Exactly. They are saying the gamers are virtually violating, just as they are virtually killing. The Red Cross is correct to suggest that developers should consider allowing virtual surrender, virtual trial for war crimes, or whatever. They are not suggesting any real crime is being committed, but as they have far more experience with the realities of war than developers and gamers, it's fair for them to suggest such things be considered.
When you look at the much publicised and repeated violations perpetrated in recent conflicts, it's clear that a little education could have benefits.
Let me guess: you think God Did It is a better explanation?.
Tip: if you can't imagine something, that's a failing of yours, not of the thing you can't imagine.
I just finished reading Thomas Paine's Age of Reason. Only in his time was there any excuse to use the God Did It argument - a time before the discovery of DNA, Evolution, or even galaxies. Today, only an atheist can appreciate the poignancy of Paine's religious beliefs.
Wheels are not inputs. The input is the roughness of the surface to be traveled over (and the lack of a naturally occurring road network is perhaps why animals don't use wheels).
Any evolved system will use all possible inputs to its fitness function, simply because there isn't any mechanism of focusing. Unlike human design, which is all about making known mechanisms work and all but those mechanism are ignored, and even actively avoided. When early researchers used solid-state electronics to make genetic algorithms, often the "solution" only worked on the specific hardware circuit it was learnt on (not supposedly identical copies), because it relied on otherwise-undefined race conditions in the silicon.
So don't be surprised if quantum effects are also used by your brain cells... and by your anal sphincter.
Indeed, stupid scientists made a big complicated theory about forces proportional to masses and then after doing experiments and finding that things fall the same regardless of mass, they cover up their error by adding even more factors!
Occam's Razor requires us to believe that stuff all falls at the same rate because God decided that was the best rate.
Why this rate? When God created the world, He made the rate of fall exactly enough that we could walk on two legs, while all Lower creatures cannot because the Falling Speed is not tuned for them. If Falling was even slightly slower or faster, your feet would hit the ground out-of-step and would not be able to walk - co-incidence? No, proof that God made the world for Man.
Apple does exactly the same thing with iPad and iPhone prices, but doesnt let you swap the mysteriously expensive memory "cards". Clearly it's all about the value to the consumer, not the cost of manufacture.
Indeed, when you pay a builder $300000 to build a house, the net change is $0 + 1 house, since the money still exists (in his account, not yours). If you borrowed the money from a bank, the builder still gets his money and the bank owns the house. The bank simply creates the money in order to do this.
It actually blocks charged particles. You'll notice radiation (like, say, visible light) penetrates quite readily. Ironically, the ISS is in the Earth's radiation belt.
So you're all wrong, just not in the ways your wrong opponents think.
Our HR people were rewarded for filtering out dicks like this one. When one got through, they weren't punished, but rather rewarded for helping get rid of the mistake. Any job you'll get with the above advice will be insecure and will be in a failing company that's rife with know-nothing ladder-climbing back-stabbing jerks.
I'm in Aus and I find that 95% of games I buy on Steam are at a world-wide price. And with the US dollar tanking, those are great prices! Certainly in the local bricks and mortar stores here it's a problem, but not on Steam.
Rubbish. Non-Valve publishers of games on Steam would gladly take that 20% and give you a $1 disk. But more likely they would just tell everyone to update their steam client with one last patch, go into offline mode, then shut it all down.
No, the "spectacular fashion" would require something like a nuclear strike on their servers.
Whoever brainwashed you with this "purely to the shareholders" junk knows nothing about running a real business. Some CEOs with short term interests (eg. they'll get their bonus and move on to destroy the next business) think this works (for them), but smart business people know that anything you try to do that DIRECTLY benefits the shareholders short-term invariably hurts them long-term, and that you're best off focusing on production and customers (supply and demand), and letting the stock price benefit flow on naturally.
Yes, it depends where the water comes from and how it is treated - but that's the same whether it is tap or bottle. Tap water in Norway for example is delicious, since it's hardly treated at all. In Dubai it's also good, for the opposite reason.
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No, the characters do. The actors are just delivering lines in front of a green screen half of the time.
Exactly. They are saying the gamers are virtually violating, just as they are virtually killing. The Red Cross is correct to suggest that developers should consider allowing virtual surrender, virtual trial for war crimes, or whatever. They are not suggesting any real crime is being committed, but as they have far more experience with the realities of war than developers and gamers, it's fair for them to suggest such things be considered.
When you look at the much publicised and repeated violations perpetrated in recent conflicts, it's clear that a little education could have benefits.
Let me guess: you think God Did It is a better explanation?.
Tip: if you can't imagine something, that's a failing of yours, not of the thing you can't imagine.
I just finished reading Thomas Paine's Age of Reason. Only in his time was there any excuse to use the God Did It argument - a time before the discovery of DNA, Evolution, or even galaxies. Today, only an atheist can appreciate the poignancy of Paine's religious beliefs.
Wheels are not inputs. The input is the roughness of the surface to be traveled over (and the lack of a naturally occurring road network is perhaps why animals don't use wheels).
Any evolved system will use all possible inputs to its fitness function, simply because there isn't any mechanism of focusing. Unlike human design, which is all about making known mechanisms work and all but those mechanism are ignored, and even actively avoided. When early researchers used solid-state electronics to make genetic algorithms, often the "solution" only worked on the specific hardware circuit it was learnt on (not supposedly identical copies), because it relied on otherwise-undefined race conditions in the silicon.
So don't be surprised if quantum effects are also used by your brain cells ... and by your anal sphincter.
Indeed, stupid scientists made a big complicated theory about forces proportional to masses and then after doing experiments and finding that things fall the same regardless of mass, they cover up their error by adding even more factors!
Occam's Razor requires us to believe that stuff all falls at the same rate because God decided that was the best rate.
Why this rate? When God created the world, He made the rate of fall exactly enough that we could walk on two legs, while all Lower creatures cannot because the Falling Speed is not tuned for them. If Falling was even slightly slower or faster, your feet would hit the ground out-of-step and would not be able to walk - co-incidence? No, proof that God made the world for Man.
Apple does exactly the same thing with iPad and iPhone prices, but doesnt let you swap the mysteriously expensive memory "cards". Clearly it's all about the value to the consumer, not the cost of manufacture.
Read it.
Ron Paul?
Indeed, when you pay a builder $300000 to build a house, the net change is $0 + 1 house, since the money still exists (in his account, not yours). If you borrowed the money from a bank, the builder still gets his money and the bank owns the house. The bank simply creates the money in order to do this.
(yeah, fractional reserve, bricks cost money, blah, blah, don't be pedantic)
Maybe tiny by current standards (big by world standards), but your point is valid.
spot on
When constructing a strawman, consider that you may just not know what you're talking about.
It actually blocks charged particles. You'll notice radiation (like, say, visible light) penetrates quite readily. Ironically, the ISS is in the Earth's radiation belt.
So you're all wrong, just not in the ways your wrong opponents think.
How do you know that's not what all so-called "moving" entails? Displacement over time.
citation needed
Sam Harris argues the case in Lying .
Ah, the "just in case" theists, they are sooooooo funny. I think I'll practice 3 religions at once and then use their own argument against them...
Our HR people were rewarded for filtering out dicks like this one. When one got through, they weren't punished, but rather rewarded for helping get rid of the mistake. Any job you'll get with the above advice will be insecure and will be in a failing company that's rife with know-nothing ladder-climbing back-stabbing jerks.
They will work fine, the image will just be the inverse (black and white swapped).
I'm in Aus and I find that 95% of games I buy on Steam are at a world-wide price. And with the US dollar tanking, those are great prices! Certainly in the local bricks and mortar stores here it's a problem, but not on Steam.
Rubbish. Non-Valve publishers of games on Steam would gladly take that 20% and give you a $1 disk. But more likely they would just tell everyone to update their steam client with one last patch, go into offline mode, then shut it all down.
No, the "spectacular fashion" would require something like a nuclear strike on their servers.
Whoever brainwashed you with this "purely to the shareholders" junk knows nothing about running a real business. Some CEOs with short term interests (eg. they'll get their bonus and move on to destroy the next business) think this works (for them), but smart business people know that anything you try to do that DIRECTLY benefits the shareholders short-term invariably hurts them long-term, and that you're best off focusing on production and customers (supply and demand), and letting the stock price benefit flow on naturally.
Yes, it depends where the water comes from and how it is treated - but that's the same whether it is tap or bottle. Tap water in Norway for example is delicious, since it's hardly treated at all. In Dubai it's also good, for the opposite reason.
Read the ad, these corporations only want to stop foreign rogue websites.