While it is true people are greedy and will continue to work hard, even as more and more gets filched by the government, at some point revenue will decrease because people will stop working so hard for diminishing returns.
It's very cynical to tout as good a government that lays like a 2000 pound pig on top of the population, and then shouting joy about it as the population barely moves it around, said movement, if nothing else, caused by the economic activity necessity to stay alive.
But see, if we take taxes, i.e. confiscate money that is not ours, to use for projects that we approve of then it doesn't feel like stealing to us.
Which I find as a disgusting attitude, and why I have little long-term hope for humanity. They preform all the age-old tricks of a dictator, but laundered because it's at the behest of power hungry, charismatic individuals who launder it via "see, the voteres elected me and want it!"
An economy is stimulated just as much by a rich person buying a yacht as it is by a government buying a weapons system. Arguably more since the yacht is a much more productive enterprise.
And most of what "the rich" have is reinvested. In productive areas. They don't stuff it in their mattresses.
And for "huge government lover" theories to "hold water", they have to capitalize on extreme optimism -- the idea that any money taken by the government is not completely wasted, and worse, not used to buy votes.
There is an "oh yeah!" type of answer. Hint: The goal is to determine which switch turns on the light, not necessarily to make sure the light is on when you enter the room.
...until an orphanage is burned down because a stack of magazines in the back of a passing newstruck burst into flame because the batteries in one shorted out.
ETA four years, three months, twelve days, seven hours, nineteen minutes, and forty-three seconds until some movie has such a newspaper with "front page" of George W. giving a speech lining the bottom of a bird cage, with the bird then pooping on the live action.
And, exactly as predicted, they are slippery-sloping beyond that to non-child, but "extremely obscene" but fully consenting adult pr0n.
See, they've successfully caught all the terrorists and have the prevention of suitcase nukes from entering US cities so well in hand they can afford to divert agents to this.
"And then they came for me, but there was no one left to protest."
> it could 'identify planetary features like oceans, > continents, polar caps and cloud banks, and even > detect biomarkers like methane
The bad part will come with version 3.0, launched in the later part of this century, when we zoom on on their alien babes on beaches, and see if they have silly laws regulating nudity, too. Or churches.
Quite frankly, I'd be way more scared if they had churches than if they did not.
Noah and his kin must have been very sick aboard the Ark because things don't evolve, and nobody but God can create life, so they must have hosted tuberculosis, flues, colds, the Black Death, pneumonia, crotch cheese, those little yellow cute guys that live under nails, skin worms, heart worms, et al.
In fact, every species should have been sick as a dog, who would also be loaded with heart worms.
Well, either that, or the Noah thing is a bunch of crap.
I have seen severe, fundamental design flaws get through to nearly the end of a project, passing multiple code and design reviews, and that's without a sinister agent out there trying to defeat you.
It cannot be guaranteed.
People who plan for long-term storage of nuclear waste have as rule #1 that they acknowledge they cannot design a system that will defeat people determined to break in. If the army protecting it goes AWOL over the centuries, as happened at the great pyramids, well,...
Even if you could prove mathematically a system was secure, there's still the social engineering aspect. Which, I see from various news stories, seems to account for a good chunk of these security "lapses".
And I don't think you could prove a system mathematically secure "in general", anyway, as people data must go over a network, and people can crack encryption given enough time.
I don't believe that grotesquely oppressive environmental regulation is "on my side". I see it as pandering to scientific illiteracy and innumeracy in exchange for votes. And that's just one "Left issue" pulled from a big bag.
Face it. Both sides do this kind of crap, but to pretend the "Left" is some kind of holy host "on my side" is viewing the world with rose colored glasses ten miles tall.
I mean, if they actually had to spell out individual spending bills like "Bike Path for Congressman X District" and "Coast Guard Headquarters Expansion For Virginia" then Congress would never get it done. They couldn't possibly vote for that many bills in one lifetime, much less one year. They'd have to greatly reduce the number of laws passed to something one human could actually understand and process, rather than converyor-belting through countless tens of thousands of mini sublaws handing out cash. Congress couldn't keep up!
Linux people tend to know other Linux people. In these usability tests, we selected test subjects who were experienced with Windows, but who had never heard of Linux, and asked them to perform basic tasks using the Linux desktop.
The article continues: "Researchers discontinued the usability tests ahead of schedule due to the test subject pool's greater than 90% fatality rate."
Note to the emotionally challenged: This is humor, not a troll.
This is stupid.... Nobody that I can think of off the top of my head has ever charged another subscription for their expansion as well as their old version of the game.
If you actually RTFA, or even the slashdot version, you'll see that it's not.
I don't see him as claiming he thinks that, necessarily. That NC-Soft seemed to be toying with considering it a separate game rather than just a giant expansion pack, is what is "stupid".
If anything, payment consolidation seems to be the wave of the future, with the giants slowly emerging: Sony, which now has EQ, EQ2, Star Wars: Galaxies, and now Matrix Online, all on one monthly fee, and NC-Soft, which is CoH, CoV, and partnered with Lineage and Lineage II (tho I don't know if you can get a general account to cover both City and Lineage). WoW is a newcomer that is hugely successful (tho why I don't know) but is still just one title, we'll see in a few years if this spawns any successful remakes or brothers.
I was a die hard Mac-o-phile who died hard sometime in the mid '80's, with a IIci with a Radius Rocket 040 accelerator in it being my last, and a PII 266 being my first PC at home.
Reason? I used it for 2 things at home: Surfing and gaming.
Surfing they did equally well as Netscape (my browser at the time) was available on both. And gaming, there was no comparison.
Only the biggest games were ported, and then only sometimes. Which was fine, since that was mostly what you wanted to play. But half the time you'd have to wait a year.
So I stunned all my friends by going the PC route, but I haven't been sorry about it since.
And now, I shall emulate the poor comedy of Adrian Kronaur's nemesis in "Good Morning, Vietnam!". "You might say I jumped platforms...because there were no platform jumpers!"
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While it is true people are greedy and will continue to work hard, even as more and more gets filched by the government, at some point revenue will decrease because people will stop working so hard for diminishing returns.
It's very cynical to tout as good a government that lays like a 2000 pound pig on top of the population, and then shouting joy about it as the population barely moves it around, said movement, if nothing else, caused by the economic activity necessity to stay alive.
But see, if we take taxes, i.e. confiscate money that is not ours, to use for projects that we approve of then it doesn't feel like stealing to us.
Which I find as a disgusting attitude, and why I have little long-term hope for humanity. They preform all the age-old tricks of a dictator, but laundered because it's at the behest of power hungry, charismatic individuals who launder it via "see, the voteres elected me and want it!"
Never let logic and reality get in the way of a good, liberal hate-on for Republicans.
An economy is stimulated just as much by a rich person buying a yacht as it is by a government buying a weapons system. Arguably more since the yacht is a much more productive enterprise.
And most of what "the rich" have is reinvested. In productive areas. They don't stuff it in their mattresses.
And for "huge government lover" theories to "hold water", they have to capitalize on extreme optimism -- the idea that any money taken by the government is not completely wasted, and worse, not used to buy votes.
Also, I believe the bulb is guaranteed to be off when you start.
There is an "oh yeah!" type of answer. Hint: The goal is to determine which switch turns on the light, not necessarily to make sure the light is on when you enter the room.
Can someone summarize TFA? I'm too busy playing video games to read it.
...until an orphanage is burned down because a stack of magazines in the back of a passing newstruck burst into flame because the batteries in one shorted out.
- Still don't have my ring with a Digital Light Projector in it
- Still can't re-grow a lost limb, even though they did this in mice [b]over two months ago[/b]
- Still don't have effective weight loss pills*
- Where's my robot car that'll drive me around
- Or better yet, fly me around?
* Yes we do, they're just illegal in the US because they are "speed"ish
ETA four years, three months, twelve days, seven hours, nineteen minutes, and forty-three seconds until some movie has such a newspaper with "front page" of George W. giving a speech lining the bottom of a bird cage, with the bird then pooping on the live action.
I wonder if Borders' will finally be socially pressured enuf to move MAD magazine away from Out.
Wait for it...
'cause it's really offensive that MAD now has ads in it.
I'd rather see it used for displays of Hermione-as-played-by-Lindsay-Lohan-on-Saturday-Ni ght-Live-last-year.
And, exactly as predicted, they are slippery-sloping beyond that to non-child, but "extremely obscene" but fully consenting adult pr0n.
See, they've successfully caught all the terrorists and have the prevention of suitcase nukes from entering US cities so well in hand they can afford to divert agents to this.
"And then they came for me, but there was no one left to protest."
On the other hand, in 17 years they will all be free game again. More likely than not not too much will be able to be taken advantage of before then.
> it could 'identify planetary features like oceans,
> continents, polar caps and cloud banks, and even
> detect biomarkers like methane
The bad part will come with version 3.0, launched in the later part of this century, when we zoom on on their alien babes on beaches, and see if they have silly laws regulating nudity, too. Or churches.
Quite frankly, I'd be way more scared if they had churches than if they did not.
Noah and his kin must have been very sick aboard the Ark because things don't evolve, and nobody but God can create life, so they must have hosted tuberculosis, flues, colds, the Black Death, pneumonia, crotch cheese, those little yellow cute guys that live under nails, skin worms, heart worms, et al.
In fact, every species should have been sick as a dog, who would also be loaded with heart worms.
Well, either that, or the Noah thing is a bunch of crap.
Yes, opening up all Microsoft Windows' source code to the public will decrease the likelihood of evil hackers using that to their advantage. :rollseyes
I have seen severe, fundamental design flaws get through to nearly the end of a project, passing multiple code and design reviews, and that's without a sinister agent out there trying to defeat you.
...
It cannot be guaranteed.
People who plan for long-term storage of nuclear waste have as rule #1 that they acknowledge they cannot design a system that will defeat people determined to break in. If the army protecting it goes AWOL over the centuries, as happened at the great pyramids, well,
Even if you could prove mathematically a system was secure, there's still the social engineering aspect. Which, I see from various news stories, seems to account for a good chunk of these security "lapses".
And I don't think you could prove a system mathematically secure "in general", anyway, as people data must go over a network, and people can crack encryption given enough time.
Can we make the politicians responsible for the consequences of their actions?
I don't believe that grotesquely oppressive environmental regulation is "on my side". I see it as pandering to scientific illiteracy and innumeracy in exchange for votes. And that's just one "Left issue" pulled from a big bag.
Face it. Both sides do this kind of crap, but to pretend the "Left" is some kind of holy host "on my side" is viewing the world with rose colored glasses ten miles tall.
I mean, if they actually had to spell out individual spending bills like "Bike Path for Congressman X District" and "Coast Guard Headquarters Expansion For Virginia" then Congress would never get it done. They couldn't possibly vote for that many bills in one lifetime, much less one year. They'd have to greatly reduce the number of laws passed to something one human could actually understand and process, rather than converyor-belting through countless tens of thousands of mini sublaws handing out cash. Congress couldn't keep up!
Oh.
Wait.
Nevermind.
The article continues: "Researchers discontinued the usability tests ahead of schedule due to the test subject pool's greater than 90% fatality rate."
Note to the emotionally challenged: This is humor, not a troll.
> Hell, you could start patenting hoverboards straight
> out of Back to the Future II 'just because' the
> technology will -someday- be possible.
Go for it! I doubt there'll be anyone to sue within the next 27 years or however long it is...
> Tell me again, since when copyright infringement became theft?
Very well then, Pedantic Pete.
Copyright infringement is morally wrong
Ethically wrong
The taking of the product of someone's labor without their permission (indeed, against it)
Illegal, and properly so
> RIAA Sues a Child
Well, if a child can induce millions of dollars in damage, why not, if to get at the insurance or deep pockets behind her?
I now await being modded a flamebait...
I don't see him as claiming he thinks that, necessarily. That NC-Soft seemed to be toying with considering it a separate game rather than just a giant expansion pack, is what is "stupid".
If anything, payment consolidation seems to be the wave of the future, with the giants slowly emerging: Sony, which now has EQ, EQ2, Star Wars: Galaxies, and now Matrix Online, all on one monthly fee, and NC-Soft, which is CoH, CoV, and partnered with Lineage and Lineage II (tho I don't know if you can get a general account to cover both City and Lineage). WoW is a newcomer that is hugely successful (tho why I don't know) but is still just one title, we'll see in a few years if this spawns any successful remakes or brothers.
I was a die hard Mac-o-phile who died hard sometime in the mid '80's, with a IIci with a Radius Rocket 040 accelerator in it being my last, and a PII 266 being my first PC at home.
Reason? I used it for 2 things at home: Surfing and gaming.
Surfing they did equally well as Netscape (my browser at the time) was available on both. And gaming, there was no comparison.
Only the biggest games were ported, and then only sometimes. Which was fine, since that was mostly what you wanted to play. But half the time you'd have to wait a year.
So I stunned all my friends by going the PC route, but I haven't been sorry about it since.
And now, I shall emulate the poor comedy of Adrian Kronaur's nemesis in "Good Morning, Vietnam!". "You might say I jumped platforms...because there were no platform jumpers!"