Really? Because I'm pretty sure that if you read the freaking article, part of the intent is to help identify the owner of a drone in case the owner does something retarded with it.
So, not only are you good if you don't do anything retarded with your drones, you won't be blamed for someone else doing something retarded with their registered drones.
The problem with the ads (at least the ones I've seen) boils down to this.
"Hey, ask your doctor if {X} is right for you. We're not actually going to tell you was {X} is used for, because that might actually be informative. We're just going to show people leading an active lifestyle after apparently taking {X}, with the idea that without {X}, they're out-of-shape slugs.
And now, here's 30 seconds of side-effects. Remember, ask your doctor about {X}."
They don't want to ban sugar water in it's entirety.
They want to ban "sugar water as a cure for {X}", where X comprises the set of medical conditions that does not include dehydration and low blood sugar.
There's actually a number of board games that use the setting and thematic elements of existing pen-and-paper RPGs.
And board games like this don't require as much investment in terms of time and game knowledge compared to creating a new character. For instance, the last few D&D games (pen-and-paper) that I've ran have pretty much had the first gaming session devoted to character creation.
No, but you apparently need this explained to you.
You are attempting to argue that because everyone who has ever read Mein Kampf hasn't gone out killing Jewish people, then it follows that no one is ever affected by words/speech to do something.
That's a logical fallacy.
Some people are more easily swayed by propaganda. Others aren't. Just because some people aren't swayed by a particular piece of propaganda doesn't invalidate the effectiveness of propaganda or nullify the psychology behind it
You know, thirty-mumble years ago, when I started playing console games and later on computer games, the only harassment I had to worry about were my brothers shit-talking about how terrible I was at Super Mario, or Kid Icarus. (Showing my age here.) And they had to be in the same room as me to really do that.
There's a lot of different kinds of gaming now that isn't just "two people playing on the same console". (Still showing my age here.)
But there still seems to be this odd belief, this persistence, that there's only certain kinds of gamers, and if you're not one of them, you have no business talking about games or game culture at all.
There's a difference between a boycott and threats of violence.
One, a boycott is not inherently a crime. I could choose to boycott, oh, say, Wal-mart, and if I announce I am boycotting Wal-mart, it doesn't necessarily follow that this boycott is illegal (because it isn't), or that if I follow through on boycotting, that I have committed an illegal act.
Whereas, if someone threatens violence, depending on jurisdiction, it IS a crime. (In some states, threatening others with the intent to cause harm is considered assault. Actually harming them is a separate crime.)
Now, consider the following:
1) A statement by a group that if Wal-Mart is open on Thanksgiving Day, the group will boycott Wal-Mart for the duration of the Christmas season.
2) A statement by a group that if Wal-Mart is open on Thanksgiving Day, the group has threatened to attack Wal-Mart employees.
But being able to harass someone while not even in the same city/county/state/country is relatively new.
Back in Victorian England, if you wanted to harass someone, you pretty much had to be where they were. I really don't see there having been a whole lot of harassment by telegraph. Maybe newspaper, sure. But that was about the limit.
Now? You don't even have to be in the same state to dox someone or SWAT them. So, the nature of harassment may not have changed a lot, the method of delivering it has.
He got the U.S. marketing rights to that formulation. To the best of my knowledge, before Imprimis started making their DIFFERENT formulation, there wasn't a generic.
The plan (or part of it) was that anyone who needed the drug in the U.S. would only be able to get it through specific vendors who got it from Shkreli's company. There were significant barriers in place to keep companies who might make generics of the same formulation from getting enough of that formulation to reverse engineer it.
However, the particular active ingredient can be used in other formulations which aren't covered by the rights that Shkreli's company has. Specifically, there is a loophole that allows Imprimis to do what it just did - make a different formulation.
Now, they (Imprimis) can still only make this stuff on request. They can't mass produce the drug, supply it to pharmacies and thereby fully extend the giant middle finger to Shkreli. However, they are able to produce it on a "per request" basis for individual customers.
And as they're raising hourly rates, they're cutting hours worked, and shifting schedules for some employees around so much it makes it difficult, if not impossible to work a second job.
but how would this deal with identical twins? I mean, okay, the human eyeball Mk. 1 already has difficulties telling identical twins apart, simply based on facial features alone. So, what steps are being taken to insure that this won't be a problem for snagging a twin's credit card and using it?
The problem with equating the living conditions in traveling to Mars/living on Mars with the Age of Sail is that in the Age of Sail, the environment was not inimical to human life.
Yes, life on a sailing vessel was difficult. Cramped quarters, problems with diet and nutrition, and so on.
But you could breathe. You could step out on the deck of the ship for fresh air (relatively speaking). You can't do that on a space capsule.
You could catch fish, or land on an island to forage to supplement your diet. You can't do that when the nearest land mass is millions of kilometers away.
There are going to be a substantial number of problems to overcome regarding any sort of long-term survival on Mars.
I know a guy who works for the local university IT department, and at the beginning of every semester, there's the hassle of ensuring minimum security/virus protection protocols on all the new computers and laptops (and probably tablets too) that students bring to campus.
You'd be surprised by the number of students who get a case of the chapped ass over installing the mandated virus protection before using the university's network.
I'm sure the various police departments will come up with a comprehensive policy for retention of evidence that will be completely glitch-free and non-controversial..........
And if you believe that, I'd got a bridge I'd like to sell you.
Yeah, I can't possibly figure out why we would want to do anything for a people that were systematically killed, evicted off their lands, repeatedly lied to by the government, repeatedly had treaties broken by the government, kept from practicing their religion, had their kids taken away, had their sacred lands taken away for mining if anything valuable was found on those lands, shoved onto reservations (which could also be taken away if anything valuable was found there), and treated as inferior in every way.
Gosh, it's almost like we realized we were giant assholes to a particular group of people for a few centuries and feel bad about it.
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Really? Because I'm pretty sure that if you read the freaking article, part of the intent is to help identify the owner of a drone in case the owner does something retarded with it.
So, not only are you good if you don't do anything retarded with your drones, you won't be blamed for someone else doing something retarded with their registered drones.
Many years ago, a guy got backstage at a Grateful Dead concert by doing a "Pizza for Jerry Garcia" bit. (It helped that he had a couple pizzas.)
Apocryphally, someone tried a similar gag with Richard Nixon when he was running for President, and the Secret Service was not amused.
The problem with the ads (at least the ones I've seen) boils down to this.
"Hey, ask your doctor if {X} is right for you. We're not actually going to tell you was {X} is used for, because that might actually be informative. We're just going to show people leading an active lifestyle after apparently taking {X}, with the idea that without {X}, they're out-of-shape slugs.
And now, here's 30 seconds of side-effects. Remember, ask your doctor about {X}."
They don't want to ban sugar water in it's entirety.
They want to ban "sugar water as a cure for {X}", where X comprises the set of medical conditions that does not include dehydration and low blood sugar.
There's actually a number of board games that use the setting and thematic elements of existing pen-and-paper RPGs.
And board games like this don't require as much investment in terms of time and game knowledge compared to creating a new character. For instance, the last few D&D games (pen-and-paper) that I've ran have pretty much had the first gaming session devoted to character creation.
There's a solution to that, you know.
Don't say stupid stuff.
No, but you apparently need this explained to you.
You are attempting to argue that because everyone who has ever read Mein Kampf hasn't gone out killing Jewish people, then it follows that no one is ever affected by words/speech to do something.
That's a logical fallacy.
Some people are more easily swayed by propaganda. Others aren't. Just because some people aren't swayed by a particular piece of propaganda doesn't invalidate the effectiveness of propaganda or nullify the psychology behind it
You know, thirty-mumble years ago, when I started playing console games and later on computer games, the only harassment I had to worry about were my brothers shit-talking about how terrible I was at Super Mario, or Kid Icarus. (Showing my age here.) And they had to be in the same room as me to really do that.
There's a lot of different kinds of gaming now that isn't just "two people playing on the same console". (Still showing my age here.)
But there still seems to be this odd belief, this persistence, that there's only certain kinds of gamers, and if you're not one of them, you have no business talking about games or game culture at all.
That belief, is, of course, so much fertilizer.
You may have noticed that not all humans are mentally stable.
You may also want to read up on crowd psychology.
There's a difference between a boycott and threats of violence.
One, a boycott is not inherently a crime. I could choose to boycott, oh, say, Wal-mart, and if I announce I am boycotting Wal-mart, it doesn't necessarily follow that this boycott is illegal (because it isn't), or that if I follow through on boycotting, that I have committed an illegal act.
Whereas, if someone threatens violence, depending on jurisdiction, it IS a crime. (In some states, threatening others with the intent to cause harm is considered assault. Actually harming them is a separate crime.)
Now, consider the following:
1) A statement by a group that if Wal-Mart is open on Thanksgiving Day, the group will boycott Wal-Mart for the duration of the Christmas season.
2) A statement by a group that if Wal-Mart is open on Thanksgiving Day, the group has threatened to attack Wal-Mart employees.
The first is a boycott. The second is a crime.
Class is dismissed.
It's amazing that you know that the threats of violence at SXSW couldn't possibly have happened.
O great Karnak, what are this week's lottery numbers? I mean, if you're already peering into the future....
It's a matter of scale.
"Cancel {X} or we'll do violence to you!" vs. "Reinstate {X} or we're not showing up."
There is no crime committed by the latter.
But being able to harass someone while not even in the same city/county/state/country is relatively new.
Back in Victorian England, if you wanted to harass someone, you pretty much had to be where they were. I really don't see there having been a whole lot of harassment by telegraph. Maybe newspaper, sure. But that was about the limit.
Now? You don't even have to be in the same state to dox someone or SWAT them. So, the nature of harassment may not have changed a lot, the method of delivering it has.
They cancelled the panels due to harassment and threats.
They reinstated the panels due to several organizations saying that if the panels weren't reinstated, the organizations wouldn't show up to the event.
There's a bit of a difference there.
He got the U.S. marketing rights to that formulation. To the best of my knowledge, before Imprimis started making their DIFFERENT formulation, there wasn't a generic.
The plan (or part of it) was that anyone who needed the drug in the U.S. would only be able to get it through specific vendors who got it from Shkreli's company. There were significant barriers in place to keep companies who might make generics of the same formulation from getting enough of that formulation to reverse engineer it.
However, the particular active ingredient can be used in other formulations which aren't covered by the rights that Shkreli's company has. Specifically, there is a loophole that allows Imprimis to do what it just did - make a different formulation.
Now, they (Imprimis) can still only make this stuff on request. They can't mass produce the drug, supply it to pharmacies and thereby fully extend the giant middle finger to Shkreli. However, they are able to produce it on a "per request" basis for individual customers.
And he raised the price 50x, not 5x. He still hasn't lowered it despite saying he'd do so.
Geez, that happens to me all the time.
And as they're raising hourly rates, they're cutting hours worked, and shifting schedules for some employees around so much it makes it difficult, if not impossible to work a second job.
but how would this deal with identical twins? I mean, okay, the human eyeball Mk. 1 already has difficulties telling identical twins apart, simply based on facial features alone. So, what steps are being taken to insure that this won't be a problem for snagging a twin's credit card and using it?
Er, you do realize that the Koch brothers alone are potentially planning on spending $900 million, just on the 2016 election cycle?
So, tell me, what is your typical Republican candidate going to do.
1) Wait for money to dribble in from households around the country.
2) Assume the position for the Koch brothers?
Take your time answering.
Due to existing regulations, he has to wait at least a year before becoming a lobbyist.
The problem with equating the living conditions in traveling to Mars/living on Mars with the Age of Sail is that in the Age of Sail, the environment was not inimical to human life.
Yes, life on a sailing vessel was difficult. Cramped quarters, problems with diet and nutrition, and so on.
But you could breathe. You could step out on the deck of the ship for fresh air (relatively speaking). You can't do that on a space capsule.
You could catch fish, or land on an island to forage to supplement your diet. You can't do that when the nearest land mass is millions of kilometers away.
There are going to be a substantial number of problems to overcome regarding any sort of long-term survival on Mars.
I know a guy who works for the local university IT department, and at the beginning of every semester, there's the hassle of ensuring minimum security/virus protection protocols on all the new computers and laptops (and probably tablets too) that students bring to campus.
You'd be surprised by the number of students who get a case of the chapped ass over installing the mandated virus protection before using the university's network.
I'm sure the various police departments will come up with a comprehensive policy for retention of evidence that will be completely glitch-free and non-controversial. .........
And if you believe that, I'd got a bridge I'd like to sell you.
Yeah, I can't possibly figure out why we would want to do anything for a people that were systematically killed, evicted off their lands, repeatedly lied to by the government, repeatedly had treaties broken by the government, kept from practicing their religion, had their kids taken away, had their sacred lands taken away for mining if anything valuable was found on those lands, shoved onto reservations (which could also be taken away if anything valuable was found there), and treated as inferior in every way.
Gosh, it's almost like we realized we were giant assholes to a particular group of people for a few centuries and feel bad about it.