Who decides what a luxury is, no matter how insanely greedy you are, I'll bet you can tell the difference between a glass of milk for a child and a diamond necklace, a pair of shoes and a limousine, a small house and a mansion, a kayak and a yacht. Pretty bloody obvious what the luxury excesses are. Oh and please stop the anal out of context dissection it is really lame, I specifically excluded general consumption from commercial, industrial and even high density residential, which you ignored.
It depends how big their target list is. So all the world's politicians and their families cuts down the number and maximises the extortion benefit. Basically enabling them to completely subvert all the world's democracies and run them by remote control via all the corrupt politicians they have caught and not reported. After all it is becoming pretty obvious after recent disclosures that's what it really is all about.
Well that would have been a waste of money against virtually unlimited government spending. Maybe, just maybe, he should have hired lobbyists and made the required political campaign pay-offs, in conjunction with deposits in certain tax haven bank accounts. Then Joe Bidden could not have so readily corruptly abused the US Department of Justice and the US State Department and the New Zealand government, at the bidding of his Hollywood campaign contributors, luxury holiday providers and party invite providers, where the guests receive gifts rather than providing them, well, at least at the party, the are expected to provide many government funded gifts post party or holiday. The whole Mega Upload case was blatant government corruption and abuse of the legal process.
The real problem is when you leave engineers to solve a problem they rarely tend to think outside of the box a look at the broader picture.
The whole cheaper than coal question needs to take on a broader review. So cheaper than coal to generate or cheaper than coal to buy at the retail level, taking into account power distribution and inefficiencies with variable demands. Solar has the advantage of being a distributed energy generation system. So the goal is to replace all non-energy generating roofs with energy generating roofs, adding in low noise vertical wind turbines where possible and storing energy generated on site, thus cutting back the grid to battery charging and high energy demand sites, like industry, commercial and multiple unit dwellings (limited roof space).
Technically speaking coal is renewable it just takes a very very long and rates of renewal are well below current rates of consumption. Methane power stations making use of sewerage and rubbish disposal, in conjunction with solar and wind could provide sufficient power for general usage, with nuclear only still currently needed for high energy demands of commercial and industrial requirements.
The other thing of course is penalising wasteful luxury energy usage, not so much quality heating and cooling but jewellery, cosmetics, fashions, private jets, luxury yachts, super cars, mansions. Squeezing down on demand by ramping up consumption tax on those items to 100% plus. Even the energy wasted by tourism must be reconsidered and the tax base reviewed. You want to burn and pollute for poseur value than you really should be forced to pay the full cost of your selfish self serving values. So how much will greed and 100% consumption taxes on luxury items cut back on energy demands.
For psychopaths cheating is part of winning ie "hah hah sucker I am smarter because I beat you by cheating". This in spite of the fact that cheating proves inferior ability. So psychopaths routinely cheat as proof of their superior ability, at lying, cheating and stealing (killing as well so watch out). They basically play computer games the exact way they play all other 'games'. Politics, corporations, medical services, police, military, all games they seek to win, where personal advantage is victory and actually providing a service is waste of time and in a warped fashion considered a personal loss, as they only doing things for themselves.
This is really no different to PvP as I like to call it purse vs purse where victory is tied to who spends the most and being able to gloat over others and make their victims suffer is all that drives them.
This means that certain and certain players will inevitably draw a lot of investigatory action as the participants are likely to have employed those same lying, cheating, stealing and killing predilections in other areas of human society beyond computer gaming.
A lot of the comments have the look of being computer generated. Likely it is those same computer generated responses that the individual in question is 'communicating' with, inferring patterns in words as a result of mental disturbances and also incorporating that output in comments so that God in the individuals mind is responding through the individual to all others.
Just like with many other slashdot feeds, the story should be understood, interpreted, shared and likely conclusions drawn as an exercise in thought, rather than empty knee jerk responses.
Care should still be taken because interpreting computer generated word salad as God's responses could lead to some very undesirable interpretations for the individual and of course for those associated with that individual.
Well why don't those engineers review the whole idea of SSD drives. Really, honestly, they seem rather redundant, once the shift is made over to that format, surely storage slots for chips on small daughter boards makes more sense. why bother with a box in a box, when all you need is the slots, just like ram slots to slip in flash storage. Preferable a reasonable number of slots, with the ability to transfer data from one slot to another and say a specific boot slot. Whether you add in additional drive extension identification per slot or just expand the core drive with each additional card installed. On growing failure rates add a new daughter board, mirror the boot card and swap them.
The concept seems outdated for SSD drives when SSD storage becomes dominant, except of course for external drives. Keeping that storage connected directly to the mother board means data transfer speeds will be improved and overall design should be simplified, mother board and computer case, apart of course from the need for optical drives unless of course they get tossed out the same time as hard disk drives.
Pretty obvious why Yahoo still exists, to pay more than Google for default search engine status on Firefox;). Also they are one of the last major portals to offer a properly customisable 'my'portal interface, now that myAOL and myMSN are now dead and myGoogle never really existed. If there are any other major properly customisable 'my'portal web sites out there, provide some links.
Hate to burst your bubble but magnetic bits on plastic are magnetic bits on plastic whether tape, disc or flash drives. Don't become confused with old tapes being reliable, they are reliable temporarily because they were a low density storage format and over years as the storage density increase, just like hard disk drives they tended to become less reliable. Flash media is happy sitting in the dark for a very long time, it wears out with multiple writes not multiple reads or very rare reads. The advantage of course with say flash media is that via a mass storage adaptor, your storage system could provide you instant read only access to all your stored archives at what would be now a reasonable price. You can actually build a storage array of thousands of flash drives, which of course is what a SSD drive technically is. So the balance is the cost of archive storage media, the cost of storing that media, the cost of the storage facility and the cost of accessing that data. Companies will find spending much more on storage media will achieve major savings in all other areas. Inevitably flash type storage will win out, it is only a matter of continuing development time, simplicity of writing data to them and later accessing it from them gives that medium a huge advantage.
Excuse me but the evidence was that the trigger happy officer killed someone, proof is required to justify that and prove the victim was guilty of a crime justifying public execution. Guilt has been established now proof is required to justify that action.
The other question is what is the NSA really doing with all this information especially as they have been known to target 'ALL' foreign politicians and of course have a publicly stated penchant for extortion. How many countries democracies have been derailed of late by naughty foreign politicians being caught and yet to have been exposed, as long as of course they continue to comply. With the inclusion of major US corporations as contractor and such espionage partners, how much leverage will they be able to gain in many countries.
Well that is something that should have been proven in court. Reality is belief of fear is not an acceptable excuse for a professional. That they killed someone is undeniable, that they should now be required to prove in court the validity of that action should also be required. That actual proof and evidence for the action only is accepted and not beliefs, or faith or cowardly excuses, is the normal requirement. The government publicly executed a citizen, the legal justification for that public execution now needs to be proven in a court of law just as it would be needed in any other execution for a crime. Either the citizen is legally guilty of an action that justified execution or the officer is now guilty of criminal manslaughter or worse.
Sounds like an interesting way to make employees pay for their own to be used during work hours and toss the company phone in a drawer. A very cunning way to save company mobile phone call costs and make the employees pay for them;D.
You are logically required to contribute to the society that promotes your opportunities for 'income'. Failure to do so, means that you are parasitism on those who do and just like all parasites, you should be targeted, and eliminated. The greater the parasitic impact the greater the penalty, get past a million and loss of all profits during that period, past a hundred million and destruction of company is sensible because of the extreme damage done to the country by theft of social, security and infrastructure services. Do not pay for these and your are a liar, cheat and a theft and when it comes excessive the early death of many of that countries citizens due to loss of services. Now that is the harsh reality of psychopathic ring wing capitalism. User pays, they benefited by the provision of an economy by others, generated a profit and cheated on paying access rights to that economy and stole those services that provide and support that economy which generate the opportunity for revenue and profit.
When it comes to coding, I wonder which is the best format, word processor style or spreadsheet style. Years ago, you could do lots of interesting things with spreadsheet style and old macro language. Test outcomes in adjacent cells, track variable outputs, plan out modules across a full 3D format, with lots of width, length and with multiple aligned 'sheets' lots of depth. They seem wedded to the word processor though.
Yeah, I know, so many areas in the US don't have electricity, plumbing, roads, stormwater systems, and all of them individually are vastly more expensive than wiring up fibreoptic (let alone combined), wait, WHAT!? So many US business have got to be run by idiots, I mean, literally hundreds of thousands of owners and managers who a stupid enough to accept lies so they can be ripped off with hugely inflated communications costs, and all the future communications monitored and their communications strangled if they compete against subsidiaries or companies owned by major ISP management, SUCKERS.
Gees, hot air, helium, what difference does it make, why would you even bother with ballons. Harsh reality is if a country is too stupid to get it's fibre optic broadband push together than it deserves to slowly but surely get relegated to second world status for blind ignorance driven by nothing but psychopathic greed. Those first world countries that are still struggling with fibre to the premise have first world fuck wits in government being fed money in off shore tax havens by corrupt main stream media and telecom incumbents and they are kept in power by the cheetos brigade for whom the internet is nothing but a new source of commercials and being told what to buy and when to buy it in order to be happy and 'sic' a better person when you can pose around with all the shit you have bought.
A government is there as a social function of the people that form that government. The governments function is and should be what ever the people want it to be. People uniformly hate being lied to, cheated and having their possessions stole. So a function people pretty much uniformly ascribe to government is to prevent lying, cheating and stealing and of course catch and punish those that lie, cheat and steal. Governments implement regulations in order to attempt to achieve this, liars, cheaters and stealers then attempt to work around those regulations which means government ends up creating more regulations etc.
Don't get rid of government, get rid of the psychopaths and narcissists the necessitate huge mechanisms of state to control their out of control behaviour. Let's just guess who hates regulations more the liars, cheats and thieves or their victims.
The Ukraine government had huge amounts of military junk at one stage. It all 'er' disappeared, as various oligarch got 'er' rid of it, selling 'um' paying to dispose of it to supply various war lords around the world. Providing more weapons for free will just most likely enrich a free oligarchs and empower a few more African wars. Always have to take a long hard look at countries where diplomacy is considered far more expensive than war regardless of course how much less in reality, hint, hint, USA. Apparently there is no profit in diplomacy for the minority even when the majority make huge positively mind boggling savings but of course the minority must have their profits and they pay for the PR massaging of reality to make murdering people look good.
So why isn't or more accurately shouldn't military hardware be shipped around the war, BECAUSE IT FUCKING FEEDS WARS AND GREED, let's try shipping low cost diplomacy around the place and under UN accord starve the war beast by blocking all international trade in arms and munitions. If you fucking can't make it you most certainly don't need it when it comes to weapons of war, you wont solve nay problems by buying into that shit but you must certainly will end up killing a lot of people, making the majority suffer and oh yeah, feed the greed of a tiny psychopathic minority.
So a better idea, how about political activism to block all global trade in arms and munitions. History has proven all those efforts largely turn around and bite you on the ass, repeatedly.
So why are you still adhering to narrow output when so many of your end users have switched to wide screen. Having a quick browse around, I find it unfathomable why so many tech sites stick to narrow format suited to old CRT displays when the world has moved on, must be the 'qwerty' effect, stubbornness bound to ignorance, don't worry it's not so much an individual problem but an industry delusion.
PS don't try to make output that suits a full sized display suit a mobile phone or vice versa.
You missed, avoid outsourcing your core service because of course you are not just giving you ideas away for free (there of course is nothing FOSS wrong with that) but you are paying people to take them and directly funding potential competitors. Outsourcing was just bean counter spreadsheet bullshit to grab the bonuses in the short term at the expense of crippling long term survivability. All those years of developing your companies skill set are gone, evaporated in the blazing sun of short term greed and instead you have just funded the development of skill sets of other companies.
Keep in mind the top level of outsourcers only outsource things like management because it gives them the opportunity to hugely inflate management costs, shift them to offshore tax haves and not only cheat on taxes but also to hugely cheat their own investors, whilst spreading lots of PR fertiliser about saving money.
Of course when it comes to software/web development the first thing you need to decide is whether you want to create a real long term company or just create a scam that looks good and gives something 'investment' companies can promote and sell to the gullibly greedy before it all 'mySpaces'.
Again another fool trying to justify qwerty to this day. So why are they not teaching the QWEs at school and still persist in teaching the ABCs, make up your fucking mind which is right and PS stop you anal comment dissection it is lame.
In this case, far more likely, the voted because "they got yours and they got caught" but if they want to remain in their positions of graft and corruption then they had better vote the way they have been instructed to vote else there is a federal cell with their name 'er' number on it. Make no mistake when an espionage service over reaches purposefully and against a countries law, that is it's real intention in a corrupted capitalists society, finding and controlling the cheats. This is done locally and in foreign locations. When the means are criminal don't be surprised when the end is also criminal (often in the initial planning the end wasn't criminal but once the corruption set, the criminal activity becomes the norm, the end soon changes to feed the ego of the individuals with the power).
Now which is more likely to occur: 1. A carefully programmed and thoroughly tested robot. or 2. Lowest tender robot with just barely sufficient buggy code to get past the tender process. Generating a huge bonus for the psychopathic executive team when they produce 10,000 of them.
Bad luck under capitalism, corporations will never ever produce a "A carefully programmed and thoroughly tested robot", it just wont happen, it can't happen, corporate greed controlled by psychopaths guarantees it wont happen, that is the reality.
The only real reason for killer robots is not to protect people the dangerous hobby of killing other people and those victims trying to defend themselves, the real reason is of course the people you send to commit mass murder at some point refusing to do so. So killer robots are all about nothing but mass murder without restraint or conscience. Any country that produces them seriously has to be considered an enemy of humanity and should be ostracised and excluded.
Any attempt at out technologically competing other countries with robotic death machines will immediately result in the return to the development of biological weapons delivered by small stealthy drones (easy to do and of course lateral thinking means you can tackle food sources not just people).
Basically what you have done is spout fantasy spreadsheet economics. Reality is dropping off line single player means losing all those who will be tempted to play multilayer as well. So dropping 100% of people who want to play offline means also losing say 50% of them who would have gone on to play mutli player. Of course that is just a guess but far more reflective of reality than your guess. Add to that the game does not exist in the vacuum it simulates (space heh heh) and has to compete against other games and this will do a lot of damage to the game. You can bet people will avoid the game just to stick it to the developers for scamming people who wanted the single player.
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Who decides what a luxury is, no matter how insanely greedy you are, I'll bet you can tell the difference between a glass of milk for a child and a diamond necklace, a pair of shoes and a limousine, a small house and a mansion, a kayak and a yacht. Pretty bloody obvious what the luxury excesses are. Oh and please stop the anal out of context dissection it is really lame, I specifically excluded general consumption from commercial, industrial and even high density residential, which you ignored.
It depends how big their target list is. So all the world's politicians and their families cuts down the number and maximises the extortion benefit. Basically enabling them to completely subvert all the world's democracies and run them by remote control via all the corrupt politicians they have caught and not reported. After all it is becoming pretty obvious after recent disclosures that's what it really is all about.
Well that would have been a waste of money against virtually unlimited government spending. Maybe, just maybe, he should have hired lobbyists and made the required political campaign pay-offs, in conjunction with deposits in certain tax haven bank accounts. Then Joe Bidden could not have so readily corruptly abused the US Department of Justice and the US State Department and the New Zealand government, at the bidding of his Hollywood campaign contributors, luxury holiday providers and party invite providers, where the guests receive gifts rather than providing them, well, at least at the party, the are expected to provide many government funded gifts post party or holiday. The whole Mega Upload case was blatant government corruption and abuse of the legal process.
The real problem is when you leave engineers to solve a problem they rarely tend to think outside of the box a look at the broader picture.
The whole cheaper than coal question needs to take on a broader review. So cheaper than coal to generate or cheaper than coal to buy at the retail level, taking into account power distribution and inefficiencies with variable demands. Solar has the advantage of being a distributed energy generation system. So the goal is to replace all non-energy generating roofs with energy generating roofs, adding in low noise vertical wind turbines where possible and storing energy generated on site, thus cutting back the grid to battery charging and high energy demand sites, like industry, commercial and multiple unit dwellings (limited roof space).
Technically speaking coal is renewable it just takes a very very long and rates of renewal are well below current rates of consumption. Methane power stations making use of sewerage and rubbish disposal, in conjunction with solar and wind could provide sufficient power for general usage, with nuclear only still currently needed for high energy demands of commercial and industrial requirements.
The other thing of course is penalising wasteful luxury energy usage, not so much quality heating and cooling but jewellery, cosmetics, fashions, private jets, luxury yachts, super cars, mansions. Squeezing down on demand by ramping up consumption tax on those items to 100% plus. Even the energy wasted by tourism must be reconsidered and the tax base reviewed. You want to burn and pollute for poseur value than you really should be forced to pay the full cost of your selfish self serving values. So how much will greed and 100% consumption taxes on luxury items cut back on energy demands.
For psychopaths cheating is part of winning ie "hah hah sucker I am smarter because I beat you by cheating". This in spite of the fact that cheating proves inferior ability. So psychopaths routinely cheat as proof of their superior ability, at lying, cheating and stealing (killing as well so watch out). They basically play computer games the exact way they play all other 'games'. Politics, corporations, medical services, police, military, all games they seek to win, where personal advantage is victory and actually providing a service is waste of time and in a warped fashion considered a personal loss, as they only doing things for themselves.
This is really no different to PvP as I like to call it purse vs purse where victory is tied to who spends the most and being able to gloat over others and make their victims suffer is all that drives them.
This means that certain and certain players will inevitably draw a lot of investigatory action as the participants are likely to have employed those same lying, cheating, stealing and killing predilections in other areas of human society beyond computer gaming.
A lot of the comments have the look of being computer generated. Likely it is those same computer generated responses that the individual in question is 'communicating' with, inferring patterns in words as a result of mental disturbances and also incorporating that output in comments so that God in the individuals mind is responding through the individual to all others.
Just like with many other slashdot feeds, the story should be understood, interpreted, shared and likely conclusions drawn as an exercise in thought, rather than empty knee jerk responses.
Care should still be taken because interpreting computer generated word salad as God's responses could lead to some very undesirable interpretations for the individual and of course for those associated with that individual.
Well why don't those engineers review the whole idea of SSD drives. Really, honestly, they seem rather redundant, once the shift is made over to that format, surely storage slots for chips on small daughter boards makes more sense. why bother with a box in a box, when all you need is the slots, just like ram slots to slip in flash storage. Preferable a reasonable number of slots, with the ability to transfer data from one slot to another and say a specific boot slot. Whether you add in additional drive extension identification per slot or just expand the core drive with each additional card installed. On growing failure rates add a new daughter board, mirror the boot card and swap them.
The concept seems outdated for SSD drives when SSD storage becomes dominant, except of course for external drives. Keeping that storage connected directly to the mother board means data transfer speeds will be improved and overall design should be simplified, mother board and computer case, apart of course from the need for optical drives unless of course they get tossed out the same time as hard disk drives.
Pretty obvious why Yahoo still exists, to pay more than Google for default search engine status on Firefox ;). Also they are one of the last major portals to offer a properly customisable 'my'portal interface, now that myAOL and myMSN are now dead and myGoogle never really existed. If there are any other major properly customisable 'my'portal web sites out there, provide some links.
One click search doesn't really work, mainly because for best search results specialised search engines are preferable, http://mycroftproject.com/sear... or http://mycroftproject.com/sear... or when you want you privacy back http://mycroftproject.com/sear.... As examples, so using the most appropriate search engine for the results you are after takes more than one click.
Hate to burst your bubble but magnetic bits on plastic are magnetic bits on plastic whether tape, disc or flash drives. Don't become confused with old tapes being reliable, they are reliable temporarily because they were a low density storage format and over years as the storage density increase, just like hard disk drives they tended to become less reliable. Flash media is happy sitting in the dark for a very long time, it wears out with multiple writes not multiple reads or very rare reads. The advantage of course with say flash media is that via a mass storage adaptor, your storage system could provide you instant read only access to all your stored archives at what would be now a reasonable price. You can actually build a storage array of thousands of flash drives, which of course is what a SSD drive technically is. So the balance is the cost of archive storage media, the cost of storing that media, the cost of the storage facility and the cost of accessing that data. Companies will find spending much more on storage media will achieve major savings in all other areas. Inevitably flash type storage will win out, it is only a matter of continuing development time, simplicity of writing data to them and later accessing it from them gives that medium a huge advantage.
Excuse me but the evidence was that the trigger happy officer killed someone, proof is required to justify that and prove the victim was guilty of a crime justifying public execution. Guilt has been established now proof is required to justify that action.
The other question is what is the NSA really doing with all this information especially as they have been known to target 'ALL' foreign politicians and of course have a publicly stated penchant for extortion. How many countries democracies have been derailed of late by naughty foreign politicians being caught and yet to have been exposed, as long as of course they continue to comply. With the inclusion of major US corporations as contractor and such espionage partners, how much leverage will they be able to gain in many countries.
Well that is something that should have been proven in court. Reality is belief of fear is not an acceptable excuse for a professional. That they killed someone is undeniable, that they should now be required to prove in court the validity of that action should also be required. That actual proof and evidence for the action only is accepted and not beliefs, or faith or cowardly excuses, is the normal requirement. The government publicly executed a citizen, the legal justification for that public execution now needs to be proven in a court of law just as it would be needed in any other execution for a crime. Either the citizen is legally guilty of an action that justified execution or the officer is now guilty of criminal manslaughter or worse.
Sounds like an interesting way to make employees pay for their own to be used during work hours and toss the company phone in a drawer. A very cunning way to save company mobile phone call costs and make the employees pay for them ;D.
You are logically required to contribute to the society that promotes your opportunities for 'income'. Failure to do so, means that you are parasitism on those who do and just like all parasites, you should be targeted, and eliminated. The greater the parasitic impact the greater the penalty, get past a million and loss of all profits during that period, past a hundred million and destruction of company is sensible because of the extreme damage done to the country by theft of social, security and infrastructure services. Do not pay for these and your are a liar, cheat and a theft and when it comes excessive the early death of many of that countries citizens due to loss of services. Now that is the harsh reality of psychopathic ring wing capitalism. User pays, they benefited by the provision of an economy by others, generated a profit and cheated on paying access rights to that economy and stole those services that provide and support that economy which generate the opportunity for revenue and profit.
When it comes to coding, I wonder which is the best format, word processor style or spreadsheet style. Years ago, you could do lots of interesting things with spreadsheet style and old macro language. Test outcomes in adjacent cells, track variable outputs, plan out modules across a full 3D format, with lots of width, length and with multiple aligned 'sheets' lots of depth. They seem wedded to the word processor though.
Yeah, I know, so many areas in the US don't have electricity, plumbing, roads, stormwater systems, and all of them individually are vastly more expensive than wiring up fibreoptic (let alone combined), wait, WHAT!? So many US business have got to be run by idiots, I mean, literally hundreds of thousands of owners and managers who a stupid enough to accept lies so they can be ripped off with hugely inflated communications costs, and all the future communications monitored and their communications strangled if they compete against subsidiaries or companies owned by major ISP management, SUCKERS.
Gees, hot air, helium, what difference does it make, why would you even bother with ballons. Harsh reality is if a country is too stupid to get it's fibre optic broadband push together than it deserves to slowly but surely get relegated to second world status for blind ignorance driven by nothing but psychopathic greed. Those first world countries that are still struggling with fibre to the premise have first world fuck wits in government being fed money in off shore tax havens by corrupt main stream media and telecom incumbents and they are kept in power by the cheetos brigade for whom the internet is nothing but a new source of commercials and being told what to buy and when to buy it in order to be happy and 'sic' a better person when you can pose around with all the shit you have bought.
A government is there as a social function of the people that form that government. The governments function is and should be what ever the people want it to be. People uniformly hate being lied to, cheated and having their possessions stole. So a function people pretty much uniformly ascribe to government is to prevent lying, cheating and stealing and of course catch and punish those that lie, cheat and steal. Governments implement regulations in order to attempt to achieve this, liars, cheaters and stealers then attempt to work around those regulations which means government ends up creating more regulations etc.
Don't get rid of government, get rid of the psychopaths and narcissists the necessitate huge mechanisms of state to control their out of control behaviour. Let's just guess who hates regulations more the liars, cheats and thieves or their victims.
The Ukraine government had huge amounts of military junk at one stage. It all 'er' disappeared, as various oligarch got 'er' rid of it, selling 'um' paying to dispose of it to supply various war lords around the world. Providing more weapons for free will just most likely enrich a free oligarchs and empower a few more African wars. Always have to take a long hard look at countries where diplomacy is considered far more expensive than war regardless of course how much less in reality, hint, hint, USA. Apparently there is no profit in diplomacy for the minority even when the majority make huge positively mind boggling savings but of course the minority must have their profits and they pay for the PR massaging of reality to make murdering people look good.
So why isn't or more accurately shouldn't military hardware be shipped around the war, BECAUSE IT FUCKING FEEDS WARS AND GREED, let's try shipping low cost diplomacy around the place and under UN accord starve the war beast by blocking all international trade in arms and munitions. If you fucking can't make it you most certainly don't need it when it comes to weapons of war, you wont solve nay problems by buying into that shit but you must certainly will end up killing a lot of people, making the majority suffer and oh yeah, feed the greed of a tiny psychopathic minority.
So a better idea, how about political activism to block all global trade in arms and munitions. History has proven all those efforts largely turn around and bite you on the ass, repeatedly.
So why are you still adhering to narrow output when so many of your end users have switched to wide screen. Having a quick browse around, I find it unfathomable why so many tech sites stick to narrow format suited to old CRT displays when the world has moved on, must be the 'qwerty' effect, stubbornness bound to ignorance, don't worry it's not so much an individual problem but an industry delusion.
PS don't try to make output that suits a full sized display suit a mobile phone or vice versa.
You missed, avoid outsourcing your core service because of course you are not just giving you ideas away for free (there of course is nothing FOSS wrong with that) but you are paying people to take them and directly funding potential competitors. Outsourcing was just bean counter spreadsheet bullshit to grab the bonuses in the short term at the expense of crippling long term survivability. All those years of developing your companies skill set are gone, evaporated in the blazing sun of short term greed and instead you have just funded the development of skill sets of other companies.
Keep in mind the top level of outsourcers only outsource things like management because it gives them the opportunity to hugely inflate management costs, shift them to offshore tax haves and not only cheat on taxes but also to hugely cheat their own investors, whilst spreading lots of PR fertiliser about saving money.
Of course when it comes to software/web development the first thing you need to decide is whether you want to create a real long term company or just create a scam that looks good and gives something 'investment' companies can promote and sell to the gullibly greedy before it all 'mySpaces'.
Again another fool trying to justify qwerty to this day. So why are they not teaching the QWEs at school and still persist in teaching the ABCs, make up your fucking mind which is right and PS stop you anal comment dissection it is lame.
In this case, far more likely, the voted because "they got yours and they got caught" but if they want to remain in their positions of graft and corruption then they had better vote the way they have been instructed to vote else there is a federal cell with their name 'er' number on it. Make no mistake when an espionage service over reaches purposefully and against a countries law, that is it's real intention in a corrupted capitalists society, finding and controlling the cheats. This is done locally and in foreign locations. When the means are criminal don't be surprised when the end is also criminal (often in the initial planning the end wasn't criminal but once the corruption set, the criminal activity becomes the norm, the end soon changes to feed the ego of the individuals with the power).
Now which is more likely to occur:
1. A carefully programmed and thoroughly tested robot.
or
2. Lowest tender robot with just barely sufficient buggy code to get past the tender process. Generating a huge bonus for the psychopathic executive team when they produce 10,000 of them.
Bad luck under capitalism, corporations will never ever produce a "A carefully programmed and thoroughly tested robot", it just wont happen, it can't happen, corporate greed controlled by psychopaths guarantees it wont happen, that is the reality.
The only real reason for killer robots is not to protect people the dangerous hobby of killing other people and those victims trying to defend themselves, the real reason is of course the people you send to commit mass murder at some point refusing to do so. So killer robots are all about nothing but mass murder without restraint or conscience. Any country that produces them seriously has to be considered an enemy of humanity and should be ostracised and excluded.
Any attempt at out technologically competing other countries with robotic death machines will immediately result in the return to the development of biological weapons delivered by small stealthy drones (easy to do and of course lateral thinking means you can tackle food sources not just people).
Basically what you have done is spout fantasy spreadsheet economics. Reality is dropping off line single player means losing all those who will be tempted to play multilayer as well. So dropping 100% of people who want to play offline means also losing say 50% of them who would have gone on to play mutli player. Of course that is just a guess but far more reflective of reality than your guess. Add to that the game does not exist in the vacuum it simulates (space heh heh) and has to compete against other games and this will do a lot of damage to the game. You can bet people will avoid the game just to stick it to the developers for scamming people who wanted the single player.