I've got a sneaking suspicion you've never, not even once in your life, had those particular moral convictions run up against your personal convenience.
Aww, look at the cute college Libertarian! Shouldn't you be in your poli-sci 102 class right now? I know arbitrary grading criteria are unethical too, but sadly your professor is a tool of the Liberal Conspiracy and will fail you if you keep skipping lectures and failing tests. And for the love of God try to pronounce Ayn Rand's name right in your next rant, you're only embarrassing yourself.
In a city that wants to make any kind of design sense at all, zoning and licensing don't need to be about ethics at all. If you want to be in the business district, you have to sell to the public. If you don't sell to the public, you get kicked out of the business district, because you're screwing up the city layout and taking up valuable space. Go sell weddings cakes from your website. Nobody will care.
When you run a public business, the government gives you nice shiny benefits in exchange for you following certain standards. You can't kick out service dogs, you can't advertise sales on things you don't have, and as a public business, you have to serve the public. That's what your business license says!
When your city says "yes, you can own this land and open a storefront"--they sold that land to you because it's zoned for businesses that sell to everyone. They don't sell land on main street to warehouses, they sell it to companies that bring foot traffic and make that area into a commercial hub. Again--you own (or rent) the land because you agreed to serve the public.
If you're baking cakes out the back door of your house and selling them on Etsy (never mind how that works), fine, the government probably didn't support you, and you didn't promise them you'd participate in the economy they set up. But if you have a storefront, or if you pay taxes as a corporation, then society gave you special consideration and you MUST return the favor by doing what you agreed...serve everyone, regardless of skin color or orientation.
Consumers will do anything to feel more socially or economically responsible! They'll buy twice as many of these new bottles just for the privilege of wasting less ketchup and plastic.
Swap the word "gay" for "black" and try again. The country already learned, rather painfully, that letting businesses refuse to serve whole segments of the population causes one hell of a lot of unrest.
People who can't maintain safe following distances shouldn't be driving--but we have tech that can react very quickly to the guy ahead of you braking, in case you don't. People who don't check for children children behind their rear tires before they back out of the driveway shouldn't be driving--but we have rear-view cameras. People who can't stay in their lane shouldn't be driving, but we have lane assist...etc...etc.
I don't see how it's _needed_. Depends on the tasks. I guess I kinda see it as rooftop solar...if it's bright and everyone has extra, cool, they can sell it back to the grid and (in a perfect world) electricity is cheaper overall. If it's cloudy, you still need the electricity, so you get it from somewhere else.
Alternately maybe they're just mining bitcoins, so crunching numbers means extra cash but it's not mission critical to everyone.
So change the dynamic a bit. Six episodes is a good amount of time to bring closure to that adversarial relationship that never really happened properly in the original show. In the end, Scully finally believes, and they set up a hook for the next generation / next iteration of the show with new blood. Could work.
So don't run it in the summer. I'm guessing you pay for the original hardware, and they pay for the energy bill to run it--so it's a decent upfront cost, but great savings for you long-term. If they don't heavily subsidize the original purchase, you don't get any benefit or harm from owning it without using it, and they don't get any benefit or harm from you having it in your house but turned off. It doesn't need to be user serviceable so they can really go all out in trying to spillproof it. In the end, the actual hardware is still user owned though.
At this point I don't think it's a reference to how it operates, exactly. I think it's more a callback to the Star Wars missile defense project in the Reagan era, or at least that's how it would resonate with people who followed politics back then.
Wish I could vote you up. The purpose of these organizations are for the industry to SELF-police and self-categorize. It's not supposed to be hostile to the gaming industry, it's a way for them to collaboratively set categories for the benefit of the consumer (and themselves by avoiding media firestorms, but really, having labels is good). The alternative is each publishing house having their own proprietary scale...yeah, that won't be confusing at all. I'm betting Rockstar isn't the only super-violent-game maker to be represented.
Remember way back when ratings were new, and Apogee rushed to cram extra viscera into Rise of the Triad so they could claim the most violent rating? Those were the days.
The only times I've needed to show ID in the last couple years was...getting a new job, opening a new bank account, and buying alcohol. Hell of a lot of people don't do any of those for several years in a row, and also don't drive.
It's one hell of a way to start breaking out of the two party system, isn't it? Force someone into the booth who hates both major parties, and instead of voting for Mickey Mouse, maybe they'll pick a different guy who's actually on the ballot. All it takes is the tiniest, slimmest name recognition for the candidate or their party, and a lot of hate for the big guys.
You get around it by making ID freely provided by the government, and find a way to help people who live hours away from the nearest DMV (rural Texas or Alaska for example). It costs something around twenty bucks to get a photo ID card, so requiring ID is de facto charging a fee to vote; many elderly people, homemakers, or disabled who don't work don't have up-to-date IDs because they've never needed them, and these are often the same people where paying for government ID, let alone securing transportation to a licensing facility, might mean not having money for rent. Gas for a trip to the nearby large town can be one hell of an expense.
If the government says "everyone must have ID", the government must provide it free of charge. Otherwise it's a forced tax just like the Obamacare opt-out fee, and Republicans don't like that, do they? Add a service where if your town is more than X distance from the nearest licensing facility, they'll send out some kind of licensemobile to photograph and print on-site once a year or so, that would cover nearly everybody. It still sucks if you lose all your ID in a fire, or if you're homeless and have lost your documents, but it's about as close as you can get.
For the record, I live in Washington state where almost everyone votes by mail. It doesn't require ID because there's no way to do it, and we don't have rampant fraud, so clearly ID isn't a 100% necessary requirement for a sane voting system. What's the problem?
Humor someone who's been out of the loop even longer: What's the advantage of making a game natively 64-bit, aside from addressing ridiculous amounts of RAM? Actually these days, maybe that is enough reason...is that it?
Well, the obvious reason to back a project is so that it gets made at all. Nothing's stopping you from pulling your pledge once it hits the winning amount (unless it would bring it back under like 24 hours before the end). If you want to buy a game cheap and you don't care about new stretch goals, then by all means skip the kickstarter experience and you'll be better off. Higher tiers are pretty much never worth it--as a purchase--unless you really want the exclusive T-shirt or an NPC named after you or whatever. Otherwise just treat it the same as public TV/radio funding drives.
I work for a living and have a wife and not a lot of time to hang out with "the bros"...which is why my wife and I play co-op games together with our friends online a few hours a week, it's quick and easy to set up and arguably a lot less like hiding in the basement than playing single player games.
Single player games are antisocial as hell, and that's really nice sometimes. Competitive multiplayer seems really friendly in person, but a lot less so online, even with other people you know. Cooperative multiplayer seems more social whether it's local or not.
I'd suggest getting one of the little miniature solid state fanless machines with a big solid state external drive. Less holes for gunk to get into, you can enclose it more tightly.
Of course, if you take that route, you lose most of the reason you'd need to put it in the crawlspace to begin with, like noise and heat. If the big reason you want it down there really is space instead of noise...try the attic instead. Crawlspaces get more water than you'd expect, no matter how sure you are that they're dry (and a settling / cracking foundation can challenge your expectations in a hurry). If your attic floods, you've got bigger problems. Yes there's temperature issues...but they still might be better than your crawlspace's problems. Attics are expected to have wiring anyway. And depending on your attic, it might be a lot more accessible.
If you really are dead set on putting it under your floor, extend your room downwards to encapsulate the server. You need it clean, dry, and as insect/rodentproof as anywhere else in your house. Hell, I'd be leery of putting a server in a finished workshed that has lots of mice and spiders and no temperature control, and that's better conditions than your crawlspace by far.
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I've got a sneaking suspicion you've never, not even once in your life, had those particular moral convictions run up against your personal convenience.
I would LOVE to send internet Libertarians to Somalia, and see what kind of paradise they can build with the sweat of their brow.
Aww, look at the cute college Libertarian! Shouldn't you be in your poli-sci 102 class right now? I know arbitrary grading criteria are unethical too, but sadly your professor is a tool of the Liberal Conspiracy and will fail you if you keep skipping lectures and failing tests. And for the love of God try to pronounce Ayn Rand's name right in your next rant, you're only embarrassing yourself.
In a city that wants to make any kind of design sense at all, zoning and licensing don't need to be about ethics at all. If you want to be in the business district, you have to sell to the public. If you don't sell to the public, you get kicked out of the business district, because you're screwing up the city layout and taking up valuable space. Go sell weddings cakes from your website. Nobody will care.
When you run a public business, the government gives you nice shiny benefits in exchange for you following certain standards. You can't kick out service dogs, you can't advertise sales on things you don't have, and as a public business, you have to serve the public. That's what your business license says!
When your city says "yes, you can own this land and open a storefront"--they sold that land to you because it's zoned for businesses that sell to everyone. They don't sell land on main street to warehouses, they sell it to companies that bring foot traffic and make that area into a commercial hub. Again--you own (or rent) the land because you agreed to serve the public.
If you're baking cakes out the back door of your house and selling them on Etsy (never mind how that works), fine, the government probably didn't support you, and you didn't promise them you'd participate in the economy they set up. But if you have a storefront, or if you pay taxes as a corporation, then society gave you special consideration and you MUST return the favor by doing what you agreed...serve everyone, regardless of skin color or orientation.
Consumers will do anything to feel more socially or economically responsible! They'll buy twice as many of these new bottles just for the privilege of wasting less ketchup and plastic.
Swap the word "gay" for "black" and try again. The country already learned, rather painfully, that letting businesses refuse to serve whole segments of the population causes one hell of a lot of unrest.
Charge an extra $0.30 per bottle just for the novelty factor, while at the same time converting more people away from the store brand.
They probably meant CSVs.
People who can't maintain safe following distances shouldn't be driving--but we have tech that can react very quickly to the guy ahead of you braking, in case you don't. People who don't check for children children behind their rear tires before they back out of the driveway shouldn't be driving--but we have rear-view cameras. People who can't stay in their lane shouldn't be driving, but we have lane assist...etc...etc.
I don't see how it's _needed_. Depends on the tasks. I guess I kinda see it as rooftop solar...if it's bright and everyone has extra, cool, they can sell it back to the grid and (in a perfect world) electricity is cheaper overall. If it's cloudy, you still need the electricity, so you get it from somewhere else.
Alternately maybe they're just mining bitcoins, so crunching numbers means extra cash but it's not mission critical to everyone.
Probably standards on what minimum temp they heat offices/workshops to.
So change the dynamic a bit. Six episodes is a good amount of time to bring closure to that adversarial relationship that never really happened properly in the original show. In the end, Scully finally believes, and they set up a hook for the next generation / next iteration of the show with new blood. Could work.
So don't run it in the summer. I'm guessing you pay for the original hardware, and they pay for the energy bill to run it--so it's a decent upfront cost, but great savings for you long-term. If they don't heavily subsidize the original purchase, you don't get any benefit or harm from owning it without using it, and they don't get any benefit or harm from you having it in your house but turned off. It doesn't need to be user serviceable so they can really go all out in trying to spillproof it. In the end, the actual hardware is still user owned though.
At this point I don't think it's a reference to how it operates, exactly. I think it's more a callback to the Star Wars missile defense project in the Reagan era, or at least that's how it would resonate with people who followed politics back then.
Wish I could vote you up. The purpose of these organizations are for the industry to SELF-police and self-categorize. It's not supposed to be hostile to the gaming industry, it's a way for them to collaboratively set categories for the benefit of the consumer (and themselves by avoiding media firestorms, but really, having labels is good). The alternative is each publishing house having their own proprietary scale...yeah, that won't be confusing at all. I'm betting Rockstar isn't the only super-violent-game maker to be represented.
Remember way back when ratings were new, and Apogee rushed to cram extra viscera into Rise of the Triad so they could claim the most violent rating? Those were the days.
The only times I've needed to show ID in the last couple years was...getting a new job, opening a new bank account, and buying alcohol. Hell of a lot of people don't do any of those for several years in a row, and also don't drive.
You're right, because Atlanta is so rural and has so little mass transit that getting to the DMV might be impossible...
This is less of a problem in Georgia than it is in Texas--and just because people DID pay for their IDs, doesn't mean they should have NEEDED to.
It seems like turnout is lowest among the disgruntled, not the uninformed. Basically the only group likely to effect a change.
It's one hell of a way to start breaking out of the two party system, isn't it? Force someone into the booth who hates both major parties, and instead of voting for Mickey Mouse, maybe they'll pick a different guy who's actually on the ballot. All it takes is the tiniest, slimmest name recognition for the candidate or their party, and a lot of hate for the big guys.
You get around it by making ID freely provided by the government, and find a way to help people who live hours away from the nearest DMV (rural Texas or Alaska for example). It costs something around twenty bucks to get a photo ID card, so requiring ID is de facto charging a fee to vote; many elderly people, homemakers, or disabled who don't work don't have up-to-date IDs because they've never needed them, and these are often the same people where paying for government ID, let alone securing transportation to a licensing facility, might mean not having money for rent. Gas for a trip to the nearby large town can be one hell of an expense.
If the government says "everyone must have ID", the government must provide it free of charge. Otherwise it's a forced tax just like the Obamacare opt-out fee, and Republicans don't like that, do they? Add a service where if your town is more than X distance from the nearest licensing facility, they'll send out some kind of licensemobile to photograph and print on-site once a year or so, that would cover nearly everybody. It still sucks if you lose all your ID in a fire, or if you're homeless and have lost your documents, but it's about as close as you can get.
For the record, I live in Washington state where almost everyone votes by mail. It doesn't require ID because there's no way to do it, and we don't have rampant fraud, so clearly ID isn't a 100% necessary requirement for a sane voting system. What's the problem?
Humor someone who's been out of the loop even longer: What's the advantage of making a game natively 64-bit, aside from addressing ridiculous amounts of RAM? Actually these days, maybe that is enough reason...is that it?
Well, the obvious reason to back a project is so that it gets made at all. Nothing's stopping you from pulling your pledge once it hits the winning amount (unless it would bring it back under like 24 hours before the end). If you want to buy a game cheap and you don't care about new stretch goals, then by all means skip the kickstarter experience and you'll be better off. Higher tiers are pretty much never worth it--as a purchase--unless you really want the exclusive T-shirt or an NPC named after you or whatever. Otherwise just treat it the same as public TV/radio funding drives.
I work for a living and have a wife and not a lot of time to hang out with "the bros"...which is why my wife and I play co-op games together with our friends online a few hours a week, it's quick and easy to set up and arguably a lot less like hiding in the basement than playing single player games.
Single player games are antisocial as hell, and that's really nice sometimes. Competitive multiplayer seems really friendly in person, but a lot less so online, even with other people you know. Cooperative multiplayer seems more social whether it's local or not.
I'd suggest getting one of the little miniature solid state fanless machines with a big solid state external drive. Less holes for gunk to get into, you can enclose it more tightly.
Of course, if you take that route, you lose most of the reason you'd need to put it in the crawlspace to begin with, like noise and heat. If the big reason you want it down there really is space instead of noise...try the attic instead. Crawlspaces get more water than you'd expect, no matter how sure you are that they're dry (and a settling / cracking foundation can challenge your expectations in a hurry). If your attic floods, you've got bigger problems. Yes there's temperature issues...but they still might be better than your crawlspace's problems. Attics are expected to have wiring anyway. And depending on your attic, it might be a lot more accessible.
If you really are dead set on putting it under your floor, extend your room downwards to encapsulate the server. You need it clean, dry, and as insect/rodentproof as anywhere else in your house. Hell, I'd be leery of putting a server in a finished workshed that has lots of mice and spiders and no temperature control, and that's better conditions than your crawlspace by far.