Not all corporations are evil. A lot of non-profits are, in fact, corporations. It is publicly traded corporations that are generally evil because they are for sale to the highest bidder, who is usually evil.
I'm really surprised that you expect strangers on/. to be able to answer this question for you. Are you really so indecisive? It's your life. This isn't a technical question.
I'll make it easy for you. Will your spouse leave you because you aren't making enough money? Then yes. Otherwise no.
Actually, it is pretty crazy. Sure, it's reasonable for an individual to invest in mutual funds. Pay somebody to invest for you. It's basically free money, based on how much money you have to start with. But on a societal level it's totally crazy. Rational actions by individuals do not add up to rational group actions. Tragedy of the commons is inevitable when there's too much individual freedom.
Maybe corporations wouldn't be as evil if they were beholden to real people, rather than fund managers, who seem to be some species of slime. Maybe these fund managers *do* know a lot about the companies they invest in, but they have a fiduciary duty to not care about anything except money.
Trading ceased to mean anything a long time ago. The idea of stock ownership is that the person owns part of the company, which means ey ought to be knowledgeable about the company and should put some work into improving the company to increase the value of eir stake. Even before high frequency trading, trading was nothing more than gambling on numbers on a ticker. How many stocks do you own? How many do you own that you know a damn thing about?
I wonder if having the game on TPB is actually benefiting the developer or the pay what you want model is simply harm reduction. No doubt he benefited from having it posted on Slashdot.
What is the meaning of "well over the curve for speed-to-lethality tradeoff"? Is there a threshold at which the lethality starts to saturate? Nobody would drive if we only had a 2% chance of surviving a trip. Or do you mean 2% chance of surviving a crash? You still need to factor in the odds of getting into a crash, which probably saturates at a higher speed, which no sane person would travel at.
Of course it's the speed that kills! I don't know what "mostly safe" means, but all other things being equal, you will be safer at lower speeds (to a limit).
No, wages will experience a downward pressure in the richer parts and an upward pressure in the poorer parts. We've seen this in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and now China.. Eventually, China will near cost parity and manufacturing will move to Africa.
The Republican leaders aren't stupid. Their supporters (who aren't part of the rich elite) are the stupid ones. A major part of the Republican platform is anti-science, which is just catering to the stupid.
One interesting idea of long term interstellar travel was envisioned in an old video game Phantasy Star III, which had an interesting setting. Perhaps due to constant warfare, society had regressed to a feudal system where the idea of space travel was all but unknown. The player travels between villages battling bio-engineered monsters and robots which hint at advanced technology, and gradually explores the lands. Eventually, the game reveals that the lands they live in are all inside a huge (country sized?) spaceship that has been traveling through space for thousands of years. With many generations of humans passing, they've forgotten that they were on a spaceship.
Probably unrealistic, but it's interesting to think of how society will evolve aboard a spaceship over thousands of years.
Vegan for ten years, and all sorts of animals still smell tasty to me. I don't think it'll ever go away. Even my own blood tastes pretty good. I wish I could not like the smell of animals, but whatever, it doesn't matter. I have strong willpower.
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Not all corporations are evil. A lot of non-profits are, in fact, corporations. It is publicly traded corporations that are generally evil because they are for sale to the highest bidder, who is usually evil.
However, some version of McAfee is usually pre-installed on a lot of crapware computers.
I'm really surprised that you expect strangers on /. to be able to answer this question for you. Are you really so indecisive? It's your life. This isn't a technical question.
I'll make it easy for you. Will your spouse leave you because you aren't making enough money? Then yes. Otherwise no.
Academia is heavily coerced regardless of where in the world it is.
Actually, it is pretty crazy. Sure, it's reasonable for an individual to invest in mutual funds. Pay somebody to invest for you. It's basically free money, based on how much money you have to start with. But on a societal level it's totally crazy. Rational actions by individuals do not add up to rational group actions. Tragedy of the commons is inevitable when there's too much individual freedom.
Maybe corporations wouldn't be as evil if they were beholden to real people, rather than fund managers, who seem to be some species of slime. Maybe these fund managers *do* know a lot about the companies they invest in, but they have a fiduciary duty to not care about anything except money.
or give them away to students who need them.
Trading ceased to mean anything a long time ago. The idea of stock ownership is that the person owns part of the company, which means ey ought to be knowledgeable about the company and should put some work into improving the company to increase the value of eir stake. Even before high frequency trading, trading was nothing more than gambling on numbers on a ticker. How many stocks do you own? How many do you own that you know a damn thing about?
$8/hour? Do you mean $0.13/hour? That seems to be the going rate for prison labor these days.
It's not fallacious if there exists an effective means of destroying piracy. Probably there isn't, I don't know.
I wonder if having the game on TPB is actually benefiting the developer or the pay what you want model is simply harm reduction. No doubt he benefited from having it posted on Slashdot.
I was just questioning the values in Meshach's post.
Is this an argument to eliminate the speed limit to infinity or reduce it to 0? The differential speed will go to 0 if we drop the speed limit to 0.
If you make the higher speed limit official, then everyone will go 10-20mph faster than the limit still.
What is the meaning of "well over the curve for speed-to-lethality tradeoff"? Is there a threshold at which the lethality starts to saturate? Nobody would drive if we only had a 2% chance of surviving a trip. Or do you mean 2% chance of surviving a crash? You still need to factor in the odds of getting into a crash, which probably saturates at a higher speed, which no sane person would travel at.
1.2% chance of dying in a year is small?
Of course it's the speed that kills! I don't know what "mostly safe" means, but all other things being equal, you will be safer at lower speeds (to a limit).
No, wages will experience a downward pressure in the richer parts and an upward pressure in the poorer parts. We've seen this in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and now China.. Eventually, China will near cost parity and manufacturing will move to Africa.
The Republican leaders aren't stupid. Their supporters (who aren't part of the rich elite) are the stupid ones. A major part of the Republican platform is anti-science, which is just catering to the stupid.
One interesting idea of long term interstellar travel was envisioned in an old video game Phantasy Star III, which had an interesting setting. Perhaps due to constant warfare, society had regressed to a feudal system where the idea of space travel was all but unknown. The player travels between villages battling bio-engineered monsters and robots which hint at advanced technology, and gradually explores the lands. Eventually, the game reveals that the lands they live in are all inside a huge (country sized?) spaceship that has been traveling through space for thousands of years. With many generations of humans passing, they've forgotten that they were on a spaceship.
Probably unrealistic, but it's interesting to think of how society will evolve aboard a spaceship over thousands of years.
Slaves. I don't think it means what you think it does.
This merely shifts the question to: why is somebody asking why the world exists. It's a step in the wrong direction.
What do you do with the rest of it after you take two bites?
Vegan for ten years, and all sorts of animals still smell tasty to me. I don't think it'll ever go away. Even my own blood tastes pretty good. I wish I could not like the smell of animals, but whatever, it doesn't matter. I have strong willpower.
Easy to do if you are wealthy. However, most people cannot afford to not eat sugars, starch, and other carbohydrates.
because salesmen is sexist.