So what about allergies, the FDA can't ban substances that people might be allergic to but without clear labelling it can kill people. There's one guy in this discussion claiming to be allergic to all non-salmon fish so this case could definitely apply for "potentially fatal".
Also what's the threshold for "kill", should it kill you after one meal? Is it bad if it kills you over twenty years? What about things that just cripple you instead of killing you?
Fraud falls under criminal law so yes, it is the govt's job to police that. A fraudulent label waiting for someone to fall for it is no different from a fraudster standing at a street corner looking for a suitable mark, except it's much easier to prove that there was intent to deceive with the label.
Isn't bait and switch when you advertise a deal but upon arrival tell the customer it's no longer available but there's this slightly more expensive alternative available? Mislabelling the goods you sell is fraud.
I'm not sure it presents the situation properly either. To me it sounded like those "misrepresentation claims" mean counter-notices (a standard form liek the takedown notice stating you believe the takedown was filed in error, once a counternotice was filed no further takedowns may be filed for that work and if the takedown filer still wants it removed he has to go to court), not directly going for a lawsuit.
Well, if your goal is to be remembered as an important person in history that approach would surely work. According to Godwin all internet discussion media are a monument to Hitler.
Could just as well sterilize everyone then, it doesn't look like the smart people are making any attempts at having kids because it would compromise their carreer.
It makes a difference in court. Entrapment is merely to prevent the government from creating reasons to arrest someone (since the government also does the arresting they are a special case), in part because the government should NEVER want the crime to succeed and therefore it's assumed the only thing the govt tried to do was creating an excuse to arrest someone. A private person may very well want the crime to be successful (e.g. hiring a contract killer) and is therefore interested in the crime itself rather than the guilt arising from it.
Now of course the other question is whether Nazi soldiers could have claimed entrapment...
Even if you accidentally grabbed a toy gun and accidentally "fired" it at a wardrobe instead of a person there's still the possibility of an "attempted murder" charge (though I guess a good lawyer could get rid of that). It makes sense since the wannabe-murderer might have a reason to try again with a real gun.
Hell, how is it different from trying to date a 13 year old on the internet when all you're talking to is an FBI agent? The victim doesn't exist, the act was never committed yet someone gets jailed.
Some laws have a "the attempt is punishable" clause. It's usually a reduced sentence but attempting to break the law, even if you fail, can still incur a punishment.
Well, unless that wasn't your money. Some of the victims have embezzled or stolen money to take part in the scam, probably because they thought they could pay it back later.
Naah, they're already producing plenty of crap when graphics are not a selling point, they simply decide it saves money to cut the graphics down and still make the same game otherwise.
Do you think they really say "don't bother with the gameplay, we've got graphics"? Most likely they just have a bad idea or suck at implementing the gameplay or simply don't have the time/budget to fine tune it.
Not necessarily. Trial and error means failure for unforeseeable reasons (you have to TRY and discard approaches that are ERRORS), basically only seeing what you are supposed to do after you fail to do it (e.g. a light flashes and seconds later a beam from the sky vaporizes you*: Only after failing once do you learn that the flashing light means you should take cover). When two choices look equal (i.e. no clues about which is right) and one is right, the other wrong then you have trial and error because you pick one and only learn from failure or success which choice is the right one.
*=Made-up example, not taken from any specific game.
Isn't painting targets usually done with invisible (IR) lasers? Doesn't strike me as a great idea to point a strong lightsource at a target when there are likely troops with guns around.
That must've been a fringe Lutheran variant, the mainstream Lutheran church doesn't even recognize the concept of a "rapture". In fact I've never even heard the term until I read it in some American texts.
Plotline deaths can't really be fixed with save & reload. However, they also don't let the player affect anything, when the writer decides to kill a character for drama the player can't save the character though any means, when the writer decides a character is important later on the player can't kill him (or if he can the game script usually breaks). Even worse when the player is of the oppinion that he could have averted that death had the game not taken control from him (or required him to do something to progress).
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So what about allergies, the FDA can't ban substances that people might be allergic to but without clear labelling it can kill people. There's one guy in this discussion claiming to be allergic to all non-salmon fish so this case could definitely apply for "potentially fatal".
Also what's the threshold for "kill", should it kill you after one meal? Is it bad if it kills you over twenty years? What about things that just cripple you instead of killing you?
Not when it's criminal fraud.
Fraud falls under criminal law so yes, it is the govt's job to police that. A fraudulent label waiting for someone to fall for it is no different from a fraudster standing at a street corner looking for a suitable mark, except it's much easier to prove that there was intent to deceive with the label.
Isn't bait and switch when you advertise a deal but upon arrival tell the customer it's no longer available but there's this slightly more expensive alternative available? Mislabelling the goods you sell is fraud.
Fraud is no part of a free market and does not deserve any protection.
You could just make each machine count separately and join their results once the polls are closed...
On Slashdot C# is the joke.
That's only if the paper trail includes information about the person who voted. Doesn't even remotely make sense to put that on the trail.
I'm not sure it presents the situation properly either. To me it sounded like those "misrepresentation claims" mean counter-notices (a standard form liek the takedown notice stating you believe the takedown was filed in error, once a counternotice was filed no further takedowns may be filed for that work and if the takedown filer still wants it removed he has to go to court), not directly going for a lawsuit.
Well, if your goal is to be remembered as an important person in history that approach would surely work. According to Godwin all internet discussion media are a monument to Hitler.
Or maybe you could learn to play poker...
a tax on the people who have nothing left to lose
Apparently they still had a few dollars for the lottery ticket to lose...
(yes I guess that's a song reference but I'm the kind who prefers silence so I can hear my own thoughts)
Given the pace of climate change that'd be a short lived option. Not that that's a negative, of course.
Could just as well sterilize everyone then, it doesn't look like the smart people are making any attempts at having kids because it would compromise their carreer.
Right now, average isn't going too far and seems to be getting worse by the day (see: idiocracy)
The Flynn effect suggests the opposite but as they say, the sum of the IQs in a crowd is constant.
It makes a difference in court. Entrapment is merely to prevent the government from creating reasons to arrest someone (since the government also does the arresting they are a special case), in part because the government should NEVER want the crime to succeed and therefore it's assumed the only thing the govt tried to do was creating an excuse to arrest someone. A private person may very well want the crime to be successful (e.g. hiring a contract killer) and is therefore interested in the crime itself rather than the guilt arising from it.
Now of course the other question is whether Nazi soldiers could have claimed entrapment...
Even if you accidentally grabbed a toy gun and accidentally "fired" it at a wardrobe instead of a person there's still the possibility of an "attempted murder" charge (though I guess a good lawyer could get rid of that). It makes sense since the wannabe-murderer might have a reason to try again with a real gun.
Hell, how is it different from trying to date a 13 year old on the internet when all you're talking to is an FBI agent? The victim doesn't exist, the act was never committed yet someone gets jailed.
Some laws have a "the attempt is punishable" clause. It's usually a reduced sentence but attempting to break the law, even if you fail, can still incur a punishment.
Well, unless that wasn't your money. Some of the victims have embezzled or stolen money to take part in the scam, probably because they thought they could pay it back later.
Naah, they're already producing plenty of crap when graphics are not a selling point, they simply decide it saves money to cut the graphics down and still make the same game otherwise.
Do you think they really say "don't bother with the gameplay, we've got graphics"? Most likely they just have a bad idea or suck at implementing the gameplay or simply don't have the time/budget to fine tune it.
Which one? You mean "when will noone ever release a bad game again"? Er, good luck with that one.
Not necessarily. Trial and error means failure for unforeseeable reasons (you have to TRY and discard approaches that are ERRORS), basically only seeing what you are supposed to do after you fail to do it (e.g. a light flashes and seconds later a beam from the sky vaporizes you*: Only after failing once do you learn that the flashing light means you should take cover). When two choices look equal (i.e. no clues about which is right) and one is right, the other wrong then you have trial and error because you pick one and only learn from failure or success which choice is the right one.
*=Made-up example, not taken from any specific game.
Isn't painting targets usually done with invisible (IR) lasers? Doesn't strike me as a great idea to point a strong lightsource at a target when there are likely troops with guns around.
That must've been a fringe Lutheran variant, the mainstream Lutheran church doesn't even recognize the concept of a "rapture". In fact I've never even heard the term until I read it in some American texts.
Plotline deaths can't really be fixed with save & reload. However, they also don't let the player affect anything, when the writer decides to kill a character for drama the player can't save the character though any means, when the writer decides a character is important later on the player can't kill him (or if he can the game script usually breaks). Even worse when the player is of the oppinion that he could have averted that death had the game not taken control from him (or required him to do something to progress).