It's not about comparing your skill to the best drivers out there, it's about being skilled enough to have a sufficiently low chance of damaging property or killing people on the roads. We already have a syetem for keeping totally unskilled drivers out - it's called a driver's license.
You don't have a system where if you're slightly below the age of unrestricted consent you can still have sex with someone within a certain age difference? That can't be right. It's probably from that same idiot who keeps telling me they don't have public healthcare down there.
So you would prefer a forum full of average sports jocks to one with people who share his interests and have more likely gone through the same thing themselves? Seriously, Slashdot is a better forum for romance than you think.
If A correlates with B, then one of the following is true:
1) A causes B
2) B causes A
3) Another factor C causes both A and B (as in the ice cream and sharks example)
4) It's all a coincidence. For something with a very small sample size (like shark deaths, AFAIK there are only about 10 of them per year) this is a very real possibility.
One rule of thumb is the rule of 2000 - square the percentage market shares of all the providers and add it up. If the result exceeds 2000, it's a monopoly. For example, if you had five providers with 30%, 25%, 22%, 14% and 9%, adding 900+625+484+144+81 gives 2234, so it's a monopoly (technically an oligopoly, but in that situation you get a cartel anyway, see telecom, the recording industry, etc)
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Time to go even more exotic I guess. How does Qaizen sound (or rather, look)?
Blatant disregard for international treaties and a will and a way to impose this on unwilling nations all around the globe.
I don't like the US but that's some pretty good blackwhite right there. The US refusing to follow laws it never asked for is bad but when the US is the one pushing its policies on other countries they're the bad guys.
I can't say much about magnetic effects but electrocution shouldn't be too much of a problem - you can always put more insulation on. As for heat, the ultracapacitor technology, at least, operates at a very high voltage, so power loss and therefore conversion into heat would be minimal.
You can get 75-90% of the value of a $4000 computer with a $600 one. You can't get 75-90% of the value (yes, fulfilling whatever desire causes you to have children is "value") of a $4000/year child for $600. The reason I relegated the use of high-end equipment to the rich is not because they're paying $4000 for a computer, but because they're paying $3400 for a minor improvement to a computer - I'm not insulting them, it's just that as you get richer the amount at which you value your time and your enjoyment increases so it becomes worth it to go higher and higher up the diminishing returns curve.
The maximum value would of course only be possible at stations with specialized equipment - recharging an ICE car with a drinking straw will also take longer. Or, since both of the technologies I mentioned can also discharge in 5-10 seconds, if you had the money you could set up an always-on one collecting energy from your power outlet 24/7 and plug into that when you need to.
I tried to make a ridiculous argument and you showed its ridiculousness. Now, I'll nuke the discussion with the modern definition of decimate
verb (used with object), -mated, -mating. 1. to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
2. to select by lot and kill every tenth person of.
3. Obsolete. to take a tenth of or from.
Notice how the one we're talking about is not even the main definition of the word anymore, and applying the definition to the music industry falls under (3), which is even obsolete.
Waiting on batteries to charge will soon rapidly become outdated. There are new technologies on the horizon - ultracapacitors and nanotechnologically improved Li-ion batteries - that can be charged potentially in 5-10 seconds.
Isn't that what happened in the I, Robot movie, where robots were programmed with the need to maximize safety as an unbreakable law but with no understanding of freedom?
Wait, you're advocating wasting a classroom and hours of a teacher's time for something that could, and should, be done at home, just to mitigate cheating?
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It's not about comparing your skill to the best drivers out there, it's about being skilled enough to have a sufficiently low chance of damaging property or killing people on the roads. We already have a syetem for keeping totally unskilled drivers out - it's called a driver's license.
You don't have a system where if you're slightly below the age of unrestricted consent you can still have sex with someone within a certain age difference? That can't be right. It's probably from that same idiot who keeps telling me they don't have public healthcare down there.
I'm a member of MADMAN - Mothers Against Drunks Madly Against Norwegians
I'm pretty sure gaming and Linux were invented a bit after 1357.
So you would prefer a forum full of average sports jocks to one with people who share his interests and have more likely gone through the same thing themselves? Seriously, Slashdot is a better forum for romance than you think.
If A correlates with B, then one of the following is true:
1) A causes B
2) B causes A
3) Another factor C causes both A and B (as in the ice cream and sharks example)
4) It's all a coincidence. For something with a very small sample size (like shark deaths, AFAIK there are only about 10 of them per year) this is a very real possibility.
We know our operating system sucks so we've decided to help our customers by making it even easier to shut it down!
One rule of thumb is the rule of 2000 - square the percentage market shares of all the providers and add it up. If the result exceeds 2000, it's a monopoly. For example, if you had five providers with 30%, 25%, 22%, 14% and 9%, adding 900+625+484+144+81 gives 2234, so it's a monopoly (technically an oligopoly, but in that situation you get a cartel anyway, see telecom, the recording industry, etc)
Time to go even more exotic I guess. How does Qaizen sound (or rather, look)?
I think Slashdot is warning him about corrupting a pristine open source Firefox release with some dirty Microsoft system.
Blatant disregard for international treaties and a will and a way to impose this on unwilling nations all around the globe.
I don't like the US but that's some pretty good blackwhite right there. The US refusing to follow laws it never asked for is bad but when the US is the one pushing its policies on other countries they're the bad guys.
I can't say much about magnetic effects but electrocution shouldn't be too much of a problem - you can always put more insulation on. As for heat, the ultracapacitor technology, at least, operates at a very high voltage, so power loss and therefore conversion into heat would be minimal.
Why should only the people who use your product have to pay for it?
Now THAT's reasonable and non-discriminatory.
You can get 75-90% of the value of a $4000 computer with a $600 one. You can't get 75-90% of the value (yes, fulfilling whatever desire causes you to have children is "value") of a $4000/year child for $600. The reason I relegated the use of high-end equipment to the rich is not because they're paying $4000 for a computer, but because they're paying $3400 for a minor improvement to a computer - I'm not insulting them, it's just that as you get richer the amount at which you value your time and your enjoyment increases so it becomes worth it to go higher and higher up the diminishing returns curve.
The maximum value would of course only be possible at stations with specialized equipment - recharging an ICE car with a drinking straw will also take longer. Or, since both of the technologies I mentioned can also discharge in 5-10 seconds, if you had the money you could set up an always-on one collecting energy from your power outlet 24/7 and plug into that when you need to.
I tried to make a ridiculous argument and you showed its ridiculousness. Now, I'll nuke the discussion with the modern definition of decimate
verb (used with object), -mated, -mating. 1. to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
2. to select by lot and kill every tenth person of.
3. Obsolete. to take a tenth of or from.
Notice how the one we're talking about is not even the main definition of the word anymore, and applying the definition to the music industry falls under (3), which is even obsolete.
Waiting on batteries to charge will soon rapidly become outdated. There are new technologies on the horizon - ultracapacitors and nanotechnologically improved Li-ion batteries - that can be charged potentially in 5-10 seconds.
1.94 hertz per diopter.
Hope that helped.
There are computers, bikes, TVs and motorcycles available for a lot less than $5000. The ones that are above that are for rich people.
If you're going to recount the people left after each round why not just kill everybody and call it a day?
Isn't that what happened in the I, Robot movie, where robots were programmed with the need to maximize safety as an unbreakable law but with no understanding of freedom?
The police are British? That's a bit outdated. Hmm.... what country has a good police force? Sealand?
We'll be making major upgrades to our own bodies decades before we develop the capability to go 0.5c. We'll pretty much be robots by then I hope.
Wait, you're advocating wasting a classroom and hours of a teacher's time for something that could, and should, be done at home, just to mitigate cheating?
Five of them do.