Bitcoin doesn't have any value. It's an economic in-joke along the lines of the great spaghetti monster. Some folk simply choose either to believe, or appear to believe. They're not hurting anyone, so best to leave them to it.
There's a company called Nautilus Minerals that's developing technology to mine copper sulphide deposits 1600m under the sea and 30km off-shore. They're probably a good 2-3 years away from pulling that off commercially. I suspect that a lot of the remote controlled, hostile environment mobile drilling platform technologies they're working on would be compatible with exactly the sort of moon operation you envisage. If you check out their website, there are some cool underwater shots under the mediakit tab.
I watched an Open University TV show that showed this using a computer simulation, oh about 30 years ago, but rather than describe it as altruism, they approached it from the other direction and showed that being an asshole in a group made you suffer relative to the rest.
If everybody was constantly under surveillance would crime go up or down? vs If everybody was constantly unsupervised and allowed to keep all their movements secret, didn't have to answer questions they didn't want to or submit any of their biometric data to the authorities would crime go up or down? Of course when they outlaw privacy, only the outlaws will HAVE privacy. But on the downside the outlaws won't have iPhones or GPS or Facebook accounts, so they won't be COOL. Swings and roundabouts, my friend, swings and roundabouts...
If by "representing" you mean "hyping" or "forcing down our throat" then I would have to agree with you. There was a time when musicians survived without the machinery of promotion behind them and achieved success through talent. There were more local stars and far fewer global ones. We're probably going to end up back at that situation and the "music industry" will be seen as an angry pimple on the timeline.
I wonder if that two year backlog is typical, and will sales of ebooks hit a dip when people realise they're buying more books than they can read. OTOH I have about a hundred paperbacks I'm waiting to get around to so I guess this is just the same thing but e-.
I think the crux of the article is that Amazon are getting disreputable less quickly than most other large companies. The headline should read, "Amazon Losing Race To Be Least Ethical".
Even given the above, I doubt this is something the government should do. The UK is planning to decrease its structural deficit over the next few years. If were going to fund tax breaks, why do it for games developement and not pharma, military hardware, automotives, medical equipment etc? People argue for their own interests (news at 11), the point of a democratic republic is that representatives of the people, who have the time and ability, to look at the bigger picture decide what is really important.
Oh, lots of points. Firstly the UK is still a contender in the games industry, and the games industry has potential for growth that few other industries offer and the jobs in it tend to be the knowledge-based, high value ones the govt favours. The availability of jobs, however, is extremely limited and, as we have seen, the profits can easily be off-shored.
There's very little incentive to the government to give the games industry a break because, and now we're getting to your second point, all those other industries - pharma, military, medical etc - have figured out how to minimize their tax bill without screaming for tax breaks and they did it the old fashioned way by lobbying in private.
In the current economic climate it doesn't really make much sense as a profitable industry to be asking to pay less tax when other businesses are shedding jobs like Jack Russell hair and if the coalition had given them attractive tax breaks the opposition would have crucified the govt over it at a time when senior police are being let go because of cuts. It shows how disorganized and still wet behind the ears the UK games industry is. If they want to be taken seriously they need to get organized.
Um, if you "buy" a house and it costs, say, 200k with 40k down and the rest mortgaged, you have a 200k asset and a 160k to pay off. So you have a 40k asset right? No. Over 25-30 years it'll cost you around 320k to pay off that 160k, or some other multiple of 160k depending on how fast you pay it off, what the terms of the mortgage is and the interest rate etc. etc.
Hmmm. That would make you an evolutionary dead-end.
I'm all for technology empowering folk and making the extraordinary ordinary.
If you're a tech writer or worker and you suffer from some of these too minimal to care disorders, maybe you should bite the bullet and ask for special circumstances from your employer.
The rest of us, the majority... we live in perpetual Twilight. We don't need sunlight to wake us, or moonlight to send us asleep. We sleep when we're tired and wake up when we have to.
Pass. I downloaded it last month to avoid paying about two grand to Autocad for their latest lite version. It's decent but they would need to improve the block library for me to really love it. It's pretty much an Autocad clone if you're a serious keyboard shortcut user but the look and feel isn't quite there. For free, it's astounding.
Bob Crow, head of the Transport Workers union in the UK, was being interviewed by David Mitchell, of Peep Show fame, and suggested that there should be a 1p charge on all emails being sent as a way to cut the UK deficit. Now the idea was treated with mild scorn by Mitchell and everybody laughed at it, but if it means we could pay for a few more nurses and it stops people sending me links to cat videos then I'm broadly in favour.
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Thanks! Funniest run of comments I've read for a while. Hail Eris!
Bitcoin doesn't have any value. It's an economic in-joke along the lines of the great spaghetti monster. Some folk simply choose either to believe, or appear to believe. They're not hurting anyone, so best to leave them to it.
Basically. Gabe invented what bar owners have known for centuries.
There's a company called Nautilus Minerals that's developing technology to mine copper sulphide deposits 1600m under the sea and 30km off-shore. They're probably a good 2-3 years away from pulling that off commercially. I suspect that a lot of the remote controlled, hostile environment mobile drilling platform technologies they're working on would be compatible with exactly the sort of moon operation you envisage. If you check out their website, there are some cool underwater shots under the mediakit tab.
I watched an Open University TV show that showed this using a computer simulation, oh about 30 years ago, but rather than describe it as altruism, they approached it from the other direction and showed that being an asshole in a group made you suffer relative to the rest.
If everybody was constantly under surveillance would crime go up or down? vs If everybody was constantly unsupervised and allowed to keep all their movements secret, didn't have to answer questions they didn't want to or submit any of their biometric data to the authorities would crime go up or down? Of course when they outlaw privacy, only the outlaws will HAVE privacy. But on the downside the outlaws won't have iPhones or GPS or Facebook accounts, so they won't be COOL. Swings and roundabouts, my friend, swings and roundabouts...
It's not the marketing hype that garners resentment. It's the fact that, for some incredible reason, many Apple fans actually believe that hype.
It's kinda how normal people feel about Fox news viewers.
Yeah, It's like that but somebody gives a crap.
If by "representing" you mean "hyping" or "forcing down our throat" then I would have to agree with you. There was a time when musicians survived without the machinery of promotion behind them and achieved success through talent. There were more local stars and far fewer global ones. We're probably going to end up back at that situation and the "music industry" will be seen as an angry pimple on the timeline.
I wonder if that two year backlog is typical, and will sales of ebooks hit a dip when people realise they're buying more books than they can read. OTOH I have about a hundred paperbacks I'm waiting to get around to so I guess this is just the same thing but e-.
Big reason to have an Android tablet - portable cam-girls. God bless'em.
I think the crux of the article is that Amazon are getting disreputable less quickly than most other large companies. The headline should read, "Amazon Losing Race To Be Least Ethical".
Speaking of which, why no 3D first-person Joust? You'd think...
You never played Mount and Blade?
Even given the above, I doubt this is something the government should do. The UK is planning to decrease its structural deficit over the next few years. If were going to fund tax breaks, why do it for games developement and not pharma, military hardware, automotives, medical equipment etc? People argue for their own interests (news at 11), the point of a democratic republic is that representatives of the people, who have the time and ability, to look at the bigger picture decide what is really important.
Oh, lots of points. Firstly the UK is still a contender in the games industry, and the games industry has potential for growth that few other industries offer and the jobs in it tend to be the knowledge-based, high value ones the govt favours. The availability of jobs, however, is extremely limited and, as we have seen, the profits can easily be off-shored.
There's very little incentive to the government to give the games industry a break because, and now we're getting to your second point, all those other industries - pharma, military, medical etc - have figured out how to minimize their tax bill without screaming for tax breaks and they did it the old fashioned way by lobbying in private.
In the current economic climate it doesn't really make much sense as a profitable industry to be asking to pay less tax when other businesses are shedding jobs like Jack Russell hair and if the coalition had given them attractive tax breaks the opposition would have crucified the govt over it at a time when senior police are being let go because of cuts. It shows how disorganized and still wet behind the ears the UK games industry is. If they want to be taken seriously they need to get organized.
Comas have a purpose.
They use them in hospitals to keep the patient out of the way until the body has got a bit better.
Or until someone clicks the Buy it Now button for their organs on eBay.
The reason is... because they aren't focussing on mobile yet. Now they are they will stomp it into submission. No ifs, just whens.
Finally my rudimentary knowledge of Irish comes into play.. or is this the German or Spanish meaning of the word? Oh, poo.
(imo .. who the heck writes fiction in present-tense?!?)
One section of Jeff Vandermeer's "Veniss Underground" was written in second person present tense, but he's a genius.
Um, if you "buy" a house and it costs, say, 200k with 40k down and the rest mortgaged, you have a 200k asset and a 160k to pay off. So you have a 40k asset right? No. Over 25-30 years it'll cost you around 320k to pay off that 160k, or some other multiple of 160k depending on how fast you pay it off, what the terms of the mortgage is and the interest rate etc. etc.
Tell it like it is, brother. I find that with money it pays to make your own, that way you know EXACTLY what goes into it.
And suddenly I lost all interest in the project.
Can't wait to hear the answer to this.
I think it isn't a health issue. I think it's a wah issue. As in... "Wahhhhh!"
Baby.
Hmmm. That would make you an evolutionary dead-end.
I'm all for technology empowering folk and making the extraordinary ordinary.
If you're a tech writer or worker and you suffer from some of these too minimal to care disorders, maybe you should bite the bullet and ask for special circumstances from your employer.
The rest of us, the majority... we live in perpetual Twilight. We don't need sunlight to wake us, or moonlight to send us asleep. We sleep when we're tired and wake up when we have to.
Evolution is a bitch. Get better or die trying.
Pass. I downloaded it last month to avoid paying about two grand to Autocad for their latest lite version. It's decent but they would need to improve the block library for me to really love it. It's pretty much an Autocad clone if you're a serious keyboard shortcut user but the look and feel isn't quite there. For free, it's astounding.
Bob Crow, head of the Transport Workers union in the UK, was being interviewed by David Mitchell, of Peep Show fame, and suggested that there should be a 1p charge on all emails being sent as a way to cut the UK deficit. Now the idea was treated with mild scorn by Mitchell and everybody laughed at it, but if it means we could pay for a few more nurses and it stops people sending me links to cat videos then I'm broadly in favour.