let me guess, you hang out on/r/pcmasterrace on reddit?
Terrible guess, just terrible. The reality is, the numbers for it have been like that for nearly 6 years. Even the previous generation of consoles could be beat by a PC a year or so old. They'd only needed to be in the $650 range to do it. Anyone with a bit of time, patience, and willingness to shop around can figure it out.
And are still beat by a 2-3 year old PC. And your average $120-150 videocard has twice or more the rendering power of what's inside both machines. Building a "gaming PC" for $500 that can beat both consoles is trivial these days.
Since the link between Reid, the BLM, the Chinese company that wanted the land(and bought it for 75% under market value), and again the BLM had a very specific report about one specific rancher that they scrubbed off their website and cattle grazing, it does indeed seem to be tortoises all the way down.
Don't forget the difference between the two, in the "evil Koch brothers" you've got private citizens and businesses. With Harry Reid's deal, you've got a senator who's using the BLM as his own private paramilitary force to go out and do his dirty work, while getting rich at it. Between the two? Well, there's corruption, political pandering, and then there's lobbying. The very worst that the Koch brothers are guilty of is the last two. While Reid is guilty of the first, and the real question is how deep does it go? Especially since he appointed someone to the BLM to make things go...smoothly.
I dunno. I've got a non-stick frying pan that I've been using for 10 years that doesn't have any teflon coming off. The secret is: Not too much heat, don't use metal utensils, wash separately, don't shock between hot and cold.
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Oh please. So few Canadians actually watch the CBC, that if it didn't have HNIC for years it would have died on it's own. That's what happens when you get outside of the major metropolitan "centres of the universe aka Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa" and get into the rest of the country, where no one pay's attention to the hyper-elitism that the CBC likes to spew. Besides, 90% plus of the programming on the CBC is recycled American programming anyway.
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Why, when Hulu detects a visitor arriving from a country other than the United States, does it not refer the user to the licensee doing business in that particular country?
Because in most cases, there is no licensee doing business in that particular country. Sure here in Canada we have Netflix, but there sure isn't anything close to Hulu. Same hold true in many other countries, but really since I didn't use it I don't care too much, but I'm sure this is going to tick quite a few people off. It's quite similar as to the whole bit with HBO and Game of Thrones, and their other TV series. They *could* be making money hand over fist by selling it people online, but they don't. Instead it has to go through cable companies, which require you to buy into HBO via a part of a package which may cost you upwards of $100-200/mo on top of your normal cable bill.
And they wonder why piracy is running wild for that show. Derp.
What you don't think they upgrade their infrastructure? They do, sometimes while it's still live even. And you'll hear about some poor bastard who dies along the way because of some mistake.
Only gets more fun when you start getting into government organizations that demand "sexual equality" in the work place, and will discriminate against best candidates in order to have their fill of lesbians, trans, bi, and who knows of what other labels people are using these days. Sadly I can remember instances here in Canada, back 15 years ago where police services were actively recruiting anyone but white. And actually had that in their recruitment posters, there was a rather huge shitstorm over it up here.
Actually they didn't. Going as far as to say that people preferred DA:O, "so we'll probably bring those back." But they defended all their design decisions in DA2.
I still remember this thing called Dragon Age 2...which really wasn't a dragon age game, but you never really did say you screwed up royally on it there Bioware. In fact, I seem to remember that you never apologized for the cookie cutter layouts, or gutting the game in the first place. We shall wait, but faith has not been restored, especially after ME3's ending.
Doesn't really matter anyway, even at raising the rates for new customers by $1-2, it's still got more value than cable or sattelite TV by leaps and bounds. That's pretty scary isn't it? Especially with all of the crap programming and reality TV garbage that they have on these days. I sadly remember when things like History, NatGO, Discovery and TLC had something worthwhile on them. The last time I watched them when I was in the US(last year) it was wall-to-wall reality TV programming. Good riddance to them.
Except, of course, open source code also contains horrific security vulnerabilities.
Everyone raise your hand if you know the difference between proprietary software that's closed source, and open source with viewable binaries! That's right kiddies, if you have open source with viewable binaries you can even compile your own, and fix any bugs you find. You can even fork it! You can't do that with closed source, you're at their mercy for patches, fixes, and security holes.
And how do you avoid capitalism growing into crony capitalism? The best way to win the game is always to be in charge of the rule book and the refereeing..
Simple, by requiring that these companies get paid at the same leveled costs as anyone else would without specialized subsidies. In Ontario, if they were competing against the nuclear energy sector which is the largest(providing about 68% of our power) they would be in at 18c/KwH, not 64.8c/KwH, if you wanted to peg them against say Niagara Generation, it would be 2.4c/KwH, and they provide 15-22% of the electricity of the province. The rest is made up from NG, Oil, or Coal. There would also be no special hand outs for "not producing energy."
And really, I would end the policy of selling energy at less than what it costs to the US, than what residents of Ontario can buy it for.
But your second sentence? You're right and so far the Liberal party has done a bang up job of making sure that they're in charge of that rule book and screwing everyone over.
Correction: Crony capitalism is a failure. Finest example of this is in Germany and Ontario with "Feed in Tariffs" for all the "green energy producers" where we pay excessively high prices including to pay them to not to produce energy. And that can be as much as $0.70/KwH.
Sounds like a crate full of stupid my friend. Imagine how many people could be fed from that corn? Well as long as the environmentalists didn't throw a hissy fit over it and try claiming it was poisonous or something.
Any Canadian politician who wants to lose an election just has to propose piping precious Canadian water down to those Yanks.
We already let american companies bottle precious canadian water for your bottled water industry, doesn't seem to be hurting any of those politicians any.
With the way you Canadians tax the fuck out of your alcohol? It's no surprise that many of you end up brewing your own batch. Now, I don't care how you guys handle your taxes, that is your business and none of mine, but I really don't think you could end up selling much down here with those prices.
Funny enough, that's because in places like Ontario the booze is controlled by a provincially mandated cartel. In Ontario's case beer is "run" by Brewers Retail AKA the beer companies themselves, and the LCBO(the provincial government). And sadly in Ontario's case, it isn't the tax that you're getting screwed over on, you're paying a indulgence tax. And instead of leveraging their buying power, everyone gets screwed over. There's actually a rather massive dustup right now over selling booze at corner stores/grocery like they do in the US right now. With the brewers retailers trying to go with the "but your teenagers will be drunken heathens!!!!eleventyone!!!!11111!" In a place like Alberta, the government buys the booze, but anyone can apply for a license and open their own shop to sell, providing they can pass the requirements to do so.
But funny enough, you can buy Canuck made beer and spirits cheaper in the US than you can in Canada.
Quite true, my city(funny how in Canada we call a city with ~35k people a city), we have 2 micro breweries. They're not well known by any stretch of the imagination but they're known well enough that the people who run them make money to keep them in operation and run a "brew your own" business on the side.
Well let's be realistic then shall we? Technically they're not beholden to anyone to not build on the West Bank, being that it was a captured territory. Useful point, that much of it was already bought previously and before 1940. And every time that they gave land up--end when it was fully productive the palestinians fully destroyed it, looted it, and went on their way instead of taking it over and using it to bolster their own economy.
Gaza and the West Bank are "open air prisons" of their own making. Their own making revolved around: Palestinians, sniping at civilians along the highways, strapping explosives to themselves and blowing themselves up at cafes, bus stops, and other crowded civilian areas, and so on. Of course we can't forget the "rock throwing" brigades either, or some of the other incidents.
Building is restricted because terrorist organizations love to build bunkers, and weapons munitions dumps within civilian structures, and in places near to the border with Israel, they like to build tunnels to try getting under border check points. In other cases to build smuggling tunnels into Egypt. In order to smuggle in whatever they can.
The reason that building materials are hard is see the last paragraph, the last time they allowed unfettered access to building materials it went right to the terrorist groups who used it for bunkers, and weapons dumps. Big shock right?
So, let me ask you. If you had a "neighbor" who was doing that to you, and not only that but was launching rockets on a regular basis at the entire southern part of your country, to the point where all of your civic buildings are now bomb hardened structures, and houses are now moving that way too, how long would you simply put up with that? Especially when they've been claiming that it's "all in the name of peace."
You can count on us Canadians to provide you with quality beer that isn't watered down and has actual kick to it! Though you will have to occasionally deal with Molson, and perhaps some weird off-brands, or something oddly flavored for the trendy folks at the centre-of-the-univerise(Toronto).
I'm absolutely not ok with the politics Israel undertakes towards the palestineans, the actual worst enemy for peace in Israel( In my count Gaza and west jordan area are part of Israel) is the whole politics of blame and shame.
That's nice and all, but maybe you can get the palestinian's government to explain why they're so pro-genocide in their teachings. With the various terrorist organizations, which were elected actively supporting said teachings, and taking money from the countries in the region to wage a proxy war. And while you're at it, perhaps you can explain why the BDS movement is so anti-Israeli while said organizations actually hire and pay said palestinians not only a good wage, but an amazing wage. All the while there are arab, druze, and palestinians in the Knesset. Let's be realistic, between the two? I'll back Israel every time.
Because that would require real "work" and they've spent the last 15-20 years telling people that trades and apprenticeships as worthless. That's why there's such a demand for them these days.
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let me guess, you hang out on /r/pcmasterrace on reddit?
Terrible guess, just terrible. The reality is, the numbers for it have been like that for nearly 6 years. Even the previous generation of consoles could be beat by a PC a year or so old. They'd only needed to be in the $650 range to do it. Anyone with a bit of time, patience, and willingness to shop around can figure it out.
And are still beat by a 2-3 year old PC. And your average $120-150 videocard has twice or more the rendering power of what's inside both machines. Building a "gaming PC" for $500 that can beat both consoles is trivial these days.
Tortoises all the way down?
Since the link between Reid, the BLM, the Chinese company that wanted the land(and bought it for 75% under market value), and again the BLM had a very specific report about one specific rancher that they scrubbed off their website and cattle grazing, it does indeed seem to be tortoises all the way down.
Don't forget the difference between the two, in the "evil Koch brothers" you've got private citizens and businesses. With Harry Reid's deal, you've got a senator who's using the BLM as his own private paramilitary force to go out and do his dirty work, while getting rich at it. Between the two? Well, there's corruption, political pandering, and then there's lobbying. The very worst that the Koch brothers are guilty of is the last two. While Reid is guilty of the first, and the real question is how deep does it go? Especially since he appointed someone to the BLM to make things go...smoothly.
I dunno. I've got a non-stick frying pan that I've been using for 10 years that doesn't have any teflon coming off. The secret is: Not too much heat, don't use metal utensils, wash separately, don't shock between hot and cold.
Oh please. So few Canadians actually watch the CBC, that if it didn't have HNIC for years it would have died on it's own. That's what happens when you get outside of the major metropolitan "centres of the universe aka Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa" and get into the rest of the country, where no one pay's attention to the hyper-elitism that the CBC likes to spew. Besides, 90% plus of the programming on the CBC is recycled American programming anyway.
Why, when Hulu detects a visitor arriving from a country other than the United States, does it not refer the user to the licensee doing business in that particular country?
Because in most cases, there is no licensee doing business in that particular country. Sure here in Canada we have Netflix, but there sure isn't anything close to Hulu. Same hold true in many other countries, but really since I didn't use it I don't care too much, but I'm sure this is going to tick quite a few people off. It's quite similar as to the whole bit with HBO and Game of Thrones, and their other TV series. They *could* be making money hand over fist by selling it people online, but they don't. Instead it has to go through cable companies, which require you to buy into HBO via a part of a package which may cost you upwards of $100-200/mo on top of your normal cable bill.
And they wonder why piracy is running wild for that show. Derp.
What you don't think they upgrade their infrastructure? They do, sometimes while it's still live even. And you'll hear about some poor bastard who dies along the way because of some mistake.
Right here. It's a subsidiary of CDProjecktRed.
Only gets more fun when you start getting into government organizations that demand "sexual equality" in the work place, and will discriminate against best candidates in order to have their fill of lesbians, trans, bi, and who knows of what other labels people are using these days. Sadly I can remember instances here in Canada, back 15 years ago where police services were actively recruiting anyone but white. And actually had that in their recruitment posters, there was a rather huge shitstorm over it up here.
Actually they didn't. Going as far as to say that people preferred DA:O, "so we'll probably bring those back." But they defended all their design decisions in DA2.
I still remember this thing called Dragon Age 2...which really wasn't a dragon age game, but you never really did say you screwed up royally on it there Bioware. In fact, I seem to remember that you never apologized for the cookie cutter layouts, or gutting the game in the first place. We shall wait, but faith has not been restored, especially after ME3's ending.
Doesn't really matter anyway, even at raising the rates for new customers by $1-2, it's still got more value than cable or sattelite TV by leaps and bounds. That's pretty scary isn't it? Especially with all of the crap programming and reality TV garbage that they have on these days. I sadly remember when things like History, NatGO, Discovery and TLC had something worthwhile on them. The last time I watched them when I was in the US(last year) it was wall-to-wall reality TV programming. Good riddance to them.
Except, of course, open source code also contains horrific security vulnerabilities.
Everyone raise your hand if you know the difference between proprietary software that's closed source, and open source with viewable binaries! That's right kiddies, if you have open source with viewable binaries you can even compile your own, and fix any bugs you find. You can even fork it! You can't do that with closed source, you're at their mercy for patches, fixes, and security holes.
And how do you avoid capitalism growing into crony capitalism?
The best way to win the game is always to be in charge of the rule book and the refereeing..
Simple, by requiring that these companies get paid at the same leveled costs as anyone else would without specialized subsidies. In Ontario, if they were competing against the nuclear energy sector which is the largest(providing about 68% of our power) they would be in at 18c/KwH, not 64.8c/KwH, if you wanted to peg them against say Niagara Generation, it would be 2.4c/KwH, and they provide 15-22% of the electricity of the province. The rest is made up from NG, Oil, or Coal. There would also be no special hand outs for "not producing energy."
And really, I would end the policy of selling energy at less than what it costs to the US, than what residents of Ontario can buy it for.
But your second sentence? You're right and so far the Liberal party has done a bang up job of making sure that they're in charge of that rule book and screwing everyone over.
Capitalism is a failure.
Correction: Crony capitalism is a failure. Finest example of this is in Germany and Ontario with "Feed in Tariffs" for all the "green energy producers" where we pay excessively high prices including to pay them to not to produce energy. And that can be as much as $0.70/KwH.
Corn is a shitty food. Better food could be grown in its place though.
That's nice to say when you have plenty to eat.
Sounds like a crate full of stupid my friend. Imagine how many people could be fed from that corn? Well as long as the environmentalists didn't throw a hissy fit over it and try claiming it was poisonous or something.
Any Canadian politician who wants to lose an election just has to propose piping precious Canadian water down to those Yanks.
We already let american companies bottle precious canadian water for your bottled water industry, doesn't seem to be hurting any of those politicians any.
With the way you Canadians tax the fuck out of your alcohol? It's no surprise that many of you end up brewing your own batch. Now, I don't care how you guys handle your taxes, that is your business and none of mine, but I really don't think you could end up selling much down here with those prices.
Funny enough, that's because in places like Ontario the booze is controlled by a provincially mandated cartel. In Ontario's case beer is "run" by Brewers Retail AKA the beer companies themselves, and the LCBO(the provincial government). And sadly in Ontario's case, it isn't the tax that you're getting screwed over on, you're paying a indulgence tax. And instead of leveraging their buying power, everyone gets screwed over. There's actually a rather massive dustup right now over selling booze at corner stores/grocery like they do in the US right now. With the brewers retailers trying to go with the "but your teenagers will be drunken heathens!!!!eleventyone!!!!11111!" In a place like Alberta, the government buys the booze, but anyone can apply for a license and open their own shop to sell, providing they can pass the requirements to do so.
But funny enough, you can buy Canuck made beer and spirits cheaper in the US than you can in Canada.
Quite true, my city(funny how in Canada we call a city with ~35k people a city), we have 2 micro breweries. They're not well known by any stretch of the imagination but they're known well enough that the people who run them make money to keep them in operation and run a "brew your own" business on the side.
Well let's be realistic then shall we? Technically they're not beholden to anyone to not build on the West Bank, being that it was a captured territory. Useful point, that much of it was already bought previously and before 1940. And every time that they gave land up--end when it was fully productive the palestinians fully destroyed it, looted it, and went on their way instead of taking it over and using it to bolster their own economy.
Gaza and the West Bank are "open air prisons" of their own making. Their own making revolved around: Palestinians, sniping at civilians along the highways, strapping explosives to themselves and blowing themselves up at cafes, bus stops, and other crowded civilian areas, and so on. Of course we can't forget the "rock throwing" brigades either, or some of the other incidents.
Building is restricted because terrorist organizations love to build bunkers, and weapons munitions dumps within civilian structures, and in places near to the border with Israel, they like to build tunnels to try getting under border check points. In other cases to build smuggling tunnels into Egypt. In order to smuggle in whatever they can.
The reason that building materials are hard is see the last paragraph, the last time they allowed unfettered access to building materials it went right to the terrorist groups who used it for bunkers, and weapons dumps. Big shock right?
So, let me ask you. If you had a "neighbor" who was doing that to you, and not only that but was launching rockets on a regular basis at the entire southern part of your country, to the point where all of your civic buildings are now bomb hardened structures, and houses are now moving that way too, how long would you simply put up with that? Especially when they've been claiming that it's "all in the name of peace."
You can count on us Canadians to provide you with quality beer that isn't watered down and has actual kick to it! Though you will have to occasionally deal with Molson, and perhaps some weird off-brands, or something oddly flavored for the trendy folks at the centre-of-the-univerise(Toronto).
I'm absolutely not ok with the politics Israel undertakes towards the palestineans, the actual worst enemy for peace in Israel( In my count Gaza and west jordan area are part of Israel) is the whole politics of blame and shame.
That's nice and all, but maybe you can get the palestinian's government to explain why they're so pro-genocide in their teachings. With the various terrorist organizations, which were elected actively supporting said teachings, and taking money from the countries in the region to wage a proxy war. And while you're at it, perhaps you can explain why the BDS movement is so anti-Israeli while said organizations actually hire and pay said palestinians not only a good wage, but an amazing wage. All the while there are arab, druze, and palestinians in the Knesset. Let's be realistic, between the two? I'll back Israel every time.
Because that would require real "work" and they've spent the last 15-20 years telling people that trades and apprenticeships as worthless. That's why there's such a demand for them these days.