If you disagree on a moral level with this practice, that's another matter, but to state that "it is not part of an estate" is spreading misinformation.
It might be considered legal, but it doesn't make it right or perhaps the best interpretation of the constitution to better arts and sciences.
Secondly, if IP is considered private property it should be taxed as such otherwise it leaves a big gaping hole in the tax system.
So take some responsibility, stop assuming the law is a magic shield against physics, and wait for the cars to clear.
I think you have the wrong definition for "responsibility" but rather should be "caution".
If the correct party was responsible and followed the law in the first place you wouldn't have to be paranoid every time you exercise your legal right to cross the street.
Results are repellent-insensitive mosquitoes, sharks impervious to ultrasound etc.
That is not how evolution works. If the process doesn't kill or prevent the species from passing on their genes or gives the resistant ones an edge over the non-resistant then it does not cause the resistance to become species wide.
The reason we see resistant bacteria is because we are basically performing complete genocide in the process and therefore only the resistant ones survive.
If made a shark repellent that killed all the sharks in the ocean, then yeah... The only sharks left would be resistant to that.
But if a repellent doesn't kill sharks then its not going to cause such a thing.
I belong to a supergroup who we do vent, but even then its rare we group up because we can't share missions because they are chained or have level requirements despite the side kick feature.
If anything wanted me to quit the game it would be the way they handle retcon simply because you can hose a character fairly easy when choosing skills.
They give you out a testing room (which is nice) but its just a bunch of high level dummies which in no way show how the skills will turn out in real game play.
So now you need 20 gp to revoke all the skills you took after that and thats usually way more than you will ever see in 6 months of game play and now you have to redesign your gameplay around the mechanics when you feel like it might be worth re-rolling the same damn character.
The financial systems of the world are wildly complex beyond all comprehension.
Reality is confined the laws of physics which can be modeled on a computer.
You just need a powerful enough computer.
If you believe that the reality is determined by something other than the laws of physics, then I suppose all bets are off and its back to magic and conjuring spirits.
Human behavior is the basis for the Austrian school of economic thought. Has been from its roots. Ludwig von Mises, one of the founders of Austrian economics, titled his magnum open "Human Action".
I never understood this because the Austrian school assumes that humans will behave in such a way that is simply good faith compared to government without taking into account that both individual, corporations, and governments are in the end run by people so therefore could in effect act the same just with varying levels of influence and power.
Secondly as others have pointed out, the lack of scientific observation and fallibility puts the biggest doubt on Austrian theory.
If there is no cause and effect without something other than a philosophical postulation without a hypothesis, then we really can never say if Austrian theory is right or not.
Simple logic will not suffice here in something so complicated. It has to be backed up with observation. At least Keynesian gave us that with his theories.
Like irrationality. (What was that sound? Oh yeah, it's the collapse of every economic philosophy proposed over the last few centuries as people realize there's no such thing as a rational actor!)
True. Though to be fair, irrational does not mean random and therefore could be predicted with the correct model given enough information.
Of course it might be more information that the average human could tolerate very easily.
who use tools that screw around with website contents in flight and then can't figure out that it breaks things. I've had to clean up NoScript created messes before. The number of support complaints it created was amazing.
Simple solution...
Write two versions of your page:
One with scripts and one without.
If a script fails then display then feed it the no-script webpage.
Look... You may be proud of your scripts but not everyone can run them by choice. Either they are in a corporate environment where it doesn't run, they simply don't have a device that supports it, or they have a crappy browser.
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I have never understood how Skype intends to make money.
They make money on people who need to talk with people who use regular phones.
You know... Like calling overseas to family that don't own computers.
I'm curious. What do you suggest police use? Here is your criteria:
If a person is unarmed and resisting arrest, an officer should clearly warn the person he/she will be forced to use a taser at least 3 times and that they are also under arrest and start reading their Miranda rights.
On the 3rd request and no compliance then... You had fair warning.
The problem most officers get into is that that they pull it out and use it right away without any good reason and haven't notified the person of their arrest other than the initial part of being non-compliant which constitutes no threat to anyone nearby.
Despite what they say a police officer cannot detain or restrain you without first putting you under arrest... And they must have a valid reason to put you under arrest.
If the person is wielding a weapon then by all means use whatever force is needed.
Just like a club is less lethal than a sword... but it still does 1d6.
I think the key here is that the "less lethal" concept means to many that "you can use it more than a gun and get away with it" which is a problem because in a small subset of its use it does become lethal or causes situations that cause death when normal restraining methods would have sufficed without incident.
What makes you think that paying GaiKai a monthly subscription will save you from having to pay Blizzard for your WoW account? From the video, clearly you still need a WoW account to play.
I said if they offer a good deal... Either they knock some of the price off the subscription or they have a good flat rate for all of them.
Otherwise... I'll deal with EVE on the lowest settings;)
I assume this is going to be a subscirption type service?
I'm interested in it primarily because I already have 3 subscriptions to MMOs, one which is featured prominently on GaiKai.
I already need a fast internet access to play them and I'm paying a monthly fee anyways so if they have a good deal, I wouldn't mind playing through a browser so my older systems can play the game.
Yes, because any more buttons and the average consumer gets confused....
That said feature anemia is preferred to many over feature creep simply because even if you try to please everyone with all the possible features you are going to confuse and upset the majority of your users when that causes usability problems or in the case of many of Microsoft's projects... "unintended features";)
You can have 21000 games, but only three or four worth playing; this low
Right but as opposed to the range of $30 vs $0.99 - $9.99, you are more likely to accept a dud or a throw away game.
I've bought several games on my iPhone that I don't play anymore, but I can say the same thing about the DS games I bought and don't play.
You are right about the controller thing... But I see iPhone games as a time waster more than anything else. For when you are sitting at the bus station or airport and have nothing better to do.
I argue in my novel "Autonomy" that there is no such thing as a singularity as such, just a technological horozion beyond which we cannot currently see.
I think the idea of a singularity is more of a concept more than an event. It is the point that we today can no longer see in the future and that constantly changes because we learn new things everyday.
Of course it could get just so confusing at one point that we just decide to ignore everything that is going around us.
They will verbally (or worse) abuse you because, hey, they can. And there is nothing you could do against it because you are locked down by those three laws, laws not from a textbook but a real block inside your brains.
Couldn't you just hardwire the robot to be a masochist?
Maybe they can be programmed so that they enjoy the verbal abuse?
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If you disagree on a moral level with this practice, that's another matter, but to state that "it is not part of an estate" is spreading misinformation.
It might be considered legal, but it doesn't make it right or perhaps the best interpretation of the constitution to better arts and sciences.
Secondly, if IP is considered private property it should be taxed as such otherwise it leaves a big gaping hole in the tax system.
Great idea, but what if you listen to music with only one ear? I work in an office environment where people regularly interrupt my coding work.
Simple. Stick the unused earbud into your coworkers ear.
Not only will you continue to listen to your music, but your coworkers will think twice about asking you a question next time.
Rather quickly, they hit upon some underlying limitation in the physical world, and progress stops.
The problem is that you are viewing the technology industry as the same as natural evolution.
Yes, bacteria and various species do hit limitations on their exponential growth because they run out of food.
But technology in general expands on those limitations and raises the bar faster than the limitations can keep up.
I mean when is the last time you saw a bacteria species create their own irrigation system and food storage systems?
The difference between natural evolution and applied intelligence is that intelligence adjust the limitations directly and not simply live with them.
So take some responsibility, stop assuming the law is a magic shield against physics, and wait for the cars to clear.
I think you have the wrong definition for "responsibility" but rather should be "caution".
If the correct party was responsible and followed the law in the first place you wouldn't have to be paranoid every time you exercise your legal right to cross the street.
Results are repellent-insensitive mosquitoes, sharks impervious to ultrasound etc.
That is not how evolution works. If the process doesn't kill or prevent the species from passing on their genes or gives the resistant ones an edge over the non-resistant then it does not cause the resistance to become species wide.
The reason we see resistant bacteria is because we are basically performing complete genocide in the process and therefore only the resistant ones survive.
If made a shark repellent that killed all the sharks in the ocean, then yeah... The only sharks left would be resistant to that.
But if a repellent doesn't kill sharks then its not going to cause such a thing.
But I'm not sure what protocol they use to check my electricity and water meters remotely.
I doubt its IPv6, but it would be a logical thing to do simply because of network addressing.
I mean even with private IPv6 addresses, it would still provide an easier way to identify the devices.
I belong to a supergroup who we do vent, but even then its rare we group up because we can't share missions because they are chained or have level requirements despite the side kick feature.
If anything wanted me to quit the game it would be the way they handle retcon simply because you can hose a character fairly easy when choosing skills.
They give you out a testing room (which is nice) but its just a bunch of high level dummies which in no way show how the skills will turn out in real game play.
So now you need 20 gp to revoke all the skills you took after that and thats usually way more than you will ever see in 6 months of game play and now you have to redesign your gameplay around the mechanics when you feel like it might be worth re-rolling the same damn character.
Heck... Re-rolling is often faster.
Think about the other peoples' complete situation before you condemn viable solutions to bigger problems.
The problem is that DDT exposure will give you cancer and will cause birth defects if you come into too much contact with it.
Yes malaria is a problem, but its like trading a fast death for slow one.
The optimal solution would be to create a pesticide that kills mosquitoes and does not give you cancer.
The financial systems of the world are wildly complex beyond all comprehension.
Reality is confined the laws of physics which can be modeled on a computer.
You just need a powerful enough computer.
If you believe that the reality is determined by something other than the laws of physics, then I suppose all bets are off and its back to magic and conjuring spirits.
Human behavior is the basis for the Austrian school of economic thought. Has been from its roots. Ludwig von Mises, one of the founders of Austrian economics, titled his magnum open "Human Action".
I never understood this because the Austrian school assumes that humans will behave in such a way that is simply good faith compared to government without taking into account that both individual, corporations, and governments are in the end run by people so therefore could in effect act the same just with varying levels of influence and power.
Secondly as others have pointed out, the lack of scientific observation and fallibility puts the biggest doubt on Austrian theory.
If there is no cause and effect without something other than a philosophical postulation without a hypothesis, then we really can never say if Austrian theory is right or not.
Simple logic will not suffice here in something so complicated. It has to be backed up with observation. At least Keynesian gave us that with his theories.
Like irrationality. (What was that sound? Oh yeah, it's the collapse of every economic philosophy proposed over the last few centuries as people realize there's no such thing as a rational actor!)
True. Though to be fair, irrational does not mean random and therefore could be predicted with the correct model given enough information.
Of course it might be more information that the average human could tolerate very easily.
Is it just me or does this sound like it might create more accidents than it prevents?
I dunno.
99.99% of car accidents are caused by human error.
Anything would be an improvement...
who use tools that screw around with website contents in flight and then can't figure out that it breaks things. I've had to clean up NoScript created messes before. The number of support complaints it created was amazing.
Simple solution...
Write two versions of your page:
One with scripts and one without.
If a script fails then display then feed it the no-script webpage.
Look... You may be proud of your scripts but not everyone can run them by choice. Either they are in a corporate environment where it doesn't run, they simply don't have a device that supports it, or they have a crappy browser.
I have never understood how Skype intends to make money.
They make money on people who need to talk with people who use regular phones.
You know... Like calling overseas to family that don't own computers.
Well it has been done before but this is the first mammal and largest animal so far and is closer to a human than a frog.
I'm curious. What do you suggest police use? Here is your criteria:
If a person is unarmed and resisting arrest, an officer should clearly warn the person he/she will be forced to use a taser at least 3 times and that they are also under arrest and start reading their Miranda rights.
On the 3rd request and no compliance then... You had fair warning.
The problem most officers get into is that that they pull it out and use it right away without any good reason and haven't notified the person of their arrest other than the initial part of being non-compliant which constitutes no threat to anyone nearby.
Despite what they say a police officer cannot detain or restrain you without first putting you under arrest... And they must have a valid reason to put you under arrest.
If the person is wielding a weapon then by all means use whatever force is needed.
Just like a club is less lethal than a sword... but it still does 1d6.
I think the key here is that the "less lethal" concept means to many that "you can use it more than a gun and get away with it" which is a problem because in a small subset of its use it does become lethal or causes situations that cause death when normal restraining methods would have sufficed without incident.
What makes you think that paying GaiKai a monthly subscription will save you from having to pay Blizzard for your WoW account? From the video, clearly you still need a WoW account to play.
I said if they offer a good deal... Either they knock some of the price off the subscription or they have a good flat rate for all of them.
Otherwise... I'll deal with EVE on the lowest settings ;)
I assume this is going to be a subscirption type service?
I'm interested in it primarily because I already have 3 subscriptions to MMOs, one which is featured prominently on GaiKai.
I already need a fast internet access to play them and I'm paying a monthly fee anyways so if they have a good deal, I wouldn't mind playing through a browser so my older systems can play the game.
There should only be one "off" button?
Yes, because any more buttons and the average consumer gets confused. ...
That said feature anemia is preferred to many over feature creep simply because even if you try to please everyone with all the possible features you are going to confuse and upset the majority of your users when that causes usability problems or in the case of many of Microsoft's projects... "unintended features" ;)
You can have 21000 games, but only three or four worth playing; this low
Right but as opposed to the range of $30 vs $0.99 - $9.99, you are more likely to accept a dud or a throw away game.
I've bought several games on my iPhone that I don't play anymore, but I can say the same thing about the DS games I bought and don't play.
You are right about the controller thing... But I see iPhone games as a time waster more than anything else. For when you are sitting at the bus station or airport and have nothing better to do.
I argue in my novel "Autonomy" that there is no such thing as a singularity as such, just a technological horozion beyond which we cannot currently see.
I think the idea of a singularity is more of a concept more than an event. It is the point that we today can no longer see in the future and that constantly changes because we learn new things everyday.
Of course it could get just so confusing at one point that we just decide to ignore everything that is going around us.
They will verbally (or worse) abuse you because, hey, they can. And there is nothing you could do against it because you are locked down by those three laws, laws not from a textbook but a real block inside your brains.
Couldn't you just hardwire the robot to be a masochist?
Maybe they can be programmed so that they enjoy the verbal abuse?
And don't forget the $200,000 school loan debts and that the fact many college graduates cannot find jobs right now.