Now that would be an interesting level of reality to add to EvE.
Seriously, since EvE seems to be a game about corporations / corporate machinations / laissez-faire capitalism, wouldn't class-action suits, pork barrel legislation, graft, bribes, theft, fraud, prosecutions, fines, jail time, etc, etc, be just as much a part of the game as anything else? After all, they're part of the RL corporate landscape, aren't they?
While I personally wouldn't want to play a game like that, I can easily imagine people who would.
Further note:
Make sure you have at least "moderate filtering" selected for your Google search for "OS-tans" otherwise some definitely not safe for work images will show up.
So, let's say you're a breeder of prized Belgian Blue bulls. You have your best bull, with the lowest amount of myostatin cloned, not for eating, but for breeding purposes.
So now our intrepid cattle rancher has a breeding facility with 5 or 10 or 20 or more nearly (but not exact I know, I know) identical bulls, just waiting for the parade of willing cows.
Say the rancher mates this bull's clones with cows produced through (more) normal means. Will the direct progeny from that bull's clones (not exact, I know) have to be labled as 1/2 clone? What about their indirect progeny 2, 3, 4 or more generations down the road. Does having even one clone in your heriditary tree make your succulent and ever so lean flesh forever suspect?
...didn't flop. It was repurposed and renamed MMORPG. The huge revelation was that people (today, at least) don't want to work in virtual spaces, they want to play in them. As far as tomorrow goes, who knows?
So, instead of Gibson's cyberspace, we have WoW, Second Life, Lord of the Rings Online, etc, etc, etc.
LO0G said, "W.R.T. your assertion of pricing differently based on "different blocks or different addresses in the same block". In the US, this is often illegal, it's a practice called redlining."
True enough. So illegal discriminatory pricing differences are removed from the table. "Different blocks or different addresses in the same block" was too extreme an instance to be a useful example. An error on my part.
I believe that the rest of the argument still stands.
Fjan11 said, "Within the US would you be allowed to charge someone from, say, NY a different price than someone from NJ? (apart from tax & shipping?)"
Not only is it allowed to have different prices for the same product in different states, but also for the same product in different counties, different cities, different blocks, or different addresses in the same block. This works, as long as people are able to shop around and freely purchase at the lowest price. The problem then is the contractural requirement that iTunes customers can only purchase from the iTunes store for their own country.
This has the makings of another big problem for the music labels / publishers and sweet music for Apple. Bets on if they have code tested and ready for when the EU comission strikes down those sections of the contract and Apple is forced to convert to a single EU iTunes.
You know, I wonder if, somewhere in the background, someone from Apple was quietly lobbying the EU for this probe...
I'm referring to the anti-doping agencies banning people because of their natural genetic makeup, not because of something they've taken / injected / eaten / whatever.
Imagine a near future world where the german child (or any of his progeny) are told, "You cannot compete in our games because you were born with forbidden genes. They give you an unfair advange".
Ok.
Since the baby occurred naturally (the mutation is a natural occurance), will anti-doping agencies eventually be forced into a position of testing and disqualifying athletes because their natural genetic makeup gives them an 'unfair' advantage? Will this child, and his progeny, be barred from NCAA / Olympic / whatever athletic competition? Is such a ban even legal under US/EU anti-discrimination laws?
Could they survive losing the subsequent lawsuits?
Errr... Ummm... In the U.S., the government doesn't license churches, no matter how bizarre their beliefs.
You can, however, go after their status as a non-profit organization.
Actually these ads are illegal in the city of Boston. A company can't just put up bills on public buildings or structures with no permit.
So, that's trespassing and/or vandalism. And yes, I know that a law (city ordinance? state law?) was recently passed outlawing any action which causes a public uproar. If I fart on the T (normally rude, but hardly illegal), and you panic because you think it is a Sarin attack, I could be arrested. Ugh.
You might think its no big deal, but to many Bostonians it is a very big deal and something we're mad as hell about.
Ahh, no. Its something you and the dingbats downtown are mad as hell about. Myself, as a Greater Boston resident, the only thing I'm preturbed about is the over-reaction of the authorities. Well, that and the fact that Boston is (for the time being) the laughingstock of the planet.
As an biologist, its easy for me to realize that no matter how sophisticated the software to mimic the emotions of humans, a robot is still a bunch of enzymes and neurons at the base level. Basically, a very complicated game of mouse trap with neurons merely responding to stimuli. I imagine that people without an biological background or interest in the subject can be duped more easily into believing a tool has rights, but I believe logic will win out in this one and robotic rights won't be a major issue.
I can easily imagine someone saying this in a few years. Will they be right?
You make a good point. The popularity of iPods sells more iPods. They're both popular and cool, which is quite a trick to pull off.
What if Microsoft had, over the past few months, given away thousands of Zunes to a concentrated population, say, to high school or college students. Perhaps they could have had a contest on Facebook or Myspace, where nearly everyone who entered, won a Zune. Yeah, there are problems with giving stuff away to kids and yes, it would have been expensive, but, you know, I assume that Microsoft has one or two good lawyers on staff, along with a couple of dollars to spend on buying market share.
Oh, and they could also have made the earphone cords some flourescent color, to compete visually with the nearly ubiquitous white iPod cords.
In the mean time, iPods are now integrated with people's shoes!
The winner got "Washington DC"? The whole thing? Man, I knew OSTG had major league pull, but that's amazing!;-)
Note to Michael Beck - Now that you own Washington DC, please replace Congress, the Supreme Court and the President with a few Beowulf clusters. We should see a marked improvement in performance.
As far as I can tell, every REI and EMS I've been into has been pretty well designed in terms of universal design.. Were they required to? Probably not to the extent they were. I'm sure that since they're in malls, they have to meet minimum requirements by law, but, they also seem to be companies who are inclusive by nature, and likely to go beyond the minimums. To my admittedly non-expert eye, they seemed to be more accessible than the law reqired.
Anyway, yes. Rock climbing stores should by law be accessible to double amputees. They would not, however, be required by law to stock the equipment necessary for a double amputee to participate in the sport. It's one thing to have a barrier at the door preventing someone from entering or barriers preventing someone from navigating through the store, and quite another to simply not stock the items that person might be interested in.
Lastly, provisions of the ADA continue to come under Supreme Court review. I'll leave it up to you to search out the citations.
I'd say that today's Democrats have about as much in common with Democrats then (Reconstruction through the late 1950's) as today's Republicans have in common with Abe Lincoln's Republican party.
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Yes, it is just a game, but it is a game with federal anti-trust exemption - http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/2001/1205/1290707.html - which subjects it to congressional oversight.
Now that would be an interesting level of reality to add to EvE.
Seriously, since EvE seems to be a game about corporations / corporate machinations / laissez-faire capitalism, wouldn't class-action suits, pork barrel legislation, graft, bribes, theft, fraud, prosecutions, fines, jail time, etc, etc, be just as much a part of the game as anything else? After all, they're part of the RL corporate landscape, aren't they?
While I personally wouldn't want to play a game like that, I can easily imagine people who would.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! My Eyes! MY EYES!!!!!
Further note: Make sure you have at least "moderate filtering" selected for your Google search for "OS-tans" otherwise some definitely not safe for work images will show up.
So, let's say you're a breeder of prized Belgian Blue bulls. You have your best bull, with the lowest amount of myostatin cloned, not for eating, but for breeding purposes.
So now our intrepid cattle rancher has a breeding facility with 5 or 10 or 20 or more nearly (but not exact I know, I know) identical bulls, just waiting for the parade of willing cows.
Say the rancher mates this bull's clones with cows produced through (more) normal means. Will the direct progeny from that bull's clones (not exact, I know) have to be labled as 1/2 clone? What about their indirect progeny 2, 3, 4 or more generations down the road. Does having even one clone in your heriditary tree make your succulent and ever so lean flesh forever suspect?
Man, now I'm hungry for a burger!No. It was in fact, Wolverhampton Wanderers who beat Leicester 3-1.
...didn't flop. It was repurposed and renamed MMORPG. The huge revelation was that people (today, at least) don't want to work in virtual spaces, they want to play in them. As far as tomorrow goes, who knows?
So, instead of Gibson's cyberspace, we have WoW, Second Life, Lord of the Rings Online, etc, etc, etc.
Speaking of Edward Tufte, check out 'The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching out Corrupts Within' for an excellent critique on the misuse of PowerPoint and a primer on the best way to use this tool.
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True enough. So illegal discriminatory pricing differences are removed from the table. "Different blocks or different addresses in the same block" was too extreme an instance to be a useful example. An error on my part.
I believe that the rest of the argument still stands.
Not only is it allowed to have different prices for the same product in different states, but also for the same product in different counties, different cities, different blocks, or different addresses in the same block. This works, as long as people are able to shop around and freely purchase at the lowest price. The problem then is the contractural requirement that iTunes customers can only purchase from the iTunes store for their own country.
This has the makings of another big problem for the music labels / publishers and sweet music for Apple. Bets on if they have code tested and ready for when the EU comission strikes down those sections of the contract and Apple is forced to convert to a single EU iTunes.
You know, I wonder if, somewhere in the background, someone from Apple was quietly lobbying the EU for this probe...
I'm referring to the anti-doping agencies banning people because of their natural genetic makeup, not because of something they've taken / injected / eaten / whatever.
Imagine a near future world where the german child (or any of his progeny) are told, "You cannot compete in our games because you were born with forbidden genes. They give you an unfair advange".
The mind boggles.
Ok. Since the baby occurred naturally (the mutation is a natural occurance), will anti-doping agencies eventually be forced into a position of testing and disqualifying athletes because their natural genetic makeup gives them an 'unfair' advantage? Will this child, and his progeny, be barred from NCAA / Olympic / whatever athletic competition? Is such a ban even legal under US/EU anti-discrimination laws? Could they survive losing the subsequent lawsuits?
Errr... Ummm... In the U.S., the government doesn't license churches, no matter how bizarre their beliefs. You can, however, go after their status as a non-profit organization.
I live in Lowell but I can feel your fear radiating all the way from Boston.
I'm ashamed. And amused. Ok, much more amused than ashamed.
Oh the cognitive dissonance.
I for one, welcome our new Mooninite overlords, flipping us the bird as long and as hard as they possibly can.
You'll need to find a gel / colloid modeling expert for that.
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You make a good point. The popularity of iPods sells more iPods. They're both popular and cool, which is quite a trick to pull off.
What if Microsoft had, over the past few months, given away thousands of Zunes to a concentrated population, say, to high school or college students. Perhaps they could have had a contest on Facebook or Myspace, where nearly everyone who entered, won a Zune. Yeah, there are problems with giving stuff away to kids and yes, it would have been expensive, but, you know, I assume that Microsoft has one or two good lawyers on staff, along with a couple of dollars to spend on buying market share.
Oh, and they could also have made the earphone cords some flourescent color, to compete visually with the nearly ubiquitous white iPod cords.
In the mean time, iPods are now integrated with people's shoes !However, ask for ten million aerosol delivered methacrylate IED detection units (ADMIEDDU) and it will breeze right through.
The winner got "Washington DC"? The whole thing? Man, I knew OSTG had major league pull, but that's amazing! ;-)
Note to Michael Beck - Now that you own Washington DC, please replace Congress, the Supreme Court and the President with a few Beowulf clusters. We should see a marked improvement in performance.
rock climbing double amputee. You knew this was coming, didn't you?
As far as I can tell, every REI and EMS I've been into has been pretty well designed in terms of universal design.. Were they required to? Probably not to the extent they were. I'm sure that since they're in malls, they have to meet minimum requirements by law, but, they also seem to be companies who are inclusive by nature, and likely to go beyond the minimums. To my admittedly non-expert eye, they seemed to be more accessible than the law reqired.
Anyway, yes. Rock climbing stores should by law be accessible to double amputees. They would not, however, be required by law to stock the equipment necessary for a double amputee to participate in the sport. It's one thing to have a barrier at the door preventing someone from entering or barriers preventing someone from navigating through the store, and quite another to simply not stock the items that person might be interested in.
Lastly, provisions of the ADA continue to come under Supreme Court review. I'll leave it up to you to search out the citations.I'd say that today's Democrats have about as much in common with Democrats then (Reconstruction through the late 1950's) as today's Republicans have in common with Abe Lincoln's Republican party.
Since it seems the ravening hordes have slagged Space.com's servers, I permission from Popular Science to post a link to their SpaceShipTwo story on the Popular Science website.
No.
I'll stay and fight. Fight you if needs be, but I'll not run. You can't chase me out.