A pre-publication (not behind a paywall) version of the Avida (PDF) paper is here. A good guide for those who don't welcome our new artificial, man-made overlords and wish to resist;^)
It's a random subsample of a biased sample; this is basically cherry-picking the data and a strong indicator of deliberate deception, if not malevolent intent.
'A corporation's only goal is to maximize profit.'
Corporations don't have goals, stakeholders do:) (/pedantic) The maximization of profits is a requirement of law and a desire of the shareholders.
One can as well have a legal regime in which corporations are organizations for the provision of goods and/or services for the benefit of people and for which the generation of profits is a cost needed to entice investment for capital.
' Is it possible that in the years since the Exxon Valdez, that Kevin Costner is the only one who has invested money into the technology of oil spill cleanup?'
Well, he may not have been the only one, but it's obvious that the oil companies weren't; after all, they're only the causes of the problem!
I guess he works 6 1/2 days a week for minimum wage, gets 2 weeks unpaid vacation a year and either likes it or thinks it unfair that some have it better.
'The purpose of government is to serve society in a way that keeps it from destroying itself.'
I would rephrase that as: The purpose of government is to serve people in a way that keeps them from destroying each other; in that any social institutions should be present for the benefit of people. Otherwise, it's just replacement of government with society as the raison d'etre for tyranny.
Well, it would help if they didn't miscategorise PepsiCo products by putting them under Nutrition. Candy Engineering would (possibly) have been acceptable.
Slashdot Mirror
'... may have been linked to changes in the way a hot soup of charged particles called plasma circulated in the Sun.
So why did the "hot soup of charged particles called plasma" change in the way that they circulated?
I didn't know Murdoch could spell digital!
Ouuu! I smell a potential patent: it's a consumer digitizing tablet! Like, totally different, boyo!
In a sane language, '=' would not be used for assignment.
'If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about.'
Since I'm not doing anything wrong, no one has any need to snoop.
They can; but just because a company hired someone does not entitle that person to be allowed to live in (or even visit) the US.
A pre-publication (not behind a paywall) version of the Avida (PDF) paper is here. ;^)
A good guide for those who don't welcome our new artificial, man-made overlords and wish to resist
The corporatists and rich elitists and Right-Wing ideologues that have run our government since at least 1776 ...
FTFY
Before that, it was: The corporatists and rich elitists and Right-Wing ideologues that have run the British, French, and Spanish governments ...
Except these aren't trades; they're offers - and totally unrealistic offers at that.
What counts as income?
'It may work as intended/designed. But the intention/design could be wrong/mistaken.
So what if you can test that the software does "X" as designed? Very many bugs are because the spec/design should be to do "Y" instead.
That's why tests of "software correctness" are not that useful in most real world scenarios.'
Modifying correct (verified) code to be valid is many times easier than modifying incorrect code to be valid.
Also known as: Get a job you love doing and you'll never work a day in your life.
In answer to: 'Why is there so much strife in an industry ostensibly focused on having fun?'; that's easy: there's a lot of money involved.
Buntings as in birds or buntings as in flag materials?
It's a random subsample of a biased sample; this is basically cherry-picking the data and a strong indicator of deliberate deception, if not malevolent intent.
'A "cock flapping about" isn't something a child would normally see in the U.S.'
Unless they grew up on a farm and were helping dad cut the head off supper.
'A corporation's only goal is to maximize profit.'
Corporations don't have goals, stakeholders do :) (/pedantic) The maximization of profits is a requirement of law and a desire of the shareholders.
One can as well have a legal regime in which corporations are organizations for the provision of goods and/or services for the benefit of people and for which the generation of profits is a cost needed to entice investment for capital.
' Is it possible that in the years since the Exxon Valdez, that Kevin Costner is the only one who has invested money into the technology of oil spill cleanup?'
Well, he may not have been the only one, but it's obvious that the oil companies weren't; after all, they're only the causes of the problem!
We only had the original Etch-a-Sketch, which consisted of a flat rock, a chisel, and a hammer.
Gulf War 1990.
I guess he works 6 1/2 days a week for minimum wage, gets 2 weeks unpaid vacation a year and either likes it or thinks it unfair that some have it better.
'The purpose of government is to serve society in a way that keeps it from destroying itself.'
I would rephrase that as: The purpose of government is to serve people in a way that keeps them from destroying each other; in that any social institutions should be present for the benefit of people.
Otherwise, it's just replacement of government with society as the raison d'etre for tyranny.
Actually, it was piracy in Defoe's original use of it wrt copying. What it wasn't was copyright infringement (in the US) (at the time).
At least by Hollywood accounting practices.
Gee, that's almost the resolution needed to show a square inch of a Durer etching!
Well, it would help if they didn't miscategorise PepsiCo products by putting them under Nutrition. Candy Engineering would (possibly) have been acceptable.