In what way would a SL version of a XYZ be better than the standard internet presence of XYZ. I can watch Videos on Youtube, I can read articles on all websites. No one really need a virtual 3D environment for that. I don't need to see the books I shop at amazon.com in 3D. Where is the benefit of using SL (If you want to present a new car in a webshop use a flash plugin to enable a 360 degree view.)? How can watching a video or reading an article be better in SL than on a standard website?
For one, interaction with the object. You could manipulate the widget and potentially see how it works/what it does. (pseudo)Human interaction is also a plus. You can BS and discuss the product with other customers around you and interact with sales-folk if the need be.
There are plenty of things a 3D world can do better than the Web. I agree with some of your sentiment though, sometimes a plain Web site is a better solution, just not always.
No, it's not. America using American resources will always be better than using foreign sources. If OPEC lowers production, then prices WILL stay high... but America won't be importing as much and the high prices will continue to keep demand low.
I'd argue that we should wait as long as possible before tapping into the last of our resources. Considering the fact that we'll need oil-based fossil fuels for quite some time, and 'peak oil' is either here or coming in the next 25 years or so... Why not wait for when the oil wars start so we'll guarantee that we, and our allies have an ample supply to survive.
I'd also argue that this is the reason why the US hasn't released anything from the reserve in quite some time.
Just passing a law opening up ANWAR and off-shore drilling in the US would be enough to pop this oil bubble. The simple idea of flooding the market with more supply, regardless of OPEC's reaction, will bring oil costs back into line.
Earlier in your post you argued directly against that and agreed with the GP that OPEC would probably just adjust supply to price fix oil. Futures market investors, especially in energy, keep a pretty good awareness of the market. They know what to expect(and how to manipulate it all) and will most likely not allow the prices to drop.
That's why I believe much more in state government. There should be some cities that allow drug use, nudism, etc.
I really like the ideal of state's rights and a small federal. However, in such a 'small' world where we can travel through so many localities so quickly, how is one to know the local law of where they happen to be at that moment?
This is why I support a balanced local, state, and fed. The fed can standardize laws across our great land. Regardless of whether or not I happen to like the laws, at least I can reasonably know the laws inside the locality I'm entering.
Pictures of naked women painted to look like cows (for example) are pretty darn weird. A lot of people are well within their rights to be freaked out by the existence of such pictures. They are exactly the sort of thing that makes someone squeamish.
Why did you use that as an example and why exactly would it make you squeamish? Not trolling, just curious. Doesn't sound exactly like a 4chan type thing.
Bias is a slippery beast. By its nature it is only visible in the opinions of others. Like how accents are "heard but not spoken".
I disagree on both of your examples. Are you saying you can not notice when something is biased, even when it supports your personal bias? It only takes a little bit of third party 'viewing' by yourself to notice this. Also, you've never heard anyone imitate a southern accent that was not from the south?
It's $10.20 (paper back) on Amazon.
or you can get it on line from the us army at Us.army.mil.
see FMI 3-07.22
The FAS has the 2004-2006 version posted here The one they have is FM 31-20-3 and it's not the Special Forces version of the manual.
Most of which, like the "shoe bomber", pretty much failed or fizzled out without the government's help. The US Government had nothing to do with stopping the 'shoe bomber'. It was passengers and flight attendants that did so.
That is what I thought too. I was hard pressed to find seven US Territories, incorporated or otherwise. Not just territories. He was speaking about 58 contests. Consider states with primaries and caucuses, US territories, and citizens overseas.
Manufacturers of small cheap trinkets had better be worried because their time is next.
It is the geek who needs to worry when the designer and engineer is driven out of business by the unlicensed replicator.
He can't sell service because his product is disposable.
He can't recruit talent outside his own craft because he has nothing to offer as payment in return.
He can't live on the proceeds of a live performance. The sale of tee shirts and coffee mugs - the little trinkets his fellow geeks have made so easy to pirate.
Okay by me. This is when you enter the Star Trek style world where money is irrelevant. The only thing worth anything would be complex/large items(i.e.cars, houses) and food.
Send me $10 and I'll tell you about the free ones. That's a steal! Now send me your name, address, and uhh... social security number so I can send that $10 right out.
I don't know what this means. Patents have been around for 200 years and progress hasn't slowed by anyone's account.
How could you possibly know this? Industrialization is younger then 200 years and normal 'inventionalism'(yeah, I pulled that out of my butt) never really started until then. There were the occasionally blacksmiths but nothing really all that interesting.
How could you possibly know that progress isn't moving slower because of patent law?
I may even like to bring up the booming asian bootleg market. Their level of innovation is skyrocketing by leaping off of other people's patentable ideas and improving them. That alone may be a good argument that patents are not helping innovation.
Apple sells an integrated system the sum of which is greater than it parts. When you buy a car, you get a whole vehicle.
Unless you're a car geek.
People are willing to spend money to get a complete working system. In the end that is cheaper than having to waste valuable time to periodically have to clean crapware off the system...
Unless you like spending time setting up a system exactly how you want it.
You should see why there are a bunch of folks on/. that don't like Macs. You can't tinker with them at all. No replacing hardware, no tweaking software, nothing. Apple's way or the highway.
And car companies that do that piss off car geeks to no end. If they can't work on their own car, there's no point.
So I'm sure people here can understand why 'normal' users may like macs but to us, they're garbage.
After all, the Nazi's and the Soviet's didn't need a DNA Database and Spy cameras to oppress their people. Oppression is a political issue, not a technological one.
Careful. These things are important to a police state. The Nazis had a family tree database(and thanks to IBM, they could process it faster), along with fingerprinting databases. And in place of spy cameras, they tricked people into spying on their neighbors or even family. Technology plays a big part in any organized oppression.
The "Best Western" hotel organization in the United States is a non-profit cooperative. The REI outdoor sporting goods stores are a non-profit cooperative that is nearly indistinguishable from a for-profit;[...]
Don't you mean a not-for-profit? Meaning, they're a corporation without the mission to make a profit for it's owners. I'd find it hard to believe that these two organizations are 501(c)3s.
Yup, I got it wrong - it was Kucinich who voted against both. I misread a blog post summarizing Obama's floor speech on Patriot Act. You're both right. Two reauthorizations were voted on. Once in '05, another in '07 and Obama voted Nay first and Yay later.
Yes, for the Nazis, citizens who were Communists, Communist sympathisers, and basically anyone who questioned Hitler's rule were enemies and they intentionally treated them as such. Nazi Germany was not a communist nation.
Funny though,IIRC the worst polluter we have for greenhouse gasses ISN'T cars and factories,as one would guess,but instead it is the methane created by the millions of cows we have bred farting their little brains out all over the planet.
... unless someone figures out how to do handbrake turns in a plane (the one in Hotshots doesn't count:p ) This is actually possible, atleast with a prop-plane. In that History Channel show 'Dogfights' I remember them featuring one guy who used it in battle.
Basically, you roll the plane to the side a little, and nail the rudder in the same direction. This will put the under belly against the direction of wind resistance which will slow you down pretty damn fast. Then you nose down to pick up speed and return to normal flight. Pretty slick move if you ask me.
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In what way would a SL version of a XYZ be better than the standard internet presence of XYZ. I can watch Videos on Youtube, I can read articles on all websites. No one really need a virtual 3D environment for that. I don't need to see the books I shop at amazon.com in 3D. Where is the benefit of using SL (If you want to present a new car in a webshop use a flash plugin to enable a 360 degree view.)? How can watching a video or reading an article be better in SL than on a standard website?
For one, interaction with the object. You could manipulate the widget and potentially see how it works/what it does. (pseudo)Human interaction is also a plus. You can BS and discuss the product with other customers around you and interact with sales-folk if the need be.
There are plenty of things a 3D world can do better than the Web. I agree with some of your sentiment though, sometimes a plain Web site is a better solution, just not always.
I'd also argue that this is the reason why the US hasn't released anything from the reserve in quite some time. Earlier in your post you argued directly against that and agreed with the GP that OPEC would probably just adjust supply to price fix oil. Futures market investors, especially in energy, keep a pretty good awareness of the market. They know what to expect(and how to manipulate it all) and will most likely not allow the prices to drop.
Group sex. Next!
New meaning to Cluster Fuck?This is why I support a balanced local, state, and fed. The fed can standardize laws across our great land. Regardless of whether or not I happen to like the laws, at least I can reasonably know the laws inside the locality I'm entering.
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hah Too good to be true.
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Though this isn't meant to take away from your comment, just to clarify.
It is the geek who needs to worry when the designer and engineer is driven out of business by the unlicensed replicator.
He can't sell service because his product is disposable.
He can't recruit talent outside his own craft because he has nothing to offer as payment in return.
He can't live on the proceeds of a live performance. The sale of tee shirts and coffee mugs - the little trinkets his fellow geeks have made so easy to pirate.
Okay by me. This is when you enter the Star Trek style world where money is irrelevant. The only thing worth anything would be complex/large items(i.e.cars, houses) and food.How could you possibly know that progress isn't moving slower because of patent law?
I may even like to bring up the booming asian bootleg market. Their level of innovation is skyrocketing by leaping off of other people's patentable ideas and improving them. That alone may be a good argument that patents are not helping innovation.
You should see why there are a bunch of folks on
And car companies that do that piss off car geeks to no end. If they can't work on their own car, there's no point.
So I'm sure people here can understand why 'normal' users may like macs but to us, they're garbage.
Thanks for clearing that up. I even work for a non-profit and don't know crap about this stuff.
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Power generation is THE worst poluter out there.
... unless someone figures out how to do handbrake turns in a plane (the one in Hotshots doesn't countBasically, you roll the plane to the side a little, and nail the rudder in the same direction. This will put the under belly against the direction of wind resistance which will slow you down pretty damn fast. Then you nose down to pick up speed and return to normal flight. Pretty slick move if you ask me.