Let's not forget the US government. As one who is fairly liberal, I'm acutely aware of the current administration's transgressions, but I'm sure it happens on both sides of the aisle.
What really needs to happen is to have a minimum IQ for serving on juries.
Great. Like I don't already get called for jury duty enough. Of course, maybe I have too high opinion of myself. Maybe this would exempt me from jury duty forever.
In keeping with the first item with your list, I would advise giving all the money you're spending on consultants who give you three sentence recommendations and give it to the people who actually have to work for a living.
I don't think that this is a case of astrotufing. That implies that both groups are corrupt or that one group is accountable to the other. Rather I think it's more like a case of the Baptists and the Bootleggers where two groups want the same thing but for vastly different reasons. I'd like to think that the disability rights group really does just want better access in voting, and that they just don't understand the consequences of their actions. The money is probably not so much a payoff as it is Diebold taking advantage of the situation and bolstering a potentially valuable ally. Of course, I haven't done my research, so for all I know the group is made up entirely of ex-diebold employees.
If it was their rent money, they'd have hocked the computer first
I don't think you can say for sure that someone who is truly addicted to gambling would sell their computer before wagering their rent money. I would imagine the nature of their addiction would incline them to think that they could make their money back in time to pay the rent.
I don't know what this law of averages is, or what exactly is being averaged here, but I'd like to see some facts first.
I think that the previous poster is referring to the fact that poker is a zero sum game. So, for you to win requires someone else to lose, or generally speaking you have to perform better than the average player.
Having said all of that, though, I feel just about as sorry as Vegas does when I take someone else's money through gambling. Everyone knows the risks going in, and it's their fault for not monitoring themselves.
NARC had a plot?! Come on. Narc had about as much of a plot as Final Fight or Double Dragon. That's not to say that NARC didn't have an anti-drug message, but I don't think it was preachy so much as ridiculous. I mean did anyone really think that there were junkies running around the streets throwing giant glowing hypodermics at people?
Well, when you're playing the board game, anyone can kick (or punch) other players for inducing too much lag into the game, without having to wait for an admin to do it for them.
Ever wonder why so many "classic" paintings from the renaissance are of nude reclining women
I don't think it's fair to compare classic renaissance paintings to modern commercial magazines. Anyone with an ounce of sense could tell you that magazines are clearly superior. Have you ever tried hiding Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" under your mattress? It just doesn't work. Don't even get me started on the problems caused by tapestries.
Today even the smallest children doesn't seem to be so fascinated by computer games. They have seen it all before, and they are used to the high quality so they demand so much more.
If anything I would think that such an attitude is a good thing. When these kids and teens grow up and become programmers and designers themselves, presumably, they will ignore the standards and conventions set by the previous generation, and come up with their own innovations. While it may be the case that game design had a brief renaissance in the past couple of years, I don't think you can say that innovation will ever be completely dead.
Yes, I appologize. That was intended as more of a satirical example rather than a movie that, even by Hollywood's current standards, wouldn't warrant a straight to video release. Of course, you never know. Maybe one day, in the not so distant future, we may get another Police Academy, full of that signature Gutenbergian quality.
I'd have to disagree, while I think it's true that sequels really started taking off in the 80's, there were plenty of movie plots that were reused prior to that time period. If you look at a lot of the spaghetti westerns, or world war II movies, or noir films of prior years, there is plenty of reuse of plots and character types and locales. So I don't think that you can say that movies were incredibly original in the past, I think it's more that we tend to remember the standouts and 20 or 30 years from now, peoeple will be saying the same things about movies (and videogames) as they are today, but no on will remember "Police Academy in Outer Space".
Blasphemy! How can you say that when StarCon2 clearly had an awesome melee option. I can't count the number of times that I played that against my friends, seeing if I could position my Shofixti Scout just right against that Chmmr Avatar.
Looking at a rundown of the tax that AFI, the lobby group mentioned in the article, has posted on their website
The tax would be payable on the actual cost of operating and maintaining the system, which DOR defines as including the following:
. . .
Taxes, licensing, and franchising costs
It would in fact appear that at least part of this tax is derived from the amount you pay in taxes.
Of course I always thought it worked the other way around, with the goverment taxing you on a service based on how much it cost them to run it, but this way is so much more cost effective, with the government not actually having to provide a service before taking your money.
Why was the safety monitoring system on a nuclear power plant exposed, even indirectly, to the internet?
Have we learned nothing from the Simpsons? Some poor morbidly obese man dressed in a mumu probably couldn't leave his house to perform his duties as safety inspector, so they had to set up a connection to the power plant. Really, I think that the problem was that damn drinking bird toy, if he had done his job correctly, none of this would have happened.
People also tend to hold on to their old console systems. I myself have a CoCo3, Atari 7800 (with 2600 and 7800 carts), Sega Master System (with 3d glasses), Sega CD/Genesis/32X, Super Nintendo, Nintendo, and more.
Yeah, but have you actually pulled any of those machines out recently? In college, my roommates and I dug up one of our old NES machines, but it would routinely take us 15 minutes of fiddling with it (Read: blowing on the cartridge, and other ineffectual methods we learned in our childhood) to get a game running. Admittedly, it was worth it just to get a working copy of Super Mario 3. I guess my point is that the machines themselves will degrade so it's important to not only maintain the ROMs, but the technology for reading them. Of course as you've already pointed out plenty of people do this already to varying degrees of legality.
if you're dumb enough to pay real $ for stuff in a computer game
Not necessarily. After all with other video games you pay an upfront cost (assuming you don't bootleg a copy) to gain access to all the content in a game. To take it further, some times people buy expansion packs that add new content onto their existing game. So on smaller scale, it does make sense for some people to spend some amount of money on in game items if they feel it improves their game experience. Now whether or not Johnny should have spent $1000 on his brand new +5 Staff of Asskicking is another question, but the core idea of paying for in-game items isn't fundamentally bad.
Personally, I'm happy to just pay the $40 up front to get access to my flak cannon and rocket launcher.
the existence of which is dependent on the solvency of the parent company and their desire to maintain the service.
The existence of any subscription based service is always dependent on these things, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't spend a little extra money if you feel it gets you better service. e.g. My local newspaper only costs 25 cents an issue at a newsstand, but something like 50 cents an issue to have it delivered. Plenty of people pay for this service even though any extra money they spend on a subscription may be lost if the paper goes under.
Actually, there has already been a large scale integration of biology and computing. You can see a summary of the work here. In fact they've already done a follow up experiment, and I here that there's a third project in the works.
Seeing part of the picture is better than none of the picture. Hopefully, we will have enough old men for an accurate interpretation of the elephant
That assumes that SCO lets people see different parts of the code, when in reality they will most likely display the same parts of the code to anyone willing to sign the NDA. So instead of the classic result of the story where each blind man senses a different feature of the elephant, each man is steered toward the same feature of the elephant without comprehending the whole.
I'd like to point you to Amendment VIII of the US constitution that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Of course if these "hackers" don't live in the US, then may God have mercy on their souls.
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Haven't you ever played The Game Of Life? The best part was selling off your kids and moving into the millionaire's estate.
Let's not give Bush too much credit. That's Karl Rove's MO. Bush is just along for the ride.
I suggest you rethink (yes I am assuming you support him) supporting GWB.But if he did that, then he'd be flip flopping!
Let's not forget the US government. As one who is fairly liberal, I'm acutely aware of the current administration's transgressions, but I'm sure it happens on both sides of the aisle.
Great. Like I don't already get called for jury duty enough. Of course, maybe I have too high opinion of myself. Maybe this would exempt me from jury duty forever.
I just can't believe that. You mean to tell me that there are shallow characters on TV who lack any sense of nuance? That's just crazy talk.
In keeping with the first item with your list, I would advise giving all the money you're spending on consultants who give you three sentence recommendations and give it to the people who actually have to work for a living.
I don't think that this is a case of astrotufing. That implies that both groups are corrupt or that one group is accountable to the other. Rather I think it's more like a case of the Baptists and the Bootleggers where two groups want the same thing but for vastly different reasons. I'd like to think that the disability rights group really does just want better access in voting, and that they just don't understand the consequences of their actions. The money is probably not so much a payoff as it is Diebold taking advantage of the situation and bolstering a potentially valuable ally. Of course, I haven't done my research, so for all I know the group is made up entirely of ex-diebold employees.
I don't think you can say for sure that someone who is truly addicted to gambling would sell their computer before wagering their rent money. I would imagine the nature of their addiction would incline them to think that they could make their money back in time to pay the rent.
I don't know what this law of averages is, or what exactly is being averaged here, but I'd like to see some facts first.
I think that the previous poster is referring to the fact that poker is a zero sum game. So, for you to win requires someone else to lose, or generally speaking you have to perform better than the average player.
Having said all of that, though, I feel just about as sorry as Vegas does when I take someone else's money through gambling. Everyone knows the risks going in, and it's their fault for not monitoring themselves.
NARC had a plot?! Come on. Narc had about as much of a plot as Final Fight or Double Dragon. That's not to say that NARC didn't have an anti-drug message, but I don't think it was preachy so much as ridiculous. I mean did anyone really think that there were junkies running around the streets throwing giant glowing hypodermics at people?
Well, when you're playing the board game, anyone can kick (or punch) other players for inducing too much lag into the game, without having to wait for an admin to do it for them.
I don't think it's fair to compare classic renaissance paintings to modern commercial magazines. Anyone with an ounce of sense could tell you that magazines are clearly superior. Have you ever tried hiding Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" under your mattress? It just doesn't work. Don't even get me started on the problems caused by tapestries.
If anything I would think that such an attitude is a good thing. When these kids and teens grow up and become programmers and designers themselves, presumably, they will ignore the standards and conventions set by the previous generation, and come up with their own innovations. While it may be the case that game design had a brief renaissance in the past couple of years, I don't think you can say that innovation will ever be completely dead.
Yes, I appologize. That was intended as more of a satirical example rather than a movie that, even by Hollywood's current standards, wouldn't warrant a straight to video release. Of course, you never know. Maybe one day, in the not so distant future, we may get another Police Academy, full of that signature Gutenbergian quality.
I'd have to disagree, while I think it's true that sequels really started taking off in the 80's, there were plenty of movie plots that were reused prior to that time period. If you look at a lot of the spaghetti westerns, or world war II movies, or noir films of prior years, there is plenty of reuse of plots and character types and locales. So I don't think that you can say that movies were incredibly original in the past, I think it's more that we tend to remember the standouts and 20 or 30 years from now, peoeple will be saying the same things about movies (and videogames) as they are today, but no on will remember "Police Academy in Outer Space".
Blasphemy! How can you say that when StarCon2 clearly had an awesome melee option. I can't count the number of times that I played that against my friends, seeing if I could position my Shofixti Scout just right against that Chmmr Avatar.
I was always more fond of Global Thermonuclear War. Unfortunately, the only winning move is not to play, so it got boring pretty quickly.
The tax would be payable on the actual cost of operating and maintaining the system, which DOR defines as including the following:
. . .
Taxes, licensing, and franchising costs
It would in fact appear that at least part of this tax is derived from the amount you pay in taxes.
Of course I always thought it worked the other way around, with the goverment taxing you on a service based on how much it cost them to run it, but this way is so much more cost effective, with the government not actually having to provide a service before taking your money.
Have we learned nothing from the Simpsons? Some poor morbidly obese man dressed in a mumu probably couldn't leave his house to perform his duties as safety inspector, so they had to set up a connection to the power plant. Really, I think that the problem was that damn drinking bird toy, if he had done his job correctly, none of this would have happened.
Yeah, but have you actually pulled any of those machines out recently? In college, my roommates and I dug up one of our old NES machines, but it would routinely take us 15 minutes of fiddling with it (Read: blowing on the cartridge, and other ineffectual methods we learned in our childhood) to get a game running. Admittedly, it was worth it just to get a working copy of Super Mario 3. I guess my point is that the machines themselves will degrade so it's important to not only maintain the ROMs, but the technology for reading them. Of course as you've already pointed out plenty of people do this already to varying degrees of legality.
Not necessarily. After all with other video games you pay an upfront cost (assuming you don't bootleg a copy) to gain access to all the content in a game. To take it further, some times people buy expansion packs that add new content onto their existing game. So on smaller scale, it does make sense for some people to spend some amount of money on in game items if they feel it improves their game experience. Now whether or not Johnny should have spent $1000 on his brand new +5 Staff of Asskicking is another question, but the core idea of paying for in-game items isn't fundamentally bad.
Personally, I'm happy to just pay the $40 up front to get access to my flak cannon and rocket launcher.
the existence of which is dependent on the solvency of the parent company and their desire to maintain the service.
The existence of any subscription based service is always dependent on these things, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't spend a little extra money if you feel it gets you better service. e.g. My local newspaper only costs 25 cents an issue at a newsstand, but something like 50 cents an issue to have it delivered. Plenty of people pay for this service even though any extra money they spend on a subscription may be lost if the paper goes under.
I don't think that will be a problem. I'm sure the crackers will take care of that part for them.
Man. I bet John Cleese could make a fortune teaching classes on defeating this system.
Actually, there has already been a large scale integration of biology and computing. You can see a summary of the work here. In fact they've already done a follow up experiment, and I here that there's a third project in the works.
That assumes that SCO lets people see different parts of the code, when in reality they will most likely display the same parts of the code to anyone willing to sign the NDA. So instead of the classic result of the story where each blind man senses a different feature of the elephant, each man is steered toward the same feature of the elephant without comprehending the whole.
I'd like to point you to Amendment VIII of the US constitution that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Of course if these "hackers" don't live in the US, then may God have mercy on their souls.