Which obvious signs are you referring to? We are inundated as a society with killing. Movies, TV, news, video games, music, even the fucking opera is usually about killing. So now we're unstable when we parrot all these horrible things that we see every/hear day? You're not unstable if you watch killing, but you are unstable if you write about it...
It's like driving ten extra miles to a store where you can get a 5 dollar discount. "Yeah but I save 5 dollers!" -"Yeah and you pay 6 dollar worth of fuel, you complete retard!"
If it costs you $6 in fuel to drive 10 miles, I would say you are the retard.
Unless you make a habit of replacing all of your devices every year, the extended warranty is often useful
This is a sucker's game and you've played it. It's only valuable if you buy it for a device that fails. The only problem is you cannot predetermine which device will fail, so you end up buying it for all your devices. Let's say you buy 10 devices each for $1000 (just to keep the math simple), and you get the extended warranty for all of them, and you pay a 20% premium for it. You've basically paid and extra $2000, enough to completely replace 2 devices at the same price (but remember prices go down over the next few years so you actually get MORE device for the money in a couple years). The chances of more than one of those devices failing is extremely slim. Modern electronics are extremely reliable (and you usually pre-determine reliability by reading reviews to eliminate the really unreliable brands). I don't have spreadsheets and shit with the numbers, but you can be sure the insurance company does, and would not want you to see it. You're basically gambling, but you're doing it blind, without any knowledge of the odds. For all you know the odds could be 1billion:1 against you. The insurance company knows the odds, and you can be certain they don't work in your favor. You are much better off taking that $2000 and investing it, or even going to Vegas where you know exactly what your odds are.
Fast forward 200 years or so and you have the artists back in the dog-house and the assorted middle-men controlling everything.
Well, to be fair, those artists are the ones who signed the contracts. They should not have signed them to begin with. Publishers are scum, plain and simple. Do not get into bed with scum, unless you have iron-clad contracts. They should demand a flat-fee or a percentage of gross revenue, period. If not, walk away. Otherwise, bring the Anal Lube and grease up... There should be absolutely no calculation that the publisher can perform in the middle, because they will take advantage.
My favorite example is a primary school teacher who happens to like BDSM sex.
The fact that you, and several other commenters, use this specific example of something which is considered "bad" only proves Schmidt's point. Out of all possible bad things, you choose this specifically. This says a lot about you and society -- the stigma is very high for this behavior. This is exactly why the whole "If you don't want people to know about it" thing applies. It's obvious that society views this behavior as "bad", thus if you engage in it you probably don't want people to know about it. And if you feel like you are in a position where if people found out about it, it would ruin your life, you might consider not doing it. I'm not saying society is right -- consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want as long as they know and accept all the risks, but one of those risks is that people will find out and your life will be ruined. Right or wrong it's just a fact of life. Schmidt is not saying "only do the things we tell you to", he's saying "Anything you do on the internet is not private, so either keep it to yourself or stop doing it if you don't want people to know about it"
Our group, the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team, based out of the MIT Media Lab, has created a system where you get money not just for finding balloons, but for getting people to join the hunt who find the balloons, or for getting people who get people who find balloons, etc.
More importantly, racing is about car control. A mass-marketed sim like Grand Turismo does not approach the levels of realism required to be an adequate sim for learning this.
I can't for the life of my understand how it is that people bemoan privacy violations everywhere except Google
How is this a privacy violation? You're already using DNS. You're already letting someone else know the sites you visit. In fact, you probably use the exact same DNS server 100% of the time, so some entity somewhere knows 100% of the sites you visit ALREADY. So how is it a privacy violation to use Google's DNS server instead of your ISP's?
And secondly, is the same encoding used for the entire book? If so, it should become immediately obvious if she's on the right track by just trying to decode some of the other pages.
Who says the exact same encoding needs to be used for the entire book. If DaVinci did write it, he is genius enough to use a completely different coding scheme on every single page.
Simple : the illustrations are clearly not representation of reality.
Did you RTFA? She is quite convinced that the manuscript was penned by DaVinci when he was 8-10 years old. In that context, the illustrations are EXACTLY the kinds that an 8-year old would draw, so no, they wouldn't be particularly realistic. Also in that context, I doubt it was intended as something like a botanical textbook, but rather just the ramblings of the mind of an 8-year old genius.
Furthermore, since people don't actually grow their own food anymore, and have absolutely no idea where their food comes from or how it got there, as far as they know this could already be a reality. Jimmy Dean or Hormel could have perfected this technology 10 years ago and since nobody knows anything about their food, they would be happily eating it thinking it was real meat. The "I love how real meat tastes!" argument is flimsy, because 99.99% of the people who say that actually have no idea if the meat they are eating is real to begin with.
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I want to know how much money _net_ he'll get out of the deal after the Hollywood Accounting is done.
He'll double his initial $300 investment.
In which they had no choice
Are you saying the publishers held a gun to their head and forced them to sign the bad contract?
there were obvious signs that she was unstable
Which obvious signs are you referring to? We are inundated as a society with killing. Movies, TV, news, video games, music, even the fucking opera is usually about killing. So now we're unstable when we parrot all these horrible things that we see every/hear day? You're not unstable if you watch killing, but you are unstable if you write about it...
It's like driving ten extra miles to a store where you can get a 5 dollar discount. "Yeah but I save 5 dollers!" -"Yeah and you pay 6 dollar worth of fuel, you complete retard!"
If it costs you $6 in fuel to drive 10 miles, I would say you are the retard.
how's she gonna hack it against Vladimir Putin
Maybe she can drink him under the table.
Seriously, anyone who thinks this is a bad news for Paypal doesn't understand the system.
You're right. It's good news for Paypal. But it's bad news for everyone else...
PayPal is not regulated as a bank in the U.S.
That's even worse...
Unless you make a habit of replacing all of your devices every year, the extended warranty is often useful
This is a sucker's game and you've played it. It's only valuable if you buy it for a device that fails. The only problem is you cannot predetermine which device will fail, so you end up buying it for all your devices. Let's say you buy 10 devices each for $1000 (just to keep the math simple), and you get the extended warranty for all of them, and you pay a 20% premium for it. You've basically paid and extra $2000, enough to completely replace 2 devices at the same price (but remember prices go down over the next few years so you actually get MORE device for the money in a couple years). The chances of more than one of those devices failing is extremely slim. Modern electronics are extremely reliable (and you usually pre-determine reliability by reading reviews to eliminate the really unreliable brands). I don't have spreadsheets and shit with the numbers, but you can be sure the insurance company does, and would not want you to see it. You're basically gambling, but you're doing it blind, without any knowledge of the odds. For all you know the odds could be 1billion:1 against you. The insurance company knows the odds, and you can be certain they don't work in your favor. You are much better off taking that $2000 and investing it, or even going to Vegas where you know exactly what your odds are.
Fast forward 200 years or so and you have the artists back in the dog-house and the assorted middle-men controlling everything.
Well, to be fair, those artists are the ones who signed the contracts. They should not have signed them to begin with. Publishers are scum, plain and simple. Do not get into bed with scum, unless you have iron-clad contracts. They should demand a flat-fee or a percentage of gross revenue, period. If not, walk away. Otherwise, bring the Anal Lube and grease up... There should be absolutely no calculation that the publisher can perform in the middle, because they will take advantage.
I don't see what the Federation of Bajoran Industrialists has to do with this discussion
My favorite example is a primary school teacher who happens to like BDSM sex.
The fact that you, and several other commenters, use this specific example of something which is considered "bad" only proves Schmidt's point. Out of all possible bad things, you choose this specifically. This says a lot about you and society -- the stigma is very high for this behavior. This is exactly why the whole "If you don't want people to know about it" thing applies. It's obvious that society views this behavior as "bad", thus if you engage in it you probably don't want people to know about it. And if you feel like you are in a position where if people found out about it, it would ruin your life, you might consider not doing it. I'm not saying society is right -- consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want as long as they know and accept all the risks, but one of those risks is that people will find out and your life will be ruined. Right or wrong it's just a fact of life. Schmidt is not saying "only do the things we tell you to", he's saying "Anything you do on the internet is not private, so either keep it to yourself or stop doing it if you don't want people to know about it"
A copyrighted work [wikipedia.org]? Performed in public? If I were a lawyer my nipples would explode with joy.
Well I hope you have a spare set of nipples, because the venue owner is responsible for the licensing.
Our group, the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team, based out of the MIT Media Lab, has created a system where you get money not just for finding balloons, but for getting people to join the hunt who find the balloons, or for getting people who get people who find balloons, etc.
Maybe you could get Bernie Madoff to help.
More importantly, racing is about car control. A mass-marketed sim like Grand Turismo does not approach the levels of realism required to be an adequate sim for learning this.
Uhh, doesn't TFA prove otherwise...?
When you've got FTTH at home you get used to certain levels of image quality ...
Like getting used to the convenience of the automated ATM machine...
I can't for the life of my understand how it is that people bemoan privacy violations everywhere except Google
How is this a privacy violation? You're already using DNS. You're already letting someone else know the sites you visit. In fact, you probably use the exact same DNS server 100% of the time, so some entity somewhere knows 100% of the sites you visit ALREADY. So how is it a privacy violation to use Google's DNS server instead of your ISP's?
However, in the meager amount of facts presented, it was said that he had gotten permission from a previous supervisor.
And secondly, is the same encoding used for the entire book? If so, it should become immediately obvious if she's on the right track by just trying to decode some of the other pages.
Who says the exact same encoding needs to be used for the entire book. If DaVinci did write it, he is genius enough to use a completely different coding scheme on every single page.
Well, in the 4th dimension a 3D sphere would look flat, just like a 2D sphere looks flat to us.
Simple : the illustrations are clearly not representation of reality.
Did you RTFA? She is quite convinced that the manuscript was penned by DaVinci when he was 8-10 years old. In that context, the illustrations are EXACTLY the kinds that an 8-year old would draw, so no, they wouldn't be particularly realistic. Also in that context, I doubt it was intended as something like a botanical textbook, but rather just the ramblings of the mind of an 8-year old genius.
If you found an alien would you tell people about it?
Slowing down to convoy, or taking a different route would reduce profits.
Doesn't paying $20million in ransom to pirates also reduce profits? Surely a convoy or detour can't cost >$20million...
Furthermore, since people don't actually grow their own food anymore, and have absolutely no idea where their food comes from or how it got there, as far as they know this could already be a reality. Jimmy Dean or Hormel could have perfected this technology 10 years ago and since nobody knows anything about their food, they would be happily eating it thinking it was real meat. The "I love how real meat tastes!" argument is flimsy, because 99.99% of the people who say that actually have no idea if the meat they are eating is real to begin with.
Well, anything could be the key to ultra-thin batteries. Wake me up when you find the thing that is the key...
A newspaper is something you line your pet gerbil's cage with.