The year 1900 could not imagine the tech we have nowadays. A pox on them were they to do draconian measures slamming on the brakes on economic dynamism, leaving us with miserable 1950s tech instead of 2014.
How much more idiotic we are if we do the same to "help" those in 2093 or whatever the hell this clueless yokel is imagining.
I'll take an "abandoned" continent and 2093 miracle tech (as 1900 might view our own) over desert, struggling Africa with 2048 tech in the year 2093.
Two hours later: "When taking measurements in the box, it appears just his hand remains in quantum superposition state, or keeps re-entering it. It is changing between two measured positions rapidly, say, up and down. Fascinating!"
"All the current MMOs suck. The only fun ones are ancient and boring, like WoW, or dead, like City of Heroes."
"There will be a CoH clone soon."
"Maybe. In two years. Everything now is a god damned action pew pew MMO with no soul. Ever feel alone in a crowd of a few dozen other players? Somehow these fuckers manage it with trivial soloability."
Thank you! I am full bore libertarian, but this is fraud. Go get 'em!
Next up: Compabies selling me Internet servislce at certain speeds, then throttling Netflix and YouTube unless they pay a kickback. I didn't consent to it in my contract with the cable company. You provide X speed (within your network you control) for all things. If it's clogged, it all slows down. Throttling for extortion is extortion and fraud on that.
Even the "no calory sweetener" generic hypothesis, that the taste preps the body for a rush of incoming sugar that never appears, causing disease, is a load of BS. Along with the diet pop come tons of bread, buns, fries, chips, Doritos, macaroni and cheese, whatever.
But almost every meal is choked with carbs which jam up the blood sugar as surely as the jelly or frosting on a cake would...and then some several times over.
So any "prep" for incoming sweets is more than satisfied with carb overload turning to glucose.
People who are thinner tend to prefer a sweerer whipped concoction than fat people, who prefer a fatter, not sweet whipped concoction. That knowledge is 30 years old.
Fat people are fat because of savory desires rather than sweets (to borrow a culinary term for non-sweets cooking AKA most cooking).
But i's thr breads and cereals aspect -- grains, in bread and pasta, that generates excess calories and sugar in the blood. Too much sugar...in the form of those buns and fries with that paltry 300 calories of burger-and-cheese in a Big Mac.
"Ancient thought patterns" have done nothing to move people beyond simple huts. It is reality itself sorely in need of modern asskicking as it is reality that gives disease and starvation.
Advancing tech is what saves us, and freedom. They are interrelated to advance at the fastest rate., and solve issues faster than they become serious leading to an ever-increasing quality and length of life. Hell, western obesity is a result of kicking the starvation issue too hard, with food so cheap it's almost free, and the poorest are he fattest in the US.
Nature? Fuck nature. I am for the complete Trantorization of Earth. Why? Because I fucking love humanity and its masses yearning to breathe free and live llong with healthy lives and lots of stuff.
Exactly what everyone claims...then they launch into their pet political philosophies AKA quasi-religions. The only real politics is what advances technology fastest to execute murderous nature. What has it done for us lately?
Seriously.
No, seriously. Besides being a meme-justofication for certain quasi-religions and their power dominance.
The math is simple. At 2 miles per hour, it takes a fat programmer 1 hour to go ten miles.
Their ranger in a game, however, can probably do it in 6 on a horse. Or their non-superspeed hero in City of Heroes (RIP) in 3 1/4 minutes as they ran at 37 mph. In their Eve ship from a dead stop, maybe 30s, for a bloated one.
My 5 inch wide slug railguns oh baby how many level 95s do you have in WoW?
The United States has long had a policy to have the best-trained, best-equipped troops. Let the nations of the Continent throw human waves against each other.
"If you find yourself in a fair fight, you haven't done your homework."
The mfr. who used the counterfeit chip should pay for it. And you, as end user, should be aware you may be using scam hardware, the cheaper and more off-mainline brand you go.
Properly speaking, get upset at your fraudulent device maker, not the official chip/driver maker. And if you knew it was a counterfeit chip, well, you pays your money and takes your chances.
I bet it's called the X-Watch, has an x86 CPU and tries to cram the regular version of Windows into a 2" display with a tiny cursor controlled by a Kinect camera you wear on your head via the included X-BaseballCap.
Hehe. It's actually called the "M2, which is short for meeeeeeee tooooooooooooooo."
A world where government runs roughshod over corporate centers of wealth (alternate power centers in memespeak) will continue to grow at the behest of The People until they do away with these alternate centers completely.
Then you get dictatorship or communism, neither of which can hold a candle to freedom with capitalism-as-corollary of freedom.
You happily take the product of our astounding invention rates, while shitting all over the process.
You, and Europe, and the rest of the world should be more like us, not the other way around.
7 billion people churning out inventions at the same rate as the 320 million in the US would be magnificent for increasing the quality and length of life.
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The year 1900 could not imagine the tech we have nowadays. A pox on them were they to do draconian measures slamming on the brakes on economic dynamism, leaving us with miserable 1950s tech instead of 2014.
How much more idiotic we are if we do the same to "help" those in 2093 or whatever the hell this clueless yokel is imagining.
I'll take an "abandoned" continent and 2093 miracle tech (as 1900 might view our own) over desert, struggling Africa with 2048 tech in the year 2093.
The measured truth is there -- dictatorships and failed states do terribly for their people. Relative economic freedom does magnificently.
No need for philosophical isms. Just let people be free to pursue their own business.
> we put you in the box
And hold still!
Two hours later: "When taking measurements in the box, it appears just his hand remains in quantum superposition state, or keeps re-entering it. It is changing between two measured positions rapidly, say, up and down. Fascinating!"
I'm sure that was part of the deal -- he gets x dollars, for, among other things, letting them continue to use the name.
(Sits down at new uber-Alienware.)
"Jimmy, why aren't you doing anything?"
"All the current MMOs suck. The only fun ones are ancient and boring, like WoW, or dead, like City of Heroes."
"There will be a CoH clone soon."
"Maybe. In two years. Everything now is a god damned action pew pew MMO with no soul. Ever feel alone in a crowd of a few dozen other players? Somehow these fuckers manage it with trivial soloability."
Thank you! I am full bore libertarian, but this is fraud. Go get 'em!
Next up: Compabies selling me Internet servislce at certain speeds, then throttling Netflix and YouTube unless they pay a kickback. I didn't consent to it in my contract with the cable company. You provide X speed (within your network you control) for all things. If it's clogged, it all slows down. Throttling for extortion is extortion and fraud on that.
Go get those frauds, too.
And real terrorists would broadcast they are in the vicinity by stating so loudly, of course.
Now do have a concern if the access point had been named "Good On You England No Terrorist Here".
Even the "no calory sweetener" generic hypothesis, that the taste preps the body for a rush of incoming sugar that never appears, causing disease, is a load of BS. Along with the diet pop come tons of bread, buns, fries, chips, Doritos, macaroni and cheese, whatever.
But almost every meal is choked with carbs which jam up the blood sugar as surely as the jelly or frosting on a cake would...and then some several times over.
So any "prep" for incoming sweets is more than satisfied with carb overload turning to glucose.
People who are thinner tend to prefer a sweerer whipped concoction than fat people, who prefer a fatter, not sweet whipped concoction. That knowledge is 30 years old.
Fat people are fat because of savory desires rather than sweets (to borrow a culinary term for non-sweets cooking AKA most cooking).
But i's thr breads and cereals aspect -- grains, in bread and pasta, that generates excess calories and sugar in the blood. Too much sugar...in the form of those buns and fries with that paltry 300 calories of burger-and-cheese in a Big Mac.
"Ancient thought patterns" have done nothing to move people beyond simple huts. It is reality itself sorely in need of modern asskicking as it is reality that gives disease and starvation.
Advancing tech is what saves us, and freedom. They are interrelated to advance at the fastest rate., and solve issues faster than they become serious leading to an ever-increasing quality and length of life. Hell, western obesity is a result of kicking the starvation issue too hard, with food so cheap it's almost free, and the poorest are he fattest in the US.
Nature? Fuck nature. I am for the complete Trantorization of Earth. Why? Because I fucking love humanity and its masses yearning to breathe free and live llong with healthy lives and lots of stuff.
Exactly what everyone claims...then they launch into their pet political philosophies AKA quasi-religions. The only real politics is what advances technology fastest to execute murderous nature. What has it done for us lately?
Seriously.
No, seriously. Besides being a meme-justofication for certain quasi-religions and their power dominance.
The math is simple. At 2 miles per hour, it takes a fat programmer 1 hour to go ten miles.
Their ranger in a game, however, can probably do it in 6 on a horse. Or their non-superspeed hero in City of Heroes (RIP) in 3 1/4 minutes as they ran at 37 mph. In their Eve ship from a dead stop, maybe 30s, for a bloated one.
My 5 inch wide slug railguns oh baby how many level 95s do you have in WoW?
They. Are. Not. Destroying. It.
They are refusing to work with it, correcting a bug in their earlier software.
Neither the counterfeit chip maker, nor the counterfeit chip-using device maker, nor you have any expectation to use their unlicensed software.
Sucks to be you, the end user, but your beef is with the device maker, who should produce their own driver.
So jokers around here expect the driver to write nice, useful changes to the chip and OS, even if counterfeit, if part of the update?
But not to write changes so their driver won't work with it?
So the frauds get to shove their hands down your pants but you can't return the favor?
"You may shove your hamd into our pants to do good things, but not pinch us in the ball."
Myyyyyy, how magnanimous everyone ie with other peoples' efforts.
As far as IP goes, the chips *are* theirs.
Let the counterfeiters take them to court over it if they disagree.
Chili's has these little kiosks at your table, a little unwired screen on a stand. Yo can swipe your own card and pay without waiting for a check.
I don't like it. Rarely do I "wait" for a check, and it seems like lazy on their part.
Ahhh, when can I perma-plug in to a virtual net with an autodoc to tend my body?
> $666.66
Keep in mind a loaded station wagon, of Family Truckster fame, was around $3500.
Still, it's a 90-fold increase over the original price.
The United States has long had a policy to have the best-trained, best-equipped troops. Let the nations of the Continent throw human waves against each other.
"If you find yourself in a fair fight, you haven't done your homework."
> "what's happening in Beta Pic"
It appears to be a really fat guy tipping his fedora, as if to say, "Mi'lady!"
> In the UK... "$50 for a 6-in model, $70 for a 7.5-in model,
> and $100 for a 9-in figurine."
In the US, that's for girth, not height, btw.
The mfr. who used the counterfeit chip should pay for it. And you, as end user, should be aware you may be using scam hardware, the cheaper and more off-mainline brand you go.
Properly speaking, get upset at your fraudulent device maker, not the official chip/driver maker. And if you knew it was a counterfeit chip, well, you pays your money and takes your chances.
> Reagan is rong! Internet regulated but not taxed in US!
We're tryiing to stop it from being. regulated and taxed. Give the government hacks time.
Remember:
Senator: What good is electricity to the house, anyway?
Engineer: Senator, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it.
I envision some Democrats in the US wanting to pipe up about how brave Hungary is being, but will not do so less than a month before the election.
Search your feelings, Luke. You know it to be true.
I bet it's called the X-Watch, has an x86 CPU and tries to cram the regular version of Windows into a 2" display with a tiny cursor controlled by a Kinect camera you wear on your head via the included X-BaseballCap.
Hehe. It's actually called the "M2, which is short for meeeeeeee tooooooooooooooo."
A world where government runs roughshod over corporate centers of wealth (alternate power centers in memespeak) will continue to grow at the behest of The People until they do away with these alternate centers completely.
Then you get dictatorship or communism, neither of which can hold a candle to freedom with capitalism-as-corollary of freedom.
You happily take the product of our astounding invention rates, while shitting all over the process.
You, and Europe, and the rest of the world should be more like us, not the other way around.
7 billion people churning out inventions at the same rate as the 320 million in the US would be magnificent for increasing the quality and length of life.
Anything else is literally mass-murderous.