Where's the alternative to MechWarrior? I'm fairly sure that if there were, there wouldn't be a whole deal about MW4 not being released for the community that's still adding to it.
You speak as if a republican didn't just run the economy for eight years, and contribute to it nearly collapsing, and start one completely unnecessary war, which killed many soldiers on both sides who didn't need to die.
Good thing we're the biggest consumer of nearly everything worldwide. That's a big relief when it comes to fucking with the non-existent people making all the stuff.
Funny that corporations aren't moving out of the US and to the EU. They're moving to tax shelters, places with nearly no taxes at all, at least relative to both the EU and US.
Taxes should -only- be used to pay for government services someone (or something) uses and should be paid as such.
Good thing corporations don't take up the time of our representatives and senators with lobbyists.
It takes the US government no more manpower (in this day and age) to protect someone with 1,000 acres as it does the hobo living on the street.
It also allows the government to tax the lower-income people less than the higher earners, providing better schools for the lower earners, and over time giving the higher earners more qualified workers to hire, which overall promotes better wages and a higher standard of living.
Drive on roads? Pay for the roads. Don't drive? Don't pay.
It's also too bad that the people who use roads don't do so directly. By living in our country, where you get deliveries of pizza, packages of books and people coming out to service your heater so you don't free to death, you qualify to pay the road tax, whether you directly use a car or not.
People like you need to get over this idea that we're not in it together, because we are, despite what your belief tells you about "true independence". The idea of the United States isn't to be completely independent of one another. The point was to not be dependent on a single person, like, oh, the King of England. Beyond that, the economic principles of the United States are designed to promote competition by providing an economic arena where anyone can compete. It's also about providing a system where everyone gets some sort of say in the rules of the arena, whether it's via a direct vote on every issue (California) or by representatives (everywhere else). This is the ideal; it doesn't always work this way, but the entire concept is a work in progress, if you haven't noticed.
If you want a car analogy, it's akin to having a demolition derby where the drivers vote on the rules.
This case was a really badly handled one in particular, though. How the hell are you going to let someone make a 1.7 dollar profit off of doing something illegal, and when the time comes to fine them, only fine 1.2 billion?? Not including legal fees, Pfizer came out 500 million ahead because they committed a crime.
I pretty much say that on top of the fine being larger to account for all of that profit, they lose their patent on the drug, which doesn't get sold, it becomes public domain. You played irresponsibly with it, you lose it, just like a kid with a cap gun.
The only scenario I thought of where this happens is where the enemy develops some kind of breakthrough, singularity level technology before the United States.
Your premise is that we might be beaten by a country with inferior technology and resources, yet you think that country will develop the singularity?
Maybe they should rewrite the rules for big pharma so that if they're convicted of doing something outrageously illegal, the patents they own which were involved in the crime become public domain. That way, they will not risk a damn thing when it comes to marketing and promotion of their products, and there's no way that suing a company will screw up the nation's health care system.
They'll put research funding into any idea that they've seen on Star Trek or read in a book somewhere.
It's led to most of their successes too though. That airplane-mounted laser that shoots down missles from the air? Totally sci-fi, and not even the book kind, that was given to them by Hollywood. It was a success in that it would work, just not in getting funding.
Their basic motto is "try everything and see what ends up working". Do you think most of their innovations started out as "holy shit this is obvious" concepts, or ones that 99% of the population would say "that's fucking retarded" when told about?
I was pretty much saying that, except also pointing out that the AC is in a point of no authority on the subject. It's just much more concise in my response, IMHO.:-)
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Just look at the Datel controller and tell me they didn't violate a patent of M$'s.
Good thing it's a design patent, and that Datel's controller is pretty much copied exactly from M$'s.
Just look at it.
M$ isn't a patent troll in this case. They invented the damned controller for XBox, which Datel copied patented portions of!
Where's the alternative to MechWarrior? I'm fairly sure that if there were, there wouldn't be a whole deal about MW4 not being released for the community that's still adding to it.
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Chemitronics? Quantatronics? What does this mean?!?!?
It only shows you many 2D images conveniently placed to look like they're 3D.
Its not hard at all to steer above these speeds.
Especially considering that the turns aren't going to be 90 degrees over a very short distance...
Now tell me this, If god is so good, then why do his peoples, Place lightning rods atop of their steeples?
You may want to reconsider the view that "God is good", and consider that he may just be the guy on both sides.
You speak as if a republican didn't just run the economy for eight years, and contribute to it nearly collapsing, and start one completely unnecessary war, which killed many soldiers on both sides who didn't need to die.
If we're bombed back into the stone age, derivatives and integrals aren't going to help him tie a sharpened stone to a stick.
Good thing we're the biggest consumer of nearly everything worldwide. That's a big relief when it comes to fucking with the non-existent people making all the stuff.
Funny that corporations aren't moving out of the US and to the EU. They're moving to tax shelters, places with nearly no taxes at all, at least relative to both the EU and US.
Taxes should -only- be used to pay for government services someone (or something) uses and should be paid as such.
Good thing corporations don't take up the time of our representatives and senators with lobbyists.
It takes the US government no more manpower (in this day and age) to protect someone with 1,000 acres as it does the hobo living on the street.
It also allows the government to tax the lower-income people less than the higher earners, providing better schools for the lower earners, and over time giving the higher earners more qualified workers to hire, which overall promotes better wages and a higher standard of living.
Drive on roads? Pay for the roads. Don't drive? Don't pay.
It's also too bad that the people who use roads don't do so directly. By living in our country, where you get deliveries of pizza, packages of books and people coming out to service your heater so you don't free to death, you qualify to pay the road tax, whether you directly use a car or not.
People like you need to get over this idea that we're not in it together, because we are, despite what your belief tells you about "true independence". The idea of the United States isn't to be completely independent of one another. The point was to not be dependent on a single person, like, oh, the King of England. Beyond that, the economic principles of the United States are designed to promote competition by providing an economic arena where anyone can compete. It's also about providing a system where everyone gets some sort of say in the rules of the arena, whether it's via a direct vote on every issue (California) or by representatives (everywhere else). This is the ideal; it doesn't always work this way, but the entire concept is a work in progress, if you haven't noticed.
If you want a car analogy, it's akin to having a demolition derby where the drivers vote on the rules.
This case was a really badly handled one in particular, though. How the hell are you going to let someone make a 1.7 dollar profit off of doing something illegal, and when the time comes to fine them, only fine 1.2 billion?? Not including legal fees, Pfizer came out 500 million ahead because they committed a crime.
I pretty much say that on top of the fine being larger to account for all of that profit, they lose their patent on the drug, which doesn't get sold, it becomes public domain. You played irresponsibly with it, you lose it, just like a kid with a cap gun.
The only scenario I thought of where this happens is where the enemy develops some kind of breakthrough, singularity level technology before the United States.
Your premise is that we might be beaten by a country with inferior technology and resources, yet you think that country will develop the singularity?
Maybe they should rewrite the rules for big pharma so that if they're convicted of doing something outrageously illegal, the patents they own which were involved in the crime become public domain. That way, they will not risk a damn thing when it comes to marketing and promotion of their products, and there's no way that suing a company will screw up the nation's health care system.
You don't need step #4.
They'll put research funding into any idea that they've seen on Star Trek or read in a book somewhere.
It's led to most of their successes too though. That airplane-mounted laser that shoots down missles from the air? Totally sci-fi, and not even the book kind, that was given to them by Hollywood. It was a success in that it would work, just not in getting funding.
Their basic motto is "try everything and see what ends up working". Do you think most of their innovations started out as "holy shit this is obvious" concepts, or ones that 99% of the population would say "that's fucking retarded" when told about?
I think his definition of "rape" doesn't include eyes as a vector of attack.
The courts likely have a much different definition of computer than anyone on /. does.
I was pretty much saying that, except also pointing out that the AC is in a point of no authority on the subject. It's just much more concise in my response, IMHO. :-)
You're talking the the relatively small portion of the world's population that doesn't consider science in general a joke.
How would you know again?
This would be awesome and perfect - if it weren't April 1st.
*sigh*.....you can only dream.
Good thing that on a highway, nobody cuts right in front of you, ever. Oh, wait....