And even when it doesn't make babies it feels damn good. As for GP's claim that it doesn't do anything useful... maybe for those who have been castrated. If I go a few months without sex I start to go somewhat insane, especially around sexy women. If having sex keeps me from embarrassing myself in front of females I find attractive (but really shouldn't even think about trying to fuck), then it's very useful for me.
This is their bullshit excuse for fucking up the world's air quality. "See, it's not all the coal power plants and diesel trucks, you're watching too much TV!"
Did the researchers stop to think that maybe the undiagnosed asthmatics were watching more TV because they didn't like exercising too much because it hurt?
What's the point of watching TV if it doesn't make babies? It might be entertaining for its participants, well, some of them anyway, but it doesn't actually accomplish anything useful. It's just self indulgence.
BUT NOT TERRORISM.
In Shenzhen, the huge Chinese city right next to Hong Kong, they shut down almost all the street vendors selling unlicensed DVDs right before the Beijing Olympics. For a while you couldn't even find pirated Wii games in this city, it was crazy. After the Olympics they stopped caring too much, and a few of them re-opened, but most remain gone for good. (You used to be able to find a vendor every hundred yards or so on average, now perhaps one every 500 yards.)
I asked the seller near me why the cops haven't shut him down yet, and he said it's not something he has to worry about, he's never going away. He sells from a ten foot by five foot table with a large canopy overhead. The cops could easily shut him down if they wanted to, they know he's there every day, they just don't care(there is a huge gov't building/police station less than 1km away).
He pays them/the triads off, everyone makes money and goes their own way.
From TFA:
The RAND report says that counterfeiting levels are not likely to decline unless governments worldwide commit more resources to fighting counterfeiting and devise tougher laws to protect intellectual property.
Probably the only useful piece of information in the entire report, and something everyone already knew anyway. Thank you RAND. How much did the MPAA pay you for the "report"? I want to get in on that action.
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Who is Simon Cowell?
And Natalie Portman has NOTHING on blood elves!!!!
It's just a list of platforms and their homebrewability. How about a list of games that are fun to play? Is there a Rockband clone that lets me play with my entire mp3 library?
Exactly. Who watches TV without a DVR anymore anyway? It's either DVR or download for me, I can't be fucked to watch a bunch of ads for crap I'm never going to buy.
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And even when it doesn't make babies it feels damn good. As for GP's claim that it doesn't do anything useful... maybe for those who have been castrated. If I go a few months without sex I start to go somewhat insane, especially around sexy women. If having sex keeps me from embarrassing myself in front of females I find attractive (but really shouldn't even think about trying to fuck), then it's very useful for me.
This is their bullshit excuse for fucking up the world's air quality. "See, it's not all the coal power plants and diesel trucks, you're watching too much TV!" Did the researchers stop to think that maybe the undiagnosed asthmatics were watching more TV because they didn't like exercising too much because it hurt?
What's the point of watching TV if it doesn't make babies? It might be entertaining for its participants, well, some of them anyway, but it doesn't actually accomplish anything useful. It's just self indulgence.
I and many friends use bittorrent every day in China, no one has any problems. It's slower than it should be but dems da breaks.
The RAND report says that counterfeiting levels are not likely to decline unless governments worldwide commit more resources to fighting counterfeiting and devise tougher laws to protect intellectual property.
Probably the only useful piece of information in the entire report, and something everyone already knew anyway. Thank you RAND. How much did the MPAA pay you for the "report"? I want to get in on that action.
Who is Simon Cowell? And Natalie Portman has NOTHING on blood elves!!!!
Agreed. Consoles are better for parties, PCs for everything else.
It's just a list of platforms and their homebrewability. How about a list of games that are fun to play? Is there a Rockband clone that lets me play with my entire mp3 library?
Exactly. Who watches TV without a DVR anymore anyway? It's either DVR or download for me, I can't be fucked to watch a bunch of ads for crap I'm never going to buy.