flip side: never played WoW, and I have no interest in trying because so many people have been doing it for so long that I'm pretty sure I would flounder about for a year getting killed all the time and called nooby nooby noob noob. This new way I could pay $60 and at least get my foot in the door. Much more tempting.
surely since day one you could buy a level 90 character from somebody else on the open market. so there were people who did nothing but make new accounts and level them up, then flip them for cash (probably a lot more than $60!). i remember reading that in chinese prisons they had everybody playing WoW for the benjamins.
if this move devalues anything, it devalues the market for max characters.
i say let's get fusion right first, then invest in SETI programs, then make contact with another intelligent force, then see how they approached the space elevator problem. Then we can apply alien civilization best practices to leap-frog the current space elevator timeline.
it sounds to me like if a bakery is forcing a baker to do something that is against his religious beliefs he should sue the bakery for religious discrimination.
the bakers are perfectly free to change jobs to a bakery that will not make them bake gay cakes. for example, the bakery can have several people on staff, some of whom specialize in gay cakes. this way the individual freedoms are respected for the bakers and the gay people.
I think it should be law that these people can't refuse to service any customer, and the customer gets to choose the price. crappy photos? not paying much! this will set the stage for good photo companies and wedding picture.
On the other hand, I think this law may open the door to "no hispanics or negroes allowed" signs going up, because someone could claim its their religious belief...
that door is already wide open - "no gays" is no different to "no blacks". it's the same fucking thing.
Actually not true in the US. Racial minorities are protected under the Civil Rights Act. It does not include gays. Gays are included in many state civil rights act like in CA, but not all states have this. So the AZ law will not open the for no blacks, because of the civil rights act.
An interesting question is the prohibition "no fat chicks". This would be illegal in CA because the CA civil rights act forbids discrimination based on appearance. you might be able to make an argument that it's illegal under the civil rights act because you're outlawing fat chicks but not fat dudes. Laws, some crazy stuff!
it would be illegal for the bakery to refuse due to race or interracial couple. this is in the civil rights act. the civil rights act doesn't talk about homosexuals, so the law is murkier.
Different question: is it okay for the state to tell someone who they must do business with?
Completely leaving aside sexual orientation. Or not. Take your pick of prejudices. Can the state tell someone they must not refuse to do business with brunettes? Or people with freckles?
Answer is it depends. depends on who is involved and where you are. The rest of this comments assumes we're in the US.
Generally speaking there's a balance between an individual's right to do what he wants without government interference, and an individual person's right to not be discriminated against, even by a private party.
In US, the big federal law is the Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination against people at public establishments (i.e. businesses) based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. this is what makes it illegal to have segregated lunch counters, for example. Many States have similar statutes that extend protection to other groups. For example, CA has a law called Hughes Act which essentially extends the CRA to hippies:X
The rest is pretty much judgment. When a person sues a business claiming he/she was unlawfully discriminated against, the judge looks at major laws like CRA, minor laws that fill the gaps, and prior case law/precedent to make a decision. The Arizona bill in the summary is essentially one of these minor laws - it provides direction to judges that it's ok to discriminate on religious grounds (gross simplification). It's on the judge to throw this law into the mix with all the other laws when making his determination.
So, given your example, would it be OK to discriminate based on freckles or brunette. Depends on what kind of group is impacted. in CA it's definitely not ok, because the hughes act makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of appearance, which would seem to include all physical characteristics. Now if the example were red hair, most people would agree that the vast majority of redheads are white, so if you discriminate on redheads you're effectively discriminating by race.
BIG REALLY RELEVANT NOTE: the reason why this is a gay rights issue is because sexual orientation is not in the CRA and is not protected under the same umbrella as gender, race, etc. So while this AZ law bears no threat to minorities because CRA trumps all, it can apply to gays and lesbians.
If large businesses pull out of Arizona because of this law, then it can accurately be described as anti-business. perhaps when people are sitting home alone and unemployed they can console themselves by thinking about how the remaining businesses have "more choice" as a a result of this law...
this is true for songs on your HD becuase there's no room for song storage on apple TV. But itunes radio you can stream directly through apple tv. Plus all the visual media - shows, movies, you can stream direct through apple tv, from all sources. this includes itunes, netflix, hbo, and all the other things. and I don't know about your personal collection that's uploaded to itunes cloud, if you can access playlists this way. so apple tv is more powerful than you give it credit for.
For ios in car, I'm much more excited about maps integration, siri integration, text messaging, and bluetooth phone calls. the phone is a bad UI for this while driving.
i'm excited to see what comes of apples iTunes in the car experience. but it's been in development for so long I wonder if it will ever actually come out?
it is inflammatory and ad hominem. the OP has a legitimate point of sorts, I don't necessarily agree with it but it deserves a rational response not trolling. thus it is market troll.
what's the diff? phone can't be erased, can't be used unless given the correct password. no bypasses by deleting everything or whatever. the phone is bricked until the correct password is entered.
It's a killswitch because you can log in remotely to set this password. so even if it wasn't password-locked at the time, or if the attacker knows the password, no more. it is bricked.
how can I tell at a given time how much bandwidth I am using? when I do the speedtest it says how much is available to me. also for games I used to do the onlive video game streaming but they went out of busines..
They had that already. The problem was that the metal detectors were too slow because every time it beeped somebody had to figure out why, then try again. The whole point of the body scanners was to make the screening faster.
Now with the body scanners it is the X-ray machines that are the bottleneck. They typically run with multiple X-ray machines per body scanner because the scanners are so much more efficient.
dom
who are you? where do you live? surely not in USA. In USA they replaced two metal detectors with one phone booth screener, so even if the phone booth is faster on a per-machine basis they cut the throughput in half. Now I have to wait to put my luggage into the machine until I'm ready for the phone booth, because if I let it go in right away then it will sit on th eother side unattended so people will steal it.
also it won't matter because they'll just reduce the number of lanes, or mess it up some other way. like when they installed the nudie scanners / phone booths, but replaced two metal detectors with each phone booth. it cut the throughput in half, to the point where the luggage machine is no longer the bottleneck. Just more $$$ down the pipe.
Once my line was super backed up so they shunted me through the CLEAR line. I went to take off my belt and shoes but they shrugged and just motioned me through. Nice security you got there. ATL for those who keep track.
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sorry, some lysdexia. it's the Unruh Civil Rights Act.
This site has some general info, although I wish it had more citations. If you find anything more please post
http://www.legalzoom.com/us-la...
Do you know how much a leveled up character would go for?
You describe it like a Zelda game. this is more appealing. I don't want to deal with other fuckers; my life is full of them already.
flip side: never played WoW, and I have no interest in trying because so many people have been doing it for so long that I'm pretty sure I would flounder about for a year getting killed all the time and called nooby nooby noob noob. This new way I could pay $60 and at least get my foot in the door. Much more tempting.
surely since day one you could buy a level 90 character from somebody else on the open market. so there were people who did nothing but make new accounts and level them up, then flip them for cash (probably a lot more than $60!). i remember reading that in chinese prisons they had everybody playing WoW for the benjamins.
if this move devalues anything, it devalues the market for max characters.
sorry if woosh, but seriously? Maybe you are making up a story to hammer home an odd point of view.
i say let's get fusion right first, then invest in SETI programs, then make contact with another intelligent force, then see how they approached the space elevator problem. Then we can apply alien civilization best practices to leap-frog the current space elevator timeline.
it sounds to me like if a bakery is forcing a baker to do something that is against his religious beliefs he should sue the bakery for religious discrimination.
the bakers are perfectly free to change jobs to a bakery that will not make them bake gay cakes. for example, the bakery can have several people on staff, some of whom specialize in gay cakes. this way the individual freedoms are respected for the bakers and the gay people.
I think it should be law that these people can't refuse to service any customer, and the customer gets to choose the price. crappy photos? not paying much! this will set the stage for good photo companies and wedding picture.
can somebody clarify once and for all the difference between a worm and a virus? some concrete examples would be helpful too.
that door is already wide open - "no gays" is no different to "no blacks". it's the same fucking thing.
Actually not true in the US. Racial minorities are protected under the Civil Rights Act. It does not include gays. Gays are included in many state civil rights act like in CA, but not all states have this. So the AZ law will not open the for no blacks, because of the civil rights act.
An interesting question is the prohibition "no fat chicks". This would be illegal in CA because the CA civil rights act forbids discrimination based on appearance. you might be able to make an argument that it's illegal under the civil rights act because you're outlawing fat chicks but not fat dudes. Laws, some crazy stuff!
it would be illegal for the bakery to refuse due to race or interracial couple. this is in the civil rights act. the civil rights act doesn't talk about homosexuals, so the law is murkier.
Different question: is it okay for the state to tell someone who they must do business with?
Completely leaving aside sexual orientation. Or not. Take your pick of prejudices. Can the state tell someone they must not refuse to do business with brunettes? Or people with freckles?
Answer is it depends. depends on who is involved and where you are. The rest of this comments assumes we're in the US.
Generally speaking there's a balance between an individual's right to do what he wants without government interference, and an individual person's right to not be discriminated against, even by a private party.
In US, the big federal law is the Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination against people at public establishments (i.e. businesses) based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. this is what makes it illegal to have segregated lunch counters, for example. Many States have similar statutes that extend protection to other groups. For example, CA has a law called Hughes Act which essentially extends the CRA to hippies :X
The rest is pretty much judgment. When a person sues a business claiming he/she was unlawfully discriminated against, the judge looks at major laws like CRA, minor laws that fill the gaps, and prior case law/precedent to make a decision. The Arizona bill in the summary is essentially one of these minor laws - it provides direction to judges that it's ok to discriminate on religious grounds (gross simplification). It's on the judge to throw this law into the mix with all the other laws when making his determination.
So, given your example, would it be OK to discriminate based on freckles or brunette. Depends on what kind of group is impacted. in CA it's definitely not ok, because the hughes act makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of appearance, which would seem to include all physical characteristics. Now if the example were red hair, most people would agree that the vast majority of redheads are white, so if you discriminate on redheads you're effectively discriminating by race.
BIG REALLY RELEVANT NOTE: the reason why this is a gay rights issue is because sexual orientation is not in the CRA and is not protected under the same umbrella as gender, race, etc. So while this AZ law bears no threat to minorities because CRA trumps all, it can apply to gays and lesbians.
If large businesses pull out of Arizona because of this law, then it can accurately be described as anti-business. perhaps when people are sitting home alone and unemployed they can console themselves by thinking about how the remaining businesses have "more choice" as a a result of this law...
this is true for songs on your HD becuase there's no room for song storage on apple TV. But itunes radio you can stream directly through apple tv. Plus all the visual media - shows, movies, you can stream direct through apple tv, from all sources. this includes itunes, netflix, hbo, and all the other things. and I don't know about your personal collection that's uploaded to itunes cloud, if you can access playlists this way. so apple tv is more powerful than you give it credit for.
For ios in car, I'm much more excited about maps integration, siri integration, text messaging, and bluetooth phone calls. the phone is a bad UI for this while driving.
HOSTS are the key to everything! $10,000 challenge!
i'm excited to see what comes of apples iTunes in the car experience. but it's been in development for so long I wonder if it will ever actually come out?
it is inflammatory and ad hominem. the OP has a legitimate point of sorts, I don't necessarily agree with it but it deserves a rational response not trolling. thus it is market troll.
what's the diff? phone can't be erased, can't be used unless given the correct password. no bypasses by deleting everything or whatever. the phone is bricked until the correct password is entered.
It's a killswitch because you can log in remotely to set this password. so even if it wasn't password-locked at the time, or if the attacker knows the password, no more. it is bricked.
how can I tell at a given time how much bandwidth I am using? when I do the speedtest it says how much is available to me. also for games I used to do the onlive video game streaming but they went out of busines..
They had that already. The problem was that the metal detectors were too slow because every time it beeped somebody had to figure out why, then try again. The whole point of the body scanners was to make the screening faster.
Now with the body scanners it is the X-ray machines that are the bottleneck. They typically run with multiple X-ray machines per body scanner because the scanners are so much more efficient.
dom
who are you? where do you live? surely not in USA. In USA they replaced two metal detectors with one phone booth screener, so even if the phone booth is faster on a per-machine basis they cut the throughput in half. Now I have to wait to put my luggage into the machine until I'm ready for the phone booth, because if I let it go in right away then it will sit on th eother side unattended so people will steal it.
>I'm not sure it would take new technology to fix the TSA, just some people running the show that don't have their head up their ass.
niether, because the technology will be chosen and operated by people with heads up their asses
also it won't matter because they'll just reduce the number of lanes, or mess it up some other way. like when they installed the nudie scanners / phone booths, but replaced two metal detectors with each phone booth. it cut the throughput in half, to the point where the luggage machine is no longer the bottleneck. Just more $$$ down the pipe.
Once my line was super backed up so they shunted me through the CLEAR line. I went to take off my belt and shoes but they shrugged and just motioned me through. Nice security you got there. ATL for those who keep track.