of fame seekers.
I think the issue for BillG is that he doesn't see where the competitive advantage is. His (previous) business model is completely focused on producing and maintaining a certain type of advantage over its competition.
For him, having to give any improvements back to the community negates any competitive advantage of producing that improvement so I'm guessing that's why he considers it not viable for business.
I think, however, that he does not realize that the other possible business models can be just as viable as his 'sustained competitive advantage' model.
I don't think he believes that nobody can improve the software (and the original context isn't available anywhere), just that it doesn't fit into his idea of doing business.
Gardening isn't really free. It's just grown the way you want it. That's the benifit. If you equated the time it requires to garden, plus seeds/plants, fertilizer and pesticides (if you choose). You'll find that gardening does cost you, even though you don't have to pull out your wallet at harvest time.
He included Nuclear in his statement which, according to that page, accounts for another 19.3%.
that totals to 30%, which is a bit closer to that dollar.
News Corp reaches out and tags Microsoft. Microsoft picks up a chair (signature move) and BAM smacks YAHOO across the back! Yahoo stumbles over and tags AOL, who does a Flying forearm smash to the face...
Starting to feel like we need a claymation Deathmatch for this.
Actually according to many results of the word "abuse" from Google definitions. abuse generally means 2 things:
1. mistreatment of a person
2. Excessive use and/or misuse of a substance in a way it was not meant or prescribed to be used.
Otherwise there couldn't be alcohol abuse. Its totally legal to drink yourself into a stupor every night, but its generally considered to be abusing the substance and probably also abusing yourself. I think the article means that people are abusing the drugs because they are using them without prescriptions and not necessarily for their intended purpose (to treat a condition).
If a large majority of people don't like hearing others yapping in their cell phones on a flight, then yes, it should be illegal too for that reason alone. What about people who dont *like* being told they can't SMS, check email, or talk quietly on their phone because their on a plane?
But seriously. There are plenty of laws protecting minority rights and small groups of people against those that may not *like* something but in the interest of freedom, free speech and such, its NOT illegal. So I don't think that things like this should be illegal for that reason alone.
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Depending on the circumstance, Familial Status is another one.
E.g. you can't deny renting an apartment so someone just because they have kids or deny someone a job because they are married (unless you can somehow prove that the job itself requires being single which would likely be hard).
6. Get caught for stock manipulation and go to jail without passing GO!
A better method would be to set up limit trades so your broker's program would automatically start buying the stock when it went low and then trigger the event.
Then you'd be pretty indistinguishable from all the other people who were just grabbing a good value.
Not only that, but you can hold on to the stock and sell at any time later, as opposed to having to get rid of the short sale in that short period of time.
Doesn't mean its enforceable. What if I put a website up that had a TOS that said (which of course you had to go to my website to read.)
"By accessing or using our web site at www.youarenowmyslave.com or the mobile version thereof (together the "Site") or by posting a Slave Button on your site, you (the "User") signify that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use ("Terms of Use" or "Agreement"), and are my personal slave forever."
Guess what, not enforceable. There are even more issues with EULA stored online (that you have to seek out to read) plus various things about contracts requiring negotiations and consideration.
And the fundies don't fail by being sceptical, they fail in the latter way.
Ahh, but just being skeptical about some topics and saying that your waiting for more evidence to make any decisions often times leads into personal attacks. Even in your original post, you say that the short and long answer is "Nope" which is an assertion even though TFA says:
If nuclides such as 32Si, 36Cl, and 226Ra respond to changes in the solar neutrino flux due to the time-dependence of 1/R2, then they can also respond to changes in intrinsic solar activity which are known to occur over time scales both longer and shorter than one year.
which refutes that and your #2 (since if the period is longer then a year, you would need more then 1 year to calibrate)
Not to mention that the sun is the cause for this study, but isn't required to generate the effects. The field or neutrino flux could come from another possibly stronger source that may only come every 32 million years???
What if it were tied to something like this or the binary star reference in here
Also in TFS says the 2 theories are:
sun produces a field that changes the value of the fine structure constant on Earth
and
interaction with the neutrino flux
so I don't think you'd need a sun sized radiation source, but a way to create these affects in a contained manner, Mr. Snarky.
In fact if it is the neutrino flux is what speeds it up, that makes fusion reactors have a secondary purpose... They might be able to reduce radioactive material from fission reactors...
Opensim allows use of either a basic physics engine or OpenDynamicsEngine which has COD 4 on its list (see here)
It supports LSL, OSL, and c# for scripting with a few limitations (see here)
For centralized inventory servers, that depends on the grid owner's implementation since Opensim supports several database types.
I'm not saying that opensim is anywhere close to Second Life's level as a finished product, but I would hardly call it useless, especially since it is impossible to run a Second Life server of your own. But that's just my opinion.
Such as? I've set up some Opensim servers, and it has quite a few. Not to mention, if something doesn't exist, it can be created (since it is open source).
What did people do with early websites in the beggining.
At first, they were just boring static pages that were either a horrible marketing attempt. How far has the internet come now that there are things like collaborative Encyclopedia building (Wiki), Google docs, YouTube, Ebay etc.
It is impossible to tell what this medium will make possible in 5 years.
Also, I wouldn't exactly call IBM a furry or weirdo. Nor would I say that Cisco is either. There are also a growing number of universities colleges using the space.
The thing I try to hint at for most is, look at all the different news articles about 3D virtual worlds in general. How many different categories to they fall into? Economics, scams, porn, politics, social, collaboration, business, marketing, play, serious, military, health care... and more. Something that is looked at in so many different ways has huge potential as a medium. And the more open the server side, the more likely it will be adopted by a larger group and customized for even more possibilities.
How is this different then an Apache server serving a page to a Firefox browser with a link that takes the viewer to an IIS web page?
The only catch is that people in the virtual world may want their virtual stuff to go along with them, and that part will be more difficult. Set that aside, and I don't think it's inconceivable to have pretty good interoperability.
And as for targeted advertising, everyone's got it all wrong. Targeted advertising is the ONE thing that I DO want them to track me for. After all, seeing ads for things I might actually want to buy rather than crap I don't want is a Good Thing. Targeted Advertising IS consumer friendly. It's feeding the data into health insurance eligibility and credit scores and potentially inaccurate data into legal proceedings that's scary.
So everyone needs to stop worrying about advertising and start demanding that congress pass a law stating that if a company collects information about you and shares it with a third party without your explicit consent, that information is considered "public" in that it can count towards liable claims. Don't worry about what they share. Worry about your right to sue them if sharing the info causes you harm.
Hear hear! I think this every time someone goes off on someone doing targeted advertising. "Oh noes they might show me something I want to buy, whatever shall I do???" If its done in a non-intrusive, and non-prejudicial manner, and its based on the current session, then its better then getting random crap like broadcast television.
Funny, my feelings are almost completely reversed. For me, the environment in Oblivion was inviting to explore. Plenty of treasures and unique spots to be found by just wandering around.
Mass Effect, however for me, each planet you can land on was almost the same as any others, large areas filled with only 5-10 points of interest. Not to mention, such a pain in the ass to get to most areas, just to see if anything showed up on the radar.
Odd, I loved Oblivion (and still occasionally play). But I absolutely loathe Mass Effect. Its one of the few I wish I'd never bought.
Maybe there's a part of the game I'm missing, but to me it seems like I spend more time waiting to load the next System/planet/building then actually playing. When I do get a chance to play, the action seems short and not particularly engaging, while the conversations slow and not exactly as groundbreaking as it seemed reported.
Well, Portal is one game with a recent change to gameplay. Certainly more to it since there are few blood hungry monsters in that.
And the scenery in Bioshock was very interesting and different.
Right because so many things like this weren't against Bush when he was elected the 2nd time.
Never underestimate the power of fear, doubt, and money.
Actually if you click on the little parent button on the comment you just responded to, you will see that the title is BSA and the text is "I thought they hated open source."
I know you're not new here, but parent != summary...
Finally, the first comment where someone actually thought how it could be done without sucking!
This is actually a way to give people a way to interact with the storyline in a way to move engagement to the next level. People who didn't want to play could still just couch potato it.
They could even do some kind of ranking system and popular or interesting MMO characters could get mentioned or pulled into the show. That would make people even more interested in the game side since there are plenty of fame seekers.
Unless maybe you meant just the year 2000?
That's exactly what I was thinking. I tried to drive away and it was impossible to drive that thing anywhere, especially when the cops showed up.
I would have thought they would make a case for Rockstar saying thanks for showing how stupid it is to drive in that condition!
I think the issue for BillG is that he doesn't see where the competitive advantage is. His (previous) business model is completely focused on producing and maintaining a certain type of advantage over its competition.
For him, having to give any improvements back to the community negates any competitive advantage of producing that improvement so I'm guessing that's why he considers it not viable for business.
I think, however, that he does not realize that the other possible business models can be just as viable as his 'sustained competitive advantage' model.
I don't think he believes that nobody can improve the software (and the original context isn't available anywhere), just that it doesn't fit into his idea of doing business.
Gardening isn't really free. It's just grown the way you want it. That's the benifit. If you equated the time it requires to garden, plus seeds/plants, fertilizer and pesticides (if you choose). You'll find that gardening does cost you, even though you don't have to pull out your wallet at harvest time.
He included Nuclear in his statement which, according to that page, accounts for another 19.3%. that totals to 30%, which is a bit closer to that dollar.
I think you mean 4th arm. I don't think anyone wants a minigun controlled by a soldier's "Third arm"
News Corp reaches out and tags Microsoft. Microsoft picks up a chair (signature move) and BAM smacks YAHOO across the back!
Yahoo stumbles over and tags AOL, who does a Flying forearm smash to the face...
Starting to feel like we need a claymation Deathmatch for this.
Actually according to many results of the word "abuse" from Google definitions. abuse generally means 2 things:
1. mistreatment of a person
2. Excessive use and/or misuse of a substance in a way it was not meant or prescribed to be used.
Otherwise there couldn't be alcohol abuse. Its totally legal to drink yourself into a stupor every night, but its generally considered to be abusing the substance and probably also abusing yourself.
I think the article means that people are abusing the drugs because they are using them without prescriptions and not necessarily for their intended purpose (to treat a condition).
What about people who dont *like* being told they can't SMS, check email, or talk quietly on their phone because their on a plane?
But seriously. There are plenty of laws protecting minority rights and small groups of people against those that may not *like* something but in the interest of freedom, free speech and such, its NOT illegal. So I don't think that things like this should be illegal for that reason alone.