Many people seem to get it wrong; "well regulated" does NOT mean "under government control" at all. It means: well-trained, in good order, prepared to strike as soon as the need comes.
Since the money is fiat, i.e. not backed by a fixed standard in the game, have people seen monetary inflation causing price increases in the game, or has the population of players offset any growth in money? My experience from the horde side of the server Aerie Peak is deflation on grinding items (particularly from mining and herbalism), and inflation on very rare (epic) items. Too many people have learned the auction house trick of buying to keep prices up. That kept the prices artificially high, and too many people took up herbalism and mining. Suddenly everyone was flooding the market, and prices more than halved in a month.
Relatively little gold is taken out of the market by Blizzard, though, so when an item a lot of people really want becomes available, the prices can get very high.
I assumed this would have been the obvious joke to any nerd worth his pocket protector. Pretty disappointing that it wasn't tagget omegamolecule, and your message was the only one mentioning it.
If you stream news to someone else, your removal of an article affects your downstream servers as well. It's quite easy to remove an article - always has been. Any articles they are ordered to take down will have been forwarded to the peering servers long before they have any chance to remove them, and even if they weren't, all the pro-servers would just get the articles from other servers.
But HD-DVD is only 15Gigs per side so there is an advantage to the 25Gig/side Blu-Ray discs. Not really. Looking at discs from Verbatim, HD DVD-R is available in dual layer 30 GB discs, while Blu-Ray is only available in single layer 25 GB discs. The price for BD is only about 5% lower in the store I checked, so the price/GB is lower for HD-DVD.
That's why I would never go anywhere outside my home country, and especially not to the US, without travel insurance. Make sure it says unlimited medical expenses.
Blu-ray: Scratch resistant coating, huge plus when the little dots are easily wiped out by scratches. HD DVD should be at least as scratch resistant, considering the data is stored in the middle of the disc instead of just under the surface. That's the reason why Blu-ray needs the coating in the first place.
But I guess my initial post led you astray. Free markets are not about efficiency, they are about freedom. Even if an omnisicient economic czar was able to command an economy with perfect efficiency, I would still want a free market simply because I want to be free. Fortunately, free markets are much more efficient than command economies, so I get the best of both worlds. Freedom AND prosperity!
The freedom to get stuck with one specific provider is certainly more limited in Europe, but on the other hand the customers freedom to switch between providers or use roaming in an area the provider you subscribe does not cover is much better. This again has lead to more customers and better services. Ie. more freedom and prosperity in almost every area other than choosing the standard to use.
Do you really think government control can match money and brains any better?
Thanks to government regulation we have had only GSM pretty much all the time in Europe. Because everyone focused solely on that system, Europe was way ahead of the US in every aspect of mobile phone use for a long time. Enforcing standards can be very good for society.
No, I said that "I would advise [people] to look at Reason's articles... and, with all due consideration, study, and time, try to develop a healthy attitude about the reality of global warming." It is apparently obvious to you that basing your ideas about Science on political groups is Not Healthy. So, umm... no, you shouldn't do that.
So basically you're saying that one shouldn't base ones opinions on political groups, except the political group you happen to support.
If we give the monkey human rights, then we have to expect it to behave responsibly.
Why do you expect monkeys to behave responsibly, when you don't expect mentally retarded to do it? I guess what you're basically saying is that it's the average intelligence of a species that decides which rights it should have, but why? It seems like an arbitrary rule that is more related to feelings and who you can identify with, than logic.
$10K is a pretty damn paltry bribe. $100K research grants are pretty common for those in the sciences, with $1M+ programs not unheard of. As for personal salary, a PhD college professor in the sciences is easily at $100k+/year when you include summer salary.
But then they normally have to do some research. Here they only have to sit down an evening to write an essay.
I have a database of 80,000 hands of online poker (which is small potatoes compared to some). Everything is in statitistical line with what it should be (and yes, I've even ran queries of how often I flop a pair, etc.).
The interesting thing would be to check if there are any irregularities on when you get the good cards, compared to when others get them. Giving people the good cards at the same time would not be visible if you just check how often *you* get which cards. It would increase the chance of people betting and calling, though, which gives a higher rake.
As they once read the articles and short stories in Playboy too, as I think they published stories by Artur C Clarke and Ian Fleming amongst others.
It reminds me message I saw long ago on a mailinglist, with some statistics from Playboy or another of the high profile soft core web sites. On the bottom there were a few hits with lynx. One of the replies was "I guess some people really *do* read it for the articles".
the Kyoto treaty didn't get a single negative vote against it, not one (95-0), really if it's that good, or even partly good you'd think someone would have wanted it....
Most of the rest of the world wants it. It's good, but because the US is the worst polluter, it has the most to lose.
It's not so much that Americans are "made" to work hard, because they really aren't.
It's probably more that they know they'll be fired if they don't. It's much harder to fire people in most European countries. Also there's "The American Dream", which seems to have people convinced that if they just work enough, they'll be rich and happy. In Europe we know that won't happen to most people anyway, so we're just happy with what we have.
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> Wow, a couple of networks may at some point be wrongly blocked by mistake for a short period of time till the mistake is identified.
You REALLY believe these mistakes will happen seldom and be fixed quickly? You must be new here.
Many people seem to get it wrong; "well regulated" does NOT mean "under government control" at all. It means: well-trained, in good order, prepared to strike as soon as the need comes.
No, it doesn't. Look up the word "regulate".
I assumed this would have been the obvious joke to any nerd worth his pocket protector. Pretty disappointing that it wasn't tagget omegamolecule, and your message was the only one mentioning it.
But the smart money is still on "Burgers". / and no concept of portion control.
The smart money would be on hearing the message before you comment, which you obviously didn't.
That's why I would never go anywhere outside my home country, and especially not to the US, without travel insurance. Make sure it says unlimited medical expenses.
But I guess my initial post led you astray. Free markets are not about efficiency, they are about freedom. Even if an omnisicient economic czar was able to command an economy with perfect efficiency, I would still want a free market simply because I want to be free. Fortunately, free markets are much more efficient than command economies, so I get the best of both worlds. Freedom AND prosperity!
The freedom to get stuck with one specific provider is certainly more limited in Europe, but on the other hand the customers freedom to switch between providers or use roaming in an area the provider you subscribe does not cover is much better. This again has lead to more customers and better services. Ie. more freedom and prosperity in almost every area other than choosing the standard to use.
Do you really think government control can match money and brains any better?
Thanks to government regulation we have had only GSM pretty much all the time in Europe. Because everyone focused solely on that system, Europe was way ahead of the US in every aspect of mobile phone use for a long time. Enforcing standards can be very good for society.
No, I said that "I would advise [people] to look at Reason's articles ... and, with all due consideration, study, and time, try to develop a healthy attitude about the reality of global warming." It is apparently obvious to you that basing your ideas about Science on political groups is Not Healthy. So, umm... no, you shouldn't do that.
So basically you're saying that one shouldn't base ones opinions on political groups, except the political group you happen to support.
If we give the monkey human rights, then we have to expect it to behave responsibly.
Why do you expect monkeys to behave responsibly, when you don't expect mentally retarded to do it? I guess what you're basically saying is that it's the average intelligence of a species that decides which rights it should have, but why? It seems like an arbitrary rule that is more related to feelings and who you can identify with, than logic.
$10K is a pretty damn paltry bribe. $100K research grants are pretty common for those in the sciences, with $1M+ programs not unheard of. As for personal salary, a PhD college professor in the sciences is easily at $100k+/year when you include summer salary.
But then they normally have to do some research. Here they only have to sit down an evening to write an essay.
I have a database of 80,000 hands of online poker (which is small potatoes compared to some). Everything is in statitistical line with what it should be (and yes, I've even ran queries of how often I flop a pair, etc.).
The interesting thing would be to check if there are any irregularities on when you get the good cards, compared to when others get them. Giving people the good cards at the same time would not be visible if you just check how often *you* get which cards. It would increase the chance of people betting and calling, though, which gives a higher rake.
Why would an online casino stack the deck?
If several people have good hands often, they will bet more, and the casino will get more rake.
As they once read the articles and short stories in Playboy too, as I think they published stories by Artur C Clarke and Ian Fleming amongst others.
It reminds me message I saw long ago on a mailinglist, with some statistics from Playboy or another of the high profile soft core web sites. On the bottom there were a few hits with lynx. One of the replies was "I guess some people really *do* read it for the articles".
the Kyoto treaty didn't get a single negative vote against it, not one (95-0), really if it's that good, or even partly good you'd think someone would have wanted it....
Most of the rest of the world wants it. It's good, but because the US is the worst polluter, it has the most to lose.
CCE is exceptional for progressive video, but for interlaced material like home DV recordings Canopus ProCoder is generally considered better.
Trying to force religion on a population against their will is an act of futility
It worked very well in Norway, even though there are still many traces of the old beliefs.
Isn't that the whole reason we watch porn, because the same woman every night bores us!?
You're on Slashdot, you insensitive clod. It's because no woman any night bores us.
Enron.
It's not so much that Americans are "made" to work hard, because they really aren't.
It's probably more that they know they'll be fired if they don't. It's much harder to fire people in most European countries. Also there's "The American Dream", which seems to have people convinced that if they just work enough, they'll be rich and happy. In Europe we know that won't happen to most people anyway, so we're just happy with what we have.
Now there's a red flag if I ever saw one. Maybe there's more to this story than the archaeological establishment wants to acknowledge.
Or maybe they just know more than you about archaeology and the history of the location.
> This will be hacked within a few months of it coming out the same way CSS was
It took several years, and it wasn't actually cracked, more like "discovered" due to a mistake.