There's your solution then - Wait for them to merge into one superplex, then declare the infrastructure. They'll scream like a stuck pig, but within a year you'll have 10-15 ISP's and within 5 you'll have a couple of hundred. (Or more).
Sure, they left. But bear in mind, they were fighting for territory they didn't really need to keep. (Much like Iraq today, actually) In the face of losing actual American soil, I think the US Army/US Public would put up a bit more of a fight (ie: They'd hit harder and stay in longer before war weariness set in)
But to reply to your point "Any serious rebellion in the United States would not be just a bunch of backwoods yokels running about with.22s.", you're right.. it would probably be NRA types with serious guns and serious explosives. Probably even better than what the Iraqi army fielded.
But opposing you will be the US Army, Navy and Airforce. ie: Serious tanks and aircraft. Even bearing in mind that the militias will probably have access to RPG's and so on, they'll still be out gunned.
For any sort of rebellion to work, it would have to breakout pretty much everywhere at once otherwise it's doomed to failure. ie: If the free republic of Texas sprung up on Wednesday, it could be locked down by the end of the week with 200 air missions a day bombing key locations throughout the state.
If we do, it will show that individuals with small arms can repel a highly mechanized army.
Not so much.. it just shows that the US has a thing about sustaining casualties in overseas deployments (ie: You guys don't like it)
I'm pretty sure that in the fact of organised insurrection within the state, the US public would be more willing to take the casualties to crush the traitors. And be supportive of using harder calibres to do so.
Microsoft isn't a content provider, so they don't gain as much as you think they do. Your content providers are the ones who are making all the cash. MS are going along with it, because restricted content is better than no content at all.
You know that's a work of fiction right? Just checking. Sure, it could be that bad, but it won't. Remember, civilization is always on the verge of collapsing and it never quite makes it. I'm certain that our benefactors would realise this in time to prevent the end of days.
The drug companies in the USA charge us an arm and a leg for drugs which they export to other countries for far less money. In essence, the USA has to cover the bill for research and development of new drugs, and the entire world benefits from them.
Well, that's the thing. The Australian government is the primary entity in Australia allowed to import prescription medications. (Through our PBS scheme). If you've invented a new drug that cures cancer, and you want the Australian government to subsidise it (so more people take it), you'd better come to the party on a good price for it.
IIRC (we had a private die in training a few years ago with this sort of thing), the symptoms that you're coming down with water related death include becoming thirsty.
Yeah, that's an easy one to read.
A nebulous "quit if you feel sick" warning isn't good enough when she could have done the harm before she started to notice any dangerous side effects.
That's not 'broken', it's using your itunes account to extract the raw music in the same way that you can by burning and reripping.
Copy your musics to another PC and see how far you get.
I'm not sure how that's possible. They would have spent more on film alone than they would have made under a copyright free system. While I'm glad you think that the books are better, it's not really relevant to the discussion.
High quality books and games have a low cost of entry (how much is a notepad? how much is a PC?), and movies have a ridiculous cost of entry. How much are the cameras, props, costumes, film, labor (non-actor, assuming the actors do it for the fame rather than for fat sacks of cash)?.
Sure, you could do a 5 minute art-house flick for a few thousand bucks, but remember movies used to be like that in the 30's and 40's and evolved away. I'm sure most people would a return to those days as a step back.
Without copyright, you don't have the Lord of the Rings movie. [1] You'd get a few thousand people seeing it, and then you'd be able to download your digitally perfect copy off the net (copied from a cinema disc) and host your own showings instead.
[1] Or anything else worth more than a couple of thousand dollars.
I expect we'll eventually reach the point where all games are MMO or MMOlike. Simply because with MMO style games, developers and publishers don't have to worry about piracy. They know for a fact that 100% of their customer base not only paid for the game, but are doing so over and over again.
Everything you mentioned there is obsolete except for the registry, and you can provide files which will merge changes into the registry for your clueless endusers. ie: Double click on this, it will solve the problem.
A support contract is no guarantee that you will actually get your problem FIXED on a weekend / holiday.
Maybe not with a redhat contract. With Microsoft, Oracle or Cisco, a support contract means I'll have engineers working around the clock with me (from all around the world in the case of the TAC) until it's fixed.
They recently announced that they've 'broken even' on hardware. I took this to mean they've become efficient enough that the cost of making one is now the same as the money they get from selling it. So technically they do make a tiny amount off the console itself. (It's been suggested that now that they're breaking even they're ready to drop the price some more to compete against the PS3 better).
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You're being relative though. Relative to how it used to be, it is harder. But in absolute terms, ringing someone isn't difficult at all.
There's your solution then - Wait for them to merge into one superplex, then declare the infrastructure. They'll scream like a stuck pig, but within a year you'll have 10-15 ISP's and within 5 you'll have a couple of hundred. (Or more).
Sure, they left. But bear in mind, they were fighting for territory they didn't really need to keep. (Much like Iraq today, actually) In the face of losing actual American soil, I think the US Army/US Public would put up a bit more of a fight (ie: They'd hit harder and stay in longer before war weariness set in)
It's true, I'm actually Australian.
.22s.", you're right.. it would probably be NRA types with serious guns and serious explosives. Probably even better than what the Iraqi army fielded.
But to reply to your point "Any serious rebellion in the United States would not be just a bunch of backwoods yokels running about with
But opposing you will be the US Army, Navy and Airforce. ie: Serious tanks and aircraft. Even bearing in mind that the militias will probably have access to RPG's and so on, they'll still be out gunned.
For any sort of rebellion to work, it would have to breakout pretty much everywhere at once otherwise it's doomed to failure. ie: If the free republic of Texas sprung up on Wednesday, it could be locked down by the end of the week with 200 air missions a day bombing key locations throughout the state.
Not so much.. it just shows that the US has a thing about sustaining casualties in overseas deployments (ie: You guys don't like it) I'm pretty sure that in the fact of organised insurrection within the state, the US public would be more willing to take the casualties to crush the traitors. And be supportive of using harder calibres to do so.
Microsoft isn't a content provider, so they don't gain as much as you think they do. Your content providers are the ones who are making all the cash. MS are going along with it, because restricted content is better than no content at all.
It's true, the built in calendar with exchange capabilities is awesom.. hang on a second.
You know that's a work of fiction right? Just checking. Sure, it could be that bad, but it won't. Remember, civilization is always on the verge of collapsing and it never quite makes it. I'm certain that our benefactors would realise this in time to prevent the end of days.
Perhaps you should have bought it based on what games you want to play instead :)
Well, that's the thing. The Australian government is the primary entity in Australia allowed to import prescription medications. (Through our PBS scheme). If you've invented a new drug that cures cancer, and you want the Australian government to subsidise it (so more people take it), you'd better come to the party on a good price for it.
Sure, because hosting this sort of competition is illegal.
Because the contestants are putting themselves in the care of the station? (at least as far as task X goes)
IIRC (we had a private die in training a few years ago with this sort of thing), the symptoms that you're coming down with water related death include becoming thirsty.
Yeah, that's an easy one to read.
A nebulous "quit if you feel sick" warning isn't good enough when she could have done the harm before she started to notice any dangerous side effects.
That's not 'broken', it's using your itunes account to extract the raw music in the same way that you can by burning and reripping. Copy your musics to another PC and see how far you get.
I'm not sure how that's possible. They would have spent more on film alone than they would have made under a copyright free system. While I'm glad you think that the books are better, it's not really relevant to the discussion.
High quality books and games have a low cost of entry (how much is a notepad? how much is a PC?), and movies have a ridiculous cost of entry. How much are the cameras, props, costumes, film, labor (non-actor, assuming the actors do it for the fame rather than for fat sacks of cash)?.
Sure, you could do a 5 minute art-house flick for a few thousand bucks, but remember movies used to be like that in the 30's and 40's and evolved away. I'm sure most people would a return to those days as a step back.
[1] Or anything else worth more than a couple of thousand dollars.
How it is an illegal search on their part, when you're the one connecting to their computer?
I expect we'll eventually reach the point where all games are MMO or MMOlike. Simply because with MMO style games, developers and publishers don't have to worry about piracy. They know for a fact that 100% of their customer base not only paid for the game, but are doing so over and over again.
Well, it would depend on whether your reckless in-plane shooting caused it to crash or not, wouldn't it.
Perhaps, but that's not what he meant. Just like the other 500325 people who couldn't stop their knee jerking long enough to read what was written.
How many more of these posts do we have to read?
Funny.. when I type it config.sys and autoexec.bat are completely blank, and the other two have lines saying 'For 16 bit app support only.
Still using windows 95? How's that treating you.
Everything you mentioned there is obsolete except for the registry, and you can provide files which will merge changes into the registry for your clueless endusers. ie: Double click on this, it will solve the problem.
Maybe not with a redhat contract. With Microsoft, Oracle or Cisco, a support contract means I'll have engineers working around the clock with me (from all around the world in the case of the TAC) until it's fixed.
They recently announced that they've 'broken even' on hardware. I took this to mean they've become efficient enough that the cost of making one is now the same as the money they get from selling it. So technically they do make a tiny amount off the console itself. (It's been suggested that now that they're breaking even they're ready to drop the price some more to compete against the PS3 better).