Or, you force yourself to develop a taste for "adult" food so you can feel more grown-up.
I mean, who enjoys the taste of coffee initially? But you power through because that's what grown-ups drink and gosh darn it, you're grown up too! Eventually you acquire a taste for it, a more mature person might not even bother.
The best analogy would be if the Street View cars had microphones to record... I dunno, traffic noise level, and they accidentally recorded you and your wife having a shouting match out in your yard. All recorded from public property (the street), and all quite legal.
If it's not legal, then all those TV shows, filmmakers, and news gatherers who like wander around with a camcorder are in trouble.
The only real difference was that he took the (wholly orthodox) notion that "In a competitive market, the price of a commodity is equal to its marginal cost of production" combined that with the (also wholly orthodox) idea of "labor as commodity", and drew the unpleasant conclusion that "in a competitive market, the price of labor will be equal to the cost of bare subsistence for the laborer."
One overlooked fact is that, in a competitive market with low labor costs, the cost of goods is driven down too, which effectively makes the poor richer. (i.e., they get more for their dollar.) This has led to the modern phenomenon of the overweight poor person who has a cell phone, TV, and other previously-expensive products.
That's not meant as an attack, by the way. I myself am an overweight middle-class person with a smartphone, HDTV, and other previously-really-expensive products.
Well, the mantra of communism is "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." That's... pretty much exactly how open source works. Everyone sees the benefits regardless of how much work they put into it, whether that be designing the architecture the system, writing code, submitting bug reports, or even just submitting crash reports.
Well no, it fails on the "from each" part. There are plenty of users who could contribute to an open source project, but don't. It's not a perfect analogy, but the gist of it is that the Open Source movement doesn't require (or need) every capable person to contribute. But under a Communist system, it's assumed that everyone is contributing to the best of their abilities. (The question of motivating people is left to the reader.)
I guess you don't know what "collective punishment" means. It's not accidental collateral damage, or even mistaken attacks. It's when a known civilian group is deliberately punished. I.e., a village gets its water supply turned off.
The fact that you got modded to a 5 proves how little slashdotters know about common war concepts.
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The evidence for the efficiency and quality of government-run healthcare in other countries is indisputable
Is it really? I have yet to see year-to-year analysis of how government run healthcare is performing in various countries. It could be good now, but slowly sliding into corruption and inefficiency. You know, like most government programs.
It's practically like the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. In any government system, performance decreases while costs rise.
Apparently if you visit Brazil, Europeans and Brazilians go through one line. Americans, we can all step over here to get fingerprinted, retina scanned, etc.
Why? We do it to them, so they do it back. F.
Of course it backfires, since the American-only line tends to be shorter. So even with the additional data gathering, they get through faster.
Require each player to buy a copy of the game. The first StarCraft had spawn installations, and a $50 game quickly becomes a $200 game when mom and dad have to buy a copy for each PC.
And heck, you have to buy extra computers for your friends to play on, so that's even more money! Screw you Blizzard!
The explanation for mutants doesn't fit the original story line
These mutants are from a different strain of the same virus. Sure its a bit of a handwave, but its perfectly acceptable.
The Washington Monument is made from *stone*. There is *no* metal framework on the inside that would've resulted in it looking liked it did in the game
The game does have an alternate history. Its not like the rest of DC is 100% accurate either.
It's set *much* later than the earlier two -- This means that just about any pre-prepared food isn't going to be safe.
Said food is sealed and thoroughly irradiated. (With the Fallout universe's unrealistic radiation.)
The humor's just not the same. Yes, there's humor there, and I had hope in Bethesda (the lead on Oblivion was also an author of the RPG Paranoia), but it's not what I would've hoped for
Honestly I thought that Fallout 2 was a little bit too wacky.
I can totally see Apple releasing a new mac mini with this OS because *it just works*.
Then it won't be branded as "Mac OS X," and surely won't become the primary OS sold by Apple.
Are you sure its not Apple's primary OS already? Between soaring iPhone/iPod Touch sales and relatively stable Mac sales, I wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone OS had the same number of active copies if not more.
I can't find any good comparisons on the web, and all the browser stats I see just lump "Safari" together as one. But around my office I see a ton of iPhone owners, and only a handful of Mac users. Feel free to take your own anecdotal survey.
So, getting back to the point. This problem with this decision is not that it gives political power to corporations. The problem is that it gives political power to CEOs and directors (usually CEOs of other companies if not the same company), to use the resources of the corporation -- meaning the product of the labor of everyone working for it -- for the CEO's own political benefit.
Well the CEO is presumably granted permission to use company funds. If he deems it in the company's best interest to buy some advertisements, or political advertisements, or donate to a popular charity, well... I guess that's his discretion?
I'm not sure how we'd word a law that restricts a CEO without infringing on his rights as a citizen.
PDF forms are used when the form needs to be printed in a very specific format, or at least needs to exactly emulate their paper counterparts. e.g., tax forms, standardized contracts, employee waivers, etc. Even with stylesheets set up properly, printing out HTML is always an adventure.
So if an employee needs to, say, update their tax information, they can fill out the form online and submit it (securely) back to the employer. Then the employer can print it out themselves, file it, or whatever. Beats mailing around paper or having someone come into the main office.
If we brought all of the insurgents home? I don't know if that's feasible. I mean, are they even housebroken?
Oh... you meant if we bring all our soldiers home. Well, since the insurgents generally attack the local government and civilians, I don't think their behavior would change very much.
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I heard that Foxconn's suicide rate is below that of the general Chinese populace. But that doesn't stop people from overreacting I guess.
I'm sure the 800,000 newly unemployed people will understand.
* Olestra, remember that one? Eat a bag of chips, get "anal leakage".
That's a common myth. Check a bag of Olestra-using chips (if you can find one); you'll see no such warning.
But, you know, thanks for keeping that urban legend alive and preventing healthier junk food from succeeding in the market.
Or, you force yourself to develop a taste for "adult" food so you can feel more grown-up.
I mean, who enjoys the taste of coffee initially? But you power through because that's what grown-ups drink and gosh darn it, you're grown up too! Eventually you acquire a taste for it, a more mature person might not even bother.
The best analogy would be if the Street View cars had microphones to record... I dunno, traffic noise level, and they accidentally recorded you and your wife having a shouting match out in your yard. All recorded from public property (the street), and all quite legal.
If it's not legal, then all those TV shows, filmmakers, and news gatherers who like wander around with a camcorder are in trouble.
The only real difference was that he took the (wholly orthodox) notion that "In a competitive market, the price of a commodity is equal to its marginal cost of production" combined that with the (also wholly orthodox) idea of "labor as commodity", and drew the unpleasant conclusion that "in a competitive market, the price of labor will be equal to the cost of bare subsistence for the laborer."
One overlooked fact is that, in a competitive market with low labor costs, the cost of goods is driven down too, which effectively makes the poor richer. (i.e., they get more for their dollar.) This has led to the modern phenomenon of the overweight poor person who has a cell phone, TV, and other previously-expensive products.
That's not meant as an attack, by the way. I myself am an overweight middle-class person with a smartphone, HDTV, and other previously-really-expensive products.
Well, the mantra of communism is "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." That's... pretty much exactly how open source works. Everyone sees the benefits regardless of how much work they put into it, whether that be designing the architecture the system, writing code, submitting bug reports, or even just submitting crash reports.
Well no, it fails on the "from each" part. There are plenty of users who could contribute to an open source project, but don't. It's not a perfect analogy, but the gist of it is that the Open Source movement doesn't require (or need) every capable person to contribute. But under a Communist system, it's assumed that everyone is contributing to the best of their abilities. (The question of motivating people is left to the reader.)
So you're saying that Chinese businesses aren't more corrupt than Western ones?
Your attempt at moral equivalence is as rickety as, well, Chinese research papers.
All of their "charming games with intelligent dialogue" sold pretty poorly. I guess they just learned their lesson.
I guess you don't know what "collective punishment" means. It's not accidental collateral damage, or even mistaken attacks. It's when a known civilian group is deliberately punished. I.e., a village gets its water supply turned off.
The fact that you got modded to a 5 proves how little slashdotters know about common war concepts.
The evidence for the efficiency and quality of government-run healthcare in other countries is indisputable
Is it really? I have yet to see year-to-year analysis of how government run healthcare is performing in various countries. It could be good now, but slowly sliding into corruption and inefficiency. You know, like most government programs.
It's practically like the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. In any government system, performance decreases while costs rise.
Also, it folds up to protect its screens when not in use. That's kind-of a nice feature in and of itself.
QA in the gaming industry only seems shitty because it's pretty much the cutting edge of hardware and software technology.
Can you name a piece of mainstream consumer electronics (i.e. not a PC) that's more powerful than the Xbox 360 or the PS3? I can't think of one.
Apparently if you visit Brazil, Europeans and Brazilians go through one line. Americans, we can all step over here to get fingerprinted, retina scanned, etc.
Why? We do it to them, so they do it back. F.
Of course it backfires, since the American-only line tends to be shorter. So even with the additional data gathering, they get through faster.
Instead of three 10 mission campaigns, there will be three 30 mission campaigns.
Plus, multiplayer for all three races will be in the first release. And presumably new units for all three sides will be added with each expansion.
So... quit whining?
Require each player to buy a copy of the game. The first StarCraft had spawn installations, and a $50 game quickly becomes a $200 game when mom and dad have to buy a copy for each PC.
And heck, you have to buy extra computers for your friends to play on, so that's even more money! Screw you Blizzard!
Reminds me of this comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/8/25/
The explanation for mutants doesn't fit the original story line
These mutants are from a different strain of the same virus. Sure its a bit of a handwave, but its perfectly acceptable.
The Washington Monument is made from *stone*. There is *no* metal framework on the inside that would've resulted in it looking liked it did in the game
The game does have an alternate history. Its not like the rest of DC is 100% accurate either.
It's set *much* later than the earlier two -- This means that just about any pre-prepared food isn't going to be safe.
Said food is sealed and thoroughly irradiated. (With the Fallout universe's unrealistic radiation.)
The humor's just not the same. Yes, there's humor there, and I had hope in Bethesda (the lead on Oblivion was also an author of the RPG Paranoia), but it's not what I would've hoped for
Honestly I thought that Fallout 2 was a little bit too wacky.
I can totally see Apple releasing a new mac mini with this OS because *it just works*.
Then it won't be branded as "Mac OS X," and surely won't become the primary OS sold by Apple.
Are you sure its not Apple's primary OS already? Between soaring iPhone/iPod Touch sales and relatively stable Mac sales, I wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone OS had the same number of active copies if not more.
I can't find any good comparisons on the web, and all the browser stats I see just lump "Safari" together as one. But around my office I see a ton of iPhone owners, and only a handful of Mac users. Feel free to take your own anecdotal survey.
Then would you prefer a video game where you have to control every step of the player character's walking?
It's been done, to hilarious effect I might add.
So, getting back to the point. This problem with this decision is not that it gives political power to corporations. The problem is that it gives political power to CEOs and directors (usually CEOs of other companies if not the same company), to use the resources of the corporation -- meaning the product of the labor of everyone working for it -- for the CEO's own political benefit.
Well the CEO is presumably granted permission to use company funds. If he deems it in the company's best interest to buy some advertisements, or political advertisements, or donate to a popular charity, well... I guess that's his discretion?
I'm not sure how we'd word a law that restricts a CEO without infringing on his rights as a citizen.
Decades later we are still somehow surprised by the ferocity of indigenous revolt to foreign rule
Foreign movies = Foreign rule? I'll have to keep that in mind for when I start my own totalitarian dictatorship this summer.
Not to mention the low framecount making the compression even better! Heck, they probably use an animated gif with some kind of synchronized audio.
PDF forms are used when the form needs to be printed in a very specific format, or at least needs to exactly emulate their paper counterparts. e.g., tax forms, standardized contracts, employee waivers, etc. Even with stylesheets set up properly, printing out HTML is always an adventure.
So if an employee needs to, say, update their tax information, they can fill out the form online and submit it (securely) back to the employer. Then the employer can print it out themselves, file it, or whatever. Beats mailing around paper or having someone come into the main office.
...if we brought them all home?
If we brought all of the insurgents home? I don't know if that's feasible. I mean, are they even housebroken?
Oh... you meant if we bring all our soldiers home. Well, since the insurgents generally attack the local government and civilians, I don't think their behavior would change very much.
"Hollywood once again demonstrates its close ties to Washington DC"
"Washington DC once again demonstrates its close ties to Hollywood"
Ha, sounds like the Republican vs. Democratic versions of the relationship. Kind of a lame "In Soviet Russia..." style joke.
People would be paying for this theoretical service either way. Either with money, or with time and effort from contributing.
I'm not sure how the "have-nots" would get onto this pay service long enough to complain about the participation-based pricing structure anyway.