And we don't pay taxi drivers to die either, and yet more of them get shot or stabbed than cops, and yet we still have more of them than police. We also don't pay the cops to shoot/kill people, but they seem to be doing plenty of that with insufficient justification.
Because fantasy football has traditionally been a geek thing since it doesn't require getting dogpiled or bounced around on the field, nor does it involved sitting on uncomfortable bleachers exposed to the sun for hours, as well as it tends to be a cerebral exercise if you care to indulge. With the rise and ubiquity of computers, it's happening on computers, so even if it includes a million armchair quarterback jock wannabe's, many still consider it the domain of geeks.
It could be. First off, I have no idea how the fantasy football stuff works, and don't want to. On the other hand, if it's anything like actually odds making, popularity counts for a LOT. Sure there are various factors as to who's most likely to win, but the odds are also set by which one people are betting on. Let's say statistically there's a 50% chance that team A will win, and the betting odds were at 2 to 1, if 80% of the people were all betting on team A, the bookie is going to lose his shirt if team A wins. So he increases the odds for team B and decreases it for team A to induce people to bet differently. That way, the bookie has the monetary edge no matter who wins, which is good business for him, and gambling for you. So if these fantasy football things are similar to sports betting, they are tweaking the numbers based on popularity, they'd have to.
Several of the things you said there were incorrect. We don't know what that mayor was using, so we can't really say. Of course, he could have an encrypted HD, and a bios password. That'll make most would be digital intruders go home, including the NSA, because unless that sucker has nuclear codes or something super important like that on it, it's just not worth the time, money, and hassle to try and crack it.
Where it is or isn't, those border thugs will never recognize that in the first place and weren't looking for it anyhow. They wanted something else, certainly not cyber-security issues.
So somehow one pair of handcuffs is mysteriously far worst than a full set of manacles, leg shackles, and a choker chain leash? You do realize your reasoning doesn't really make sense don't you?
They aren't granting any sovereignty, rather they are just letting them keep/sell what they dig up or otherwise obtain, but they still have no ownership of the celestial body. Kind of like prospecting on federal land. You don't own the land, but you get to keep the valuable minerals you pull out of it. Whether people like it or not, if you can't obtain resources out there, they won't go there. If you've got a profit motive, you won't mine something you can't use or sell. And if you're doing exploration, you will want to use as much from out there as is feasible so you don't have to ship it all from Earth, even if that's possible.
I take it you are talking about slaves? Well they were stolen property in the first place, and all the abolition of slavery did was return them to their rightful owners. You can't say that Lincoln "stole" them from anyone.
I saw an article on this, and supposedly the German government is allowing it to try and motivate (soon to be) educated intelligent foreigners to be enticed to Germany and stay afterwards for the local job prospects.
In scientific terms, both Gravity and Evolution are BOTH theories. The word "theory" doesn't have the same meaning to scientists as it does to the uneducated dolt at a republican convention. However, both are considered in the same level of trustworthyness or whatever you want to call it. Nobody in a field that studies it doubts it exists anymore than they doubt their own existence, but they do still attempt to refine it and learn more details about it.
I've always had problems with getting seagates to talk with the other hardware, and said they needed to fix that. I see now that they tried, by going too far down the wrong freaking road again!:P
I hate to say it, but in this city, the majority of the bicyclists are apparently trying to win Darwin Awards. On an average day, you'll see at least a dozen of them, and about 6 times a year you'll see one that's actually following the rules. They go through red lights. Go the wrong direction in the lanes. Shoot out into traffic from behind large objects in the middle of the block. Jump back and forth between the sidewalk and the road with no warning. etc. In short, they are suicidal incompetents that should be allowed near anything with wheels in the first place, much less actually be allowed on the roads.
I don't know what the hell happened, but it didn't used to be that way. When I was a teenager, I wasn't even allowed to ride past my block until I had read and learned all the road rules. My mom gave me a state drivers manual for me to study. It's true that most of these idiots aren't teenagers, but WTF don't they what they are doing is suicidal? In a collision between a car and a bike, I guarantee the bike will lose by at least half a ton! Speaking of which, I saw the aftermath of a recent bike-car collision a couple of months ago. It wasn't a head on, but both wheels on the bike were bent like chalupas. As to the rider, I don't know, the paramedics had a blanket and were blocking any clear view. (I wasn't driving that day, so I could afford to look.)
And of course, if someone wants to scream at me for being a car driver and not a bicyclist so it's obvious I wouldn't understand, I ride my bike most days of the week, and it's in a busy traffic area. It's not me that's mentally deficient.
I don't think it's any more a conspiracy, than a bunch of hungry dogs running for the food bowl. They all want it, and are going to do their damnedest to eat all of it they can. It's not a conspiracy as they aren't working together, even though they share the same personal goal.
That video isn't in the uncanny valley, unless you really are a loony toon. (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, etc.) The characters are too cartoony for that, even the human.
Wow, so now to get arrested for terrorism, all you have to do is use the same kind of thing that a terrorist has used? I sure hope none of them wear Nikes.
Slashdot Mirror
Relying on hollywood for any measure of reality, now that's a real comedy of errors.
And we don't pay taxi drivers to die either, and yet more of them get shot or stabbed than cops, and yet we still have more of them than police.
We also don't pay the cops to shoot/kill people, but they seem to be doing plenty of that with insufficient justification.
Actually that seems to be a problem with those that don't value others lives as much, and don't act like the public servants they are supposed to be.
Gotta agree, this wasn't some rogue programmers, it was a mandate from someone higher up the food chain.
Are you kidding? They are some of the easiest to cheat.
Because fantasy football has traditionally been a geek thing since it doesn't require getting dogpiled or bounced around on the field, nor does it involved sitting on uncomfortable bleachers exposed to the sun for hours, as well as it tends to be a cerebral exercise if you care to indulge. With the rise and ubiquity of computers, it's happening on computers, so even if it includes a million armchair quarterback jock wannabe's, many still consider it the domain of geeks.
LoL, because your gambling friend is only playing the cards as a secondary, his primary game is playing the other players.
Can I get a Tolkien analogy?
It could be. First off, I have no idea how the fantasy football stuff works, and don't want to. On the other hand, if it's anything like actually odds making, popularity counts for a LOT. Sure there are various factors as to who's most likely to win, but the odds are also set by which one people are betting on. Let's say statistically there's a 50% chance that team A will win, and the betting odds were at 2 to 1, if 80% of the people were all betting on team A, the bookie is going to lose his shirt if team A wins. So he increases the odds for team B and decreases it for team A to induce people to bet differently. That way, the bookie has the monetary edge no matter who wins, which is good business for him, and gambling for you.
So if these fantasy football things are similar to sports betting, they are tweaking the numbers based on popularity, they'd have to.
Added to that, his posts look like standard spam. Where did he learn to write posts just like spammers?
Several of the things you said there were incorrect.
We don't know what that mayor was using, so we can't really say. Of course, he could have an encrypted HD, and a bios password. That'll make most would be digital intruders go home, including the NSA, because unless that sucker has nuclear codes or something super important like that on it, it's just not worth the time, money, and hassle to try and crack it.
Where it is or isn't, those border thugs will never recognize that in the first place and weren't looking for it anyhow. They wanted something else, certainly not cyber-security issues.
So somehow one pair of handcuffs is mysteriously far worst than a full set of manacles, leg shackles, and a choker chain leash?
You do realize your reasoning doesn't really make sense don't you?
Yes. If it hadn't been for that one, I doubt they'd be going after Google for this. I wonder if they have Apple in their sites for their next target.
They aren't granting any sovereignty, rather they are just letting them keep/sell what they dig up or otherwise obtain, but they still have no ownership of the celestial body. Kind of like prospecting on federal land. You don't own the land, but you get to keep the valuable minerals you pull out of it.
Whether people like it or not, if you can't obtain resources out there, they won't go there. If you've got a profit motive, you won't mine something you can't use or sell. And if you're doing exploration, you will want to use as much from out there as is feasible so you don't have to ship it all from Earth, even if that's possible.
I take it you are talking about slaves?
Well they were stolen property in the first place, and all the abolition of slavery did was return them to their rightful owners.
You can't say that Lincoln "stole" them from anyone.
Whether I agree with your statements is not the subject of this post, but here's something for you to think about.
Spying on my communications pisses me off.
Keeping me alive and not dying for lack of medical care, is something I can't be angry about.
Does that clear up anything for you?
I saw an article on this, and supposedly the German government is allowing it to try and motivate (soon to be) educated intelligent foreigners to be enticed to Germany and stay afterwards for the local job prospects.
In scientific terms, both Gravity and Evolution are BOTH theories.
The word "theory" doesn't have the same meaning to scientists as it does to the uneducated dolt at a republican convention.
However, both are considered in the same level of trustworthyness or whatever you want to call it. Nobody in a field that studies it doubts it exists anymore than they doubt their own existence, but they do still attempt to refine it and learn more details about it.
It was pretty obvious they weren't exactly the brightest when they thought it was a good idea to name the THIRD iteration of their console ONE.
I've always had problems with getting seagates to talk with the other hardware, and said they needed to fix that. I see now that they tried, by going too far down the wrong freaking road again! :P
I hate to say it, but in this city, the majority of the bicyclists are apparently trying to win Darwin Awards.
On an average day, you'll see at least a dozen of them, and about 6 times a year you'll see one that's actually following the rules.
They go through red lights. Go the wrong direction in the lanes. Shoot out into traffic from behind large objects in the middle of the block. Jump back and forth between the sidewalk and the road with no warning. etc.
In short, they are suicidal incompetents that should be allowed near anything with wheels in the first place, much less actually be allowed on the roads.
I don't know what the hell happened, but it didn't used to be that way. When I was a teenager, I wasn't even allowed to ride past my block until I had read and learned all the road rules. My mom gave me a state drivers manual for me to study. It's true that most of these idiots aren't teenagers, but WTF don't they what they are doing is suicidal? In a collision between a car and a bike, I guarantee the bike will lose by at least half a ton! Speaking of which, I saw the aftermath of a recent bike-car collision a couple of months ago. It wasn't a head on, but both wheels on the bike were bent like chalupas. As to the rider, I don't know, the paramedics had a blanket and were blocking any clear view. (I wasn't driving that day, so I could afford to look.)
And of course, if someone wants to scream at me for being a car driver and not a bicyclist so it's obvious I wouldn't understand, I ride my bike most days of the week, and it's in a busy traffic area. It's not me that's mentally deficient.
I don't think it's any more a conspiracy, than a bunch of hungry dogs running for the food bowl. They all want it, and are going to do their damnedest to eat all of it they can. It's not a conspiracy as they aren't working together, even though they share the same personal goal.
That video isn't in the uncanny valley, unless you really are a loony toon. (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, etc.)
The characters are too cartoony for that, even the human.
Wow, so now to get arrested for terrorism, all you have to do is use the same kind of thing that a terrorist has used?
I sure hope none of them wear Nikes.