Because no business has ever subsidised one product line with revenue from another. Never in all of history. A casino has never eaten the cost of a room (given free must be below what it costs to have a maid clean it) because they'll make up the loss on that product with the additional profits on another product like the gambling tables.
Which of course isn't applicable to the take-out/delivery case, but then again you spoke about general businesses. Plus of course take-out has some costs that delivery does not - you need a store front of some sort that isn't necessary if you did only delivery. You need a parking spot for the customers, some security precautions since it's easier to be robbed when you let people in to pay and pick up their stuff.
That maximum length desn't apply for people who have built up a history of uploading only stuff that fits their community guidelines. It certainly doesn't stop google from adding video themselves.
He's talking about devices specifically designed to track cargo in transit and to tell paranoid parents where their kid is at all times. So he's pointing out that these devices not only don't help with what they are designed for but in fact make things worse.
Surely the reason for the buffer is because there's te chance of an error in the measurement? In which case it was off by 4mph by your measurement, which is less than the buffer amount and hence perfectly fine since it won't flag anyone who isn't actually speeding.
ESBR ratings already have a content descriptors which provide far more information that a 1-5 scale (does 2/5 for violence mean violence of a more graphic nature that a 1/5 score, or does it mean a higher quantity of the same violence?).
Rather than having to pick a number on a 1-5 violence scale to limit what can be played you choose from a list (note this is alpabetical not orded by violence level - which is debatable anyway is a photorealistic rape scene more or less violent than an animated decapitation):
Animated Blood - Discolored and/or unrealistic depictions of blood Blood - Depictions of blood Blood and Gore - Depictions of blood or the mutilation of body parts Cartoon Violence - Violent actions involving cartoon-like situations and characters. May include violence where a character is unharmed after the action has been inflicted Fantasy Violence - Violent actions of a fantasy nature, involving human or non-human characters in situations easily distinguishable from real life Intense Violence - Graphic and realistic-looking depictions of physical conflict. May involve extreme and/or realistic blood, gore, weapons and depictions of human injury and death Sexual Violence - Depictions of rape or other violent sexual acts Violence - Scenes involving aggressive conflict. May contain bloodless dismemberment Violent References - References to violent acts
And there's the whole "gambling" category you didn't include that some people would consider "worse" than language.
Yes the top line rating isn't very useful, but there's a lot more detail on the box take two games both with an M:
Homefront: Blood, Strong Language, Violence
L.A. NOIRE: Blood and Gore, Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs, Violence
Clearly very different, but the current ESBR system provides the information to tell the difference if you look at a bit more than just the top level rating.
A single SSBN can do a pretty good job of killing everything on a battlefield... And you have no more battlefield afterwards for anything that arrives afterwards too.
It's a silly story because those very people likely also think that the FCC and the FDA and the USDoA are run badly and doing bad things. That the NWS and NASA would be much better as private enterprises. And that the DoE and the NHTSA are also screwing everything up. The EPA is a bunch of interfering hippies. That the Federal Reserve is either evil incarnate and destroying the entire US economy or a conspiracy by the New World Order Jewish Bankers to enslave everyone (depending on the flavor of this particular person). Fire Marshal inspections are a violation of their right to do what they want with their property and private security would be an order of magnitude better than government police.
And the National Parks Service? Are you serious? Pinko greeny hippies, the lot of them.
The military stuff, that's fine - it's the proper domain of the government.
So your story just confirms their view that the government power grab knows no bounds and that they are destroying this once free nation.
There's not enough of it for them to have gotten their fair share in that "cooperation" though. And of course those green decidious trees mock them every fall...
Because in order for any sort of life to exist the energy needs to be harnessed, and the planet's star is a pretty large energy source, so there's a pretty large niche you would expect to be filled with something.
Or if you like the old definition, why wouldn't there be a life form that isn't mobile? Seems another pretty huge niche to be filled with something.
Plants don't "maximize energy absorption for photosynthesis" on Earth so why leap to the assumption that they would elsewhere. In fact Green is just about the worst color (lets ignore white) they could use on Earth. And retinal exists and is much better than chlorophyll in terms of using the "right" part of the spectrum to get more energy from sunlight (though I think it's then less efficient at harnassing it).
And of course absorbing too much energy can be a bad thing, heat is an unavoidable product (the atronomers should know that at least, thermodnamics is pretty important to their field...).
Evolution does not produce perfection, it creeps toward local maximas in the fitness space - OK now the biologists can call me stupid:)
Do you really think ESBR staff played all the way through Dragon Age as every character type, doing every quest, and choosing every option?
There's no way they can check everything anyway, a developer can stick in an easter egg that you will never figure about by just playing the game that shows some content you don't otherwise see. So why should they pretend to?
Because the company in question has exactly 0 presence in North Korea and will sell exactly 0 copies in North Korea anyway. Whereas the off chance that they annoy someone in China with the authority to make life difficult makes adding a trivial little change to their future history a no brainer.
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So If you replace one neuron in the midst of synapses firing, you are no longer you?
How about 30,000,000 of them?
Each second?
For a year?
At which point are you not you?
Because you couldn't do those things if the playstation was working?
When it's working are you playing it 24x7 and ignoring him or something?
I'm not sure comping a room because you'll make more money on the tables is complicated, but ok...
You're doing it wrong. Netflix works fine without being logged into PSN...
Because no business has ever subsidised one product line with revenue from another. Never in all of history. A casino has never eaten the cost of a room (given free must be below what it costs to have a maid clean it) because they'll make up the loss on that product with the additional profits on another product like the gambling tables.
Which of course isn't applicable to the take-out/delivery case, but then again you spoke about general businesses. Plus of course take-out has some costs that delivery does not - you need a store front of some sort that isn't necessary if you did only delivery. You need a parking spot for the customers, some security precautions since it's easier to be robbed when you let people in to pay and pick up their stuff.
Publix did PublixDirect back in 2001, failed miserably (in FL) and they shut it down in 2003 because there wasn't a market for it.
But they aren't Walmart
Peapod has been doing groceries over the internet in the US for over 20 years, but they also aren't Walmart.
That maximum length desn't apply for people who have built up a history of uploading only stuff that fits their community guidelines. It certainly doesn't stop google from adding video themselves.
I dare you to watch this one for its entire length: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5PiXt6INSM
THough obviously MST3k episodes are going to violate the copyright part of those guidelines...
He's talking about devices specifically designed to track cargo in transit and to tell paranoid parents where their kid is at all times. So he's pointing out that these devices not only don't help with what they are designed for but in fact make things worse.
But they already exist in the existing system, so what are you gaining with a new one?
Surely the reason for the buffer is because there's te chance of an error in the measurement? In which case it was off by 4mph by your measurement, which is less than the buffer amount and hence perfectly fine since it won't flag anyone who isn't actually speeding.
ESBR ratings already have a content descriptors which provide far more information that a 1-5 scale (does 2/5 for violence mean violence of a more graphic nature that a 1/5 score, or does it mean a higher quantity of the same violence?).
Rather than having to pick a number on a 1-5 violence scale to limit what can be played you choose from a list (note this is alpabetical not orded by violence level - which is debatable anyway is a photorealistic rape scene more or less violent than an animated decapitation):
Animated Blood - Discolored and/or unrealistic depictions of blood
Blood - Depictions of blood
Blood and Gore - Depictions of blood or the mutilation of body parts
Cartoon Violence - Violent actions involving cartoon-like situations and characters. May include violence where a character is unharmed after the action has been inflicted
Fantasy Violence - Violent actions of a fantasy nature, involving human or non-human characters in situations easily distinguishable from real life
Intense Violence - Graphic and realistic-looking depictions of physical conflict. May involve extreme and/or realistic blood, gore, weapons and depictions of human injury and death
Sexual Violence - Depictions of rape or other violent sexual acts
Violence - Scenes involving aggressive conflict. May contain bloodless dismemberment
Violent References - References to violent acts
And there's the whole "gambling" category you didn't include that some people would consider "worse" than language.
Yes the top line rating isn't very useful, but there's a lot more detail on the box take two games both with an M:
Homefront: Blood, Strong Language, Violence
L.A. NOIRE: Blood and Gore, Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs, Violence
Clearly very different, but the current ESBR system provides the information to tell the difference if you look at a bit more than just the top level rating.
Of course that should be a crime. it is not, however, called theft.
Copyright infringement is also a crime, is is also not, however, called theft.
Yeah that's no problem, I'll even save you the effort of hacking. Here's what you'll download: $33734.13.
Have fun playing with your copy of that number.
A single SSBN can do a pretty good job of killing everything on a battlefield... And you have no more battlefield afterwards for anything that arrives afterwards too.
It's a silly story because those very people likely also think that the FCC and the FDA and the USDoA are run badly and doing bad things. That the NWS and NASA would be much better as private enterprises. And that the DoE and the NHTSA are also screwing everything up. The EPA is a bunch of interfering hippies. That the Federal Reserve is either evil incarnate and destroying the entire US economy or a conspiracy by the New World Order Jewish Bankers to enslave everyone (depending on the flavor of this particular person). Fire Marshal inspections are a violation of their right to do what they want with their property and private security would be an order of magnitude better than government police.
And the National Parks Service? Are you serious? Pinko greeny hippies, the lot of them.
The military stuff, that's fine - it's the proper domain of the government.
So your story just confirms their view that the government power grab knows no bounds and that they are destroying this once free nation.
I'm not angry.
There's not enough of it for them to have gotten their fair share in that "cooperation" though. And of course those green decidious trees mock them every fall...
I did make up the whole local maxima thing, and it's likely as wrong as the stuff those astronomers made up.
Because in order for any sort of life to exist the energy needs to be harnessed, and the planet's star is a pretty large energy source, so there's a pretty large niche you would expect to be filled with something.
Or if you like the old definition, why wouldn't there be a life form that isn't mobile? Seems another pretty huge niche to be filled with something.
Have you looked outside? Purple got the short straw on that bit of cooperation.
Plants don't "maximize energy absorption for photosynthesis" on Earth so why leap to the assumption that they would elsewhere. In fact Green is just about the worst color (lets ignore white) they could use on Earth. And retinal exists and is much better than chlorophyll in terms of using the "right" part of the spectrum to get more energy from sunlight (though I think it's then less efficient at harnassing it).
And of course absorbing too much energy can be a bad thing, heat is an unavoidable product (the atronomers should know that at least, thermodnamics is pretty important to their field...).
Evolution does not produce perfection, it creeps toward local maximas in the fitness space - OK now the biologists can call me stupid :)
Congrats on being a fuckwit.
They already are, and they can't not be.
Do you really think ESBR staff played all the way through Dragon Age as every character type, doing every quest, and choosing every option?
There's no way they can check everything anyway, a developer can stick in an easter egg that you will never figure about by just playing the game that shows some content you don't otherwise see. So why should they pretend to?
Because the company in question has exactly 0 presence in North Korea and will sell exactly 0 copies in North Korea anyway. Whereas the off chance that they annoy someone in China with the authority to make life difficult makes adding a trivial little change to their future history a no brainer.