It's called a sit-in. Just like in Greensboro North Carolina and Jackson Mississippi in the 1960's civil rights movement which resulted in desegregation of lunch counters.
Not really, because the goal of those protests was to get arrested. Indeed, getting yourself arrested is the entire point of civil disobedience:
Anyone who wants to do an illegal protest and then complains about being arrested is a poser. They're all hardcore, but only as long as there's no cost involved.
This is kinda like someone buying a Ferrari and then complaining that their car loan is crippling. There's plenty of public schools where you can get a good education for far less. If you decided you're just so special that you had have to have the gold plated education, why should the rest of us who didn't be stuck with the bill?
The average student loan debt for a senior graduating with a bachelor's degree is $24,000 (http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/22/pf/college/student_loan_debt/index.htm), so I have to wonder why your education cost more than four times the national average.
Until they announced the "Real Names" only policy. The single biggest feature I want in a social networking platform is the ability to participate under a pseudonym.
Secondly, the world saves are tens of thousands of files. If you want to copy/move/[un]zip/[un]rar/ a save, be ready to go make tea or something, because it'll take a while, unless perhaps you've got a SSD, which will fail in a much shorter time due to the extreme number of files written to it while you play minecraft.
What does that have to do with Java? That's a result of Minecraft's architecture, not the language it was developed in.
The nearest X to me at some particular time may not be the one closest to my route from A to B. To use my example of going from Philadelphi to DC, if I search for the Nearest Starbucks at the start of the trip, it'll have me go a few miles in the wrong direction, adding maybe half an hour to my trip, when I really want to stop at the one at the first rest stop on I-95S, 90 minutes away.
That's not what this commenter is saying. Suppose I'm driving from Phildelphia to Washington, DC and I want to stop at a Starbucks for coffee. If I know in advance which specific Starbucks I want to go to, I can use a waypoint. But if I don't care which of the several dozen Starbucks between here and there it is (I just want to minimize the necessary detour), waypoints aren't any help.
That won't happen actually. If there was ever full proof speeding detection, people would stop speeding, costing the government revenue. Any operational speeding detection system will miss 90% of the occurences so that people keep speeding and paying occasional tickets.
or wasting those resources for entertainment are more important than the spread of the species
Uggh, I hate the neo-puritan attitude that every second of life needs to be sent doing something "useful" and that anything done purely for happiness is evil.
Blizzard has also repeatedly screwed players who were interested in going through the game slowly to enjoy the story rather than just rushing to level cap as quickly as possible. I didn't have access to broadband internet until long after WoW began, so I didn't get into it until about three years in. I made a descision to work my way through all the original content because I wanted to appreciate the story. Right as I was getting to the original end game dungeons and raids, Cata launched and the stuff I was actually doing at that momment was all ripped out of the game. Even the stuff that's left has been fragmented. For example, one of the major plot points in Wrath of the Lich King, the Undercity events after the Wrath Gate, is gone.
Now I'm basically stuck with the last few chapters of a book I haven't read. I could just pick up with the remaining bits, but I have trouble making the effort to figure out a story that I have no real way of understanding at this point, and which the authors apparently don't consider worth preserving in any form. Meanwhile, the stuff that's left makes absolutely no sense. The current state of the game has characters inexplicably jumping backward and forward in time for no reason, dungeons have been completely ripped out of story context, the big bad is essentially a giant space flea from nowhere (and yes, I know Deathwing was in Warcraft II, but the WCII version really has very little in common with the current one).
Meanwhile, I'm looking at the stuff GW2 puts out, and it seems like they deeply care about telling a story, so I increasingly find myself looking forward to that.
The CBO assumed discretionary spending will grow at the rate of inflation. S&P assumed it grows with GDP. Both of these are perfectly valid assumptions (if any complaint is to be made, they're both too optimistic since historically the growth in discretionary spending has far exceeded both measures); a legitimate alternate choice of economic models is not an error. This is the Obama administrations typical "all reasonable experts agree" tactic of painting legitimate differences in opinion as disengenuous.
As for S&P's "acknowledgement", it was more along the lines of "we just reported your long term unfunded obligations are $211 trillion and you lack the political will or ability to do anything about it. And you want to have an argument over whether it's really $211 trillion or $209 trillion? If it's that improtant to you, we'll use your numbers, but you're completely missing the point here."
The colony will be perfectly fine. Most genetic mutations are spontaneous, caused by defects in the molecular transcription processes. And even among induced mutations, there's plenty of chemical or biological agents in the environment that do more damage than ionizing radiation.
It's going to be hard for the prosecuter to prove "intent to embarass", given that the Renton Police Department apparently has absolutely no sense of shame.
"which will reduce fuel consumption by 40% and carbon emissions by 50%"
No, it won't. If anything has been shown the last few years, it's that the amount of driving people do varies widely with the cost of operating a car. Gas gets more expensive, people drive less. Gas gets cheaper, people drive more.
Making cars radically more fuel efficient may reduce the fuel consumed per mile by about 40%, but total consumption may not drop significantly and could even go up (Cars now are far more efficient than in the 1950s. Has our gas consumption dropped at all?)
Even legal name doesn't distinguish what Google wants. There are a number of ways you can legally use pseudonyms to operate within the legal sphere, even to the point of suing someone under a pseudonym (the most famous probably being the Roe v. Wade abortion case, where Jane Roe was a pseudonym for Norma McCorvey).
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Not really, because the goal of those protests was to get arrested. Indeed, getting yourself arrested is the entire point of civil disobedience:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
Anyone who wants to do an illegal protest and then complains about being arrested is a poser. They're all hardcore, but only as long as there's no cost involved.
This is kinda like someone buying a Ferrari and then complaining that their car loan is crippling. There's plenty of public schools where you can get a good education for far less. If you decided you're just so special that you had have to have the gold plated education, why should the rest of us who didn't be stuck with the bill?
Student loan debt can't be discharged in bankruptcy.
The average student loan debt for a senior graduating with a bachelor's degree is $24,000 (http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/22/pf/college/student_loan_debt/index.htm), so I have to wonder why your education cost more than four times the national average.
Until they announced the "Real Names" only policy. The single biggest feature I want in a social networking platform is the ability to participate under a pseudonym.
What does that have to do with Java? That's a result of Minecraft's architecture, not the language it was developed in.
From the article:
How about Spiral Knights? It's not World of Warcraft, but a million users isn't something to sneeze at.
Disabling Java in IE9:
Tools->Manage Addons->Click Java Plugin->Select Disable from Menu
The nearest X to me at some particular time may not be the one closest to my route from A to B. To use my example of going from Philadelphi to DC, if I search for the Nearest Starbucks at the start of the trip, it'll have me go a few miles in the wrong direction, adding maybe half an hour to my trip, when I really want to stop at the one at the first rest stop on I-95S, 90 minutes away.
So you have to give your car a advance schedule or everywhere you plan to go and deviating from that schedule risks leaving you stranded?
Oh yeah, this system combines all the inconvenience of public transportation with all the expense of owning a car. I'm sure it will work great!
That's not what this commenter is saying. Suppose I'm driving from Phildelphia to Washington, DC and I want to stop at a Starbucks for coffee. If I know in advance which specific Starbucks I want to go to, I can use a waypoint. But if I don't care which of the several dozen Starbucks between here and there it is (I just want to minimize the necessary detour), waypoints aren't any help.
That won't happen actually. If there was ever full proof speeding detection, people would stop speeding, costing the government revenue. Any operational speeding detection system will miss 90% of the occurences so that people keep speeding and paying occasional tickets.
And now apparently free as in unpaid overtime.
Uggh, I hate the neo-puritan attitude that every second of life needs to be sent doing something "useful" and that anything done purely for happiness is evil.
Blizzard has also repeatedly screwed players who were interested in going through the game slowly to enjoy the story rather than just rushing to level cap as quickly as possible. I didn't have access to broadband internet until long after WoW began, so I didn't get into it until about three years in. I made a descision to work my way through all the original content because I wanted to appreciate the story. Right as I was getting to the original end game dungeons and raids, Cata launched and the stuff I was actually doing at that momment was all ripped out of the game. Even the stuff that's left has been fragmented. For example, one of the major plot points in Wrath of the Lich King, the Undercity events after the Wrath Gate, is gone.
Now I'm basically stuck with the last few chapters of a book I haven't read. I could just pick up with the remaining bits, but I have trouble making the effort to figure out a story that I have no real way of understanding at this point, and which the authors apparently don't consider worth preserving in any form. Meanwhile, the stuff that's left makes absolutely no sense. The current state of the game has characters inexplicably jumping backward and forward in time for no reason, dungeons have been completely ripped out of story context, the big bad is essentially a giant space flea from nowhere (and yes, I know Deathwing was in Warcraft II, but the WCII version really has very little in common with the current one).
Meanwhile, I'm looking at the stuff GW2 puts out, and it seems like they deeply care about telling a story, so I increasingly find myself looking forward to that.
Yeah, that worked great the last time we tried it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act
The CBO assumed discretionary spending will grow at the rate of inflation. S&P assumed it grows with GDP. Both of these are perfectly valid assumptions (if any complaint is to be made, they're both too optimistic since historically the growth in discretionary spending has far exceeded both measures); a legitimate alternate choice of economic models is not an error. This is the Obama administrations typical "all reasonable experts agree" tactic of painting legitimate differences in opinion as disengenuous.
As for S&P's "acknowledgement", it was more along the lines of "we just reported your long term unfunded obligations are $211 trillion and you lack the political will or ability to do anything about it. And you want to have an argument over whether it's really $211 trillion or $209 trillion? If it's that improtant to you, we'll use your numbers, but you're completely missing the point here."
The colony will be perfectly fine. Most genetic mutations are spontaneous, caused by defects in the molecular transcription processes. And even among induced mutations, there's plenty of chemical or biological agents in the environment that do more damage than ionizing radiation.
By "UK", I assume they mean "bond investors in the UK", not "the UK government".
It's going to be hard for the prosecuter to prove "intent to embarass", given that the Renton Police Department apparently has absolutely no sense of shame.
...the whole supply/demand thing.
"which will reduce fuel consumption by 40% and carbon emissions by 50%"
No, it won't. If anything has been shown the last few years, it's that the amount of driving people do varies widely with the cost of operating a car. Gas gets more expensive, people drive less. Gas gets cheaper, people drive more.
Making cars radically more fuel efficient may reduce the fuel consumed per mile by about 40%, but total consumption may not drop significantly and could even go up (Cars now are far more efficient than in the 1950s. Has our gas consumption dropped at all?)
Even legal name doesn't distinguish what Google wants. There are a number of ways you can legally use pseudonyms to operate within the legal sphere, even to the point of suing someone under a pseudonym (the most famous probably being the Roe v. Wade abortion case, where Jane Roe was a pseudonym for Norma McCorvey).
Or better yet, how much sales tax has Slate paid on it's ad revenue? Sauce for the goose...
And suddenly this story from 2002 finally makes sense:
US activists demand lawyers for chimps