It's also the solution to a puzze at the end of the first Disworld adventure game.
You will have to gather a set of items (eye patch, tattoo (i think) and some other stuff) to make sure that your chances of winning a fight against a dragon is EXACTLY a million to one.
I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome. With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower, not of physical strength.
â"Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, âoeEssays on Mind and Matterâ
It seems to me that prices would plummet as supply increases and purchasing power decreases. The lower prices would counter the loss of income.
The interesting thing here is that an income drop from high unemployment should result in people with zero income. People with zero income have no purchasing power. If they have no purchasing power, the only sensible price is free as they can afford nothing else.
So with people who can buy nothing, and a minority who CAN buy, the production increase from automation seems like it would become entirely worthless. After all, what's the point of being able to produce more of something that less people now can purchase?
That is. The argument is not about surveillance per se, but rather about any action that can be taken to make it easier for law enforcement to act.
I have seen this a lot in the swedish surveillance debate. The argument is that we should spy on the people, because this makes it easier for the cops to catch bad guys.
(which is inherently problematic, because taken to its logical extreme it means the police should be allowed to do ANYTHING, as that'd be the optimal way to let them catch bad guys)
As you said. Almost all women you worked with were foreign born. My experience in CS at university is the same. Almost all women are exchange students from asia.
My university provides a program almost identical to CS, called IT, with some differences: 1: It has an optional management/economy spin to it in years 4 and 5 2: It gives you an engineering title rather than just a CS bachelor/master degree
The curriculum is otherwise nearly identical. IT has slightly more focus on hardware.
What's the twist? Almost all the non-exchange student girls are in IT and not in CS.
In short: There has to be something in CS that repulses women, but which is not a factor for exchange students.
If we assume, for the sake of argument, that ALL drug violence was caused only by prohibition... then that means the drugs themselves were bad enough to ban them even when there was no associated violence. Hmm.
Not necessarily. You're making the assumption that the ban was enacted in order to prevent violent crime. Nothing as such has been said. I believe it is far more likely that the ban is mainly ideological in nature.
No. It makes perfect sense if they're accepting the arguments used in for example Sweden to criminalize cartoon child pornography. I paraphrase (seeing that I can't find the accurate translation of "kränkning"):
"This is a violation of not an individual child but all children as a group".
That line of thinking leads to cases like this one.
Also people writing "would of won" or "couldn't they of been more considerate?" and so on and so on... You can't throw a preposition randomly into a verb phrase...
The problem is that once we have a single supplier of everything we have a situation in which one person essentially owns everything, and that smells awfully close to communism.
So at the end of this summer I bought the Orange Box in a local gamestore near my home where I stay during summer. I return back to my dorm room soon after (before having had time to install the game) and once I get back here I do... But... It does not work. No. The game box was definitely new and unbroken (also in plastic wrap) yet for some reason the installer tells me "This serial code is already in use". I could not return the game because the store was 3 hours away by car.
Shit.
I contact steam support and I'm told to take a picture of the note with the serial number on it and the receipt. I do.
Now they give me a unique code. I am to write that code on the same paper and take another picture and send them. I do.
Now they tell me they can't do anything, because the game was obviously bought used. The store in question actually does sell used games, which can be seen on the reciept too. Shit.
So what do I do?
I write something like this: "You have seen the receipt already so you know the game was bought at full retail price. If I knew the game was used I would not pay that much money for it. Certainly not for a game utilizing online serial code validation. Secondly, this game was purchased in Sweden. If the game was owned by someone else who sold it to that store it seems likely that whoever did that was also Swedish or had installed the game while in Sweden. You could perhaps take a quick look and see if the serial code is registered to a Swedish steam account."
A few hours later: "We've transferred the serial to your account. This is, however, not standard procedure."
Me: "Thanks!"
Steam is not without its faults. Thank god there are some sensible people working in their support.
Assuming the button doesn't work, how do you actually get to cross the road?
If the button doesn't work then it means that the streetlights cannot turn red (for car traffic) and that means that there will be vehicle traffic indefinitely. Is there some kind of automated system that stops traffic at regular intervals to allow for pedestrians to cross?
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It's also the solution to a puzze at the end of the first Disworld adventure game.
You will have to gather a set of items (eye patch, tattoo (i think) and some other stuff) to make sure that your chances of winning a fight against a dragon is EXACTLY a million to one.
I think YOU have the wrong party.
Republicans are all about individual responsibility, pull yourself up by the bootstraps, homeless people are lazy etc. etc.
Democrats accept that people have different chances to succed. That's the basis of the "left" approach to politics.
This is why many conservatives criticize homeless people, because they believe everyone has the same opportunities.
I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome.
With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any
distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure
without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower,
not of physical strength.
â"Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
âoeEssays on Mind and Matterâ
Source please.
It's simply smarter for a company to employ fewer people, because the more they employ the more they will have to teach.
There's less paperwork for the company as well. Less workers to keep track of. Less management.
It seems to me that prices would plummet as supply increases and purchasing power decreases. The lower prices would counter the loss of income.
The interesting thing here is that an income drop from high unemployment should result in people with zero income. People with zero income have no purchasing power. If they have no purchasing power, the only sensible price is free as they can afford nothing else.
So with people who can buy nothing, and a minority who CAN buy, the production increase from automation seems like it would become entirely worthless. After all, what's the point of being able to produce more of something that less people now can purchase?
Aokiji did it on a bicycle, though it's a bit unclear how far the distance was. He did have to freeze the water first, though.
I propose the Smoother Operations Fallacy.
That is. The argument is not about surveillance per se, but rather about any action that can be taken to make it easier for law enforcement to act.
I have seen this a lot in the swedish surveillance debate. The argument is that we should spy on the people, because this makes it easier for the cops to catch bad guys.
(which is inherently problematic, because taken to its logical extreme it means the police should be allowed to do ANYTHING, as that'd be the optimal way to let them catch bad guys)
I sell this tiger repellant. It's very effective. I haven't been attacked once. Only $400 for a bottle.
Probably because an eco friendly person in the west has a greater chance of influencing the west than he has of influencing some "communist" shithole.
Abortion and gay marriage ARE civil rights issues.
Aside from that, I agree.
I tried googling and found nothing. Googling "qleb" gives me some links in some foreign language which looks like arabic.
I tried googling for "abbreviation qleb" and that gave me even less to go on.
It seems like it's some bullshit he made up himself.
Something else is at work.
As you said. Almost all women you worked with were foreign born. My experience in CS at university is the same. Almost all women are exchange students from asia.
My university provides a program almost identical to CS, called IT, with some differences:
1: It has an optional management/economy spin to it in years 4 and 5
2: It gives you an engineering title rather than just a CS bachelor/master degree
The curriculum is otherwise nearly identical. IT has slightly more focus on hardware.
What's the twist? Almost all the non-exchange student girls are in IT and not in CS.
In short: There has to be something in CS that repulses women, but which is not a factor for exchange students.
If we assume, for the sake of argument, that ALL drug violence was caused only by prohibition... then that means the drugs themselves were bad enough to ban them even when there was no associated violence. Hmm.
Not necessarily. You're making the assumption that the ban was enacted in order to prevent violent crime. Nothing as such has been said. I believe it is far more likely that the ban is mainly ideological in nature.
No. It makes perfect sense if they're accepting the arguments used in for example Sweden to criminalize cartoon child pornography. I paraphrase (seeing that I can't find the accurate translation of "kränkning"):
"This is a violation of not an individual child but all children as a group".
That line of thinking leads to cases like this one.
Also people writing "would of won" or "couldn't they of been more considerate?" and so on and so on... You can't throw a preposition randomly into a verb phrase...
I'd rather my neighbour be a convicted and released rapist than someone convicted and released for gang-related crime.
Aha. Porn is a gateway drug to child pornography. Yeah. Right.
No. I want to you to deliver some hard evidence how
A: Pornography can lead to child pornography, and how
B: Pornography can take away from intimacy
The problem is that once we have a single supplier of everything we have a situation in which one person essentially owns everything, and that smells awfully close to communism.
"Porn should not be shown to kids."
Why not?
I mean where exactly is the problem?
Well the catch is that social healthcare is necessary but security theater isn't.
Location: Sweden
So at the end of this summer I bought the Orange Box in a local gamestore near my home where I stay during summer. I return back to my dorm room soon after (before having had time to install the game) and once I get back here I do... But... It does not work. No. The game box was definitely new and unbroken (also in plastic wrap) yet for some reason the installer tells me "This serial code is already in use". I could not return the game because the store was 3 hours away by car.
Shit.
I contact steam support and I'm told to take a picture of the note with the serial number on it and the receipt. I do.
Now they give me a unique code. I am to write that code on the same paper and take another picture and send them. I do.
Now they tell me they can't do anything, because the game was obviously bought used. The store in question actually does sell used games, which can be seen on the reciept too. Shit.
So what do I do?
I write something like this: "You have seen the receipt already so you know the game was bought at full retail price. If I knew the game was used I would not pay that much money for it. Certainly not for a game utilizing online serial code validation. Secondly, this game was purchased in Sweden. If the game was owned by someone else who sold it to that store it seems likely that whoever did that was also Swedish or had installed the game while in Sweden. You could perhaps take a quick look and see if the serial code is registered to a Swedish steam account."
A few hours later: "We've transferred the serial to your account. This is, however, not standard procedure."
Me: "Thanks!"
Steam is not without its faults. Thank god there are some sensible people working in their support.
Assuming the button doesn't work, how do you actually get to cross the road?
If the button doesn't work then it means that the streetlights cannot turn red (for car traffic) and that means that there will be vehicle traffic indefinitely. Is there some kind of automated system that stops traffic at regular intervals to allow for pedestrians to cross?
Money is not speech.
Would that work?