...workers are free to leave and start new companies that start afresh...
...unless the poor economy more or less forces you to take any job you can and hold on to it for dear (possibly literally) life which may include signing a non-compete contract.
This is the culture developed in the West. Defend our thoughts to the death! Never give an inch! Never admit guilt or responsibility! Pay them off just enough to make them go away.
There are other benefits to fighting at least what we perceive as Climate Change. It's hard to produce energy from fossil fuels without producing carbon dioxide so any research on alternative energy sources and conservation is a good thing (more so as oil becomes harder and harder to extract). Also, oceans of carbonic acid isn't very good for the food chain.
I fully agree that this should be checked out. If the evidence comes out that cosmic rays are an influence (either as the majority or minority cause of CC), then we can move on from there and think of ways to reactively combat the phenomenon. In the meantime, we still should be working to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels.
Be fair. The quality of the levels did go to shit once you left the Von Braun. Basically, they hit the deadline and just had to wrap it up in a jiffy. I generally lose interest around deck 6./shrug.
Ignorance truly is bliss. Show them something they don't understand and hope you have a good lawyer. Encase it in a plastic box and you're fine.
You comment on how we're probably smarter than most TSA employees is troubling. I would be more comfortable (and I'm sure the screening process would be better) if they were smarter and if they were allowed to think on the job instead of being a mindless drone following the rules. Chances of the average IQ going up amongst TSA employees seem exceptionally dim in light of today's anti-intellectual pride. I don't expect every one to be an electrical engineer but I'd hope they have enough basic understanding that a small circuit board and a battery isn't dangerous.
I agree completely. I'm sick of having to choose between updating for security reasons and not updating so my UI doesn't get all tossed around.
They should just start it as a new project rather than crumming up Firefox even more. (Remember Firefox was suppose to be like Mozilla-lite, lean and fast?)
It's not really about limiting computers or their programmers per se. I see it as limiting the abuse a person or a corporation could do. Sort of like how high frequency trading could be done by a guy on the floor. He wouldn't come close by multiple magnitudes in comparison to a computer but he could still pull off trades here and there. One guy buying and reselling stocks for a $0.04 return per stock is one thing and banks of computers doing this to every stock trade, millions of times a second, built right next door to Wall Street is absolutely a scam and an abuse of the system.
That's certainly nice of them (and quite unexpected from previous experience) to finally have some settings default to privacy. I would be interested to know if it stays that way the next time FB fiddles with the ToS or the privacy options. That's not minding the sheer number of privacy options and settings which makes all the harder for the less technically inclined to set correctly if they didn't give up immediately.
The interesting thing to thing about, though, is how they know not to suggest you. To me, that seems like they have a pattern for you for recognizing your mug and are programed to not offer suggestions. Now because they don't tell your friends to tag you in photos, does that mean advertisers also don't get to put together a profile based on your face and products also found in photos?
Why are you intentionally being obtuse? This is about automated, mass identification for profit without a clear way to disable it, opt-out, or delete the data, nor do people really know who ends up with this information and what those buyers can do with it. You could say that's a problem with every single aspect of Facebook. However, people choose to put that info up (perhaps uninformed and without legal understanding of the terms of service but I digress) whereas this is automatic.
Anyway, I look forward to see you in police GPS tracking stories to say you can walk behind people and gun control threads where you say you can kill a person with a rock.
It shouldn't be but that doesn't stop wankers like Orangemike or Chaos5023 (accounts were pulled randomly from the edit history of the first wiki page I clicked on) from turning it into some networking dedication page to themselves.
I think it's the effect of publishers getting bigger and bigger and more control being yielded to sales and marketing departments. For all I know, they see their game from two years ago as competition especially if players don't need a subscription to play. Why let players create and share maps when devs can reshuffle assets already made into new levels to sell? That's much cheaper than making a new game right away.
It's a shame they don't see the value in cultivating a community.
Of course they lock down modding and, more recently, player run servers and LAN play. You can't force obsolescence if players can make their own content and can play online without dev/publisher support. Such a sad state.
Demos use to fill that spot. And if you wanted to keep playing it (or play more) you bought the game. Further urges to play more (different but similar) content meant buying expansion packs or sequels.
I don't know about you but I want self-contained games that can be finished and resolved within that singular game. I don't want to pay per level, track, chapter, era, timezone, tech level, world, or any other way games can be divided up.
Episodic content just seems like an excuse to ship games before they're complete and to $10 or $20 players that want to finish the game.
I wonder how far this will be allowed to go. Can they (the rental company) install key loggers? Can they save your internet history? How long can they keep this information? What happens to this information if the company folds and assets have to be sold off?
Could this be expanded to other rental devices? What about "rent to own" stuff? Leased stuff? Could they bug a car with cameras and mics?
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...but Michele Bachmann is the one making everyone laugh (then cry).
There's also the problem of oil wicking up through cords and wires.
What?! And get in the way of the free market, UHMAIRICKAN pride&money makin' machine?!
di Z play?
My neighbor's donkey ate up my rooster like it was nothing!
This is the culture developed in the West. Defend our thoughts to the death! Never give an inch! Never admit guilt or responsibility! Pay them off just enough to make them go away.
Man, it sucks how what goes around comes around.
There are other benefits to fighting at least what we perceive as Climate Change. It's hard to produce energy from fossil fuels without producing carbon dioxide so any research on alternative energy sources and conservation is a good thing (more so as oil becomes harder and harder to extract). Also, oceans of carbonic acid isn't very good for the food chain.
I fully agree that this should be checked out. If the evidence comes out that cosmic rays are an influence (either as the majority or minority cause of CC), then we can move on from there and think of ways to reactively combat the phenomenon. In the meantime, we still should be working to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels.
12 fl oz is a lot of cocaine.
And more than enough to share with the whole class!
Be fair. The quality of the levels did go to shit once you left the Von Braun. Basically, they hit the deadline and just had to wrap it up in a jiffy. I generally lose interest around deck 6. /shrug.
Out to sea...?
*Gasps*
Pirate!
Ignorance truly is bliss. Show them something they don't understand and hope you have a good lawyer. Encase it in a plastic box and you're fine.
You comment on how we're probably smarter than most TSA employees is troubling. I would be more comfortable (and I'm sure the screening process would be better) if they were smarter and if they were allowed to think on the job instead of being a mindless drone following the rules. Chances of the average IQ going up amongst TSA employees seem exceptionally dim in light of today's anti-intellectual pride. I don't expect every one to be an electrical engineer but I'd hope they have enough basic understanding that a small circuit board and a battery isn't dangerous.
It's like Boston all over again.
I agree completely. I'm sick of having to choose between updating for security reasons and not updating so my UI doesn't get all tossed around.
They should just start it as a new project rather than crumming up Firefox even more. (Remember Firefox was suppose to be like Mozilla-lite, lean and fast?)
It's not really about limiting computers or their programmers per se. I see it as limiting the abuse a person or a corporation could do. Sort of like how high frequency trading could be done by a guy on the floor. He wouldn't come close by multiple magnitudes in comparison to a computer but he could still pull off trades here and there. One guy buying and reselling stocks for a $0.04 return per stock is one thing and banks of computers doing this to every stock trade, millions of times a second, built right next door to Wall Street is absolutely a scam and an abuse of the system.
That's certainly nice of them (and quite unexpected from previous experience) to finally have some settings default to privacy. I would be interested to know if it stays that way the next time FB fiddles with the ToS or the privacy options. That's not minding the sheer number of privacy options and settings which makes all the harder for the less technically inclined to set correctly if they didn't give up immediately.
The interesting thing to thing about, though, is how they know not to suggest you. To me, that seems like they have a pattern for you for recognizing your mug and are programed to not offer suggestions. Now because they don't tell your friends to tag you in photos, does that mean advertisers also don't get to put together a profile based on your face and products also found in photos?
Why are you intentionally being obtuse? This is about automated, mass identification for profit without a clear way to disable it, opt-out, or delete the data, nor do people really know who ends up with this information and what those buyers can do with it. You could say that's a problem with every single aspect of Facebook. However, people choose to put that info up (perhaps uninformed and without legal understanding of the terms of service but I digress) whereas this is automatic.
Anyway, I look forward to see you in police GPS tracking stories to say you can walk behind people and gun control threads where you say you can kill a person with a rock.
Only if we start breeding via mitosis.
This is probably why they call it a "decision engine" instead. (Or did they give up with that marketing angle?)
It shouldn't be but that doesn't stop wankers like Orangemike or Chaos5023 (accounts were pulled randomly from the edit history of the first wiki page I clicked on) from turning it into some networking dedication page to themselves.
You had me at "modern armor designed for medieval non-edged combat" but Zoombang lost me with that god damn flash menu.
But we can always, bother them with, unnecessary commas!
I think it's the effect of publishers getting bigger and bigger and more control being yielded to sales and marketing departments. For all I know, they see their game from two years ago as competition especially if players don't need a subscription to play. Why let players create and share maps when devs can reshuffle assets already made into new levels to sell? That's much cheaper than making a new game right away.
It's a shame they don't see the value in cultivating a community.
Of course they lock down modding and, more recently, player run servers and LAN play. You can't force obsolescence if players can make their own content and can play online without dev/publisher support. Such a sad state.
Demos use to fill that spot. And if you wanted to keep playing it (or play more) you bought the game. Further urges to play more (different but similar) content meant buying expansion packs or sequels.
I don't know about you but I want self-contained games that can be finished and resolved within that singular game. I don't want to pay per level, track, chapter, era, timezone, tech level, world, or any other way games can be divided up.
Episodic content just seems like an excuse to ship games before they're complete and to $10 or $20 players that want to finish the game.
I wonder how far this will be allowed to go. Can they (the rental company) install key loggers? Can they save your internet history? How long can they keep this information? What happens to this information if the company folds and assets have to be sold off?
Could this be expanded to other rental devices? What about "rent to own" stuff? Leased stuff? Could they bug a car with cameras and mics?
Help! Help! I need a lawyer!
I NEED A LAWYER!