You believe that? There are hundreds of thousands of people in the US who either owe money on their taxes or simply refuse to file. Very very very few of them will ever see men with guns coming to lock them up.
It appears that radical right wing thought, conspiracy theories, bigotry, and a healthy dose of nationalism is to blame, but god damn that's hard to shorten in to a catchy headline.
Without massive government subsidies to airport infrastructure and amazingly low cost loans and grants to airlines commercial air travel would be what it was back in the 50's, the domain of the rich and connected who just didn't have enough scratch to afford their own private aircraft.
The capital investment in new aircraft alone is staggering, can you imagine if Delta or MergerAir had to cover the cost of building and maintaining all of those airports? Or, as the more likely scenario with the privatization crowd, can you imagine the extortionist payments that the private company who ran the airport would demand from air carriers? Where else are you going to park your planes or pick-up passengers? Competition? Good luck getting the land and the use permits to build a new airport anywhere close to any sort of built up area.
Yeah, some things just don't need to be privatized.
Who told the MPAA about Usenet? Seriously, that was the last best place to... uhhh... research.. yes, that's it, research trends in illegal music and movie sharing.
CCP didn't get paid for most of those PLEX. Players bought them in-game with in-game currency and obligated CCP to provide their service without compensation.
As an example, with my $14.95 a month subscription price and a generous amount of free time, I could probably generate enough in-game money to purchase 12 PLEX, and parlay my one month's subscription fee in to 13 months of play time.
Once I've done that, I could easily do it again, and register a second account to help me make more money, which I trade for more PLEX, and now have two accounts paid up for a year, with a single payment of $14.95.
Since EVE's skill system is based on letting time pass, a very skill character, one able to fly the ships that make the money is an old character. Old, well trained characters can be purchased for in game currency (ISK). I can trade PLEX for in-game currency.
With three or four months of really poopsocking it, I can afford a new, very well trained character on my free account. I've got just enough spare in-game cash to buy a couple more PLEX, and I use that time wisely with my three characters to make even more money, which I trade for more PLEX.
This may sound far fetched, but this is a very common method of playing. I know people with six accounts who haven't payed a thing for EVE in over a year.
If the estimates on the number of stockpiled PLEX are correct (we'll use the 300,000 estimate) and those PLEX were distributed evenly to a base of around 100,000 players, that means the company could face three months without a single bit of revenue.
That will never happen, but I imagine it keeps their CFO up at night.
I don't think it is insolvable either, just anathema to the current model of large scale networking. Who, in their right mind, would want a BGP peer that is a collection of wireless routers with no access controls?
Of course, that's still me coming from the "you'll want to be internet connected" angle. Making small LANs that keep communication going for local groups is absolutely unaffected by the ISP. If we really wanted, a few bucks worth of used networking equipment could get us back to the old days of local BBS style networks.
Ok, cool. We can make all the happy freedom loving LANs we want, but who are you going to get your internet pipe from?
How much does a 100Mb metro ethernet line cost per month where you live? How many people would you need to get on-board paying for it before it becomes economically practical? Is that number of people going to saturate your link?
Finally, what do you do when the **AA comes knocking on the door of your bandwidth provider (read: ISP) and starts making demands because Grandma wanted to watch last night's Glee and someone showed her how to use BT?
Don't get me wrong here, I like the suggestion of a more distributed internet, but until we're able to break necessity of huge capital investment for for peering, we're sort of stuck.
I'm not sure what the address is for the Streets of New York server, but only a thousand a week and he's only selling the gold?
What's he doing with all the stone, gravel, sand, dirt, redstone, diamond, and lapis he's probably finding?
I, for one, wanted them to hit WoW in much the same manner you suggested. THAT would be some lulz.
Especially since most schools are out, and summer school hasn't started yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Corporations having as much power as national governments, able to hire their own police forces.
Implants that are making steps to improving biological abilities.
3D visual hacking.
Shadowrun seems closer and closer every day.
Is that a twenty eight point eight kay bee pee ess modem?
Simpsons Reference Ahoy!
This mission includes a mathematician, a statistician, and two other types of mathematician.
Humm... looking at the biographies of the scientists involved, I'm going to guess something about water, ice, and life.
You believe that? There are hundreds of thousands of people in the US who either owe money on their taxes or simply refuse to file. Very very very few of them will ever see men with guns coming to lock them up.
EMACS does everything, right?
Every single day it seems like the future societies described in Shadowrun and Cyberpunk 2020 are that much closer.
We have the technology, we can rebuild him.... sort of.
There may not be whales, but there certainly are tall tales. Also, a pretty bitchin' arcade.
It appears that radical right wing thought, conspiracy theories, bigotry, and a healthy dose of nationalism is to blame, but god damn that's hard to shorten in to a catchy headline.
ELEVEN!
*secretly hoping you've seen the episode of the program to which I am making a reference.
Good luck getting new airports built anywhere close to a city.
Without massive government subsidies to airport infrastructure and amazingly low cost loans and grants to airlines commercial air travel would be what it was back in the 50's, the domain of the rich and connected who just didn't have enough scratch to afford their own private aircraft.
The capital investment in new aircraft alone is staggering, can you imagine if Delta or MergerAir had to cover the cost of building and maintaining all of those airports? Or, as the more likely scenario with the privatization crowd, can you imagine the extortionist payments that the private company who ran the airport would demand from air carriers? Where else are you going to park your planes or pick-up passengers? Competition? Good luck getting the land and the use permits to build a new airport anywhere close to any sort of built up area.
Yeah, some things just don't need to be privatized.
The first name of a researcher who does work on robots is Hooman. Daft Punk would be proud.
Who told the MPAA about Usenet? Seriously, that was the last best place to... uhhh... research.. yes, that's it, research trends in illegal music and movie sharing.
Looks like I won't be loading Solaris 11 on my E10k
Are you sure? I thought the patch that allowed you to split the GTC in to PLEX also marked the start of CCP seeding the PLEX in the trade hubs.
If you're correct, then there is no liability issue.
CCP didn't get paid for most of those PLEX. Players bought them in-game with in-game currency and obligated CCP to provide their service without compensation.
As an example, with my $14.95 a month subscription price and a generous amount of free time, I could probably generate enough in-game money to purchase 12 PLEX, and parlay my one month's subscription fee in to 13 months of play time.
Once I've done that, I could easily do it again, and register a second account to help me make more money, which I trade for more PLEX, and now have two accounts paid up for a year, with a single payment of $14.95.
Since EVE's skill system is based on letting time pass, a very skill character, one able to fly the ships that make the money is an old character. Old, well trained characters can be purchased for in game currency (ISK). I can trade PLEX for in-game currency.
With three or four months of really poopsocking it, I can afford a new, very well trained character on my free account. I've got just enough spare in-game cash to buy a couple more PLEX, and I use that time wisely with my three characters to make even more money, which I trade for more PLEX.
This may sound far fetched, but this is a very common method of playing. I know people with six accounts who haven't payed a thing for EVE in over a year.
If the estimates on the number of stockpiled PLEX are correct (we'll use the 300,000 estimate) and those PLEX were distributed evenly to a base of around 100,000 players, that means the company could face three months without a single bit of revenue.
That will never happen, but I imagine it keeps their CFO up at night.
I don't think it is insolvable either, just anathema to the current model of large scale networking. Who, in their right mind, would want a BGP peer that is a collection of wireless routers with no access controls? Of course, that's still me coming from the "you'll want to be internet connected" angle. Making small LANs that keep communication going for local groups is absolutely unaffected by the ISP. If we really wanted, a few bucks worth of used networking equipment could get us back to the old days of local BBS style networks.
Ok, cool. We can make all the happy freedom loving LANs we want, but who are you going to get your internet pipe from? How much does a 100Mb metro ethernet line cost per month where you live? How many people would you need to get on-board paying for it before it becomes economically practical? Is that number of people going to saturate your link? Finally, what do you do when the **AA comes knocking on the door of your bandwidth provider (read: ISP) and starts making demands because Grandma wanted to watch last night's Glee and someone showed her how to use BT? Don't get me wrong here, I like the suggestion of a more distributed internet, but until we're able to break necessity of huge capital investment for for peering, we're sort of stuck.
100% Safe? Really? I guess there is some magical property of marijuana smoke that heals your lungs as you inhale it. Awesome.
...someone would invent some sort of death clock. That would put some young whipper snappers in their place.
I'm not sure what the address is for the Streets of New York server, but only a thousand a week and he's only selling the gold? What's he doing with all the stone, gravel, sand, dirt, redstone, diamond, and lapis he's probably finding?
I, for one, wanted them to hit WoW in much the same manner you suggested. THAT would be some lulz. Especially since most schools are out, and summer school hasn't started yet.
My shell accounts! Gone!
And that bastard Jackson still owes me money.