But the more important point is that coercion isn't a defining feature of government and removing governments (as in Somalia) can easily have the effect of increasing the amount of coercion in people's lives
The governmenent hasn't been removed in Somalia, it's been replaced. Warlordism is a form of government - even if it's a pretty shitty one for anyone who isn't a warlord.
Being transparent would be pretty cool. You could eat loads of spinach, then loads of oranges, then beetroot and watch your insides impersonate a traffic light.
The database will be written in MSAccess and kept on someones laptop until it gets left in a pub or the back of a taxi by a pissed up junior bureaucrat.
When they uses Wales as an area comparison, is that allowing for all the mountains and valleys? Some say that if you could flatten them all out Wales would more than double in area. Others say that if you could completely flatten Wales, it would be a bloody good idea.
As an Aussie, I have frequently joked around that NZ is a state of Australia
Could someone explain why it isn't - crikey, you nearly have the same flag! Is it because the dour presbyterian Scots didn't like being associated with convicts - or is it the other way round? Strewth!
Um, how is modelling or writing a script or producing some other content for a virtual world any less "real work" than writing a book ?
Sigh.
Which activity is the odd one out - a) the one described in your excerpt quoted above, b) administering the server it runs on, c) making the hardware it runs on, d) slaughtering nonexistent gonks for Monopoly money?
In other words, you paid real money to immerse yourself into a fictitious - fake - world.
How is that the same thing? When I buy a book, I hope I'll get entertained or amused by it more than I could have been by spending the same money on something else. In my case, probably beer.
I don't expect to be able to read it over and over and over again and hence get twenty times the cover price back. If it's not real work it's not a real business, so why do people expect to get real money out of it?
I can't tell the god damn difference between mp3 or ogg files vs CD or FLAC..etc higher fidelity formats anyway.
That's a well known phenomenon. Certain frequencies are masked by transverse standing waves which form as a result of meta-resonances when the current/voltage phases drift.
You need to get some of those speaker baffles made from oxygen-free copper.
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Being transparent would be pretty cool. You could eat loads of spinach, then loads of oranges, then beetroot and watch your insides impersonate a traffic light.
Somebody gave me an origami book once. I never read it - I couldn't, it was all creased seven ways to Sunday.
When they uses Wales as an area comparison, is that allowing for all the mountains and valleys? Some say that if you could flatten them all out Wales would more than double in area. Others say that if you could completely flatten Wales, it would be a bloody good idea.
Also, some people would pronounces it so that the first part rhymes with "rayon", thus replacing rather than solving the original problem.
Stephen Fry posting on slashdot. Now that's quite interesting!
At least it's not a myminicity link!
It doesn't just make sense, it's the best explanation I've seen.
It seems he is, and so is the person he's replying to. Not that it's exactly a first round here when this subject comes up.
That's totally unfair. Tasmanaians do not shag sheep - it would make their sisters jealous.
Anyone else read that as "Coventry"? Bloody shit-hole, I went there once and nobody spoke to me.
That's total rot. Unless telecom companies and other utilities are charities - and let me tell, you, they aren't.
The point is that they (the banks) shouldn't be setting one up without explicit written authority from the payer.
Which activity is the odd one out -
a) the one described in your excerpt quoted above,
b) administering the server it runs on,
c) making the hardware it runs on,
d) slaughtering nonexistent gonks for Monopoly money?
I don't expect to be able to read it over and over and over again and hence get twenty times the cover price back. If it's not real work it's not a real business, so why do people expect to get real money out of it?
You need to get some of those speaker baffles made from oxygen-free copper.
Can't we just tattoo or brand a number onto everyone, like we did with their grandfathers?