Sorry, I RTFA (bad form) and I missed the part where the government is extorting money from people for scanning and emailing documents
You would, because it doesn't work that way. People extort money from other people using the government. The extortionists then pay the government for the privilege of being allowed to extort.
Organized crime is what the government does these days. They are not here to protect us. They are here to ensure that the rich and powerful get more rich and more powerful. Any sort of thuggery by which that occurs is fine as far as any arm of the government is concerned.
Considering what the West has done to Africa, it's hard to condemn these people for a little retaliation. Nothing they could steal from us will ever come close to matching the damage done by Colonialism.
Humanity will have to find something to do to keep the economy running as automation takes over. In the Great Depression, people were paid to dig ditches and fill them back up. Most of our economic activity is similarly pointless. Why not use all that excess human capacity to try to get off this rock? Even if we don't succeed, we've spent that effort doing something more worthwhile than waging war or imprisoning the poor, which seems to be our plan for the future for now.
Evolution applies to ANY imperfectly self-replicating structure whose fitness to replicate varies with that structure. It is not restricted to life. Self-modifying viruses would absolutely qualify as evolving, if that's what they're referring to here.
That's not really the issue, and just FYI the parent is being a little bit of a troll by calling it "DRM".
No, that's the honest way to put it.
The issue is that even when you play in single player mode, your city is still influenced (to a certain degree) by the Global Economy comprised of all cities, everywhere
Then it's not a single player game. They should provide an actual single player mode, but they haven't. Why do you think they wouldn't?
The Global System is actually run by Maxis on their servers, so even when playing by yourself you need to be able to reach their servers.
And why would they do that?
Now it is true that it's perfectly possible for Maxis to allow an offline mode where the Global Economy is simulated locally, but they seem to have decided that's not a viable option
Again, what possible reason could they have to do that? Set all the parameters of the global economy to sane defaults, or let the player set them, and you're good.
But again, they could have given us options to make and play cities completely solo- but they did not.
Right, they could have but didn't, and they've offered no satisfactory reasons why they didn't. It's not possible to simply ascribe this to incompetence. They know what their players want and they are deliberately not delivering on it. The Sim City "Global Economy" is nothing but a DRM scheme. Period.
The point is: "Grind" wasn't in my vocabulary... "Hack" and "Slash" were. Think about it: MMORGPs came from MORPGs (graphical MUDs) the latter of which came from RPGs -- Having ran many a dice & paper RPG campaign I knew that it was the new and compelling story which unpredictably changed due to interactivity that made such games magical -- Not hacking or slashing.
The problem is you can't have a new and compelling story where each and every inhabitant of a massively multiplayer world plays a critical role. The more people you add to a game, the more generic you must make the experience. It's either that, or you present each player with his own story where he is the protagonist. But at that point, how "multiplayer" is the game?
You will not find anyone in the alcohol abuse treatment community claiming that alcoholic proof has the slightest bit of difference in the risk and harm of alcohol consumption.
Drinking high proof liquor increases your risk of mouth and esophageal cancer.
I'm talking about waterboarding. It's a war crime, and we hanged Japanese for it. Anyone who waterboards should get the same treatment.
Sorry, but if you're talking accountability by the top brass for that, anything they did was at the direction President Bush and his civilian leadership. They can't go down unless he goes down since it appears Bush didn't take the convenient step of throwing one of them under the bus.
If you notice, officers take an oath to uphold the constitution. Not obey the president. If the president issues illegal orders, and torture IS illegal, you must disobey. When the president orders you to torture, he becomes one of the domestic enemies against which the Constitution must be defended.
Just recently they tried the highly respected BG Jeffrey Sinclair of the 82nd Airborne for sexual misconduct with subordinate officers and abuse of his power.
Sure, if you abuse your office for your own enrichment they can get you. Members of congress go to prison occasionally for taking bribes too. That does nothing to address the serious systemic corruption.
Corporate executives can be tried under criminal law, just as generals can be court-martialed. The problem is, neither of them will be. Our legal system is completely incapable of extracting justice from the powerful. No general has been prosecuted for torture after the Bush administration, and no executive has been prosecuted for fraud following the 2008 financial crisis. There is no justice or rule of law left in the US. Who you are and who you know matters a lot more than what you did.
Try 'urxvt'. It does tabbing like 'mrxvt'. It also has unicode support, and provides a daemon so every terminal runs under the same process. This saves memory and launches new terminals faster. You can even configure it to act like a quake console, if you're a yakuake fan. IMO urxvt is far and away the best terminal emulator around.
There's actually never a reason to use 'cat' except for concatenating files. If you want to pipe a file into a text filter like grep, sed, awk, whatever, just use the angle bracket. Like this:
grep pattern < file
That way you're not starting an extraneous process (cat), and you don't have to remember which programs accept file names on their command line. Using the angle bracket is just like using a pipe.
I think you need to back up just a bit further, to the people who put on the charade that is American Democracy. You don't really have any more choice in the voting booth, than you do during a card trick when the magician asks you to "pick a card, any card". You may make any choice you like, but the outcome is the same.
Most of the ones that people have kept, still work. Most of the ones that don't work can be fixed up with simple cleaning. Most of the rest need little more than a capacitor replacement.
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Sorry, I RTFA (bad form) and I missed the part where the government is extorting money from people for scanning and emailing documents
You would, because it doesn't work that way. People extort money from other people using the government. The extortionists then pay the government for the privilege of being allowed to extort.
Who said anything about slavery?
Organized crime is what the government does these days. They are not here to protect us. They are here to ensure that the rich and powerful get more rich and more powerful. Any sort of thuggery by which that occurs is fine as far as any arm of the government is concerned.
Considering what the West has done to Africa, it's hard to condemn these people for a little retaliation. Nothing they could steal from us will ever come close to matching the damage done by Colonialism.
Humanity will have to find something to do to keep the economy running as automation takes over. In the Great Depression, people were paid to dig ditches and fill them back up. Most of our economic activity is similarly pointless. Why not use all that excess human capacity to try to get off this rock? Even if we don't succeed, we've spent that effort doing something more worthwhile than waging war or imprisoning the poor, which seems to be our plan for the future for now.
If antiviruses really identified every piece of scamware or scareware, they'd have to flag themselves.
Evolution applies to ANY imperfectly self-replicating structure whose fitness to replicate varies with that structure. It is not restricted to life. Self-modifying viruses would absolutely qualify as evolving, if that's what they're referring to here.
That's not really the issue, and just FYI the parent is being a little bit of a troll by calling it "DRM".
No, that's the honest way to put it.
The issue is that even when you play in single player mode, your city is still influenced (to a certain degree) by the Global Economy comprised of all cities, everywhere
Then it's not a single player game. They should provide an actual single player mode, but they haven't. Why do you think they wouldn't?
The Global System is actually run by Maxis on their servers, so even when playing by yourself you need to be able to reach their servers.
And why would they do that?
Now it is true that it's perfectly possible for Maxis to allow an offline mode where the Global Economy is simulated locally, but they seem to have decided that's not a viable option
Again, what possible reason could they have to do that? Set all the parameters of the global economy to sane defaults, or let the player set them, and you're good.
But again, they could have given us options to make and play cities completely solo- but they did not.
Right, they could have but didn't, and they've offered no satisfactory reasons why they didn't. It's not possible to simply ascribe this to incompetence. They know what their players want and they are deliberately not delivering on it. The Sim City "Global Economy" is nothing but a DRM scheme. Period.
The point is: "Grind" wasn't in my vocabulary... "Hack" and "Slash" were. Think about it: MMORGPs came from MORPGs (graphical MUDs) the latter of which came from RPGs -- Having ran many a dice & paper RPG campaign I knew that it was the new and compelling story which unpredictably changed due to interactivity that made such games magical -- Not hacking or slashing.
The problem is you can't have a new and compelling story where each and every inhabitant of a massively multiplayer world plays a critical role. The more people you add to a game, the more generic you must make the experience. It's either that, or you present each player with his own story where he is the protagonist. But at that point, how "multiplayer" is the game?
You will not find anyone in the alcohol abuse treatment community claiming that alcoholic proof has the slightest bit of difference in the risk and harm of alcohol consumption.
Drinking high proof liquor increases your risk of mouth and esophageal cancer.
For instance GNOME and KDE are desktop environments that provide access to your hardware devices, network management, etc.
I thought Linux was what provided access to my hardware devices and network management. KDE and GNOME just provide bloated interfaces.
A desktop environment is just an extremely bloated window manager.
I'm talking about waterboarding. It's a war crime, and we hanged Japanese for it. Anyone who waterboards should get the same treatment.
Sorry, but if you're talking accountability by the top brass for that, anything they did was at the direction President Bush and his civilian leadership. They can't go down unless he goes down since it appears Bush didn't take the convenient step of throwing one of them under the bus.
If you notice, officers take an oath to uphold the constitution. Not obey the president. If the president issues illegal orders, and torture IS illegal, you must disobey. When the president orders you to torture, he becomes one of the domestic enemies against which the Constitution must be defended.
Just recently they tried the highly respected BG Jeffrey Sinclair of the 82nd Airborne for sexual misconduct with subordinate officers and abuse of his power.
Sure, if you abuse your office for your own enrichment they can get you. Members of congress go to prison occasionally for taking bribes too. That does nothing to address the serious systemic corruption.
Corporate executives can be tried under criminal law, just as generals can be court-martialed. The problem is, neither of them will be. Our legal system is completely incapable of extracting justice from the powerful. No general has been prosecuted for torture after the Bush administration, and no executive has been prosecuted for fraud following the 2008 financial crisis. There is no justice or rule of law left in the US. Who you are and who you know matters a lot more than what you did.
For similar reasons, we should deregulate assault, theft, and fraud. Because government regulation always leaves the little guy at a disadvantage.
How do you get /. to preserve your angle brackets without using 'ecode', which puts it the code in a block?
Try 'urxvt'. It does tabbing like 'mrxvt'. It also has unicode support, and provides a daemon so every terminal runs under the same process. This saves memory and launches new terminals faster. You can even configure it to act like a quake console, if you're a yakuake fan. IMO urxvt is far and away the best terminal emulator around.
* You don't know *what* program does what you need ("man -k" and "apt-cache search" are not always helpful)
Try 'apropos'.
There's actually never a reason to use 'cat' except for concatenating files. If you want to pipe a file into a text filter like grep, sed, awk, whatever, just use the angle bracket. Like this:
That way you're not starting an extraneous process (cat), and you don't have to remember which programs accept file names on their command line. Using the angle bracket is just like using a pipe.
Windows 8 is just Windows 7 PLUS metro.
Window's 8 is just Windows 7 MINUS the start menu PLUS metro.
Well, I guess somebody has to go against the flood of neurological research showing that humans tend greatly towards the altruistic.
Simple observation of the world around us would contradict that notion.
"Fists, yeah, that's the ticket. People are inherently violent, and so we're justified being bad to them, because they need to be controlled."
And that's the (extremely common) type of thinking that disproves humans are altruistic.
I think you need to back up just a bit further, to the people who put on the charade that is American Democracy. You don't really have any more choice in the voting booth, than you do during a card trick when the magician asks you to "pick a card, any card". You may make any choice you like, but the outcome is the same.
The TSA employee is at least partially responsible. If nobody took that job, there would be no TSA.
Most of the ones that people have kept, still work. Most of the ones that don't work can be fixed up with simple cleaning. Most of the rest need little more than a capacitor replacement.
Seriously, yes you CAN get data from this, but your not likely to come up to this situation at any point in your life.
Why wouldn't law enforcment agencies use this technique?