I don't buy that for shooters. Just about every popular shooter on the planet has bots to practice against, so you can get your ass shot off in private for a while before you go try it on with the big boys.
Those are really more about the multiplayer though. If you want to play a game without multiplayer, they still exist.
The real irony of it is that the system the Nevada Gaming Board has for checking slot machines, is the exactsame system I'd like to see for electronic voting machines.
It's not hard for me to solve, it's a hard problem for the data miners. Any search for me ends up with tens of thousands of false positives, which they have to eliminate to identify the records that actually belong to me.
Pretty much the only thing you'll see if you Google me is noise. I'm pretty careful.
Sure, the ratio is low for you, but what about for people who have the same name you do? Now the information out there under their name is inaccurate. For them the ratio is very high.
My given name is very common, so searching for information on me the signal to noise ratio is very high. This problem is extraordinarily hard to solve, and I'd be very surprised if they'd figured it out.
The biggest issue with information on the internet has always been how to separate the crap from the good stuff. The fact that they're gathering data is uninteresting: what I'd be interested in is their signal-to-noise ratio.
Common silk is reasonably bullet resistant. You can shoot a low caliber bullet at a silk hanky (held by the top) and the bullet will push the silk aside rather than penetrate it. Spider silk is much stronger, ergo, better for this sort of thing.
Kevlar body armor is generally formed of kevlar cloth sewn in layers, backed by hard metal or ceramic plates. The bullet will absolutely penetrate, but (generally) won't go all the way through.
A material with a higher tensile strength will offer better protection because the bullet will dissipate more energy punching through the layers. Ideally you could cut weight as well (which is the biggest problem with body armor).
What's strange about you europeans is that you've spent the history of the world killing each other, exterminating other cultures and minority groups, and now that you can't afford to be all imperialists, think you can get snarky with us for deploying our military to fix things that were largely caused by your meddling.
South Fulton, the local metropolis that has the fire department, has a population of 2300. The most pimped out house in the whole town probably didn't cost 100,000.
I leave it to your imagination to figure what the population density is like outside the city. I'd imagine their 75-bucks-per-house fee doesn't get a whole lot. To make matters even worse, the whole area straddles the border between KY and TN, so funding is bound to be confused.
Well, they've been forcing us to buy roads, tanks, buildings, lands, art, etc, etc, etc for centuries.
Though frankly I think it was a mistake not to offer a public option. Pretty much pointless without that. Still no real competition among insurance companies.
Why is it that, if I buy car insurance, it's just about me but if I buy health insurance it's completely contingent on my workplace? Buying health insurance for just me should be cheap, and yet it's not, and I have no alternative but to take the crap that's available to my workplace.
There isn't a fire department where he lives. It'd be like you suing the fire department in the next town over for problems with the fire department in your own town.
And if he paid any substantial amount of taxes, his county'd probably have a fire department (it's generally considered a critical service). Tennessee doesn't have a state income tax, so no money from there either.
People want really low taxes, but this is the result: really poor services.
That's not uncommon in a lot of places down south. You stick your trash in your truck, and haul it to the county dump. Or, if you're uber-white trash like this joker, you just set fire to it in your backyard.
In London, in the 1800's fire protection was provided by private companies.
They discontinued this because the private companies quickly turned into a mafia-style protection racket. "Nice house you got here...It'd be a shame if it burned down."
Competing fire departments would set fire to other departments protected houses, and block the road in between, then sit out in front of the burning house with their own people, negotiating with the homeowner while his house burned down behind him.
It didn't burn freely. The fire department showed up and made sure the fire didn't spread to the neighbors property...Because the neighbor had paid his fee.
Talk about getting your point across. Apparently the city that has the fire department doesn't have the legal authority to just charge the residents for fire protection, so it has to be voluntary.
I'd be fine with something like this. Put out his fire, then charge him for the entire fee he would have had to pay (plus interest) from the last time it was paid, or from when he bought the house.
There is still a problem with the money coming in for equipment, though.
I absolutely disagree with the idea that the state should have to pay for this joker's bad decisions. That's money out of all of our pockets because he can't make a rational choice.
Forcing everyone to pay for fire coverage (via taxes) is fine. But that doesn't mean that we owe some joker in some county that didn't feel the need.
Dude, it's the state, not the country. Don't blame fricking Obama for the problems of Fulton County Tennesee's rural fire department! That's just absurd.
In most other states, there'd be a state income tax, or a hefty county tax, or a sales tax or something to support fire coverage for all the citizens in the county. They didn't want that there, so there is a fee. And if you don't pay it, you're screwed. And it's their own bed to lie in.
Wouldn't work. Look, it's not like there are fire hydrants out there. That fire department depends on those fees to get tank trucks and other stuff you have to have to fight rural fires. If you could just pay as you go, then no one would ever pay, and the fire department wouldn't be able to afford the equipment.
Your city and county taxes pay for fire departments. If your county is too poor to pay for a fire department, you may have a volunteer fire department, or the nearest municipality may charge a fee to cover service. If you don't pay that fee, you don't get fire protection.
It ain't rocket science. Some bubba sets his own house on fire, and then whines because the people he didn't pay, didn't come to put it out. I've lived in Tennesee: they really don't like taxes there. That's fine, but there are consequences.
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The problem isn't people banding together, the problem is that they're allowed to pump money into the system to push their agenda.
I don't think we're going to have anything resembling a fair democracy until we restrict politicians to public funding.
I don't buy that for shooters. Just about every popular shooter on the planet has bots to practice against, so you can get your ass shot off in private for a while before you go try it on with the big boys.
Those are really more about the multiplayer though. If you want to play a game without multiplayer, they still exist.
The real irony of it is that the system the Nevada Gaming Board has for checking slot machines, is the exact same system I'd like to see for electronic voting machines.
You can see which one they value.
It's not hard for me to solve, it's a hard problem for the data miners. Any search for me ends up with tens of thousands of false positives, which they have to eliminate to identify the records that actually belong to me.
Pretty much the only thing you'll see if you Google me is noise. I'm pretty careful.
Sure, the ratio is low for you, but what about for people who have the same name you do? Now the information out there under their name is inaccurate. For them the ratio is very high.
My given name is very common, so searching for information on me the signal to noise ratio is very high. This problem is extraordinarily hard to solve, and I'd be very surprised if they'd figured it out.
The biggest issue with information on the internet has always been how to separate the crap from the good stuff. The fact that they're gathering data is uninteresting: what I'd be interested in is their signal-to-noise ratio.
Common silk is reasonably bullet resistant. You can shoot a low caliber bullet at a silk hanky (held by the top) and the bullet will push the silk aside rather than penetrate it. Spider silk is much stronger, ergo, better for this sort of thing.
Kevlar body armor is generally formed of kevlar cloth sewn in layers, backed by hard metal or ceramic plates. The bullet will absolutely penetrate, but (generally) won't go all the way through.
A material with a higher tensile strength will offer better protection because the bullet will dissipate more energy punching through the layers. Ideally you could cut weight as well (which is the biggest problem with body armor).
What's strange about you europeans is that you've spent the history of the world killing each other, exterminating other cultures and minority groups, and now that you can't afford to be all imperialists, think you can get snarky with us for deploying our military to fix things that were largely caused by your meddling.
I'm guessing this is up north somewhere.
South Fulton, the local metropolis that has the fire department, has a population of 2300. The most pimped out house in the whole town probably didn't cost 100,000.
I leave it to your imagination to figure what the population density is like outside the city. I'd imagine their 75-bucks-per-house fee doesn't get a whole lot. To make matters even worse, the whole area straddles the border between KY and TN, so funding is bound to be confused.
Snort. Why not just put shields on it, if you're going to go all sci-fi on me?
All they'd have to do is launch a half ton of ball bearings into it's orbit, and it'd be space junk in no time.
Well, they've been forcing us to buy roads, tanks, buildings, lands, art, etc, etc, etc for centuries.
Though frankly I think it was a mistake not to offer a public option. Pretty much pointless without that. Still no real competition among insurance companies.
Why is it that, if I buy car insurance, it's just about me but if I buy health insurance it's completely contingent on my workplace? Buying health insurance for just me should be cheap, and yet it's not, and I have no alternative but to take the crap that's available to my workplace.
Like Sweden? Or Norway?
Come on man.
I doubt anyone made a big stink over it: it takes a special kind of person to not pay and bitch about it.
But also, there may not have been many fires, and those may have all been on protected houses. That area is extremely sparsely populated.
Yea you're right. I thought better of it after I posted.
This, in a nutshell, is why necessary services should be mandatory. If it ends up costing taxpayer money to pay for this freeloader...Irritating.
Probably won't happen though. Good old Tennessee. They'll tell him to shove it.
I don't have any particular stake in it. It just irritates me when it is suggested that private services are necessarily better than public ones.
There isn't a fire department where he lives. It'd be like you suing the fire department in the next town over for problems with the fire department in your own town.
And if he paid any substantial amount of taxes, his county'd probably have a fire department (it's generally considered a critical service). Tennessee doesn't have a state income tax, so no money from there either.
People want really low taxes, but this is the result: really poor services.
That's not uncommon in a lot of places down south. You stick your trash in your truck, and haul it to the county dump. Or, if you're uber-white trash like this joker, you just set fire to it in your backyard.
In London, in the 1800's fire protection was provided by private companies.
They discontinued this because the private companies quickly turned into a mafia-style protection racket. "Nice house you got here...It'd be a shame if it burned down."
Competing fire departments would set fire to other departments protected houses, and block the road in between, then sit out in front of the burning house with their own people, negotiating with the homeowner while his house burned down behind him.
Yea, no corruption there.
It's always been this way. Tennessee has very low taxes, and in many rural areas, they don't cover stuff like fire departments.
It didn't burn freely. The fire department showed up and made sure the fire didn't spread to the neighbors property...Because the neighbor had paid his fee.
Talk about getting your point across. Apparently the city that has the fire department doesn't have the legal authority to just charge the residents for fire protection, so it has to be voluntary.
I'd be fine with something like this. Put out his fire, then charge him for the entire fee he would have had to pay (plus interest) from the last time it was paid, or from when he bought the house.
There is still a problem with the money coming in for equipment, though.
I absolutely disagree with the idea that the state should have to pay for this joker's bad decisions. That's money out of all of our pockets because he can't make a rational choice.
Forcing everyone to pay for fire coverage (via taxes) is fine. But that doesn't mean that we owe some joker in some county that didn't feel the need.
Dude, it's the state, not the country. Don't blame fricking Obama for the problems of Fulton County Tennesee's rural fire department! That's just absurd.
In most other states, there'd be a state income tax, or a hefty county tax, or a sales tax or something to support fire coverage for all the citizens in the county. They didn't want that there, so there is a fee. And if you don't pay it, you're screwed. And it's their own bed to lie in.
Wouldn't work. Look, it's not like there are fire hydrants out there. That fire department depends on those fees to get tank trucks and other stuff you have to have to fight rural fires. If you could just pay as you go, then no one would ever pay, and the fire department wouldn't be able to afford the equipment.
Uhhh, yea. That's how it works.
Your city and county taxes pay for fire departments. If your county is too poor to pay for a fire department, you may have a volunteer fire department, or the nearest municipality may charge a fee to cover service. If you don't pay that fee, you don't get fire protection.
It ain't rocket science. Some bubba sets his own house on fire, and then whines because the people he didn't pay, didn't come to put it out. I've lived in Tennesee: they really don't like taxes there. That's fine, but there are consequences.