I wonder how many profiles they've generated for me?
I have several email addresses that I keep segregated. One I use for junk email, my local sport teams' message boards, this site, etc. I have a second account that I use for buying things online (Steam, Amazon, Netflix, etc.) And a third address strictly for personal emails.
It's entirely feasible that all 3 have been picked up by this company, and treated as 3 completely unique people with the same name.
Perhaps those instituting the ban simply realize the levels of depravity in US big pharma. If that morally bankrupt cadre is allowed to work with gene splicing, pretty soon we'll have dick pills with side effects of body horror.
"Seek medical treatment for an erection lasting longer than 4 hours, or if you begin to grow mantis-like forearm spikes or spider mandibles,"
No... such technology should be left to less evil groups (basically anyone except 1940s era Germany). If those groups develop something amazing, hopefully they let the US benefit from it.
You can never compete with piracy on price, so you compete in other areas.
I pay for movies and music from Netflix, Amazon, red box, etc. because the service is better. They're instantly available, I'll never get a bad torrent, never have missing subtitles or the wrong song mislabeled. I pay for games through Steam, GoG and Humble for similar reasons.
I'll gladly spend the money if the service is worth it, and I'm clearly not alone. Right now, this is where movies are failing. There's nothing of value provide by a theatre that's drastically better than watching at home.
The seats aren't any more comfortable than my couch, and the viewing angles are very hit and miss in the theatre. The food isn't any better than what I can whip up at home. The audio/visual, while certainly bigger, doesn't push an appreciably better quality than my home setup. And, perhaps most fundamentally, the quality of product on screen has declined dramatically.
Why the hell would I go see Ghostbusters or Star Trek in a theatre, when I already have a BETTER Ghostbusters and Star Trek on the shelf at home??
If James Cameron wants to get butts in seats, they need to fix both problems. Make better movies, and display them in better theatres. Then, maybe, you can combat piracy with "The Theater Experience."
We have an OS working to compete with MS in the games arena (SteamOS).
We have an open source API set to compete with Direct X (Vulkan)
We have game developers in AAA studios who see the writing on the walls.
And now we have a time frame to get all of this sorted out (5 years, per TFS). SteamOS and Vulkan aren't going to overtake MS overnight, and game studios can't just drop Windows development.
While the point is valid, the 3 movies listed were hot garbage for reasons completely divorced from their special effects.
Though... there could be a correlation. CGI effects are cheap, plentiful and ultimately disposable. Didn't like a shot? Just tweak a few setting and re-render. Try it 10 more times. Did an actor screw up? Just fix it in post.
Conversely, something like Mad Max: Fury Road, Alien, or Nightmare Before Christmas all require meticulous planning, careful coordination and the utmost dedication to each and every take. Things are literally blowing up, there's tangible blood splashing across the actors faces, and every scene in a stop-motion movie is hours and hours of tiny movements that can't be easily reshot.
So, I don't think it's the CGI itself causing this problem, but rather the environment it fosters.
Maybe it's just me, but the biggest point of interest here isn't the weed. It's that the average doctor is apparently prescribing 2000 people pain killers every year.
Holy crap.
That's 5 people a day, every day, 365 days per year. Nearly 7 a day if you account for weekends and holidays. How are there so many people on prescription pain meds?
When you add up all the prescriptions listed in TFS, you get up to 15 per working day. And that's just the delta from pot. Assuming medical marijuana didn't completely supplant the entire drug industry, how many drugs is the average doctor issuing?
Yup... this also makes rare critters basically worthless.
More of the same species = more kibble to level up others of that species. Rare Pokemon are, well, rare... giving you less kibble with which to upgrade.
Quite the opposite, I said it's a good Ingress mod. Ingress is already a popular title, so a good mod to a good game is... good
That said, it's a terrible Pokemon game, with only superficial nods to the series. You can like the game all you want, it can be popular as pie, but it betrays the title.
All the more impressive considering that it's a shit Pokemon game. It's a decent Engress mod, sure, but as a Pokemon game, it's terrible
There are almost no battles. The few that exist are limited to mashing your screen, instead of the turn-based strategy usually associated with Pokemon.
And those scant few battles do not grant experience to your critters. The only way to level them up is to capture a couple dozen of the same 'mon, and grind them into kibble ("candies"). You'll get a couple dozen levels from each candy (current peak levels in the 1000-1500 range). Evolving takes between 15-400 candies. Oh, and the candies are breed specific.
These come to a hilarious point regarding your starter Pokemon. Normally, you pick one of 3 or 4 Pokemon to start your game, and that critter can level with you the whole game long. You'll give them a unique name, see them evolve and mature. You still pick a starter here, but none of that emotional attachment here. Your starter will be universally ground into the aforementioned kibble and fed to a higher level version of itself caught in the wild.
This ruling, by extension, includes corporate computers too, of course. Not just Joe Pleb.
So if some government person wants to know what's going on at Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop, etc. they can just hack on in. No warrant required. No foul to be called.
The chief complaint here isn't about simply being recorded out in public. Plenty of stores, banks, train stations, and other public locations run CCTV without public outcry. As best as I can tell, there are two main differences.
One is the subterfuge involved with these cameras. By not disclosing their location, and further by disguising the devices, people can never be sure whether or not someone is watching. If a bank is keeping tabs on me while I'm on their premises, fine. The cameras are easy to spot, there are probably signs posted telling me that I'm on camera. I fundamentally understand that I'm on camera and why. But the entire nebulous entity of the FBI keeping general tabs on an entire city for no clearly defined reason is most certainly not fine
Secondly is the intent and scope. When BestBuy installs security cameras, it's to make sure that no one is damaging or stealing their merchandise. Protecting your own property is a very real and tangible reason. We can relate to that. And that reason begins and ends at their front door. BestBuy isn't going to come knocking because they saw me browsing, but I ended up buying from Walmart instead. They're not trying to keep tabs on the people specifically, just their gear. I'm only tangential to them keeping tabs on their stuff.
People don't really mind being recorded, if we understand the specifics. Tell me exactly where I'm being recorded, and why. With that information withheld, I assume the worst. Especially when that info was explicitly acknowledged. "People want to know this, and we're not telling."
The Fermi paradox hinges on the fact that our solar system is relatively young, on a galactic scale.
~4billion in the ~13 billion year old Milky Way
If any other planet was even 1% older than us, and evolving on a similar path, they'd have more than enough time to completely colonize the entire Milky Way by now. And that's assuming a mere 1% age difference. The Milky Way has been around for 200% more than our fledgling star.
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Do you think it'll work?
We have 17 intelligence agencies??
I wonder how many profiles they've generated for me?
I have several email addresses that I keep segregated. One I use for junk email, my local sport teams' message boards, this site, etc. I have a second account that I use for buying things online (Steam, Amazon, Netflix, etc.) And a third address strictly for personal emails.
It's entirely feasible that all 3 have been picked up by this company, and treated as 3 completely unique people with the same name.
Perhaps those instituting the ban simply realize the levels of depravity in US big pharma. If that morally bankrupt cadre is allowed to work with gene splicing, pretty soon we'll have dick pills with side effects of body horror.
"Seek medical treatment for an erection lasting longer than 4 hours, or if you begin to grow mantis-like forearm spikes or spider mandibles,"
No ... such technology should be left to less evil groups (basically anyone except 1940s era Germany). If those groups develop something amazing, hopefully they let the US benefit from it.
For that kinda scratch, I'm pretty sure we could rig something up that fools a human driver too.
Freedom of speech just means the the government (i.e. cops) can't stop you from saying whatever you want.
It does not free you from the repercussion of what you say.
You can never compete with piracy on price, so you compete in other areas.
I pay for movies and music from Netflix, Amazon, red box, etc. because the service is better. They're instantly available, I'll never get a bad torrent, never have missing subtitles or the wrong song mislabeled. I pay for games through Steam, GoG and Humble for similar reasons.
I'll gladly spend the money if the service is worth it, and I'm clearly not alone. Right now, this is where movies are failing. There's nothing of value provide by a theatre that's drastically better than watching at home.
The seats aren't any more comfortable than my couch, and the viewing angles are very hit and miss in the theatre. The food isn't any better than what I can whip up at home. The audio/visual, while certainly bigger, doesn't push an appreciably better quality than my home setup. And, perhaps most fundamentally, the quality of product on screen has declined dramatically.
Why the hell would I go see Ghostbusters or Star Trek in a theatre, when I already have a BETTER Ghostbusters and Star Trek on the shelf at home??
If James Cameron wants to get butts in seats, they need to fix both problems. Make better movies, and display them in better theatres. Then, maybe, you can combat piracy with "The Theater Experience."
Simple. By fixing those issues.
Google Cinepolis for full details, but in short: leather recliner seats, actual chefs on staff to provide good food, and a full bar.
Tickets are a few bucks more than normal, but completely worth it.
We have an OS working to compete with MS in the games arena (SteamOS).
We have an open source API set to compete with Direct X (Vulkan)
We have game developers in AAA studios who see the writing on the walls.
And now we have a time frame to get all of this sorted out (5 years, per TFS). SteamOS and Vulkan aren't going to overtake MS overnight, and game studios can't just drop Windows development.
But in 5 years ...
Twitter let's you send a text message to nobody in particular.
You just send it to a website, where it sits for anyone who cares to read it.
The real news here isn't really about Nintendo or Pokemon.
The real news is about investors pumping billions into a company without even the most cursory research.
While I can't speak to every phone and every OS, apple devices on iOS9 already have a "fix" for this: Power off your phone.
When an iPhone is powered on, it requires that you type in the pin code or pass phrase. No biometrics here.
An interesting take. I'll definitely have to watch the video.
Exactly. And to take it a step further, it's harder for the entire crew to get fully invested in a film that's all green screen.
"Pretend there's a giant dragon or something," will simply never create the atmosphere of the giant animatronic Rex from Jurassic Park.
Lazy atmosphere begets lazy writing, lazy acting, lazy production.
While the point is valid, the 3 movies listed were hot garbage for reasons completely divorced from their special effects.
Though ... there could be a correlation. CGI effects are cheap, plentiful and ultimately disposable. Didn't like a shot? Just tweak a few setting and re-render. Try it 10 more times. Did an actor screw up? Just fix it in post.
Conversely, something like Mad Max: Fury Road, Alien, or Nightmare Before Christmas all require meticulous planning, careful coordination and the utmost dedication to each and every take. Things are literally blowing up, there's tangible blood splashing across the actors faces, and every scene in a stop-motion movie is hours and hours of tiny movements that can't be easily reshot.
So, I don't think it's the CGI itself causing this problem, but rather the environment it fosters.
Maybe it's just me, but the biggest point of interest here isn't the weed. It's that the average doctor is apparently prescribing 2000 people pain killers every year.
Holy crap.
That's 5 people a day, every day, 365 days per year. Nearly 7 a day if you account for weekends and holidays. How are there so many people on prescription pain meds?
When you add up all the prescriptions listed in TFS, you get up to 15 per working day. And that's just the delta from pot. Assuming medical marijuana didn't completely supplant the entire drug industry, how many drugs is the average doctor issuing?
Yup ... this also makes rare critters basically worthless.
More of the same species = more kibble to level up others of that species. Rare Pokemon are, well, rare... giving you less kibble with which to upgrade.
I never said it was a bad game.
Quite the opposite, I said it's a good Ingress mod. Ingress is already a popular title, so a good mod to a good game is ... good
That said, it's a terrible Pokemon game, with only superficial nods to the series. You can like the game all you want, it can be popular as pie, but it betrays the title.
All the more impressive considering that it's a shit Pokemon game. It's a decent Engress mod, sure, but as a Pokemon game, it's terrible
There are almost no battles. The few that exist are limited to mashing your screen, instead of the turn-based strategy usually associated with Pokemon.
And those scant few battles do not grant experience to your critters. The only way to level them up is to capture a couple dozen of the same 'mon, and grind them into kibble ("candies"). You'll get a couple dozen levels from each candy (current peak levels in the 1000-1500 range). Evolving takes between 15-400 candies. Oh, and the candies are breed specific.
These come to a hilarious point regarding your starter Pokemon. Normally, you pick one of 3 or 4 Pokemon to start your game, and that critter can level with you the whole game long. You'll give them a unique name, see them evolve and mature. You still pick a starter here, but none of that emotional attachment here. Your starter will be universally ground into the aforementioned kibble and fed to a higher level version of itself caught in the wild.
I find myself rooting for the terrorist to win, and I'm ok with that.
And I am NOT ok with that.
Why do cops have explosives?
Is C4 (or a hand grenade, or whatever they used) commonly required for their daily activities??
This ruling, by extension, includes corporate computers too, of course. Not just Joe Pleb.
So if some government person wants to know what's going on at Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop, etc. they can just hack on in. No warrant required. No foul to be called.
A very useful tool in a society where you are assumed guilty and must prove your own innocence.
The chief complaint here isn't about simply being recorded out in public. Plenty of stores, banks, train stations, and other public locations run CCTV without public outcry. As best as I can tell, there are two main differences.
One is the subterfuge involved with these cameras. By not disclosing their location, and further by disguising the devices, people can never be sure whether or not someone is watching. If a bank is keeping tabs on me while I'm on their premises, fine. The cameras are easy to spot, there are probably signs posted telling me that I'm on camera. I fundamentally understand that I'm on camera and why. But the entire nebulous entity of the FBI keeping general tabs on an entire city for no clearly defined reason is most certainly not fine
Secondly is the intent and scope. When BestBuy installs security cameras, it's to make sure that no one is damaging or stealing their merchandise. Protecting your own property is a very real and tangible reason. We can relate to that. And that reason begins and ends at their front door. BestBuy isn't going to come knocking because they saw me browsing, but I ended up buying from Walmart instead. They're not trying to keep tabs on the people specifically, just their gear. I'm only tangential to them keeping tabs on their stuff.
People don't really mind being recorded, if we understand the specifics. Tell me exactly where I'm being recorded, and why. With that information withheld, I assume the worst. Especially when that info was explicitly acknowledged. "People want to know this, and we're not telling."
Not exactly confidence inspiring stuff there.
The Fermi paradox hinges on the fact that our solar system is relatively young, on a galactic scale.
~4billion in the ~13 billion year old Milky Way
If any other planet was even 1% older than us, and evolving on a similar path, they'd have more than enough time to completely colonize the entire Milky Way by now. And that's assuming a mere 1% age difference. The Milky Way has been around for 200% more than our fledgling star.