Problem lies in the fact that trying someone for "potential crime" opens a HUGE can of worms. Where do you plan to stop? Pre-emptive fines on speeders? Pre-emptive jail sentences for people with history of domestic violence going to a martial arts course?
We have no punishments for thought crime, which is what you describe is about. They can think about crime all they want, but it's the ACT itself that's criminal. Not the thought. Even if precedence of such behaviour exists.
What we do have is harsher punishment for REPEAT OFFENDERS. That is the main consequence of repeating the same crime twice.
Honestly I really don't give a sh*t if someone is making interest on my $50... it's worth what? a few pennies TOPS. Good for them if they're smart enough to leverage that advantage, at least they're putting that money to better use than anything I'm doing with it (buying virtual garbage).
And that is the attitude that lets biggest swindlers of all times in financial world net billions. And who could blame them - the true responsibility SHOULD lie with people who pack this attitude.
Much of the talk is about operator and hub level, not end-user. As a result, terabit ethernet makes sense with numbers you present - provided specific hub serves enough clients.
Essentially it's a case of making internal ISP networks simpler to build.
There is no figuring out how to make power management work, because there is no way to make power management work. This is a very common issue with linux and laptops designed for windows only.
You can falsify the existence by attributing predictable, rare and unusual events typically attributed to supernatural powers, such as solar eclipses. This has been done countless times throughout the history, and is still being done albeit on smaller scale then before.
Though modern "God's miracles" are usually more among the line of self-suggestion and plain fraud.
Why not? I can falsify an existence of God, and falsify evidence that some of things mentioned above are actually false. It's not even hard, religions falsified "acts of God" since times before our history with things that naturally occur in nature and are predictable, like solar eclipses.
If you're competing with raiders, badges from dailies are utterly useless to you. They're aimed at casual crowd that doesn't do raiding, so that they can get their shinies too (albeit at a much slower pace).
They are also there to grant some bling-bling stuff like mounts and pets and weird items like banners. None of it really matters for gameplay.
The argument is that wars could be avoided if smaller countries had a similar MAD pact that big countries now have. Libya, while totalitarian, was also the wealthiest country in Northern Africa. People there lived very comfortably.
Now it will become a puppet regime for West, and people's level of life will crash. West benefits from cheap oil. Locals lose on oil income and destroyed infrastructure, as well as likely destruction of autonomy as new puppet regime goes the way of Iraq and Afghanistan and just tries to take control over from tribal councils while selling oil infrastructure to Western private investors for pennies on a dollar. China gets pissed that a lot of its investment goes into the toilet alongside.
Your argument is based on a misguided notion that "freedom at any cost, as long as the cost is paid by the locals while spoils of war go to us" is a correct way to end tyrannies. And of course, to justify that argument, you must massively over-inflate the potential cost of non-intervention.
Nuclear deterrent and ground-to-sea carrier killing. Do you not read the news?
ICBM:s make for a shitty method of force projection on the ground - they're expensive, inaccurate and generally only suitable for targets where you don't care about collateral. I.e. large ships that are attacking your mainland, or enemy cities in MAD situation. Case to point: US doesn't use ICBMs in its invasions.
MAD is not going away. There is no realistic possibility of war between any of the ICBM-armed nuclear powers, as such war would result in mutual annihilation. Case to point: USSR, USA, Cuban crisis, countless proxy wars, zero direct wars.
If you still don't get it, a friendly reminder: if China wanted to, it could wipe US from the face of the planet with a press of a button, and there's nothing US can do about it. US could wipe China off the face of the planet with a press of a button, and there's nothing that China can do about it. The only real wars that can be fought in modern times are wars against countries with no nuclear/biological arsenal (and ICBMs to deliver those). China is very poorly equipped for such wars, and shows no sign of arming itself for such wars. US is exceptionally well equipped for such wars.
On the other hand, US has a perfect geographical positioning to not have any real defensive capability. It has no land borders with hostile, or even competitive nations. Compare this with China that is squeezed from both land and sea from all directions. This enables US to focus on purely offensive army, while China is forced to focus on purely defensive army.
"Millions displaced"? The country's entire population is six million total. Of these, only a small fraction is in rebelling towns. And in every rebelling town, it's mostly young men. Of those, only a few leaders would be killed along with their families to make an example with rest being punished financially. There is plenty of historic precedent on this from how Gaddafi handled his power. Hell, the main reason why he's still in power is because he was never a true tyrant to his own people - he left most of the governing, including the tyrannical aspect to tribal councils.
Please stop eating up propaganda and swallowing it whole.
Again, you're viewing the world through "USA is the only thing that matters" lens.
China needs an army to:
1. Crowd control it's own population 2. Maintain its sovereignty (read up on what West and Japan did the China in last two centuries - that makes nazi concentration camps look like modern jails). 3. Force projection outside it's borders.
For US, the order is exact opposite. As a result, even if US is gone, the priority is unlikely to change. They simply do not have the necessary equipment for US-like force projection, just look up what their acquisitions for military look like. Unlike US with it's aircraft carriers and other sea-to-land assault capabilities being a high priority, most of the Chinese military is aimed at land-to-sea force projection which simply cannot perform well in opposite role.
I'm not saying that wouldn't change if China became a US-like existence. I'm saying it's highly unlikely that Chinese even want to become one in the first place. They have enough problems with surrounding hostile and neutral countries as well as controlling their own population.
Considering the situation in Pakistan, and large amount of "caring" that US military leadership shows towards civilian deaths through its actions (rather then words), the correct order would look like this:
(a) make sure there is a body to id (b) intel......... (z) minimize civilian casualties
China specifically avoids invading. China is happy to just invest money, get raw materials it needs and not ask any questions, be they about human rights or willingness to sell out to IMF.
Invading is US modus operandi. Unofficial real reasons are usually same as above for China, but US prefers invasion as a tool rather then peaceful buy-out.
So yes, most people would in fact much prefer Chinese "invasion" to an US one. Hell, ask australians - Chinese already have "invaded" their mining industry as it needs coal and iron at least as much as US needs oil. Result: tens of thousands of new jobs and many new millionaires. No deaths to weapon fire, diseases, violence or other nasty things caused by war.
I don't understand, where would a "few hundred thousand people" go? If Libya would be still not attacked, Gaddafi would have done what he always did - pick off a few leaders/instigators and their families, and leave everyone else to be managed by their tribal leaders. That's a three-four digit number tops. You're at least two orders of magnitude off.
Most people tend to miss that Libya isn't really so much a single person dictature internally as it may look to an uninformed outsider. It's mainly a feudal system where Gaddafi himself stays in power by balancing the power of tribes, who have a wide autonomy. Current war already has likely cost more lives then realistic worst case scenario if Gaddafi suppressed the uprising quickly.
Additionally, a truly designed-from-the-ground-up model would most likely have NOTAR instead of a tail rotor. It's what police helicopters around the world like to use as it completely removes the choppy sound (which comes from airflow from main rotor hitting the airflow from tail rotor). Obviously engine sound itself remains, but that's a small fraction of the choppy noise. This is most likely a modifier version in a sense that they slapped add-ons on top of already existing model, rather then fully rework and redesign it, as would be necessary for different tail rotor structure.
And HDMI port weirds me out. HDMI is a very recent interface, requiring a TV set made in a last three years or so.
If you're going to make a TV-connectable portable pc for poor kids, put in a standard analogue TV output. Poor families don't buy modern TV sets all that often.
Not only this, but also "how many months/years of subscription required by these people"?
This is an MMO, if it goes into a classic "many buyers who do not sign up for game time after their trial that came with purchase period is up", I suspect even a several million sales would fall short of paying for it.
MMOs live and die by subscriptions. Not by copy sales. We have a boatload of failed WoW-killers that had a lot of initial sales, but almost no people signing up for more time.
On a personal note, the more I read about this game, the more I think that it's doomed to fail by design. A plot-based game is good for one playthrough - after this, you're done with it. Meaning you'll buy a copy, play through the game and be done with it. You'd have to patch in new content (and by extension, new plot lines) at an incredible pace to keep people interested. I suspect that even blizzard with its incredibly polished development machine could not pull that kind of development speed off.
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Problem lies in the fact that trying someone for "potential crime" opens a HUGE can of worms. Where do you plan to stop? Pre-emptive fines on speeders? Pre-emptive jail sentences for people with history of domestic violence going to a martial arts course?
We have no punishments for thought crime, which is what you describe is about. They can think about crime all they want, but it's the ACT itself that's criminal. Not the thought. Even if precedence of such behaviour exists.
What we do have is harsher punishment for REPEAT OFFENDERS. That is the main consequence of repeating the same crime twice.
Honestly I really don't give a sh*t if someone is making interest on my $50... it's worth what? a few pennies TOPS. Good for them if they're smart enough to leverage that advantage, at least they're putting that money to better use than anything I'm doing with it (buying virtual garbage).
And that is the attitude that lets biggest swindlers of all times in financial world net billions. And who could blame them - the true responsibility SHOULD lie with people who pack this attitude.
Much of the talk is about operator and hub level, not end-user. As a result, terabit ethernet makes sense with numbers you present - provided specific hub serves enough clients.
Essentially it's a case of making internal ISP networks simpler to build.
There is no figuring out how to make power management work, because there is no way to make power management work. This is a very common issue with linux and laptops designed for windows only.
Nothing. What does actually charging a battery pack on a race car instead of simply swapping in a fully charged one do with sedans?
You can falsify the existence by attributing predictable, rare and unusual events typically attributed to supernatural powers, such as solar eclipses. This has been done countless times throughout the history, and is still being done albeit on smaller scale then before.
Though modern "God's miracles" are usually more among the line of self-suggestion and plain fraud.
Why not? I can falsify an existence of God, and falsify evidence that some of things mentioned above are actually false. It's not even hard, religions falsified "acts of God" since times before our history with things that naturally occur in nature and are predictable, like solar eclipses.
Well, his aliens are probably all grey with big eyes and have always been that way, unchanging. And never heard of bacteria or viruses.
If you're competing with raiders, badges from dailies are utterly useless to you. They're aimed at casual crowd that doesn't do raiding, so that they can get their shinies too (albeit at a much slower pace).
They are also there to grant some bling-bling stuff like mounts and pets and weird items like banners. None of it really matters for gameplay.
The change is from "Netizen" to "Product". You're not the consumer - companies your info is sold to are. You are the product being consumed.
This is like arguing that there's no need for traffic rules, because you don't have to ever get out of your home.
There's no freedom like one gained in death.
You may want to fix your detector. It missed by a continent and then some.
The argument is that wars could be avoided if smaller countries had a similar MAD pact that big countries now have. Libya, while totalitarian, was also the wealthiest country in Northern Africa. People there lived very comfortably.
Now it will become a puppet regime for West, and people's level of life will crash. West benefits from cheap oil. Locals lose on oil income and destroyed infrastructure, as well as likely destruction of autonomy as new puppet regime goes the way of Iraq and Afghanistan and just tries to take control over from tribal councils while selling oil infrastructure to Western private investors for pennies on a dollar. China gets pissed that a lot of its investment goes into the toilet alongside.
Your argument is based on a misguided notion that "freedom at any cost, as long as the cost is paid by the locals while spoils of war go to us" is a correct way to end tyrannies. And of course, to justify that argument, you must massively over-inflate the potential cost of non-intervention.
Nuclear deterrent and ground-to-sea carrier killing. Do you not read the news?
ICBM:s make for a shitty method of force projection on the ground - they're expensive, inaccurate and generally only suitable for targets where you don't care about collateral. I.e. large ships that are attacking your mainland, or enemy cities in MAD situation. Case to point: US doesn't use ICBMs in its invasions.
MAD is not going away. There is no realistic possibility of war between any of the ICBM-armed nuclear powers, as such war would result in mutual annihilation. Case to point: USSR, USA, Cuban crisis, countless proxy wars, zero direct wars.
If you still don't get it, a friendly reminder: if China wanted to, it could wipe US from the face of the planet with a press of a button, and there's nothing US can do about it. US could wipe China off the face of the planet with a press of a button, and there's nothing that China can do about it. The only real wars that can be fought in modern times are wars against countries with no nuclear/biological arsenal (and ICBMs to deliver those). China is very poorly equipped for such wars, and shows no sign of arming itself for such wars. US is exceptionally well equipped for such wars.
On the other hand, US has a perfect geographical positioning to not have any real defensive capability. It has no land borders with hostile, or even competitive nations. Compare this with China that is squeezed from both land and sea from all directions. This enables US to focus on purely offensive army, while China is forced to focus on purely defensive army.
Wireless needs a separate receiver.
"Millions displaced"? The country's entire population is six million total. Of these, only a small fraction is in rebelling towns. And in every rebelling town, it's mostly young men. Of those, only a few leaders would be killed along with their families to make an example with rest being punished financially. There is plenty of historic precedent on this from how Gaddafi handled his power.
Hell, the main reason why he's still in power is because he was never a true tyrant to his own people - he left most of the governing, including the tyrannical aspect to tribal councils.
Please stop eating up propaganda and swallowing it whole.
Again, you're viewing the world through "USA is the only thing that matters" lens.
China needs an army to:
1. Crowd control it's own population
2. Maintain its sovereignty (read up on what West and Japan did the China in last two centuries - that makes nazi concentration camps look like modern jails).
3. Force projection outside it's borders.
For US, the order is exact opposite. As a result, even if US is gone, the priority is unlikely to change. They simply do not have the necessary equipment for US-like force projection, just look up what their acquisitions for military look like. Unlike US with it's aircraft carriers and other sea-to-land assault capabilities being a high priority, most of the Chinese military is aimed at land-to-sea force projection which simply cannot perform well in opposite role.
I'm not saying that wouldn't change if China became a US-like existence. I'm saying it's highly unlikely that Chinese even want to become one in the first place. They have enough problems with surrounding hostile and neutral countries as well as controlling their own population.
Considering the situation in Pakistan, and large amount of "caring" that US military leadership shows towards civilian deaths through its actions (rather then words), the correct order would look like this:
(a) make sure there is a body to id ... ... ...
(b) intel
(z) minimize civilian casualties
China specifically avoids invading. China is happy to just invest money, get raw materials it needs and not ask any questions, be they about human rights or willingness to sell out to IMF.
Invading is US modus operandi. Unofficial real reasons are usually same as above for China, but US prefers invasion as a tool rather then peaceful buy-out.
So yes, most people would in fact much prefer Chinese "invasion" to an US one. Hell, ask australians - Chinese already have "invaded" their mining industry as it needs coal and iron at least as much as US needs oil. Result: tens of thousands of new jobs and many new millionaires. No deaths to weapon fire, diseases, violence or other nasty things caused by war.
I don't understand, where would a "few hundred thousand people" go? If Libya would be still not attacked, Gaddafi would have done what he always did - pick off a few leaders/instigators and their families, and leave everyone else to be managed by their tribal leaders. That's a three-four digit number tops. You're at least two orders of magnitude off.
Most people tend to miss that Libya isn't really so much a single person dictature internally as it may look to an uninformed outsider. It's mainly a feudal system where Gaddafi himself stays in power by balancing the power of tribes, who have a wide autonomy. Current war already has likely cost more lives then realistic worst case scenario if Gaddafi suppressed the uprising quickly.
Additionally, a truly designed-from-the-ground-up model would most likely have NOTAR instead of a tail rotor. It's what police helicopters around the world like to use as it completely removes the choppy sound (which comes from airflow from main rotor hitting the airflow from tail rotor). Obviously engine sound itself remains, but that's a small fraction of the choppy noise. This is most likely a modifier version in a sense that they slapped add-ons on top of already existing model, rather then fully rework and redesign it, as would be necessary for different tail rotor structure.
And HDMI port weirds me out. HDMI is a very recent interface, requiring a TV set made in a last three years or so.
If you're going to make a TV-connectable portable pc for poor kids, put in a standard analogue TV output. Poor families don't buy modern TV sets all that often.
Worth noting that xbox controller functions perfectly when plugged into a windows pc. Microsoft provides drivers and support.
Not only this, but also "how many months/years of subscription required by these people"?
This is an MMO, if it goes into a classic "many buyers who do not sign up for game time after their trial that came with purchase period is up", I suspect even a several million sales would fall short of paying for it.
MMOs live and die by subscriptions. Not by copy sales. We have a boatload of failed WoW-killers that had a lot of initial sales, but almost no people signing up for more time.
On a personal note, the more I read about this game, the more I think that it's doomed to fail by design. A plot-based game is good for one playthrough - after this, you're done with it. Meaning you'll buy a copy, play through the game and be done with it. You'd have to patch in new content (and by extension, new plot lines) at an incredible pace to keep people interested. I suspect that even blizzard with its incredibly polished development machine could not pull that kind of development speed off.