Wouldn't pulling a gun and forcing another vehicle to stop be a rather dangerous thing to do in the USA? The other person could shoot you and say "self defense".
Cops themselves have killed people who did far less, and got away with "self defense".
> That's probably a pretty good argument against the sort of God that possesses omniscience,
Uh, that's only assuming that God(s) would be limited to the bounds of this Universe. Which would be a rather strange assumption.
Take the example of a simulation running on a computer. Just because a simulation does not allow certain actions doesn't mean that the people "outside" who interact with and control the simulation cannot do those actions. Certain things about the simulation might be unknowable from within, but perfectly knowable from outside.
If democracy is maintained, I think religious groups like muslims have a good chance of taking over just by having more children than the atheists (who tend not to have many children, and their "selling points" for "conversion" aren't quite as compelling).
As for long term - the placebo effect is real and pretty effective in numerous scenarios. Many religions allow their adherents to take advantage of the placebo effect far more easily than "strict" atheists can.
IMO as long as there are humans, religion isn't going to go away.
In my opinion people have a tendency or even need to be part of a Greater Thing. They "go Green", go "UltraVegan", or "believe in" Communism, or serve the Great Leader (to the point of being willing to kill), or "Atheism" with a capital A. FWIW, even some football matches seem like worship services...
So whether you officially have religion or not it doesn't matter, people will find something. The problem really is whether they believe in something that's more beneficial in the long term or not.
Lastly, too many atheists are delusional and think that religion is the only way to make good people do evil things and thus the main source of evil in the world. There's enough evidence to suggest they are wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
They can run their networks however they want, until voters decide to vote for representatives to make laws that change that.
If voters want to expand or reduce the government it's up to them.
I have to point out though that the quality of government matters far more than how "big" it is.
After all, corrupt corporations seem ever willing to help fill in the profitable gaps where the Government isn't. Esp if the government (small or large) encourages/lets them.
There are others I've had that I can't really remember in detail - I think I had some problems with Impress - when I ended certain bullet text entries with certain characters, weird stuff would happen - mades me wonder how screwed up the underlying code is.
I've tried the eval version of Kingsoft Office and it does look quite like MS Office. I think they just need to make an Outlook compatible that works with Exchange and they would either be a great success or sued to oblivion by Microsoft;).
Yep, that's what I'm talking about. So maybe I'm not imagining things and there's a distinct "US Corp" style and "Japan corp" style...
Another anecdotal sample point: I've seen a few corporate documents from Japanese companies with the "pastel schemes" on them - charts, tables etc. FWIW they were written in English.
But it's not so much the pastel colours, it's the overall look. After all, I have used pastel colours in some of my documents, but they never looked "Japanese"... Maybe I need to use more rounded rectangles, have two/multi tone colours, and maybe add a "chibi" cartoon character to bring attention to some finer points? I dunno, what do you think? I'm no graphic/web designer, someone might have done a study on this (the slashdot linked article doesn't seem very enlightening to me).
Oh well maybe undies and trousers have enough "stopping power" to prevent the spread of fecal bacteria to surfaces that you sit on etc.:)
Another thing which bothers me a bit: many taps (not all) are designed so people need to use their hands to turn the knobs. So after they wash their hands, they then contaminate their hands when they turn off the taps.
I'm sure most healthy immune systems can cope with a bit of crap or bacteria, so it mainly bothers me from a poor design perspective - you take the trouble to wash your hands but then you have to dirty them again on the tap knobs or the door handles.
Maybe a number of disease spreading cases are not due to people not washing their hands, but because of bad toilet design.
The idea of "cleaning" your butt using toilet paper seems rather strange and unhygienic to me.
Definitely cleaner if you use soap and water.
If someone has "stuff" on his hands and was going to make you a sandwich, I'm sure you'd rather that someone wash his hands "hospital/surgeon style", and not just use toilet paper to wipe it off...
Yes even if that person uses gloves (not like someone else is going to help him put the gloves on)...
I think programs are not supposed to write to Program Files directory under normal circumstances.
If they want to write stuff there's "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings" and "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data".
And if you install the game as a normal user into that user's own home directory/profile there should be no problem writing to it (under the current security model).
Anyway my current guess is the newer versions are gathering machine/software information for identification purposes. e.g. motherboard/bios/baseboard/harddrive serial numbers. You'd probably need admin access for that.
Even on Linux, stuff like dmidecode often require root privileges.
> the game fails when you try to connect to Battle.NET.
Then maybe it's checking some hardware (and/or software) info and sending it or a hash of it to Battle.Net. Admin rights are required to get certain info.
> the main menu to look like rainbow-colored puke. > It also requires you to run it as Administrator to play online, including a UAC prompt if you didn't disable them.
Huh, did it turn into malware in recent versions? Why should a game nowadays need admin rights to play?
I can understand needing admin rights if you are going to install it for all users on the computer. But if you aren't doing that, I see no good reason.
> The original Doom was okay because it was new, but in Counterstrike and most other games, movement is ridiculously fast en jerky,
Movement in Doom was and is way faster than most FPS nowadays. And it was fun that way- arcade-style battles, rockets vs shotguns etc, with players outrunning rockets sometimes...
If you want that level of realism you might not toss the half-used clip just because you think you might need a full clip soon. You'd just swap it out for future reuse.
For most people, even if they think they want realism they wouldn't actually like realism.
There are only a few people who would use a flight simulator to fly from Singapore to London and actually take the 13+ hours nonstop to do it...
Same goes for realistic military stuff. You might get dropped off an hour or so away from the original planned point.
Anyway, the Kapton tape workaround shows that problem may be is solvable without drastically affecting the appearance of the product. Unless of course the gold appearance is linked to the Kapton tape's function - even so black/white and gold isn't that bad a combination, Just bump up the reality distortion field a little.
Has Facebook or Zuckerberg come out and said that the contract doesn't exist or is fraudulent?
So far they're just claiming the contract was full of stuff that doesn't make sense. That's a rather weak rebuttal don't you think?
OK the Facebook lawyer has serious questions about the authenticity of the contract? Yeah, go submit those questions to court.
They don't outright state the contract is invalid. I guess they're covering their butts just in case Zuckerberg "forgot" to tell them yet another little detail...
Zuckerberg doesn't seem that squeaky clean a character either.
Do contracts automagically expire after 7 years? I doubt it. If it's about exerting rights, lots of shareholders don't do much with their rights, but they do get interested if the CxOs start talking about selling the company without giving the shareholders their "fair share".
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'If Joe Citizen were to do that, they could get busted for "pointing and brandishing" the firearm.'
That's if Joe Citizen was lucky enough to not die from a rapid lead overdose.
Wouldn't pulling a gun and forcing another vehicle to stop be a rather dangerous thing to do in the USA? The other person could shoot you and say "self defense".
Cops themselves have killed people who did far less, and got away with "self defense".
> That's probably a pretty good argument against the sort of God that possesses omniscience,
Uh, that's only assuming that God(s) would be limited to the bounds of this Universe. Which would be a rather strange assumption.
Take the example of a simulation running on a computer. Just because a simulation does not allow certain actions doesn't mean that the people "outside" who interact with and control the simulation cannot do those actions. Certain things about the simulation might be unknowable from within, but perfectly knowable from outside.
Because the ones who know of it consider it a feature? ;)
If you're relying on Facebook for decent security you're going to be disappointed.
What would be news is if a facebook image url can be derived given known public parameters.
If democracy is maintained, I think religious groups like muslims have a good chance of taking over just by having more children than the atheists (who tend not to have many children, and their "selling points" for "conversion" aren't quite as compelling).
As for long term - the placebo effect is real and pretty effective in numerous scenarios. Many religions allow their adherents to take advantage of the placebo effect far more easily than "strict" atheists can.
IMO as long as there are humans, religion isn't going to go away.
In my opinion people have a tendency or even need to be part of a Greater Thing. They "go Green", go "UltraVegan", or "believe in" Communism, or serve the Great Leader (to the point of being willing to kill), or "Atheism" with a capital A. FWIW, even some football matches seem like worship services...
So whether you officially have religion or not it doesn't matter, people will find something. The problem really is whether they believe in something that's more beneficial in the long term or not.
Lastly, too many atheists are delusional and think that religion is the only way to make good people do evil things and thus the main source of evil in the world. There's enough evidence to suggest they are wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
Yeah that's why I'm not too bothered about newspapers going bust. I won't miss most (all?) of those.
I can get crap like that for free. And some bloggers even do "strike-outs" in their corrections so you can see how they screwed up.
They can run their networks however they want, until voters decide to vote for representatives to make laws that change that.
If voters want to expand or reduce the government it's up to them.
I have to point out though that the quality of government matters far more than how "big" it is.
After all, corrupt corporations seem ever willing to help fill in the profitable gaps where the Government isn't. Esp if the government (small or large) encourages/lets them.
It's a flawed design. As bad as a washing machine that soils your clothes if you don't use a "paper towel" to help take the cleaned clothes out.
OpenOffice sucks, it's ok for the price I guess, but it sucks. The mods may mod me flamebait but it has bugs that would not have passed proper QA.
Example: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=56449
There are others I've had that I can't really remember in detail - I think I had some problems with Impress - when I ended certain bullet text entries with certain characters, weird stuff would happen - mades me wonder how screwed up the underlying code is.
Other options: http://wapedia.mobi/en/Office_suite?p=1
I've tried the eval version of Kingsoft Office and it does look quite like MS Office. I think they just need to make an Outlook compatible that works with Exchange and they would either be a great success or sued to oblivion by Microsoft ;).
Yep, that's what I'm talking about. So maybe I'm not imagining things and there's a distinct "US Corp" style and "Japan corp" style...
Another anecdotal sample point: I've seen a few corporate documents from Japanese companies with the "pastel schemes" on them - charts, tables etc. FWIW they were written in English.
But it's not so much the pastel colours, it's the overall look. After all, I have used pastel colours in some of my documents, but they never looked "Japanese"... Maybe I need to use more rounded rectangles, have two/multi tone colours, and maybe add a "chibi" cartoon character to bring attention to some finer points? I dunno, what do you think? I'm no graphic/web designer, someone might have done a study on this (the slashdot linked article doesn't seem very enlightening to me).
Oh well maybe undies and trousers have enough "stopping power" to prevent the spread of fecal bacteria to surfaces that you sit on etc. :)
Another thing which bothers me a bit: many taps (not all) are designed so people need to use their hands to turn the knobs. So after they wash their hands, they then contaminate their hands when they turn off the taps.
I'm sure most healthy immune systems can cope with a bit of crap or bacteria, so it mainly bothers me from a poor design perspective - you take the trouble to wash your hands but then you have to dirty them again on the tap knobs or the door handles.
Maybe a number of disease spreading cases are not due to people not washing their hands, but because of bad toilet design.
Yeah they really aren't more cluttered than similar "anglo" pages.
From what I see the Japanese tend to be more fond of multi-tone pastel colour schemes even for business/corporate stuff.
Click on the links from: http://www.ntt.com/index-e.html
And compare with the links from: http://www.ntt.com/index-j.html
The first I'd say is more "US" style. The second is more "Japan" style.
Not saying it's a 100% thing - there's plenty of diversity around. And maybe I've just been seeing a biased sample of sites.
The idea of "cleaning" your butt using toilet paper seems rather strange and unhygienic to me.
Definitely cleaner if you use soap and water.
If someone has "stuff" on his hands and was going to make you a sandwich, I'm sure you'd rather that someone wash his hands "hospital/surgeon style", and not just use toilet paper to wipe it off...
Yes even if that person uses gloves (not like someone else is going to help him put the gloves on)...
> Like, where is all the content?
Stuck behind a flash intro?
I think programs are not supposed to write to Program Files directory under normal circumstances.
If they want to write stuff there's "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings" and "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data".
And if you install the game as a normal user into that user's own home directory/profile there should be no problem writing to it (under the current security model).
Anyway my current guess is the newer versions are gathering machine/software information for identification purposes. e.g. motherboard/bios/baseboard/harddrive serial numbers. You'd probably need admin access for that.
Even on Linux, stuff like dmidecode often require root privileges.
> the game fails when you try to connect to Battle.NET.
Then maybe it's checking some hardware (and/or software) info and sending it or a hash of it to Battle.Net. Admin rights are required to get certain info.
> the main menu to look like rainbow-colored puke.
> It also requires you to run it as Administrator to play online, including a UAC prompt if you didn't disable them.
Huh, did it turn into malware in recent versions? Why should a game nowadays need admin rights to play?
I can understand needing admin rights if you are going to install it for all users on the computer. But if you aren't doing that, I see no good reason.
Allow you to choose an arbitrary demographic to view "the world" from?
It may be useful for buying presents/gifts too.
> The original Doom was okay because it was new, but in Counterstrike and most other games, movement is ridiculously fast en jerky,
Movement in Doom was and is way faster than most FPS nowadays. And it was fun that way- arcade-style battles, rockets vs shotguns etc, with players outrunning rockets sometimes...
If you want that level of realism you might not toss the half-used clip just because you think you might need a full clip soon. You'd just swap it out for future reuse.
For most people, even if they think they want realism they wouldn't actually like realism.
There are only a few people who would use a flight simulator to fly from Singapore to London and actually take the 13+ hours nonstop to do it...
Same goes for realistic military stuff. You might get dropped off an hour or so away from the original planned point.
Quest failed: you did not pick up "Sarcasm" and "Hyperbole".
Please start the quest again.
The HTC nexus one doesn't seem to do that well:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3821/iphone-4-redux-analyzing-apples-ios-41-signal-fix/3
Anyway, the Kapton tape workaround shows that problem may be is solvable without drastically affecting the appearance of the product. Unless of course the gold appearance is linked to the Kapton tape's function - even so black/white and gold isn't that bad a combination, Just bump up the reality distortion field a little.
Has Facebook or Zuckerberg come out and said that the contract doesn't exist or is fraudulent?
So far they're just claiming the contract was full of stuff that doesn't make sense. That's a rather weak rebuttal don't you think?
OK the Facebook lawyer has serious questions about the authenticity of the contract? Yeah, go submit those questions to court.
They don't outright state the contract is invalid. I guess they're covering their butts just in case Zuckerberg "forgot" to tell them yet another little detail...
Zuckerberg doesn't seem that squeaky clean a character either.
Do contracts automagically expire after 7 years? I doubt it. If it's about exerting rights, lots of shareholders don't do much with their rights, but they do get interested if the CxOs start talking about selling the company without giving the shareholders their "fair share".
You don't need corn. Or beans. Or ice cream. Or candy.
Maybe most facebook users are too busy playing farmville or whatever to do their survey?