Denmark at that time had a population of about 3 million. Iowa currently has a population of 3 million. I wouldn't be surprised if the governor of Iowa walks around without bodyguards. Furthermore, Denmark has a constitutional monarchy and the king doesn't actually rule the country (and appears not to have done so even at the time of the Russian czars), so the impetus to kill him is a lot less.
Your uncle may be a horrible homophobe, but he probably didn't do anything about it other than maybe avoid gay people in his personal life or vote for an anti-gay politician. In other words, your uncle isn't *actively* anti-gay. Giving him money to fix his car may support anti-gay activity in a very roundabout way (he needs the car to keep his job, he needs his job to eat, and if he starves to death he can't vote for any anti-gay politicians), but giving money to Card funds anti-gay activity in a much more direct manner since he uses his money, and the prestige he gets selling his works, for anti-gay purposes.
Your uncle probably also didn't give 10% of the car-fixing money to an anti-gay church, either.
Other than that? That was the entire problem. Look, we're adults and we can say "they probably meant to have this be a problem about subtracting 5 from 6, and the fact that the 5 was in pennies and the 6 wasn't was just some boneheaded test writer." A 6 year old may very well not figure that out even if he can subtract.
There's also a question of if a poorly written problem like this slips through, how shoddy the system of test reviewing is in the first place and so how many other problems are as bad.
It doesn't matter that the contractors harmed aren't poor third-world people. You don't get to excuse mistreating your workers just because your profit from the mistreatment goes to help people who are worse off than the workers you mistreated.
nothing was ever out of print - you could simply torrent a copy and pay the digital license fee to get the game
No you couldn't, since the digital license servers would not be selling licenses forever. For the digital license servers to end would be the equivalent of "going out of print".
And once the servers die, even disks you bought would no longer be able to run.
Coca-Cola is cheaper in McDonalds than in a normal restaurant. But the restaurant has better meals, including food that the McDonalds could never offer. Comparing the price of one of the few games that exists on both types of system is like comparing the price of the Coke at a McDonalds and a normal restaurant.
3DS games in general cannot be price-compared to Android games in general. The few examples that are the same game and can be compared are atypical.
I know there are theories that Coulson is actually an LMD. They did, after all, make a point of there being something strange about Coulson, which suggests he could be an android.
Also, his explanation of surviving seems a little unlikely if you watch the Avengers movie--but the people he told it to would only have heard about his death third-hand, mostly, and it would be more believable to them than it is to us.
I stand corrected, somewhat. However, they are definitely a left-wing politcal organization and have opposed most forms of nuclear power in practice. Referring to a political organization as "scientists" in a headline is misleading.
As for Mothers against D&D it may very well be a mistake, so if you like, change the example. You wouldn't have a headline saying "Muslims a danger, say the British" without mentioning that "British" refers to the British National Party.
The Union of Concerned Scientists includes some scientists, but is an anti-nuclear political organization. This headline is like saying "Teenagers have unhealthy fantasies playing D&D, say mothers" amd omitting from the headline that "mothers" really refers to "Mothers Against Dungeons and Dragons".
About 75% of Americans identify as some sort of Christian.... Recent court rulings concerning violent video game bans have also mentioned American's historical opposition to smut... clearly shows the willingness of average Americans to at least passively support...
This started because of an expose by the Kernel. The Kernel is located in the UK. The Slashdot post then points out that WH Smith shut down their website. WH Smith is in the UK. The post also mentions a BBC report. I don't have to tell you where the BBC is located. Although Amazon and B&N are themselves world-wide, this is clearly instigated by and carried out by Europeans and British specifically, and by the media over there. Googling up "cnn amazon porn" brings up nothing recent (the same thing with BBC produces the appropriate articles).
Just like private universities can offer a lower priced education than public universities.
Much of the reason the cost of education goes up is the reaction to government-guaranteed student loans. If banks and others who gave out student loans had to depend on them being paid back in the same way as other loans, they would not be willing to loan huge amounts (especially for classes that don't provide marketable skills) and the colleges would not have raised their tuition to the sky in order to capture those large amounts.
If McDonalds' employees used every cent of their pay to buy McDonalds products, McDonalds would exactly break even--they'd gain as much from not having to pay for employees as they'd lose from the dropped employees not buying any more McDonalds products.
If McDonalds employees, like actual people, used their income to buy a variety of things, then McDonalds would gain more from getting rid of their employees than they'd lose from the employees not buying McDonalds products.
Now, as you point out, this is a tragedy of the commons situation because the other companies the employees buy stuff from can do the same thing and affect McDonalds profits. But even then, not every expenditure those employees make is going to be from such a company. They still need to pay taxes, pay rent, get medical care, pay the plumber when a pipe breaks, and generally use money for other things that can't be easily automated. The companies that automate will come out ahead in this.
The antiboycott law is aimed at the boycott of Israel by the Arab League. The Arab League is composed of governments, whi can apply governmental pressure, either by deciding how to use taxpayer-collected money, or directly by not allowing companies to operate within their borders. Companies boycotting Israel as part of this are not exercising in actions of free speech, but of governmentally-coerced speech, and this can only be stopped by government coercion in the opposite direction.
Xerox copiers would probably be used to infringe on copyrights, not patents, but ignoring that diffrerence, you can have two situations. In the first situation, the rights owner says that you are infringing by copying a particular book. In the second, the rights owner insists that the act of using a Xerox copier is infringing all by itself regardless of what you want to copy with it.
It would make sense that Xerox lacks standing in the first case, but it would make much less sense that Xerox lacks standing in the second.
According to the article, the company suing claims that Cisco's gear has substantial non-infringing uses and that it will not claim Cisco is a contributory infringer, which brings it a lot closer to the first case than to the second. It really would not make sense for Xerox to be able to intervene if some company is claiming that copying only one particular book is prohibited and other people could use Xerox copiers for other books without getting into trouble at all.
Furthermore, as other posts have pointed out, the custoimers that are being sued are organizations such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, organizations that can easily afford lawyers to fight back, so this is not the situation where a big company sues some guy who uses a Cisco router in his home because he is poorer and makes an easier target than suing Cisco. Of course the Slashdot headline is misleading in this regard.
So there's really nothing to get upset about here.
Indeed. I would be happy for DNA to be sequenced at birth, analysed for any conditions that need immediate treatment, and then the only copy given to the parents for safe keeping (not that I think the general public are especially good at doing the "safe keeping" thing, unfortunately).
That doesn't solve the insurance problem. The insurance company would demand disclosure of the DNA and use it to deny coverage or charge more. Just the fact that you have the information sitting in your drawer would be enough for this. If you don't have it, it's much harder for the insurance company to demand it (although once it gets cheap enough I'm sure they'll try that too).
If the fire insurance company could predict that your house would burn down, costing $300000, they'd charge you $300000 plus profit, and fire insurance would be totally useless. Contrary to what you are saying, pooled expenses is the only reason that insurance is useful at all.
The summary's accurately summarizing a halfway misleading article here.
According to the first half, the NRA thinks that the NSA's database is equivalent to a national gun registry.
According to the second half, the NRA thinks that the NSA's argument for its database would justify creating a national gun registry, not that the NSA is creating one.
If you read the actual court brief, it's a lot closer to the second than to the first.
The reason folks are making negative comments is at least partly that it's an accounting trick. If the company had directly given the workers $300 bonuses, it would have been the same as if the CEO had been given millions of dollars and he then divided it up among the employees as $300 bonuses. But it wouldn't have made the news.
The serious answer to this is "that doesn't count". Yes, a computer was useful to you personally because you ended up becoming a programmer. Giving out computers on those grounds is like giving out Barbie dolls on the grounds that one of them might get a job as a Barbie doll toy designer.
The whole idea of giving them stuff is that they are going to use the freebies as general tools, not so that they could become specialists in the jobs associated with the freebies. Yes, it would have worked in your case, but most people who get computers, regardless of their income level, don't become programmers. If 100 such $100 computers were given out, and you were the only one who got a programming job as a result, it would have been a waste of money, and they'd have been better off just giving out $5000 each to two poor programmers.
Search for AT&T's "you will" commercials from 20 years ago. They predicted the future to an astonishing degree. Except, of course, that the companies that brought you all those things weren't AT&T.
Using someone's skin color as a factor in whether you grant them credit would also be statistically relevant and improve profit. We don't permit it, for a very good reason.
Only in the modern era has it become possible to discriminate based on so many other criteria as easily as based on race. If someone walked into a loan office, their race was normally visible. But whether they were a Star Trek fan or whether they're in a knitting circle with a deadbeat wasn't, and it wouldn't be worth the lender's effort to find out.
Being stars of the series and/or professionals doesn't mean you own the copyright. Producing something you don't have the rights to produce is just as likely to get you a cease and desist order.
And even ignoring that, although this is "professionally produced", the people who own Star Trek will produce what they want. I'm pretty sure that if they had wanted a Star Trek pilot to be made, they could have commissioned one on their own. If they're not willing to commission one, they're probably not willing to buy one either.
All this is is a piece of expensive live action fanfic.
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Denmark at that time had a population of about 3 million. Iowa currently has a population of 3 million. I wouldn't be surprised if the governor of Iowa walks around without bodyguards. Furthermore, Denmark has a constitutional monarchy and the king doesn't actually rule the country (and appears not to have done so even at the time of the Russian czars), so the impetus to kill him is a lot less.
Your uncle may be a horrible homophobe, but he probably didn't do anything about it other than maybe avoid gay people in his personal life or vote for an anti-gay politician. In other words, your uncle isn't *actively* anti-gay. Giving him money to fix his car may support anti-gay activity in a very roundabout way (he needs the car to keep his job, he needs his job to eat, and if he starves to death he can't vote for any anti-gay politicians), but giving money to Card funds anti-gay activity in a much more direct manner since he uses his money, and the prestige he gets selling his works, for anti-gay purposes.
Your uncle probably also didn't give 10% of the car-fixing money to an anti-gay church, either.
Other than that? That was the entire problem. Look, we're adults and we can say "they probably meant to have this be a problem about subtracting 5 from 6, and the fact that the 5 was in pennies and the 6 wasn't was just some boneheaded test writer." A 6 year old may very well not figure that out even if he can subtract.
There's also a question of if a poorly written problem like this slips through, how shoddy the system of test reviewing is in the first place and so how many other problems are as bad.
It doesn't matter that the contractors harmed aren't poor third-world people. You don't get to excuse mistreating your workers just because your profit from the mistreatment goes to help people who are worse off than the workers you mistreated.
No you couldn't, since the digital license servers would not be selling licenses forever. For the digital license servers to end would be the equivalent of "going out of print".
And once the servers die, even disks you bought would no longer be able to run.
Coca-Cola is cheaper in McDonalds than in a normal restaurant. But the restaurant has better meals, including food that the McDonalds could never offer. Comparing the price of one of the few games that exists on both types of system is like comparing the price of the Coke at a McDonalds and a normal restaurant.
3DS games in general cannot be price-compared to Android games in general. The few examples that are the same game and can be compared are atypical.
I know there are theories that Coulson is actually an LMD. They did, after all, make a point of there being something strange about Coulson, which suggests he could be an android.
Also, his explanation of surviving seems a little unlikely if you watch the Avengers movie--but the people he told it to would only have heard about his death third-hand, mostly, and it would be more believable to them than it is to us.
Does locking someone up in jail make us better than kidnappers? Pr fining them any better than thieves?
You know, this is about illegal immigrants at Facebook. I believe that Facebook is, in fact, a corporation.
I stand corrected, somewhat. However, they are definitely a left-wing politcal organization and have opposed most forms of nuclear power in practice. Referring to a political organization as "scientists" in a headline is misleading.
As for Mothers against D&D it may very well be a mistake, so if you like, change the example. You wouldn't have a headline saying "Muslims a danger, say the British" without mentioning that "British" refers to the British National Party.
The Union of Concerned Scientists includes some scientists, but is an anti-nuclear political organization. This headline is like saying "Teenagers have unhealthy fantasies playing D&D, say mothers" amd omitting from the headline that "mothers" really refers to "Mothers Against Dungeons and Dragons".
This started because of an expose by the Kernel. The Kernel is located in the UK. The Slashdot post then points out that WH Smith shut down their website. WH Smith is in the UK. The post also mentions a BBC report. I don't have to tell you where the BBC is located. Although Amazon and B&N are themselves world-wide, this is clearly instigated by and carried out by Europeans and British specifically, and by the media over there. Googling up "cnn amazon porn" brings up nothing recent (the same thing with BBC produces the appropriate articles).
What's this Americans stuff?
Much of the reason the cost of education goes up is the reaction to government-guaranteed student loans. If banks and others who gave out student loans had to depend on them being paid back in the same way as other loans, they would not be willing to loan huge amounts (especially for classes that don't provide marketable skills) and the colleges would not have raised their tuition to the sky in order to capture those large amounts.
If McDonalds' employees used every cent of their pay to buy McDonalds products, McDonalds would exactly break even--they'd gain as much from not having to pay for employees as they'd lose from the dropped employees not buying any more McDonalds products.
If McDonalds employees, like actual people, used their income to buy a variety of things, then McDonalds would gain more from getting rid of their employees than they'd lose from the employees not buying McDonalds products.
Now, as you point out, this is a tragedy of the commons situation because the other companies the employees buy stuff from can do the same thing and affect McDonalds profits. But even then, not every expenditure those employees make is going to be from such a company. They still need to pay taxes, pay rent, get medical care, pay the plumber when a pipe breaks, and generally use money for other things that can't be easily automated. The companies that automate will come out ahead in this.
The antiboycott law is aimed at the boycott of Israel by the Arab League. The Arab League is composed of governments, whi can apply governmental pressure, either by deciding how to use taxpayer-collected money, or directly by not allowing companies to operate within their borders. Companies boycotting Israel as part of this are not exercising in actions of free speech, but of governmentally-coerced speech, and this can only be stopped by government coercion in the opposite direction.
Xerox copiers would probably be used to infringe on copyrights, not patents, but ignoring that diffrerence, you can have two situations. In the first situation, the rights owner says that you are infringing by copying a particular book. In the second, the rights owner insists that the act of using a Xerox copier is infringing all by itself regardless of what you want to copy with it.
It would make sense that Xerox lacks standing in the first case, but it would make much less sense that Xerox lacks standing in the second.
According to the article, the company suing claims that Cisco's gear has substantial non-infringing uses and that it will not claim Cisco is a contributory infringer, which brings it a lot closer to the first case than to the second. It really would not make sense for Xerox to be able to intervene if some company is claiming that copying only one particular book is prohibited and other people could use Xerox copiers for other books without getting into trouble at all.
Furthermore, as other posts have pointed out, the custoimers that are being sued are organizations such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, organizations that can easily afford lawyers to fight back, so this is not the situation where a big company sues some guy who uses a Cisco router in his home because he is poorer and makes an easier target than suing Cisco. Of course the Slashdot headline is misleading in this regard.
So there's really nothing to get upset about here.
That doesn't solve the insurance problem. The insurance company would demand disclosure of the DNA and use it to deny coverage or charge more. Just the fact that you have the information sitting in your drawer would be enough for this. If you don't have it, it's much harder for the insurance company to demand it (although once it gets cheap enough I'm sure they'll try that too).
If the fire insurance company could predict that your house would burn down, costing $300000, they'd charge you $300000 plus profit, and fire insurance would be totally useless. Contrary to what you are saying, pooled expenses is the only reason that insurance is useful at all.
The summary's accurately summarizing a halfway misleading article here.
According to the first half, the NRA thinks that the NSA's database is equivalent to a national gun registry.
According to the second half, the NRA thinks that the NSA's argument for its database would justify creating a national gun registry, not that the NSA is creating one.
If you read the actual court brief, it's a lot closer to the second than to the first.
Does that mean that Xbox live wiull now carry emulated N-Gage games?
The reason folks are making negative comments is at least partly that it's an accounting trick. If the company had directly given the workers $300 bonuses, it would have been the same as if the CEO had been given millions of dollars and he then divided it up among the employees as $300 bonuses. But it wouldn't have made the news.
The serious answer to this is "that doesn't count". Yes, a computer was useful to you personally because you ended up becoming a programmer. Giving out computers on those grounds is like giving out Barbie dolls on the grounds that one of them might get a job as a Barbie doll toy designer.
The whole idea of giving them stuff is that they are going to use the freebies as general tools, not so that they could become specialists in the jobs associated with the freebies. Yes, it would have worked in your case, but most people who get computers, regardless of their income level, don't become programmers. If 100 such $100 computers were given out, and you were the only one who got a programming job as a result, it would have been a waste of money, and they'd have been better off just giving out $5000 each to two poor programmers.
Search for AT&T's "you will" commercials from 20 years ago. They predicted the future to an astonishing degree. Except, of course, that the companies that brought you all those things weren't AT&T.
Using someone's skin color as a factor in whether you grant them credit would also be statistically relevant and improve profit. We don't permit it, for a very good reason.
Only in the modern era has it become possible to discriminate based on so many other criteria as easily as based on race. If someone walked into a loan office, their race was normally visible. But whether they were a Star Trek fan or whether they're in a knitting circle with a deadbeat wasn't, and it wouldn't be worth the lender's effort to find out.
Being stars of the series and/or professionals doesn't mean you own the copyright. Producing something you don't have the rights to produce is just as likely to get you a cease and desist order.
And even ignoring that, although this is "professionally produced", the people who own Star Trek will produce what they want. I'm pretty sure that if they had wanted a Star Trek pilot to be made, they could have commissioned one on their own. If they're not willing to commission one, they're probably not willing to buy one either.
All this is is a piece of expensive live action fanfic.