So 65 bn isn't the money lost, it's the money the investors have now vs. the money the investors could have had if Madoff's scheme was somehow 100% legit. I wonder what the actual amount lost is, compared to the investors investing their money in a normal (5-15%, not the unsustainable Ponzi scheme interest rates) investment.
Ponzi schemes must, by definition, go up exponentially in terms of the number of participants. Therefore the greatest growth will always happen just before the fall.
I find the YRO tag much worse. This has little to do with our rights (you could frame it as a dangerous precedent on jail time for white collar criminals but we don't seem to be taking that angle in the comments) and is most definitely not on the internet. We should rename it something like "court" or "law".
Movies - no IP laws means that only movies on a budget below $1 million will survive, so they will be forced to substitute special effects with actual content. This is a good thing.
Software - Open source, custom software and software as a service are all doing fine.
News - We have the internet and bloggers to inform us. If all major news stations die overnight, we'll have free services popping up to aggregate and filter crowdsourced news.
All this is assuming, of course, that no one continues paying for work once IP law disappears. In the real world, we'll continue to have people that give out their works freely to the public.
That's because "real news" happens in Nowheresville on the other side of the world. Celebrity life affects them, because if Angelina and Brad break up who's going to act in their movies? Once real news is happening in home turf (see: 9/11), people tend to be even more reactive than they are to celebrity stuff. Even stuff like a single 8-year-old girl getting kidnapped (here in Toronto it's happened twice now at least, [Cecilia Zhang and Tori Stafford if you're interested]) gets people more riled up than a random bunch of 50-100 civilians dying in Iraq.
Fortunately, in the auto business, environmentalism and cheap are very closely correlated. Well, that's cheap in the long term which is closely correlated, and our economy clearly shows that we're very good at long term thinking.
Somalia? It's a bit politically unstable (note to the mods: that was a humorous understatement) but I doubt many people there care a single bit about copyright.
Give every registered voter 2-8 different numbers (it should be random, so people can't say "show me all 5 of your numbers") that could be used to vote, but only one of them works (it has an easily removable sticker, or other mechanism, on it that says it works). If you use any of the numbers to vote, it looks like you're voting normally, but the vote is only added to the tally if you're using the right number. So you could bring the invalid numbers to work, collect your bonus, then send in your real vote with the correct number,
1) Economy - some games, like EVE, go out of their way to make travel difficult - there's even a cost to moving stuff around. This allows for very interesting realistic economies where some people can make their living by shuttling stuff from where it's cheap to where it's expensive.
2) Military - If everyone could instantly teleport anywhere, the weaker faction would never have a chance against a stronger one - everyone could instantly teleport in. With slow transport, hit-and-run tactics, ambushes, securing the city entrances first, and a whole host of other tactics could be introduced.
3) Realism - the feeling of having a large world. This one is mentioned a lot, but how can a remote area be remote if you can get there in 1 minute?
I don't really like advanced realistic-explosion-simulate-every-water-molecule physics myself. It seems like a substitute for gameplay these days. And god forbid the physics requires a whole bunch of libraries on operating systems I don't actually use.
There is no single "first uploader". There are probably around 1000 people who pirated it straight from legitimate media sources and put it up. Then, the stuff spread all over the pirate networks and a few people were still uploading it from wherever they bought it.
Congratulations, you have encountered an Internet tough guy (fortis anonymus), Internet tough guys are known to lash out at others with dire threats from behind cover but are extremely docile when their actions have any consequences whatsoever. They often enjoy the thought of violence against those who annoy them but are rarely willing to carry it out. This species's preferred habitat is the mother's basement.
The election isn't between two major parties, it's between the established parties and the libertarians/independents/everyone else. "Are you voting Republican or Democrat?" is a yes or no question.
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And it is not at all possible that Bernie gave a few million to his sons simply because they were his sons and he wanted them to be happy.
So 65 bn isn't the money lost, it's the money the investors have now vs. the money the investors could have had if Madoff's scheme was somehow 100% legit. I wonder what the actual amount lost is, compared to the investors investing their money in a normal (5-15%, not the unsustainable Ponzi scheme interest rates) investment.
Ponzi schemes must, by definition, go up exponentially in terms of the number of participants. Therefore the greatest growth will always happen just before the fall.
I find the YRO tag much worse. This has little to do with our rights (you could frame it as a dangerous precedent on jail time for white collar criminals but we don't seem to be taking that angle in the comments) and is most definitely not on the internet. We should rename it something like "court" or "law".
Movies - no IP laws means that only movies on a budget below $1 million will survive, so they will be forced to substitute special effects with actual content. This is a good thing.
Software - Open source, custom software and software as a service are all doing fine.
News - We have the internet and bloggers to inform us. If all major news stations die overnight, we'll have free services popping up to aggregate and filter crowdsourced news.
All this is assuming, of course, that no one continues paying for work once IP law disappears. In the real world, we'll continue to have people that give out their works freely to the public.
That's because "real news" happens in Nowheresville on the other side of the world. Celebrity life affects them, because if Angelina and Brad break up who's going to act in their movies? Once real news is happening in home turf (see: 9/11), people tend to be even more reactive than they are to celebrity stuff. Even stuff like a single 8-year-old girl getting kidnapped (here in Toronto it's happened twice now at least, [Cecilia Zhang and Tori Stafford if you're interested]) gets people more riled up than a random bunch of 50-100 civilians dying in Iraq.
Fortunately, in the auto business, environmentalism and cheap are very closely correlated. Well, that's cheap in the long term which is closely correlated, and our economy clearly shows that we're very good at long term thinking.
bear poultry
I feel sorry for the bear.
I send morse code messages with a series of white and black engineering diagram files.
Wasn't bush-era science policy anti-clowning?
Bring horses back? Don't you realize what horses did to the porter industry?
Hint: Both horses and porters are doing fine.
We should make addresses illegal. They point to private property.
Somalia? It's a bit politically unstable (note to the mods: that was a humorous understatement) but I doubt many people there care a single bit about copyright.
And no, you cannot make one of the apps a virtual machine that lets you wish for three more wishes.
Square feet? Computers are three dimensional.
And how does your discrimination prevent people from marrying?
The voting ballet
I assume you won't be telling me where it is because it's a secret ballet, right?
Give every registered voter 2-8 different numbers (it should be random, so people can't say "show me all 5 of your numbers") that could be used to vote, but only one of them works (it has an easily removable sticker, or other mechanism, on it that says it works). If you use any of the numbers to vote, it looks like you're voting normally, but the vote is only added to the tally if you're using the right number. So you could bring the invalid numbers to work, collect your bonus, then send in your real vote with the correct number,
1) Economy - some games, like EVE, go out of their way to make travel difficult - there's even a cost to moving stuff around. This allows for very interesting realistic economies where some people can make their living by shuttling stuff from where it's cheap to where it's expensive. 2) Military - If everyone could instantly teleport anywhere, the weaker faction would never have a chance against a stronger one - everyone could instantly teleport in. With slow transport, hit-and-run tactics, ambushes, securing the city entrances first, and a whole host of other tactics could be introduced. 3) Realism - the feeling of having a large world. This one is mentioned a lot, but how can a remote area be remote if you can get there in 1 minute?
Wait, youtube has social features?
You're bastardizing his name wrong. It's RM$.
I don't really like advanced realistic-explosion-simulate-every-water-molecule physics myself. It seems like a substitute for gameplay these days. And god forbid the physics requires a whole bunch of libraries on operating systems I don't actually use.
There is no single "first uploader". There are probably around 1000 people who pirated it straight from legitimate media sources and put it up. Then, the stuff spread all over the pirate networks and a few people were still uploading it from wherever they bought it.
Congratulations, you have encountered an Internet tough guy (fortis anonymus), Internet tough guys are known to lash out at others with dire threats from behind cover but are extremely docile when their actions have any consequences whatsoever. They often enjoy the thought of violence against those who annoy them but are rarely willing to carry it out. This species's preferred habitat is the mother's basement.
The election isn't between two major parties, it's between the established parties and the libertarians/independents/everyone else. "Are you voting Republican or Democrat?" is a yes or no question.