Yes, so you join a mainstream party. As a party member, you have some say in the direction the party takes. You can still be the same person. As long as you respect that your opinions are different from others and work to persuade people there will be no problems.
Of course, you don't even need to win to make a difference. You just need to be enough of a problem that the mainstream candidates change their policies to nab some of your voters.
Perhaps, but changing the system entirely will take time and resources, an runs the risk of causing new problems. For now, the process works adequately.
In an infinitely long thread, you are absolutely certain to have at least one mention of every single concept, object, philosophy and idea ever known to humanity, because of the way probability works.
Only if the thread is irrational (just like you can find any combination of numbers in pi or e). In a nice, rational thread, you'll eventually get repetitions and the thread will loop back to itself
Yes. Seems about the only place I can sign on using OpenID is Livejournal. That's also the only OpenID account I have. Good on LJ, but pretty useless for me.
The mindset was always producer/consumer, where we happy consumers cheerfully watch what the TV companies decide to send to us. Ideas such as adding a shop, or choosing endings and camera angles never really worked because people either want a lot more control over that, or want someone else to deal with it.
Yes, but I can understand that. I don't think it will be valid. It doesn't even contain the word "plurality". Nobody will take you seriously.
Try "A method for the securement of profit and/or profits utilising a plurality of conceptualizations. The first component being said conceptualization, the second part being an idea and/or concept that may or may not be overly general. This is used in conjunction with a third part comprising of a first part of a legal claim and the second part of a plurality of third parties having utilised the as a third part.
I believe someone may still be able to understand that but IANAPL.
You'd sack everyone for any mistake without even looking into how the mistake happened?
You'll sack the person who decided to use the same packaging for licences as for CDs. Seems a bit heavy handed. You could just send a memo saying "don't do this". Then you'll sack the person who decided that since there were several boxes going to the same address, they should be boxed together. Why? What was his mistake?
Its not too hard to picture a case where the defense uses a facebook profile that portrays their client in a good light, or the prosecution in a bad light.
The defendant will already have access to the photos that show him in a good light. The prosecution will be the People of The United States of America. You can certainly show them in a bad light but it isn't going to help your case.
But then you run into troubles with a fairly petty crime being considered equivalent to a fairly serious crime. Mandatory minimums cause ludicrous penalties for drug crimes.
Well, of course. Usenet takes terabytes of storage and is used by a handful of users. Most users haven't even heard of it. The main problem with dropping it is dealing with a lot of angry emails from the few customers who do use the service. Having a response that makes them sound liker the good guy helps here.
Don't know is GPS devices are different from my satnav here, but with Tomtom, I need to set the clock manually. I can then press "sync" and it goes to the closest half hour based on GPS time.
Then law 1 comes into play. It's hugely more likely that I'll ask the robot to try something that it can't do without damaging itself than for me to want it to sacrifice itself for me.
I've believed for a long time that laws 2 and 3 are the wrong way round.
You don't want an expensive robot to go breaking itself just because you're a bit careless giving it orders. Most devices are designed this way. Users are stupid. Even the smart ones. Even if I want to do something fairly harmless, like close an application without saving, the computer will stop me and check that's what I actually want to do.
There's spam on myspace. I get people friending my virtually empty page from time to time. Myspace deletes them pretty quickly but I presume they just have a front page with a load of spam on it.
So, strap on a few more panels as well as the ion engine. Or put another satellite in orbit with lots of solar panels and a microwave transmitter so we don't need to lug the panels up there. Probably good reasons not to do it this way either but there are other options.
I thought most systems behaved like Linux and Windows, where if you have physical access, you can install the drive in another machine and edit the password file. It's surely not a mission critical server, and could easily handle a few hours downtime at the weekend. After all, surely the system was designed to allow upgrades.
While it's possible that there are further booby traps, this seems unlikely. Could always mirror the disk and check it for gotchas before changing anything.
So what's the worry. What am I missing? How are these systems likely to be different?
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Yes, so you join a mainstream party. As a party member, you have some say in the direction the party takes. You can still be the same person. As long as you respect that your opinions are different from others and work to persuade people there will be no problems.
Of course, you don't even need to win to make a difference. You just need to be enough of a problem that the mainstream candidates change their policies to nab some of your voters.
*pssst*
You're allowed to run for office.
Perhaps, but changing the system entirely will take time and resources, an runs the risk of causing new problems. For now, the process works adequately.
You can probably copyright the board as well.
Then it's just a question of what is and isn't a derivative work. Just when does a similar board count as different enough?
Paying people other for your own intellectual property doesn;t seem all that logical. Especially considering suing is probably cheaper.
In an infinitely long thread, you are absolutely certain to have at least one mention of every single concept, object, philosophy and idea ever known to humanity, because of the way probability works.
Only if the thread is irrational (just like you can find any combination of numbers in pi or e). In a nice, rational thread, you'll eventually get repetitions and the thread will loop back to itself
Yes. Seems about the only place I can sign on using OpenID is Livejournal. That's also the only OpenID account I have. Good on LJ, but pretty useless for me.
The mindset was always producer/consumer, where we happy consumers cheerfully watch what the TV companies decide to send to us. Ideas such as adding a shop, or choosing endings and camera angles never really worked because people either want a lot more control over that, or want someone else to deal with it.
Yes, but I can understand that. I don't think it will be valid. It doesn't even contain the word "plurality". Nobody will take you seriously.
Try "A method for the securement of profit and/or profits utilising a plurality of conceptualizations. The first component being said conceptualization, the second part being an idea and/or concept that may or may not be overly general. This is used in conjunction with a third part comprising of a first part of a legal claim and the second part of a plurality of third parties having utilised the as a third part.
I believe someone may still be able to understand that but IANAPL.
Then adopt an Indian boy who already knows how to code.
Of course, it'll be hairy for theaters to get the rights to show any of these things,
Honestly, if there's money to be made, I expect this problem will solve itself.
Wow! Really?
You'd sack everyone for any mistake without even looking into how the mistake happened?
You'll sack the person who decided to use the same packaging for licences as for CDs. Seems a bit heavy handed. You could just send a memo saying "don't do this". Then you'll sack the person who decided that since there were several boxes going to the same address, they should be boxed together. Why? What was his mistake?
Its not too hard to picture a case where the defense uses a facebook profile that portrays their client in a good light, or the prosecution in a bad light.
The defendant will already have access to the photos that show him in a good light. The prosecution will be the People of The United States of America. You can certainly show them in a bad light but it isn't going to help your case.
But then you run into troubles with a fairly petty crime being considered equivalent to a fairly serious crime. Mandatory minimums cause ludicrous penalties for drug crimes.
Or the owner...
Yeah. You'd think there should be some sort of law against excessive bail.
Well, of course. Usenet takes terabytes of storage and is used by a handful of users. Most users haven't even heard of it. The main problem with dropping it is dealing with a lot of angry emails from the few customers who do use the service. Having a response that makes them sound liker the good guy helps here.
Yeah. That's kinda how it's meant to work. Reasonable doubt and all that.
Don't know is GPS devices are different from my satnav here, but with Tomtom, I need to set the clock manually. I can then press "sync" and it goes to the closest half hour based on GPS time.
Then law 1 comes into play. It's hugely more likely that I'll ask the robot to try something that it can't do without damaging itself than for me to want it to sacrifice itself for me.
I've believed for a long time that laws 2 and 3 are the wrong way round.
You don't want an expensive robot to go breaking itself just because you're a bit careless giving it orders. Most devices are designed this way. Users are stupid. Even the smart ones. Even if I want to do something fairly harmless, like close an application without saving, the computer will stop me and check that's what I actually want to do.
Why do we want women in sciences and engineering?
Why is there not so strong a push to get more male nurses and primary school teachers? Or even publishing?
Is it because these are seen as female professions and therefore less worthy?
There's spam on myspace. I get people friending my virtually empty page from time to time. Myspace deletes them pretty quickly but I presume they just have a front page with a load of spam on it.
So, strap on a few more panels as well as the ion engine. Or put another satellite in orbit with lots of solar panels and a microwave transmitter so we don't need to lug the panels up there. Probably good reasons not to do it this way either but there are other options.
I thought most systems behaved like Linux and Windows, where if you have physical access, you can install the drive in another machine and edit the password file. It's surely not a mission critical server, and could easily handle a few hours downtime at the weekend. After all, surely the system was designed to allow upgrades.
While it's possible that there are further booby traps, this seems unlikely. Could always mirror the disk and check it for gotchas before changing anything.
So what's the worry. What am I missing? How are these systems likely to be different?