Why was this modded down?

It seems like a fair description of an actual event.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Swedish law doesn't allow extraordinary rendition, but that doesn't mean it never happens. Sweden has cooperated with CIA kidnapping on at least one occasion.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/...

That's not correct.

Wikileaks actually released both videos at the same time, with the edited "short version" clearly labeled as such.

Here is a link to the videos: https://collateralmurder.wikil...

Sure, but did you publish a Persian-language blog for an Iranian audience?

The summary doesn't accuse this guy of being an early internet user. It accuses him of being an early Iranian blogger. Which he was.

Actually, what helps criminals is the black market created by prohibition.

When we end prohibition, the criminal gangs will lose their market overnight.

I may be able to help there...

Money isn't something tangible, like bread. Money is a game token. It's like D&D hit points. It has value in the context of game, because other players are playing by the same rules. My dwarven cleric has 43 hit points, and my American corporation has three million dollars. Same principle.

If you just bake a loaf of bread, nobody cares. But if you convert your bread into game tokens, then other players will expect you to play by the game rules. If the local game rules include a tax on your tokens, and you hide tokens under the table, then the other players might accuse you of cheating.

Now, I'm not saying our local game rules are perfect. Maybe they'd benefit from a revision. But if you start thinking of money as something real, rather than as a game token, you're going to get confused. You're speaking in terms of "stealing," when you should be speaking in terms of revising rules to improve the game.

On the separate question of whether our game rules should include tax, I'm not an expert. But I found a list on of countries by taxes as a percentage of gdp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

For the most part, countries on top half of the list seem like nicer places than countries on the bottom half. There are exceptions, but overall it's hard to deny the trend. So I'm not sure lower taxes actually lead to a better-functioning game system.

Right now, I pay a lot of taxes. If I moved to Hati or Guatemala, house rules would allow me to accumulate tokens faster. But I'd rather stay here. Our local rules seem to make fo a better game, despite the annual drain on my tokens.

Here's my crack at a simple explanation:

P is a class of easy problems that computers can solve quickly.

NP is a class including hard problems that computers can't seem to solve quickly.

People are searching for a fast way to solve the hard problems. It's like a holy grail of computer science.

If someone finds this holy grail, there would be huge consequences. We could quickly solve hard problems like protein folding, which would help us unlock the mysteries of life. Lots of shit would be turned upside down.

If the grail does exist, that means P and NP are the same set of problems. (P equals NP)

Many computer scientists suspect the grail does not actually exist. But it hasn't been proven either way.

This trick is similar to pepper's ghost, in that a half-silvered mirror is used.

But in this case, the mirror isn't reflecting a 3D object. It's just reflecting a 2D movie.

Actually, these aren't even Pepper's Ghost. Pepper's Ghost is a convincing 3D illusion.

These things are just 2D videos projected onto a transparent screen.

Is three citations enough? Or do you require more?

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

http://www.howtogeek.com/22632...

http://www.addictivetips.com/w...

Definitely

The OP isn't saying today's youth won't grow up to be assholes. She's saying they'll grow up to be assholes who care what OS is running on their car's dashboard.

That price comparison is not quite apples-to-apples. The Unreal license includes the complete engine source, while the Unity license does not. Also, the Unity license costs extra for mobile platforms.

But in practice, the deciding factor between those two engines will usually be language support, not price. Unreal supports C++ and visual "blueprint" logic, while Unity supports C# and Javascript. For most developers, that decision will be a bigger factor than the price difference.

Where is this 30 percent figure coming from?

Unreal charges a 5% royalty. Unity charges a flat fee with no royalty.

Only about a year ago. That's not very long.

At this point, cross-platform games are still releasing for the Xbox 360, which means they need to squeeze into half a gig.

The situation will change as the new consoles displace the old ones. But right now, games like Far Cry 4 and Battlefield:whatever are still worrying about the Xbox 360's tiny memory footprint.