I like this argument. It's like saying: "Here are 20 heaps of shit. Choose one to step into."
Democracy works on a base of choice. If all choices are bad, you can try it yourself. But I think anybody not affiliated with one of the two parties does not stand a chance. And to get affiliated with one of the parties, you have to play the game and thus become one of those unchoosable choices yourself.
The one thing left to do is not to vote, but that only makes a difference, if everybody (or a very large group of people) does it. And by difference I mean it might be talked about, which might or might not change anything.
Of course you pay the full costs of everything the state provides. Except a small amount, which is covered by state-debt.
Who else do you think pays the full cost of all that stuff?
This is the exactly reason why there are those ratings. After a certain age, it is okay to consume said content. I cannot imagine, that your dad let you watch splatter movies at the age of 6. I am not saying, that the ratings are perfect and there are no kids, that can handle the content, but I am saying, that a 6 year old child shouldn't be made (or allowed) to see ultra violent content.
By the way. I your dad was present during those movies or games it is a completely different story.
And I call bullshit on the character building and strengthening. You sound like you had a healthy relationship with your dad, which probably was responsible for you becoming a "great man";-)
Its not about imparting the behavior on the child. its about content that might be disturbing for younger players. Its about protecting the child from weeks of nightmares and not to protect you from being shot by a child which played GTA (which, as you said, is probably not going to happen). This is also the reason, why I think violence in games is much much worse than nudity or sex. I was mature enough as a kid to watch those stupid late night erotic films, so i think the kids today might be able to handle that stuff, when they can hold a controller without breaking their hands.
In no way am I saying rape isn't bad. If rape leads to death, then it is worse than murder. Although, it depends on the method of murder. Burning alive would be much worse.
So death by fire: what? 10 minutes? probably much less, due to suffocation; Death by rape: probably hours or days of pure torture.
Yeah prove how excellent our society is by killing everyone who does something we don't like. Put them in prison by all means but killing them just proves that you are no better than them.
I am undecided on the death sentence, but I think theres a huge difference between "something we don't like" and rape. Noone should be killed for stealing a Mars bar, but for rape or murder... not really sure.
(preferred because somebody who really really tried could probably resurrect the old data through a mere zeroing, but it would be a lot harder if overwritten with random bytes, and way harder if you executed this command five or six times in a row).
I have NEVER seen that done or even heard of it. Could you link me to a source, where it is shown, that a zeroed drive could be used to get anything meaningful back? The "overwrite 7 times to be sure" is a myth as far as I know.
Please read the story! This is exactly what this is about. They can copy your iris (what you are), steal your key and hurt you to give them the password. After that there is no need to keep you alive.
You can only go to your church, synagoge, mosque or whatever the sacred place is called in your religion to celebrate your marriage if you can show the official document sealing your marriage.
At least in Germany you can freely do any marriage rite you want without any paperwork. It just doesn't count anything (tax benefits,...) as long as you didn't do the official paperwork from your municipality.
Secure Boot does not mean "secure for you". It means secure for Microsoft.
The advertised "feature" of anti-virus, anti-malware is a strawman. I don't get why any hardware manufacturer would be so unbelievably greedy and implement this just to get a stupid "Works with Windows 8" sticker, but obviously I am just too stupid to get it, because it will probably happen.
I really, really hope something will happen, that prevents the whole secure boot thing with MS certificates. I don't know. Maybe the European High Court (or whatever its called) does something about "secure boot"
There would be a really easy way of implementing secure boot without any certificates from a special vendor. Just securely hash the boot sector at first boot. If the has changes, ask the user to verify the change or rebuild the old boot sector. This way you cannot change the boot sector without the user knowing it. Easy as this and as secure as the so called "secure boot". And as a bonus you still can run any software YOU want.
I clearly said "in this case". And i stand by that. 500 years may be significant to give some random development an edge in a species, but it will definitely/reasonably certain not cause something beneficial to develop. This might never happen, due to the nature of evolution. And 500 years for something to come into existence by coincidental mutation is very very very unlikely to an extend, that I would say impossible.
500 years, eh? What is that? 20 generations? maybe a few more or less. Evolution is not directed, so even if somethings seems evolutionary benificial, it does not mean, that it will develop. There has to be alot of improbabble mutations happening for growing some kind of piercing mechanism on your penis. So in this case 500 years is definitely not evolutionary significant.
There are (hopefully) experiments on the effects of CFCs on O3 molecules, that made us come to the conclusion that CFC damages the ozone layer. That was simple in my opinion. AGW/ACC on the other hand is far from being simple. I for one am very sceptical about the pace and the amount of global warming happening because of humans.
Why would you buy them? As you said, you already own them.
As far as I understand it, it is just another platform you can access your Steam profile from. Any game that runs on that platform and you own, would already be there. Am I missing something here?
... but if they have even 1/10th of accounts that are real then actually they could easily claim they have a 'mandate from the people', can't they?
No, they cannot. None (I suspect) of the people on facebook have joined to be represented by facebook. Least of all politically. They joined facebook to.. "socialize" or whatever it is you do there.
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Read the comic again. That is exactly the point. It does not matter, if the technique is known or not.
I like this argument. It's like saying: "Here are 20 heaps of shit. Choose one to step into."
Democracy works on a base of choice. If all choices are bad, you can try it yourself. But I think anybody not affiliated with one of the two parties does not stand a chance. And to get affiliated with one of the parties, you have to play the game and thus become one of those unchoosable choices yourself.
The one thing left to do is not to vote, but that only makes a difference, if everybody (or a very large group of people) does it. And by difference I mean it might be talked about, which might or might not change anything.
Of course you pay the full costs of everything the state provides. Except a small amount, which is covered by state-debt.
Who else do you think pays the full cost of all that stuff?
This is the exactly reason why there are those ratings. After a certain age, it is okay to consume said content. I cannot imagine, that your dad let you watch splatter movies at the age of 6. I am not saying, that the ratings are perfect and there are no kids, that can handle the content, but I am saying, that a 6 year old child shouldn't be made (or allowed) to see ultra violent content.
;-)
By the way. I your dad was present during those movies or games it is a completely different story.
And I call bullshit on the character building and strengthening. You sound like you had a healthy relationship with your dad, which probably was responsible for you becoming a "great man"
Its not about imparting the behavior on the child. its about content that might be disturbing for younger players. Its about protecting the child from weeks of nightmares and not to protect you from being shot by a child which played GTA (which, as you said, is probably not going to happen).
This is also the reason, why I think violence in games is much much worse than nudity or sex. I was mature enough as a kid to watch those stupid late night erotic films, so i think the kids today might be able to handle that stuff, when they can hold a controller without breaking their hands.
I don't know, ask a blind person, who is handling Euro notes. They got it and it seems to work.
$ ./timesize
sizeof(time_t) = 8
sizeof(int) = 4
sizeof(long) = 8
make an update some time, eh?
In no way am I saying rape isn't bad. If rape leads to death, then it is worse than murder. Although, it depends on the method of murder. Burning alive would be much worse.
So death by fire: what? 10 minutes? probably much less, due to suffocation; Death by rape: probably hours or days of pure torture.
Yeah prove how excellent our society is by killing everyone who does something we don't like. Put them in prison by all means but killing them just proves that you are no better than them.
I am undecided on the death sentence, but I think theres a huge difference between "something we don't like" and rape. Noone should be killed for stealing a Mars bar, but for rape or murder ... not really sure.
(preferred because somebody who really really tried could probably resurrect the old data through a mere zeroing, but it would be a lot harder if overwritten with random bytes, and way harder if you executed this command five or six times in a row).
I have NEVER seen that done or even heard of it. Could you link me to a source, where it is shown, that a zeroed drive could be used to get anything meaningful back? The "overwrite 7 times to be sure" is a myth as far as I know.
Please read the story! This is exactly what this is about. They can copy your iris (what you are), steal your key and hurt you to give them the password. After that there is no need to keep you alive.
Exactly. Biometrics are not secrets. They uniquely identify an individual, but you still need a secret for security.
And even that is not true, if they are easily copied. The parent is obviously right
You can only go to your church, synagoge, mosque or whatever the sacred place is called in your religion to celebrate your marriage if you can show the official document sealing your marriage.
At least in Germany you can freely do any marriage rite you want without any paperwork. It just doesn't count anything (tax benefits, ...) as long as you didn't do the official paperwork from your municipality.
Why not? This is easily answered.
Secure Boot does not mean "secure for you". It means secure for Microsoft.
The advertised "feature" of anti-virus, anti-malware is a strawman. I don't get why any hardware manufacturer would be so unbelievably greedy and implement this just to get a stupid "Works with Windows 8" sticker, but obviously I am just too stupid to get it, because it will probably happen.
I really, really hope something will happen, that prevents the whole secure boot thing with MS certificates. I don't know. Maybe the European High Court (or whatever its called) does something about "secure boot"
There would be a really easy way of implementing secure boot without any certificates from a special vendor. Just securely hash the boot sector at first boot. If the has changes, ask the user to verify the change or rebuild the old boot sector. This way you cannot change the boot sector without the user knowing it. Easy as this and as secure as the so called "secure boot". And as a bonus you still can run any software YOU want.
I clearly said "in this case". And i stand by that. 500 years may be significant to give some random development an edge in a species, but it will definitely/reasonably certain not cause something beneficial to develop. This might never happen, due to the nature of evolution. And 500 years for something to come into existence by coincidental mutation is very very very unlikely to an extend, that I would say impossible.
500 years, eh? What is that? 20 generations? maybe a few more or less. Evolution is not directed, so even if somethings seems evolutionary benificial, it does not mean, that it will develop. There has to be alot of improbabble mutations happening for growing some kind of piercing mechanism on your penis. So in this case 500 years is definitely not evolutionary significant.
Read up on your evolutionary theory.
Hmm. This is not a comment, where I would use an "Anonymous Coward" as poster.
Afraid for your mod-points? Or just trying to make Monsanto look good?
Is it really that hard to search wikipedia?
There are (hopefully) experiments on the effects of CFCs on O3 molecules, that made us come to the conclusion that CFC damages the ozone layer. That was simple in my opinion. AGW/ACC on the other hand is far from being simple. I for one am very sceptical about the pace and the amount of global warming happening because of humans.
Why would you buy them? As you said, you already own them.
As far as I understand it, it is just another platform you can access your Steam profile from. Any game that runs on that platform and you own, would already be there. Am I missing something here?
What Linux user is going to pay money to play the small number of games available?
The Steam client is free.
You would only pay per game.
And the client will probably warn you, if you are about to buy a game, which won't run on your platform.
Do you think the all electrical companies run cost-free and bill consumers for 100% of their internal costs? I highly doubt it.
Yes they bill you for more than 100%. Otherwise they would run at a loss.
It's the ease of use. Simple as that.
... but if they have even 1/10th of accounts that are real then actually they could easily claim they have a 'mandate from the people', can't they?
No, they cannot. None (I suspect) of the people on facebook have joined to be represented by facebook. Least of all politically. They joined facebook to .. "socialize" or whatever it is you do there.
Yeah because everybody can freely commit to the firefox codebase.
And would you care to elaborate the your linux remark? I still think that this is the most successful open source project.