If someone is willing to torture you for a secret, it stands to reason that they will torture you for any reason at all.
In other words: if someone is willing to bring force to bear, that doesn't let validly propose social contracts. "Do not negotiate with terrorists" comes to mind.
It is poor. What SHOULD happen, if this was truly their goal, is for there to be an "edit line" beneath your post. Here's an example of what it could look like, but you'd want the edit line to be part of the formatting, and not have the possibility of it being simulated or expunged via text:
Funny what actually happens is if Bittorrent is open for mere SECONDS, my WoW connection shoots to at LEAST 1.8 seconds of latency. 1.8 SECONDS. A good latency is 50ms, and normal is around 150ms.
Obviously, I can't torrent while in game- it is unplayable. Why is that? Is it because my torrents have a lower priority, which I would be fine with? No, it's because the moment that I get a torrent going, it flags me as some third rate customer, and my whole connection chokes up like an asthmatic in Pollution Pollen December Land. Suddenly, I'm communicating through a straw. So I have this connection, which looks and tests fine, but the moment I attempt to use it for ACTUAL DATA, it goes to shit.
I have Qwest (currently renaming themselves to something else) and Comcast (currently renaming themselves to Xfinity). BOTH DO THIS SAME THING
Well, yes- but we were more talking about stuff comparable to the Tesla Roadster, which is the topline electric. If, in ten years, electrics outperform gas at the sub 250k range, then for all intents and purposes they will replace them. Bugattis are extremely rare and somewhat silly to actually risk driving about for the few multi-millionaires that can afford them, whereas a low 6-figure car can be purchased by a variety of middle to upper middle class folks, depending on how much of their personal wealth they choose to expend- basically, if a middle class man is a car hobbyist, then such vehicles are within reach at some point in his life.
Also, of course, there is the "bigger turbo" thing- if you want to talk serious street performance, a modded car is pretty damned awesome- but, of course, that engine probably won't last that long, etc. Electrics likely will not reach such a level of customization.
The Dodge Viper I think isn't made this year and you would have to get used? Though a new one is in the works. It has a 3.9 second 0-60 according to wikipedia, and is available in the 90s.
All of these cars are faster than the Tesla, and cost less- except the Vette, which costs just the same.
Yes! However, this is still about on the timeline I predicted just above.
Obviously once electric cars are faster and similarly priced, then everyone will drive them primarily. The only reason to keep around the gas engines will be because they sound badass- a compelling reason for auto enthusiasts most certainly, but by no means a majority opinion.
Rofl, so you go to the Hydrogen fuelling station, fill up, go home, and then wake up and find that your system sold 30% of your fuel overnight? If it's cheaper to do that, then the utilities would buy the hydrogen direct or something.
Lol, nowhere close to as fast as gas. Sure, you can spend 6 figures on an electric and outrun cars that cost 30k (by just a hair, mind you), but invest in a viper, GTR, good vette... all those will smoke it, and for less money.
So no. Electric is less range, slower, and more expensive. Point stands, likely for another decade at minimum. Essentially, we need batteries like super way better than existing ones.
I would never ever under any circumstances want my car's ability to function to be reduced remotely. What if I want to go for a drive at 4 AM? What if I have to get to work early one morning? This whole idea is retarded.
Not that it bothers me. I won't drive these silly electric cars until they are cheaper and faster than gas.
The private companies that are federally subsidized monopolies? Go look at how all that pipe got laid. That's tax dollars at work. You want to look me in the eye and tell me that anyone can just go run a giant network of fiber? Because these turkeys sure didn't, and even if you could, you would need massive government participation to bury stuff everywhere.
These things are "utilities" for a reason. This isn't like "the only difference between these guys and the store at the corner is total money". This is different.
"who is to decide what constitutes 'unreasonable discrimination?"
That can go to court. Yes, it's not perfect, but it's definitely more protection than currently available.
I'm more worried about "lawful" in there. If that's found to be "an application or webpage that is guaranteed to have no illegal content" or something similar, then we might end up with torrent and freenet blockers anyway.
" (and don't start about it. Their country, their laws)"
Fuck you and fuck this sentiment. It's especially retarded given that GP's whole point was that they have bullshit laws to make things look nice, and that you have to give up freedoms. If gum itself is illegal, yes, you would expect less gum in places. But that's a retarded thing to do, and proves his point nicely.
Mobile phones don't use satellites. Those are sat-phones, and you don't have one (though you could, if you cared).
If we lost ALL the sats, we'd be pretty fucked for awhile, much longer than a month, and the replacements wouldn't be up there quickly if they were gonna get blasted again. Also note that landline transmission is as likely as a cellphone to be transferred over satellite.
Bring the player, not the class? We can't meet super-tuned enrage timers (of which there are two- I'm not counting heroic rag, because we aren't good enough for him) without finding some turkey to give us our last couple buffs in 10m. Meaning we will be sitting good players to find someone to let us break a deeps barrier.
"This one change alone had a very detrimental effect on players with many guilds report losses of people playing healers if playing at all; for some this was the only role they wanted and they when they stopped feeling effective they could not play."
As guild leadership, I can 100% assure you this is accurate. I have ranted in our officer-chat about this, while outwardly being as optimistic as possible about it. This was a huge redesign on the healing classes, done with no goddamned player input or desire, and many of my amazing ICC healers started falling on their face the moment we walked into new content. It's so super that this game design decision totally fucked us socially.
Actually, if you could replace all the energy you get from oil, you could use that energy to make the items you list out of simpler substances- no one has any problem combining ingredients to create oil and gas, the issue is that it's never efficient to do so compared to getting it out of the ground. But if we were given a magical device with 100x the energy of all our current sources, we could just afford to fabricate oil and whatever the end products are from veggies and such.
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Lttp did, and Ocarina did, and Twilight Princess almost did. Just from the demo, I can tell you this game is going to rule all sorts of awesome.
If someone is willing to torture you for a secret, it stands to reason that they will torture you for any reason at all.
In other words: if someone is willing to bring force to bear, that doesn't let validly propose social contracts. "Do not negotiate with terrorists" comes to mind.
It is poor. What SHOULD happen, if this was truly their goal, is for there to be an "edit line" beneath your post. Here's an example of what it could look like, but you'd want the edit line to be part of the formatting, and not have the possibility of it being simulated or expunged via text:
-A- -A- -B- -B- -C- -C- -- ---POSTPENDLINE-- -C- -C- -B- -B- -A- -A-
Then your existing stuff would be added to your post here.
Super plan, boyscout.
Then some turkey mounts one aimed at the sky above your window. In your dystopia, you and yours are now the target of some manner of bomb.
WoW?
RIP. He was a visionary.
Funny what actually happens is if Bittorrent is open for mere SECONDS, my WoW connection shoots to at LEAST 1.8 seconds of latency. 1.8 SECONDS. A good latency is 50ms, and normal is around 150ms.
Obviously, I can't torrent while in game- it is unplayable. Why is that? Is it because my torrents have a lower priority, which I would be fine with? No, it's because the moment that I get a torrent going, it flags me as some third rate customer, and my whole connection chokes up like an asthmatic in Pollution Pollen December Land. Suddenly, I'm communicating through a straw. So I have this connection, which looks and tests fine, but the moment I attempt to use it for ACTUAL DATA, it goes to shit.
I have Qwest (currently renaming themselves to something else) and Comcast (currently renaming themselves to Xfinity). BOTH DO THIS SAME THING
"Electrics likely will not reach such a level of customization."
Let me amend that to something like "within the first several years of their adoption".
Don't need people in 2200 speed parsing the internet with their posthuman brains and thinking I was WRONG about something like that!
Well, yes- but we were more talking about stuff comparable to the Tesla Roadster, which is the topline electric. If, in ten years, electrics outperform gas at the sub 250k range, then for all intents and purposes they will replace them. Bugattis are extremely rare and somewhat silly to actually risk driving about for the few multi-millionaires that can afford them, whereas a low 6-figure car can be purchased by a variety of middle to upper middle class folks, depending on how much of their personal wealth they choose to expend- basically, if a middle class man is a car hobbyist, then such vehicles are within reach at some point in his life.
Also, of course, there is the "bigger turbo" thing- if you want to talk serious street performance, a modded car is pretty damned awesome- but, of course, that engine probably won't last that long, etc. Electrics likely will not reach such a level of customization.
Nissan GTR:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_GT-R
90k-ish
0-60 in 3.8, 3.2 with "launch control", and wikipedia cites a 2.9 time. Quarter mile in 11.8.
Chevy Corvette:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette
Available in many trims. The top trim is the ZR1, linked here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette_C6_ZR1
3.8 seconds 0-60, quarter mile in 11.2
The ZR1 costs around 110, listed here:
http://www.chevrolet.com/corvette-zr1/
The Dodge Viper I think isn't made this year and you would have to get used? Though a new one is in the works. It has a 3.9 second 0-60 according to wikipedia, and is available in the 90s.
All of these cars are faster than the Tesla, and cost less- except the Vette, which costs just the same.
"Are you excited as I am?!"
Yes! However, this is still about on the timeline I predicted just above.
Obviously once electric cars are faster and similarly priced, then everyone will drive them primarily. The only reason to keep around the gas engines will be because they sound badass- a compelling reason for auto enthusiasts most certainly, but by no means a majority opinion.
Rofl, so you go to the Hydrogen fuelling station, fill up, go home, and then wake up and find that your system sold 30% of your fuel overnight? If it's cheaper to do that, then the utilities would buy the hydrogen direct or something.
Lol, nowhere close to as fast as gas. Sure, you can spend 6 figures on an electric and outrun cars that cost 30k (by just a hair, mind you), but invest in a viper, GTR, good vette... all those will smoke it, and for less money.
So no. Electric is less range, slower, and more expensive. Point stands, likely for another decade at minimum. Essentially, we need batteries like super way better than existing ones.
I would never ever under any circumstances want my car's ability to function to be reduced remotely. What if I want to go for a drive at 4 AM? What if I have to get to work early one morning? This whole idea is retarded.
Not that it bothers me. I won't drive these silly electric cars until they are cheaper and faster than gas.
The private companies that are federally subsidized monopolies? Go look at how all that pipe got laid. That's tax dollars at work. You want to look me in the eye and tell me that anyone can just go run a giant network of fiber? Because these turkeys sure didn't, and even if you could, you would need massive government participation to bury stuff everywhere.
These things are "utilities" for a reason. This isn't like "the only difference between these guys and the store at the corner is total money". This is different.
"who is to decide what constitutes 'unreasonable discrimination?"
That can go to court. Yes, it's not perfect, but it's definitely more protection than currently available.
I'm more worried about "lawful" in there. If that's found to be "an application or webpage that is guaranteed to have no illegal content" or something similar, then we might end up with torrent and freenet blockers anyway.
Since when does anyone have to MORALLY justify their energy usage?
Google does some shady things. Using power is not among them.
It's a commodity. They purchase it. Sheesh.
" (and don't start about it. Their country, their laws)"
Fuck you and fuck this sentiment. It's especially retarded given that GP's whole point was that they have bullshit laws to make things look nice, and that you have to give up freedoms. If gum itself is illegal, yes, you would expect less gum in places. But that's a retarded thing to do, and proves his point nicely.
There's plenty of collectible video games. For instance, if you have a World of Warcraft Collector's Edition? That thing is worth quite a bit on ebay.
Yes, because he says so.
Whose goddamned machine is it exactly?
Mobile phones don't use satellites. Those are sat-phones, and you don't have one (though you could, if you cared).
If we lost ALL the sats, we'd be pretty fucked for awhile, much longer than a month, and the replacements wouldn't be up there quickly if they were gonna get blasted again. Also note that landline transmission is as likely as a cellphone to be transferred over satellite.
But yes, it would be recoverable. Eventually.
IT'S A TRAP
Bring the player, not the class? We can't meet super-tuned enrage timers (of which there are two- I'm not counting heroic rag, because we aren't good enough for him) without finding some turkey to give us our last couple buffs in 10m. Meaning we will be sitting good players to find someone to let us break a deeps barrier.
"This one change alone had a very detrimental effect on players with many guilds report losses of people playing healers if playing at all; for some this was the only role they wanted and they when they stopped feeling effective they could not play."
As guild leadership, I can 100% assure you this is accurate. I have ranted in our officer-chat about this, while outwardly being as optimistic as possible about it. This was a huge redesign on the healing classes, done with no goddamned player input or desire, and many of my amazing ICC healers started falling on their face the moment we walked into new content. It's so super that this game design decision totally fucked us socially.
Actually, if you could replace all the energy you get from oil, you could use that energy to make the items you list out of simpler substances- no one has any problem combining ingredients to create oil and gas, the issue is that it's never efficient to do so compared to getting it out of the ground. But if we were given a magical device with 100x the energy of all our current sources, we could just afford to fabricate oil and whatever the end products are from veggies and such.