is not correct. The whole USA Patriot Act is designed, and was lifted 99 percent from a prior Security document created, with the intention of restricting American's rights of privacy and actual personal security.
Just look at the sections on wiretapping and library records - those were not created after 9/11, they were created before 9/11.
So, most of the so-called unintended consequences are incorrectly said to be unintentional, but in actual creation they were intentional.
Just like we've been spying on your telephone calls since my days in the Army, from Yakima Firing Range in Eastern Washington State. You think you had security before, but I remember walking into rooms where people thought it was fun to put a call on speaker as they listened in to some poor sap's wife talking intimitately with him.
You mean walking talking cows and dragons aren't realistic?! You don't ride a flying gryphon to work every day?
Of course not, I walk to work. Sometimes I ride my blue flame skateboard, if it's sunny - sometimes I get on this large smoke-breathing dragon called a bus if it goes by as I'm walking...
but if you get flood insurance, I am paying for you to live in a coastal flood area.
for example, I live pretty darned close to the sea, it's only about one mile from my house, and you can canoe down to it from the canal that is two blocks from my house.
However, I'm about 100 feet above sea level, and not likely to be impacted by the sea change over the next century, since I live in the valley portion known as Fremont in the city of Seattle.
now, if I lived in Kent, you'd be paying for me to build in a volcanic stochastic mud flow plain, which is flooded with hot mud that burns buildings entire every 500 years or so - it went off about 510 years ago, so think about what that means, considering we've allowed people to move onto that in the last fifty years, and have no way to evacuate them.
exactly. a better method is to do something similar to what Will Wright does with his Sims games. he releases the basic game (Sims 2), then does add ons for each new feature set (Sims 2: University, Sims 2: Night Life, Sims 2: Open For Business), charging the customers who want those new features.
Then, at some point, they release a combined feature set, with all the bugfixes, at a reduced price.
Let's say Player A makes $100,000 a year, plays a game only 2 hours a week.
Let's say Player B makes $50,000 a year, plays a game 20 hours a week.
If Player A uses his/her additional resources (cash) to purchase the equivalent of the missing 18 hours a week that Player B spent to get the in-game resources (gold), and it only cost $50, is Player A:
a. smart; b. wise; c. getting way more sex than Player B; d. able to understand how real life works; or e. All Of The Above (TM)?
I think e.
Some might argue Player A is a meany p00p00head, but they obviously haven't thought much about option c, or are not able to capitalize on it.
A good game designer understands the personal and economic motivations of the players, and builds in play balance safeguards to handle them - things like Blank Slate Resets, Earthquakes (remove all stored items/locations above standard level), Floods (wash away any gold not already stored, as well as equipment, but leave character skills/etc).
A bad game designer rails against the predicability of humans, and obviously forgot to take basic Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology courses in college that would have taught them how the real world works.
I mean, WoW isn't that great, it's way less realistic than say Sims 2, where noone cares what your romantic gender preference is, or even if you're half-alien for that matter.
I'm sorry, but I'm far more worried about the racial slurs I keep hearing whenever I try to play a Blizzard game, and the anti-gay slurs as well.
Just because some people don't swear a lot - which I stopped doing before I made Sergeant in the Army - some people make assumptions about them that are totally lame.
i'm not going to do a google search for you, but if you want to just log in to ScienceDirect from any reputable university or college alumni account, you can do so.
all my sources are public scientific papers and public scientific books, freely available at any reputable college or university.
nah, I already have top of the line tech at work, why bother breaking my home budget when I can get it with grants at work.
I'll wait until the PS3 and Revolution come out, and buy one of them say around President's Day, at a slight discount - then pick up the other one when it goes on sale.
I totally agree, the irony that Florida will disappear 90 percent beneath the waves by 2040 whilst the oil rigs off Texas are impacted by the increased hurricanes and storm surges is fairly ironic. Oh, and I remember playing with horseshoe crabs off Galveston TX when I was a boy (born in Lackland AFB San Antonio, TX - and at ten spent a year in Arlington TX).
So far, I've paid less than $100 each for my GameCube and xBox - now to pick up a PS2 for the same price!
ah, it's good to be behind the tech adoption curve - stuff is always cheaper, like my 2.6 GHz 752MB 11b/g laptop that only cost $500, so I could spend my money on going to Vancouver with my girlfriend this weekend (total cost around $400 for the full trip).
you can spend your money on adopting tech early, and get less sex.
or you can spend your money later after the tech wave, and get more sex.
not my problem if you don't understand rapid change means lots of different changes - salinity depends on the location where you measure it, deep sea trenches in the pacific ar e different from below the ice shelf where decreased salinity will happen.
off-flow from Greenland is another thing, as well as 40 percent ice shelf reduction in Greenland land mass.
it's all happening fast, and you can shout Stop Sea! and the sea will come nonetheless.
are we talking - air temperature, sea temperature, lake temperature, temperature measured by ice cores in Greenland, temperature measured by ice cores in Antartica (nasty business with the drill bits there), temperature measured by glacial fallout in the shipping lanes off Canada, North Shore measurements, Andean lake shore measurements?
be skeptical all you want, just don't deny you're more than a small minority
look them up on ScienceDirect, or via your university or college research account.
don't blame me if you can't be bothered.
or check out any one of many scientific books on the subject - much of my general theory is from one book (the most readable, to be frank) that was published in 2005, but the concepts are in the other ones.
global warming is just a description of massive temperature oscillations.
you've been living in a statistically aberrant stable period for a few hundred years now, but seen from the total temperature scale, it's just a small flat plateau in a valley filled with peaks and valleys that dwarf it.
kind of like, living on a rice paddy, you declare the world to be flat, even though your rice paddy is on the side of one of the Andean mountains.
1. Realise before most of the population that climate change will have a significant affect on the earth 2. Investigate the likely effects 3. ???? 4. Profit
Hmm. Do you think that's why I didn't move to Santa Barbara CA or San Francisco CA, but stayed in Seattle WA, realizing that if I just sit still, San Francisco will be coming to where I am now?
Considering how overpriced land is down there, maybe that happened...
right after the spin-off from Palm, I correctly predicted that the OS itself would someday prove far more valuable than the actual PDAs that used them, as firms such as Nokia et al were using them to run their cell phone OS.
That said, I should point out that my old Palm V still works fine - my son found it under a pile of books last year and asked if he could have it - he uses it as a PDA (plus it's got a nice gunmetal case that flips open he can stick some bills and his Boys & Girls Member Card in).
So, just because other people aren't using it, doesn't mean it's not useful.
Me, I gave up on cellphones for now. Wake me when they become less annoying.
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and yes, I know my example was from the Patriot Act, but the DCMA is a similar beastie, and thus my point.
is not correct. The whole USA Patriot Act is designed, and was lifted 99 percent from a prior Security document created, with the intention of restricting American's rights of privacy and actual personal security.
Just look at the sections on wiretapping and library records - those were not created after 9/11, they were created before 9/11.
So, most of the so-called unintended consequences are incorrectly said to be unintentional, but in actual creation they were intentional.
Just like we've been spying on your telephone calls since my days in the Army, from Yakima Firing Range in Eastern Washington State. You think you had security before, but I remember walking into rooms where people thought it was fun to put a call on speaker as they listened in to some poor sap's wife talking intimitately with him.
Yur nt allowed to roleplay a straight character, either.
Hence the no discussion of sexuality rule.
So, everyone's bi?
Sweet!
You mean walking talking cows and dragons aren't realistic?! You don't ride a flying gryphon to work every day?
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Of course not, I walk to work. Sometimes I ride my blue flame skateboard, if it's sunny - sometimes I get on this large smoke-breathing dragon called a bus if it goes by as I'm walking
no, I said lame as in the silk. you know, LAME (accent acute).
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but if you get flood insurance, I am paying for you to live in a coastal flood area.
for example, I live pretty darned close to the sea, it's only about one mile from my house, and you can canoe down to it from the canal that is two blocks from my house.
However, I'm about 100 feet above sea level, and not likely to be impacted by the sea change over the next century, since I live in the valley portion known as Fremont in the city of Seattle.
now, if I lived in Kent, you'd be paying for me to build in a volcanic stochastic mud flow plain, which is flooded with hot mud that burns buildings entire every 500 years or so - it went off about 510 years ago, so think about what that means, considering we've allowed people to move onto that in the last fifty years, and have no way to evacuate them.
exactly. a better method is to do something similar to what Will Wright does with his Sims games. he releases the basic game (Sims 2), then does add ons for each new feature set (Sims 2: University, Sims 2: Night Life, Sims 2: Open For Business), charging the customers who want those new features.
Then, at some point, they release a combined feature set, with all the bugfixes, at a reduced price.
I agree, since Diablo 2, it just hasn't been fun to play MMO.
When the gaming community wakes up to the real desires of players, then we can talk.
another way to look at it is this way:
Let's say Player A makes $100,000 a year, plays a game only 2 hours a week.
Let's say Player B makes $50,000 a year, plays a game 20 hours a week.
If Player A uses his/her additional resources (cash) to purchase the equivalent of the missing 18 hours a week that Player B spent to get the in-game resources (gold), and it only cost $50, is Player A:
a. smart;
b. wise;
c. getting way more sex than Player B;
d. able to understand how real life works; or
e. All Of The Above (TM)?
I think e.
Some might argue Player A is a meany p00p00head, but they obviously haven't thought much about option c, or are not able to capitalize on it.
A good game designer understands the personal and economic motivations of the players, and builds in play balance safeguards to handle them - things like Blank Slate Resets, Earthquakes (remove all stored items/locations above standard level), Floods (wash away any gold not already stored, as well as equipment, but leave character skills/etc).
A bad game designer rails against the predicability of humans, and obviously forgot to take basic Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology courses in college that would have taught them how the real world works.
Just look at the successes in Russia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, USA (marijuana), etc.
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Now where did I leave my sarcasm key
If it wasn't for more features, we might actually have to care about the actual tech itself.
Isn't my Frogger mouse just the coolest thing ever? See how it matches the green case?
I mean, WoW isn't that great, it's way less realistic than say Sims 2, where noone cares what your romantic gender preference is, or even if you're half-alien for that matter.
I'm sorry, but I'm far more worried about the racial slurs I keep hearing whenever I try to play a Blizzard game, and the anti-gay slurs as well.
Just because some people don't swear a lot - which I stopped doing before I made Sergeant in the Army - some people make assumptions about them that are totally lame.
i'm not going to do a google search for you, but if you want to just log in to ScienceDirect from any reputable university or college alumni account, you can do so.
all my sources are public scientific papers and public scientific books, freely available at any reputable college or university.
i stand by my statements.
nah, I already have top of the line tech at work, why bother breaking my home budget when I can get it with grants at work.
I'll wait until the PS3 and Revolution come out, and buy one of them say around President's Day, at a slight discount - then pick up the other one when it goes on sale.
I totally agree, the irony that Florida will disappear 90 percent beneath the waves by 2040 whilst the oil rigs off Texas are impacted by the increased hurricanes and storm surges is fairly ironic. Oh, and I remember playing with horseshoe crabs off Galveston TX when I was a boy (born in Lackland AFB San Antonio, TX - and at ten spent a year in Arlington TX).
So far, I've paid less than $100 each for my GameCube and xBox - now to pick up a PS2 for the same price!
ah, it's good to be behind the tech adoption curve - stuff is always cheaper, like my 2.6 GHz 752MB 11b/g laptop that only cost $500, so I could spend my money on going to Vancouver with my girlfriend this weekend (total cost around $400 for the full trip).
you can spend your money on adopting tech early, and get less sex.
or you can spend your money later after the tech wave, and get more sex.
I vote for the latter.
no increased marine salinity.
don't believe me?
check out www.uwnews.org
should still be listed there
not my problem if you don't understand rapid change means lots of different changes - salinity depends on the location where you measure it, deep sea trenches in the pacific ar e different from below the ice shelf where decreased salinity will happen.
off-flow from Greenland is another thing, as well as 40 percent ice shelf reduction in Greenland land mass.
it's all happening fast, and you can shout Stop Sea! and the sea will come nonetheless.
considering the oceans have already risen more than 2 centimeters, I'm betting it's not going to be long before they rise 3 centimeters.
you keep ignoring the science and building in the southlands in Florida, I'll make sure your flood insurance isn't paid by me.
are we talking - air temperature, sea temperature, lake temperature, temperature measured by ice cores in Greenland, temperature measured by ice cores in Antartica (nasty business with the drill bits there), temperature measured by glacial fallout in the shipping lanes off Canada, North Shore measurements, Andean lake shore measurements?
be skeptical all you want, just don't deny you're more than a small minority
look them up on ScienceDirect, or via your university or college research account.
don't blame me if you can't be bothered.
or check out any one of many scientific books on the subject - much of my general theory is from one book (the most readable, to be frank) that was published in 2005, but the concepts are in the other ones.
global warming is just a description of massive temperature oscillations.
you've been living in a statistically aberrant stable period for a few hundred years now, but seen from the total temperature scale, it's just a small flat plateau in a valley filled with peaks and valleys that dwarf it.
kind of like, living on a rice paddy, you declare the world to be flat, even though your rice paddy is on the side of one of the Andean mountains.
oh, he can decide, he's a boy, he likes girls.
Sigh. Now go pretend increased marine salinity isn't already happening.
1. Realise before most of the population that climate change will have a significant affect on the earth
...
2. Investigate the likely effects
3. ????
4. Profit
Hmm. Do you think that's why I didn't move to Santa Barbara CA or San Francisco CA, but stayed in Seattle WA, realizing that if I just sit still, San Francisco will be coming to where I am now?
Considering how overpriced land is down there, maybe that happened
right after the spin-off from Palm, I correctly predicted that the OS itself would someday prove far more valuable than the actual PDAs that used them, as firms such as Nokia et al were using them to run their cell phone OS.
That said, I should point out that my old Palm V still works fine - my son found it under a pile of books last year and asked if he could have it - he uses it as a PDA (plus it's got a nice gunmetal case that flips open he can stick some bills and his Boys & Girls Member Card in).
So, just because other people aren't using it, doesn't mean it's not useful.
Me, I gave up on cellphones for now. Wake me when they become less annoying.