It's a fun concept I like to toss around at people who seem to think that we can determine what ought to be done in matters that expressly moral. I usually see people throw out some is/ought fallacies ignoring that is/ought is a problem that comes about precisely because of the diversity of ethics and that they determine what is morally right.
With assisted suicide, for example, utilitarian ethics can hold that it should be both legal and illegal so which is right? That's just the moral right within a single school of ethics.
What is morally right is determined by your ethics and there are many systems of ethics. Because of that, in matters of morals what ought to be done and what is right cannot be determined for a group unless the entire group adheres to the exact same set of ethics.
Ignore the idiocy of actually making encrypted personal traffic illegal for a moment.
In the US, forcing someone to give up encryption codes is generally considered to run afoul of the self-incrimination principle.
How does this matter if utilizing encryption on web traffic is made illegal as a criminal offense? The simple act of using encryption is what is illegal and doesn't require you to give up passwords to prove guilt.
It would open them up to anti-trust lawsuit since they're using their majority market share in the search business to hurt competitors in the advertising market.
While an interesting theory about the virus, it's only affecting the site that handles the Predator and another class of drones. The site that handles the drone that was downed in Iran has not been affected by that virus.
And yes, the underside of the drone was hidden and is probably very badly damaged. At the very least you can see in the pictures of the drone that tape is covering the where the wings attach to the central part of the drone. It's very likely the wings cracked or came off at some point.
This no poaching agreements could be supportive of Free Market principles. By preventing companies from directly advertising jobs to a specific potential employee they have to make the job posting public and consequently open to more potentially employees. So instead of Apple directly soliciting a top engineer from Google with Google possibly being unaware of it a particularly savvy Google could see that Apple is looking for a new top engineer and they would be able to notice that one of their employees is at risk of leaving and thus adjust compensation for that employee to help retain him.
The agreement was not to solicit employees of the other company. All it means is that Apple can't advertise a job directly at a Google employee. It means they need to make a public job posting which the Google employee has to find and then apply for to switch companies.
The Costa Concordia has only been operating for 5.5 years and most cruise ships will run for at least 15 years (most ships are designed for a 30 year lifespan) with the purchasing company before they consider getting rid of them and since this accident is almost certainly going to be attributed to human error the insurance payout is going to be less than they would otherwise get.
So it's really going to be a question of whether the cost of righting her and getting her to a dry dock for repairs and the revenues from continued operation plus the revenue from selling her down the line will outstrip the gain the owning company is going to get from cutting her up for scrap. There is no way this ship is going to be willingly dumped into deeper water to serve as a reef wreck.
Slashdot doesn't need to participate in the blackout. The purpose of the blackout is to inform people about SOPA. The majority of Slashdot readers are already well informed about it so the only purpose of a blackout on Slashdot is to create a nuisance for the readers.
If you use USPS, sure, but most online retailers aren't shipping product to you via USPS and it probably would be considered some sort of tax evasion to establish a PO Box just to avoid unfavorable sales taxes.
Sounds like some BS to me. If we take the 80GB as the average monthly usage that leaves 170GB worth of new games you just bought on steam with a 250GB cap. 6GB is on the higher end for most game though there are a few take come in around 10GB. Most of the 10+GB games are probably $50 in normal pricing on Steam and chances are most of those weren't much lower than 33% off with 50% off being the cap. I'd say it's probably a pretty safe assumption that you likely spent well over $500, if not $750, on games you downloaded just to hit 170GB of games.
Zip+4 is used by the post office to designate high volume mail delivery regions and does not respect taxing districts. Additionally each PO box in the zip often has its own Zip+4 but tax rates are supposed to be structured off shipping address and PO boxes don't accept shipments.
Let's say you have an industrial park in a city but part of that industrial park sits in the county. For the purpose of mail delivery, that industrial park would get its own Zip+4 designation. However since the park lies partially in the city and partially in the county the tax rate for the park as a whole is not the same.
Zipcode is used to optimize mail delivery. Using it for any purpose outside of its designed purpose is at your own peril. The only way to correctly identify the proper taxing rates is to generate the longitude and latitude of the address and cross reference that against a database. That isn't the tough part. The tough part is maintaining the rates on these districts. You need staff to track and update all these districts. Amazon isn't going to arse themselves with creating a system to calculate tax rates AND paying the salaries of the people who are constantly collection this information by watching all the laws being passed by law-making bodies.
Zip+4 is mostly used to designate high volume regions of mail delivery. Let's say you have a commercial business business park. That entire park will probably be in the same zip code and have the same Zip+4. But if that development park is halfway in a city and halfway in the county you will have two different tax rates for that Zip+4.
Since there is a separation between the two AHs it means that anything worthwhile will be only available on the money AH and the regular AH will be littered with trash items that people are hoping to pawn off.
So to use D2 terms. You'd find mostly magic items and a few rares on the GoldAH. Sets and Uniques would only show on the RealMoneyAH. All runes and gems would show up there due to the conversion mechanic to upgrade. The low level stuff would be cheap as hell but with enough you can get the top end stuff. Anything which is a consumable will gravitate towards the RealMoneyAH.
So it will go the way of Duke Nukem Forever? People believe and believe in it and it never comes and then when they stop believing in it they release a big steaming pile of shit?
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It's a fun concept I like to toss around at people who seem to think that we can determine what ought to be done in matters that expressly moral. I usually see people throw out some is/ought fallacies ignoring that is/ought is a problem that comes about precisely because of the diversity of ethics and that they determine what is morally right.
With assisted suicide, for example, utilitarian ethics can hold that it should be both legal and illegal so which is right? That's just the moral right within a single school of ethics.
What is morally right is determined by your ethics and there are many systems of ethics. Because of that, in matters of morals what ought to be done and what is right cannot be determined for a group unless the entire group adheres to the exact same set of ethics.
The robots, zombies, and vikings are all waiting for their time to rise.
If anything I would suggest that robots have been starting their rise with the dubstep.
Ignore the idiocy of actually making encrypted personal traffic illegal for a moment.
In the US, forcing someone to give up encryption codes is generally considered to run afoul of the self-incrimination principle.
How does this matter if utilizing encryption on web traffic is made illegal as a criminal offense? The simple act of using encryption is what is illegal and doesn't require you to give up passwords to prove guilt.
It would open them up to anti-trust lawsuit since they're using their majority market share in the search business to hurt competitors in the advertising market.
While an interesting theory about the virus, it's only affecting the site that handles the Predator and another class of drones. The site that handles the drone that was downed in Iran has not been affected by that virus.
And yes, the underside of the drone was hidden and is probably very badly damaged. At the very least you can see in the pictures of the drone that tape is covering the where the wings attach to the central part of the drone. It's very likely the wings cracked or came off at some point.
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
This no poaching agreements could be supportive of Free Market principles. By preventing companies from directly advertising jobs to a specific potential employee they have to make the job posting public and consequently open to more potentially employees. So instead of Apple directly soliciting a top engineer from Google with Google possibly being unaware of it a particularly savvy Google could see that Apple is looking for a new top engineer and they would be able to notice that one of their employees is at risk of leaving and thus adjust compensation for that employee to help retain him.
The agreement was not to solicit employees of the other company. All it means is that Apple can't advertise a job directly at a Google employee. It means they need to make a public job posting which the Google employee has to find and then apply for to switch companies.
The Costa Concordia has only been operating for 5.5 years and most cruise ships will run for at least 15 years (most ships are designed for a 30 year lifespan) with the purchasing company before they consider getting rid of them and since this accident is almost certainly going to be attributed to human error the insurance payout is going to be less than they would otherwise get.
So it's really going to be a question of whether the cost of righting her and getting her to a dry dock for repairs and the revenues from continued operation plus the revenue from selling her down the line will outstrip the gain the owning company is going to get from cutting her up for scrap. There is no way this ship is going to be willingly dumped into deeper water to serve as a reef wreck.
Based on trends you may want to do it next year.
Slashdot doesn't need to participate in the blackout. The purpose of the blackout is to inform people about SOPA. The majority of Slashdot readers are already well informed about it so the only purpose of a blackout on Slashdot is to create a nuisance for the readers.
Wikipedia's blackout is circumvented by NoScript.
Would I ever purchase Skyrim on a console when the PC version allows mods, better graphics, etc? No.
Would you buy Skyrim on the PC over Console if Bethesda announced they would not release a devkit for user mods?
Did you condemn Rupert Murdoch for the News International phone hacking?
I hate lolcats. You have now convinced me to support SOPA.
If you use USPS, sure, but most online retailers aren't shipping product to you via USPS and it probably would be considered some sort of tax evasion to establish a PO Box just to avoid unfavorable sales taxes.
Godwin's law only holds that a odds of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler grow closer to 1.
It does not matter if the comparison is factual or not.
The penis is a three dimensional object. You'll only get enlargement on one axis....
Increase your vertical girth or your horizontal but not both.
The comparison is implied rather than explicit.
The Dutch who fought the Nazis in WW2 are now bending over for the media Nazis of the 21st century.
Sounds like some BS to me. If we take the 80GB as the average monthly usage that leaves 170GB worth of new games you just bought on steam with a 250GB cap. 6GB is on the higher end for most game though there are a few take come in around 10GB. Most of the 10+GB games are probably $50 in normal pricing on Steam and chances are most of those weren't much lower than 33% off with 50% off being the cap. I'd say it's probably a pretty safe assumption that you likely spent well over $500, if not $750, on games you downloaded just to hit 170GB of games.
Zip+4 is used by the post office to designate high volume mail delivery regions and does not respect taxing districts. Additionally each PO box in the zip often has its own Zip+4 but tax rates are supposed to be structured off shipping address and PO boxes don't accept shipments.
Let's say you have an industrial park in a city but part of that industrial park sits in the county. For the purpose of mail delivery, that industrial park would get its own Zip+4 designation. However since the park lies partially in the city and partially in the county the tax rate for the park as a whole is not the same.
Zipcode is used to optimize mail delivery. Using it for any purpose outside of its designed purpose is at your own peril. The only way to correctly identify the proper taxing rates is to generate the longitude and latitude of the address and cross reference that against a database. That isn't the tough part. The tough part is maintaining the rates on these districts. You need staff to track and update all these districts. Amazon isn't going to arse themselves with creating a system to calculate tax rates AND paying the salaries of the people who are constantly collection this information by watching all the laws being passed by law-making bodies.
Zip+4 is mostly used to designate high volume regions of mail delivery. Let's say you have a commercial business business park. That entire park will probably be in the same zip code and have the same Zip+4. But if that development park is halfway in a city and halfway in the county you will have two different tax rates for that Zip+4.
Since there is a separation between the two AHs it means that anything worthwhile will be only available on the money AH and the regular AH will be littered with trash items that people are hoping to pawn off.
So to use D2 terms. You'd find mostly magic items and a few rares on the GoldAH. Sets and Uniques would only show on the RealMoneyAH. All runes and gems would show up there due to the conversion mechanic to upgrade. The low level stuff would be cheap as hell but with enough you can get the top end stuff. Anything which is a consumable will gravitate towards the RealMoneyAH.
So it will go the way of Duke Nukem Forever? People believe and believe in it and it never comes and then when they stop believing in it they release a big steaming pile of shit?