As a straight white male less than 40 years old who is neither disabled nor in the military, I can assure you that the PC police don't quite have everyone under their protection. Some of us have to play the Evil from which the Others must be Protected.
Since I'm not living in a metabolizm cage, can't rule it out;)
Wasn't a heavy soda drinker, I used to drink one or two cans a day, which only accounts for ~ 20lbs of weight loss. And that's ignoring the increased caloric consumption of Gatorade (powder form, which doesn't contain HFCS, not the pre-made liquid, which does). I probably did drop my caloric intake a little bit, but I don't believe it's >400 kCals a day. Dunno. The literature is inconsistent, but one paper that struck me was this, from a group at U of Toronto.
Everyone I know who's given up corn syrup, to the extent that it's possible in the US, has lost a minimum of 10 lbs.
I definitely agree. HFCS is pure unadulterated evil. I essentially gave up soda (I have one or two a month) & tried to avoid HFCS in other foods, essentially no other diet changes, no significant change in exercise regime (just golf & walk). Still drink Gatorade (i.e. glucose water) when I golf. Went from 185 lbs (BMI 26.5, overweight) to 158 lbs (BMI 22.7, normal). In eight months. For me, at least, HFCS is fatness in a bottle.
Your point being? The goverment doesn't force this, I mean are you advocating communism here or something?
Certainly not from commercial entities, they know full well their academic discounts are given for the same reason the crack dealer gives the first rock for free. But for software that's written by government entities, paid for by my tax dollars, should be available to all taxpayers at the same rate.
Does the grad student have to pay tuition or not? Also salaried workers can also be paid little due to lack of overtime.
At least in the life sciences, at major research universities, no. The grad students don't pay tuition. They also get reasonable benefits. Doesn't change the fact that in many cases they're being paid well below minimum wage. And while salaried workers can definitely be paid less than they think due to long hours w/o overtime, I'd love to see documentation that they're being paid less than the Federal minimum wage of $5.85 an hour. There are definitly grad students being worked for that (they are, after all, on salary).
My point is that Universities aren't just acting like corporations, they're acting like corporations that have special competitive advantages against private companies, and more than take advantage of that.
No, I'm definitly in the U.S., but Uni is much easier to type;)
Universities are not allowed to just use anyone's patented process/thing.
Technically, yeah, using patented materials & processes in the course of basic research at US universities may not be officially sanctioned, but it is the standard way of doing business. Of course, resulting materials may not be patentable, in which case it's usually "clean-roomed" to make sure there's a patentable paper trail before official documents get sent to the tech transfer office.
Universities are corporations, nothing more or less.
Except Uni's are completely free to ignore everyone else's patents in the course of their research, have access to all scientific software at much much cheaper "academic" rates, and can pay grad students slave wages ($15,000 per year for a 3000 hour work week is well below the Federal minimum wage). So while they behave in many ways like corporations, they have a number of government-issued advantages in the competition. Who'd have thunk it, the government giving itself an advantage.
And if you actually believe all of those folks are going to be be released "upon the end of the war", I have a shiny red bridge in San Francisco I'd like to sell you. I would also suggest that "the war on terror" is no more likely to have an ending than the war or drugs has. Hence the indefinite conditional detention is most likely to end via exit boots first, or if the prisoner has ended their usefulness, they can be handed over to e.g. Egypt for long term warehousing.
Feel free to point out "the great majority of the people detained by the U.S. deserve to be detained because they are either persons who have used violence or planned violence against others." I would suggest that since all evidence against such detainees is classified and has not, and will not, be released to the public, you have jack shit of evidence that they deserve to be there. The willingness of the American public to swallow the executive branch story, hook line & sinker, despite being shown over and over again what a load they are being handed, really makes me shake my head in wonder.
Shi Tao should be thankful he was a "potential dissident" in China rather than being a "potential terrorist" in the US; a finite (10yr) jail sentence versus an indefinite sentence & waterboarding.
Sorry, didn't mean to put in a spoiler for a three year old game;). Not really a spoiler, he only gets whacked if you screw up, then you have to re-load. It's the only "success is not possible, please reload from a saved game" point in the game.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. There are a handful of short, in-game cutscenes where you lose control of your character. One or two places where you have the possibility of screwing up & having no choice but to re-load (Martin getting whacked near the end). Other than that, you can totally abandon the plot & just screw around until you get bored & quit.
Making everybody a Jedi was Sony's last gasp w/ Galaxies. At that point it feelt so non-Star Wars-ish (i.e. City of Jedis) that everybody got bored and left. I think many players (esp. casual players) wish to be a Jedi as seen in the movies-- i.e. with cool powers that very, very few people around you have. That don't fly in a MMO.
1. Nobody buys the MMO, as everybody wants to play a Jedi. Game fails
2. People buy the MMO, because they think they can become Jedi. They find out that they have to be hardcore to become Jedi
2a) Casual gamers quit, game fails b/c revenue from hardcores isn't enough to keep it open
2b) Casual gamers complain until Lucasarts forces Bioware to let everybody become Jedi
The problem is, Jedi are rare, and have power on a level way above "normals" in the Star Wars universe. Everyone's a fan of the Jedi, so everyone wants to play them. So for an MMO, you either have to nerf Jedi, make it nearly impossible to become one, or accept that everybody can be one & the universe turns into "City of Jedis". Sony tried all three w/ Galaxies, how's that working out for them?
Star Wars is a great setting for a single player game, but I'll be astounded when somebody makes a successful MMO out of it. It's like LOTR if everyone wants to play Gandalf.
Anyone know what sort of SLAPP provisions the UK has?
Doesn't matter, this wouldn't fall under it. Likewise if this had happened in the US. SLAPP laws apply to civil actions, this was a police action (according to the FA, police plus "officers from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards"). You might be able to make a case against them for some kind of wrongful prosecution, but SLAPP limitations won't apply.
Oh yeah, KotOR already moved away from bioware, KotOR2 was one of the most disappointing games I've ever played. But there will definitly be a Jade Empire sequel now, along with ME2 and ME3. Probably JE3, JE4, & JE2010. ME4,5,6,7,8. And they will all, individually & collectively suck. I remember from my teenage years how EA used to be a name you could rely on for a fun game. Now, they're a shambling zombie force that sucks the life out of anything they touch, and causes their newly assimilated zombie-children to spew foul darkness onto the marketplace.
My prediction: it'll be kinda like "Brainwashed"-- George Harrison's posthumously released album, great work, sad knowing that nothing more will be forthcoming. Farewell Jade Empire & Mass Effect sequels, you're going the way of NFL Gameday or Mythic. Ah well.
No, the parent wasn't. They were being funny, but a bit too subtle for/. Read the first sentence, then read the second sentence (where it says "should be modded down to.") very slowly, and think about what we call our numbers that can represent things like 0 and -1....
...would you be so kind as to opt out of receiving social security benefits when you're old and all the people who would've cared for you weren't born?
Yes please. Indeed. If I could opt out of receiving social security benefits, I would do so in a heartbeat. Because I don't believe I'll ever see a penny of the hundreds of dollars I'm paying into s.s. every month. I detest the fiction the government relies on, implying that the money you pay into s.s. is "yours", even to the point of sending you those ridiculous fliers periodically telling you what you've contributed, and what your benefits "would be under the current system". Under their fiction, if I opted out of s.s., I wouldn't have to pay into it, right?
Medicine is more than one eighth of the economy right now, and that's only going to grow as more people require it from less people who exist.
Yes, but medicine doesn't employ 1/8 of the workforce, does it? And although the patient-doctor ratio keeps going up, people are living much much longer. Kind of implies that efficiencies are being created, doesn't it?
Since the current administration has produced laws that make every one of us a criminal, it pretty much reduces back to being about our civil rights ';)
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As a straight white male less than 40 years old who is neither disabled nor in the military, I can assure you that the PC police don't quite have everyone under their protection. Some of us have to play the Evil from which the Others must be Protected.
Since I'm not living in a metabolizm cage, can't rule it out ;)
Wasn't a heavy soda drinker, I used to drink one or two cans a day, which only accounts for ~ 20lbs of weight loss. And that's ignoring the increased caloric consumption of Gatorade (powder form, which doesn't contain HFCS, not the pre-made liquid, which does). I probably did drop my caloric intake a little bit, but I don't believe it's >400 kCals a day. Dunno. The literature is inconsistent, but one paper that struck me was this, from a group at U of Toronto.
I definitely agree. HFCS is pure unadulterated evil. I essentially gave up soda (I have one or two a month) & tried to avoid HFCS in other foods, essentially no other diet changes, no significant change in exercise regime (just golf & walk). Still drink Gatorade (i.e. glucose water) when I golf. Went from 185 lbs (BMI 26.5, overweight) to 158 lbs (BMI 22.7, normal). In eight months. For me, at least, HFCS is fatness in a bottle.
If they'd write a driver to let XP access a HFS+ partition, I'd appreciate it. Macdrive is great, but costs me $60 a twopack.
Certainly not from commercial entities, they know full well their academic discounts are given for the same reason the crack dealer gives the first rock for free. But for software that's written by government entities, paid for by my tax dollars, should be available to all taxpayers at the same rate.
At least in the life sciences, at major research universities, no. The grad students don't pay tuition. They also get reasonable benefits. Doesn't change the fact that in many cases they're being paid well below minimum wage. And while salaried workers can definitely be paid less than they think due to long hours w/o overtime, I'd love to see documentation that they're being paid less than the Federal minimum wage of $5.85 an hour. There are definitly grad students being worked for that (they are, after all, on salary).
My point is that Universities aren't just acting like corporations, they're acting like corporations that have special competitive advantages against private companies, and more than take advantage of that.
Except Uni's are completely free to ignore everyone else's patents in the course of their research, have access to all scientific software at much much cheaper "academic" rates, and can pay grad students slave wages ($15,000 per year for a 3000 hour work week is well below the Federal minimum wage). So while they behave in many ways like corporations, they have a number of government-issued advantages in the competition. Who'd have thunk it, the government giving itself an advantage.
And if you actually believe all of those folks are going to be be released "upon the end of the war", I have a shiny red bridge in San Francisco I'd like to sell you. I would also suggest that "the war on terror" is no more likely to have an ending than the war or drugs has. Hence the indefinite conditional detention is most likely to end via exit boots first, or if the prisoner has ended their usefulness, they can be handed over to e.g. Egypt for long term warehousing.
Feel free to point out "the great majority of the people detained by the U.S. deserve to be detained because they are either persons who have used violence or planned violence against others." I would suggest that since all evidence against such detainees is classified and has not, and will not, be released to the public, you have jack shit of evidence that they deserve to be there. The willingness of the American public to swallow the executive branch story, hook line & sinker, despite being shown over and over again what a load they are being handed, really makes me shake my head in wonder.
Shi Tao should be thankful he was a "potential dissident" in China rather than being a "potential terrorist" in the US; a finite (10yr) jail sentence versus an indefinite sentence & waterboarding.
Every line is a curve. Even the straight ones. In Cartesian space, they're of the form Y = ax + b
Sorry, didn't mean to put in a spoiler for a three year old game ;). Not really a spoiler, he only gets whacked if you screw up, then you have to re-load. It's the only "success is not possible, please reload from a saved game" point in the game.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. There are a handful of short, in-game cutscenes where you lose control of your character. One or two places where you have the possibility of screwing up & having no choice but to re-load (Martin getting whacked near the end). Other than that, you can totally abandon the plot & just screw around until you get bored & quit.
Qui-gon Jinn disagrees*
*yes, yes, I know it was a lot of swordplay leading up to it, but it was still one hit
Making everybody a Jedi was Sony's last gasp w/ Galaxies. At that point it feelt so non-Star Wars-ish (i.e. City of Jedis) that everybody got bored and left. I think many players (esp. casual players) wish to be a Jedi as seen in the movies-- i.e. with cool powers that very, very few people around you have. That don't fly in a MMO.
Probable results for your solutions:
1. Nobody buys the MMO, as everybody wants to play a Jedi. Game fails
2. People buy the MMO, because they think they can become Jedi. They find out that they have to be hardcore to become Jedi
2a) Casual gamers quit, game fails b/c revenue from hardcores isn't enough to keep it open
2b) Casual gamers complain until Lucasarts forces Bioware to let everybody become Jedi
The problem is, Jedi are rare, and have power on a level way above "normals" in the Star Wars universe. Everyone's a fan of the Jedi, so everyone wants to play them. So for an MMO, you either have to nerf Jedi, make it nearly impossible to become one, or accept that everybody can be one & the universe turns into "City of Jedis". Sony tried all three w/ Galaxies, how's that working out for them?
Star Wars is a great setting for a single player game, but I'll be astounded when somebody makes a successful MMO out of it. It's like LOTR if everyone wants to play Gandalf.
You'd do better looking at Battlestar Galactica
Doesn't matter, this wouldn't fall under it. Likewise if this had happened in the US. SLAPP laws apply to civil actions, this was a police action (according to the FA, police plus "officers from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards"). You might be able to make a case against them for some kind of wrongful prosecution, but SLAPP limitations won't apply.
Oh yeah, KotOR already moved away from bioware, KotOR2 was one of the most disappointing games I've ever played. But there will definitly be a Jade Empire sequel now, along with ME2 and ME3. Probably JE3, JE4, & JE2010. ME4,5,6,7,8. And they will all, individually & collectively suck. I remember from my teenage years how EA used to be a name you could rely on for a fun game. Now, they're a shambling zombie force that sucks the life out of anything they touch, and causes their newly assimilated zombie-children to spew foul darkness onto the marketplace.
My prediction: it'll be kinda like "Brainwashed"-- George Harrison's posthumously released album, great work, sad knowing that nothing more will be forthcoming. Farewell Jade Empire & Mass Effect sequels, you're going the way of NFL Gameday or Mythic. Ah well.
Wow, if a post ever deserved a (+1) over /.'s collective head, that's it.
No, the parent wasn't. They were being funny, but a bit too subtle for
"Pakistani physicist's head found 200 yards from body. 'Must have had an accident' says neighbors"
Don't forget Dia to replace that unactivated Visio for free. For windows, or linux, or macs.
Yes please. Indeed. If I could opt out of receiving social security benefits, I would do so in a heartbeat. Because I don't believe I'll ever see a penny of the hundreds of dollars I'm paying into s.s. every month. I detest the fiction the government relies on, implying that the money you pay into s.s. is "yours", even to the point of sending you those ridiculous fliers periodically telling you what you've contributed, and what your benefits "would be under the current system". Under their fiction, if I opted out of s.s., I wouldn't have to pay into it, right?
Yes, but medicine doesn't employ 1/8 of the workforce, does it? And although the patient-doctor ratio keeps going up, people are living much much longer. Kind of implies that efficiencies are being created, doesn't it?
Since the current administration has produced laws that make every one of us a criminal, it pretty much reduces back to being about our civil rights ';)