Ah, game design from the "Anything I don't understand must be trivial to implement" school.
These issues have been discussed endlessly by many, many, many people. Inevitably real game designers realize that your suggestions are either far to complex to implement or aren't fun in practice.
Unlike
other industries where you would have to build a huge factory before you could churn out widgets, the barriers to entry in the software business are low. So low that even a teenager with an old computer and a free compiler can get in on the action.
So, if you don't like the terms your company offers, you're always free to leave. And leaving is far easier in IT than in most other fields.
After 1718, approximately 60,000 convicts, dubbed "the King's passengers," were sent from England to America. Ninety percent of them stayed in Maryland and Virginia.
Of course, descendants of those people still live in Maryland and Virginia, but instead of being called "The King's Passengers", they're now known as "The US Government".
The biggest challenge would be using a substance resistant to sulfuric acid to form the outer layer of the bubble; ceramics or metal sulfates could possibly serve in this role, but of course, you'd want to be able to see outside, as well. "Just think of the great pictures you could get," said Landis.
Uh, I think the *biggest* challenge would be making an entire city fly. At 0.9Gs, keeping a city afloat would be only slightly more possible than it is on Earth (hint: it's not).
I love it when people invoke The Ron Paul with Dr. in front. Is it to make me believe his experience as a gynecologist will help transform America into a utopia?
Let's just say he has a detailed understanding of where America's been fucked.
That is precisely why I wouldn't be worried. Any pathogenic symbiote would have evolved to take advantage of the host's physiology -- not ours. But, based on every Sci-Fi show ever, the alien would have basically human physiology. Thus, you'd be screwed.
Except that he won his primary and is running unopposed in the general election. Thus, he is certain to be in Congress a year from now, unless he dies of old age before then.
From an economic standpoint, there's really no difference between legal and illegal immigration. An illegal immigrant may receive less benefit from immigrating because of legal restrictions, but clearly the choice is still beneficial as people are still willing to immigrate illegally.
Ahh... so the best option for everyone is to ensure illegal aliens arrive en mass. If they complain about low wages, hazardous working conditions or exploitive management ( see: Company Store [wikipedia.org] ) then we deport them.
Right. Nice way to maintain a permanent underclass.
After all, it's not like if we required proof of citizenship and forced the agricultural industry to pay decent wages those workers would spend any money here in the US, right?
Or if we permitted those workers to come to the US on visas and bring their families with them the practice of sending remittances to their home country might dry up or significantly decrease thus keeping more money in the US?
A permanent underclass? Hardly. It's not like we're rounding these people up and bringing them to the US against their will. They come here voluntarily, and often at great risk to themselves. Why would they do that if they were being exploited? To put it simply, they come here in droves because life as a fruit picker or whatnot is better than what they were doing before. We are increasing their quality of life, not decreasing it.
Immigration is a win-win situation. We benefit from low-priced labor, freeing our better educated workforce to hold better paying, more productive jobs, and the immigrants get jobs better than the ones they left behind, allowing them a better chance to escape from the poverty of their homeland.
Most people haven't, because ideas are, for the most part, worthless. People get dozens of them every day. Most of them are bad, and the ones that are good have likely already been thought of by hundreds or thousands of people before you. The implementation of an idea is where all the hard work goes.
Like most of NASA's programs, this basically amounts to a jobs program for scientists/engineers. Notice that the funding is for the plans for an array of telescopes, not for the actual construction of said array. Building an array of telescopes on the Moon would likely require astronauts to spend months on the Moon, even if most of the telescopes came pre-assembled. Without any infrastructure on the Moon to support those astronauts, building an array of telescopes there is a pipe dream, and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
If any plans end up being actually produced, they'll likely be filed away in a drawer and forgotten. Pessimistic? Sure. But, that's the way NASA has worked for decades now.
Yeah, we're perfectly capable of doing it ourselves, thank you very much. We don' need no furrn' scumbags putting honest, hardworking American scumbags out of work!
I think a better analogy is if the post office had a policy of deliberately throwing away mail when they were too busy, like at Christmas time or whenever. That's not really interfering, right? Just delaying your mail, I mean, if you don't reply, the other people know to just resend you the same mail again, it just takes a few weeks.
More like, the Post Office throws away your letter, then forges a letter to both parties. Each forged letter has a message equivalent to "I hate you and never want to hear from you again. Stop sending me letters.".
Slashdot Mirror
I would celebrate, but I know in my heart he'll be replaced by someone just as bad. Our body politic is rotten to the core.
Ah, game design from the "Anything I don't understand must be trivial to implement" school.
These issues have been discussed endlessly by many, many, many people. Inevitably real game designers realize that your suggestions are either far to complex to implement or aren't fun in practice.
You stake the vampire rat through the heart. You gain 10 xp and 2 gold!
Repeat for the next 500 hours with bigger and bigger rats.
Or, 3) Start your own software company.
Unlike other industries where you would have to build a huge factory before you could churn out widgets, the barriers to entry in the software business are low. So low that even a teenager with an old computer and a free compiler can get in on the action.
So, if you don't like the terms your company offers, you're always free to leave. And leaving is far easier in IT than in most other fields.
After 1718, approximately 60,000 convicts, dubbed "the King's passengers," were sent from England to America. Ninety percent of them stayed in Maryland and Virginia.
Of course, descendants of those people still live in Maryland and Virginia, but instead of being called "The King's Passengers", they're now known as "The US Government".
Uh, I think the *biggest* challenge would be making an entire city fly. At 0.9Gs, keeping a city afloat would be only slightly more possible than it is on Earth (hint: it's not).
I love it when people invoke The Ron Paul with Dr. in front. Is it to make me believe his experience as a gynecologist will help transform America into a utopia?
Let's just say he has a detailed understanding of where America's been fucked.
Of course. He's got the aliens on his side after all.
Sounds like somebody needs a one way ticket to Guantanamo!
"IBM developer" links to an IBM website promoting an IBM product? Congratulations, you just posted a Slashvertisement on the the front page!
Oh, the fools! If only the beast had a billion and one backs! When will they learn?
But unlike the usual breed of lawyer, this kind will likely enjoy being shot into space.
Except that he won his primary and is running unopposed in the general election. Thus, he is certain to be in Congress a year from now, unless he dies of old age before then.
From an economic standpoint, there's really no difference between legal and illegal immigration. An illegal immigrant may receive less benefit from immigrating because of legal restrictions, but clearly the choice is still beneficial as people are still willing to immigrate illegally.
A permanent underclass? Hardly. It's not like we're rounding these people up and bringing them to the US against their will. They come here voluntarily, and often at great risk to themselves. Why would they do that if they were being exploited? To put it simply, they come here in droves because life as a fruit picker or whatnot is better than what they were doing before. We are increasing their quality of life, not decreasing it.
Immigration is a win-win situation. We benefit from low-priced labor, freeing our better educated workforce to hold better paying, more productive jobs, and the immigrants get jobs better than the ones they left behind, allowing them a better chance to escape from the poverty of their homeland.
Most people haven't, because ideas are, for the most part, worthless. People get dozens of them every day. Most of them are bad, and the ones that are good have likely already been thought of by hundreds or thousands of people before you. The implementation of an idea is where all the hard work goes.
Like most of NASA's programs, this basically amounts to a jobs program for scientists/engineers. Notice that the funding is for the plans for an array of telescopes, not for the actual construction of said array. Building an array of telescopes on the Moon would likely require astronauts to spend months on the Moon, even if most of the telescopes came pre-assembled. Without any infrastructure on the Moon to support those astronauts, building an array of telescopes there is a pipe dream, and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
If any plans end up being actually produced, they'll likely be filed away in a drawer and forgotten. Pessimistic? Sure. But, that's the way NASA has worked for decades now.
Yeah, we're perfectly capable of doing it ourselves, thank you very much. We don' need no furrn' scumbags putting honest, hardworking American scumbags out of work!
"Lazy" is one possible explanation. "In cahoots" is the other. I know which one seems more plausible to me...
They're lucky! When it finishes booting, it kicks your dog and sends kiddie porn to all the contacts in your address book!
More like, the Post Office throws away your letter, then forges a letter to both parties. Each forged letter has a message equivalent to "I hate you and never want to hear from you again. Stop sending me letters.".
No, retroactive prosecution is specifically prohibited in the Constitution. Retroactive immunity, however, is not.
What are you talking about? Non-factual opinion has been the basis of politics since the dawn of time.
Because the concrete sneaker people are also in the election selling business.