Got that backwards, chief. Writing actual paper letters takes effort. Spewing hot air in a forum takes no effort, and is easily dismissed. A letter-writing campaign that's large enough is impossible to ignore-and it's bad for company morale if negative letters keep flooding the office.
It's not a free press if the government (especially ours these days) controls the purse strings. The press would only become more of a hand puppet for the government. The unofficial propaganda wing.
You obviously have not listened to the BBC before. They are openly antagonistic to the British government, sometimes to the point of ridiculousness.
They were enticed by the cops' inaction to get into the car. And I was wrong, he did not drive the car-he just tried to jimmy open the trunk. But his neighbor drove it a block-again, after the cops were unresponsive-and he was charged with a felony.
Bait cars are such blatant entrapment it's not even funny. Not to mention, leaving a motor vehicle unattended with a key in it is a felony in and of itself in Texas.
In Austin, the cops parked a bait car with the keys in the ignition in front of someone's house. The back seat was filled with porno mags and lingerie. The people who owned the house did not know it was a bait car, and called the police about it several times. The police did not respond. After a few weeks, they got sick of having the car in front of their house, so the owner of the house started the car and tried to move it to a parking lot where it would get towed. He was arrested and charged with grand theft auto within minutes.
I don't know how such a blatant form of entrapment is even legal. And attracting criminals into neighborhoods sounds like the opposite of what cops should be doing anyway.
This is a pragmatic solution to the problems of global warming and foreign energy dependence. There's nothing magically evil about nuclear power. Environmentalists should applaud this move.
Yugo didn't sell very well in the States. In fact it was a laughingstock for just about the entire time it was on the market. Got any non-strawman arguments?
Does MTV show videos ever anymore? Is there a channel that does?
Actually, this week, MTV officially dropped "Music Television" from its name. It's been "Lowest Common Denominator Reality Show TV" for the last 10 years anyway, so this surprised no one.
I'm a Mac I'm a PC I'm IBM I'm a Windows Got milk?
Can't we just trash all these? Also, the annoying commercials where lots of multi-culti people finish each other's sentences. Exactly what are you trying to say, that using your product will turn you into a hivemind? Well, isn't that neat.
How about we get more creepy children whispering about mirrors, or babies making stock trades. Babies talking like adults is PURE ADVERTISING GENIUS.
Shouldn't the law be blind to the status of the offender?
The law requires the offender to have a certain status in order to commit the crime. You're basically asking "why should someone have to steal from a corporation to be convicted of embezzlement?"
Shouldn't the action itself be the only arbiter of what is a crime, and not the action biased by WHO is committing it? I think it is a terrible precedent to have two sets of laws, one for the 'little guy' and one for the 'big guy'. Then it becomes a less objective 'which guy am I', not 'what actions can I perform'.
It's more like there are certain actions you can only perform if you're the big guy. You can't very well commit massive securities fraud if you're a homeless guy who lives in a refrigerator box. The same thing applies with anti-trust law. You can argue whether or not price-fixing, tying contracts and the like should be regulated in the first place, but not whether or not they should only apply to the market leader...that's the whole point of antitrust law.
It's flamebait if OP is using passive-aggressive way of saying that he's going to download instead of buy a copy.
Either way, I'm getting really sick of chest-beating posts either condemning or condoning piracy of video games. Mod them all down redundant as far as I'm concerned.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole diamond market a big scam? Can't you make diamonds in a laboratory with elemental carbon at a fraction of the cost of what the diamond cartels charge?
Aww, did I piss off a moderator? You're probably the guy that forwards all the Chuck Norris jokes and thinks repeating Simpsons and Monty Python quotes verbatim is hilarious. Congradulations, you're a dickhole!
If the TV manufacturers had decided to use SDI as is used in professional production houses, you could get 1080p via one coaxial cable with no signal loss until you get into the 100s of feet, and daisy-chain capability.
But instead, computer cable manufacturers came up with DVI and HDMI, which are stupidly inferior in terms of signal length and complexity of cables. The hardware in the devices also has to be a lot more complicated as well. HDMI is a lousy interface, any way you slice it.
With digital video you can use a nice long extension cable with no loss of quality.
Have you ever actually tried this? DVI and HDMI are balanced connections, and they were never designed for long runs-more than 6 feet will sometimes get "sparkle" from digital artifacts. VGA works much better for long runs, although it's preferable to break it out into 5 full sized coax cables. This is not an option with HDMI, and that's a big reason why a lot of installers hate messing with it.
He's also refused to add Blu-Ray playback to Macs because, in his own words, the DRM requirements are "a bag of hurt." The Bluray licensing body has some ridiculous requirements for audio and video drivers, and that will keep them off Macs...which is fine with Jobs, since he'd rather "sell" you a movie from the iTunes store anyway.
The evil computer program that shunted those random phrases together in a mockery of English syntax should be forceably retired. The summary manages to be long and tortured, yet strangely free of specific information.
Evolution doesn't need a good reason. It's probably an adaptation that required as little change as possible from the previous gonad design, and yet worked well enough to be passed along successfully.
I really do think we're in a different era, with modern communication at our fingertips and a mass media willing to completely destroy a food company over one food poisoning outbreak, not to mention class-action lawsuits are so prevalent. But net neutrality and a competitive mass media is an essential piece to all of this.
Ready to destroy a food company? Read about Smithfield Farms. They've taken over the hog industry and they flaunt the law regularly and repeatedly. They've completely befouled a large chunk of North Carolina with the prodigious amounts of waste produced by hogs. They get fined a few million dollars, chump change, and keep on breaking the law. And they're not the only ones, not by far.
The mass media is only interested in scandals momentarily and its power only extends to entities that can actually be harmed by bad publicity. Smithville is beyond that possibility.
We aren't living in the 19th or early 20th century any longer. The patent medicine salesman can't wheel his wagon into town and sell snake oil to the gullible townspeople.
It wasn't the patent medicine people that did the most damage-they were mostly selling water. It was large meat-packing plants selling tainted meats, and large dairies selling tainted pork. Many people died as a result-why do you think they passed the Pure Food and Drug Act? Is there any doubt that this could happen now? Oh wait, it is happening, and on a bigger scale than ever, thanks to China and its total lack of regulation. Of course you fail to connect the dots on this one.
It is always laughable that people defending the archaic FDA bureaucrats have to reach back so far.
I'm reaching far back because the problem has been solved for so long in first-world countries. That I have to go back over a hundred years shows how completely atavistic your argument is. If you were advocating a return to monarchy in the US, I'd reach back to the 18th century to tell you why it was a bad idea.
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You're thinking of composite, not component.
Got that backwards, chief. Writing actual paper letters takes effort. Spewing hot air in a forum takes no effort, and is easily dismissed. A letter-writing campaign that's large enough is impossible to ignore-and it's bad for company morale if negative letters keep flooding the office.
You probably wouldn't recognize component cables either. They've only been around since 1997, and they aren't used for audio.
It's not a free press if the government (especially ours these days) controls the purse strings. The press would only become more of a hand puppet for the government. The unofficial propaganda wing.
You obviously have not listened to the BBC before. They are openly antagonistic to the British government, sometimes to the point of ridiculousness.
They were enticed by the cops' inaction to get into the car. And I was wrong, he did not drive the car-he just tried to jimmy open the trunk. But his neighbor drove it a block-again, after the cops were unresponsive-and he was charged with a felony.
Bait cars are such blatant entrapment it's not even funny. Not to mention, leaving a motor vehicle unattended with a key in it is a felony in and of itself in Texas.
In Austin, the cops parked a bait car with the keys in the ignition in front of someone's house. The back seat was filled with porno mags and lingerie. The people who owned the house did not know it was a bait car, and called the police about it several times. The police did not respond. After a few weeks, they got sick of having the car in front of their house, so the owner of the house started the car and tried to move it to a parking lot where it would get towed. He was arrested and charged with grand theft auto within minutes.
I don't know how such a blatant form of entrapment is even legal. And attracting criminals into neighborhoods sounds like the opposite of what cops should be doing anyway.
Kinda like capitalism? Or just about any other -ism?
Besides jism, of course!
This is a pragmatic solution to the problems of global warming and foreign energy dependence. There's nothing magically evil about nuclear power. Environmentalists should applaud this move.
I'm sorry, did you sign some kind of agreement that stated you could only use strawmen in your posts?
If so, please reply to this with more of your fanfic biography of me. It's very intriguing.
Yugo didn't sell very well in the States. In fact it was a laughingstock for just about the entire time it was on the market. Got any non-strawman arguments?
Does MTV show videos ever anymore? Is there a channel that does?
Actually, this week, MTV officially dropped "Music Television" from its name. It's been "Lowest Common Denominator Reality Show TV" for the last 10 years anyway, so this surprised no one.
I'm a Mac
I'm a PC
I'm IBM
I'm a Windows
Got milk?
Can't we just trash all these? Also, the annoying commercials where lots of multi-culti people finish each other's sentences. Exactly what are you trying to say, that using your product will turn you into a hivemind? Well, isn't that neat.
How about we get more creepy children whispering about mirrors, or babies making stock trades. Babies talking like adults is PURE ADVERTISING GENIUS.
Shouldn't the law be blind to the status of the offender?
The law requires the offender to have a certain status in order to commit the crime. You're basically asking "why should someone have to steal from a corporation to be convicted of embezzlement?"
Shouldn't the action itself be the only arbiter of what is a crime, and not the action biased by WHO is committing it? I think it is a terrible precedent to have two sets of laws, one for the 'little guy' and one for the 'big guy'. Then it becomes a less objective 'which guy am I', not 'what actions can I perform'.
It's more like there are certain actions you can only perform if you're the big guy. You can't very well commit massive securities fraud if you're a homeless guy who lives in a refrigerator box. The same thing applies with anti-trust law. You can argue whether or not price-fixing, tying contracts and the like should be regulated in the first place, but not whether or not they should only apply to the market leader...that's the whole point of antitrust law.
It's flamebait if OP is using passive-aggressive way of saying that he's going to download instead of buy a copy.
Either way, I'm getting really sick of chest-beating posts either condemning or condoning piracy of video games. Mod them all down redundant as far as I'm concerned.
Dunno about you, but I enjoy having my entire media library on my 160 GB iPod. It's sweet, dude! You should try it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole diamond market a big scam? Can't you make diamonds in a laboratory with elemental carbon at a fraction of the cost of what the diamond cartels charge?
Aww, did I piss off a moderator? You're probably the guy that forwards all the Chuck Norris jokes and thinks repeating Simpsons and Monty Python quotes verbatim is hilarious. Congradulations, you're a dickhole!
2004 called, it wants its meme back.
If the TV manufacturers had decided to use SDI as is used in professional production houses, you could get 1080p via one coaxial cable with no signal loss until you get into the 100s of feet, and daisy-chain capability.
But instead, computer cable manufacturers came up with DVI and HDMI, which are stupidly inferior in terms of signal length and complexity of cables. The hardware in the devices also has to be a lot more complicated as well. HDMI is a lousy interface, any way you slice it.
With digital video you can use a nice long extension cable with no loss of quality.
Have you ever actually tried this? DVI and HDMI are balanced connections, and they were never designed for long runs-more than 6 feet will sometimes get "sparkle" from digital artifacts. VGA works much better for long runs, although it's preferable to break it out into 5 full sized coax cables. This is not an option with HDMI, and that's a big reason why a lot of installers hate messing with it.
He's also refused to add Blu-Ray playback to Macs because, in his own words, the DRM requirements are "a bag of hurt." The Bluray licensing body has some ridiculous requirements for audio and video drivers, and that will keep them off Macs...which is fine with Jobs, since he'd rather "sell" you a movie from the iTunes store anyway.
The evil computer program that shunted those random phrases together in a mockery of English syntax should be forceably retired. The summary manages to be long and tortured, yet strangely free of specific information.
Evolution doesn't need a good reason. It's probably an adaptation that required as little change as possible from the previous gonad design, and yet worked well enough to be passed along successfully.
I really do think we're in a different era, with modern communication at our fingertips and a mass media willing to completely destroy a food company over one food poisoning outbreak, not to mention class-action lawsuits are so prevalent. But net neutrality and a competitive mass media is an essential piece to all of this.
Ready to destroy a food company? Read about Smithfield Farms. They've taken over the hog industry and they flaunt the law regularly and repeatedly. They've completely befouled a large chunk of North Carolina with the prodigious amounts of waste produced by hogs. They get fined a few million dollars, chump change, and keep on breaking the law. And they're not the only ones, not by far.
The mass media is only interested in scandals momentarily and its power only extends to entities that can actually be harmed by bad publicity. Smithville is beyond that possibility.
We aren't living in the 19th or early 20th century any longer. The patent medicine salesman can't wheel his wagon into town and sell snake oil to the gullible townspeople.
It wasn't the patent medicine people that did the most damage-they were mostly selling water. It was large meat-packing plants selling tainted meats, and large dairies selling tainted pork. Many people died as a result-why do you think they passed the Pure Food and Drug Act? Is there any doubt that this could happen now? Oh wait, it is happening, and on a bigger scale than ever, thanks to China and its total lack of regulation. Of course you fail to connect the dots on this one.
It is always laughable that people defending the archaic FDA bureaucrats have to reach back so far.
I'm reaching far back because the problem has been solved for so long in first-world countries. That I have to go back over a hundred years shows how completely atavistic your argument is. If you were advocating a return to monarchy in the US, I'd reach back to the 18th century to tell you why it was a bad idea.