I find it sad that I actually want to applaud you on here for managing to distinguish your personal anecdotal experience from the given situation and make clear, sound judgements based on available information. Did you RTFA too??
Maybe it's just my experience with cheap bulbs, but I have yet to see a CFL or LED bulb that wasn't some terribly limited spectrum that made everything hideous or dim looking.
I fail to see anything here that accounts for the number of annual polio infections in the US going from 38,000 to 161 in 8 years in the 1950s where sanitation was never an issue. Every fact Hawden brings up as a possible explanation for the decline of infection is one that would have had no impact whatsoever on the US in this time period.
Oh wait...it couldn't have been the March of Dimes Polio Vaccination campaign that started the minute the vaccine came out in 1953 and was proven to be 70-94% effective depending on the particular strain now could it????
and if you pull a gun on me and start threatening me with it after clearly following me around the neighborhood I *may* attack you and start trying to pummel your head into the ground.
See the thing is you don't *know* anymore than the rest of us what happened. Quit making up your own preferred version of the story.
No no, CompUSA deserved it too. As a former CompUSA employee, I guarantee you, they were the devil just as much as the others. When we started selling 6-10' USB cables for $39.99 so we could more easily convince people to buy our Printer warranty kit for $49.99 that *came with a free cable* I quit.
watching where you're going? While you're standing on a subway car? Suddenly people deserve to be mugged or be accosted with strong-arm assault? Go fuck yourself...srsly.
for what service does AT&T bill you a month in advance? I've never had any utility that did that. My phone company bills me for what I did on the phone the prior month...they don't magically know who I'm gonna call/what I"m gonna do beforehand
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Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK, actually. If you're going to be pedantic, you have to be right too.
The K in CMYK stands for Key, not black. If you're going to be pedantic, you also have to be correct as well.
Popularity of a product doesn't lower the price...it results in a raised price or more production which lowers the cost for the company, but it doesn't necessarily lower the price.
Viagra is currently $8-12 dollars per pill *with insurance* under most plans in the US...and you only get 8 or 9 pills (forget how many) for what is supposed to be a 3 month supply.
Only when there is a legal generic in the US will that price drop (mass production/increased availability lowers price). Did the advertising impact the cost? yes it did, it made everyone on earth aware of the product's availability which greatly increased the potential market value, which in turn means the price the market is willing to bear in fact can often go *up*...not saying it did with V or not, just saying that it's not as simple as you're making it.
You seem to have lost part of the causal chain. I see what you're saying but you've missed a piece somewhere.
In the point that was brought up, the RIAA was suing someone...the NDA was part of a settlement offer...sure you can *not* take the offer, but then you're still stuck with them suing you...extensive legal fees, yadda, yadda.
They also can try to insist on an NDA being part of what they win if they win the lawsuit.
Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Quest For Glory, Fallout, Wasteland, Space Quest, Zork, FFVII, FFVI (for those purists out there you nit-picky bastards), Syberia, Loom, Amnesia, Dragon's Lair, and Morrowind are all complete shit games and there's a reason why they don't have the same amazing replay value as space invaders or pac-man.
and as others have said, none of the people on the band side will get anything until all the recording costs, studio fees, advances, and any other bullshit the label can cough up on the artist has been paid out of their $167,500 first.
On top of that, guess amount what you get taxed on? the difference in the amount of money you make before all the debt you owe the label are collected is usually enough to put you in a 40-50% tax bracket...or at least it used to be pre-Bush...dunno about now. But paying that much tax on $100+k when you only got ~$40k is a real bitch.
As you are noting here, it is indeed possible for TLC to have a number one billboard chart album and single and still have to file for bankruptcy
... that taking one instance of an object and another instance of an object and combining them together yields two instances of that object, is a fact.
Exactly! that's why when I take my soup and pour another soup into it I have 2 soups! Fact!
Except the moment you define God according to any established religion's definition the evidence against is either overwhelming or leads to straight to ignosticism, where you recognize that the idea of it existing is irrelevent in every possible way.
No, when there is no evidence either way, the scientific mind assumes the answer's existence is negative. Lack of evidence is logically consistent with disbelief. I'm willing to bet that same scientist is not open to the possibility that there is a magical dragon that lives in my refrigerator that only I can see.
You've just confused Atheism and existentialism. The philosophy of an atheist is not necessarily nihilistic or even existential...you're putting words in the mouths of atheists
you are simply wrong...at it's base level it is all information, and what and how it communicates is different to different observers. As a composer I listen to a lot of music as research, that is damn important information. Even if I am simply being entertained, I am only able to be entertained by being communicated to, it is all information, it is all data.
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I find it sad that I actually want to applaud you on here for managing to distinguish your personal anecdotal experience from the given situation and make clear, sound judgements based on available information. Did you RTFA too??
Looks like he picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!
I didn't realize there were books written by or about his dog!
Neat!
Maybe it's just my experience with cheap bulbs, but I have yet to see a CFL or LED bulb that wasn't some terribly limited spectrum that made everything hideous or dim looking.
Because Leprechauns are evil. DUH!
I fail to see anything here that accounts for the number of annual polio infections in the US going from 38,000 to 161 in 8 years in the 1950s where sanitation was never an issue. Every fact Hawden brings up as a possible explanation for the decline of infection is one that would have had no impact whatsoever on the US in this time period.
Oh wait...it couldn't have been the March of Dimes Polio Vaccination campaign that started the minute the vaccine came out in 1953 and was proven to be 70-94% effective depending on the particular strain now could it????
and if you pull a gun on me and start threatening me with it after clearly following me around the neighborhood I *may* attack you and start trying to pummel your head into the ground.
See the thing is you don't *know* anymore than the rest of us what happened. Quit making up your own preferred version of the story.
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No no, CompUSA deserved it too. As a former CompUSA employee, I guarantee you, they were the devil just as much as the others. When we started selling 6-10' USB cables for $39.99 so we could more easily convince people to buy our Printer warranty kit for $49.99 that *came with a free cable* I quit.
watching where you're going? While you're standing on a subway car? Suddenly people deserve to be mugged or be accosted with strong-arm assault? Go fuck yourself...srsly.
for what service does AT&T bill you a month in advance? I've never had any utility that did that. My phone company bills me for what I did on the phone the prior month...they don't magically know who I'm gonna call/what I"m gonna do beforehand
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK, actually.
If you're going to be pedantic, you have to be right too.
The K in CMYK stands for Key, not black.
If you're going to be pedantic, you also have to be correct as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model
Popularity of a product doesn't lower the price...it results in a raised price or more production which lowers the cost for the company, but it doesn't necessarily lower the price.
Viagra is currently $8-12 dollars per pill *with insurance* under most plans in the US...and you only get 8 or 9 pills (forget how many) for what is supposed to be a 3 month supply.
Only when there is a legal generic in the US will that price drop (mass production/increased availability lowers price). Did the advertising impact the cost? yes it did, it made everyone on earth aware of the product's availability which greatly increased the potential market value, which in turn means the price the market is willing to bear in fact can often go *up*...not saying it did with V or not, just saying that it's not as simple as you're making it.
You seem to have lost part of the causal chain. I see what you're saying but you've missed a piece somewhere.
In the point that was brought up, the RIAA was suing someone...the NDA was part of a settlement offer...sure you can *not* take the offer, but then you're still stuck with them suing you...extensive legal fees, yadda, yadda.
They also can try to insist on an NDA being part of what they win if they win the lawsuit.
If they can't rape men the women will just start raping other women.
Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Quest For Glory, Fallout, Wasteland, Space Quest, Zork, FFVII, FFVI (for those purists out there you nit-picky bastards), Syberia, Loom, Amnesia, Dragon's Lair, and Morrowind are all complete shit games and there's a reason why they don't have the same amazing replay value as space invaders or pac-man.
and as others have said, none of the people on the band side will get anything until all the recording costs, studio fees, advances, and any other bullshit the label can cough up on the artist has been paid out of their $167,500 first.
On top of that, guess amount what you get taxed on? the difference in the amount of money you make before all the debt you owe the label are collected is usually enough to put you in a 40-50% tax bracket...or at least it used to be pre-Bush...dunno about now. But paying that much tax on $100+k when you only got ~$40k is a real bitch.
As you are noting here, it is indeed possible for TLC to have a number one billboard chart album and single and still have to file for bankruptcy
... that taking one instance of an object and another instance of an object and combining them together yields two instances of that object, is a fact.
Exactly! that's why when I take my soup and pour another soup into it I have 2 soups! Fact!
Except the moment you define God according to any established religion's definition the evidence against is either overwhelming or leads to straight to ignosticism, where you recognize that the idea of it existing is irrelevent in every possible way.
No, when there is no evidence either way, the scientific mind assumes the answer's existence is negative. Lack of evidence is logically consistent with disbelief. I'm willing to bet that same scientist is not open to the possibility that there is a magical dragon that lives in my refrigerator that only I can see.
You've just confused Atheism and existentialism. The philosophy of an atheist is not necessarily nihilistic or even existential...you're putting words in the mouths of atheists
I wish I hadn't already commented so I could mod you up.
I agree with your points, but I disagree with your conclusion. I don't see the harm in letting him be naked in the library.
The problem is he's been trapped in a box for ages...he can't hear the phone.
...that entertainment is not "information,"...
you are simply wrong...at it's base level it is all information, and what and how it communicates is different to different observers. As a composer I listen to a lot of music as research, that is damn important information. Even if I am simply being entertained, I am only able to be entertained by being communicated to, it is all information, it is all data.