When I want something simple and short I can watch a movie.
Games on the other hand are supposed to be challenging and entertaining for a lot longer than a movie.
In fact, I find that a lot of modern games are too simple and straightforward (especially on consoles) - maybe game producers are adding the wrong type of complexity (i.e. visual eye-candy) instead of concentrating on game mechanics (or maybe they're just targetting the unsophisticated and not very smart audience of young teenagers?)
Then again I'm a long-time gamer (more than 20 years now) so I've "seen it all and done it all" and have become harder to impress with fancy graphics if the game mechanics are shallow.
The golden rules for any filter which is not meant to be a tool for censorship: 1) Is it opt-in? Do people have to choose to have their connection filtered? (for example, if you have kids u can choose to have your connection filtered) 2) Is the list of sites which are filtered out available for examination by anybody that wants it? (i.e. can anybody check if sites have been unfairly added to the blacklist to suppress opinions or hide compromising information) 3) Is there a simple, cheap, equitable and effective processes to challenge inclusion of a site in the list and have it removed if found it was not supposed to be there? (i.e. can errors be corrected)
As far as I can tell, the proposed Australian filter does not obbey any of these rules, much less all of them.
All politicians do things they don't want people to know about - that would negativelly impact their "ellectability" - thus they try to control the information that their constituents have access to. They do not want voters to do an informed choice.
Any filter not obbeying the golden rules listed above is meant to be an extremelly powerfull tool to control access to information and is intended to be under the control of those in power.
I think the overall issue is that you can't take an IT Admin position working for the a Local, State or Federal public entity in the US since you're damned if you do (give the passwords) because of laws and regulations and damned if you don't since they'll take you to court and have you convicted anyway.
Either stay away from those positions or ask for a significant premium on your salary/rate to cover the legal risk.
Even better: the latest pools put the LibDems in a position of either winning or being the king-makers in a split parliement (in fact they might even win the popular vote but get less seats in parliement than other parties thanks to the not-really-democratic system in the UK). This is a huge change since they have consistently been the 3rd party in the UK for 50 years or something like that.
At this point I would change my vote to them if it wasn't for the simple detail that as a non-British EU citizen I don't get to vote for Parliement in the UK (yet strangelly the HMRC is perfectly happy to take my money as taxes).
(Somehow, the hemp enthusiasts never seem to be very interested in other long-fibre plants, like kenaf, abaca, sisal, or jute. Or even bagasse and straw, which are agricultural wastes which can be recycled. Wonder why.)
Maybe because no synthentics fibers company bought legislation in the US against the other natural fibers you mention, only against hemp.
The other fibers are allowed to be grown or not on their own merits, while hemp has been held-down by anti-competitive legislation that outlaws it under the excuse that people might want to smoke it in the privacy of their homes (which harms nobody else) so we should forbid it from being grown.
Hemp is a symbol of how corrupt the so-called democratic system is in some countries and why it's bad for most countries to import policies from said corrupt countries.
Paper pulp is made from fast growing trees such as Eucaliptus.
Nobody makes paper pulp from slow-growing trees: their wood is much too valueable in other uses for it to be wasted on making paper.
The wood of fast growing trees on the other hand is basically worthless for anything but paper pulp since it's not resistent enough for structural uses and does not have the appropriate properties for furniture.
- Saving from getting the trailer as a loan from a friend: £500 - Savings in Hotel costs while on vacations: £2000 - Having your friend fined from crossing the UK faster than the speed of light: priceless
If European airspace was closed for 2 years we might see a return of the era of the luxury cruise liner or even better, of the zepellin (imagine if London to Berlin took 8h but in an airship with the room and conforts of a small cruise ship).
"[...] shall be initially equated to 1 (one) [...] includes the increment of "i" by 1 (one) in a positive monotonic uniform manner performed prior to each display to the visual display device" (emphasys mine) [...]"
The word "née" is often used in official documents when refering to a married woman who took her husband's family name when she got married but before had a different name, for example Mrs. Smith née (born) Brown.
So it should be Accenture (nee Anderson Consulting) not the other way around.
VERY common misconception where domestic and foreign worker violence is involved. No, a lot of the time these people don't believe they have a choice. By the time things have progressed to this point, most of them have it pretty thoroughly engrained in their minds that offering any form of resistance, to say nothing of reporting the problem, will only lead to intensified beatings, to the point of severe injury or death. These people are controlled by fear. Fear of worse beatings. Fear of death.
It works like bullying: eventually the victim's own fear means instant compliance with the bully's wishes.
The "mitochondrial" DNA is separate from the nucleos DNA. In nature mitochondrial DNA is always wholy inherited from the mother. In this experiment the nucleus DNA for the egg comes from one woman and the mitochondrial DNA comes from the 2nd woman so the embryo does have 3 parents.
If you choose to use your debit card and not credit card mostly, also, move your money from checking to some savings account and keep very little ( subjective) money in checking
I used this scheme with a bank in the UK (Halifax). Yet they still let through transactions done through an ATM terminal exceeding the amount available on my account and charged me a fee for "Unarranged overdraft" (even though I had explicitly requested "no overdrafts" when openning the account). [Naturally I'm not their customer anymore]
At least in the UK, restricting the amount of money in your account is little defense if you have a debit card linked to it - it's actually in the bank's best interest to let through transactions execeeding the amount of money in you account since they get to charge you overdraft fees (especially since a court case that went all the way to the Supreme Court has confirmed they can do it with impunity).
Some Physics theories postulate that as time passes countless Universes are created, for example each time an undetermined quantum state is decided, with it going one way in one Universe and another way in the other Universe.
That being so there would be a quasi-infinite number of alternate Universes. Surelly several of those would have a planet in (or passing) the same spatial coordinates as ours were an intelligent non-human species evolved.
There might even exist alternate Universes where C (speed of light) is much larger than in our Universe and humans can survive, making faster than light (in our Universe) possible through crossing over, travelling there and then crossing back.
Both examples would mean that the speed of light in our Universe is not a limit to us finding intelligent aliens.
(PS: As to faster than light communications, tachyons would be a possibility.)
There are several SF stories around Utopias/Distopias where most humans spend all their time immersed in some kind of ultra realistic VR environment, typically linked via some kind of direct brain feed. Basically a realistic enough VR environment, thanks to our ability do immerse in it and forget that it's not real, can fulfill all the psychological needs of an individual, more so even than reality since it has fewer barriers and does not suffer from the limitations of normal societal structures (in human society there are only a limited number of positions of a given type, for example Village Chief, but in a VR environment you can use NPCs to create as many virtual societies as you want and as such as many slots of a given type as you want).
There are quite a number of natural limitations to a scenario where all mankind lives in VR: - Natural selection would remove from the genetic pool those that spent all their time in VR, since they wouldn't reproduce. - Physical needs would still have to be catered for. This means that things still have to be produced (like food). The VR environments, being targetted at satisfying the individual would be highly unproductive, so full automated means of production would have to exist, and they would need to be fully fed from some for of free energy. - As long as there are multiple nations, unless ALL of them "went into VR" at the same time, the ones that didn't would simply march their armies into the land of ones that did and take over.
That said, for exploration of the unknow to stop or slow significantly, all that it takes is for the Explorer types amongst us - the same kind of people that 3 or 4 centuries ago would be jumping into boats and travelling to unexplored lands, and the same kind that nowadays would drive us to explorer space - to fulfill their drive to explore in VR environments which one miht argue already happens in part. It's thus quite possible that this will keep Human Society in the period of stagnation with regards to expanding our physical borders of knowledge in which it currently is. In the extreme, having lost all our drive to physically go out and explore, humans could turn their backs to space forever.
That such a scenario could occur in alien societies is not beyond the realm of possibility. However, there are other drivers for exploration (conquest, material wealth, overcrowding, maybe even religious reasons) and the idea that all alien societies will sooner or later fall to the trap of "satiation of the need to explore by VR environments" is far fetched.
Then again one might also argue that the causal relation is actually the reverse: - Human Society being in a period of stagnation with regards to expanding our physical borders of knowledge is not caused by Explorer types finding saciety in VR environments but instead said Explorer types are driven to "find their fix" in VR environments because we are currently not expanding our physical borders of knowledge.
Anedoctal and all that but interesting in light of what you said: - I myself recently went back to WoW (having left almost 5 years ago because I was seriously pissed of at the direction things were taking back then) because in these days of requires-always-on-connection single player games, rootkit-like DRM and low-content-on-package-you-can-buy-the-rest-for-extra games, WoW offers the best money-per-content ratio.
The industry is complaining about WoW monopolising gamer's time and yet they're actually reducing the relative value of their games all the while MMORPGS kept getting bigger, less grindy, more casual player friendly, catering to a larger variety of tastes, and even cheaper.
For all the griefers, gold spammers and beggers, at this point in time, WoW + 2 Expansions + 6 months subscription is actually a beter value proposition per buck with regards to the amount of entertainment you get from it and content to explore than pretty much any other games in the market (except one or two other MMORPGs such as LOTRO).
This is the conclusion I came to about 2 months ago and why I gave WoW another try: in that time I've spent less money and got a lot more entertainment than I would have with any major Single Player game for the PC not from the bargain bin.
(in fact the only PC games other than MMORPGS that can compete with WoW are bargain bin oldies)
A potential aim of getting these specific passwords would be to be able to use those user's identification credentials have custom crafted vulnerabilities at the source level checked-in into Source Control in one or more any of the Apache applications and frameworks (not just the Apache Web server but things like modules and language frameworks and libraries).
Certainly for state actors engaging in cyber-war, having their own backdoors in things like the Apache Webserver would be invaluable. They also have the know-how and the resources to both hack into the site and develop their own source-code level backdoors.
Criminal organizations with significant black hat operation would also be willing and capable of this sort of strategic action.
I would definitelly double check any code checked-in by the people whose passwords were stolen.
The Steve Jobs' reality distortion field doesn't decrease with the cube of the distance instead it decreases linearly with distance.
This explains why so many Americans seem to believe that the iPhone has an enormous market share and why some especially Steve-Jobs-reality-distornion-field-sensitive people will tell you straight-faced that Apple has a monopoly in Mobile Phones.
Apple should exploit this effect by having Steve Jobs spend a couple of weeks in an area anytime they wanted to increase the market share of their products.
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When I want something simple and short I can watch a movie.
Games on the other hand are supposed to be challenging and entertaining for a lot longer than a movie.
In fact, I find that a lot of modern games are too simple and straightforward (especially on consoles) - maybe game producers are adding the wrong type of complexity (i.e. visual eye-candy) instead of concentrating on game mechanics (or maybe they're just targetting the unsophisticated and not very smart audience of young teenagers?)
Then again I'm a long-time gamer (more than 20 years now) so I've "seen it all and done it all" and have become harder to impress with fancy graphics if the game mechanics are shallow.
As somebody pointed out above, at that point your employer has to provide you with the equipment to do so.
The golden rules for any filter which is not meant to be a tool for censorship:
1) Is it opt-in? Do people have to choose to have their connection filtered? (for example, if you have kids u can choose to have your connection filtered)
2) Is the list of sites which are filtered out available for examination by anybody that wants it? (i.e. can anybody check if sites have been unfairly added to the blacklist to suppress opinions or hide compromising information)
3) Is there a simple, cheap, equitable and effective processes to challenge inclusion of a site in the list and have it removed if found it was not supposed to be there? (i.e. can errors be corrected)
As far as I can tell, the proposed Australian filter does not obbey any of these rules, much less all of them.
All politicians do things they don't want people to know about - that would negativelly impact their "ellectability" - thus they try to control the information that their constituents have access to. They do not want voters to do an informed choice.
Any filter not obbeying the golden rules listed above is meant to be an extremelly powerfull tool to control access to information and is intended to be under the control of those in power.
I think the overall issue is that you can't take an IT Admin position working for the a Local, State or Federal public entity in the US since you're damned if you do (give the passwords) because of laws and regulations and damned if you don't since they'll take you to court and have you convicted anyway.
Either stay away from those positions or ask for a significant premium on your salary/rate to cover the legal risk.
I think the issue that the GP pointed was uncontrolled PvP environment.
What you describe is actually a controlled PvP environment.
Even better: the latest pools put the LibDems in a position of either winning or being the king-makers in a split parliement (in fact they might even win the popular vote but get less seats in parliement than other parties thanks to the not-really-democratic system in the UK). This is a huge change since they have consistently been the 3rd party in the UK for 50 years or something like that.
At this point I would change my vote to them if it wasn't for the simple detail that as a non-British EU citizen I don't get to vote for Parliement in the UK (yet strangelly the HMRC is perfectly happy to take my money as taxes).
Maybe because no synthentics fibers company bought legislation in the US against the other natural fibers you mention, only against hemp.
The other fibers are allowed to be grown or not on their own merits, while hemp has been held-down by anti-competitive legislation that outlaws it under the excuse that people might want to smoke it in the privacy of their homes (which harms nobody else) so we should forbid it from being grown.
Hemp is a symbol of how corrupt the so-called democratic system is in some countries and why it's bad for most countries to import policies from said corrupt countries.
Paper pulp is made from fast growing trees such as Eucaliptus.
Nobody makes paper pulp from slow-growing trees: their wood is much too valueable in other uses for it to be wasted on making paper.
The wood of fast growing trees on the other hand is basically worthless for anything but paper pulp since it's not resistent enough for structural uses and does not have the appropriate properties for furniture.
Grow a head in somebody's ass, give a new meaning to the expression "butt-kisser".
Only it's not a copy. It's your real head. You're the copy.
You keep reafirming my 10 year old commitment to never buy a Sony product again.
- Saving from getting the trailer as a loan from a friend: £500
- Savings in Hotel costs while on vacations: £2000
- Having your friend fined from crossing the UK faster than the speed of light: priceless
If European airspace was closed for 2 years we might see a return of the era of the luxury cruise liner or even better, of the zepellin (imagine if London to Berlin took 8h but in an airship with the room and conforts of a small cruise ship).
Actually there's a bug in your code:
"[...] shall be initially equated to 1 (one) [...] includes the increment of "i" by 1 (one) in a positive monotonic uniform manner performed prior to each display to the visual display device" (emphasys mine) [...]"
So the output would be:
> glegalese test.legalese
> a.out
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
>
[Slow day today ....]
"Née" means "born" in French.
The word "née" is often used in official documents when refering to a married woman who took her husband's family name when she got married but before had a different name, for example Mrs. Smith née (born) Brown.
So it should be Accenture (nee Anderson Consulting) not the other way around.
It works like bullying: eventually the victim's own fear means instant compliance with the bully's wishes.
The "mitochondrial" DNA is separate from the nucleos DNA. In nature mitochondrial DNA is always wholy inherited from the mother. In this experiment the nucleus DNA for the egg comes from one woman and the mitochondrial DNA comes from the 2nd woman so the embryo does have 3 parents.
I used this scheme with a bank in the UK (Halifax). Yet they still let through transactions done through an ATM terminal exceeding the amount available on my account and charged me a fee for "Unarranged overdraft" (even though I had explicitly requested "no overdrafts" when openning the account). [Naturally I'm not their customer anymore]
At least in the UK, restricting the amount of money in your account is little defense if you have a debit card linked to it - it's actually in the bank's best interest to let through transactions execeeding the amount of money in you account since they get to charge you overdraft fees (especially since a court case that went all the way to the Supreme Court has confirmed they can do it with impunity).
Some Physics theories postulate that as time passes countless Universes are created, for example each time an undetermined quantum state is decided, with it going one way in one Universe and another way in the other Universe.
That being so there would be a quasi-infinite number of alternate Universes. Surelly several of those would have a planet in (or passing) the same spatial coordinates as ours were an intelligent non-human species evolved.
There might even exist alternate Universes where C (speed of light) is much larger than in our Universe and humans can survive, making faster than light (in our Universe) possible through crossing over, travelling there and then crossing back.
Both examples would mean that the speed of light in our Universe is not a limit to us finding intelligent aliens.
(PS: As to faster than light communications, tachyons would be a possibility.)
There are several SF stories around Utopias/Distopias where most humans spend all their time immersed in some kind of ultra realistic VR environment, typically linked via some kind of direct brain feed. Basically a realistic enough VR environment, thanks to our ability do immerse in it and forget that it's not real, can fulfill all the psychological needs of an individual, more so even than reality since it has fewer barriers and does not suffer from the limitations of normal societal structures (in human society there are only a limited number of positions of a given type, for example Village Chief, but in a VR environment you can use NPCs to create as many virtual societies as you want and as such as many slots of a given type as you want).
There are quite a number of natural limitations to a scenario where all mankind lives in VR:
- Natural selection would remove from the genetic pool those that spent all their time in VR, since they wouldn't reproduce.
- Physical needs would still have to be catered for. This means that things still have to be produced (like food). The VR environments, being targetted at satisfying the individual would be highly unproductive, so full automated means of production would have to exist, and they would need to be fully fed from some for of free energy.
- As long as there are multiple nations, unless ALL of them "went into VR" at the same time, the ones that didn't would simply march their armies into the land of ones that did and take over.
That said, for exploration of the unknow to stop or slow significantly, all that it takes is for the Explorer types amongst us - the same kind of people that 3 or 4 centuries ago would be jumping into boats and travelling to unexplored lands, and the same kind that nowadays would drive us to explorer space - to fulfill their drive to explore in VR environments which one miht argue already happens in part. It's thus quite possible that this will keep Human Society in the period of stagnation with regards to expanding our physical borders of knowledge in which it currently is. In the extreme, having lost all our drive to physically go out and explore, humans could turn their backs to space forever.
That such a scenario could occur in alien societies is not beyond the realm of possibility. However, there are other drivers for exploration (conquest, material wealth, overcrowding, maybe even religious reasons) and the idea that all alien societies will sooner or later fall to the trap of "satiation of the need to explore by VR environments" is far fetched.
Then again one might also argue that the causal relation is actually the reverse:
- Human Society being in a period of stagnation with regards to expanding our physical borders of knowledge is not caused by Explorer types finding saciety in VR environments but instead said Explorer types are driven to "find their fix" in VR environments because we are currently not expanding our physical borders of knowledge.
The original Civilization was great and maybe the best value for money game of all times for me.
Civilization 2 was cool too and a lot of fun.
The ones after than including the variants where sleep inducing, "been there done this 1000 times", "waste of my money" games.
Anedoctal and all that but interesting in light of what you said:
- I myself recently went back to WoW (having left almost 5 years ago because I was seriously pissed of at the direction things were taking back then) because in these days of requires-always-on-connection single player games, rootkit-like DRM and low-content-on-package-you-can-buy-the-rest-for-extra games, WoW offers the best money-per-content ratio.
The industry is complaining about WoW monopolising gamer's time and yet they're actually reducing the relative value of their games all the while MMORPGS kept getting bigger, less grindy, more casual player friendly, catering to a larger variety of tastes, and even cheaper.
For all the griefers, gold spammers and beggers, at this point in time, WoW + 2 Expansions + 6 months subscription is actually a beter value proposition per buck with regards to the amount of entertainment you get from it and content to explore than pretty much any other games in the market (except one or two other MMORPGs such as LOTRO).
This is the conclusion I came to about 2 months ago and why I gave WoW another try: in that time I've spent less money and got a lot more entertainment than I would have with any major Single Player game for the PC not from the bargain bin.
(in fact the only PC games other than MMORPGS that can compete with WoW are bargain bin oldies)
A potential aim of getting these specific passwords would be to be able to use those user's identification credentials have custom crafted vulnerabilities at the source level checked-in into Source Control in one or more any of the Apache applications and frameworks (not just the Apache Web server but things like modules and language frameworks and libraries).
Certainly for state actors engaging in cyber-war, having their own backdoors in things like the Apache Webserver would be invaluable. They also have the know-how and the resources to both hack into the site and develop their own source-code level backdoors.
Criminal organizations with significant black hat operation would also be willing and capable of this sort of strategic action.
I would definitelly double check any code checked-in by the people whose passwords were stolen.
The Steve Jobs' reality distortion field doesn't decrease with the cube of the distance instead it decreases linearly with distance.
This explains why so many Americans seem to believe that the iPhone has an enormous market share and why some especially Steve-Jobs-reality-distornion-field-sensitive people will tell you straight-faced that Apple has a monopoly in Mobile Phones.
Apple should exploit this effect by having Steve Jobs spend a couple of weeks in an area anytime they wanted to increase the market share of their products.
You seem to have setup your own strawman and proceeded to attack it in your argument.
I never said that the values for which those companies were sold did not reflect their ownership of the infrastructure.