This broken system is the best we've got. No reform and no revolution could change that.
You can't seriously believe that no reform or revolution could change it? You sound a bit like a loyalist during the American Revolution. There is always room for change when a people are repressed there is no ends to the progress they can achieve through upheaval and change either inside or if it's necessary outside the system.
And since when has it actually been natural selection. We meddle with selection all the time. We artificially select to allow a person with CF, MS, MD, Parkinson's, Cancer, Deadly stupidity (such as trying to ride a bike off a ladder from the third floor of a house. Why is this form of artificial selection ok but not ok to treat disease and design at a basic level? Not everyone likes blue eyes many people like brown or green or any odd shade. This selection only provides people with the characteristics in their child they most desire. If it allows them to take better care of the child because it's ideal how is this bad?
And it's over the moderate things that they compete as will google and wolfram however both should survive as they have the best in their niche markets.
Because copyright law has continually gotten fairer for the individual and there is not a single case of industry pushing for new legislation to strengthen the right holder's side of an an already extremely unbalanced system.
If you don't believe the system has changed that much then just look here
If you need to know exactly what changed here is the wikipedia article on the U.S. DMCA which was copied in one form or another by most other first world contries.
It's even gotten so extreme now that they have even passed a law to get the government to enforce what is basically a civil matter. Seen here
Nah just pop an old usb or the like and hook it up to that then hook up the usb port to a circuit that has too much power and you'll fry that thing in no time.
1,000,000 / 6,000,000,000 =.00016(repeating) (American styled decimals) or.016% I'm pretty sure that the amount of programmers in the world is greater than 1 one-hundredth of a percent of the total population.
First one is simple just put it in the agreement when you buy service.
Second is also most likely forbidden in the agreement.
Third one is probably going to happen at some point but it could also be used to twitter or IM "flight 717 has been hijacked somebody save us!!" albeit the same could happen and it be a prank.
They take 12 months to build because that's where the profit curve sets the resources(workers time parts). If you can supply infinite capital your ability to manufacture something will increase to a point that is limited only by physics itself. If you don't believe me look at world war II and see how the manufacturing of weapons increased by an incredible margin almost overnight. Money was being thrown at it very quickly and tanks and boats rolled off production very swiftly. If our entire communications/power infrastructure collapsed in one day don't you think most manufacturing plants capable of retooling would switch over to manufacturing the components required to replace it. The existing stocks would be used to facilitate manufacturing more. In the long run it would probably be good for our total power and economic infrastructure as useless trends would die away.
One's ability to read or write has very little to do with one's IQ. Although most IQ tests involve reading and writing there are comparative IQ tests that allow for certain inabilities to communicate. A proper IQ test probably would have shown your low ranking soldier to be of above average IQ in cognitive and reasoning abilities. While the over educated fool was most likely just an average person with a lot of schooling. Just because someone has take 16 years of school and has 2 doctorates does not mean that person is above average. It simply means that they were capable enough to complete the work. While a certain amount of education can be shown to increase cognitive and reasoning IQ it can have a negative impact on one's creative IQ or their ability to think outside the box.
I think you're drawing a false association here. While type 2 is generally manageable with increased exercise and a change in diet. The diets best suited for managing this illness are not a regular healthy diet one would expect for an average person but rather a modified diet with strictly controlled carb intake. A diet that is almost impossible to stick to without spending a great deal of money. As with a lot of common illnesses it's easy to suggest changed behaviors but nobody seems to be interested in facilitating the implementation of the changes.
As the wikipedia article points out type two is a tendency of cells to reject insulin. It is also an inherited genetic trait. While there are steps that can be taken to counteract it and help prevent onset many people are unable to counteract the negative effects of the disease by exercise and diet alone. I've known quite a few people who exercise regularly and eat well but still suffer from uncontrollable glucose levels.
You're right that many people are just lazy and do not exercise or eat right. However, assuming this is some kind of majority or that all or even a majority of type 2 sufferers are simply lazy is medically incorrect. While it is often referred to as non insulin dependent or adult onset diabetes this should not be assumed to mean that the illness is caused by patient inaction. Many times in my experience the visible onset is due to the decreased ability of the body to generate cells as a person ages genetic tendencies become more prevalent and new cell production no longer compensates for reduced insulin efficiencies.
Not all diabetes results from fat or unfit people. Pancreatic issues, kidney issues, and liver issues can all lead to erratic blood sugar levels. In addition hemoglobin issues and other blood related issues can lead to issues processing insulin. I know a person who is diabetic but is thinner and more active than even you probably are.
Not paying for that is like not paying for someone with nerve damage in their leg based on the assumption that they should have been more careful walking.
I was at a white elephant gift exchange two years back. I actually found an 8-track of the Partridge Family's greatest hits. I can't even begin to describe the look on the recipient's face...
Oh perhaps you haven't seen it before that look is called absolute horror.
That's laughable as an example SMB shipped with almost every NES and was sold on shelves there are tons of copies of that game and what console am I going to play said game on assuming I did purchase it? The consoles are no longer manufactured so supply has a finite limit.
Also you say people are too cheap if these people are the majority the people are not cheap the prices are just set too high the product is overvalued. And before you go on about how people are still buying them. The price point isn't so high as to be unavailable. It is however far too high to be optimal for the market. A non optimal price point in combination with a readily available alternative is a formula for failure. Software is a near infinite resource. I say near infinite because in this case the minimal price of stamping and man hours do set a minimum profit margin to break even. However this is significantly below the current price point.
The majority of games played on cracked wii consoles in my experience are NES SNES and Genesis games. Games created when it was about gameplay instead of about attaching basic controls to the newest graphics engine.
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Well I know a lot of people hate this but I'm going to answer your question with a question. What happens when a conventional spark plug gets sooty?
Achievement unlocked! you have watched your 10,000,000 hour of pr0n.
African or European.
Apparently there are too many species of african swallows for wolfram to answer.
However a European Swallow goes about that fast.
This broken system is the best we've got. No reform and no revolution could change that.
You can't seriously believe that no reform or revolution could change it? You sound a bit like a loyalist during the American Revolution. There is always room for change when a people are repressed there is no ends to the progress they can achieve through upheaval and change either inside or if it's necessary outside the system.
And since when has it actually been natural selection. We meddle with selection all the time. We artificially select to allow a person with CF, MS, MD, Parkinson's, Cancer, Deadly stupidity (such as trying to ride a bike off a ladder from the third floor of a house. Why is this form of artificial selection ok but not ok to treat disease and design at a basic level? Not everyone likes blue eyes many people like brown or green or any odd shade. This selection only provides people with the characteristics in their child they most desire. If it allows them to take better care of the child because it's ideal how is this bad?
And it's over the moderate things that they compete as will google and wolfram however both should survive as they have the best in their niche markets.
Because copyright law has continually gotten fairer for the individual and there is not a single case of industry pushing for new legislation to strengthen the right holder's side of an an already extremely unbalanced system.
If you don't believe the system has changed that much then just look here
If you need to know exactly what changed here is the wikipedia article on the U.S. DMCA which was copied in one form or another by most other first world contries.
It's even gotten so extreme now that they have even passed a law to get the government to enforce what is basically a civil matter. Seen here
Nah just pop an old usb or the like and hook it up to that then hook up the usb port to a circuit that has too much power and you'll fry that thing in no time.
1,000,000 / 6,000,000,000 = .00016(repeating) (American styled decimals) or .016% I'm pretty sure that the amount of programmers in the world is greater than 1 one-hundredth of a percent of the total population.
First one is simple just put it in the agreement when you buy service.
Second is also most likely forbidden in the agreement.
Third one is probably going to happen at some point but it could also be used to twitter or IM "flight 717 has been hijacked somebody save us!!" albeit the same could happen and it be a prank.
Actually, here in America, you don't have to "prove your innocence." You're presumed innocent, and it's up to the prosecution to prove you guilty.
That's a nice thought. I just wish it were true.
They take 12 months to build because that's where the profit curve sets the resources(workers time parts). If you can supply infinite capital your ability to manufacture something will increase to a point that is limited only by physics itself. If you don't believe me look at world war II and see how the manufacturing of weapons increased by an incredible margin almost overnight. Money was being thrown at it very quickly and tanks and boats rolled off production very swiftly. If our entire communications/power infrastructure collapsed in one day don't you think most manufacturing plants capable of retooling would switch over to manufacturing the components required to replace it. The existing stocks would be used to facilitate manufacturing more. In the long run it would probably be good for our total power and economic infrastructure as useless trends would die away.
One's ability to read or write has very little to do with one's IQ. Although most IQ tests involve reading and writing there are comparative IQ tests that allow for certain inabilities to communicate. A proper IQ test probably would have shown your low ranking soldier to be of above average IQ in cognitive and reasoning abilities. While the over educated fool was most likely just an average person with a lot of schooling. Just because someone has take 16 years of school and has 2 doctorates does not mean that person is above average. It simply means that they were capable enough to complete the work. While a certain amount of education can be shown to increase cognitive and reasoning IQ it can have a negative impact on one's creative IQ or their ability to think outside the box.
I think you're drawing a false association here. While type 2 is generally manageable with increased exercise and a change in diet. The diets best suited for managing this illness are not a regular healthy diet one would expect for an average person but rather a modified diet with strictly controlled carb intake. A diet that is almost impossible to stick to without spending a great deal of money. As with a lot of common illnesses it's easy to suggest changed behaviors but nobody seems to be interested in facilitating the implementation of the changes.
As the wikipedia article points out type two is a tendency of cells to reject insulin. It is also an inherited genetic trait. While there are steps that can be taken to counteract it and help prevent onset many people are unable to counteract the negative effects of the disease by exercise and diet alone. I've known quite a few people who exercise regularly and eat well but still suffer from uncontrollable glucose levels.
You're right that many people are just lazy and do not exercise or eat right. However, assuming this is some kind of majority or that all or even a majority of type 2 sufferers are simply lazy is medically incorrect. While it is often referred to as non insulin dependent or adult onset diabetes this should not be assumed to mean that the illness is caused by patient inaction. Many times in my experience the visible onset is due to the decreased ability of the body to generate cells as a person ages genetic tendencies become more prevalent and new cell production no longer compensates for reduced insulin efficiencies.
Not all diabetes results from fat or unfit people. Pancreatic issues, kidney issues, and liver issues can all lead to erratic blood sugar levels. In addition hemoglobin issues and other blood related issues can lead to issues processing insulin. I know a person who is diabetic but is thinner and more active than even you probably are.
Not paying for that is like not paying for someone with nerve damage in their leg based on the assumption that they should have been more careful walking.
I was at a white elephant gift exchange two years back. I actually found an 8-track of the Partridge Family's greatest hits. I can't even begin to describe the look on the recipient's face...
Oh perhaps you haven't seen it before that look is called absolute horror.
Most likely from here
They look like flying mice or rats so it sticks.
What do you blaim your inability to read the mandatory preview on?
I'm American, I don't have time to make sure I'm correct before spouting off at the mouth.
Fail for me on the quote brackets. I blame phpbb and bbcode for ruining my html posting skills.
[quote]The worm targets Apache Web server installations [/quote]
Apache while an important application is NOT Linux.
I have http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Char
Basically Yes.
Yeah atleast we're getting one more Diablo and Starcraft that's worth playing before they become part of the sequel machine.
That's laughable as an example SMB shipped with almost every NES and was sold on shelves there are tons of copies of that game and what console am I going to play said game on assuming I did purchase it? The consoles are no longer manufactured so supply has a finite limit.
Also you say people are too cheap if these people are the majority the people are not cheap the prices are just set too high the product is overvalued. And before you go on about how people are still buying them. The price point isn't so high as to be unavailable. It is however far too high to be optimal for the market. A non optimal price point in combination with a readily available alternative is a formula for failure. Software is a near infinite resource. I say near infinite because in this case the minimal price of stamping and man hours do set a minimum profit margin to break even. However this is significantly below the current price point.
The majority of games played on cracked wii consoles in my experience are NES SNES and Genesis games. Games created when it was about gameplay instead of about attaching basic controls to the newest graphics engine.