Government should to some extent help protect the less intelligent from themselves. This includes regulation and safety nets. There's probably millions of computer users of lower than average intelligence out there.
You said it yourself If people are so invested in these games it's worth tying up court time...
The people in this case is Valve which wants to make more money and keep its non-cheating fans happy. Its their job.
If there's reasonable ways to keep cheaters from spoiling the fun of others, I'm all for them. Beats making the non-cheaters pay more money for a non-cheater environment.
it heats your room in the summer doesn't it? temps this week in fremont, california are in the 70s. a week or two from now it'll be in the 80s and i'll be suffering in part because of my 19" monitor.
The best puzzle or adventure games were like Grim Fandango, where the puzzles didn't all have to be solved in order. If one puzzle had the player stumped, they could work on another one. Completing one puzzle took items out of inventory so the other puzzles were a little bit easier. Games that don't let me move forward until I figure out one hair-rippingly hard puzzle, suck.
I'd describe Heroes of Might and Magic II or III as tedious in places, but extremely fun. Hearing you call CoH pretty fun doesn't make it sound like a game I want to play. I've played Asheron's Call and Shadowbane and won't be playing any more of them until there's something to do besides level. Shadowbane was interesting with its wars and politics, but it was too buggy and I'm not interested in going back now that the player base has shrunk.
No one should ever buy anything Sony except for a PS2 because of Magic Gate DRM and Memory Stick proprietary nonsense. There are equal or better products for almost every one of their divisions, including TV's and Walkmans. Their PDA's are full of features, I'll give them that.
In the Declaration it does not say property. It states there are others, unmentioned. If property is among them, and property is passed though wills to others upon death, do you therefore think ownership of inventions should be passed on indefinitely if willed by its owner? Once the block and tackle, gears, and hydraulics are invented, is it fair to expect all future inventors to pay for using those in their designs? Using leverage appears so simple it obvious. Should all inventors who don't want to pay have to use levers, such as the inventor of the crane?
If property is not among them, and government exists to serve the people, I say the people are better served by the accumulation of knowledge, invention, and art for all to enjoy. You keep saying a life cannot be lived without a way to pay for it, and I agree. Creators should get compensation if others desire their work.
You keep talking about the State granting and revoking rights. The people created the State, run it, and shape it. So the people had the State grant rights and remove others. Why should property be inalienable? It may help pay for the cost of living. Couldn't society decide we all work on kibbutzim growing and machining things to pay for living, but all invention and art are free for all?
If you remember an applicable Journal(s), I'd read that.
If you invent a bookshelf, I see it, and make my own, you still have yours. You say our Creator invested us with the right to own what is ours. I'll assume you own the idea of a bookshelf. People claim other people stole their idea, but in truth, wasn't the idea only copied? There are now two of the same idea. The first person still has it.
I'll assume the ownership is as long as the owner desires. The government protects that right, and currently after so many years it stops protecting. You say it takes the ownership away, and has no right to, but in practicality, most of the time there is no way to enforce ownership when copies have been made and the knowledge distributed.
What about the idea of using a chunk of wood as a club? If two people think of the idea separated by thousands of miles and neither knows the other thought of it, shouldn't it belong to both of them regardless of who had the thought first? I'd say because some ideas are thought by children the world as they grow up, that's reason why ideas can't be owned. The more complex the idea, the fewer people who will think of it, but certainly each person may have thought it independantly and it was original to them.
You have many journal entries. Its difficult to find the ones you said to look for.
The e-bike has pedals so the rider can add power. Scooters do not have pedals, be they for children with roller blade wheels, or electric/gas models. The definition of moped: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=moped sa ys it has pedals and is powered by a gas engine.
So they're either electric bikes or electric mopeds. I think the design and appearance would be the deciding factor of what to call them.
Witness Gap as evidence of a corporation being reasonable and conscientious of how it does business. Shouldn't the public be able to read what the oil companies said and if they too were conscientious, or only greedy?
I've thrown quite a few batteries at people. I've used them as extra weight in a pinch. I'm sure they've been used in art projects solely for their appearance.
Y e s, sony obviously considered releasing movies for the format. the screen is 480 x 272. that's a bit better than VHS. the video will easily fit into 1.8GB. how many people will want to watch more than one movie in a row? most laptops can't do two movies in a row either.
Seems to me the way to market movies for it is price them at $8 and people will buy both it and the DVD copy. People will buy their favorites to take with them travelling.
b> Why specifically would there be more predators? Painkillers and tobacco are addictive. Heroin is more addictive, but marijuana is less.
c> The grandparent is talking about drug users who are productive. You're suggesting current non-users would use drugs and become non-productive. The productive people in jail now would not be in the future. I'm not sure how overall productivity would be affected by legalizing drugs or just some of them.
d> Think Advil, Sudafed, Tussin, Preparation H. Those prices are comparable to alcohol or cigarettes. Crime would drop when the profit is reduced.
e> No different than current trade oversight. Much less expensive to monitor without the military getting involved. Besides, pot could come from California. Meth currently comes from drug labs all over the country.
f> Prison populations could shrink so the government does get smaller. Resources devoted to drug tracking, infiltration, eradication, intervention, could be put towards securing the border against illegal immigration, or again, smaller government. The money could also be spent on more productive social programs such as helping the homeless become productive members of society again.
At least in Britain, Dasani is tap water. Another article goes on to say that if the bottle doesn't say "source" or "spring", its probably tap water.
Now Dasani is not the same as Dannon. Coke struck a deal with France's Groupe Danone to distribute Dannon brand water. That's probably tap water. This is easier to read and shows Coke markets Evian as its premium water, Dasani in the middle, and Dannon at the bottom which sells for less than the market average.
I don't like San Diego water. I hate Los Angeles water, even though both are canal water from the concrete aqueduct. I don't care for Fremont, CA water either. Yet 25 miles north in Berkeley and Oakland, the water is great. Probably because that's where I grew up and lived until recently. San Francisco can keep its Hetch Hetchy water to itself as its also not very good.
Makes sense, but does he hate all unions or just that one? Has this single experience with a union over-ridden all other thoughts and knowledge about them?
So your logic is to depress wages at music stores so the music can be sold for less while the store owner and music labels can continue to make the same salaries. Unions help workers at the bottom keep some money that would go to the top. Yes they increase costs, but perhaps all workers at the bottom should be unionized. They can all drive up prices then go on strike to get better wages. A new equilibrium will be reached. It won't make the USA more competitive globally, but it might make workers' lives better. It might drive unemployment up, but there are ways to increase employment without lowering wages.
The technology exists today. The software however needs to know how to fly around birds, deal with all conceivable failures, all wind and weather conditions, what to do if a human-piloted cessna gets in the way... The programming needs to essentially be perfect, and the hardware needs to be nearly hack-proof. Like xbox live won't let modded boxes on the network, the same has to happen here. Hardware needs tamper-sensitive boxes that report all modifications and maintainance.
For driving on the highways, todays software isn't nearly advanced enough.
In the near future, it would be a life-saver if cars reported accidents to cars behind them, which would warn the drivers and possibly apply gentle braking so the all-manual cars behind wouldn't rear-end them. Either the car involved in the accident, or another car approaching the scene uses radar, cameras, and the drivers braking to sense the accident. It trasmits to other cars what's happening and how far ahead. Traffic can be slowed down or brought to a stop in the affected lanes without loss of life.
Autopilot-only lanes. Before that when they're new, changing laws to allow autopilot caravans in light-to-moderate / fair-weather conditions so long as the lead car is driving. The other cars just follow at 65mph but only 30 feet apart. I didn't read the whole article either.
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Did any of the reviews you read mention it's a short game?
Government should to some extent help protect the less intelligent from themselves. This includes regulation and safety nets. There's probably millions of computer users of lower than average intelligence out there.
You said it yourself If people are so invested in these games it's worth tying up court time...
The people in this case is Valve which wants to make more money and keep its non-cheating fans happy. Its their job.
If there's reasonable ways to keep cheaters from spoiling the fun of others, I'm all for them. Beats making the non-cheaters pay more money for a non-cheater environment.
it heats your room in the summer doesn't it? temps this week in fremont, california are in the 70s. a week or two from now it'll be in the 80s and i'll be suffering in part because of my 19" monitor.
The best puzzle or adventure games were like Grim Fandango, where the puzzles didn't all have to be solved in order. If one puzzle had the player stumped, they could work on another one. Completing one puzzle took items out of inventory so the other puzzles were a little bit easier. Games that don't let me move forward until I figure out one hair-rippingly hard puzzle, suck.
I'd describe Heroes of Might and Magic II or III as tedious in places, but extremely fun. Hearing you call CoH pretty fun doesn't make it sound like a game I want to play. I've played Asheron's Call and Shadowbane and won't be playing any more of them until there's something to do besides level. Shadowbane was interesting with its wars and politics, but it was too buggy and I'm not interested in going back now that the player base has shrunk.
i would've thought this person was just going for karma to get to 25, but the past comments show otherwise.
No one should ever buy anything Sony except for a PS2 because of Magic Gate DRM and Memory Stick proprietary nonsense. There are equal or better products for almost every one of their divisions, including TV's and Walkmans. Their PDA's are full of features, I'll give them that.
this is even better since there's no brie getting smushed in a pocket
There were misleading statements and lies that were known lies at the time of being spoken based on what was actually known.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
In the Declaration it does not say property. It states there are others, unmentioned. If property is among them, and property is passed though wills to others upon death, do you therefore think ownership of inventions should be passed on indefinitely if willed by its owner? Once the block and tackle, gears, and hydraulics are invented, is it fair to expect all future inventors to pay for using those in their designs? Using leverage appears so simple it obvious. Should all inventors who don't want to pay have to use levers, such as the inventor of the crane?
If property is not among them, and government exists to serve the people, I say the people are better served by the accumulation of knowledge, invention, and art for all to enjoy. You keep saying a life cannot be lived without a way to pay for it, and I agree. Creators should get compensation if others desire their work.
You keep talking about the State granting and revoking rights. The people created the State, run it, and shape it. So the people had the State grant rights and remove others. Why should property be inalienable? It may help pay for the cost of living. Couldn't society decide we all work on kibbutzim growing and machining things to pay for living, but all invention and art are free for all?
If you remember an applicable Journal(s), I'd read that.
If you invent a bookshelf, I see it, and make my own, you still have yours. You say our Creator invested us with the right to own what is ours. I'll assume you own the idea of a bookshelf. People claim other people stole their idea, but in truth, wasn't the idea only copied? There are now two of the same idea. The first person still has it.
I'll assume the ownership is as long as the owner desires. The government protects that right, and currently after so many years it stops protecting. You say it takes the ownership away, and has no right to, but in practicality, most of the time there is no way to enforce ownership when copies have been made and the knowledge distributed.
What about the idea of using a chunk of wood as a club? If two people think of the idea separated by thousands of miles and neither knows the other thought of it, shouldn't it belong to both of them regardless of who had the thought first? I'd say because some ideas are thought by children the world as they grow up, that's reason why ideas can't be owned. The more complex the idea, the fewer people who will think of it, but certainly each person may have thought it independantly and it was original to them.
You have many journal entries. Its difficult to find the ones you said to look for.
The e-bike has pedals so the rider can add power. Scooters do not have pedals, be they for children with roller blade wheels, or electric/gas models. The definition of moped: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mopeda ys it has pedals and is powered by a gas engine.
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So they're either electric bikes or electric mopeds. I think the design and appearance would be the deciding factor of what to call them.
At least they might spend some of their money towards whatever their cause is. If they didn't exist their cause might be in a worse situation.
Private service generally pays better than public service. Figures that since these organizations are private, they'd pay well.
Witness Gap as evidence of a corporation being reasonable and conscientious of how it does business. Shouldn't the public be able to read what the oil companies said and if they too were conscientious, or only greedy?
I've thrown quite a few batteries at people. I've used them as extra weight in a pinch. I'm sure they've been used in art projects solely for their appearance.
Y e s, sony obviously considered releasing movies for the format. the screen is 480 x 272. that's a bit better than VHS. the video will easily fit into 1.8GB. how many people will want to watch more than one movie in a row? most laptops can't do two movies in a row either.
Seems to me the way to market movies for it is price them at $8 and people will buy both it and the DVD copy. People will buy their favorites to take with them travelling.
b> Why specifically would there be more predators? Painkillers and tobacco are addictive. Heroin is more addictive, but marijuana is less.
c> The grandparent is talking about drug users who are productive. You're suggesting current non-users would use drugs and become non-productive. The productive people in jail now would not be in the future. I'm not sure how overall productivity would be affected by legalizing drugs or just some of them.
d> Think Advil, Sudafed, Tussin, Preparation H. Those prices are comparable to alcohol or cigarettes. Crime would drop when the profit is reduced.
e> No different than current trade oversight. Much less expensive to monitor without the military getting involved. Besides, pot could come from California. Meth currently comes from drug labs all over the country.
f> Prison populations could shrink so the government does get smaller. Resources devoted to drug tracking, infiltration, eradication, intervention, could be put towards securing the border against illegal immigration, or again, smaller government. The money could also be spent on more productive social programs such as helping the homeless become productive members of society again.
which people are filthy rich? the music labels, sure. the vast majority of musicians are not.
Without scortching or burning the top of the puzzle? Sorry I know jack about if lasers heat the surrounding air which could heat the paper.
At least in Britain, Dasani is tap water. Another article goes on to say that if the bottle doesn't say "source" or "spring", its probably tap water.
Now Dasani is not the same as Dannon. Coke struck a deal with France's Groupe Danone to distribute Dannon brand water. That's probably tap water. This is easier to read and shows Coke markets Evian as its premium water, Dasani in the middle, and Dannon at the bottom which sells for less than the market average.
I don't like San Diego water. I hate Los Angeles water, even though both are canal water from the concrete aqueduct. I don't care for Fremont, CA water either. Yet 25 miles north in Berkeley and Oakland, the water is great. Probably because that's where I grew up and lived until recently. San Francisco can keep its Hetch Hetchy water to itself as its also not very good.
Makes sense, but does he hate all unions or just that one? Has this single experience with a union over-ridden all other thoughts and knowledge about them?
So your logic is to depress wages at music stores so the music can be sold for less while the store owner and music labels can continue to make the same salaries. Unions help workers at the bottom keep some money that would go to the top. Yes they increase costs, but perhaps all workers at the bottom should be unionized. They can all drive up prices then go on strike to get better wages. A new equilibrium will be reached. It won't make the USA more competitive globally, but it might make workers' lives better. It might drive unemployment up, but there are ways to increase employment without lowering wages.
The technology exists today. The software however needs to know how to fly around birds, deal with all conceivable failures, all wind and weather conditions, what to do if a human-piloted cessna gets in the way... The programming needs to essentially be perfect, and the hardware needs to be nearly hack-proof. Like xbox live won't let modded boxes on the network, the same has to happen here. Hardware needs tamper-sensitive boxes that report all modifications and maintainance.
For driving on the highways, todays software isn't nearly advanced enough.
In the near future, it would be a life-saver if cars reported accidents to cars behind them, which would warn the drivers and possibly apply gentle braking so the all-manual cars behind wouldn't rear-end them. Either the car involved in the accident, or another car approaching the scene uses radar, cameras, and the drivers braking to sense the accident. It trasmits to other cars what's happening and how far ahead. Traffic can be slowed down or brought to a stop in the affected lanes without loss of life.
Autopilot-only lanes. Before that when they're new, changing laws to allow autopilot caravans in light-to-moderate / fair-weather conditions so long as the lead car is driving. The other cars just follow at 65mph but only 30 feet apart. I didn't read the whole article either.