That would be exactly the kind of system monitoring a political or law enforcement or divorce lawyer analysis could find intriguing, without requiring decryption or complex analysis of logs that might be harder to find.
You do realize this is a GAME we're talking about, not a terrorist cell?
Actually in my limited experience, the border guards seem to give Americans a really hard time if they've got work visas.
Here's the thing: British voters don't like the mass immigration from the EU over the last couple of decades. So, every once in a while, the British government set out to win votes by 'cracking down on immigration'. But the EU says they're not allowed to restrict immigration from the EU, so they, instead, crack down on the skilled workers coming into the country from outside the EU on work permits... which are the kind of immigrants most British voters are quite happy to see coming to their country.
It's not just the border guards that are incompetent, it's the entire British government. As the current floods so glaringly demonstrate ('hey, lets flood thousands of houses to SAVE THE BURDS!').
You're stuck with DRM if you purchase books from Amazon, yes, but nothing about the device itself locks you into DRM.
Uh, no. Publishers choose whether they put DRM on Amazon ebooks, there's no requirement to use it. I've never intentionally bought a DRM-ed ebook on Amazon.
Dude. To me it is like this. If a person has 10x the income of a middle class person he's milking someone else's hard work. No one can work over 10x more than the median. No one.
Ha-ha. You believe in the Labour Theory Of Value. I hadn't imagined anyone that backward still existed on Earth; teading your post is like picking up a rock in my back yard and finding a caveman living beneath it.
And yet given the choice to be a French citizen or a Chinese citizen, I as would a vast majority of people if I can speak for all people in this one area, would still rather be a French citizen.
That's about as meaningful as saying you'd rather take cyanide than ram a power drill into your head. Yes, most of us would agree, but we'd still be dead, either way.
Social competition. Anyone can build themselves a ship, but serving on a high status ship with other people is another matter.
What's a 'high status ship'? If I can have a ship a hundred times the size of the Enterrpise, because, you know, ther'es no scarcity and stuff, why would I want to be a redshirt and die on the first planet the Enterprise visits?
I see you completely failed to respond to anything I said.
In what circumstances does it make any sense for me, as a business owner, to give money to the government so they can spend some of it buying stuff from me?
Hint: it doesn't. So if that's the only choice other than closing down the company, I close it down and keep the money.
'Basic income' or 'citizens income' or whatever you want to call it is just the latest twaddle from the commies who haven't died out yet.
So? If everyone gets food and heat and clothing and education and healthcare, who the fuck cares if they can't have EVERYTHING?
You seem to have missed the whole point of 'post-scarcity', dude. Post-scarcity means you can have EVERYTHING you want, otherwise, there's, like, you know, SCARCITY.
The point is to meet, as a society, every individual's needs.
And who gets to decide what my needs are? You? OK, I'm going to decide your needs are a slice of bread and a bottle of water every day. I think we can provide that, so we're already post-scarcity.
Once we can do that, we're in a post-scarcity society, and the game changes.
And this is why no sensible person taks the 'post-scarcity' nutters seriously.
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The survivors in the 2150s should start living fairly comfortably as the Earth starts cooling down.
Why would anyone in their right mind want to be living on Earth in 2150?
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If you wanted a starship, you work to get one. they are in rather short supply.
So much for 'post-scarcity', eh?
Basic living expenses were covered. You want more, work for it.
1. You take $50 from my company in taxes. 2. You hand that $50 to people who do nothing productive. 3. Those people sending that $50 to buy my stuff. 4. I end up with maybe $20 of that $50 after I pay my costs.
How, exactly, does this make me better off than just closing down my company and keeping that $50 in the first place?
Thing is, within the Star Trek universe, there is no real reason an individual couldn't get a ship or a planet.
So why are there hundreds of people on the Enterprise? Why does anyone volunteer to be a redshirt?
'Star Trek' is, at best, a tale of militaristic communism. There's sure as heck 'scarcity' if some people are willing to be the one who beams down to an alien planet to be shot first.
Tell me about it. We as a society have abandoned the wealthy. Who speaks for them anymore?
Remember, dude, thanks to Obama, when Sarah Palin becomes President, she'll be able to spy on you at will, fire missiles at you from drones, and arbitrariliy decide which laws are enforced and which aren't.
Slapping Android apps, which follow very different conventions would diminish the user experience.
Doesn't really matter, if they don't have any users. Microsoft is desperate for anything to convince people that they should buy Windows phones, rather than the competition.
Microsoft have traditionally been a cheap crap brand, but Android already has the cheap crap end of the market. If they want to compete at the high end, they'll have to drop the Windows name, because that shouts 'cheap crap' to just about everyone on the planet who's been using it for years.
If they can run Android apps with the same OS level security as iOS, and the same level of app vetting as the Apple App Store - they may be onto something.
My guess: they'll run Android apps, but you'll need an anti-virus and all the usual crap to work around Windows' normal security flaws.
Besides which, who's going to buy a Windows tablet if they just want to run Android apps? They buy an OS to run apps, they don't buy apps to run on their OS.
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"Denialist" is the new "Racist"; a meaningless term intended to shut down debate.
And Airstrip One is pretty much the 51st state these days.
That would be exactly the kind of system monitoring a political or law enforcement or divorce lawyer analysis could find intriguing, without requiring decryption or complex analysis of logs that might be harder to find.
You do realize this is a GAME we're talking about, not a terrorist cell?
Actually in my limited experience, the border guards seem to give Americans a really hard time if they've got work visas.
Here's the thing: British voters don't like the mass immigration from the EU over the last couple of decades. So, every once in a while, the British government set out to win votes by 'cracking down on immigration'. But the EU says they're not allowed to restrict immigration from the EU, so they, instead, crack down on the skilled workers coming into the country from outside the EU on work permits... which are the kind of immigrants most British voters are quite happy to see coming to their country.
It's not just the border guards that are incompetent, it's the entire British government. As the current floods so glaringly demonstrate ('hey, lets flood thousands of houses to SAVE THE BURDS!').
You're stuck with DRM if you purchase books from Amazon, yes, but nothing about the device itself locks you into DRM.
Uh, no. Publishers choose whether they put DRM on Amazon ebooks, there's no requirement to use it. I've never intentionally bought a DRM-ed ebook on Amazon.
Except you left out the part that says AOSP is growing faster than Google Android only in China and India.
So, only in the two (potentially) largest markets in the world, then?
I guess the only time that benefits a server is the once a year you might actually need a reboot.
Ha-ha-ha. Our new HP servers take about six minutes to get out of the BIOS. Linux boot time is irrelevant in comparison.
Some day there will be A.I. running everything and would look at humankind as adorable distractions (e.g. Iain M. Bank's Culture series).
I believe you meant to say 'disposable redshirts'.
Forget fiat-money. Think what you need for a happy society.
Happy people.
And how do you get happy people?
By people like you NOT trying to tell them how they must live their lives.
Dude. To me it is like this. If a person has 10x the income of a middle class person he's milking someone else's hard work. No one can work over 10x more than the median. No one.
Ha-ha. You believe in the Labour Theory Of Value. I hadn't imagined anyone that backward still existed on Earth; teading your post is like picking up a rock in my back yard and finding a caveman living beneath it.
And yet given the choice to be a French citizen or a Chinese citizen, I as would a vast majority of people if I can speak for all people in this one area, would still rather be a French citizen.
That's about as meaningful as saying you'd rather take cyanide than ram a power drill into your head. Yes, most of us would agree, but we'd still be dead, either way.
Wants are not infinite.
People who say that just lack imagination.
Which is why they believe in 'post-scarcity' nonsense. They don't want much, so they can't believe that anyone else would want the entire universe.
Social competition. Anyone can build themselves a ship, but serving on a high status ship with other people is another matter.
What's a 'high status ship'? If I can have a ship a hundred times the size of the Enterrpise, because, you know, ther'es no scarcity and stuff, why would I want to be a redshirt and die on the first planet the Enterprise visits?
I see you completely failed to respond to anything I said.
In what circumstances does it make any sense for me, as a business owner, to give money to the government so they can spend some of it buying stuff from me?
Hint: it doesn't. So if that's the only choice other than closing down the company, I close it down and keep the money.
'Basic income' or 'citizens income' or whatever you want to call it is just the latest twaddle from the commies who haven't died out yet.
So? If everyone gets food and heat and clothing and education and healthcare, who the fuck cares if they can't have EVERYTHING?
You seem to have missed the whole point of 'post-scarcity', dude. Post-scarcity means you can have EVERYTHING you want, otherwise, there's, like, you know, SCARCITY.
The point is to meet, as a society, every individual's needs.
And who gets to decide what my needs are? You? OK, I'm going to decide your needs are a slice of bread and a bottle of water every day. I think we can provide that, so we're already post-scarcity.
Once we can do that, we're in a post-scarcity society, and the game changes.
And this is why no sensible person taks the 'post-scarcity' nutters seriously.
The survivors in the 2150s should start living fairly comfortably as the Earth starts cooling down.
Why would anyone in their right mind want to be living on Earth in 2150?
If you wanted a starship, you work to get one. they are in rather short supply.
So much for 'post-scarcity', eh?
Basic living expenses were covered. You want more, work for it.
Yes, Comrade Commisar!
Let's see:
1. You take $50 from my company in taxes.
2. You hand that $50 to people who do nothing productive.
3. Those people sending that $50 to buy my stuff.
4. I end up with maybe $20 of that $50 after I pay my costs.
How, exactly, does this make me better off than just closing down my company and keeping that $50 in the first place?
Thing is, within the Star Trek universe, there is no real reason an individual couldn't get a ship or a planet.
So why are there hundreds of people on the Enterprise? Why does anyone volunteer to be a redshirt?
'Star Trek' is, at best, a tale of militaristic communism. There's sure as heck 'scarcity' if some people are willing to be the one who beams down to an alien planet to be shot first.
Not everyone accepts the assumption that "wants" are infinite. They are certainly variable and, in many cases, conditioned.
They are, of course, the fools who actually believe the 'post-scarcity society' nonsense.
Back in the real world, resources will be scarce until we can build entire new universes from nothing so everyone can have as much as they want.
Chinese have the skill to make both cheap crap and premium components. It's really only about the targeted price point and what the customer orders.
Except when the customer orders premium components, they produce a few to prove they can do it, then deliver cheap crap.
Apparently Aston-Martin are having to recall most of their recent cars because they ordered premium components from China and... didn't get them.
Tell me about it. We as a society have abandoned the wealthy. Who speaks for them anymore?
Remember, dude, thanks to Obama, when Sarah Palin becomes President, she'll be able to spy on you at will, fire missiles at you from drones, and arbitrariliy decide which laws are enforced and which aren't.
Be careful what you wish for...
Slapping Android apps, which follow very different conventions would diminish the user experience.
Doesn't really matter, if they don't have any users. Microsoft is desperate for anything to convince people that they should buy Windows phones, rather than the competition.
Microsoft have traditionally been a cheap crap brand, but Android already has the cheap crap end of the market. If they want to compete at the high end, they'll have to drop the Windows name, because that shouts 'cheap crap' to just about everyone on the planet who's been using it for years.
If they can run Android apps with the same OS level security as iOS, and the same level of app vetting as the Apple App Store - they may be onto something.
My guess: they'll run Android apps, but you'll need an anti-virus and all the usual crap to work around Windows' normal security flaws.
Besides which, who's going to buy a Windows tablet if they just want to run Android apps? They buy an OS to run apps, they don't buy apps to run on their OS.
I've looked through the Constitution, but I don't see where Congress gets the power to ban telephone calls on planes.