The problem encountered by those reporting on the concentration camps was that in the FIRST world war, everybody got exposed to extreme propaganda depicting all germans as vile creatures. When the exaggerations and lies were brought to light, the public had then learned to seriously doubt such extreme accusations. It could be argued that when the reports from Jan Karski (an eyewitness to the ghetto and concentration camp conditions) were dismissed, it was due to that legacy of doubt in 1943.
The reporting during WWI damaged the credibility of all reporting during WWII.
jcr (53032): Allied propagandists didn't have the imagination to come up with anything like the holocaust.
They most certainly did have the imagination, but they realized that they did not have a willing audience for such accusations. Successful PR cannot be had with seemingly wild claims, especially if the organization has been shown to greatly overexaggerate in the past.
It entirely depends on where you go. Perhaps the difference here is between a technical education and a university education.
I went to an engineering school and saw an average of 20 hours per semester. They offered a very popular option of spreading the courseload over five years (with no additional tuition fees) to reduce that average a bit. I think it was a total of 156 credits, but if you ignore the PhysEd (I think it's a NJ mandate) and humanities credits you approach the 'standard' courseload which doesn't resemble your example of a general curriculum with engineering on top - closer to the opposite, actually.
As for dual degrees: a roommate of mine was attempting to get a BE and Masters within 4 years before he figured out that 30 hours may be a bit much. I think he envied my 5 hours of sleep each night.
I was able to participate in a sport and a have a limited role in a couple clubs but, due to the heavy courseload, time was a very precious resource and everybody understood the situation.
Lastly, the commuters probably had it worst: a perennial problem with parking in addition to the traffic nightmare of being closely situated between two of the three roads connecting NJ and Manhattan. Beautiful view, though...
Seeing as how your comment is moderated +5 insightful... I'll bite.
First you say, "just give us the lower price". Then you say BestBuy should follow WalMart's example of selling other items at 300% markup. In either case, one sale is subsidizing another sale and, in your example, BestBuy subsidizes the rebate with the same item being marked up.
All of this is a no brainer: just don't buy any random thing and understand that entering a store doesn't require purchasing a product. We're not talking about essentials (food, shelter) when discussing these rebates - if a store wants to sell Bic pens for $100 each, and offer $99.99 rebates: what's to stop them? Caveat emptor, and all that.
Your scam concept falls apart when you account for more than one store available to consumers. If the item really costs the retailer only $49.99, it would be easy to find some other store that sells it for only slightly more than cost. Such competition does still exist.
As for the case that people don't bother submitting rebate forms, how is that the store's fault?
> q What do you want to drink? [fgh or ?*] > ? Potions
f - an uncursed potion of BALCO's gain strength
g - a blessed potion of T.Leary's hallucination
h - a blessed potion of Suntory's gain energy > h Magical energies course through your body.
The CSI team will pursue people that have multiple stars hovering over their heads.
*SPOILER WARNING* They'll catch the bad guys using video evidence, without explaining who recorded it from 3ft above and 6 ft behind each of them. None of the video will expose their faces, but there's extensive footage of their backs - apparently that's enough for a conviction.
Read the values of the leaky caps, get replacements, or near enough in value replacements. This will probably cost about $5.
A couple years ago, I had my own experience with this problem but I remember the cost being a bit more than $20. If there's a serious problem with one cap, ALL are suspect.
I was lucky in that the only physical symptom was very minor bloating on the few affected. This made it much harder to track down, but it also meant that the corrosive juices had not made contact with anything else. It was the incessant rebooting that made me take a much closer look.
At a minimum, replace the known bad caps and all neighboring ones too. The soldering involved can be tricky, so I don't advise this for beginners.
Just so you know, it took RSA Laboratories 4.5 months to officially annouce the factoring of RSA-576. As for my first comment in that thread, I remember being in a real bad mood before reading the article: one of my rare outbursts.:(
They did a good job mixing both creepy and "boo" scary. And the nurses, with their flailing heads, was rather disturbing.
The worst was entering a hospital room: hearing their sound and only having time to brace yourself for the attack. For those who haven't played the game, passing through closed doors loads a new scene and resets the camera perspective making it hard to acclimate to the new environment and harder to aim. Entering a new scene also allows for the possibility of an enemy character to suddenly appear right next to yours and the chances of that happening in a small hospital room are expected to be pretty good.
Overall, the audio was well done. One example that comes to mind is the running footsteps around the gallows - the source of the sound is always just out of sight (it's a big, dark room).
By the middle of the game I thought the story was of James hallucinating and all the enemy characters were actually regular people that he simply thought were monsters. IMO, much of the game would have made more sense - the idea came to me when reading the magazine articles that are encountered in the game. But they just had to have a love story... (which I must admit was interesting).
The best I've ever done (without the cheating) was The Castle, at which point I forgot that I wasn't wearing WaterWalkingBoots (had on +4 SpeedBoots) and screwed up much of my inventory in one step. Oh yeah, those damned RustMonsters didn't help either. Sigh, I don't think I'll get that far anytime soon.
The only contest I would have some success with here is the Most Unique Deaths. I'm quite practiced in that, although not by choice.:(
Ha. I would have never thought of trying this one: petrified by attempting to saddle a cockatrice. Actually, now that I re-read it, that just sounds wrong.
Here's a site with some info on all the rampages for GTA3: targets are either random cars or specific gangs. Note that no rampage mission will credit a non-gang pedestrian kill.
Initially there may be other pedestrians in the vicinity when starting a rampage, but all newly spawned pedestrian NPCs are always of the target group - this makes it appear that any pedestrian can be targetted. The exceptions to this are law enforcement (try with a Wanted rating above 2 before accepting the mission) and medical, but you'll see that wasting these personnel will not assist in the mission.
I haven't played VC or SA, but the rules appear to be the same there too.
Either way, no rampage mission in GTA3 will credit a non-gang pedestrian kill. nmb3000 (741169) was correct.
Consider that the members of the MPAA pay dues specifically allocated to counter piracy. If these members see nothing being done, then their millions in dues can be reasonably argued to be just a waste. Apparently, NBC/GE/Universal threatened to withdraw membership a year ago over this very issue and the article mentions that NBC/GE/Universal isn't interested in this measure either - perhaps they're playing hardball with the MPAA, I don't know.
Following up on your comment (Better use for money), the MPAA anti-piracy group has to spend the money on something/anything. You keep encountering these attempts from the industry for partially political reasons, not wholly economic ones.
A typical requirement for lifesupport or other extremely critical processes is that everything needs to be bullet-proof. Here the company is admitting that the product is not guaranteed to meet such strict requirements.
It's a simple tradeoff between quality and availability/cost. You wouldn't be concerned if there was a bug that caused a $50 video game to hickup rarely, but you'd probably be screaming mad if a bug in your $50k pacemaker would cause it to hickup even once.
As for a non-lifesupport example, I've notice that some EULAs mention that the software is not to be used in control systems within nuclear power plants.
Anyway, that particular statement shouldn't cause concern. That is, unless you've already sold your Java Defibrillator program to someone.
I grew up during the 1980's with the understanding that copyrights lasted forever. Everyone around me had drunk the same KoolAid and few people could respond to strange questions from a child like, "Why not write every possible combination of text characters and get the copyright on the English language?" or the same idea with musical scores.
The situation would have made a whole lot more sense if there was any news about copyrights expiring but it just didn't happen until I was an adult, with the 1998 Extension Act. Well, considering that law, I guess it's now true that expirations won't happen anymore.
Let the Euros piss and moan, after which if they don't like the US influence over the Internet, they can instead join Fidonet http://www.fidonet.us/joinfido.htm:)... by joining through a *.us site.
In a microeconomics class I took a few years ago, the prof introduced an interesting concept that plotted happiness against wealth following a logarithmic curve. The idea was that with each additional 10k, the happiness associated with the increased wealth decreases with each increment until it becomes almost negligible. The converse also was illustrated in that each 10k of reduced wealth is associated with an ever growing decrease in happiness, which at some personal point assumes a negative value (sadness) and ultimately reaches a final personal fixed point of maximum misery - usually expressed as suicide.
Not everyone behaves this way (some odd people feel accomplishment with the loss of wealth) and the plot requires wealth to be the only influence on an individual's emotional state, but I found it to be an interesting take on the subject in a way similar to Pascal's Wager on the existence of God.
Very strange: the captcha for this post is 'gamble', the example act used by the professor for this very subject.
I'd like to see you try changing your fingerprints. Reminds me of this guy, though it was poorly executed. Unfortunately for him, even if it was done well any future robbery investigations would be simpler given that very few people have blank fingerprints.
Back on topic, the real problem with biometric security measures is that it's easier to remove body parts than it is to fake them. If given the option of being forced to provide a means of authentication, I'd prefer losing control of a passphrase over losing an eye if only because it's far easier for me to eventually regenerate a new passphrase.
from the million-to-one dept. Anonymous reader writes: "They've found life under the surface of Mars[nasa.gov]! What's more, they can communicate with us (but only in Swahili)!"Update: 10/22 22:20 GMT by Zonk: Really sorry about this dupe - thanks for all the hate emails though.
To which TrollingBot2000 replies with:
Yeah because Micro$oft is TEH GHEY!!1!
Fri$t Ps0+ dood!!!``1`~1!!!
As you can see, no matter what the topic - it becomes abundantly clear that Microsoft some evil hand to play with only ONE degree of seperation. I'm really surprised you thought six degrees would be a challenge here.
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yashinka (891973): I would guess 99% of all people don't know the difference between memory and a harddrive.
:)
It should be noted that, in most cases, they are virtually the same.
The problem encountered by those reporting on the concentration camps was that in the FIRST world war, everybody got exposed to extreme propaganda depicting all germans as vile creatures. When the exaggerations and lies were brought to light, the public had then learned to seriously doubt such extreme accusations. It could be argued that when the reports from Jan Karski (an eyewitness to the ghetto and concentration camp conditions) were dismissed, it was due to that legacy of doubt in 1943.
The reporting during WWI damaged the credibility of all reporting during WWII.
jcr (53032): Allied propagandists didn't have the imagination to come up with anything like the holocaust.
They most certainly did have the imagination, but they realized that they did not have a willing audience for such accusations. Successful PR cannot be had with seemingly wild claims, especially if the organization has been shown to greatly overexaggerate in the past.
Ba Au-H20
:)
It entirely depends on where you go. Perhaps the difference here is between a technical education and a university education.
I went to an engineering school and saw an average of 20 hours per semester. They offered a very popular option of spreading the courseload over five years (with no additional tuition fees) to reduce that average a bit. I think it was a total of 156 credits, but if you ignore the PhysEd (I think it's a NJ mandate) and humanities credits you approach the 'standard' courseload which doesn't resemble your example of a general curriculum with engineering on top - closer to the opposite, actually.
As for dual degrees: a roommate of mine was attempting to get a BE and Masters within 4 years before he figured out that 30 hours may be a bit much. I think he envied my 5 hours of sleep each night.
I was able to participate in a sport and a have a limited role in a couple clubs but, due to the heavy courseload, time was a very precious resource and everybody understood the situation.
Lastly, the commuters probably had it worst: a perennial problem with parking in addition to the traffic nightmare of being closely situated between two of the three roads connecting NJ and Manhattan. Beautiful view, though...
From your link: Signs and symptoms: XXY males are almost always infertile, and some degree of language impairment may be present.
Long-story-short: the gamergod.com article is advocating less dialog within games.
Seeing as how your comment is moderated +5 insightful... I'll bite.
First you say, "just give us the lower price". Then you say BestBuy should follow WalMart's example of selling other items at 300% markup. In either case, one sale is subsidizing another sale and, in your example, BestBuy subsidizes the rebate with the same item being marked up.
All of this is a no brainer: just don't buy any random thing and understand that entering a store doesn't require purchasing a product. We're not talking about essentials (food, shelter) when discussing these rebates - if a store wants to sell Bic pens for $100 each, and offer $99.99 rebates: what's to stop them? Caveat emptor, and all that.
Your scam concept falls apart when you account for more than one store available to consumers. If the item really costs the retailer only $49.99, it would be easy to find some other store that sells it for only slightly more than cost. Such competition does still exist.
As for the case that people don't bother submitting rebate forms, how is that the store's fault?
> q
What do you want to drink? [fgh or ?*]
> ?
Potions
f - an uncursed potion of BALCO's gain strength
g - a blessed potion of T.Leary's hallucination
h - a blessed potion of Suntory's gain energy
> h
Magical energies course through your body.
If you can't bother with previewing the comment, at least post as "code" instead of "plain old text".
Code comments are fundamentally about presentation and your example is really messy. The less-than (<) character got lost too.
The CSI team will pursue people that have multiple stars hovering over their heads.
*SPOILER WARNING*
They'll catch the bad guys using video evidence, without explaining who recorded it from 3ft above and 6 ft behind each of them. None of the video will expose their faces, but there's extensive footage of their backs - apparently that's enough for a conviction.
Read the values of the leaky caps, get replacements, or near enough in value replacements. This will probably cost about $5.
A couple years ago, I had my own experience with this problem but I remember the cost being a bit more than $20. If there's a serious problem with one cap, ALL are suspect.
I was lucky in that the only physical symptom was very minor bloating on the few affected. This made it much harder to track down, but it also meant that the corrosive juices had not made contact with anything else. It was the incessant rebooting that made me take a much closer look.
At a minimum, replace the known bad caps and all neighboring ones too. The soldering involved can be tricky, so I don't advise this for beginners.
Just so you know, it took RSA Laboratories 4.5 months to officially annouce the factoring of RSA-576. :(
As for my first comment in that thread, I remember being in a real bad mood before reading the article: one of my rare outbursts.
Absolutely nothing can top the minimalist jazz in Pong.
... ... ... boop
... ... boo-beep
... ... ... boop
... bee ... beep ... ... boop
...
Beep
boo
And the music was generated through gameplay - a concept WAY AHEAD of it's time.
Oh, yeah! I can dig it!
They did a good job mixing both creepy and "boo" scary. And the nurses, with their flailing heads, was rather disturbing.
The worst was entering a hospital room: hearing their sound and only having time to brace yourself for the attack. For those who haven't played the game, passing through closed doors loads a new scene and resets the camera perspective making it hard to acclimate to the new environment and harder to aim. Entering a new scene also allows for the possibility of an enemy character to suddenly appear right next to yours and the chances of that happening in a small hospital room are expected to be pretty good.
Overall, the audio was well done. One example that comes to mind is the running footsteps around the gallows - the source of the sound is always just out of sight (it's a big, dark room).
By the middle of the game I thought the story was of James hallucinating and all the enemy characters were actually regular people that he simply thought were monsters. IMO, much of the game would have made more sense - the idea came to me when reading the magazine articles that are encountered in the game. But they just had to have a love story... (which I must admit was interesting).
How many people actually ascend?
:(
The best I've ever done (without the cheating) was The Castle, at which point I forgot that I wasn't wearing WaterWalkingBoots (had on +4 SpeedBoots) and screwed up much of my inventory in one step. Oh yeah, those damned RustMonsters didn't help either. Sigh, I don't think I'll get that far anytime soon.
The only contest I would have some success with here is the Most Unique Deaths. I'm quite practiced in that, although not by choice.
Ha. I would have never thought of trying this one: petrified by attempting to saddle a cockatrice.
Actually, now that I re-read it, that just sounds wrong.
Here's a site with some info on all the rampages for GTA3: targets are either random cars or specific gangs. Note that no rampage mission will credit a non-gang pedestrian kill.
Initially there may be other pedestrians in the vicinity when starting a rampage, but all newly spawned pedestrian NPCs are always of the target group - this makes it appear that any pedestrian can be targetted. The exceptions to this are law enforcement (try with a Wanted rating above 2 before accepting the mission) and medical, but you'll see that wasting these personnel will not assist in the mission.
I haven't played VC or SA, but the rules appear to be the same there too.
Either way, no rampage mission in GTA3 will credit a non-gang pedestrian kill.
nmb3000 (741169) was correct.
Consider that the members of the MPAA pay dues specifically allocated to counter piracy. If these members see nothing being done, then their millions in dues can be reasonably argued to be just a waste. Apparently, NBC/GE/Universal threatened to withdraw membership a year ago over this very issue and the article mentions that NBC/GE/Universal isn't interested in this measure either - perhaps they're playing hardball with the MPAA, I don't know.
Following up on your comment (Better use for money), the MPAA anti-piracy group has to spend the money on something/anything. You keep encountering these attempts from the industry for partially political reasons, not wholly economic ones.
That's fairly standard language for many IDEs.
A typical requirement for lifesupport or other extremely critical processes is that everything needs to be bullet-proof. Here the company is admitting that the product is not guaranteed to meet such strict requirements.
It's a simple tradeoff between quality and availability/cost. You wouldn't be concerned if there was a bug that caused a $50 video game to hickup rarely, but you'd probably be screaming mad if a bug in your $50k pacemaker would cause it to hickup even once.
As for a non-lifesupport example, I've notice that some EULAs mention that the software is not to be used in control systems within nuclear power plants.
Anyway, that particular statement shouldn't cause concern. That is, unless you've already sold your Java Defibrillator program to someone.
He's also gotten in an e-mail flamewar with a 14-year old, and his quips make the youngster look like Socrates by comparison.
My assumption has been that the 14-year old is really an adult. Given that, I find it fitting that you mention Socrates.
As for JT, I'm very interested in how this current dance with PA progresses.
The service of knowingly causing a computer to become engulfed in flames.
This service is now more commonly known as a slashdotting.
It used to be the case that improperly rewiring cables was one of the most common causes. Thankfully, that laborious method has since been replaced.
I grew up during the 1980's with the understanding that copyrights lasted forever. Everyone around me had drunk the same KoolAid and few people could respond to strange questions from a child like, "Why not write every possible combination of text characters and get the copyright on the English language?" or the same idea with musical scores.
The situation would have made a whole lot more sense if there was any news about copyrights expiring but it just didn't happen until I was an adult, with the 1998 Extension Act. Well, considering that law, I guess it's now true that expirations won't happen anymore.
Let the Euros piss and moan, after which if they don't like the US influence over the Internet, they can instead join Fidonet http://www.fidonet.us/joinfido.htm :) ... by joining through a *.us site.
In a microeconomics class I took a few years ago, the prof introduced an interesting concept that plotted happiness against wealth following a logarithmic curve. The idea was that with each additional 10k, the happiness associated with the increased wealth decreases with each increment until it becomes almost negligible. The converse also was illustrated in that each 10k of reduced wealth is associated with an ever growing decrease in happiness, which at some personal point assumes a negative value (sadness) and ultimately reaches a final personal fixed point of maximum misery - usually expressed as suicide.
Not everyone behaves this way (some odd people feel accomplishment with the loss of wealth) and the plot requires wealth to be the only influence on an individual's emotional state, but I found it to be an interesting take on the subject in a way similar to Pascal's Wager on the existence of God.
Very strange: the captcha for this post is 'gamble', the example act used by the professor for this very subject.
I'd like to see you try changing your fingerprints.
Reminds me of this guy, though it was poorly executed. Unfortunately for him, even if it was done well any future robbery investigations would be simpler given that very few people have blank fingerprints.
Back on topic, the real problem with biometric security measures is that it's easier to remove body parts than it is to fake them. If given the option of being forced to provide a means of authentication, I'd prefer losing control of a passphrase over losing an eye if only because it's far easier for me to eventually regenerate a new passphrase.
What? With this crowd?
Here's how it'll look:
from the million-to-one dept.
Anonymous reader writes: "They've found life under the surface of Mars[nasa.gov]! What's more, they can communicate with us (but only in Swahili)!" Update: 10/22 22:20 GMT by Zonk: Really sorry about this dupe - thanks for all the hate emails though.
To which TrollingBot2000 replies with:
As you can see, no matter what the topic - it becomes abundantly clear that Microsoft some evil hand to play with only ONE degree of seperation. I'm really surprised you thought six degrees would be a challenge here.
Perhaps ironic, but not that funny (at least not +5 funny imo).
:)
For funny, I seem to remember headlines during the antitrust case proclaiming stuff like, "Big Government Hard on Microsoft."
There's funny in there, although no irony. To make my example ironic, Microsoft would need to have the hard on.