With your first point, you're setting up strawmen. Depression from loss or trauma is not the same as withdrawal symptoms. I used the line to make a very limited, simple point. There's no argument in stretching it beyond the point it was meant to make. I didn't feel it neccessary to write an 60,000 word essay on the differences between hobby and addiction.
With your second paragraph, you're skirting the issue. Is it a better social experience to speak with a friend face to face or online? It's healthier to talk to a person than to talk to words on a screen. Allow me to make an analogy of this conversation if we were discussing food:
Me: It's healthier to eat vegetables than junk food. It's ok to eat junk food as long as it's not interfering with the rest of your diet.
You: What if junk food is all you have? Not everyone has vegetables available.
It is simplified, but contains the neccessary arguments. I believe you are capable of answering your own questions at this point, even if they were meant to be rhetorical (I won't assume whether they were or were not).
How? I'd imagine that a ton more people are more severely addicted to TV, sports, books and activities considered "normal" than are "addicted" to MMOs. I'd imagine the guy who spends 6 hours a day playing WoW is better off then the guy who goes to the gym for 6 hours a day. As for social progress, its a lot more social to fire up a game of WoW and chat than it is to go to the gym. And intellectual? With WoW you are constantly reading and writing and doing math.
Spending 6 hours a day doing something does not make it an addiction. Suffering from depression because you aren't spending 6 hours a day doing something makes it an addiction (outside of sleeping and autonomous functions). Addiction will cause everything directly not linked to that addiction to suffer as a result of it to one degree or another. Spending time talking to people in Azeroth is not as socially healthy as talking to people face to face. It's healthier than spending time in front of a tv or book. As a freetime activity, it's healthier than many things unless you let it become detrimental to your real non-make-believe life. It's not a problem when an activity is a healthy relief of pressure and stress... It's a problem when it's an addiction, then you may need help to return it to normal, healthy levels.
He's saying that the government spends a dollar to buy a dime. That site would cost $100,000 to put up and maybe $100,000 a year to maintain - less than 3% of the cost they're proposing. They keep at this pace and they are going to get 3 billion dollars worth for spending a trillion.
I don't know about you, but I'm going to be a little pissed off at a web site that cost eighteen million dollars and doesn't have blackjack and hookers (which I'm presuming is the case).
It doesn't have blackjack and hookers, but it will have their receipts.
I would guess that we store surprisingly few bytes for each megabyte of input.
perhaps a few bytes that you can recall on demand, but consider this: Can you remember every scene of the Harry Potter series, word for word? Where all the actors are on the screen? The looks on their faces? No... probably not... but if you were watching, say, Prisoner of Azkaban, and someone has inserted a scene where Harry Potter is wearing a Snoopy Costume, you would immediately recognize the disparity between what you had seen before and what you're seeing now. Sometimes, you forget a small scene, and when you see it, you think to yourself "I don't remember this part!" which means you remember 99% of the movie as it was.
The more you go into it, the more fascinating the brain's storage, compression, and realtime decompression abilities are -- and that's all going on in like... 2-3 lobes.
Insightful? Assuming you can perfectly remember 1 byte per second, you'd be memorizing for over 100 million years. The human brain is great and all that, but no way are you going to store that much data while being able to reproduce it later.
Considering a single "frame" of vision for a pair of human eyes is estimated at 576 megapixels (truncating at peripheral vision). We'll imagine that each pixel is assigned a 16-bit hexadecimal value. That means, each time you glance at something, each frame would be calculated at a little more than 1/1000th of a terabyte. The lowball framerate for the human eye is about 18 frames/second (things look fluid). That means that every 50 seconds, your eye is downloading a terabyte of information. He'll absorb it in less than a day through eyesight alone. That doesn't include audio, olfactory, touch, or taste. His brain's data compression will downsize a lot of that information, so it will take him more than a day, but for your i/o ports, taking in a petabyte of information is a daily task.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a living organism that downloads information at 1B/sec
Convenient how governments and businesses continue to spend other people's money on insecure systems which allow even more money to vanish.
Microsoft Windows --because plausible deniability can come in mighty handy!
In other news, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) of California told all his debtors, that were expecting over $6 billion by the end of July, that California did have the money after all, the money was on the way, but currently stuck in Outlook. "I press da send key and it says "Netvurk Error" so as soon as that gets sorted out by the boys in the netvurk, da checks vill be on their vay. No need to lower the state's credit score. The money's just stuck in the outbox! Promise!"
Wow, blaming Microsoft CAN make life easier for governments...
You put it extremely crudely, but this is more a problem than most people realize. Hospitals are not a strong business. They lose money on a lot of cases because the current costs of treating patients are ridiculous, and many insurers refuse to pay such costs - so the hospital swallows it. The most common surgery, cataract removal, typically costs its hospital thousands more to perform than they get paid, and they can't just turn the patients away. It's not all going to filthy-rich doctors and their heated pools. So many physicians are being sued for malpractice in some MSAs that the definition of "malpractice" has lost all meaning. I learned from my father (rated the 2nd best physician in the state, at what he did, when he was in practice) that there's more money in being a 100K-a-year engineer than a 400K-a-year physician -- and a much less-stressful life to live.
New technology means better healthcare means more costly healthcare means we either A) Cannot treat everyone or B) must reduce the quality of healthcare we are dispensing to sustainable levels. If these sciences find cheaper ways to fix a broken hip or perform a bicuspid valve replacement then they will aid society. If they simply come up with more expensive (albeit better) ways of current healthcare we have, then we're only digging the hole deeper. When it's 100 times cheaper to give you a 90% chance to live than to give you a 91% chance to live, they are typically compelled to spend 100 times more -- and who is going to pay for that?
and if I'm looking at boobies, it will show constantly changing, random boobies, so it would difficult for someone approaching the screen to figure out exactly which boobies on the screen I was looking at.
As much as I love the general principal of pissing off judges...why is this idiot pissing off the judge???
Because there's no reason this proceeding should be kept private. It's about copyright infringement, where enforcement should be a public issue -- especially when damages are being issued at those who break copyrights. Can you IMAGINE living in a world where you can get sued for copyright infringement and not let anyone know what you infringed, how you infringed, or what the reasoning was behind the order? How is there sanity in that?
Lawyer: Sir, we have 13 recorded attempts of you singing "Eye of the Tiger" while jogging. These are blatant copyright infringements and for each of these public performances, you face a fine of $80,000.
You: Lots of people sing "Eye of the Tiger" while jogging, and they don't get sued!
Lawyer: Oh, thousands are getting sued for it. Now you'll have to agree not to discuss your case with anyone but your lawyer or you'll be spending jail time as well. We're willing to settle for $5,000. We take credit cards!
Copyright enforcement should never, ever be held behind closed doors unless at the request of the prosecuted in order to preserve their reputation if found innocent. I, personally, would be willing to spend jail time in order to make this point, if I had to. I would hope anyone who thinks themself an honest American would at least consider it.
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Because local climate suddenly equates to global mean temperature? Huh... go figure...
Um... Because solar weather affects global weather.
If you ignore the endings of the other 3 gospels. Go ahead and ignore the entire book of Acts where it repeatedly explains that Christianity would have been adopted by most Greeks if it were not for the "ridiculous" teaching of the resurrection. Ignore most of the epistles of Paul, like 1 Corinthians, becaues he chides the members of the church for disbelieving the resurrection. You get your information out of a pamphlet, or something?
I didn't make your point. I said your point is only valid for smug douchebags who think their own selfishness outweighs design. If these socially-beligerent scabs of humanity want to stamp out the existence of all entertainment mediums that doesn't agree with their pathetically narrow scope of enjoyment, I'd be proud to rain on their parade. The rules are plain: "Use the arena to kill each other. Half of you are villains. Half of you are heroes. Make it interesting." and these douchebags think that their enlightened sense of community is more provocative sport. It's not. It's not what the game was designed for and, socially, it's nothing but a blight. They're angry at someone who used the area for what it was designed for. They're shocked at the audacity that someone is cutting in front of them in line when all they wanted to do was yak it up with the teller. They're swearing over the fact someone is honking at them because they're using their cellphone instead of their blinker when changing lanes. They're pissing themselves in fury that someone stepped up and said "This isn't your private bathroom. Change and get out." and making death threats against someone who picked up their fluffy poodle and chucked it into traffic with the only excuse being 'No one should poo in the sandbox. That's not what it's here for. Even if you and all your jerkoff friends take your dogs here to poo, that doesn't make it the sandbox's purpose. Damn you if your egocentrism makes you think that your preference for its misuse matters.'
These are the sames sorts of douchebags who use grocery lines as social forums, fitness center locker rooms as personal care/exhibition booths, and freeways as call centers. They're not some majority of interests that form a socially-empowering group. They're the "in-your-way" society ruiners. They take their dogs to crap in sandboxes and they sue companies when they put household chemicals in their own eyes. The only majority they form is the majority of hot air and bullcrap that comes out of their mouths in their self-righteous pursuits toward self-gratification. They see a system, decide how they want to use the system, and then through their blubbery, inept, tottering gestahlts manage to actually take root in systems according to a stretch of that system's acceptance and rules, then explain that anyone who attempts to use the system for its intended purposes is less insightful than they are and in a minority -- in other words they devour the natives. It makes me want to start up an NCSoft account just so I can continue what Twixt had done -- grief these wastes of carbon until they take their game-ruining attitudes and move to something designed so they can talk like civil people... like a chat room. Not a place where messages are enabled simply so you can tell the enemy where his mother spent last night.
So, since he was on the opposite team, he should let you kill him every now and then to keep things even? He should let you go about, peacefully attacking other people on his team? He should leave a geographic location where he holds an almost invincible edge over his enemies just so he can have the accepting nod of an enemy?
Buck up. He beat you at the game. He lured you in and beat you. You have nothing to legitimately complain about, because if you were smart, you would have done it to him or his team. If you have a heightened sense of nonsensical honor in the fairytale world of makebelieve, then you have the option to simply avoid him and let the dishonorable curr fling his verbal assaults. They don't hurt you -- or perhaps you don't enter a world area where KILLING YOU BY ANY MEANS NECCESSARY is the purpose of 50% of the population and then be surprised that someone came up with a way to kill you with minimal effort. If you want a game where this isn't possible, there are plenty available.
More like a griefer, which made his antics instant win.
The comments on the article, where people who actually played in the same server and remember the professor's antics, are rather enlightening to the whole thing, but don't dissuade me from the thought: In a game that's structured, by its nature and mission, to be "Us vs Them" then it's within the duty of a player to be a "griefer" of the opposite team. They have a war mapped out between Heroes and Villains, and though some people want to foster a sense of alliance and treaty between the opposing forces, they have no right to show anger toward someone who would not limit hostilities directed toward the enemy's avatars. There are IRCs and forums to discuss politics, friendships, and the latest movies, and then there are videogames designed to simulate a war between factions. The griefer had every right to taunt, molest, grief, and swagger -- nay -- a DUTY to perform. Posting kill-lists and setting back the enemy's mission statuses via the "debt" system should be commended, not scorned. Don't play a game if you're gonna cry when your own team scores.
I agree. I can understand the defendant wanting the court's proceedings to remain private (so those who are ruled as 'not guilty' can keep their reputations untarnished by false allegations) but in all but sexual cases, the prosecution should be in favor of an open trial -- ESPECIALLY when it comes to copyright/trademark defense.
Anyway I think it is worth doing. Imagine how hard the lunar flight must have seemed in 1960.
1) Put man in a container
2) Make explosion underneath the container big enough for man to reach moon
3) Explode it when moon is in the correct position
4) let container make smaller explosions to adjust
5) ????
6) ????
7) ????
6) If man isn't dead yet, Profit!
It's pure semantic quibble. It's 100% manipulative ratcheting. No, I don't agree with your narrow assessments. You're talking about absolutes when dealing with completely non-binary states. For example, I'll take your generalization "No suicides are accidental" and substitute it with the much more realistic reasoning that "Most suicides are committed by those incapacitated to reason" which immediately qualifies them to be as much products of negligence as a toddler falling into a swimming pool.
Metaphorically, in this story, the woman picked up the stumbling child, put it next to the swimming pool, told others if they see the toddler wandering about, to place it back at the pool, and then left it. It was an act of pure malice that led to the death of a girl. Like I said before, if it wasn't murder, it was criminal negligence.
How much more optimal is it supposed to be? In storage, you're eliminating the huge amount of space that would be required for redundancy when you go relational (instead of needing to include the client's information and the information on the item they're bidding on for every bid). In either case, if you were looking up an item with 12,000 bids on it, you're going to get a recordset of 12,000 bids to look at. If it's
Select C.CustomerName,I.ItemName,B.* from Customers C inner join Bids B on C.CustomerID=B.CustomerID inner join Items I on I.ItemsID=B.ItemsID where ItemsID=3323432234 to get bid information on an item, and some basic information to go along with it
or
Select C.CustomerName,B.* from Customers C inner join Bids B on C.CustomerID=B.CustomerID where B.ItemsID=3323432234 to get just the bid information on the item and the customer's name to keep it more human-readable. If you don't need customer information to look at, just run a select query on the Bids table.
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With your first point, you're setting up strawmen. Depression from loss or trauma is not the same as withdrawal symptoms. I used the line to make a very limited, simple point. There's no argument in stretching it beyond the point it was meant to make. I didn't feel it neccessary to write an 60,000 word essay on the differences between hobby and addiction.
With your second paragraph, you're skirting the issue. Is it a better social experience to speak with a friend face to face or online? It's healthier to talk to a person than to talk to words on a screen. Allow me to make an analogy of this conversation if we were discussing food:
Me: It's healthier to eat vegetables than junk food. It's ok to eat junk food as long as it's not interfering with the rest of your diet.
You: What if junk food is all you have? Not everyone has vegetables available.
It is simplified, but contains the neccessary arguments. I believe you are capable of answering your own questions at this point, even if they were meant to be rhetorical (I won't assume whether they were or were not).
How? I'd imagine that a ton more people are more severely addicted to TV, sports, books and activities considered "normal" than are "addicted" to MMOs. I'd imagine the guy who spends 6 hours a day playing WoW is better off then the guy who goes to the gym for 6 hours a day. As for social progress, its a lot more social to fire up a game of WoW and chat than it is to go to the gym. And intellectual? With WoW you are constantly reading and writing and doing math.
Spending 6 hours a day doing something does not make it an addiction. Suffering from depression because you aren't spending 6 hours a day doing something makes it an addiction (outside of sleeping and autonomous functions). Addiction will cause everything directly not linked to that addiction to suffer as a result of it to one degree or another. Spending time talking to people in Azeroth is not as socially healthy as talking to people face to face. It's healthier than spending time in front of a tv or book. As a freetime activity, it's healthier than many things unless you let it become detrimental to your real non-make-believe life. It's not a problem when an activity is a healthy relief of pressure and stress... It's a problem when it's an addiction, then you may need help to return it to normal, healthy levels.
He's saying that the government spends a dollar to buy a dime. That site would cost $100,000 to put up and maybe $100,000 a year to maintain - less than 3% of the cost they're proposing. They keep at this pace and they are going to get 3 billion dollars worth for spending a trillion.
I don't know about you, but I'm going to be a little pissed off at a web site that cost eighteen million dollars and doesn't have blackjack and hookers (which I'm presuming is the case).
It doesn't have blackjack and hookers, but it will have their receipts.
I would guess that we store surprisingly few bytes for each megabyte of input.
perhaps a few bytes that you can recall on demand, but consider this: Can you remember every scene of the Harry Potter series, word for word? Where all the actors are on the screen? The looks on their faces? No... probably not... but if you were watching, say, Prisoner of Azkaban, and someone has inserted a scene where Harry Potter is wearing a Snoopy Costume, you would immediately recognize the disparity between what you had seen before and what you're seeing now. Sometimes, you forget a small scene, and when you see it, you think to yourself "I don't remember this part!" which means you remember 99% of the movie as it was.
The more you go into it, the more fascinating the brain's storage, compression, and realtime decompression abilities are -- and that's all going on in like... 2-3 lobes.
Insightful? Assuming you can perfectly remember 1 byte per second, you'd be memorizing for over 100 million years. The human brain is great and all that, but no way are you going to store that much data while being able to reproduce it later.
Considering a single "frame" of vision for a pair of human eyes is estimated at 576 megapixels (truncating at peripheral vision). We'll imagine that each pixel is assigned a 16-bit hexadecimal value. That means, each time you glance at something, each frame would be calculated at a little more than 1/1000th of a terabyte. The lowball framerate for the human eye is about 18 frames/second (things look fluid). That means that every 50 seconds, your eye is downloading a terabyte of information. He'll absorb it in less than a day through eyesight alone. That doesn't include audio, olfactory, touch, or taste. His brain's data compression will downsize a lot of that information, so it will take him more than a day, but for your i/o ports, taking in a petabyte of information is a daily task.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a living organism that downloads information at 1B/sec
Paint the windmills to look like giant supermodels!
Which is precisely why people will borrow our cellphones to commit murder!
No kidding, if they were real hackers, they would have gotten away with $1.337 Million.
Convenient how governments and businesses continue to spend other people's money on insecure systems which allow even more money to vanish.
Microsoft Windows --because plausible deniability can come in mighty handy!
In other news, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) of California told all his debtors, that were expecting over $6 billion by the end of July, that California did have the money after all, the money was on the way, but currently stuck in Outlook. "I press da send key and it says "Netvurk Error" so as soon as that gets sorted out by the boys in the netvurk, da checks vill be on their vay. No need to lower the state's credit score. The money's just stuck in the outbox! Promise!"
Wow, blaming Microsoft CAN make life easier for governments...
You put it extremely crudely, but this is more a problem than most people realize. Hospitals are not a strong business. They lose money on a lot of cases because the current costs of treating patients are ridiculous, and many insurers refuse to pay such costs - so the hospital swallows it. The most common surgery, cataract removal, typically costs its hospital thousands more to perform than they get paid, and they can't just turn the patients away. It's not all going to filthy-rich doctors and their heated pools. So many physicians are being sued for malpractice in some MSAs that the definition of "malpractice" has lost all meaning. I learned from my father (rated the 2nd best physician in the state, at what he did, when he was in practice) that there's more money in being a 100K-a-year engineer than a 400K-a-year physician -- and a much less-stressful life to live.
New technology means better healthcare means more costly healthcare means we either A) Cannot treat everyone or B) must reduce the quality of healthcare we are dispensing to sustainable levels. If these sciences find cheaper ways to fix a broken hip or perform a bicuspid valve replacement then they will aid society. If they simply come up with more expensive (albeit better) ways of current healthcare we have, then we're only digging the hole deeper. When it's 100 times cheaper to give you a 90% chance to live than to give you a 91% chance to live, they are typically compelled to spend 100 times more -- and who is going to pay for that?
There was no ban on embryonic stem cell research. There was a ban on the federal government using tax dollars to fund embryonic stem cell research.
and if I'm looking at boobies, it will show constantly changing, random boobies, so it would difficult for someone approaching the screen to figure out exactly which boobies on the screen I was looking at.
As much as I love the general principal of pissing off judges...why is this idiot pissing off the judge???
Because there's no reason this proceeding should be kept private. It's about copyright infringement, where enforcement should be a public issue -- especially when damages are being issued at those who break copyrights. Can you IMAGINE living in a world where you can get sued for copyright infringement and not let anyone know what you infringed, how you infringed, or what the reasoning was behind the order? How is there sanity in that?
Lawyer: Sir, we have 13 recorded attempts of you singing "Eye of the Tiger" while jogging. These are blatant copyright infringements and for each of these public performances, you face a fine of $80,000.
You: Lots of people sing "Eye of the Tiger" while jogging, and they don't get sued!
Lawyer: Oh, thousands are getting sued for it. Now you'll have to agree not to discuss your case with anyone but your lawyer or you'll be spending jail time as well. We're willing to settle for $5,000. We take credit cards!
Copyright enforcement should never, ever be held behind closed doors unless at the request of the prosecuted in order to preserve their reputation if found innocent. I, personally, would be willing to spend jail time in order to make this point, if I had to. I would hope anyone who thinks themself an honest American would at least consider it.
Because local climate suddenly equates to global mean temperature? Huh... go figure...
Um... Because solar weather affects global weather.
It has no mention of a resurrection.
If you ignore the endings of the other 3 gospels. Go ahead and ignore the entire book of Acts where it repeatedly explains that Christianity would have been adopted by most Greeks if it were not for the "ridiculous" teaching of the resurrection. Ignore most of the epistles of Paul, like 1 Corinthians, becaues he chides the members of the church for disbelieving the resurrection. You get your information out of a pamphlet, or something?
Try calculating how much energy the sun has (E=mc^2): mass of sun * c^2. Want it in a different unit? Just say so: in kilowatt hours.
I thought my energy bills were bad... Wow... the Sun must cost a FORTUNE to keep running! No wonder they keep it turned off at night.
I didn't make your point. I said your point is only valid for smug douchebags who think their own selfishness outweighs design. If these socially-beligerent scabs of humanity want to stamp out the existence of all entertainment mediums that doesn't agree with their pathetically narrow scope of enjoyment, I'd be proud to rain on their parade. The rules are plain: "Use the arena to kill each other. Half of you are villains. Half of you are heroes. Make it interesting." and these douchebags think that their enlightened sense of community is more provocative sport. It's not. It's not what the game was designed for and, socially, it's nothing but a blight. They're angry at someone who used the area for what it was designed for. They're shocked at the audacity that someone is cutting in front of them in line when all they wanted to do was yak it up with the teller. They're swearing over the fact someone is honking at them because they're using their cellphone instead of their blinker when changing lanes. They're pissing themselves in fury that someone stepped up and said "This isn't your private bathroom. Change and get out." and making death threats against someone who picked up their fluffy poodle and chucked it into traffic with the only excuse being 'No one should poo in the sandbox. That's not what it's here for. Even if you and all your jerkoff friends take your dogs here to poo, that doesn't make it the sandbox's purpose. Damn you if your egocentrism makes you think that your preference for its misuse matters.'
These are the sames sorts of douchebags who use grocery lines as social forums, fitness center locker rooms as personal care/exhibition booths, and freeways as call centers. They're not some majority of interests that form a socially-empowering group. They're the "in-your-way" society ruiners. They take their dogs to crap in sandboxes and they sue companies when they put household chemicals in their own eyes. The only majority they form is the majority of hot air and bullcrap that comes out of their mouths in their self-righteous pursuits toward self-gratification. They see a system, decide how they want to use the system, and then through their blubbery, inept, tottering gestahlts manage to actually take root in systems according to a stretch of that system's acceptance and rules, then explain that anyone who attempts to use the system for its intended purposes is less insightful than they are and in a minority -- in other words they devour the natives. It makes me want to start up an NCSoft account just so I can continue what Twixt had done -- grief these wastes of carbon until they take their game-ruining attitudes and move to something designed so they can talk like civil people... like a chat room. Not a place where messages are enabled simply so you can tell the enemy where his mother spent last night.
So, since he was on the opposite team, he should let you kill him every now and then to keep things even? He should let you go about, peacefully attacking other people on his team? He should leave a geographic location where he holds an almost invincible edge over his enemies just so he can have the accepting nod of an enemy?
Buck up. He beat you at the game. He lured you in and beat you. You have nothing to legitimately complain about, because if you were smart, you would have done it to him or his team. If you have a heightened sense of nonsensical honor in the fairytale world of makebelieve, then you have the option to simply avoid him and let the dishonorable curr fling his verbal assaults. They don't hurt you -- or perhaps you don't enter a world area where KILLING YOU BY ANY MEANS NECCESSARY is the purpose of 50% of the population and then be surprised that someone came up with a way to kill you with minimal effort. If you want a game where this isn't possible, there are plenty available.
More like a griefer, which made his antics instant win.
The comments on the article, where people who actually played in the same server and remember the professor's antics, are rather enlightening to the whole thing, but don't dissuade me from the thought: In a game that's structured, by its nature and mission, to be "Us vs Them" then it's within the duty of a player to be a "griefer" of the opposite team. They have a war mapped out between Heroes and Villains, and though some people want to foster a sense of alliance and treaty between the opposing forces, they have no right to show anger toward someone who would not limit hostilities directed toward the enemy's avatars. There are IRCs and forums to discuss politics, friendships, and the latest movies, and then there are videogames designed to simulate a war between factions. The griefer had every right to taunt, molest, grief, and swagger -- nay -- a DUTY to perform. Posting kill-lists and setting back the enemy's mission statuses via the "debt" system should be commended, not scorned. Don't play a game if you're gonna cry when your own team scores.
I agree. I can understand the defendant wanting the court's proceedings to remain private (so those who are ruled as 'not guilty' can keep their reputations untarnished by false allegations) but in all but sexual cases, the prosecution should be in favor of an open trial -- ESPECIALLY when it comes to copyright/trademark defense.
Anyway I think it is worth doing. Imagine how hard the lunar flight must have seemed in 1960.
1) Put man in a container
2) Make explosion underneath the container big enough for man to reach moon
3) Explode it when moon is in the correct position
4) let container make smaller explosions to adjust
5) ????
6) ????
7) ????
6) If man isn't dead yet, Profit!
It's pure semantic quibble. It's 100% manipulative ratcheting. No, I don't agree with your narrow assessments. You're talking about absolutes when dealing with completely non-binary states. For example, I'll take your generalization "No suicides are accidental" and substitute it with the much more realistic reasoning that "Most suicides are committed by those incapacitated to reason" which immediately qualifies them to be as much products of negligence as a toddler falling into a swimming pool.
Metaphorically, in this story, the woman picked up the stumbling child, put it next to the swimming pool, told others if they see the toddler wandering about, to place it back at the pool, and then left it. It was an act of pure malice that led to the death of a girl. Like I said before, if it wasn't murder, it was criminal negligence.
How much more optimal is it supposed to be? In storage, you're eliminating the huge amount of space that would be required for redundancy when you go relational (instead of needing to include the client's information and the information on the item they're bidding on for every bid). In either case, if you were looking up an item with 12,000 bids on it, you're going to get a recordset of 12,000 bids to look at. If it's
Select C.CustomerName,I.ItemName,B.* from Customers C inner join Bids B on C.CustomerID=B.CustomerID inner join Items I on I.ItemsID=B.ItemsID where ItemsID=3323432234 to get bid information on an item, and some basic information to go along with it
or
Select C.CustomerName,B.* from Customers C inner join Bids B on C.CustomerID=B.CustomerID where B.ItemsID=3323432234 to get just the bid information on the item and the customer's name to keep it more human-readable. If you don't need customer information to look at, just run a select query on the Bids table.