Am I missing something? Is there really such a demand for gold on the street that the convenience of being able to purchase it from a vending machine warrants a 30% markup? What possibly could justify an individual purchasing gold at a 30% markup in small quantities?
I'm not an economist (not that they have really have a good track record lately) but this seems like a ridiculous scam.
"Because of the crisis there is a lot of awareness of gold," he said. "It is also a great gift for children - for them getting gold is like a fairytale."
Somehow I think little Jimmy or Susy would have prefer a Playstation or a bike or something.
Nevertheless what everyone is really waiting other than the name's of the individuals arrested obviously...are the names of the albums that they put up.
As soon as their real and DJ names are released we can find out what albums they worked on and see if those compilations were actually good. I wonder if they'll get enough downloads from real sales to pay for their lawyers and court fines? I also wonder if Amazon/I-Tunes will have to forfeit the money? And also if the artists used in the compilation mixes will get to keep any money that they made as well?
I don't think I'll care about my PS3 having a motion sensor. I only play fighting games, Metal Gear Solid, and Ratchet & Clank. No real need or want for motion control from me. I have a Wii and I barely touch the thing anymore (wow I just typed that then paused then laughed) and won't until Mario Galaxy 2 comes out.
The reason my PS3 has longevity is because it plays Blu-Rays, it won the format war, and unless some new disc type comes along or digital downloads with all of the extra content of a BD come along my PS3 will be around for quite some time playing fighting games and serving as my BD player.
Motion control is just a gimmick and a casual consumer driven aspect of consoles. The life blood of gaming, less casual, more hardcore gamers, are the ones who play games like Oblivion, Unreal Tournament, Starcraft, Diablo, etc. because you aren't going to see companies like Blizzard all of the sudden shifting their entire focus to motion control games and fans aren't demanding it either. If SONY and MS are going to focus entirely on casual mommy daddy crowds and really young children then I will be trashing my consoles and going entirely back to PC gaming (aside from using my PS3 as a BD player and my Wii/360 as coasters).
Seriously, Chrono Trigger, God of War, Virtu Fighter, these games are long term titles and classics because they were built to me amazing from the ground up. People still play the SNES for Chrono Trigger. MS and SONY honestly think that motion controller = instant classics?
We saw Resident Evil 4 come out on the Wii with rave reviews for its new motion controlling scheme. And where did that put Resident Evil 5? Oh yeah on the 360 and PS3. Stop trying to steal Nintendo's kiddie and casual fan base and appeal to your more active crowd please SONY and MS.
My College was always top on a list of Colleges that the highest percentage of alumni donating to the college after graduating. The rankings would score a college or university based on what percentage of alumni donated back to the school the first year after graduating.
My College found the simplest way to manipulate that index. Just have every single student who graduates donate one dollar back to the school and then find one or two students with extremely wealthy parents (this was not hard at my school) and have them donate thousands and thousands of dollars. This way the school would report absurd figures like "90 percent of students donated back to our school within the first year of graduating from our undergraduate program" and it would make the school look good and it would make the degree you just got look a little more prestigious. They never told the index that we only donated a dollar and were instructed to by some of administration.
And with the few giant donations from one or two individuals, the school could artificially say that the average donation was way higher than typical, while hiding the fact that it was offset by just one or two massive donations.
Other ways to cheat is hiring adjunct professors or part time professors under different titles like 'technician' or 'consultant'. This makes the percentage of full time faculty and professors look way higher than it actually is because the school hides its adjuncts under different titles. Another way they cheated the system was renaming classrooms as different titles. One of the rankings is how many classrooms on campuses have TVs/projectors/computers and if you hide the classrooms without those your percentages increase in your 'technology' score as well.
If I think of any more I'll them but these were the ones that came to mind immediately.
I was a sports broadcasting and psychology double major in my undergraduate studies. When I was taking sports broadcasting classes it was a total sausage fest. Thirty guys talking about sports in an academic environment as if it was a locker room. Meanwhile in psychology it was always majority female in classrooms ranging from 60% to 90%. It was because sports writing and reporting is a male dominated field, whereas psychology was a necessary field of study for many female students who wanted to teach elementary or middle school, a field traditionally occupied by women. Also my school was 60% female so a typical class would have 60% women which really emphasized how incredibly one sided sports broadcasting was a major regarding gender divide.
While men and women solve problems differently, our brains are made up differently so that is to be expected, most studies conclude that even though we solve problems differently men and women reach the same conclusions eventually but they take different paths. Both genders are equally smart but think differently to solve the same problems.
Consensus: With storytelling as robotic as the film's iconic villains, Terminator Salvation offers plenty of great effects but lacks the heart of the original films.
I find it odd that a movie about giant killer robots (without hearts) would lack heart but I digress.
Here's some quotes from critics who didn't like it:
"Message to Hollywood: Stop with the time-travel stuff."
"I wish Bale had lashed out against the writers rather than the cinematographer."
"The artistry is top notch, but they've lost track of why the original Terminators were cyborgs and not robots, as they are here."
This isn't the intellectual or thinking person's science-fiction film like The Man From Earth. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/ This is a Hollywood action movie.
Terminator Salvation is to science-fiction movies as Dodgeball was to sports movies...a joke, and maybe even a parody. I've saw T4 last night. I was dismayed by how far the franchise has fallen.
I don't want a PSP and never will own one. When I travel (like a did for three hours to and from Manhattan for work yesterday) I read and prepare notes for work (journalist for a living) or read non-fiction works.
The second PSP games become downloadable at the PSN store and playable on the PS3 I can see myself shelling out money for at least ten games that I've kept track of since the PSP's launch.
I don't care if the games are low-resolution, just allow me to play them in a window on my HDTV. I know the PSP has an add-on that allows it to be hooked to a TV with component video cables anyways.
IGN: Is Point Lookout a reference to Point Lookout State Park in Maryland? Is that where the DLC takes place?
Todd Howard: Yes, yes it is.
IGN: What about for Mothership Zeta?
Todd Howard: If you poke around Fallout 3, you can find a crashed UFO with an alien inside that is broadcasting a signal your Pip-Boy picks up. You get abducted and the whole thing takes place on a giant alien spacecraft. It's one of those classic 50's B movie type things, but with a harder edge.
Some people are sounding the 'jump the shark' alarm on this DLC but let's wait see just how 'hard of an edge' this DLC has before we roast Bethesda.
Of course Bethesda is full of shit for one of the answers in this interview...
IGN: Why is it that the first three pieces of DLC are finally hitting the PS3? Was it a timed exclusivity deal, or was something else worked out?
Todd Howard: It's mostly the workload on us. Based on our Oblivion experience, it was clear that Xbox users were much more comfortable buying content, by a wide margin. It's a lot of work to get them ready for a particular platform and now that they've been so popular, we want to get them on the PS3. And there's obviously been a lot of frustration on the part of PS3 owners, who don't feel they are getting the total Fallout 3 experience, and we don't want that to happen. We want everyone to have everything, but we still need to set priorities so we can use our development time wisely.
IGN: Was the eventual PlayStation 3 release for the existing DLC always in the works, or was it something that came up after the fact?
Todd Howard: We always wanted to do it, but until it actually looks like it will happen, we don't want to make promises. We've been working on it and they aren't done yet so it's going to take time for each DLC to be moved over to the PS3 and work well. As a result there will still be a month or so gap between each one once they start hitting on the PS3.
This was the same thing with Oblivion. MS paid them for timed exclusives for add-on content or DLC. I don't know why they are lying in this interview.
Nevertheless more Fallout 3 content to hold everyone over until the next Fallout or Elder Scrolls. And Bethesda is making an M-rated game for the Wii as well to keep us occupied.
It's only now that Bluetooth is getting to be useful, and only then in very limited terms. Sure, it allows people to walk around babbling into headsets, but it could have been so much more.
Umm....the Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii make major use of Bluetooth technology. In fact those are the only devices I own that I use Bluetooth for.
I wouldn't say the Bluetooth being in the Dualshock 3 and Wiimote is a disappointment at all for both the creators and consumers of the technology.
Even if Bluetooth is underperforming based on its technological potential is it really one of the 10 most disappointing technologies currently?
creationism is very much a minority opinion amongst christians (in fact I've only ever met one who thought like that, and I've met a lot of christians over the years). The belief in a literal 7 days is something that historically would have been laughed at long before darwin. A few noisy fundies in the US don't get to choose what christianity is, no matter what you might want to think.
I'm sorry but what possible evidence other than the one anecdotal occurrence can you offer? I have statistics that show that creationism combined with 'god guiding evolution' is a shared belief by an overwhelming majority of Americans. Even if you remove 'god guiding evolution' from the equation the numbers believing in strict creationism are close to half of Americans believing in it.
http://people-press.org/commentary/?analysisid=118 Surveys are also fairly consistent in their estimates of how many Americans believe in evolution or creationism. Approximately 40%-50% of the public accepts a biblical creationist account of the origins of life, while comparable numbers accept the idea that humans evolved over time. (But keep in mind that many people who believe in evolution in the U.S. think that god was making humans evolve).
Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors.
No they don't 'believe' they use reason based on radiocarbon dating of fossils and other hard scientific and rigorously tested and reviewed evidence to reach the most accurate and logical conclusion based on findings and observation.
Nonetheless, the latest fossil find is likely to ignite further the debate between evolutionists who draw conclusions based on a limited fossil record, and creationists who don't believe that humans, monkeys and apes evolved from a common ancestor.
Evolution isn't just based on limited fossil records it is based on observation of life at the smallest biological levels up to the largest such as animal life. We've seen disease (such the flu) evolve right before our eyes. Evolution in our ancestry as humans isn't up for debate the only debate is what specific species we delineated from.
Not only that but the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of the rhesus macaques monkey is 93 percent the same as humans. Meaning accurate DNA testing has shown that species of monkeys are extremely similar to humans showing a common link in our genetic design.
Just google image search for any Pulitzer Prize winning photo and upload it to the Penn State ACQUINE system and see how some of them fare to the Goatse image...
The fucking Goatse image with a construction crane photoshopped into it (don't ask) just got an 84.1 on the same ACQUINE system....and no I'm not going to provide a URL just test it yourself.
So Goate is a better image than the Iwo Jima flag raising photo?
As long as the laws are consistent I'm fine with it.
You say video games cause people to be stationary and fat or obese? They need to be taxed? Ok.
What about reading? Watching cable television? Going to the movies and sitting?
Why single out video games for making people immobile? Why not have a 'stationary tax' that taxes all activities that aren't physical fitness? Isn't that the point? To get people to exercise more?
As oppossed to the US practice (under the previous administration):
1/ Do nothing while Intel et al break competition law repeatedly and destroy the free market. 2/ There is no step 2
U.S. practices are worse in terms of business and government interactions because business can directly control the government through lobbying.
I'm not saying that the EU is morally inferior to the U.S. all I was doing in my OP was limiting the conversation to the topic at hand which was Intel vs the EU vs common sense.
The U.S. government is guilty of the same bad practices but that's for another slashdot discussion.
Step 1. Let companies profit immensely based on illegal and monopolistic practices Step 2. Let said profits become astronomically high and ignore them for years Step 3. Wait for EU countries to need money very badly Step 4. Claim some of the companies' money as a fine but not enough money that it's significant to the company Step 5. Throw a giant PR campaign around the event saying that the EU 'looks out for the people' Step 6. ?? Step 7. ??...
That said, if all the plans to a 2009 model Audi, Subaru, Porche or Lamborghini were leaked on to a torrent site I would most probably download them. If I had the necessary funds I would probably use them too. By all I was meaning everything, from design sketches and CAD of the steering wheel to the engine.
Recently a company that monitors peer-to-peer networks said it found classified information about the systems used onboard the president's helicopter in a shared folder on a computer in Iran, after a file containing the data was accidentally leaked on a peer-to-peer network last summer. Meanwhile the DCIA said any laws would likely be ineffective and stifle the business opportunities P2P can generate."
How do we know that this government employee didn't purposefully 'leak' the documents online or plant them at an Iranian I.P. address so that the government could have an excuse to pass an archaic and oppressive internet law?
An article on CNet points out that the wording of the bill would make it apply to just about everything related to communications on the internet.
One person, a government worker, leaks a document, and now we must all pay.
If a government worker drunk drives should we all lose our licenses and cars?
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Am I missing something? Is there really such a demand for gold on the street that the convenience of being able to purchase it from a vending machine warrants a 30% markup? What possibly could justify an individual purchasing gold at a 30% markup in small quantities?
I'm not an economist (not that they have really have a good track record lately) but this seems like a ridiculous scam.
"Because of the crisis there is a lot of awareness of gold," he said. "It is also a great gift for children - for them getting gold is like a fairytale."
Somehow I think little Jimmy or Susy would have prefer a Playstation or a bike or something.
We have fucksony, sonysucks, gaystation, and the n-word.
Can /. change the tagging system around a bit please? Am I missing something or has it always been like this?
The BBC is reporting that nine people were arrested. Six men and three women. And not ten like many other articles are reporting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8094748.stm
Nevertheless what everyone is really waiting other than the name's of the individuals arrested obviously...are the names of the albums that they put up.
As soon as their real and DJ names are released we can find out what albums they worked on and see if those compilations were actually good. I wonder if they'll get enough downloads from real sales to pay for their lawyers and court fines? I also wonder if Amazon/I-Tunes will have to forfeit the money? And also if the artists used in the compilation mixes will get to keep any money that they made as well?
I don't think I'll care about my PS3 having a motion sensor. I only play fighting games, Metal Gear Solid, and Ratchet & Clank. No real need or want for motion control from me. I have a Wii and I barely touch the thing anymore (wow I just typed that then paused then laughed) and won't until Mario Galaxy 2 comes out.
The reason my PS3 has longevity is because it plays Blu-Rays, it won the format war, and unless some new disc type comes along or digital downloads with all of the extra content of a BD come along my PS3 will be around for quite some time playing fighting games and serving as my BD player.
Motion control is just a gimmick and a casual consumer driven aspect of consoles. The life blood of gaming, less casual, more hardcore gamers, are the ones who play games like Oblivion, Unreal Tournament, Starcraft, Diablo, etc. because you aren't going to see companies like Blizzard all of the sudden shifting their entire focus to motion control games and fans aren't demanding it either. If SONY and MS are going to focus entirely on casual mommy daddy crowds and really young children then I will be trashing my consoles and going entirely back to PC gaming (aside from using my PS3 as a BD player and my Wii/360 as coasters).
Seriously, Chrono Trigger, God of War, Virtu Fighter, these games are long term titles and classics because they were built to me amazing from the ground up. People still play the SNES for Chrono Trigger. MS and SONY honestly think that motion controller = instant classics?
We saw Resident Evil 4 come out on the Wii with rave reviews for its new motion controlling scheme. And where did that put Resident Evil 5? Oh yeah on the 360 and PS3. Stop trying to steal Nintendo's kiddie and casual fan base and appeal to your more active crowd please SONY and MS.
My College was always top on a list of Colleges that the highest percentage of alumni donating to the college after graduating. The rankings would score a college or university based on what percentage of alumni donated back to the school the first year after graduating.
My College found the simplest way to manipulate that index. Just have every single student who graduates donate one dollar back to the school and then find one or two students with extremely wealthy parents (this was not hard at my school) and have them donate thousands and thousands of dollars. This way the school would report absurd figures like "90 percent of students donated back to our school within the first year of graduating from our undergraduate program" and it would make the school look good and it would make the degree you just got look a little more prestigious. They never told the index that we only donated a dollar and were instructed to by some of administration.
And with the few giant donations from one or two individuals, the school could artificially say that the average donation was way higher than typical, while hiding the fact that it was offset by just one or two massive donations.
Other ways to cheat is hiring adjunct professors or part time professors under different titles like 'technician' or 'consultant'. This makes the percentage of full time faculty and professors look way higher than it actually is because the school hides its adjuncts under different titles. Another way they cheated the system was renaming classrooms as different titles. One of the rankings is how many classrooms on campuses have TVs/projectors/computers and if you hide the classrooms without those your percentages increase in your 'technology' score as well.
If I think of any more I'll them but these were the ones that came to mind immediately.
I was a sports broadcasting and psychology double major in my undergraduate studies. When I was taking sports broadcasting classes it was a total sausage fest. Thirty guys talking about sports in an academic environment as if it was a locker room. Meanwhile in psychology it was always majority female in classrooms ranging from 60% to 90%. It was because sports writing and reporting is a male dominated field, whereas psychology was a necessary field of study for many female students who wanted to teach elementary or middle school, a field traditionally occupied by women. Also my school was 60% female so a typical class would have 60% women which really emphasized how incredibly one sided sports broadcasting was a major regarding gender divide.
While men and women solve problems differently, our brains are made up differently so that is to be expected, most studies conclude that even though we solve problems differently men and women reach the same conclusions eventually but they take different paths. Both genders are equally smart but think differently to solve the same problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_intelligence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences
They are scanning them just to make sure they aren't shoplifting upon exiting.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/terminator_salvation/
Consensus: With storytelling as robotic as the film's iconic villains, Terminator Salvation offers plenty of great effects but lacks the heart of the original films.
I find it odd that a movie about giant killer robots (without hearts) would lack heart but I digress.
Here's some quotes from critics who didn't like it:
"Message to Hollywood: Stop with the time-travel stuff."
"I wish Bale had lashed out against the writers rather than the cinematographer."
"The artistry is top notch, but they've lost track of why the original Terminators were cyborgs and not robots, as they are here."
This isn't the intellectual or thinking person's science-fiction film like The Man From Earth.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/
This is a Hollywood action movie.
Terminator Salvation is to science-fiction movies as Dodgeball was to sports movies...a joke, and maybe even a parody. I've saw T4 last night. I was dismayed by how far the franchise has fallen.
I don't want a PSP and never will own one. When I travel (like a did for three hours to and from Manhattan for work yesterday) I read and prepare notes for work (journalist for a living) or read non-fiction works.
The second PSP games become downloadable at the PSN store and playable on the PS3 I can see myself shelling out money for at least ten games that I've kept track of since the PSP's launch.
I don't care if the games are low-resolution, just allow me to play them in a window on my HDTV. I know the PSP has an add-on that allows it to be hooked to a TV with component video cables anyways.
Think outside the box Sony.
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/984/984129p1.html
Some highlights:
IGN: Is Point Lookout a reference to Point Lookout State Park in Maryland? Is that where the DLC takes place?
Todd Howard: Yes, yes it is.
IGN: What about for Mothership Zeta?
Todd Howard: If you poke around Fallout 3, you can find a crashed UFO with an alien inside that is broadcasting a signal your Pip-Boy picks up. You get abducted and the whole thing takes place on a giant alien spacecraft. It's one of those classic 50's B movie type things, but with a harder edge.
Some people are sounding the 'jump the shark' alarm on this DLC but let's wait see just how 'hard of an edge' this DLC has before we roast Bethesda.
Of course Bethesda is full of shit for one of the answers in this interview...
IGN: Why is it that the first three pieces of DLC are finally hitting the PS3? Was it a timed exclusivity deal, or was something else worked out?
Todd Howard: It's mostly the workload on us. Based on our Oblivion experience, it was clear that Xbox users were much more comfortable buying content, by a wide margin. It's a lot of work to get them ready for a particular platform and now that they've been so popular, we want to get them on the PS3. And there's obviously been a lot of frustration on the part of PS3 owners, who don't feel they are getting the total Fallout 3 experience, and we don't want that to happen. We want everyone to have everything, but we still need to set priorities so we can use our development time wisely.
IGN: Was the eventual PlayStation 3 release for the existing DLC always in the works, or was it something that came up after the fact?
Todd Howard: We always wanted to do it, but until it actually looks like it will happen, we don't want to make promises. We've been working on it and they aren't done yet so it's going to take time for each DLC to be moved over to the PS3 and work well. As a result there will still be a month or so gap between each one once they start hitting on the PS3.
This was the same thing with Oblivion. MS paid them for timed exclusives for add-on content or DLC. I don't know why they are lying in this interview.
Nevertheless more Fallout 3 content to hold everyone over until the next Fallout or Elder Scrolls. And Bethesda is making an M-rated game for the Wii as well to keep us occupied.
First?
It's only now that Bluetooth is getting to be useful, and only then in very limited terms. Sure, it allows people to walk around babbling into headsets, but it could have been so much more.
Umm....the Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii make major use of Bluetooth technology. In fact those are the only devices I own that I use Bluetooth for.
I wouldn't say the Bluetooth being in the Dualshock 3 and Wiimote is a disappointment at all for both the creators and consumers of the technology.
Even if Bluetooth is underperforming based on its technological potential is it really one of the 10 most disappointing technologies currently?
Every 108 minutes I had to push the damn button. Until Locke made me activate the fail-safe however.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/22/opinion/polls/main657083.shtml
http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/Evolution-Creationism-Intelligent-Design.aspx
Here are the URLs to Gallup and CBS.
creationism is very much a minority opinion amongst christians (in fact I've only ever met one who thought like that, and I've met a lot of christians over the years). The belief in a literal 7 days is something that historically would have been laughed at long before darwin. A few noisy fundies in the US don't get to choose what christianity is, no matter what you might want to think.
I'm sorry but what possible evidence other than the one anecdotal occurrence can you offer? I have statistics that show that creationism combined with 'god guiding evolution' is a shared belief by an overwhelming majority of Americans. Even if you remove 'god guiding evolution' from the equation the numbers believing in strict creationism are close to half of Americans believing in it.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-06-07-evolution-debate_N.htm
Two-thirds in the poll said creationism, the idea that God created humans in their present form within the past 10,000 years, is definitely or probably true.
http://people-press.org/commentary/?analysisid=118
Surveys are also fairly consistent in their estimates of how many Americans believe in evolution or creationism. Approximately 40%-50% of the public accepts a biblical creationist account of the origins of life, while comparable numbers accept the idea that humans evolved over time. (But keep in mind that many people who believe in evolution in the U.S. think that god was making humans evolve).
http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/Evolution-Creationism-Intelligent-Design.aspxGallupPollincreationismandevolutiontrendsfrom1982to2008.
Breakdown of creationism and evolution views between Bush and Kerry voters in 2008.
Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors.
No they don't 'believe' they use reason based on radiocarbon dating of fossils and other hard scientific and rigorously tested and reviewed evidence to reach the most accurate and logical conclusion based on findings and observation.
Nonetheless, the latest fossil find is likely to ignite further the debate between evolutionists who draw conclusions based on a limited fossil record, and creationists who don't believe that humans, monkeys and apes evolved from a common ancestor.
Evolution isn't just based on limited fossil records it is based on observation of life at the smallest biological levels up to the largest such as animal life. We've seen disease (such the flu) evolve right before our eyes. Evolution in our ancestry as humans isn't up for debate the only debate is what specific species we delineated from.
Not only that but the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of the rhesus macaques monkey is 93 percent the same as humans. Meaning accurate DNA testing has shown that species of monkeys are extremely similar to humans showing a common link in our genetic design.
Just google image search for any Pulitzer Prize winning photo and upload it to the Penn State ACQUINE system and see how some of them fare to the Goatse image...
The Iwo Jima flag raising photo at this URL gets a 26.1 in the system.
http://surreality.info/up/WW2_Iwo_Jima_flag_raising.jpg
The fucking Goatse image with a construction crane photoshopped into it (don't ask) just got an 84.1 on the same ACQUINE system....and no I'm not going to provide a URL just test it yourself.
So Goate is a better image than the Iwo Jima flag raising photo?
Am I missing something?
As long as the laws are consistent I'm fine with it.
You say video games cause people to be stationary and fat or obese? They need to be taxed? Ok.
What about reading? Watching cable television? Going to the movies and sitting?
Why single out video games for making people immobile? Why not have a 'stationary tax' that taxes all activities that aren't physical fitness? Isn't that the point? To get people to exercise more?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1897920,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
"Why Kids' Exercise Matters Less Than We Think"
A study showing how exercise in children is not understood very well by the public.
http://www.canada.com/Health/Overeating+blame+obesity+epidemic/1584819/story.html
"Overeating to blame for U.S. obesity epidemic"
Exercise has very little to do with the fact that Americans are so fat. It's all over-consumption of calorie rich foods.
http://rochesterhomepage.net/content/fulltext/?cid=91611
Billionaire moves from NYS to Florida because of taxes.
The billionaires are moving because of the taxes...imagine how these taxes affect the working poor of NYC...it's awful.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090511/ap_on_re_us/us_nyc_transit_woes_3
NY mass transit increases fees by 10 percent.
I swear if NYS could figure out how to tax breathing they would. Governor Patterson has such a low approval rating right now that more New Yorkers, including myself, would prefer Elliot Spitzer back.
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20090505/NEWS/905050327/1006/RSS01
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlebots
As oppossed to the US practice (under the previous administration):
1/ Do nothing while Intel et al break competition law repeatedly and destroy the free market.
2/ There is no step 2
U.S. practices are worse in terms of business and government interactions because business can directly control the government through lobbying.
I'm not saying that the EU is morally inferior to the U.S. all I was doing in my OP was limiting the conversation to the topic at hand which was Intel vs the EU vs common sense.
The U.S. government is guilty of the same bad practices but that's for another slashdot discussion.
Step 1. Let companies profit immensely based on illegal and monopolistic practices ...
Step 2. Let said profits become astronomically high and ignore them for years
Step 3. Wait for EU countries to need money very badly
Step 4. Claim some of the companies' money as a fine but not enough money that it's significant to the company
Step 5. Throw a giant PR campaign around the event saying that the EU 'looks out for the people'
Step 6. ??
Step 7. ??
Step. ? Revolution?
"You wouldn't steal a car."
That said, if all the plans to a 2009 model Audi, Subaru, Porche or Lamborghini were leaked on to a torrent site I would most probably download them. If I had the necessary funds I would probably use them too. By all I was meaning everything, from design sketches and CAD of the steering wheel to the engine.
http://asset.soup.io/asset/0279/2254_6775.jpeg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Legged_Freaks
I didn't know this was based on a true story.
Recently a company that monitors peer-to-peer networks said it found classified information about the systems used onboard the president's helicopter in a shared folder on a computer in Iran, after a file containing the data was accidentally leaked on a peer-to-peer network last summer. Meanwhile the DCIA said any laws would likely be ineffective and stifle the business opportunities P2P can generate."
How do we know that this government employee didn't purposefully 'leak' the documents online or plant them at an Iranian I.P. address so that the government could have an excuse to pass an archaic and oppressive internet law?
An article on CNet points out that the wording of the bill would make it apply to just about everything related to communications on the internet.
One person, a government worker, leaks a document, and now we must all pay.
If a government worker drunk drives should we all lose our licenses and cars?
How much for the cloning machine from 'The Prestige'?