You assume that your average game actually produces a notable profit under traditional investment terms. Many lose money, and few really roll in massive cash. In fact the goal of a lot of game developers is to break even, and get a little money back into their pockets. That's a hell of a lot more possible on a kickstarter model than under the thumb of someone like Microsoft or EA, who not only requires a significant percentage of any net profits, but also strongarms the design and regularly derails the design goals of the game creators.
If a good game costs tens of millions of dollars to make and distribute, it doesnt really matter if you're "wealthy" with a couple of million in the bank. It matters even less when your source of income was (past tense) the game you produced 10+ years ago, and havent really worked since.
Never said it would. In fact I, as an American, understand and accept that being an American has, does, and will forever put me at a degree of risk. I prefer that level of risk and danger over that lie of "security" fed me by those who wish to control me.I value my freedom to protect myself in part through exercise of my privacy, and hold these far more dear than any dilusion that a faceless organization can prevent me coming to harm.
It's expensive and time consuming to push something like that all the way to the Supreme Court, which is where it would have to be decided.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, among others, have built careers on this very principle. Are you saying that what you describe is not valuable for those individuals to pursue because it is no longer a racial? Or because its ok to allow it now because whites are equally wronged?
Thanks for the permission. But you might aslo beat your kids, or have a meth lab in your house. To be sure everyone is safe we'll need to install cameras in every room. If you're not doing anything wrong, you wont have any objectsion, right?
Every country manipulates its currency for its own benefit.
Every country coerces and silences disidents.
Every country threatens legal action against political enemies.
Every country lies about how a bill/law/policy is all about safety/savings/efficiency. "Think of the children!" When the reality is a grab for more power.
By your reasoning these are just realities and every citizen of every country needs to just sit down and shut up. At what point is it ok to say that they've gone too far? Do they get to speak out only when the id number is being tattooed on their arm?
Disruptive to who? The company that enjoys selling you multiple iterations of the same device produced from shitty materials that continually breaks on you?
Ah, I understand now. When you said the company's predictive model I read it as their prediction of their overall costs. But you actually mean the medical industry's predictive model based on a person's genome.
Allow me to clarify for the deliberately obtuse: The world has moved significantly down the road of choosing which unborn lives are worthwhile, and which are just too big of a hassle.
I can only translate what you're saying to mean that on the one hand that insurance is expensive because the company has to coverage its statistically imperfect prediction of it's costs. And on the other hand that has they perfect their prediction of their expenses they will charge the customers more?
Not if you're a webfarm. Should you use something else? Yes. Should you yank the plug and then try to figure out how to bring your entire operation back online after the fact because a patch was missing? Probably not.
Exactly. That's like saying just because the NSA is collecting email and phone logs they are also indexing it all and searching for patterns and... Shit... Nevermind.
Oh, right, that's because thats to protect us. It's not like sequencing every kid's DNA is going to be used to correlate behavior to genetic traits and... Shit.... forget I said anything.
It's not a slippery slope. It's a reality. The world has moved significantly down the road of choosing which lives are worthwhile, and which are just too big of a hassle. The scope of the lives that are ended broadens every year rather than narrowing, and correlates closely to the entitlement and selfishness of those choosing.
People who abort because they dont want to deal with a child who has special needs are not uncommon. Girls are aborted because their less valued. Now lets ensure that every parent knows the color of their child's hair and eyes, skin tone, temperment, susceptibility to cancer or the flu or the common cold. The shape of the child's head, or if they are genetically likely to have birthmarks, or maybe just be ugly.
Are you honestly going to argue that there are not people shallow enough to abort a baby because they dont want to have an ugly kid?
3D printers have many legitimate uses, but like all technological advances they will also advance the capabilities of criminals. It just so happens that with zero skill any criminal can produce high quality work, this is unprecedented and is the fundamental reason why 3d printing related crimes are reported as such.
When was the last time an article about a technicology-related criminal act mentioned the soldering technology that made it all possible? Or the electrical engineering controversy? Or the dangerous side of progamming languages?
The point is that 3D printing is a tool. Thats it. It's a way to create a thing in the same way a lathe does. You dont hear about how it might be possible for a thug to lathe his own bat that he will obviously use to pummel someone, so we should be afraid of lathes. There arent weekly articles pointing to the dangers of water jet cutters that are more capable of producing a truly dangerous weapon than any 3D printer out there, and function with essentially the same level of required knowledge or skill.
The energy spent pointing out 3D printing is pointless and missguided. It's a witchhunt by ignorant hysterical knotheads.
Or maybe they found a very convenient non-government scapegoat they can point to and say, "Look what we're doing to protect you! Do you see now that what we do is really not that bad!?"
Badly managed government is like anything that is badly managed...
No, it isn't. A badly managed business goes bankrupt unless someone changes the way its managed. In government, politicians bicker about stupid bullshit, anyone actually interested in a real fix is condemned for being obstructionist, and more money is printed so that kicking the can further down the road is possible..
I've got over a decade of experience in fortune 50 companies and as a small business owner, and another decade in federal government showing proving this to me.
The size of government doesn't have a fucking thing to do with being on paper-based systems. It is largely a computer based system, with only some minor legacy systems still on paper. It has to do with pet projects, promises and handshakes to get votes, and do-gooders with a ton of good intentions and a deficit of logic.
Every quarter every branch of government runs around trying to figure out how to spend every dime of the money they still have from their quarterly budget. Year-end is even worse. No one even considers the possibility of throwing the money back into the system to be reused. Hell there are even laws about how you cant spend the money next year if you save if. You have to use funds from the current year's budget only. And people spend the money because they know if they don't their budget for the next year will be smaller. Tell me how with this kind of thinking government isn't assured to grow, not because the public needs it to, but because it is a self-feeding glutton.
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If you eat birds, fish, and mammals, you've already eaten bugs, or worse. You just dont see them in a form you recognize.
You assume that your average game actually produces a notable profit under traditional investment terms. Many lose money, and few really roll in massive cash. In fact the goal of a lot of game developers is to break even, and get a little money back into their pockets. That's a hell of a lot more possible on a kickstarter model than under the thumb of someone like Microsoft or EA, who not only requires a significant percentage of any net profits, but also strongarms the design and regularly derails the design goals of the game creators.
If a good game costs tens of millions of dollars to make and distribute, it doesnt really matter if you're "wealthy" with a couple of million in the bank. It matters even less when your source of income was (past tense) the game you produced 10+ years ago, and havent really worked since.
/sarcasm....
Never said it would. In fact I, as an American, understand and accept that being an American has, does, and will forever put me at a degree of risk. I prefer that level of risk and danger over that lie of "security" fed me by those who wish to control me.I value my freedom to protect myself in part through exercise of my privacy, and hold these far more dear than any dilusion that a faceless organization can prevent me coming to harm.
It's expensive and time consuming to push something like that all the way to the Supreme Court, which is where it would have to be decided.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, among others, have built careers on this very principle. Are you saying that what you describe is not valuable for those individuals to pursue because it is no longer a racial? Or because its ok to allow it now because whites are equally wronged?
Thanks for the permission. But you might aslo beat your kids, or have a meth lab in your house. To be sure everyone is safe we'll need to install cameras in every room. If you're not doing anything wrong, you wont have any objectsion, right?
Every country manipulates its currency for its own benefit.
Every country coerces and silences disidents.
Every country threatens legal action against political enemies.
Every country lies about how a bill/law/policy is all about safety/savings/efficiency. "Think of the children!" When the reality is a grab for more power.
By your reasoning these are just realities and every citizen of every country needs to just sit down and shut up. At what point is it ok to say that they've gone too far? Do they get to speak out only when the id number is being tattooed on their arm?
Apparently sarcasm doesnt exist in that other universe.
Disruptive to who? The company that enjoys selling you multiple iterations of the same device produced from shitty materials that continually breaks on you?
Ah, I understand now. When you said the company's predictive model I read it as their prediction of their overall costs. But you actually mean the medical industry's predictive model based on a person's genome.
You're right. Or they bring up a security concern only to get accused of being incompetent for not seeing it sooner.
Allow me to clarify for the deliberately obtuse: The world has moved significantly down the road of choosing which unborn lives are worthwhile, and which are just too big of a hassle.
That doesnt make any sense.
I can only translate what you're saying to mean that on the one hand that insurance is expensive because the company has to coverage its statistically imperfect prediction of it's costs. And on the other hand that has they perfect their prediction of their expenses they will charge the customers more?
Not if you're a webfarm. Should you use something else? Yes. Should you yank the plug and then try to figure out how to bring your entire operation back online after the fact because a patch was missing? Probably not.
Why would universal sequencing imply a database?
Exactly. That's like saying just because the NSA is collecting email and phone logs they are also indexing it all and searching for patterns and... Shit... Nevermind.
Oh, right, that's because thats to protect us. It's not like sequencing every kid's DNA is going to be used to correlate behavior to genetic traits and... Shit.... forget I said anything.
It's not a slippery slope. It's a reality. The world has moved significantly down the road of choosing which lives are worthwhile, and which are just too big of a hassle. The scope of the lives that are ended broadens every year rather than narrowing, and correlates closely to the entitlement and selfishness of those choosing.
People who abort because they dont want to deal with a child who has special needs are not uncommon. Girls are aborted because their less valued. Now lets ensure that every parent knows the color of their child's hair and eyes, skin tone, temperment, susceptibility to cancer or the flu or the common cold. The shape of the child's head, or if they are genetically likely to have birthmarks, or maybe just be ugly.
Are you honestly going to argue that there are not people shallow enough to abort a baby because they dont want to have an ugly kid?
Or worse, their ignorance spawns knee-jerk reactions that cripples wide swaths of the workforce's productivity.
"What!? There's IIS vulnerability on serverXYZ ?! Uninstall all IIS on all systems immediately!"
And maybe that makes the whole thing that much more fun.
3D printers have many legitimate uses, but like all technological advances they will also advance the capabilities of criminals. It just so happens that with zero skill any criminal can produce high quality work, this is unprecedented and is the fundamental reason why 3d printing related crimes are reported as such.
When was the last time an article about a technicology-related criminal act mentioned the soldering technology that made it all possible? Or the electrical engineering controversy? Or the dangerous side of progamming languages?
The point is that 3D printing is a tool. Thats it. It's a way to create a thing in the same way a lathe does. You dont hear about how it might be possible for a thug to lathe his own bat that he will obviously use to pummel someone, so we should be afraid of lathes. There arent weekly articles pointing to the dangers of water jet cutters that are more capable of producing a truly dangerous weapon than any 3D printer out there, and function with essentially the same level of required knowledge or skill.
The energy spent pointing out 3D printing is pointless and missguided. It's a witchhunt by ignorant hysterical knotheads.
Says the person using a computer over the internet to interact with millions of people on a tech news/forum ....
Or maybe they found a very convenient non-government scapegoat they can point to and say, "Look what we're doing to protect you! Do you see now that what we do is really not that bad!?"
Surely you're not that ignorant...
Badly managed government is like anything that is badly managed...
No, it isn't. A badly managed business goes bankrupt unless someone changes the way its managed. In government, politicians bicker about stupid bullshit, anyone actually interested in a real fix is condemned for being obstructionist, and more money is printed so that kicking the can further down the road is possible..
I've got over a decade of experience in fortune 50 companies and as a small business owner, and another decade in federal government showing proving this to me.
The size of government doesn't have a fucking thing to do with being on paper-based systems. It is largely a computer based system, with only some minor legacy systems still on paper. It has to do with pet projects, promises and handshakes to get votes, and do-gooders with a ton of good intentions and a deficit of logic.
Every quarter every branch of government runs around trying to figure out how to spend every dime of the money they still have from their quarterly budget. Year-end is even worse. No one even considers the possibility of throwing the money back into the system to be reused. Hell there are even laws about how you cant spend the money next year if you save if. You have to use funds from the current year's budget only. And people spend the money because they know if they don't their budget for the next year will be smaller. Tell me how with this kind of thinking government isn't assured to grow, not because the public needs it to, but because it is a self-feeding glutton.
C: "Your intinerary shows your vacation ending in Venezuela?" N: "Visiting my cousin?"