2 strikes is what it should be. 1 strike: you may have been wrongly accused/convicted 2nd strike: you are clearly a career criminal if one stint in jail didn't turn you around.
Actually, no. But I am of the opinion that cheating on your spouse should be a criminal offense.
Outside of marriage though, we need only the fact that the last woman you slept with can say you "raped" to keep anyone who's truly rational about their sexual encounters in-check...
But as you said no doubt 1/3rd of the world finds the concept of monogamy beyond the reach of there personal character.
This presumes that there gaming has NO moderating effect on the amount of time one spends sedentary. For some people I have no doubt that you are correct, they would simply do something else sedentary, for others well...
I submit to you the case of World of Warcraft.
I find that abuse of a video game is along the same lines as abuse of marijuana. It is slightly emotionally addictive, makes you feel good, reduces your intrinsic desire to "make something more" of yourself, placates you and two years later when you quit it you look back and wonder "where did those years of my life go? what was the point of it all"
But just because some people will abuse something doesn't mean that we need to ban, or even tell people not to use, the product. But education on the value of moderation and a balanced healthy lifestyle is always called for.
Causing harm isn't the only moral question in the world! The importance of holding a society together is something you may scoff at but our level of non-violence between people groups is historically unprecedented and not likely to continue if "do no unwanted harm" is our only societal criteria for law.
Look at the flow chart... with an average IQ of 100 exactly how many of these half-apes do you expect to be able to knowledgeably consent?
Who's to say what does and does not cause harm? Not exercising and eating right causes harm. Not waring your seat belt causes harm.
The libertarian mantra sounds wonderful but is so full of holes that a 7th grader would have trouble swallowing it.
Giving it away for free should not be legal. Sexual relations outside of the covenant of marge should be as illegal as prostitution. Eliminating the life that is formed after a sperm hits an embryo should not be legal except in self defense.
Once you understand the fundamental end-game then the intermediary steps of not funding embryonic-stemcell research and being against prostitution come from.
Who's decent? Liberal/libertarian/conservative isn't the limit of the political spectrum. Every single person has there own opinion and by your principle no one would be allowed to posit an opinion without allowing everyone else to chime in.
That said fairness has nothing to do with the cable as the FCC has no right to control jack shit over cable.
Charge a lot at first for the fan boys then less for the masses. This sets the price at the market-clearing equilibrium for both the fan-boy market, which is in-elastic, and the general market which is highly elastic.
Another way to do this would be to offer the standard edition for $20 and to offer a "collectors edition" at $60 which has some little thing in it that lets you prove to everyone in-game that you paid for the sucker's edition.
I am a hard-core right-wing pro-life christian... and I can assure you there is nothing in the teachings of Jesus that even closely resembles what you are saying.
The inclusion of environmental information forms the latest part of the company's plan to offer the public more data about climate change. In 2007 Google convened a high-level meeting of experts to help it develop sources of submarine information and environmental data.
It seems likely that the company will later unveil partnerships with institutions in Europe and the US as part of the project.
The question of how much liquid is on the surface is an important one because methane is a strong greenhouse gas on Titan as well as on Earth, but there is much more of it on Titan. If all the observed liquid on Titan is methane, it would only last a few million years, because as methane escapes into Titan's atmosphere, it breaks down and escapes into space.
If the methane were to run out, Titan could become much colder. Scientists believe that methane might be supplied to the atmosphere by venting from the interior in cryovolcanic eruptions. If so, the amount of methane, and the temperature on Titan, may have fluctuated dramatically in Titan's past.
But now all MS has to do to keep me from using any open-source software is to regularly scan my computer for "un-licensed" software... and if i happen to use said software the company I got the program from is in trouble!
You are 100% wrong. The same technology that allows for stem-cells from umbilical cords to be useful as a medical therapy for your child is the same technology that allows stem cells to be created from other cells.
If you want to help your child survive don't "bank" a single treatment of stem cells but, rather, donate the cells to science so that we can get to that medical advancement faster.
blow the secret! I buy many more books after watching someone spend half an hour explaining the intricacies of the book, ala book TV on c-span, than I buy books off the shelf I've never heard of.
If you had just posted a link to a video of you giving a speech to 10-30 people for 15-30 min I'd be much more inclined to buy the book. Better yet I'd be much more likely to show a video than a text-filled link to other business school professors and make adoption of your book in our classes much easier.
As it is I don't know you from harry and your offer of a evaluation copy of the book isn't something that's differentiating yourself in the market place.
MS has no monopoly, they just have a large user base, one generation of computers and MS could go under... If people simply refused to buy anything but apple computers.
If i can get cable or satellite TV then cable doesn't have a monopoly over how i receive my TV. If cable includes set-top-DVRs for 'free' this isn't a monopoly violating the law, particularly if this is a service also offered for free by satellite.
The fact that you can buy an apple computer with safari and OS-X proves that Microsoft isn't a monopoly.
Not that MS isn't bad for the computer industry, but lawsuits over what MS does with its own software package (which is what any operating system is)is inane and contrary to the freedom we all hope to enjoy as code-creators.
Take your example, If Nvidia (80% of the market in this thought experiment) forced everyone to buy an LCD with it's video cards and ATI(15% of the market in this example) was less compatible with games, charged more for it's hardware, bundled both the monitor and the mother board/processor with it's video cards then nVidia would no longer be a monopoly.
Like it or not MS built an operating system which sets the rules for everyone else, If it doesn't want something else running on it's OS it has every right not to let it run.
All this anti-trust nonsense just keeps us in a hazy middle-ground where MS is just "not-evil-enough" for most people to avoid changing to Linux.
Unless you are the CIO then you probably have failed to take into account the cost of human labor. It costs a great deal more than simple salary to employ someone and a great deal more than just the 'techs' to run pay for a technical project.
As in any market there are "needs" that are being filled. The need for a hobby extends well past games and games extend well past MMOS.
That said the particular desire for a hobby MMO with a PvP focus is served quite well by Age of Conan... the only problem is WHoL fills the exact same need and desire a bit better.
If they can't find a good job then they should get more education. A simple BS in CE is not good enough to work at, say, Intel, but a masters from a reasonable institution is.
If they can't do that then teaching is an option...
The truth is being qualified, smart and dedicated is what gets you a job and a degree shows a potential employer you have two of those three things, unfortunately it is neigh impossible to prove qualification without previous experience.
the solution? 1.) intern 2.) get a higher degree 3.) start your own firm or 4.) do something you are qualified to do.
I assure you giving the government enough power to enforce spam-control is giving it enough power to censor free speech in general.
I have every right to attempt to communicate with you. Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you have to listen to every communication addressed to you, simply that you have no right to tell me not to send the information in the first place. If you want to block what I've got to say that's one thing, but trying to use the government to keep me from talking to you is something entirely different.
It doesn't matter if my communication with you is political protest, telling you to buy penis pills or waring a t-shirt that says "bush planed 9/11". Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from You can delete my email or even spam-block it, but I fear the day when the government decides what communications are or are not "costing billions of dollars"
Freedom of speech is more important than $42 billion a year.
Political speech, asking for a petition to be signed, telling someone about your faith, selling door knobs... there is a plethora of good bad and highly subjective things people can say, repressing speech, even 'commercial' speech both a constitutional violation and a vary dangerous precedent to set.
I don't like receiving 'get a bigger penis' adds any more than the next guy, but the legal action should be against the individual for lying, not for communicating speaking.
That is a bad rule of thumb: Using more than about 8 to 10 things to try to explain the central cause of something goes beyond the limits of most reasonable multivariate statistics. If you go much beyond that then you probably need to collapse some constructs into each other.
There is a point where "causes" hit a level of covariance that they are no longer statistically sound.
To put it simply, age is a good factor to take into account which tends to change right-along with things like "bone density" and "ear hair" all of which, taken by themselves, will vary with each other and destroy the usefulness of your statistical analysis.
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2 strikes is what it should be. 1 strike: you may have been wrongly accused/convicted 2nd strike: you are clearly a career criminal if one stint in jail didn't turn you around.
Actually, no. But I am of the opinion that cheating on your spouse should be a criminal offense.
Outside of marriage though, we need only the fact that the last woman you slept with can say you "raped" to keep anyone who's truly rational about their sexual encounters in-check...
But as you said no doubt 1/3rd of the world finds the concept of monogamy beyond the reach of there personal character.
This presumes that there gaming has NO moderating effect on the amount of time one spends sedentary. For some people I have no doubt that you are correct, they would simply do something else sedentary, for others well...
I submit to you the case of World of Warcraft.
I find that abuse of a video game is along the same lines as abuse of marijuana. It is slightly emotionally addictive, makes you feel good, reduces your intrinsic desire to "make something more" of yourself, placates you and two years later when you quit it you look back and wonder "where did those years of my life go? what was the point of it all"
But just because some people will abuse something doesn't mean that we need to ban, or even tell people not to use, the product. But education on the value of moderation and a balanced healthy lifestyle is always called for.
Causing harm isn't the only moral question in the world! The importance of holding a society together is something you may scoff at but our level of non-violence between people groups is historically unprecedented and not likely to continue if "do no unwanted harm" is our only societal criteria for law.
Look at the flow chart... with an average IQ of 100 exactly how many of these half-apes do you expect to be able to knowledgeably consent?
Who's to say what does and does not cause harm? Not exercising and eating right causes harm. Not waring your seat belt causes harm.
The libertarian mantra sounds wonderful but is so full of holes that a 7th grader would have trouble swallowing it.
Giving it away for free should not be legal. Sexual relations outside of the covenant of marge should be as illegal as prostitution. Eliminating the life that is formed after a sperm hits an embryo should not be legal except in self defense.
Once you understand the fundamental end-game then the intermediary steps of not funding embryonic-stemcell research and being against prostitution come from.
Who's decent? Liberal/libertarian/conservative isn't the limit of the political spectrum. Every single person has there own opinion and by your principle no one would be allowed to posit an opinion without allowing everyone else to chime in.
That said fairness has nothing to do with the cable as the FCC has no right to control jack shit over cable.
Charge a lot at first for the fan boys then less for the masses. This sets the price at the market-clearing equilibrium for both the fan-boy market, which is in-elastic, and the general market which is highly elastic.
Another way to do this would be to offer the standard edition for $20 and to offer a "collectors edition" at $60 which has some little thing in it that lets you prove to everyone in-game that you paid for the sucker's edition.
Turns out that my Car's insurance has lapsed and been the victim of domestic violence.
I am a hard-core right-wing pro-life christian... and I can assure you there is nothing in the teachings of Jesus that even closely resembles what you are saying.
The inclusion of environmental information forms the latest part of the company's plan to offer the public more data about climate change. In 2007 Google convened a high-level meeting of experts to help it develop sources of submarine information and environmental data.
It seems likely that the company will later unveil partnerships with institutions in Europe and the US as part of the project.
The question of how much liquid is on the surface is an important one because methane is a strong greenhouse gas on Titan as well as on Earth, but there is much more of it on Titan. If all the observed liquid on Titan is methane, it would only last a few million years, because as methane escapes into Titan's atmosphere, it breaks down and escapes into space.
If the methane were to run out, Titan could become much colder. Scientists believe that methane might be supplied to the atmosphere by venting from the interior in cryovolcanic eruptions. If so, the amount of methane, and the temperature on Titan, may have fluctuated dramatically in Titan's past.
But now all MS has to do to keep me from using any open-source software is to regularly scan my computer for "un-licensed" software... and if i happen to use said software the company I got the program from is in trouble!
You are 100% wrong. The same technology that allows for stem-cells from umbilical cords to be useful as a medical therapy for your child is the same technology that allows stem cells to be created from other cells.
If you want to help your child survive don't "bank" a single treatment of stem cells but, rather, donate the cells to science so that we can get to that medical advancement faster.
blow the secret! I buy many more books after watching someone spend half an hour explaining the intricacies of the book, ala book TV on c-span, than I buy books off the shelf I've never heard of.
If you had just posted a link to a video of you giving a speech to 10-30 people for 15-30 min I'd be much more inclined to buy the book. Better yet I'd be much more likely to show a video than a text-filled link to other business school professors and make adoption of your book in our classes much easier.
As it is I don't know you from harry and your offer of a evaluation copy of the book isn't something that's differentiating yourself in the market place.
MS has no monopoly, they just have a large user base, one generation of computers and MS could go under... If people simply refused to buy anything but apple computers.
If i can get cable or satellite TV then cable doesn't have a monopoly over how i receive my TV.
If cable includes set-top-DVRs for 'free' this isn't a monopoly violating the law, particularly if this is a service also offered for free by satellite.
The fact that you can buy an apple computer with safari and OS-X proves that Microsoft isn't a monopoly.
Not that MS isn't bad for the computer industry, but lawsuits over what MS does with its own software package (which is what any operating system is)is inane and contrary to the freedom we all hope to enjoy as code-creators.
Take your example, If Nvidia (80% of the market in this thought experiment) forced everyone to buy an LCD with it's video cards and ATI(15% of the market in this example) was less compatible with games, charged more for it's hardware, bundled both the monitor and the mother board/processor with it's video cards then nVidia would no longer be a monopoly.
Like it or not MS built an operating system which sets the rules for everyone else, If it doesn't want something else running on it's OS it has every right not to let it run.
All this anti-trust nonsense just keeps us in a hazy middle-ground where MS is just "not-evil-enough" for most people to avoid changing to Linux.
If you vote to like everything then you are associated with everyone. For only $5000 a month a studio can make every one of it's releases 5-star.
Pay some homeless guys $10 and a bottle of whiskey and you can rate everything in a day.
Unless you are the CIO then you probably have failed to take into account the cost of human labor. It costs a great deal more than simple salary to employ someone and a great deal more than just the 'techs' to run pay for a technical project.
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Do you have a hobby that costs less than $20 a month?
As in any market there are "needs" that are being filled. The need for a hobby extends well past games and games extend well past MMOS.
That said the particular desire for a hobby MMO with a PvP focus is served quite well by Age of Conan... the only problem is WHoL fills the exact same need and desire a bit better.
If they can't find a good job then they should get more education. A simple BS in CE is not good enough to work at, say, Intel, but a masters from a reasonable institution is.
If they can't do that then teaching is an option...
The truth is being qualified, smart and dedicated is what gets you a job and a degree shows a potential employer you have two of those three things, unfortunately it is neigh impossible to prove qualification without previous experience.
the solution? 1.) intern 2.) get a higher degree 3.) start your own firm or 4.) do something you are qualified to do.
I assure you giving the government enough power to enforce spam-control is giving it enough power to censor free speech in general.
I have every right to attempt to communicate with you. Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you have to listen to every communication addressed to you, simply that you have no right to tell me not to send the information in the first place. If you want to block what I've got to say that's one thing, but trying to use the government to keep me from talking to you is something entirely different.
It doesn't matter if my communication with you is political protest, telling you to buy penis pills or waring a t-shirt that says "bush planed 9/11". Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from
You can delete my email or even spam-block it, but I fear the day when the government decides what communications are or are not "costing billions of dollars"
Freedom of speech is more important than $42 billion a year.
Political speech, asking for a petition to be signed, telling someone about your faith, selling door knobs... there is a plethora of good bad and highly subjective things people can say, repressing speech, even 'commercial' speech both a constitutional violation and a vary dangerous precedent to set.
I don't like receiving 'get a bigger penis' adds any more than the next guy, but the legal action should be against the individual for lying, not for communicating speaking.
That is a bad rule of thumb: Using more than about 8 to 10 things to try to explain the central cause of something goes beyond the limits of most reasonable multivariate statistics. If you go much beyond that then you probably need to collapse some constructs into each other.
There is a point where "causes" hit a level of covariance that they are no longer statistically sound.
To put it simply, age is a good factor to take into account which tends to change right-along with things like "bone density" and "ear hair" all of which, taken by themselves, will vary with each other and destroy the usefulness of your statistical analysis.