The only way to defeat terrorism is to talk to terrorists
Okay, so I want your home, what's on your bank account, everything you own, right now. Or else I will become a terrorist.
talk to the terrorists
I'm willing to negotiate, but I have one precondition. Give me all you have, right now. If you don't do it, that's because you are not willing to negotiate. And if you don't want to negotiate that fully justifies me into becoming a terrorist.
you instantly have the support of the rational world behind you
You may have the support of the rational world, bu *I* am not rational. Give me what I want right now, or I will become a terrorist.
People who use terror in their arguments only understand the language of terror, therefore unless you terrorize them, you cannot talk to them.
the next year will be all about memorization of the necessary facts which will get her to pass the Virginia "Standards Of Learning" (yes, they really call them the SOLs) exam at year end
In my school years during the 1960s we had to memorize the mountains of Asia, rivers of Africa, which king in Europe started which war, etc.
I can't believe anyone still tries to bring up the old "human eye doesn't see beyond 30fps so anything higher is useless" mantra. It has been debunked a hundred times.
I can't believe anyone has seen a spoked wheel in a movie and never wondered why it rotates backwards.
This "debunking" shown in your first link is not showing the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps. Considering the fourfold symmetry of the rotating square, what it's actually demonstrating is that 7.5 fps looks choppier than 15 fps.
There will always exist some particular geometries that will appear choppy at any frame rate. The right way to make it smooth is not by increasing the frame rate, but by motion blur.
As for your second link, it proves exactly the opposite of what it meant to: there's no practical difference between 24 fps and 60 fps. They are using the same arguments audiophiles use to justify paying $500 for a network cable: I have eyes/ears that are so much more accurate than yours that I wouldn't be satisfied with that cheap gear you use.
I wonder if this card is faster than all the Voodoo2s sold put together?
Who knows, but that's not of the essence. Unfortunately, computer games have gone the way of Hollywood movies, all glitter and no substance.
My favorite game genres are adventure games and car simulations. Ten years ago i used to play the Need for Spped - Porshce game and I still have to see a similar game that's as fun for the casual gamer.
Racing games today have much better graphics, the cars look almost like photographs, but they aren't fun to drive. Either they have no physics engine at all, they are arcade games meant to be played with a gamepad, like the Need for Speed games since "Underground", or they are like Richard Burns Rally, so hard to play it starts looking like work.
As for adventure games, the golden age of 1990s is gone. There were EGA or VGA games like Space Quest and Monkey Island that were so fun to play and have no modern successors.
It's a pity that the availability of so much visual power seems to have derailed the creativity from making fun games to enhanced visual effects.
Funny, I've heard of playwright, composer, director, actor and singer Noël Coward, but never about this director named Anonymous Coward.
I was told by a distributor nearly ten years ago that my first film was selling side by side with 100 million dollar films in Malaysia for a $1 a copy
That's good marketing research, now you know the price the public is willing to pay.
Actual ticket sales have been falling for years. Increased ticket prices have somewhat offset the drop but they've maxed out what people will pay for tickets so over the next few years
There, you've said it: they've maxed out what people will pay for tickets. Try selling tickets for the same $1 they charge in Southeast Asia.
The high cost of tickets is what's costing you spectators, not unauthorized copies or downloads. At the current price of tickets, people simply wouldn't watch those movies if they didn't have the option to get the DVD from a street vendor or download the torrent.
George Lucas was dead on when he said by 2025 the average studio budget will drop back to 3 million dollars per film. That's more like what it was when he started out and that's without adjusting dollars
When George Lucas started special effects needed teams of carpenters, mechanics, painters, electricians, etc. Every time a camera was used there was the additional cost of film development. Editing was done with razor blades and glue. Sound effects needed special studios and labs.
Except for managers, the cost of filmmaking has gone *down* in absolute dollars since 1971.
it's the potential that data holds that makes it so valuable and necessary
What matters is the cost/benefit ratio.
The potential for the data being valuable may be very low, but the cost of storing it is going down all the time. Disk space today is a dime a gigabyte, so let's keep it just in case.
See that FBI/INTERPOL message in the front of every video or DVD? When you copy it, you're making a risk assessment that if you get caught they're not going to put the full weight of the statutory limit against you
Yes, I see that -- unconstitutional -- message. In essence, what the statutory limit says is that, if I get caught I have to pay for all those who weren't caught.
It's like if the highway patrol said, "we will only catch one in a million speeder, but he will have to pay for all the million speeders we didn't catch".
If I have one copy of a song, all the damage i have caused to the copyright owner is the lowest cost at which I could have got that song. Incidentally, for most songs this cost is zero, since they are available on the radio. Radio is paid by advertisement, and advertisement cost is bundled into the price of every product I buy.
However, let's ignore that and assume that I couldn't have listened to that song in the radio, the price I would have had to pay would still be $1 or $2 at most. If a thousand other people downloaded, well, sue them and get $1 or $2 from each.
Either haul one person to court and make them pay these huge fines, and indemnify the rest of the people from prosecution for that infringement. Or try each person in court for their single infringement
I think the US Constitution would not let one person pay for all the others. "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Even if we disregard the "excessive fines" part, if just one person is punished that would certainly be an "unusual" punishment.
IMHO the best way to do this would be to pay everyone a certain sum per month, enough to live on
Then who would work to create all the stuff everyone needs?
If everyone got paid the minimum needed to live on, no one would want to work for minimum wage. Which means that wages would have to be raised even for the simplest jobs. But that would make it more expensive to live on, so everybody would need to be paid more. And wages would have to be raised again...
A socially benevolent government works for rich countries because they import low cost raw materials and export high priced products and services. It wouldn't work worldwide, at least not until artificial intelligence has advanced enough to let machines do all the jobs that people find uninteresting.
I have been seeing stories like these for several years. Although this situation is clearly undesirable, I have still to see anyone proposing a realistic alternative. The bottom line is doing proper recycling costs money, people do not want to pay.
To take something apart and separate the elements used in its construction may cost more than putting it together. Who wants to pay twice the price for anything?
The market pressure is all against any environmentally and safe recycling. The biggest part of most electronic equipment is plastic with very low value as scrap. Fiberglass, for instance, is nearly worthless, what could anyone possibly do with the fiberglass from an old circuit board? This fiberglass is mixed with small but significant amounts of lead, how would you remove the lead before sending the fiberglass to a landfill?
The market isn't working? OK, but would the government work either? Try telling people that their $50 phone will have a $100 tax added for properly recycling it.
For this story we can look at it another way, and see that toxoplasmosis mortality shows the final four in this year's world cup should be Brazil, USA, Mexico and South Africa. Obviously that didn't happen, so this story is wrong.
Wait, you should look further. The four finalists are Spain, Netherlands, Germany, and Uruguay.
Uruguay lost to Netherlands today, which is consistent with them being in the last place in the list you linked. Netherlands won, which means the worst place they will get in this cup is second, also consistent with that list.
That leaves tomorrow's game, Spain vs. Germany. Spain had three deaths, Germany only one, which means tomorrow Spain will defeat Germany and will also defeat Netherlands in the final match. In the match for third place Germany will defeat Uruguay.
So, what if next sunday the results are 1 - Spain, 2 - Netherlands, 3 - Germany, 4 - Uruguay? Well, AFAIK today, I'd bet on 1 - Germany, 2 - Netherlands, 3 - Spain, 4 - Uruguay.
Last time I upgraded my computer I put a motherboard that didn't have an IDE interface and my DVD drive was IDE. I was thinking of getting a SATA drive, but then I realized I had no real need for it.
I'm anti-segregation but I oppose gay rights, at least how they are being proposed.
I have nothing against someone being homosexual, and I think homosexuals should not be harassed. However, what usually goes into "gay rights" legislation is not limited to protecting them from harassment. The proposals generally include giving to gay couples benefits that were meant for families with children.
A woman often has to make some sacrifices in her profession when she chooses to raise children, and those sacrifices should have some compensation. I see no reason to give a homosexual companion the same benefits that are given to someone who is raising a family.
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Okay, so I want your home, what's on your bank account, everything you own, right now. Or else I will become a terrorist.
I'm willing to negotiate, but I have one precondition. Give me all you have, right now. If you don't do it, that's because you are not willing to negotiate. And if you don't want to negotiate that fully justifies me into becoming a terrorist.
You may have the support of the rational world, bu *I* am not rational. Give me what I want right now, or I will become a terrorist.
People who use terror in their arguments only understand the language of terror, therefore unless you terrorize them, you cannot talk to them.
There has been some theoretical discussions about this idea before, but the general idea is not very popular right now.
John Dillinger believed he had sufficient reasons to rob banks: "because that's where the money is", in his own words.
The critical difference here is that you can play computer games in summer or winter, sunshine or rain.
In my school years during the 1960s we had to memorize the mountains of Asia, rivers of Africa, which king in Europe started which war, etc.
It seems like nothing has changed.
I can't believe anyone has seen a spoked wheel in a movie and never wondered why it rotates backwards.
This "debunking" shown in your first link is not showing the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps. Considering the fourfold symmetry of the rotating square, what it's actually demonstrating is that 7.5 fps looks choppier than 15 fps.
There will always exist some particular geometries that will appear choppy at any frame rate. The right way to make it smooth is not by increasing the frame rate, but by motion blur.
As for your second link, it proves exactly the opposite of what it meant to: there's no practical difference between 24 fps and 60 fps. They are using the same arguments audiophiles use to justify paying $500 for a network cable: I have eyes/ears that are so much more accurate than yours that I wouldn't be satisfied with that cheap gear you use.
Who knows, but that's not of the essence. Unfortunately, computer games have gone the way of Hollywood movies, all glitter and no substance.
My favorite game genres are adventure games and car simulations. Ten years ago i used to play the Need for Spped - Porshce game and I still have to see a similar game that's as fun for the casual gamer.
Racing games today have much better graphics, the cars look almost like photographs, but they aren't fun to drive. Either they have no physics engine at all, they are arcade games meant to be played with a gamepad, like the Need for Speed games since "Underground", or they are like Richard Burns Rally, so hard to play it starts looking like work.
As for adventure games, the golden age of 1990s is gone. There were EGA or VGA games like Space Quest and Monkey Island that were so fun to play and have no modern successors.
It's a pity that the availability of so much visual power seems to have derailed the creativity from making fun games to enhanced visual effects.
It is perfectly playable, for anyone with human eyes
Funny, I've heard of playwright, composer, director, actor and singer Noël Coward, but never about this director named Anonymous Coward.
That's good marketing research, now you know the price the public is willing to pay.
There, you've said it: they've maxed out what people will pay for tickets. Try selling tickets for the same $1 they charge in Southeast Asia.
The high cost of tickets is what's costing you spectators, not unauthorized copies or downloads. At the current price of tickets, people simply wouldn't watch those movies if they didn't have the option to get the DVD from a street vendor or download the torrent.
When George Lucas started special effects needed teams of carpenters, mechanics, painters, electricians, etc. Every time a camera was used there was the additional cost of film development. Editing was done with razor blades and glue. Sound effects needed special studios and labs.
Except for managers, the cost of filmmaking has gone *down* in absolute dollars since 1971.
What matters is the cost/benefit ratio.
The potential for the data being valuable may be very low, but the cost of storing it is going down all the time. Disk space today is a dime a gigabyte, so let's keep it just in case.
Yes, I see that -- unconstitutional -- message. In essence, what the statutory limit says is that, if I get caught I have to pay for all those who weren't caught.
It's like if the highway patrol said, "we will only catch one in a million speeder, but he will have to pay for all the million speeders we didn't catch".
If I have one copy of a song, all the damage i have caused to the copyright owner is the lowest cost at which I could have got that song. Incidentally, for most songs this cost is zero, since they are available on the radio. Radio is paid by advertisement, and advertisement cost is bundled into the price of every product I buy.
However, let's ignore that and assume that I couldn't have listened to that song in the radio, the price I would have had to pay would still be $1 or $2 at most. If a thousand other people downloaded, well, sue them and get $1 or $2 from each.
No, the constitution outlaws amounts that are, in the exact wording, "excessive". Pick any dictionary to know what "excessive" means.
I think the US Constitution would not let one person pay for all the others. "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Even if we disregard the "excessive fines" part, if just one person is punished that would certainly be an "unusual" punishment.
It only happens so often because the first time no one cared.
They are, either for very small gallons or for very large liters.
Oh, so he's a pedophile? I knew it! Has he denied it? No? Then it must be true.
Then who would work to create all the stuff everyone needs?
If everyone got paid the minimum needed to live on, no one would want to work for minimum wage. Which means that wages would have to be raised even for the simplest jobs. But that would make it more expensive to live on, so everybody would need to be paid more. And wages would have to be raised again...
A socially benevolent government works for rich countries because they import low cost raw materials and export high priced products and services. It wouldn't work worldwide, at least not until artificial intelligence has advanced enough to let machines do all the jobs that people find uninteresting.
I have been seeing stories like these for several years. Although this situation is clearly undesirable, I have still to see anyone proposing a realistic alternative. The bottom line is doing proper recycling costs money, people do not want to pay.
To take something apart and separate the elements used in its construction may cost more than putting it together. Who wants to pay twice the price for anything?
The market pressure is all against any environmentally and safe recycling. The biggest part of most electronic equipment is plastic with very low value as scrap. Fiberglass, for instance, is nearly worthless, what could anyone possibly do with the fiberglass from an old circuit board? This fiberglass is mixed with small but significant amounts of lead, how would you remove the lead before sending the fiberglass to a landfill?
The market isn't working? OK, but would the government work either? Try telling people that their $50 phone will have a $100 tax added for properly recycling it.
Very easily
Wait, you should look further. The four finalists are Spain, Netherlands, Germany, and Uruguay.
Uruguay lost to Netherlands today, which is consistent with them being in the last place in the list you linked. Netherlands won, which means the worst place they will get in this cup is second, also consistent with that list.
That leaves tomorrow's game, Spain vs. Germany. Spain had three deaths, Germany only one, which means tomorrow Spain will defeat Germany and will also defeat Netherlands in the final match. In the match for third place Germany will defeat Uruguay.
So, what if next sunday the results are 1 - Spain, 2 - Netherlands, 3 - Germany, 4 - Uruguay? Well, AFAIK today, I'd bet on 1 - Germany, 2 - Netherlands, 3 - Spain, 4 - Uruguay.
Even the correlation is not absolute here.
TFA mentions that Korea has the lowest infection rate in the world. Both Koreas qualified for this Workd Cup, while some 170+ other countries didn't.
TFA also mentions Ghana has the highest infection rate. They are already out of this Cup, have never won any.
Last time I upgraded my computer I put a motherboard that didn't have an IDE interface and my DVD drive was IDE. I was thinking of getting a SATA drive, but then I realized I had no real need for it.
I'm anti-segregation but I oppose gay rights, at least how they are being proposed.
I have nothing against someone being homosexual, and I think homosexuals should not be harassed. However, what usually goes into "gay rights" legislation is not limited to protecting them from harassment. The proposals generally include giving to gay couples benefits that were meant for families with children.
A woman often has to make some sacrifices in her profession when she chooses to raise children, and those sacrifices should have some compensation. I see no reason to give a homosexual companion the same benefits that are given to someone who is raising a family.
*No* climatologist would ever go to the extreme of predicting an end to snow anywhere. Google "outliers".
No, what the post said was that because one prediction made by some people failed to pan out then the whole theory was wrong. That's not science.