But that's the thing; you can't assume. In Canada, at least, there is no 'assumption' of permission; you're either explicitly given permission, or you simply do not have it.
Not having up protections is NOT legally the same thing as opening access to the public.
I can think of a few Kent State students who'd disagree.
Sweeping generalizations aside, though, I think you'd find the army as torn as the country would be, and you'd see soldier against soldier, unit against unit.
In other words, the Civil War would be, obviously, a better parallel than the War of Independence.
Exactly; at least it would keep things moving, keep people from camping individual mobs.
As was said, the basic problem is that money appears from nowhere and is dumped into the economy. In a real economy, this would cause massive inflation. But in a real economy with multiple currencies, this only devaulates the currency being flooded; other currencies would be fine.
Another fix, of course, would be for beasties to not carry money; if you wants to get paid, you gots to find work. Maybe that's bounties, maybe that's something else.
But then, most fantasy worlds can barely handle a single party of adventurers, let alone a planet full of them.
Fire School...are you a fireman? If so, then you'd have a better defense than Joe Schmuck.
Or do you think that looters, during a riot, can claim they're 'looking for people to warn?'
Incidently, in Canada, you'd be pretty safe; we have some nice 'good samaratin' laws that protect people who really are just trying to help. In the States, though....
If I leave my bicycle unattended and unchained, leaning up against a lamp post, in a public park, you do NOT assume 'oh, they left it here for anybody to use.' You assume 'stupid bugger's going to get his bicycle stolen.'
Well, you leave your WAP unsecured, you don't assume 'Hey, free for use.' You assume 'Stupid bugger's going to get his bandwidth stolen.'
Of course, an easy way to fix this would be for APs to have a 'I'm sharing this' flag, ships disabled by default, makes you jump through a hoop or two to enable, but then the AP explicitly says 'Hey, I'm free for the using.'
Those phone and power cables are just hanging out there in the open; doesn't mean I can leech off of them.
That bike just sitting by a tree, not even chained up, is NOT there, by default, for public use. Sure, the owner's an idiot for not chaining it up, but if I bugger off with it, it's still theft.
Well, the guy running an unsecured wireless network is an idiot, but it's not an open invitation for people to use his gear or his pipe.
Will we start seeing people running unsecured APs in obviously public areas be charged with 'maintaining an attractive nuisance?' Maybe; we probably should.
One, of course, would be to remove the concept of 'spawning.' Monsters would reproduce, there's be villages in the hinterland training warriors, producing crude weapons for them, and so on. Wipe out that goblin village, and you won't see many goblins around for a while.
The easier, and perhaps as good, would be to introduce multiple currencies. If all the goblins in the came carry GoblinBucks, but the merchants in town only take EverCard (accepted by more Merchants around the world) then you need to convert the currencies. If lots of newbies have been out whacking Goblins, well, GoblinBucks ain't worth so much all of the sudden.
Nah, you could just do a quick and dirty 'search and replace' on an Eliza script, and go from there.
Sexual Eliza: Hello, my name is Candi. What would you like me to do?
Customer: Strip for me, baby.
Sexual Eliza: I think you want me to strip for you. Why is that?
Customer: Oh, baby, cuz it's so hot.
Sexual Eliza: What is hot about strip for you?
My point is that at this point, very few people who drive SUVs should be; as far as I'm concerned, SUVs should be banned from the streets of most cities/towns.
And how, prey tell, is my statement revisionist? Do you deny the roles that LaFayette, Rochambeau and DeGrasse played in winning the War of Independence?
I'm Canadian, by the way. And yes, it is funny how that works. But if you want to claim that America is the sole reason a fifty year old war turned out the way it did, I'll point out that France a huge reason, if not the reason, a 250 year old war turned out the way it did.
That's because your roads look like they were built by the WinkyToy Corporation (TM). Six feet across, yay! It's difficult to drive a Ford Explorer in France without occasionally hitting houses. I know, I tried it once (well, truth be told it was a Ford Fiesta).
As opposed to the downtown US cities with the same problems?
Of course, if it wasn't for the warmongering uncouth americans you'd still be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Third Reich and your prime minister's last name would be Von Dickendorf. So please shut the fuck up.
And if it wasn't for the French, perhaps most notably M. LaFayette, you Americans would still be a British colony.
The problem with a screenshot is a) you'll see aliasing that you won't see on your average TV screen, and b) you don't see the motion; the animation goes a long way to making the characters seem more believable.
Actually, it tends to self contain due to it's rapid lethality.
But somebody could turn it into a nasty bioweapon simply by lengthing the incubation period; if you can communicate it for two weeks before onset of symptoms, you can infect a hell of a lot of people who will die three weeks later.
Yes, much like if you write a letter to Mom, and hand it to your brother as he heads out to the car to visit her, for delivery, you're not 'sticking it to the man' by dodging the price of a stamp.
I, for one, loved the game. It suffered from the 'you must die X times per level to figure out the One True Path' problem a few times, and some levels really were of the 'the AI will allow you to win randomly,' and at times it didn't make it too clear about what to do next, or how to beat a boss.
Overall, though I think it was worth playing; there were some wonderful little twists, you got to whomp on Trinity, and Matrix Reloaded makes much more sense after you play it.
Well, rational fear, and the fact that the USSR couldn't afford to keep lots of their missles in proper working order....
That's what scares me; if Osama gets his hands on a suitcase nuke, he's not going to hesitate to carve the heart out of a major American city. He doesn't care.
The Politburo wanted to stay in power. Hard to do when you're dead. The average al-Queda style religious terrorist, however, honestly believes that killing infidels earns them a place in Paradise.
I can think of two literary examples; Lord of the Flies and Stranger in a Strange Land. Read not if you don't wish spoilers.
The first, of course, is Lord of the Flies. My English teachers never quite understood the significance of the descriptions of the guns that the Naval officers were carrying, the weapons mounted on the boat; the only reason those kids got re-civilized is that somebody bigger came along.
The second is from Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land; Mike sees a big monkey beat on a medium size monkey, for fun, who then goes and beats on a little monkey, to assuage his ego. He then finally groks people.
And yet even He siezed the whip and cleaned out the temple...
I'll point out, though, that that phrase is taken out of context. Historically, if you smacked an inferior, you did it with the palm (as I recall.) By turning the cheek, they'd have to slap you backhanded, and thereby acknowledge you as an equal.
Similarly, 'if you are compelled to walk one mile, walk two' was due to regs in the Roman Legions which stated exactly what you could force your slaves to do; by doing more, you could get your owner into trouble.
Besides, it's alot easier to be passive when you're the Son of God.
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But that's the thing; you can't assume. In Canada, at least, there is no 'assumption' of permission; you're either explicitly given permission, or you simply do not have it.
Not having up protections is NOT legally the same thing as opening access to the public.
I can think of a few Kent State students who'd disagree.
Sweeping generalizations aside, though, I think you'd find the army as torn as the country would be, and you'd see soldier against soldier, unit against unit.
In other words, the Civil War would be, obviously, a better parallel than the War of Independence.
Exactly; at least it would keep things moving, keep people from camping individual mobs.
As was said, the basic problem is that money appears from nowhere and is dumped into the economy. In a real economy, this would cause massive inflation. But in a real economy with multiple currencies, this only devaulates the currency being flooded; other currencies would be fine.
Another fix, of course, would be for beasties to not carry money; if you wants to get paid, you gots to find work. Maybe that's bounties, maybe that's something else.
But then, most fantasy worlds can barely handle a single party of adventurers, let alone a planet full of them.
Fire School...are you a fireman? If so, then you'd have a better defense than Joe Schmuck.
Or do you think that looters, during a riot, can claim they're 'looking for people to warn?'
Incidently, in Canada, you'd be pretty safe; we have some nice 'good samaratin' laws that protect people who really are just trying to help. In the States, though....
That's got nothing to do with it.
If I leave my bicycle unattended and unchained, leaning up against a lamp post, in a public park, you do NOT assume 'oh, they left it here for anybody to use.' You assume 'stupid bugger's going to get his bicycle stolen.'
Well, you leave your WAP unsecured, you don't assume 'Hey, free for use.' You assume 'Stupid bugger's going to get his bandwidth stolen.'
Of course, an easy way to fix this would be for APs to have a 'I'm sharing this' flag, ships disabled by default, makes you jump through a hoop or two to enable, but then the AP explicitly says 'Hey, I'm free for the using.'
It could be that they tacked it on to implicitly absolve the owner of the unsecured AP from complicity.
Depends on where you are in the States; Toronto is Eastern Standard. So if you're in Texas, 11PM local to Toronto would be 10 PM.
Did he have the network owner's permission to use the network? No. Theft of communications.
He used somebody else's paid-for internet pipe.
Those phone and power cables are just hanging out there in the open; doesn't mean I can leech off of them.
That bike just sitting by a tree, not even chained up, is NOT there, by default, for public use. Sure, the owner's an idiot for not chaining it up, but if I bugger off with it, it's still theft.
Well, the guy running an unsecured wireless network is an idiot, but it's not an open invitation for people to use his gear or his pipe.
Will we start seeing people running unsecured APs in obviously public areas be charged with 'maintaining an attractive nuisance?' Maybe; we probably should.
Well, there's two ways to go about this.
One, of course, would be to remove the concept of 'spawning.' Monsters would reproduce, there's be villages in the hinterland training warriors, producing crude weapons for them, and so on. Wipe out that goblin village, and you won't see many goblins around for a while.
The easier, and perhaps as good, would be to introduce multiple currencies. If all the goblins in the came carry GoblinBucks, but the merchants in town only take EverCard (accepted by more Merchants around the world) then you need to convert the currencies. If lots of newbies have been out whacking Goblins, well, GoblinBucks ain't worth so much all of the sudden.
Nah, you could just do a quick and dirty 'search and replace' on an Eliza script, and go from there.
Sexual Eliza: Hello, my name is Candi. What would you like me to do?
Customer: Strip for me, baby.
Sexual Eliza: I think you want me to strip for you. Why is that?
Customer: Oh, baby, cuz it's so hot.
Sexual Eliza: What is hot about strip for you?
And so on....
No, the idea is that what's a hit song now would be a hit song two thousand years ago, only with different instruments.
Go find a really good Heavy or Progressive Metal guitarist, and unplug his distortion rig. Suddenly, you're hearing "classical" guitar.
Go take a Gregorian chant, add a base drum, an occasional cymbal crash, and have it sung by a throaty-voiced black woman, and you've got dance.
Go read a modern musical theory book, and you'll see a lot of Greek words; that ripping guitar solo is based on, say, the Dorian or Aeolian mode.
Jackson approved his likeness for SC5; he even did voice work. Granted, that voice work consisted of him going 'Woo!' but there it is.
My point is that at this point, very few people who drive SUVs should be; as far as I'm concerned, SUVs should be banned from the streets of most cities/towns.
And how, prey tell, is my statement revisionist? Do you deny the roles that LaFayette, Rochambeau and DeGrasse played in winning the War of Independence?
I'm Canadian, by the way. And yes, it is funny how that works. But if you want to claim that America is the sole reason a fifty year old war turned out the way it did, I'll point out that France a huge reason, if not the reason, a 250 year old war turned out the way it did.
As opposed to the downtown US cities with the same problems?
And if it wasn't for the French, perhaps most notably M. LaFayette, you Americans would still be a British colony.
Didn't the latest Rainbow 6 game on the Xbox do the 'use the headset as a headset,' and also let you give verbal commands to your AI squadmates?
The problem with a screenshot is a) you'll see aliasing that you won't see on your average TV screen, and b) you don't see the motion; the animation goes a long way to making the characters seem more believable.
Actually, it tends to self contain due to it's rapid lethality.
But somebody could turn it into a nasty bioweapon simply by lengthing the incubation period; if you can communicate it for two weeks before onset of symptoms, you can infect a hell of a lot of people who will die three weeks later.
Yes, much like if you write a letter to Mom, and hand it to your brother as he heads out to the car to visit her, for delivery, you're not 'sticking it to the man' by dodging the price of a stamp.
Oooh, tax evasion.
Yes, AFTER you've gone OUT OF YOUR WAY to ENABLE the guest account, which SHIPS DISABLED by DEFAULT.
I, for one, loved the game. It suffered from the 'you must die X times per level to figure out the One True Path' problem a few times, and some levels really were of the 'the AI will allow you to win randomly,' and at times it didn't make it too clear about what to do next, or how to beat a boss.
Overall, though I think it was worth playing; there were some wonderful little twists, you got to whomp on Trinity, and Matrix Reloaded makes much more sense after you play it.
Well, rational fear, and the fact that the USSR couldn't afford to keep lots of their missles in proper working order....
That's what scares me; if Osama gets his hands on a suitcase nuke, he's not going to hesitate to carve the heart out of a major American city. He doesn't care.
The Politburo wanted to stay in power. Hard to do when you're dead. The average al-Queda style religious terrorist, however, honestly believes that killing infidels earns them a place in Paradise.
Violence begets violence.
Pacifisim begets slavery.
I can think of two literary examples; Lord of the Flies and Stranger in a Strange Land. Read not if you don't wish spoilers.
The first, of course, is Lord of the Flies. My English teachers never quite understood the significance of the descriptions of the guns that the Naval officers were carrying, the weapons mounted on the boat; the only reason those kids got re-civilized is that somebody bigger came along.
The second is from Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land; Mike sees a big monkey beat on a medium size monkey, for fun, who then goes and beats on a little monkey, to assuage his ego. He then finally groks people.
And yet even He siezed the whip and cleaned out the temple...
I'll point out, though, that that phrase is taken out of context. Historically, if you smacked an inferior, you did it with the palm (as I recall.) By turning the cheek, they'd have to slap you backhanded, and thereby acknowledge you as an equal.
Similarly, 'if you are compelled to walk one mile, walk two' was due to regs in the Roman Legions which stated exactly what you could force your slaves to do; by doing more, you could get your owner into trouble.
Besides, it's alot easier to be passive when you're the Son of God.