We had a system like this on campus when the drinking age was 18... vote in student elections, you get a mug of beer. There was a beer truck pulled up next to the poll, even. There was a marked dropoff in voter turnout and interest in student government when the practice was stopped...
If you do work for the government and get money for it, that's not a handout. If you sit on your couch and get money because you lack the willpower to shape up and get a job, that would be a handout. No reason for someone in that situation to not get a vote, though. The idea behind a democracy is that every view, even the ones along the lines of 'I want a government that gives me free money', is taken into account in the selection of elected officials. The guy with the million dollar federal contract and the guy with the welfare checks count the same, under our fine constitution.
Don't forget that the most installed application on these super laptops will be Duke Nukem Forever, followed closely by (yet another) build of stolen HL2 code!
Preserving the safety of humanity would fall under the zeroth law; allowing a user to watch some programming probably falls under the first, though... reality tv melts the brain.
I don't think that video games and music are a fair comparison. Real isn't supplying a set of music distinct from that which Apple supplies, just a different format. There's also no confusion about what you're getting; if you think that Real's music sounds like crap (signal quality, not personal enjoyment) then you can just not use Real's music. Its pretty much like needing some kind of adaptor box to play unlicensed games on your NES.
No, it means that VHS users get thrown in Conjugal Visit prison, and the Betamax users (what do you do with Betamax other than pirate anyway?) go to Federal Pound Me In The Ass prison.
Of course making the progression to an organized mafia type structure is a good thing. The mobsters always wind up machine gunning each other at the end of the movie, and what's a better picture than a bunch of RIAA execs having at each other with tommy guns, really?
While I think that in the beginning, you might have a large number of small-scale clients, but eventually it will evolve in the same way that agricultural commodities have evolved, that is we'll have massive networks whose sole purpose is to contribute cycles to a for-pay distributed project.
Rome was definately a civilization. Nazi Germany, Stalin's USSR, and Hussein's Iraq were also civilizations. Being civilized and fitting your personal moral standards are two very different things.
It doesn't cost us more, it costs them less. That's the idea behind open research: I research something, tell you about it, you get an idea, research it, tell someone, they get an idea...
Keeping research findings holed up is a good way to waste a lot of effort duplicating others' findings. No need to have every country individually figure things out.
Apparently it was +$3.59M in this case. Obviously, you don't hit that much on every case, but not registering a domain is cheap both in design (don't really have to choose to not reg one) and implementation. Obviously, there's significant overhead in the legal department, but being a multi-billion dollar monopoly can help with that. Worst case, charge $1 an install on SP2 to recoup fees.
Wait... don't we bring the crystalline life back to the ship, where it multiplies out of control, becomes sentient, and breaks out of containment? At least with its superior intelligence, it cares not for us and goes about its merry way...
Registering a domain name is negative money. Letting someone else register it and then suing them is positive money. You might even be able to get the domain thrown in with the settlement.
You don't get a longer working day out of people on the other side of the world, just one that doesn't coincide with yours (well, if you own a sweatshop, you get a longer working day, but that's irrespective of time zones). For routine business its a pain, but you get to quote how these middle-of-the-night emergencies were handled by a first shift guy by virtue of first shift in India being third shift at home. In summary, the time difference to India produces a feel-good effect in managers, and little more. I'd say the end result is something like the Elbonian outsourcing project from Dilbert comics.
To eventually reap huge profits from the lock in they've generated, either by exploiting it or selling it off for someone else to exploit, of course. Point is people who give you software for free are more likely to be out for your wallet than your personal information.
Perhaps my browser is free because the authors are collecting data on the web sites I visit, or my email client is free because it forwards my mail to the author... or maybe these things are free because the authors want a large userbase rather than large bank accounts, all the better to get feature requests/bug reports and make the software better.
We've been hunting a guy around the world for 12 years because he played a chess match in a country we didn't like at the time? Better ship him to Guantanamo - consorting with those chess players who happened to be in Yugoslavia must've been aiding and abetting those terrorists in some way!
Its the experimental, in testing mach-10 airplane that is public. The fully, functional, totally stealth version is classified:) Got to have something to blame random sightings on, and mach 10 is pretty fast for a weather ballon...
And then we use corn to manufacture plastics that are not only domestically produced but will eventually degrade... of course, we could be turning corn into gasoline and diesel right now too, but aren't because we seem to have this foreign dependance fetish.
Actually, depending on the speed of impact, the blades are more likely to push an animal away, rather than dice it up. Consider this example: someone brings a sword down very slowly on your outstretched arm. The arm will probably just move down with the sword. Try again but swinging the sword with Hearty Vigor. The arm probably comes off.
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We had a system like this on campus when the drinking age was 18 ... vote in student elections, you get a mug of beer. There was a beer truck pulled up next to the poll, even. There was a marked dropoff in voter turnout and interest in student government when the practice was stopped ...
If you do work for the government and get money for it, that's not a handout. If you sit on your couch and get money because you lack the willpower to shape up and get a job, that would be a handout. No reason for someone in that situation to not get a vote, though. The idea behind a democracy is that every view, even the ones along the lines of 'I want a government that gives me free money', is taken into account in the selection of elected officials. The guy with the million dollar federal contract and the guy with the welfare checks count the same, under our fine constitution.
I wish I got that kind of profit from whacking off ... could quit my day job, even.
That link actually suggests that there are MORE fatalities per mile traveled than the national average ...
Don't forget that the most installed application on these super laptops will be Duke Nukem Forever, followed closely by (yet another) build of stolen HL2 code!
Preserving the safety of humanity would fall under the zeroth law; allowing a user to watch some programming probably falls under the first, though ... reality tv melts the brain.
I don't think that video games and music are a fair comparison. Real isn't supplying a set of music distinct from that which Apple supplies, just a different format. There's also no confusion about what you're getting; if you think that Real's music sounds like crap (signal quality, not personal enjoyment) then you can just not use Real's music. Its pretty much like needing some kind of adaptor box to play unlicensed games on your NES.
No, it means that VHS users get thrown in Conjugal Visit prison, and the Betamax users (what do you do with Betamax other than pirate anyway?) go to Federal Pound Me In The Ass prison.
Of course making the progression to an organized mafia type structure is a good thing. The mobsters always wind up machine gunning each other at the end of the movie, and what's a better picture than a bunch of RIAA execs having at each other with tommy guns, really?
While I think that in the beginning, you might have a large number of small-scale clients, but eventually it will evolve in the same way that agricultural commodities have evolved, that is we'll have massive networks whose sole purpose is to contribute cycles to a for-pay distributed project.
Rome was definately a civilization. Nazi Germany, Stalin's USSR, and Hussein's Iraq were also civilizations. Being civilized and fitting your personal moral standards are two very different things.
It doesn't cost us more, it costs them less. That's the idea behind open research: I research something, tell you about it, you get an idea, research it, tell someone, they get an idea ...
Keeping research findings holed up is a good way to waste a lot of effort duplicating others' findings. No need to have every country individually figure things out.
Apparently it was +$3.59M in this case. Obviously, you don't hit that much on every case, but not registering a domain is cheap both in design (don't really have to choose to not reg one) and implementation. Obviously, there's significant overhead in the legal department, but being a multi-billion dollar monopoly can help with that. Worst case, charge $1 an install on SP2 to recoup fees.
Right, upgrade to UT2K4, run it natively under Linux. Solved.
Wait ... don't we bring the crystalline life back to the ship, where it multiplies out of control, becomes sentient, and breaks out of containment? At least with its superior intelligence, it cares not for us and goes about its merry way ...
I for one welcome our new crystalline overlords.
Registering a domain name is negative money. Letting someone else register it and then suing them is positive money. You might even be able to get the domain thrown in with the settlement.
You don't get a longer working day out of people on the other side of the world, just one that doesn't coincide with yours (well, if you own a sweatshop, you get a longer working day, but that's irrespective of time zones). For routine business its a pain, but you get to quote how these middle-of-the-night emergencies were handled by a first shift guy by virtue of first shift in India being third shift at home. In summary, the time difference to India produces a feel-good effect in managers, and little more. I'd say the end result is something like the Elbonian outsourcing project from Dilbert comics.
To eventually reap huge profits from the lock in they've generated, either by exploiting it or selling it off for someone else to exploit, of course. Point is people who give you software for free are more likely to be out for your wallet than your personal information.
Perhaps my browser is free because the authors are collecting data on the web sites I visit, or my email client is free because it forwards my mail to the author ... or maybe these things are free because the authors want a large userbase rather than large bank accounts, all the better to get feature requests/bug reports and make the software better.
We've been hunting a guy around the world for 12 years because he played a chess match in a country we didn't like at the time? Better ship him to Guantanamo - consorting with those chess players who happened to be in Yugoslavia must've been aiding and abetting those terrorists in some way!
Except that it isn't trivially easy to make a copy of my car/golf club/swiss cheese after grabbing an encryption key from somewhere ...
Its the experimental, in testing mach-10 airplane that is public. The fully, functional, totally stealth version is classified :) Got to have something to blame random sightings on, and mach 10 is pretty fast for a weather ballon ...
Might work for USPS; not like the packages don't get delivered looking like they took 70g's already ...
And then we use corn to manufacture plastics that are not only domestically produced but will eventually degrade ... of course, we could be turning corn into gasoline and diesel right now too, but aren't because we seem to have this foreign dependance fetish.
Actually, depending on the speed of impact, the blades are more likely to push an animal away, rather than dice it up. Consider this example: someone brings a sword down very slowly on your outstretched arm. The arm will probably just move down with the sword. Try again but swinging the sword with Hearty Vigor. The arm probably comes off.