Oh wow 50+ hours.. who the fuck cares. There's 168 hours in a week, the most you could possibly put in is 4.2 times the standard working week. Explain how anyone can possibly merit a salary hundreds or thousands of times that of their employees as a result of the effort they put in?
The "process" of choosing winners was what was broken, but you seem to be continually confusing this with the process of immigration control. Whether it is right or fair to restrict immigration is an entirely separate issue that has little to do with this decision.
There most definitely is an advantage in sniping, you yourself give an example of it. It's not just unbid items though, you will always have a chance of ending up better off if your opponents have no time to bid you up to your limit.
2) let's see, what makes more sense, a unit that is a combination of the SI power unit and a fairly well known unit of time, or an ambiguous abbreviation referring to an obsolete English energy unit?
3) Obviously people don't care enough about non-nuclear energy deaths, that's the whole reason for this stupid idea! And while it's tough to tie pollution deaths to a single source, it's pretty obvious to say that if we weren't using coal there would be a whole lot less cases of black lung.
2) terawatt years seems like a normal enough unit.. pretty obvious what it means to anyone with half a brain and a high-school physics education.
3) While we only use 0.5 terawatt-years of electricity per year, our total energy use counting fuel for transportation, farming, etc. is more like 10 times that amount. According to wikipedia, there were 6000 deaths just from coal mining in 2004... but as GP says, the main impact is the respiratory and other illnesses caused by the pollution from burning coal. The World Health Organization estimates that 800,000 people die each year from ozone and other chemicals in smog.
Obviously 50,000 people don't die from biofuels each year because they are only providing a miniscule fraction of our energy needs, but if you could somehow scale them up that is the kind of death rate you might expect.
Why don't you go read A Deepness in the Sky.
Even Vernor Vinge, one of the most visionary scifi authors, doesn't see space-based civilization as plausible.
Those of us who know anything about physics can also see that ideas like these are a ludicrous waste of resources.
As the Culture puts it, "money is a sign of poverty."
This could be technological or resource poverty which leaves peoples basic needs unfilled, or spiritual poverty which leads them to desire more than they need or is good for their society.
As a slaveholder, I'd prefer that negroes not be allowed to run away from their masters. You might disagree, and think that other people's property should be "free", but it doesn't make you a good guy.
Yes but you could just use a 90 watt short lifetime bulb instead and get the same lumens...
If your electricity costs a fairly cheap $0.15/KWH, then the short life bulb will save you almost 90 cents in electricity cost before it burns out.
So if you can find your incandescents for less than about $1 apiece (not hard to do), it makes no sense to buy long-life bulbs.
Noone thinks that this App Store is going to replace traditional distribution for things like Photoshop or AAA games.
But the Apple market for small utilities and indie games is still very similar to the old PC shareware market of the early 90s and this is what will be changed by an influx of cheap app developers.
Pretty much any utility which has a freeware equivalent on Windows or an open-source counterpart on linux has some guy (sucessfully!) charging money for it on the Mac.
Just as the default expectation of a linux app is that it is open-source, the default expectation on the Apple side is that it will cost you upwards of $20. This has been possible because the developer pool lacks competition and Mac buyers are used to paying a premium. This is what the App Store will hopefully provide some price pressure on.
Daniel 7:13-14
In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.
He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
Mark 14:61-62:
But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
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Oh wow 50+ hours.. who the fuck cares. There's 168 hours in a week, the most you could possibly put in is 4.2 times the standard working week. Explain how anyone can possibly merit a salary hundreds or thousands of times that of their employees as a result of the effort they put in?
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well dumbass, maybe you should go back to elementary school and learn some arithmetic.
He gave you the average and the number of guesses averaged over, with those it is quite simple to recalculate the average with one guess removed.
learn to communicate like a human being - p.s. 'context' is not a meaningful physics term.
I think the cause may be the gravitational influence of your balls, since you must have big brass ones to be repeatedly posting such drivel.
jackass, the extra needed 'context' they are referring to is referenced in your own post: the current velocity.
If it was that easy, the defense would just leak the emails themselves... bringing more public attention to this cannot be a bad thing.
You keep repeating this but offer nothing to support your assertion.
The "process" of choosing winners was what was broken, but you seem to be continually confusing this with the process of immigration control. Whether it is right or fair to restrict immigration is an entirely separate issue that has little to do with this decision.
There most definitely is an advantage in sniping, you yourself give an example of it. It's not just unbid items though, you will always have a chance of ending up better off if your opponents have no time to bid you up to your limit.
what a retard you are.. which is it, are they cowards or are they putting themselves in danger assface?
actually you can.. have you ever heard of paparazzi?
1) gee i don't know, lmgtfy.
2) let's see, what makes more sense, a unit that is a combination of the SI power unit and a fairly well known unit of time, or an ambiguous abbreviation referring to an obsolete English energy unit?
3) Obviously people don't care enough about non-nuclear energy deaths, that's the whole reason for this stupid idea! And while it's tough to tie pollution deaths to a single source, it's pretty obvious to say that if we weren't using coal there would be a whole lot less cases of black lung.
1) Look it up yourself you lazy ass.
2) terawatt years seems like a normal enough unit.. pretty obvious what it means to anyone with half a brain and a high-school physics education.
3) While we only use 0.5 terawatt-years of electricity per year, our total energy use counting fuel for transportation, farming, etc. is more like 10 times that amount. According to wikipedia, there were 6000 deaths just from coal mining in 2004... but as GP says, the main impact is the respiratory and other illnesses caused by the pollution from burning coal. The World Health Organization estimates that 800,000 people die each year from ozone and other chemicals in smog.
Obviously 50,000 people don't die from biofuels each year because they are only providing a miniscule fraction of our energy needs, but if you could somehow scale them up that is the kind of death rate you might expect.
just because we understand it does not obligate us to educate every moron spewing complete drivel.
take some initiative and educate yourself. and shut up until you do.
Why don't you go read A Deepness in the Sky.
Even Vernor Vinge, one of the most visionary scifi authors, doesn't see space-based civilization as plausible.
Those of us who know anything about physics can also see that ideas like these are a ludicrous waste of resources.
Did you see the part where that happened in the UK?
I provided the link, I provided the sentence, nothing selective about it.
The quote concerns proprietary software, not custom software, he does make the distinction.
maybe not selective, but still pretty douchey of you.
As the Culture puts it, "money is a sign of poverty." This could be technological or resource poverty which leaves peoples basic needs unfilled, or spiritual poverty which leads them to desire more than they need or is good for their society.
yes analogous. suck my cock fascist
As a slaveholder, I'd prefer that negroes not be allowed to run away from their masters. You might disagree, and think that other people's property should be "free", but it doesn't make you a good guy.
Yes but you could just use a 90 watt short lifetime bulb instead and get the same lumens... If your electricity costs a fairly cheap $0.15/KWH, then the short life bulb will save you almost 90 cents in electricity cost before it burns out. So if you can find your incandescents for less than about $1 apiece (not hard to do), it makes no sense to buy long-life bulbs.
um yeah a 25% failure rate against random attacks is really a great success...
Noone thinks that this App Store is going to replace traditional distribution for things like Photoshop or AAA games.
But the Apple market for small utilities and indie games is still very similar to the old PC shareware market of the early 90s and this is what will be changed by an influx of cheap app developers.
Pretty much any utility which has a freeware equivalent on Windows or an open-source counterpart on linux has some guy (sucessfully!) charging money for it on the Mac.
Just as the default expectation of a linux app is that it is open-source, the default expectation on the Apple side is that it will cost you upwards of $20. This has been possible because the developer pool lacks competition and Mac buyers are used to paying a premium. This is what the App Store will hopefully provide some price pressure on.
Daniel 7:13-14
In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.
He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
Mark 14:61-62:
But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.