If you wandered into a crowd of people and began shooting, you would be jailed, given access to an attorney and the use of the court system to contest your jailing, and promptly tried for your crimes, all the while presumed innocent before proven guilty. If you were taken as a prisoner of war, you would be held within the theatre of war, not tried (at least not by the same country that was holding you prisoner), and granted your rights under the Geneva Convention. The problem with Guantanamo is that the American government refuses to abide by either of these codes of legal oversight. Holding prisoners per se is not what's at issue here--what is at issue is that these prisoners are being held with absolutely no oversight and no respect either to their human rights or to their rights under American and international law.
Murderers do, in fact, have the same rights as the rest of us--namely, the right to be accused and tried as murderers with full respect to their human and civil rights until such time as they are duly convicted. What court, pray tell, convicted the alleged "unlawful enemy combatants" at the Guantanamo concentration camp? And of what charges?
"Anyone" does not apply to Willy on Wheels or the person who spams unrelated pages with photographs of men sucking their own cocks. Nor does it apply to people who are incapable of working with others and (for instance) continually revert pages back to their preferred version instead of working out a consensus. Incidentally, some years ago there was a proposal to change it to "good authors are always welcome", which is similar to the German Wikipedia slogan for precisely this reason.
I don't think that's your problem. I used to have a very vivid visualization ability, but I lost it as I grew older. It never stopped me from understanding fiction, although I never really keep track of the appearance of characters (unless the idea of the description is sufficiently striking, but even then I don't remember a visualization). Maybe I still have a slight amount that helps, but my understanding of the written word is rarely tied to any simulated sensation.
While it's true that historical precedent exists both ways, you don't have to be an asshole just because someone shared an anecdote that suggests a different approach.
For situations where the user pays (e.g., buying from iTunes), the writers currently do get paid, I believe on the same scale that they do for DVDs.
Another issue of the strike: that scale was last negotiated in 1988, when DVD didn't exist and VHS was not as widespread a method of TV distribution as DVD and iTunes are today.
If someone steals your property (ie. the game or its fake money) would the poilce not deal with it as theft?
If it's less than a few thousand (real) dollars in value, probably not. They can't be arsed to deal with anything less than grand theft auto in most cities.
There's a distinction between using SL as PayPal (a brilliant idea!) and actually keeping large L$ reserves in SL to "spend" on "goods" and "services" that only exist within Second Life itself. ("Services" usually being animated cybersex, and "goods" usually being cybersex animations.)
I spent a long time on Second Life--hours, even. It is crap and anyone who actually feels bad for losing their "Linden Dollars" is pathetic. (It's possible on SL to bootstrap from nothing and work your way up to having a considerable number of "Linden Dollars" without any talent at all, and I was halfway into doing so until I decided SL was a waste of time. And it's not exactly difficult either--I sort of fell into it by accident.)
but I doubt it will make anyone run naked in the streets as, say, discovery of a reaction that makes dark matter could (it is the 30% of the universe after all !)
My physics TA (a doctoral student) used to say that this "dark matter" talk reminded him a lot of how we posited an extra planet between Mercury and the Sun because that was the only way to account for Mercury's orbit. It turned out that there was no planet, Newtonian mechanics were just too imprecise to predict the orbit of Mercury. Likewise, his bet was that the effects attributed to "dark matter" would be accounted for once we developed more precise physical laws.
(Now that I think about it, roadside IEDs are kind of like unmanned suicide bombers, turning the tables...)
That's actually quite backwards. Most people plant unmanned explosives. Suicide bombers are (as an exception) manned bombs--likewise, kamikazes are manned cruise missiles, devised by the Japanese when they couldn't develop a guidance system.
Apple isn't a hardware company or a software company. They're a systems company. They sell a complete system that they put together. The hardware might have an Intel CPU, an nVidia graphics card or a Marvell WiFi controller, and the software might have a Mach kernel, a KDE-derived web browser, or a GNU compiler, but you don't have to invent your own kitchen sink or air conditioner to build a great house, either.
There's an important thematic reason for the switch from "used" to "perfect". The environment of the prequels is one of a Galactic Republic governing over a bright and majestic era--the environment of the original trilogy is one of broken rebels and scoundrels doing their best to bring down an invincible empire. (Also, the Death Star and Star Destroyer interiors were every bit as "perfect" and glossy as they could have made them, albeit darker--the "used future" is only the one inherited by the rebels.
You know, it's a lot like Highlander II: The Quickening, where they explain that the immortals are actually aliens from the planet Zeist and that, instead of the battle between the immortals being some mystical, pre-ordained event, it's just the result of political issues back on Zeist. It changed nothing, but when you take something that's quite literally magical and then retcon a crappy technobabble explanation for it, it sucks. Especially where no explanation was necessary.
Obi-Wan had a more significant flaw in both: he was a mushy-headed relativist. "From a certain point of view"? "Only a Sith deals in absolutes"? It's not even that he was that devoted a relativist, since he certainly consistently sides with the Light Side, with the Republic, and with the Jedi. He's just really bad at philosophy, or at getting out of lying to Luke.
So explain this entire "holocaust" concept to me again. I'm no apologist for the historical record of the British Empire, but it's sad and somewhat frightening that there exist apologists for the Nazis.
France did okay with the Jacobins. I wouldn't mind having some of those guys around these days. (NOTE TO NSA: First, I kid, and second, how foresightful of you to scan for references to the French Revolution.)
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If you wandered into a crowd of people and began shooting, you would be jailed, given access to an attorney and the use of the court system to contest your jailing, and promptly tried for your crimes, all the while presumed innocent before proven guilty. If you were taken as a prisoner of war, you would be held within the theatre of war, not tried (at least not by the same country that was holding you prisoner), and granted your rights under the Geneva Convention. The problem with Guantanamo is that the American government refuses to abide by either of these codes of legal oversight. Holding prisoners per se is not what's at issue here--what is at issue is that these prisoners are being held with absolutely no oversight and no respect either to their human rights or to their rights under American and international law.
The fifth and sixth amendments to the US constitution. Unfortunately, people nowadays think you're a crazy person for mentioning that in an argument.
Murderers do, in fact, have the same rights as the rest of us--namely, the right to be accused and tried as murderers with full respect to their human and civil rights until such time as they are duly convicted. What court, pray tell, convicted the alleged "unlawful enemy combatants" at the Guantanamo concentration camp? And of what charges?
"Anyone" does not apply to Willy on Wheels or the person who spams unrelated pages with photographs of men sucking their own cocks. Nor does it apply to people who are incapable of working with others and (for instance) continually revert pages back to their preferred version instead of working out a consensus. Incidentally, some years ago there was a proposal to change it to "good authors are always welcome", which is similar to the German Wikipedia slogan for precisely this reason.
I don't think that's your problem. I used to have a very vivid visualization ability, but I lost it as I grew older. It never stopped me from understanding fiction, although I never really keep track of the appearance of characters (unless the idea of the description is sufficiently striking, but even then I don't remember a visualization). Maybe I still have a slight amount that helps, but my understanding of the written word is rarely tied to any simulated sensation.
While it's true that historical precedent exists both ways, you don't have to be an asshole just because someone shared an anecdote that suggests a different approach.
Seriously, that entire story arc sucked.
Maybe they pretended not to speak English because they don't like you. (Don't know if the Germans do that, but the French sure do.)
Another issue of the strike: that scale was last negotiated in 1988, when DVD didn't exist and VHS was not as widespread a method of TV distribution as DVD and iTunes are today.
What about bad subtitiles (e.g. "do not want")?
Pancho VIlla may be dead, but his cause lives on!
If it's less than a few thousand (real) dollars in value, probably not. They can't be arsed to deal with anything less than grand theft auto in most cities.
There's a distinction between using SL as PayPal (a brilliant idea!) and actually keeping large L$ reserves in SL to "spend" on "goods" and "services" that only exist within Second Life itself. ("Services" usually being animated cybersex, and "goods" usually being cybersex animations.)
I spent a long time on Second Life--hours, even. It is crap and anyone who actually feels bad for losing their "Linden Dollars" is pathetic. (It's possible on SL to bootstrap from nothing and work your way up to having a considerable number of "Linden Dollars" without any talent at all, and I was halfway into doing so until I decided SL was a waste of time. And it's not exactly difficult either--I sort of fell into it by accident.)
My physics TA (a doctoral student) used to say that this "dark matter" talk reminded him a lot of how we posited an extra planet between Mercury and the Sun because that was the only way to account for Mercury's orbit. It turned out that there was no planet, Newtonian mechanics were just too imprecise to predict the orbit of Mercury. Likewise, his bet was that the effects attributed to "dark matter" would be accounted for once we developed more precise physical laws.
That's actually quite backwards. Most people plant unmanned explosives. Suicide bombers are (as an exception) manned bombs--likewise, kamikazes are manned cruise missiles, devised by the Japanese when they couldn't develop a guidance system.
Innocent policemen? Is there any such thing?
Really? It either comes with the OS or with Xcode, because I have it and don't ever remember installing it.
Apple isn't a hardware company or a software company. They're a systems company. They sell a complete system that they put together. The hardware might have an Intel CPU, an nVidia graphics card or a Marvell WiFi controller, and the software might have a Mach kernel, a KDE-derived web browser, or a GNU compiler, but you don't have to invent your own kitchen sink or air conditioner to build a great house, either.
But not a fucking article.
There's an important thematic reason for the switch from "used" to "perfect". The environment of the prequels is one of a Galactic Republic governing over a bright and majestic era--the environment of the original trilogy is one of broken rebels and scoundrels doing their best to bring down an invincible empire. (Also, the Death Star and Star Destroyer interiors were every bit as "perfect" and glossy as they could have made them, albeit darker--the "used future" is only the one inherited by the rebels.
You know, it's a lot like Highlander II: The Quickening, where they explain that the immortals are actually aliens from the planet Zeist and that, instead of the battle between the immortals being some mystical, pre-ordained event, it's just the result of political issues back on Zeist. It changed nothing, but when you take something that's quite literally magical and then retcon a crappy technobabble explanation for it, it sucks. Especially where no explanation was necessary.
Obi-Wan had a more significant flaw in both: he was a mushy-headed relativist. "From a certain point of view"? "Only a Sith deals in absolutes"? It's not even that he was that devoted a relativist, since he certainly consistently sides with the Light Side, with the Republic, and with the Jedi. He's just really bad at philosophy, or at getting out of lying to Luke.
So explain this entire "holocaust" concept to me again. I'm no apologist for the historical record of the British Empire, but it's sad and somewhat frightening that there exist apologists for the Nazis.
France did okay with the Jacobins. I wouldn't mind having some of those guys around these days. (NOTE TO NSA: First, I kid, and second, how foresightful of you to scan for references to the French Revolution.)