Well, if we make your example into something more sensible:
Say you walk into stores and threaten to sue them for $8000 if they don't pay you the $3000...
Then there's nothing really wrong with that. You're not really exerting any undue influence or behaving unconscionably - just exercising your right to file suit. If you genuinely believe that the suit has merit (as the RIAA does), then them signing the contract as a genuine compromise is legal and really quite commonplace.
I don't really see the problem with this.
The only strings in contracts are the those that you agree to. Personally, the difference between what it is possible for me to earn (as a law student) and what is necessary to live within an acceptable distance to my university is entirely funded by the government. To refuse to accept that money out of principle is absurd.
Actually, you have my pity because of the attitude your father has instilled in you. There has to come a point on the road to success where you need other people to help you, even if it's just taking their or someone else's money. Hard work and so forth may limit the necessity, but it will never completely erase it.
You might wanna take a look-see at some of the mods that are available for Oblivion. I like Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul for the balancing it does in terms of levelling. The aim is to create a more static game world that provides definite rewards for pushing your characters to higher levels and better skills, and all in all, it succeeds.
Seconded. It's the process of formal tertiary education that's important - it forces you to think in a particular way and then to work hard at doing it that way.
My father is a professional builder. I have spent a lot of time working with him in a capacity similar to an apprentice carpenter. I've done OH&S courses, seen the results of idiocy like that which you're espousing and I tell you this: There's nothing manly about losing fingers. The guards are there for a reason. If you can honestly show me a carpenter that can work more EFFICIENTLY sans safety, which means factoring in the increased risk, I'll believe it. But I don't like your chances.
Seconded. I always think that studying the night before is hilarious redundant. I personally enjoy killing a few brain cells playing computer games, but your mileage may vary.
Yup, you can be carded (16+) before you can buy spray paint. I've been refused in the past when Dad sent me to buy black spraypaint for a building job.
No. But Jet Set Radio was far cuter... the action was deliberately cartoonish and hence rather unreal and irrelevant. Thus, there's no "promotion" of graffiti or violence, and the game was classified as M.
The point is that your "freedom of speech" means even less than what we Australians enjoy. It's hedged by laws which interpret it, and moreover, judge when your constitutional right is less important than the 'protection of the nation'. How much does your right to free speech mean when it's easy enough to get around it and charge you for trespass, or sedition, or inciting hatred, and so on. Australia, at least, does not pretend to grant something which it knows that it does not possess.
This is wrong. The High Court has interpreted sections of the Constitution related to the right to democractically elect a government to mean freedom of speech and expression. I'll take that over a country where someone wearing a t-shirt advocating peace is arrested in a shopping centre.
It plays chess as well as you'd expect an extensively modified spam filter to - mediocre, with the occasional flash of insight. It might be interesting to feed it a greater amount of games in the hope of obtaining more sophisticated sequences, but ultimately the skill will be undermined by the nature of the program. Still interesting...
That efficiency includes the actual release of the energy - i.e. the nuclear reaction actually occuring before the entire weapon completely vapourises. Which is what I was referring to, apologies for confusion
Quote: "The most efficient pure fission bomb would still only consume 20% of its fissile material before being blown apart"
In fact, even the most modern thermonuclear devices have an efficiency ratio of "only" 20% or so. The "Fat Man" bomb dropped on Hiroshima (?) in WWII had a ratio of only 1.4%. It only looks amazing because it's all released at the same instant.
Out of interest, does anyone know how many unique visitors slashdot is currently getting per day? I think there's some figures tucked away in the info pages, but I remember them being rather out of date.
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Well, if we make your example into something more sensible: Say you walk into stores and threaten to sue them for $8000 if they don't pay you the $3000... Then there's nothing really wrong with that. You're not really exerting any undue influence or behaving unconscionably - just exercising your right to file suit. If you genuinely believe that the suit has merit (as the RIAA does), then them signing the contract as a genuine compromise is legal and really quite commonplace. I don't really see the problem with this.
The only strings in contracts are the those that you agree to. Personally, the difference between what it is possible for me to earn (as a law student) and what is necessary to live within an acceptable distance to my university is entirely funded by the government. To refuse to accept that money out of principle is absurd.
Actually, you have my pity because of the attitude your father has instilled in you. There has to come a point on the road to success where you need other people to help you, even if it's just taking their or someone else's money. Hard work and so forth may limit the necessity, but it will never completely erase it.
You might wanna take a look-see at some of the mods that are available for Oblivion. I like Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul for the balancing it does in terms of levelling. The aim is to create a more static game world that provides definite rewards for pushing your characters to higher levels and better skills, and all in all, it succeeds.
I have no idea where the poster lives, but you seem to live in a country without a sense of humour.
Godwin's law - you lose.
What's difficult to understand? You work for a client. The lawyers aren't to blame - they simply facilitate.
Seconded. It's the process of formal tertiary education that's important - it forces you to think in a particular way and then to work hard at doing it that way.
My father is a professional builder. I have spent a lot of time working with him in a capacity similar to an apprentice carpenter. I've done OH&S courses, seen the results of idiocy like that which you're espousing and I tell you this: There's nothing manly about losing fingers. The guards are there for a reason. If you can honestly show me a carpenter that can work more EFFICIENTLY sans safety, which means factoring in the increased risk, I'll believe it. But I don't like your chances.
Seconded. I always think that studying the night before is hilarious redundant. I personally enjoy killing a few brain cells playing computer games, but your mileage may vary.
Yup, you can be carded (16+) before you can buy spray paint. I've been refused in the past when Dad sent me to buy black spraypaint for a building job.
No. But Jet Set Radio was far cuter... the action was deliberately cartoonish and hence rather unreal and irrelevant. Thus, there's no "promotion" of graffiti or violence, and the game was classified as M.
Just as well you've got all those constitutional freedoms, eh guys? The sadder thing is that in the current climate, Australia will be the next to go.
30 months? Nothing the slashdot crowd ain't used to, then
The point is that your "freedom of speech" means even less than what we Australians enjoy. It's hedged by laws which interpret it, and moreover, judge when your constitutional right is less important than the 'protection of the nation'. How much does your right to free speech mean when it's easy enough to get around it and charge you for trespass, or sedition, or inciting hatred, and so on. Australia, at least, does not pretend to grant something which it knows that it does not possess.
This is wrong. The High Court has interpreted sections of the Constitution related to the right to democractically elect a government to mean freedom of speech and expression. I'll take that over a country where someone wearing a t-shirt advocating peace is arrested in a shopping centre.
Please don't let me be the only one who saw the title and immediately though Counterstrike: Source...
Vapourware!
This is 'straya, mate. We don't got none of those nukelear fings, we stick wit good ol fashioned hose er down, no worries mate! option.
In other news, is there anything left that city/staterail can't screw up?
It plays chess as well as you'd expect an extensively modified spam filter to - mediocre, with the occasional flash of insight. It might be interesting to feed it a greater amount of games in the hope of obtaining more sophisticated sequences, but ultimately the skill will be undermined by the nature of the program. Still interesting...
That efficiency includes the actual release of the energy - i.e. the nuclear reaction actually occuring before the entire weapon completely vapourises. Which is what I was referring to, apologies for confusion
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Quote: "The most efficient pure fission bomb would still only consume 20% of its fissile material before being blown apart"
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_desig
In fact, even the most modern thermonuclear devices have an efficiency ratio of "only" 20% or so. The "Fat Man" bomb dropped on Hiroshima (?) in WWII had a ratio of only 1.4%. It only looks amazing because it's all released at the same instant.
But it isn't obvious to the common users, nor is it an easy or efficient method of doing so. The winamp plug-in solves both problems.
Out of interest, does anyone know how many unique visitors slashdot is currently getting per day? I think there's some figures tucked away in the info pages, but I remember them being rather out of date.
Frenzal Rhomb (Australian punk band) summarised Russell Crowe's involvement in music nicely -
"At least we know that Russell Crowe's band is a fucking pile of shit".
If this is what iTunes Australia is offering, count me out.
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