Seriously, 15k for skilled labor is crazy. If the US wants to offer wages like that, all the best workers will be going off to a first world country like India.
Let's say you are a large military power, with a naval base in Hawaii. Let's say another large power in the Pacific is causing a bit of trouble.
Let's say that a guy (let's just call him Billy Mitchell) writes a 324-page report predicting a war in the Pacific, and pointing out that if it happens, the ships in your Hawaiian base are sitting ducks to an air attack.
Do you fix your defenses? If you don't immediately fix your defenses, do you try to gag the guy who is pointing out your weaknesses?
That would be nice, but very difficult to do. Please just give us decent scripted stories. Most of the current ones suck. Remember the days of Monkey Island, Zelda, Mist, Dawn of War, Starcraft and Minesweeper, and Quake?
1. Lurk for a while.
2. Make a post on an introductory thread.
3. Attempt to join in a discussion, preferably one that you *really* care about, and get shouted down because everyone thinks you're an asshat.
4. Karma whore on bullshit discussions, to get your reputation back.
5. ???
I'm bagging the US electoral system, which is rigged to have 2 main parties. No preferences or runoff votes mean that voting for the minor parties is a wasted vote. Freedom of speech is a great thing for the US. There are some problems with the US press, but the only way to fix them would require making the US a dictatorship, and that doesn't seem like a great idea.
Just wondering, do 'controversial' companies sponsor these lobby groups (and maybe even help write the press releases) as a free publicity stunt? I'd be somewhat surprised if they didn't.
Mac products are great value nowadays (for me, at least), but we already know that there are Apple fanboys who would pay twice the price for half the product, just because it comes from Apple. Shares are no different - people invest in attractive companies, or companies with a cult following. Ford, GM, Playboy, Google... lots of people buy shares at a higher price because they like the company, and it tickles their ego to have a piece of the pie. Sometimes they are right.
How can it be copy-write infringement if the work is intended to satirize or criticizes the IOC? The intention of copy-write is to stop people stealing creative works. The intention of trade mark laws (which may be more relevant) is to stop people passing themselves off as another company. You can't use Mickey Mouse in a cartoon (that's passing yourself off as an "official" Disney cartoon producer), but you use Mickey Mouse in a satire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disneyland_Memorial_Orgy
Restart, recover. Reimage. Utility computing should be able to take a node going down. Heck, it should just about assume that rogue nodes are going to actively attack you. Otherwise you go down like Amazon when anything goes pear shaped. That is expensive, but so is all security.
*sigh* kind of. Empathy is a learned behavior - you kick the dog and you get bitten, or get in trouble. Most infants are utterly selfish, but they learn to see other peoples point of view (we call it empathy) before they get big enough to do any real damage (or big enough that they don't need to see other peoples views). Otherwise it's Lord of the Flies for the rest of their lives.
A company might spend hundreds of thousands on an industry application, then turn it into an industry standard (or consortium developed) open source application. This gives them a slight advantage (as they already know the program), and allows them to focus on core business, not programming. The problem is, the GPL doesn't stop a competitor forking the project and gaining a competitive advantage developing extra features in house (obviously not distributing back to the world). There are other licenses, (RPL) that fix this, but FSF says they are too free or something.
Look everyone, the human brain can fill in details. VHS had crap quality, but nobody minded. DVD won because VHS tapes had to be rewinded, cleaned, and untangled. You watched a VHS a few times, and then the kids would get peanut butter on the tapes and the player was destroyed. The advantage of DVD media (no degradation, no rewind, smaller size) was far better than the advantage of Blue-ray over DVD (picture looks a bit clearer).
Any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form? Like, any?
Like, tattoos, t-shirts, a pack of card, strings of beads, cigarette papers, the color of your shoes, pictures, paintings, shopping lists...
In some jurisdictions, a threat to cause physical harm is considered assault. It's not about free speech, it's not even about the right to slander (which is not legal, though some free speech advocates may wish it were), threats are an act of violence.
If somebody threatens to physically harm you, and those threats are creditable, it's not psychologically very different to actually being harmed.
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Hehe. Finland is special. TFA seems to suggest a certain level of genetic ... recycling
Seriously, 15k for skilled labor is crazy. If the US wants to offer wages like that, all the best workers will be going off to a first world country like India.
Let's say you are a large military power, with a naval base in Hawaii. Let's say another large power in the Pacific is causing a bit of trouble.
Let's say that a guy (let's just call him Billy Mitchell) writes a 324-page report predicting a war in the Pacific, and pointing out that if it happens, the ships in your Hawaiian base are sitting ducks to an air attack.
Do you fix your defenses? If you don't immediately fix your defenses, do you try to gag the guy who is pointing out your weaknesses?
That would be nice, but very difficult to do. Please just give us decent scripted stories. Most of the current ones suck. Remember the days of Monkey Island, Zelda, Mist, Dawn of War, Starcraft and Minesweeper, and Quake?
1. Lurk for a while. 2. Make a post on an introductory thread. 3. Attempt to join in a discussion, preferably one that you *really* care about, and get shouted down because everyone thinks you're an asshat. 4. Karma whore on bullshit discussions, to get your reputation back. 5. ???
Vaporized LSD would work for that, in a large number of the soldiers it hits. There might be a few who have 'adverse reactions' though....
I'm bagging the US electoral system, which is rigged to have 2 main parties. No preferences or runoff votes mean that voting for the minor parties is a wasted vote. Freedom of speech is a great thing for the US. There are some problems with the US press, but the only way to fix them would require making the US a dictatorship, and that doesn't seem like a great idea.
It's not that much of a dictatorship. The people get to vote on which CP member gets in. It's a bit like the US really, but with one less party.
And think of all the hardware addons for Dark Room Sex Game.
Maybe the 8 month child? I hear kids are higher maintenance maintenance than Gentoo.
Just wondering, do 'controversial' companies sponsor these lobby groups (and maybe even help write the press releases) as a free publicity stunt? I'd be somewhat surprised if they didn't.
Mac products are great value nowadays (for me, at least), but we already know that there are Apple fanboys who would pay twice the price for half the product, just because it comes from Apple. Shares are no different - people invest in attractive companies, or companies with a cult following. Ford, GM, Playboy, Google ... lots of people buy shares at a higher price because they like the company, and it tickles their ego to have a piece of the pie. Sometimes they are right.
How can it be copy-write infringement if the work is intended to satirize or criticizes the IOC? The intention of copy-write is to stop people stealing creative works. The intention of trade mark laws (which may be more relevant) is to stop people passing themselves off as another company. You can't use Mickey Mouse in a cartoon (that's passing yourself off as an "official" Disney cartoon producer), but you use Mickey Mouse in a satire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disneyland_Memorial_Orgy
Restart, recover. Reimage. Utility computing should be able to take a node going down. Heck, it should just about assume that rogue nodes are going to actively attack you. Otherwise you go down like Amazon when anything goes pear shaped. That is expensive, but so is all security.
*sigh* kind of. Empathy is a learned behavior - you kick the dog and you get bitten, or get in trouble. Most infants are utterly selfish, but they learn to see other peoples point of view (we call it empathy) before they get big enough to do any real damage (or big enough that they don't need to see other peoples views). Otherwise it's Lord of the Flies for the rest of their lives.
Also, people can lip-read a bit when speaking face to face. You can't lip read with phones, so you need to be louder or clearer.
There is a technical solution to a social problem then. Everyone gets chipped with RFID, and can link their ID to a robots.txt.
I know, you could make a movie about this art critic, who stumbles on a a clue to a secret society. Only problem is, he already found the holy grail.
Scientific data is write-once, read-many (not read-write financial transactions), so pretty much everything in the database is overhead.
A company might spend hundreds of thousands on an industry application, then turn it into an industry standard (or consortium developed) open source application. This gives them a slight advantage (as they already know the program), and allows them to focus on core business, not programming. The problem is, the GPL doesn't stop a competitor forking the project and gaining a competitive advantage developing extra features in house (obviously not distributing back to the world). There are other licenses, (RPL) that fix this, but FSF says they are too free or something.
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Look everyone, the human brain can fill in details. VHS had crap quality, but nobody minded. DVD won because VHS tapes had to be rewinded, cleaned, and untangled. You watched a VHS a few times, and then the kids would get peanut butter on the tapes and the player was destroyed. The advantage of DVD media (no degradation, no rewind, smaller size) was far better than the advantage of Blue-ray over DVD (picture looks a bit clearer).
Nah. In vitro mean lacks blood vessels, so it sort of rots. Yuck. I expect that this may be used to beef up 'natural' livestock though.
Any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form? Like, any? Like, tattoos, t-shirts, a pack of card, strings of beads, cigarette papers, the color of your shoes, pictures, paintings, shopping lists ...
In some jurisdictions, a threat to cause physical harm is considered assault. It's not about free speech, it's not even about the right to slander (which is not legal, though some free speech advocates may wish it were), threats are an act of violence. If somebody threatens to physically harm you, and those threats are creditable, it's not psychologically very different to actually being harmed.