Just a small point, Israel doesn't lie. It explicitly does not comment on whether or not they have nuclear weapons and officially they do not inform the United States of whether or not they have nuclear weapons. They do it this way because it allows them to interact with the US without breaking our NPT duties while simultaneously not lying about whether they have nuclear weapons, which would break our NPT duties.
So they don't lie. And, in fact, they don't even pretend not to have nukes. They just refuse to comment.
Well, all the reasons people tout consoles do apply and here are a few I don't argue against:
Consoles have more unified hardware. Excepting HDD sizes, most consoles are almost exactly the same underlying hardware from machine to machine. All Wiis should have the same graphics card, all PS3s the same CPU.
Handheld consoles have, in general, better controls and graphics hardware than Android phones.
Homebrew on consoles can be a toe dip in the water to see if you want to pay for a dev license so you can join the indie channels on that console.
In addition, consoles are mysterious hardware wrapped behind forcefields. Anyone can fire up Eclipse and make a Java program for Windows. It's a little more work to get a Pong clone on NES for me. Some find that fun.
That said, I'm a huge fan of PC gaming for a number of reasons including zero opportunity cost graphics upgrades -- when I re-up my video card old games I still play look better in many cases -- and mods. If the Ouya makes it easy to support mods then any new gaming work I do will probably target it, possibly exclusively.
DRM is many things, but I don't see how it's inherently anti-competitive? Origin may require exclusivity but Steam definitely does not. For example, I bought Borderlands through Amazon then registered the CD key with Steam and it worked. (I was actually surprised it did.) If you buy a Humble Indie Bundle you can download the games separately from your Steam account or you can buy it through Steam. You can mix-and-match whether you download the games a la carte outside of Steam or within Steam.
There are many things you can fault Steam for, but being anti-competitive is definitely not one of them and I don't get where you're coming from on that.
This is something I haven't seen any good studies on. For example, among first world countries the ranking is: South Korea at 34 per 100k Japan at 23 per 100k Switzerland, Belgium, Finland at 17-18 per 100k France, Austria, Poland, New Zealand, Sweden at 12-17 per 100k Norway, Denmark, US at 12 per 100k
Supposedly, guns are used in half of all suicides in the US. If every suicide by gun would not otherwise be a suicide in the US we're moving from Denmark to Israel in suicide rate and I don't know about you, but I never really thought of Denmark or Norway as suicide capitals of the world.
In Canada, a country with comparable population, area, firearm ownership, rural/urban split and demographics, the suicide rate is comparable (within 1 per 100k) to the US. In the 80s and 90s firearms were the most popular form of suicide in Canada. From 1990 to 2005 that changed to hanging and strangulation. Someone want to look up whether Canada had a crackdown on private firearm ownership in the 90s?
(Info contained in this post is mostly picked out of Wikipedia, list of countries by suicide and suicide in [country] mostly. Some pokes at other googlings used as well. This post is intended as a point of interesting debate, not a be-all and end-all description of the situation. Feel free to fight the underlying points. Try not to nitpick individual numbers. Thank you for reading and have a nice day.)
The AR-15 he used was, I believe, semi-automatic with no modification to make it full automatic. That said, if he wanted to spray fire he may have bump fired it, but seeing as there are no videos and likely no one in the mind to keep track of what he was doing will make it next-to-impossible to figure if that's what he did. Then again, an unskilled shooter with an automatic rifle will be less accurate than one using a semi-automatic rifle. In reality he probably would have killed fewer people were he using an equal quality automatic rifle. Probably would have killed far fewer were he using an equal cost automatic rifle since it would've been even more likely to jam earlier.
Unfortunately, all three of those are really just "something you know."
If I have a 5-pin tumbler key and each pin has a depth setting of 0-5 then I really just need to know a 5-digit, hex (not hexadecimal) number and I can recreate the key. If I have a reading of a fingerprint all I need to do is experiment with fingerprint printing or fingerprint re-forming technology until I get a copy that can pass for the original.
Even an RSA keyfob, technically, can be copied if I can rip it apart in a manner that lets me read the secret encoded within it. There's no such thing as "something you are" or "something you have" when you're translating it to "something you know" anyway.
What do I do when I want to log in to do a bank transfer when I'm at my mom's? Log in to read some email when at my friend's house? Post to/. from work?
I'm okay with taking a pay cut..... so long as my malpractice insurance goes down by a similar percentage.
I'm okay with taking a pay cut so long as my rent goes down by a similar percentage? Oh, and my food costs. And electricity bill. And what does that matter because at that point it's not a pay cut?
Sorry, you lost me for a second there. I think what you meant to say was, "The country doesn't want healthcare reform but it's something we need."
I think you've misunderstood what geoffrobinson was trying to say. He's not advocating "trickle-down" economics -- he's saying that the fiat monetary system enables the faulty "trickle-down" economics because "new money" goes to the wealthy who extract the most utility from it. I think that's an interesting angle for an anti-fiat/pro-commodity monetary standard.
If I have $5M in the bank in a crappy 0% account but lose my job on December 31st of 2012 then don't get a new job in 2013 I will, for the 2013 tax year, be below the poverty level but also be entirely capable of paying my taxes and maintenance costs.
So, exactly what he said. It's not/just/ income, but/also/ wealth that matters.
Legally change your name to Cowboy Neal then emigrate to Germany to seed the name? I think it'd be hard to deny someone naming their child Cowboy Neal, Jr. no matter the legal name approval requirements.
Agreed, this is about Valve and Intel/teaming up/ to make their drivers/better/. Intel hasn't had the man-hours or budget to work on graphics that NVIDIA has had over the years? They've only started caring about gaming-class graphics what, two years ago, if that? Now that they do care and now that they're going to town with a first rate gaming group maybe they'll get better than NVIDIA and AMD really quickly. In fact, though, they don't need to get even to the same level as NVIDIA and AMD to be on my radar -- they just have to beat two or three generation old graphics, since I tend to play three or four generation old games -- I/just/ got Mirror's Edge and I'll be running it on an NVIDIA 400-series card. If Intel can beat the 500-series by the time I build a new computer I'm not buying a discrete graphics card for it.
General apology here about my initial statement -- apparently Colorado is rather split between left and right wing nutjobbery. Apologies. Point two is the one that I actually care about though, I was merely attempting to defuse the OP's statement with my first point.
If you're going to troll against a country, you might as well spell the demonym correctly. That said, you might want to look up the case of Derrick Bird. The UK is an island and even they can't get gun control right after years of marching toward the Orwellian prophecy. Yes, violence is higher, per capita, than the rest of the Western world. Firearm ownership, however, is not a cause -- both the firearm ownership and violence are results of an underlying cultural and socioeconomic system. Namely, we have a culture where individualism is the highest ideal and violence is glorified. The fact that individualism is so important has two salient results: First, it means that we do not require practically any training prior to firearm ownership nor do we require all residents to be proficient or even familiar with firearms, unlike the Swiss. This means that children grow up without a full understanding of the effects of firearms except through the make-believe of the movies, where guns solve all problems. Second, it means that if we attempt true gun control there is likely to be violent resistance, especially if it is done without first somehow abolishing the Second Amendment.
Okay, that's enough for now. I have too much work to spend all day talking gun politics.
Yes, because all those entirely reasonable people who make rational decisions about whether they should or should not commit mass murders would suddenly stop shooting tens of people due to fear of reprisal.
Two points, one to the parent directly, and one to later commentary.
First, to the parent, considering the demographics of Colorado, yes, he probably was a right-wing nutjob. This does not, of course, imply that right-wing nutjobbery makes you more likely to be a mass murderer.
Second, to those who have already and will continue to claim that permissive concealed carry laws are ineffective in general because they were ineffective in this case: A crowded, dark movie theater, during an action scene is pretty much the second worst place you could possibly attempt a defensive shooting. You would be fairly unable to accurately identify your target, to clear the space in front of and behind him, to take aim or to prevent yourself from getting shot or harmed by others, police included, during or after the event. The worst, I think, would be a nightclub. So no, this neither affirms nor repudiates weapons ownership or carry, concealed or open, in any real way. You might as well take the Challenger as proof that man is never to leave terra firma.
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We can't destroy the /land area/ but we can make the /atmosphere/ inhospitable through fallout and nuclear winter.
Just a small point, Israel doesn't lie. It explicitly does not comment on whether or not they have nuclear weapons and officially they do not inform the United States of whether or not they have nuclear weapons. They do it this way because it allows them to interact with the US without breaking our NPT duties while simultaneously not lying about whether they have nuclear weapons, which would break our NPT duties.
So they don't lie. And, in fact, they don't even pretend not to have nukes. They just refuse to comment.
Well, all the reasons people tout consoles do apply and here are a few I don't argue against:
Consoles have more unified hardware. Excepting HDD sizes, most consoles are almost exactly the same underlying hardware from machine to machine. All Wiis should have the same graphics card, all PS3s the same CPU.
Handheld consoles have, in general, better controls and graphics hardware than Android phones.
Homebrew on consoles can be a toe dip in the water to see if you want to pay for a dev license so you can join the indie channels on that console.
In addition, consoles are mysterious hardware wrapped behind forcefields. Anyone can fire up Eclipse and make a Java program for Windows. It's a little more work to get a Pong clone on NES for me. Some find that fun.
That said, I'm a huge fan of PC gaming for a number of reasons including zero opportunity cost graphics upgrades -- when I re-up my video card old games I still play look better in many cases -- and mods. If the Ouya makes it easy to support mods then any new gaming work I do will probably target it, possibly exclusively.
His joke was that Steam is like a firewall such that saying "no DRM except Steam" is like saying "no closed source except firewall".
DRM is many things, but I don't see how it's inherently anti-competitive? Origin may require exclusivity but Steam definitely does not. For example, I bought Borderlands through Amazon then registered the CD key with Steam and it worked. (I was actually surprised it did.) If you buy a Humble Indie Bundle you can download the games separately from your Steam account or you can buy it through Steam. You can mix-and-match whether you download the games a la carte outside of Steam or within Steam.
There are many things you can fault Steam for, but being anti-competitive is definitely not one of them and I don't get where you're coming from on that.
You can /currently/ run Steam in a WINE wrapper. It is not an official release.
The official release will be a native build.
This is something I haven't seen any good studies on. For example, among first world countries the ranking is:
South Korea at 34 per 100k
Japan at 23 per 100k
Switzerland, Belgium, Finland at 17-18 per 100k
France, Austria, Poland, New Zealand, Sweden at 12-17 per 100k
Norway, Denmark, US at 12 per 100k
Supposedly, guns are used in half of all suicides in the US. If every suicide by gun would not otherwise be a suicide in the US we're moving from Denmark to Israel in suicide rate and I don't know about you, but I never really thought of Denmark or Norway as suicide capitals of the world.
In Canada, a country with comparable population, area, firearm ownership, rural/urban split and demographics, the suicide rate is comparable (within 1 per 100k) to the US. In the 80s and 90s firearms were the most popular form of suicide in Canada. From 1990 to 2005 that changed to hanging and strangulation. Someone want to look up whether Canada had a crackdown on private firearm ownership in the 90s?
(Info contained in this post is mostly picked out of Wikipedia, list of countries by suicide and suicide in [country] mostly. Some pokes at other googlings used as well. This post is intended as a point of interesting debate, not a be-all and end-all description of the situation. Feel free to fight the underlying points. Try not to nitpick individual numbers. Thank you for reading and have a nice day.)
Valve supporting all their new games, starting with HL3, on Linux would be my killer app to ditch Windows entirely.
The AR-15 he used was, I believe, semi-automatic with no modification to make it full automatic. That said, if he wanted to spray fire he may have bump fired it, but seeing as there are no videos and likely no one in the mind to keep track of what he was doing will make it next-to-impossible to figure if that's what he did. Then again, an unskilled shooter with an automatic rifle will be less accurate than one using a semi-automatic rifle. In reality he probably would have killed fewer people were he using an equal quality automatic rifle. Probably would have killed far fewer were he using an equal cost automatic rifle since it would've been even more likely to jam earlier.
47% based in a recent Gallup poll.
Unfortunately, all three of those are really just "something you know."
If I have a 5-pin tumbler key and each pin has a depth setting of 0-5 then I really just need to know a 5-digit, hex (not hexadecimal) number and I can recreate the key. If I have a reading of a fingerprint all I need to do is experiment with fingerprint printing or fingerprint re-forming technology until I get a copy that can pass for the original.
Even an RSA keyfob, technically, can be copied if I can rip it apart in a manner that lets me read the secret encoded within it. There's no such thing as "something you are" or "something you have" when you're translating it to "something you know" anyway.
From what I understand, LastPass requires me installing it on the guest computer. Not a huge fan of that requirement.
What do I do when I want to log in to do a bank transfer when I'm at my mom's? Log in to read some email when at my friend's house? Post to /. from work?
I'm okay with taking a pay cut..... so long as my malpractice insurance goes down by a similar percentage.
I'm okay with taking a pay cut so long as my rent goes down by a similar percentage? Oh, and my food costs. And electricity bill. And what does that matter because at that point it's not a pay cut?
Sorry, you lost me for a second there. I think what you meant to say was, "The country doesn't want healthcare reform but it's something we need."
I think you've misunderstood what geoffrobinson was trying to say. He's not advocating "trickle-down" economics -- he's saying that the fiat monetary system enables the faulty "trickle-down" economics because "new money" goes to the wealthy who extract the most utility from it. I think that's an interesting angle for an anti-fiat/pro-commodity monetary standard.
If I have $5M in the bank in a crappy 0% account but lose my job on December 31st of 2012 then don't get a new job in 2013 I will, for the 2013 tax year, be below the poverty level but also be entirely capable of paying my taxes and maintenance costs.
So, exactly what he said. It's not /just/ income, but /also/ wealth that matters.
3. Twenty story buildings generally have more glass space than roof space.
4. You could put 20% efficient panels on your roof, put 4% efficient film on your windows, or both.
Legally change your name to Cowboy Neal then emigrate to Germany to seed the name? I think it'd be hard to deny someone naming their child Cowboy Neal, Jr. no matter the legal name approval requirements.
Agreed, this is about Valve and Intel /teaming up/ to make their drivers /better/. Intel hasn't had the man-hours or budget to work on graphics that NVIDIA has had over the years? They've only started caring about gaming-class graphics what, two years ago, if that? Now that they do care and now that they're going to town with a first rate gaming group maybe they'll get better than NVIDIA and AMD really quickly. In fact, though, they don't need to get even to the same level as NVIDIA and AMD to be on my radar -- they just have to beat two or three generation old graphics, since I tend to play three or four generation old games -- I /just/ got Mirror's Edge and I'll be running it on an NVIDIA 400-series card. If Intel can beat the 500-series by the time I build a new computer I'm not buying a discrete graphics card for it.
General apology here about my initial statement -- apparently Colorado is rather split between left and right wing nutjobbery. Apologies. Point two is the one that I actually care about though, I was merely attempting to defuse the OP's statement with my first point.
If you're going to troll against a country, you might as well spell the demonym correctly. That said, you might want to look up the case of Derrick Bird. The UK is an island and even they can't get gun control right after years of marching toward the Orwellian prophecy. Yes, violence is higher, per capita, than the rest of the Western world. Firearm ownership, however, is not a cause -- both the firearm ownership and violence are results of an underlying cultural and socioeconomic system. Namely, we have a culture where individualism is the highest ideal and violence is glorified. The fact that individualism is so important has two salient results: First, it means that we do not require practically any training prior to firearm ownership nor do we require all residents to be proficient or even familiar with firearms, unlike the Swiss. This means that children grow up without a full understanding of the effects of firearms except through the make-believe of the movies, where guns solve all problems. Second, it means that if we attempt true gun control there is likely to be violent resistance, especially if it is done without first somehow abolishing the Second Amendment.
Okay, that's enough for now. I have too much work to spend all day talking gun politics.
Yes, because all those entirely reasonable people who make rational decisions about whether they should or should not commit mass murders would suddenly stop shooting tens of people due to fear of reprisal.
Two points, one to the parent directly, and one to later commentary.
First, to the parent, considering the demographics of Colorado, yes, he probably was a right-wing nutjob. This does not, of course, imply that right-wing nutjobbery makes you more likely to be a mass murderer.
Second, to those who have already and will continue to claim that permissive concealed carry laws are ineffective in general because they were ineffective in this case: A crowded, dark movie theater, during an action scene is pretty much the second worst place you could possibly attempt a defensive shooting. You would be fairly unable to accurately identify your target, to clear the space in front of and behind him, to take aim or to prevent yourself from getting shot or harmed by others, police included, during or after the event. The worst, I think, would be a nightclub. So no, this neither affirms nor repudiates weapons ownership or carry, concealed or open, in any real way. You might as well take the Challenger as proof that man is never to leave terra firma.
At one g it's 3 minutes, 2 seconds, I believe. (Using Wolfram Alpha 4000 mph / 1 g acceleration).
Didn't vote for him last time. Then again, I think his biggest opponent would probably give the same answer.