I was just giving a very simple explanation of an advantage to having them headquartered in the US, versus elsewhere. If they would actually move is a whole other issue.
Because along with the headquarters goes a lot of jobs and money. If company X moves it's headquarters from Chicago to Madrid (making stuff up), what do you think is going to happen to all of the employees? Sure, some of the Executives will move out of the country and retain their posistions. But the middle management and grunts will end up on unemployement. What happens to the local market with the loss of those jobs and the emoney they spent in the local community?
You've seem to have some issues. For someone who earns ~$20m a year, it is only 1/1000th of their income. Roughly the same as someone who earns ~$40k a year spending $40.
Do people that make ~$40k have issues for buying a $40 bottle of whisky?
Maybe because the Japanese have a Technophile culture. So the Japanophile subculture have adapted to include that? Along wit hthe other suggestions above.
So, you are telling us that sending and recieving text messages wit you is overly complicated so that you can save $5 on a plan that you probably alread spend ~$75 for.
Couldn't that have been avoided with better oversight on the project you are paying them for? Althoguh, it seems to have worked out in the end if you end up with lower cost internet overall.
Our outcomes are worse than some third world countries. . . . we get a third world health care system
Citation Please? What Third World country has a better health care system then the US? Or, since better and worse are subjective, in which third world country to they have lower child mortality rate and higher average life expectancy?
Sure, ,br>
There are times when your not online that you still need Office software. Plus Google Docs isnt robust enough for everyone yet; someday it might be.
It could be that they expect to make most of the money off of the sales of games in their US market, so they sell the unit cheaper as make the majority of the profit from games. That might not be possible in other markets, so that put the profit they expected to get off of the average games sold into the original price of the unit in foreign markets.
But what can you get with playing wow for lets say an hour? Some flights still take 20minutes! For fuck sake, everything greater than the loading time is unacceptable. Period.
You can do at least one heroic instance, if not more (CoS & VH could both be done in less then an hour).
You could do 10 man OS & 25 man OS both! or 10 man VoA & 25 Man VoA both! or A wing of 10 man Naxx, or A wing of 25 man Naxx, or 10 EoE, or 25 Man EoE, or a few bosses in the new Ulduar raid for either 10 or 25 man.
a couple of Battlegrounds. WG is 30min Max, Arathi Basin is usually 10-20 min, Warsong Gultch is normally 10-20 min (Can go much much longer). Outside of Alterc Valley, they are all pretty doable. So you can PvP your way to good gear casually. Will you have it all in a week? no. But you'll get it all well before it becomes obsolete.
As for questing, Things like Quest Helper make it crazy easy to be productive when questing. And you don't have to do every single quest your given. You could pick to do only the ones that are interesting and fun and have immediate rewards. Get a quest that sends you around the world? don;t do it. grab the one to kill 10 x. Ohh what? your out of those in that area? take a quick jaunt over to the other areas for your level range and do the quests there to kill 10 x. Don't like quests? Ok, do instances and gain great XP with your rested XP bonus and better gear to level in.
Yes, you wont be there as fast , but you will get there.
Pick a DPS Class like Mage or Hunter, or hell Paladin. Play every few days and Bang, you get double XP while you play. With things like Questhelper you never need to waste time running around, but can run from quest to quest.
As for once you're 80, well that's easy too. Playing ~2hrs a week it would not take you too long to get to 80 and have everything you'd want. However, its certainly going to take you longer then a hard core gamer who does it in a week. But it is certainly obtainable for a casual gamer.
They didn't talk about EQ, they talked about WoW...
Sure, you can spend your whole life in it, but it isn't a requirement like it was in EQ. You can level to 80 and get near everything a Hard Core Gamer gets in WoW with little effort and time. People don't have to spend time in it, that is what makes it causal.
That's funny, I have worked for the Government too.
Maybe the Government does it right, not paying a lot to a CEO, but pays a lot more for low end jobs. From my experience, low end jobs make far more working for the government and through contracts. Look at a contract at your local city, they pay around $50 an hour for a low level secretary. Really? Seems that everythign is vastly overpriced. However, I didn't make the connection to include the cost of a CEO.
As for your argument about the Government being able to do it cheaper vs. being inefficient, well that really does not have anything to do with my post so I'll refrain from commenting on it right now as I don't feel like writing more then I have to at the moment.
Except break even prices for a government run business are hardly what break even prices are in a free market. Government agencies always over pay the people they hire and then they grossly overpay the people they contract to do some of the work. So at the end fo the day, they spend much more money then needed to get a job done.
"barbaric" Hmm,.... I'll take the 3rd definition, "crudely rich or splendid"... Although it's interesting to see that you relate Capital Punishment with being splendid.
Civilized and Barbaric are pretty subjective words. Would you really call America primitive? The entire society is primitive because there is a law or two that you disagree with? Br
Isn't violating a copyright the same as violating someone property and their privacy? Isnt what they own their private property that they can choose to share with you or not? removing the breaking into your home part, what makes your home videos any more private then someone else's movie or music?
It is the property of whoever owns the copy right. IF they choose not to share it, you don't get to. It is theirs, not yours. You do not have a right to something they created, and/or purchased the rights to.
Bad analogy time:
I do not have a "right" to watch your home movies. Just because you refuse to let me, does not give me the right to break into your house and watch them.
Try not to confuse people who don't want to spend a ridiculous sum of money for a 90 minute film that probably sucks with people who are simply thieves.
If you don't want to pay what it costs, don't watch it. Wait for it to show up on TV for free. But it is not a valid justification for violating the copyright. The price point of when you start to violate copyright ($0.00 for some, more for others) does not make you any different or better.
Yes, I do not have any evidence to support my position. However, you do not have any to support the opposition. The only logic I have to support mine over yours to to say that the majority of people are not suffering from medical illnesses, like HIV.
You smoke to relieve your pain caused by your illenss. There is a reason you smoke besides to just get "high". However, I would not say that your case is the norm; you are an exception. There are thounds (possible millions) of people that smoke for medical reasons. But there are certainly more that smoke for the high without the medical need.
On a side note, I'm sorry to hear about your illness. I certainly hope that you're able to keep it under control and live a long and fruitful life.
There is a huge difference in someone challenging unjust laws and people who just break the law.
You get X number of people to gather on the steps of the Capitol and Toke up, that's noble and certainly lends itself towards the kind thing that Rosa Parks is linked to. Risking security for a protest of current laws is admirable. But there is nothing to show that any sizable portion of pot smokers are doing anything like that. What is happening far more consistently is that they are hiding their illegal activity and smoke to get high and not actively working to oust unjust laws.
So, you are right, not all illegal activity is "dubious". There are always exceptions to everything; the world is not black and white. However, the exceptions are just that, exceptions. Breakign the law to stage a protest of the law is an exception
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I was just giving a very simple explanation of an advantage to having them headquartered in the US, versus elsewhere. If they would actually move is a whole other issue.
Because along with the headquarters goes a lot of jobs and money. If company X moves it's headquarters from Chicago to Madrid (making stuff up), what do you think is going to happen to all of the employees? Sure, some of the Executives will move out of the country and retain their posistions. But the middle management and grunts will end up on unemployement. What happens to the local market with the loss of those jobs and the emoney they spent in the local community?
You've seem to have some issues. For someone who earns ~$20m a year, it is only 1/1000th of their income. Roughly the same as someone who earns ~$40k a year spending $40.
Do people that make ~$40k have issues for buying a $40 bottle of whisky?
They dont have issues, they have too much money.
Maybe because the Japanese have a Technophile culture. So the Japanophile subculture have adapted to include that? Along wit hthe other suggestions above.
So, you are telling us that sending and recieving text messages wit you is overly complicated so that you can save $5 on a plan that you probably alread spend ~$75 for.
/Glad I don't text you.
Outlawing thought certainly sounds crazy to me. But I have those "American 1st-Amendment sensibilities"
Couldn't that have been avoided with better oversight on the project you are paying them for? Althoguh, it seems to have worked out in the end if you end up with lower cost internet overall.
Citation Please? What Third World country has a better health care system then the US? Or, since better and worse are subjective, in which third world country to they have lower child mortality rate and higher average life expectancy?
Sure,
,br> There are times when your not online that you still need Office software. Plus Google Docs isnt robust enough for everyone yet; someday it might be.
It could be that they expect to make most of the money off of the sales of games in their US market, so they sell the unit cheaper as make the majority of the profit from games. That might not be possible in other markets, so that put the profit they expected to get off of the average games sold into the original price of the unit in foreign markets.
Just an idea.
You can do at least one heroic instance, if not more (CoS & VH could both be done in less then an hour).
You could do 10 man OS & 25 man OS both! or 10 man VoA & 25 Man VoA both! or A wing of 10 man Naxx, or A wing of 25 man Naxx, or 10 EoE, or 25 Man EoE, or a few bosses in the new Ulduar raid for either 10 or 25 man.
a couple of Battlegrounds. WG is 30min Max, Arathi Basin is usually 10-20 min, Warsong Gultch is normally 10-20 min (Can go much much longer). Outside of Alterc Valley, they are all pretty doable. So you can PvP your way to good gear casually. Will you have it all in a week? no. But you'll get it all well before it becomes obsolete.
As for questing, Things like Quest Helper make it crazy easy to be productive when questing. And you don't have to do every single quest your given. You could pick to do only the ones that are interesting and fun and have immediate rewards. Get a quest that sends you around the world? don;t do it. grab the one to kill 10 x. Ohh what? your out of those in that area? take a quick jaunt over to the other areas for your level range and do the quests there to kill 10 x. Don't like quests? Ok, do instances and gain great XP with your rested XP bonus and better gear to level in.
Yes, you wont be there as fast , but you will get there.
Have you played WoW?
Pick a DPS Class like Mage or Hunter, or hell Paladin. Play every few days and Bang, you get double XP while you play. With things like Questhelper you never need to waste time running around, but can run from quest to quest.
As for once you're 80, well that's easy too. Playing ~2hrs a week it would not take you too long to get to 80 and have everything you'd want. However, its certainly going to take you longer then a hard core gamer who does it in a week. But it is certainly obtainable for a casual gamer.
Wow is an Easy game.
They didn't talk about EQ, they talked about WoW...
Sure, you can spend your whole life in it, but it isn't a requirement like it was in EQ. You can level to 80 and get near everything a Hard Core Gamer gets in WoW with little effort and time. People don't have to spend time in it, that is what makes it causal.
It's true. It is the price the city PAID, but the price that the employee received. Companies make a good profit providing labor to a City.
So, no. You wont see that money. but the City will pay it for your work.
That's funny, I have worked for the Government too.
Maybe the Government does it right, not paying a lot to a CEO, but pays a lot more for low end jobs. From my experience, low end jobs make far more working for the government and through contracts. Look at a contract at your local city, they pay around $50 an hour for a low level secretary. Really? Seems that everythign is vastly overpriced. However, I didn't make the connection to include the cost of a CEO.
As for your argument about the Government being able to do it cheaper vs. being inefficient, well that really does not have anything to do with my post so I'll refrain from commenting on it right now as I don't feel like writing more then I have to at the moment.
Overpaid.
Except break even prices for a government run business are hardly what break even prices are in a free market. Government agencies always over pay the people they hire and then they grossly overpay the people they contract to do some of the work. So at the end fo the day, they spend much more money then needed to get a job done.
"barbaric" Hmm,.... I'll take the 3rd definition, "crudely rich or splendid"... Although it's interesting to see that you relate Capital Punishment with being splendid.
Civilized and Barbaric are pretty subjective words. Would you really call America primitive? The entire society is primitive because there is a law or two that you disagree with?
Br
How does you watching it for free "promote Progress"?
Sure, you can give rare cases where it could, but in raelity, it's just you wanting to watch stuff for free.
"so who is he hurting?"
Does it matter? Why does someone have to be hurt?
"violating private property" & "violating privacy"
Isn't violating a copyright the same as violating someone property and their privacy? Isnt what they own their private property that they can choose to share with you or not? removing the breaking into your home part, what makes your home videos any more private then someone else's movie or music?
Short answer: Don't watch it
It is the property of whoever owns the copy right. IF they choose not to share it, you don't get to. It is theirs, not yours. You do not have a right to something they created, and/or purchased the rights to.
Bad analogy time:
I do not have a "right" to watch your home movies. Just because you refuse to let me, does not give me the right to break into your house and watch them.
If you don't want to pay what it costs, don't watch it. Wait for it to show up on TV for free. But it is not a valid justification for violating the copyright. The price point of when you start to violate copyright ($0.00 for some, more for others) does not make you any different or better.
I have, and there great!
Yes, I do not have any evidence to support my position. However, you do not have any to support the opposition. The only logic I have to support mine over yours to to say that the majority of people are not suffering from medical illnesses, like HIV.
You smoke to relieve your pain caused by your illenss. There is a reason you smoke besides to just get "high". However, I would not say that your case is the norm; you are an exception. There are thounds (possible millions) of people that smoke for medical reasons. But there are certainly more that smoke for the high without the medical need.
On a side note, I'm sorry to hear about your illness. I certainly hope that you're able to keep it under control and live a long and fruitful life.
There is a huge difference in someone challenging unjust laws and people who just break the law.
You get X number of people to gather on the steps of the Capitol and Toke up, that's noble and certainly lends itself towards the kind thing that Rosa Parks is linked to. Risking security for a protest of current laws is admirable. But there is nothing to show that any sizable portion of pot smokers are doing anything like that. What is happening far more consistently is that they are hiding their illegal activity and smoke to get high and not actively working to oust unjust laws.
So, you are right, not all illegal activity is "dubious". There are always exceptions to everything; the world is not black and white. However, the exceptions are just that, exceptions. Breakign the law to stage a protest of the law is an exception