But even when you do that you see it when hovering over the link, and there's a group of people who won't click the first but will click the second. Sites like this one of course include the domain name without having to hover...
Then your an idiot because that has nothing to do with the point.
There is a difference between a German citizen trying to get something removed from a US based internet site and the German Government doing so.
It's got nothing to do with "for the people and by the people". It's got to do with the fact that free people are allowed to things that their government's disagree with. So holding a government accountable for such actions is retarded.
You have it completely backwards.
If a government does something, then yes you can hold the people (let's ignore dictatorships and so on) accountable - since they elected them.
But if an individual person does something, you can't hold the government accountable - you are allowed to dissent in a free country after all.
Or are you arguing for a system in which the people can only do and say things pre-approved by the government?
You just listed a bunch of potential. Sure you can get cards without them, you can also get cards with them.
I'm pretty sure the business amex card the wife has has an annual fee for example. I'm also pretty sure that a large set of people carry a balance, by accident, once every so often.
You really think two individuals and their lawyer are acting on behalf of the German Government?
Or you can't see the difference between a government entity seeking to have its domestic laws applied to a foreign jurisdiction, and some random non-government representatives trying the same?
They did, you are just *much* more ignorant of the legal professions that they are of technology.
Evidence is weighed, you may note they didn't just release him when he said "but I was home and made a facebook update".
They verified it with facebook, got statement from other people providing collaboration, spent 2 weeks confirming things and checking other evidence. And decided that the available evidence supported his claim and so let him go.
Sure the "it was a facebook update" makes the news, but it's not the only piece of evidence. The testimonies from other people saying "he was with me" would have had more weight anyway.
If the average working person watches 5 hours of TV a day on weekdays, but 12 hours a day on weekends.
And the 20% of people who don't have jobs/school watch it for 12 hours a day every day.
Then we have 8 hours a day on average: (0.8 * (5*5+12*2)/7 + 0.2 * 12) == 8.0.
Also some people watch TV at work - think receptionists in waiting rooms with a TV running. And some people get significantly less than 8 hours sleep a night. And lots of people watch TV while they eat.
You seriously see no difference between the engine cutting out and you losing power braking, and the engine being stuck on full throttle and you losing power braking?
Sure you might have your wits about you be the world's greatest driver. But the guy who couldn't was a highway patrol officer and hence you would have to assume was in fact trained in how to drive a damn car and how to keep his wits in an emergency situation.
Then again he'd been injured a few years before hand and hence not on active highway patrol duties so he might just have not been physically able any longer. And as I mentioned the car was weird so "jam it into neutral" probably didn't work for him.
I've been in cars which have had the steering wheel come off, one of the back wheels come off, and the engine die. All while the car moving (high school was fun!). I'm still alive, so I'm not saying it's an impossible situation. But a trained professional police driver didn't manage to, so just declaring that it's easy-peasy seems just a tad optimistic
And I didn't call you fat, I declared an unspecified subset of Americans as fat ass. My wife is American, she's certainly not fat.
The altruists and the "don't much care either way" people have always been around, and always in larger numbers than the psycopaths.
But the psycopaths have always had the power.
I'm sure the average peasant in the middle age Europe wasn't a psycopath. But the leaders were. 99% of the rulers were simply psycopaths, not blinking at sending a few hundred peasants to die in a battle because some neighbor gave the wrong gift.
Those groups of 100-200 you mention, I'd bet that most of them have a psycopath at the top. Psycopaths are simply better at leading and more importantly at competing for leadership.
Just like the religious leaders were strongly representing the obsessive compulsive schizophrenic end of the populace.
Evolution seems to have set us up so that the vast majority of people play well together, which is necessary for a functioning social/tribal group. But there's a percentage that don't and they seem to be there to do the leading, and a percentage who are simply crazy who seem to be there to do the religion.
Of course they are the psycopaths and nutters who get the good roles are the ones who are have those problems in relatively mild doses. The complete psycopaths and crazies do get driven out of society.
Yeah it does seem stupid that the netflix thing comes on a disc (albiet temporarily supposedly) instead of just being a free download on the playstation store thing.
Then again netflix has the whole send DVDs to people thing down pat, it is their main business after all. So maybe that was cheaper for them than whatever Sony wanted to charge them to put it up?
But PS3 demos on blueray movies is just plain idiotic, they're already downloadable...
Psycopaths have managed to get control of society thoughout history. Sure it'd be nice if that wasn't how things are, but you play the hand you are dealt.
The very things that make them psycopaths make them better at manipulating things so they get what they want. The altruists just can't compete.
Wow, and I had "admin" rights on a computer before I was 10.
You have the exact opposite remembering of "back in the day" than I do.
I remember being allowed to walk the street at nights with friends, now I see parents driving their kids everywhere because of the evil pedophiles.
I remember going camping for a week with three friends when we were 13 - packing our own stuff (food, etc), catching the train for four hours, walking an hour or so to the camp site, and staying there for a week. No cell phones and with no way to be contacted at all. I suspect the parents would be thrown in jail today...
"greed is natural" also has the purpose, that you of course ignore, of being used as a justification for systems that don't fall apart in the presence of greed.
Economic systems are one example. And US style "capitalism" is a specific example of such a system that does not function in the presence of greed and hence is unworkable in reality.
If you create a multiplayer game without taking into consideration that some people will try and cheat and don't make you game not fall apart in their presence then said game is destined to fail. That doesn't mean cheating is fine. It doesn't mean that you are justifying the actions of cheaters by admitting they exist and trying to handle that.
Oh, and in the reality of politics you can't get away from greed. It's self selecting, there are only two real reasons to want political power:
People who buy second hand consoles are less likely to buy lots of new games...
And isn't even all about money. Second hand sales don't show up in the sales statistics. The sales statistics server as marketing material to convince people to buy the popular console, and probably more importantly to convince game developers to develop for that platform.
I don't think Microsoft are intentionally trying to harm the second hand market, but I also don't expect them to see it as a negative side effect.
Releasing some information/analysis doesn't change anything with respect to gambling on oil prices.
That the government encourages them to take extreme risks by providing cheap money and making up any loses also has nothing to do with information on oil.
Seriously, because some people might gamble on something you want an information black out on that something???
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I never understood the whole red-bull and vodka thing, after all red bull tastes disgusting.
Now it clicks that it's just a plain old upper so you can party longer before you pass out from the vodka. Which makes it even dumber than I thought.
So you are declaring europeans hypocritical because 3 individuals did something that other europeans have complained about others doing in the past?
Because you have some suspicions about the thoughts of others?
OK then.
But even when you do that you see it when hovering over the link, and there's a group of people who won't click the first but will click the second. Sites like this one of course include the domain name without having to hover...
Then your an idiot because that has nothing to do with the point.
There is a difference between a German citizen trying to get something removed from a US based internet site and the German Government doing so.
It's got nothing to do with "for the people and by the people". It's got to do with the fact that free people are allowed to things that their government's disagree with. So holding a government accountable for such actions is retarded.
You have it completely backwards.
If a government does something, then yes you can hold the people (let's ignore dictatorships and so on) accountable - since they elected them.
But if an individual person does something, you can't hold the government accountable - you are allowed to dissent in a free country after all.
Or are you arguing for a system in which the people can only do and say things pre-approved by the government?
Concealing links is a common use.
Which links are more likely to be clicked by the people who might be offended/get in trouble by viewing it:
http://teensex.com/video/Hardcore-Fucking-13300.html
http://tiny.cc/FJU5j
Great idea.
Now please take this url:
http://example.com/insert_hexadecimal_dump_blueray_disc_image_here
and run it through your shortening function.
Who needs bittorrent!
You just listed a bunch of potential. Sure you can get cards without them, you can also get cards with them.
I'm pretty sure the business amex card the wife has has an annual fee for example. I'm also pretty sure that a large set of people carry a balance, by accident, once every so often.
You really think two individuals and their lawyer are acting on behalf of the German Government?
Or you can't see the difference between a government entity seeking to have its domestic laws applied to a foreign jurisdiction, and some random non-government representatives trying the same?
Yes, the exact curcumstances of the events being duscussed is the straw man.
It's not your completely unsupported claim with no relevance to the events at hand that is the straw man.
Hint: yes in lots of situations wealthy people get away with things that poorer people don't. But carrying money and being wealthy are unrelated.
The homeless looking man carrying $100,000 in a sack is going to have far more issues with the cops than the well dressed man with $80 in his wallet.
Most business travel stays within the domain the home currency, so that's irrelevant. And there are more fees than just currency conversion markups.
They did, you are just *much* more ignorant of the legal professions that they are of technology.
Evidence is weighed, you may note they didn't just release him when he said "but I was home and made a facebook update".
They verified it with facebook, got statement from other people providing collaboration, spent 2 weeks confirming things and checking other evidence. And decided that the available evidence supported his claim and so let him go.
Sure the "it was a facebook update" makes the news, but it's not the only piece of evidence. The testimonies from other people saying "he was with me" would have had more weight anyway.
Because it is impossible to have the TV on while you are eating, exercising, or doing chores.
If the average working person watches 5 hours of TV a day on weekdays, but 12 hours a day on weekends.
And the 20% of people who don't have jobs/school watch it for 12 hours a day every day.
Then we have 8 hours a day on average: (0.8 * (5*5+12*2)/7 + 0.2 * 12) == 8.0.
Also some people watch TV at work - think receptionists in waiting rooms with a TV running. And some people get significantly less than 8 hours sleep a night. And lots of people watch TV while they eat.
You seriously see no difference between the engine cutting out and you losing power braking, and the engine being stuck on full throttle and you losing power braking?
Sure you might have your wits about you be the world's greatest driver. But the guy who couldn't was a highway patrol officer and hence you would have to assume was in fact trained in how to drive a damn car and how to keep his wits in an emergency situation.
Then again he'd been injured a few years before hand and hence not on active highway patrol duties so he might just have not been physically able any longer. And as I mentioned the car was weird so "jam it into neutral" probably didn't work for him.
I've been in cars which have had the steering wheel come off, one of the back wheels come off, and the engine die. All while the car moving (high school was fun!). I'm still alive, so I'm not saying it's an impossible situation. But a trained professional police driver didn't manage to, so just declaring that it's easy-peasy seems just a tad optimistic
And I didn't call you fat, I declared an unspecified subset of Americans as fat ass. My wife is American, she's certainly not fat.
They don't mean dry ice, obviously because they are talking about water.
I'm sure microsoft's marketers think this though better than you have.
Hint: market share matters, and it is calculated from new sales.
Further Hint: higher market share makes game producers more likely to make stuff for that platform.
The altruists and the "don't much care either way" people have always been around, and always in larger numbers than the psycopaths.
But the psycopaths have always had the power.
I'm sure the average peasant in the middle age Europe wasn't a psycopath. But the leaders were. 99% of the rulers were simply psycopaths, not blinking at sending a few hundred peasants to die in a battle because some neighbor gave the wrong gift.
Those groups of 100-200 you mention, I'd bet that most of them have a psycopath at the top. Psycopaths are simply better at leading and more importantly at competing for leadership.
Just like the religious leaders were strongly representing the obsessive compulsive schizophrenic end of the populace.
Evolution seems to have set us up so that the vast majority of people play well together, which is necessary for a functioning social/tribal group. But there's a percentage that don't and they seem to be there to do the leading, and a percentage who are simply crazy who seem to be there to do the religion.
Of course they are the psycopaths and nutters who get the good roles are the ones who are have those problems in relatively mild doses. The complete psycopaths and crazies do get driven out of society.
Yeah it does seem stupid that the netflix thing comes on a disc (albiet temporarily supposedly) instead of just being a free download on the playstation store thing.
Then again netflix has the whole send DVDs to people thing down pat, it is their main business after all. So maybe that was cheaper for them than whatever Sony wanted to charge them to put it up?
But PS3 demos on blueray movies is just plain idiotic, they're already downloadable...
Psycopaths have managed to get control of society thoughout history. Sure it'd be nice if that wasn't how things are, but you play the hand you are dealt.
The very things that make them psycopaths make them better at manipulating things so they get what they want. The altruists just can't compete.
Wow, and I had "admin" rights on a computer before I was 10.
You have the exact opposite remembering of "back in the day" than I do.
I remember being allowed to walk the street at nights with friends, now I see parents driving their kids everywhere because of the evil pedophiles.
I remember going camping for a week with three friends when we were 13 - packing our own stuff (food, etc), catching the train for four hours, walking an hour or so to the camp site, and staying there for a week. No cell phones and with no way to be contacted at all. I suspect the parents would be thrown in jail today...
"greed is natural" also has the purpose, that you of course ignore, of being used as a justification for systems that don't fall apart in the presence of greed.
Economic systems are one example. And US style "capitalism" is a specific example of such a system that does not function in the presence of greed and hence is unworkable in reality.
If you create a multiplayer game without taking into consideration that some people will try and cheat and don't make you game not fall apart in their presence then said game is destined to fail. That doesn't mean cheating is fine. It doesn't mean that you are justifying the actions of cheaters by admitting they exist and trying to handle that.
Oh, and in the reality of politics you can't get away from greed. It's self selecting, there are only two real reasons to want political power:
1. Greed
2. Altruism
Guess which is more common?
People who buy second hand consoles are less likely to buy lots of new games...
And isn't even all about money. Second hand sales don't show up in the sales statistics. The sales statistics server as marketing material to convince people to buy the popular console, and probably more importantly to convince game developers to develop for that platform.
I don't think Microsoft are intentionally trying to harm the second hand market, but I also don't expect them to see it as a negative side effect.
It should yes, but "content" producers don't seem to understand that because the try their hardest to kill second hand markets.
And yes the xbox isn't "content" as such, but Microsoft is a software company by nature and that certainly is.
And this strange perception is near universal, from software producers, to movie producers, to music producers, to book producers...
So?
Releasing some information/analysis doesn't change anything with respect to gambling on oil prices.
That the government encourages them to take extreme risks by providing cheap money and making up any loses also has nothing to do with information on oil.
Seriously, because some people might gamble on something you want an information black out on that something???
"microsoft" and "console" in the summary and "games" and "xbox" in the tags wasn't clue enough?