I don't understand the complaints about using a mouse either. Us right handed people are the ones who suffer. Since you want to use the mouse with your off hand, making it much easier to use the phone or take notes with a pen and paper while also using the mouse to do whatever on the computer.
Left handed people thus get a huge choice in mouse designs while still being able to use the mouse in the hand it should be. While us right handers get a crappy choice.
Sure for most things lefties get the short end of the stick, so complaining about the thing they get the best of as well is ridiculous.
Why do some people spend hours playing sport on Saturday afternoon? Why do some people go to the pub on Friday night? Why do some people spend a day watching the superbowl with their friends? Why do some people spend 4 hours going to dinner and a movie with a group? Why do people go on ocean cruises? Why do people play scrabble or monopoly? Why do people have dinner parties?
By starting families in their thirties, forties and beyond, men could be increasing the chances that their children will develop autism, schizophrenia and other diseases often linked to new mutations
But also increasing the chances their children will develop mutant super powers.
So a huge asteroid is going to collide with earth we should just do nothing and let the "natural cycle" take its course? Since man didn't cause the asteroid to be on course to kill us all we shouldn't do something to stop it?
Mankind alters the environment to suit himself, why do you think we should suddenly stop doing that?
The fucking summary says: "to avoid government snooping" and "So the time has come — VPN is no longer a luxury but a necessity". Nothing changed with respect to Hulu and netflix, "the time has come" refers to legislation in Australia about government snooping..
So you'd have to be pretty damn stupid to think it's just about Hulu and Netflix and not about the exact thing the author said it was about.
He didn't claim it doesn't actually prevent hijackings. He pointed out that just because there have been no hijackings doesn't mean the system stopped them.
There have been no hijackings in the US since 9/11, does that mean TSA security theater works?
She's possibly more experienced with going from store to store to store and having the alarm go off when you enter/exit every second store because one store forgot to remove their damn anti theft tags.
And if you were a super criminal that would matter. If, however, you are just out to grab some stuff to sell in order to by some crack then you'll just move onto the next place.
As I said it's a single player game and a warez version was readily available upon release. There is no way it's the huge exception with low piracy rates.
That he is making numbers up (or cherry picking what to count) or ubisoft's games suck so much that 90% of the "players" are composed of people who download every game releases and don't actually play most of them, seem far more likely than Skyrim being a miraculusly pirate free exception.
But yes when you pick one case it could be an outlier.
Or maybe Ubisoft just make games people don't want?
According to some random web site Skyrim has sold 2.36 million copies on the PC. So by their 93% number 31.4 million pirates must have "stolen" it - three times the total sales on PS3 and xbox. Even for a purely single player game with a readily available warez copy hat doesn't pass the smell test.
Steam charges ~50% more for many games if you access from Ausralia, however:
1. They don't charge GST and hence don't quote it. 2. They don't employ any retail workers in Australia. 3. There are no additional costs to spread. 4. There is no shipping, it's a download. 5. There are no import duties paid. 6. There are no additional copyright or patent licensing fees. There would be fees for having the product rated but since there's no Australian presence that's not their problem.
What there really is is:
1. You charge what the market will bear. Sure those Austrlaians whine and complain, but they keep on buying so why would you lower the price?
That's only a 78% increase, and as you mentioned there's the tax difference plus it's a physical product and the EU tends to have more expensive compliance rules for things like dealing with returns and handling disposal.
So here's one without all of that: A 60% increase but it's a software download. There is no tax in either, there are no compliance rules for returns and disposals. There's no presence in the non-US country even - heck the foreign price is in USD so the buyer pays all the currency costs (the foreign currency transaction fee on the credit card in this case).
$79.95 if you happen to be in Australia*, $49.99 if you happen to be in the US.
* Or more accurately if you haven't got yourself a credit/debit card with a US billing address.
As usual, the shareholders will get whatever is left after the debtors get paid. Which will very likely be nothing since the company was bust. That is how it is supposed to work (unless you are an investment banker in which case you get a government bailout instead).
I'm sure there'll be law suits filed if they didn't pay a reasonable price (and probably if they did anyway) or if the transaction wasn't sufficiently at arms length.
We would think twice? Why? We wouldn't use military might against China because we owe them money? That's usually a reason for the other side of the argument - why pay them back when we can just declare the debt void since sending money to a wartime enemy would be rather dumb.
What China does know is that they have nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them (unless you relocate to South America...)
Its not a reduced service, its a dramatic reduction in service levels - the two are not the same, as noted by the abundance of people willing to decry "cattle class".
You ignore the abundance of people who don't whine about it and instead just travel by air that they couldn't afford under the old system.
For those who want to return to the glory days just fly business class - which a quick search on orbitz now shows I can buy a NYC-LAX business class ticket for less than the minimum the regulators allowed back then (after adjusting for inflation). If you can't afford to always fly business class than you couldn't afford to fly at all in the good old days so don't fly and you've returned to them.
And why do they need the fake SMS code step in the first place? They can just do the "site attempts to login to your real bank which will send a real code via SMS" step without bothering with it.
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"reaction between aluminum and water" means what it says.
TFS: a well-known reaction between aluminum and water to produce hydrogen gas
TFA: 2Al + 6H2O -> 3H2 + 2Al(OH)3 (with correct subscripting in the article...)
I guess "well known" would depend on the population you are refering to, but anyone who has done any chemistry must have done that one.
I don't understand the complaints about using a mouse either. Us right handed people are the ones who suffer. Since you want to use the mouse with your off hand, making it much easier to use the phone or take notes with a pen and paper while also using the mouse to do whatever on the computer.
Left handed people thus get a huge choice in mouse designs while still being able to use the mouse in the hand it should be. While us right handers get a crappy choice.
Sure for most things lefties get the short end of the stick, so complaining about the thing they get the best of as well is ridiculous.
No, they use fuel like everything else. You know as clearly stated in the article and the summary.
What does who is at fault have to do with whether you can predict the likely results of something without ever experiencing that thing personally?
Which would not be the offered deal and hence is irrelevant.
Almost all media reports are hearsay. I guess it makes keeping up with the the news easier if you make a point not to listen to any.
aka social recreation.
And they don't pay rent, which makes it a little different from "just like renting a room to anyone else".
Why do some people spend hours playing sport on Saturday afternoon? Why do some people go to the pub on Friday night? Why do some people spend a day watching the superbowl with their friends? Why do some people spend 4 hours going to dinner and a movie with a group? Why do people go on ocean cruises? Why do people play scrabble or monopoly? Why do people have dinner parties?
But also increasing the chances their children will develop mutant super powers.
So a huge asteroid is going to collide with earth we should just do nothing and let the "natural cycle" take its course? Since man didn't cause the asteroid to be on course to kill us all we shouldn't do something to stop it?
Mankind alters the environment to suit himself, why do you think we should suddenly stop doing that?
The fucking summary says: "to avoid government snooping" and "So the time has come — VPN is no longer a luxury but a necessity". Nothing changed with respect to Hulu and netflix, "the time has come" refers to legislation in Australia about government snooping..
So you'd have to be pretty damn stupid to think it's just about Hulu and Netflix and not about the exact thing the author said it was about.
He didn't claim it doesn't actually prevent hijackings. He pointed out that just because there have been no hijackings doesn't mean the system stopped them.
There have been no hijackings in the US since 9/11, does that mean TSA security theater works?
She's possibly more experienced with going from store to store to store and having the alarm go off when you enter/exit every second store because one store forgot to remove their damn anti theft tags.
And if you were a super criminal that would matter. If, however, you are just out to grab some stuff to sell in order to by some crack then you'll just move onto the next place.
As I said it's a single player game and a warez version was readily available upon release. There is no way it's the huge exception with low piracy rates.
That he is making numbers up (or cherry picking what to count) or ubisoft's games suck so much that 90% of the "players" are composed of people who download every game releases and don't actually play most of them, seem far more likely than Skyrim being a miraculusly pirate free exception.
But yes when you pick one case it could be an outlier.
Or maybe Ubisoft just make games people don't want?
According to some random web site Skyrim has sold 2.36 million copies on the PC. So by their 93% number 31.4 million pirates must have "stolen" it - three times the total sales on PS3 and xbox. Even for a purely single player game with a readily available warez copy hat doesn't pass the smell test.
Steam charges ~50% more for many games if you access from Ausralia, however:
1. They don't charge GST and hence don't quote it.
2. They don't employ any retail workers in Australia.
3. There are no additional costs to spread.
4. There is no shipping, it's a download.
5. There are no import duties paid.
6. There are no additional copyright or patent licensing fees. There would be fees for having the product rated but since there's no Australian presence that's not their problem.
What there really is is:
1. You charge what the market will bear. Sure those Austrlaians whine and complain, but they keep on buying so why would you lower the price?
That's only a 78% increase, and as you mentioned there's the tax difference plus it's a physical product and the EU tends to have more expensive compliance rules for things like dealing with returns and handling disposal.
So here's one without all of that:
A 60% increase but it's a software download. There is no tax in either, there are no compliance rules for returns and disposals. There's no presence in the non-US country even - heck the foreign price is in USD so the buyer pays all the currency costs (the foreign currency transaction fee on the credit card in this case).
$79.95 if you happen to be in Australia*, $49.99 if you happen to be in the US.
* Or more accurately if you haven't got yourself a credit/debit card with a US billing address.
As usual, the shareholders will get whatever is left after the debtors get paid. Which will very likely be nothing since the company was bust. That is how it is supposed to work (unless you are an investment banker in which case you get a government bailout instead).
I'm sure there'll be law suits filed if they didn't pay a reasonable price (and probably if they did anyway) or if the transaction wasn't sufficiently at arms length.
We would think twice? Why? We wouldn't use military might against China because we owe them money? That's usually a reason for the other side of the argument - why pay them back when we can just declare the debt void since sending money to a wartime enemy would be rather dumb.
What China does know is that they have nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them (unless you relocate to South America...)
You ignore the abundance of people who don't whine about it and instead just travel by air that they couldn't afford under the old system.
For those who want to return to the glory days just fly business class - which a quick search on orbitz now shows I can buy a NYC-LAX business class ticket for less than the minimum the regulators allowed back then (after adjusting for inflation). If you can't afford to always fly business class than you couldn't afford to fly at all in the good old days so don't fly and you've returned to them.
And you believe their non-binding statements because?
And why do they need the fake SMS code step in the first place? They can just do the "site attempts to login to your real bank which will send a real code via SMS" step without bothering with it.