in some cases they're no better than gambling (ie: buy tokens to feed into this jackpot like system to win a random digital item!)
Not that I disagree with you, but what part of the gaming industry isn't preying off of exactly the same neurons as gambling? Nearly every game, be you buying the game itself, in-game purchases, or DLC, is getting its revenue almost entirely due to exploiting pleasure-seeking behavior.
Again, as was pointed out by someone else to (one of) you, AC, I made no assertive claims which needed a citation. I can hardly be charged with "I'm right even though I did the exact same thing." Such false equivalence is a cheap crutch.
I love how on Slashdot how threads frequently go, Poster A:"Well, this is true (with not citations)" Poster B: "No, that is wrong (with no citations)." Poster C: "No, B is wrong because they provide no citations (still no citations for A or C)". No one is providing concrete numbers or citations. You chew someone out for not being concrete, but then turn around and still are no concrete yourself, making vague comparisons because the word "argument" gets used in a lot of places that have no relevance to the issue. I would assume that most people who actually cared about the subject would take a quick Google search because it is a heavily researched topic.
You're not a victim of anything, as much as you wish to draw it that way.
As poster B, if you feel poster A needed held to account then do so - but two wrongs don't make a right. What Poster A needed was to be ignored. The post wasn't modded up, it was drawing no attention until you used it as a springboard for your totally offtopic ranting about taxes in general. If anything you gave it the credence you were attempting to deny it.
And despite your chest-inflating portrayal of the situation as the poor misguided bearer of light into this quagmire of no proof and faulty assumptions as to which arguments I "like", you really have no idea.
I can't help that my OT rant was modded up +2, but then again somehow so was yours./. has become the land of easy OT karma it appears.
Your bullshit would be more compelling if only more concrete.
A lot of argument already suggests the taxes are disproportionate to any impact.
A lot of argument suggests the morning after pill causes abortions. A lot of argument suggests homosexuality is a choice. A lot of argument doesn't make it so.
Are the taxes disproportionate to impact or not? Say something real.
I assume they only do that when behind schedule, same as the GE jet final assembly plant in Peebles, Ohio does. Truck or rail if on schedule, big honking cargo jet if behind.
There is an increasingly large number of devices (just about every lower power device of the last 5-7 years) which will play h.264 and not divx. Since the era of the iPod 5th gen ("iPod Video") the trend has been for h.264 hardware decoders paired to relatively weak CPUs.
Seems to me like the current pics have pixels thinner than 0.5 meters... I feel like I am missing something?
In many (most?) developed western areas the images are from planes, not satellites. There is a great deal of high-res aerial photography on the open market and Google has used much.
The development being discussed in the article will benefit outlying areas and places where having temporal density is useful.
For someone to short there has to not only be a robust market, but also a person (or people) taking equal and opposite long positions you can borrow from.
Do any of the trusted and established exchanges offer shorts?
At that point, the people with the massive computing power are going to have incentive to throw at least some of these Bitcoins into the market just to generate more trade volume.
Bitcoin's exchange rate against the USD has no bearing on its utility as a token of exchange.
With fast enough exchanges and sufficient enough liquidity ("enough" being the key word) the total amount of Bitcoins in circulation doesn't even have a large impact on trade volume. Bitcoins don't get consumed in the process of trading.
Therefore I don't see how those with massive computing power (for generating income through transaction processing) benefit by selling previously-hoarded coins. If anything they benefit by not selling their coins, maintain artificial scarcity and thus high exchange prices since they get paid in coin.
He was responding to someone talking about the efficiency of non-pitch-shifting rotors. He commented on how efficiency doesn't improve much once you introduce blade pitch-control. He used fixed-wing aircraft as a contrast.
That's all.
You were the one who chose this subthread as your Nteenth location for saying the same thing, ignoring relevance to the specific discussion at hand.
Sure this overall story is about QCs and rescue. But the subthread you chose to lose your mind in isn't.
As I said. A nit which wasn't offered. GPP mentioned the efficiency but in no way suggested that made them unfit for the job at hand. The only person running with that claim is you.
Quite aside from that, I don't think we're anywhere near the point where we can detect every single incoming photon, so there's still room for improvement regardless.
We're a lot closer than most people think. A hell of a lot closer than we are with solar panels.
And when is the last time you've heard of that happening to a commercially produced firearm? The only failures I hear of are cases where the firearm jams or accidentally discharges. Having the entire firearm blow up in your hand or have projectiles coming out of places other than the barrel is not something that gets any attention. And the accidental discharges are pretty much always the result of somebody handling the firearm in a way that's not safe.
Which suggests that it likely doesn't happen or is so common that it's no longer noteworthy. I suspect that it's the former as I've never heard of it happening in real life.
If you're not familiar with the Beretta 92F's (aka M9) habit of throwing slides into shooter's faces you haven't been paying attention to guns for very long. This isn't some Saturday night special failing in a catastrophic manner, this was a premium-priced weapon chosen to replace the 1911 as the US Army standard sidearm.
Despite Beretta's continual claim that the failures were due to military use of +P rounds, many prominent LE armorers have reported failures with standard pressure loads.
If you're a top act, like the ones signing that ad, your label really does take good care of you... It's the rest of the musicians, the majority, that get shafted by the RIAA business model.
We can prevent NK from bombing Seoul or marching 35 miles, if we strike hard enough in the first strike. It would help if China was on board, but it's not necessary.
We possibly could but that's not the real threat to the South.
NK is believed to have at least thirteen thousand artillery tubes pointed at Seoul. Most of them are embedded. We don't have that many bunker-buster bombs in inventory. We can't deliver that many precision munitions in an hour even if we did, and we don't know where most of the tubes are. Even the most conservative estimates (such as the recent one by Roger Cavazos) put the death toll at 30,000 Seoul civilians where the high end one count in the millions. And that's just the first hours.
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Not that I disagree with you, but what part of the gaming industry isn't preying off of exactly the same neurons as gambling? Nearly every game, be you buying the game itself, in-game purchases, or DLC, is getting its revenue almost entirely due to exploiting pleasure-seeking behavior.
Again, as was pointed out by someone else to (one of) you, AC, I made no assertive claims which needed a citation. I can hardly be charged with "I'm right even though I did the exact same thing." Such false equivalence is a cheap crutch.
You're not a victim of anything, as much as you wish to draw it that way.
As poster B, if you feel poster A needed held to account then do so - but two wrongs don't make a right. What Poster A needed was to be ignored. The post wasn't modded up, it was drawing no attention until you used it as a springboard for your totally offtopic ranting about taxes in general. If anything you gave it the credence you were attempting to deny it.
And despite your chest-inflating portrayal of the situation as the poor misguided bearer of light into this quagmire of no proof and faulty assumptions as to which arguments I "like", you really have no idea.
I can't help that my OT rant was modded up +2, but then again somehow so was yours. /. has become the land of easy OT karma it appears.
Your bullshit would be more compelling if only more concrete.
A lot of argument suggests the morning after pill causes abortions. A lot of argument suggests homosexuality is a choice. A lot of argument doesn't make it so.
Are the taxes disproportionate to impact or not? Say something real.
I assume they only do that when behind schedule, same as the GE jet final assembly plant in Peebles, Ohio does. Truck or rail if on schedule, big honking cargo jet if behind.
You're getting closer.
You seem to be forgetting that the signal is bandpassed before encoding. Thus any frequency below the Nyquest limit maps to a unique pattern.
A sound recording of duration 1/R second will generate one sample. The value of that single sample tells us virtually nothing about the sound.
Obviously,
For that signal has a period twice the lowpass frequency.
But you know what? The ear can't distinguish those either. What does a sub-cycle-length 21 Khz tone sound like?
It doesn't sounds like a continuous 21 Khz tone.
Such signals, in the context of hearing exist only in theory.
There is an increasingly large number of devices (just about every lower power device of the last 5-7 years) which will play h.264 and not divx. Since the era of the iPod 5th gen ("iPod Video") the trend has been for h.264 hardware decoders paired to relatively weak CPUs.
disingenuous sarcasm never got anyone anywhere, so good luck with that.
As if suggesting DivX wasn't sarcasm...
In many (most?) developed western areas the images are from planes, not satellites. There is a great deal of high-res aerial photography on the open market and Google has used much.
The development being discussed in the article will benefit outlying areas and places where having temporal density is useful.
For someone to short there has to not only be a robust market, but also a person (or people) taking equal and opposite long positions you can borrow from.
Do any of the trusted and established exchanges offer shorts?
Bitcoin's exchange rate against the USD has no bearing on its utility as a token of exchange.
With fast enough exchanges and sufficient enough liquidity ("enough" being the key word) the total amount of Bitcoins in circulation doesn't even have a large impact on trade volume. Bitcoins don't get consumed in the process of trading.
Therefore I don't see how those with massive computing power (for generating income through transaction processing) benefit by selling previously-hoarded coins. If anything they benefit by not selling their coins, maintain artificial scarcity and thus high exchange prices since they get paid in coin.
What bubble? Plenty of people performed transactions for houses in 2006 and went away happy. How was that a bubble?
What bubble? Plenty of people performed transactions of dot-com stocks up through early 2010 and went away happy. How was that a bubble?
If deadmanwalking != skitchen8 I apologize, but the verbiage smells the same.
He was responding to someone talking about the efficiency of non-pitch-shifting rotors. He commented on how efficiency doesn't improve much once you introduce blade pitch-control. He used fixed-wing aircraft as a contrast.
That's all.
You were the one who chose this subthread as your Nteenth location for saying the same thing, ignoring relevance to the specific discussion at hand.
Sure this overall story is about QCs and rescue. But the subthread you chose to lose your mind in isn't.
As I said. A nit which wasn't offered. GPP mentioned the efficiency but in no way suggested that made them unfit for the job at hand. The only person running with that claim is you.
You appear to be picking a nit which wasn't offered.
Bah! Forgot link.
http://www.sensorgen.info/
We're a lot closer than most people think. A hell of a lot closer than we are with solar panels.
If you're not familiar with the Beretta 92F's (aka M9) habit of throwing slides into shooter's faces you haven't been paying attention to guns for very long. This isn't some Saturday night special failing in a catastrophic manner, this was a premium-priced weapon chosen to replace the 1911 as the US Army standard sidearm.
Despite Beretta's continual claim that the failures were due to military use of +P rounds, many prominent LE armorers have reported failures with standard pressure loads.
Happy Wheels requires Flash.
http://www.totaljerkface.com/happy_wheels.php
If I'm hearing you right RIAA = Scientology?
Yea, because relays all can handle unlimited current.
This isn't an attempt to stop industrial-scale illegal logging. There are much easier ways to track and trace activity on that scale.
This is an attempt to stop "sustinance" logging. Literally poor individuals poaching timber.
We possibly could but that's not the real threat to the South.
NK is believed to have at least thirteen thousand artillery tubes pointed at Seoul. Most of them are embedded. We don't have that many bunker-buster bombs in inventory. We can't deliver that many precision munitions in an hour even if we did, and we don't know where most of the tubes are. Even the most conservative estimates (such as the recent one by Roger Cavazos) put the death toll at 30,000 Seoul civilians where the high end one count in the millions. And that's just the first hours.
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