Indeed. The 20-30 year olds of today's Ukraine are the children of the people who broke 45 years of dictatorship. The first generation to grow up in the newly won political freedom, in a society who believed in the wonders of Capitalism, and were encouraged to dismantle their industry so that everything would become better. Encouraged, partly by the West, partly by idealized illusions on how the West worked, to think of themselves and their own wealth first and foremost - if you worked hard and did not care about others *you* could get rich. It is not surprising that this generation doesn't really care. We taught them well.
Not to mention the added value to GNP by having us all purchase a console or two for gaming and a PC for work (not to mention a few televisions) instead of just one PC. The Crisis of Capitalism will be over! The only ones who can be against must be banker-commie-hippie-traitor-pirate-terrorist-cultist-atheist scum of the Earth.
What you are describing is censorship. I'm not sure about the US constitution, but where I live, censorship is against our constitution. We are allowed to *publish* anything we want, where ever we want, even if it is highly classified or illegal. However, the constitution does allow laws to be passed, that can punish you for publishing something prohibited. But neither the government, corporations or private citizens are allowed to stop you from publishing it.
Also it provokes a reaction from the government, and thereby shows to what lengths they will go to suppress it. That itself then becomes news.
... which, incidentally, makes it much more likely that news agencies will publish the stories, and that people will discuss it in their lunch-breaks or on (gasp) internet fora. If speech and media are free, the Streisand effect comes into play.
...I wanted to give the impression of a real last supper. You know, not just any old last supper. Not like a last meal or a final snack. But you know, I wanted to give the impression of a real mother of a blow-out, you know?
But there are a few gotchas when playing around with OpenGL in Linux (using the Redbook). As an example: Which packages do you need to install? A few years back, I tried it out, and discovered (to my great annoyance) that the nVidia drivers for my graphics cards only came with with headers for OpenGL v 1.0, even though the card supported OpenGL 2.1. The open source alternatives only supported OpenGL 1.3, but had other problems.
I actually could not help pondering that exact quote, particularly what it is missing. Those who wish to sacrifice the right to online privacy in order to make profits, such as the entertainment industry or advertisers; or to find and oppress dissidents for whatever reason.
Where I live, we would say 22nd May 1964 (it is not an English speaking country, so we did away with the commonly used "of"). Why is this format nice? Because it is consistent. Day is before month and month is before year.
Given that global warming is causing the tundra to melt, the methane is likely to end up in the atmosphere anyway. What the Chinese are suggesting is to get power from it, thereby reducing total emissions. Not only that: Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas, so getting carbon dioxide + water instead is pretty much a win-win.
A drivers licence is a permit to drive a car. So, if you want to drive a car, you should be able to produce your permit when asked. If you walk out the door, and go on a stroll, there should be no reason to be able to produce a drivers licence. The issue here is that you need a card holding a large quantity of very private information on you, just to take a job. Furthermore, this information will have to be gathered into a big database, which suggests that it could be misused by whatever authorities can gain access to it. And once the database is there, the authorities will try to get access to it, with or without a warrent. Not to mention future employers.
Given that I avoid Adobe and Apple programs for reasons of security (Adobe), performance (Adobe and Apple) and attempts to install all sorts of crap on my computer (Apple - it is news to me that Adobe is following suit), I would say that virtualXTC is not being a troll. VirtualXTC is simply stating the obvious.
Given that the asshole fled to Ireland and started a "new" firm, the interesting question is the extradition agreement between Ireland and Australia. Unfortunately, the link to the Australia-Ireland agreement on this page links to the Australia-Indonesia page...
There is another important source of the gap: Interaction with teachers and other students. Interaction with teachers gives you the benefit of having a more knowledgeable person review and comment your work, pointing out strengths and weaknesses. Interaction with students can give another perspective on the curriculum, making you note the portions you may have missed.
The point of using "an entire semester" is not to tell students what big O notation is all about, nor is is to show them a handful of common algorithms. The first point is to teach students how to analyze algorithms for a multitude of information. Aside from run-time complexity, you may also be interested in how much storage it uses, when and if it terminates, correctness, identify border cases (not identifying these can give you some quite spectacular bugs), all of which can be used to gauge if a given algorithm is appropriate for the task at hand. The second point is to show students a multitude of ways and techniques to solve a given problem on an abstract, which can be used to solve similar problems. This gives students a toolbox which can be used to devise new algorithms to solve other problems.
I'm sure physics geeks will be heartily debating the THEORETICAL correctness any minute now. After all, what else would they be doing on a saturday night
Ah, sorry, I misread the period you proposed... I got to pay more attention!
As such I agree that selective enforcement of a law is a bad thing. But if the law in itself is unjust and/or against basic democratic rights, it should never have been passed in the first place. It can and will be used for oppression of dissidents. The people you mention (Ghandi and Martin Luther King), are exactly the people the law in question are targeting.
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead... or stopped protesting the government. On a more serious note, why is it that governments and military seems to want to place weapons in the hands of robots? Yes, yes, it is easier to get a robot to fire on the "enemy" (particularly if that enemy is a civilian), but I would very much like to not have a cylon uprising, thank you very much. Asimov had a reason for building his fictional robots with his three laws of robotics. Yes, a bit naive, given how power structures work, but a good sort of naive.
Want to put a new party into power and replace the old Washington regime? That sounds like overthrowing to me.
Only if you skip the constitutional requirements for putting a new party into power. If you do so with arms rather than votes, then yes. Changes in government following lawful elections very clearly do not amount to an overthrow of the state.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security
Any law which isn't enforced and has no public record of ever having been enforced for a certain period of time, say 20 years or perhaps less, that the law in question simply is null and void.
So, if no one gets murdered for a 21 day period, murder becomes legal? Yes, sorry, but you walked right into that one;-)
In this particular case with the terrorist registration law, I have my doubts that such a law would ever be proven to be enforced and its only purpose is to expand and exaggerate sentences in an effort to stifle free speech. Simply asking a state officer to testify in court about how many people actually engaged in registration would be sufficient in this case to show non-enforcement of such a law.
What if this anti-free speech law were enforced? What if dissidents were arrested and put to jail? Or they just had a few people working with the registration? By your suggestion, it would still stand. In my opinion, the problem here is not if the law is enforced or not. The problem is that the law runs against the most basic democratic rights - the right to assemble with your peers, and the right to criticize the powers that be without fear of harassment.
There is a point there, but I doubt that the ratio of mod users were high enough for that to be a serious problem. It is also my gut feeling that most casual mod users install texture packs, body replacers or similar graphics mods.
I also do not agree with unmodded Oblivion being superior to unmodded Morrowind in almost all aspects. The graphics were nicer (particularly long distance rendering) and there were some gameplay improvements, such as casting spells with weapons equipped. There were more interesting quest lines in Morrowind - you even had a few real choices along the way. Morrowind also had an actual political infrastructure, where allying yourself with one faction would bar you from allying yourself with another faction. In fact, you *could* ally yourself with one of the factions. In Oblivion, you can be the guild master of all the guilds, and no one questions what the guild master of the fighters guild is doing for the assassins guild. And you can't sell out the thieves guild to the authorities...
There is a difference in indie and usermade content. Where indie content is usually made by a smaller publisher and sold for money, usermade mods are usually made by hobbyists and distributed for free (at least on the PC). I'm not familiar with Forza, but is the "in-game currency" used to purchase new skins purchased with real world currency, or is it something you get by playing the game? Or a little bit of both?
The second issue is around the restriction of modding, which I don't really see as being at all related to the spread of RPG elements. After all, RPGs are historically highly moddable, from their roots in the pen and paper market onwards. The Neverwinter Nights games were heavily marketed with their modability as a key selling point. However, there does seem to be a trend towards restriction of modding in some genres, including fpses. I think there are two drivers for this. The first, simply put, is a "hot coffee" reaction. As certain countries (eg. Germany and Australia) adopt wildly restrictive attitudes towards video game content, developers are naturally more paranoid about being criticised (or sued) for game content that was actually added or unlocked by a third party mod. The other cause is the desire to deliver a more consistent experience.
There is another reason to consider. While modding is a selling point, it is a selling point that has two drawbacks for the industry: 1) It extends the lifetime of the game, causing the gamer to purchase fewer games. An example is Morrowind that came out in 2001 and is still being modded. 2) Usermade content gives a free alternative to expansion packs and DLC, which may decrease sales. On the other hand, modding tools are likely to generate a larger and more active core of fans.
I think this stems from the console market.
As far as I know, console makers (MS and Sony, at least) hate usermade content on their consoles, making it diffcult (and against the EULA) to mod the games on their consoles.
Where did you get the idea that I thought Colonialism were a thing of the past? I commented on a post on Iraq, where the poster pointed out that
"A government can set up wherever it wants and, if sufficiently powerful, have its rules supersede local laws." That's usually known as "nation building" and we do it all the time.
where I noted that what some would call "nation building" in reality is Colonianism.
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Indeed. The 20-30 year olds of today's Ukraine are the children of the people who broke 45 years of dictatorship. The first generation to grow up in the newly won political freedom, in a society who believed in the wonders of Capitalism, and were encouraged to dismantle their industry so that everything would become better. Encouraged, partly by the West, partly by idealized illusions on how the West worked, to think of themselves and their own wealth first and foremost - if you worked hard and did not care about others *you* could get rich. It is not surprising that this generation doesn't really care. We taught them well.
Not to mention the added value to GNP by having us all purchase a console or two for gaming and a PC for work (not to mention a few televisions) instead of just one PC. The Crisis of Capitalism will be over! The only ones who can be against must be banker-commie-hippie-traitor-pirate-terrorist-cultist-atheist scum of the Earth.
What you are describing is censorship. I'm not sure about the US constitution, but where I live, censorship is against our constitution. We are allowed to *publish* anything we want, where ever we want, even if it is highly classified or illegal. However, the constitution does allow laws to be passed, that can punish you for publishing something prohibited. But neither the government, corporations or private citizens are allowed to stop you from publishing it.
Also it provokes a reaction from the government, and thereby shows to what lengths they will go to suppress it. That itself then becomes news.
... which, incidentally, makes it much more likely that news agencies will publish the stories, and that people will discuss it in their lunch-breaks or on (gasp) internet fora. If speech and media are free, the Streisand effect comes into play.
...I wanted to give the impression of a real last supper. You know, not just any old last supper. Not like a last meal or a final snack. But you know, I wanted to give the impression of a real mother of a blow-out, you know?
But there are a few gotchas when playing around with OpenGL in Linux (using the Redbook). As an example: Which packages do you need to install? A few years back, I tried it out, and discovered (to my great annoyance) that the nVidia drivers for my graphics cards only came with with headers for OpenGL v 1.0, even though the card supported OpenGL 2.1. The open source alternatives only supported OpenGL 1.3, but had other problems.
I actually could not help pondering that exact quote, particularly what it is missing. Those who wish to sacrifice the right to online privacy in order to make profits, such as the entertainment industry or advertisers; or to find and oppress dissidents for whatever reason.
Where I live, we would say 22nd May 1964 (it is not an English speaking country, so we did away with the commonly used "of"). Why is this format nice? Because it is consistent. Day is before month and month is before year.
Given that global warming is causing the tundra to melt, the methane is likely to end up in the atmosphere anyway. What the Chinese are suggesting is to get power from it, thereby reducing total emissions. Not only that: Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas, so getting carbon dioxide + water instead is pretty much a win-win.
A drivers licence is a permit to drive a car. So, if you want to drive a car, you should be able to produce your permit when asked. If you walk out the door, and go on a stroll, there should be no reason to be able to produce a drivers licence. The issue here is that you need a card holding a large quantity of very private information on you, just to take a job. Furthermore, this information will have to be gathered into a big database, which suggests that it could be misused by whatever authorities can gain access to it. And once the database is there, the authorities will try to get access to it, with or without a warrent. Not to mention future employers.
Outlawed in Europe in 2003 after some disturbing links to prostate and breast cancer surfaced
Sometimes it is great to live in Europe ... one less poison to worry about, 1e6 to go :-(
Given that I avoid Adobe and Apple programs for reasons of security (Adobe), performance (Adobe and Apple) and attempts to install all sorts of crap on my computer (Apple - it is news to me that Adobe is following suit), I would say that virtualXTC is not being a troll. VirtualXTC is simply stating the obvious.
Given that the asshole fled to Ireland and started a "new" firm, the interesting question is the extradition agreement between Ireland and Australia. Unfortunately, the link to the Australia-Ireland agreement on this page links to the Australia-Indonesia page ...
There is another important source of the gap: Interaction with teachers and other students. Interaction with teachers gives you the benefit of having a more knowledgeable person review and comment your work, pointing out strengths and weaknesses. Interaction with students can give another perspective on the curriculum, making you note the portions you may have missed.
The point of using "an entire semester" is not to tell students what big O notation is all about, nor is is to show them a handful of common algorithms. The first point is to teach students how to analyze algorithms for a multitude of information. Aside from run-time complexity, you may also be interested in how much storage it uses, when and if it terminates, correctness, identify border cases (not identifying these can give you some quite spectacular bugs), all of which can be used to gauge if a given algorithm is appropriate for the task at hand. The second point is to show students a multitude of ways and techniques to solve a given problem on an abstract, which can be used to solve similar problems. This gives students a toolbox which can be used to devise new algorithms to solve other problems.
I'm sure physics geeks will be heartily debating the THEORETICAL correctness any minute now. After all, what else would they be doing on a saturday night
Obligatory xkcd.
Ah, sorry, I misread the period you proposed ... I got to pay more attention!
As such I agree that selective enforcement of a law is a bad thing. But if the law in itself is unjust and/or against basic democratic rights, it should never have been passed in the first place. It can and will be used for oppression of dissidents. The people you mention (Ghandi and Martin Luther King), are exactly the people the law in question are targeting.
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead ... or stopped protesting the government. On a more serious note, why is it that governments and military seems to want to place weapons in the hands of robots? Yes, yes, it is easier to get a robot to fire on the "enemy" (particularly if that enemy is a civilian), but I would very much like to not have a cylon uprising, thank you very much. Asimov had a reason for building his fictional robots with his three laws of robotics. Yes, a bit naive, given how power structures work, but a good sort of naive.
Want to put a new party into power and replace the old Washington regime? That sounds like overthrowing to me.
Only if you skip the constitutional requirements for putting a new party into power. If you do so with arms rather than votes, then yes. Changes in government following lawful elections very clearly do not amount to an overthrow of the state.
I just can't help quoting the US Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security
Any law which isn't enforced and has no public record of ever having been enforced for a certain period of time, say 20 years or perhaps less, that the law in question simply is null and void.
So, if no one gets murdered for a 21 day period, murder becomes legal? Yes, sorry, but you walked right into that one ;-)
In this particular case with the terrorist registration law, I have my doubts that such a law would ever be proven to be enforced and its only purpose is to expand and exaggerate sentences in an effort to stifle free speech. Simply asking a state officer to testify in court about how many people actually engaged in registration would be sufficient in this case to show non-enforcement of such a law.
What if this anti-free speech law were enforced? What if dissidents were arrested and put to jail? Or they just had a few people working with the registration? By your suggestion, it would still stand. In my opinion, the problem here is not if the law is enforced or not. The problem is that the law runs against the most basic democratic rights - the right to assemble with your peers, and the right to criticize the powers that be without fear of harassment.
1. The school is projected to grow to 1500 pupils over the next few years
Where did you get that from? TFA only says that
In 2010, Albany SHS will move into new purpose-built premises, which include a dedicated server room
There is a point there, but I doubt that the ratio of mod users were high enough for that to be a serious problem. It is also my gut feeling that most casual mod users install texture packs, body replacers or similar graphics mods. I also do not agree with unmodded Oblivion being superior to unmodded Morrowind in almost all aspects. The graphics were nicer (particularly long distance rendering) and there were some gameplay improvements, such as casting spells with weapons equipped. There were more interesting quest lines in Morrowind - you even had a few real choices along the way. Morrowind also had an actual political infrastructure, where allying yourself with one faction would bar you from allying yourself with another faction. In fact, you *could* ally yourself with one of the factions. In Oblivion, you can be the guild master of all the guilds, and no one questions what the guild master of the fighters guild is doing for the assassins guild. And you can't sell out the thieves guild to the authorities ...
There is a difference in indie and usermade content. Where indie content is usually made by a smaller publisher and sold for money, usermade mods are usually made by hobbyists and distributed for free (at least on the PC). I'm not familiar with Forza, but is the "in-game currency" used to purchase new skins purchased with real world currency, or is it something you get by playing the game? Or a little bit of both?
The second issue is around the restriction of modding, which I don't really see as being at all related to the spread of RPG elements. After all, RPGs are historically highly moddable, from their roots in the pen and paper market onwards. The Neverwinter Nights games were heavily marketed with their modability as a key selling point. However, there does seem to be a trend towards restriction of modding in some genres, including fpses. I think there are two drivers for this. The first, simply put, is a "hot coffee" reaction. As certain countries (eg. Germany and Australia) adopt wildly restrictive attitudes towards video game content, developers are naturally more paranoid about being criticised (or sued) for game content that was actually added or unlocked by a third party mod. The other cause is the desire to deliver a more consistent experience.
There is another reason to consider. While modding is a selling point, it is a selling point that has two drawbacks for the industry: 1) It extends the lifetime of the game, causing the gamer to purchase fewer games. An example is Morrowind that came out in 2001 and is still being modded. 2) Usermade content gives a free alternative to expansion packs and DLC, which may decrease sales. On the other hand, modding tools are likely to generate a larger and more active core of fans.
I think this stems from the console market.
As far as I know, console makers (MS and Sony, at least) hate usermade content on their consoles, making it diffcult (and against the EULA) to mod the games on their consoles.
Where did you get the idea that I thought Colonialism were a thing of the past? I commented on a post on Iraq, where the poster pointed out that
"A government can set up wherever it wants and, if sufficiently powerful, have its rules supersede local laws." That's usually known as "nation building" and we do it all the time.
where I noted that what some would call "nation building" in reality is Colonianism.