Only insofar as there are a handful of logical countries that allow them to make profits from this.
If every country "pulled a Brazil" on this, you can be guaranteed many more deaths in the future from drugs delayed or denied discovery or creation.
Those phantom future millions, though, don't show up in most people's analysis (certainly not in any politician's analysis.) No one (sadly) says, "Hey, FDA, how many are dying now because of delays in drugs?" That's a number magnitudes larger than the number the FDA saves preventing premature introduction of harmful drugs.
> These pharmaceutical companies are turning over
> _billions_ every year, making bucketloads of cash
> out of other people's misery.
Making bucketloads of cash ENDING other people's misery, which is more than you, or Hillary, or others are doing.
Funny how greedily searching for solutions to others' miseries, miseries that those suffering pray for a solution to, solves those problems all the while people stand on rocks pontificating how evil that process is. Yet when you look in their socialist bag, you don't see too much at all.
So the intellectual elite are just another servent demanded to kneel to the "public" benefit?
A company that cured AIDS tomorrow and started charging $10,000 per cure would do more to save lives than all the research that preceeded it, and more than all the loud-mouthed technocrats could do.
I am reminded of Florida's last major hurricane, where people in northern FL, Georgia, whatever, would load up trucks of ice bags and go into the devastated areas and sell them for $10.00 per bag.
"Why, how horrible!" So it was outlawed.
And soon, no one was getting any ice at all for love or money.
Rember the golden rule of government power-hungry politicians: One person saved by stealing the efforts of others in inventing drugs is worth millions dead in future years because of delays in research as drug companies don't invest as much because their profits are immediately eviscerated.
But it's funny how this mass-murdering "horizon effect" is completely ignored in place of silly pandering to the masses, innit?
> [Houston] has awesome food, and good night life, and
> diversity that you would not believe. Houston is
> really pretty cool, if not far too large and
> congested.
Yeah, but you have to become a drinking club member at every different damned bar and restaraunt you go to.
Now if Hugh's Town (soon to be Sam's Club) gave away free beer instead of free e-Mail, now then I might move there, even if I had to register.
> "Carlos Moreno" ("Charlie Brown" for the Spanish-impaired)
Although I don't know what name, if any, Charlie Brown's name is translated to in Spanish, but wouldn't it better be translated as something like "Carlito Moreno"?
As for terms of service, I can't wait until the city tries to stop spam mailings and gets slapped down by a court.
> it's a start. next maybe we'll work on getting
> the poor food, shelter and jobs. i doubt it, but
> in the meantime, at least they can surf the web
> and pretend to be rich:)
And much like government's involvement in helping "the poor" creates more, dependent poor, so to will government's involvement in e-Mail make it more expensive.
Instead of working to provide low-cost e-Mail, the companies contracted to do this will keep whining about how much it costs, deliberately avoiding effeciencies to keep sucking on the government tit.
Anyone wanna bet if a citizen of the Great People's City of Houston pays more via taxes for his "e-Mail" account than he does for his dialup?
They're certainly paying more for it right now thru taxes than they pay for a Hotmail one, or any of hundreds of other free e-Mail services.
Tucked away in a few words is the core of Microsoft's complete Internet reorganization six years ago.
Web-based word processing.
And it looks like they just might make it, having all but killed off Netscape.
Whew! That was a close one! A defacto "thin client", "web-based pseudo-boot to virtual machine" almost made it in without everyone being dependent on Microsoft.
Now you still have to buy Microsoft OS's, ha ha ha ha ha ha (singsong lilt) to get your IExplorer to get to all these great v0.001 web office-style apps that are going to just keep growing and growing and growing over the next decade.
ha ha ha ha ha ha! Whew, I say again! Close one! As Will Smith might say, with spittle flecks flying, "Elvis has left the building!" Whew! Just made it!
As Ripley might say, "Punch it Bishop!" Whew! Just made it!
As Trinity might scream, "Neo! (the phone!)" Whew! Just made it!
As Linda Hamilton might say, "You're terminated, fucker!" Whew! Just made it!
As Arnie might say, "Now I know why you cry." Whew! Just made it!
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Let's not forget, of course, the 50-100k of pure HTML TEXT that big web sites have, like CNN, to say nothing of the pictures.
> Sounds like if you start the movie at all, the
> clock starts ticking so no peaking until you're
> ready to watch it ALL.
This sentence is gramatically correct if the movie you downloaded was something with hot, near soft-core lesbian action with major stars like Jennifer Tilly and Gena Gershon in Bound or Peta Wilson in Mercy.
> because computer programmers still don't know shit
> about texture and (un)rigidity and natural motion.
Thank you! I knew I wasn't the only one who thought that Geo. Lucas' new CGI "improvements" for the first three looked like shit, as did Jar Jar.
The natural motion is finitely powerful muscles moving arms and legs of a certain mass. There's acceleration and deceleration, there's equal and opposite reaction moving a part of the body the opposite way, there's the evolved way animals take advantage of this, and so on.
For a particularly silly example, see Jar Jar diving into the water. That's the most embarassing junk scene in a major movie since the cartoony waves of "hydrogen bomb blast" breaking apart the window to the phantom zone in Superman II: Prior To the Coming of Prior.
I especially love the Libertarian ending, even though they (probably) didn't intend that.
"We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace. Without arms or armies. Secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war. Free to pursue more profitable enterprises."
The world is a massive experiment on all types of economies.
You get to see the results of all kinds of socialist, communist, etc. "experiments", completely devoid of any ethical considerations as to whether such laws are proper in the first place.
Oops swapped Dude 2 and Dude 1. Dude 1, regardless of wealth, gets the claim on the resource. Note that the richer Dude 1, who had claim, BTW, would "farm" it to sell the things on the open market, allowing anyone who made an "effort" at anything (via earning money) to get the items, not just those who camped for it.
By the way, before any socialist apologists open their yappers, keep in mind that the higher-level Dude 2 is "richer" and "more powerful" in that world, and notice how he twists the socialist Play Nice Rules to his advantage? Cuffy Meigs, Enchanter at large.
> True enough, platinum does not play a *major*
> role later in the game,
If the number of "physical" platinum pieces was fixed, it would retain its value quite well. What you see is the actual value of a commodity whose supply has increased dramatically, with no end in sight.
If 60% of the population had five hundred pounds of platinum or gold in the banks in real life, do you think it would be worth much?
"Platinum", in EverQuest, is not a metal mined from the ground, but a paper currency of no real value that is "printed" by the government (merchants) as needed.
Therein is the flaw in these games. If there were a fixed amount of platinum (with more introduced slowly to simulate pre-industrial mining) and the merchants actually bought and sold at a "market value" (server tracks prices people will actully pay for things) then a lot of this busted economy would be cured.
It's clear EQ has no care whatsoever that low level characters get ahold of powerful items, so if you're going to have trading in "your world", then you might as well do it right.
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> I just bought a "wine-saver" pump last night. (You
> use it to vacuum air out of half-finished bottle.)
> It was bundled with 4 proprietary wine-saver corks.
That will slow the rate of breakdown of the wine IF that is related to oxygen (or other chemicals in the air.)
However, if wine degredation is due to dissolved flavors that excape into the air, you will exacerbate the situation because the lower pressure will encourage, rather than retards, chemical evaporation.
A magazine once asked how to best retain the carbonation in a pop bottle. The "winner" was to squeeze the (plastic bottle) until the air was all gone, then cap it. In fact, that encouraged the carbonation to escape, much to the embarassment of the magazine. (Three or four squeeze-cap-shake cycles can get rid of much of the carbonation if it's too fizzy for you.)
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> I can't stand racing or football video games,
I can't stand any sports games at all, nor flight simulators (and ESPECIALLY not flight-simulators-in-space. "Banking" with no air? Sheesh. No thanks, Lucas Arts.)
Anyhoo, I have no intention of buying a console game unless it has good online multiplayer FP action, ala Quake CTF or Tribes or EverQuest. And that won't be Xbox, unless they're porting Asheron's Call, and that still won't grab me because I HATE PLAYING HUMANS THANKS NICE TRY.
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Only insofar as there are a handful of logical countries that allow them to make profits from this.
If every country "pulled a Brazil" on this, you can be guaranteed many more deaths in the future from drugs delayed or denied discovery or creation.
Those phantom future millions, though, don't show up in most people's analysis (certainly not in any politician's analysis.) No one (sadly) says, "Hey, FDA, how many are dying now because of delays in drugs?" That's a number magnitudes larger than the number the FDA saves preventing premature introduction of harmful drugs.
> These pharmaceutical companies are turning over
> _billions_ every year, making bucketloads of cash
> out of other people's misery.
Making bucketloads of cash ENDING other people's misery, which is more than you, or Hillary, or others are doing.
Funny how greedily searching for solutions to others' miseries, miseries that those suffering pray for a solution to, solves those problems all the while people stand on rocks pontificating how evil that process is. Yet when you look in their socialist bag, you don't see too much at all.
So the intellectual elite are just another servent demanded to kneel to the "public" benefit?
A company that cured AIDS tomorrow and started charging $10,000 per cure would do more to save lives than all the research that preceeded it, and more than all the loud-mouthed technocrats could do.
I am reminded of Florida's last major hurricane, where people in northern FL, Georgia, whatever, would load up trucks of ice bags and go into the devastated areas and sell them for $10.00 per bag.
"Why, how horrible!" So it was outlawed.
And soon, no one was getting any ice at all for love or money.
Thanks, government, for the "help".
Rember the golden rule of government power-hungry politicians: One person saved by stealing the efforts of others in inventing drugs is worth millions dead in future years because of delays in research as drug companies don't invest as much because their profits are immediately eviscerated.
But it's funny how this mass-murdering "horizon effect" is completely ignored in place of silly pandering to the masses, innit?
> [Houston] has awesome food, and good night life, and
> diversity that you would not believe. Houston is
> really pretty cool, if not far too large and
> congested.
Yeah, but you have to become a drinking club member at every different damned bar and restaraunt you go to.
Now if Hugh's Town (soon to be Sam's Club) gave away free beer instead of free e-Mail, now then I might move there, even if I had to register.
> "Carlos Moreno" ("Charlie Brown" for the Spanish-impaired)
Although I don't know what name, if any, Charlie Brown's name is translated to in Spanish, but wouldn't it better be translated as something like "Carlito Moreno"?
As for terms of service, I can't wait until the city tries to stop spam mailings and gets slapped down by a court.
> it's a start. next maybe we'll work on getting :)
> the poor food, shelter and jobs. i doubt it, but
> in the meantime, at least they can surf the web
> and pretend to be rich
And much like government's involvement in helping "the poor" creates more, dependent poor, so to will government's involvement in e-Mail make it more expensive.
Instead of working to provide low-cost e-Mail, the companies contracted to do this will keep whining about how much it costs, deliberately avoiding effeciencies to keep sucking on the government tit.
Anyone wanna bet if a citizen of the Great People's City of Houston pays more via taxes for his "e-Mail" account than he does for his dialup?
They're certainly paying more for it right now thru taxes than they pay for a Hotmail one, or any of hundreds of other free e-Mail services.
Tucked away in a few words is the core of Microsoft's complete Internet reorganization six years ago.
Web-based word processing.
And it looks like they just might make it, having all but killed off Netscape.
Whew! That was a close one! A defacto "thin client", "web-based pseudo-boot to virtual machine" almost made it in without everyone being dependent on Microsoft.
Now you still have to buy Microsoft OS's, ha ha ha ha ha ha (singsong lilt) to get your IExplorer to get to all these great v0.001 web office-style apps that are going to just keep growing and growing and growing over the next decade.
ha ha ha ha ha ha! Whew, I say again! Close one! As Will Smith might say, with spittle flecks flying, "Elvis has left the building!" Whew! Just made it!
As Ripley might say, "Punch it Bishop!" Whew! Just made it!
As Trinity might scream, "Neo! (the phone!)" Whew! Just made it!
As Linda Hamilton might say, "You're terminated, fucker!" Whew! Just made it!
As Arnie might say, "Now I know why you cry." Whew! Just made it!
Let's not forget, of course, the 50-100k of pure HTML TEXT that big web sites have, like CNN, to say nothing of the pictures.
The quote was:
> Sounds like if you start the movie at all, the
> clock starts ticking so no peaking until you're
> ready to watch it ALL.
This sentence is gramatically correct if the movie you downloaded was something with hot, near soft-core lesbian action with major stars like Jennifer Tilly and Gena Gershon in Bound or Peta Wilson in Mercy.
> because computer programmers still don't know shit
> about texture and (un)rigidity and natural motion.
Thank you! I knew I wasn't the only one who thought that Geo. Lucas' new CGI "improvements" for the first three looked like shit, as did Jar Jar.
The natural motion is finitely powerful muscles moving arms and legs of a certain mass. There's acceleration and deceleration, there's equal and opposite reaction moving a part of the body the opposite way, there's the evolved way animals take advantage of this, and so on.
For a particularly silly example, see Jar Jar diving into the water. That's the most embarassing junk scene in a major movie since the cartoony waves of "hydrogen bomb blast" breaking apart the window to the phantom zone in Superman II: Prior To the Coming of Prior.
I especially love the Libertarian ending, even though they (probably) didn't intend that.
"We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace. Without arms or armies. Secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war. Free to pursue more profitable enterprises."
I prefer to think of it not as having a underdeveloped frontal lobe, but rather a frontal lobe optimized for violence.
Ya play lots of games, of course your brain will get optimized for it.
They just blew away all level 1 characters again (or did they?)
Like it would be so hard for them to not blow away ones with "stuff".
They are a corporation who likes to get paid by customers, don't they?
The world is a massive experiment on all types of economies.
You get to see the results of all kinds of socialist, communist, etc. "experiments", completely devoid of any ethical considerations as to whether such laws are proper in the first place.
Oops swapped Dude 2 and Dude 1. Dude 1, regardless of wealth, gets the claim on the resource. Note that the richer Dude 1, who had claim, BTW, would "farm" it to sell the things on the open market, allowing anyone who made an "effort" at anything (via earning money) to get the items, not just those who camped for it.
By the way, before any socialist apologists open their yappers, keep in mind that the higher-level Dude 2 is "richer" and "more powerful" in that world, and notice how he twists the socialist Play Nice Rules to his advantage? Cuffy Meigs, Enchanter at large.
It's 3D, it's MMORPG, and it's highly team-based.
...but is it FP, even optionally? God I so hate the 3rd persion as a forced viewpoint (even though I optionally do use it quite often.)
Dude 1 was there first, staked his claim to an unclaimed resource.
Dude 2 either Killsteals it, i.e. uses force to claim-jump Dude 1, which is not capitalism, and is evil.
Or
Dude 2 invokes Play Nice Rules, forcing Dude 1 to share, which, again, is not capitalism, is socialism, is stealing, and is evil.
Yes, the good that is capitalism does indeed insight the evils of theft, force, and socialism.
Being a multimillionaire who can throw away $1200 on shit:
Priceless
You, working for The Man all your life:
Priceless, and could you bring me a coffee, pud, while you're at it thanksbye.
> True enough, platinum does not play a *major*
> role later in the game,
If the number of "physical" platinum pieces was fixed, it would retain its value quite well. What you see is the actual value of a commodity whose supply has increased dramatically, with no end in sight.
If 60% of the population had five hundred pounds of platinum or gold in the banks in real life, do you think it would be worth much?
"Platinum", in EverQuest, is not a metal mined from the ground, but a paper currency of no real value that is "printed" by the government (merchants) as needed.
Therein is the flaw in these games. If there were a fixed amount of platinum (with more introduced slowly to simulate pre-industrial mining) and the merchants actually bought and sold at a "market value" (server tracks prices people will actully pay for things) then a lot of this busted economy would be cured.
It's clear EQ has no care whatsoever that low level characters get ahold of powerful items, so if you're going to have trading in "your world", then you might as well do it right.
> I just bought a "wine-saver" pump last night. (You
> use it to vacuum air out of half-finished bottle.)
> It was bundled with 4 proprietary wine-saver corks.
That will slow the rate of breakdown of the wine IF that is related to oxygen (or other chemicals in the air.)
However, if wine degredation is due to dissolved flavors that excape into the air, you will exacerbate the situation because the lower pressure will encourage, rather than retards, chemical evaporation.
A magazine once asked how to best retain the carbonation in a pop bottle. The "winner" was to squeeze the (plastic bottle) until the air was all gone, then cap it. In fact, that encouraged the carbonation to escape, much to the embarassment of the magazine. (Three or four squeeze-cap-shake cycles can get rid of much of the carbonation if it's too fizzy for you.)
> I can't stand racing or football video games,
I can't stand any sports games at all, nor flight simulators (and ESPECIALLY not flight-simulators-in-space. "Banking" with no air? Sheesh. No thanks, Lucas Arts.)
Anyhoo, I have no intention of buying a console game unless it has good online multiplayer FP action, ala Quake CTF or Tribes or EverQuest. And that won't be Xbox, unless they're porting Asheron's Call, and that still won't grab me because I HATE PLAYING HUMANS THANKS NICE TRY.
There's always another side to the story.
The business owner should have been grateful upon hearing, "Hey, there is a massive security hole in your web page. Here's how to fix it."
Instead, he felt threatened, recorded the callback, and called the police. Why?
That's what I want to know. I want to hear the tape.
Free the tape!
A diamond the size of a planet would crush into roundness...