It' similar to those late-night "auction" web sites where you pay a dollar to make a bid that will almost certainly fail. The accumulation of bid dollars is what pays for the product -- they even reserve the right to cancel the "auction" if they don't get enough $1 bids.
It is mathematically gambling through and through.
Ignore chatter. Here is the end game: if they paid more taxes, this would not reduce borrowing one iota, as this would give politicians a few more billion to spend.
There is no "fair share" since that presumes some fixed level of spending. But spending is tied to what they can get away with to buy votes. It will always increase even as times get better and better.
No. In the free West, that is the concern. In a dictatorship, the Truth is what they say it is, and there are no free press to investigate to find contradictions.
RPG is role-playing game, such as pen and paper Dungeons and Dragons, where, in a limited sense, players act out the sensibilities of their characters. It's questionable if this has any meaning at all in a single-player game.
MMOs inherit from text MUDs, which were live action multiplayer fantasy worlds. You can also roleplay in these, and many online games have RP severs to attempt to gather those who want this additional flourish.
What you call roleplaying is the persistent world concept, where actions have consequences out in the world. Almost no MMOs do this. If you see a monster respawn, that ain't it. And no, changing the world with each major update or expansion pack doesn't count in this sense.
It will get here eventually, but requires an end to the "theme park" model of MMORPGs with species and animals that grow and spread naturally, such that one might encroach on a city and be fought back.
People have been simulating that for decades, but good luck. Current design is idiotic AI and static spwen points.
Being a professional meant you personally signed on the dotted line as responsible, like doctors and lawyers are professionals. Everyone else is a bumbler.
He is an engineer, and the court broke the government's neck for having the temerity to fine someone who dared talk to them, the government, which is in violation of the First Amendment.
The people do not have to dance the government's self-defined fine line when discussing things.
Regardless of what smarmy things the internal lawyer records might show, there's a good reason for the attorney client privlege, namely, not letting those in power abuse prosecution of opponents to their own advantage.
If not, it was a colossal abuse by one political faction to use the gearwork of government to harm a political enemy, which is a sad thing, just like it was for Bill Clinton.
All the outdoor parks and memorials will remain open because there's no need to close them. Trees keep growing, rivers keep flowing...
They don't have to but they do, lest someone stub a toe. It's the facetious arrogancy of government that thinks you cannot survive anything briefly without them combining with the desire of a faction to inflict as much pain as possible, the way cash-strapped school districts cancel bus service first, before a millage, to annoy parents into driving their kids.
Anyway it's winter and not the prime season for tourism and camping.
I would have swapped the word order of treasonous and fucking in order to take advantage of alliteration and increase the intellectual impact of your quality statement.
And speaking of regulatory capture, guess who eventually captures such a society as you describe? Hint: Useful idiots are the first against the wall.
If you want to remain free, you have to forbid government from doing certain things to begin with, not play a foolish game of "my side is in control so can wield these dangerous powers safely!"
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At least they are still talking bits and are not like old game cartridges bragging bits as "8 MEGA" in an exploding balloon burst zap pow!
That communist Harvard guy claims the stock market is gambling and should be illegal.
It' similar to those late-night "auction" web sites where you pay a dollar to make a bid that will almost certainly fail. The accumulation of bid dollars is what pays for the product -- they even reserve the right to cancel the "auction" if they don't get enough $1 bids.
It is mathematically gambling through and through.
The more cruelly the animal is killed, the more acceptable it is to vegetarians.
Most cruel -- animals killing and eating alive other animals
Then, subsitence hunting by bushmen
Then, western hunters
Then, factory machine quick kills.
You can quibble about the middle two's order, but not the ends.
(User unchecks a hundred things they clicked on.)
"Thank you. We will remember that!" (Proceeds to put you into advertising bins based on what you told then not to follow you about.)
Better check the fine print.
Ignore chatter. Here is the end game: if they paid more taxes, this would not reduce borrowing one iota, as this would give politicians a few more billion to spend.
There is no "fair share" since that presumes some fixed level of spending. But spending is tied to what they can get away with to buy votes. It will always increase even as times get better and better.
Teflon is not particularly hardy.
No. In the free West, that is the concern. In a dictatorship, the Truth is what they say it is, and there are no free press to investigate to find contradictions.
They needed a pawn and went and took one.
It means Slashdot has a Flintstones-era ASCII implementation.
RPG is role-playing game, such as pen and paper Dungeons and Dragons, where, in a limited sense, players act out the sensibilities of their characters. It's questionable if this has any meaning at all in a single-player game.
MMOs inherit from text MUDs, which were live action multiplayer fantasy worlds. You can also roleplay in these, and many online games have RP severs to attempt to gather those who want this additional flourish.
What you call roleplaying is the persistent world concept, where actions have consequences out in the world. Almost no MMOs do this. If you see a monster respawn, that ain't it. And no, changing the world with each major update or expansion pack doesn't count in this sense.
It will get here eventually, but requires an end to the "theme park" model of MMORPGs with species and animals that grow and spread naturally, such that one might encroach on a city and be fought back.
People have been simulating that for decades, but good luck. Current design is idiotic AI and static spwen points.
Being a professional meant you personally signed on the dotted line as responsible, like doctors and lawyers are professionals. Everyone else is a bumbler.
P.E. was akin to a doctor in that sense.
You are right, but wrong when the person is talking to government about governance. That maintains the highest of free speech protection.
Software engineering is the process of producing software. It is 't programming.
Do you use Lint type stuff? At what point? Do you do diff deltas in all checkins with code reviews?
Do you have mechanical processes to minimize goofs, like diffing spec updates and not just relying on revision histories?
These are just a handful of things to consider when producing software. It has nothing to do with direct coding.
Very little of that work is software engineering. Try embedded software with liability and multiple releases with updates, to learn the difference.
He was clearly a citizen talking to those in power, who are not allowed to dissuade him from doing so with punishment.
Doing engineering may require a PE, but talking to government about policies does not, and cannot.
He is an engineer, and the court broke the government's neck for having the temerity to fine someone who dared talk to them, the government, which is in violation of the First Amendment.
The people do not have to dance the government's self-defined fine line when discussing things.
Regardless of what smarmy things the internal lawyer records might show, there's a good reason for the attorney client privlege, namely, not letting those in power abuse prosecution of opponents to their own advantage.
Google really doesn't care about innovation anymore as evidenced by dragging ass in putting a silence button on tabs with sound, especially autoplay.
This is a Russian troll attempting to dissuade thoughtful posters from active forums.
As usual for high tech, sex applications lead the way with fake body parts with accurate veining.
If there are traitorous things, sure.
If not, it was a colossal abuse by one political faction to use the gearwork of government to harm a political enemy, which is a sad thing, just like it was for Bill Clinton.
All the outdoor parks and memorials will remain open because there's no need to close them. Trees keep growing, rivers keep flowing...
They don't have to but they do, lest someone stub a toe. It's the facetious arrogancy of government that thinks you cannot survive anything briefly without them combining with the desire of a faction to inflict as much pain as possible, the way cash-strapped school districts cancel bus service first, before a millage, to annoy parents into driving their kids.
Anyway it's winter and not the prime season for tourism and camping.
I would have swapped the word order of treasonous and fucking in order to take advantage of alliteration and increase the intellectual impact of your quality statement.
Producing a physical TV that doesn't have integrated alternative services is such a winner nowadays, too!
And speaking of regulatory capture, guess who eventually captures such a society as you describe? Hint: Useful idiots are the first against the wall.
If you want to remain free, you have to forbid government from doing certain things to begin with, not play a foolish game of "my side is in control so can wield these dangerous powers safely!"