The thing is though, you can buy an old book for £2 that's as good as, or usually better, than a £20 brand new book. Video games age much worse so you can to keep buying new ones. Also good books are infinitely re-readable.
And I don't know what books you're reading that you can finish in three hours. Ones with pictures?
This all assumes that copyright is unjust. I don't think it is, nor do most right-thinking, productive people. People don't pirate because of some moral crusade, they do it because they don't want to pay for anything. That's all it boils down to:
"This law makes is illegal for me to get shit for free that I'd otherwise have to pay for, therefore it's a bad law."
I get better speeds with rapidshare than I get anywhere else. Infinitely faster than bit-torrent which never even works for me. There's a reason that so many people used to getting everything for free are willing to pay for rapidshare.
Interesting then, that if the NHS is so terrible and unpopular, not even the most conservative types want to replace it with an American system that costs twice as much.
The NHS 'beaurocracy' is nothing compared tothe US where you can be charged ten grand just for giving birth. And if you can't afford it you're declared bankrupt.
Those people below the poverty line would never be able to afford private health care on their own. Why would the media lie about the NHS? Most newspapers are incredibly right wing and constantly whine about benefits and taxes, and even they defend the NHS.
People buy private healthcare for the same reason they buy expensive cars, holiday homes and plasma TVs, they have money and they want to spend them on luxuries that make them look better off than other people.
I don't want the sorts of people running AIG or GM to be in charge of my healthcare or education. Maybe it's time the free market was put on the backburner for a while.
Yeah, the NHS sucks, let's abolish it and have to sell your house when you want an operation. And if you still can't afford it, just add another $100k to your $100k college debts.
This just my opinion, but you can stick your free market up your bollocks.
After a month, most players might be level 10-20. Most players don't have the connections or time commitments to do raids. Most players will struggle to do Hogger.
WoW is a casual game because you can play it without putting much thought or effort into it, 99% of the gameplay you can do whilst watching TV or alt-tabbing into a website whilst auto-running. The sort of people raiding 10 hours a week to get all the fancy equipment make up a very small proportion of the playerbase.
But that's nonsense, because if the pricing weren't affordable relative to value customers would 'leave it' and the monopoly would shrink in size. If the prices were high relative to the costs, competitors would start to enter the market and investment would be there for the easy money.
Not necessarily, if the barriers to entry are too high. Even if it's 'affordable', that doesn't mean it wouldn't be cheaper and better quality with competition.
The government laying the fibre enables free competition without the inefficiency of laying down multiple competing lines which would drive up the price.
The rich pay more because they're the only ones who can afford it. And as they have all the power, they're basically screwing themselves anyway, so fuck them.
The problem then, is you end up with a lot of homeless crack addicts with no legal means of providing for themselves. The results are usually not pretty.
News is usually pretty slow, even on the Internet. They have to write a full article, get the pictures, decide where to put it on the site etc. etc. etc. whereas on Twitter anyone can just say what's happened, immediately.
In fact, one of the reasons that America has such a poor public transport system is because 'wealth creating' companies such as GM bought them and shut them down. God forbid the government try to undo some of the damage caused by decades of corporate greed.
This project will be building a huge public transport network, how is that not creating wealth? With this rail system, the government could create thousands upon thousands of jobs, for people who would otherwise be sat at home because the glorious private sector doesn't want to employ anyone.
Looks like the teabaggers are out in force again today.
Congress has a constitutional right to regulate interstate commerce. They are not creating, or increasing a tax. All they are doing is clarifying how the states can tax interstate commerce. All very constitutional, and no tax increases.
Btw, when there are dozens of people posting in a thread, and one poster accounts for over 50% of the words, arguing against everyone else with page-long rants, he's probably wrong, no matter how many of the teabaggers mod him up.
You do realise that the federal government doesn't set state taxes? Anyway, taxes aren't going up, they're just closing the loopholes so you can't dodge them.
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The thing is though, you can buy an old book for £2 that's as good as, or usually better, than a £20 brand new book. Video games age much worse so you can to keep buying new ones. Also good books are infinitely re-readable.
And I don't know what books you're reading that you can finish in three hours. Ones with pictures?
This all assumes that copyright is unjust. I don't think it is, nor do most right-thinking, productive people. People don't pirate because of some moral crusade, they do it because they don't want to pay for anything. That's all it boils down to:
"This law makes is illegal for me to get shit for free that I'd otherwise have to pay for, therefore it's a bad law."
I get better speeds with rapidshare than I get anywhere else. Infinitely faster than bit-torrent which never even works for me. There's a reason that so many people used to getting everything for free are willing to pay for rapidshare.
Interesting then, that if the NHS is so terrible and unpopular, not even the most conservative types want to replace it with an American system that costs twice as much.
The NHS 'beaurocracy' is nothing compared tothe US where you can be charged ten grand just for giving birth. And if you can't afford it you're declared bankrupt.
Those people below the poverty line would never be able to afford private health care on their own. Why would the media lie about the NHS? Most newspapers are incredibly right wing and constantly whine about benefits and taxes, and even they defend the NHS.
People buy private healthcare for the same reason they buy expensive cars, holiday homes and plasma TVs, they have money and they want to spend them on luxuries that make them look better off than other people.
I don't want the sorts of people running AIG or GM to be in charge of my healthcare or education. Maybe it's time the free market was put on the backburner for a while.
Yeah, the NHS sucks, let's abolish it and have to sell your house when you want an operation. And if you still can't afford it, just add another $100k to your $100k college debts.
This just my opinion, but you can stick your free market up your bollocks.
Or the NHS, or Royal Mail.
After a month, most players might be level 10-20. Most players don't have the connections or time commitments to do raids. Most players will struggle to do Hogger.
WoW is a casual game because you can play it without putting much thought or effort into it, 99% of the gameplay you can do whilst watching TV or alt-tabbing into a website whilst auto-running. The sort of people raiding 10 hours a week to get all the fancy equipment make up a very small proportion of the playerbase.
In Florida, the trees were mature, they cut them down to make room for the McMansions.
That's ok, but I prefer Family Guy for my comedy.
Not necessarily, if the barriers to entry are too high. Even if it's 'affordable', that doesn't mean it wouldn't be cheaper and better quality with competition.
The government laying the fibre enables free competition without the inefficiency of laying down multiple competing lines which would drive up the price.
Surely you'd just used tinned tomatoes, or nothing? I can't imagine how horrible ketchup would be with pasta.
Most people are not typographers, and couldn't tell the difference between the two unless you put them side by side.
The rich pay more because they're the only ones who can afford it. And as they have all the power, they're basically screwing themselves anyway, so fuck them.
I thought that Buffet was a trader, I'm not sure what they actually produce. It's basically making money by already having money.
So basically, it's just stroking the egos of the rich for hundreds of pages? I suppose no-one ever lost money telling people what they want to hear.
I tried reading the book, but it's so badly written I couldn't get very far into it at all.
I didn't realise it was that simple to pigeonhole people into liberals and conservatives. Especially if you've never met them.
The problem then, is you end up with a lot of homeless crack addicts with no legal means of providing for themselves. The results are usually not pretty.
News is usually pretty slow, even on the Internet. They have to write a full article, get the pictures, decide where to put it on the site etc. etc. etc. whereas on Twitter anyone can just say what's happened, immediately.
Maybe the Germans would like it if it had an extra 3,000 unnecessary features and weighed twice as much.
If the road system were viable, it wouldn't take tax money to keep it going.
If the airlines were viable, they wouldn't take tax money to keep bailing them out, and bankrolling Boeing.
If sea travel were viable, it wouldn't take an expensive tax-funded navy to protect it.
There are many US cities close enough together to make high-speed rail work, this negative exceptionalism doesn't do you any favours.
In fact, one of the reasons that America has such a poor public transport system is because 'wealth creating' companies such as GM bought them and shut them down. God forbid the government try to undo some of the damage caused by decades of corporate greed.
This project will be building a huge public transport network, how is that not creating wealth? With this rail system, the government could create thousands upon thousands of jobs, for people who would otherwise be sat at home because the glorious private sector doesn't want to employ anyone.
Looks like the teabaggers are out in force again today.
Congress has a constitutional right to regulate interstate commerce. They are not creating, or increasing a tax. All they are doing is clarifying how the states can tax interstate commerce. All very constitutional, and no tax increases.
Btw, when there are dozens of people posting in a thread, and one poster accounts for over 50% of the words, arguing against everyone else with page-long rants, he's probably wrong, no matter how many of the teabaggers mod him up.
You do realise that the federal government doesn't set state taxes? Anyway, taxes aren't going up, they're just closing the loopholes so you can't dodge them.