I went back to school and now I'm in the medical field, hopefully they don't start giving visas out to doctors...
You should have chosen a law school. Since the US law system is quite unique to, well, US, there's a much lower chance to be replaced by a foreigner. Doctors, on the other hand, deal with human body, which is mostly the same for different countries.
No. While the risk is being taken by them, it is you, in the end, who is paying for the risk. It's not about being cheaper or more expensive. It's about the investment being stable and predictable as opposed to risky and unpredictable.
It's because the card is issued to the customer, while the the cost of transaction is paid by the merchant. The customer has no benefit in moving from one credit card company to another. So the credit card companies have no benefit in decreasing the fees either.
It's not like one can't manage them. But rather they are extra things that you need to think about. And the more things you have to think about, the harder it is to concentrate on the important bits.
You'd never be able to observe the results of the changes made by altering the past.
So you're saying that whatever you do, no one can verify any of that? None of the actions you do are ever going to be observable? In other words, for all intents and purposes, you did exactly NOTHING.
I don't see the point. Why would a company pay someone to bring to everyone's attention its failure to deliver an innovative product that many people were genuinely interested in?
In that case, all that should be needed to have the the picture removed would be to tell Facebook to do so
Facebook allows you to "untag" yourself from any photo, regardless of who tagged you. That's already halfway there.
Going any further than that is too complex, as it would require proof that indeed you are on the photo (and that you are who you say you are), which is far from being automated. Furthermore, other people on the photo might want it to stay.
I'd take it a level further. Improper behavior on the forums should result in a ban on the forums. Improper behavior in-game should result in a ban from the game. This is how many online games are handling the issue. When you're dealing with paying customers (as opposed to anonymous users in free games, for example), any counter-measure should be "just enough" to prevent further misconduct and not a step more.
1) Having less cash to keep and to transfer to the bank means less risk. (They can transfer part of this risk to an ensured security company, that handles the bank transfer, but the amount of cash will affect the price of the security company service.)
2) People are more likely to buy things when they are not limited by the amount of cash they have on person.
Keep it even more simple: Never say anything, never go anywhere. In fact, just don't live: they can't do anything to you if you're not alive. Suicide solves all problems.
Do you really want to have to run to an AC outlet as soon as the plane lands so you can make a call just because you wanted to watch two movies on a cross-country flight?
Well, if you're willing to buy, charge and carry around an extra phone, why not just do the same for an extra battery for your smartphone? It's both smaller and cheaper.
Yes, cheating in schools has a strong negative impact for *all* students. Say, in a perfect class where no-one is cheating you need to get 60% of a test right to pass. Student A who didn't study well gets 50% and fails. Student B who took the time and effort gets 65% and passes.
Now say student A is cheating to get 75% instead and passes. Student B who took the time and effort is now demotivated, knowing that cheating can get him higher score. Student B starts to cheat too and gets 85%. This, in turn, demotivates more students.
As more and more students cheat, score become less representative of the knowledge. Teachers assume that the subject became easier (they're getting better at explaining it, students become smarter, etc.) and adjust the minimum score accordingly to 80% (or increase the difficulty of the test).
Now getting a high score becomes possible only if you are very very bright, very very hard working, or if you cheat. This motivates more people to cheat, decreasing rapidly the quality of education. It's a slippery slope - cheaters motivate other students to cheat instead of studying.
Indeed, there's no point in playing into their delusions. So if you want to take a scientific approach, while minimizing your time and money spent on their delusions, here's what you can do:
Create a list of symptoms that people think are caused by ghosts.
Describe the equipment these people can buy to record these symptoms. (Camera if they "saw something", microphone if they "heard something", etc.)
Explain them how to properly install and use the equipment they bought.
Wait till they come to you with some recordings.
Explain everything you can using known science.
For anything can't explain, contact a person with more experience with disproving such claims.
Repeat until they have no more evidence to present you.
If you are at a point where you have some evidence of a still unexplained phenomena, then you have:
A recording that a lot of scientists and journalists would love to see = a lot of money and fame
The house where that recording was made = even more money
You get to laugh at all the people who told you to do jack = priceless
You know, if we eliminate all the jobs by automating everything, we get the benefit of all the work being done without us having to work at all. In the end everybody wins.
I'm playing mostly RPGs so I won't comment on the other genres. There are plenty of great games that came out in the last few years: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Bioshock, etc. I also enjoyed Drakensang personally. Only some of them are reusing the existing worlds or gaming systems, but even then they bring a lot in comparison to the previous version. (Fallout 2 being isometric with turn based combat it's hard to compare it with Fallout 3 - plus the story, NPC, some weapons and almost everything else are new. It certainly beats playing Fallout 1 or 2 a 10th time.)
Fallout New Vegas should be about $60 in US, perhaps even more for the collector's edition.
Besides that there's a different point of view we should consider:
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- John Dalberg-Acton
Some jobs are dangerous. We have specific safety rules and mechanisms in place in factories, for example, because even the most diligent and disciplined people are still people and will inevitably do mistakes. We do this to protect their health.
The same applies to police: they are still just people and even the most diligent and disciplined people will inevitably be corrupted by power. It's only a question of time. They are doing this job for us and that's why we owe them a working system of checks and balances that will protect their moral health when their human nature eventually, but inevitably takes over and tries to lead them away from the right path.
We should consider moral health as important as bodily health and prevent work environment from deteriorating it even if these safety rules tend to somewhat get in the way of the work.
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You should have chosen a law school. Since the US law system is quite unique to, well, US, there's a much lower chance to be replaced by a foreigner. Doctors, on the other hand, deal with human body, which is mostly the same for different countries.
No. While the risk is being taken by them, it is you, in the end, who is paying for the risk. It's not about being cheaper or more expensive. It's about the investment being stable and predictable as opposed to risky and unpredictable.
It's because the card is issued to the customer, while the the cost of transaction is paid by the merchant. The customer has no benefit in moving from one credit card company to another. So the credit card companies have no benefit in decreasing the fees either.
It's not like one can't manage them. But rather they are extra things that you need to think about. And the more things you have to think about, the harder it is to concentrate on the important bits.
You'd never be able to observe the results of the changes made by altering the past.
So you're saying that whatever you do, no one can verify any of that? None of the actions you do are ever going to be observable? In other words, for all intents and purposes, you did exactly NOTHING.
I don't see the point. Why would a company pay someone to bring to everyone's attention its failure to deliver an innovative product that many people were genuinely interested in?
In that case, all that should be needed to have the the picture removed would be to tell Facebook to do so
Facebook allows you to "untag" yourself from any photo, regardless of who tagged you. That's already halfway there.
Going any further than that is too complex, as it would require proof that indeed you are on the photo (and that you are who you say you are), which is far from being automated. Furthermore, other people on the photo might want it to stay.
I'd take it a level further. Improper behavior on the forums should result in a ban on the forums. Improper behavior in-game should result in a ban from the game. This is how many online games are handling the issue. When you're dealing with paying customers (as opposed to anonymous users in free games, for example), any counter-measure should be "just enough" to prevent further misconduct and not a step more.
CCs are good for the merchants too:
1) Having less cash to keep and to transfer to the bank means less risk. (They can transfer part of this risk to an ensured security company, that handles the bank transfer, but the amount of cash will affect the price of the security company service.)
2) People are more likely to buy things when they are not limited by the amount of cash they have on person.
Appears to be already fixed in the article: "some have speculated that Intel is delaying support for USB 3.0 until 2012".
Isn't BLACK the default color in printers?
What, you mean something like PDMI?
Keep it even more simple: Never say anything, never go anywhere. In fact, just don't live: they can't do anything to you if you're not alive. Suicide solves all problems.
Or are you trying to say that lying is, in general, something that is only bad when it is done under oath?
Depends on your definition of "bad". Lying on FB is not illegal, unlike lying under oath.
And what is it if your friends decide to let the world see?
If you wanted it to stay private, but your friends let the world see, then you have a poor choice of friends. It's still your choice.
This is irrelevant. The solution to this problem should involve layer man-hours, not developer man-hours.
Do you really want to have to run to an AC outlet as soon as the plane lands so you can make a call just because you wanted to watch two movies on a cross-country flight?
Well, if you're willing to buy, charge and carry around an extra phone, why not just do the same for an extra battery for your smartphone? It's both smaller and cheaper.
Yes, cheating in schools has a strong negative impact for *all* students. Say, in a perfect class where no-one is cheating you need to get 60% of a test right to pass. Student A who didn't study well gets 50% and fails. Student B who took the time and effort gets 65% and passes.
Now say student A is cheating to get 75% instead and passes. Student B who took the time and effort is now demotivated, knowing that cheating can get him higher score. Student B starts to cheat too and gets 85%. This, in turn, demotivates more students.
As more and more students cheat, score become less representative of the knowledge. Teachers assume that the subject became easier (they're getting better at explaining it, students become smarter, etc.) and adjust the minimum score accordingly to 80% (or increase the difficulty of the test).
Now getting a high score becomes possible only if you are very very bright, very very hard working, or if you cheat. This motivates more people to cheat, decreasing rapidly the quality of education. It's a slippery slope - cheaters motivate other students to cheat instead of studying.
Indeed, there's no point in playing into their delusions. So if you want to take a scientific approach, while minimizing your time and money spent on their delusions, here's what you can do:
If you are at a point where you have some evidence of a still unexplained phenomena, then you have:
Every new technology gives yet another opportunity to milk the crazy fans, who are willing to buy anything with words "Star Wars" on it...
Why?
Hence the spell checker. ;)
You could just try searching for "Kinect": Microsoft Puts the Kibosh On Kinect Sex Game Plans
You know, if we eliminate all the jobs by automating everything, we get the benefit of all the work being done without us having to work at all. In the end everybody wins.
I'm playing mostly RPGs so I won't comment on the other genres. There are plenty of great games that came out in the last few years: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Bioshock, etc. I also enjoyed Drakensang personally. Only some of them are reusing the existing worlds or gaming systems, but even then they bring a lot in comparison to the previous version. (Fallout 2 being isometric with turn based combat it's hard to compare it with Fallout 3 - plus the story, NPC, some weapons and almost everything else are new. It certainly beats playing Fallout 1 or 2 a 10th time.)
Fallout New Vegas should be about $60 in US, perhaps even more for the collector's edition.
Besides that there's a different point of view we should consider:
Some jobs are dangerous. We have specific safety rules and mechanisms in place in factories, for example, because even the most diligent and disciplined people are still people and will inevitably do mistakes. We do this to protect their health.
The same applies to police: they are still just people and even the most diligent and disciplined people will inevitably be corrupted by power. It's only a question of time. They are doing this job for us and that's why we owe them a working system of checks and balances that will protect their moral health when their human nature eventually, but inevitably takes over and tries to lead them away from the right path.
We should consider moral health as important as bodily health and prevent work environment from deteriorating it even if these safety rules tend to somewhat get in the way of the work.