If things were more reasonably priced, I'd probably buy everything I wanted. As it is I need to guarantee its not crap before I buy it.
At $10 per DVD, I'd buy everything. At the $25+ per DVD that I have to pay for most things I end up downloading the stuff then buying copies when they go down into my price range.
I have probably in excess of 1,000 movies and maybe 20 full tv series downloaded. Of those I own about 600 movies and 18 of the 20 tv series.
So yes, I pirate, a lot. However at the same time I'm one of the best customers the media industry has.
I remember Betrayal at Krondor, Baldurs Gate I and II, and a shitload more. Back in the days when the bottom bar was 80 hours, and 80 hours of pretty good continuous storyline, not 20 hours of story and 60 hours of forced grind like some of the so-called AAA titles of today.
Dude, you need to see a doctor immediately. I'm fairly certain you're having seizures on a regular basis and aren't aware of it or have some kind of tumor pressing on your brain.
FF13 was, from a very very very high birds eye view the same formula as the rest of the FF games. The rest is where it became crap. There WAS NO COMBAT SYSTEM. I could tape a quarter down on my controller and walk away then come back when I heard a cutscene happening.
The voiceacting was meh, the only decent part was the graphics. While FF12 wasn't exactly the cream of the crop for FF games it was leagues beyond FF13. FF13 was just a really long FF movie that you had to hold down the "play" button for.
Apparently they are retarded and didn't realize that removing themselves from Googles cache entirely involved removing themselves from search period.
The caching service is directly tied into the search service. If they had instead just gone after Google News they would have been fine. Their over-reaching law suit, probably in an attempt to garner more damages, has put them into their current predicament. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Actually a 99.9% fatality rate wouldn't even put us into trouble. 0.1% survival still leaves millions of humans alive to repopulate. We're like cockroaches at this point.
Its not really a contrary opinion. You're just describing the only real difference between the two events, and its the one that I've already dismissed.
Some children under 10 can distinguish intent, and it probably won't harm those children, at least not much. Most can't, and it will harm them, somehow. Most likely it won't be apparent even to them until many years later. In some cases it won't ever be apparent to them but will have an effect on their lives and actions regardless.
IT staff tend towards this sort of thinking out of necessity many times. IT is the position held with the least regard and it is the position that is first on the chopping block at all times.
The first place anyone will look to save money is an IT Admin they think is making too much money when they can hire a younger version straight out of college or university for 50-75% of what they're paying now.
Of course they're wrong 95% of the time. That person isn't expendable. If there isn't some tangible reason for them to believe he isn't expendable however, he will quickly be expended.
The problem has very little to do with people skills. As a manager at a larger company, you don't need people skills. You aren't doing most of the negotiating etc yourself, you're just steering the company.
In order to STEER you need to know where you are and where you're going. This is the problem with MBAs. They generally have zero skills related to the field they are managing and end up not knowing where there are and then with a flawed understanding of where they are they can't possibly know where they are going.
MBAs are for sales managers and marketing. The problem is they've made it into the real management branches as well.
The NIMBY crowd. Once there was some public uproar after the three mile island incident the politicians decided to quietly shelve the whole thing. WIthout political support everything kinda crumbled.
The main problem is the time frame involved, only governments and supermassive corps(who can usually find something that has the same return with a smaller time frame, and so invest in that instead) can deal with the sort of time frame involved on cost recovery for a Nuclear Plant. You're talking 5-8+ billion up front and you won't have your costs recovered for 10 years+ AFTER its in operation. In reality it'll take 5-10 to build the thing and then you're looking at 15-25 years for cost recovery depending on how the energy markets go. This is the largest reason that it doesn't get much, or really any, private support. Even the hugely massive off shore gravity base oil platforms have a recovery time on them of 10-12 years or so and companies can get pretty hesitant about that without some heavy government investment.
Most of them have earned back their intial investment 3x over, and the maintenance costs for most of them are only running at around 20% of initial investment over the life span.
In Canada the nuclear power plants are actually a source of income for government, and for awhile were experiencing a large amount of support because of that.
I'd prefer to buy materials in NL and then bring in my own crew for building. Depending on how difficult bringing in some workers for a few months would be.
Might be that the Goverment is a bit like the Canadian government and there are enough protections put into place around certain laws that they can't be changed easily. This would be a very good thing. It allows time for the people to realize what sort of dipshits they have in charge and change them out.
How prevalent exactly is english there however? If I was looking to say, buy a plot of land and build a house over there, would I encounter a lot of difficulties because I can't speak Dutch?
I prefer the middle of no-where. If it has a high speed internet connection, I'm golden.
I also couldn't live in something that size however. My one bedroom apartment is about the same size and it feels small. That works out to roughly 800 sq ft, or a 20x40 home.
Then again I guess storage space isn't as big an issue in Amsterdam. I like to have a walk in pantry etc however for storing dry goods and such.
Honestly I'd sacrifice living space everywhere else just to get one. Buying flour and sugar by 20lb and 50lb bags saves a lot of money:)
Are there any nice suburbs within like 20-30 minutes of most of the major centers in Amsterdam?
Sweden has proven itself to be far too in bed with the US government for my liking.
On the other hand I already know a few dutchmen and overall your policies aren't going down the drain nearly as fast as.... well... every other developed nation.
Population of 800k, less than 1 annually. We had a freak year with two murders back in 99/00 which threw our average off. Otherwise... 20 years, 5 murders. Total.
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I consume shitloads of media.
If things were more reasonably priced, I'd probably buy everything I wanted. As it is I need to guarantee its not crap before I buy it.
At $10 per DVD, I'd buy everything. At the $25+ per DVD that I have to pay for most things I end up downloading the stuff then buying copies when they go down into my price range.
I have probably in excess of 1,000 movies and maybe 20 full tv series downloaded. Of those I own about 600 movies and 18 of the 20 tv series.
So yes, I pirate, a lot. However at the same time I'm one of the best customers the media industry has.
Right on man.
I remember Betrayal at Krondor, Baldurs Gate I and II, and a shitload more. Back in the days when the bottom bar was 80 hours, and 80 hours of pretty good continuous storyline, not 20 hours of story and 60 hours of forced grind like some of the so-called AAA titles of today.
O_O
Dude, you need to see a doctor immediately. I'm fairly certain you're having seizures on a regular basis and aren't aware of it or have some kind of tumor pressing on your brain.
FF13 was, from a very very very high birds eye view the same formula as the rest of the FF games. The rest is where it became crap. There WAS NO COMBAT SYSTEM. I could tape a quarter down on my controller and walk away then come back when I heard a cutscene happening.
The voiceacting was meh, the only decent part was the graphics. While FF12 wasn't exactly the cream of the crop for FF games it was leagues beyond FF13. FF13 was just a really long FF movie that you had to hold down the "play" button for.
Survivable (with shielding) surface temperatures and an abundance of Hydrogen for one.
If theres something that can function as a gas station in between us and Proxima Centauri the trip might become possible.
Apparently they are retarded and didn't realize that removing themselves from Googles cache entirely involved removing themselves from search period.
The caching service is directly tied into the search service. If they had instead just gone after Google News they would have been fine. Their over-reaching law suit, probably in an attempt to garner more damages, has put them into their current predicament. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Actually a 99.9% fatality rate wouldn't even put us into trouble. 0.1% survival still leaves millions of humans alive to repopulate. We're like cockroaches at this point.
Its not really a contrary opinion. You're just describing the only real difference between the two events, and its the one that I've already dismissed.
Some children under 10 can distinguish intent, and it probably won't harm those children, at least not much. Most can't, and it will harm them, somehow. Most likely it won't be apparent even to them until many years later. In some cases it won't ever be apparent to them but will have an effect on their lives and actions regardless.
I've been molested, and I find it to be damn near the same thing.
To a child under 10 intent matters little, and to a lot of people it matters not at all. Its the event that is problematic.
Most children would have difficulty even distinguishing intent.
Heres a wiser one:
IT staff tend towards this sort of thinking out of necessity many times. IT is the position held with the least regard and it is the position that is first on the chopping block at all times.
The first place anyone will look to save money is an IT Admin they think is making too much money when they can hire a younger version straight out of college or university for 50-75% of what they're paying now.
Of course they're wrong 95% of the time. That person isn't expendable. If there isn't some tangible reason for them to believe he isn't expendable however, he will quickly be expended.
The problem has very little to do with people skills. As a manager at a larger company, you don't need people skills. You aren't doing most of the negotiating etc yourself, you're just steering the company.
In order to STEER you need to know where you are and where you're going. This is the problem with MBAs. They generally have zero skills related to the field they are managing and end up not knowing where there are and then with a flawed understanding of where they are they can't possibly know where they are going.
MBAs are for sales managers and marketing. The problem is they've made it into the real management branches as well.
The NIMBY crowd. Once there was some public uproar after the three mile island incident the politicians decided to quietly shelve the whole thing. WIthout political support everything kinda crumbled.
The main problem is the time frame involved, only governments and supermassive corps(who can usually find something that has the same return with a smaller time frame, and so invest in that instead) can deal with the sort of time frame involved on cost recovery for a Nuclear Plant. You're talking 5-8+ billion up front and you won't have your costs recovered for 10 years+ AFTER its in operation. In reality it'll take 5-10 to build the thing and then you're looking at 15-25 years for cost recovery depending on how the energy markets go. This is the largest reason that it doesn't get much, or really any, private support. Even the hugely massive off shore gravity base oil platforms have a recovery time on them of 10-12 years or so and companies can get pretty hesitant about that without some heavy government investment.
Most of them have earned back their intial investment 3x over, and the maintenance costs for most of them are only running at around 20% of initial investment over the life span.
In Canada the nuclear power plants are actually a source of income for government, and for awhile were experiencing a large amount of support because of that.
My kingdom for a mod point....
Most insightful thing anyone has ever said to a republican.
I don't understand who you have modding you up that somehow got this to -1 Interesting.
I'm seriously beginning to believe that this guy is just spamming this crap looking for the elusive +5 Troll mod.
That works out to 70k per year CAD, with overtime they make more than that and there is always overtime.
I'd prefer to buy materials in NL and then bring in my own crew for building. Depending on how difficult bringing in some workers for a few months would be.
Might be that the Goverment is a bit like the Canadian government and there are enough protections put into place around certain laws that they can't be changed easily. This would be a very good thing. It allows time for the people to realize what sort of dipshits they have in charge and change them out.
How prevalent exactly is english there however? If I was looking to say, buy a plot of land and build a house over there, would I encounter a lot of difficulties because I can't speak Dutch?
I prefer the middle of no-where. If it has a high speed internet connection, I'm golden.
I also couldn't live in something that size however. My one bedroom apartment is about the same size and it feels small. That works out to roughly 800 sq ft, or a 20x40 home.
Then again I guess storage space isn't as big an issue in Amsterdam. I like to have a walk in pantry etc however for storing dry goods and such.
Honestly I'd sacrifice living space everywhere else just to get one. Buying flour and sugar by 20lb and 50lb bags saves a lot of money :)
Are there any nice suburbs within like 20-30 minutes of most of the major centers in Amsterdam?
Really? I think people would settle just for the honesty at this point. Currently they aren't getting either one of those things.
The last time I looked it wasn't that bad. A 4 bedroom 2 story was going for about 200k euros. Which is more or less the same as here.
Sweden has proven itself to be far too in bed with the US government for my liking.
On the other hand I already know a few dutchmen and overall your policies aren't going down the drain nearly as fast as.... well... every other developed nation.
This seems to be true. I had enough trouble trying to worm a few tiny tiny pieces out of one Dutchman >_
Population of 800k, less than 1 annually. We had a freak year with two murders back in 99/00 which threw our average off. Otherwise... 20 years, 5 murders. Total.
Those numbers are pretty good though :)
I come from Newfoundland. The last murder we had was in international news. That's how often it happens.
I'm seriously considering moving there asap. Find a decent town with low crime rate and ik vil nederlandse les het goed!