It is our responsibility to make it the companies problem. If you boycott a company to the point where enacting better environmental policy becomes the most cost effective move to make, they will do it. Nobody boycotts though.
Not sure what your mafia example was supposed to mean.
I did hit a bunny with my car once:( But I think it was already dead.
What you say is true. However, for a company that sells a product that doesn't have to be evil (is there a nice way to kill bunnies?) it can sway corporate opinion.
For example, if opening the source to Windows would somehow double Microsoft's profit, you can be damn certain they would do it. Inversely, if Microsoft's profit would be cut in half because they didn't do something (and half their consumers were going to boycott them), that would motivate them as well.
But I guess the same can be true in government. If politicians can pander to a minority, without upsetting a majority, they will do that as well.
Because you are in the minority in your disapproval of those companies. You won't get the government to do anything about it either if that is the case.
If they want to conduct business in a country where I'm a voter....well, yes, I indeed expect them to do whatever the hell I want them to do. Scary. I knew people thought this way, but I thought it was subconscious.
If you don't like the way a company does business, just don't buy their product.
He seemed like your classic virtual-world group leader: Confident, bold and streetsmart. This is not the usual case. When the standard of text chat is something along the lines of "OMFG I PWN3D teh orx0r!11!1l lolol", it is much less disruptive to the fantasy world to actually hear them speak.
It is very rare for Moore to lie in his "documentaries". I have never heard of someone proving that he has. If you were to read the script of his movies literally, you probably couldn't prove any falsehoods. But yes, the point of the movies is to mislead. The goal is for you to walk away from the movie with ideas that are not true. Important facts are left out. Video is shown along with voice overs that create false impressions, etc.
Moore's movies are not a good source of information. If you really want to know about problems with USA health care, I am certain there is a multitude of books you could read on the subject. Watching one of his movies to try and educate yourself on a subject is lazy, and you are going to come off looking like an idiot when you try and impress people with your "facts".
I would switch to Yahoo! if they stopped censoring in China. It doesn't really matter if they are doing it for "damage control" or for ethical reasons. The result is the same.
Yeah that is a good point. But it would seem to me that should be the kind of thing you could rent for a day, for a few thousand dollars. "You recorded your music in our studio so we get all the profit from it forever." That just doesn't seem right. There must be more too it, otherwise I am going to invest in a studio and rent it out to people.
And again, promotion is nothing special. Companies promote their products in this country every day without signing over the rights to those products.
In the time between now and the time when existence as we know it is destroyed, time travel will never be invented. If it was, someone would come back in time to tell us about it.
Time travel will be invented, but not used because it is too dangerous (hence why nobody ever came back in time to tell us about it). If this is the case, it is still useless and why invent it in the first place?
Either way, research in to time travel appears to me to be useless.
What is the point of a record company these days? It isn't hard at all to burn your own CDs, or have a website where users can download your music (for free or for a fee).
Do they do anything for you besides advertising? (Deals with radio stations and such.)
Very true. But they can make it up in game sales. There should be good games by then. Also, the manufacturing price should be lower by then as well. Sony must plan to make money on PS3s somehow or they wouldn't be selling them.
Square knows that FFXIII will move PS3s like there's no tomorrow when it's released in Japan. And when it is released in the US too. I have little interest in a PS3 right now, but I'll be buying one when FF13 comes out...no question. FF13 will make Sony more cash than it will for Square.
Overheating. I was sitting there watching the fans and could clearly see that one wasn't moving (and the other one was making loud noises). I told them this, but it seems their software was supposed to detect something like that, but instead it said everything was fine. I don't know if they thought I was lying or what. Anyway, the computer was overheating, and performance was dropping. I think the processor was throttling down (I forget what that is called). Looking back, I'm now just glad the damn thing didn't explode on me. (This was before the battery problems became widely known.)
I have since given up and bought a Thinkpad after perhaps 6 calls and maybe 8 or so hours on the phone with tech support. This was a couple years ago.
That system sucks anyway. I called them up with some laptop problems. I ran their test. Their test said nothing was wrong, so they told me nothing was wrong. They refused to fix anything. So the only difference between Windows and Linux hardware support is that with Linux, they tell you upfront that they won't fix it.
I send a copy of all my data to the future and the past. If I ever lose it, I can go back and time and get it, or just wait for a copy in the future...whichever is most convenient.
I did not say it would automatically mean a tax would be imposed. My experience with government, though, is that once there is precedent, they take things farther.
If you don't like the way big business does things, it is called the boycott, use it.
For those who want the government to move in and enforce neutrality, consider whether you really want the government getting involved in such things. Net neutrality may be ok, but when they want a tax on email, site censorship, or other such evils that result from government involvement in the Internet, you will be wishing they had stayed away.
I agree. This is very basic stuff you would learn in Intro to Programming, or in any other article on the subject. Nothing new here.
I highly recommend a book called Code Complete. It is kinda pricey and, yes, it is by Microsoft, but I found it to be both helpful and thought provoking.
That is a good question. The answer, I think, is "sometimes".
For example, google "USA", vs. "Where are the USA?" and you will get different results. If you really wanted to know where the USA are, the second query will be far more useful, giving you the desired information in the first link.
The "according to" links seem to be more sensitive to natural speech.
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It is our responsibility to make it the companies problem. If you boycott a company to the point where enacting better environmental policy becomes the most cost effective move to make, they will do it. Nobody boycotts though.
Not sure what your mafia example was supposed to mean.
I did hit a bunny with my car once :( But I think it was already dead.
What you say is true. However, for a company that sells a product that doesn't have to be evil (is there a nice way to kill bunnies?) it can sway corporate opinion.
For example, if opening the source to Windows would somehow double Microsoft's profit, you can be damn certain they would do it. Inversely, if Microsoft's profit would be cut in half because they didn't do something (and half their consumers were going to boycott them), that would motivate them as well.
But I guess the same can be true in government. If politicians can pander to a minority, without upsetting a majority, they will do that as well.
Because you are in the minority in your disapproval of those companies. You won't get the government to do anything about it either if that is the case.
If you don't like the way a company does business, just don't buy their product.
Simple. It is a case of claiming Windows is better than Linux (easy) vs. actually learning to use Linux (complicated).
It is very rare for Moore to lie in his "documentaries". I have never heard of someone proving that he has. If you were to read the script of his movies literally, you probably couldn't prove any falsehoods. But yes, the point of the movies is to mislead. The goal is for you to walk away from the movie with ideas that are not true. Important facts are left out. Video is shown along with voice overs that create false impressions, etc.
Moore's movies are not a good source of information. If you really want to know about problems with USA health care, I am certain there is a multitude of books you could read on the subject. Watching one of his movies to try and educate yourself on a subject is lazy, and you are going to come off looking like an idiot when you try and impress people with your "facts".
I'd pay good money for pictures of that.
I would switch to Yahoo! if they stopped censoring in China. It doesn't really matter if they are doing it for "damage control" or for ethical reasons. The result is the same.
Yeah that is a good point. But it would seem to me that should be the kind of thing you could rent for a day, for a few thousand dollars. "You recorded your music in our studio so we get all the profit from it forever." That just doesn't seem right. There must be more too it, otherwise I am going to invest in a studio and rent it out to people.
And again, promotion is nothing special. Companies promote their products in this country every day without signing over the rights to those products.
- In the time between now and the time when existence as we know it is destroyed, time travel will never be invented. If it was, someone would come back in time to tell us about it.
- Time travel will be invented, but not used because it is too dangerous (hence why nobody ever came back in time to tell us about it). If this is the case, it is still useless and why invent it in the first place?
Either way, research in to time travel appears to me to be useless.What is the point of a record company these days? It isn't hard at all to burn your own CDs, or have a website where users can download your music (for free or for a fee).
Do they do anything for you besides advertising? (Deals with radio stations and such.)
Very true. But they can make it up in game sales. There should be good games by then. Also, the manufacturing price should be lower by then as well. Sony must plan to make money on PS3s somehow or they wouldn't be selling them.
Can't you sue while your patent is still "pending"?
And the Brown Coats.
Overheating. I was sitting there watching the fans and could clearly see that one wasn't moving (and the other one was making loud noises). I told them this, but it seems their software was supposed to detect something like that, but instead it said everything was fine. I don't know if they thought I was lying or what. Anyway, the computer was overheating, and performance was dropping. I think the processor was throttling down (I forget what that is called). Looking back, I'm now just glad the damn thing didn't explode on me. (This was before the battery problems became widely known.)
I have since given up and bought a Thinkpad after perhaps 6 calls and maybe 8 or so hours on the phone with tech support. This was a couple years ago.
That system sucks anyway. I called them up with some laptop problems. I ran their test. Their test said nothing was wrong, so they told me nothing was wrong. They refused to fix anything. So the only difference between Windows and Linux hardware support is that with Linux, they tell you upfront that they won't fix it.
I send a copy of all my data to the future and the past. If I ever lose it, I can go back and time and get it, or just wait for a copy in the future...whichever is most convenient.
I did not say it would automatically mean a tax would be imposed. My experience with government, though, is that once there is precedent, they take things farther.
If you don't like the way big business does things, it is called the boycott, use it.
For those who want the government to move in and enforce neutrality, consider whether you really want the government getting involved in such things. Net neutrality may be ok, but when they want a tax on email, site censorship, or other such evils that result from government involvement in the Internet, you will be wishing they had stayed away.
I agree. This is very basic stuff you would learn in Intro to Programming, or in any other article on the subject. Nothing new here.
I highly recommend a book called Code Complete. It is kinda pricey and, yes, it is by Microsoft, but I found it to be both helpful and thought provoking.
My CD collection alone would take up more than 40 gigs, once I finally get around to ripping them all to FLAC.
The general answer to your question is "media". CDs, DVDs, and photos.
That is a good question. The answer, I think, is "sometimes".
For example, google "USA", vs. "Where are the USA?" and you will get different results. If you really wanted to know where the USA are, the second query will be far more useful, giving you the desired information in the first link.
The "according to" links seem to be more sensitive to natural speech.