Laws vary by country. The rich are upwardly mobile and able to make trips to nations which will allow them to have the modifications they want performed on them.
Not all democracies are equal. It is strange that the world's oldest democracy is still a third world improverished nation. And whereever there is poverty, there are high rates of corruption. India's legal system is a joke.
There is a difference between say 1 billion Asians and 1 billion Americans. America already has the proper economic and legal infrastructure setup to take advanatage of the larger market that a larger population will bring.
The legal and financial infrastructure is what makes the difference.
There is a difference between say 1 billion Asians and 1 billion Americans. America already has the proper economic and legal infrastructure setup to take advanatage of the larger market that a larger population will bring.
Its all about population. The US will someday have a larger population than both India and China combined. Both of those countries birth control policies are working. Meanwhile the US population continues to grow. Already we're creaping up on Western Europe and will surpass it in the next 40 years. Not only does the US continue to attract excess immigration, the native US population continues to reproduce at above replacement levels.
The country with the larger population will have the biggest market and thus the strongest economy.
Well it IS stealing. There was an implied and unspoken common agreement between broadcasters and the greater society in general that in return for your free TV programs you had to endure commercials to fund their development and production. Sure no one actually signed any legal documents that clearly spelled out such a contract but it was so prevelant for so long that no one would even question it.
Are you saying this should change just because of the INTERNET? I am fully confident that the media industry will figure out a way to deal with any future technologies that come along in a way that will allow them to rightfully so maintain their chokehold on the outlets of every single type of media imaginable.
Lets not turn this into an anti-newbie IRC channel where "RTFM" is spouted in response to any question you don't like. If you didn't want to answer the guy you didn't have to post anything in response but telling him to google something before they post to Slashdot is a bit much.
No, when you point out someone is white you are a moron not a racist. Its automatically assumed that in the US when reporting about someone unless their ethnicity is mentioned that the person in question is the default majority ethnicity in this country, caucasion.
Now go take your race baiting and shove it up your ass!
Cats aren't able to tell others that "Hey I'm in constant excruciating pain here, let me die" so how do you know that keeping it alive is the best thing for it? What if you are just enabling it to live an extra day filled with nothing but pain?
How about a game about disaffected 30-something black bloc anarchists who go around trashing Seattle during a WTO meeting!
This way we get a cool "rebel without a cause" video game AND we get to co-opt the anti-globalization movement and sell it back to the very people who are supposed to be so anti-commercial in the first place thus compromising their "street cred!"
How long will it take for people to realize that just putting stuff on the net for the world to download will not bring riches? Hell just doing that will incur serious bandwidth charges that....gasp.... you won't be able to pay!
"* Note: "60 Minute Review" is a riff on the title of Quarter to Three's short review format, which we called 60 Second Reviews. It is not a measure of how long I've played the game! I've completed three games on medium difficulty, each lasting well past 300 turns, and I've played into about a dozen more for varying amounts of time and at different difficulty settings."
As a friend, I recommend you self-impose a moratorium on yourself from posting to Slashdot for one entire week until you regain control of your senses.
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Laws vary by country. The rich are upwardly mobile and able to make trips to nations which will allow them to have the modifications they want performed on them.
....just what exactly is wrong with the bridge of the USS Enterprise to begin with?
So those parents are losers because they aren't computer nerds who know how to network computers together without an internet connection?
Yes they are.
Are you a Military Junta!?!?
You're a smart college kid huh?
You are paying tuition for an education.
You are NOT paying tuition for unlimited school owned bandwidth.
Not all democracies are equal. It is strange that the world's oldest democracy is still a third world improverished nation. And whereever there is poverty, there are high rates of corruption. India's legal system is a joke.
There is a difference between say 1 billion Asians and 1 billion Americans. America already has the proper economic and legal infrastructure setup to take advanatage of the larger market that a larger population will bring.
The legal and financial infrastructure is what makes the difference.
There is a difference between say 1 billion Asians and 1 billion Americans. America already has the proper economic and legal infrastructure setup to take advanatage of the larger market that a larger population will bring.
True but it also brings more taxpayers and more consumers and more workers.
Its all about population. The US will someday have a larger population than both India and China combined. Both of those countries birth control policies are working. Meanwhile the US population continues to grow. Already we're creaping up on Western Europe and will surpass it in the next 40 years. Not only does the US continue to attract excess immigration, the native US population continues to reproduce at above replacement levels.
The country with the larger population will have the biggest market and thus the strongest economy.
Who cares about being called a loser by some counter-culture LOSER when you'll have made a ton of money from "selling out"?
Self-respect is too expensive and its sure as hell not going to put a Lexus SUV in my garage! Forget food on my plate, I want an SUV in my garage!
Well it IS stealing. There was an implied and unspoken common agreement between broadcasters and the greater society in general that in return for your free TV programs you had to endure commercials to fund their development and production. Sure no one actually signed any legal documents that clearly spelled out such a contract but it was so prevelant for so long that no one would even question it.
Are you saying this should change just because of the INTERNET? I am fully confident that the media industry will figure out a way to deal with any future technologies that come along in a way that will allow them to rightfully so maintain their chokehold on the outlets of every single type of media imaginable.
Be You, do what you do. Dr. Pepper. Be you, do what you do. Dr. Pepper. Be you, do what you do. Dr. Pepper.
Lets not turn this into an anti-newbie IRC channel where "RTFM" is spouted in response to any question you don't like. If you didn't want to answer the guy you didn't have to post anything in response but telling him to google something before they post to Slashdot is a bit much.
No, when you point out someone is white you are a moron not a racist. Its automatically assumed that in the US when reporting about someone unless their ethnicity is mentioned that the person in question is the default majority ethnicity in this country, caucasion.
Now go take your race baiting and shove it up your ass!
"Buggers" stands for the Alien instectoid race in the line of novels that starts with the book Enders Game.
And leave your anti-americanism at home, thanks.
Right. The sun is getting noticably hotter. In just the past 200 years. Right.
Cats aren't able to tell others that "Hey I'm in constant excruciating pain here, let me die" so how do you know that keeping it alive is the best thing for it? What if you are just enabling it to live an extra day filled with nothing but pain?
How about a game about disaffected 30-something black bloc anarchists who go around trashing Seattle during a WTO meeting!
This way we get a cool "rebel without a cause" video game AND we get to co-opt the anti-globalization movement and sell it back to the very people who are supposed to be so anti-commercial in the first place thus compromising their "street cred!"
Heh can you honestly say you have a problem with this? :P
How long will it take for people to realize that just putting stuff on the net for the world to download will not bring riches? Hell just doing that will incur serious bandwidth charges that....gasp.... you won't be able to pay!
Highlander was one of the best shows ever made.
An Immortal playboy swordsman who goes thru the centuries laying beautiful women and decapitating his enemies. What more could you possibly ask for?
You really "ARE" illiterate today:
"* Note: "60 Minute Review" is a riff on the title of Quarter to Three's short review format, which we called 60 Second Reviews. It is not a measure of how long I've played the game! I've completed three games on medium difficulty, each lasting well past 300 turns, and I've played into about a dozen more for varying amounts of time and at different difficulty settings."
As a friend, I recommend you self-impose a moratorium on yourself from posting to Slashdot for one entire week until you regain control of your senses.