It seems like a good idea, but there'll always be another, less scrupulous, store, so ultimately, it won't have any effect, except for the kid being aware that some stores won't sell him any games anymore.
If, once the entire universe is explored (I'm not sure that that is even possible: it would require FTL travel; also, if the universe is infinite, how can we completely explore it in finite time?), no other life is found, all that that would mean, is that the emergence of life is an extremely rare event. Your God-probability formula is nonsense. God does not play dice.
I'm not sure if Google is in on it or not. I wonder if some websites requiring registration or some kind of fee are set to recognize Google's spiders and allow them free access.
I'm pretty sure that's what's happening. You can find out whether it's true by changing your browser id to the same id that Google uses (unless they recognize IP addresses as well, but that's always iffy).
"No, I'm sorry, you can't integrate my small component into your giant proprietary and ITAR-restricted satellite system unless you agree to give away the entire code to your giant ITAR-restricted satellite system to anybody who wants it. But hey, RMS says that freedom is good, so you can do that, right?"
No, because if it's yoursmall component, you can re-licence it however you wish.
P.S.: Mandriva 4 ever, screw this Ubundu fad. Mandrake was the first user-friendly distro and still holds the crown. 8-)
Really? That's not my experience. I used to run Mandrake/Mandriva 10.0 for quite a while, but other than looking good, I wasn't that happy with it. Firefox used to crash all the time. Now that I'm using Ubuntu, I just don't have the issues I had with Mandr(ake|iva) anymore.
You are entirely right, but I don't know how politicians could fix the mentality of parents, other than by employing extremely heavy-handed measures, which would probably be unconstitutional.
So educating the kids and encouraging them to become responsible adults, despite their bad upbringing, might be the best they can do.
I mean that living in a society means helping eachother. That way, those people you helped will in turn be able to help others (by earning more they'll pay more taxes, for example).
Cooperation is the human superpower, but it requires intelligence, to understand what kind of help someone else needs. Most animals lack this empathy because their brains don't support it, and thus they can't cooperate, or can only cooperate in specific circumstances, like surrounding prey during a hunt. Yet the weak humans, who have small teeth and no claws, are doing a lot better than most animals (cockroaches excluded). Many species of monkeys have advanced cooperating behaviour and live in tribes, and elephants are smart and cooperating too. But you don't see reptiles living in tribes and helping eachother (unless you play WAY too much D&D).
Taxes are just a way to force everyone to cooperate. I totally agree that taxes need to be spent well, of course, but taxes are necessary to maintain order, because there are a lot of assholes out there who don't want to cooperate, and would, if they knew they'd get away with it, rob and kill other people. Face it, it's a good strategy for one person: gain the fruits of someone else's work just by taking his riches! But it's really bad for society as a whole, because it scares and demotivates people, so it needs to be repressed. Hence we have police and prisons. (I'm not talking about victimless crimes here)
I haven't had time to think it through that well either, and now that you mention it, there is a plan in The Netherlands to make school books free for high school children. My cynical reaction to that is that the school book publishers will raise their prices, and only a few people in the government will notice it while the publishers laugh all the way to the bank.
But then again, I also believe the plan to make people pay per kilometer of car use is a scam at best (some IT company pushing a ridiculously expensive project that will keep them busy for years), an Orwellian system at worst (it involves tracking every car on the road). It can be, and is in fact being, done much simpler by having a tax on gasoline. That automatically punishes the gas guzzlers more than the fuel-efficient cars, as well. I can't understand how the politicians who are pushing this project haven't thought of that as well. I can't remember any of them arguing why more fuel taxes aren't a much cheaper way of metering car use.
I bet that when you turned 18, your dad presented you with a bill for all the expenses made during your upbringing, and kicked you out of the house in your knickers, too, right?
Helping eachother is the human superpower. Having big teeth and claws is the tiger superpower. You don't see many tigers around these days, do you?
It allows poor people to get a university degree, which is really expensive in America, and so build a better future for themselves and their children.
Also, it should be good for the country as a whole, having more scientists and engineers. Those extra beakers and hammers are really valuable!
I have actually been in the Hotmail server room, guess what. It's all Solaris on Sun in the backend.
When was that? It's well-known that Hotmail used to run on Sun/Solaris servers, but Microsoft claims to have migrated to their own dogfood several years ago.
On second thought, I wouldn't feed my dog Microsoft-branded food. They don't tell you what's in it;-)
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That produces CO2 as well.
It seems like a good idea, but there'll always be another, less scrupulous, store, so ultimately, it won't have any effect, except for the kid being aware that some stores won't sell him any games anymore.
My guess is the GP lives in the UK (look at his homepage fqdn), where the supermarkets actually carry liquor.
:-P
Or maybe the joke is that they're very stingy, and brought nothing
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
The employee was supposed to burn them and SAY he dumped them in a dumpster.
If, once the entire universe is explored (I'm not sure that that is even possible: it would require FTL travel; also, if the universe is infinite, how can we completely explore it in finite time?), no other life is found, all that that would mean, is that the emergence of life is an extremely rare event. Your God-probability formula is nonsense. God does not play dice.
I'm pretty sure that's what's happening. You can find out whether it's true by changing your browser id to the same id that Google uses (unless they recognize IP addresses as well, but that's always iffy).
No, because if it's your small component, you can re-licence it however you wish.
Really? That's not my experience. I used to run Mandrake/Mandriva 10.0 for quite a while, but other than looking good, I wasn't that happy with it. Firefox used to crash all the time. Now that I'm using Ubuntu, I just don't have the issues I had with Mandr(ake|iva) anymore.
Couldn't TrollTech have just fixed X.org (or XFree86) instead? That's what open source is all about, isn't it?
But how do you know it's carelessness, and not permission?
The computer says yes...
The Moonseed ate the olivine, of course!
You forgot the tag.
You are entirely right, but I don't know how politicians could fix the mentality of parents, other than by employing extremely heavy-handed measures, which would probably be unconstitutional.
So educating the kids and encouraging them to become responsible adults, despite their bad upbringing, might be the best they can do.
If we do not need more scientists, why would we need more educators who would just educate more superfluous scientists?
I mean that living in a society means helping eachother. That way, those people you helped will in turn be able to help others (by earning more they'll pay more taxes, for example).
Cooperation is the human superpower, but it requires intelligence, to understand what kind of help someone else needs. Most animals lack this empathy because their brains don't support it, and thus they can't cooperate, or can only cooperate in specific circumstances, like surrounding prey during a hunt. Yet the weak humans, who have small teeth and no claws, are doing a lot better than most animals (cockroaches excluded). Many species of monkeys have advanced cooperating behaviour and live in tribes, and elephants are smart and cooperating too. But you don't see reptiles living in tribes and helping eachother (unless you play WAY too much D&D).
Taxes are just a way to force everyone to cooperate. I totally agree that taxes need to be spent well, of course, but taxes are necessary to maintain order, because there are a lot of assholes out there who don't want to cooperate, and would, if they knew they'd get away with it, rob and kill other people. Face it, it's a good strategy for one person: gain the fruits of someone else's work just by taking his riches! But it's really bad for society as a whole, because it scares and demotivates people, so it needs to be repressed. Hence we have police and prisons. (I'm not talking about victimless crimes here)
For that you need the State Property civic.
I haven't had time to think it through that well either, and now that you mention it, there is a plan in The Netherlands to make school books free for high school children. My cynical reaction to that is that the school book publishers will raise their prices, and only a few people in the government will notice it while the publishers laugh all the way to the bank.
But then again, I also believe the plan to make people pay per kilometer of car use is a scam at best (some IT company pushing a ridiculously expensive project that will keep them busy for years), an Orwellian system at worst (it involves tracking every car on the road). It can be, and is in fact being, done much simpler by having a tax on gasoline. That automatically punishes the gas guzzlers more than the fuel-efficient cars, as well. I can't understand how the politicians who are pushing this project haven't thought of that as well. I can't remember any of them arguing why more fuel taxes aren't a much cheaper way of metering car use.
I bet that when you turned 18, your dad presented you with a bill for all the expenses made during your upbringing, and kicked you out of the house in your knickers, too, right?
Helping eachother is the human superpower. Having big teeth and claws is the tiger superpower. You don't see many tigers around these days, do you?
It allows poor people to get a university degree, which is really expensive in America, and so build a better future for themselves and their children.
Also, it should be good for the country as a whole, having more scientists and engineers. Those extra beakers and hammers are really valuable!
When was that? It's well-known that Hotmail used to run on Sun/Solaris servers, but Microsoft claims to have migrated to their own dogfood several years ago.
On second thought, I wouldn't feed my dog Microsoft-branded food. They don't tell you what's in it ;-)
Not to mention physics...
Elsewhere in this thread, it is explained that AdBlock Plus blocks that page. That is pretty odd, since it's a rant, not an ad.
You mean they use it to stick it to you?
Not the book per se, but the system of book + person following the book's instructions would.
Just like a brain is just a piece of meat, but the brain + the neural processes generate the conscious mind.