You don't? You mean you don't see how the CBC is cutting and gutting into new business startups, that they're exceeding their funding mandate by doing this either? Libraries are far different from what the CBC is pulling.
Ah yes. The 'copy infringement = stealing" bit where a person shows they have no clue. So tell me, why does a physical copy of something cost twice to four times as much as a digital copy made from weightless electrons?
Good luck upsetting the publishing business with your brilliant views! Burst forth, you need only say these words and hundreds of years of international copyright law will crumble!
One can only hope. The books are the same, we know we're paying over, way and above what the textbooks can be covered for. We end up having to pay for 'minor' revisions to keep concurrent or fail classes. When I was working my way through my law classes a few years ago, the textbooks alone set me back nearly $4000. Though I could buy them out of country, with the same content for $250.
People understand very well how the world works. What you fail to understand is that people are tired of DRM, region locking, overpriced for the same material you can get elsewhere especially in a global economy where you can order something from across the ocean and pay 7/8th's less on the price. So when people want something, they find someplace cheaper to buy it.
Hey are you gonna blast canadians next for buying american products cheaper across the border too? With regards to just about everything? I mean a gallon of milk and butter are in the $4-6 range, sure would be nice to have it like the US where it costs $1.99 or less, flat of eggs only $5 or $1.50 in the US. Or americans buying canadian drugs at a cheaper price when they know that they only have to travel a few hours to get there?
I kinda find it funny that your post is marked funny, but damn if that isn't the truth. I've switched to DHL for my regular mail if it has to be sent. I can send a letter from ontario to northern alberta or the territories for under $2. And it'll get there within 3-5 days. The last time I sent a letter via canada post it took nearly a month. Including the week it sat in edmonton.
Damn right there's blatant price-fixing. Most people I know who own ebook readers pirate the things just out of spite because of the prices. Nothing quite like seeing prices like this:
$9.35 kindle $7.99 kobo $3.99-4.99 paperback
Yeah fuck and you guys. If I already own a copy, I'd be pirating it at that price too.
Of course it wasn't a lineup. Lineups aren't used in Canada for the purposes of identification, and the SCC(supreme court) ruled that it's illegal to do so. The only proper way is to use a photo for investigation. Using photo's like that, is the proper way. Whether digital or out of a photobook full of random pictures.
The Kennedy's have a long history with Ontairo. That is where they smuggled most of their booze in from when they were making their money during prohibition.
Anyway, people in Ontario should be up in arms over the wind turbines. Right now the government is paying FIT(feed in tariff), which works out between 60-84c/KWH for just these things, and it's insane. Our electricity prices have only gone up since FIT and smart meters. Besides, Ontario isn't exactly the best place for wind, let alone solar. Even right off the lakes you don't get wind and it can be like that months at a time.
To be fair, the liberals didn't brush the corruption scandal under the carpet, but did the right thing be opening a public inquiry. It was politically stupid, and Martin got slaughtered for it, but it was the right thing by the country.
Right. That's why they tried to ship off everyone off to diplomatic posts to hide their dealings, and only when caught and parliament pushed into a public inquiry did things happen. The liberals were worse than corrupt, they were complicit to the point of trying to actively hide it.
Well if you live in Toronto, there's a very good chance that simply walking down the street you could get electrocuted by well anything. I'm not actually kidding, they had a serious problem with live plates and poles all over the city for the last couple of years.
Yeah, I bet you miss those LAN parties (I know I do)...
I do and I don't. I still get to one or two major ones every year, mostly because I still compete in SC and SC2 league games. Bluesnews lists some of them, and there's other lists around too. I'm just too lazy to tack on the ones I know in Canada and specifically Ontario.
That's because consoles are holding back PC gaming. People can try and dance around the issue but that's all there is to it. 8 years ago what pushed PC's was gaming itself, since more developers shifted over to the hot-shit of consoles, hardware cycles have lengthened quite a lot. Used to be 3-6mo on a new product, now it's almost a year if not a year.
Back in my day we called this a "lan party" or did this via some other form online networking via the PC. Meh consoles, that's what I think. I don't think I've used or played on one since zelda was released and I don't miss it at all.
Actually, usually improving women's rights and education has the greatest effect on family size. I suggest promoting these.
Women's rights don't improve until a society industrializes enough to support it. Otherwise you end up with places like Pakistan.
...Unconstrained human population growth is fscking the World up.
I know you didn't. The reality is we can easily support 11b people now, today easily. Healthy with full bellies on current farming methods. It would require africa actually getting off it's ass and turning back into a bread basket though. Funny enough in the 1960's and 70's Zimbabwe supplies 50% of europe with all of their wheat and corn. Now Canada and the US does.
One thing that bugs me about all of this, is "digital distribution" was supposed to drive down prices, if anything they've stayed the same. Luckily I can buy stuff from steam tax free. But until there's more digital distribution services I don't see that changing either.
By using the Chicago school of criminology numbers on employee theft vs shoplifting. The average losses by shoplifting in a non-depressed economy will break down to 10-15%. Where as employees who know the stock, in's and outs, and all the rest have a much higher theft rate. This is somewhere between 70-80% will steal. Out of that 70-80% number 30-40% of those will steal no matter what, and the remainder will steal only if they can get away with it.
This has been backed up by a few hundred criminology studies. Those numbers themselves flux a bit. But it's almost always 70-80% will steal or will attempt to steal.
So I'm guessing you support uplifting the rest of the 3rd world nations instead of holding them back by 150 years or more? The majority of proponents of your theory support 'green' ideas that ensure that the rest of the world suffer. Including paying off developing nations to develop. Remember. The reason why families have large numbers of children is because of high infant mortality rates and a lack of industrialization.
On the other end, you end up with China. The one child policy has been disastrous. With boys outstripping girls in the totals of babies leading to a serious population imbalance. This is because most of china is not industrialized but males can do more in the typical per-industrial society.
Planescape: Torment puts FF7 to shame in any form or terms of a cRPG. I have one of the 'rare' PC versions of FF7, good game, enjoyable. But not a masterpiece.
I wouldn't say they're out of touch. But the major if people on/. work in cities that pay much more. Hell, my first years mechanic apprenticeship paid $2.25/hr, this would be paid right up to my 3rd year. And in my 4th year I'd be at min. wage at the time or $6.85/hr. Of course I had to buy all my tools on a $2.25/hr salary too. Luckily now, the government will co-pay or give you an low interest loan via the banks for it. This is going back oh 15-16 years ago but the trade skills still don't pay squat. My 2nd cousin finished his diesel mechanics cert two years ago, done on 3 years instead of 4. But he was making $5.85/hr and spent $25k on tools in the first two years. The min. wage here is $10.25
I wouldn't start making money until my 5th year, around $10.85 at the time. To be honest I said to hell with it, and took another 8 years to offly-oddly finish my apprenticeship as I felt like it.
Sure it's an easy job. Easier than getting shot at, or having to deal with some drugged up smack head. Or kiddie diddlers, or seeing someones entrails bloated across half their room.
To be honest though, they should be saving the money. Germany is a fine indication of where this will end up. No where fast with all those specialized people right back out of work in about two years.
That's kinda like asking why are all websites going to piss poor designs where they waste 60% of your viewable area by using such a small tiny spot right in the centre. Because they're damned retards who think that the world is stuck in 2002 and blog designs are still shiny and new.
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You don't? You mean you don't see how the CBC is cutting and gutting into new business startups, that they're exceeding their funding mandate by doing this either? Libraries are far different from what the CBC is pulling.
Ah yes. The 'copy infringement = stealing" bit where a person shows they have no clue. So tell me, why does a physical copy of something cost twice to four times as much as a digital copy made from weightless electrons?
Good luck upsetting the publishing business with your brilliant views! Burst forth, you need only say these words and hundreds of years of international copyright law will crumble!
One can only hope. The books are the same, we know we're paying over, way and above what the textbooks can be covered for. We end up having to pay for 'minor' revisions to keep concurrent or fail classes. When I was working my way through my law classes a few years ago, the textbooks alone set me back nearly $4000. Though I could buy them out of country, with the same content for $250.
People understand very well how the world works. What you fail to understand is that people are tired of DRM, region locking, overpriced for the same material you can get elsewhere especially in a global economy where you can order something from across the ocean and pay 7/8th's less on the price. So when people want something, they find someplace cheaper to buy it.
Hey are you gonna blast canadians next for buying american products cheaper across the border too? With regards to just about everything? I mean a gallon of milk and butter are in the $4-6 range, sure would be nice to have it like the US where it costs $1.99 or less, flat of eggs only $5 or $1.50 in the US. Or americans buying canadian drugs at a cheaper price when they know that they only have to travel a few hours to get there?
I kinda find it funny that your post is marked funny, but damn if that isn't the truth. I've switched to DHL for my regular mail if it has to be sent. I can send a letter from ontario to northern alberta or the territories for under $2. And it'll get there within 3-5 days. The last time I sent a letter via canada post it took nearly a month. Including the week it sat in edmonton.
Damn right there's blatant price-fixing. Most people I know who own ebook readers pirate the things just out of spite because of the prices. Nothing quite like seeing prices like this:
$9.35 kindle
$7.99 kobo
$3.99-4.99 paperback
Yeah fuck and you guys. If I already own a copy, I'd be pirating it at that price too.
Of course it wasn't a lineup. Lineups aren't used in Canada for the purposes of identification, and the SCC(supreme court) ruled that it's illegal to do so. The only proper way is to use a photo for investigation. Using photo's like that, is the proper way. Whether digital or out of a photobook full of random pictures.
The Kennedy's have a long history with Ontairo. That is where they smuggled most of their booze in from when they were making their money during prohibition.
Anyway, people in Ontario should be up in arms over the wind turbines. Right now the government is paying FIT(feed in tariff), which works out between 60-84c/KWH for just these things, and it's insane. Our electricity prices have only gone up since FIT and smart meters. Besides, Ontario isn't exactly the best place for wind, let alone solar. Even right off the lakes you don't get wind and it can be like that months at a time.
To be fair, the liberals didn't brush the corruption scandal under the carpet, but did the right thing be opening a public inquiry. It was politically stupid, and Martin got slaughtered for it, but it was the right thing by the country.
Right. That's why they tried to ship off everyone off to diplomatic posts to hide their dealings, and only when caught and parliament pushed into a public inquiry did things happen. The liberals were worse than corrupt, they were complicit to the point of trying to actively hide it.
And the FBI agents are trrrroooollllssss.
48.93% the other 0.06% is facebook, with 0.01% making up twitter spam.
Well if you live in Toronto, there's a very good chance that simply walking down the street you could get electrocuted by well anything. I'm not actually kidding, they had a serious problem with live plates and poles all over the city for the last couple of years.
Yeah, I bet you miss those LAN parties (I know I do)...
I do and I don't. I still get to one or two major ones every year, mostly because I still compete in SC and SC2 league games. Bluesnews lists some of them, and there's other lists around too. I'm just too lazy to tack on the ones I know in Canada and specifically Ontario.
That's because consoles are holding back PC gaming. People can try and dance around the issue but that's all there is to it. 8 years ago what pushed PC's was gaming itself, since more developers shifted over to the hot-shit of consoles, hardware cycles have lengthened quite a lot. Used to be 3-6mo on a new product, now it's almost a year if not a year.
Back in my day we called this a "lan party" or did this via some other form online networking via the PC. Meh consoles, that's what I think. I don't think I've used or played on one since zelda was released and I don't miss it at all.
Actually, usually improving women's rights and education has the greatest effect on family size. I suggest promoting these.
Women's rights don't improve until a society industrializes enough to support it. Otherwise you end up with places like Pakistan.
...Unconstrained human population growth is fscking the World up.
I know you didn't. The reality is we can easily support 11b people now, today easily. Healthy with full bellies on current farming methods. It would require africa actually getting off it's ass and turning back into a bread basket though. Funny enough in the 1960's and 70's Zimbabwe supplies 50% of europe with all of their wheat and corn. Now Canada and the US does.
What about today when a 2 hour game costs $50-80?
One thing that bugs me about all of this, is "digital distribution" was supposed to drive down prices, if anything they've stayed the same. Luckily I can buy stuff from steam tax free. But until there's more digital distribution services I don't see that changing either.
How do you figure?
By using the Chicago school of criminology numbers on employee theft vs shoplifting. The average losses by shoplifting in a non-depressed economy will break down to 10-15%. Where as employees who know the stock, in's and outs, and all the rest have a much higher theft rate. This is somewhere between 70-80% will steal. Out of that 70-80% number 30-40% of those will steal no matter what, and the remainder will steal only if they can get away with it.
This has been backed up by a few hundred criminology studies. Those numbers themselves flux a bit. But it's almost always 70-80% will steal or will attempt to steal.
Leave those nice bankers and upstanding Wall Street financiers to ruin the economy with nothing more than an indignant letter and a small fine.
Time to get your optics checked? Most heavily regulated industries in the world and they're the cause of all that's wrong. Oookay then.
Shoplifting isn't as big a problem as they make it. It's employee theft that's the big problem.
So I'm guessing you support uplifting the rest of the 3rd world nations instead of holding them back by 150 years or more? The majority of proponents of your theory support 'green' ideas that ensure that the rest of the world suffer. Including paying off developing nations to develop. Remember. The reason why families have large numbers of children is because of high infant mortality rates and a lack of industrialization.
On the other end, you end up with China. The one child policy has been disastrous. With boys outstripping girls in the totals of babies leading to a serious population imbalance. This is because most of china is not industrialized but males can do more in the typical per-industrial society.
Group-think. /. is full of it.
Planescape: Torment puts FF7 to shame in any form or terms of a cRPG. I have one of the 'rare' PC versions of FF7, good game, enjoyable. But not a masterpiece.
I wouldn't say they're out of touch. But the major if people on /. work in cities that pay much more. Hell, my first years mechanic apprenticeship paid $2.25/hr, this would be paid right up to my 3rd year. And in my 4th year I'd be at min. wage at the time or $6.85/hr. Of course I had to buy all my tools on a $2.25/hr salary too. Luckily now, the government will co-pay or give you an low interest loan via the banks for it. This is going back oh 15-16 years ago but the trade skills still don't pay squat. My 2nd cousin finished his diesel mechanics cert two years ago, done on 3 years instead of 4. But he was making $5.85/hr and spent $25k on tools in the first two years. The min. wage here is $10.25
I wouldn't start making money until my 5th year, around $10.85 at the time. To be honest I said to hell with it, and took another 8 years to offly-oddly finish my apprenticeship as I felt like it.
Sure it's an easy job. Easier than getting shot at, or having to deal with some drugged up smack head. Or kiddie diddlers, or seeing someones entrails bloated across half their room.
To be honest though, they should be saving the money. Germany is a fine indication of where this will end up. No where fast with all those specialized people right back out of work in about two years.
That's kinda like asking why are all websites going to piss poor designs where they waste 60% of your viewable area by using such a small tiny spot right in the centre. Because they're damned retards who think that the world is stuck in 2002 and blog designs are still shiny and new.