You don't get businesses without those things - you get feudal warlords.
Or sharecropping. Or 14 hour/day, seven day/week work hours. Or child labour. Or mangled workers due to zero safety measures. Or company stores. Or Boss Hogg.
So libertarianism actively promotes segregation and stratification? Private institutions have an absolute right to deny attendance or membership arbitrarily, or a de facto right if they happen to be in sync with current societal mores?
If this were the case, Brown V Board of Education would have ended with, what, a Judge saying 'Let the kids go to school' and the local militia refusing to enforce it?
Or maybe, just maybe, every game will be compatible with the XBone, but when run in an XBone.5, will use prettier shaders, or better textures, or different models, or something along those lines.
Maybe, just maybe, it'll be like pretty much every video game ever on the PC, which can increase or decrease quality in exchange for performance.
Imagine a person. This person likes to swim. But when he's swimming, he often likes to shit in the pool.
So one day, he jumps in a pool. He shits the pool. The pool now has APSS: Acquired Pool Shitter Syndrome.
One day, the guy jumps into another pool. This pool just happens to have a certain pool cleaning chemical that, somehow, prevents him from shitting in the pool. But he's still in the pool, and might migrate to other pools in the sports complex. This pool has PSG: Pool Shitter Guy.
So, this pool is PSG positive, but doesn't have full-blown APSS.
Oh, I applaud the authors for a) recognizing a market, and b) taking advantage of it. It's 'good literature' if somebody reads and enjoys it.
But one should also recognize it for what it is, which in many cases, is 'mass-market entertainment,' which will eventually fade into obscurity.
You can't even say 'good writer.' You mention Mil SF. I absolutely love the Empire of Man series by John Ringo, but some of his other mass-market books really should have landed him in jail by now, as they're out-and-out child pornography.
Well, when you get right down to it, any work of fiction is probably either some form of 'wish fufillment' or purposeful 'wish denial.'
Either good things, or expected things, happen, like in, say, Star Wars: lessons are learned, bad guys are defeated, justice is promoted, or good things specifically don't happen, like, in, say, Empire Strikes Back: good guys lost, evil ascendant, plans in ruins.
However, it's one thing when 'John came up with an idea that somehow nobody else had in 75 years, rather obvious in hindsight, and proceeded to win most coolly;' done well, it's Chekov's gun and you get that most hated of terms, the 'payoff'. Done poorly, it's hack writing.
When it's a first person, 'I hated what these adults are doing to me, and I suddenly came up with a glorious and cool plan that nobody had ever thought of, and it worked so perfectly, and now two hot guys are fighting over me, and all my friends want to be me, and the adults all look like idiots,' well, it's on a whole other level.
If the kids are enjoying it, however, more power to them, and more power to the authors.
Sorry, didn't mean to be snooty at all. You're absolutely correct that as in any literary field, there are geniuses, and there are hacks.
Never-the-less, the teen-oriented fiction is currently dominated by first-person self-insert characters who get things done, often actively despite bumbling adult interference, or malign adult intentions.
I say this as somebody that puts Battlefield: Earth up there as classic rollicking good fun reading beside Heinlein and Asimov.
The funny and good version of this prank is to drop the dummy, replace it with the actor, who gets up, stretches and ambles off when the mark looks to see what happened. "Oh, man, that could have SUCKED. *hobble hobble*"
It's what sells to the teen crowd. Bonus points if it's written in first person with a very generic PoV character that the reader can insert themselves into.
I've often said that the only reason people are anti-vaccine in this day and age is because they didn't grow up watching their siblings or friends go through polio, dying of measles, being sterilized by mumps, and so on.
Perhaps the class should include a working example of an iron lung?
Or look at it this way. You have 350,000 people using an older method. Say self-monitoring and injection.
How many of them die due to failure to correctly self-monitor and medicate? Maybe it's 700. Hooray, you've just cut the fatality rate in half.
I remember one of my daughter's friends was diagnosed with childhood diabetes recently. She had to spend six months performing the testing and self-medicating regimine before they fit her with any kind of pump, so she'd know how to do it, what to watch out for, and so on.
I forget the legal term, but she's clearly trying to conflate her running and Google in the minds of voters, or at the very least, to claim that they're endorsing her.
By that "logic," every car sold in the US of A should have a mechanically-enforced top speed of 60 mph, LET ALONE that attractive nuisance of a speedometer, which is just DARING you to see if you can get the needle to peg out.
This has existed for a while. The tongue-in-cheek term for it is 'rubber hose encryption,' the idea being that you have something to give up when you're being beaten with a rubber hose.
Sorry, but I am not your personal Google monkey. Pay me for my time, or go do your own research.
Actually, the correct answer is 'No, I cannot reference anything Microsoft has ever said that would indicate that it was a universal, automatic thing for every title. They've always made it clear that it was exactly the opposite.'
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Probably. I forgot to include 'workers falling into the sausage making vats, and hey, cost of materials just went down.'
Or sharecropping. Or 14 hour/day, seven day/week work hours. Or child labour. Or mangled workers due to zero safety measures. Or company stores. Or Boss Hogg.
Isn't the law supposed to be highly technical? Not open to ambiguous interpretation, or moral/ethical arguments?
So libertarianism actively promotes segregation and stratification? Private institutions have an absolute right to deny attendance or membership arbitrarily, or a de facto right if they happen to be in sync with current societal mores?
If this were the case, Brown V Board of Education would have ended with, what, a Judge saying 'Let the kids go to school' and the local militia refusing to enforce it?
Cry for Fallout: New Vegas.
Or maybe, just maybe, every game will be compatible with the XBone, but when run in an XBone.5, will use prettier shaders, or better textures, or different models, or something along those lines.
Maybe, just maybe, it'll be like pretty much every video game ever on the PC, which can increase or decrease quality in exchange for performance.
And what they really mean is 'the most practical advice is to dismiss outright any conclusion wrung from a polygraph.'
Oh hey, the ad-removal checkbox for good karma went away. I didn't notice, because it hasn't worked for years. If it ever did.
Imagine a person. This person likes to swim. But when he's swimming, he often likes to shit in the pool.
So one day, he jumps in a pool. He shits the pool. The pool now has APSS: Acquired Pool Shitter Syndrome.
One day, the guy jumps into another pool. This pool just happens to have a certain pool cleaning chemical that, somehow, prevents him from shitting in the pool. But he's still in the pool, and might migrate to other pools in the sports complex. This pool has PSG: Pool Shitter Guy.
So, this pool is PSG positive, but doesn't have full-blown APSS.
Oh, I applaud the authors for a) recognizing a market, and b) taking advantage of it. It's 'good literature' if somebody reads and enjoys it.
But one should also recognize it for what it is, which in many cases, is 'mass-market entertainment,' which will eventually fade into obscurity.
You can't even say 'good writer.' You mention Mil SF. I absolutely love the Empire of Man series by John Ringo, but some of his other mass-market books really should have landed him in jail by now, as they're out-and-out child pornography.
Well, when you get right down to it, any work of fiction is probably either some form of 'wish fufillment' or purposeful 'wish denial.'
Either good things, or expected things, happen, like in, say, Star Wars: lessons are learned, bad guys are defeated, justice is promoted, or good things specifically don't happen, like, in, say, Empire Strikes Back: good guys lost, evil ascendant, plans in ruins.
However, it's one thing when 'John came up with an idea that somehow nobody else had in 75 years, rather obvious in hindsight, and proceeded to win most coolly;' done well, it's Chekov's gun and you get that most hated of terms, the 'payoff'. Done poorly, it's hack writing.
When it's a first person, 'I hated what these adults are doing to me, and I suddenly came up with a glorious and cool plan that nobody had ever thought of, and it worked so perfectly, and now two hot guys are fighting over me, and all my friends want to be me, and the adults all look like idiots,' well, it's on a whole other level.
If the kids are enjoying it, however, more power to them, and more power to the authors.
Sorry, didn't mean to be snooty at all. You're absolutely correct that as in any literary field, there are geniuses, and there are hacks.
Never-the-less, the teen-oriented fiction is currently dominated by first-person self-insert characters who get things done, often actively despite bumbling adult interference, or malign adult intentions.
I say this as somebody that puts Battlefield: Earth up there as classic rollicking good fun reading beside Heinlein and Asimov.
The funny and good version of this prank is to drop the dummy, replace it with the actor, who gets up, stretches and ambles off when the mark looks to see what happened. "Oh, man, that could have SUCKED. *hobble hobble*"
It's what sells to the teen crowd. Bonus points if it's written in first person with a very generic PoV character that the reader can insert themselves into.
Three points:
10 to the sixth, which I assume is what 10(6) means, is 1 in a million. 1 in a million would be 2.22 in 222 million. Better than 15 of 222 million.
Odds of getting the disease naturally were so low *because of vaccination.* What were the rates in the 50s?
This isn't 1978. What are the current rates of polio caused by vaccinations?
I've often said that the only reason people are anti-vaccine in this day and age is because they didn't grow up watching their siblings or friends go through polio, dying of measles, being sterilized by mumps, and so on.
Perhaps the class should include a working example of an iron lung?
Or look at it this way. You have 350,000 people using an older method. Say self-monitoring and injection.
How many of them die due to failure to correctly self-monitor and medicate? Maybe it's 700. Hooray, you've just cut the fatality rate in half.
I remember one of my daughter's friends was diagnosed with childhood diabetes recently. She had to spend six months performing the testing and self-medicating regimine before they fit her with any kind of pump, so she'd know how to do it, what to watch out for, and so on.
I forget the legal term, but she's clearly trying to conflate her running and Google in the minds of voters, or at the very least, to claim that they're endorsing her.
False color something , maybe?
By that "logic," every car sold in the US of A should have a mechanically-enforced top speed of 60 mph, LET ALONE that attractive nuisance of a speedometer, which is just DARING you to see if you can get the needle to peg out.
What do you think 'yogurt' is, let alone 'probiotic' yogurt? Or probiotic pills?
Also, given that Howard Dean's very promising run was killed by a single sound bite....
This has existed for a while. The tongue-in-cheek term for it is 'rubber hose encryption,' the idea being that you have something to give up when you're being beaten with a rubber hose.
Actually, the correct answer is 'No, I cannot reference anything Microsoft has ever said that would indicate that it was a universal, automatic thing for every title. They've always made it clear that it was exactly the opposite.'
Marge: (mumbles to herself with eyes closed.)
Psychologist #2: Excuse me, what are you doing?
Marge: Oh, I was just praying to God that you'll find me sane.
Psychologist #2: I see. And this "God", is he in this room right now?
Marge: Oh, yes, he's kind of everywhere.
Psychologist #1: Marge Simpson, you give us no choice but to declare you utterly...
Marge: I'm not insane!
Psychologist #1: You didn't let me finish. - insane!
Marge: [jumps out the window in panic then gets up like nothing happened] I'm not insane.