What I can't figure out is why I would need Steam to tell me what my friends play. Isn't that what conversation is for? Before I buy a game, I'll not only find out whether my friends have played it, but what they think of it too. Can Steam tell me that?
Actually you'll find that it does sometimes happen in the US that people who accidentally find drugs in the US get busted for possession. The law doesn't care why you possessed it.
Giving individuals rights means that sometimes some individuals (like the assholes who posted the video referenced above) will abuse those rights. At which point you find those individuals and punish them.
Or you take those rights away, which is exactly what Berlusconi wants. Italy is not a free country.
These two events, the Ad and the Ted talk, are totally exclusive and neither are really about the other, and this isn't them butting heads. Bill Gates goes on about how the entire world needs to come together on a new project. This is one company against adding bus lanes to a bridge. Whoever lumped those two together didn't really look at the big picture.
Nope, they manufactured a controversy to get more page views. You at least clicked through to the slashdot discussion, and probably the article itself. Sounds like they did their job.
They should continue funding homeopathy. Just dilute the funding until there's less than a fraction of a penny per bill. According to homeopathy, this should be even better than receiving the full amount.
Sure, if it's diatomic tritium. The article isn't exactly clear what form it is, but if they're finding it in water around the plant, we're probably talking about tritiated water. That is, water where at least one of the hydrogens is tritium. I'm not sure why they'd have gaseous tritium anyway.
In any case, the radiation levels they're finding are well within the normal ranges of background radiation. Nothing to worry about. What is worrying is the cover up. I really hope it doesn't damage the prospects for greater use of nuclear energy in the US.
The leak itself is not a big deal. That company execs perjured themselves about it is a big deal.
Also, just because something is a beta emitter doesn't mean it's harmless. [32]P emits high energy beta particles that can be dangerous without shielding.
However his contribution to the atomic bomb was limited to the suggestion that "matter should be convertible into energy". Not much more than that sentence
He also wrote a letter to FDR saying that we should convert matter into energy. Not a scientific contribution, but an important one still. He later called that the one great mistake in his life.
It's Australia. They sent a man to prison for having a few naked drawing of Simpsons characters. I think they can find a way to charge anyone for just about anything they don't like.
I've had many enjoyable hours sitting down with friends blasting things on the same screen. Only it was Perfect Dark. Halo didn't exactly suck, it just wasn't anything awesome. Perfect Dark was awesome.
Seems like NES collectibles are about at peak now, with Nintendo kids in their late 20s, early 30s. That's a time when most people start getting real incomes, but may not have as many responsibilities just yet. We've already seen the peak of Atari collectibles as Atari kids are getting older and spending money on houses and kids and some such. Sega Genesis stuff used to be dirt cheap, but prices are creeping up. We'll probably see a peak there in 5-10 years.
The first major problem that comes to mind is that under such a system, an old 26" black-and-white CRT television set would be worth roughly the same as a modern 56" LCD.
Why is that a "problem". If a B&W TV costs the same to make as an HD LCD, why shouldn't they be priced the same? If nobody wants the B&W TV at that price, don't make them. More people would have better quality stuff under such a system, that doesn't seem like a problem to me.
I think this is a case, not where the buyer thinks the comic is incredibly valuable, but where they have so much money that 1 million dollars isn't really that valuable to them.
What takes this to a whole new level is that it's the death of a competitor.... so... THE IOC IS HOPING TO PROFIT FROM THE VIDEO OF THIS ATHELETE DYING?!?
I think that's not quite what's happening here. I think the IOC is afraid that the more the video is watched, the more negative associations people will have with the Olympics, and the fewer viewers they'll get. They're hoping to lose as little as possible after this tragedy.
They're still (predictably) overreaching here though.
The real sick part of this is that you seem to think it's ok to deprive a good kid who took a tylenol of an education, because some other loser might pop too many ritalin. Does that really jibe with your sense of justice?
Then how do you justify to Parent/Child B that they're getting suspended when Parent/Child A got a slap on the wrist
How do you justify to Parent A that their kid is being punished for nothing? Punishing kids who did absolutely nothing wrong is a great way to instill in them a lifelong hatred of authority.
If kids are abusing something, then punish them. If they're using something harmless, don't. Only a school administrator could find something so simple too complicated.
Yes, you are correct. If it's economically advantageous to individuals to make the planet uninhabitable, that is what will happen. In the same way, individual yeast in a jar of sugar water will ferment, ferment, ferment until the alcohol concentration is so high it kills them all. Each yeast is just doing what it needs to survive.
I'm not saying it's good, this is just how it is. If you want to save the world, you have to make it more profitable to save it than destroy it.
That's a complete and utter lie, told to scare parents to allow increasingly strict rule by schools. See also, "rainbow parties", those gel bracelets, etc.etc. These lies get told in every generation. Don't be so gullible.
I understand the whole zero-tolerance policy of not bringing in any medication
Can you explain it to me then? The world is full of shades of gray. How are we doing children a favor by pretending it isn't? If you want kids to respect authority, it has to behave in a way that's respectable. It cannot be arbitrary and capricious.
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What I can't figure out is why I would need Steam to tell me what my friends play. Isn't that what conversation is for? Before I buy a game, I'll not only find out whether my friends have played it, but what they think of it too. Can Steam tell me that?
Great, so now you can separate the saucer section and let the civilians escape while the crew remains on the battle bridge to distract the Romulans.
Actually you'll find that it does sometimes happen in the US that people who accidentally find drugs in the US get busted for possession. The law doesn't care why you possessed it.
Giving individuals rights means that sometimes some individuals (like the assholes who posted the video referenced above) will abuse those rights. At which point you find those individuals and punish them.
Or you take those rights away, which is exactly what Berlusconi wants. Italy is not a free country.
These two events, the Ad and the Ted talk, are totally exclusive and neither are really about the other, and this isn't them butting heads. Bill Gates goes on about how the entire world needs to come together on a new project. This is one company against adding bus lanes to a bridge. Whoever lumped those two together didn't really look at the big picture.
Nope, they manufactured a controversy to get more page views. You at least clicked through to the slashdot discussion, and probably the article itself. Sounds like they did their job.
Given how much of our vehicles are run by computer, I don't think there should ever be a lack of demand for software engineers at the NHTSA.
How's this one?
They should continue funding homeopathy. Just dilute the funding until there's less than a fraction of a penny per bill. According to homeopathy, this should be even better than receiving the full amount.
Sure, if it's diatomic tritium. The article isn't exactly clear what form it is, but if they're finding it in water around the plant, we're probably talking about tritiated water. That is, water where at least one of the hydrogens is tritium. I'm not sure why they'd have gaseous tritium anyway.
In any case, the radiation levels they're finding are well within the normal ranges of background radiation. Nothing to worry about. What is worrying is the cover up. I really hope it doesn't damage the prospects for greater use of nuclear energy in the US.
The leak itself is not a big deal. That company execs perjured themselves about it is a big deal.
Also, just because something is a beta emitter doesn't mean it's harmless. [32]P emits high energy beta particles that can be dangerous without shielding.
However his contribution to the atomic bomb was limited to the suggestion that "matter should be convertible into energy". Not much more than that sentence
He also wrote a letter to FDR saying that we should convert matter into energy. Not a scientific contribution, but an important one still. He later called that the one great mistake in his life.
It's Australia. They sent a man to prison for having a few naked drawing of Simpsons characters. I think they can find a way to charge anyone for just about anything they don't like.
I've had many enjoyable hours sitting down with friends blasting things on the same screen. Only it was Perfect Dark. Halo didn't exactly suck, it just wasn't anything awesome. Perfect Dark was awesome.
Seems like NES collectibles are about at peak now, with Nintendo kids in their late 20s, early 30s. That's a time when most people start getting real incomes, but may not have as many responsibilities just yet. We've already seen the peak of Atari collectibles as Atari kids are getting older and spending money on houses and kids and some such. Sega Genesis stuff used to be dirt cheap, but prices are creeping up. We'll probably see a peak there in 5-10 years.
The first major problem that comes to mind is that under such a system, an old 26" black-and-white CRT television set would be worth roughly the same as a modern 56" LCD.
Why is that a "problem". If a B&W TV costs the same to make as an HD LCD, why shouldn't they be priced the same? If nobody wants the B&W TV at that price, don't make them. More people would have better quality stuff under such a system, that doesn't seem like a problem to me.
I think this is a case, not where the buyer thinks the comic is incredibly valuable, but where they have so much money that 1 million dollars isn't really that valuable to them.
What takes this to a whole new level is that it's the death of a competitor.... so... THE IOC IS HOPING TO PROFIT FROM THE VIDEO OF THIS ATHELETE DYING?!?
I think that's not quite what's happening here. I think the IOC is afraid that the more the video is watched, the more negative associations people will have with the Olympics, and the fewer viewers they'll get. They're hoping to lose as little as possible after this tragedy.
They're still (predictably) overreaching here though.
The real sick part of this is that you seem to think it's ok to deprive a good kid who took a tylenol of an education, because some other loser might pop too many ritalin. Does that really jibe with your sense of justice?
This time they should have used a dead parrot. One with beautiful plumage.
Then how do you justify to Parent/Child B that they're getting suspended when Parent/Child A got a slap on the wrist
How do you justify to Parent A that their kid is being punished for nothing? Punishing kids who did absolutely nothing wrong is a great way to instill in them a lifelong hatred of authority.
If kids are abusing something, then punish them. If they're using something harmless, don't. Only a school administrator could find something so simple too complicated.
Yes, you are correct. If it's economically advantageous to individuals to make the planet uninhabitable, that is what will happen. In the same way, individual yeast in a jar of sugar water will ferment, ferment, ferment until the alcohol concentration is so high it kills them all. Each yeast is just doing what it needs to survive.
I'm not saying it's good, this is just how it is. If you want to save the world, you have to make it more profitable to save it than destroy it.
All that said, though, I hope money is not the only motivation why anybody would look into alternative energy sources.
If it's not economically viable, it won't happen. The world doesn't run on good will, it runs on money.
A box that converts hydrocarbons to energy? What will they think of next?
That's a complete and utter lie, told to scare parents to allow increasingly strict rule by schools. See also, "rainbow parties", those gel bracelets, etc.etc. These lies get told in every generation. Don't be so gullible.
I understand the whole zero-tolerance policy of not bringing in any medication
Can you explain it to me then? The world is full of shades of gray. How are we doing children a favor by pretending it isn't? If you want kids to respect authority, it has to behave in a way that's respectable. It cannot be arbitrary and capricious.