That's a terrible attempt at an analogy. Both actions in your comparisons result in tangible effects. You *can* go see a movie, and that may make you happy, so it is not a waste of time (even compared to delivering food).
You could have made a more correct analogy like "It's a waste that people spend time squinting their eyes trying to see individual atoms rather than using them to read to the blind.", but that would have undermined your position. That *is* a waste of time, because there's no chance for the first thing to happen.
It is a waste of time for people to use their computers to search for ET, when they could be using them to solve problems that are actually relevant to our species here and now.
I just can't think of a reason you need to track them. I cannot. How about helping them instead? Whatever their problems are, try and solve them.
Without some sort of tracking mechanism, you'll never know 1) how many problems you're solving or 2) which methods are more effective at solving what problems.
I live in a big city, and I know how many services are available to help homeless people. Toronto spends over $150,000,000/a on services for homeless people. Knowing how many people use what services would be a great help in allocating money to where it's doing the most good.
Everyone here seems to be confused about what's being proposed. This isn't a roulette wheel dishing out money for good guesses. It's a way of linking buyers of contracts with sellers of contracts.
You can't buy a $1,000,000 contract on Israel being bombed in the next month unless someone else is willing to sell that contract to you. No-one is going to sell you that contract if they think the event is going to occur. You do your research on the odds of an event happening before you offer to buy something, and the seller does their research before they offer to sell. You then haggle over the probability of the event via the contract price.
That's the difference between buying a lottery ticket (one sided transaction => just you) and purchasing a contract (two sided transaction => a buyer and a seller). It's not a perfect analogy, I know, but pretty close...
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That's a terrible attempt at an analogy. Both actions in your comparisons result in tangible effects. You *can* go see a movie, and that may make you happy, so it is not a waste of time (even compared to delivering food).
You could have made a more correct analogy like "It's a waste that people spend time squinting their eyes trying to see individual atoms rather than using them to read to the blind.", but that would have undermined your position. That *is* a waste of time, because there's no chance for the first thing to happen.
It is a waste of time for people to use their computers to search for ET, when they could be using them to solve problems that are actually relevant to our species here and now.
Office maintains it's own set of common controls to ease maintenance between the Windows and Mac versions.
I just can't think of a reason you need to track them. I cannot. How about helping them instead? Whatever their problems are, try and solve them.
Without some sort of tracking mechanism, you'll never know 1) how many problems you're solving or 2) which methods are more effective at solving what problems.
I live in a big city, and I know how many services are available to help homeless people. Toronto spends over $150,000,000/a on services for homeless people. Knowing how many people use what services would be a great help in allocating money to where it's doing the most good.
Everyone here seems to be confused about what's being proposed. This isn't a roulette wheel dishing out money for good guesses. It's a way of linking buyers of contracts with sellers of contracts.
You can't buy a $1,000,000 contract on Israel being bombed in the next month unless someone else is willing to sell that contract to you. No-one is going to sell you that contract if they think the event is going to occur. You do your research on the odds of an event happening before you offer to buy something, and the seller does their research before they offer to sell. You then haggle over the probability of the event via the contract price.
That's the difference between buying a lottery ticket (one sided transaction => just you) and purchasing a contract (two sided transaction => a buyer and a seller). It's not a perfect analogy, I know, but pretty close...
but if something is free I dont see how it can be copyright infringed.. especially if i am not making a profit.
Kinda weak argument.
There's crime in the theft, not just the re-sale of the goods...