Recent content by ShAmMz0r

The rational thing to do is to stuff the whole peninsula full of observers with proper credentials and do another referendum, this time with proper choices. Too bad no one with any political power really cares what crimeans want or what would be good for them, it's all just another geopolitical...

Allowing a region to join a different country just because 80% of its citizens want to? Preposterous! A true democratic process obviously requires approval of the USA government. To be fair the results are a bit suspect, but I think most crimeans would have indeed liked to join Russia if just...

Real visionaries there at App Store. I understand what they are doing from business perspective, but such a lack of balls disappoints me.

Why is it so hard to believe that people can actually pirate things for reasons other than not paying for them? Sure that may be a most common cause but surely not the only one. As for EA and their bullshit I am surprised that they are actually allowed to get away with it. I know next to...

It always amazes me how people insist on making it sound like only a concious agent can be an observer in quantum measurement. This notion is in fact wrong and I implore you not to confuse public further on this matter. We get enough stuff like "What the bleep do we know" as it is. This...

You do understand that cockroaches don't have any intelligence and thus could not in any way posses will, right? They are, basically, little biological automata operating on a set of instructions preprogrammed in them by evolution. And you really gotta love people clamouring to defend rights of...

I guess it boils down to how much a person is interested in future projects by the same developer. I usually can only muster enough interest in a game if it is so good that it's developers deserve my patronage. We're unlikely to get our hands on some hard data though, so we are again reduced to...

A bit of a depressing thought isn't it. That your own government will side with corporate interests against it's own citizens. Well that's why you chaps have the second amendment. Madison thought you'll need to remind the government who to side with at some point so go forth and give them a bit...

Can't say I know how many people we are talking here but for me it was a fairly easy line of reasoning to develop once I got enough income to support my gaming hobby. Stands to reason that people would like to invest in future games by their favourite studious and the very best way to start...

Gentlemen, I simply have to intervene at this point. There is a completely rational reason for a pirate to buy products they pirated and liked. It goes like this: I enjoy this product -> I want to see more from this developer -> I should invest in them -> I'll buy this game I pirated and will...

Not to mention that a proper scientist does not go into research with an attitude like "let's reveal how the long term exposure to violent media negatively affects attitudes towards aggression". If you go looking specifically for negative effects then chances are you will find them. Everyone...

Sometimes I wonder why do this people not just honestly say that human and consumer rights are bad for their profits. Everyone with a working brain can see what they want, but still they persist in dressing it up as some noble crusade against "the pirates". I wonder how this all will play...

Well regardless of what actually kills people, if starvation creates a negative feedback, I'd say it does limit population. But that hardly matters. It's just a bit hard to believe, that in a situation where people don't die of old age, population will stop growing. Come on. Do you mean to tell...

You are right about there being a upper bound for population. But the world in which the main limiting factor for population growth is starvation is not the one I'd really like to live in. It's not like we have unlimited space and resources, so without some serious scientific progress, living on...

Whoa. Nobody is saying that you have to be intelligent to be rich. But in case of this movie there is a huge economy crisis pretty much rendering the current monetary system (that is time) useless. Guess who would rise up from chaos to become new rich guys in this scenario. Surely not the likes...