Part of the point of decimation was that the 9 would have to kill the 1 themselves, and it would be someone they knew well. Bankers, lacking the inherent empathy and kindness of the deadly roman legions would remain entirely unaffected by the experience.
Can't you draw a more recent example of awfulness than 20 years ago? All the recent video game movies I can think of come off as the kind of action shlock that doesn't interest me but makes tons of money on typical US audiences.
Lots of things made the founders of the U.S.A. sick. They lived before the advent of any serious medical treatment for illnesses. Believe it or not, we've come a long way since 1776, and rapid high speed air strikes are one of the many new things since that era. I don't endorse wasting money on defense measures that are almost certainly never to be used, but to pretend there's no motive for keeping the representatives our democracy has elected in place is a little unreasonable too(except those I personally disagree with, they can always die).
Nope, sorry. if you drew enough attention to that fact, or provided that assertion in writing, you would end up defending yourself in a defamation lawsuit.
What kind of frequencies are these things capable of? If it's less than a couple hundred megahertz, good luck using that for anything on the other side of a wall.
Nope. I'd rather that people steal than support systematic oppression. The natural preference is for neither(as I indicated), but I have a much stronger disdain for the carefully planned and meticulous evil that corporate America is involved in.
The first mistake was keeping DRM legal. There should be standards of use for all consumer-grade copyrighted products, and letting companies decide is fundamentally unhealthy for a free-market economy. Any variations on such a standard license should require a physical contract signed by both parties.
And I have no reason to think the gameplay of this latest iteration is bad. But I'm never going to buy it. Ever. I don't care if that doesn't influence EA to stop being terrible, but all I can ever do is not buy their stuff.
If you must play this game(and you don't) please pirate it. Please.
Not to be too much of an ass, but shouldn't there be a nominal baseline percentage subtracted from that representing the understood cyclical unemployment of the system?
The book he links addressed that point. Specifically that the concentration of wealth would also concentrate political power. We already see this in the U.S.
How about the various monarchs of England, Spain, France, and Portugal during the so-called "age of exploration", wherein they just moved in and took land from people?
Precisely. Yes, I agree with the general idea that this should generally be a civil matter, but there are cases where jail time is appropriate. I'm pretty sure there are clauses in my online banking T&C which would be considered serious fraud if I breached them. The problem is prosecutors trying to set themselves up as "internet specialists" by pushing for convictions under unsuitable laws instead of going for the simple, pre-existing (but less interesting on a CV/resume) fraud laws.
Let's be honest here. If you're a developer, you know the weakest link in every custom application is the custom part, not the language, because of overloaded engineers who don't worry about every use case they need to.
On the other hand, C#'s syntax has ruined java for me. Many simple tasks in java feel like they take 3 times as many steps as they need to: e.g. overloading a method with an optional bool defaulting to false requires actually writing a new overload and passing the default. To be fair, there are times when python or a functional language makes C# feel the same way, but java is just too far removed on the convenience factor for me.
Yes, but aside from the racism, Swiss democracy is working. Not so in the U.S. How we can have a democracy where 90% of people are unsatisfied with the net results(at least for congress) is baffling.
(I guess that's kind of like saying, "aside from the feces in it, this sandwich is delicious" though)
Unfortunately Disney's article already used all the clever star wars references that could possibly be applied, leaving slashdot commenters with nothing to do but rehash them.
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Part of the point of decimation was that the 9 would have to kill the 1 themselves, and it would be someone they knew well. Bankers, lacking the inherent empathy and kindness of the deadly roman legions would remain entirely unaffected by the experience.
Can't you draw a more recent example of awfulness than 20 years ago? All the recent video game movies I can think of come off as the kind of action shlock that doesn't interest me but makes tons of money on typical US audiences.
Lots of things made the founders of the U.S.A. sick. They lived before the advent of any serious medical treatment for illnesses. Believe it or not, we've come a long way since 1776, and rapid high speed air strikes are one of the many new things since that era. I don't endorse wasting money on defense measures that are almost certainly never to be used, but to pretend there's no motive for keeping the representatives our democracy has elected in place is a little unreasonable too(except those I personally disagree with, they can always die).
Nope, sorry. if you drew enough attention to that fact, or provided that assertion in writing, you would end up defending yourself in a defamation lawsuit.
What kind of frequencies are these things capable of? If it's less than a couple hundred megahertz, good luck using that for anything on the other side of a wall.
Or you could, you know, conventionally assume the conventions of where your company is based, and treat special cases as special cases.
Flashblock+adblock. they're not illegal. They solve all your problems in that regard.
Nope. I'd rather that people steal than support systematic oppression. The natural preference is for neither(as I indicated), but I have a much stronger disdain for the carefully planned and meticulous evil that corporate America is involved in.
The first mistake was keeping DRM legal. There should be standards of use for all consumer-grade copyrighted products, and letting companies decide is fundamentally unhealthy for a free-market economy. Any variations on such a standard license should require a physical contract signed by both parties.
Yes, it was EA. If you see an EA logo on a game, don't buy it.
And I have no reason to think the gameplay of this latest iteration is bad. But I'm never going to buy it. Ever. I don't care if that doesn't influence EA to stop being terrible, but all I can ever do is not buy their stuff.
If you must play this game(and you don't) please pirate it. Please.
I was speaking with the voice of just one hypothetical defense contractor.
Don't you see? If we don't get our pointless billions in wasted defense spending, everyone will die.
Not to be too much of an ass, but shouldn't there be a nominal baseline percentage subtracted from that representing the understood cyclical unemployment of the system?
If it's any less blatant than this it gets modded to +5 insightful.
The book he links addressed that point. Specifically that the concentration of wealth would also concentrate political power. We already see this in the U.S.
How about the various monarchs of England, Spain, France, and Portugal during the so-called "age of exploration", wherein they just moved in and took land from people?
But Thailand is still where a huge chunk of consumer goods in the U.S. come from? How are the communists so much worse than monarchist totalitarians?
Precisely. Yes, I agree with the general idea that this should generally be a civil matter, but there are cases where jail time is appropriate. I'm pretty sure there are clauses in my online banking T&C which would be considered serious fraud if I breached them. The problem is prosecutors trying to set themselves up as "internet specialists" by pushing for convictions under unsuitable laws instead of going for the simple, pre-existing (but less interesting on a CV/resume) fraud laws.
I found a better set of laws to charge you under.
No, I mean this: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5BGGwrVEOr2730zGtOsOd9Piq7xHjjDsP2obIQVr6BxJFTfQE
Let's be honest here. If you're a developer, you know the weakest link in every custom application is the custom part, not the language, because of overloaded engineers who don't worry about every use case they need to.
On the other hand, C#'s syntax has ruined java for me. Many simple tasks in java feel like they take 3 times as many steps as they need to: e.g. overloading a method with an optional bool defaulting to false requires actually writing a new overload and passing the default. To be fair, there are times when python or a functional language makes C# feel the same way, but java is just too far removed on the convenience factor for me.
Yes, but aside from the racism, Swiss democracy is working. Not so in the U.S. How we can have a democracy where 90% of people are unsatisfied with the net results(at least for congress) is baffling.
(I guess that's kind of like saying, "aside from the feces in it, this sandwich is delicious" though)
Unfortunately Disney's article already used all the clever star wars references that could possibly be applied, leaving slashdot commenters with nothing to do but rehash them.
Yes, this poor man would be dead.