Anything that can be viewed as even slightly socialist is quickly attacked. There is no inherent weakness or flaw in socialism or communism for that matter....
They both assume that human beings can be molded according to the goals of the state.
That makes the rather silly assumption that voting could have changed the things you're complaining about, which is often absurd. Speaking as someone who voted (I'm an Oregonian), many of the things that I'd like to see happen won't; I can often predict what they are, and voting or not will not change them.
I assume you played Morrowind? If you wanted to beat the game, you were a heavily-armored, melee battlemage with thief skills; pure anything was tough to do. They went way out of their way with Oblivion to make a much broader range of archetypes not only possible (as they certainly were in Morrowind) but playable in the main campaign.
If you have problems with the manufacturer's graphics drivers on any OS, Joe Sixpack is hosed; it's just not his area of expertise. It's the class of problem, not the OS.
"LucasArts is hoping to snipe some of the World of Warcraft customer base. "
Ya, good luck with that.
That of course depends on their timing, but WoW is several years old now-- it will be older yet when The Old Republic comes out-- and has expanded the MMO market dramatically. Any game that wants to succeed wants to poach WoW players, and that's a very reasonable goal.
Now if they'd said, "We want to be the next World of Warcraft"-- that might be a little overambitious, especially this early. But to say that they want WoW players to give them a shot? Totally reasonable.
And that's part of the problem with viewing a democratic government as its own end. You really want a state which is just and free-- democratic is only a potential way to achieve that.
You seem to jest under the assumption that Windows will have a point release at some future date. I don't think Microsoft's marketing arm will allow that ever again.
Except that the zones feel pretty dense, at least at the low levels. I've noticed myself doing a ton less running than I did in WoW at comparable levels.
That's only true if you define "reason" as "utilitarianism." Justice is not directly linked to utility, and it's silly to suggest that justice has no role in the debate.
There is no double-taxation going on. You seem to be confused about something.
Yes, I was under the impression that you were liable for use taxes over and above out-of-state sales tax when you bought in person, which I now read is not the case. As I said, I'm an Oregonian, so I'm not familiar with these things.
Actually, I wonder how many people who live in states with sales and use taxes are familiar with these things, given how poorly observed the use tax is.
It neither favors the home state nor disfavors the foreign state. Simultaneously, failure to do so significantly burdens local producers and merchants, who cannot compete because of the externality of the sales tax. This is of course creates a legitimate state interest in leveling the playing field.
I didn't say it was bad as a matter of policy-- though it would seem to bring about a fair amount of double-taxation, which is in the interest of the state imposing the use tax in any case.
Because it violates neither the law nor the spirit of the Commerce Clause, and more specifically, the Dormant Commerce Clause.
I'm not familiar with the jurisprudence here-- if I were, I wouldn't be asking-- but it was the reasoning behind this statement I really wanted. How not?
U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 10
...No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress....
If the company you're ordering from is out of state, they don't charge tax, and you are supposed to declare that purchase on your tax return and pay a "use tax."
I'm an Oregonian, so I don't have to worry about such things, but I always wondered how use tax passed constitutional muster. It is plainly an interstate sales tax; if it were otherwise they'd charge it on sales-taxed items too. So why do the courts let them get away with it?
EVERY single quest completed would then require a new unique quest to replace it.
Well, yes, obviously a quest-generating AI will have problems. But the solution here is probably to have the world (more likely the zone or sub-zone) be a finite state machine. In any given state, there is a quest (or two) to be done, and the completion of that quest (or quests) leads to a different state and a new set of quests. Eventually you cycle back to the first state.
You could also transition to different states depending on which way the quest goes.
They promoted openness of hardware (and interoperability of firmware). Of course, that's what allowed their business model, the licensing deal for DOS being the mammoth business blunder of the '80s. But at one time Microsoft wanted to open what IBM wanted kept closed.
If this lawsuit succeeds the native americans could only sue the catholic church for slander and defamation eg: saying they had no souls and could be slaughtered like animals or however manifest destiny is justified.
As a Protesant, I can't recall ever having read anything about Rome doing *any* of that. From the papal bull Sublimus Dei of 1537:
We, who, though unworthy, exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge, consider, however, that the Indians are truly men and that they are not only capable of understanding the Catholic Faith but, according to our information, they desire exceedingly to receive it. Desiring to provide ample remedy for these evils, We define and declare by these Our letters, or by any translation thereof signed by any notary public and sealed with the seal of any ecclesiastical dignitary, to which the same credit shall be given as to the originals, that, notwithstanding whatever may have been or may be said to the contrary, the said Indians and all other people who may later be discovered by Christians, are by no means to be deprived of their liberty or the possession of their property, even though they be outside the faith of Jesus Christ; and that they may and should, freely and legitimately, enjoy their liberty and the possession of their property; nor should they be in any way enslaved; should the contrary happen, it shall be null and have no effect.
Well, there is one more reason: sometimes you have to release now for the revenue. That's one of the things the team was plugging as a benefit of having been bought-- they could delay because the company wouldn't close if they didn't have cash right away.
Of course the discussions of what to cut wouldn't come up with EA-- why do the executives care what classes you cut, or zones?-- but the prospect of revenue very well might have. This makes me wonder if their Corporate Overlords are getting impatient.
If something is legal, then (by definition) it is not criminal.
Is Slashdot the right place to bring up natural vs. positive law? Some things are forbidden even if not specifically banned. IIRC, this was much of the basis of common law, no?
Whether lobbying is forbidden by natural law I don't know, but there it is.
If we divide all students at a grade level into two populations, the "regular" and the "high-achieving", you'll get the same result in the "high-achieving" student class as teaching to the average of the high-achievers will mean the highest of the high-achievers is not getting full stimulation.
But the standard deviation will be smaller; that may not solve the problem (and will certainly have other effects, good and bad), but it helps.
Well, the Bill of Rights does refer to "the people" a lot. That is very amenable to an interpretation that includes only U.S. citizens, or U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Notably, the passage referring to habeas corpus does not do this, and is in fact part of the original Constitution rather than the Bill of Rights.
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They both assume that human beings can be molded according to the goals of the state.
As someone playing through Fallout 2, I salute you!
That makes the rather silly assumption that voting could have changed the things you're complaining about, which is often absurd. Speaking as someone who voted (I'm an Oregonian), many of the things that I'd like to see happen won't; I can often predict what they are, and voting or not will not change them.
I assume you played Morrowind? If you wanted to beat the game, you were a heavily-armored, melee battlemage with thief skills; pure anything was tough to do. They went way out of their way with Oblivion to make a much broader range of archetypes not only possible (as they certainly were in Morrowind) but playable in the main campaign.
Technically it has them-- it just has no syntax to let you modify the captured variables, which of course makes them dramatically less useful.
If you have problems with the manufacturer's graphics drivers on any OS, Joe Sixpack is hosed; it's just not his area of expertise. It's the class of problem, not the OS.
That of course depends on their timing, but WoW is several years old now-- it will be older yet when The Old Republic comes out-- and has expanded the MMO market dramatically. Any game that wants to succeed wants to poach WoW players, and that's a very reasonable goal.
Now if they'd said, "We want to be the next World of Warcraft"-- that might be a little overambitious, especially this early. But to say that they want WoW players to give them a shot? Totally reasonable.
Does anybody else see a potential plot for Captain Planet here?
And that's part of the problem with viewing a democratic government as its own end. You really want a state which is just and free-- democratic is only a potential way to achieve that.
You seem to jest under the assumption that Windows will have a point release at some future date. I don't think Microsoft's marketing arm will allow that ever again.
Except that the zones feel pretty dense, at least at the low levels. I've noticed myself doing a ton less running than I did in WoW at comparable levels.
Sorry if I'm not clear; by justice I mean the ideal of justice, not the justice system. They may or may not agree in any given instance.
That's only true if you define "reason" as "utilitarianism." Justice is not directly linked to utility, and it's silly to suggest that justice has no role in the debate.
Was it a trademark at the time he created the domain? If the domain predates the bid, that seems unlikely.
Yes, I was under the impression that you were liable for use taxes over and above out-of-state sales tax when you bought in person, which I now read is not the case. As I said, I'm an Oregonian, so I'm not familiar with these things.
Actually, I wonder how many people who live in states with sales and use taxes are familiar with these things, given how poorly observed the use tax is.
I didn't say it was bad as a matter of policy-- though it would seem to bring about a fair amount of double-taxation, which is in the interest of the state imposing the use tax in any case.
I'm not familiar with the jurisprudence here-- if I were, I wouldn't be asking-- but it was the reasoning behind this statement I really wanted. How not?
Or does that only apply to international trade?
I'm an Oregonian, so I don't have to worry about such things, but I always wondered how use tax passed constitutional muster. It is plainly an interstate sales tax; if it were otherwise they'd charge it on sales-taxed items too. So why do the courts let them get away with it?
Well, yes, obviously a quest-generating AI will have problems. But the solution here is probably to have the world (more likely the zone or sub-zone) be a finite state machine. In any given state, there is a quest (or two) to be done, and the completion of that quest (or quests) leads to a different state and a new set of quests. Eventually you cycle back to the first state.
You could also transition to different states depending on which way the quest goes.
They promoted openness of hardware (and interoperability of firmware). Of course, that's what allowed their business model, the licensing deal for DOS being the mammoth business blunder of the '80s. But at one time Microsoft wanted to open what IBM wanted kept closed.
As a Protesant, I can't recall ever having read anything about Rome doing *any* of that. From the papal bull Sublimus Dei of 1537:
Well, there is one more reason: sometimes you have to release now for the revenue. That's one of the things the team was plugging as a benefit of having been bought-- they could delay because the company wouldn't close if they didn't have cash right away.
Of course the discussions of what to cut wouldn't come up with EA-- why do the executives care what classes you cut, or zones?-- but the prospect of revenue very well might have. This makes me wonder if their Corporate Overlords are getting impatient.
The founders, IIRC, were religiously all over the map. Jefferson was a deist, of course.
Is Slashdot the right place to bring up natural vs. positive law? Some things are forbidden even if not specifically banned. IIRC, this was much of the basis of common law, no?
Whether lobbying is forbidden by natural law I don't know, but there it is.
But the standard deviation will be smaller; that may not solve the problem (and will certainly have other effects, good and bad), but it helps.
Well, the Bill of Rights does refer to "the people" a lot. That is very amenable to an interpretation that includes only U.S. citizens, or U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Notably, the passage referring to habeas corpus does not do this, and is in fact part of the original Constitution rather than the Bill of Rights.