65 feet is not a very large distance. At all. It's less than half the usual 'safe recommended following distance' for highway traffic.
Moving things around on the sea is difficult, and they've already once had a worry about a gas buildup blowing out and had to quickly move a ship (which yanked a pipe etc etc). Having a small buffer zone to allow things to move around in an emergency is only sensible, and any journalist who thinks endangering other people so they can sit on top of the story can just blow it out their ass.
This story is just sensationalism feeding off public displeasure with anyone involved with this mess.. which is disappointing. While there are people who deserve to be hated for what has happened, if you're just automatically going to shit on ANYONE involved with trying to fix the problem, why the hell would anyone want to get involved with that? blaaaah.
By all accounts, I'm very slightly younger than you -- my first PC was a 286 8Mhz, which is smokin' next to a Com64, and I only got in to a bit of BBS online forums before the greater intarwabz took over..
and reading a real book is much faster than reading crap on a screen. i've not fiddled overly much with e-books, but having tried in the past to read books on my PC I found it to cause greater eye strain, as well as simply being *harder to do*. Scrolling through text means it's very easy to lose your place, which rips you apart from digestion of information. That's why, as I noticed you doing, and as I am doing, we tend to excessively break apart what we write when it's being read on a computer. If forum posts were formatted 'properly', it's a Wall of Text, and Wall of Text is barely comprehensible.
I imagine it's less of an issue on a good e-book reader, as I think a lot of it on PCs is due to the staring at a glowing screen with dark text and the brightness slightly overwhelming the dark of the letters. Back in the day, all serious computer users tended towards dark background + light text... but then that introduces its own problems, too
and current Republican policy of pushing for rabidly anti-American gay hatred legislation
[citation needed]
Fascism is the merger of state and corporate power. So secret meetings with the oil and gas companies to set energy policy to their benefit is fascism by definition pure and simple.
Oh, ok... cool.
What do you call it when you throw a couple billion at your good pals, not out of your pocket but out of the public's pocket, and not so much the public's pocket as on the public's credit card? What *would* ya call that anyway? Sure looks like the state and the commercial sector in bed to me.
PS, you're a terrible troll and the only people reading and taking your comment seriously are leftists who lack any semblance of rational and reasonable thinking.. in other words if you check it out tonight this will probably be on msnbc.
I'm not so sure they're actually taking any risk, to be honest with you. I think that's really at the heart of this all.
Let's say you stuck 2002's Michael Vick (you know, when he was an NFL cheat code) into a Midget league. Technically he'd be taking a risk every time he took a snap and ran with it, but realistically the outcome would be exactly what any and every reasonable, non-insane person would predict.
Or maybe you're playing poker and all your opponents have wire hats, and you're a computer. You can read the impulses coming through those wires and through that determine what they're about to do just after they decide that's what they're going to do but before they're actually able to do it. If you're fast enough, you can slide in between the decision being made and the action being done. That's not gambling, that's fucking CHEATING!
I don't care for or know much of economics and the stock market, but I do know about exploiting loopholes in games and HFT looks to be drool-worthy when it comes to gaming the system. I'll stop short of calling it evil and saying it must stop, but at the very, very least it's something that ought to be very fucking closely looked into. Just because it's capable of making itself money doesn't mean it's good for the market, and not everything that's good for the market is good for us (and, of course, we're not REALLY talking about "the market" but rather "the stock exchange, which we say is representative of the market", which is a DIFFERENT beast).
It's not even a fucking matter of personal motivations, it's about the work that is being done.
The amateurs out there are pretty much just taking pretty pictures. That's pretty fucking useless. The scientists out there with tons of expensive equipment and a deep understanding of the storms? They actually can gather useful data, can understand it, and can use it so we can better understand how tornadoes form, how they behave, and all that other shit that's useful to know both from a purely meteorological perspective and also, yanno, from a public safety side of things.
What the hell benefit to society are the amateurs providing? None? Then why the fuck should society approve of their impeding people who are providing a benefit to society?
Sure, everyone's got a right to the road. Thing is these amateurs are getting in the way of people who are trying to study this shit so we can better understand and so better prepare and warn people of disaster.
In other words, the amateurs have their heads up their asses. Yeah, they have as much right as the PhDs to be there, but what they SHOULD do, were they decent people, is concede that people other than themselves are better able to do better work and that because of this they should allow them better access.
If someone's choking to death, only an asshole would stand in the way of trained paramedics and claim that they have just as much right to stand there as the paramedic. That's a thin analogy but still works -- get the hell out of the way of the professionals, they know what they're doing more than you do.
That seems awfully fucking exploitable. You'd really think the provider would keep track of that shit, not your phone. Self-reporting usage? Just hack the phone and send false data, since I guess AT&T relies on what the phone tells it you've used.
And if AT&T does track your usage on their own, then having the phone report the usage is just wasteful.
I'm not sure what to search for to find it, but that actually already happened. Fairly certain it was in Italy, too. Dude predicts a quake on a certain day, it doesn't come to pass, the city sued him or some shit? Then the quake hit a few days later? I think this happened last year. Sketchy details, yes, but it's out there waiting for someone to dig up who recalls a few more details than I do.
Long story short: Italian bureaucracy is on par with French hygiene and English cuisine.. these are stereotypical jokes with reason behind 'em.
and, yeah, you're not the only one amused by how this is boiling down to a matter of European domination over a colonial empire.. when it actually has absolutely nothing at all, not even the most tenuous thread, tying the two together. And what we're left with is a (largely white an European) ruling body unable to act on an activity that is harmful to fans and easily curtailed because it's mostly African fans engaging in it and someone threw down the race card, even though there's absolutely nothing racist or colonial or discriminatory going on at all. It's just the baseless accusation, and that was enough to win. Just.. real sad and pathetic when you break it down like that.
It's not a tradition it's a fad. These stupid things only began to be made and sold in south africa around 2001. That's not tradition. That's a fad. They never stop. It's not just during the game.. they NEVER stop. It's dangerous to be around them without hearing protection. They've been measured at 127dB. That's louder than a rock concert.
And would I want to see a ban on fan traditions in my country? Um.. yeah. Yeah, that would be a good idea. FIFA really SHOULD start cracking down on fans acting like self-indulgent assholes and feeling entitled to act that way because, holy shit it's FOOTBALL and obnoxious hooliganism is part of the TRADITION dontchaknow.
At what point should they step in? How about when fan behaviour actually starts HARMING OTHER FANS.. which these horns do. frankly I'd be overjoyed if this world cup turns out to have received abysmally poor viewership due to these things. Maybe then they'll act.
no, the issue is that gallons per 100 miles is a useless number. Well, no, I retract that -- it's a useless number for everything except comparing fuel efficiency between two cars, which, uh, you can do with MPG pretty well. honestly. there's really no use for consumption/distance. nobody has a 10mpg car and a 33mpg car and needs to know if they'll save more going from 10->20mpg or 33->50mpg. That's just a ridiculously contrived scenario from someone who I presume is primarily motivated by their self-induced woes over how unlike Europe it is here in the states. Gigantic eye-roll here.
Seriously. Outside of a math problem for school when would ANYONE ever need to figure any of that out? It's useless information for consumers. So long as there's SOME sort of scale showing its fuel efficiency, you can tell which cars will go further for less. Current car gets mileage X; new car A gets Y, new car B gets Z. That's only 3 vehicles. If X is 10 and Y is 20 and Z is 50, Z will be the greatest increase. Because X always is the same! And if, somehow, someone IS trying to replace one of two vehicles and needs to know which to replace to save the most money, going by the straight-up percentage increase in efficiency over some distance is NOT going to give you the right answer anyway. USE needs to be taken into account; that is, if you've got a 10mpg car, and a 33mpg car, and the replacement for each respectively would be 20mpg and 50mpg, knowing the percentage increase for replacing either is useless unless both vehicles are driven equal distances. If one is just for hauling heavy loads and the other is the daily use car.. 100% vs 50% increase doesn't matter, you'll get more savings (most likely) by going with the 50% increase as that vehicle will be used much more often (not to mention that 20mpg is going to go down if in fact it is going to be used for hauling or pulling heavy loads -- because most likely that 10mpg your current large vehicle gets is NOT what was on the window when you bought it but rather the actual realized mileage you have been getting with it).
Rant off. This is just another Euro-superiouritist. I just made that shit up. Fact is this guy is creating a contrived scenario that has no bearing on anything in the real world, and while it makes me weep a bit for the critical thinking skills of my countrymen it's just not an issue that ever has any bearing on anything outside of the math skills of the Man on the Spot. I think we all already are aware that if you pose a math problem to random people, most are going to get it wrong. That's not even a uniquely American phenomenon. This guy just needs punched in the teeth I think is what I'm trying to get at here.
Eh, that sounds a lot less like "It's legal" and more like "anything we do will just be ignored", or "we're too busy to do all that paperwork"
it's vandalism clear as day. hell, it could be a hate crime even.. but when you're dealing with a bunch of parents who are convinced their kid is a perfect little angel who would never do such a thing and who never lies to adults, any sort of punishment above a scolding gets pretty hard to actually accomplish.
So basically.. yeah, I don't doubt the cops have no interest in doing anything about it, but I do doubt that it's actually legal to egg houses
I very, very seriously doubt that vandalism is legal in California.
You should take those urban legends you hear with a larger grain of salt next time.
It could be argued that toilet papering someone's house is legal, but eggs can and will easy cause actual damage that takes actual real money to fix. Eggs on a car can cause the whole car to need to be stripped and repainted. Eggs are serious fucking business, not a harmless prank.
If he's got all that info, just file a civil suit for damages. Sure, it might not be easy to actually recover the money, but it might get the ball rolling at least.
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You're a little too high on your software-rights-high-horse.
Blizzard needs to win this case, but they need to win it very carefully and in a specific manner. There's two different things that need to be preserved here: Software users' rights, and the integrity of online gaming. If it's really decided that once you buy a game you can do anything you want to it while connected to authorized servers, well that just means Glider is legit. That'll mean that WoW's server populations will explode with zombie characters. It'll also mean Steam's VAC (for what it's worth..) will disappear, and you'll be legally entitled to use aimhax and all that wonderful crap.
That's not really a rosy future. I don't think Blizzard is arguing this really the 'right' way, but if they lose online gaming will just become a worthless exercise in who's found the best software to play the game for them
Yeah and your counterexamples were Red Dwarf and Mighty Boosh. You probably don't understand my point. Everyone else does. Nobody watches Red Dwarf. It's not bad, but it's not exactly good. Mighty Boosh is just bad. But hey that's your call. Go keep talking down widely-popular bits of culture and talk up your inconsequential and little-cared-for interests, eventually it'll make you look more worldly and sophisticated than others. Maybe. Probably not, most people have actually seen both of those shows and are well aware they're nowhere near the quality in both production and entertainment value as The Simpsons.
I..... excuse me? Are you taking the position that straight whiskey, straight rye, are undrinkable? That has to be one of the most uninformed opinions I've seen offered on slashdot ever. I *only* drink my whiskey (and scotch, bourbon, and rye) straight. Sometimes ice is involved, sometimes not, but always delicious.
Now that's odd, I'm still running a BFG 7950, and I have bad cooling in my machine. Dog hair, cigarette smoke. Been more than once that my computer would lock up while playing graphics-intensive games because the damn thing would overheat, and I'd have to open the computer up and clean it out.
*AND* it came with a copy of HL2, which was rad. Got a hell of a bargain out of that purchase.
Uhm, it wouldn't force anyone out. These places sell out, or near enough, with a huge percentage of tickets going through a middle-man. Why should the middle man make profit in the first place? Raise the prices, and the people who buy tickets will buy them from you (since there's practically no room left for a middleman to make profit).
The concert-goers wind up paying the same amount of money per ticket, but more of that money goes towards the venue (and the act / artist(s)!).
It's not like concerts half-sell. If only 11,112 customers could afford $100 tickets, that's legit, but that would also mean scalpers would only be selling 11,112 tickets. That leaves the rest to either be purchased by customers for $30, or purchased by the middleman and eaten as a loss to support their higher ticket prices.
They're already getting screwed. If a concert venue has 10,000 seats, and 10,000 people are willing to pay $100 each to get in... well, money talks. It's sad that someone who can't afford $100 to get in is not able to get in but that's a hell of a lot more fair than tickets being "$30" but some middle man siphoning out $70 a ticket, the person with only 30 bucks still not getting in, and the venue only making the profits of $30 tickets.
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65 feet is not a very large distance. At all. It's less than half the usual 'safe recommended following distance' for highway traffic.
Moving things around on the sea is difficult, and they've already once had a worry about a gas buildup blowing out and had to quickly move a ship (which yanked a pipe etc etc). Having a small buffer zone to allow things to move around in an emergency is only sensible, and any journalist who thinks endangering other people so they can sit on top of the story can just blow it out their ass.
This story is just sensationalism feeding off public displeasure with anyone involved with this mess.. which is disappointing. While there are people who deserve to be hated for what has happened, if you're just automatically going to shit on ANYONE involved with trying to fix the problem, why the hell would anyone want to get involved with that? blaaaah.
By all accounts, I'm very slightly younger than you -- my first PC was a 286 8Mhz, which is smokin' next to a Com64, and I only got in to a bit of BBS online forums before the greater intarwabz took over..
and reading a real book is much faster than reading crap on a screen. i've not fiddled overly much with e-books, but having tried in the past to read books on my PC I found it to cause greater eye strain, as well as simply being *harder to do*. Scrolling through text means it's very easy to lose your place, which rips you apart from digestion of information. That's why, as I noticed you doing, and as I am doing, we tend to excessively break apart what we write when it's being read on a computer. If forum posts were formatted 'properly', it's a Wall of Text, and Wall of Text is barely comprehensible.
I imagine it's less of an issue on a good e-book reader, as I think a lot of it on PCs is due to the staring at a glowing screen with dark text and the brightness slightly overwhelming the dark of the letters. Back in the day, all serious computer users tended towards dark background + light text... but then that introduces its own problems, too
at least most of the youtube comments are most likely made after the video has been viewed. they sorta have a leg up on slashdot there.
ps: no i didn't read the article
The first time I hear anyone ever fucking utter the word "Kibisecond" I'm just going to shoot them in the face. There's no other choice.
and current Republican policy of pushing for rabidly anti-American gay hatred legislation
[citation needed]
Fascism is the merger of state and corporate power. So secret meetings with the oil and gas companies to set energy policy to their benefit is fascism by definition pure and simple.
Oh, ok... cool.
What do you call it when you throw a couple billion at your good pals, not out of your pocket but out of the public's pocket, and not so much the public's pocket as on the public's credit card?
What *would* ya call that anyway? Sure looks like the state and the commercial sector in bed to me.
PS, you're a terrible troll and the only people reading and taking your comment seriously are leftists who lack any semblance of rational and reasonable thinking.. in other words if you check it out tonight this will probably be on msnbc.
I'm not so sure they're actually taking any risk, to be honest with you. I think that's really at the heart of this all.
Let's say you stuck 2002's Michael Vick (you know, when he was an NFL cheat code) into a Midget league. Technically he'd be taking a risk every time he took a snap and ran with it, but realistically the outcome would be exactly what any and every reasonable, non-insane person would predict.
Or maybe you're playing poker and all your opponents have wire hats, and you're a computer. You can read the impulses coming through those wires and through that determine what they're about to do just after they decide that's what they're going to do but before they're actually able to do it. If you're fast enough, you can slide in between the decision being made and the action being done. That's not gambling, that's fucking CHEATING!
I don't care for or know much of economics and the stock market, but I do know about exploiting loopholes in games and HFT looks to be drool-worthy when it comes to gaming the system.
I'll stop short of calling it evil and saying it must stop, but at the very, very least it's something that ought to be very fucking closely looked into. Just because it's capable of making itself money doesn't mean it's good for the market, and not everything that's good for the market is good for us (and, of course, we're not REALLY talking about "the market" but rather "the stock exchange, which we say is representative of the market", which is a DIFFERENT beast).
and that won't actually effect anything at all, pretty much the same as the y2k bug really wouldn't have effected anything either.
lotta hype, and a lot of busy-work for workers recently displaced by the dot-com bubble burst. that's really what the y2k bug amounted to
It's not even a fucking matter of personal motivations, it's about the work that is being done.
The amateurs out there are pretty much just taking pretty pictures. That's pretty fucking useless. The scientists out there with tons of expensive equipment and a deep understanding of the storms? They actually can gather useful data, can understand it, and can use it so we can better understand how tornadoes form, how they behave, and all that other shit that's useful to know both from a purely meteorological perspective and also, yanno, from a public safety side of things.
What the hell benefit to society are the amateurs providing? None? Then why the fuck should society approve of their impeding people who are providing a benefit to society?
Except you're missing a pretty important point.
Sure, everyone's got a right to the road. Thing is these amateurs are getting in the way of people who are trying to study this shit so we can better understand and so better prepare and warn people of disaster.
In other words, the amateurs have their heads up their asses. Yeah, they have as much right as the PhDs to be there, but what they SHOULD do, were they decent people, is concede that people other than themselves are better able to do better work and that because of this they should allow them better access.
If someone's choking to death, only an asshole would stand in the way of trained paramedics and claim that they have just as much right to stand there as the paramedic. That's a thin analogy but still works -- get the hell out of the way of the professionals, they know what they're doing more than you do.
That seems awfully fucking exploitable. You'd really think the provider would keep track of that shit, not your phone. Self-reporting usage? Just hack the phone and send false data, since I guess AT&T relies on what the phone tells it you've used.
And if AT&T does track your usage on their own, then having the phone report the usage is just wasteful.
I'm not sure what to search for to find it, but that actually already happened. Fairly certain it was in Italy, too. Dude predicts a quake on a certain day, it doesn't come to pass, the city sued him or some shit? Then the quake hit a few days later? I think this happened last year. Sketchy details, yes, but it's out there waiting for someone to dig up who recalls a few more details than I do.
Long story short: Italian bureaucracy is on par with French hygiene and English cuisine.. these are stereotypical jokes with reason behind 'em.
Recent tradition = fad
let's call a cigar a cigar.
and, yeah, you're not the only one amused by how this is boiling down to a matter of European domination over a colonial empire.. when it actually has absolutely nothing at all, not even the most tenuous thread, tying the two together. And what we're left with is a (largely white an European) ruling body unable to act on an activity that is harmful to fans and easily curtailed because it's mostly African fans engaging in it and someone threw down the race card, even though there's absolutely nothing racist or colonial or discriminatory going on at all. It's just the baseless accusation, and that was enough to win. Just.. real sad and pathetic when you break it down like that.
It's not a tradition it's a fad. These stupid things only began to be made and sold in south africa around 2001. That's not tradition. That's a fad. They never stop. It's not just during the game.. they NEVER stop. It's dangerous to be around them without hearing protection. They've been measured at 127dB. That's louder than a rock concert.
And would I want to see a ban on fan traditions in my country? Um.. yeah. Yeah, that would be a good idea. FIFA really SHOULD start cracking down on fans acting like self-indulgent assholes and feeling entitled to act that way because, holy shit it's FOOTBALL and obnoxious hooliganism is part of the TRADITION dontchaknow.
At what point should they step in? How about when fan behaviour actually starts HARMING OTHER FANS.. which these horns do.
frankly I'd be overjoyed if this world cup turns out to have received abysmally poor viewership due to these things. Maybe then they'll act.
no, the issue is that gallons per 100 miles is a useless number. Well, no, I retract that -- it's a useless number for everything except comparing fuel efficiency between two cars, which, uh, you can do with MPG pretty well. honestly. there's really no use for consumption/distance. nobody has a 10mpg car and a 33mpg car and needs to know if they'll save more going from 10->20mpg or 33->50mpg. That's just a ridiculously contrived scenario from someone who I presume is primarily motivated by their self-induced woes over how unlike Europe it is here in the states. Gigantic eye-roll here.
Seriously. Outside of a math problem for school when would ANYONE ever need to figure any of that out? It's useless information for consumers. So long as there's SOME sort of scale showing its fuel efficiency, you can tell which cars will go further for less. Current car gets mileage X; new car A gets Y, new car B gets Z. That's only 3 vehicles. If X is 10 and Y is 20 and Z is 50, Z will be the greatest increase. Because X always is the same!
And if, somehow, someone IS trying to replace one of two vehicles and needs to know which to replace to save the most money, going by the straight-up percentage increase in efficiency over some distance is NOT going to give you the right answer anyway. USE needs to be taken into account; that is, if you've got a 10mpg car, and a 33mpg car, and the replacement for each respectively would be 20mpg and 50mpg, knowing the percentage increase for replacing either is useless unless both vehicles are driven equal distances. If one is just for hauling heavy loads and the other is the daily use car.. 100% vs 50% increase doesn't matter, you'll get more savings (most likely) by going with the 50% increase as that vehicle will be used much more often (not to mention that 20mpg is going to go down if in fact it is going to be used for hauling or pulling heavy loads -- because most likely that 10mpg your current large vehicle gets is NOT what was on the window when you bought it but rather the actual realized mileage you have been getting with it).
Rant off. This is just another Euro-superiouritist. I just made that shit up. Fact is this guy is creating a contrived scenario that has no bearing on anything in the real world, and while it makes me weep a bit for the critical thinking skills of my countrymen it's just not an issue that ever has any bearing on anything outside of the math skills of the Man on the Spot. I think we all already are aware that if you pose a math problem to random people, most are going to get it wrong. That's not even a uniquely American phenomenon. This guy just needs punched in the teeth I think is what I'm trying to get at here.
Eh, that sounds a lot less like "It's legal" and more like "anything we do will just be ignored", or "we're too busy to do all that paperwork"
it's vandalism clear as day. hell, it could be a hate crime even.. but when you're dealing with a bunch of parents who are convinced their kid is a perfect little angel who would never do such a thing and who never lies to adults, any sort of punishment above a scolding gets pretty hard to actually accomplish.
So basically.. yeah, I don't doubt the cops have no interest in doing anything about it, but I do doubt that it's actually legal to egg houses
I very, very seriously doubt that vandalism is legal in California.
You should take those urban legends you hear with a larger grain of salt next time.
It could be argued that toilet papering someone's house is legal, but eggs can and will easy cause actual damage that takes actual real money to fix. Eggs on a car can cause the whole car to need to be stripped and repainted.
Eggs are serious fucking business, not a harmless prank.
If he's got all that info, just file a civil suit for damages. Sure, it might not be easy to actually recover the money, but it might get the ball rolling at least.
you mean voila, not wallah
You're a little too high on your software-rights-high-horse.
Blizzard needs to win this case, but they need to win it very carefully and in a specific manner.
There's two different things that need to be preserved here: Software users' rights, and the integrity of online gaming. If it's really decided that once you buy a game you can do anything you want to it while connected to authorized servers, well that just means Glider is legit. That'll mean that WoW's server populations will explode with zombie characters. It'll also mean Steam's VAC (for what it's worth..) will disappear, and you'll be legally entitled to use aimhax and all that wonderful crap.
That's not really a rosy future. I don't think Blizzard is arguing this really the 'right' way, but if they lose online gaming will just become a worthless exercise in who's found the best software to play the game for them
Yeah and your counterexamples were Red Dwarf and Mighty Boosh.
You probably don't understand my point. Everyone else does.
Nobody watches Red Dwarf. It's not bad, but it's not exactly good. Mighty Boosh is just bad.
But hey that's your call. Go keep talking down widely-popular bits of culture and talk up your inconsequential and little-cared-for interests, eventually it'll make you look more worldly and sophisticated than others. Maybe. Probably not, most people have actually seen both of those shows and are well aware they're nowhere near the quality in both production and entertainment value as The Simpsons.
I..... excuse me? Are you taking the position that straight whiskey, straight rye, are undrinkable?
That has to be one of the most uninformed opinions I've seen offered on slashdot ever. I *only* drink my whiskey (and scotch, bourbon, and rye) straight. Sometimes ice is involved, sometimes not, but always delicious.
Salk sells stem cells by the sea shore?
Now that's odd, I'm still running a BFG 7950, and I have bad cooling in my machine. Dog hair, cigarette smoke. Been more than once that my computer would lock up while playing graphics-intensive games because the damn thing would overheat, and I'd have to open the computer up and clean it out.
*AND* it came with a copy of HL2, which was rad. Got a hell of a bargain out of that purchase.
Uhm, it wouldn't force anyone out. These places sell out, or near enough, with a huge percentage of tickets going through a middle-man. Why should the middle man make profit in the first place? Raise the prices, and the people who buy tickets will buy them from you (since there's practically no room left for a middleman to make profit).
The concert-goers wind up paying the same amount of money per ticket, but more of that money goes towards the venue (and the act / artist(s)!).
It's not like concerts half-sell. If only 11,112 customers could afford $100 tickets, that's legit, but that would also mean scalpers would only be selling 11,112 tickets. That leaves the rest to either be purchased by customers for $30, or purchased by the middleman and eaten as a loss to support their higher ticket prices.
They're already getting screwed. If a concert venue has 10,000 seats, and 10,000 people are willing to pay $100 each to get in... well, money talks. It's sad that someone who can't afford $100 to get in is not able to get in but that's a hell of a lot more fair than tickets being "$30" but some middle man siphoning out $70 a ticket, the person with only 30 bucks still not getting in, and the venue only making the profits of $30 tickets.