That was back in the day when most people were racist or antisemitic to some degree, they may even have believed that persecuting Jews and sticking them into ghettos would be a good thing.
However it should be remembered that the holocaust wasn't common knowledge within the Allied countries. They heard of it but thought it was a lie fabricated to make their enemy seem worse. They didn't realize it was real before they found the first camps.
While we're throwing hindsight blame around, how about complaining that the Allied bombing runs didn't hit the German production plants for stuff like tanks, allowing the Nazis to increase production as the war went on without building any new factories?
Besides, the Nazis replaced all the top guys in companies with party-approved leaders. If the international leadership of the company doesn't approve, tough luck, have fun explaining that to the SA goons.
But spam also works because it's cheap to blanket people with fraudulent ads. Paying a deposit for every ebook will lead to a lot of them not making their deposit back.
Politicians talk about their ideals but rarely follow them. By talking enough about their ideals they can divert attention from actions that completely oppose their stated ideals.
Given the lethal dose of botox is it really necessary to keep the bacterium alive? Just synthesize a few grams of that stuff and go aerosol with it and you've got a weapon of mass destruction.
To be fair botox is the most toxic substance currently known. The lethal dose is 1 nanogram per kilogram of body weight. Doesn't take much of that stuff to kill millions of people.
1. it's pretty. 2. it doesn't react with much so it tends to stay pretty. 3. other people say it's always been valuable so I guess I'll agree with them that it's always going to be.
4. It can be used to impress the other sex and get you laid.
Some value, yes, but not necessarily 100% of the value that others attribute to it. You have to add in risks. How likely is it that you'd be able to convert those bit coins into USD at full value? How difficult would it be to find enough buyers for that stuff? How likely are currency fluctuations (on both sides) while you hold the coins? Is it possible that too many people will lose interest in bitcoins and the value collapses?
The value of BCs is tied to the supply and demand, it may be equal to work units but the value of those units to the market can fluctuate as well.
What is the guaranteed value of a bit coin? The demand for a gold standard is because gold is a tangible guaranteed value with specific properties, you know that your cash can always be redeemed for gold if nothing else and that gold can likely be traded for something that is useful. How does that work with bitcoins?
What if the demand for bitcoins as a "great deflational currency" leads to the creation of bitcoin clone currencies that are practically identical but have their own pool to create more coins in circulation?
1. We should not permit ANY exceptions to a basic human right (the right to life). Exceptions are dangerous and can be exploited to legalize things like euthanizing "lives not worth living" (yes, that was a Godwin). 2. Suicide is a decision that is irreversible and often chosen in an unsound state of mind. Human beings are not as rational as we think we are, our emotions have a huge influence on the decisions we make. Rationalization comes into play after the fact. We must not allow people to commit suicide as a result of a short-term decision that they would not stand by later. 3. Terminal illnesses are a tough thing to define. A 100% probability of death due to a disease is rare, most have a high but not 100% chance to kill you, as long as there is a chance of recovery we cannot use the illness as a justification to permit suicide.
How can we define an absolute, incorruptible set of criteria for when it's acceptable to end a human life? And is it really worth doing?
The charter of Human Rights states that the right to life is inalienable. The UK, like any EU member state, is bound to it. Adding exceptions to a basic human right is extremely dangerous.
There are two main types of players, those who just want to build and those who want to adventure. I'm in the latter camp, I build a basic home and then go spelunking. Currently Terraria fills my needs much better than Minecraft does.
The problem is that garbage collection takes time. Making it collect smaller chunks every second would create a smoother experience than having it do one massive collection every half hour. Arcen Games struggled with that in AI War where they create and destroy lots of things all the time leading to lengthy garbage collections if they don't happen frequently.
Lego is more versatile (especially once you add the Technic parts for mechanisms) and you can do more than just put it on shelves, if you build a boat you can move it around and pretend it's a boat. In Minecraft your structures are static and can't be moved around.
Speaking of FPS, wouldn't Minecraft-style terrain be a much more interesting base for an FPS with destructible terrain than the sculpted stuff with pre-defined destroyable areas we're seeing in AAA FPSes?
Mojang isn't Arcen Games, Minecraft patches have been fairly moderate in their changes so far. Don't expect Dwarf Fortress's adventure mode out of this, at least not within the first few months.
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They could just build their own, the windmills aren't so expensive or heavily regulated that a small community can't build their own.
That was back in the day when most people were racist or antisemitic to some degree, they may even have believed that persecuting Jews and sticking them into ghettos would be a good thing.
However it should be remembered that the holocaust wasn't common knowledge within the Allied countries. They heard of it but thought it was a lie fabricated to make their enemy seem worse. They didn't realize it was real before they found the first camps.
While we're throwing hindsight blame around, how about complaining that the Allied bombing runs didn't hit the German production plants for stuff like tanks, allowing the Nazis to increase production as the war went on without building any new factories?
Besides, the Nazis replaced all the top guys in companies with party-approved leaders. If the international leadership of the company doesn't approve, tough luck, have fun explaining that to the SA goons.
But spam also works because it's cheap to blanket people with fraudulent ads. Paying a deposit for every ebook will lead to a lot of them not making their deposit back.
You have an open air combustion engine then?
Politicians talk about their ideals but rarely follow them. By talking enough about their ideals they can divert attention from actions that completely oppose their stated ideals.
Given the lethal dose of botox is it really necessary to keep the bacterium alive? Just synthesize a few grams of that stuff and go aerosol with it and you've got a weapon of mass destruction.
To be fair botox is the most toxic substance currently known. The lethal dose is 1 nanogram per kilogram of body weight. Doesn't take much of that stuff to kill millions of people.
Apparently the thief already did it, wouldn't surprise me if that's how he noticed it.
1. it's pretty.
2. it doesn't react with much so it tends to stay pretty.
3. other people say it's always been valuable so I guess I'll agree with them that it's always going to be.
4. It can be used to impress the other sex and get you laid.
Some value, yes, but not necessarily 100% of the value that others attribute to it. You have to add in risks. How likely is it that you'd be able to convert those bit coins into USD at full value? How difficult would it be to find enough buyers for that stuff? How likely are currency fluctuations (on both sides) while you hold the coins? Is it possible that too many people will lose interest in bitcoins and the value collapses?
Well, he didn't, it got stolen before he could cash out.
The value of BCs is tied to the supply and demand, it may be equal to work units but the value of those units to the market can fluctuate as well.
What is the guaranteed value of a bit coin? The demand for a gold standard is because gold is a tangible guaranteed value with specific properties, you know that your cash can always be redeemed for gold if nothing else and that gold can likely be traded for something that is useful. How does that work with bitcoins?
What if the demand for bitcoins as a "great deflational currency" leads to the creation of bitcoin clone currencies that are practically identical but have their own pool to create more coins in circulation?
1. We should not permit ANY exceptions to a basic human right (the right to life). Exceptions are dangerous and can be exploited to legalize things like euthanizing "lives not worth living" (yes, that was a Godwin).
2. Suicide is a decision that is irreversible and often chosen in an unsound state of mind. Human beings are not as rational as we think we are, our emotions have a huge influence on the decisions we make. Rationalization comes into play after the fact. We must not allow people to commit suicide as a result of a short-term decision that they would not stand by later.
3. Terminal illnesses are a tough thing to define. A 100% probability of death due to a disease is rare, most have a high but not 100% chance to kill you, as long as there is a chance of recovery we cannot use the illness as a justification to permit suicide.
How can we define an absolute, incorruptible set of criteria for when it's acceptable to end a human life? And is it really worth doing?
The government does NOT have the right to kill you. The death penalty is illegal within the European Union and considered a human rights violation.
The charter of Human Rights states that the right to life is inalienable. The UK, like any EU member state, is bound to it. Adding exceptions to a basic human right is extremely dangerous.
Require several days sleep/rest after sustaining too much battle damage
That's just a waste of time, not much happens in Minecraft when you aren't around and staying indoors just means nothing happens outside.
There are two main types of players, those who just want to build and those who want to adventure. I'm in the latter camp, I build a basic home and then go spelunking. Currently Terraria fills my needs much better than Minecraft does.
The problem is that garbage collection takes time. Making it collect smaller chunks every second would create a smoother experience than having it do one massive collection every half hour. Arcen Games struggled with that in AI War where they create and destroy lots of things all the time leading to lengthy garbage collections if they don't happen frequently.
It doesn't chug for me but then again I built my PC for gaming.
Lego is more versatile (especially once you add the Technic parts for mechanisms) and you can do more than just put it on shelves, if you build a boat you can move it around and pretend it's a boat. In Minecraft your structures are static and can't be moved around.
Speaking of FPS, wouldn't Minecraft-style terrain be a much more interesting base for an FPS with destructible terrain than the sculpted stuff with pre-defined destroyable areas we're seeing in AAA FPSes?
Don't people already decompile the game to mod it? also the code release is a testing stage for developing the modding API AFAIK.
Mojang isn't Arcen Games, Minecraft patches have been fairly moderate in their changes so far. Don't expect Dwarf Fortress's adventure mode out of this, at least not within the first few months.