For whatever reason you can get download versions of a cd as a local release that is import only for the physical cd itself. A local issue of the cd would have been $10 and the import $30 before shipping costs which may very well be as much as the cd itself. That's if you can find the import version and it is not out of print. A popular out of print import cd can easily command $50+, if you can find a seller. So sorry, convenience for the "I must have it now" culture is not the only advantage.
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I walk to work and drive my (reasonably sized and fairly efficient) car only about every other weekend.
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That's pretty unfair. Do you think he's an undersea oil well engineer with the resources of the company the size of BP?
Easy has nothing to do with it. They weren't prepared and got publicly caught with their pants down and little intention of pulling them back up anytime soon. If they can't fix it 5000' maybe they shouldn't be drilling at 5000'.
Can you buy a pandora with a credit card? Last time I tried (a few years ago) they told me they couldn't take it, after a couple of months of hearing nothing from them. I can walk into any store or any online site and buy a psp with a credit card and not have to go through any seedy international bank transfers with absolutely no guarantee I'd receive anything other than a complimentary sucker.
"(1) The Tea Party movement started in 2008..... long before the date you listed. We called ourselves "Tea Partiers" or "Supports of the Tea Party"" [citation needed]
"And anime/manga porn is legal in the United States, regardless of whether it depicts children or adults. "
I'd check with a lawyer on this one. IIRC there was recently a case where someone got sex offender status from having lolicon or hentai mangas since those are "kiddy porn".
"On January 19, 2009, Graham Makohoniuk, a part-time trader and a member of Ticker Forum, posted a casual invitation on the market-ticker.org forums to "Mail a tea bag to congress and to senate".[24] The idea quickly caught on with others on the forum, some of whom reported being attracted to the inexpensive, easy way to reach "everyone that voted for the bailout."" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protestshttp://tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?singlepost=950019
"The majority of America supports health care reform." vs. "56% of likely voters want to appeal healthcare bill"
Hmm, this looks like a case of a general or broad statement countered with a very specific and narrow statement. A factoid about how many people want to appeal a specific bill doesn't refute the general statement, as in general they may support health care reform but in specific they feel this particular bill was not implemented in a manner that they agree with, meaning one can support health care reform while not supporting a specific bill.
Patronage and manual reproduction were the precursors to copyright. Not a legal enforcement but a monetary one. If you wanted a "The Mona Lisa" you had to pay someone to make a copy of the original, by hand, one at a time probably in the presence of the original. Books? Before the printing press they were copied by hand, letter by letter, page by page. Music? You paid someone to compose the work for you and then paid the performers to perform it.
How did they control the "copyright" of The Mona Lisa? They controlled the object itself.
If everyone knew how to make Ricin there'd be a lot more eyes to catch the local nutjob wannabe terrorist who was attempting to brew up a batch. If everyone knew something about explosives we wouldn't be calling anything bigger than a firecracker a WMD and evacuating city blocks because of an M-80. But knowledge is evil. Evvvvvvillllll! Panic is good.
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Why would Starfleet put their ship designing engineers out in the middle of nowhere on already built and functioning starships? That'd be like putting the engineering (engine-ering) crew behind a desk with some paper and drafting tools.
If this article wasn't here you couldn't be seen hating on it and if I didn't see you hating on Apple I might just start to wonder if you actually really did like Apple. You don't want people to start thinking you like Apple now, do ya? Better get that hate on!
So what you're saying is that devs who have non-free apps in the App Store are going to run out and release free flash versions of them once they can use flash (and thus compete with their own non-free apps)?
"Apple doesn't have any business telling Adobe that they're acting too proprietary when you have to pass Checkpoint Charlie to execute so much as a single line of native code on iPhone OS, and even then you can't use a third-party compiler anymore." if you want to distribute the app through Apple's distribution channels. With a dev license you can "ad hoc" distribute what ever you want written with whatever languages you want.
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For whatever reason you can get download versions of a cd as a local release that is import only for the physical cd itself. A local issue of the cd would have been $10 and the import $30 before shipping costs which may very well be as much as the cd itself. That's if you can find the import version and it is not out of print. A popular out of print import cd can easily command $50+, if you can find a seller. So sorry, convenience for the "I must have it now" culture is not the only advantage.
I walk to work and drive my (reasonably sized and fairly efficient) car only about every other weekend.
That's pretty unfair. Do you think he's an undersea oil well engineer with the resources of the company the size of BP?
Easy has nothing to do with it. They weren't prepared and got publicly caught with their pants down and little intention of pulling them back up anytime soon. If they can't fix it 5000' maybe they shouldn't be drilling at 5000'.
What apps have they ever "kill switched"?
I have apps that due to private api violations can no longer be downloaded from the store but continue to run quite well on my up-to-date touch.
Can you buy a pandora with a credit card? Last time I tried (a few years ago) they told me they couldn't take it, after a couple of months of hearing nothing from them. I can walk into any store or any online site and buy a psp with a credit card and not have to go through any seedy international bank transfers with absolutely no guarantee I'd receive anything other than a complimentary sucker.
Ya, the first bits of practical chemistry (and microbiology) practiced by humans is so totally not interesting.
"(1) The Tea Party movement started in 2008..... long before the date you listed. We called ourselves "Tea Partiers" or "Supports of the Tea Party"" [citation needed]
And then screw over the people who could only afford to pay $30 per ticket.
But hey, we can't be having those evil inefficiencies now can we? Don't want to get spanked by that ol' Invisible Hand.
"there is no real doubt what the predominate use for certain firearms are."
I very much doubt that the predominate use for firearms is committing crimes if that was what you were alluding to.
The predominate, by number of guns, use is most likely sitting in a gun safe, use at a shooting range, or hunting.
The percentage of guns that are both legal and never been used in a crime is probably a lot higher than the percentage of torrents that are legal.
"And anime/manga porn is legal in the United States, regardless of whether it depicts children or adults. "
I'd check with a lawyer on this one. IIRC there was recently a case where someone got sex offender status from having lolicon or hentai mangas since those are "kiddy porn".
"On January 19, 2009, Graham Makohoniuk, a part-time trader and a member of Ticker Forum, posted a casual invitation on the market-ticker.org forums to "Mail a tea bag to congress and to senate".[24] The idea quickly caught on with others on the forum, some of whom reported being attracted to the inexpensive, easy way to reach "everyone that voted for the bailout."" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests http://tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?singlepost=950019
"The majority of America supports health care reform." vs. "56% of likely voters want to appeal healthcare bill"
Hmm, this looks like a case of a general or broad statement countered with a very specific and narrow statement. A factoid about how many people want to appeal a specific bill doesn't refute the general statement, as in general they may support health care reform but in specific they feel this particular bill was not implemented in a manner that they agree with, meaning one can support health care reform while not supporting a specific bill.
Wait, NYC, LA, and SFO are "cultured" now? Is that the new word for gang infested and crime ridden?
"but then you have to talk to the inhabitants." Pot, kettle, rest left as an exercise to the reader.
Patronage and manual reproduction were the precursors to copyright. Not a legal enforcement but a monetary one. If you wanted a "The Mona Lisa" you had to pay someone to make a copy of the original, by hand, one at a time probably in the presence of the original. Books? Before the printing press they were copied by hand, letter by letter, page by page. Music? You paid someone to compose the work for you and then paid the performers to perform it.
How did they control the "copyright" of The Mona Lisa? They controlled the object itself.
Did you really want an answer or did you just want to show off all your clever i* jokes?
We haven't been able to get Mexico to sign the "no backsies" treaty.
If everyone knew how to make Ricin there'd be a lot more eyes to catch the local nutjob wannabe terrorist who was attempting to brew up a batch. If everyone knew something about explosives we wouldn't be calling anything bigger than a firecracker a WMD and evacuating city blocks because of an M-80. But knowledge is evil. Evvvvvvillllll! Panic is good.
Why would Starfleet put their ship designing engineers out in the middle of nowhere on already built and functioning starships? That'd be like putting the engineering (engine-ering) crew behind a desk with some paper and drafting tools.
If this article wasn't here you couldn't be seen hating on it and if I didn't see you hating on Apple I might just start to wonder if you actually really did like Apple. You don't want people to start thinking you like Apple now, do ya? Better get that hate on!
500 if you get the enterprise dev license. No "Checkpoint Charlie" on either.
So what you're saying is that devs who have non-free apps in the App Store are going to run out and release free flash versions of them once they can use flash (and thus compete with their own non-free apps)?
"you can't use a car to shoot a politician or other government official or functionary that's come to seize your property and your freedom..."
You don't shoot people with cars, that's silly, though if done it would be awesomely silly. You run them down, back up, and repeat a few times.
Now if your friend's Acer with the same specs could play it just fine?
"Apple is currently getting a pretty penny for through the app store could be implemented as quite simple flash apps, free for all to use."
And Apple gets such a big cut from all those free apps that would be made into free flash apps. (Large_Number)*.3*0 is a big number right?
"Apple doesn't have any business telling Adobe that they're acting too proprietary when you have to pass Checkpoint Charlie to execute so much as a single line of native code on iPhone OS, and even then you can't use a third-party compiler anymore." if you want to distribute the app through Apple's distribution channels. With a dev license you can "ad hoc" distribute what ever you want written with whatever languages you want.