This results in gazillions of lusers eating up the Net's bandwidth
which in turn results in gazillions being spent upgrading the infrastructure.
Microsoft helped popularize cheap PCs, AOL helped popularize cheap Internet, Walmart may well popularize cheap Linux PCs. Every silver lining has a cloud, or something like that!;)
I don't have GTA3, but I tried this with Half-Life. It didn't help.
First the manager ticked me off in RL, then I kept getting my butt fragged by monsters in HL.:(
Palladium on the web will work the same way UNLESS there is a BENEFIT to leaving it off. If we do this before Palladium on by default becomes standard, we can actually win.
Yes, I agree, provided that we can make the non-Palladium sites (in aggregate) more attractive to the paying demographic than the Palladium sites.
So essentially we have to persuade people to spend more time on N-Pd sites than Pd sites. Pd sites are likely to include banks, boy-band fansites, official TV series spots (including geek faves like x-files.com, startrek.com etc.), movie trailer sites, Windows bugfix sites, and if we're not careful government sites like irs.gov (don't you want your tax info to be "secure"?).
There is damn near nothing which we can offer which will compete with all that; hell, this community has been offering free software equivalent to hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of proprietary stuff for close on a decade now, and we're only just barely making a dent in the user base.
This is a battleground which it will be strategically necessary to avoid completely; we *cannot* win this game without a complete revamping of society. Yes, an equal number of sites (or more accurately an equal perceived value of sites) requiring the refusing of cookies/Palladium would change the dynamic, but the competition here is for the most profitable demographic, and the *AA's and the Microsofts of this world have been targetting and conditioning those people for decades.
We cannot compete in a Palladium-infested commons. We must do anything and everything to keep Palladium off the commons.
What does the price of plane tickets have to do with it? We bought other things for more money, so there's no need for auditable voting machines? What point are you trying to make here (assuming you have one)?
Also, how do you make a machine that is intentionally biased against a candidate when you don't know who that might be? I'm sure they didn't hardcode the candidates and parties into the machine.
Two words: Easter egg.
A programmer from the voting machine company walks into the booth. She types a nonobvious sequence of buttons. A week later the company lands another ludicrously overbudgeted contract from the surprise winner of the election.
Couldn't happen? Why not? If the code isn't available for public review, and worse, there's no paper ballot for a backup audit (recount), how would you ever know?
There are so many sites that require cookies, often for no good reason, that setting your browser to always refuse can lock you out of a significant portion of the Web. You're basically left with the choice of accepting the invasion or contantly deciding whether to accept a cookie.
I suspect most people got tired very quickly of deciding and just accept all cookies. Now site designers say, "Oh, people don't mind, we never get complaints. Most people have them enabled anyway." They don't complain because once you give in you never know how many cookies you're getting (except by the increase in your spam percentage maybe).
Palladium on the Web will work the same way. Lots of people will leave it off at first, but when half the sites they want to visit (including things like online banking, for example) require PD to be switched on for entry, they'll be worn down into leaving it on all the time.
It's the lack of aftermath in that case that makes me think yes, absolutely, they will try exactly that. They haven't exactly been quaking in their boots since then, have they? They have plenty of support from the politicians and a public that's largely unaware of the issues. Why wouldn't they try it?
Apple has stated that they will not support this whole TCPA deal.
Where did you get this from? Apple sure haven't gone out of their way to make this position public... I haven't heard or seen a mumblin' word about it. Got a link? I'd be happy to hear it, but I don't believe that Apple has made any such statement.
I can't see that this way of honoring someone is any weirder or more disturbing than placing a dedication to them in a novel or movie, or an RPG for that matter. Compared to making a gemstone out of their remains it's positively quaint.
In any case, it's for the friends and family he left behind to decide what is an appropriate way to celebrate his passing. (Personally I found this gesture rather beautiful.)
I am not a consumer! I am a CITIZEN! Please use the word citizen. It's not politically correct, it's just correct.
Being a consumer and a citizen are not mutually exclusive. The grandparent even specifically included "the non-consuming public" in the list of the affected.
I don't normally comment on moderations, but this is hardly Insightful. The poster used a perfectly appropriate word for the point he was making; he didn't say you weren't a citizen, and in the context of the list his word was more correct, since he was pointing out that BOTH consumers and the non-consuming public were affected.
I don't normally comment on moderations, but this is hardly Insightful. In context it's not even correct; it's a knee-jerk reaction to a word which is frequently misused but was not in this case.
But a fantastic example of non-techie science fiction is the works of Zelazny. In his works, the plot hinges on mystical elements added to the universe. In the Incarnations of Immortality series, for example, the books hinge on the implications of the idea that the vital, metaphysical functions of the universe are tended by a set of demi-human avatars.
Sigh... Incarnations of Immortality is a series by Piers Anthony, not Roger Zelazny. Zelazney is best known for the Amber series, which would actually form a better example for your first category, since the Amber multiverse is a superset which contains our mundane little universe within it.
Thus, although the stories are full of magic, this isn't contradicted by the lack of overt magic in our particular piece of Shadow; you could therefore make the case that it is science fiction, just barely. In Incarnations magic is an integral part of the world, which puts it firmly in the fantasy camp; it does not follow the known structure of our universe.
I'd be willing to bet significant sums that the pilots who first used the phrase used it precisely because it sounds like a sexual innuendo (testicles spread to the walls by G forces).
All the military pilots I know (none of whom are women, they're still a tiny minority in that profession) are both testosterone-charged and pretty intelligent guys; that's a combination that lends itself to fairly involved sexual punnery.
I like chocolate covered coffee beans too, but they don't really have a lot of caffeine per volume. For a quick boost, I like Penguin brand caffeinated peppermints, or Penguin Reds (caffeinated cinnamons) for variety.
Three give you the same caffeine as a Coke, a box will enable you to see in the dark. And the penguins on the tin are just so cute!!!
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Funny, the site says $14.95 for one book a month or $19.95 for two. Where are you getting two bucks from?
Fahrenheit = (1.8 x Celsius) + 32
-40 = (1.8 x -40) + 32
You've geat mojo.
Geat mojo, hey? Heh, very sly! ;)
which in turn results in gazillions being spent upgrading the infrastructure.
Microsoft helped popularize cheap PCs, AOL helped popularize cheap Internet, Walmart may well popularize cheap Linux PCs. Every silver lining has a cloud, or something like that! ;)
That doesn't matter. Amazing Quantum Man, as a copyright holder, only has to suspect that the RIAA is distributing his material.
Well, maybe...
Maybe I need to play it in God mode.. :)
Then I must have imagined all those apples I ate from the grown-from-seed trees in my backyard while I was growing up.
Yes, I agree, provided that we can make the non-Palladium sites (in aggregate) more attractive to the paying demographic than the Palladium sites.
So essentially we have to persuade people to spend more time on N-Pd sites than Pd sites. Pd sites are likely to include banks, boy-band fansites, official TV series spots (including geek faves like x-files.com, startrek.com etc.), movie trailer sites, Windows bugfix sites, and if we're not careful government sites like irs.gov (don't you want your tax info to be "secure"?).
There is damn near nothing which we can offer which will compete with all that; hell, this community has been offering free software equivalent to hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of proprietary stuff for close on a decade now, and we're only just barely making a dent in the user base.
This is a battleground which it will be strategically necessary to avoid completely; we *cannot* win this game without a complete revamping of society. Yes, an equal number of sites (or more accurately an equal perceived value of sites) requiring the refusing of cookies/Palladium would change the dynamic, but the competition here is for the most profitable demographic, and the *AA's and the Microsofts of this world have been targetting and conditioning those people for decades.
We cannot compete in a Palladium-infested commons. We must do anything and everything to keep Palladium off the commons.
Their lousy voting systems don't affect the welfare of the rest of the nation at all.
What does the price of plane tickets have to do with it? We bought other things for more money, so there's no need for auditable voting machines? What point are you trying to make here (assuming you have one)?
Two words: Easter egg.
A programmer from the voting machine company walks into the booth. She types a nonobvious sequence of buttons. A week later the company lands another ludicrously overbudgeted contract from the surprise winner of the election.
Couldn't happen? Why not? If the code isn't available for public review, and worse, there's no paper ballot for a backup audit (recount), how would you ever know?
I suspect most people got tired very quickly of deciding and just accept all cookies. Now site designers say, "Oh, people don't mind, we never get complaints. Most people have them enabled anyway." They don't complain because once you give in you never know how many cookies you're getting (except by the increase in your spam percentage maybe).
Palladium on the Web will work the same way. Lots of people will leave it off at first, but when half the sites they want to visit (including things like online banking, for example) require PD to be switched on for entry, they'll be worn down into leaving it on all the time.
It's the lack of aftermath in that case that makes me think yes, absolutely, they will try exactly that. They haven't exactly been quaking in their boots since then, have they? They have plenty of support from the politicians and a public that's largely unaware of the issues. Why wouldn't they try it?
Where did you get this from? Apple sure haven't gone out of their way to make this position public... I haven't heard or seen a mumblin' word about it. Got a link? I'd be happy to hear it, but I don't believe that Apple has made any such statement.
In any case, it's for the friends and family he left behind to decide what is an appropriate way to celebrate his passing. (Personally I found this gesture rather beautiful.)
Being a consumer and a citizen are not mutually exclusive. The grandparent even specifically included "the non-consuming public" in the list of the affected.
I don't normally comment on moderations, but this is hardly Insightful. The poster used a perfectly appropriate word for the point he was making; he didn't say you weren't a citizen, and in the context of the list his word was more correct, since he was pointing out that BOTH consumers and the non-consuming public were affected.
I don't normally comment on moderations, but this is hardly Insightful. In context it's not even correct; it's a knee-jerk reaction to a word which is frequently misused but was not in this case.
So go to her site and download one. She encourages it.
Yes, the company is named.
Sigh... Incarnations of Immortality is a series by Piers Anthony, not Roger Zelazny. Zelazney is best known for the Amber series, which would actually form a better example for your first category, since the Amber multiverse is a superset which contains our mundane little universe within it.
Thus, although the stories are full of magic, this isn't contradicted by the lack of overt magic in our particular piece of Shadow; you could therefore make the case that it is science fiction, just barely. In Incarnations magic is an integral part of the world, which puts it firmly in the fantasy camp; it does not follow the known structure of our universe.
All the military pilots I know (none of whom are women, they're still a tiny minority in that profession) are both testosterone-charged and pretty intelligent guys; that's a combination that lends itself to fairly involved sexual punnery.
This may be the drug you're looking for.
Three give you the same caffeine as a Coke, a box will enable you to see in the dark. And the penguins on the tin are just so cute!!!