If I place something belonging to my employer in the trash and my son takes it out that is THEFT.
Aren't you oversimplifying? Intent counts.
Intent doesn't matter. The courts have consistently ruled that garbage is public domain. The guy is a world class douche for not giving it back but what he is doing is legal.
So either stop price-fixing in the labor market (i.e., minimum wage laws) or else slap tariffs on incoming goods. You can't have free trade (or anything remotely like it) while legislating quality-of-life. Not unless you rule the entire planet. We have to pick.
Tariffs are pretty much the only answer if the US wants to continue it's current quality of life. The problem is it most likely will never happen until till it's too late.
Right now emerging countries like China are dependent on us as consumers so tariffs could still work. When the quality of life is raised up in enough in China that they can start selling stuff to themselves were pretty much doomed no matter what happens.
The US won't "default" no matter what happens. Enough tax money comes in every day to sustain the interest payments on the debt. The tough decisions politicians need to make are the budget cuts. Obama and the Democrats don't want to cut anything (except for defense). The elephant in the room is all those people on the welfare dole. "Entitlements" account for the vast majority of the budget. Does a millionaire retiree really need that $2000 social security check and medicare? Those programs should be means-tested. Otherwise, they're just Ponzi schemes that are approaching the inevitable demise of more people taking out than putting in.
For those who want to raise taxes, I ask you: When has a tax increase ever created a job? On the contrary, Reagan knew what Kennedy (JFK) knew: tax cuts INCREASES private investment, which increases jobs, which adds more TAXPAYERS to the system. We don't need more taxes, we need more people paying taxes. Obama can sing his class warfare song (rich vs. poor) all he wants but the fact of the matter is, rich people INVEST their money. That creates jobs. Confiscate their money through taxation and that's less money available to invest. It's really quite simple. I'm glad my boss is a millionaire. If he wasn't, I might be unemployed right now.
I used to agree with this line of thinking. The problem is the rich aren't investing in US companies. The current tax breaks are creating jobs they just happen to be in China.
the world would be far better off with no religion at all.
A world with no religion would not be a world populated by humans, since every single culture has come up with some form of it. While a world populated by non-religious non-humans might be better than the current one, it's not a change that can be done in isolation: you need to change human nature to get a world without religion, which will result in any number of other changes as well, the end result of which is impossible to even guesstimate.
Considering what history has taught us about what happens to governments that actively trying to stamp out a religion the end result is fairly easy to guess.
The specific examples he gave aren't missing evidence where evidence should be present?
Sun at the center of the Solar System, easily verifiable.
Shape of the earth: Not a perfect sphere, there's been an awful lot of work in this area.
Time slows down as speed increases: Have you used a GPS system recently?
There are plenty of subjects in theoretical physics that aren't fully understood at this point, but the theories are being constantly tested, questioned, and revised as new information is gained. It's not really comparable to religion.
A music-industry speaker at an American Chamber of Commerce event in Stockholm waxed enthusiastic about child porn, because it serves as the perfect excuse for network censorship, and once you've got a child-porn filter, you can censor anything:
"Child pornography is great," the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. "It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites".
The venue was a seminar organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm on May 27, 2007, under the title "Sweden -- A Safe Haven for Pirates?". The speaker was Johan Schlüter from the Danish Anti-Piracy Group, a lobby organization for the music and film industry associations, like IFPI and others...
"One day we will have a giant filter that we develop in close cooperation with IFPI and MPA. We continuously monitor the child porn on the net, to show the politicians that filtering works. Child porn is an issue they understand," Johan Schlüter said with a grin, his whole being radiating pride and enthusiasm from the podium.
This is great news assuming that politicians will actually realize that the filter isn't working with child porn and therefore shouldn't be implemented anywhere else..
SPACE INVADERS HAS ABSOLUTELY ZERO PLOT AND NO CHARACTERS
So does Twilight, and there's the movies and girls screaming for the actors. Put a hot chick, a hopeless romantic guy and ships coming down the sky back and forth and there you have it! Ah, wait, that was transformers.
Yes, Its called life before the early 90s.
Pick up the phone and talk to your friends and relatives. Buy a nice pen and paper set to hand-write letters to the newspaper, or grab a typewriter from a garage sale . Visit your local library; sit and read a magazine and make sure you get a library card to check out books. Buy a radio to listen to the news and weather. Get out your old CD player, tapes, or records if you feel like going really retro. Basically what everybody did before the early 90s.
Stick with the plan of public wi-fi's when you actually want to get online, otherwise just get on with your life.
There was no life before the early 90's. Only the vast waste land known as the 80's.
Never assume that you have a perfect sence of development vs time. Most of the time, we do fail to predict the development, integration and deployment in technology sector.
By me, I don't believe that it PSTN will stand that long. 2018 is really, really far away in technological terms.
In terms of new technology coming out it is a long time.
In terms of legacy technology going away completely it may as well be tomorrow.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go back to work on my clients vax system.
The problem is everyone and their dog and their dog's fleas have bought into the Jobsean school of mobile design which means slim = sexy and iSliver batteries for everyone.
No matter how much you shrink things there are certain fundamental rules one simply can't avoid, and one of those is "you push a bunch of textures and physics and advanced 3D models around in real time you ARE gonna suck power"
Now while I'll give old Steve credit, in that he has trained his users pretty damned well to expect to carry a charger with them I really can't see the iExtension cord becoming the big item on everyone's Xmas list, can you? Sure you might eventually squeeze the vector processing and FP math engines down to that size, hell you can probably stick a chip on my pinkie nail that is faster than my 1998 gamer rig. But in the end it don't change the fact that at the end of the day these are supposed to be MOBILE devices, and not in the Alienware "Where's the outlet again?" definition of the word. I can't see folks putting up with 15 minute battery life just so they can have Halo III on their cell phone.
This is exactly what will hold it back. Until someone invents a better battery mobile gaming will always suffer a huge handicap.
Digital distribution, with easy and non-intrusive copy protection -- you need an internet connection to install, but that's it unless the publisher (e.g. Ubisoft) insists on more.
Last time I checked you absolutely had to login to the Steam application before you could play any games. Even if you start the game directly from its own executable (as opposed to the desktop shortcuts that launch the game via the Steam application) you still get the Steam application starting and prompting for username/password details before you can start to play. If there's particular games that don't do this I'd like to know which.
Simply click "Go offline" and this problem goes away.
1) Establish that you look more like your mother/father.
2) Establish that children look like their parents, have them identify whether or not they look more like their mother/father.
3) Establish what it is that you found attractive in your spouse/partner.
4) Ask them what they see in each other.
5) Ask them if they'd be equally likely to date/marry/reproduce with somebody they didn't find attractive, or even found unattractive.
They've just agreed to nearly every salient point in evolution:
1) That children look much like their parents, but not exactly.
2) That children's appearances and attributes drift over time.
3) That selective pressure can alter the likelyhood of certain attributes being passed on.
The only thing they haven't really agreed to is speciation - that changes can build up over time until derivative children can no longer reproduce with each other.
Which is the part most Christians have a problem with.
I have found two good things on IPv6: One is a public, high-retention public usenet server with binaries. The other is now defunct, but used to be one of the semi-mythical university pirate caches - vast deposits of copyright infringement hosted on academic high-bandwidth connections, accessible only via IPv6 where no enforcers are yet capable of looking.
I think the ISPs may want ISP level NAT. It would mean an end to the p2p software that has been placing such a high demand upon their networks, a barrier to VoIP that competes with the very profitable phone service and no more people running their own servers off a domestic connection when the ISP would like such things to be restricted to the more expensive business connections. They have no reason to move to IPv6, because most of their customers wouldn't be able to make the connection between deployment of ISP level NAT and the sudden breaking of their WoW updates and internet-phone software.
More than a few isps offer there own voip service already (cable providers mostly), They won't shoot themselves in the foot by breaking this.
Thousands panic as previously mocking, unlikely to be fulfilled conditional dares and promises suddenly became payable in the near future.
In other news, stocks for "When pigs fly" are at an all time low as customer trust wavers, and demand for freezing equipment hits an all time high as a certain not to be named power figure decides he's had it up to here with the heat.
If you'll excuse me, I'm off to eat my hat.
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If I place something belonging to my employer in the trash and my son takes it out that is THEFT.
Aren't you oversimplifying? Intent counts.
Intent doesn't matter. The courts have consistently ruled that garbage is public domain. The guy is a world class douche for not giving it back but what he is doing is legal.
[troll] Yup, but the 3D version clearly proves that Solo shoots first [/troll]
No the 3d version will mean another remake so now Chewbacca shoots first.
So either stop price-fixing in the labor market (i.e., minimum wage laws) or else slap tariffs on incoming goods. You can't have free trade (or anything remotely like it) while legislating quality-of-life. Not unless you rule the entire planet. We have to pick.
Tariffs are pretty much the only answer if the US wants to continue it's current quality of life. The problem is it most likely will never happen until till it's too late. Right now emerging countries like China are dependent on us as consumers so tariffs could still work. When the quality of life is raised up in enough in China that they can start selling stuff to themselves were pretty much doomed no matter what happens.
The US won't "default" no matter what happens. Enough tax money comes in every day to sustain the interest payments on the debt. The tough decisions politicians need to make are the budget cuts. Obama and the Democrats don't want to cut anything (except for defense). The elephant in the room is all those people on the welfare dole. "Entitlements" account for the vast majority of the budget. Does a millionaire retiree really need that $2000 social security check and medicare? Those programs should be means-tested. Otherwise, they're just Ponzi schemes that are approaching the inevitable demise of more people taking out than putting in.
For those who want to raise taxes, I ask you: When has a tax increase ever created a job? On the contrary, Reagan knew what Kennedy (JFK) knew: tax cuts INCREASES private investment, which increases jobs, which adds more TAXPAYERS to the system. We don't need more taxes, we need more people paying taxes. Obama can sing his class warfare song (rich vs. poor) all he wants but the fact of the matter is, rich people INVEST their money. That creates jobs. Confiscate their money through taxation and that's less money available to invest. It's really quite simple. I'm glad my boss is a millionaire. If he wasn't, I might be unemployed right now.
I used to agree with this line of thinking. The problem is the rich aren't investing in US companies. The current tax breaks are creating jobs they just happen to be in China.
A world with no religion would not be a world populated by humans, since every single culture has come up with some form of it. While a world populated by non-religious non-humans might be better than the current one, it's not a change that can be done in isolation: you need to change human nature to get a world without religion, which will result in any number of other changes as well, the end result of which is impossible to even guesstimate.
Considering what history has taught us about what happens to governments that actively trying to stamp out a religion the end result is fairly easy to guess.
The specific examples he gave aren't missing evidence where evidence should be present?
Sun at the center of the Solar System, easily verifiable.
Shape of the earth: Not a perfect sphere, there's been an awful lot of work in this area.
Time slows down as speed increases: Have you used a GPS system recently?
There are plenty of subjects in theoretical physics that aren't fully understood at this point, but the theories are being constantly tested, questioned, and revised as new information is gained. It's not really comparable to religion.
Except maybe string theory.
A music-industry speaker at an American Chamber of Commerce event in Stockholm waxed enthusiastic about child porn, because it serves as the perfect excuse for network censorship, and once you've got a child-porn filter, you can censor anything:
"Child pornography is great," the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. "It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites". The venue was a seminar organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm on May 27, 2007, under the title "Sweden -- A Safe Haven for Pirates?". The speaker was Johan Schlüter from the Danish Anti-Piracy Group, a lobby organization for the music and film industry associations, like IFPI and others... "One day we will have a giant filter that we develop in close cooperation with IFPI and MPA. We continuously monitor the child porn on the net, to show the politicians that filtering works. Child porn is an issue they understand," Johan Schlüter said with a grin, his whole being radiating pride and enthusiasm from the podium.
Source: http://boingboing.net/2010/04/28/music-industry-spoke.html
This is great news assuming that politicians will actually realize that the filter isn't working with child porn and therefore shouldn't be implemented anywhere else..
SPACE INVADERS HAS ABSOLUTELY ZERO PLOT AND NO CHARACTERS
So does Twilight, and there's the movies and girls screaming for the actors. Put a hot chick, a hopeless romantic guy and ships coming down the sky back and forth and there you have it! Ah, wait, that was transformers.
Someone call Michael Bay.
Futurama S3 E18. Who needs anything else?
A 2 liter bottle of Shasta and an all Rush mix tape would be good.
Yes, but we had great music, like A Flock of Seagulls.
The only reason 80's music ever existed is so that we could rick roll each other in the present day.
Why would that require rewriting the whole codebase? Isn't SQL standard?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I'm sorry I don't have a mod points to mod this funny.
Yes, Its called life before the early 90s. Pick up the phone and talk to your friends and relatives. Buy a nice pen and paper set to hand-write letters to the newspaper, or grab a typewriter from a garage sale . Visit your local library; sit and read a magazine and make sure you get a library card to check out books. Buy a radio to listen to the news and weather. Get out your old CD player, tapes, or records if you feel like going really retro. Basically what everybody did before the early 90s. Stick with the plan of public wi-fi's when you actually want to get online, otherwise just get on with your life.
There was no life before the early 90's. Only the vast waste land known as the 80's.
Those using their mobile device as a gaming platform will not have a problem charging every day, if need be.
People have to do that already. If there is to be any vast improvement in mobile games people are going to have to recharge more than once a day.
Never assume that you have a perfect sence of development vs time. Most of the time, we do fail to predict the development, integration and deployment in technology sector.
By me, I don't believe that it PSTN will stand that long. 2018 is really, really far away in technological terms.
In terms of new technology coming out it is a long time.
In terms of legacy technology going away completely it may as well be tomorrow.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go back to work on my clients vax system.
The problem is everyone and their dog and their dog's fleas have bought into the Jobsean school of mobile design which means slim = sexy and iSliver batteries for everyone.
No matter how much you shrink things there are certain fundamental rules one simply can't avoid, and one of those is "you push a bunch of textures and physics and advanced 3D models around in real time you ARE gonna suck power"
Now while I'll give old Steve credit, in that he has trained his users pretty damned well to expect to carry a charger with them I really can't see the iExtension cord becoming the big item on everyone's Xmas list, can you? Sure you might eventually squeeze the vector processing and FP math engines down to that size, hell you can probably stick a chip on my pinkie nail that is faster than my 1998 gamer rig. But in the end it don't change the fact that at the end of the day these are supposed to be MOBILE devices, and not in the Alienware "Where's the outlet again?" definition of the word. I can't see folks putting up with 15 minute battery life just so they can have Halo III on their cell phone.
This is exactly what will hold it back. Until someone invents a better battery mobile gaming will always suffer a huge handicap.
Doing this by 2018 is pretty much impossible. There's still huge chunks of land without BB service or even decent cell phone coverage.
Because, although it might sound cliche... two wrongs don't make a right.
.....but three lefts do.
My MacBook Pro is powered by my ego. It's been four years without needing a single charge.
Ah yes..........the Ed Begley Jr. battery.
Digital distribution, with easy and non-intrusive copy protection -- you need an internet connection to install, but that's it unless the publisher (e.g. Ubisoft) insists on more.
Last time I checked you absolutely had to login to the Steam application before you could play any games. Even if you start the game directly from its own executable (as opposed to the desktop shortcuts that launch the game via the Steam application) you still get the Steam application starting and prompting for username/password details before you can start to play. If there's particular games that don't do this I'd like to know which.
Simply click "Go offline" and this problem goes away.
This is best done in front of his/her partner.
1) Establish that you look more like your mother/father.
2) Establish that children look like their parents, have them identify whether or not they look more like their mother/father.
3) Establish what it is that you found attractive in your spouse/partner.
4) Ask them what they see in each other.
5) Ask them if they'd be equally likely to date/marry/reproduce with somebody they didn't find attractive, or even found unattractive.
They've just agreed to nearly every salient point in evolution:
1) That children look much like their parents, but not exactly.
2) That children's appearances and attributes drift over time.
3) That selective pressure can alter the likelyhood of certain attributes being passed on.
The only thing they haven't really agreed to is speciation - that changes can build up over time until derivative children can no longer reproduce with each other.
Which is the part most Christians have a problem with.
Funimation announced lawsuits against 1337 alleged BitTorrent downloaders.
Don't dis the spork!
It's not just a utensil it's a whole new way of eating.
I have found two good things on IPv6: One is a public, high-retention public usenet server with binaries. The other is now defunct, but used to be one of the semi-mythical university pirate caches - vast deposits of copyright infringement hosted on academic high-bandwidth connections, accessible only via IPv6 where no enforcers are yet capable of looking. I think the ISPs may want ISP level NAT. It would mean an end to the p2p software that has been placing such a high demand upon their networks, a barrier to VoIP that competes with the very profitable phone service and no more people running their own servers off a domestic connection when the ISP would like such things to be restricted to the more expensive business connections. They have no reason to move to IPv6, because most of their customers wouldn't be able to make the connection between deployment of ISP level NAT and the sudden breaking of their WoW updates and internet-phone software.
More than a few isps offer there own voip service already (cable providers mostly), They won't shoot themselves in the foot by breaking this.
Thousands panic as previously mocking, unlikely to be fulfilled conditional dares and promises suddenly became payable in the near future.
In other news, stocks for "When pigs fly" are at an all time low as customer trust wavers, and demand for freezing equipment hits an all time high as a certain not to be named power figure decides he's had it up to here with the heat. If you'll excuse me, I'm off to eat my hat.
Try boiling it first.
It's always interesting to see the Catholic Church joining in a crusade that means so much to so many Slashdotters!
Crusade? Slashdotters were expecting the Spanish Inquisition!
Are you calling me a nobody?