Fortunately someone else posted the link to the article, which in turn has a Korea Times link. 20 people were hurt, but they seem to have been hurt in the riot; the fact that BB guns were shot is a separate statement and nowhere does the article sayor imply that the 20 people who were hurt were shot by the guns.
Who says it's popular? They sold 36 million packages a year Since a box has 6 packages, that's 6 million boxes. The US population is over 300 million.
Twinkies are the butt of jokes, so you hear about them a lot. Nobody eats them. Sometimes they're used in reference to geeks and nerds eating a lot of junk food, but even then, just because they eat junk food doesn't mean they eat Twinkies specifically.
"The NRA is defending lead ammunition. This is scary because lead is a really dangerous thing that is associated with crime... when used in things other than ammunition."
Claiming that the waste investigation costs more than the loss from the waste is meaningless. In order to see if the cost is worth it, you can't compare the waste that was caught to the cost of the investigation. You have to compare the waste that there would be without any investigation, to the cost of the investigation. As investigation discourages waste, the latter number is larger than the former number.
Real life isn't the moivies; warning shots are generally illegal. You can only use lethal force if you have justification for killing someone; if you fire a warning shot, that's still lethal force (since a warning shot can kill someone, though it's less likely), but the fact that you fired it as a warning shows that you didn't believe killing was justified.
Polygamy isn't a sexual orientation. There aren't people who find single partners unattractive and can't form relationships with them in the same way that gays find people of the opposite sex unattractive and can't form relationships with them.
Saying "a polygamist can still marry one person" is different from saying "a gay person can still marry someone of the opposite sex" because the polygamist *would* want to marry one person, it's just that that's only a subset of the marriages he'd actually want.
They're suing because the statute would ban their promotional games, not becaise it would ban computers just because they use the Internet and the Internet has games on it.
In places where it's difficult to get a permit to carry, you may be legally forced to leave the gun at home, in which case there's also a greater chance of being burgled when you're not home.
In some places it can also expose you to stigma. Imagine not getting a job (and not being told why) because you're on one of these lists.
They didn't "misunderstand". It's like the movie villain, who when told to "let your victim go", drops him off the side of a cliff. "You told me to let him go." He knows very well what "let him go" means, he's just deliberately misinterpreting it.
Microsoft put in the Windows 8 GUI because they want to force people to become accustomed to their tablet GUI so they can leverage their monopoly into tablets. Fixing the start button correctly would go against this, so they're not going to fix it unless the whole marketing department gets fired. They know very well that "fixing" it by adding a start button isn't really what users asked for, but they also know that it sounds close enough that they can spin it that way in sound bites, which is all it's for.
6 million packs in a year is 1 out of 50, or 2%, not 0.05%. It's still not a lot, though. Not only that, that Wikipedia article doesn't even say that the sales are US-only. You'd think Twinkies are sold worldwide. The world population is 7 billion, so that's 0.1 percent.
There are anti-mask laws in some places in the US too. It's not because of hostility towards protestors. It's because of a little organization you might have heard of, called the KKK, whose members would attack people while wearing masks.
Passerby: The cameras in the store are for a known purpose and it is exceedingly unlikely that the video they take of me is going to be used against me personally. The store's certainly not going to be publishing that video to Youtube, and they're probably not going to even watch it once. On the other hand, it's exceedingly likely that a guy off the street intentionally filming a particular person is going to use it in a way directly opposing the interests of that person.
Furthermore, people filming strangers is highly correlated with the people harassing those strangers in other ways, not because they are going to use the film for that, but because the kind of person who is willing to film them is typically willing to do other bad things.. Stores filming customers is not so correlated."
If they only turned it on when, for instance, the NSA requested it, or when they wanted to investigate someone who criticized Microsoft in the media, nobody would notice since only a small portion of systems would be actually doing it at one time. At best you'd have one person reporting suspicious activity, which is not enough to result in a media scandal. The fact that they can listen to you whenever they want makes it dangerous, even if they don't want to listen all the time.
If the company goes out of business, the bankruptcy court controls what the company does. They are allowed to break contracts, and certainly break non-contract gentleman's agreements like the "promise" to unlock your games. The bankruptcy court may very well decide all the company's money goes to creditors and none to pay for programmers, servers, or beta-testers for the unlock.
Any promise "if we go out of business, we will..." is legally worthless.
In air hockey the puck moves on a two dimensional surface. This makes this game exceptionally easy for robots because they don't need to do complicated three dimensional calculations that would be needed to hit and aim a ball moving in the air. Furthermore, since the puck is hit with a round mallet, it's going to be fairly easy to compute where the puck will go after it's been hit--something that won't work even with a game as simple as foosball, never mind table tennis.
Go somewhere where nobody knows you and it's easier to behave badly.
When your neighbors know all about you and their attitudes enforce your behavior, that doesn't just mean it's hard to get away with robbing someone's house. It also means it's hard to be gay, or atheist, or a geek, or a woman who doesn't think that preparing nutritious meals is her job. or anything else nonconformist.
I doubt very much whether *anyone's* last words will ever be "Darn, I wish I'd spent more time watching TV".
People sometimes wish they had enjoyed more of the pleasures of life, which can certainly include watching more TV even if watching more TV isn't the whole list.
It's about whatever system they release games for. You're not going to get the new Metroid game on your PC, let alone most JRPGs. Sure, there's no reason your PC can't run, say, Disgaea--but you will not in fact be able to run it because it's only going to ever get released on a console.
As opposed to state-owned media, which are owned by poor governments, don't serve the interests of their owners, and don't promote political views.
At least if the station is privately owned, there are several of them with somewhat different owners. And you can turn them off without being forced to pay for them.
You forgot reading ebooks, which for a tablet also includes comics and manga (either legitimate or pirated). They're also useful for all purposes when travelling far from home, and on the bus to watch videos (most of which are probably pirated too).
I also take mine to role playing game sessions since I have (non-pirated) gamebooks on mine.
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Fortunately someone else posted the link to the article, which in turn has a Korea Times link. 20 people were hurt, but they seem to have been hurt in the riot; the fact that BB guns were shot is a separate statement and nowhere does the article sayor imply that the 20 people who were hurt were shot by the guns.
Who says it's popular? They sold 36 million packages a year Since a box has 6 packages, that's 6 million boxes. The US population is over 300 million.
Twinkies are the butt of jokes, so you hear about them a lot. Nobody eats them. Sometimes they're used in reference to geeks and nerds eating a lot of junk food, but even then, just because they eat junk food doesn't mean they eat Twinkies specifically.
What?
I think you'd understand what was wrong with that statement if it was said of anyone except the NSA.
"The NRA is defending lead ammunition. This is scary because lead is a really dangerous thing that is associated with crime... when used in things other than ammunition."
I would imagine that aiurplane pilots are not paid by the hour, which these guys are.
Claiming that the waste investigation costs more than the loss from the waste is meaningless. In order to see if the cost is worth it, you can't compare the waste that was caught to the cost of the investigation. You have to compare the waste that there would be without any investigation, to the cost of the investigation. As investigation discourages waste, the latter number is larger than the former number.
Real life isn't the moivies; warning shots are generally illegal. You can only use lethal force if you have justification for killing someone; if you fire a warning shot, that's still lethal force (since a warning shot can kill someone, though it's less likely), but the fact that you fired it as a warning shows that you didn't believe killing was justified.
Polygamy isn't a sexual orientation. There aren't people who find single partners unattractive and can't form relationships with them in the same way that gays find people of the opposite sex unattractive and can't form relationships with them.
Saying "a polygamist can still marry one person" is different from saying "a gay person can still marry someone of the opposite sex" because the polygamist *would* want to marry one person, it's just that that's only a subset of the marriages he'd actually want.
They're suing because the statute would ban their promotional games, not becaise it would ban computers just because they use the Internet and the Internet has games on it.
In places where it's difficult to get a permit to carry, you may be legally forced to leave the gun at home, in which case there's also a greater chance of being burgled when you're not home.
In some places it can also expose you to stigma. Imagine not getting a job (and not being told why) because you're on one of these lists.
There isn't a very good recortd for those surviving when they are actual B&W early twentieth century films.
They didn't "misunderstand". It's like the movie villain, who when told to "let your victim go", drops him off the side of a cliff. "You told me to let him go." He knows very well what "let him go" means, he's just deliberately misinterpreting it.
Microsoft put in the Windows 8 GUI because they want to force people to become accustomed to their tablet GUI so they can leverage their monopoly into tablets. Fixing the start button correctly would go against this, so they're not going to fix it unless the whole marketing department gets fired. They know very well that "fixing" it by adding a start button isn't really what users asked for, but they also know that it sounds close enough that they can spin it that way in sound bites, which is all it's for.
Then why is there no way to play a copied PS Vita game?
That's clearly a case of working DRM. The only way to play a Vita game is to buy a Vita game form the manufacturer. There is no other way.
6 million packs in a year is 1 out of 50, or 2%, not 0.05%. It's still not a lot, though. Not only that, that Wikipedia article doesn't even say that the sales are US-only. You'd think Twinkies are sold worldwide. The world population is 7 billion, so that's 0.1 percent.
There are anti-mask laws in some places in the US too. It's not because of hostility towards protestors. It's because of a little organization you might have heard of, called the KKK, whose members would attack people while wearing masks.
Passerby: The cameras in the store are for a known purpose and it is exceedingly unlikely that the video they take of me is going to be used against me personally. The store's certainly not going to be publishing that video to Youtube, and they're probably not going to even watch it once. On the other hand, it's exceedingly likely that a guy off the street intentionally filming a particular person is going to use it in a way directly opposing the interests of that person.
Furthermore, people filming strangers is highly correlated with the people harassing those strangers in other ways, not because they are going to use the film for that, but because the kind of person who is willing to film them is typically willing to do other bad things.. Stores filming customers is not so correlated."
If they only turned it on when, for instance, the NSA requested it, or when they wanted to investigate someone who criticized Microsoft in the media, nobody would notice since only a small portion of systems would be actually doing it at one time. At best you'd have one person reporting suspicious activity, which is not enough to result in a media scandal. The fact that they can listen to you whenever they want makes it dangerous, even if they don't want to listen all the time.
If the company goes out of business, the bankruptcy court controls what the company does. They are allowed to break contracts, and certainly break non-contract gentleman's agreements like the "promise" to unlock your games. The bankruptcy court may very well decide all the company's money goes to creditors and none to pay for programmers, servers, or beta-testers for the unlock.
Any promise "if we go out of business, we will..." is legally worthless.
In air hockey the puck moves on a two dimensional surface. This makes this game exceptionally easy for robots because they don't need to do complicated three dimensional calculations that would be needed to hit and aim a ball moving in the air. Furthermore, since the puck is hit with a round mallet, it's going to be fairly easy to compute where the puck will go after it's been hit--something that won't work even with a game as simple as foosball, never mind table tennis.
So this is much less impressive than it sounds.
When your neighbors know all about you and their attitudes enforce your behavior, that doesn't just mean it's hard to get away with robbing someone's house. It also means it's hard to be gay, or atheist, or a geek, or a woman who doesn't think that preparing nutritious meals is her job. or anything else nonconformist.
People sometimes wish they had enjoyed more of the pleasures of life, which can certainly include watching more TV even if watching more TV isn't the whole list.
It's about whatever system they release games for. You're not going to get the new Metroid game on your PC, let alone most JRPGs. Sure, there's no reason your PC can't run, say, Disgaea--but you will not in fact be able to run it because it's only going to ever get released on a console.
... which of course is a government-owned broadcaster, so we're back where we started.
As opposed to state-owned media, which are owned by poor governments, don't serve the interests of their owners, and don't promote political views.
At least if the station is privately owned, there are several of them with somewhat different owners. And you can turn them off without being forced to pay for them.
Vinyl is almost always exempt from the loudness war, which can make it legitimately sound better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
You forgot reading ebooks, which for a tablet also includes comics and manga (either legitimate or pirated). They're also useful for all purposes when travelling far from home, and on the bus to watch videos (most of which are probably pirated too).
I also take mine to role playing game sessions since I have (non-pirated) gamebooks on mine.