Economic embargo, any non-US company that deals economically with Cuba can be subjected to legal action and that company's leadership can be barred from entry into the United States. Sanctions may be applied to non-U.S. companies trading with Cuba. This means that internationally operating companies have to choose between Cuba and the US, which is a much larger market.
I believe it's you who is deluded. The US has placed very large restrictions on how Cuba can trade with the rest of the world, much to the detriment of the Cuban people. They really can't conduct fair and open trade with the rest of the world -- in Cuba, this embargo is thought or more as a blockade, since it effectively has the same result. It means they can't import a lot of goods, so the average Cuban goes without unless tourists bring it down and give it to them.
Nothing which you just quoted says that Cuba is not free to trade with the rest of the world. It only says that companies that do business with Cuba can not do business with the United States. There is nothing wrong with that. There are plenty of companies in the world that do not do business with the United States, and there is nothing stopping someone from creating shell companies or a reseller company so that Cuba could import goods from companies that did deal with the United States. All the US did was draw a line in the sand and tell people that they had to stand on one side of the line.
In the US you can't even drink beer till you're in your final year.
And 80% of the students I met while in college were idiots and couldn't handle it responsibly during their final year or any of the years before hand when they were drinking it illegally
When I was a little teenage brat, I never once sneaked into my parents liquor cabinets, or into the multiple cases of wine or beer. My parents would leave me for 4 day weekends at times, so it wasn't like I didn't have opportunity. If parents are worried about their kids drinking when they shouldn't be, then they need to beat some morals into the little brats.
- All those officers and enlisted in the Pentagon would be surprised to know they are civilians.
- If one of those officers or enlisted was killed in a bar brawl, during a hit and run or by a dozen other things, what court system would be used?
- Are they going to release KSM if he is acquitted? If not, this is just a show trial and a sham.
- I doubt that it would be possible for him to be aquited, and I'm sure that new charges would be created if he was to keep him in prison. All perfectly legal.
- Whatever your stance on waterboarding, they didn't do it to KSM to get him to confess. They did it to acquire intel to prevent further attacks and/or take the battle to Al Qaeda.
- Then they shouldn't be worried about that evidence not being admitted to court
- During an interview with NBC tonight, the interviewer asked Obama if people would find it offensive that KSM would receive all the rights of an American citizen in a trial. Obama replied "I don't think it will be offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him." Pre-judging much? Tainting the jury?
Honestly, I hope that the death penalty is ignored in this case. First, it is probably what the guy wants. Second, it will be used as propaganda by someone, most likely causing more people to die. I just generally like the idea of finding him a small dark hole, about 6 feet by 6 feet that has no windows and a single light. Locking him in there for the rest of his life and letting the world forget about him.
How well does your math work when you have multiple people buying games off of Steam in a given month? Those people also tend to watch Streaming TV and Movies as well. Toss in a Windows Service pack or other large software update as well (Note, multiple computers usually means multiple updates). That limit doens't seem so high now does it.
If the unit was around 100 dollars, if you could download maps to the unit without having to have a 3g connection all the time, then yes, I could see it killing Stand alone GPS units.
I took a vacation in Virginia which included a day of trail riding in bufu Virginia. My TomTom could get me there, a cell phone couldn't (as I had no bars for a lot of the day). Until you fix this, a phone just can't replace a standalone. There is also the idea that my 100$ GPS unit doesn't have to be updated but will still be "current" enough for 1-2 years.. while with a cell phone you are paying an extra 20-40$ per month in Data Plan fees.
If I could have a standalone device (not a phone), that would let me cache the maps for a region... then yes, I could see that cutting into the GPS unit profits significantly.
For which, as an American, I would like to apologize for. For some reason, it seems that a college right of passage is to spend thousands of dollars, fly over an ocean, and get so wasted that you don't even remember boarding the plane.
How many instances in ST did they run out of fuel, air, water or some other resource? Believe me, I love ST, but you could always just fire up the replicator to create a buffet and reverse the polarity to fix any problem. I don't think there is a Star Trek episode like Firefly's "Out of Gas"
Started with C&C and RA1 and loved the series (minus Tiberium Sun) up to Generals. RA2 was fun but had some quirks. I was really hyped up about RA3 until I saw that they had to hire porn stars to sell the game. Get your marketing department out of my games and let gameplay be what makes it good.
I don't think Impulse is the solution the source is looking for. Why? Impulse is also ran by a game company, Stardock. Not as big as valve... unless you are in their niche market, then they are huge.
I'll keep buying PC games for one simple reason: PC games tend to have more free content attached to them. Map Editors, Mods, etc etc. A lot of this isn't available on consoles, and plenty of things that are for pay on Consoles are for free for PC games (Maps, Avatars, etc).
I gotta agree with your wife. For me, it has nothing to do with efficiency, but with texture and taste. Things taste better when reheated on the stove or oven, and taste differently to some degree when reheated or cooked in the microwave.
I'm not sure if I really buy the doom and gloom prophesy here. Valve has produced some of the best games in the past few years, and they could have limited them all strictly to buying through steam for the PC. It would make sense too, since even if you buy a hard copy you have to register it with Steam/Valve. They haven't though. Almost every single game they make can be bought in a physical or online distribution method, and many times the physical is actually cheaper than the online distribution method.
There will probably also always be a way to obtain a hard copy of games, especially in any country where there are bandwidth caps. Friends of mine in the UK or AU could never do what I do, which is reformat a computer, turn on steam and let everything download and install itself. The process of just doing that would eat their bandwidth for a month and probably incur huge costs. Digital distribution will never be a sure thing until unlimited bandwidth is everywhere in the world.
On a totally unrelated note -- why are we so concerned with drug sniffing dogs? OMG!! Someone wants to get high!!! Quick -- clone some dogs so that we can put them in jail!!! This whole drug prohibition thing is beyond infantile, but I digress. Why not use the time and effort to create better service dogs, or bomb-sniffing dogs?
On a totally unrelated note -- why are we so concerned with bomb sniffing dogs? OMG!! There may be one terrorist attempt on one of the thirty one million flights per year! Panic and throw money at the war on terror!! This whole war on terror thing is beyond infantile, but I digress. Why not use the time and effort to create cuter fluffier puppies so that everyone will be happy, with rainbows and sunshine.
If only these laws had been around earlier. It might have protected us from the likes of people like Martin Luther King Jr who alone was arrested over 20 times! I'm sure the British would also agree with you that hardened criminals like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi should have been thrown in jail with the key tossed away after beingarrestednumeroustimes.
Every other type of DRM out there has been hacked. Do you really believe that if Valve shut down their servers, someone wouldn't create a crack or hack for Steam that would automatically log every game as validated?
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The one that wants a monopoly in the Cuban Cell phone market.
No, you just give yourself more and more debt because either you're too big to fail or your grandchildren will pay it off.
That is not entirely accurate. From wiki ...
I believe it's you who is deluded. The US has placed very large restrictions on how Cuba can trade with the rest of the world, much to the detriment of the Cuban people. They really can't conduct fair and open trade with the rest of the world -- in Cuba, this embargo is thought or more as a blockade, since it effectively has the same result. It means they can't import a lot of goods, so the average Cuban goes without unless tourists bring it down and give it to them.
Nothing which you just quoted says that Cuba is not free to trade with the rest of the world. It only says that companies that do business with Cuba can not do business with the United States. There is nothing wrong with that. There are plenty of companies in the world that do not do business with the United States, and there is nothing stopping someone from creating shell companies or a reseller company so that Cuba could import goods from companies that did deal with the United States. All the US did was draw a line in the sand and tell people that they had to stand on one side of the line.
In the US you can't even drink beer till you're in your final year.
And 80% of the students I met while in college were idiots and couldn't handle it responsibly during their final year or any of the years before hand when they were drinking it illegally
Ummm..... why?
When I was a little teenage brat, I never once sneaked into my parents liquor cabinets, or into the multiple cases of wine or beer. My parents would leave me for 4 day weekends at times, so it wasn't like I didn't have opportunity. If parents are worried about their kids drinking when they shouldn't be, then they need to beat some morals into the little brats.
- All those officers and enlisted in the Pentagon would be surprised to know they are civilians.
- If one of those officers or enlisted was killed in a bar brawl, during a hit and run or by a dozen other things, what court system would be used?
- Are they going to release KSM if he is acquitted? If not, this is just a show trial and a sham.
- I doubt that it would be possible for him to be aquited, and I'm sure that new charges would be created if he was to keep him in prison. All perfectly legal.
- Whatever your stance on waterboarding, they didn't do it to KSM to get him to confess. They did it to acquire intel to prevent further attacks and/or take the battle to Al Qaeda.
- Then they shouldn't be worried about that evidence not being admitted to court
- During an interview with NBC tonight, the interviewer asked Obama if people would find it offensive that KSM would receive all the rights of an American citizen in a trial. Obama replied "I don't think it will be offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him." Pre-judging much? Tainting the jury?
Honestly, I hope that the death penalty is ignored in this case. First, it is probably what the guy wants. Second, it will be used as propaganda by someone, most likely causing more people to die. I just generally like the idea of finding him a small dark hole, about 6 feet by 6 feet that has no windows and a single light. Locking him in there for the rest of his life and letting the world forget about him.
How well does your math work when you have multiple people buying games off of Steam in a given month? Those people also tend to watch Streaming TV and Movies as well. Toss in a Windows Service pack or other large software update as well (Note, multiple computers usually means multiple updates). That limit doens't seem so high now does it.
If the unit was around 100 dollars, if you could download maps to the unit without having to have a 3g connection all the time, then yes, I could see it killing Stand alone GPS units. I took a vacation in Virginia which included a day of trail riding in bufu Virginia. My TomTom could get me there, a cell phone couldn't (as I had no bars for a lot of the day). Until you fix this, a phone just can't replace a standalone. There is also the idea that my 100$ GPS unit doesn't have to be updated but will still be "current" enough for 1-2 years.. while with a cell phone you are paying an extra 20-40$ per month in Data Plan fees. If I could have a standalone device (not a phone), that would let me cache the maps for a region... then yes, I could see that cutting into the GPS unit profits significantly.
For which, as an American, I would like to apologize for. For some reason, it seems that a college right of passage is to spend thousands of dollars, fly over an ocean, and get so wasted that you don't even remember boarding the plane.
How many instances in ST did they run out of fuel, air, water or some other resource? Believe me, I love ST, but you could always just fire up the replicator to create a buffet and reverse the polarity to fix any problem. I don't think there is a Star Trek episode like Firefly's "Out of Gas"
Started with C&C and RA1 and loved the series (minus Tiberium Sun) up to Generals. RA2 was fun but had some quirks. I was really hyped up about RA3 until I saw that they had to hire porn stars to sell the game. Get your marketing department out of my games and let gameplay be what makes it good.
I don't think Impulse is the solution the source is looking for. Why? Impulse is also ran by a game company, Stardock. Not as big as valve... unless you are in their niche market, then they are huge.
I'll keep buying PC games for one simple reason: PC games tend to have more free content attached to them. Map Editors, Mods, etc etc. A lot of this isn't available on consoles, and plenty of things that are for pay on Consoles are for free for PC games (Maps, Avatars, etc).
Which only proves that governments shouldn't be giving away money to private corporations.
If you didn't get over a hundred hours of play time from Fallout 3, then you weren't playing the game to the full capabilities.
I think by now you've ran out of continents to ship these people off to
Come here to Detroit. We'll show you how well the economy is doing.
I gotta agree with your wife. For me, it has nothing to do with efficiency, but with texture and taste. Things taste better when reheated on the stove or oven, and taste differently to some degree when reheated or cooked in the microwave.
This is what I've always had happen with Steam games as well.... dare I ask if you bothered to contact their customer service?
I'm not sure if I really buy the doom and gloom prophesy here. Valve has produced some of the best games in the past few years, and they could have limited them all strictly to buying through steam for the PC. It would make sense too, since even if you buy a hard copy you have to register it with Steam/Valve. They haven't though. Almost every single game they make can be bought in a physical or online distribution method, and many times the physical is actually cheaper than the online distribution method.
There will probably also always be a way to obtain a hard copy of games, especially in any country where there are bandwidth caps. Friends of mine in the UK or AU could never do what I do, which is reformat a computer, turn on steam and let everything download and install itself. The process of just doing that would eat their bandwidth for a month and probably incur huge costs. Digital distribution will never be a sure thing until unlimited bandwidth is everywhere in the world.
That is like asking if a game of Tic-Tac-Toe scratches that itch when you really want to play chess.
On a totally unrelated note -- why are we so concerned with drug sniffing dogs? OMG!! Someone wants to get high!!! Quick -- clone some dogs so that we can put them in jail!!! This whole drug prohibition thing is beyond infantile, but I digress. Why not use the time and effort to create better service dogs, or bomb-sniffing dogs?
On a totally unrelated note -- why are we so concerned with bomb sniffing dogs? OMG!! There may be one terrorist attempt on one of the thirty one million flights per year! Panic and throw money at the war on terror!! This whole war on terror thing is beyond infantile, but I digress. Why not use the time and effort to create cuter fluffier puppies so that everyone will be happy, with rainbows and sunshine.
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If only these laws had been around earlier. It might have protected us from the likes of people like Martin Luther King Jr who alone was arrested over 20 times! I'm sure the British would also agree with you that hardened criminals like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi should have been thrown in jail with the key tossed away after being arrested numerous times.
Every other type of DRM out there has been hacked. Do you really believe that if Valve shut down their servers, someone wouldn't create a crack or hack for Steam that would automatically log every game as validated?