I can't speak for the GP but I find my 50-minute commute time is very relaxing. No kids, no wife, just me and the road. Sometimes I listen to books-on-tape or Teaching company lectures to pass the time, although most times I prefer the quiet. I like driving. And I only have to do it four days a week. I get a three day weekend every week
Betamax, for all of its faults, was actually successful for a number of years
Yeah. 2. Two years. Once RCA got permission from Matsushita to produce 4-hour-capable VHS recorders (1976), the Betamax 1-hour limit looked like a joke to consumers. VHS quickly became the number one brand. By 1980 Betamax barely held 1/5th of the market.
Minidisc is only "popular outside the U.S." if you define popular as holding 10% of the market, which I consider to be a flop (along with Super CD and DVD Audio). The only formats Sony has successfully parleyed as the dominant standards of their time - Umatic (for professionals), Betacam (pro), Compact Disc, and Playstation 1 and 2.
I still play games I bought 20 or 30 years ago. Do you think the PlayStation Network will still let me download my purchased PSP games in 2030 or 2040? Yeah I don't think so either.
I see people repeating this same lie over, and over, but the fact is 32-bit CPUs can handle more than 4 gigabytes. Easily. So I repeat the GP's question - why do we so desperately need 64-bit CPUs - what can they do that 32-bit can not do?
Yeah it does, because the actual story is FAR more interesting. In the actual history the invention didn't come from government (either democratic or communist), but from a private inventor seeking to gain wealth via a "Space Pen". The free market created the solution, and both the Americans and Russians adopted it.
It's the same kind of thing that led the PC to become the dominant platform rather than an Apple or Commodore or Atari. The free market was free to operate, and it created an unstoppable, constant innovation that the other hardware companies could not keep up with.
Since when has it become standard procedure to CESNOR some one "troll" because he offers his opinion about his experiences? I agree with C64's point:
Yes but it's not necessary to spend [$837]on just ONE game. I bought DDR for just $20 and it still entertains me all these years later. Why spend hundreds of dollars when a single twenty will give just as much fun? P.S. And if I ever get tired of DDR, I can always sell it on ebay and recover most of my $20. Good luck trying to recover your $840 worth of online gaming
I too prefer ownership of a game over monthly rental of a game.
>>>their contracts with the credit-card companies explicitly forbids it.
False. The contracts (and most state laws) forbid adding a surcharge for credit card purchases, but you are free to provide a discount for cash purchases. That's why virtually every truck stop in this country offers separate Credit and Cash billing for fuel.
The point was that if credit cards were raping my store's profits, I would ask customers to pay with cash instead, and then pass those savings to the customer with 5% discounts.
I advise forgetting the RV and traveling by hotel instead. I do a lot of traveling and all hotels have internet connectivity, even it's just a phone line. The better hotels let you connect direct to an ethernet line, like the one I stayed at in Oklahoma City which only cost ~$800 a month with free net access.
And the distance from the hotel to "nature" is typically only half-an-hour. You can go picnic, enjoy the outdoors, and then come back to the hotel for a hot shower and free cable TV.
>>>if you can find some clever libertarian solution to this problem, or can otherwise find an issue with my logic, please, show it to me. Because I just don't see it.
Only buy cars designed by Linux-type design. i.e. Open source where nothing is kept hidden.
Well in my state we have required annual inspections. And every time I go into the shop to get my sticker, they find something wrong (like needing new wheel hubs). And when I asked, "Do I have to fix it? It will just make my wheel vibrate, not endanger me," but the answer was no. You HAVE to get the repair, else you won't get the sticker. This seems a perfect example of government creating a problem that negatively-impacts citizens.
In contrast when I lived in a state without inspections (other than emissions every five years), my repair costs were virtually nil. I drove my car year-after-year without problem.
Wow. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Couldn't you at least LOOK it up before you claim it says "indentured" servitude??? Here's the actual article from the U.S. Constitution - "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
I don't consider copyright infringement a crime (between a citizen and the government). It's a civil matter between two private parties. Fining someone a million dollars is equivalent to enslaving them to RIAA for the rest of their natural lives, and therefore should be unconstitutional.
Wrong. A guy in Pennsylvania was arrested because he hit a thief over the head when said thief was trying to steal a car. He's also being sued by the thief for hospital bills. In today's world you're better off being a criminal than a victim.
>>>Shame on us for thinking rationally instead of having a knee-jerk, tough-guy hypothetical reaction
You'd probably end-up dead, because no thief's going to let you live after you've seen his face. So your approach to not defend yourself is NOT rational. It's more like suicide.
My car's not insured. And even if it was they're not going to give me $20,000, which is what it would cost to buy a new one. They'd give about $2000 which is clearly not enough to get myself a replacement car.
I suggested a similar idea to a bunch of store-owners who were organizing to protest high credit card fees. They said the fees kept skyrocketing, and that meant increased prices, which would hurt the customers. I said if they want to help customers, encourage the shoppers to stop using credit cards by offering a 5% discount for cash payment.
The store-owners looked at me as if I was nuts. You see they expected credit card companies to reduce fees, but heaven forbid the store owners reduce *their* fees to the customer. That's sacrilegious. Same with T-Mobile - heaven forbid they offer a discount for using paper. They want to collect MORE money not less.
Aside-
Discover Card gave me 5 dollars to go paperless. Eventually I decided I didn't like it because I kept forgetting to pay my bill (which ended-up costing me more than 5 dollars in late fees). So I went back to paper. Discover Card balked but when I said, "Give me paper or lose my business," they decided to give me paper statements again.
"Heil mein Führer!" (ripped from Mr Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Adenoid Hynkel - How wonderful! Tomania, a nation of blue-eyed blondes. Marshal Herring- Why not a blonde Europe, Asia, America? Adenoid Hynkel - A blonde world... Marshal Herring- And a brunette dictator. Adenoid Hynkel - Dictator of the world! Herr Garbitsch - Mein Fooie! I have news! Adenoid Hynkel - Cheese-und-krakers. What??? Herr Garbitsch - We've just discovered the most wonderful, the most marvelous poisonous gas. It will kill everybody. Adenoid Hynkel - Wunderbar. Declare war on that Italian Napaloni. Marshal Herring- Napaloni? Adenoid Hynkel - Yes, Napaloni! Marshal Herring- Very well. Would you sign this? Adenoid Hynkel - Yes, I'll... what is it? Marshal Herring- The declaration of war. Adenoid Hynkel - Then I'll sign it. A pen! Und stratz mit ze uldensackt, il der, der flutens und strippensackt! A pen! I'll sign it. Napaloni, der grosse peanut, der cheesy ravioli. There!
Don't exaggerate. You also make it sound like, after the civil war, the Constitution was no longer in force. Well. It is. The United States is still limited in its power, and the Supreme Law still still reads, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The primary powers still lie with the 50 Governments, even if Congress does not seem to realize that. For example they want to fine me, personally, $1500 a year because I don't have health insurance (like Massachusetts does with its citizens). Now I've read the U.S. law several times, and I can not lay my hand on any part of the document which gives Congress the right to fine the People, because one of them voluntarily-choose not to buy a product.
We are still better-off having a weak central government, since one size solutions do NOT fit all. It is better to put the power closer to home, just a few miles from the citizens, at the state level. 50 solutions for 50 very different climates/regions. It is also better to have "checks and balances" not just between the three branches of U.S. government, but also between the States and the U.S., so neither grows too powerful.
As power grows, liberty wanes. Better to keep power in check.
>>>deliberately misleading the auditor is essentially fraudulent misrepresentation.
This happens in the housing industry all the time. The salesman invites an inspector to verify the house is "safe" and meets legal requirements, but since the inspector's income relies on the salesman (and vice-versa), they often collude with one another such that even a flawed house will pass inspection.
I wouldn't be surprised if some collusion happened between Fairport and the auditor as well.
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45 minute commute? Wow, that sucks.
I can't speak for the GP but I find my 50-minute commute time is very relaxing. No kids, no wife, just me and the road. Sometimes I listen to books-on-tape or Teaching company lectures to pass the time, although most times I prefer the quiet. I like driving. And I only have to do it four days a week. I get a three day weekend every week
I own both - the hybrid and the clean diesel Jetta. Now if only they were merged into a single hybrid-diesel car; it would be awesome.
Betamax, for all of its faults, was actually successful for a number of years
Yeah. 2. Two years. Once RCA got permission from Matsushita to produce 4-hour-capable VHS recorders (1976), the Betamax 1-hour limit looked like a joke to consumers. VHS quickly became the number one brand. By 1980 Betamax barely held 1/5th of the market.
Minidisc is only "popular outside the U.S." if you define popular as holding 10% of the market, which I consider to be a flop (along with Super CD and DVD Audio). The only formats Sony has successfully parleyed as the dominant standards of their time - Umatic (for professionals), Betacam (pro), Compact Disc, and Playstation 1 and 2.
I still play games I bought 20 or 30 years ago. Do you think the PlayStation Network will still let me download my purchased PSP games in 2030 or 2040? Yeah I don't think so either.
I'll stick with physical media.
for 4 GBs of RAM or more
I see people repeating this same lie over, and over, but the fact is 32-bit CPUs can handle more than 4 gigabytes. Easily. So I repeat the GP's question - why do we so desperately need 64-bit CPUs - what can they do that 32-bit can not do?
a few mods with agendas.
Oh. Who watches the watchers, and stops them from abusing power?
Commercial push-movers typically bought by businesses can cost thousands of dollars. Maybe he got one of those?
>>>[citation needed]
Let me google that for you - "gran turismo 5" micropayments - http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=%22gran+turismo+5%22+micropayments
>>>It doesn't matter whether it's true.
Yeah it does, because the actual story is FAR more interesting. In the actual history the invention didn't come from government (either democratic or communist), but from a private inventor seeking to gain wealth via a "Space Pen". The free market created the solution, and both the Americans and Russians adopted it.
It's the same kind of thing that led the PC to become the dominant platform rather than an Apple or Commodore or Atari. The free market was free to operate, and it created an unstoppable, constant innovation that the other hardware companies could not keep up with.
Since when has it become standard procedure to CESNOR some one "troll" because he offers his opinion about his experiences? I agree with C64's point:
Yes but it's not necessary to spend [$837]on just ONE game. I bought DDR for just $20 and it still entertains me all these years later. Why spend hundreds of dollars when a single twenty will give just as much fun? P.S. And if I ever get tired of DDR, I can always sell it on ebay and recover most of my $20. Good luck trying to recover your $840 worth of online gaming
I too prefer ownership of a game over monthly rental of a game.
>>>their contracts with the credit-card companies explicitly forbids it.
False. The contracts (and most state laws) forbid adding a surcharge for credit card purchases, but you are free to provide a discount for cash purchases. That's why virtually every truck stop in this country offers separate Credit and Cash billing for fuel.
Huh?
The point was that if credit cards were raping my store's profits, I would ask customers to pay with cash instead, and then pass those savings to the customer with 5% discounts.
I advise forgetting the RV and traveling by hotel instead. I do a lot of traveling and all hotels have internet connectivity, even it's just a phone line. The better hotels let you connect direct to an ethernet line, like the one I stayed at in Oklahoma City which only cost ~$800 a month with free net access.
And the distance from the hotel to "nature" is typically only half-an-hour. You can go picnic, enjoy the outdoors, and then come back to the hotel for a hot shower and free cable TV.
>>>if you can find some clever libertarian solution to this problem, or can otherwise find an issue with my logic, please, show it to me. Because I just don't see it.
Only buy cars designed by Linux-type design. i.e. Open source where nothing is kept hidden.
Well in my state we have required annual inspections. And every time I go into the shop to get my sticker, they find something wrong (like needing new wheel hubs). And when I asked, "Do I have to fix it? It will just make my wheel vibrate, not endanger me," but the answer was no. You HAVE to get the repair, else you won't get the sticker. This seems a perfect example of government creating a problem that negatively-impacts citizens.
In contrast when I lived in a state without inspections (other than emissions every five years), my repair costs were virtually nil. I drove my car year-after-year without problem.
Wow. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Couldn't you at least LOOK it up before you claim it says "indentured" servitude??? Here's the actual article from the U.S. Constitution - "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
I don't consider copyright infringement a crime (between a citizen and the government). It's a civil matter between two private parties. Fining someone a million dollars is equivalent to enslaving them to RIAA for the rest of their natural lives, and therefore should be unconstitutional.
>>>baseball bats,
Wrong. A guy in Pennsylvania was arrested because he hit a thief over the head when said thief was trying to steal a car. He's also being sued by the thief for hospital bills. In today's world you're better off being a criminal than a victim.
>>>Shame on us for thinking rationally instead of having a knee-jerk, tough-guy hypothetical reaction
You'd probably end-up dead, because no thief's going to let you live after you've seen his face. So your approach to not defend yourself is NOT rational. It's more like suicide.
My car's not insured. And even if it was they're not going to give me $20,000, which is what it would cost to buy a new one. They'd give about $2000 which is clearly not enough to get myself a replacement car.
>>>It has the incidental effect of making anyone using linux and a DTV card to recieve the broadcasts act illegally
I match your DRM and raise with a semiautomatic aimed at the nearest MP.
It's only fraud if you get caught.
If you don't get caught it's called politics.
I suggested a similar idea to a bunch of store-owners who were organizing to protest high credit card fees. They said the fees kept skyrocketing, and that meant increased prices, which would hurt the customers. I said if they want to help customers, encourage the shoppers to stop using credit cards by offering a 5% discount for cash payment.
The store-owners looked at me as if I was nuts. You see they expected credit card companies to reduce fees, but heaven forbid the store owners reduce *their* fees to the customer. That's sacrilegious. Same with T-Mobile - heaven forbid they offer a discount for using paper. They want to collect MORE money not less.
Aside-
Discover Card gave me 5 dollars to go paperless. Eventually I decided I didn't like it because I kept forgetting to pay my bill (which ended-up costing me more than 5 dollars in late fees). So I went back to paper. Discover Card balked but when I said, "Give me paper or lose my business," they decided to give me paper statements again.
"Heil mein Führer!"
(ripped from Mr Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Adenoid Hynkel - How wonderful! Tomania, a nation of blue-eyed blondes.
Marshal Herring- Why not a blonde Europe, Asia, America?
Adenoid Hynkel - A blonde world...
Marshal Herring- And a brunette dictator.
Adenoid Hynkel - Dictator of the world!
Herr Garbitsch - Mein Fooie! I have news!
Adenoid Hynkel - Cheese-und-krakers. What???
Herr Garbitsch - We've just discovered the most wonderful, the most marvelous poisonous gas. It will kill everybody.
Adenoid Hynkel - Wunderbar. Declare war on that Italian Napaloni.
Marshal Herring- Napaloni?
Adenoid Hynkel - Yes, Napaloni!
Marshal Herring- Very well. Would you sign this?
Adenoid Hynkel - Yes, I'll... what is it?
Marshal Herring- The declaration of war.
Adenoid Hynkel - Then I'll sign it. A pen! Und stratz mit ze uldensackt, il der, der flutens und strippensackt! A pen! I'll sign it. Napaloni, der grosse peanut, der cheesy ravioli. There!
(ripped from Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator)
Thousands not millions.
Don't exaggerate. You also make it sound like, after the civil war, the Constitution was no longer in force. Well. It is. The United States is still limited in its power, and the Supreme Law still still reads, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The primary powers still lie with the 50 Governments, even if Congress does not seem to realize that. For example they want to fine me, personally, $1500 a year because I don't have health insurance (like Massachusetts does with its citizens). Now I've read the U.S. law several times, and I can not lay my hand on any part of the document which gives Congress the right to fine the People, because one of them voluntarily-choose not to buy a product.
We are still better-off having a weak central government, since one size solutions do NOT fit all. It is better to put the power closer to home, just a few miles from the citizens, at the state level. 50 solutions for 50 very different climates/regions. It is also better to have "checks and balances" not just between the three branches of U.S. government, but also between the States and the U.S., so neither grows too powerful.
As power grows, liberty wanes.
Better to keep power in check.
>>>deliberately misleading the auditor is essentially fraudulent misrepresentation.
This happens in the housing industry all the time. The salesman invites an inspector to verify the house is "safe" and meets legal requirements, but since the inspector's income relies on the salesman (and vice-versa), they often collude with one another such that even a flawed house will pass inspection.
I wouldn't be surprised if some collusion happened between Fairport and the auditor as well.