I haven't had any luck selling used PC games anyway, and I used to own a freaking pawnshop and even put them on Ebay. Used PC games are not the greatest selling item. Granted, I tend to hold on to games longer than many people, so they are pretty old when I get done.
Console games are a better medium to deal with used.
It also doesn't count those of us who LEFT Wikipedia because of the authoritarian admin issue. Sure everyone will get along if you run everyone with a different opinion off or ban them. They haven't found a way to get along, they just had twice as many people than they needed and ran off the half that wouldn't agree with them in exchange for being allowed to belong to the admin club.
Don't get me wrong, you have lots of good admins on Wikipedia, but they simply tolerate the bad ones who have the loudest voices and a bullying attitude. Not everyone rolls over so easy.
People like to buy products from people they like.
Steam / Valve is one of the best examples I can give. I would rather pay $5 more and get it from Steam than on the shelf. Granted, I would be getting better value for that $5, with automatic updates, automatic install and configure and the ability to easily play the game on more than one computer as long as I only played on one at a time.
I think he understood that. My guess is it that it was intentional. Duh. Sometimes, screaming is appropriate, particularly when talking about the progressive decline in quality here lately.
Did you get the ability to disable ads on slashdot, yet, like I have? Because that's my punishment for them until they start fucking proofreading and editing their stories.
Yes, and me too. I used to allow them to display as well, but don't now for the same reasons.
I live in North Carolina. We have some of the highest corporate, individual and sales taxes in the nation, although not as bad as California. NC public schools are consistently ranked 47th for schools, just behind LA, AR and MS. Great universities, terrible primary schools. The Carolinas DO have a reasonable cost of living and very good quality of life, so I stay because it is a worthwhile trade-off, as I have no kids.
Dell is based in Texas. So is HP. Many other companies as well, and there are good reasons. Tennessee and Texas are the more tax friendly states (no personal income taxes). Florida is pretty good as well, but high cost of living. Personally, I would be looking at Tennessee because it is located in the center of the USA if you consider population density instead of geography (ie: lower average transportation cost for products), good weather, excellent quality of life (lots to do) and a reasonably educated workforce.
Thank you. Finally restored the old, crappy, but understood format. I wish Slashdot would spend less time writing code, and more time reading and editing articles if they really want to improve the site. I'm just hanging by a thread as it is.
Are we sure all 5 of these are actually attempts to -preserve- privacy?
I'm sure they are all designed to protect privacy, in the same manner as the L.A. Police were trying to preserve the peace when they pulled over Rodney King. Subjective, perhaps, but in someone's eyes, I'm sure they are all "good" bills.
Also, why am I now being forced to preview? Maybe I like making errors.
Slashdot wasn't losing users at a fast enough rate, so this is part of a new program to piss those of us off that have been here for many years, and get us to finally leave forever. It is about to work.
All you need is a couple of peanuts and photoshop or gimp. You can easily make the same peanut unique enough to be 3 or 4 peanuts by flipping and/or flipping and add/remove some shadows. For someone who uses photoshop daily, this is max 30 minutes work from shoot to post.
I agree with you on principal, but fail to see why they need computers in prison. Perhaps they could sell the computers, TVs and air conditioning systems to pay for better guards, to prevent anal rape and gang violence within the system instead.
In NC, we still have schools with no AC, yet all prisons have AC. How fucked up is that? A student has to break the law just to get an average air temperature under 80 degrees.
Received a stolen motorcycle, probably suggests the receiving was arranged on the internet.
The court documents state that he only knew the seller as Skye (note the odd spelling, something you wouldn't know unless communication was in writing).
The only documents you casually read were the Appeal, not the original court documents.
The kid has a record as long as your arm.
Probably in the the Receive stolen goods section of Craigslist.
Don't forget: offers to ship stolen goods are 100% fraudulent.
We aren't being forced to comment anonymously. it is just a crappy "new" feature on/. that is confusing, slow, unintuitive and obtrusive. I have already emailed and complained to them, for the first time ever.
You forgot to add that China is a nuclear state as well, and controls the majority of rare metals required for new technologies, and has decided to not export them.
So, if someone in the USA makes counterfeit jeans for example (or software, or etc.) and sells it to someone in Iran, the country of Iran can sink our trade vessels? OH you meant only the USA can do those things...I see.
Not even humorous, just blind, narcissistic flag waving.
You know, people say things like this, but the facts are simple: The tax rates on everything you claim as profits ARE taxed at 35% for any C Corporation in the USA. You can only do so much to avoid them. Most corporations are not multi-billion, and those that are avoid BY MOVING SOME OPERATIONS OVERSEAS. That is the catch.
You can accelerate SOME depreciation, but not all. You can defer some profits, but not most. Take a look at the actual SEC filings for public companies and see for yourself.
No one is saying 35% of gross, we are talking about profits. As a side note, if you start a corporation and have multiple years of losing money, you will lose your corporate status via the IRS and have it declared as a "hobby", meaning NOTHING will be tax deductible. Again, it is easy to talk about "anyone can avoid taxes", but as someone who has owned a few companies, I can say with confidence that you can only do so much without risking fines/jail/etc. from the IRS.
As someone pointed out, we did have rationing in the US during war time, from tires to sugar, coffee, steel. It even put many companies out of business because they couldn't get raw materials, although most just had to switch to producing the goods for the war effort instead of the consumer market. The reason we haven't had more rationing is simply because we can produce many more times than we can consume and the commerce drives the rest of the economy. For other products, we wouldn't now ration if they become scarce as we let the marketplace decide the price, which means the price goes up and the demand goes down.
I'm all for reasonable limitations that keep the air and water clean, but there is a middle ground that the extremes in your statement don't cover. It isn't like a company must either be a complete polluter or not exist.
Ask anyone who is actually in manufacturing (like my employer), the biggest problem with building in the USA is corporate taxes, which is one of the highest on the planet at 35% (this is in ADDITION to personal income tax, and charged first on any profits held over 1 year). THIS is what is making companies move to China, or relocate to other more tax friendly countries.
The other issue is consistency in the regulation and enforcement. The regulations in the US are not nearly as bad as the red tape you have cut through to just LEARN what the actual regulations are. It is easy to think you are in compliance here even if you are not. I see EPA violations from companies all the time, but the EPA is very, very spotty in how they enforce.
Just imagine Ford doing this: While we realize that you purchased the F150 pickup, the black box has detected that are consistently driving 10mpg over the speed limit on the interstate, which looks bad for Ford, so we have disabled your vehicle.
One more reason I prefer to buy my games from Valve/Steam, as they have shown to be the most user friendly gaming company on the planet.
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I haven't had any luck selling used PC games anyway, and I used to own a freaking pawnshop and even put them on Ebay. Used PC games are not the greatest selling item. Granted, I tend to hold on to games longer than many people, so they are pretty old when I get done.
Console games are a better medium to deal with used.
Honestly, if 4 people are playing on a LAN, then yes, they should have 4 paid for copies. That isn't unreasonable.
It also doesn't count those of us who LEFT Wikipedia because of the authoritarian admin issue. Sure everyone will get along if you run everyone with a different opinion off or ban them. They haven't found a way to get along, they just had twice as many people than they needed and ran off the half that wouldn't agree with them in exchange for being allowed to belong to the admin club.
Don't get me wrong, you have lots of good admins on Wikipedia, but they simply tolerate the bad ones who have the loudest voices and a bullying attitude. Not everyone rolls over so easy.
People like to buy products from people they like.
Steam / Valve is one of the best examples I can give. I would rather pay $5 more and get it from Steam than on the shelf. Granted, I would be getting better value for that $5, with automatic updates, automatic install and configure and the ability to easily play the game on more than one computer as long as I only played on one at a time.
The lameness filter said "You're a big fucking idiot for posting anything like this, anywhere, ever. Calm down, have some dip." ?
Oh, I didn't think so.
Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
I think he understood that. My guess is it that it was intentional. Duh. Sometimes, screaming is appropriate, particularly when talking about the progressive decline in quality here lately.
Did you get the ability to disable ads on slashdot, yet, like I have?
Because that's my punishment for them until they start fucking proofreading and editing their stories.
Yes, and me too. I used to allow them to display as well, but don't now for the same reasons.
Give it two more weeks, and we won't even be able to /. this website.
I live in North Carolina. We have some of the highest corporate, individual and sales taxes in the nation, although not as bad as California. NC public schools are consistently ranked 47th for schools, just behind LA, AR and MS. Great universities, terrible primary schools. The Carolinas DO have a reasonable cost of living and very good quality of life, so I stay because it is a worthwhile trade-off, as I have no kids.
Dell is based in Texas. So is HP. Many other companies as well, and there are good reasons. Tennessee and Texas are the more tax friendly states (no personal income taxes). Florida is pretty good as well, but high cost of living. Personally, I would be looking at Tennessee because it is located in the center of the USA if you consider population density instead of geography (ie: lower average transportation cost for products), good weather, excellent quality of life (lots to do) and a reasonably educated workforce.
Thank you. Finally restored the old, crappy, but understood format. I wish Slashdot would spend less time writing code, and more time reading and editing articles if they really want to improve the site. I'm just hanging by a thread as it is.
Are we sure all 5 of these are actually attempts to -preserve- privacy?
I'm sure they are all designed to protect privacy, in the same manner as the L.A. Police were trying to preserve the peace when they pulled over Rodney King. Subjective, perhaps, but in someone's eyes, I'm sure they are all "good" bills.
Also, why am I now being forced to preview? Maybe I like making errors.
Slashdot wasn't losing users at a fast enough rate, so this is part of a new program to piss those of us off that have been here for many years, and get us to finally leave forever. It is about to work.
All you need is a couple of peanuts and photoshop or gimp. You can easily make the same peanut unique enough to be 3 or 4 peanuts by flipping and/or flipping and add/remove some shadows. For someone who uses photoshop daily, this is max 30 minutes work from shoot to post.
I agree with you on principal, but fail to see why they need computers in prison. Perhaps they could sell the computers, TVs and air conditioning systems to pay for better guards, to prevent anal rape and gang violence within the system instead.
In NC, we still have schools with no AC, yet all prisons have AC. How fucked up is that? A student has to break the law just to get an average air temperature under 80 degrees.
Received a stolen motorcycle, probably suggests the receiving was arranged on the internet.
The court documents state that he only knew the seller as Skye (note the odd spelling, something you wouldn't know unless communication was in writing).
The only documents you casually read were the Appeal, not the original court documents.
The kid has a record as long as your arm.
Probably in the the Receive stolen goods section of Craigslist.
Don't forget: offers to ship stolen goods are 100% fraudulent.
We aren't being forced to comment anonymously. it is just a crappy "new" feature on /. that is confusing, slow, unintuitive and obtrusive. I have already emailed and complained to them, for the first time ever.
Not so much a meme as an AFD.
You forgot to add that China is a nuclear state as well, and controls the majority of rare metals required for new technologies, and has decided to not export them.
So, if someone in the USA makes counterfeit jeans for example (or software, or etc.) and sells it to someone in Iran, the country of Iran can sink our trade vessels? OH you meant only the USA can do those things...I see.
Not even humorous, just blind, narcissistic flag waving.
You know, people say things like this, but the facts are simple: The tax rates on everything you claim as profits ARE taxed at 35% for any C Corporation in the USA. You can only do so much to avoid them. Most corporations are not multi-billion, and those that are avoid BY MOVING SOME OPERATIONS OVERSEAS. That is the catch.
You can accelerate SOME depreciation, but not all. You can defer some profits, but not most. Take a look at the actual SEC filings for public companies and see for yourself.
No one is saying 35% of gross, we are talking about profits. As a side note, if you start a corporation and have multiple years of losing money, you will lose your corporate status via the IRS and have it declared as a "hobby", meaning NOTHING will be tax deductible. Again, it is easy to talk about "anyone can avoid taxes", but as someone who has owned a few companies, I can say with confidence that you can only do so much without risking fines/jail/etc. from the IRS.
As someone pointed out, we did have rationing in the US during war time, from tires to sugar, coffee, steel. It even put many companies out of business because they couldn't get raw materials, although most just had to switch to producing the goods for the war effort instead of the consumer market. The reason we haven't had more rationing is simply because we can produce many more times than we can consume and the commerce drives the rest of the economy. For other products, we wouldn't now ration if they become scarce as we let the marketplace decide the price, which means the price goes up and the demand goes down.
I'm all for reasonable limitations that keep the air and water clean, but there is a middle ground that the extremes in your statement don't cover. It isn't like a company must either be a complete polluter or not exist.
Ask anyone who is actually in manufacturing (like my employer), the biggest problem with building in the USA is corporate taxes, which is one of the highest on the planet at 35% (this is in ADDITION to personal income tax, and charged first on any profits held over 1 year). THIS is what is making companies move to China, or relocate to other more tax friendly countries.
The other issue is consistency in the regulation and enforcement. The regulations in the US are not nearly as bad as the red tape you have cut through to just LEARN what the actual regulations are. It is easy to think you are in compliance here even if you are not. I see EPA violations from companies all the time, but the EPA is very, very spotty in how they enforce.
Just imagine Ford doing this: While we realize that you purchased the F150 pickup, the black box has detected that are consistently driving 10mpg over the speed limit on the interstate, which looks bad for Ford, so we have disabled your vehicle.
One more reason I prefer to buy my games from Valve/Steam, as they have shown to be the most user friendly gaming company on the planet.
/. is the anti-social network. Even myspace and ping don't allow anonymous cowards.
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