I can see having to pay your final month, but do they seriously expect people to keep paying for a service they cant use? Ide be literally telling the company to blow me.
You left out how apple copied the design of the iPad from existing real and sci-fi sources.
Samsung has at least invented useful technology, what has apple invented again? Right, nothing, they just evolutionary design things as miniaturization goes forward. Nothing Apple has done in the last 20 years has been revolutionary, that has always been done by other companies.
iPod: Wasn't the first mp3 player, just nicely designed and user friendly, hardly revolutionary concepts.
iPhone: Jobs: guys guys guys, check this out. Guys. Guys. We take our iPod.... and we add a phone! Revolutionary concept there.
iMac: Guys, with these new innovations from companies like Samsung, we can design a whole computer that's only a little thicker than a LCD Monitor! Yeah, I sure see how they're an innovative company.
I say this, with an iPod in my pocket, which I did buy brand new. Apple does nothing more than regurgitate the ideas of others and house them in a gloss white or black.
And lets keep in mind that GameStop is neither ethical as a business, nor do they have ethical employees. Ide wager within a month of this getting rolled out, that GS employees are stealing the scratch codes and selling them for 5$ a pop on E-Bay.
Its not like they don't have an awesome track record of stealing in box extras and selling them online or anything.
Maybe they shouldn't have locked me into 1st party servers? Let me setup my own and shoulder the costs. PC Gaming thrived under this system for decades. It only costs them money because they want it to, the cost of the online service shouldn't ever enter into the equation.
I NEVER buy brand new unless i know i can get 60-70% of the cost back in a few weeks.
The last brand new, release day game I bought for a console was Fall Out New Vegas, now theres no way in hell I would have bought it if:
#1. I knew I couldn't get 90% of the value back within 2-3 days via Craigslist if i didn't like it.
#2. I knew I couldn't get 70~% of the value back after a couple weeks once I finished it.
Other games I don't pay more than 20$ for. Ever. Ill mod and download before I pay anymore than that. If the Company's want my money, they can come down to my level, Ill steal from them before I rise to theirs.Sad but true.
You shouldn't follow the media blindly and research things yourself, Tea party members are not racists, nor ignorant. They are painted as such by the corporate controlled media outlets.
Citation? Because I've had nothing but problems with Apple products, Product support and their customer service in general.
'Best' is also so subjective its not even funny.
Show me the Apple laptop I can run over with a 1/2 Ton truck and still work flawlessly.
Show me the Apple laptop with an 18 hour batter life.
Show me the Apple laptop I can run Crysis 2 on with absolutely maxed settings.
Show me the Apple laptop that cost 499.99
There really is nothing Apple does 'Best' with its laptop lines. They're not the cheapest, fastest, most powerful, most energy efficient, lightest or thinnest. What exactly are they the best at?
Actually I think all corporations should not be allowed to make profit, salaries should be capped as well. This planet would be a much better place to live, to bad its a pipe dream.
Things like engineering design can be tested, to a near 100% accuracy, if not 100%. With things like tensile strength, load bearing limits etc. Its very easy to see;
Customer: "This beam cant support the 10 tones you certified it to hold, why not?!"
Engineer: "I made a math error"
When compared to;
Citizen: "An earth quake happened?! You said there was a low risk?! What the hell?"
Seismologist: "Im not a god, nor do I control the weather, I can only make an estimation of risk."
I know which one looks like they should be liable for damages, and which one shouldn't, very easily.
20 years ago, blockbuster tried to bill me over 100$ in late fees, plus the 'cost' of the VHS which they claimed was 49.99.
This was after I called them the day I rented the movie and informed them that I was sorry but my pet damaged the VHS tape. 2 months later I got the bill for almost 200$ in the mail, I called their manager, basically told them they were fucking dreaming if they were ever going to even see me again, let alone pay this invoice, if they wanted me to pay the standard 24.99 retail of the fucking movie THAT THEY WERE SELLING FOR THAT PRICE, I would, but until I got a correct invoice, as well as a written apology from a blockbuster executive, they would not receive a single cent from me, and I would tell everyone I know this story whenever blockbuster was brought up.
I kept my word for 20 years and single handedly stopped hundreds of people from patronizing blockbuster. I am proud to think I helped play a part in that company's downfall.
I'm guessing you're not old enough to have seen the mass overcharges that blockbuster tried to pull in the 90's when they had a near monopoly. I haven't forgotten, nor will I.
Absolutes can be a sign of a weak mind, im pretty sure there's alot of Cubans who would disagree that a dictator is always a bad thing, and looking over the social gains that Cuba has gone through since he seized power, I'de argue the point as well.
Totalitarian governments are usually a bad thing, but not always, and when you see an example of a person who can take the power and not go batshit crazy with power, it makes me wish the people like that were somehow labeled so we could get them all in leadership positions.
Their profit margins wont allow them to even try and sell it. When you don't have the overhead of smuggling, bribes, and payoffs to your own guys for protection, and the other guys do. Guess who goes out of business?
Its not like the existing drug supply infrastructure will be legal, growing your own pot? still illegall. And now you dont just get nailed with possession of a controlled substance, you get nailed with tax evasion too.
What alot of people dont understand with the de-criminalization of drugs, is that street dealers as they exist now, will STILL be illegal, only the government regulated guys will be allowed to sell, and because they're able to do so in the open, they'll be able to sell for so far below the current street prices, the drug cartels wont be able to make money.
It happened with prohibition, during the height of it, and this fact is from my admittedly not wonderful memory, but the price of a single pint of beer during prohibition, was the same as a 40 oz bottle of low end whiskey when it was legal. Bootleggers just couldn't compete, price wise, with legit businesses.
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If he lost the case, after Apple refused to admit it was their property, his lawyer sucked balls.
drywall is no more harmful than dust.
They also renamed MDMA and decided it was a good idea to consume after even the waste cases of the 80's wouldn't touch the stuff.
My point? They're not very bright.
Define real, when there's ISP's http://www.mts.ca/ outsourcing their email systems to hotmail, what exactly is real?
They're called real Socialists.
In America Socialism == Communism.
The rest of the world knows how to read the definition of a word.
Article 10 and 11 dumb-ass.
Good luck collecting.
Continue to pay for it? Im calling BS.
I can see having to pay your final month, but do they seriously expect people to keep paying for a service they cant use? Ide be literally telling the company to blow me.
Actually, yes they damn well do, or I'm going to steal from them, their choice.
Europe isn't as corrupt as NA, if Samsung tried to sue here, Apple would just buy the judge.
Ide rather pay Gates then Jobs. Least Gates doesn't fuck over their devs ever 2 years.
You left out how apple copied the design of the iPad from existing real and sci-fi sources.
Samsung has at least invented useful technology, what has apple invented again? Right, nothing, they just evolutionary design things as miniaturization goes forward. Nothing Apple has done in the last 20 years has been revolutionary, that has always been done by other companies.
iPod: Wasn't the first mp3 player, just nicely designed and user friendly, hardly revolutionary concepts.
iPhone: Jobs: guys guys guys, check this out. Guys. Guys. We take our iPod.... and we add a phone! Revolutionary concept there.
iMac: Guys, with these new innovations from companies like Samsung, we can design a whole computer that's only a little thicker than a LCD Monitor! Yeah, I sure see how they're an innovative company.
I say this, with an iPod in my pocket, which I did buy brand new. Apple does nothing more than regurgitate the ideas of others and house them in a gloss white or black.
The second wrong makes you feel right?
And lets keep in mind that GameStop is neither ethical as a business, nor do they have ethical employees. Ide wager within a month of this getting rolled out, that GS employees are stealing the scratch codes and selling them for 5$ a pop on E-Bay.
Its not like they don't have an awesome track record of stealing in box extras and selling them online or anything.
The used PC market are called Pirates, its been this way since before the internet was even around.
I buy more than 5 second hand games to play online in a year.
Subscribing to XBox Gold just got cheaper than PSN.
Maybe they shouldn't have locked me into 1st party servers? Let me setup my own and shoulder the costs. PC Gaming thrived under this system for decades. It only costs them money because they want it to, the cost of the online service shouldn't ever enter into the equation.
*raises hand*
I NEVER buy brand new unless i know i can get 60-70% of the cost back in a few weeks.
The last brand new, release day game I bought for a console was Fall Out New Vegas, now theres no way in hell I would have bought it if:
#1. I knew I couldn't get 90% of the value back within 2-3 days via Craigslist if i didn't like it.
#2. I knew I couldn't get 70~% of the value back after a couple weeks once I finished it.
Other games I don't pay more than 20$ for. Ever. Ill mod and download before I pay anymore than that. If the Company's want my money, they can come down to my level, Ill steal from them before I rise to theirs.Sad but true.
You shouldn't follow the media blindly and research things yourself, Tea party members are not racists, nor ignorant. They are painted as such by the corporate controlled media outlets.
Citation? Because I've had nothing but problems with Apple products, Product support and their customer service in general.
'Best' is also so subjective its not even funny.
Show me the Apple laptop I can run over with a 1/2 Ton truck and still work flawlessly.
Show me the Apple laptop with an 18 hour batter life.
Show me the Apple laptop I can run Crysis 2 on with absolutely maxed settings.
Show me the Apple laptop that cost 499.99
There really is nothing Apple does 'Best' with its laptop lines. They're not the cheapest, fastest, most powerful, most energy efficient, lightest or thinnest. What exactly are they the best at?
Actually I think all corporations should not be allowed to make profit, salaries should be capped as well. This planet would be a much better place to live, to bad its a pipe dream.
Things like engineering design can be tested, to a near 100% accuracy, if not 100%. With things like tensile strength, load bearing limits etc. Its very easy to see;
Customer: "This beam cant support the 10 tones you certified it to hold, why not?!"
Engineer: "I made a math error"
When compared to;
Citizen: "An earth quake happened?! You said there was a low risk?! What the hell?"
Seismologist: "Im not a god, nor do I control the weather, I can only make an estimation of risk."
I know which one looks like they should be liable for damages, and which one shouldn't, very easily.
20 years ago, blockbuster tried to bill me over 100$ in late fees, plus the 'cost' of the VHS which they claimed was 49.99.
This was after I called them the day I rented the movie and informed them that I was sorry but my pet damaged the VHS tape. 2 months later I got the bill for almost 200$ in the mail, I called their manager, basically told them they were fucking dreaming if they were ever going to even see me again, let alone pay this invoice, if they wanted me to pay the standard 24.99 retail of the fucking movie THAT THEY WERE SELLING FOR THAT PRICE, I would, but until I got a correct invoice, as well as a written apology from a blockbuster executive, they would not receive a single cent from me, and I would tell everyone I know this story whenever blockbuster was brought up.
I kept my word for 20 years and single handedly stopped hundreds of people from patronizing blockbuster. I am proud to think I helped play a part in that company's downfall.
I'm guessing you're not old enough to have seen the mass overcharges that blockbuster tried to pull in the 90's when they had a near monopoly. I haven't forgotten, nor will I.
"And having a dictator always goes bad."
Absolutes can be a sign of a weak mind, im pretty sure there's alot of Cubans who would disagree that a dictator is always a bad thing, and looking over the social gains that Cuba has gone through since he seized power, I'de argue the point as well.
Totalitarian governments are usually a bad thing, but not always, and when you see an example of a person who can take the power and not go batshit crazy with power, it makes me wish the people like that were somehow labeled so we could get them all in leadership positions.
Their profit margins wont allow them to even try and sell it. When you don't have the overhead of smuggling, bribes, and payoffs to your own guys for protection, and the other guys do. Guess who goes out of business?
Its not like the existing drug supply infrastructure will be legal, growing your own pot? still illegall. And now you dont just get nailed with possession of a controlled substance, you get nailed with tax evasion too.
What alot of people dont understand with the de-criminalization of drugs, is that street dealers as they exist now, will STILL be illegal, only the government regulated guys will be allowed to sell, and because they're able to do so in the open, they'll be able to sell for so far below the current street prices, the drug cartels wont be able to make money.
It happened with prohibition, during the height of it, and this fact is from my admittedly not wonderful memory, but the price of a single pint of beer during prohibition, was the same as a 40 oz bottle of low end whiskey when it was legal. Bootleggers just couldn't compete, price wise, with legit businesses.