Which of course is exactly why I mentioned the Piltdown Man fiasco, because for some of the people involved science had become a religion. They were too emotionally invested in a particular fact or discovery. It certainly was not the first nor last example of that.
It's hard to remain loyal and actively interested in a game like TA. The universe of games has expanded so much in the 16 years since (though I have to say I'm still waiting for my personal "perfect" RTS). Maybe Planetary Annihilation will earn that loyalty in 2029?
BTW, this is the sort of hacking success I was talking about. There's also this thread that discusses the DLL mod known as "TA 4.0", which includes breaking the weapon and unit cap barriers (IIRC).
If geothermal heat was tapped for power to meet all our energy needs on the same scale as coal, gas, and oil are used now, would there be any consequences for the planet? Would that be more than just an extra drop of what already leaks into space past the insulating crust through volcanoes? Would it increase entropy? Would it ultimately cool the Earth faster? Would it slow its rotation or mess with plate tectonics?
It's already illegal to compromise computers that don't belong to you, so botnet DDoS techniques are already also illegal. But what if thousands of people coordinated computers they individually own to deny service/access to some domain? That shouldn't be criminalized.
What you've described is no different than the collateral social cost of traditional wage strikes and other peaceful denial-of-access protests. Is that collateral social cost so great that it justifies criminalizing the protests? That is what you are advocating.
Nope. It's akin to a union strike or a mob of protesters having a sit-in and handcuffing themselves together to DENY ACCESS to some location. That's denial of service. It makes the people in control of that location, and sometimes the clients who are dependent upon it, very angry, sometimes violently so. The whole point of denial-of-access protests is that they DO have a social cost that forces people to take notice.
I like your ability to pervert my words and your presumptive devotion to the two-party system. The Republican Party platform and its hatred of *anything* that curtails corporate profit is well known, and I never mentioned the Democratic Party at all. I know where much Hollywood money flows (to our marionette Vice President, for one). Other parties are much more interested in IP reform.
It's entirely possible that Khanna doesn't actually have any personal investment at all in what he proposes, and is simply using his "novel solutions" as a means to stand out and make his mark within his chosen (Republican) tribe. And stand out he certainly has. If Khanna actually felt that strongly about current IP law being unethical, he's chosen the wrong tribe to give a larger voice to it and he would know that. It's already well established that the sort of people most strongly drawn to corporate boardrooms and government are sociopaths, so if Khanna eagerly chose the path he's on then he's likely more interested in furthering himself than IP reform.
Never thought about rounding out TA:Mutation? There's STILL a group modding the game now via TAUniverse. They've even made strides over the years hacking the engine and augmenting it via a DLL. For me TA:M became an essential required component. I still have the same original TA install with TA:M and 1400 maps and half a dozen (modded) mods and dozens of mutators, some of which were mine. I only play it perhaps once a year now, but it's still there. I suppose eventually I'll need something like DOSBox when Microsoft eventually drops enough legacy compatibilities. Maybe it will be ReactOS or Linux with Wine.:-)
Of course since I was a contributor to the Planetary Annihilation Kickstarter campaign, maybe I'll finally give up TA for good in a couple years?
I think if you make the effort to actually explain to me or yourself why those things you claim are criminal acts must be so, then you will find that you don't really know why. You've been taught/told/indoctrinated to believe it must be so, and you've failed to question it. Just because where you live those things are currently judged as criminal doesn't certify that it is either reasonable nor ethical to do so. Many laws are unethical, yet they persist because of who they benefit.
You seem to be possessed of the same brand of stupidity as most of our lawmakers. Drinking alcohol is not criminal of itself. Not even driving while intoxicated is, of itself, a criminal act, since it's entirely possible to do so without actually maiming or killing anyone or even violating traffic laws. Intoxication merely makes criminal or antisocial acts more feasible or likely, but of itself it's neither criminal nor a guarantee of criminal behavior.
None of that rather obvious logic has stopped our lawmakers from attempting to criminalize intoxication itself, in the name of prevention. In the process it infringes the freedom and rights of every intoxicated person who DOESN'T commit an actual criminal act while in that state. I don't hear any Libertarians crying foul about that.
Look at some of the other comments; others presumed it referred to RAM and responded to that presumption.
The word "space" alone, in terms of bit storage tech, is simply not an unambiguous reference to mass storage. Personally I have never used the word unqualified as this summary does; it's fucking lazy, careless, and presumptuous, none of which are desirable traits in an editor. At most I might say "disk space", but that *is* sufficiently unambiguous.
Reading both the title and summary, it was completely unclear whether "space" refers to random access memory or mass storage. They're not yet one and the same, though you wouldn't know it from reading this summary.
I didn't say the selection would be broad nor easy. Costa Rica? Could be ugly as the globe warms up. Maybe Canada or Scandinavia, and wait for the thaw? Netherlands? I unhappily agree about Australia... unhappily because at one time I had a notion of emigrating there. John "Mini-Me-Bush" Howard and many other things have changed my mind. The one AWESOME thing they're doing that makes me proud is how they're buying back the Internet infrastructure for public ownership as they build out their own next-gen network, but that's not compensation enough for all the other stupidity. You'd think they'd have been learning from the American examples-not-to-follow, but instead they've been largely mimicking all our stupidities.
(Apologies to the Aussie rank and file. None of it's your doing directly, even though it's still your responsibility and you elected/appointed/promoted the twits whose direct doing it is.)
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I'd like to know. I can't answer it, but I hope others can eventually.
Which of course is exactly why I mentioned the Piltdown Man fiasco, because for some of the people involved science had become a religion. They were too emotionally invested in a particular fact or discovery. It certainly was not the first nor last example of that.
It still doesn't mean that Turner is wrong. Remember Piltdown Man? Even people who are committed to science sometimes still get it terribly wrong.
It's hard to remain loyal and actively interested in a game like TA. The universe of games has expanded so much in the 16 years since (though I have to say I'm still waiting for my personal "perfect" RTS). Maybe Planetary Annihilation will earn that loyalty in 2029?
BTW, this is the sort of hacking success I was talking about. There's also this thread that discusses the DLL mod known as "TA 4.0", which includes breaking the weapon and unit cap barriers (IIRC).
If geothermal heat was tapped for power to meet all our energy needs on the same scale as coal, gas, and oil are used now, would there be any consequences for the planet? Would that be more than just an extra drop of what already leaks into space past the insulating crust through volcanoes? Would it increase entropy? Would it ultimately cool the Earth faster? Would it slow its rotation or mess with plate tectonics?
It's already illegal to compromise computers that don't belong to you, so botnet DDoS techniques are already also illegal. But what if thousands of people coordinated computers they individually own to deny service/access to some domain? That shouldn't be criminalized.
What you've described is no different than the collateral social cost of traditional wage strikes and other peaceful denial-of-access protests. Is that collateral social cost so great that it justifies criminalizing the protests? That is what you are advocating.
Nope. It's akin to a union strike or a mob of protesters having a sit-in and handcuffing themselves together to DENY ACCESS to some location. That's denial of service. It makes the people in control of that location, and sometimes the clients who are dependent upon it, very angry, sometimes violently so. The whole point of denial-of-access protests is that they DO have a social cost that forces people to take notice.
Encase him in carbonite and mount him on the wall.
I like your ability to pervert my words and your presumptive devotion to the two-party system. The Republican Party platform and its hatred of *anything* that curtails corporate profit is well known, and I never mentioned the Democratic Party at all. I know where much Hollywood money flows (to our marionette Vice President, for one). Other parties are much more interested in IP reform.
It's entirely possible that Khanna doesn't actually have any personal investment at all in what he proposes, and is simply using his "novel solutions" as a means to stand out and make his mark within his chosen (Republican) tribe. And stand out he certainly has. If Khanna actually felt that strongly about current IP law being unethical, he's chosen the wrong tribe to give a larger voice to it and he would know that. It's already well established that the sort of people most strongly drawn to corporate boardrooms and government are sociopaths, so if Khanna eagerly chose the path he's on then he's likely more interested in furthering himself than IP reform.
Spring is an open source engine in its own right now. Games like Zero-K are now based upon it.
I've mutated into something horrible!
Never thought about rounding out TA:Mutation? There's STILL a group modding the game now via TAUniverse. They've even made strides over the years hacking the engine and augmenting it via a DLL. For me TA:M became an essential required component. I still have the same original TA install with TA:M and 1400 maps and half a dozen (modded) mods and dozens of mutators, some of which were mine. I only play it perhaps once a year now, but it's still there. I suppose eventually I'll need something like DOSBox when Microsoft eventually drops enough legacy compatibilities. Maybe it will be ReactOS or Linux with Wine. :-)
Of course since I was a contributor to the Planetary Annihilation Kickstarter campaign, maybe I'll finally give up TA for good in a couple years?
You didn't read even TFS fully: the TEST occurred in SWITZERLAND... which I hope you would agree is currently landlocked.
My point to him wasn't precisely when it happened, only that it did a very long time ago (and that he'd missed an obvious fact mentioned even in TFS).
The 19th Century called and wants its history back... Switzerland isn't part of Germany.
Immerman? *The* Immerman of TA:Mutation fame?
Why did they test it in a country where there are no sharks?
I think if you make the effort to actually explain to me or yourself why those things you claim are criminal acts must be so, then you will find that you don't really know why. You've been taught/told/indoctrinated to believe it must be so, and you've failed to question it. Just because where you live those things are currently judged as criminal doesn't certify that it is either reasonable nor ethical to do so. Many laws are unethical, yet they persist because of who they benefit.
You seem to be possessed of the same brand of stupidity as most of our lawmakers. Drinking alcohol is not criminal of itself. Not even driving while intoxicated is, of itself, a criminal act, since it's entirely possible to do so without actually maiming or killing anyone or even violating traffic laws. Intoxication merely makes criminal or antisocial acts more feasible or likely, but of itself it's neither criminal nor a guarantee of criminal behavior.
None of that rather obvious logic has stopped our lawmakers from attempting to criminalize intoxication itself, in the name of prevention. In the process it infringes the freedom and rights of every intoxicated person who DOESN'T commit an actual criminal act while in that state. I don't hear any Libertarians crying foul about that.
Look at some of the other comments; others presumed it referred to RAM and responded to that presumption.
The word "space" alone, in terms of bit storage tech, is simply not an unambiguous reference to mass storage. Personally I have never used the word unqualified as this summary does; it's fucking lazy, careless, and presumptuous, none of which are desirable traits in an editor. At most I might say "disk space", but that *is* sufficiently unambiguous.
Reading both the title and summary, it was completely unclear whether "space" refers to random access memory or mass storage. They're not yet one and the same, though you wouldn't know it from reading this summary.
I didn't say the selection would be broad nor easy. Costa Rica? Could be ugly as the globe warms up. Maybe Canada or Scandinavia, and wait for the thaw? Netherlands? I unhappily agree about Australia... unhappily because at one time I had a notion of emigrating there. John "Mini-Me-Bush" Howard and many other things have changed my mind. The one AWESOME thing they're doing that makes me proud is how they're buying back the Internet infrastructure for public ownership as they build out their own next-gen network, but that's not compensation enough for all the other stupidity. You'd think they'd have been learning from the American examples-not-to-follow, but instead they've been largely mimicking all our stupidities.
(Apologies to the Aussie rank and file. None of it's your doing directly, even though it's still your responsibility and you elected/appointed/promoted the twits whose direct doing it is.)