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901.
by deciplex 12y ago
Yeah, this is the way to do it, and I hope it starts to get more common on Steam and other platforms. Charging full price for alpha versions of your game, then putting it on sale once it's done, is a slap in the face to your biggest fa
902.
by deciplex 12y ago
We can have for-profit companies in those industries, sure, but if the taxpayer is footing the bill for some of the research, then some of the fruits of that research ought to go back to the taxpayer.
903.
by deciplex 12y ago
The hidden assumption is that by favoring, or at least not opposing, municipal broadband, you are supporting the total ban of competing networks, subsidizing network infrastructure with property taxes, five-year plans, gulags, etc etc.
904.
by deciplex 12y ago
If a city reserves the right to grant other parties the right to lay down the cable in the future, but never actually exercises that right, they have effectively given Comcast an exclusive franchise.
905.
by deciplex 12y ago
Early Access is a crapshoot though, and I'm glad Valve is taking steps to rein it in a bit. Too many developers start with basically a POC, sell it at normal release price points, and then development peters out after that. Godus and D
906.
by deciplex 12y ago
They are aware of their own motives, but they are probably not aware of why they have those motives in the first place. Offensive materials drive a person to violence, but the question you should ask is "what created this type of per
907.
by deciplex 12y ago
I'd get this too, providing they really did just make a no bullshit phone with stock Android and no stupid skin like HTC and Samsung phones. I've been using Nexus phones for a number of years, but looking for alternatives now that
908.
by deciplex 12y ago
This line of reasoning needs to come up a lot more, across a wide range of topics from universal health care to cab service and everything in between. The US is unique in a few ways because it has oceans on either side of it, and is otherwi
909.
by deciplex 12y ago
Japan doesn't bother with tips in the first place.
910.
by deciplex 12y ago
I actually don't have a problem with newspapers printing whatever the hell they want. However I do have a problem with it, when it's broadcast television or radio which is explicitly (and necessarily) a government-mandated monopol
911.
by deciplex 12y ago
Are they juries? A lay judge is different, and given the implementation of it, it seems barely better than what they had before, since a lay judge is typically going to just defer to the professional judge most of the time, anyway.
912.
by deciplex 12y ago
If you assume that most governments have been doing that to various degrees since forever, and the only thing that has changed is the degree to which the information can get out, and the ease of anonymous whistling-blowing (which still carr
913.
by deciplex 12y ago
Any institution can fail at any time, given the right trigger. The difference between a stable institution and an unstable one is the range of triggers that will destabilize it. When the legitimacy of an institution is threatened, this can
914.
by deciplex 12y ago
You could say this about any model of the universe that's computable. You don't seem to be making a claim that could possibly be useful, or I'm misunderstanding you.
915.
by deciplex 12y ago
We still haven't discovered the thing that the US government can ask, that the Swedish government will refuse. So I think they'll be able to get five.
916.
by deciplex 12y ago
I'm all for using what amounts to military tactics against poachers, but that alone is probably not going to solve the problem - there is simply too much money to be made. It reminds me of the drug trade, really, and while with drugs w
917.
by deciplex 12y ago
It's hard to reconcile the widespread success of this blatantly and openly manipulative horseshit, with the claim that America is a self-governing nation by the people.
918.
by deciplex 12y ago
> It would take a wider cultural consensus to respond in solidarity: theaters don't cave, studios don't cave, moviegoers don't cave, media doesn't feed panics, the legal system doesn't require cowering as a liab
919.
by deciplex 12y ago
Nothing wrong with exploiting people as long as you can argue they're better off this way, eh comrade?
920.
by deciplex 12y ago
Installing rootkits on the machines of unsuspecting victims who foolishly purchased music CDs from them, for a start. Turnabout is fair play.
921.
by deciplex 12y ago
> With these administration comments, is it more likely that NK was actually responsible? Less, in my view. It's true that if a liar says the sky is blue, that doesn't make the sky pink. However, if that liar is the United St
922.
by deciplex 12y ago
Then we should never believe a single word they say, especially considering their track record.
923.
by deciplex 12y ago
Any action that results in rich assholes losing a bit of money or potentially losing a bit of money falls under the umbrella of terrorism now, or 'economic terrorism' if you will. So copyright infringement and of course any form o
924.
by deciplex 12y ago
The problem is, that the same cultural stupidity that sees us pass new laws banning the newest designer drugs, is also the one that sees us banning relatively harmless and well-understood substances that have been used by humans for tens of
925.
by deciplex 12y ago
Even more likely, is that it isn't 'designed' at all, but rather cobbled together by disparate interests that are variously trying to appear tough on crime, scam the system of as much money as possible, advance their careers,
926.
by deciplex 12y ago
The author seems to be confusing the US government's use of agent orange in Vietnamese jungles, with their use of paraquat on marijuana farms in Mexico in the 70s.
927.
by deciplex 12y ago
Well, for one, that the fines and damages were n has no bearing on what profit the site made, if any. And, two, given the current legal environment in most of the West including Sweden, "the court believed the prosecutor" doesn&#x
928.
by deciplex 12y ago
Game of Thrones also has dragons and ice-zombies. 24 purports to be something that - while far-fetched - "could happen". I don't think you can say that about Game of Thrones. Also, in GoT you get a pretty good idea of the dow
929.
by deciplex 12y ago
Where I come from we call it 'doing a rayiner'.
930.
by deciplex 12y ago
I don't think you can lump Tokyo in with the rest of "not-the-US", really, because it's particularly bad here IMO, moreso than mostly anywhere else in the developed world. The market is shallow and the hiring managers ar

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