"Well as a publisher I’d have to ask myself why bother releasing a game for the PC at all? Why don’t I just give it away for free?"
After stating a minute earlier that the PC version made nine and a half million euros in sales. Given it's on an xbox already, the art and level design is all done, etc, etc. Yes why not not take 9 million euros that's on the table, that'd be rational.
Sure, and there's a process for making amendments. The idea is to do that rather than just ignoring the constitution (and yes, I wouldn't give such a change much chance of making it through said process).
Sacrificing some things which can be good in order to prevent government oppression of the people is one of the choices the US made. Of course that has been ignored in increasing levels since the day it was made anyway...
The Israelis have the benefit of not having to work around the various restrictions on government that the US has at all and hence can just do the things that the TSA would like to do but can't.
Hence we get ridiculous crap that doesn't work but at least works around the rules.
Why would you want to give the police anything when they are trying to find something to put you in prison for?
It's no different than refusing their request to search your car, or their request to search your house, or their request to enter your house, or to talk them without a lawyer.
It doesn't matter if you think you have done nothing wrong. You might be ignorant of a law you have broken, there might be a mistake, etc.
Why should they be able to stop and check without any probable cause? Sure if I'm swerving or if I just left a bar, but just because I'm driving?
And yes that they do likely makes driving safer and is a good thing for the community as a whole, but so are lots of other things that we don't let the government or law enforcement do because the rights of the people are more important than those benefits. Well there used to be anyway...
Sure in the US you have tax incentives that make buying likely a better option in a normal market. Then again I my rent at the moment is lower than the interest plus property taxes plus HOA fees I would be paying if I bought the same house, so I don't think we are in a normal market everywhere yet - prices are still too high in lots of places.
It is much riskier to buy, even when it's a win financially, since you are putting a large proportion of your "net worth" in one asset (not just asset class, but asset). A random decision by the government on where to put a highway could lose you 50% or more of the value or give you a 100% gain overnight. "location, location, location" is strange - I've seen one part of a city triple in price while another part drops to almost 0 when there was no indication of any difference a decade earlier.
That calculator has rent prices increasing at 3 times the rate of property prices, which seems strange...
but my question about figures was for colonizing mars over the moon being worth it in the long term, not buying a house over renting:)
Sitting in a chair reading slashdot, watching youtube videos, playing mindcraft, IMing with friends, and occasionally answering the phone is pretty damn easy too.
But yes "ease" is not the only factor, but that was never implied by the original claim anyway.
If you have two options A and B. Both have the same benefits but B is easier (read has fewer costs) than A. B should be done, not A.
Clearly sitting sitting on the beach and picking fruit does not have the same benefits as working in an office, so they aren't interchangable.
Colonizing mars and colonizing moon, however, have very similar benefits. I guess a mars colony might possibly survive some mega-asteroid type event that could take out both the moon and the earth at once, but the odds of that are so ridiculous I think it can be ignored.
The potential for doing discovering life on mars (or discovering the remains of life that was there) do make for a benefit over the moon in terms of doing science in person - but we haven't yet so anyway so that remains just a potential benefit.
Renting a house is often more rational in the long term, purely in terms of financial gains. it all depends on the relative costs of loan financing and renting and the relative performance of a single real estate investment against some other investment strategy.
Do you have some figures to back up that those benefits outweigh the initial additional issues in the long term? Or is just a hypothetical "they could" under some unspecified conditions?
Why not express it more clearly then? And then go on the four paragraph rant.
Something like:
When you make a DNS query your IP address is not exposed to the server making the geolocation decisions. All it gets is the IP address of the DNS server you are using, and if the result is cached already it doesn't see the request at all.
Their DNS server never knows your IP since if the name result isn't cached by the DNS server you are using then that server makes the request to them not your computer and hence they either see nothing or the IP of the DNS server you are using.
Better obviously means more precise and accurate control.
And I really can't see how moving a couple of joysticks and clicking buttons is more natural or realistic than a mouse and a keyboard. Neither of them are anything like ducking for cover in a jungle while trying to return fire with an M16.
1. They have a veto on the security council. 2. They make all the stuff the US uses, so five minutes later you have riots in the US because TVs cost $25,000. 3. There are many countries that like them.
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"how much" not "all".
Who cares if they complain if they also hand over $12,000,000?
That's funny, they conclude with
"Well as a publisher I’d have to ask myself why bother releasing a game for the PC at all? Why don’t I just give it away for free?"
After stating a minute earlier that the PC version made nine and a half million euros in sales. Given it's on an xbox already, the art and level design is all done, etc, etc. Yes why not not take 9 million euros that's on the table, that'd be rational.
And yet you not only read but post in an article about games?
Sure, and there's a process for making amendments. The idea is to do that rather than just ignoring the constitution (and yes, I wouldn't give such a change much chance of making it through said process).
Sacrificing some things which can be good in order to prevent government oppression of the people is one of the choices the US made. Of course that has been ignored in increasing levels since the day it was made anyway...
Yeah I'm not sure where I plucked the moon from, must have mixed up some threads or something...
Of course not making sense is one of my best skills.
The Israelis have the benefit of not having to work around the various restrictions on government that the US has at all and hence can just do the things that the TSA would like to do but can't.
Hence we get ridiculous crap that doesn't work but at least works around the rules.
Australia doesn't have an equivalent of the fourth amendment, and hence can do things that American law enforcement can not.
Of course the supreme court has found a way around all that, but even that has some restrictions that the Australian model doesn't fit into.
Why would you want to give the police anything when they are trying to find something to put you in prison for?
It's no different than refusing their request to search your car, or their request to search your house, or their request to enter your house, or to talk them without a lawyer.
It doesn't matter if you think you have done nothing wrong. You might be ignorant of a law you have broken, there might be a mistake, etc.
Why should they be able to stop and check without any probable cause? Sure if I'm swerving or if I just left a bar, but just because I'm driving?
And yes that they do likely makes driving safer and is a good thing for the community as a whole, but so are lots of other things that we don't let the government or law enforcement do because the rights of the people are more important than those benefits. Well there used to be anyway...
I wasn't replying to your original point.
But. Opportunity cost. Account management overhead. Support costs. Network capacity. etc.
Sure in the US you have tax incentives that make buying likely a better option in a normal market. Then again I my rent at the moment is lower than the interest plus property taxes plus HOA fees I would be paying if I bought the same house, so I don't think we are in a normal market everywhere yet - prices are still too high in lots of places.
It is much riskier to buy, even when it's a win financially, since you are putting a large proportion of your "net worth" in one asset (not just asset class, but asset). A random decision by the government on where to put a highway could lose you 50% or more of the value or give you a 100% gain overnight. "location, location, location" is strange - I've seen one part of a city triple in price while another part drops to almost 0 when there was no indication of any difference a decade earlier.
That calculator has rent prices increasing at 3 times the rate of property prices, which seems strange...
but my question about figures was for colonizing mars over the moon being worth it in the long term, not buying a house over renting :)
Sitting in a chair reading slashdot, watching youtube videos, playing mindcraft, IMing with friends, and occasionally answering the phone is pretty damn easy too.
But yes "ease" is not the only factor, but that was never implied by the original claim anyway.
If you have two options A and B. Both have the same benefits but B is easier (read has fewer costs) than A. B should be done, not A.
Clearly sitting sitting on the beach and picking fruit does not have the same benefits as working in an office, so they aren't interchangable.
Colonizing mars and colonizing moon, however, have very similar benefits. I guess a mars colony might possibly survive some mega-asteroid type event that could take out both the moon and the earth at once, but the odds of that are so ridiculous I think it can be ignored.
The potential for doing discovering life on mars (or discovering the remains of life that was there) do make for a benefit over the moon in terms of doing science in person - but we haven't yet so anyway so that remains just a potential benefit.
Because nothing else in the world is priced according to the value the buyer places on it instead of according to the cost of production.
Nothing!
Renting a house is often more rational in the long term, purely in terms of financial gains. it all depends on the relative costs of loan financing and renting and the relative performance of a single real estate investment against some other investment strategy.
Do you have some figures to back up that those benefits outweigh the initial additional issues in the long term? Or is just a hypothetical "they could" under some unspecified conditions?
Of course it is. Orders of magnitude easier.
Why not express it more clearly then? And then go on the four paragraph rant.
Something like:
When you make a DNS query your IP address is not exposed to the server making the geolocation decisions. All it gets is the IP address of the DNS server you are using, and if the result is cached already it doesn't see the request at all.
It's at the level of the minimum damages when found guilty, and since guilt* was pretty damn clear that's a good deal.
* Sure the law is stupid, but it is what it is.
When you banish anyone who thinks about not liking the way you do things it should be reasonably easy to please everyone who is left.
Their DNS server never knows your IP since if the name result isn't cached by the DNS server you are using then that server makes the request to them not your computer and hence they either see nothing or the IP of the DNS server you are using.
Better obviously means more precise and accurate control.
And I really can't see how moving a couple of joysticks and clicking buttons is more natural or realistic than a mouse and a keyboard. Neither of them are anything like ducking for cover in a jungle while trying to return fire with an M16.
Buy an iphone.
1. They have a veto on the security council.
2. They make all the stuff the US uses, so five minutes later you have riots in the US because TVs cost $25,000.
3. There are many countries that like them.
Do you know what peer to peer means?
here's a hint: there are no servers, they just use the bandwidth and cpu of random clients to do that work.
That's right, how long when otherOS was available did it last without such a crack?
And once it was removed, how long?