This is an excellent point, but in my opinion it doesn't go far enough. Most of these pirates are people under the age of 21, and most do it out of necessity. Bringing weapons into it would just turn a bad situation into a killing field.
"More prosperity also leads to increased emissions per person."
That is what this kind of legislation is about, reducing the amount of greenhouse gasses per person despite an increase in prosperity. Whether this particular legislation is effective in that regard I have no idea.
It takes 9 months do get there and back, its wintertime temperature is around -100C, it has about 96% less atmosphere, there is absolutely no existent infrastructure, there is very little oxygen in the atmosphere, it has no magnetic field to shield from solar winds, and it sometimes has global dust storms.
And nobody owns it yet.
Space isn't really cold as there isn't anything to be cold.
As for tiny particles in space, their temperature would vary greatly depending on their distance from the sun (or other heat source).
Classic example of trading freedom for "security", I can only hope this is not put through.
This could also severely restrict younger peoples (legal) access to the internet, narrowing their horizons drastically.
"Because Google does not disclose the criteria for ranking news articles or search results, he said, newspapers are unable to hone their content to try to earn more revenue from online advertising."
As in, they want to change their pages to artificially inflate their page rank, regardless of relevance to what people are searching for.
You could try Xfire, it logs your hours to an online account, and I'm pretty sure you can make it private if you want to. It logs hours played that day, that week and total.
www.xfire.com
"In the sky, there are lots of little bits, and the sun casts all different beams of light onto these bits, but the bits like red, so they hold onto those, but they let the blue ones go."
I should have quoted the post.
I was referring to the statement "The best kind of stimulus is the kind of stimulus that puts people in jobs."
I wasn't disputing the usefulness of this stimulus.
So you are saying that a stimulus to have a huge amount of people dump water from one ocean to the other with buckets would be a good stimulus because it would provide jobs?
This statement is probably true, but is it really a bad thing? Primitive man may have learned to use bows to hunt, is it a bad thing that they are worse at killing animals with their bare hands? Only when they don't have the bow available, but this does not offset the benefits of having it, because it is much more efficient.
The same thing can be applies to public water works, they enable a larger population (or a larger crop) to exist in a location, but they are dependent on the water is brings, but here, again, they are not worse off due to the dependence, as it allows them to do other things.
Even if a significant portion of the gamer population did you what did, its not really much of a loss for them.
They get the first batch of buyers at $59.99, and once it gets around $30.00 they get another sales boost.
It had occurred to me after I had posted this that it was a fitting description.
The internet is a pseudo world, superimposed over the one that exists physically.
It can be used to affect our real world.
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This is an excellent point, but in my opinion it doesn't go far enough. Most of these pirates are people under the age of 21, and most do it out of necessity. Bringing weapons into it would just turn a bad situation into a killing field.
"More prosperity also leads to increased emissions per person." That is what this kind of legislation is about, reducing the amount of greenhouse gasses per person despite an increase in prosperity. Whether this particular legislation is effective in that regard I have no idea.
It takes 9 months do get there and back, its wintertime temperature is around -100C, it has about 96% less atmosphere, there is absolutely no existent infrastructure, there is very little oxygen in the atmosphere, it has no magnetic field to shield from solar winds, and it sometimes has global dust storms. And nobody owns it yet.
Space isn't really cold as there isn't anything to be cold. As for tiny particles in space, their temperature would vary greatly depending on their distance from the sun (or other heat source).
Classic example of trading freedom for "security", I can only hope this is not put through. This could also severely restrict younger peoples (legal) access to the internet, narrowing their horizons drastically.
"Because Google does not disclose the criteria for ranking news articles or search results, he said, newspapers are unable to hone their content to try to earn more revenue from online advertising." As in, they want to change their pages to artificially inflate their page rank, regardless of relevance to what people are searching for.
You could try Xfire, it logs your hours to an online account, and I'm pretty sure you can make it private if you want to. It logs hours played that day, that week and total. www.xfire.com
"In the sky, there are lots of little bits, and the sun casts all different beams of light onto these bits, but the bits like red, so they hold onto those, but they let the blue ones go."
I should have quoted the post. I was referring to the statement "The best kind of stimulus is the kind of stimulus that puts people in jobs." I wasn't disputing the usefulness of this stimulus.
So you are saying that a stimulus to have a huge amount of people dump water from one ocean to the other with buckets would be a good stimulus because it would provide jobs?
This statement is probably true, but is it really a bad thing? Primitive man may have learned to use bows to hunt, is it a bad thing that they are worse at killing animals with their bare hands? Only when they don't have the bow available, but this does not offset the benefits of having it, because it is much more efficient. The same thing can be applies to public water works, they enable a larger population (or a larger crop) to exist in a location, but they are dependent on the water is brings, but here, again, they are not worse off due to the dependence, as it allows them to do other things.
But that doesn't mean there aren't sources. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/04/water-vapour-feedback-or-forcing/
Even if a significant portion of the gamer population did you what did, its not really much of a loss for them. They get the first batch of buyers at $59.99, and once it gets around $30.00 they get another sales boost.
It's more like watching them make the engine explode in flames because they never changed the oil in 80,000 miles.
Its more likely that the engine would just seize and stop.
It had occurred to me after I had posted this that it was a fitting description. The internet is a pseudo world, superimposed over the one that exists physically. It can be used to affect our real world.
I love how they use words like 'evolve' to describe the actions of programs and viruses, it makes the internet seem like a primal battleground.