I got an idea. Let's limit all NASCARs to 4 kilometers per hour so blind and disabled people can just walk/wheelchair right beside the cars! It'll reduce the number of crashes too.
Then you aren't blind by the common sense of the word, you have extremely bad vision, and that's a very important distinction. I don't know much about the relative sizes of these two groups, but fully blind people don't care how large the text is, they need audio or braille.
It's licensed under the open gaming license so people don't have to rewrite everything to spread the rules around. As for patents, yes, game mechanics can be patented.
As you said, the majority of people would rather not go the enterpreneurial route. So 90% of the people trying to run their own businesses is completely out of the question. This is about 1% trying to start an enterprise (mom-and-pop stores don't count as enterprises IMO, they have no chance to grow into big companies and they're more steady income, so they resemble normal jobs), instead of 0.1% trying to start an enterprise. I think the second scenario is far too low.
Thank you for saying this. I, for one, fully support workers' rights to work for 12 hours a day 7 days a week in an American factory instead of subsistence farming 16 hours a day 7 days a week in the hot sun, with the yearly risk of starvation at the environment's whim.
You misunderstand the parent's point completely. Under the "90% above 5 million" system, a man with a steady income of $1 million per year will pay, say, 40% of his income. An enterpreneur who makes $50000 per year for 9 years and $9.55 million on the tenth year (the same money) will pay around 65-70%. All tiered tax systems have this problem, and and extreme one makes the problem more extreme. This discourages enterpreneurism and encourages not taking risks (the good kind of risks, not the "let's run a trillion-dollar bank with 1% of what we owe in cash reserves" kind of risks) and collecting a steady income, something which is very bad for the market and the economy.
Lack of privacy -> people can no longer do things which aren't considered "acceptable" by the vigilantes/mob/establishment even though there's nothing illegal about them -> some kind of tyranny emerges from here.
The problem is that Facebook has some "share this information only with close friends" settings, and people who use them do have some expectation of privacy for that data. Unfortunately these settings have about 5 million security holes in them.
Information wants to be free. Once something is out there, on the internet, you can't put it back in the bottle. We cannot stop this, so we might as well adapt.
So close and you missed the million dollar idea! We should make a movie of Slashdot!. We'll have people in their mother's basements remotely piloting bombers against the Evil Triumvirate (RIAA, MPAA, BSA) with their pathetic attempts to find a girlfriend as a cheesy subplot! We could make millions*!
People which use software installation systems that check MD5s by default. Even Windows does something like this, but so many applications don't bother with signatures that "warning unsigned application" is pretty much meaningless.
The point was about open source as a means of protecting against malware. The contests prove that it's possible to write code which requires a REALLY careful inspection to see that it's malware. Therefore, not even open source is a perfect way of ensuring security.
If you're trying to apply for a new job, is the employer going to care about what company you were associated with beyond trying to figure out why you left/got fired?
Murder is already a jailable offense in itself, including road rage homicide. Speeding is more about slowing down the rest of the road by making everyone watch out for you, scaring the hell out of innocent people just trying to use the road, the damage you're inflicting on the road, and other damages like that.
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Once again, life imitates xkcd
I got an idea. Let's limit all NASCARs to 4 kilometers per hour so blind and disabled people can just walk/wheelchair right beside the cars! It'll reduce the number of crashes too.
Then you aren't blind by the common sense of the word, you have extremely bad vision, and that's a very important distinction. I don't know much about the relative sizes of these two groups, but fully blind people don't care how large the text is, they need audio or braille.
now gimme some lovin', group hug!
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
It's licensed under the open gaming license so people don't have to rewrite everything to spread the rules around. As for patents, yes, game mechanics can be patented.
As you said, the majority of people would rather not go the enterpreneurial route. So 90% of the people trying to run their own businesses is completely out of the question. This is about 1% trying to start an enterprise (mom-and-pop stores don't count as enterprises IMO, they have no chance to grow into big companies and they're more steady income, so they resemble normal jobs), instead of 0.1% trying to start an enterprise. I think the second scenario is far too low.
Thank you for saying this. I, for one, fully support workers' rights to work for 12 hours a day 7 days a week in an American factory instead of subsistence farming 16 hours a day 7 days a week in the hot sun, with the yearly risk of starvation at the environment's whim.
You misunderstand the parent's point completely. Under the "90% above 5 million" system, a man with a steady income of $1 million per year will pay, say, 40% of his income. An enterpreneur who makes $50000 per year for 9 years and $9.55 million on the tenth year (the same money) will pay around 65-70%. All tiered tax systems have this problem, and and extreme one makes the problem more extreme. This discourages enterpreneurism and encourages not taking risks (the good kind of risks, not the "let's run a trillion-dollar bank with 1% of what we owe in cash reserves" kind of risks) and collecting a steady income, something which is very bad for the market and the economy.
The expression of rules is copyrightable. But if you want to make your own books describing D&D rules, you most definitely can.
Lack of privacy -> people can no longer do things which aren't considered "acceptable" by the vigilantes/mob/establishment even though there's nothing illegal about them -> some kind of tyranny emerges from here.
The problem is that Facebook has some "share this information only with close friends" settings, and people who use them do have some expectation of privacy for that data. Unfortunately these settings have about 5 million security holes in them.
Sounds like you're only copying the game's rules. Rules aren't copyrightable.
Everything is derivative. Trying to fight this isn't being original, it's reinventing the wheel.
They call it new clear power for a reason.
What's that? It's pronounced nucular now? I thought that was just for the weapons?
My CPU goes up to eleven.
lets QUESTION the very premise (that sharing is good when it comes to personal info) before we assume its a genie out of the bottle.
It IS a genie out of the bottle. Whether or not sharing personal info is good has nothing to do with that fact.
we could build in policy so that things CAN be pulled back
Something tells me that any solution here will be guaranteed to either fail or destroy internet freedom as we know it.
we could build in authentication so you know (for sure) who is saying what.
We already have cryptographic signing. If you mean mandatory authentication, see above.
Information wants to be free. Once something is out there, on the internet, you can't put it back in the bottle. We cannot stop this, so we might as well adapt.
So close and you missed the million dollar idea! We should make a movie of Slashdot!. We'll have people in their mother's basements remotely piloting bombers against the Evil Triumvirate (RIAA, MPAA, BSA) with their pathetic attempts to find a girlfriend as a cheesy subplot! We could make millions*!
*Millions of Zimbabwean ISK, that is.
People which use software installation systems that check MD5s by default. Even Windows does something like this, but so many applications don't bother with signatures that "warning unsigned application" is pretty much meaningless.
The point was about open source as a means of protecting against malware. The contests prove that it's possible to write code which requires a REALLY careful inspection to see that it's malware. Therefore, not even open source is a perfect way of ensuring security.
If you're trying to apply for a new job, is the employer going to care about what company you were associated with beyond trying to figure out why you left/got fired?
Murder is already a jailable offense in itself, including road rage homicide. Speeding is more about slowing down the rest of the road by making everyone watch out for you, scaring the hell out of innocent people just trying to use the road, the damage you're inflicting on the road, and other damages like that.
Have you tried Privoxy?
2010 is the year of Lynx on the desktop!
I just find it amusing that we're trying to stuff more and more things into the browser. There has got to be a recursion joke in there somewhere.
Firefox is a great operating system, it just needs a decent web browser.