yes you can't prevent complete assholes from posting stuff on the internet. doesn't change the fact that those people are assholes.
Yes this german guy can legally to photographs of people's houses when they've indicated they'd rather he didn't. He's not breaking the law, but he's still an asshole.
Google didn't have to give people the option of opting out of street view. They gave people the option because they're trying NOT to be assholes.
Haha was just poking fun with the alternative energy thing.
Yeah the military could react quickly if they classified it as a threat. But would they? If there's an explosion its obvious that we need to lock the place down with lots of security until we know for sure its cause.
But this would look like a disease, and so they'd probably go to the CDC and FEMA and all those agencies first.
They problem with the article is that it assumes everyone is prepared for zombies and know the best way to react.
The best zombie movies portray a breakdown in society. The zombies in 28 days later weren't anywhere near as scary as the soldiers who went insane. That sort of thing is hard to prepare for.
At first there would be looting, but thats not really as big a problem as when there are no more abandoned stores to loot. Then people start preying on each other, because hey they need more food and fuel and some other guys with less guns than us have some.
So even if you have a good defense against zombies, it might not be good enough to stop non-zombies that want your stuff.
The article writer is confused. Zombie movies aren't about anything biological. Because the biology of zombies is impossible. Zombie movies are a socialogical what if scenario. The biggest threat isn't zombies, its other humans that have been made desperate by the zombies.
Yeah because recent history has shown how quickly the US government reacts to disasters.
They'd have to spend at least a few weeks arguing over whether the state or the federal government should deal with the problem. By that time, zombies have spread to multiple states. Then they's spend a few weeks trying to decide if its should FEMA, Homeland Security, the CDC or the military that should deal with the outbreak. By that time 3/4 of the country is infected, with infection spreading throughout north america and into south america.
By this time infrastructure is breaking down. Yeah your weapons are effective. So the militray massacres zombies early on. But any military strategist knows that logistics can win or lose wars. While the US is winning epic battles with the zombies, the infection has spread to venezuela. Oh shit you aren't getting oil anymore. Maybe there's some oil in the middleast, but no tankers want to come to the US because there's this whole zombie apocalypse going on. And US tankers will be denied access to foreign ports because they don't want your zombie problem to spread there.
So now you don't have any oil. How are you going to keep your army supplied with things like food and ammunition? Doesn't take long for every soldier to be down to the ammo and rations he's carrying, with no resupply coming anytime soon.
See your reliance on foreign oil makes you extremely vulnerable to a zombie apocalypse. Support alternative energy sources or the zombies win.
you can also provide free parking at train stations in the suburbs. Many people in the suburbs of Toronto just drive to the nearest GO train station and take the train into the city. Its better than having to deal with the 401.
So you can still have all the benefits of having a car for the short trips in the suburbs, but not have to deal with rush hour traffic and trying to find a parking space in the city.
but when the government has to tax you because it needs money to clean up an oil spill, that also drives up the price of stuff. Heaven forbid the government tax oil to pay for the damage that oil creates! lets just increase the income tax and keep oil cheap, and the profit margins of BP and friends high.
Trains are a chicken and egg problem. People don't like trains if there are too few trains running to too few destinations. Andcompnaies that operate trains aren't going to run more trains and lay down new lines because not enough people use them.
If a retail store advertises a sale thats "up to 50% off" but many items were only 25% off, and some items weren't even on sale, no one would accept that!
oh wait people do accept that because they understand what "up to" means.
Facebook is starting to do things very similar to what Microsoft did when they bundled IE with windows. There are apps running on their platform and when they want control over those apps they simply bundle their app and integrate with the user interface in ways that aren't available.
And Facebook's marketshare is probably similar to what MS's was at the time. It is the most popular thing on the internet.
the problem is the the legislative branch writes the law and the judicial interprets them. So its pointless to ask the people writing the laws to interpret it for you because they don't have final say.
We've decided having a separation between these branches of government is a good thing, so that politicians can't simply lock up their opponents and throw away the key.
You could ask the courts to interpret the law, but we've decided that its better to require there to be a real case for that to happen. Otherwise the courts will have to spend all their time answering questions like "if my neighbour came over to my house and I thought he was an intruder and I shot him, but he didn't die, what laws would I be in violation of?". You'd have to have at least a hundred times as many judges to answer all these inane questions, and there would be a lot of inane questions, because like you said, people can ask them for free.
So yeah if you want to find out what's legal and what's not, hire a lawyer and he'll find out for you. Why should the taxpayer be paying lawyers to explain the law for anyone who asks?
I think so. Last time I bought a video card (its been a few years) I could not get a directly nVidia branded card, having to get it from some other company (I think it was something like eVGA). It still said it was an nvidia card on the box. I think nvidia has decided to stop dealing directly with consumers, leaving all the support, RMA, warranty stuff to other companies. Not a bad idea, it lets them focus on just making video cards.
Well the metadata shows the time and place of the photo. If I post a photo I just took while on vacation 200 miles away from home, someone could see that as of a certain time I'm 200 miles from home and not likely to be back home for at least 10 hours or so.
That being said I doubt robbers are going to be reloading your blog every hour just to see if you posted a pic indicating you're not at home. And of course it only works if you post the pic shortly after taking it. If you wait a couple of days before posting, the theives can't be sure if you posted while sitting at home after returning from your vacation.
I just envisioned an englishman trying to learn norse. He points up and asks the viking "what do you call that?" The viking gives him the norse word for cloud. But of course since its always cloudy and raining in england, the englishman never learns the norse word for sky, only the norse word for cloud.
I'd say getting the wired internet neutral is the biggest priority now. Think about it, who provides wired internet service? Cable companies. Its becoming more commonplace to get television shows and movies over the internet. What happens when people realize they don't need cable tv anymore? The cable companies lose their core business. People don't have to pay for a bundle of dozen channels they don't want just to get the one they do want. They simply pay for each show they want indvidually, either by cash or by watching ads. How can the cable company prevent this? If the cable company could send a bandwidth bill to netflix for example, well netflix has to charge users more per movie to pay for that bandwidth bill. They can make netflix charge enough so that its cheaper to keep your cable tv subscription than watch your tv shows and movies off the internet.
The wireless providers aren't competing with hulu and netflix. So its not as big an issue. Yet.
Yeah it would be nice to have net neutrality for all internet providers (wired and wireless), but that just isn't going to happen. The way things work in the US, you are never going to get any law passed if all the big corporations are against it. So Google is wisely using a divide and conquer strategy to regulate the companies most likely to cause abuses.
And if we start having problems with wireless in a few years, we can much more easily get wireless neutrality then because the cable companies won't be against making their wireless competitors subject to the same regulation they are.
probably a bit of both. A lot of the cool stuff on star trek were done because of a limited budget. ie. the transporter effects were cheaper to produce than showing a shuttle landing on a planet. The consoles in TNG had touch screen control because they could just paint a peice of plastic and slap it on instead of installing individual buttons and knobs.
Because of limited budgets, the prop designers had to follow KISS. Which is a good principle to follow when designing real devices even if you have a big budget.
he said he couldn't do those things while sitting at his desk. Implying he COULD do those things elsewhere. So if the company had a cafeteria or whatever he could go there and txt, make calls whatever.
pulling millions of men out of the labour market by giving them jobs is pretty keynesian. Are you arguing that being a soldier isn't a job?
And the rules for an individual DOES NOT apply to nations. A nation can increase the money supply (unless that nation uses a currency controlled by someone else, ie. Greece). A nation can borrow money from its citizens and tax its citizens at the same time. Yeah there are limits and I'm sure you'll point out the times where countries went too far and monetary and fiscal policy got out control and failed. But for every time a country went too far and screwed things up there are another ten times where such policy succeeded.
And blaming Jimmy Carter for events that happened decades after he left office? Come on. If Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton did something stupid then it was up to their successors to fix things and make things right. The Republicans had firm control over both the executive and legislative branches of government for over half a decade, and they couldn't fix any of the problems caused by Clinton or Carter? Face it dude, the last bubble can either be blamed on the Bush administration or the republican congress, take your pick.
You want to know who's at fault for all the various bubbles? First and foremost its the banks. If you can inflate a nice big bubble and sell before it bursts, you make gobs of money. The smart day traders and speculators make huge amounts of money from all this. The guy who's investing long term, just wanting a decent return for his retirement fund? he gets screwed.
Besides the banks you can blame governments for not keeping a close eye on the banks and prevent them from gaming the economy for a fast buck. But as long as the banks contribute enough money to the right political funds, they let the game continue. The stock market should facilitate investment, but as its stands now its the world's biggest casino. And the banks have all the tables rigged.
wanting to play a game that doesn't "hurt" you doesn't make you a "pussy" it makes you a well adjusted person.
wanting to play a game that DOES hurt you, makes you a masochist.
personally I'll just stick to starcraft. I can play a game and within about 20 minutes I either have won or lost. And it doesn't give people who've played longer any advantage other than the skills they've leaned. To me, games where players who've invested more time get an advantage over people just starting are for pussies. The truly hardcore are willing to leave everything up to their own skills.
If I started playing eve right now you'd be sure to completely own me. But only because you've done the grind long enough to increment some numbers in a database in Iceland.
so if I lose a bunch of money in online poker, I can sue to get my money back?
nobody broke the rules of the game they were playing. buddy went "all in" with a pair of deuces and someone called his bluff. Best he can do is claim that eve is a form of online gambling and try to get it banned in his area. That is if gambling is illegal where he lives.
or it may have been modded by a mathematician who figured out that modding comments "funny" will likely result in negative karma.
Of course since the OP was an AC karma isn't a factor. But myself, I've just gotten into the habit of never using +1 funny, since it could result in negative karma for the poster. Also something thats funny, is made even more funny when it gets modded as insightful or informative.
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yes you can't prevent complete assholes from posting stuff on the internet. doesn't change the fact that those people are assholes.
Yes this german guy can legally to photographs of people's houses when they've indicated they'd rather he didn't. He's not breaking the law, but he's still an asshole.
Google didn't have to give people the option of opting out of street view. They gave people the option because they're trying NOT to be assholes.
Haha was just poking fun with the alternative energy thing.
Yeah the military could react quickly if they classified it as a threat. But would they? If there's an explosion its obvious that we need to lock the place down with lots of security until we know for sure its cause.
But this would look like a disease, and so they'd probably go to the CDC and FEMA and all those agencies first.
They problem with the article is that it assumes everyone is prepared for zombies and know the best way to react.
The best zombie movies portray a breakdown in society. The zombies in 28 days later weren't anywhere near as scary as the soldiers who went insane. That sort of thing is hard to prepare for.
At first there would be looting, but thats not really as big a problem as when there are no more abandoned stores to loot. Then people start preying on each other, because hey they need more food and fuel and some other guys with less guns than us have some.
So even if you have a good defense against zombies, it might not be good enough to stop non-zombies that want your stuff.
The article writer is confused. Zombie movies aren't about anything biological. Because the biology of zombies is impossible. Zombie movies are a socialogical what if scenario. The biggest threat isn't zombies, its other humans that have been made desperate by the zombies.
others could use this, they just have to pay a licensing fee to apple.
Yeah because recent history has shown how quickly the US government reacts to disasters.
They'd have to spend at least a few weeks arguing over whether the state or the federal government should deal with the problem. By that time, zombies have spread to multiple states. Then they's spend a few weeks trying to decide if its should FEMA, Homeland Security, the CDC or the military that should deal with the outbreak. By that time 3/4 of the country is infected, with infection spreading throughout north america and into south america.
By this time infrastructure is breaking down. Yeah your weapons are effective. So the militray massacres zombies early on. But any military strategist knows that logistics can win or lose wars. While the US is winning epic battles with the zombies, the infection has spread to venezuela. Oh shit you aren't getting oil anymore. Maybe there's some oil in the middleast, but no tankers want to come to the US because there's this whole zombie apocalypse going on. And US tankers will be denied access to foreign ports because they don't want your zombie problem to spread there.
So now you don't have any oil. How are you going to keep your army supplied with things like food and ammunition? Doesn't take long for every soldier to be down to the ammo and rations he's carrying, with no resupply coming anytime soon.
See your reliance on foreign oil makes you extremely vulnerable to a zombie apocalypse. Support alternative energy sources or the zombies win.
you can also provide free parking at train stations in the suburbs. Many people in the suburbs of Toronto just drive to the nearest GO train station and take the train into the city. Its better than having to deal with the 401.
So you can still have all the benefits of having a car for the short trips in the suburbs, but not have to deal with rush hour traffic and trying to find a parking space in the city.
but as Richard Nixon once said "We're all Keynesian now"
but when the government has to tax you because it needs money to clean up an oil spill, that also drives up the price of stuff. Heaven forbid the government tax oil to pay for the damage that oil creates! lets just increase the income tax and keep oil cheap, and the profit margins of BP and friends high.
Trains are a chicken and egg problem. People don't like trains if there are too few trains running to too few destinations. Andcompnaies that operate trains aren't going to run more trains and lay down new lines because not enough people use them.
If a retail store advertises a sale thats "up to 50% off" but many items were only 25% off, and some items weren't even on sale, no one would accept that!
oh wait people do accept that because they understand what "up to" means.
Facebook is starting to do things very similar to what Microsoft did when they bundled IE with windows. There are apps running on their platform and when they want control over those apps they simply bundle their app and integrate with the user interface in ways that aren't available.
And Facebook's marketshare is probably similar to what MS's was at the time. It is the most popular thing on the internet.
the problem is the the legislative branch writes the law and the judicial interprets them. So its pointless to ask the people writing the laws to interpret it for you because they don't have final say.
We've decided having a separation between these branches of government is a good thing, so that politicians can't simply lock up their opponents and throw away the key.
You could ask the courts to interpret the law, but we've decided that its better to require there to be a real case for that to happen. Otherwise the courts will have to spend all their time answering questions like "if my neighbour came over to my house and I thought he was an intruder and I shot him, but he didn't die, what laws would I be in violation of?". You'd have to have at least a hundred times as many judges to answer all these inane questions, and there would be a lot of inane questions, because like you said, people can ask them for free.
So yeah if you want to find out what's legal and what's not, hire a lawyer and he'll find out for you. Why should the taxpayer be paying lawyers to explain the law for anyone who asks?
maybe because Bangkok is a different city from Hong Kong?
Sorta like having a story about Brazil and expecting a joke about lake titticaca
I think so. Last time I bought a video card (its been a few years) I could not get a directly nVidia branded card, having to get it from some other company (I think it was something like eVGA). It still said it was an nvidia card on the box. I think nvidia has decided to stop dealing directly with consumers, leaving all the support, RMA, warranty stuff to other companies. Not a bad idea, it lets them focus on just making video cards.
Well the metadata shows the time and place of the photo. If I post a photo I just took while on vacation 200 miles away from home, someone could see that as of a certain time I'm 200 miles from home and not likely to be back home for at least 10 hours or so.
That being said I doubt robbers are going to be reloading your blog every hour just to see if you posted a pic indicating you're not at home. And of course it only works if you post the pic shortly after taking it. If you wait a couple of days before posting, the theives can't be sure if you posted while sitting at home after returning from your vacation.
Haha
I just envisioned an englishman trying to learn norse. He points up and asks the viking "what do you call that?" The viking gives him the norse word for cloud. But of course since its always cloudy and raining in england, the englishman never learns the norse word for sky, only the norse word for cloud.
I'd say getting the wired internet neutral is the biggest priority now. Think about it, who provides wired internet service? Cable companies. Its becoming more commonplace to get television shows and movies over the internet. What happens when people realize they don't need cable tv anymore? The cable companies lose their core business. People don't have to pay for a bundle of dozen channels they don't want just to get the one they do want. They simply pay for each show they want indvidually, either by cash or by watching ads. How can the cable company prevent this? If the cable company could send a bandwidth bill to netflix for example, well netflix has to charge users more per movie to pay for that bandwidth bill. They can make netflix charge enough so that its cheaper to keep your cable tv subscription than watch your tv shows and movies off the internet.
The wireless providers aren't competing with hulu and netflix. So its not as big an issue. Yet.
Yeah it would be nice to have net neutrality for all internet providers (wired and wireless), but that just isn't going to happen. The way things work in the US, you are never going to get any law passed if all the big corporations are against it. So Google is wisely using a divide and conquer strategy to regulate the companies most likely to cause abuses.
And if we start having problems with wireless in a few years, we can much more easily get wireless neutrality then because the cable companies won't be against making their wireless competitors subject to the same regulation they are.
If the only thing EVIL about google is the wording of some PR then I'd say they must be the most moral company around.
Seriously, get some perspective, dude.
probably a bit of both. A lot of the cool stuff on star trek were done because of a limited budget. ie. the transporter effects were cheaper to produce than showing a shuttle landing on a planet. The consoles in TNG had touch screen control because they could just paint a peice of plastic and slap it on instead of installing individual buttons and knobs.
Because of limited budgets, the prop designers had to follow KISS. Which is a good principle to follow when designing real devices even if you have a big budget.
... It was about winning a propaganda victory in the cold war.
And don't forget about improving American rocket technology. Technology that would be used for building better ICBMs.
he said he couldn't do those things while sitting at his desk. Implying he COULD do those things elsewhere. So if the company had a cafeteria or whatever he could go there and txt, make calls whatever.
pulling millions of men out of the labour market by giving them jobs is pretty keynesian. Are you arguing that being a soldier isn't a job?
And the rules for an individual DOES NOT apply to nations. A nation can increase the money supply (unless that nation uses a currency controlled by someone else, ie. Greece). A nation can borrow money from its citizens and tax its citizens at the same time. Yeah there are limits and I'm sure you'll point out the times where countries went too far and monetary and fiscal policy got out control and failed. But for every time a country went too far and screwed things up there are another ten times where such policy succeeded.
And blaming Jimmy Carter for events that happened decades after he left office? Come on. If Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton did something stupid then it was up to their successors to fix things and make things right. The Republicans had firm control over both the executive and legislative branches of government for over half a decade, and they couldn't fix any of the problems caused by Clinton or Carter? Face it dude, the last bubble can either be blamed on the Bush administration or the republican congress, take your pick.
You want to know who's at fault for all the various bubbles? First and foremost its the banks. If you can inflate a nice big bubble and sell before it bursts, you make gobs of money. The smart day traders and speculators make huge amounts of money from all this. The guy who's investing long term, just wanting a decent return for his retirement fund? he gets screwed.
Besides the banks you can blame governments for not keeping a close eye on the banks and prevent them from gaming the economy for a fast buck. But as long as the banks contribute enough money to the right political funds, they let the game continue. The stock market should facilitate investment, but as its stands now its the world's biggest casino. And the banks have all the tables rigged.
wanting to play a game that doesn't "hurt" you doesn't make you a "pussy" it makes you a well adjusted person.
wanting to play a game that DOES hurt you, makes you a masochist.
personally I'll just stick to starcraft. I can play a game and within about 20 minutes I either have won or lost. And it doesn't give people who've played longer any advantage other than the skills they've leaned. To me, games where players who've invested more time get an advantage over people just starting are for pussies. The truly hardcore are willing to leave everything up to their own skills.
If I started playing eve right now you'd be sure to completely own me. But only because you've done the grind long enough to increment some numbers in a database in Iceland.
so if I lose a bunch of money in online poker, I can sue to get my money back?
nobody broke the rules of the game they were playing. buddy went "all in" with a pair of deuces and someone called his bluff. Best he can do is claim that eve is a form of online gambling and try to get it banned in his area. That is if gambling is illegal where he lives.
or it may have been modded by a mathematician who figured out that modding comments "funny" will likely result in negative karma.
Of course since the OP was an AC karma isn't a factor. But myself, I've just gotten into the habit of never using +1 funny, since it could result in negative karma for the poster. Also something thats funny, is made even more funny when it gets modded as insightful or informative.
I want to buy Fucking in Austria ...
Luckily for you prostitution is legal in Austria.
LESS pirates? You might want to search news.google.com for "somalia".