That depends on what your strategy for monetization is. If it involves targeting highly intelligent people, then you are more or less cutting out noise. It may also boost your traffic within that demographic, given that it would make for a better community. There's also the allure of exclusivity, which itself can be a venue towards greater widespread appeal. That's more or less what facebook did. At first, it was just select colleges, then basically any college, then anyone in a school, then anyone. It was essentially the marketing technique described in Cartmanland.
However, there's also the possibility that the intention of a site might not be to monetize it, but to create a good environment for discussion.
It's quite likely that some forums may prefer only letting in people capable of understanding logic, and there aren't any laws against discriminating against those people.
I'm not seeing any evidence linked that casein is in meat, just milk, or that it has any conclusive negative health effects. Even if it does exist in significant quantities in beef cultured cells, it probably wouldn't be present in any non-mammalian meat source.
His voice, face, and name are not present. That would mean that he is pretty clearly an extra from the perspective of SAG, and they go quite a bit beyond what the law requires in California, let alone the rest of the country. In fact, he would have probably been laughed out of court in any other state.
He wants to get paid for doing nothing. I feel so sorry for him. I'm guessing that they don't show his face in the game, so it's an even weaker argument. He doesn't speak, and he probably doesn't show his face. They could have him getting arrested on COPS, so they can have him in a video game.
If he was on the cover or noticeably in marketing materials, then there's a decent argument for endorsement. If he's just one person in the game not really distinguished from the others, then he is, in my opinion, roughly the equivalent of an extra in a movie. They don't get residuals, only a small sum for showing up, and this guy was not physically present.
If simply being me was a marketable skill, then I would hope I would be extremely grateful. Currently though, I have to actually be useful to make money.
I think it's a mistake to conflate an endorsement with all usage of likenesses. This isn't Coca Cola placing his face in an ad for Powerade, this is a video game company making a realistic football video game.
Look, EA deserves far worse than this to happen to them. I hate them with a fiery passion, but they are actually right on this.
If I was awesome in the game, I would be happy that I'm being portrayed as awesome to the world. If I was portrayed in a neutral light, I wouldn't have a reason to care all that much. If I was potrayed as lame, then it would obviously be some kind of parody or other transformation, so while I may be unhappy, I wouldn't have any just complaint.
I hope all non-US companies similarly decide to not use US-based vendors, given that there is greater likelihood that the NSA has back doors. What do you think those 200MB HP printer drivers are for, after all?
about 3,000 people from the 9/11 attacks. In 2001, according to CDC, 14,000 Americans died of sepcis. That's more than 4, approaching 5 times as many deaths. Over 3400 people in the US died of malnutrition in the US. Those two issues are nearly non-existant in public discourse beause they aren't significant, and yet they still had significantly larger death tolls than 9/11
The really depressing part is that the Eigth Amendment should be better than a provision to not torture, as 'cruel and unusual punishment' is arguably much broader than 'torture.' Torture is itself inherently cruel, but a punishment may be cruel while not being torture. Even if blasting loud annoying music at someone isn't torture, it's certainly unusual.
The Constitution, most modern justice systems and governments have mechanisms in place that will often stop people from doing 'the right thing' because allowing such actions will ultimately prove harmful. Constitutional limitations of power result in bad men going free and prevent the government from helping people. The US Constitution targets the long run, which we are often very bad at handling. The weakening of the Constitution has generally been the result of preying upon a particular short term situation, such as the Great Depression or 9/11, or further decay rooted in the precedent set by the aforementioned situations. Most of the remainder has been foot in the door technique.
You'll be modded into oblivion because you are a fucking moron. The deaths on 9/11, while tragic and meaningless, were statistically insignificant. You could save orders of magnitude more lives by applying the military, DHS, NSA, etc. budgets towards medical research or into self-driving cars or environmental research. That's assuming that the methods deployed by the above are effective, when they are most likely aggravating the problems they are meant to solve. So, you are calling people traitors because they don't want invasive, expensive programs that endanger our lives because "something must be done about 9/11, this is something, so we must do this.."
I'm not sure about that. GNU/Linux distros seem to be the ones still leaving open options for people who want to get shit done. Not that there aren't a lot of distros that are jumping on the toy bandwagon, but there are still options.
Phone taps and court orders are known techniques, and appear to make up the majority of the intelligence gathered. If there's a secret besides the lack of real due process, it's probably in the way they analyse the data, not how they acquire it.
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Yes, but what you read it on greatly influences your experience.
Scaramanga, I presume?
That depends on what your strategy for monetization is. If it involves targeting highly intelligent people, then you are more or less cutting out noise. It may also boost your traffic within that demographic, given that it would make for a better community. There's also the allure of exclusivity, which itself can be a venue towards greater widespread appeal. That's more or less what facebook did. At first, it was just select colleges, then basically any college, then anyone in a school, then anyone. It was essentially the marketing technique described in Cartmanland.
However, there's also the possibility that the intention of a site might not be to monetize it, but to create a good environment for discussion.
It's quite likely that some forums may prefer only letting in people capable of understanding logic, and there aren't any laws against discriminating against those people.
I'm not seeing any evidence linked that casein is in meat, just milk, or that it has any conclusive negative health effects. Even if it does exist in significant quantities in beef cultured cells, it probably wouldn't be present in any non-mammalian meat source.
You are assuming that Luddites will make rational arguments. It's a test tube T-bone, so it's pretty easy to make it scary.
There are many things American don't do well, but we are pretty good about not burning our steaks.
His voice, face, and name are not present. That would mean that he is pretty clearly an extra from the perspective of SAG, and they go quite a bit beyond what the law requires in California, let alone the rest of the country. In fact, he would have probably been laughed out of court in any other state.
He wants to get paid for doing nothing. I feel so sorry for him. I'm guessing that they don't show his face in the game, so it's an even weaker argument. He doesn't speak, and he probably doesn't show his face. They could have him getting arrested on COPS, so they can have him in a video game.
If he was on the cover or noticeably in marketing materials, then there's a decent argument for endorsement. If he's just one person in the game not really distinguished from the others, then he is, in my opinion, roughly the equivalent of an extra in a movie. They don't get residuals, only a small sum for showing up, and this guy was not physically present.
If simply being me was a marketable skill, then I would hope I would be extremely grateful. Currently though, I have to actually be useful to make money.
I think it's a mistake to conflate an endorsement with all usage of likenesses. This isn't Coca Cola placing his face in an ad for Powerade, this is a video game company making a realistic football video game.
Look, EA deserves far worse than this to happen to them. I hate them with a fiery passion, but they are actually right on this.
Why shouldn't they be able to profit from his likeness? It doesn't imply an endorsement of EA or anything else. It portrays him as he is.
If I was awesome in the game, I would be happy that I'm being portrayed as awesome to the world. If I was portrayed in a neutral light, I wouldn't have a reason to care all that much. If I was potrayed as lame, then it would obviously be some kind of parody or other transformation, so while I may be unhappy, I wouldn't have any just complaint.
In light of recent revelations about the nSA, there are more substantial reasons to suspect US companies of backdoors than Lenovo.
I hope all non-US companies similarly decide to not use US-based vendors, given that there is greater likelihood that the NSA has back doors. What do you think those 200MB HP printer drivers are for, after all?
about 3,000 people from the 9/11 attacks. In 2001, according to CDC, 14,000 Americans died of sepcis. That's more than 4, approaching 5 times as many deaths. Over 3400 people in the US died of malnutrition in the US. Those two issues are nearly non-existant in public discourse beause they aren't significant, and yet they still had significantly larger death tolls than 9/11
The really depressing part is that the Eigth Amendment should be better than a provision to not torture, as 'cruel and unusual punishment' is arguably much broader than 'torture.' Torture is itself inherently cruel, but a punishment may be cruel while not being torture. Even if blasting loud annoying music at someone isn't torture, it's certainly unusual.
The Constitution, most modern justice systems and governments have mechanisms in place that will often stop people from doing 'the right thing' because allowing such actions will ultimately prove harmful. Constitutional limitations of power result in bad men going free and prevent the government from helping people. The US Constitution targets the long run, which we are often very bad at handling. The weakening of the Constitution has generally been the result of preying upon a particular short term situation, such as the Great Depression or 9/11, or further decay rooted in the precedent set by the aforementioned situations. Most of the remainder has been foot in the door technique.
You'll be modded into oblivion because you are a fucking moron. The deaths on 9/11, while tragic and meaningless, were statistically insignificant. You could save orders of magnitude more lives by applying the military, DHS, NSA, etc. budgets towards medical research or into self-driving cars or environmental research. That's assuming that the methods deployed by the above are effective, when they are most likely aggravating the problems they are meant to solve. So, you are calling people traitors because they don't want invasive, expensive programs that endanger our lives because "something must be done about 9/11, this is something, so we must do this.."
Now wikipedia will be loaded with broken tags, autocorrect problems, and misplaced text. Mobile devices suck for editing text.
Unless, of course, Obama WANTS to do this, which he clearly does.
I'm not sure about that. GNU/Linux distros seem to be the ones still leaving open options for people who want to get shit done. Not that there aren't a lot of distros that are jumping on the toy bandwagon, but there are still options.
Phone taps and court orders are known techniques, and appear to make up the majority of the intelligence gathered. If there's a secret besides the lack of real due process, it's probably in the way they analyse the data, not how they acquire it.
I'm guessing in this context, imitation doesn't include speech or sound.