Depriving you of a song because you can't afford it, is not the same as letting you suffer because you can't afford the treatment.
But if the medicine wouldn't exist without these companies, is it more evil to let the company go bankrupt, and stop it making new medicine?
And as someone who as worked with these companies, I assure you there are plenty of folks who don't give a rats arse about curing people.
I'm sure there are, but I'm also sure that the other type exists.
And are you sure that this new medicine is really is effective...
Some of it isn't, and the trials the companies run are often not ideal, and sometimes truly despicable. But some of the new medicine is effective
I think it would be better to make a system where either the testing of medicine is done by the government (to remove the possibility of bad studies, or over-interpretation), or where the entire drug discovery and testing is done by the government (to remove the drug representatives and their damaging effect on doctors prescription practice), but that system needs to be built first, and until that is done, the old system is all we have to find new drugs.
Markets only work when there is competition. "Intellectual Property" is by definition a legal monopoly. And you won't find me crying for any business with a legal monopoly that can't break even. They deserve to die, both for their own ineptitude and for the sake of having a free (as in liberty) marketplace.
Before we can allow the medicine companies to die, we should have another plan for making new drugs. Some people have argued that this is a job for the government, but the infrastructure and institutions needed for this shift is not there. Before we are sure we have a new way of producing new drugs, it would be foolish to remove our old way.
Big Pharma gets here on Slashdot compared to the MPAA and RIAA, considering they're far more evil about both their goals and methods.
Let's see, Big Pharma has the goal of raking in money by producing medicine, MPAA and RIAA has the goal of raking in money by producing entertainment. Yes, I see, medicine is so much eviller than entertainment.
I'm not saying that their methods are any better, or that they exist to do good (they don't, but a large portion of the people working for them are in the business to help cure people), or don't lie about the effectiveness and side effects of their products (they certainly do, and should be punished for doing it), or aren't bastards who would sell their grandmothers to cannibals to make a dime, but a side effect of some of their actions are that it sometimes produce new, effective medicine, which isn't all that bad.
That's weird, for the last several years, I have experienced much bigger problems getting printers to work with Windows then with Linux (Kubuntu). I can't remember an instance where a printer worked with Windows and not with Linux, I can remember at least one of each of printers working with Linux and not with windows, of printers sort-of-working with Linux and not with windows, and of printers working with neither Windows nor Linux. When printers work with both, getting them to work with Linux is much easier and faster.
I haven't worked with scanners, so I wouldn't know.
I think I remember that the conspiracy theory of Afghanistan is about a way to transport the oil from Caucasus to the sea, out of reach of Russia. Mines is probably not worth it, as the absence of a stable state makes it cost-prohibitive to mine lithium, and Afghanistan will not be stable enough for many years to come (Bolivia is much more stable, and still not stable enough that it is profitable to mine the biggest lithium reserve in the world.). Not that that will stop the conspiracy theorists from claiming that that is the reason.
Yes, you are the only one who can see your straw man. Unless you can find a statement from EFF stating that people should get more bandwidth than they are promised. You are conflating bandwidth and amount downloaded, and are ignoring the reason why people complain about caps on downloads, that they are promised unlimited downloads (within the bandwidth they are promised).
Using a small amount of money to buy something for others raises your own happiness more than using the same amount of money on yourself*, so just the knowledge that you share a resource will probably make you happier. But GPPoster is probably to much of a misanthrope to let that affect him.
*I don't have the reference here, it appears in Richard Wisemans book "59 seconds", which is review of the scientific psychological literature for things that take less than one minute to do and which increase your well being.
Fat is mainly esters of glycerol. Usually, fat is transesterified to methyl ester to make biodiesel. The methyl esters have much lower melting points, as their molecular weight is about one third of the glycerol esters. Biodiesel from animal fat is problematic, as turns to jelly at low temperatures. I don't know if DC-8s preheat the fuel, if they do, it shouldn't be a problem.
But the 100+ pounds of sugar a year can't be a nutritional benefit, unless you're riding the Tour de France - your body isn't evolved for that. Like they say, eat the outside of the supermarket, stay away from the middle.
There's a lot of things your body isn't evolved for, that doesn't automatically make them poisonous. It does seem that large amount of sugar isn't good for you. It seems to attributable to glucemic index, as spikes in blood sugar is stressing the insulin system, plus carbohydrates being less filling, leading to eating more calories.
How is this different form the situation for the last several centuries? Neither ads nor money have any direct use in themselves, but are in stead means to get other people to behave in a certain way.
Obviously you'd have to extensively QA test any potential checks and the consequences and prevent false positives
Just like every other DRM scheme to date? I mean, if it is as simple as "doing extensive QA testing", it must be done today already, and no reports of false positives of DRM schemes can be found.
Plus, as other people have pointed out, if it isn't clear that the behaviour is because of DRM, people will assume the game is just buggy as hell, and avoid buying anything from that distributor in the future.
You move your eyes in the other direction of what you are supposed to do. You see the intended left eye picture with your right eye and the intended right eye picture with your left eye. In stead of imagining seeing something between you and the 3D image, you need to imagine seeing something behind the 3D image (or the other way around, depending on the construction of the 3D image).
It shouldn't be a problem in 3D movies, the technology there doesn't use repeating patterns, so the ambiguity about what is the left eye picture and what is the right eye picture isn't there.
As far as I understand, this is under ideal conditions (according to wikipedia, the theoretical maximum for sugar production is 9%, assuming normal levels of absorption efficiency). Do you know at what level of insolation sugarcane photosynthesis saturates?
It probably wouldn't work, based on the few details in TFA. It seems that key to this technique is the effect on soot particles, which aren't present in neither magnesium/oxygen or hydrogen/oxygen fires. Soot particles are what makes the flames visible, so this seems to work only on fires with visible flames.
The correctness of the rest of the comment hinges on the definition of "correctly". If there is a government helping to avoid market failures (mostly by limiting the power of monopolies, punishing outright lying and protecting property rights), capitalism does help everybody, as they can focus on the work they do best (comparatively), and exchange the product of that work with others.
1) They weren't under any obligation to license their FairPlay technology to other vendors, and in fact VirginMega actually got shot down by a court in 2004 for that very reason;
They could be, if not doing it would be enough to leverage their monopoly on MP3 players to gain an advantage in the digital music market.
2) It's possible that turning a blind eye to how easily FairPlay was reverse engineered by Real could have put Apple afoul of its agreements with the record labels;
Irrelevant, simply having a contractual obligation to do something doesn't make it legal (hitmen are still accused of murder).
3) iPods have *always* allowed (and played) non-DRM'ed MP3/AAC tracks - Real could have sold non-DRM tracks if they wanted to sell for the iPod - eMusic has been doing it for a while now;
But it was an advantage to be able to put DRM-protected music on iPods, so the monopoly on MP3 players was leveraged to gain an advantage in the digital music market.
4) Real could have built their own iPod competitor, and had a run at the market that way; Microsoft's Zune and Sansa's various portable models both did this;
This is irrelevant, Apple had a monopoly. If this was a valid counterpoint, it could be used in any anti-trust suit. Microsoft: You could just have coded your own OS, Bell Systems: You could just have laid your own telephone cables, etc.
Science doesn't have axioms (OK, that depends on your definition of axioms, but I would say that it doesn't), and it certainly doesn't derive theorems. It describes the world by assigning probabilities to predictions about future events. Theorems aren't true by a certain probability, they are proved, disproved, or neither. Science is not math, and math is science, and you need to be really careful when using metamathematics on science.
And just to nitpick, Euclidian geometry have been proven complete, and it contains some significant theorems, just not any about the real numbers.
Discussing free will is as interesting as discussing the number of angels which can dance on the head of a pin. It is either untestable (how do you know you weren't programmed to do that) or wrong (please show me the particle responsible for the free will).
Why do we hate to see other people suffer and die?
A possible answer could be kin selection. We evolved living in small groups, mostly consisting of people related to us. If we came across people suffering, it was probably someone sharing some of our genes, so it makes sense to try and help them away from the suffering. One way to make sure we do that is to make us feel bad when we see other people suffer.
Or, it could be that by helping people, we could rely on their help later on. This system has the problem of being open to cheaters, people who accept help but doesn't give any. One way to overcome that is to be known as one who will punish others for such behaviour, even if you suffer for it yourself. In other words, expressing altruistic suffering, which humans have been found to do.
I think the most consistent view of a god fitting for the universe is Cthulhu. Think about it. Not just an evil god, but an evil and mad god. All of the sudden, cancer in babies, tsunamis and platypuses makes sense.
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And electrons! Have you ever seen one? They're completetly made up, just a theoretical kludge.
Depriving you of a song because you can't afford it, is not the same as letting you suffer because you can't afford the treatment.
But if the medicine wouldn't exist without these companies, is it more evil to let the company go bankrupt, and stop it making new medicine?
And as someone who as worked with these companies, I assure you there are plenty of folks who don't give a rats arse about curing people.
I'm sure there are, but I'm also sure that the other type exists.
And are you sure that this new medicine is really is effective...
Some of it isn't, and the trials the companies run are often not ideal, and sometimes truly despicable. But some of the new medicine is effective
I think it would be better to make a system where either the testing of medicine is done by the government (to remove the possibility of bad studies, or over-interpretation), or where the entire drug discovery and testing is done by the government (to remove the drug representatives and their damaging effect on doctors prescription practice), but that system needs to be built first, and until that is done, the old system is all we have to find new drugs.
Would that be aleph-naught plus one, of omega plus one? Quite different concepts, you know.
Markets only work when there is competition. "Intellectual Property" is by definition a legal monopoly. And you won't find me crying for any business with a legal monopoly that can't break even. They deserve to die, both for their own ineptitude and for the sake of having a free (as in liberty) marketplace.
Before we can allow the medicine companies to die, we should have another plan for making new drugs. Some people have argued that this is a job for the government, but the infrastructure and institutions needed for this shift is not there. Before we are sure we have a new way of producing new drugs, it would be foolish to remove our old way.
Big Pharma gets here on Slashdot compared to the MPAA and RIAA, considering they're far more evil about both their goals and methods.
Let's see, Big Pharma has the goal of raking in money by producing medicine, MPAA and RIAA has the goal of raking in money by producing entertainment. Yes, I see, medicine is so much eviller than entertainment.
I'm not saying that their methods are any better, or that they exist to do good (they don't, but a large portion of the people working for them are in the business to help cure people), or don't lie about the effectiveness and side effects of their products (they certainly do, and should be punished for doing it), or aren't bastards who would sell their grandmothers to cannibals to make a dime, but a side effect of some of their actions are that it sometimes produce new, effective medicine, which isn't all that bad.
That's weird, for the last several years, I have experienced much bigger problems getting printers to work with Windows then with Linux (Kubuntu). I can't remember an instance where a printer worked with Windows and not with Linux, I can remember at least one of each of printers working with Linux and not with windows, of printers sort-of-working with Linux and not with windows, and of printers working with neither Windows nor Linux. When printers work with both, getting them to work with Linux is much easier and faster.
I haven't worked with scanners, so I wouldn't know.
I think I remember that the conspiracy theory of Afghanistan is about a way to transport the oil from Caucasus to the sea, out of reach of Russia. Mines is probably not worth it, as the absence of a stable state makes it cost-prohibitive to mine lithium, and Afghanistan will not be stable enough for many years to come (Bolivia is much more stable, and still not stable enough that it is profitable to mine the biggest lithium reserve in the world.). Not that that will stop the conspiracy theorists from claiming that that is the reason.
Yes, you are the only one who can see your straw man. Unless you can find a statement from EFF stating that people should get more bandwidth than they are promised. You are conflating bandwidth and amount downloaded, and are ignoring the reason why people complain about caps on downloads, that they are promised unlimited downloads (within the bandwidth they are promised).
Using a small amount of money to buy something for others raises your own happiness more than using the same amount of money on yourself*, so just the knowledge that you share a resource will probably make you happier. But GPPoster is probably to much of a misanthrope to let that affect him.
*I don't have the reference here, it appears in Richard Wisemans book "59 seconds", which is review of the scientific psychological literature for things that take less than one minute to do and which increase your well being.
Fat is mainly esters of glycerol. Usually, fat is transesterified to methyl ester to make biodiesel. The methyl esters have much lower melting points, as their molecular weight is about one third of the glycerol esters. Biodiesel from animal fat is problematic, as turns to jelly at low temperatures. I don't know if DC-8s preheat the fuel, if they do, it shouldn't be a problem.
But the 100+ pounds of sugar a year can't be a nutritional benefit, unless you're riding the Tour de France - your body isn't evolved for that. Like they say, eat the outside of the supermarket, stay away from the middle.
There's a lot of things your body isn't evolved for, that doesn't automatically make them poisonous. It does seem that large amount of sugar isn't good for you. It seems to attributable to glucemic index, as spikes in blood sugar is stressing the insulin system, plus carbohydrates being less filling, leading to eating more calories.
s/click ads/pay money/
How is this different form the situation for the last several centuries? Neither ads nor money have any direct use in themselves, but are in stead means to get other people to behave in a certain way.
Obviously you'd have to extensively QA test any potential checks and the consequences and prevent false positives
Just like every other DRM scheme to date? I mean, if it is as simple as "doing extensive QA testing", it must be done today already, and no reports of false positives of DRM schemes can be found.
Plus, as other people have pointed out, if it isn't clear that the behaviour is because of DRM, people will assume the game is just buggy as hell, and avoid buying anything from that distributor in the future.
If people were willing to pay twice the price in the first place, why wasn't the price already twice as high?
You move your eyes in the other direction of what you are supposed to do. You see the intended left eye picture with your right eye and the intended right eye picture with your left eye. In stead of imagining seeing something between you and the 3D image, you need to imagine seeing something behind the 3D image (or the other way around, depending on the construction of the 3D image).
It shouldn't be a problem in 3D movies, the technology there doesn't use repeating patterns, so the ambiguity about what is the left eye picture and what is the right eye picture isn't there.
Opera 10.60 on linux here, links and Post Anonymously doesn't work.
An evil and mad god would explain the universe as well. So, troll or Cthulhu.
It would if it could, we just bred the ability to kill people out of cats, not the desire.
As far as I understand, this is under ideal conditions (according to wikipedia, the theoretical maximum for sugar production is 9%, assuming normal levels of absorption efficiency). Do you know at what level of insolation sugarcane photosynthesis saturates?
It probably wouldn't work, based on the few details in TFA. It seems that key to this technique is the effect on soot particles, which aren't present in neither magnesium/oxygen or hydrogen/oxygen fires. Soot particles are what makes the flames visible, so this seems to work only on fires with visible flames.
The magical shareholders who aren't people?
The correctness of the rest of the comment hinges on the definition of "correctly". If there is a government helping to avoid market failures (mostly by limiting the power of monopolies, punishing outright lying and protecting property rights), capitalism does help everybody, as they can focus on the work they do best (comparatively), and exchange the product of that work with others.
1) They weren't under any obligation to license their FairPlay technology to other vendors, and in fact VirginMega actually got shot down by a court in 2004 for that very reason;
They could be, if not doing it would be enough to leverage their monopoly on MP3 players to gain an advantage in the digital music market.
2) It's possible that turning a blind eye to how easily FairPlay was reverse engineered by Real could have put Apple afoul of its agreements with the record labels;
Irrelevant, simply having a contractual obligation to do something doesn't make it legal (hitmen are still accused of murder).
3) iPods have *always* allowed (and played) non-DRM'ed MP3/AAC tracks - Real could have sold non-DRM tracks if they wanted to sell for the iPod - eMusic has been doing it for a while now;
But it was an advantage to be able to put DRM-protected music on iPods, so the monopoly on MP3 players was leveraged to gain an advantage in the digital music market.
4) Real could have built their own iPod competitor, and had a run at the market that way; Microsoft's Zune and Sansa's various portable models both did this;
This is irrelevant, Apple had a monopoly. If this was a valid counterpoint, it could be used in any anti-trust suit. Microsoft: You could just have coded your own OS, Bell Systems: You could just have laid your own telephone cables, etc.
Science doesn't have axioms (OK, that depends on your definition of axioms, but I would say that it doesn't), and it certainly doesn't derive theorems. It describes the world by assigning probabilities to predictions about future events. Theorems aren't true by a certain probability, they are proved, disproved, or neither. Science is not math, and math is science, and you need to be really careful when using metamathematics on science.
And just to nitpick, Euclidian geometry have been proven complete, and it contains some significant theorems, just not any about the real numbers.
Why do we hate to see other people suffer and die?
A possible answer could be kin selection. We evolved living in small groups, mostly consisting of people related to us. If we came across people suffering, it was probably someone sharing some of our genes, so it makes sense to try and help them away from the suffering. One way to make sure we do that is to make us feel bad when we see other people suffer.
Or, it could be that by helping people, we could rely on their help later on. This system has the problem of being open to cheaters, people who accept help but doesn't give any. One way to overcome that is to be known as one who will punish others for such behaviour, even if you suffer for it yourself. In other words, expressing altruistic suffering, which humans have been found to do.
I think the most consistent view of a god fitting for the universe is Cthulhu. Think about it. Not just an evil god, but an evil and mad god. All of the sudden, cancer in babies, tsunamis and platypuses makes sense.