I quit smoking cold turkey a few years ago before vaping really took off. There are a lot of factors that go into whether someone can finally quit or not, but I will say that the pleasant, tempting odor of cigarettes went away eventually. Sometimes a light tobacco scent on the air will smell good in an abstract sense but when I am around other smokers it's a pretty disgusting odor.
The hardest part for me about quitting was being left out socially every time there was a smoke break. It was actually when I started smoking in high school that I made the most friends. Also at most jobs I've worked at the smokers club takes precedence over all formal rank. It's pretty twisted.
Atrocities are committed by both sides in any war.
Sure the RIAA has an outdated business model and they are doing some serious wrongs to people who haven't broken the law.
But I at the same time I am a college student and I have no illusions about younger peoples' attitudes about sharing copyrighted material. It has nothing to do with DRM or outdated business models. Even if the RIAA and MPAA were to disappear tomorrow and be replaced by the most streamlined business model with everything in an open format, mass piracy will be unaffected as long as students can't afford to pay for the content. The vast majority of the students could care less about the "War". Ideologically they may agree with people against the RIAA, but only so much as they don't want to be sued. As long as there's little to no risk of an individual being sued, there's no better business model than free.
Because of modern technology, when we pay for a song or movie now, we aren't paying for the content itself anymore. We are paying for the guarantee that we won't be sued. In order to make money off of content now, the copyright holders have to set the price according to what people are willing to pay for that guarantee. If there's no risk or a super tiny risk of being sued, then people aren't going to pay anything or are going to only pay a small amount such as a penny per song.
So yeah keep fighting your fight against things like DRM and shady enforcement tactics, but stop assuming that everyone is on your side. The truth of the matter is that the vast majority of filesharers do it because it's free. It's just part of our culture now that you don't have to pay for stuff because you won't get caught
I don't see why we shouldn't do both. Fill out a paper card and have that fed into a computer. If the election was close enough that margin of error could come into play, then count both of them and compare the results.
It would cost more but it seems like it's an important enough event to splurge on. If we're willing to accept hundreds of millions of campaign dollars going towards mudslinging and baby-kissing then we should spend some of that on a redundant way to determine the winner.
I just hope that if we're all going to perish from some programmed plague, I'll at least have time before I die to drag whoever made it out into the street and spank them really really hard in front of everybody.
I'm not one to fear-monger, but it just seems wrong to mess with this kind of stuff at all until we as a species have gotten things like school-shootings and suicide bombings under control.
I can think of a whole range of species that would most-likely go extinct without mosquitos. The decline of these plants and animals could affect any number of species and could eventually affect us in ways we couldn't have imagined.
From an evolutionary standpoint we should probably let people with diseases die from those diseases so as to strengthen the gene pool and keep the population in check (and trust me, nobody talks about it now but population is probably the most important long-term human issue after pollution).
Of course we won't just let people die because they are our friends and loved ones, but the ethical thing to do is to figure out a way to cure these diseases with medicine we make ourselves so as to limit our damaging effects on the environment.
New DVDs in the US are 20 dollars or more. The older ones are coming down in price though presumably because of companies getting ready to make the move to HD
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I mean what if nobody sees it when they do flyovers at the start of football games?
I quit smoking cold turkey a few years ago before vaping really took off. There are a lot of factors that go into whether someone can finally quit or not, but I will say that the pleasant, tempting odor of cigarettes went away eventually. Sometimes a light tobacco scent on the air will smell good in an abstract sense but when I am around other smokers it's a pretty disgusting odor. The hardest part for me about quitting was being left out socially every time there was a smoke break. It was actually when I started smoking in high school that I made the most friends. Also at most jobs I've worked at the smokers club takes precedence over all formal rank. It's pretty twisted.
Mutation is random.
Sure the RIAA has an outdated business model and they are doing some serious wrongs to people who haven't broken the law.
But I at the same time I am a college student and I have no illusions about younger peoples' attitudes about sharing copyrighted material. It has nothing to do with DRM or outdated business models. Even if the RIAA and MPAA were to disappear tomorrow and be replaced by the most streamlined business model with everything in an open format, mass piracy will be unaffected as long as students can't afford to pay for the content. The vast majority of the students could care less about the "War". Ideologically they may agree with people against the RIAA, but only so much as they don't want to be sued. As long as there's little to no risk of an individual being sued, there's no better business model than free. Because of modern technology, when we pay for a song or movie now, we aren't paying for the content itself anymore. We are paying for the guarantee that we won't be sued. In order to make money off of content now, the copyright holders have to set the price according to what people are willing to pay for that guarantee. If there's no risk or a super tiny risk of being sued, then people aren't going to pay anything or are going to only pay a small amount such as a penny per song. So yeah keep fighting your fight against things like DRM and shady enforcement tactics, but stop assuming that everyone is on your side. The truth of the matter is that the vast majority of filesharers do it because it's free. It's just part of our culture now that you don't have to pay for stuff because you won't get caught
I don't see why we shouldn't do both. Fill out a paper card and have that fed into a computer. If the election was close enough that margin of error could come into play, then count both of them and compare the results. It would cost more but it seems like it's an important enough event to splurge on. If we're willing to accept hundreds of millions of campaign dollars going towards mudslinging and baby-kissing then we should spend some of that on a redundant way to determine the winner.
I just hope that if we're all going to perish from some programmed plague, I'll at least have time before I die to drag whoever made it out into the street and spank them really really hard in front of everybody. I'm not one to fear-monger, but it just seems wrong to mess with this kind of stuff at all until we as a species have gotten things like school-shootings and suicide bombings under control.
I can think of a whole range of species that would most-likely go extinct without mosquitos. The decline of these plants and animals could affect any number of species and could eventually affect us in ways we couldn't have imagined. From an evolutionary standpoint we should probably let people with diseases die from those diseases so as to strengthen the gene pool and keep the population in check (and trust me, nobody talks about it now but population is probably the most important long-term human issue after pollution). Of course we won't just let people die because they are our friends and loved ones, but the ethical thing to do is to figure out a way to cure these diseases with medicine we make ourselves so as to limit our damaging effects on the environment.
Aside from people who have to use it for work, all you have to do is stop buying their stuff. (Yeah, it's really that simple)
New DVDs in the US are 20 dollars or more. The older ones are coming down in price though presumably because of companies getting ready to make the move to HD