This is a good reason to stick with Steam, and a good chunk of the reason why I refuse to go elsewhere anymore.
Arguments like this kindof boggle my mind. This is kindof like saying "Ford gave me a good experience so I will never buy any cars that are not Ford." Granted Steam has one of the best interfaces of many of the stores that are available at the current time for purchasing games. But I won't let something like not sold on Steam or only sold in some place other than Steam stop me from considering a game. Competition is good and too much brand loyalty leads to Sony.
For the record, I actually like the store and the way your library is displayed on gog.com better than Steam.
My guess is utility. Horses are generally not eaten unless they can no longer be ridden on, dogs were used for hunting and protection plus they do form an emotional bond many times, cats are suited for controlling rodent populations
Also just to throw it out there I'm not entirely certain I buy into the whole minimum wage concept. I don't think people can buy more today working for minimum wage than they could then. I think it just sets a new scale for 1 vs 0. (i.e no work you get zero income, low paid work you get 1 point of income etc). Raising or lowering the minimum wage I do not believe will have much affect on the job market or how well off someone is at all in the long run. Short run it might till the market evens itself back out.
I've met very few people who work minimum wage jobs who get anything significantly above minimum wage even if they are outstanding get awards for being a good employee and had been working there a significant amount of time. Back when I worked minimum wage jobs when minimum wage was $5.25, there weren't more minimum wage jobs than today and I think the highest wage anyone got at that job who was not salary was the assistant manager at $7.00 an hour. The skill requirements and competition for minimum wage jobs is just too high to make the situation you're describing feasible from my experience. Maybe it would work in areas with larger quantities of salary and above minimum wage positions to be had. But not every place people live is a city.
The question I ask myself when I try to think of ways to improve the US is to say, "OK given a town where the population has to commute one hour or more to get to a major city and there is no industry any more because all the industry has shut down and moved overseas, how would I increase the job market."
I think there's huge markets of potential labor untapped in places that have been abandoned by industry. These are the locations with 3rd world living standards and a sizable chunk of the population. Also creating job markets outside of major metropolitan areas could help with overpopulation, traffic, and outrageous land value in cities.
Case 2's however is impossible for a small business person to compete with larger producers. Since small business can only ever start out in a limited market where large company that sees the profit potential of the idea can take it globally and can produce enough advertising to drown out the small business.
Not in the least saying our patent system isn't broken. But I think completely getting rid of it is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
$800,000 a year isn't much. Count the costs of servers to support 2 million people, how many admins you need, the electric bill... and you wanted new content right? So let's add a team of programmers.
To put a bit of perspective. My salary personally is going to take quite a bit over 10% of that income.
Not that I disagree with you... but I'm not seeing what free speech has to do with this issue.? In an environment where anything violating free speech is illegal there would be no privacy. This issue is about privacy and protection from unreasonable search I would think. In a government that outlawed anything that prevented speech or information from not being free, they would not have to even get a warrant to read your "private" tweets or "private" emails.
I do not know for sure but I would imagine medicine usage would not be banned but games like Max Payne where you take drugs to improve abilities would.
I've seen plenty of old 3d shooters redone in HTML5. There's not a single one I could stand playing for more than 5 minutes. The performance is always horrible. The suggestion that all games should be done in HTML is silly until you can give HTML full native control over my system so the designers can really use the features of my system and at the same time I would never WANT HTML to have that much control over my system.
Just because something has been done doesn't mean it has been done well. Or should be the model for how things are in the future.
Support for an application? Seriously? If an application is so complex I need to buy support to use it. I'M NOT USING IT*.
Do you buy support for LibreOffice before you start using it or even anytime after?
* -- unless I'm forced to use it for business reasons and don't want to care about it. But I don't think those are the kinds of applications they are talking about here. And even then I'm having trouble thinking of any that I personally use without it being just a webapp or a piece of an application that I'm build (such as a web server).
But then I think back to the article about the iPad announcement and how everyone here predicted it would be a flop and noone would use it and I'm not so sure anymore.
So the only problem I have with your statement about supporting state governments more than the federal government is that part at the end with wastes the US's future.
With a weak central government there is no US future. It's the future of Mississippi or Montana or New York or Florida etc. Weak central government is not a way to save the US as a whole. It is a way to save a specific state in its specific needs. Not saying this doesn't have merits on its own. But I really get a big disconnect when someone says the way to save the US is to make it weaker and give individual states more power.
There's supposed to be a balance there so places like Rhode Island don't get screwed.
Alot of people still fly today because that mode of transportation is almost essential to the way business is done globally and even nationally now. Business and even vacations have changed and evolved to welcome being able to travel vast distances at great speeds. I don't think it is possible for a great number of people to stop flying. Though I will often choose not to fly if I can. Like when I traveled to Boston I took the train instead of flying, but I am under no impression that a boycott of air travel is even possible in modern society.
I think that the activists and boycotting with our votes is the best way to achieve the change we need.
Please read history before the government stepped in to make labor unions a legal entity to see what happened to said unions. The unions weren't putting corps over a proverbial barrel. The corps were putting people in unions into literal hospitals and morgues. Most of the time talk started about forming a union, a mass layoff was done targeting the key players. That's not actually legal now.
I find it funny that a website that bashes Microsoft for being a monopoly and manipulating the marketplace several years ago would also have a large group that believes that a completely free market would result in anything but Microsoft doing the same damn thing today.
I chose a school within a reasonable means. I have student loans. I'm not drowning in them. But if I wasn't able to get them, I assure you I would never have been able to go to college which would be a waste since I have large talent in my area of expertise. (Based upon the # of people who rely on me for advice and the speed that I am moved into key roles in any company I work with)
I'm willing to bet that it excludes her from other roles also. There's a lot of stigma around age in this country. I think she is in right to ask her age not be revealed without her consent. (I wouldn't want that either). A million seems like too large of an amount though. I find it hard to think that an actor who would make that much in the next decade or so would not be so talented that directors wouldn't care how old she was.
The thing I noticed was that they called out organic searches only. Does this mean the paid links in search will still have access to the search terms used?
This is where feature requests come from. People saying how they would like the device to work. This is how developers learn to iterate on the correct features and make the application better. Developers who ignore feature requests as pathetic whining usually don't do so well.
Answer what to the people?
Is a replacement of government the goal?
What about politicians who actually do represent their districts?
What solutions are they trying to propose?
What candidates will fix things to these peoples' satisfaction?
Having no goals is great up until the point where you realize that without a goal nothing can be accomplished. Having diverse people spouting off conflicting and sometimes downright laughable goals (http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/) is also part of the problem of not having clear goals for a gathering. Being upset is not enough to effect change.
I'm 32 years old. I'm probably a bit below that 10% personally but growing up I lived in a household of 6 where the total assets were probably closer to 8k. We got by. Now when college came I chose one that I knew I could afford and had some luck finding a decent job (after a year of unemployment). Now I make an income that is greater than my entire family put together due to that good luck and I am getting better. I was careful and recovered from bad debt management (and that year of unemployment). I consider myself AMAZINGLY lucky as I have moved from below poverty to probably between middle and upper middle class. It was alot of work, skill, and luck. But I'm here.
These people are mostly younger than me college age students. They are carrying iPads and drinking Starbucks. At their age I actually wouldn't have dreamed of paying $5 for a beverage. Hell I didn't even pay that much for alcohol for getting drunk during college (quarter drafts were the best invention I have ever experienced). I have trouble identifying with them as it doesn't seem like they want to go through the struggle I did. I don't know where they want money from. I also don't know why they feel they deserve to be more prosperous than they are without struggling for it.
You can't find a job straight out of college? I had to relocate pretty damn far from home after a year of searching to find a job in a field that had a high hiring rate. Did you pick a good career path?
You can't afford to buy a home or rent your own place right out of college? Maybe you shouldn't be trying to do that in one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.
If they put out a message that spoke about a specific issue or a set of issues like corporations being too involved with the government I could get behind that. But right now it feels like they are whining about sour grapes. Yes the division of wealth in this country sucks and it isn't getting better, but instead of whining about it and hoping someone fixes it for you or the problem magically goes away come up with real ideas about how to fix it or try to protest about specific causes. Heck it doesn't have to be one, but a little more focus would make them sound a lot less whiny.
I've grown up living well below the poverty line and chose a college that was inexpensive as I knew I couldn't afford better. If you chose to go to a high end school without the means to pay for it then that is your fault not mine and not any one else's.
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This is a good reason to stick with Steam, and a good chunk of the reason why I refuse to go elsewhere anymore.
Arguments like this kindof boggle my mind. This is kindof like saying "Ford gave me a good experience so I will never buy any cars that are not Ford." Granted Steam has one of the best interfaces of many of the stores that are available at the current time for purchasing games. But I won't let something like not sold on Steam or only sold in some place other than Steam stop me from considering a game. Competition is good and too much brand loyalty leads to Sony.
For the record, I actually like the store and the way your library is displayed on gog.com better than Steam.
In some parts of the world they do exactly that.
My guess is utility. Horses are generally not eaten unless they can no longer be ridden on, dogs were used for hunting and protection plus they do form an emotional bond many times, cats are suited for controlling rodent populations
Also just to throw it out there I'm not entirely certain I buy into the whole minimum wage concept. I don't think people can buy more today working for minimum wage than they could then. I think it just sets a new scale for 1 vs 0. (i.e no work you get zero income, low paid work you get 1 point of income etc). Raising or lowering the minimum wage I do not believe will have much affect on the job market or how well off someone is at all in the long run. Short run it might till the market evens itself back out.
I've met very few people who work minimum wage jobs who get anything significantly above minimum wage even if they are outstanding get awards for being a good employee and had been working there a significant amount of time. Back when I worked minimum wage jobs when minimum wage was $5.25, there weren't more minimum wage jobs than today and I think the highest wage anyone got at that job who was not salary was the assistant manager at $7.00 an hour. The skill requirements and competition for minimum wage jobs is just too high to make the situation you're describing feasible from my experience. Maybe it would work in areas with larger quantities of salary and above minimum wage positions to be had. But not every place people live is a city.
The question I ask myself when I try to think of ways to improve the US is to say, "OK given a town where the population has to commute one hour or more to get to a major city and there is no industry any more because all the industry has shut down and moved overseas, how would I increase the job market."
I think there's huge markets of potential labor untapped in places that have been abandoned by industry. These are the locations with 3rd world living standards and a sizable chunk of the population. Also creating job markets outside of major metropolitan areas could help with overpopulation, traffic, and outrageous land value in cities.
Case 2's however is impossible for a small business person to compete with larger producers. Since small business can only ever start out in a limited market where large company that sees the profit potential of the idea can take it globally and can produce enough advertising to drown out the small business.
Not in the least saying our patent system isn't broken. But I think completely getting rid of it is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
$800,000 a year isn't much. Count the costs of servers to support 2 million people, how many admins you need, the electric bill... and you wanted new content right? So let's add a team of programmers.
To put a bit of perspective. My salary personally is going to take quite a bit over 10% of that income.
Not that I disagree with you... but I'm not seeing what free speech has to do with this issue.? In an environment where anything violating free speech is illegal there would be no privacy. This issue is about privacy and protection from unreasonable search I would think. In a government that outlawed anything that prevented speech or information from not being free, they would not have to even get a warrant to read your "private" tweets or "private" emails.
I like this suggestion.
I do not know for sure but I would imagine medicine usage would not be banned but games like Max Payne where you take drugs to improve abilities would.
I've seen plenty of old 3d shooters redone in HTML5. There's not a single one I could stand playing for more than 5 minutes. The performance is always horrible. The suggestion that all games should be done in HTML is silly until you can give HTML full native control over my system so the designers can really use the features of my system and at the same time I would never WANT HTML to have that much control over my system.
Just because something has been done doesn't mean it has been done well. Or should be the model for how things are in the future.
Support for an application? Seriously? If an application is so complex I need to buy support to use it. I'M NOT USING IT*.
Do you buy support for LibreOffice before you start using it or even anytime after?
* -- unless I'm forced to use it for business reasons and don't want to care about it. But I don't think those are the kinds of applications they are talking about here. And even then I'm having trouble thinking of any that I personally use without it being just a webapp or a piece of an application that I'm build (such as a web server).
You know... this is how I feel too.
But then I think back to the article about the iPad announcement and how everyone here predicted it would be a flop and noone would use it and I'm not so sure anymore.
So the only problem I have with your statement about supporting state governments more than the federal government is that part at the end with wastes the US's future.
With a weak central government there is no US future. It's the future of Mississippi or Montana or New York or Florida etc. Weak central government is not a way to save the US as a whole. It is a way to save a specific state in its specific needs. Not saying this doesn't have merits on its own. But I really get a big disconnect when someone says the way to save the US is to make it weaker and give individual states more power.
There's supposed to be a balance there so places like Rhode Island don't get screwed.
Alot of people still fly today because that mode of transportation is almost essential to the way business is done globally and even nationally now. Business and even vacations have changed and evolved to welcome being able to travel vast distances at great speeds. I don't think it is possible for a great number of people to stop flying. Though I will often choose not to fly if I can. Like when I traveled to Boston I took the train instead of flying, but I am under no impression that a boycott of air travel is even possible in modern society.
I think that the activists and boycotting with our votes is the best way to achieve the change we need.
Please read history before the government stepped in to make labor unions a legal entity to see what happened to said unions. The unions weren't putting corps over a proverbial barrel. The corps were putting people in unions into literal hospitals and morgues. Most of the time talk started about forming a union, a mass layoff was done targeting the key players. That's not actually legal now.
I find it funny that a website that bashes Microsoft for being a monopoly and manipulating the marketplace several years ago would also have a large group that believes that a completely free market would result in anything but Microsoft doing the same damn thing today.
I chose a school within a reasonable means. I have student loans. I'm not drowning in them. But if I wasn't able to get them, I assure you I would never have been able to go to college which would be a waste since I have large talent in my area of expertise. (Based upon the # of people who rely on me for advice and the speed that I am moved into key roles in any company I work with)
I sure hope there are other factors. Because I thought Ron Paul was supposed to be the smart candidate.
I'm willing to bet that it excludes her from other roles also. There's a lot of stigma around age in this country. I think she is in right to ask her age not be revealed without her consent. (I wouldn't want that either). A million seems like too large of an amount though. I find it hard to think that an actor who would make that much in the next decade or so would not be so talented that directors wouldn't care how old she was.
The thing I noticed was that they called out organic searches only. Does this mean the paid links in search will still have access to the search terms used?
If I am paying money for it I do.
This is where feature requests come from. People saying how they would like the device to work. This is how developers learn to iterate on the correct features and make the application better. Developers who ignore feature requests as pathetic whining usually don't do so well.
Answer what to the people?
Is a replacement of government the goal?
What about politicians who actually do represent their districts?
What solutions are they trying to propose?
What candidates will fix things to these peoples' satisfaction?
Having no goals is great up until the point where you realize that without a goal nothing can be accomplished. Having diverse people spouting off conflicting and sometimes downright laughable goals (http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/) is also part of the problem of not having clear goals for a gathering. Being upset is not enough to effect change.
I agree with you completely.
I'm 32 years old. I'm probably a bit below that 10% personally but growing up I lived in a household of 6 where the total assets were probably closer to 8k. We got by. Now when college came I chose one that I knew I could afford and had some luck finding a decent job (after a year of unemployment). Now I make an income that is greater than my entire family put together due to that good luck and I am getting better. I was careful and recovered from bad debt management (and that year of unemployment). I consider myself AMAZINGLY lucky as I have moved from below poverty to probably between middle and upper middle class. It was alot of work, skill, and luck. But I'm here.
These people are mostly younger than me college age students. They are carrying iPads and drinking Starbucks. At their age I actually wouldn't have dreamed of paying $5 for a beverage. Hell I didn't even pay that much for alcohol for getting drunk during college (quarter drafts were the best invention I have ever experienced). I have trouble identifying with them as it doesn't seem like they want to go through the struggle I did. I don't know where they want money from. I also don't know why they feel they deserve to be more prosperous than they are without struggling for it.
You can't find a job straight out of college? I had to relocate pretty damn far from home after a year of searching to find a job in a field that had a high hiring rate. Did you pick a good career path?
You can't afford to buy a home or rent your own place right out of college? Maybe you shouldn't be trying to do that in one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.
If they put out a message that spoke about a specific issue or a set of issues like corporations being too involved with the government I could get behind that. But right now it feels like they are whining about sour grapes. Yes the division of wealth in this country sucks and it isn't getting better, but instead of whining about it and hoping someone fixes it for you or the problem magically goes away come up with real ideas about how to fix it or try to protest about specific causes. Heck it doesn't have to be one, but a little more focus would make them sound a lot less whiny.
+1
I've grown up living well below the poverty line and chose a college that was inexpensive as I knew I couldn't afford better. If you chose to go to a high end school without the means to pay for it then that is your fault not mine and not any one else's.