I don't get it. I Taliban kidnapped a reported, and executed him immediately, would the journalists run the story? Probably yes. Would the outcome be the same, i.e. would people be outraged? Probably yes.
So why do they claim that not publishing story about his kidnapping keeps him safer? If Taliban wants publicity with public execution, there is really no need to negotiate. Thus, I don't see the point of suppressing the information from the general public.
He's simplifying a bit, but he is generally right. Of course GW models account for the inequilibrium - the GP was just explaining why we wouldn't always see warming on even simpler model.
After virtual economy, which created virtual wealth for everyone, comes virtual warfare, which will allow the U.S. to maintain its virtual supremacy everywhere in the world.
...because I am tired of reports of apps not working on iPhone and other ways Apple limits it. If people care so much about freedom, why don't they stop using it?
I always also believed that the efficiency of government and large corporations is about the same, only that corporations cheat money out of each other by buying expensive stuff (so their inefficiency cancels out), but the government doesn't really cheat anyone (except maybe taxpayers), so its inefficiency won't cancel.
It's kinda like Pascal's law - companies are like molecules inside a vessel, government are like molecules that hit the walls, and taxpayers are the walls. And just like the walls feel the pressure of gas (though the pressure is everywhere the same), the taxpayers see being cheated by government (and thus think it is inefficient), but in reality, cheating occurs everywhere.
I think you can. The encryption can be made so user-friendly that you may safely say that you weren't aware that the P2P application you have is using encryption. This is assuming encryption is wrong - you may just as well not care.
Fork is always a waste of resources. There actually is a binary distribution with all the various patches (printers etc.) integrated, but it didn't work for me.
What I needed was to support printing from ChiWriter (an ancient scientific editor my father still uses), and it has its own printer drivers/fonts, and uses parallel port so it doesn't work with any modern printer.
I don't know much about VMWare, but isn't it commercial? And it seems like an overkill anyway. I like that the DosBox is quite small and it has a basic DOS integrated. It seems to me harder to setup/maintain VMWare image than DosBox, nevermind the filesystem integration.
Actually, that's not quite true. Unfortunately, DosBox developers concentrate to games only, to the point they refuse patches for non-gaming hardware like printers or network cards (which could be used to make old DOS software work).
I am not saying the emulator is not great, it is, just it focuses to much on games.
Yes, in fact, I was not suggesting to kill anybody, I deliberately used the word "invasion" to mean "control". Because, it is a parasitic strategy, and unfair to people in larger states (which apparently cannot have so low taxes).
Also, what I mean is while there is this advantage to being small, there is also a downside that you can make large countries angry by this, which may result in invasion (or other direct action against such states).
I am serious. Tax havens are parasitic states - they attract large companies and rich people by having very little taxes, but these taxes (and services for these companies) are large enough to comfortably feed the local population; while their own production capacity is nil. This is a minority strategy, and should be fought against.
It wouldn't help them anyway. Lithium may well block any emotional reaction. But in the end, to want freedom and justice is a rational thing. I doubt any sort of chemical can prevent a revolution, unless it would be a chemical to stop rational thinking; but who would want peasants like that?
Look at the military industry for example. There is a large market for guns, shells and missiles on one side, and also large market for bulletproof vests, armour and missile defense on the other side.
This is a similar situation. Especially the makers of internet filtering software, such as Cisco, should take note of this emerging market opportunity.
So, we should really keep the markets do their own thing, and the economy will grow and prosper.
TSR was the love child of two people with a creative idea and the willingness to put it on the line to see it bloom.
From what I have heard, TSR was pretty sue-trigger-happy even in the 90s. Some people here in Czechia wanted to translate and license their rulebooks after the Velvet Revolution, but TSR didn't allow it. So they created their own independent system, which had large majority of the market probably till 2000 (because they were the first RPG and in Czech).
Yes. But I would go even further in this. The main problem is the speed with which information travel.
In fantasy, information (and power) travels very slowly, so the parts of the world can be rather independent to be believable. That also means plots can be linear, because events in a new place doesn't depend on events from another place (usually, it's heroes who travel faster than information). So fantasy world is a lot easier to manage, because it's lot less dynamic.
However, in our world (or scifi), there is information society, so speed of information is very fast. This significantly alters the need to manage plot lines. Events on one side of the universe can greatly affect another side. This makes most scifis hard to do in computer.
I think it's no wonder that successful scifi worlds are post-apocalyptic, such as Fallout or System Shock. Post-acopalyptic sci-fi doesn't suffer from this problem. Or, another way to approach it is to change the scale - so now instead of more-or-less independent (information-wise) villages or towns you get independent planets or solar systems. But this is not a real scifi then - it's just a fantasy with futuristic weapons.
In particular, Cyberpunk is especially difficult for this reason.
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I don't get it. I Taliban kidnapped a reported, and executed him immediately, would the journalists run the story? Probably yes. Would the outcome be the same, i.e. would people be outraged? Probably yes.
So why do they claim that not publishing story about his kidnapping keeps him safer? If Taliban wants publicity with public execution, there is really no need to negotiate. Thus, I don't see the point of suppressing the information from the general public.
He's simplifying a bit, but he is generally right. Of course GW models account for the inequilibrium - the GP was just explaining why we wouldn't always see warming on even simpler model.
That's exciting news!
After virtual economy, which created virtual wealth for everyone, comes virtual warfare, which will allow the U.S. to maintain its virtual supremacy everywhere in the world.
CEO, is that you?
...because I am tired of reports of apps not working on iPhone and other ways Apple limits it. If people care so much about freedom, why don't they stop using it?
I always also believed that the efficiency of government and large corporations is about the same, only that corporations cheat money out of each other by buying expensive stuff (so their inefficiency cancels out), but the government doesn't really cheat anyone (except maybe taxpayers), so its inefficiency won't cancel.
It's kinda like Pascal's law - companies are like molecules inside a vessel, government are like molecules that hit the walls, and taxpayers are the walls. And just like the walls feel the pressure of gas (though the pressure is everywhere the same), the taxpayers see being cheated by government (and thus think it is inefficient), but in reality, cheating occurs everywhere.
And that's a good thing. Because if so, he really believes that.
Those who want Windows on their netbook can buy it, those who don't can't buy Linux. See?
Fixed that for you.
I think you can. The encryption can be made so user-friendly that you may safely say that you weren't aware that the P2P application you have is using encryption. This is assuming encryption is wrong - you may just as well not care.
Australia?
Fork is always a waste of resources. There actually is a binary distribution with all the various patches (printers etc.) integrated, but it didn't work for me.
What I needed was to support printing from ChiWriter (an ancient scientific editor my father still uses), and it has its own printer drivers/fonts, and uses parallel port so it doesn't work with any modern printer.
I don't know much about VMWare, but isn't it commercial? And it seems like an overkill anyway. I like that the DosBox is quite small and it has a basic DOS integrated. It seems to me harder to setup/maintain VMWare image than DosBox, nevermind the filesystem integration.
Thanks. That's why I learned not to nitpick about language - you never know if you are talking to a foreigner or not.
Anyway, this to/too thing was just a typo.
Actually, that's not quite true. Unfortunately, DosBox developers concentrate to games only, to the point they refuse patches for non-gaming hardware like printers or network cards (which could be used to make old DOS software work).
I am not saying the emulator is not great, it is, just it focuses to much on games.
Yes, in fact, I was not suggesting to kill anybody, I deliberately used the word "invasion" to mean "control". Because, it is a parasitic strategy, and unfair to people in larger states (which apparently cannot have so low taxes).
Also, what I mean is while there is this advantage to being small, there is also a downside that you can make large countries angry by this, which may result in invasion (or other direct action against such states).
There is also:
3. Invade tax havens.
I am serious. Tax havens are parasitic states - they attract large companies and rich people by having very little taxes, but these taxes (and services for these companies) are large enough to comfortably feed the local population; while their own production capacity is nil. This is a minority strategy, and should be fought against.
Yes. They should use 9-code.
It wouldn't help them anyway. Lithium may well block any emotional reaction. But in the end, to want freedom and justice is a rational thing. I doubt any sort of chemical can prevent a revolution, unless it would be a chemical to stop rational thinking; but who would want peasants like that?
Exactly! Maybe that was why I was sarcastic..
Look at the military industry for example. There is a large market for guns, shells and missiles on one side, and also large market for bulletproof vests, armour and missile defense on the other side.
This is a similar situation. Especially the makers of internet filtering software, such as Cisco, should take note of this emerging market opportunity.
So, we should really keep the markets do their own thing, and the economy will grow and prosper.
So what's preventing advertising companies to have global or localized ads, depending where the user lives?
I know Google does it, but all the other ads I see in Czech republic on the US pages are very local to America (companies/services I don't know).
The problem is he never faces directly to the camera, so he always be a mysterious white square with the current version of the software.
TSR was the love child of two people with a creative idea and the willingness to put it on the line to see it bloom.
From what I have heard, TSR was pretty sue-trigger-happy even in the 90s. Some people here in Czechia wanted to translate and license their rulebooks after the Velvet Revolution, but TSR didn't allow it. So they created their own independent system, which had large majority of the market probably till 2000 (because they were the first RPG and in Czech).
Yes. But I would go even further in this. The main problem is the speed with which information travel.
In fantasy, information (and power) travels very slowly, so the parts of the world can be rather independent to be believable. That also means plots can be linear, because events in a new place doesn't depend on events from another place (usually, it's heroes who travel faster than information). So fantasy world is a lot easier to manage, because it's lot less dynamic.
However, in our world (or scifi), there is information society, so speed of information is very fast. This significantly alters the need to manage plot lines. Events on one side of the universe can greatly affect another side. This makes most scifis hard to do in computer.
I think it's no wonder that successful scifi worlds are post-apocalyptic, such as Fallout or System Shock. Post-acopalyptic sci-fi doesn't suffer from this problem. Or, another way to approach it is to change the scale - so now instead of more-or-less independent (information-wise) villages or towns you get independent planets or solar systems. But this is not a real scifi then - it's just a fantasy with futuristic weapons.
In particular, Cyberpunk is especially difficult for this reason.
Me too. I skimmed through the paper; he just defines some functions, and he calls his new model Beckstrom's Law. How is his definition a law?