Yeah, but you have to realize that nothing in the EULA you've all clicked through promised that the game will be easy to install. As far as they are concerned, they have all the right to send you the authentication code by snail. No, not snail-mail, just by attaching it to a snail and pointing it in the direction of your house. Don't like it - tough, don't buy HL3.
"Animal rights, environmentalism, gay rights, anti-nuclear"...interestingly enough these are all memes which are much more active in "more rational" societies like Europe. US has hardly any animal rights terrorists, while in Europe they have risen to the level of inluencing policy. Same with environmentalism. Try to run a commercial with... let's say tigers jumping through hoops on German television. One thing you will NOT get is reasoned discussion of the situation, with benefit vs cost analysis for tigers attached. Instead, your company will be picketed and boycotted by crazed Greens.
And that is the reason why, barring an act of Congress specifically limiting automaker's liabiilty, we will NEVER see cars which drive themselves. Because any lawyer who even walked past his lawschool on the way to graduation will know that winning 18.9 million dollars in damages versus Ford is a good deal easier than versus Margaret Schummel, age 88. Car makers couldn't begin to charge enough to cover all the lawsuits arising from this.
All men in Sweden will be assessed a tax, which will be used to compensate women injured through acts of violence and discrimination. Still unclear is wether castration or sex-reassignement surgery will be considered acceptable excuse for not paying the tax.
You and that "military intelligence analyst" (read - sixteen year old pimply kid) in the parent are both completely clueless. Israel NEVER had Abrams tanks. Note the use of the word "never", which means is has not been the case at any point in time. Israel HAS M60 Patton tanks, which they've receiving since 1970.
China will collapse without constant infusion of American money. US could drive China back into the 1960s by simply switching suppliers of various crap that Chinese produce, none or very little of which is unique to China. I'm sure 1,000,000,000 Chinese will be happy to cut their standard of living by half to spite US.
Oh...and China and Russia can at best defend themselves against US invasion. To oppose US militarily anywhere outside their homelands would be impossible for either one.
Newsflash - we could REALLY help the environment by limiting everybody to a 8x5x4 foot box. Except people don't want to live like that, they DO want to live in a large house, with a large yard and preferably some nature around them. That's why all those urban planning solutions which depend on stuffing people in 400 square feet apartments (but with vibrant street life around them, natch) fail miserably.
The rest of the Western world has been relying on United States to keep it safe from variety of bad guys for the last 50 years. That's why they could afford to build welfare states, that's why they can afford to make nice with every two-bit thug - they know that if things go sideways, they can come screaming for mommie. Nice gig, if you can get it.
For a solar eclipse to occur, the moon must be between the sun and the earth, therefore the gravity vectors of both are aligned (with respect to Earth).
The problem is that the once these things will be enter into circulation, the goverment will be able to legislatively require their use. Your lawsuit will then fail, as the courts would rule that you have no legitimate expectation of privacy in driving habits. It's very roughly the same doctrine which allows them to check the content of your bags on public transport - once the expectation of privacy disappears (perhaps through actions of the goverment itself), the "right to privacy" doesn't protect you anymore.
Especially one for 2 years? Seagate is probably just trying to stall it out, because they really don't have a chance in hell of making it stick.
Takeshi is...scary.
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One thing that I found curious about the character is that despite having a well-developed moral system, he seems capable of acts of tremendous violence. He is almost sociopathic in that regard, as he doesn't seem to have the emotional mechanisms which restrain him. This per se is not unusual in humans, but I'd expect it to be accompanied by some distortions in the rest of his psyche - but they are not there. Mostly (not entirely ) he is well adjusted, but once he is engaged in combat he nearly always goes for the most violent solution available.
Envoy programming? Aftereffects of being in combat for a long time? Not sure.
The Ansari prize is just a goalpost, it's not meant to make space travel profitable by itself. As an offset to development cost, I'd say it's done it's job perfectly. Now, it remains to determine wether the Rutan (and others) designs can compete with existing alternatives.
With birth rates falling the way they do (both in developed and developing worlds), we'll have to have serious life-extension successes just to maintain something approaching the current population of Earth. Within a hundred years, we may be back down to several billion people.
Thank you for making my point for me. I'm sure you love living in whatever socialist or Islamic paradise you live in. Feel free to continue doing what you're doing and we'll continue to kick your ass militarily, economically and culturally.
There is a very serious downside to this, stemming indirectly from our current litiginous climate. Basically, if the insurance companies refuse to cover something it is effectively illegal due to many existing requirements for insurance.
It's like having a rottweiler in a house - sure it's legal, but you can't get insurance for the house, which means you can't get a mortgage, which means you can't buy a house unless you pay for it out of pocket...so it may as well be illegal for you to have a rottweiler.
One might say that this is just free market at work, yet there are aspects of goverment regulation here which underpin the system - like allowing lawsuits against uninvited people entering your property and being bitten.
Likewise, we'll see that unless the goverment idemnifies the nanotechnology companies (small chance of that) they will be unable to enter the field even though there is no formal prohibition against nanotechnology manufacturing.
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Yeah, but you have to realize that nothing in the EULA you've all clicked through promised that the game will be easy to install. As far as they are concerned, they have all the right to send you the authentication code by snail. No, not snail-mail, just by attaching it to a snail and pointing it in the direction of your house. Don't like it - tough, don't buy HL3.
Is there any way that this can be done with a software encoder/decoder?
Yes. It's also unfair that they just don't give you the money outright, and make you actually work for it.
"Animal rights, environmentalism, gay rights, anti-nuclear"...interestingly enough these are all memes which are much more active in "more rational" societies like Europe. US has hardly any animal rights terrorists, while in Europe they have risen to the level of inluencing policy. Same with environmentalism. Try to run a commercial with ... let's say tigers jumping through hoops on German television. One thing you will NOT get is reasoned discussion of the situation, with benefit vs cost analysis for tigers attached. Instead, your company will be picketed and boycotted by crazed Greens.
I think you may've confused Europe with Vulcan.
I hope for the world it doesn't do anything to piss us off even more.
And that is the reason why, barring an act of Congress specifically limiting automaker's liabiilty, we will NEVER see cars which drive themselves. Because any lawyer who even walked past his lawschool on the way to graduation will know that winning 18.9 million dollars in damages versus Ford is a good deal easier than versus Margaret Schummel, age 88. Car makers couldn't begin to charge enough to cover all the lawsuits arising from this.
Ray certainly sounds like is enjoying life to the fullest.
Oh..and perhaps you can tell me what good is being dead, that it outweighs living forever? I'm really curious.
All men in Sweden will be assessed a tax, which will be used to compensate women injured through acts of violence and discrimination. Still unclear is wether castration or sex-reassignement surgery will be considered acceptable excuse for not paying the tax.
You and that "military intelligence analyst" (read - sixteen year old pimply kid) in the parent are both completely clueless. Israel NEVER had Abrams tanks. Note the use of the word "never", which means is has not been the case at any point in time. Israel HAS M60 Patton tanks, which they've receiving since 1970.
China will collapse without constant infusion of American money. US could drive China back into the 1960s by simply switching suppliers of various crap that Chinese produce, none or very little of which is unique to China. I'm sure 1,000,000,000 Chinese will be happy to cut their standard of living by half to spite US.
Oh...and China and Russia can at best defend themselves against US invasion. To oppose US militarily anywhere outside their homelands would be impossible for either one.
Newsflash - we could REALLY help the environment by limiting everybody to a 8x5x4 foot box. Except people don't want to live like that, they DO want to live in a large house, with a large yard and preferably some nature around them. That's why all those urban planning solutions which depend on stuffing people in 400 square feet apartments (but with vibrant street life around them, natch) fail miserably.
Many people are full of shit. These ideas were popular in France before there were laws regulating pro-Nazi sentiments.
The rest of the Western world has been relying on United States to keep it safe from variety of bad guys for the last 50 years. That's why they could afford to build welfare states, that's why they can afford to make nice with every two-bit thug - they know that if things go sideways, they can come screaming for mommie. Nice gig, if you can get it.
For a solar eclipse to occur, the moon must be between the sun and the earth, therefore the gravity vectors of both are aligned (with respect to Earth).
Are we talking about "Legend of 5 Rings" by any chance?
The problem is that the once these things will be enter into circulation, the goverment will be able to legislatively require their use. Your lawsuit will then fail, as the courts would rule that you have no legitimate expectation of privacy in driving habits. It's very roughly the same doctrine which allows them to check the content of your bags on public transport - once the expectation of privacy disappears (perhaps through actions of the goverment itself), the "right to privacy" doesn't protect you anymore.
Especially one for 2 years? Seagate is probably just trying to stall it out, because they really don't have a chance in hell of making it stick.
One thing that I found curious about the character is that despite having a well-developed moral system, he seems capable of acts of tremendous violence. He is almost sociopathic in that regard, as he doesn't seem to have the emotional mechanisms which restrain him. This per se is not unusual in humans, but I'd expect it to be accompanied by some distortions in the rest of his psyche - but they are not there. Mostly (not entirely ) he is well adjusted, but once he is engaged in combat he nearly always goes for the most violent solution available.
Envoy programming? Aftereffects of being in combat for a long time? Not sure.
The Ansari prize is just a goalpost, it's not meant to make space travel profitable by itself. As an offset to development cost, I'd say it's done it's job perfectly. Now, it remains to determine wether the Rutan (and others) designs can compete with existing alternatives.
With birth rates falling the way they do (both in developed and developing worlds), we'll have to have serious life-extension successes just to maintain something approaching the current population of Earth. Within a hundred years, we may be back down to several billion people.
Thank you for making my point for me. I'm sure you love living in whatever socialist or Islamic paradise you live in. Feel free to continue doing what you're doing and we'll continue to kick your ass militarily, economically and culturally.
It's the reality. Learn to deal with it.
It removes their outdates taboos towards unlimited sexual self-expression. But the flashlights are too small, quite frankly.
Ummm...when you put it that way, Mr. Strawman, I'd have to say - YES!
There is a very serious downside to this, stemming indirectly from our current litiginous climate. Basically, if the insurance companies refuse to cover something it is effectively illegal due to many existing requirements for insurance.
It's like having a rottweiler in a house - sure it's legal, but you can't get insurance for the house, which means you can't get a mortgage, which means you can't buy a house unless you pay for it out of pocket...so it may as well be illegal for you to have a rottweiler.
One might say that this is just free market at work, yet there are aspects of goverment regulation here which underpin the system - like allowing lawsuits against uninvited people entering your property and being bitten.
Likewise, we'll see that unless the goverment idemnifies the nanotechnology companies (small chance of that) they will be unable to enter the field even though there is no formal prohibition against nanotechnology manufacturing.