Intelligent people commit much less crime, end up addicted to some substance, are less likely to end up as single parents, live longer and are overall better in predicting future outcomes (and delaying gratification) than those with lower IQ. You are right that IQ and "ability to make good choices" are not equal but they are not orthogonal either.
Maybe you would play just one game, but I don't necessarily predict which one before leaving the house. Plus carrying around expensive game CDs where they can easily get broken/stolen/doused in yogurt seems rather foolish.
I'm surprised this even still comes up. By definition sales fall when copy protection is cracked, otherwise nobody would bother developing it in the first place. A system like BD+ isn't cheap to create or maintain so I'd imagine the losses are significant.
Or the people ordering/paying for for the development of DRM systems are idiots who don't understand a) technology and b) fairuse.
Some people actually leave their house and would like to be able to play their games on the train or while on vacation without carrying around a stack of games.
History has show that US Army soldiers are quite willing to kill anyone, as ordered, in the US. From the Whiskey Rebellion, through the Draft Riots (when Lincoln first enslaved free men to fight his war), through Kent State, with a detour through the forced labor enforced by the US Army on workers at a aircraft plant BEFORE we entered WWII, there is no time when the US Army has refused to employ deadly force on US civilians.
Plus how about the numerous occasions where the military was used to open fire on protest4rs or union members?
Pretty sure it used to be. There was a big fuss about whitehouse.com being a porn site. I think it was when Clinton was president but I don't fully remember.
How do you figure that?
Say you need 1000 servers (7TB each) to store the data. At say $3000 a pop (overly generous) that's only 3 million dollars a week or 156 million dollars a year. Chump change for any industrial state.
Please tell me you are joking. Companies like google have more than an exabyte of disk space. It is certainly physically possible to warehouse 7 petabytes of data.
MIT's OpenCourseWare is also an excellent repository for full course material for many of MIT's classes, including their excellent intro to programming class in scheme.
Imagine you could get free soda anywhere, at any time (and so could everyone else so there's no resale market). Clearly people would be drinking a lot more soda. People that otherwise couldn't afford it would drink soda and those that could would drink more soda. Noone that isn't a complete and utter moron would buy soda under those conditions because it's available free, it'd be like burning money for no reason. There's not a single shred of logic that says you should pay when nobody else is paying.
Yeah, just like how since we have free water coming out of our taps, no one buys bottled water.
Back then, the government had a mentality that the people with bad investments should be punished by losing their money, instead of the government stepping in to help.
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Intelligent people commit much less crime, end up addicted to some substance, are less likely to end up as single parents, live longer and are overall better in predicting future outcomes (and delaying gratification) than those with lower IQ. You are right that IQ and "ability to make good choices" are not equal but they are not orthogonal either.
Not a believer in the whole "one person, one vote" thing huh?
There's already a system to "protect" smaller states; the Senate.
Maybe you would play just one game, but I don't necessarily predict which one before leaving the house. Plus carrying around expensive game CDs where they can easily get broken/stolen/doused in yogurt seems rather foolish.
You are aware that the interactions between living organisms are far more complex than "I don't eat it, therefore it doesn't matter", right?
I'm surprised this even still comes up. By definition sales fall when copy protection is cracked, otherwise nobody would bother developing it in the first place. A system like BD+ isn't cheap to create or maintain so I'd imagine the losses are significant.
Or the people ordering/paying for for the development of DRM systems are idiots who don't understand a) technology and b) fairuse.
Some people actually leave their house and would like to be able to play their games on the train or while on vacation without carrying around a stack of games.
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Because some human beings have something called a "conscience"
When I worked at $LARGE_TECH_COMPANY we had a compliance office with an anonymous 800 number.
History has show that US Army soldiers are quite willing to kill anyone, as ordered, in the US. From the Whiskey Rebellion, through the Draft Riots (when Lincoln first enslaved free men to fight his war), through Kent State, with a detour through the forced labor enforced by the US Army on workers at a aircraft plant BEFORE we entered WWII, there is no time when the US Army has refused to employ deadly force on US civilians.
Plus how about the numerous occasions where the military was used to open fire on protest4rs or union members?
btw, your guess is totally wrong
Toyota only builds their factories in fly-over country, their design and engineering facilities are elsewhere.
Pretty sure it used to be. There was a big fuss about whitehouse.com being a porn site. I think it was when Clinton was president but I don't fully remember.
How do you figure that? Say you need 1000 servers (7TB each) to store the data. At say $3000 a pop (overly generous) that's only 3 million dollars a week or 156 million dollars a year. Chump change for any industrial state.
Please tell me you are joking. Companies like google have more than an exabyte of disk space. It is certainly physically possible to warehouse 7 petabytes of data.
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MIT's OpenCourseWare is also an excellent repository for full course material for many of MIT's classes, including their excellent intro to programming class in scheme.
Imagine you could get free soda anywhere, at any time (and so could everyone else so there's no resale market). Clearly people would be drinking a lot more soda. People that otherwise couldn't afford it would drink soda and those that could would drink more soda. Noone that isn't a complete and utter moron would buy soda under those conditions because it's available free, it'd be like burning money for no reason. There's not a single shred of logic that says you should pay when nobody else is paying.
Yeah, just like how since we have free water coming out of our taps, no one buys bottled water.
What's the optical transparency of playwood again?
Oh wait.
Back then, the government had a mentality that the people with bad investments should be punished by losing their money, instead of the government stepping in to help.
Isn't that how free market capitalism works?
In the license there is specific language that you are not allowed to port the code to a different language.
Coor's Brewing Company would say yes.
Have you looked at the population densities of the Scandinavian countries?
Tis clearly a civil issue.