I've never been convinced that it's a "better way of managing things" to try to artificially even out these income disparities. And unfortunately, I see today's United States of America following that path, instead of holding on to our more traditional reluctance to "rob from the rich and give to the poor". (If you subscribe to that belief system, it seems like plenty of other nations operate that way already.)
I agree with this and definitely do not believe a Robin Hood state on the slippery path towards communism is a good way of evening out any income disparity. This would likely breed a welfare state of unmotivated people, I personally believe that hard work and excellence should be rewarded; However many of our laws are geared and continually altered towards further empowering people who already have massive financial advantages. Seemingly infinite extensions on copyright is a good example of this in action but this situation is unlikely to change as it is only with massive corporate investment that people can get anywhere in polities these days. In 1802 when Thomas Jefferson pushed forwards the separation of church from state, I believe we should be now pushing towards a separation of large profit based organisations and state and so avoid politicians being massively influenced by where their campaign contributions come from and what companies they are major shareholders for.
Murder rate in the USA is 42.8 per 1,000,000 people (freedom of speech and right to bear arms)
Murder rate in the UK 14.0 per 1,000,000 people (freedom of speech)
Murder rate in Hong Kong is 5.5 per 1,000,000 people (some limits on freedom)
I'm not saying that freedom of arms and speech turn people into hate filled psycho's (certainly other countries with limited freedoms have very high murder rates) but culturally people are very different all over the world and a murder rate more than 8 times lower than the USA is not insignificant. We have no idea what the effect of radically altering someone's culture might have and like it or not, ceasing all forms of censorship in China will have a shock effect on many of the people living there. I am preferably interested to hear what people in China feel about these issues more than people in the West demanding on behalf of people in China.
Please note that I had to use the rate for Hong Kong because China was apparently so low down as to not even be on the list of 62 highest murder rates, I note also that places under Sharia law were also absent from the list
Please note that I cannot vouch for either the accuracy or how recent these statistics are, but then you can say that about any posted statistics.
Personally I believe in as much personal freedom as we can get, but I felt the need to provide some kind of balance to the discussion and sometimes I wonder if we really have the right to demand and impose our freedoms on other places that work in a very different way, despite what the above poster said that all humans are basically the same and want to kill steal and rape all day, I'd like to think otherwise.
I would also like to quickly address the above poster who said "In the U.S., our constitution (or what's left of it) was written specifically, to prevent government from serving itself instead of society. It has managed to slow the progress of greedy and ambitious people who seek to limit people in order to enrich themselves."
I would like to draw attention to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States which states quite clearly "Americans have the highest income inequality in the rich world and over the past 20–30 years Americans have also experienced the greatest increase in income inequality among rich nations. The more detailed the data we can use to observe this change, the more skewed the change appears to be... the majority of large gains are indeed at the top of the distribution."
Like I said, freedoms are good, but our own implementation of them may not necessarily be the best method when considering some of the results.
The honeypot plays tones that are the typical keypress used to acknowledge your interest and connect you to an operator. You can hear this happening in the examples.
What this article really seems to be saying is that living in towns and cities is harmful and that hanging out in parks and forests temporarily alleviates the symptoms.
During my degree in computer science, for third year we were all turning up at computing expo's and fairs looking for an industrial placement year but when we spoke to Microsoft they were arrogant and rude. The said basically not to bother applying, the odds of getting something are so remote you would have to be beyond amazing and we don't think you are, same goes for any post graduation placements. Needless to say, we applied to companies that actually wanted to work some of the next generation of software developers instead.
Blizz admins just want to make sure all those bikini clad elf chicks they have been cyberlicking are actually females.
An anonymous survey from the Daedalus project a few years ago (http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/) quoted 40% of warcraft females are actually a female and with Blizards own stoppers preventing players from ever changing the real name the account was created with, I'm guessing theres going to be a lot of surprise transvestites popping up after the patch release.
Sadly beautiful screenshots sell games, but there is a more sinister side to it. Selling substandard games with an initial 'wow' factor pays of in many ways. It means they buy the game, but its not long before they realise how shallow the puddle is and are looking for a new game.
You make an epic game that people can buy once and play for years and your cutting off your own revenue stream.
With a sample size lower than what is even acceptable for a undergraduate students assignment and too many ignored variables such as users already being used to reading paper books and not digital ones, this article really isn't worth the paper its digitally printed upon.
The huge ratio of pirated to games to actual sales is largely irrelevant as it has been repeatedly proven that a pirated counts are in no way equated to lost sales. Theres also mounting evidence that restrictive DRM damages sales more than piracy.
Piracy is always quoted as the only real factor in disappointing PC sales though most of the multiplatform games were designed purely for use by joypad and with little to no effort to recreate any usable human / computer interface for pc versions. I have personally played PC ports where I was advised in the tutorial to press the square and triangle buttons together! Sigh.
Comparing console vs PC sales for games, for example Dead Space which on the PC had no definable keys and the presets made it impossible to play if you were left handed as well as endless mouse related issues, it is no wonder these corporate goons and their little quarterly sales reports, graphs and pop up colouring books decided after this that the PC market was mostly just a minor but rather vocal distraction. Of course not until they caught whiffs of how well Valve are doing out of all these other publishers incompetence that they all start back peddling.
IMHO the greatest thing Valve have done with Steam is make it easier and a lot less effort to buy a game than it is to pirate it. Something the clowns selling films really should try understanding sometime.
Stop the greedy children, they are eating all the toys!
No doubt the experts involved in the case are the kind of people who's only apparent credential is starting every phrase with "Speaking as a mother..."
Eating crap is a choice, sure they use cunning techniques to influence that choice but its hardly mind control caps. All this desperate finger pointing really should just lead back to pad parenting. People who are too lazy to cook healthy meals for their children. Blaming the source is like blaming drug pushers and dealers for addicts..... oh wait I've just broken my own argument. Fail.
So if we can introduce Muhammad shaped icons into call centre systems they would have no choice but to move all the previously outsourced British tech support back into the UK and generate thousands of jobs.
I'm waiting for the UK to have its first mentally disabled, transgendered, midget, amputee Prime Minister of varying ethnicity who worships the great Cthulhu and shows up to work each morning bathed in childrens blood. Then the world would marvel at our lack of prejudice.
Coming up with catchy news headlines for the event might be tricky.
On a side note why isn't Cthulhu on the spell checker yet?
Perhaps if the US military was instead to spend some resources addressing their world famous gung-ho trigger happy culture they wouldn't need to spend so much time covering up civilian kill streaks and team killing of allied soldiers. I for one am very glad of the existence of wikileaks. At least they are getting a lot of free publicity.
I don't think killing cultists counts as advocating cults.
Gold selling is actually illegal in most countries including the UK (not sure about the USA) but is largely unenforced.
I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. Why all the nerdrage about China wanting to restrict childrens access to material that promotes pornography, cults or gambling etc? As for the online currency regulations, I also don't see a problem in games that use target kids and then use addiction in order to lure them into using their parents credit cards to buy in game money. Perhaps if a lot of Chinese were voicing their concerns I might think otherwise, but I'm assuming its mostly westerners getting riled up on other peoples behalf with limited information.
I have to agree with this, not liking a technology purely because the majority of people using it are idiots, can be an argument to scratch off using just about any form of technology.
Id be very wary about having my Genomes mapped. The likelihood of having some pharmaceutical corporation owning the patent on your own genetic makeup is a little too creepy. I wonder how long it is before this kind of stuff joins a growing database where insurance companies can pay subscription for access fee's.
Slashdot Mirror
Cheesy? I find this interactive grooming simulator nothing but sinister.
I wonder if its edible.
I've never been convinced that it's a "better way of managing things" to try to artificially even out these income disparities. And unfortunately, I see today's United States of America following that path, instead of holding on to our more traditional reluctance to "rob from the rich and give to the poor". (If you subscribe to that belief system, it seems like plenty of other nations operate that way already.)
I agree with this and definitely do not believe a Robin Hood state on the slippery path towards communism is a good way of evening out any income disparity. This would likely breed a welfare state of unmotivated people, I personally believe that hard work and excellence should be rewarded; However many of our laws are geared and continually altered towards further empowering people who already have massive financial advantages. Seemingly infinite extensions on copyright is a good example of this in action but this situation is unlikely to change as it is only with massive corporate investment that people can get anywhere in polities these days. In 1802 when Thomas Jefferson pushed forwards the separation of church from state, I believe we should be now pushing towards a separation of large profit based organisations and state and so avoid politicians being massively influenced by where their campaign contributions come from and what companies they are major shareholders for.
public class MyGirlfriend extends Brazilian{
}
//hmm basic inheritance fail, let me try this one again.
private class MyGirlfriend{
Brazilian brazilian = new Brazilian();
}
Murder rate in the USA is 42.8 per 1,000,000 people (freedom of speech and right to bear arms) Murder rate in the UK 14.0 per 1,000,000 people (freedom of speech) Murder rate in Hong Kong is 5.5 per 1,000,000 people (some limits on freedom)
I'm not saying that freedom of arms and speech turn people into hate filled psycho's (certainly other countries with limited freedoms have very high murder rates) but culturally people are very different all over the world and a murder rate more than 8 times lower than the USA is not insignificant. We have no idea what the effect of radically altering someone's culture might have and like it or not, ceasing all forms of censorship in China will have a shock effect on many of the people living there. I am preferably interested to hear what people in China feel about these issues more than people in the West demanding on behalf of people in China.
Please note that I had to use the rate for Hong Kong because China was apparently so low down as to not even be on the list of 62 highest murder rates, I note also that places under Sharia law were also absent from the list
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita
Please note that I cannot vouch for either the accuracy or how recent these statistics are, but then you can say that about any posted statistics.
Personally I believe in as much personal freedom as we can get, but I felt the need to provide some kind of balance to the discussion and sometimes I wonder if we really have the right to demand and impose our freedoms on other places that work in a very different way, despite what the above poster said that all humans are basically the same and want to kill steal and rape all day, I'd like to think otherwise.
I would also like to quickly address the above poster who said "In the U.S., our constitution (or what's left of it) was written specifically, to prevent government from serving itself instead of society. It has managed to slow the progress of greedy and ambitious people who seek to limit people in order to enrich themselves."
I would like to draw attention to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States which states quite clearly "Americans have the highest income inequality in the rich world and over the past 20–30 years Americans have also experienced the greatest increase in income inequality among rich nations. The more detailed the data we can use to observe this change, the more skewed the change appears to be... the majority of large gains are indeed at the top of the distribution."
Like I said, freedoms are good, but our own implementation of them may not necessarily be the best method when considering some of the results.
Adds for a flash light app, how does it deliver those? Project adds onto whatever your trying to illuminate like a cruel twist of the batman beacon?
The honeypot plays tones that are the typical keypress used to acknowledge your interest and connect you to an operator. You can hear this happening in the examples.
What this article really seems to be saying is that living in towns and cities is harmful and that hanging out in parks and forests temporarily alleviates the symptoms.
During my degree in computer science, for third year we were all turning up at computing expo's and fairs looking for an industrial placement year but when we spoke to Microsoft they were arrogant and rude. The said basically not to bother applying, the odds of getting something are so remote you would have to be beyond amazing and we don't think you are, same goes for any post graduation placements. Needless to say, we applied to companies that actually wanted to work some of the next generation of software developers instead.
Blizz admins just want to make sure all those bikini clad elf chicks they have been cyberlicking are actually females.
An anonymous survey from the Daedalus project a few years ago (http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/) quoted 40% of warcraft females are actually a female and with Blizards own stoppers preventing players from ever changing the real name the account was created with, I'm guessing theres going to be a lot of surprise transvestites popping up after the patch release.
Sadly beautiful screenshots sell games, but there is a more sinister side to it. Selling substandard games with an initial 'wow' factor pays of in many ways. It means they buy the game, but its not long before they realise how shallow the puddle is and are looking for a new game.
You make an epic game that people can buy once and play for years and your cutting off your own revenue stream.
With a sample size lower than what is even acceptable for a undergraduate students assignment and too many ignored variables such as users already being used to reading paper books and not digital ones, this article really isn't worth the paper its digitally printed upon.
The huge ratio of pirated to games to actual sales is largely irrelevant as it has been repeatedly proven that a pirated counts are in no way equated to lost sales. Theres also mounting evidence that restrictive DRM damages sales more than piracy.
Piracy is always quoted as the only real factor in disappointing PC sales though most of the multiplatform games were designed purely for use by joypad and with little to no effort to recreate any usable human / computer interface for pc versions. I have personally played PC ports where I was advised in the tutorial to press the square and triangle buttons together! Sigh.
Comparing console vs PC sales for games, for example Dead Space which on the PC had no definable keys and the presets made it impossible to play if you were left handed as well as endless mouse related issues, it is no wonder these corporate goons and their little quarterly sales reports, graphs and pop up colouring books decided after this that the PC market was mostly just a minor but rather vocal distraction. Of course not until they caught whiffs of how well Valve are doing out of all these other publishers incompetence that they all start back peddling.
IMHO the greatest thing Valve have done with Steam is make it easier and a lot less effort to buy a game than it is to pirate it. Something the clowns selling films really should try understanding sometime.
Yeah get an HTC desire instead. You wont have any reception problems but if you hold it a certain way the battery runs out.
Stop the greedy children, they are eating all the toys!
No doubt the experts involved in the case are the kind of people who's only apparent credential is starting every phrase with "Speaking as a mother..."
Eating crap is a choice, sure they use cunning techniques to influence that choice but its hardly mind control caps. All this desperate finger pointing really should just lead back to pad parenting. People who are too lazy to cook healthy meals for their children. Blaming the source is like blaming drug pushers and dealers for addicts..... oh wait I've just broken my own argument. Fail.
Cant you get a tattoo that divides by zero and turn yourself into a living bomb?
So if we can introduce Muhammad shaped icons into call centre systems they would have no choice but to move all the previously outsourced British tech support back into the UK and generate thousands of jobs.
I'm waiting for the UK to have its first mentally disabled, transgendered, midget, amputee Prime Minister of varying ethnicity who worships the great Cthulhu and shows up to work each morning bathed in childrens blood. Then the world would marvel at our lack of prejudice.
Coming up with catchy news headlines for the event might be tricky.
On a side note why isn't Cthulhu on the spell checker yet?
But the mafia make better, quicker and more intuitive websites.
Perhaps if the US military was instead to spend some resources addressing their world famous gung-ho trigger happy culture they wouldn't need to spend so much time covering up civilian kill streaks and team killing of allied soldiers. I for one am very glad of the existence of wikileaks. At least they are getting a lot of free publicity.
I don't think killing cultists counts as advocating cults.
Gold selling is actually illegal in most countries including the UK (not sure about the USA) but is largely unenforced.
I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. Why all the nerdrage about China wanting to restrict childrens access to material that promotes pornography, cults or gambling etc? As for the online currency regulations, I also don't see a problem in games that use target kids and then use addiction in order to lure them into using their parents credit cards to buy in game money. Perhaps if a lot of Chinese were voicing their concerns I might think otherwise, but I'm assuming its mostly westerners getting riled up on other peoples behalf with limited information.
I have to agree with this, not liking a technology purely because the majority of people using it are idiots, can be an argument to scratch off using just about any form of technology.
Id be very wary about having my Genomes mapped. The likelihood of having some pharmaceutical corporation owning the patent on your own genetic makeup is a little too creepy. I wonder how long it is before this kind of stuff joins a growing database where insurance companies can pay subscription for access fee's.
My tinfoil hat is not coming off to play today.
Yes because slowing down to prevent speeding tickets would be illogical....
Actually, according to the following video clip, if you exceed speeds of 170mph you go too fast for speed cameras to catch you.
Not that I would obviously recommend doing this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph-qv4gYAE8