Certainly I would do the latter at first. However, I would also defend the right of someone to announce to the world the fact that the bank's wall had a crack in it.
It is simply information. Information by itself is not inherently good or bad. The bank can use the information to fix the problem. The shareholders can use the information to determin that the bank is a poor investment, and criminals can use this information to rob the bank. Of course, the bank had it coming to them for being negligent in the first place. As I said, I would inform the bank, but I'm forgiving like that. Other people believe in forcing others to take responsibility for their mistakes. Nasty perhaps, but not something that I think should be illegal.
That's pretty much my argument. It's not just a coincidence that you chose the top selling brands of cola. Of course, you also chose the most expensive brands, which I guess does prove the point that advertising causes products to cost more.
You're right about some ads being completely failing to advertise the brand of course. I think a lot of advertising is a lot more insidious than you think though. Sometimes I think it's just there to make you feel comfortable with the product. Ask most people off the street whether they would prefer a Ford Focus or a Bristol Blenheim at the same price, and they will usually choose the Ford because they recognise the brand. They simply feel more comfortable buying a brand they recognise. The other choice would have given them a luxury car worth about 10 times as much. Ford don't have many memorable adverts, but they manage to be recognisable.
Surely that means that if they decided not to advertise, they would increase the price to cover the cost of making as much profit as possible. If they managed to save £1 000 000, would they prefer to pass that onto the consumer, or to pass that onto the board of directors?
I think everyone does. Apart from the fact that 90% of Americans have never heard of Heath Robinson, and 90% of Brits have never heard of Rube Goldberg. They certainly fill exactly the same niche in society both for the drawings, and for providing a terms used for an expresion to refer to a bizarre ad-hoc invention.
While you may argue about whether or not people have the "right" to copy or not, this barely matters. People are assuming they do, and acting like they do. It's so easy to pirate music, that most people need never buy a CD.
But people do buy CD's. Even many of those who have access to every piece of music available via Kazaa buy CDs. The media cartels would do well to realise this, and rather than worrying unduly about people who may or may not have bought the discs had they not been abe to download them, they should focus on encouraging people to buy more music instead. If they buy more and download more, then everyone wins.
It's not too unreasonable. They let you modify it, and in return, they get to make the same modifications. It works a lot better than the customer asking for modifications, and MS trying to interpret these requests, and implement them.
Also it should be pointed out that most European countries are smaller than the service areas of some of the Baby Bells.
But not all of them (at least in terms of population). Great Britian and France each have a population of about 60 million, Germany has 80 million. Add to this the fact that cellphone ownership in most European countries is higher than in the US.
. How many printer manufacturers still sell ink cartridges, fusers, toner, etc. for printers they made 9 years ago?
I can still get HP 550 cartridges, and they must have stopped making the 500 series almost that long ago. Although I doubt the 600's will last quite as long.
I heard long warrantees exist because the printer manufacturers want you to buy the ink. My Deskjet 550 was still being supported when it was at least 5 years old (HP sent me a free gizmo to roughen up the rollers)
I'm surprised they aren't interested in doing this still. Printers are one of those items where customer satisfaction really matters.
Barratry - I think this is the repeated threat of lawsuits as a means of intimidation.
Declarative judgement - It seems that if someone threatens to sue you, and they on't, you can sue them to prove that what you are doing is legal.
Something like that anyway.
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Some silicon is taken up with backwards compatibility.
Firstly, we have the real mode compatibility that we'll probably keep until the death of the x86 architecture. Even the 64 bit generation chips have 16 bit compatibility mode. We could simply use an entirely different CPU, so this is not a big problem.
All 3d cards can still work in the low res 16 colour graphics modes, and have a large part of the original VGA chipset effectively grafted on to the chip.
Because it's more convenient to download a song, the qulaity is better, you can listen to it several times to decide whether you actually do like it. It usually takes me a few weeks before downloading a song, and either buying, deleting it, or deciding that I'm too cheap to pay for it but like it enough to hang on to it.
The reasons not to are that it's illegal. The argument seems to be that it shouldn't be. Another argument is that it costs the rightsholders money.
The "Butterfly Ballot" was chosen by an experienced DEMOCRAT; used successfully, without incident, in several other areas of the country; was published beforehand in the local newspaper; passed a review of BOTH parties without challenge.
Nevertheless - It still confused a lot of voters. This confusion biased the result toward Bush. Republican voters who were confused had their vote counted because they wouldn't have selected the second hole. Democrat voters did make the mistake. the fact that the person who chose the design happened to be a democrat is not relevent. The result was biased towards Bush because of a single person'e mistake. Should this single person have the power to affect the results in this way through negligence?
The rest of the post, I agree with, especially this line:
GET OVER IT! Both major political parties (Democrats & Republicans) are lying, sniviling, cheating, vote-whoring, ballot-stuffing scum.
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You'll probably find that a lot of the own brands are made in the same plant, and just put in different bottles.
Even those are the heavily advertised brands though.
Certainly I would do the latter at first. However, I would also defend the right of someone to announce to the world the fact that the bank's wall had a crack in it.
It is simply information. Information by itself is not inherently good or bad. The bank can use the information to fix the problem. The shareholders can use the information to determin that the bank is a poor investment, and criminals can use this information to rob the bank. Of course, the bank had it coming to them for being negligent in the first place. As I said, I would inform the bank, but I'm forgiving like that. Other people believe in forcing others to take responsibility for their mistakes. Nasty perhaps, but not something that I think should be illegal.
You are not allowed to shout "fire!" in a crowded theater.
You are if it's burning down.
Actually, you are if it isn't, it's just that you are held responsible for any injuries that are caused.
That's pretty much my argument. It's not just a coincidence that you chose the top selling brands of cola. Of course, you also chose the most expensive brands, which I guess does prove the point that advertising causes products to cost more.
You're right about some ads being completely failing to advertise the brand of course. I think a lot of advertising is a lot more insidious than you think though. Sometimes I think it's just there to make you feel comfortable with the product. Ask most people off the street whether they would prefer a Ford Focus or a Bristol Blenheim at the same price, and they will usually choose the Ford because they recognise the brand. They simply feel more comfortable buying a brand they recognise. The other choice would have given them a luxury car worth about 10 times as much. Ford don't have many memorable adverts, but they manage to be recognisable.
How does that work out?
Surely that means that if they decided not to advertise, they would increase the price to cover the cost of making as much profit as possible. If they managed to save £1 000 000, would they prefer to pass that onto the consumer, or to pass that onto the board of directors?
but have you ever switched from coke to pepsi or vice versa because you were impressed by an advertisment?
Name 3 other brands of Cola.
Anyone agree with me here?
I think everyone does. Apart from the fact that 90% of Americans have never heard of Heath Robinson, and 90% of Brits have never heard of Rube Goldberg. They certainly fill exactly the same niche in society both for the drawings, and for providing a terms used for an expresion to refer to a bizarre ad-hoc invention.
I think that if you were offering car rental for free, or free apples, the apple growers and car manufacturers would let you.
I would be impressed with a business model of how this could be achieved.
While you may argue about whether or not people have the "right" to copy or not, this barely matters. People are assuming they do, and acting like they do. It's so easy to pirate music, that most people need never buy a CD.
But people do buy CD's. Even many of those who have access to every piece of music available via Kazaa buy CDs. The media cartels would do well to realise this, and rather than worrying unduly about people who may or may not have bought the discs had they not been abe to download them, they should focus on encouraging people to buy more music instead. If they buy more and download more, then everyone wins.
It's not too unreasonable. They let you modify it, and in return, they get to make the same modifications. It works a lot better than the customer asking for modifications, and MS trying to interpret these requests, and implement them.
one thing to look out for is hypersonic flight. planes
It would bve nice if they were seriously considering these. I've been hearing about the concept for years
If we're gonna do that, why not build vacuum tunnels under the atlantic as well?
Also it should be pointed out that most European countries are smaller than the service areas of some of the Baby Bells.
But not all of them (at least in terms of population). Great Britian and France each have a population of about 60 million, Germany has 80 million. Add to this the fact that cellphone ownership in most European countries is higher than in the US.
He's giving her a laptop while she's away! Not something sentimental to remind her of him, but something useful!
If she really appreciates that sort of thing, it is a girlfriend for all geeks to be envious of.
and I know a dozen people that legally own enough CD's to make a 1100 file
That is only about 70 discs (14 songs on each CD). Hardly a stagerring collection. I have 30 or so, and I rarely buy music.
. How many printer manufacturers still sell ink cartridges, fusers, toner, etc. for printers they made 9 years ago?
I can still get HP 550 cartridges, and they must have stopped making the 500 series almost that long ago. Although I doubt the 600's will last quite as long.
I heard long warrantees exist because the printer manufacturers want you to buy the ink. My Deskjet 550 was still being supported when it was at least 5 years old (HP sent me a free gizmo to roughen up the rollers)
I'm surprised they aren't interested in doing this still. Printers are one of those items where customer satisfaction really matters.
Sounds right. Things I've picked up -
Barratry - I think this is the repeated threat of lawsuits as a means of intimidation.
Declarative judgement - It seems that if someone threatens to sue you, and they on't, you can sue them to prove that what you are doing is legal.
Something like that anyway.
Some silicon is taken up with backwards compatibility.
Firstly, we have the real mode compatibility that we'll probably keep until the death of the x86 architecture. Even the 64 bit generation chips have 16 bit compatibility mode. We could simply use an entirely different CPU, so this is not a big problem.
All 3d cards can still work in the low res 16 colour graphics modes, and have a large part of the original VGA chipset effectively grafted on to the chip.
It's based on referrer information. Pasting the URL into a blank window gets the old page.
Probably true.
In practice, this is probably hypothetical anyway. The clause probably is in there to protect them from IP lawsuits from their own customers.
The MS employee who says "it's ok" must be one who is authorized to say that, or at least one who a reasonable person would expect to be so authorized
He was the person who responded in an email to MS about the product. He is a representative of the company.
Because it's more convenient to download a song, the qulaity is better, you can listen to it several times to decide whether you actually do like it. It usually takes me a few weeks before downloading a song, and either buying, deleting it, or deciding that I'm too cheap to pay for it but like it enough to hang on to it.
The reasons not to are that it's illegal. The argument seems to be that it shouldn't be. Another argument is that it costs the rightsholders money.
The "Butterfly Ballot" was chosen by an experienced DEMOCRAT; used successfully, without incident, in several other areas of the country; was published beforehand in the local newspaper; passed a review of BOTH parties without challenge.
Nevertheless - It still confused a lot of voters. This confusion biased the result toward Bush. Republican voters who were confused had their vote counted because they wouldn't have selected the second hole. Democrat voters did make the mistake. the fact that the person who chose the design happened to be a democrat is not relevent. The result was biased towards Bush because of a single person'e mistake. Should this single person have the power to affect the results in this way through negligence?
The rest of the post, I agree with, especially this line:
GET OVER IT! Both major political parties (Democrats & Republicans) are lying, sniviling, cheating, vote-whoring, ballot-stuffing scum.
You mean nobody's ever said that? Maybe I get to e the first.
Okay, I promise to get my quote marks in the right place next time.