politics, particularly congress/parliament/whatever is one of the few jobs where the requirements to get in don't have a damn thing to do with what you're doing once you get there.
(winning popularity contests by outspending the other guy is NOT a skill the use of which is conducive to good government)
i agree with your point and everything, but i'd just like to point out a weird thing:
the place where i live has Really good water (when a recent earthquake hasn't broken the water system or something). good enough that i believe they use it (or near by, similar sources) as the water in the bottled water bottles.
there's still a big market for bottled water.
this is almost entirely due to the awesome bottles it comes in. *laughs* (the rest of it seems to come down mostly to it being easier to find a shop selling bottled water than any sort of publicly accessible drinking fountain or whatever when you're out and about. pretty much anywhere that sells food has it, excluding restaurants that are trying to hard. heh.)
of course, the same logic still applies: people would be pretty pissed off (and the market for the stuff would basically die) if it was impossible to put anything else in those bottles.
i actually own a pair of... support socks, or something? kinda useful/nifty in some ways. i Think they're labeled that way... either way, the support structures in them mean you can't wear them on the wrong for with anything even approaching comfort.
actually, if it's raining, but not too cold, some sort of waterproof jacket and shorts makes a lot of sense (keep your core warm and dry, but legs are a heck of a lot easier to dry than trousers.)
also, once you have a game or two out and thus the quality and nature of your product is a known quantity, the fixed cost of making a given game can often be covered by things like kickstarter and such, at least in part.
provided you're not making generic, over priced, pointlessly hardware straining for no visable gain, shooter number N anyway.
(it's also insane how much you can cut the cost of a video game by Not Including Voice-overs! enough that including them adds so much that a story that would otherwise have hundreds of branching paths which react to the players actions (and can even be generated semi-randomly to fit how things are going) is reduced to maybe 3 fixed paths which merge as much as possible. i've certainly read very good explainations of this issue even if i'm not explaining it well.
seriously, the whole thing's like paint on the spaceshuttle's external fuel tank most of the time.)
Re: What would the world be like with fact based laws?
*thinks* well, maybe that and a second one for, say, 'business specific laws' or 'activities that require licenses' or what have you. but it would still be closer to the size of a US comic book (you know, those insane ones that charge you through the nose for, if you're lucky, 20 colour pages that barely advance the story at all) than an encyclopedia.
... Galileo was a terrible scientist who got in trouble not for his science, but for generally being a dick, particularly to those in power. (if you look into it, you find that while his conclusions about the whole earth/sun thing were right, his theories were actually nonsense and his research was poorly done. assuming i'm remembering rightly.)
i'll say that again: he got into trouble over politics completely unrelated to the science, and his science was bad Anyway.
not that the player who immediately changes his mind with no consideration of the situation in response to that question is necessarily any better, mind you. (GMs love to randomize their bluffing... and double bluffing...)
Re: I made a loaf of bread once... why don't you keep paying me?
reasonable time limits, stricter definitions of it's limits that can be understood Without a court case (which could go either way), lack of constant attempts to use it to rip off the public, lack of constant attempts to get the public to PAY for this, lack of rampant abuse of it...
there's a lot of things that would lead to significantly more respect for the concept.
(seriously, i'm not really a music person, so i'd not even heard of Amanda Palmer prior to reading about her on techdirt. this is actually the first bit of info i remember encountering that even tells me she Has a husband. hehe.)
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they're just mostly absolutely crap statesmen.
politics, particularly congress/parliament/whatever is one of the few jobs where the requirements to get in don't have a damn thing to do with what you're doing once you get there.
(winning popularity contests by outspending the other guy is NOT a skill the use of which is conducive to good government)
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the place where i live has Really good water (when a recent earthquake hasn't broken the water system or something). good enough that i believe they use it (or near by, similar sources) as the water in the bottled water bottles.
there's still a big market for bottled water.
this is almost entirely due to the awesome bottles it comes in. *laughs* (the rest of it seems to come down mostly to it being easier to find a shop selling bottled water than any sort of publicly accessible drinking fountain or whatever when you're out and about. pretty much anywhere that sells food has it, excluding restaurants that are trying to hard. heh.)
of course, the same logic still applies: people would be pretty pissed off (and the market for the stuff would basically die) if it was impossible to put anything else in those bottles.
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Re: is this your copyright?
it implies a much saner and more reasonable system than actually exists.
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Re: Copyright is absured.
the answer to the second one is because representative democracy isn't, and corporations suck.
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Re: Re: I have a bitova problem
provided you're not making generic, over priced, pointlessly hardware straining for no visable gain, shooter number N anyway.
(it's also insane how much you can cut the cost of a video game by Not Including Voice-overs! enough that including them adds so much that a story that would otherwise have hundreds of branching paths which react to the players actions (and can even be generated semi-randomly to fit how things are going) is reduced to maybe 3 fixed paths which merge as much as possible. i've certainly read very good explainations of this issue even if i'm not explaining it well.
seriously, the whole thing's like paint on the spaceshuttle's external fuel tank most of the time.)
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Re: Re: Flippit
would have clicked 'funny' but past evidence supports the idea that yes, they Are that stupid...
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Re: Oh, please...
if you're lucky, it even encourages further good action.
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Re: Money + Powers-That-Be = your idea is heresy
i'll say that again: he got into trouble over politics completely unrelated to the science, and his science was bad Anyway.
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if nothing else, it's BUILT on personal responsibility.
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Re: I made a loaf of bread once... why don't you keep paying me?
there's a lot of things that would lead to significantly more respect for the concept.
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Re: Re: Copyright and human rights
it would seem that any two of :
American
Idiot
Right of Center politically (economically or otherwise)
produces a misuse of the word.
sadly, there are far too many people who fall into one pair or another of those categories.
(especially when you realise that the entire US political spectrum is noticeably right-shifted compared to the rest of the world.)
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(seriously, i'm not really a music person, so i'd not even heard of Amanda Palmer prior to reading about her on techdirt. this is actually the first bit of info i remember encountering that even tells me she Has a husband. hehe.)
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