But I've been told that if we give businesses more money they'll use it to hire people!
It's all about supply, right? Demand doesn't drive businesses to hire, spare cash-on-hand does.
Why would Blizzard fire people if they have so much money?
Surely politicians haven't lied to me. That can't have happened. Next you'll tell me that if we give billionaires tax breaks they'll use it to speculate on currency or open factories in Rwanda or do something else useless-to-us/destructive rather than starting domestic businesses (since they didn't already have enough semi-liquid money to start another business if they wanted to, and were only holding back because taxes are just so damned oppressive).
Just wait until they figure out they can tie use of all advanced features of the entertainment system to an account that they control.
And require a fee to activate a car on your account.
Same kind of bullshit they do with on-disc "DLC" or online play activation codes for the used video game market.
Don't want to pay? Have fun with nothing but AM/FM radio.
"But customers won't accept that!"
Sure they will--just make the awesome entertainment system package free in new cars. Small cost to the manufacturer up front, several years of skimming, say, $300-500 off every used purchase. They just have to make the fee low enough that it's not cheaper to replace the damn thing (with something as featureful as the existing system)
"But people buying new will know this will affect the used price and will look elsewhere."
Maybe, maybe not. If this the buying/selling process were always that rational, house upgrades that pay for themselves in the long term like high-end roofing materials or heat pump climate control systems would always be worth putting in, even if you won't be in the house long enough to personally see the benefit--yet that's generally not the case. Features don't always affect the sale of a whole package the way they, perhaps, ought to.
On what are you basing this? AFAI am aware corporations did not hold political power in fascist states to any greater or lesser degree than in most other (non-communist) states.
I suspect you may be confusing corporatism with plutocracy/plutarchy or "corporatocracy".
Lovecraft occasionally hits a single or a double, but more often swings and misses wide. When he's on he's worth reading just for the thick, otherworldly atmosphere his words create (which is good, because there's really not much else to recommend even his best writing); when he's off, which is most of the time, he's comically bad. If there were a MST3K for literature, they could do a season or three of nothing but Lovecraft.
It's especially noticeable in the nice, cheap, widely available complete collection of his fiction from Barnes and Noble, since it's arranged chronologically and he apparently went for the first third or so of his career without writing a damn thing worthwhile—it's a slog to reach the first works that even rise to the level of decent, let alone good, if you're determined to tackle it cover-to-cover. The best I can really say about that stuff is that a few have a memorable premise.
His stories have inspired some good video games, good RPG systems, decent board games, and fun, crappy movies, though, so I still like the guy.
Canticle gets far, far too little attention. It may even be a rare case of actually good literature being lost in the ghetto of genre fiction, too, and I'd submit that it's the kind of thing sci-fi fans should loan to their friends who favor reading "mainstream" or "high" literature if they want to show them that it doesn't all suck—for the love of god, don't send them to Asimov or Heinlein or most of the other big names who are popular in the genre but (usually rightly) not beyond it, since there's a reason those guys never crossed over and it's not just because their stories have space ships in them.
Hahaha, first thing I thought of when I saw the post about latency over a modem+phone line.
I pwned at Nar Shaddaa. Tower and Drazen Isle were my favorite maps, though. Hell, I wish every multiplayer shooter had a game mode like the one in the Drazen Isle map.
If by phpCommerce you mean osCommerce (phpCommerce turns up nothing relevant in Google) then that whole thing is a steaming pile of shit. Nothing short of nuking it from orbit and starting over would fix that tangled pile of bad code.
Creating some consistency in needle/haystack vs. haystack/needle order in relevant built in functions would be high on my list of things for them to fix.
Making namespacing not suck balls would be nice.
Personally, I like "global" declarations in functions/methods--can't leave all the newbie-tripping-up fun to Python's explicit "self" argument, can we?:-)
It's tough to beat the really cheap and shitty buffets, like CiCi's Pizza or some Chinese places, on a calories-per-dollar basis--and that's about as unhealthy as it gets.
One of the nicest things about pinball is that once you get decent you can usually play several games on a single credit.
Back when I played quite a bit I'd pay for a credit, play a couple games, and more often than not leave it with a credit when I was done--even on machines I wasn't familiar with. I wasn't even that good, just better than people who haven't taken the time to learn the basics of actually playing the game instead of just smacking the ball around at random.
Pinball was easily one of the best values in most arcades.
Little to no action inside line of sight. Probably a lot of use weapons that can hit indirectly (flak shells, nukes, etc.) Area denial (spreading a bunch of ball bearings all over the place) likely as a last-ditch MADD-type effort. My money'd be on cheap, small, one-time-use smart missiles being the most common weapon, probably just trying to get close enough to fire a ton of shrapnel in the direction of their target rather than actually hit it. As a rule, the bigger the object the faster it's dead.
Sadly, in my case, yes. I had been a fan of Gnome since the late '90s, and have played with just about every UI available for X11. Gnome's most full-featured "competitor" (as far as the term has any meaning in the OSS world) KDE was for many years kluttered and ugly.
Don't forget clunky, big (disk-space-wise), sluggish, crash-prone, and with a tendency to push users toward the K* applications in a very non-*nix-like fashion.
I gather most of these things are better (save the last one), but KDE was pretty damn crappy when I first started playing with Linux in '00. Of the "big two" desktops, Gnome was the clear winner back then. I'm honestly surprised the project survived, let alone thrived the way it has.
Hammerfight's only playable if you "cheat" and crank the mouse sensitivity way over what it suggests.
It's still wonky as hell and half the time you can't tell WTF is happening because there's too much unnecessary shit and smoke on the screen, but at least you won't feel like you're stirring concrete.
The iPad 1 isn't likely to be able to run iOS 6, judging by how badly iOS 5 cut in to its usable (for apps) RAM, so if you want any future OS features and/or newer software that requires them, you'll need a newer machine.
App makers will likely abandon the iPad 1 as soon as they have a decent excuse, due to the aforementioned RAM limitations, so third party software will stop getting updates and newer apps won't work at all.
Not trying to convince you or saying those are sufficient reasons to shell out $500, but the iPad 1 probably won't be supported much longer, if you care about that. It's one way Apple might prod an upgrade.
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Jesus, does that ever read like some fantasy-fueled bullshit. Like John Locke on coke.
I'm guessing this guy's a favorite of the libertarian crowd? He appears to hit all the usual questionable premises and leaps of logic that tend to form the foundation of the systems promoted by their preferred political philosophers.
"Oh, yeah, we do price matching! Oh, no, sorry, we don't have that model. I mean, I can find the exact same thing in here if you really want it, but it's an SKU that only we carry. No, not that one either. Same thing. But we do price matching!"
Seems like something the FTC should come down on hard, but it's not like we collectively give a shit about consumer protection anymore (and we only barely did, ever) so I guess that's not very likely.
It makes perfect sense if you're going to turn around and sell the bad loan as part of an investment bundle, and the people you're going to sell it to aren't aware that the debtors are unusually likely to default.
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I don't see how detecting chess can cheat the taxes computers. Our detecting chess should be none of the taxes computers business, IMO.
More of the usual bitching I've come to expect from taxes computers. Big complainers, them.
But I've been told that if we give businesses more money they'll use it to hire people!
It's all about supply, right? Demand doesn't drive businesses to hire, spare cash-on-hand does.
Why would Blizzard fire people if they have so much money?
Surely politicians haven't lied to me. That can't have happened. Next you'll tell me that if we give billionaires tax breaks they'll use it to speculate on currency or open factories in Rwanda or do something else useless-to-us/destructive rather than starting domestic businesses (since they didn't already have enough semi-liquid money to start another business if they wanted to, and were only holding back because taxes are just so damned oppressive).
Just wait until they figure out they can tie use of all advanced features of the entertainment system to an account that they control.
And require a fee to activate a car on your account.
Same kind of bullshit they do with on-disc "DLC" or online play activation codes for the used video game market.
Don't want to pay? Have fun with nothing but AM/FM radio.
"But customers won't accept that!"
Sure they will--just make the awesome entertainment system package free in new cars. Small cost to the manufacturer up front, several years of skimming, say, $300-500 off every used purchase. They just have to make the fee low enough that it's not cheaper to replace the damn thing (with something as featureful as the existing system)
"But people buying new will know this will affect the used price and will look elsewhere."
Maybe, maybe not. If this the buying/selling process were always that rational, house upgrades that pay for themselves in the long term like high-end roofing materials or heat pump climate control systems would always be worth putting in, even if you won't be in the house long enough to personally see the benefit--yet that's generally not the case. Features don't always affect the sale of a whole package the way they, perhaps, ought to.
On what are you basing this? AFAI am aware corporations did not hold political power in fascist states to any greater or lesser degree than in most other (non-communist) states.
I suspect you may be confusing corporatism with plutocracy/plutarchy or "corporatocracy".
A close relationship between business and government is the defining property of a fascist state?
Yep. Call them only if:
1) You can accept that someone will be arrested, and
2) The situation is so bad that you don't mind if that someone is you
If being arrested isn't better than whatever's happening, don't call them. Period.
Lovecraft occasionally hits a single or a double, but more often swings and misses wide. When he's on he's worth reading just for the thick, otherworldly atmosphere his words create (which is good, because there's really not much else to recommend even his best writing); when he's off, which is most of the time, he's comically bad. If there were a MST3K for literature, they could do a season or three of nothing but Lovecraft.
It's especially noticeable in the nice, cheap, widely available complete collection of his fiction from Barnes and Noble, since it's arranged chronologically and he apparently went for the first third or so of his career without writing a damn thing worthwhile—it's a slog to reach the first works that even rise to the level of decent, let alone good, if you're determined to tackle it cover-to-cover. The best I can really say about that stuff is that a few have a memorable premise.
His stories have inspired some good video games, good RPG systems, decent board games, and fun, crappy movies, though, so I still like the guy.
Canticle gets far, far too little attention. It may even be a rare case of actually good literature being lost in the ghetto of genre fiction, too, and I'd submit that it's the kind of thing sci-fi fans should loan to their friends who favor reading "mainstream" or "high" literature if they want to show them that it doesn't all suck—for the love of god, don't send them to Asimov or Heinlein or most of the other big names who are popular in the genre but (usually rightly) not beyond it, since there's a reason those guys never crossed over and it's not just because their stories have space ships in them.
We need a "+1 unintentionally hilarious" mod option.
Hahaha, first thing I thought of when I saw the post about latency over a modem+phone line.
I pwned at Nar Shaddaa. Tower and Drazen Isle were my favorite maps, though. Hell, I wish every multiplayer shooter had a game mode like the one in the Drazen Isle map.
If by phpCommerce you mean osCommerce (phpCommerce turns up nothing relevant in Google) then that whole thing is a steaming pile of shit. Nothing short of nuking it from orbit and starting over would fix that tangled pile of bad code.
Creating some consistency in needle/haystack vs. haystack/needle order in relevant built in functions would be high on my list of things for them to fix.
Making namespacing not suck balls would be nice.
Personally, I like "global" declarations in functions/methods--can't leave all the newbie-tripping-up fun to Python's explicit "self" argument, can we? :-)
It's tough to beat the really cheap and shitty buffets, like CiCi's Pizza or some Chinese places, on a calories-per-dollar basis--and that's about as unhealthy as it gets.
One of the nicest things about pinball is that once you get decent you can usually play several games on a single credit.
Back when I played quite a bit I'd pay for a credit, play a couple games, and more often than not leave it with a credit when I was done--even on machines I wasn't familiar with. I wasn't even that good, just better than people who haven't taken the time to learn the basics of actually playing the game instead of just smacking the ball around at random.
Pinball was easily one of the best values in most arcades.
Ever played Junk Yard?
Great machine and there's an awesome Addams Family reference in one of its special modes.
God damnit.
I swear I'm not as stupid as that made me look.
Yeah, pretty much that.
Little to no action inside line of sight. Probably a lot of use weapons that can hit indirectly (flak shells, nukes, etc.) Area denial (spreading a bunch of ball bearings all over the place) likely as a last-ditch MADD-type effort. My money'd be on cheap, small, one-time-use smart missiles being the most common weapon, probably just trying to get close enough to fire a ton of shrapnel in the direction of their target rather than actually hit it. As a rule, the bigger the object the faster it's dead.
Sometimes.
More often than not, yes.
Sometimes.
That's great, but once we've eradicated malaria how will we get rid of the data-sharing AIDS?
Don't forget clunky, big (disk-space-wise), sluggish, crash-prone, and with a tendency to push users toward the K* applications in a very non-*nix-like fashion.
I gather most of these things are better (save the last one), but KDE was pretty damn crappy when I first started playing with Linux in '00. Of the "big two" desktops, Gnome was the clear winner back then. I'm honestly surprised the project survived, let alone thrived the way it has.
Hammerfight's only playable if you "cheat" and crank the mouse sensitivity way over what it suggests.
It's still wonky as hell and half the time you can't tell WTF is happening because there's too much unnecessary shit and smoke on the screen, but at least you won't feel like you're stirring concrete.
The iPad 1 isn't likely to be able to run iOS 6, judging by how badly iOS 5 cut in to its usable (for apps) RAM, so if you want any future OS features and/or newer software that requires them, you'll need a newer machine.
App makers will likely abandon the iPad 1 as soon as they have a decent excuse, due to the aforementioned RAM limitations, so third party software will stop getting updates and newer apps won't work at all.
Not trying to convince you or saying those are sufficient reasons to shell out $500, but the iPad 1 probably won't be supported much longer, if you care about that. It's one way Apple might prod an upgrade.
Jesus, does that ever read like some fantasy-fueled bullshit. Like John Locke on coke.
I'm guessing this guy's a favorite of the libertarian crowd? He appears to hit all the usual questionable premises and leaps of logic that tend to form the foundation of the systems promoted by their preferred political philosophers.
Recently saw this when shopping for appliances.
"Oh, yeah, we do price matching! Oh, no, sorry, we don't have that model. I mean, I can find the exact same thing in here if you really want it, but it's an SKU that only we carry. No, not that one either. Same thing. But we do price matching!"
Seems like something the FTC should come down on hard, but it's not like we collectively give a shit about consumer protection anymore (and we only barely did, ever) so I guess that's not very likely.
It makes perfect sense if you're going to turn around and sell the bad loan as part of an investment bundle, and the people you're going to sell it to aren't aware that the debtors are unusually likely to default.