Want to make any bets that the manufacturer has a masterkey, or key reclamation mechanism, and will share it with law enforcement if there is a subpoena involved?
But how could you do that? Everyone knows that apples are BETTER than oranges, so there is no comparison! (God, I hope I don't have to use a smiley to show that this was meant as humor. Holy crap, is this thing still on...)
They are still arguing the case as to whether they have actually done something wrong. It's not as if a higher court has never overturned a lower court decision, and while that action is proceeding they could be bankrupted by not operating. The offended company can always get compensation after the appeals are finished, but the accused company can't always start back up if they are found to not infringe.
That puts vizzini in good company since Propst, the guy who invented cubicles, died in 2000. I guess that make it hard for him to believe anything "now".
Which is why 6000 years ago, as societies began forming very large social groups, the farmers became the dominant economic and political force.
Of course the groups become protection rackets. What in the world do you think a government is except a protection racket that most of the members of a society have agreed to join in with? Look at ancient history. Hell, look at farms on the U.S. frontiers in the 1780's where there were almost no societal controls. Farmers got the short end of the stick. They had worse survival rates than other groups. Farmers and food gatherers were nessicary, and would be nessicary in the future after a massive social colapse, but it's not an advantage to be one, they are actually at a disadvantage. They will be prey. Whether they are docile or dangerous prey isn't much of a concern, they will be prey for other groups.
Boom! Collapse of society happens. The local magistrate and his constabulary are not farmers. The farmers are. By your logic the farmer and his offspring now have some reproductive advantage over the magistrate and other skilled labor because the otherscan not grow their own food due to lack of knowledge. Am I with your premise so far?
Ok. So the magistrate, the constabulary, the blacksmith, and all of the other skilled non-farm workers are now unable to feed themselves due to the collapse of society. They get together and grab some pointy items. They go to the farmer's farm. They ask for food. If the farmer refuses they attempt to purchase food with money or barter. If the farmer refuses they take out their pokey items and poke the farmer until he agrees or dies. I doubt it matters to them at this point. If the children of the farmer attempt to interfere with this the citizenry poke them also. At the end of the day a majority of the citizenry are still alive, fed, and able to reproduce, so they have been successful from the evolutionary point of view. The farmer and his offspring may or may not still be alive so his success was questionable. If they kill that farmer, they will simply go to the next farmer who will either submit or cease to be a player in reproduction roulette.
The farmer has no innate advantage over any other profession. The only way the farmer would have an advantage would be if individuals were dropped onto isolated areas with no interaction, and I can't conceive of a realistic societal collapse scenario where that would happen.
Dude, read some history. Real history, not historical novels which have little to nothing to do with reality.
Ok. Now to address your misguided concept of reproductive success. Yes, there were farmers before Rome. Yes, there were farmers after Rome fell. Here is the problem with your assumption. They are not the same people. They are not direct descendants of the farmers that were there before Rome existed. Being a farmer is not an advantage to reproductive success. Just because someone is a farmer now does not mean they always were, or that their ancestors were. Farming as a career does not increase your reproductive success. Not before a social collapse, not during a social collapse, and not after. You seem to think that someone that works in a trade or industry is too fucking stupid to figure out how to obtain food after a social collapse so only people that know how to grow food before a social collapse will be able to feed themselves. This is just absurd. Being a farmer or a skilled hunter-gatherer in no way confers some mythical survival benefit to your offspring.
Don't know anything about the Zimbabwe culture you mention, but I know quite a bit about the Roman empire and the societies that cropped up as it declined. Which of those cultural transitions do you mean? The ones where imperial controls simply ceased functioning like in southern Briton, or areas where invaders took over by force? In none of them was the ability to grow your own food a reproductive advantage. None. Actually in many of them the skill of being good with a weapon outweighed the ability to grow food by a far margin when it came to reproductive success.
Name a society that has colapsed where the entire cross section of population weren't almost equally affected from a reproductive standpoint. At no time since we started forming large social groups has the individual ability to grow food been an advantage from the standpoint of reproductive success. If you couldn't grow it you bought it. If you could't buy it you stole it. If you couldn't steal it you took it by force. A CEO can shove a gun in someones face and take their food as well as anyone else. Hell they do that metaphoricaly every day. Society goes to hell, they will still be on top living life well, and the farmers will still be breaking their back in the fields.
And ceolocanths have been around for millions of years. That makes them much more succesful by your criteria. We should all be lobe finned fishfish to be successful.
But as long as there is no extreme drastic collapse, others will have the advantage, and those are the ones that will be selected for. When pressures change other traits will be selected for. That's why the first species that fit well into a niche didn't simply stay there forever with minor genetic drift. The niches move and change.
OK. And who says that a corporate CEO doesn't know how to grow or harvest plansts? Who says that the director of human resources doesn't know how to set a snare of build a fish trap? Plus he can have money and other trade goods stockpiled that can be used to obtain items from the farmer. Sounds like a CEO with well rounded interests trumps a farmer or hunter-gatherer.
Who says that the card from Bigfoot is a NIC? Just because they call it a network accelerator card doesn't mean that it is a NIC. My guess is that it is a cache card that caches disk IOs since they are one of the biggest slowdowns that I see in most MMORPGs.
Their estate is still responsible for their debt, just like everyone else. Believe me, I doubt their next of kin will get protection under bankruptcy after a terror attack.
Ok. With you now. Yes, plutonium is a hazardous material, and anyone who said otherwise is an idiot, but coal dust is also regulated in the workplace as a hazardous material. It is a known cause of several respritory diseases and is a explosion hazard.
I believe it would be quite crude of me to name names, but in the last few months several times that number of people have been killed in coal mines in North America.
By the way, if you are terrified of plutonium, you might want to read up on exactly what comes out of the stacks at a coal fired power plant. 12,000 tons of thorium and 5,000 tons of uranium worldwide in 2000 alone.
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Want to make any bets that the manufacturer has a masterkey, or key reclamation mechanism, and will share it with law enforcement if there is a subpoena involved?
But how could you do that? Everyone knows that apples are BETTER than oranges, so there is no comparison! (God, I hope I don't have to use a smiley to show that this was meant as humor. Holy crap, is this thing still on...)
They are still arguing the case as to whether they have actually done something wrong. It's not as if a higher court has never overturned a lower court decision, and while that action is proceeding they could be bankrupted by not operating. The offended company can always get compensation after the appeals are finished, but the accused company can't always start back up if they are found to not infringe.
That puts vizzini in good company since Propst, the guy who invented cubicles, died in 2000. I guess that make it hard for him to believe anything "now".
Which is why 6000 years ago, as societies began forming very large social groups, the farmers became the dominant economic and political force.
Of course the groups become protection rackets. What in the world do you think a government is except a protection racket that most of the members of a society have agreed to join in with? Look at ancient history. Hell, look at farms on the U.S. frontiers in the 1780's where there were almost no societal controls. Farmers got the short end of the stick. They had worse survival rates than other groups. Farmers and food gatherers were nessicary, and would be nessicary in the future after a massive social colapse, but it's not an advantage to be one, they are actually at a disadvantage. They will be prey. Whether they are docile or dangerous prey isn't much of a concern, they will be prey for other groups.
Boom! Collapse of society happens. The local magistrate and his constabulary are not farmers. The farmers are. By your logic the farmer and his offspring now have some reproductive advantage over the magistrate and other skilled labor because the otherscan not grow their own food due to lack of knowledge. Am I with your premise so far?
Ok. So the magistrate, the constabulary, the blacksmith, and all of the other skilled non-farm workers are now unable to feed themselves due to the collapse of society. They get together and grab some pointy items. They go to the farmer's farm. They ask for food. If the farmer refuses they attempt to purchase food with money or barter. If the farmer refuses they take out their pokey items and poke the farmer until he agrees or dies. I doubt it matters to them at this point. If the children of the farmer attempt to interfere with this the citizenry poke them also. At the end of the day a majority of the citizenry are still alive, fed, and able to reproduce, so they have been successful from the evolutionary point of view. The farmer and his offspring may or may not still be alive so his success was questionable. If they kill that farmer, they will simply go to the next farmer who will either submit or cease to be a player in reproduction roulette.
The farmer has no innate advantage over any other profession. The only way the farmer would have an advantage would be if individuals were dropped onto isolated areas with no interaction, and I can't conceive of a realistic societal collapse scenario where that would happen.
Dude, read some history. Real history, not historical novels which have little to nothing to do with reality.
Ok. Now to address your misguided concept of reproductive success. Yes, there were farmers before Rome. Yes, there were farmers after Rome fell. Here is the problem with your assumption. They are not the same people. They are not direct descendants of the farmers that were there before Rome existed. Being a farmer is not an advantage to reproductive success. Just because someone is a farmer now does not mean they always were, or that their ancestors were. Farming as a career does not increase your reproductive success. Not before a social collapse, not during a social collapse, and not after. You seem to think that someone that works in a trade or industry is too fucking stupid to figure out how to obtain food after a social collapse so only people that know how to grow food before a social collapse will be able to feed themselves. This is just absurd. Being a farmer or a skilled hunter-gatherer in no way confers some mythical survival benefit to your offspring.
Don't know anything about the Zimbabwe culture you mention, but I know quite a bit about the Roman empire and the societies that cropped up as it declined. Which of those cultural transitions do you mean? The ones where imperial controls simply ceased functioning like in southern Briton, or areas where invaders took over by force? In none of them was the ability to grow your own food a reproductive advantage. None. Actually in many of them the skill of being good with a weapon outweighed the ability to grow food by a far margin when it came to reproductive success.
Name a society that has colapsed where the entire cross section of population weren't almost equally affected from a reproductive standpoint. At no time since we started forming large social groups has the individual ability to grow food been an advantage from the standpoint of reproductive success. If you couldn't grow it you bought it. If you could't buy it you stole it. If you couldn't steal it you took it by force. A CEO can shove a gun in someones face and take their food as well as anyone else. Hell they do that metaphoricaly every day. Society goes to hell, they will still be on top living life well, and the farmers will still be breaking their back in the fields.
And ceolocanths have been around for millions of years. That makes them much more succesful by your criteria. We should all be lobe finned fishfish to be successful.
But as long as there is no extreme drastic collapse, others will have the advantage, and those are the ones that will be selected for. When pressures change other traits will be selected for. That's why the first species that fit well into a niche didn't simply stay there forever with minor genetic drift. The niches move and change.
OK. And who says that a corporate CEO doesn't know how to grow or harvest plansts? Who says that the director of human resources doesn't know how to set a snare of build a fish trap? Plus he can have money and other trade goods stockpiled that can be used to obtain items from the farmer. Sounds like a CEO with well rounded interests trumps a farmer or hunter-gatherer.
New MMORPG. "Lord of the Tip and Ring. The resurection of Ma Bell" The catch phrase can be "Grab your weapons, the bitch is back!"
Thanks for pointing out the spelling error.
Wanna bet? I've read too many marketing brochures that had nothing to do with what the product actually did.
Who says that the card from Bigfoot is a NIC? Just because they call it a network accelerator card doesn't mean that it is a NIC. My guess is that it is a cache card that caches disk IOs since they are one of the biggest slowdowns that I see in most MMORPGs.
Oh, gods. I can't help myself. You made me do this with your straight line.
How can you tell if a polotician is lying?...
Here you go. Straight from dictionary.law.com. Thought you might like to know. http://dictionary.law.com/definition2.asp?selected =1586
Well, at least it will help catch the stupid criminals.
Their estate is still responsible for their debt, just like everyone else. Believe me, I doubt their next of kin will get protection under bankruptcy after a terror attack.
In most places in the U.S. the standard is called "preponerance of evidence" if I am remembering correctly.
Ok. With you now. Yes, plutonium is a hazardous material, and anyone who said otherwise is an idiot, but coal dust is also regulated in the workplace as a hazardous material. It is a known cause of several respritory diseases and is a explosion hazard.
So, what's your whinge about plutonium? It's no worse than a lot of other things? Is this simply a phobia, or do you have a point that I am missing?
Which was proven to be a hoax. She took a paid tour on the bus like everybody else. It's a piece of fiction.
I believe it would be quite crude of me to name names, but in the last few months several times that number of people have been killed in coal mines in North America.
By the way, if you are terrified of plutonium, you might want to read up on exactly what comes out of the stacks at a coal fired power plant. 12,000 tons of thorium and 5,000 tons of uranium worldwide in 2000 alone.