So it'd be "skill" to tell the difference between me and Michael Jordan.
I think you hit on the reason so many Slashdotters can't figure out law. It's a best effort system. It doesn't have to be logical, consistent, or even reasonable. It's interpreted under rules that aren't disclosed. Demanding a word be used exactly the same in two places (even in the same sentence) is an improper requirement for law.
Seems every time I try to explain law here, people argue with reality, and focus on me because I'm pointing out reality.
Betting on Michael Jordan over me isn't skill. Betting on the Harlem Globetrotters over the Washington Generals isn't skill either. And the outcome of the game isn't skill either. Though it is a demonstration of skill. So since you could argue that "skill" is somehow related to the exhibition, that the game is a game of skill, and it takes skill to predict the winner, and betting on it is a contest of skill with others. You could argue that, as people on here are. But you'd still be wrong.
Pay to lose auctions have been made systematically illegal as the auctions they were used in became common. You can buy a house or a car by auction. But it's illegal to charge per bid for a house auction. A bidder's registration can be charged, a trivial fee, but not per bid. Those consumer protection laws just need to be extended to all auctions.
Why gambling should be considered bad, but games of skill good? Who the fuck knows.
The idea was that games of skill that you are participating in would be allowed. This allows two soccer teams to bet a pizza party (for under 21) or round of beers (over 21) on the outcome. Or bet your friend you are faster. These exceptions were written in when gambling was first regulated, where the detractors of the laws indicated that every school yard boy would become a felon if they outlawed all gambling.
Skill is betting on a game of darts that you are playing in. Betting on darts when you are watching two other people play isn't based on your skill. So it's not a bet of skill, even if those doing it have skill. Analyzing statistics isn't a "skill" because it's unrelated to the outcome of the contest. The better you are at statistics won't affect the outcome of the contest, so it's not a "skill" in the gambling sense.
The AG interprets vague laws. If the laws were well written, the AG wouldn't be able to make this declaration. It would be obvious before and after the declaration.
Though other times, the laws overlap. Such as a federal law against something and a state law against something, so they state will not expend resources duplicating effort. Then the AG can announce that they will start enforcing a law themselves.
The fix is to reverse auction all jobs open to H-1B visa holders. The pay for the job would be published and listed. The lowest bidding American (if any) would get the job, and no foreigners would get the job if there was an American willing to take it. The employers should like the system because it will depress wages, and the employees should enjoy the system because it will be open and fair.
Or both would hate it. Unqualified people depressing wages for all. If nothing else, it would discourage the use of H-1B, which is the goal, right?
My other suggestion is a "tax" on H-1B that's equal to the cost to train someone for the job. Then the government will take that tax and literally train someone for that job.
But it's the same idea. A new city holding 12M people 25 years after it was founded has never happened before in the history of the planet. China has done it, and many of the ghost towns are waiting for the same thing to happen there.
They don't mention the ghost cities that got occupied. What happened is that the population boom was slowed too well by the one-child policy. The housing growth rate continued after the population growth slowed. So there was over-build. It was also a welfare program. Rather than paying billions for people to sit at home, China's welfare program is to pay people to build things someone will need. Even Shenzhen started out as a ghost city, and is now over-crowded, with about 12M people moving there over 25 years.
Everywhere I've seen use WordPress use it like frontpage. If FP isn't a CMS, then neither is WordPress for most uses.
It'd be like buying salesforce.com to use as a shared calendar. It's not bad as a shared calendar. But it's too hard to set up and too expensive for that, so most people who bother to get it would also use the (assumed) CRM functions. But if someone didn't use a single CRM in a CRM, is it still a CRM?
The same thing applies to WP. The smaller company sites I see using it use it because that's what their web admin requires for content generation because it's easier to adminstrate (often farming out the actual web site admin to a 3rd party, while generating content in-house - the old analogy being the in-house would use Front Page, and email the page to the web admin, who would admin the server and upload pages to it).
Stupid, I'd agree. But common, from what I've seen.
Does anyone who cares about graphics use the Intel graphics card? Yes, the kids playing a flash game may see a difference, though they wouldn't care, but anyone who runs a game doesn't do so on an integrated card. Even the best integrated cards have trouble with modern games at relatively low levels. The latest generation had the i5/i7 difference be the mainly the integrated graphics. Worse generation "improvement" ever.
I didn't say that that "green gets more than the oil industry"; read again what you were responding to. I'm not going to bother debunking a straw man.
Yes, you deliberately say things that give a false impression. That makes you a liar. You said:
subsidies to the oil industry" are a drop in the bucket compared to the enormous subsidies "green" energy and public transportation already receive in the US.
That is putting oil vs green. In that battle, you are wrong. So now, you are going to change it. If you want to include "public transport" in the "green" side to prove your point, then we should count all government purchase of oil and oil products against "subsidies to the oil industry" which count for trillions.
And your false dichotomy of oil subsidy vs mass transit is silly. Most mass transit burns oil, so mass transit money is mostly spent on oil anyway.
Oil drilling rights are auctioned off, not gifted.
The access may be auctioned off. The oil is gifted. Before you try to educate others, perhaps you should try to learn something yourself.
In addition, "multi-billion dollar subsidies to the oil industry" are a drop in the bucket compared to the enormous subsidies "green" energy and public transportation already receive in the US.
Nope. The oil industry gets more than green does. Depending on how you count. Note all the oil pumped out of the ground in Alaska is gifted by the government to the oil company. But nearly all green haters don't count things like that, because it doesn't work well for their story of hate.
It was MPG gaming, not CO2, but Cadillac knew the tests were done with A/C off, so they made the engine map with A/C off meet the tests, and AC on cheats, heavily. Paid a penalty without a court hearing to make it go away and indemnify them against civil actions.
The logic is sound. But the Harley is not designed to be efficient, the Prius is. The Harley is deliberately designed to be inefficient, as the sound of inefficiency is "cool" to men with hearing loss in a mid-life crisis.
Some electric motorcycles have a carbon footprint equivalent to getting over 200 MPG.
It's hard to get a good measure for efficiency, as the minor inconsistencies in refills make it less accurate, but my gasoline burner motorbike (stock) is about 100 mpg. I could tun it for better efficiency, but I don't think there's too much more efficiency to get out of it.
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So you think the guys in "Moneyball" did NOTHING clever or skillful at all?
You are using the word "skill" in a manner different than the laws on gambling use it.
So it'd be "skill" to tell the difference between me and Michael Jordan.
I think you hit on the reason so many Slashdotters can't figure out law. It's a best effort system. It doesn't have to be logical, consistent, or even reasonable. It's interpreted under rules that aren't disclosed. Demanding a word be used exactly the same in two places (even in the same sentence) is an improper requirement for law.
Seems every time I try to explain law here, people argue with reality, and focus on me because I'm pointing out reality.
Betting on Michael Jordan over me isn't skill. Betting on the Harlem Globetrotters over the Washington Generals isn't skill either. And the outcome of the game isn't skill either. Though it is a demonstration of skill. So since you could argue that "skill" is somehow related to the exhibition, that the game is a game of skill, and it takes skill to predict the winner, and betting on it is a contest of skill with others. You could argue that, as people on here are. But you'd still be wrong.
Why must one be worse than the other if one is legal and the other isn't?
It doesn't matter. You can't spot the sucker, right?
Pay to lose auctions have been made systematically illegal as the auctions they were used in became common. You can buy a house or a car by auction. But it's illegal to charge per bid for a house auction. A bidder's registration can be charged, a trivial fee, but not per bid. Those consumer protection laws just need to be extended to all auctions.
Why gambling should be considered bad, but games of skill good? Who the fuck knows.
The idea was that games of skill that you are participating in would be allowed. This allows two soccer teams to bet a pizza party (for under 21) or round of beers (over 21) on the outcome. Or bet your friend you are faster. These exceptions were written in when gambling was first regulated, where the detractors of the laws indicated that every school yard boy would become a felon if they outlawed all gambling.
Skill is betting on a game of darts that you are playing in. Betting on darts when you are watching two other people play isn't based on your skill. So it's not a bet of skill, even if those doing it have skill. Analyzing statistics isn't a "skill" because it's unrelated to the outcome of the contest. The better you are at statistics won't affect the outcome of the contest, so it's not a "skill" in the gambling sense.
anyone with reasonable football knowledge can monetize that by taking advantage of suckers.
If you look around the table and can't spot the sucker, it's you.
Is it still gambling if the game is riggged? That could also explain how 1% win.
The AG interprets vague laws. If the laws were well written, the AG wouldn't be able to make this declaration. It would be obvious before and after the declaration.
Though other times, the laws overlap. Such as a federal law against something and a state law against something, so they state will not expend resources duplicating effort. Then the AG can announce that they will start enforcing a law themselves.
It's not like the AG just wrote law himself.
Sex, fine. Sex for money, illegal.
Even if you disagree, it's still consistent. It does change if it involves money.
Or "citizen of the USA"
The fix is to reverse auction all jobs open to H-1B visa holders. The pay for the job would be published and listed. The lowest bidding American (if any) would get the job, and no foreigners would get the job if there was an American willing to take it. The employers should like the system because it will depress wages, and the employees should enjoy the system because it will be open and fair.
Or both would hate it. Unqualified people depressing wages for all. If nothing else, it would discourage the use of H-1B, which is the goal, right?
My other suggestion is a "tax" on H-1B that's equal to the cost to train someone for the job. Then the government will take that tax and literally train someone for that job.
If you don't have being a customer as a "right" then being able to print isn't a useful right.
But it's the same idea. A new city holding 12M people 25 years after it was founded has never happened before in the history of the planet. China has done it, and many of the ghost towns are waiting for the same thing to happen there.
They don't mention the ghost cities that got occupied. What happened is that the population boom was slowed too well by the one-child policy. The housing growth rate continued after the population growth slowed. So there was over-build. It was also a welfare program. Rather than paying billions for people to sit at home, China's welfare program is to pay people to build things someone will need. Even Shenzhen started out as a ghost city, and is now over-crowded, with about 12M people moving there over 25 years.
Yeah, the free handout of "not dead" by ISIS or the foreign response to ISIS.
Everywhere I've seen use WordPress use it like frontpage. If FP isn't a CMS, then neither is WordPress for most uses.
It'd be like buying salesforce.com to use as a shared calendar. It's not bad as a shared calendar. But it's too hard to set up and too expensive for that, so most people who bother to get it would also use the (assumed) CRM functions. But if someone didn't use a single CRM in a CRM, is it still a CRM?
The same thing applies to WP. The smaller company sites I see using it use it because that's what their web admin requires for content generation because it's easier to adminstrate (often farming out the actual web site admin to a 3rd party, while generating content in-house - the old analogy being the in-house would use Front Page, and email the page to the web admin, who would admin the server and upload pages to it).
Stupid, I'd agree. But common, from what I've seen.
Does anyone who cares about graphics use the Intel graphics card? Yes, the kids playing a flash game may see a difference, though they wouldn't care, but anyone who runs a game doesn't do so on an integrated card. Even the best integrated cards have trouble with modern games at relatively low levels. The latest generation had the i5/i7 difference be the mainly the integrated graphics. Worse generation "improvement" ever.
I didn't say that that "green gets more than the oil industry"; read again what you were responding to. I'm not going to bother debunking a straw man.
Yes, you deliberately say things that give a false impression. That makes you a liar. You said:
subsidies to the oil industry" are a drop in the bucket compared to the enormous subsidies "green" energy and public transportation already receive in the US.
That is putting oil vs green. In that battle, you are wrong. So now, you are going to change it. If you want to include "public transport" in the "green" side to prove your point, then we should count all government purchase of oil and oil products against "subsidies to the oil industry" which count for trillions.
And your false dichotomy of oil subsidy vs mass transit is silly. Most mass transit burns oil, so mass transit money is mostly spent on oil anyway.
Oil drilling rights are auctioned off, not gifted.
The access may be auctioned off. The oil is gifted. Before you try to educate others, perhaps you should try to learn something yourself.
In addition, "multi-billion dollar subsidies to the oil industry" are a drop in the bucket compared to the enormous subsidies "green" energy and public transportation already receive in the US.
Nope. The oil industry gets more than green does. Depending on how you count. Note all the oil pumped out of the ground in Alaska is gifted by the government to the oil company. But nearly all green haters don't count things like that, because it doesn't work well for their story of hate.
It was MPG gaming, not CO2, but Cadillac knew the tests were done with A/C off, so they made the engine map with A/C off meet the tests, and AC on cheats, heavily. Paid a penalty without a court hearing to make it go away and indemnify them against civil actions.
Most of the energy in gasoline goes out the tailpipe, or into the radiator.
Yes, all things equal, the larger vehicle will use more fuel. But all things are *never* equal.
Some electric motorcycles have a carbon footprint equivalent to getting over 200 MPG.
It's hard to get a good measure for efficiency, as the minor inconsistencies in refills make it less accurate, but my gasoline burner motorbike (stock) is about 100 mpg. I could tun it for better efficiency, but I don't think there's too much more efficiency to get out of it.
Didn't matter. California clamped down on cars, with limited effort on commercial vehicles and industry. And the air want from Beijing to breathable.