No, but it's the only ISP here, as it is many other places. I was sarcastically pointing out that fiber providers won't drive copper providers to provide better service because in many parts of the country they're the same company.
If I understand this wikipedia article correctly, it's a projection of the universe's cosmological event horizon. So think of it as being caused by turbulence the "blast wave" produced by the big bang.
The clan owned zbaitsu did not last past WWII, having failed to survive the twin blows of Japanese nationalization and the US occupation. Like most big Japanese enterprises, the Toyota Group is a keiretsu, a group of interlocking business built around a bank and a trading company. In the case of the Toyota Group, the bank controlling everything is the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
Which in turned is owned by companies like Mellon Bank, State Street Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, etc.
Clearly buying from companies like Ford, the huge multinational corporation with a vaguely English sounding name primarily owned by international banks that makes cars in the US from mostly foreign parts is far more patriotic than buying from companies like Honda, the huge multinational corporation with a vaguely Japanese sounding name primarily owned by international banks that makes cars in the US from mostly foreign parts.
Obviously you're one of those soft on monkey-crime liberals who just want to make excuses for law-breaking apes. "Oh it's his up bringing! His parents didn't throw enough feces at him when he was growing up!" Well Charlton Heston showed us what happens if you don't stand up to the rampaging primate hordes. It's a mad house! A MAD HOUSE!!!!!
Step 1: declare chimps person and demand they be released Step 2: arrest now-homeless person-chimps for trespassing Step 3: make incarcerated person-chimps do whatever they were doing before as prison labor
Microsoft has developed a habit of killing every new product the second it runs into a little difficulty, and now wonders why consumers don't want to risk their money on new Microsoft products that will probably be dead in a year.
Okay, then tell the people at your company who aren't actually software engineers to stop calling themselves software engineers. Contrary to common opinion, it's not a term for any vaguely computer related job.
Uh no, those 14 people are who Reddit has "writing or architecting software, and are in full-time roles". Presumably there's an entire different pool of people managing their infrastructure of servers and networking gear, etc. IT people are not software engineers any more than your car mechanic is a mechanical engineer.
Some judges need to get over themselves. They're ultimately there to serve the public, and for what we're paying them they can deal with the public not knowing their favorite font selections.
If all that matters is your potential future productivity, why limit it to a terminal illness? Suppose we have an indigent 95 year old who has to live in a skilled care facility but otherwise healthy. Why waste resources caring for them that could be spent on a younger family?
I'm in favor of someone having the right to end their own life, but I do have a concern about how easily "I don't consider my life worth living and want to die" will morph into "We don't consider your life useful and want to kill you".
Yes, but why should you have to suffer through the pain of a slow death by dehydration or infection rather then a quick painless overdose of anesthetic?
Ultimately, government entities only know how to make one type of decision: political decisions. If you want an organization to make decisions on any basis other than politics, make sure it is not part of the government.
This is addressed quite well in Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy. There's three basic forms of government: rule by the one, rule by the few, and rule by the many, each of which has a good form and a bad form. Rule by the one is monarchy when good, tyranny when bad. Rule by the few is aristocracy when good, oligarchy when bad. Rule by the many is democracy when good, anarchy when bad. The cycle of history is that each of the good forms will, over time, degrade into their bad form, until a crisis occurs that topples the government and replaces it with the next form in the cycle.
The idea of a republic is to have all three running at the same time (the executive is the rule by the one, the judicial system is the rule by the few, and the legislature is the rule by the many) in the hopes that if one went bad, the other two would hold it in check, making the government stable unless all three go bad at the same time.
To be clear though, pure neoreaction is an extreme minority position that will probably never catch on beyond a tiny cult following.
Indeed, why should we be worried about an idea apparently only popular with a few kooks on the internet? Because it makes a great boogey man for use in undistributed middle fallacies. Now anyone who has any sort of criticism of our current political system can be ignored simply by accusing them of being secret neoreactionaries. No need to actually address their argument when you can accuse them of secretly wanting to reduces us to serfs. Oh and they hate women and minorities too!
Take for example:
I don’t know Srinivasan, but it sounds like he’d find neoreactionary views repulsive. And exit is a concept that appeals to both the right and left. But there are others in the Valley pushing ideas much closer to the neoreaction.
See? Srinivasan may not be neoreactionary himself, but he once made an argument that appealed to some neoreactionaries. Therefore we can safely ignore him without bothering to have to refute any of his points.
One of the greatest parts about when I used to play WoW was the theory crafting. Trying to figure out how to increase my performance as a player and my characters performance with what gear I could get or already had. Sometimes different (and very complex) cycles of abilities and combat routines were needed, storing up combo points and keeping debuffs up and rolling.
Except there wasn't really alternate equally working set of abilities. There was pretty much one obviously best set for each trait tree.
Essentially I think that some of the funnest games are also the most complicated. I especially dislike when there is ONE very clear "best" way of doing things (building a character or skill combinations in a fight, etc).
These two statements are actually opposed to each other. In a truly complex system, it's near impossible to balance everything to create multiple equally valid options. Pretty much the only time you see actual MEANINGFUL choices in gaming is in relatively simple systems.
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No, but it's the only ISP here, as it is many other places. I was sarcastically pointing out that fiber providers won't drive copper providers to provide better service because in many parts of the country they're the same company.
Why would FIOS scare Verizon DSL into action?
If I understand this wikipedia article correctly, it's a projection of the universe's cosmological event horizon. So think of it as being caused by turbulence the "blast wave" produced by the big bang.
... I have a separate e-mail account for commenting on the internet.
I realize it's a weird personal quirk, but I actually prefer gloomy weather to bright sunny days.
So fear of punishment is the only thing preventing you from commiting serious crimes?
The clan owned zbaitsu did not last past WWII, having failed to survive the twin blows of Japanese nationalization and the US occupation. Like most big Japanese enterprises, the Toyota Group is a keiretsu, a group of interlocking business built around a bank and a trading company. In the case of the Toyota Group, the bank controlling everything is the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
Which in turned is owned by companies like Mellon Bank, State Street Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, etc.
Clearly buying from companies like Ford, the huge multinational corporation with a vaguely English sounding name primarily owned by international banks that makes cars in the US from mostly foreign parts is far more patriotic than buying from companies like Honda, the huge multinational corporation with a vaguely Japanese sounding name primarily owned by international banks that makes cars in the US from mostly foreign parts.
Obviously you're one of those soft on monkey-crime liberals who just want to make excuses for law-breaking apes. "Oh it's his up bringing! His parents didn't throw enough feces at him when he was growing up!" Well Charlton Heston showed us what happens if you don't stand up to the rampaging primate hordes. It's a mad house! A MAD HOUSE!!!!!
Congratulations, you've unwittingly become a small-time smuggler.
Step 1: declare chimps person and demand they be released
Step 2: arrest now-homeless person-chimps for trespassing
Step 3: make incarcerated person-chimps do whatever they were doing before as prison labor
So your prediction is that in order to avoid paying sales taxes, Amazon is going to start paying far larger excise taxes and customs fees instead?
Oh don't worry, it connects directly to the IRS and the SSA, so there's plenty of your PII already in there in the event of a breach.
Microsoft has developed a habit of killing every new product the second it runs into a little difficulty, and now wonders why consumers don't want to risk their money on new Microsoft products that will probably be dead in a year.
Okay, then tell the people at your company who aren't actually software engineers to stop calling themselves software engineers. Contrary to common opinion, it's not a term for any vaguely computer related job.
Uh no, those 14 people are who Reddit has "writing or architecting software, and are in full-time roles". Presumably there's an entire different pool of people managing their infrastructure of servers and networking gear, etc. IT people are not software engineers any more than your car mechanic is a mechanical engineer.
Some judges need to get over themselves. They're ultimately there to serve the public, and for what we're paying them they can deal with the public not knowing their favorite font selections.
If all that matters is your potential future productivity, why limit it to a terminal illness? Suppose we have an indigent 95 year old who has to live in a skilled care facility but otherwise healthy. Why waste resources caring for them that could be spent on a younger family?
I'm in favor of someone having the right to end their own life, but I do have a concern about how easily "I don't consider my life worth living and want to die" will morph into "We don't consider your life useful and want to kill you".
Yes, but why should you have to suffer through the pain of a slow death by dehydration or infection rather then a quick painless overdose of anesthetic?
Ultimately, government entities only know how to make one type of decision: political decisions. If you want an organization to make decisions on any basis other than politics, make sure it is not part of the government.
This is addressed quite well in Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy. There's three basic forms of government: rule by the one, rule by the few, and rule by the many, each of which has a good form and a bad form. Rule by the one is monarchy when good, tyranny when bad. Rule by the few is aristocracy when good, oligarchy when bad. Rule by the many is democracy when good, anarchy when bad. The cycle of history is that each of the good forms will, over time, degrade into their bad form, until a crisis occurs that topples the government and replaces it with the next form in the cycle.
The idea of a republic is to have all three running at the same time (the executive is the rule by the one, the judicial system is the rule by the few, and the legislature is the rule by the many) in the hopes that if one went bad, the other two would hold it in check, making the government stable unless all three go bad at the same time.
From the article:
Indeed, why should we be worried about an idea apparently only popular with a few kooks on the internet? Because it makes a great boogey man for use in undistributed middle fallacies. Now anyone who has any sort of criticism of our current political system can be ignored simply by accusing them of being secret neoreactionaries. No need to actually address their argument when you can accuse them of secretly wanting to reduces us to serfs. Oh and they hate women and minorities too!
Take for example:
See? Srinivasan may not be neoreactionary himself, but he once made an argument that appealed to some neoreactionaries. Therefore we can safely ignore him without bothering to have to refute any of his points.
Hey, if it worked for TF2...
Except there wasn't really alternate equally working set of abilities. There was pretty much one obviously best set for each trait tree.
These two statements are actually opposed to each other. In a truly complex system, it's near impossible to balance everything to create multiple equally valid options. Pretty much the only time you see actual MEANINGFUL choices in gaming is in relatively simple systems.