When David Kernell accessed Sarah Palin's email without permission he received a year in prison, when the IRS does it, it's not a crime. I think there may be a communication issue on what constitutes a crime.
Waiting for someone to license and start production on a good star wars mmo.
There have already been two of those, and I don't think either of them did as well as was planned. I wouldn't expect another one to pop up for at least 5 years.
No I said GOOD star wars mmo, the first one was an empty parking lot and the second one was the best single player mmo ever created.
Now other developers can buy into the star wars license and make good games without the license holder holding back out of fear of competition. Waiting for someone to license and start production on a good star wars mmo.
Slippery Slope is a LOGICAL Fallacy not because it doesn't work, but rather that it doesn't work all the time. In this case, I used Slippery Slope to point out how silly it is to "ban" something because it might be used to do something "bad". Do we ban 3D printers because they can make a lower receiver to a gun? If so, then why wouldn't we do the same thing with all those other things I mentioned (slippery slope). At what point does making something that has a million legal uses illegal simply because someone might make something bad with it?
When you define that property, then you'll have broken the slippery slope. BUT it is up to those that say "ban 3D printers because they make guns" to define that point, because otherwise their logic extends all the way down the manufacturing chain. "Might make a gun" is not reason enough. "Too Easy" is not reason enough.
I see no one saying "ban 3d printers". I see many people saying "ban 3D printing of guns". If people were suggesting we ban 3d printers your argument would be valid. They are not, and as such your chain of events is the very definition of slippery slope.
Believe me when I say that contracted installers for telcos are nothing like sweatshops. For starters while lacking the in house benefits they actually make more for their services because they are paid per job and not per hour. This is why people complain about contracted installers, often they rush the job to make more.
Obviously, we need to regulate machining tools because those might make a gun. And we must regulate robotic Metal Presses, because those might make machining tools, which might make guns. We need to regulate mining iron ore, because iron ore is used to make gun parts, machining tools and Robotics. And we must regulate Big Trucks, because they might carry dirt used in mining iron ore....
At some point, laws don't stop people. And making more laws doesn't help.
Slippery Slope fallacy much? We make laws to define legality, not to ensure that nothing illegal ever happens. If making something a law was an immediate solution we would have not crime ever. If it is illegal to print weapons then most people will not do it because they do not wish to break the law. In fact the people who would wish to break the law to get a gun will just go get a actual gun not a 3d printed one. No point in getting arrested over a temporary weapon.
nor are the real ones.. It's a toxic, oppressively passive aggressive culture obsessed with political correctness over truth that pushes lanzas over the line. While our politicians bicker about access to methods, they conveniently (for them) ignore their own parts in it.
Of course, we can just ignore those gun violence stats that say that people do use real guns to kill people.
It's a completely arbitrary scale, so you have no idea how big a 0.3 difference is.
Indeed, but why make.3 difference on an already arbitrary 9 point scale? All things considered I'd say this is about the most useless report I've ever seen.
"A monopoly (from Greek monos (alone or single) + polein (to sell)) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity (this contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly which consists of a few entities dominating an industry)."
Technically Comcast is part of an oligopoly at best. Their is direct competition in Comcast markets with AT&T, Dish, Direct TV, Fios, and in some areas such as Those in Michigan, a competing cable provider like WOW (http://www.wowway.com/). With the number of providers available it is hard to really even claim oligopoly. People go after cable franchising as monopolistic (if that's even a word), and with good reason, it would be if that was the only means by which to provide these services. It's not.
Of course, I'm simply stating that you couldn't really call it an additional cost (if that is what you were implying). Any option they took in this situation would require some infrastructure in place, be it roads, satellites, or even as you stated air traffic control.
The drone might be cheaper but you have to remember that they are being controlled via satellite. The infrastructure required to operate drones is quite large.
Not exactly, The majority of satellites used in drone operation were in the sky for another purpose and have simply added "drone relay" to their list of functions. A minor firmware upgrade, so operating costs are as little as the cost of the code needed to upgrade the satellite.
"he was not due for an upgrade despite never having signed a contract"
You *don't* want to sign a contract, but yet you still want to periodically get free or cheap upgrades to newer phones?
Facepalm.
Its not that we don't want to sign a contract, he didn't because he bought his phone off contract about 6 months before his old contract ended (same provider, was not on our plan at the time) and didn't need a new phone. When almost 2 years later that phone failed he started using his girlfriends iPhone (she had dropped her service.) When he was told that he would have to pay for a data plan he decided to sign the contract and get a new dumb phone and they said he wasn't due for another 4 or 5 months. At&t acknowledged that he didn't have a contract but still wouldn't give him the contract discount.
For a while a few of my friends and I were on a family share plan with AT&T. One of my friends had his phone die and started using his girlfriends unused iPhone. Sure enough after a month we started seeing the extra data plan on the bill. Called AT&T, and not only were we told that he would be charged for using the data plan, but he was not due for an upgrade despite having never signed a contract for his line to begin with (he had his phone from a previous plan). While we are not still in a family plan, every one of us have switched to sprint, who are not only significantly cheaper, but also have way better customer service.
Lets look at some of these gems...
1. officially recognize the Sasquatch as an indigenous species and have them lawfully protected by laws banning any hunting.
2. Teach public school children the truth: ANTI-RACIST IS A CODE WORD FOR ANTI-WHITE!
3. ban hammers and baseball bats.
4. Save the Lewpty-Lew!
5. Direct the United States Mint to make a single platinum trillion dollar coin!
Among others. Why wouldn't they choose to increase the number of signatures required?
Not sure if you're aware, but bullets go in the magazine and then are used (potentially) to shoot people. Its not really a hard concept. Most mentally retarded people could tell you that you don't make a magazine to lay on a table and stare at.
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When David Kernell accessed Sarah Palin's email without permission he received a year in prison, when the IRS does it, it's not a crime. I think there may be a communication issue on what constitutes a crime.
Waiting for someone to license and start production on a good star wars mmo.
There have already been two of those, and I don't think either of them did as well as was planned. I wouldn't expect another one to pop up for at least 5 years.
No I said GOOD star wars mmo, the first one was an empty parking lot and the second one was the best single player mmo ever created.
Now other developers can buy into the star wars license and make good games without the license holder holding back out of fear of competition. Waiting for someone to license and start production on a good star wars mmo.
Don't go looking for trouble. If you couldn't handle Ubuntu, Arch will drive you insane.
1000 times this.
Slippery Slope is a LOGICAL Fallacy not because it doesn't work, but rather that it doesn't work all the time. In this case, I used Slippery Slope to point out how silly it is to "ban" something because it might be used to do something "bad". Do we ban 3D printers because they can make a lower receiver to a gun? If so, then why wouldn't we do the same thing with all those other things I mentioned (slippery slope). At what point does making something that has a million legal uses illegal simply because someone might make something bad with it?
When you define that property, then you'll have broken the slippery slope. BUT it is up to those that say "ban 3D printers because they make guns" to define that point, because otherwise their logic extends all the way down the manufacturing chain. "Might make a gun" is not reason enough. "Too Easy" is not reason enough.
I see no one saying "ban 3d printers". I see many people saying "ban 3D printing of guns". If people were suggesting we ban 3d printers your argument would be valid. They are not, and as such your chain of events is the very definition of slippery slope.
Believe me when I say that contracted installers for telcos are nothing like sweatshops. For starters while lacking the in house benefits they actually make more for their services because they are paid per job and not per hour. This is why people complain about contracted installers, often they rush the job to make more.
Obviously, we need to regulate machining tools because those might make a gun. And we must regulate robotic Metal Presses, because those might make machining tools, which might make guns. We need to regulate mining iron ore, because iron ore is used to make gun parts, machining tools and Robotics. And we must regulate Big Trucks, because they might carry dirt used in mining iron ore ....
At some point, laws don't stop people. And making more laws doesn't help.
Slippery Slope fallacy much? We make laws to define legality, not to ensure that nothing illegal ever happens. If making something a law was an immediate solution we would have not crime ever. If it is illegal to print weapons then most people will not do it because they do not wish to break the law. In fact the people who would wish to break the law to get a gun will just go get a actual gun not a 3d printed one. No point in getting arrested over a temporary weapon.
Now if only humans would evolve that fast...
I hear it was looking for Sparrow Conner.
nor are the real ones.. It's a toxic, oppressively passive aggressive culture obsessed with political correctness over truth that pushes lanzas over the line. While our politicians bicker about access to methods, they conveniently (for them) ignore their own parts in it.
Of course, we can just ignore those gun violence stats that say that people do use real guns to kill people.
Don't ban the real guns, its the fake ones that are doing the real harm!
It's a completely arbitrary scale, so you have no idea how big a 0.3 difference is.
Indeed, but why make .3 difference on an already arbitrary 9 point scale? All things considered I'd say this is about the most useless report I've ever seen.
even though it is a 1-9 scale the range of this report is really 5.85 to about 6.15 (about .3). So really happy vs sad is really not a huge difference.
Money makes you a super villain? Lex Luther suddenly makes so much more sense.
What is 5G? We've barely started rolling out 4G!
Let this short instructional film explain (it really explains nothing btw). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txjqV6eKabs
Comcast has a kind of monopoly as it is.
"A monopoly (from Greek monos (alone or single) + polein (to sell)) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity (this contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly which consists of a few entities dominating an industry)." Technically Comcast is part of an oligopoly at best. Their is direct competition in Comcast markets with AT&T, Dish, Direct TV, Fios, and in some areas such as Those in Michigan, a competing cable provider like WOW (http://www.wowway.com/). With the number of providers available it is hard to really even claim oligopoly. People go after cable franchising as monopolistic (if that's even a word), and with good reason, it would be if that was the only means by which to provide these services. It's not.
Of course, I'm simply stating that you couldn't really call it an additional cost (if that is what you were implying). Any option they took in this situation would require some infrastructure in place, be it roads, satellites, or even as you stated air traffic control.
which by the way means that your work to an attached device with its own power consumption.
no because you didn't say you ripped it with an attached dvd drive.
The drone might be cheaper but you have to remember that they are being controlled via satellite. The infrastructure required to operate drones is quite large.
Not exactly, The majority of satellites used in drone operation were in the sky for another purpose and have simply added "drone relay" to their list of functions. A minor firmware upgrade, so operating costs are as little as the cost of the code needed to upgrade the satellite.
I even ripped a DVD about an hour ago and while I heard the fans kick in, I didn't notice any heat.
How about this metric: If it has fans, it's not a tablet. Or more accurately: If your tablet has fans, you're doing it wrong.
You ripped a DVD on a macbook air? I find this suspect...
"he was not due for an upgrade despite never having signed a contract"
You *don't* want to sign a contract, but yet you still want to periodically get free or cheap upgrades to newer phones?
Facepalm.
Its not that we don't want to sign a contract, he didn't because he bought his phone off contract about 6 months before his old contract ended (same provider, was not on our plan at the time) and didn't need a new phone. When almost 2 years later that phone failed he started using his girlfriends iPhone (she had dropped her service.) When he was told that he would have to pay for a data plan he decided to sign the contract and get a new dumb phone and they said he wasn't due for another 4 or 5 months. At&t acknowledged that he didn't have a contract but still wouldn't give him the contract discount.
For a while a few of my friends and I were on a family share plan with AT&T. One of my friends had his phone die and started using his girlfriends unused iPhone. Sure enough after a month we started seeing the extra data plan on the bill. Called AT&T, and not only were we told that he would be charged for using the data plan, but he was not due for an upgrade despite having never signed a contract for his line to begin with (he had his phone from a previous plan). While we are not still in a family plan, every one of us have switched to sprint, who are not only significantly cheaper, but also have way better customer service.
Lets look at some of these gems... 1. officially recognize the Sasquatch as an indigenous species and have them lawfully protected by laws banning any hunting. 2. Teach public school children the truth: ANTI-RACIST IS A CODE WORD FOR ANTI-WHITE! 3. ban hammers and baseball bats. 4. Save the Lewpty-Lew! 5. Direct the United States Mint to make a single platinum trillion dollar coin! Among others. Why wouldn't they choose to increase the number of signatures required?
Not sure if you're aware, but bullets go in the magazine and then are used (potentially) to shoot people. Its not really a hard concept. Most mentally retarded people could tell you that you don't make a magazine to lay on a table and stare at.