More people will see a movie than buy a game. Plus, a film will be out in the cinema for a few months, raking in up to hundreds of millions, then it goes out of DVD, then it's on TV for years afterwards raking in the cash. A game only has one revenue stream, and makes the majority of its cash within the first few months after release.
About restricting access to the British store from non-British customers, well I kind of doubt that's illegal. Do you (or someone on the Steam forums) have a source for this law? And anyway, they're not actually restricting you from accessing the Steam store, they're restricting you from bypassing their region-based price system, and simply choosing to pay via whichever region has the lowest price due to currency value changes. Maybe I'm a valve fanboy, but that doesn't really seem like a crime to me.
Actually it is a crime, it's against EU trade laws. It's a single market and if someone were to take them to court, Valve could be in for a world of hurt.
Ironically, hydroponic farming also uses much less water than traditional farming, because the water is recycled through the system until it is actually used by the plants as opposed to irrigating a field and having most of the water evaporate before it is used
I suppose the main difference is, farmland can use plentiful rain water, whereas this building needs water pumped from 50 miles away then 1000ft into the air.
Do you honestly believe that we can build machines to plant and harvest thousands of acres of open field, but can't automate the process in a controlled environment?
How do you get a combine harvester into a skyscraper?
You don't even need craigslist and eBay is dead as a doornail. eBay's new policies make it practically impossible to sell anything without the criminal enterprise known as PayPal. I give that company about 1 year before it files for bankruptcy.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Unless you have some stats proving that gated communities suffer no less crime than normal houses, you don't really have much of a point.
Except without safety you don't have any liberties. What's the use of freedom on the Internet when you've had your identity stolen and your computer hacked?
What percentage of radio listeners even have an iPhone, or any portable device capable of radio reception at non-extortionate rates? Too small to even matter.
Satellite radio has its own problems but the iPhone isn't one of them.
Dunno, why don't you ask the dozens of countries which use a system for toll roads, congestion charges, speed camera fines etc? Perhaps you could enquire why the system hasn't collapsed through the use of false plates.
Oh wait, I forgot, 'US Exceptionalism'. Who cares if it works everywhere else, it will automatically fail in the richest country in the world. See: universal health care.
I'm calling bullshit on that, in a population of 91.2 million you could find 97 people who like having sex with people dressed up as anthropomorphic animals.
Most games that children play are bought by adults, so I'm not sure how the 13-year old's blood-lust counts for much.
At any rate, the biggest-selling games these days tend to be:
1. Sports games, where the most violent part is someone being knocked over, only to get up again unscathed. 2. Guitar Hero/Rock Band type games, where as far as I'm aware there's no violence at all. 3. MMOs like World of Warcraft, where the violence is low-detail cartoonish fantasy.
If the constitution was such a well-written document, it wouldn't have needed so many amendments. Seriously, a democracy where only rich white male landowners can vote? Utterly indefensible.
If every time they beat a dead horse, a few more dollars come out, why would they ever stop?
There are too many people still buying their shitty games to make them stop, or actually produce something decent. There's a reason Sega crashed out of the console market and don't have any decent game franchises anymore: they're fucking shit at everything.
You think "public" (i.e. government) education has made things better?
Well, you don't have slavery anymore, something which would disgust the founding fathers.
What we have now is American Idol politics, where every month or so contestants are booted off in state by state popularity contests; the one that promises us the most at everybody else's expense wins... woohoo!!!
Yes, we the people are idiots, and democracy is a terrible idea. Bring back an oligarchy, it works for Russia.
As opposed to here in the United States, where taxpayers pay for the police to raid grandma who downloaded a "ZZ Top" song. I'm not seeing the Western Civilization Advantage Program(tm) working here.
In the US, if you invent something, you have full rights over it. Sounds like the system is working as intended.
If only one person per family is employed, but that wage pays for everything a family needs to live and a number of luxuries, then the system works. Or, better, if you can earn what you need working 10 hours a week, there will be *far* more jobs.
Until people realise that if they work 40 hours a week, then they can buy four times as much stuff. And with four times the salaries, the prices of goods and property inflate, so people working 10 hours a week can't afford it.
Such a system only works if everyone is forced to only work 10 hours a week.
I prefer the 777 because they have more modern amenities in coach like seatback entertainment systems instead of a single giant screen for the whole cabin like its 1981 or something.
That's to do with the airline not the plane. Last year I was in a 747 with entertainment systems in every seat. But that was Virgin atlantic, I can't speak for US airlines.
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When you buy a game after seeing screenshots and videos of awesome graphics, why would you want to turn the settings down to make it look like shit?
There is one, it's called the ESA. Having our own space program would be hideously expensive, it makes more sense to pool resources with a continent.
More people will see a movie than buy a game. Plus, a film will be out in the cinema for a few months, raking in up to hundreds of millions, then it goes out of DVD, then it's on TV for years afterwards raking in the cash. A game only has one revenue stream, and makes the majority of its cash within the first few months after release.
Actually it is a crime, it's against EU trade laws. It's a single market and if someone were to take them to court, Valve could be in for a world of hurt.
Or infinitely more expensive than a 'camera' icon on the screen.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I charge my phone through the plug. What would I need a USB cable for?
Except they're not successful. The Cuban people have far less food now than they did pre-Castro.
I suppose the main difference is, farmland can use plentiful rain water, whereas this building needs water pumped from 50 miles away then 1000ft into the air.
How do you get a combine harvester into a skyscraper?
Of course there's one thing you can say about Cuba, the millions of peasants all get plenty of food... Well, the ruling elite do anyway.
I take it you'll be short-selling them then?
The plural of anecdote is not data. Unless you have some stats proving that gated communities suffer no less crime than normal houses, you don't really have much of a point.
Except without safety you don't have any liberties. What's the use of freedom on the Internet when you've had your identity stolen and your computer hacked?
What percentage of radio listeners even have an iPhone, or any portable device capable of radio reception at non-extortionate rates? Too small to even matter.
Satellite radio has its own problems but the iPhone isn't one of them.
Dunno, why don't you ask the dozens of countries which use a system for toll roads, congestion charges, speed camera fines etc? Perhaps you could enquire why the system hasn't collapsed through the use of false plates.
Oh wait, I forgot, 'US Exceptionalism'. Who cares if it works everywhere else, it will automatically fail in the richest country in the world. See: universal health care.
OK then, we can say that snow causes cold weather. After all, there's a correlation.
And by my count, VHS and Blu-ray are two formats. Is two a large enough sample set?
I'm calling bullshit on that, in a population of 91.2 million you could find 97 people who like having sex with people dressed up as anthropomorphic animals.
Most games that children play are bought by adults, so I'm not sure how the 13-year old's blood-lust counts for much.
At any rate, the biggest-selling games these days tend to be:
1. Sports games, where the most violent part is someone being knocked over, only to get up again unscathed.
2. Guitar Hero/Rock Band type games, where as far as I'm aware there's no violence at all.
3. MMOs like World of Warcraft, where the violence is low-detail cartoonish fantasy.
If the constitution was such a well-written document, it wouldn't have needed so many amendments. Seriously, a democracy where only rich white male landowners can vote? Utterly indefensible.
Hopefully that 20% will be the department for researching how to continually rape the corpse of Sonic.
If every time they beat a dead horse, a few more dollars come out, why would they ever stop?
There are too many people still buying their shitty games to make them stop, or actually produce something decent. There's a reason Sega crashed out of the console market and don't have any decent game franchises anymore: they're fucking shit at everything.
Well, you don't have slavery anymore, something which would disgust the founding fathers.
Yes, we the people are idiots, and democracy is a terrible idea. Bring back an oligarchy, it works for Russia.
That legislation is toothless.
In the US, if you invent something, you have full rights over it. Sounds like the system is working as intended.
Until people realise that if they work 40 hours a week, then they can buy four times as much stuff. And with four times the salaries, the prices of goods and property inflate, so people working 10 hours a week can't afford it.
Such a system only works if everyone is forced to only work 10 hours a week.
That's to do with the airline not the plane. Last year I was in a 747 with entertainment systems in every seat. But that was Virgin atlantic, I can't speak for US airlines.