What? The most successful strategy was "Tit for Tat, with forgiveness." Aside from the fact that the whole issue is completely irrelevant to the real world -- it's a contrived situation -- Tit for Tat is not the same as fair. If someone kills your sister, it's fair to kill theirs? Maybe.. it depends on your definition of fair (same for honesty). Thus, there's no such thing as fair and honest. Until there are objective definitions of these words, there's no way to abide by them. But that can never happen.
So what is fair? If Country A has a better education program than Country B, should they give some of their own educational funding to Country B until both programs are roughly equivelant? That's fair, right? I think the educators of Country A would disagree -- they's now lost funding through no fault of their own. Is it a more successful long term strategy? Well, you now have a larger pool of educated people to work on various projects, so while you may have delayed the discovery of the cure for B.O. in Country A, you've enabled Country B to discover the cure for morning breath. So should the world be socialist? But pure socialism hasn't succeeded ever, anywhere. Not even in small hippy communes where everyone's baked during all waking, and most sleeping hours.
So long term success.. is it better to screw over your neighbor, or play fair? The important thing is variety. In the long run, it doesn't make sense to stick to any one single strategy. Sometimes it's more effective to screw somebody over, and sometimes it's better to work together. I'm not talking about one person -- although certainly there are occasions where one should question whether their moral interest or disinterest is helpful -- but if cancer researchers in one part of the world are playing cutthroat; industrial espionnage, spying, etc., and researchers in another part of the world are collaborating, then you've got the best situation possible -- whichever is more effective will win. Since there's no way to predict the outcome in advance (only the likely outcome), it makes the most sense to diversify.
Aside from that, life isn't fair, and there's no way to make it fair. Natural disasters kill millions.. people's own bodies betray them.. some people are smart, some are not so smart. Should I feel bad because I'm (arguably) smarter than my dog? Or my neighbor? Or should I leverage my advantage and do everything I can with it? I think that's being "fair," in the long run. Taking advantage of whatever it is we can. It's the will to power.
There's a huge gap between being honest and being idealistic. Idealism, at its root, is the idea that the world should be perfect and behaving as if it were. Idealists point us in the direction we should go, but realists make things happen.
Playing fair is always a little harder.
There's no such thing as playing fair. It's a kindergarten concept that just doesn't work in the real world. It's like the old saying.. Honesty is everything. When you can fake that, you've got it made.
Wait, lemme get this straight.. When people are the underdog, they support measures to even the playing field, and when they're dominating, they support measures to keep themselves on top?
Holy sh*t, people are only out for themselves? When did that start?
Let's face it, 4 year old whining is almost as grating as MPAA whining.
The difference is: the MPAA can't comprehend even the most fundamental of concepts.
But really, the difference is: you can spank a 4 year old. I'm not telling you how to raise your kid, but oranges in a sock don't leave bruises.. just a little FYI.
So make sure to use something stronger -- you need to give them something to remember.
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Also, the versions of video releases sold to rental stores have a *huge* markup. I don't have much experience with the pricing scheme, but I stumbled across a vendor selling the rental version of one of the shitty Nemesis movies for something like $75. This is a movie you can get on DVD for about $5.
That was the case in the past, but it's not true anymore. Video stores rarely have to pay more than the consumer.. The catch is that the studios receive a cut of the rental fees. That's how most mom & pop video stores can stay in business. Places like Blockbuster probably still pay the exhorbitant prices because there's a strong chance they'll make their money back between renting and then selling the used DVD.
My vehicle grosses about 2800lbs when I'm sitting in it; that's going to do orders of magnitude less damage to the roads than a vehicle that weighs in at only 5600 lbs (stress durability is not a linear function of load).
What's with the/. predilection for using "orders of magnitude," in every other sentence? Wear and tear may not be a linear function of load, but I don't think a vehicle that weighs twice as much as the next will do critical amounts of damage unless you're exceeding some threshold for the strength of the asphault. Also, if your 2800lb vehicle has 40sq.in. of tire in contact with the pavement, and the 5600lb vehicle spreads its load over 120sq.in., which one is really causing more damage? (That's a serious question, not sarcasm..)
The thing is, this is a conflict between emissions (better fuel economy is good for pollution) and road maintenance (better fuel economy is bad for revenue). You can't have your cake and eat it too in many situations...
Well there's more to it than that too.. What about people who do most of their driving on federally funded highways, as opposed to those who stick to the state and city funded roads? What about farm vehicles? What about out-of-state vehicles?
The system doesn't even sound very good in theory, and when you try to talk about it in practice it just gets worse.
The Great State of California may be surprised to learn that all cars on the roads today already have the ability to report how many miles the vehicle has traveled. This amazing device is usually located either directly below, or in close proximity to the speedometer, and is often referred to as an odometer, or sometimes as a vehicle devaluator.
If they're really just interested in taxing by the mile, check the milage each year as part of the safety/smog inspection and charge accordingly.
Not to mention the inaccuracy or GPS.. If a car suddenly appears to jump 70 miles due to interference, will the driver be charged for that? And I guess it's free miles when solar flares drown out the GPS signals? Come to think of it, I like the idea of GPS much better than an odometer.. "I'm not sure who keeps stealing my antenna, officer. Damn kids."
As a Linux hobbiest and cat hater, I have been developing a machine to automatically identify and destroy common house cats, but I've had a problem luring them in to my yard. This automatic goldfish dispenser might be just what my plan needs to finally come to fruition.
The alternatives aren't limited to litigate or bust. They could revinvent their product, perhaps striking a deal with the license holders for the next medium. The hardware wouldn't change fundamentally, aside from the optical device. Besides, they're a subsidiary of Caster Communications, of Castrol fame.. they're hardly going to go out of business unless the parent company just decides to drop the idea altogether.
At any rate, after a quick glance at their press releases, it seems they're pursuing the HD market at the same time, so at least they're not putting all their eggs in the litigation basket.
Melanoma yes, but the viral target, P-glycoprotein, is commonly found in many types of cancer. The treatment was tested on metastacized melanoma cells, but they had to pick something after all. They also successfully targeted 12 other proteins, so there's no reason to believe this is limited to melanoma.
There are strong rumors that the PS3 will be unveiled in late March, to beat MS and Nintendo to the next-gen punch. If true, Sony is doing the exact thing MS is being accused of. Who knows when manufacturing and distribution would start, but it looks like MS is really just trying to keep up, rather than any sort of preemptive action.
Seems pretty risky to spend years in court for this. By the time this suit is finished, some other format may be on the market (HD-DVD, BluRay, whatever..) and the people who could afford this sort of thing will be purchasing newer technology.
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What? The most successful strategy was "Tit for Tat, with forgiveness." Aside from the fact that the whole issue is completely irrelevant to the real world -- it's a contrived situation -- Tit for Tat is not the same as fair. If someone kills your sister, it's fair to kill theirs? Maybe.. it depends on your definition of fair (same for honesty). Thus, there's no such thing as fair and honest. Until there are objective definitions of these words, there's no way to abide by them. But that can never happen.
So what is fair? If Country A has a better education program than Country B, should they give some of their own educational funding to Country B until both programs are roughly equivelant? That's fair, right? I think the educators of Country A would disagree -- they's now lost funding through no fault of their own. Is it a more successful long term strategy? Well, you now have a larger pool of educated people to work on various projects, so while you may have delayed the discovery of the cure for B.O. in Country A, you've enabled Country B to discover the cure for morning breath. So should the world be socialist? But pure socialism hasn't succeeded ever, anywhere. Not even in small hippy communes where everyone's baked during all waking, and most sleeping hours.
So long term success.. is it better to screw over your neighbor, or play fair? The important thing is variety. In the long run, it doesn't make sense to stick to any one single strategy. Sometimes it's more effective to screw somebody over, and sometimes it's better to work together. I'm not talking about one person -- although certainly there are occasions where one should question whether their moral interest or disinterest is helpful -- but if cancer researchers in one part of the world are playing cutthroat; industrial espionnage, spying, etc., and researchers in another part of the world are collaborating, then you've got the best situation possible -- whichever is more effective will win. Since there's no way to predict the outcome in advance (only the likely outcome), it makes the most sense to diversify.
Aside from that, life isn't fair, and there's no way to make it fair. Natural disasters kill millions.. people's own bodies betray them.. some people are smart, some are not so smart. Should I feel bad because I'm (arguably) smarter than my dog? Or my neighbor? Or should I leverage my advantage and do everything I can with it? I think that's being "fair," in the long run. Taking advantage of whatever it is we can. It's the will to power.
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If it takes your wife 2 hours to scan and prioritize 30 e-mails, I sure hope she doesn't work in triage.
There's a huge gap between being honest and being idealistic. Idealism, at its root, is the idea that the world should be perfect and behaving as if it were. Idealists point us in the direction we should go, but realists make things happen.
Playing fair is always a little harder.
There's no such thing as playing fair. It's a kindergarten concept that just doesn't work in the real world. It's like the old saying.. Honesty is everything. When you can fake that, you've got it made.
Didn't you hear? The freeways in California are actually Information Superhighways.
Ah.. good old Engelbert. Pioneer of the modern gooey, AND a classic lounge singer. What more could you ask for?
Nobody except perhaps the NetNews Team of Freie Universitaet Berlin. Whatever that is.
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Who has implemented Usenet Solution #45933:
Now killing all posts originating at Google Groups
Me too!
I keep hearing these reports that Apple is dying, BSD is dying, USENET is dying, and the one question I have to ask is: what's this USENET thing?
In summary, I don't utilize e-mail much to begin with, I didn't maintain the archives I had very well, and all my figures are speculative.
Or do people make it to the big chair because they recognize the limitations of idealism?
Wait, lemme get this straight.. When people are the underdog, they support measures to even the playing field, and when they're dominating, they support measures to keep themselves on top?
Holy sh*t, people are only out for themselves? When did that start?
Let's face it, 4 year old whining is almost as grating as MPAA whining.
The difference is: the MPAA can't comprehend even the most fundamental of concepts.
But really, the difference is: you can spank a 4 year old. I'm not telling you how to raise your kid, but oranges in a sock don't leave bruises.. just a little FYI.
So make sure to use something stronger -- you need to give them something to remember.
**Braces for the shocked and offended Flamebait mods**
Also, the versions of video releases sold to rental stores have a *huge* markup. I don't have much experience with the pricing scheme, but I stumbled across a vendor selling the rental version of one of the shitty Nemesis movies for something like $75. This is a movie you can get on DVD for about $5.
That was the case in the past, but it's not true anymore. Video stores rarely have to pay more than the consumer.. The catch is that the studios receive a cut of the rental fees. That's how most mom & pop video stores can stay in business. Places like Blockbuster probably still pay the exhorbitant prices because there's a strong chance they'll make their money back between renting and then selling the used DVD.
My vehicle grosses about 2800lbs when I'm sitting in it; that's going to do orders of magnitude less damage to the roads than a vehicle that weighs in at only 5600 lbs (stress durability is not a linear function of load).
/. predilection for using "orders of magnitude," in every other sentence? Wear and tear may not be a linear function of load, but I don't think a vehicle that weighs twice as much as the next will do critical amounts of damage unless you're exceeding some threshold for the strength of the asphault. Also, if your 2800lb vehicle has 40sq.in. of tire in contact with the pavement, and the 5600lb vehicle spreads its load over 120sq.in., which one is really causing more damage? (That's a serious question, not sarcasm..)
What's with the
The thing is, this is a conflict between emissions (better fuel economy is good for pollution) and road maintenance (better fuel economy is bad for revenue). You can't have your cake and eat it too in many situations...
Well there's more to it than that too.. What about people who do most of their driving on federally funded highways, as opposed to those who stick to the state and city funded roads? What about farm vehicles? What about out-of-state vehicles?
The system doesn't even sound very good in theory, and when you try to talk about it in practice it just gets worse.
The Great State of California may be surprised to learn that all cars on the roads today already have the ability to report how many miles the vehicle has traveled. This amazing device is usually located either directly below, or in close proximity to the speedometer, and is often referred to as an odometer, or sometimes as a vehicle devaluator.
If they're really just interested in taxing by the mile, check the milage each year as part of the safety/smog inspection and charge accordingly.
Not to mention the inaccuracy or GPS.. If a car suddenly appears to jump 70 miles due to interference, will the driver be charged for that? And I guess it's free miles when solar flares drown out the GPS signals? Come to think of it, I like the idea of GPS much better than an odometer.. "I'm not sure who keeps stealing my antenna, officer. Damn kids."
No, because HIV is a virus.. it was referring back to the original.. oh nevermind.
"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better,
but the frog dies in the process." - Mark Twain.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail constitutes prior art.
Perhaps no patents, but at least you may well have the honor of being the first person to ever use "art," to modify "Monty Python."
As a Linux hobbiest and cat hater, I have been developing a machine to automatically identify and destroy common house cats, but I've had a problem luring them in to my yard. This automatic goldfish dispenser might be just what my plan needs to finally come to fruition.
The alternatives aren't limited to litigate or bust. They could revinvent their product, perhaps striking a deal with the license holders for the next medium. The hardware wouldn't change fundamentally, aside from the optical device. Besides, they're a subsidiary of Caster Communications, of Castrol fame.. they're hardly going to go out of business unless the parent company just decides to drop the idea altogether.
At any rate, after a quick glance at their press releases, it seems they're pursuing the HD market at the same time, so at least they're not putting all their eggs in the litigation basket.
Melanoma yes, but the viral target, P-glycoprotein, is commonly found in many types of cancer. The treatment was tested on metastacized melanoma cells, but they had to pick something after all. They also successfully targeted 12 other proteins, so there's no reason to believe this is limited to melanoma.
You didn't scroll down far enough.. it's "-0 Creepy"
it's not spyware, it's just a virus
There are strong rumors that the PS3 will be unveiled in late March, to beat MS and Nintendo to the next-gen punch. If true, Sony is doing the exact thing MS is being accused of. Who knows when manufacturing and distribution would start, but it looks like MS is really just trying to keep up, rather than any sort of preemptive action.
Seems pretty risky to spend years in court for this. By the time this suit is finished, some other format may be on the market (HD-DVD, BluRay, whatever..) and the people who could afford this sort of thing will be purchasing newer technology.