Actually it is normally called price gouging or profiteering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... and is normally considered illegal in most modern democracies, which is the reason why it likely will not be patentable, although based upon past behaviour by the USPTO it will likely pass as long as the device it happens on, has rounded corners. This style of continuous price adjustment targeted against individuals is likely to result in some new regulations, especially with regard to disclosure or deceit with regard how the price is established. You can charge people less than the regular price however you will run into real problems with regard to prejudice, racism et al when you attempt to charge more than the regular price.
Except the people stuck on the surface are likely to take offence and bury those rich and greedy types as well as politicians and leave them there. Likely best action apart from trying to deflect the asteroid, give everyone a free supply of happy pills to last until the impact, lots and lots of happy pills. It wont help with the impact but most certainly will mitigate the harm caused by people acting out against other people. In fact inserting the happy drugs right into the food and water supply would make sense.
In a more serious vein, establishment of distributed localised support system that well seek and readily accept volunteers, so individuals can focus on supporting their local community rather than dwelling upon their own circumstance. Establishing that mutual support network well before hand, one that includes the whole community, would make sense.
The hypocritical delusional that all members of a libertarian society can be free to do what ever they want to do when ever they want to do it without impacting everyone else trying to do the same thing at the same time and that economic freedom (the right to exploit anyone and everyone) has anything to do with social freedom (the right not to be exploited) or that ownership of the majority of the environment by a minority somehow does not impinge upon personal freedom of the majority or how libertarians don't show any shame when they abuse the word liberty when they talk about wanting to use their capital to deny others their liberty or how libertarians always hate government services except when they use them, then they are great. Seriously, it really is a teenage political philosophy with all that it implies and has no basis in reality with regard to a social species, we must share pretty much everything it is our normal mature genetic nature and the means by which we prosper as a species.
You guys are just plain nuts. Here's how it it meant to work. Excuse sir/madam you are not allowed to carry that item onto the aircraft, allow me to check it in for you. Either arrest them for an illegal item or if it is not illegal check it in for them. Why the bloody hell do you just allow them to steal your legal stuff, the items that you are not allowed to carry on should just be checked in. The crap cowardly people are willing to put up with is just amazing.
They will never need an external attack to sink their fantasy floating island, they will inevitably do it to themselves. They all want the freedom to do, what ever they want to do, when ever they want to do it and of course no group of people ever can do that at the same time. So they want their forever teenage libertarian floating island as long as they are the ones in charge. We already have that it's called Freewind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... (never been a more doublespeak title for a ship ever) and the only people free are the fakers at the top ruthlessly taking all the freedoms away from the ones down the bottom. Should they ever be able to build that crazy vessel it will inevitably devolve to an organised crime haven.
Regardless the of the psychopathic nature of North Korea's government and the pathetic egoistic nature of it's leadership and the quisling nature of it's many middle persons who keep that leadership in power, the only acceptable response is cutting the cable. Unhappy with the contribution to the global internet, cut them off. Seriously, fuck off with the escalation, it will just make the whole situation worse.
Computers aren't the only thing networking, people do it as well;). One of the main things you do when contributing to an open source project is establish social and business relationships with those people most likely to be able to connect you to a job, directly and indirectly. Smart recruitment would have companies employ people to contribute to open source and specifically vet fellow contributors with a view to recruiting future staff. Basically companies can forgo the whole trial period of trial and error when it comes to recruiting essential staff by being able to assess potential employees in a voluntary work place over an extended period of time. FOSS is a public showcase of the efforts and abilities of skilled people and in terms of the relationships of the people involved, how well they work with others in a voluntary environment. Even when you are already employed it still remains the most viable opportunity to showcase all of your skills in a public environment and also to maintain multi-company and multi-national relationships with people that can help you define your future dependent upon of course how well you play with others. For all the three letter et al agencies around the world, it also provides the opportunity to resist the idiotic temptation to break global computer security and instead focus on gathering knowledge on relationships between the people involved and to do their own, ugh, recruiting;).
Surely that is dependent upon how you design your shut down. This being a balance of risk and loss versus capital outlay. Generally speaking management cheats like mad on risk and loss where big bonuses are in the offing and minimise capital outlay and blame everything on the new guy. So repeated failures, improper security to save capital expenditure on computer systems, failure to manage and audit security and failure to implement a proper balance to mitigate losses from production risks in the event of failure. What this all really points to is that all executive bonuses should only be paid as an annuity, so that all bonuses are paid over the life of the impact of decisions and where minor short term gain results in major long term losses those bonuses earned under fraudulent circumstance are eliminated and used to pay for remediation of company profitability.
Hint, hint, big goals. Space is big and I mean really, really, really big and to try to explore it is to create a major goal for your society, something to strive for and achieve. Big goals, manned trip to the planets, a permanent moon base with industry and tourism, a major space station. Without goals to drive human imagination we would still be squatting in a cave or up a tree in Africa. What is the current alternate goal, apparently being the winner in mass consumerism and posing about with all your stuff in front of the lessor people, the people who can not buy as much stuff and that with a bit of cheering on for war and conflict. Yeah a space race is far better than an arms race or a mass consumerist race or an personal egoist libertarian race.
So how come the US government has not declared war on every tax haven around the world because those countries know exactly what they are doing. Actively promoting global tax evasion, money laundering, promoting payment systems for major drug trades, government bribes and, arms dealing. Basically acting as the global financial system for organised crime which direct results in death and suffering of citizens from all those economies tax havens derive their parasitical existence.
The primary duty of police officers is to assist the public in upholding the law. Having a police force that can legally lie at will does to do anything to help establish a rapport between the police and the public they are meant to serve and protect. It is all about professionalism versus a cowboy sheriff attitude. If you can not trust your police force to tell you the truth then exactly what the fuck have you really achieved?
I see that the art of satire is lost on you. It really is about corporations routinely bragging about greater ways of generating more profit and always hiding the inevitable criminally negligent short cuts and then using public relations to cover up failures, until final eventual total collapse. This as a matter of modern psychopathic routine.
What they are saying is there is a link between having fines as a percentage of income and having those fines actually have some real impact. Obviously the idea of a $100 fine to someone earning a million dollars a year is much like expecting a $1 fine having an impact on someone earning $10,000 per year. So for real impact and to reduce the number of motor vehicle impacts fines need to be a percentage of annual income so as to have a fair and equal impact on all people breaking the law.
Well, actually, copyright infringement is the illegal distribution of copyrighted content. You can legally make a million backup copies as long as you don't distribute more than one 'available' at time. Backups of the licensed content you own is completely legal as is also the replacement of damaged content media with new media. There is also a huge distinction between free and for profit distribution of that content. The distortion now comes it as to whether this is of value to society or whether it now just causes more harm than good and of course attempting to feed insatiable greed is never a good idea. Knowledge of course as being essential to any functioning society and especially with regard to democracies should always be freely accessible.
By far the most effective weapon in the digital age is the electro magnetic pulse, the bigger and the more repeated the better. As various societies completely abandon manual methods for digital methods the more vulnerable it becomes (government should always keep manual methods going as backup, the paper and the knowledge). So no action required beyond shutting down communications, data management and digital currency exchange and then letting the arrogant apes do it to themselves.
Based simply upon what happens on earth, the most likely dominant culture will be a multi-species one with each species making it's own unique contribution to that society, that cultural and thought process diversity. Likely elements of species societies advance with the overall multi-species society. Machine 'thinking' or more correctly data processing means they will always be subject to very simple attacks that the machines themselves will reproduce until total failure all as a direct result of necessary uniformity of thought or data processing. The major strength of any social species is diversity of thought and flexibility of actions, so one single failure is unlikely to eliminate them all add in multiple species to that society and it becomes far more resistant to disruption. So by far the most likely dominant society will be a multi-species one, where evolution no longer occurs by accident or trial and error.
There is also table top simulator http://www.berserk-games.com/t.... Be hearing a lot about it lately and it might just be the go to let loose the child's imagination in creating new games or altering and testing existing ones.
Actually bitcoins can be quite readily shutdown, they can simply be detected and filtered off the internet between points of transmission and either kept or destroyed. Likely to become a growing target of opportunity for corrupt ISP employees or management.
Sorry dude, if I wasn't going to the mall, this would inevitably force me to get off my lazy ass and go. It's just the way of things, when you sell out due to cowardice you don't just sell yourself short, you sell out everyone else's future. You don't have a choice, either stand up and resist or suffer worse and worse and worse. So yeah, this is a movie I would not bother seeing at the cinema until now, I wonder if they planned it this way as a huge exercise in marketing, hmmm?
Generating the images is technically very easy the real problem in animation is generating the motion, the interaction between animated objects. The logical push in that direction is the creation of virtual robots, digital actors that would act out the animation script (not just people, but all movable artefacts). Once the motion and interaction is established and achieves the desired story telling goal, it is just a repeated process of adding more and more visual finishes on the existing interactions.
You missed out one bit, the critical part, the ability to get away with the crime, bitcoins seem to have found their true market, criminal enterprise. Interesting side note the same countries were targeted each time and a very unlikely set, it would seem the logical relationship between the perpetrators in each targeted location would be a family relationship. There really isn't all that much secrecy in bit coins like anything else digitally transmitted across the internet bit coins have a recognisable bitmap and there movement can be readily traced.
Cough, cough, so I gather you would ban all advertising targeted at children across the board. Children don't decide, psychopaths with doctorates in psychology and their equally psychopathic corporate executes decide for those children via the nastiest possible peer pressure campaigns to turn child against child when their parents can not buy what they have been told they need. So trying to figure out what boys and girls actually want, first, separate them from totally corrupt main stream media and do it throughout the years of the psychological development.
Don't confuse IP (internet protocol) address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with domain names. You can run your very own internal domain address system based upon collected IP addresses, after all that domain name is nothing more than a more human identifiable short cut to the actual IP address. So breaking DNS is very much nothing more than taking a double barrel shotgun and shooting off your foot and then shoving the bloody stump in your mouth, DNS is nothing really much more than marketing identifiers of internet protocol addresses.
What they want to do of course is create a way to kill address locations for a token fee of say $10 and that costs the target say $10,000 and takes weeks or even better months to lift and there is only a whoops tee hee, when it was all wrong. This of course having nothing at all to do with copyright and everything to do with destroying all internet competitors and taking the internet back to 20th century style money dominated and controlled media.
Well, when it comes to weapons of war, the question is how big a bang will it make after a few years of corporate bonus pumping short cuts cut into safety. I would hope BP, Halliburton and Transocean having nothing what so ever to do with it. You would think with that volume of gas you would be up there with a nuclear sized detonation. Rather than too big to fail, it is so big, greed to drive up profits will inevitably result in failure.
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Actually it is normally called price gouging or profiteering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... and is normally considered illegal in most modern democracies, which is the reason why it likely will not be patentable, although based upon past behaviour by the USPTO it will likely pass as long as the device it happens on, has rounded corners. This style of continuous price adjustment targeted against individuals is likely to result in some new regulations, especially with regard to disclosure or deceit with regard how the price is established. You can charge people less than the regular price however you will run into real problems with regard to prejudice, racism et al when you attempt to charge more than the regular price.
Except the people stuck on the surface are likely to take offence and bury those rich and greedy types as well as politicians and leave them there. Likely best action apart from trying to deflect the asteroid, give everyone a free supply of happy pills to last until the impact, lots and lots of happy pills. It wont help with the impact but most certainly will mitigate the harm caused by people acting out against other people. In fact inserting the happy drugs right into the food and water supply would make sense.
In a more serious vein, establishment of distributed localised support system that well seek and readily accept volunteers, so individuals can focus on supporting their local community rather than dwelling upon their own circumstance. Establishing that mutual support network well before hand, one that includes the whole community, would make sense.
The hypocritical delusional that all members of a libertarian society can be free to do what ever they want to do when ever they want to do it without impacting everyone else trying to do the same thing at the same time and that economic freedom (the right to exploit anyone and everyone) has anything to do with social freedom (the right not to be exploited) or that ownership of the majority of the environment by a minority somehow does not impinge upon personal freedom of the majority or how libertarians don't show any shame when they abuse the word liberty when they talk about wanting to use their capital to deny others their liberty or how libertarians always hate government services except when they use them, then they are great. Seriously, it really is a teenage political philosophy with all that it implies and has no basis in reality with regard to a social species, we must share pretty much everything it is our normal mature genetic nature and the means by which we prosper as a species.
You guys are just plain nuts. Here's how it it meant to work. Excuse sir/madam you are not allowed to carry that item onto the aircraft, allow me to check it in for you. Either arrest them for an illegal item or if it is not illegal check it in for them. Why the bloody hell do you just allow them to steal your legal stuff, the items that you are not allowed to carry on should just be checked in. The crap cowardly people are willing to put up with is just amazing.
They will never need an external attack to sink their fantasy floating island, they will inevitably do it to themselves. They all want the freedom to do, what ever they want to do, when ever they want to do it and of course no group of people ever can do that at the same time. So they want their forever teenage libertarian floating island as long as they are the ones in charge. We already have that it's called Freewind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... (never been a more doublespeak title for a ship ever) and the only people free are the fakers at the top ruthlessly taking all the freedoms away from the ones down the bottom. Should they ever be able to build that crazy vessel it will inevitably devolve to an organised crime haven.
Regardless the of the psychopathic nature of North Korea's government and the pathetic egoistic nature of it's leadership and the quisling nature of it's many middle persons who keep that leadership in power, the only acceptable response is cutting the cable. Unhappy with the contribution to the global internet, cut them off. Seriously, fuck off with the escalation, it will just make the whole situation worse.
Computers aren't the only thing networking, people do it as well ;). One of the main things you do when contributing to an open source project is establish social and business relationships with those people most likely to be able to connect you to a job, directly and indirectly. Smart recruitment would have companies employ people to contribute to open source and specifically vet fellow contributors with a view to recruiting future staff. Basically companies can forgo the whole trial period of trial and error when it comes to recruiting essential staff by being able to assess potential employees in a voluntary work place over an extended period of time. FOSS is a public showcase of the efforts and abilities of skilled people and in terms of the relationships of the people involved, how well they work with others in a voluntary environment. Even when you are already employed it still remains the most viable opportunity to showcase all of your skills in a public environment and also to maintain multi-company and multi-national relationships with people that can help you define your future dependent upon of course how well you play with others. For all the three letter et al agencies around the world, it also provides the opportunity to resist the idiotic temptation to break global computer security and instead focus on gathering knowledge on relationships between the people involved and to do their own, ugh, recruiting ;).
Demerit points, hmm, who gives a crap when you can afford a driver and we are not talking golf here.
Surely that is dependent upon how you design your shut down. This being a balance of risk and loss versus capital outlay. Generally speaking management cheats like mad on risk and loss where big bonuses are in the offing and minimise capital outlay and blame everything on the new guy. So repeated failures, improper security to save capital expenditure on computer systems, failure to manage and audit security and failure to implement a proper balance to mitigate losses from production risks in the event of failure. What this all really points to is that all executive bonuses should only be paid as an annuity, so that all bonuses are paid over the life of the impact of decisions and where minor short term gain results in major long term losses those bonuses earned under fraudulent circumstance are eliminated and used to pay for remediation of company profitability.
Hint, hint, big goals. Space is big and I mean really, really, really big and to try to explore it is to create a major goal for your society, something to strive for and achieve. Big goals, manned trip to the planets, a permanent moon base with industry and tourism, a major space station. Without goals to drive human imagination we would still be squatting in a cave or up a tree in Africa. What is the current alternate goal, apparently being the winner in mass consumerism and posing about with all your stuff in front of the lessor people, the people who can not buy as much stuff and that with a bit of cheering on for war and conflict. Yeah a space race is far better than an arms race or a mass consumerist race or an personal egoist libertarian race.
So how come the US government has not declared war on every tax haven around the world because those countries know exactly what they are doing. Actively promoting global tax evasion, money laundering, promoting payment systems for major drug trades, government bribes and, arms dealing. Basically acting as the global financial system for organised crime which direct results in death and suffering of citizens from all those economies tax havens derive their parasitical existence.
The primary duty of police officers is to assist the public in upholding the law. Having a police force that can legally lie at will does to do anything to help establish a rapport between the police and the public they are meant to serve and protect. It is all about professionalism versus a cowboy sheriff attitude. If you can not trust your police force to tell you the truth then exactly what the fuck have you really achieved?
I see that the art of satire is lost on you. It really is about corporations routinely bragging about greater ways of generating more profit and always hiding the inevitable criminally negligent short cuts and then using public relations to cover up failures, until final eventual total collapse. This as a matter of modern psychopathic routine.
What they are saying is there is a link between having fines as a percentage of income and having those fines actually have some real impact. Obviously the idea of a $100 fine to someone earning a million dollars a year is much like expecting a $1 fine having an impact on someone earning $10,000 per year. So for real impact and to reduce the number of motor vehicle impacts fines need to be a percentage of annual income so as to have a fair and equal impact on all people breaking the law.
Well, actually, copyright infringement is the illegal distribution of copyrighted content. You can legally make a million backup copies as long as you don't distribute more than one 'available' at time. Backups of the licensed content you own is completely legal as is also the replacement of damaged content media with new media. There is also a huge distinction between free and for profit distribution of that content. The distortion now comes it as to whether this is of value to society or whether it now just causes more harm than good and of course attempting to feed insatiable greed is never a good idea. Knowledge of course as being essential to any functioning society and especially with regard to democracies should always be freely accessible.
By far the most effective weapon in the digital age is the electro magnetic pulse, the bigger and the more repeated the better. As various societies completely abandon manual methods for digital methods the more vulnerable it becomes (government should always keep manual methods going as backup, the paper and the knowledge). So no action required beyond shutting down communications, data management and digital currency exchange and then letting the arrogant apes do it to themselves.
Based simply upon what happens on earth, the most likely dominant culture will be a multi-species one with each species making it's own unique contribution to that society, that cultural and thought process diversity. Likely elements of species societies advance with the overall multi-species society. Machine 'thinking' or more correctly data processing means they will always be subject to very simple attacks that the machines themselves will reproduce until total failure all as a direct result of necessary uniformity of thought or data processing. The major strength of any social species is diversity of thought and flexibility of actions, so one single failure is unlikely to eliminate them all add in multiple species to that society and it becomes far more resistant to disruption. So by far the most likely dominant society will be a multi-species one, where evolution no longer occurs by accident or trial and error.
There is also table top simulator http://www.berserk-games.com/t.... Be hearing a lot about it lately and it might just be the go to let loose the child's imagination in creating new games or altering and testing existing ones.
Actually bitcoins can be quite readily shutdown, they can simply be detected and filtered off the internet between points of transmission and either kept or destroyed. Likely to become a growing target of opportunity for corrupt ISP employees or management.
Sorry dude, if I wasn't going to the mall, this would inevitably force me to get off my lazy ass and go. It's just the way of things, when you sell out due to cowardice you don't just sell yourself short, you sell out everyone else's future. You don't have a choice, either stand up and resist or suffer worse and worse and worse. So yeah, this is a movie I would not bother seeing at the cinema until now, I wonder if they planned it this way as a huge exercise in marketing, hmmm?
Generating the images is technically very easy the real problem in animation is generating the motion, the interaction between animated objects. The logical push in that direction is the creation of virtual robots, digital actors that would act out the animation script (not just people, but all movable artefacts). Once the motion and interaction is established and achieves the desired story telling goal, it is just a repeated process of adding more and more visual finishes on the existing interactions.
You missed out one bit, the critical part, the ability to get away with the crime, bitcoins seem to have found their true market, criminal enterprise. Interesting side note the same countries were targeted each time and a very unlikely set, it would seem the logical relationship between the perpetrators in each targeted location would be a family relationship. There really isn't all that much secrecy in bit coins like anything else digitally transmitted across the internet bit coins have a recognisable bitmap and there movement can be readily traced.
Cough, cough, so I gather you would ban all advertising targeted at children across the board. Children don't decide, psychopaths with doctorates in psychology and their equally psychopathic corporate executes decide for those children via the nastiest possible peer pressure campaigns to turn child against child when their parents can not buy what they have been told they need. So trying to figure out what boys and girls actually want, first, separate them from totally corrupt main stream media and do it throughout the years of the psychological development.
Don't confuse IP (internet protocol) address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with domain names. You can run your very own internal domain address system based upon collected IP addresses, after all that domain name is nothing more than a more human identifiable short cut to the actual IP address. So breaking DNS is very much nothing more than taking a double barrel shotgun and shooting off your foot and then shoving the bloody stump in your mouth, DNS is nothing really much more than marketing identifiers of internet protocol addresses.
What they want to do of course is create a way to kill address locations for a token fee of say $10 and that costs the target say $10,000 and takes weeks or even better months to lift and there is only a whoops tee hee, when it was all wrong. This of course having nothing at all to do with copyright and everything to do with destroying all internet competitors and taking the internet back to 20th century style money dominated and controlled media.
Well, when it comes to weapons of war, the question is how big a bang will it make after a few years of corporate bonus pumping short cuts cut into safety. I would hope BP, Halliburton and Transocean having nothing what so ever to do with it. You would think with that volume of gas you would be up there with a nuclear sized detonation. Rather than too big to fail, it is so big, greed to drive up profits will inevitably result in failure.