the free market ideology ignores that some people will be 'too ruthless' and engage in unethical practices to make that extra buck.
That is why I said the managers, not just the company, could be held criminally liable if they intentionally withhold information. Losing your job and starting your scam again in another business is nothing in comparison to rotting in jail. Obviously, that kind of situation is hard to prove but it would still be there. I find it stupid that many times management can hide behind the vial of the business they are managing.
I would absolutely use a car that had an auto-drive mode. If everyone did, then you wouldn't even need stop lights or other controls at intersections, or speed limits, as the vehicles would work together to melt traffic into a perfect flow. It might be a bit unnerving at first, watching traffic weaving through intersections, but we would get used to it.
Google or not.
I don't know if that is completely true. You still have to account for mechanical failure. A overlord system would have to monitor for such failures externally and space traffic enough so that it can compensate when a failure occurs.
Gaming on the PC is far superior; unfortunately publishers using excessive DRM and requiring $600 video cards are frustrating even some of the strongest holdouts over to consoles, so it's become a niche market.
$600 video card? I think I spend $250 and I have yet to run into a game that I couldn't run on the highest graphics settings. You are forgetting that consoles are holding back game graphics. Today, most game companies build with consoles in mind. The graphics card in consoles are not upgradable. Even if a console had the best available graphics cards at the time of creation, consoles tend to go years without a new console coming out. That said, it doesn't really bother me. Graphics have gotten to the point that while better graphics are always welcome, the current graphics are sufficiently pleasing. I would rather game companies focus on better AI. Of course, I guess the console would eventually hold that back too.
To prevent abuses in the free market, I believe the best option would be government mandated transparency requirements but otherwise the government would stay out regulating markets. For example, medicine. Information about number of trials, success rates, death rates, known side-effects (including percentages), etc. would all required to give a potential customer before the drug can be sold to them. Now a company could choose to not spend that much on drug trials but the lack of spending would be obvious on the data sheet. If a company is shown to be withholding vital information, the management can be held both criminally and civilly liable. If people don't want to have to look through all the information in order to take each new drug, it would open the market to independent private certification of drugs. If people are given all known data and still choose to take the drug (with or without a doctor), why should we stop them? It is their life.
My biological schedule doesn't change between weekends and weekdays. It stays the same. The only difference is that I am forced to fight my biological schedule on weekdays and I am not on weekends. Also, before anyone says it, my body will not get used to a new schedule if I stick to it long enough. I have tried multiple times in my life and failed. I simply do not function at 100% in the mornings. My mind also does not want to turn off until between 12:00am to 2:00am. It is a fight to get up and a fight to get myself to bed.
If your biological schedule doesn't match up with the rest of your area, it will be hard to find a job that matches your schedule. All I can do is watch my weight and eat/exercise accordingly.
The only acceptable solution is a system-wide update system, the way it works on Linux but without any user interaction; or updates delivered for all installed applications via Windows Update on Windows (which Microsoft is unlikely to accept).
As long as it is optional. I see no reason to force user to upgrade anything on their system. Also, the OS could simply have a tool that programs can register with at install. That one tool would then regularly check for all registered programs. It doesn't have to be a single repository of software just a single communication standard.
I understand not offering support or having a important sounding warning but why make it mandatory? I tend to keep my software updated but what if I didn't want to update my software? Why should Apple or any company be able to come in and make changes to my system without me first either giving them permission or setting the computer/software to auto-update?
We wouldn't be sending unwilling participants. We wouldn't be coercing them either. There are probably people that would jump on the chance. Most of those people probably would have some sort of terminal illness. All in all, if we want to send someone and the participants know the cost and want to go anyway, why not?
To keep pushing the boundaries. Long term, we need to leave Earth, we need to get humans in some survivable form on other worlds and eventually out of the solar system. We don't have just the sun exploding to worry about.
While I think it is cool to see humans on other planets, your reason for space travel does not require we send humans to Mars or even anywhere besides space. Only two technologies need to be greatly advanced beyond current technologies for you mission: a 100% water, waste, and air recycling system and advanced shielding. People got to drink, eat, breath and be protected to stay alive. Advanced propulsion is only needed to get somewhere quickly. Without more advanced propulsion, it might take generations to get somewhere but eventually the ship and the descendants of the original crew would get there.
But on the other hand, people complain that schools are expensive and inefficient. The logical conclusion is to outsource non-core departments to the lowest bidder. Isn't that how the free market is supposed to work?
Oh wait, people complain about free markets if the free markets affect them negatively. I forgot that humans are not rational beings, and are instead illogical, petty and short-sighted. Libertarians included.
Assuming people put their money where their mouth is, the free market welcomes complaint. When there is a market, either existing companies will change in order to grab up that market or new companies will come up to grab that market. Now, if you are a market of one, expect to pay a lot more since you will be dealing with a custom solution. Don't blame the free market if the average Joe would get email by giving out their personal data than paying cash for it. If you can't get your college or email service provider to change, there are other colleges and other email service providers. If you want something contrary to the majority of the market, expect to pay more for it.
The Password Protection Act of 2012 (PPA) would also prevent employers from accessing information on any computer that isn't owned or controlled by an employee, including private e-mail accounts, photo sharing sites, and smartphones.
I assume the summary meant to say that the act prevents employers from accessing information on any computer that is owned or controlled by an employee.
I remember seeing a petition against dihydrogen monoxide years ago and was amazed at all the signatures. I mean it's really simple junior high level chemistry and thousands of people didn't get it.
Signatures for causes are fairly easy to get in meatspace. You just have to make what you are advocating sound important. They are not exactly going to research the issue independently while you are standing there waiting for a signature. They will sign just to get you to go away.
Doing the same thing online is a little harder. Google is too easy to use when you are sitting at a computer. Also, the people signing a online petition are usually the ones looking for a petition to sign.
We need critical thinking to be taught in schools.
I am skeptical of the claim that critical thinking can be taught. Nurtured, yes; taught, I'm not so sure.
Critical thinking is like muscle. Some naturally have more muscle. With exercise and proper nutrition, muscles get stronger and more defined. Without use, they become smaller, withered, and useless.
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If they are going to do this, can they at least shorten it? How about ".sec"?
the free market ideology ignores that some people will be 'too ruthless' and engage in unethical practices to make that extra buck.
That is why I said the managers, not just the company, could be held criminally liable if they intentionally withhold information. Losing your job and starting your scam again in another business is nothing in comparison to rotting in jail. Obviously, that kind of situation is hard to prove but it would still be there. I find it stupid that many times management can hide behind the vial of the business they are managing.
Just before Jane comes into existence due to the Hive Queen attempt to communicate with the humans.
You sell your electronics? Usually by the time I am done with an electronic device, it has no real value anyway.
Does this mean the police will have to arrest themselves? The are obviously wearing gas masks if they are going to pop gas grenades.
I would absolutely use a car that had an auto-drive mode. If everyone did, then you wouldn't even need stop lights or other controls at intersections, or speed limits, as the vehicles would work together to melt traffic into a perfect flow. It might be a bit unnerving at first, watching traffic weaving through intersections, but we would get used to it.
Google or not.
I don't know if that is completely true. You still have to account for mechanical failure. A overlord system would have to monitor for such failures externally and space traffic enough so that it can compensate when a failure occurs.
Gaming on the PC is far superior; unfortunately publishers using excessive DRM and requiring $600 video cards are frustrating even some of the strongest holdouts over to consoles, so it's become a niche market.
$600 video card? I think I spend $250 and I have yet to run into a game that I couldn't run on the highest graphics settings. You are forgetting that consoles are holding back game graphics. Today, most game companies build with consoles in mind. The graphics card in consoles are not upgradable. Even if a console had the best available graphics cards at the time of creation, consoles tend to go years without a new console coming out. That said, it doesn't really bother me. Graphics have gotten to the point that while better graphics are always welcome, the current graphics are sufficiently pleasing. I would rather game companies focus on better AI. Of course, I guess the console would eventually hold that back too.
It'd be like having to pay Apple $5 a month to be able to surf the web on my iPad.
Ugh. I better shut up. Don't want to give them ideas.
You forgot to account for the Apple Tax. It will probably be $10 total.
I am curious. What kind and how much of the traffic that comes from an Xbox 360 actually goes through Microsoft's network?
To prevent abuses in the free market, I believe the best option would be government mandated transparency requirements but otherwise the government would stay out regulating markets. For example, medicine. Information about number of trials, success rates, death rates, known side-effects (including percentages), etc. would all required to give a potential customer before the drug can be sold to them. Now a company could choose to not spend that much on drug trials but the lack of spending would be obvious on the data sheet. If a company is shown to be withholding vital information, the management can be held both criminally and civilly liable. If people don't want to have to look through all the information in order to take each new drug, it would open the market to independent private certification of drugs. If people are given all known data and still choose to take the drug (with or without a doctor), why should we stop them? It is their life.
I tend to wake up 10 hours later if I don't use an alarm clock.
My biological schedule doesn't change between weekends and weekdays. It stays the same. The only difference is that I am forced to fight my biological schedule on weekdays and I am not on weekends. Also, before anyone says it, my body will not get used to a new schedule if I stick to it long enough. I have tried multiple times in my life and failed. I simply do not function at 100% in the mornings. My mind also does not want to turn off until between 12:00am to 2:00am. It is a fight to get up and a fight to get myself to bed.
If your biological schedule doesn't match up with the rest of your area, it will be hard to find a job that matches your schedule. All I can do is watch my weight and eat/exercise accordingly.
The only acceptable solution is a system-wide update system, the way it works on Linux but without any user interaction; or updates delivered for all installed applications via Windows Update on Windows (which Microsoft is unlikely to accept).
As long as it is optional. I see no reason to force user to upgrade anything on their system. Also, the OS could simply have a tool that programs can register with at install. That one tool would then regularly check for all registered programs. It doesn't have to be a single repository of software just a single communication standard.
I understand not offering support or having a important sounding warning but why make it mandatory? I tend to keep my software updated but what if I didn't want to update my software? Why should Apple or any company be able to come in and make changes to my system without me first either giving them permission or setting the computer/software to auto-update?
We wouldn't be sending unwilling participants. We wouldn't be coercing them either. There are probably people that would jump on the chance. Most of those people probably would have some sort of terminal illness. All in all, if we want to send someone and the participants know the cost and want to go anyway, why not?
To keep pushing the boundaries. Long term, we need to leave Earth, we need to get humans in some survivable form on other worlds and eventually out of the solar system. We don't have just the sun exploding to worry about.
While I think it is cool to see humans on other planets, your reason for space travel does not require we send humans to Mars or even anywhere besides space. Only two technologies need to be greatly advanced beyond current technologies for you mission: a 100% water, waste, and air recycling system and advanced shielding. People got to drink, eat, breath and be protected to stay alive. Advanced propulsion is only needed to get somewhere quickly. Without more advanced propulsion, it might take generations to get somewhere but eventually the ship and the descendants of the original crew would get there.
They might even start the first Martian War.
I somehow doubt your wife and daughters would be OK with that.
2. We can sent two thousand robotic rovers to Mars for a year much cheaper than one man for ten minutes.
Only because we intend to bring the man back.
We could just send people willing to die for the chance to go to Mars.
But on the other hand, people complain that schools are expensive and inefficient. The logical conclusion is to outsource non-core departments to the lowest bidder. Isn't that how the free market is supposed to work?
Oh wait, people complain about free markets if the free markets affect them negatively. I forgot that humans are not rational beings, and are instead illogical, petty and short-sighted. Libertarians included.
Assuming people put their money where their mouth is, the free market welcomes complaint. When there is a market, either existing companies will change in order to grab up that market or new companies will come up to grab that market. Now, if you are a market of one, expect to pay a lot more since you will be dealing with a custom solution. Don't blame the free market if the average Joe would get email by giving out their personal data than paying cash for it. If you can't get your college or email service provider to change, there are other colleges and other email service providers. If you want something contrary to the majority of the market, expect to pay more for it.
The Password Protection Act of 2012 (PPA) would also prevent employers from accessing information on any computer that isn't owned or controlled by an employee, including private e-mail accounts, photo sharing sites, and smartphones.
I assume the summary meant to say that the act prevents employers from accessing information on any computer that is owned or controlled by an employee.
I remember seeing a petition against dihydrogen monoxide years ago and was amazed at all the signatures. I mean it's really simple junior high level chemistry and thousands of people didn't get it.
Signatures for causes are fairly easy to get in meatspace. You just have to make what you are advocating sound important. They are not exactly going to research the issue independently while you are standing there waiting for a signature. They will sign just to get you to go away.
Doing the same thing online is a little harder. Google is too easy to use when you are sitting at a computer. Also, the people signing a online petition are usually the ones looking for a petition to sign.
We need critical thinking to be taught in schools.
I am skeptical of the claim that critical thinking can be taught. Nurtured, yes; taught, I'm not so sure.
Critical thinking is like muscle. Some naturally have more muscle. With exercise and proper nutrition, muscles get stronger and more defined. Without use, they become smaller, withered, and useless.
Life, truly, is a disease for which there is no cure.
If life was a disease, I am not sure why you think there is no cure. Most of the universe is devoid of life because it is hard to keep life living.
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I like the sig by the way.