when I said free to make and distribute I meant a single copy is free to make and distribute (basically free, as a few cpu cycles and a few megs of bandwidth is under a cent).
Now of course there are fixed costs, but I would not be surprised if nice glossy paper + tons of ink + storage and handling + shipping = a huge percentage of the previously printed mags cost.
Sure, but it makes perfect sense to get a actual person to teach them their language. Sure everyone speaks a little different but it is normally close enough to understand. And it makes sense to learn physics from a physicists, but a practitioner of a religion is unique in that going to one of them for knowledge of the religion is a very bad idea.
So no your "[topic]" is ridiculous and really only applies to religions, cults, and maybe a few other things that depend on some sort of brainwashing or evoke a huge emotional attraction with the person in question. And I would not consider this a anti-religious rant, and that there is not a single thing here that worded slightly nicer I could not even get a practitioner of a religion to agree with.
"or explore a religion from an actual practitioner"
Absolutely not.
In the case of religion every practitioner has radically different views of what there religion is and they almost all have warped views of the history of there religion. Almost all book on a religion will give you far more facts about it then any of its practitioners.
But then as far as well know within half a generation we would have that technology. And advanced alien race and goes around protecting the galaxy from new alien races would have studied the evolution of technology and would be able to judge far better then we how long it would take us to get to some level that would cause a problem. And if they were intent on wiping us out they would try to do so before we developed a way of travelling into space and surviving out there.
Well unless I am mistaken the current pope used to be the guy in charge of the coverups? Ergo the leadership of this organization knew about the cover ups and were somewhat involved with them.
And the pope did not just descend from heaven one day and get appointed pope, he would of worked his way up (at least I have never heard about the position being a hereditary one). He would of held most of the positions of a priest and most likely worked in many churches in a variety of locations.
But the whole Catholic church cover up issue is not even so much that some priests are pedos. it is that the entire church is involved in shifting them around, covering up for them, and when needed flying them to Vatican city and putting them in a specially designated building for pedo priests fleeing the law.
I don't see how this could be considered bigoted, he did not even close to call all Catholics pedophiles just the old pope. And it is a undeniable fact that at the very least he would of been aware of the cover ups of priest pedophiles.
The idea is great and is the way forward, allowing us to hold many more votes without it really costing anyone time or money (we could actually put ads on the voting site and make the country money if we needed to).
But with the huge concerns raised over electronic voting in the US where it appears moderately possible that that it has been used for fraud over there and at the very least that it would be easy to use for fraud if someone so desired i do not feel comfortable with this development.
The point I was trying to make was not wouldn't it be cool if it went down or not but instead that he has absolutely no chance of getting it to go down and I think he knows it.
He says he is serious, but unless there is something I am missing or Notch is an idiot he is not actually expecting them to agree. Supposedly Bethesda have a financial reason for suing Notch and for a actual business to engage in basically a game of chance (Quake 3 is not a game of chance but pitting two unknown team against each other in it is) to determine if they will go ahead with the suit or drop it is just irresponsible. And assuming that they are a corporation beholden to look after the best interests of their shareholders most likely an illegal act to boot.
now i hate Bethesda as much as anybody for pulling such a stupid move and I would not dislike Notch solving a disagreement with a match of Quake 3 (and would think him even more cool for doing so), but if he actually thinks that there is a possibility that they will accept or of this is just a publicity stunt (the only two possibilities, well then I think he is being kind of stupid.
You are right, all walls can be opened or closed. But in my opinion it is not bad if a wall is closed to the public. If you go to some group facebook page you expect to see a neat relevant feed of posts not a bunch of randoms or trolls posting their random shit. There are places you can go to find customer reviews, and facebook is I site I would NOT suggest for this.
I don't know about the US or Firearms, but they don't card people for alcohol unless they look underage in Canada and I have never had to prove my identity to buy anything.
Companies are not people and therefore regulating them is not fascist (at least in my definition of the word).
And in the real world, in any non fascist state people are legally entitled to use pseudonyms in real life, so there are even potential legality reasons why companies should not be able to enforce this.
And for example how would you feel if next time you walked Walmart you were required to give them your birth certificate to verify your identity, which of course they turn around and sell the information from.
I don't know how this would ever work on a laptop, or what this will mean for power supplies (probably have to double in size to realistically even use just a small percentage of your USB ports) but the ability to not plug in printers/other high power peripherals to the wall would be nice.
The goodness of a company is pretty much measured in growth, and well they have ready taken over most of the internet. They simply cannot sustain the same growth rate as they are used to anymore because they are rapidly running out of places to grow into.
You always hear about games getting there source code officially released (with their art, etc remaining proprietary and the game still being a commercial product [which I assume is what this is]). Who does this help? will anyone read through this code? Is it basically just for anyone enamoured enough with the original game to make mods/patches?
Well in the real world companies still do it, in fact I have personally been told to do this by my boss (and it can save a lot of time, hundreds of man hours in a small company is worth some danger). And I have also fudged some software licences for work, and I know that tons of companies apparently pirate software all the time.
"[T]he tests were widely compromised and their answers were available for study through all-male networks such as college fraternities and Elks lodges"
Well unless the tests where knowingly leaked by someone in charge just to all male groups then that is not discrimination just apparent evidence that men cheat better. Which actually could be a good skill in programming where taking some open source code and inserting in your program can speed up development time. and for sys admins, well pirating can be a useful skill I suppose.
I find it weird that a test was actually looking for a unsocial person, but I could see productivity and a few other benefits for having a unsocial employee and as far as I know it is legal to discriminate on stuff like that.
Also the stats seem to be rather backwards to draw any real conclusions from, stats showing a large number of graduates and low employment in their field would be proper evidence that this discrimination is happening.
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when I said free to make and distribute I meant a single copy is free to make and distribute (basically free, as a few cpu cycles and a few megs of bandwidth is under a cent).
Now of course there are fixed costs, but I would not be surprised if nice glossy paper + tons of ink + storage and handling + shipping = a huge percentage of the previously printed mags cost.
I completely agree, a e-reader would probably make better toilet paper then the glossy stuff they use for mags.
And just on principal. The same price?
It is free to make and distribute, how can the digital version be the same price?
Sure, but it makes perfect sense to get a actual person to teach them their language.
Sure everyone speaks a little different but it is normally close enough to understand.
And it makes sense to learn physics from a physicists, but a practitioner of a religion is unique in that going to one of them for knowledge of the religion is a very bad idea.
So no your "[topic]" is ridiculous and really only applies to religions, cults, and maybe a few other things that depend on some sort of brainwashing or evoke a huge emotional attraction with the person in question.
And I would not consider this a anti-religious rant, and that there is not a single thing here that worded slightly nicer I could not even get a practitioner of a religion to agree with.
"or explore a religion from an actual practitioner"
Absolutely not.
In the case of religion every practitioner has radically different views of what there religion is and they almost all have warped views of the history of there religion.
Almost all book on a religion will give you far more facts about it then any of its practitioners.
But then as far as well know within half a generation we would have that technology.
And advanced alien race and goes around protecting the galaxy from new alien races would have studied the evolution of technology and would be able to judge far better then we how long it would take us to get to some level that would cause a problem.
And if they were intent on wiping us out they would try to do so before we developed a way of travelling into space and surviving out there.
Well unless I am mistaken the current pope used to be the guy in charge of the coverups? Ergo the leadership of this organization knew about the cover ups and were somewhat involved with them.
And the pope did not just descend from heaven one day and get appointed pope, he would of worked his way up (at least I have never heard about the position being a hereditary one).
He would of held most of the positions of a priest and most likely worked in many churches in a variety of locations.
But the whole Catholic church cover up issue is not even so much that some priests are pedos. it is that the entire church is involved in shifting them around, covering up for them, and when needed flying them to Vatican city and putting them in a specially designated building for pedo priests fleeing the law.
I don't see how this could be considered bigoted, he did not even close to call all Catholics pedophiles just the old pope.
And it is a undeniable fact that at the very least he would of been aware of the cover ups of priest pedophiles.
The idea is great and is the way forward, allowing us to hold many more votes without it really costing anyone time or money (we could actually put ads on the voting site and make the country money if we needed to).
But with the huge concerns raised over electronic voting in the US where it appears moderately possible that that it has been used for fraud over there and at the very least that it would be easy to use for fraud if someone so desired i do not feel comfortable with this development.
The point I was trying to make was not wouldn't it be cool if it went down or not but instead that he has absolutely no chance of getting it to go down and I think he knows it.
He says he is serious, but unless there is something I am missing or Notch is an idiot he is not actually expecting them to agree. Supposedly Bethesda have a financial reason for suing Notch and for a actual business to engage in basically a game of chance (Quake 3 is not a game of chance but pitting two unknown team against each other in it is) to determine if they will go ahead with the suit or drop it is just irresponsible. And assuming that they are a corporation beholden to look after the best interests of their shareholders most likely an illegal act to boot.
now i hate Bethesda as much as anybody for pulling such a stupid move and I would not dislike Notch solving a disagreement with a match of Quake 3 (and would think him even more cool for doing so), but if he actually thinks that there is a possibility that they will accept or of this is just a publicity stunt (the only two possibilities, well then I think he is being kind of stupid.
You are right, all walls can be opened or closed.
But in my opinion it is not bad if a wall is closed to the public. If you go to some group facebook page you expect to see a neat relevant feed of posts not a bunch of randoms or trolls posting their random shit. There are places you can go to find customer reviews, and facebook is I site I would NOT suggest for this.
I don't know about the US or Firearms, but they don't card people for alcohol unless they look underage in Canada and I have never had to prove my identity to buy anything.
Companies are not people and therefore regulating them is not fascist (at least in my definition of the word).
And in the real world, in any non fascist state people are legally entitled to use pseudonyms in real life, so there are even potential legality reasons why companies should not be able to enforce this.
And for example how would you feel if next time you walked Walmart you were required to give them your birth certificate to verify your identity, which of course they turn around and sell the information from.
Oh, f**k you. You fascist.
And by the way.
Real Name: Jonathon Wisnoski
And I live in: Parkhill, Ontario, Canada.
I don't know how this would ever work on a laptop, or what this will mean for power supplies (probably have to double in size to realistically even use just a small percentage of your USB ports) but the ability to not plug in printers/other high power peripherals to the wall would be nice.
The goodness of a company is pretty much measured in growth, and well they have ready taken over most of the internet.
They simply cannot sustain the same growth rate as they are used to anymore because they are rapidly running out of places to grow into.
I have played Nexuiz, it is decent.
You always hear about games getting there source code officially released (with their art, etc remaining proprietary and the game still being a commercial product [which I assume is what this is]).
Who does this help? will anyone read through this code? Is it basically just for anyone enamoured enough with the original game to make mods/patches?
it is comforting to hear this while the rest of the world it trying to outlaw anonymity on the net.
Right after hundreds of top secret governments docs are leaked.
Well in the real world companies still do it, in fact I have personally been told to do this by my boss (and it can save a lot of time, hundreds of man hours in a small company is worth some danger).
And I have also fudged some software licences for work, and I know that tons of companies apparently pirate software all the time.
"[T]he tests were widely compromised and their answers were available for study through all-male networks such as college fraternities and Elks lodges"
Well unless the tests where knowingly leaked by someone in charge just to all male groups then that is not discrimination just apparent evidence that men cheat better.
Which actually could be a good skill in programming where taking some open source code and inserting in your program can speed up development time.
and for sys admins, well pirating can be a useful skill I suppose.
I find it weird that a test was actually looking for a unsocial person, but I could see productivity and a few other benefits for having a unsocial employee and as far as I know it is legal to discriminate on stuff like that.
Also the stats seem to be rather backwards to draw any real conclusions from, stats showing a large number of graduates and low employment in their field would be proper evidence that this discrimination is happening.
That is really interesting.
The biggest concern to most people I know is only how loud it will go.