It wasn't just a single compromised account. The number of bitcoins "sold" in the hack were more than any single account on mtgox contains. Also, the value only went down to 0.001 briefly, and was back up to $14+ within minutes. Not bad resilience for a worst-case sell-off.
First off, I thought Avatar was a great entertaining movie. It wasn't incredibly realistic and the story was a rehash of the same story we have heard so many times, yet still entertaining. That said, while the movie has a few realism problems I find your argument a bit silly.
You missed a few important details and possibilities.
- The humans came to Pandora not with the goal of wiping out the Na'vi, but with just digging some rocks out of the ground. Some military was sent along to encourage the locals to cooperate, but the original mission was not anything like "destroy worldtree".
- As you have shown, it's a very long round-trip. After deciding to attack the Na'vi, it's not like the humans can run back to earth and grab the big guns, they had to use what was available.
- Your basic premise "well if we have fast spaceships we must have amazing laser guns too" isn't really a valid argument. look at the past 50 years, computers and technology have made amazing leaps and bounds, but we still put on pants one leg at a time. Great advancements in spaceflight doesn't automatically mean we would also have equal advancements in weapons.
- The natives used bows and arrows, which couldn't even pierce the armor on the human aircraft without additional velocity. Projectile weapons are plenty enough to kill them and energy weapons could have been considered crazy overkill.
- The humans on Pandora were from a corporation with some hired ex-military mercenaries. Even if earth has developed stronger energy weapons, it's very possible such "WMDs" are limited to the government military, I don't see GM and Ford running around with nuclear bombs so I don't see why a corporation of the future would have free access to the latest and greatest weapons we have developed.
- Long trip, limited energy. Maybe energy weapons just aren't feasible given that the majority of energy collected needs to be used to power the vehicles, mining equipment, life support, and ships.
>If you compare the price of OS X with the price of Vista and then compare >the volume of each one and what you get for the money you'll quite easily >find out that those $129 or whatever isn't enough for the OS.
If you compare the price of OS X with the price of Ubuntu Linux and then compare the volume of each one and what you get for your money you'll quite easily find out that those $129 or whatever is way too much for the OS.
SSD is not the amazing solution you think it is. Access time is near-instant but sustained read and write speed is *worse* than the top SATA drives, such as the Velociraptor 10k RPM drive. If the price of solid state drives drop to about 5% of what it currently is, they will make more sense, but for now adding RAM to buffer a real hard drive is the better solution.
>Posting stories like this just destroys the sites credibility, and makes look like you engage in mindless MS bashing
You must be new here.
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Your logic is wrong. When you purchase something, you get certain rights automatically. For example, when you purchase a book at Borders, you get the right to read it along with the book, even though there isn't a license agreement attached to the book that specifically spells out your right to read the book. When you download a piece of GPL software, you can run it and use it without ever agreeing to the actual GPL. You only become concerned with the GPL when you want to do something you can't already do under the software's copyright.
So in 22.3 years you will break even. This 22.3 years of work after your 8 years of education, so you are nearly 50. And you just broke even. Doesn't seem like such a great deal to me.
> 2) Does not cost the owner in lost sales/reduced sale price
I hope that isn't what it means. That definition could be twisted to apply to *all* uses.
Oh, you are using your copy of windows to reinstall on the same PC? That just cost Microsoft a sale they would have made if you instead purchased an additional copy. Oh, you are watching a DVD for the second time? That just cost Sony Pictures a sale of another DVD.
And of course what is consider legitimate fair use now, for example watching a purchased DVD movie with a couple friends- you just cost the movie a couple sales because you let your friends view it for free!
You try to bash a sewer troll, but you miss and tumble forward onto your face. You dodge out of the way of a sewer troll's mistargeted kick. 43H 94V 1999X 0C [you:Perfect] [troll:Perfect] Exits:ESW> You miss a sewer troll with your slash. A sewer troll claws YOU extremely hard. That Really did HURT! 26H 94V 1999X 0C [you:Fair] [troll:Perfect] Exits:ESW> You feel ribs crack as you are kicked in the chest by a sewer troll. A sewer troll's kick knocks you back a few feet and you fall to the ground. A sewer troll loses its balance and tumbles to the ground. 22H 94V 1999X 0C [you:Fair] [troll:Perfect] Exits:ESW> You miss a sewer troll with your slash. A sewer troll claws YOU very hard. That Really did HURT! A sewer troll bites YOU extremely hard. You are mortally wounded, and will die soon, if not aided. -6H 94V 1999X 0C Exits:ESW> Someone massacres YOU with their claw. You're dead......................
The single player campaign in NWN is just the beginning. There are hundreds of servers to play on, thousands of modules to download, and a full-featured toolset to create your own game if you want.
(However, if you speed up when it turns yellow, and go through the intersection at 70 mph, then they SHOULD pull you over.)
Why should they pull you over? Because YOU think they should? Because 70 mph is speeding? That is like saying if you go thru a yellow light and shoot 3 pedestrians, cops SHOULD arrest you. Going thru the yellow light has nothing to do with it, but you put it in there just to make your silly argument.
What is the difference between yellow and red in your mind?
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>No government = no money to pay people
False. Evidence: bitcoin. Alternative evidence: gold, silver, platinum, or any other commodity of high value.
It wasn't just a single compromised account. The number of bitcoins "sold" in the hack were more than any single account on mtgox contains. Also, the value only went down to 0.001 briefly, and was back up to $14+ within minutes. Not bad resilience for a worst-case sell-off.
>crunching numbers for research such as Folding@Home
Number of widely-successful global currencies created through bitcoin mining: 0
Number of cancers cured through folding at home: 0
Given that neither distributed computing network has proven successful, I'll stick with the one that earns me real money for my work.
First off, I thought Avatar was a great entertaining movie. It wasn't incredibly realistic and the story was a rehash of the same story we have heard so many times, yet still entertaining. That said, while the movie has a few realism problems I find your argument a bit silly.
You missed a few important details and possibilities.
- The humans came to Pandora not with the goal of wiping out the Na'vi, but with just digging some rocks out of the ground. Some military was sent along to encourage the locals to cooperate, but the original mission was not anything like "destroy worldtree".
- As you have shown, it's a very long round-trip. After deciding to attack the Na'vi, it's not like the humans can run back to earth and grab the big guns, they had to use what was available.
- Your basic premise "well if we have fast spaceships we must have amazing laser guns too" isn't really a valid argument. look at the past 50 years, computers and technology have made amazing leaps and bounds, but we still put on pants one leg at a time. Great advancements in spaceflight doesn't automatically mean we would also have equal advancements in weapons.
- The natives used bows and arrows, which couldn't even pierce the armor on the human aircraft without additional velocity. Projectile weapons are plenty enough to kill them and energy weapons could have been considered crazy overkill.
- The humans on Pandora were from a corporation with some hired ex-military mercenaries. Even if earth has developed stronger energy weapons, it's very possible such "WMDs" are limited to the government military, I don't see GM and Ford running around with nuclear bombs so I don't see why a corporation of the future would have free access to the latest and greatest weapons we have developed.
- Long trip, limited energy. Maybe energy weapons just aren't feasible given that the majority of energy collected needs to be used to power the vehicles, mining equipment, life support, and ships.
"At just a measly 3 Million people, its vote would mean nothing against the will of a state like California at nearly 37 Million people.
If you're in California, this sounds perfectly fair."
Lets see. If you are in California, you get 1 vote towards the popular vote. If you are in Iowa, you get 1 vote towards the popular vote.
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE.
>If you compare the price of OS X with the price of Vista and then compare
>the volume of each one and what you get for the money you'll quite easily
>find out that those $129 or whatever isn't enough for the OS.
If you compare the price of OS X with the price of Ubuntu Linux and then compare the volume of each one and what you get for your money you'll quite easily find out that those $129 or whatever is way too much for the OS.
SSD is not the amazing solution you think it is. Access time is near-instant but sustained read and write speed is *worse* than the top SATA drives, such as the Velociraptor 10k RPM drive. If the price of solid state drives drop to about 5% of what it currently is, they will make more sense, but for now adding RAM to buffer a real hard drive is the better solution.
>Posting stories like this just destroys the sites credibility, and makes look like you engage in mindless MS bashing
You must be new here.
Your logic is wrong. When you purchase something, you get certain rights automatically. For example, when you purchase a book at Borders, you get the right to read it along with the book, even though there isn't a license agreement attached to the book that specifically spells out your right to read the book. When you download a piece of GPL software, you can run it and use it without ever agreeing to the actual GPL. You only become concerned with the GPL when you want to do something you can't already do under the software's copyright.
Sure.
The OP you responded to gave an 8 year education for $400k as an example.
You considered an example where income is $45k without education, $85k with.
I realize this is incredibly oversimplified, but I'm just going to take 25% off for tax. I'm too lazy to look up the real numbers.
So given that, it becomes $33.75k, increasing to $63.75. Increase of $30k a year.
But, you ignored the fact the the person who doesn't go to school for 8 years is working that entire time.
Given that, we can construct an equation to determine how many years it would take to make up the difference.
X+8(33.75)+400 = x(63.75)
33.75X+670=63.75X
33.75+(670/X)=63.75
670/X=30
670=30X
22.3=X
So in 22.3 years you will break even. This 22.3 years of work after your 8 years of education, so you are nearly 50. And you just broke even. Doesn't seem like such a great deal to me.
>>If the marginal benefit to your income is $40k (i.e. you go from $45k to $85k), it only takes 10 years to pay that back.
Perhaps, if you live in a country with no income tax.
>>It's the responsibility of the Claimant to back-up his claim with references/citations.
Do you have any sources to back up this claim?
> 2) Does not cost the owner in lost sales/reduced sale price
I hope that isn't what it means. That definition could be twisted to apply to *all* uses.
Oh, you are using your copy of windows to reinstall on the same PC? That just cost Microsoft a sale they would have made if you instead purchased an additional copy. Oh, you are watching a DVD for the second time? That just cost Sony Pictures a sale of another DVD.
And of course what is consider legitimate fair use now, for example watching a purchased DVD movie with a couple friends- you just cost the movie a couple sales because you let your friends view it for free!
You try to bash a sewer troll, but you miss and tumble forward onto your face. .....................
You dodge out of the way of a sewer troll's mistargeted kick.
43H 94V 1999X 0C [you:Perfect] [troll:Perfect] Exits:ESW>
You miss a sewer troll with your slash.
A sewer troll claws YOU extremely hard.
That Really did HURT!
26H 94V 1999X 0C [you:Fair] [troll:Perfect] Exits:ESW>
You feel ribs crack as you are kicked in the chest by a sewer troll.
A sewer troll's kick knocks you back a few feet and you fall to the ground.
A sewer troll loses its balance and tumbles to the ground.
22H 94V 1999X 0C [you:Fair] [troll:Perfect] Exits:ESW>
You miss a sewer troll with your slash.
A sewer troll claws YOU very hard.
That Really did HURT!
A sewer troll bites YOU extremely hard.
You are mortally wounded, and will die soon, if not aided.
-6H 94V 1999X 0C Exits:ESW> Someone massacres YOU with their claw.
You're dead.
Terradyn just wants all the bandwidth for himself.
herding cats, obviously
You can't have a effective militia if you have looters running around.
However, if you shoot the looters, suddenly things are "well regulated" again.
hilarious
That is all assuming the architect was telling the trusth to neo. You should consider the strong possibility that he was lieing.
What is this about? Did you just give away the end?
Hmm, I was wondering what was up with the "evil-Aribeth" portraits and music.
No, Jesus has at least one level of monk and therefore has evasion. So when he saves he takes no damage.
The single player campaign in NWN is just the beginning. There are hundreds of servers to play on, thousands of modules to download, and a full-featured toolset to create your own game if you want.
Or, play on a server with server vault. Local vault is horrible, and SOME server vault games are still bad, but there is at least some hope for them.
Flamebait? Damn, looks like Tom himself is a moderator tonight.
(However, if you speed up when it turns yellow, and go through the intersection at 70 mph, then they SHOULD pull you over.)
Why should they pull you over? Because YOU think they should? Because 70 mph is speeding? That is like saying if you go thru a yellow light and shoot 3 pedestrians, cops SHOULD arrest you. Going thru the yellow light has nothing to do with it, but you put it in there just to make your silly argument.
What is the difference between yellow and red in your mind?