It does not. One don't just kill cows for fun, one kill them for the demand.
And one sell weapons for demand to... So if we don't sell them someone else will..
No, I wouldn't, but I like animals more than people;D
If we sold weapons what say they wouldn't be used by democratic countries for peacekeeping/defense only?
Or as said remove them and hope no-one attacks anyway, or rather, as any country in the world would had preferred it, have the US pay for and safe-keep you instead.
And using that on your response I guess one could argue whatever it's wrong of us ourselves to have weapons to defend the country just in case or well, rather make it less likely to get attacked in the first place. Guess that much not as long as we aren't on the aggressive?
So, does it really matter if we sell items to others as long as they aren't the aggressive side?
Though that will always be a gray area and as soon as they are used in war and not just training I guess it all fail..
Anyway, if we don't sell them someone else will. It's not like there isn't anyone else willing to supply others with weapons.... also I'm vegan, most people in Sweden aren't;)
Yeah, you can try to stop one Russian company from selling these weapons
Why should they not sell them?
I find it kinda hilarious with the "omg, this new weapon, it can be used for bad purposes!", no shit..
Kinda the risk with all of them so one either have to decide if one want them at all or not. And I guess in reality maybe one really need them (though I would be somewhat ok with dropping them in a country or multiple ones as an experiment to see what would happen.)
Personally I dislike that people in my country (Sweden) are so against weapons trade at large since we seem to develop a lot ourselves (or well, nowadays with BAE systems I assume) since we don't want to depend on others and support local industry but why not take full advantage and sell it to as many as possible for lower cost and more profit? Yeah, war is bad, but why not take economic advantage / only take economic disadvantage from it? If we can produce it and someone want to buy it do it:D
Personally I find it kinda weird because I do understand that they don't want to lose a lot of money by staying out of business for days but do they really want to risk their planes by flying? Shouldn't that be more of an issue even without any resulting crashes?
But if they can't fly anyway and don't have to risk their planes I guess it's just fine to whine about it in case they will get some sort of compensation. Which I don't think they should since it's all natural events.
MS is probably the most catchy one, but the factory produces and packages hardware for a lot more USA companies too:
Yeah but this is Slashdot. Less about news and more about advertisement, dupes, Microsoft-bashing and old jokes.
These companies should move their factories to US or EU.
So why should they move again?
And yeah, salaries are low, working conditions are bad, but since when have less industry made anything better? Or well, maybe more comfortable/peaceful and spartan if that's what you're after but then there's places to move to to live that life to.
The thing is that people who move into the cities to work in the plants get a much better income than they would have had out in the countryside. And they can get more items and since everyone else also work so cheap and don't have more money their money lasts longer than what they would do in NY.
And with fewer jobs and lots of poor people salaries and working conditions rather go down than up. So what are you suggesting?
The more industry they get the more work-places there is around and hence possibilities to pick a better place based on working conditions, salaries and such.
It won't just pop up jobs for everyone for western salaries with their instant high education levels.
Why would any company move there if they had to pay as much as they already do? What benefits would they gain from not having any high-paid (relative) jobs in the cities?
Well, that depends I assume. Don't know how it worked really or if there was any extra measures taken but most games had a custom boot block/format or whatever the right name would had been on it so within Workbench/the OS the disc data couldn't be read. And hence rather hard (well, not really..:D) to copy the data within the disc.
There was disc copy programs though which could copy the disc with no troubles whatsoever. But I have no idea if the formats on the discs somehow got out of standard or more complicated in some way trying to make it harder to copy the disc or if it was just about reading one block, writing one block and keep doing that until done.
And then some game actually had copy protection such as write in the right code or this and that word from a manual or such but that was always broken in software.
So yeah, no DRM maybe but non-standard (?) disc layout/format and lame attempts in software relying on code tables or other similar things.
There have never been any evidence for "heaven" and there never will be and this article can't prove it or prove against it. There is no need to either.
If they have been able to see, same as with everyone else: Imagination and dreams.
If they haven't been able to see: How the fuck can they tell they where seeing in the first place? They don't know how it is? Right? So not really seeing, just imagination and dreams.
Also the US didn't seemed to fond in various small nations getting nuclear weapons since that would just make it acceptable and interesting for other maybe not so allied small nations to get their own arsenal.
We (Sweden) where going to get them until the US told us not to, kinda. Atleast that's how the story goes. Same article mentioned something along the lines that the US would rather nuke (russia) for us than have us develop our own bombs and everyone else doing the same.
Atleast that way they always remain on top I guess.
I guess ore mining + not an unlimited supply is two issues. Don't know how real the later one is though (in a short term perspective)?
I don't know what water radon levels are measured in but back home at my mom we had 1500 bq / liter or whatever the unit may be. I don't know when it's worth mining but the country is pretty big;D
Currently we don't mine any in our country though since we prefer doing that to others instead.
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It does not. One don't just kill cows for fun, one kill them for the demand.
And one sell weapons for demand to ... So if we don't sell them someone else will ..
No, I wouldn't, but I like animals more than people ;D
If we sold weapons what say they wouldn't be used by democratic countries for peacekeeping/defense only?
Or as said remove them and hope no-one attacks anyway, or rather, as any country in the world would had preferred it, have the US pay for and safe-keep you instead.
Nowadays?
Yes.
I will just follow the other guys response:
Ethics are relative.
And using that on your response I guess one could argue whatever it's wrong of us ourselves to have weapons to defend the country just in case or well, rather make it less likely to get attacked in the first place. Guess that much not as long as we aren't on the aggressive?
So, does it really matter if we sell items to others as long as they aren't the aggressive side?
Though that will always be a gray area and as soon as they are used in war and not just training I guess it all fail ..
Anyway, if we don't sell them someone else will. It's not like there isn't anyone else willing to supply others with weapons. ... also I'm vegan, most people in Sweden aren't ;)
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing
Yeah, you can try to stop one Russian company from selling these weapons
Why should they not sell them?
I find it kinda hilarious with the "omg, this new weapon, it can be used for bad purposes!", no shit ..
Kinda the risk with all of them so one either have to decide if one want them at all or not. And I guess in reality maybe one really need them (though I would be somewhat ok with dropping them in a country or multiple ones as an experiment to see what would happen.)
Personally I dislike that people in my country (Sweden) are so against weapons trade at large since we seem to develop a lot ourselves (or well, nowadays with BAE systems I assume) since we don't want to depend on others and support local industry but why not take full advantage and sell it to as many as possible for lower cost and more profit? Yeah, war is bad, but why not take economic advantage / only take economic disadvantage from it? If we can produce it and someone want to buy it do it :D
It sounds plausible
Bring out Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman!
Personally I find it kinda weird because I do understand that they don't want to lose a lot of money by staying out of business for days but do they really want to risk their planes by flying? Shouldn't that be more of an issue even without any resulting crashes?
But if they can't fly anyway and don't have to risk their planes I guess it's just fine to whine about it in case they will get some sort of compensation. Which I don't think they should since it's all natural events.
heh, weird how it all seems to balance itself out!
Oh well, back to the oil- (and coal-) burners then I assume :D
Ash is abrasive. Any idiot who has washed their hands with LAVA soap can attest to that.
Thanks for the info! :D
Just call it earth-week and be done with it.
Got to make more of a difference when a few people turning of their lights for an hour.
Atleast the oil will last like an hour longer! ..
If we can get AI good enough to provide a good listener the end-result will be the same.
And that's way easier than creating one which can actually have a conversation since it just have to shut up and listen.
So you see, we are screwed already!
MS is probably the most catchy one, but the factory produces and packages hardware for a lot more USA companies too:
Yeah but this is Slashdot. Less about news and more about advertisement, dupes, Microsoft-bashing and old jokes.
These companies should move their factories to US or EU.
So why should they move again?
And yeah, salaries are low, working conditions are bad, but since when have less industry made anything better? Or well, maybe more comfortable/peaceful and spartan if that's what you're after but then there's places to move to to live that life to.
The thing is that people who move into the cities to work in the plants get a much better income than they would have had out in the countryside. And they can get more items and since everyone else also work so cheap and don't have more money their money lasts longer than what they would do in NY.
And with fewer jobs and lots of poor people salaries and working conditions rather go down than up. So what are you suggesting?
The more industry they get the more work-places there is around and hence possibilities to pick a better place based on working conditions, salaries and such.
It won't just pop up jobs for everyone for western salaries with their instant high education levels.
Why would any company move there if they had to pay as much as they already do?
What benefits would they gain from not having any high-paid (relative) jobs in the cities?
I would RTFA if it wasn't Slashdotted.
Oh well, what matters the most:
Anyone WTB 500+ floppies? :D Anyone!?! :D
Well, that depends I assume. Don't know how it worked really or if there was any extra measures taken but most games had a custom boot block/format or whatever the right name would had been on it so within Workbench/the OS the disc data couldn't be read. And hence rather hard (well, not really .. :D) to copy the data within the disc.
There was disc copy programs though which could copy the disc with no troubles whatsoever. But I have no idea if the formats on the discs somehow got out of standard or more complicated in some way trying to make it harder to copy the disc or if it was just about reading one block, writing one block and keep doing that until done.
And then some game actually had copy protection such as write in the right code or this and that word from a manual or such but that was always broken in software.
So yeah, no DRM maybe but non-standard (?) disc layout/format and lame attempts in software relying on code tables or other similar things.
There have never been any evidence for "heaven" and there never will be and this article can't prove it or prove against it. There is no need to either.
Though maybe that's what you want to say :D
Don't post in this discussion and hope you get modpoints in the next few days
Every "Mod up parent" post I see when I have modpoints is one point lost to '-1 Offtopic'.
That will be kinda hard this time won't it? What about following your own advice?
If they have been able to see, same as with everyone else: Imagination and dreams.
If they haven't been able to see: How the fuck can they tell they where seeing in the first place? They don't know how it is? Right? So not really seeing, just imagination and dreams.
Next?
Just helping others out:
It's geohot.
This is why Apple hate competition.
Hence better patent and sue ALL!
Isn't the solution to smack them down while they are still in their pre-/lowteens to learn them to shape up before they become adults?
All the symptoms should already be there.
And for the older kids out there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O6MchAeAkc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fll10R1o16Q
People perform better when they have had enough rest!?!?!
No shit!
Also the US didn't seemed to fond in various small nations getting nuclear weapons since that would just make it acceptable and interesting for other maybe not so allied small nations to get their own arsenal.
We (Sweden) where going to get them until the US told us not to, kinda. Atleast that's how the story goes. Same article mentioned something along the lines that the US would rather nuke (russia) for us than have us develop our own bombs and everyone else doing the same.
Atleast that way they always remain on top I guess.
Funny how we in Sweden don't have much international disturbances but still the same problem :D
Difference is that the offending government is our own :D
I guess ore mining + not an unlimited supply is two issues. Don't know how real the later one is though (in a short term perspective)?
I don't know what water radon levels are measured in but back home at my mom we had 1500 bq / liter or whatever the unit may be. I don't know when it's worth mining but the country is pretty big ;D
Currently we don't mine any in our country though since we prefer doing that to others instead.
Macs are different.
They only have line-in, no microphone in.