True, but the alternative would be to have a cable protruding from the user's head
If the eye is already defunct, why not remove the eye and implant the camera? It could probably be incorperated into an artifical eye with out much problem. Circuits and cameras are already tiny and the power requirements can't be very high. (nerves deal in microvolts?) A wearable inductive recharger and you are good to go. Reattach the muscle and you could even look around. I can understand the external camera for the early R&D, but I hope the final product is fully implanted.
It's a shame you posted AC, you are so very right. Part of the problem of progression being manifest in constant increases in power, is the rediculous difference between a noob and an experienced character. When damage and HP can be 100X you're starting stats, well that's just dumb.
These kind of fear tactics I believe are meant to help drive up the price of bandwidth when people are driving it down.
Shhh. not so loud. Do you realize what might happen if people thought about how fearmongering, in the form of rediculous "what if?" scenarious, is used to influence the barely concious masses? Next you're going to tell me that it might be better to have the evening news present stories about serious issues, instead of the human interest stories that help soothe our fragile populace. You Sir, are a Menace.
This sounds like a war machine trying to make another war,
True, it sounds like a part of a modern "Operation Northwoods". http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1 This could be an even better reason to invade/bomb/disappear someone than terrorism.
But, sadly, what they're doing appears to be legal,
With this off the record business, I wonder if they are claiming it on taxes? Both on the giving and recieveing end of the "patent extortion". Basically just how under the table is this?
True. There is the arguement that if you can't instill morality and responsibility in the first 15 years, what makes you think that a few more will make the difference? By the time I was in highschool my parents knew they could trust my judgement, they would still want to know what I was up to, but they had stopped making choices for me. For contrast, we all know what happens to kids that come from over structured housholds when they get to college. I think it's called "Girls Gone Wild".
"I don't know what these kids did to piss the prosecution and the court off, but there is clearly malicious intent here."
So in the vein of "Who Guards the Guards?" What recourse do we as the public have against these people who twist the intention of the law into a worse crime? I would agree that this prosecution, and labeling as sex offenders has done considerable damage to these minors. Can you criminally prosecute a judge for malicious abuse of power? And as a side note: Will this be taken off of their records when they turn 18? After all they are minors.
"This marketing campaign hit ten cities. Only Boston freaked out."
So if Boston leaders are of the same caliber of leader as Jim Samples: They should accept some responsibility, admit they over reacted, and absolve Mr.Samples of this "heat" which has given him reason to step down. The marketing campaign was not at fault, Boston was.
As you walk through the metal detector, a guard sticks a camera in front of your face. There is you good camera shot. If you come up as a suspect, your mug shot appears on the security screen, or other biometric software crossreferences the camera info. More to my concern is what happens when your iris scan/facial biometrics/scanned fingerprint, becomes your legal ID.
There probably already are ordinances anyway that cover contributory actions by pedestrians in accidents
That doesn't mean they don't want one more. There are so many laws on the books covering stupid shit that most people break some old law every day, they are left on the books on purpose. For example: it is illegal to walk barefoot in Manhattan. The cops love this as an to relocate the homeless out of the nice neighborhoods. This "iPod fine" is another tool for the cops to "legally" harass someone. Good luck trying to prove that your iPod was off.
Perhaps the sentence would be reduced. Remember what happened to that kid that was caught "tagging" cars in Singapore? He was sentenced to be caned, public outcry got President Clinton involved, the brat still got what was coming to him. His sentence was reduced from six cane strokes to four, probably as a PR favor to Clinton more than anything else. http://www.corpun.com/awfay9405.htm
we have academics shouting that we need more CS graduates
Translation: "I want to keep my postion here at the University. If the College of Fine Arts can churn out degrees into an over saturated market, so can we."
That'd be $3 million a year that the taxes payers of North Carolina aren't getting. May be offset by new jobs,
True, but you might be getting the same tax break. Let's scale this down from huge corporation to a single citzen level, and see how the deal sounds. $89 million tax break for a $600 million investment and + 200 jobs = $44,500 tax break ($1,483 per year) for a $300,000 house and paying someone to mow your lawn. How much of a tax break do you get for the interest on your mortgage? Is this deal actually evil or are the numbers just large enough to make it sound that way?
he is banned from accessing the internet for personal reasons for an unknown amount of time"
"Being part of a group of Samy's RL friends, we're not sure what his restitution is, but he is very likely not allowed to disclose it. "
Are the details of his sentence being kept secret for personal reasons or is there some sort of "secret punishment" clause in the patriot act that extends to script kiddies? If justice is being served here, why would the details need to be secret?
But please remember that tendons and ligiments take longer to "beef up" than muscle, don't be the first person to need orthopaedic joint surgery due to Wii induced injuries.
... the Deathly Hallows? Shouldn't that be the Deadly Hallows? I don't think I've ever seen "deathly" used anywhere other than in front of "ill". Is this a difference between (UK) English and American English, or is Ms. Rowling giving us all a new way to use this adjective?
"The thing is, they didn't drill the hole to simply release the gas into the atmosphere."
No, I didn't think this was masterminded by Dr.Evil, but Exxon didn't commission the "Valdez" as an efficient way to color coordinate the northern pacific wildlife either. They both fucked up, bad. They both need to held accountable.
You make a valid point, in differentiating between standards and rights, and I wouldn't expect local companies in many parts of the world to be able to afford the US minimum wage. But I think there are some grey areas between standards and rights, particularly in the areas you mentioned, wage and safety. Lets examine wages: At one end of the scale let's have $5 per hour and at the other end $0 per hour, slavery. Obviously slavery is a human rights isssue, but what about unfree labour?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfree_labour "If payment occurs, it may be in one or more of the following forms: it does not exceed subsistence or barely exceeds it; is in goods which are not desirable and/or cannot be exchanged or are difficult to exchange; or the payment is wholly or mostly comprised by cancellation of a debt or liability that was itself coerced, or belongs to someone else.Unfree labour is often more easily instituted and enforced on migrant workers, who have travelled far from their homeland" As the US seems to have decided that subsistence wages are around $5 per hour, sure you can manage to "not die" for alot less, but that price is what is require for what we view as a minimum standard of living. This includes be able to afford things like: running water, and letting you kids got to school instead of work. Luxuries in some places to be sure, but my question is should we ask this of American companies, who that can afford that pay scale. Yes, I'll pay $125.00 instead of $120.00 for a new pair of Nikes, if that money is being passed on the bottom rungs of the world economic ladder.
"A company doesn't have the right to incorporate in the USA if it can't follow US laws, and it doesn't have the right to operate in China if it can't obey Chinese laws."
I'm not disagreeing with your logic, but reframing something we currently take for granted. Should U.S. incorporated companies have to pay minimium wage to overseas employees?
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True, but the alternative would be to have a cable protruding from the user's head
If the eye is already defunct, why not remove the eye and implant the camera? It could probably be incorperated into an artifical eye with out much problem. Circuits and cameras are already tiny and the power requirements can't be very high. (nerves deal in microvolts?) A wearable inductive recharger and you are good to go. Reattach the muscle and you could even look around. I can understand the external camera for the early R&D, but I hope the final product is fully implanted.
It's a shame you posted AC, you are so very right. Part of the problem of progression being manifest in constant increases in power, is the rediculous difference between a noob and an experienced character. When damage and HP can be 100X you're starting stats, well that's just dumb.
These kind of fear tactics I believe are meant to help drive up the price of bandwidth when people are driving it down.
Shhh. not so loud. Do you realize what might happen if people thought about how fearmongering, in the form of rediculous "what if?" scenarious, is used to influence the barely concious masses? Next you're going to tell me that it might be better to have the evening news present stories about serious issues, instead of the human interest stories that help soothe our fragile populace. You Sir, are a Menace.
Voting doesn't seem to work so well anymore.
We could throw the complete inventory of a franchise music store into Boston Harbor. and maybe a few politicians as well.
This sounds like a war machine trying to make another war,
True, it sounds like a part of a modern "Operation Northwoods". http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1 This could be an even better reason to invade/bomb/disappear someone than terrorism.
But, sadly, what they're doing appears to be legal,
With this off the record business, I wonder if they are claiming it on taxes? Both on the giving and recieveing end of the "patent extortion". Basically just how under the table is this?
True. There is the arguement that if you can't instill morality and responsibility in the first 15 years, what makes you think that a few more will make the difference? By the time I was in highschool my parents knew they could trust my judgement, they would still want to know what I was up to, but they had stopped making choices for me. For contrast, we all know what happens to kids that come from over structured housholds when they get to college. I think it's called "Girls Gone Wild".
"I don't know what these kids did to piss the prosecution and the court off, but there is clearly malicious intent here."
So in the vein of "Who Guards the Guards?" What recourse do we as the public have against these people who twist the intention of the law into a worse crime? I would agree that this prosecution, and labeling as sex offenders has done considerable damage to these minors. Can you criminally prosecute a judge for malicious abuse of power? And as a side note: Will this be taken off of their records when they turn 18? After all they are minors.
"This marketing campaign hit ten cities. Only Boston freaked out."
So if Boston leaders are of the same caliber of leader as Jim Samples: They should accept some responsibility, admit they over reacted, and absolve Mr.Samples of this "heat" which has given him reason to step down. The marketing campaign was not at fault, Boston was.
As you walk through the metal detector, a guard sticks a camera in front of your face. There is you good camera shot. If you come up as a suspect, your mug shot appears on the security screen, or other biometric software crossreferences the camera info. More to my concern is what happens when your iris scan/facial biometrics/scanned fingerprint, becomes your legal ID.
That's great 'til the Necromongers come looking for the last Furian.
Please call it: Dynamic Methods Communication Application
There probably already are ordinances anyway that cover contributory actions by pedestrians in accidents
That doesn't mean they don't want one more. There are so many laws on the books covering stupid shit that most people break some old law every day, they are left on the books on purpose. For example: it is illegal to walk barefoot in Manhattan. The cops love this as an to relocate the homeless out of the nice neighborhoods. This "iPod fine" is another tool for the cops to "legally" harass someone. Good luck trying to prove that your iPod was off.
"it knows that this runs counter to recommended policy, and it doesn't care"
Yeah! Screw the people! It's not like we work for them anyhow.
Perhaps the sentence would be reduced. Remember what happened to that kid that was caught "tagging" cars in Singapore? He was sentenced to be caned, public outcry got President Clinton involved, the brat still got what was coming to him. His sentence was reduced from six cane strokes to four, probably as a PR favor to Clinton more than anything else. http://www.corpun.com/awfay9405.htm
we have academics shouting that we need more CS graduates
Translation: "I want to keep my postion here at the University. If the College of Fine Arts can churn out degrees into an over saturated market, so can we."
That'd be $3 million a year that the taxes payers of North Carolina aren't getting. May be offset by new jobs,
True, but you might be getting the same tax break. Let's scale this down from huge corporation to a single citzen level, and see how the deal sounds. $89 million tax break for a $600 million investment and + 200 jobs = $44,500 tax break ($1,483 per year) for a $300,000 house and paying someone to mow your lawn. How much of a tax break do you get for the interest on your mortgage? Is this deal actually evil or are the numbers just large enough to make it sound that way?
he is banned from accessing the internet for personal reasons for an unknown amount of time"
"Being part of a group of Samy's RL friends, we're not sure what his restitution is, but he is very likely not allowed to disclose it. "
Are the details of his sentence being kept secret for personal reasons or is there some sort of "secret punishment" clause in the patriot act that extends to script kiddies? If justice is being served here, why would the details need to be secret?
Try these:http://www.shapeupshop.com/fitness/weights/w rist_ankle_weights.htm
But please remember that tendons and ligiments take longer to "beef up" than muscle, don't be the first person to need orthopaedic joint surgery due to Wii induced injuries.
umm, that's not really from Bank of America. You just got phished.
... the Deathly Hallows? Shouldn't that be the Deadly Hallows? I don't think I've ever seen "deathly" used anywhere other than in front of "ill". Is this a difference between (UK) English and American English, or is Ms. Rowling giving us all a new way to use this adjective?
"The thing is, they didn't drill the hole to simply release the gas into the atmosphere."
No, I didn't think this was masterminded by Dr.Evil, but Exxon didn't commission the "Valdez" as an efficient way to color coordinate the northern pacific wildlife either. They both fucked up, bad. They both need to held accountable.
You make a valid point, in differentiating between standards and rights, and I wouldn't expect local companies in many parts of the world to be able to afford the US minimum wage. But I think there are some grey areas between standards and rights, particularly in the areas you mentioned, wage and safety. Lets examine wages: At one end of the scale let's have $5 per hour and at the other end $0 per hour, slavery. Obviously slavery is a human rights isssue, but what about unfree labour?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfree_labour "If payment occurs, it may be in one or more of the following forms: it does not exceed subsistence or barely exceeds it; is in goods which are not desirable and/or cannot be exchanged or are difficult to exchange; or the payment is wholly or mostly comprised by cancellation of a debt or liability that was itself coerced, or belongs to someone else.Unfree labour is often more easily instituted and enforced on migrant workers, who have travelled far from their homeland" As the US seems to have decided that subsistence wages are around $5 per hour, sure you can manage to "not die" for alot less, but that price is what is require for what we view as a minimum standard of living. This includes be able to afford things like: running water, and letting you kids got to school instead of work. Luxuries in some places to be sure, but my question is should we ask this of American companies, who that can afford that pay scale. Yes, I'll pay $125.00 instead of $120.00 for a new pair of Nikes, if that money is being passed on the bottom rungs of the world economic ladder.
From the Wiki link in the article:"About 86% of released gases are methane, with much less carbon dioxide and nitrogen emitted"
I wonder what the greenhouse gas contribution of this mud volcano is, especially since methane traps more heat than CO2.
"A company doesn't have the right to incorporate in the USA if it can't follow US laws, and it doesn't have the right to operate in China if it can't obey Chinese laws."
I'm not disagreeing with your logic, but reframing something we currently take for granted. Should U.S. incorporated companies have to pay minimium wage to overseas employees?