Otherwise you must pay for it, or it won't get made at all.
So if we all download Disney crap enough, the place will finally shut down and cease to exist? Can Sony be chained to Disney before it walks the plank?
We don't get our oil delivered through the energy lanes of Europe. In fact, the US share of Middle Eastern oil has shrunken dramatically. North America now produces a dramatic amount of it's own oil and gas.
Perhaps, as you imply, we should stop subsidizing the shipping lanes for oil delivered to Europe. That has nothing to do with said 'subsidies' imbalancing the cost of oil in the US.
Without modern miniaturization, spread-spectrum, and modern data compression, it would have been for an elite. We are lucky it wasn't rolled out in the 40's because it would have been a nickel-plated vacuum tube thing, and allocated to high-payers before the technology to allocate it widely existed.
The Apple Corporation, like all other corporations, is infected with businessmen. They demand growth and return-on-investment. The Apple of the near-death period was techies; that was who remained in a company that was hurting for profit.
They've since become a huge profitable behemoth, and absolutely the wrong sort of people have crowded into the company for it to do anything but 'grow-or-die' which isn't necessarily a good either/or to be forced into when as prominent as Apple.
Microsoft is also now starting to sell their XBox titles in the Windows 10 App Store to run on Windows 10 desktops. For about the same price as the Xbox versions. It lets them have something non-pathetic in the Windows 10 App Store and as you said, they are merging the XBox into being the same as a Windows 10 box.
The fat retarded kid on the short bus who tries, and tries, and tries, over and over, is still just the fat retarded kid on the short bus who won't quit trying.
Failure only becomes permanent when you die having never succeeded. But if your struggles provide amusement to your fellow humans, you might not be a failure. Successfully being the village idiot probably can be seen as a form of success.
Google always says that about anything they come up with. Then, if it works out, they proclaim it a success. Otherwise, it was "just an experiment and they learned a lot from it." Google has a lot of money, but so does any entity that plays nice with the boys on Madison Avenue.
I have a Newton. It's battery compartment is a dismal failure. There are fussy little parts of the door that break off. I have long maintained that the reason Apple uses sealed-in batteries in their mobile devices is because they're not good enough designers to make a robust battery compartment. (Battery compartments, especially when they are designed to work with off-the-shelf consumer batteries, are an extremely difficult design challenge).
I have always thought the Harley-Davidson Cat Collar should go in a display like this one. I bought one for our kitten once, though he's definitely not a failure of a cat. In the process of scratching and grooming he ended up rendering the Harley-Davidson logo on it illegible. Since then I have always said that Harley-Davidson can't even make a cat collar that lasts.
The big Globalist energy corporations want to remain players on the Globalist stage. However, alliances are crumbling worldwide.
And all this focus on the 'dying coal industry'?? You globalists are the only ones ranting about that. Meanwhile, the US ships barges full of coal to China every month. When China isn't buying their coal from North Korea, of course.
It's okay. We know that Big Oil can save us if we just agree with the globalist pacts.
Waste time mouthing off about politics and also do something to achieve meaningful change?
Yes, people can only waste part of their time. Many of us have hobbies and recreational activities. We don't pretend they are anything more than that, however.
To speak directly to your account name: Yes, 'Visualize Whirled Peas' if you wish, but we don't care nor do we need to hear about your virtue signaling.
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Otherwise you must pay for it, or it won't get made at all.
So if we all download Disney crap enough, the place will finally shut down and cease to exist? Can Sony be chained to Disney before it walks the plank?
Yarr.
America gets a very small amount of it's oil from the Persian Gulf. We are bigtime producers of our own energy these days.
Most M.E. oil goes to Europe and other countries.
We don't get our oil delivered through the energy lanes of Europe. In fact, the US share of Middle Eastern oil has shrunken dramatically. North America now produces a dramatic amount of it's own oil and gas.
Perhaps, as you imply, we should stop subsidizing the shipping lanes for oil delivered to Europe. That has nothing to do with said 'subsidies' imbalancing the cost of oil in the US.
Without modern miniaturization, spread-spectrum, and modern data compression, it would have been for an elite. We are lucky it wasn't rolled out in the 40's because it would have been a nickel-plated vacuum tube thing, and allocated to high-payers before the technology to allocate it widely existed.
The Apple Corporation, like all other corporations, is infected with businessmen. They demand growth and return-on-investment. The Apple of the near-death period was techies; that was who remained in a company that was hurting for profit.
They've since become a huge profitable behemoth, and absolutely the wrong sort of people have crowded into the company for it to do anything but 'grow-or-die' which isn't necessarily a good either/or to be forced into when as prominent as Apple.
Apple 'owns' neither the Digital Music Player nor the Mobile phone market.
They 'own' a small segment of it, and it grows smaller all the time.
and the hex code visible in Apple's CSS files.
Apple has a fix for that. They'll simply copyright the letter 'F'.
Chrysler Pacifica? Wouldn't they just ship a 30 pound crate full of floppy diskettes to each owner?
How can you say such a thing? I have seen two, or maybe three of them so far here in the Midwest.
The cumulative round-off errors will navigate you out and onto an active airport runway.
Apple makes sure to push that last update that nerfs your device at the point in time that they feel it's time for you to buy another iGadget.
You are not a libertarian if you think you need to belong to a party. You're just a Libertarian and your opinion can likely be dismissed.
Microsoft is also now starting to sell their XBox titles in the Windows 10 App Store to run on Windows 10 desktops. For about the same price as the Xbox versions. It lets them have something non-pathetic in the Windows 10 App Store and as you said, they are merging the XBox into being the same as a Windows 10 box.
We have marsupials (opossums) in the back yard here (Indiana) all the time.
The fat retarded kid on the short bus who tries, and tries, and tries, over and over, is still just the fat retarded kid on the short bus who won't quit trying.
Failure only becomes permanent when you die having never succeeded. But if your struggles provide amusement to your fellow humans, you might not be a failure. Successfully being the village idiot probably can be seen as a form of success.
Google always says that about anything they come up with. Then, if it works out, they proclaim it a success. Otherwise, it was "just an experiment and they learned a lot from it." Google has a lot of money, but so does any entity that plays nice with the boys on Madison Avenue.
I have a Newton. It's battery compartment is a dismal failure. There are fussy little parts of the door that break off. I have long maintained that the reason Apple uses sealed-in batteries in their mobile devices is because they're not good enough designers to make a robust battery compartment. (Battery compartments, especially when they are designed to work with off-the-shelf consumer batteries, are an extremely difficult design challenge).
Nobody cares about you.
But the trolls like to keep you flipping around on the floor of their rowboat.
The Slashdot Cruiser could make a nice floor display.
I have always thought the Harley-Davidson Cat Collar should go in a display like this one. I bought one for our kitten once, though he's definitely not a failure of a cat. In the process of scratching and grooming he ended up rendering the Harley-Davidson logo on it illegible. Since then I have always said that Harley-Davidson can't even make a cat collar that lasts.
And Hillary looked sooooo stupid up on the stage holding that giant Reset Button.
During the Cold War, China had Coke and the USSR had Pepsi.
The big Globalist energy corporations want to remain players on the Globalist stage. However, alliances are crumbling worldwide.
And all this focus on the 'dying coal industry'?? You globalists are the only ones ranting about that. Meanwhile, the US ships barges full of coal to China every month. When China isn't buying their coal from North Korea, of course.
It's okay. We know that Big Oil can save us if we just agree with the globalist pacts.
The Accord itself was the kind of sausage that gets made when sausage makers from all over the world convene.
Only an idiot would stand there, grinning, with a bun and mustard ready at hand.
You don't think someone could do both ?
Waste time mouthing off about politics and also do something to achieve meaningful change?
Yes, people can only waste part of their time. Many of us have hobbies and recreational activities. We don't pretend they are anything more than that, however.
To speak directly to your account name: Yes, 'Visualize Whirled Peas' if you wish, but we don't care nor do we need to hear about your virtue signaling.