Sony managed to overcome that stigma by getting many of Nintendo's premier game companies (like Square) to develop for them instead. (Wait... you're saying we can produce each copy of Final Fantasy for a few cents per disc?! Uh, nice knowing you Nintendo) What can MS offer developers as an incentive to abandon Sony the way that CD production costs vs. cartidge production costs convinced so many to abandon Nintendo?
Well, looky there. Someone seems to be annoyed by my bashing overzealous moderation... Hint: Offtopic means that a reply doesn't have anything to do with the previous message. If someone's talking about bad moderation, and then I say something about bad moderation, that's not off-topic. Now, if someone says something about cheeze whiz, and I say something about bad moderation, then that is off-topic. See the difference little moderator type personage?
Yeah, well there seems to be a bunch of moderators who've been bashing down everything remotely arguementative lately. Oh well, I'm sure after they keep getting bashed in meta-moderation, they'll either shape up or stop getting points. (I assume I'm not the only one using unfair ratings more lately?)
They have similar styles of story, but it's not always the same. I suppose if you boil them down to the extent you did, yeah the protagonist (or at least one of the major characters) is a brooding silent type, there's often a triangle (though they've become more pronounced lately, and VII had two overlapping triangles), and the world needs saving. But, hey, if you're going to be a real hero, saving the local village of 50 people just isn't as impressive as preventing the world from exploding...
yeah, ok. They manually sign every copy... Definately don't just hand a nice signature to some courier to take over to the printers (or the art guy who sends over the art with a sig imprinted on it somewheres)
A stream that doesn't leave your property? Only way I can see that is if your 'stream' is part of a river delta on your oceanfront property, in which case it still flows into the ocean, that must be owned by someone for your... scheme... to work. Ah, I see, consumner boycotts will protect us from the mega-corporations. Heh. Riiiiight... When many companies are the only source of products you want, or competing versions of the product are all produced by subsidiaries of member corporations? There's already damn few large, independant companies that are actually producing anything you or I buy. Do you actually see this as changing in the future when news of mega-mergers barely gets off the business page anymore?
All righty then. One last: what if you spill the toxic crap into the small stream that you yourself own? Are you going to sue you? How about if a whole bunch of major polluting industries get together and buy up most of the mississippi river system? (If it can be privately owned, it can & will be bought and sold)
They had at one time been intending to put four ports is it. I remember reading early stories about it that clearly said four. Guess they just want to make sure that everyone has to drop $40 on a multi-tap again.
Oh, and about the airlines and cars thing... There's a difference between a risk that I choose to take for myself, my children, and other loved ones and risks taken by someone else that affect me & mine.
Don't forget that the CRTC loosened the rules enough that you can run uncensored music on the radio, whenever the hell you want to, and television broadcasts don't have to be bleeped at all after 9. I was very surprised when my South Park tapes were full of bleeps.
Yeah, the CRTC has rules about Canadian content. Of course, we will be seeing the Oscars, the same as we do every year. Too bad they weren't being produced here though. There wouldn't be any issue of censoring or altering the lyrics of the song. God it's nice to live in a free country...
I apologize for any offense. That is what I was talking about. The older, conservative religous men who have recently been outsted from power by far less repressive leaders. At the same time, America has more repressive leaders gaining power.
Private property's a simple enough concept. And while your concept of a river being owned by a county or state, do you not realize that many rivers cross national boundaries? Or the fact that one river flows into another, and then into an ocean or large sea? Each continent only has a few river systems. I bet you could even name one of the major ones. Plus, you never explained how someone can own an environment. Let's say that your company has a mine near a large river. Let's then assume that since propery methods & safegards are expensive, you accidently lose a whole bunch of mecury in the river, and it flows downstream and obliterates a whole ecosystem. And, just for fun, lets say the damage is mostly done in another country. Now, who owns the river you dumped in, who owns the river that the now dead river flows into, and who owns the oceans that the final river flows into, who owns the atmospheric weather that gets formed over that ocean, and who owns the land, rivers, and lakes that the rain eventually falls on?
OK, what are your parents worth? Your children? The love of / Your love for your S.O.? Cherised belongings from your childhood? Freedom of speech? The ability to sit at home peacefully and not have someone bash down your door and sell you some crap? Your faith in whatever religion you subscribe to?
statistics based on the geographic origin of inmates, the amount of money spent per capita on crime control and more importantly EDUCATION in these areas, and the crime rate would be MUCH more interesting.
Without doubt. Like I said though, America's leaders don't want to have to consider that. The more clear evidence that they get that oppression is not as effective at reducing crime as education and a generally improved standard of living would be, the harder it is for a politician to sound sincere when he says that the crackdowns on crime that get the votes really is for the best.
Ok, went and dl'd. Installed. Ran. Watched a few minutes of the first demo. Now I'm dizzy. I don't normally get dizzy from such things... maybe its because I wasn't in control of the motion.
Anyhow, looks pretty. I'll play around with it some more later, but right now, I've got to get to work...
The US has a very high rate of imprisonment as compared to the world.
The percentage of the US prison population that is black is much higher than the percentage of the general US population.
Blacks are far more likely to be poor in the US than whites.
Now, the thing that most people don't think about (many American leaders don't _want_ to think about) Race is not the signifigant correlation to criminal activity.... economic status is! The correlation between race and imprisonment is largely due to the correlation between race and economic status. (Although bias in the system doesn't help much either) Despite the standard propaganda "anyone can become anything they want to in America!" (which may be true to an extent), not _everyone_ can become anything they want to. It simply is not possible for everyone born in poverty to die wealthy.
"We regret the commissioners did not agree with our legal opinion, but we are not surprised..."
Heh. In other words, we knew it was illegal, and that we could make a lot of money before anyone decided to enforce the law.
<i>Trans Union has to stop selling the information or pay $2,500 for every violation.</i>
Wish criminal law worked like this for me... "Yeah, you've been consistently breaking the law since 1997, but we'll let you go without punisment, and won't bother to try to correct the harm you're illegal actions have already caused."
Could it still get there? Surely there's not enough fuel to get it away from Jupiter's influence and then to stabilize it's eventual orbit? Plus, how long would it take? Presumably, it would have to go pretty slow with what fuel it has left.
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Sony managed to overcome that stigma by getting many of Nintendo's premier game companies (like Square) to develop for them instead. (Wait... you're saying we can produce each copy of Final Fantasy for a few cents per disc?! Uh, nice knowing you Nintendo) What can MS offer developers as an incentive to abandon Sony the way that CD production costs vs. cartidge production costs convinced so many to abandon Nintendo?
Your saying my hardware was the reason that starting Outlook crashed explorer about 40% of the time?
Well, looky there. Someone seems to be annoyed by my bashing overzealous moderation... Hint: Offtopic means that a reply doesn't have anything to do with the previous message. If someone's talking about bad moderation, and then I say something about bad moderation, that's not off-topic. Now, if someone says something about cheeze whiz, and I say something about bad moderation, then that is off-topic. See the difference little moderator type personage?
Yeah, well there seems to be a bunch of moderators who've been bashing down everything remotely arguementative lately. Oh well, I'm sure after they keep getting bashed in meta-moderation, they'll either shape up or stop getting points. (I assume I'm not the only one using unfair ratings more lately?)
They have similar styles of story, but it's not always the same. I suppose if you boil them down to the extent you did, yeah the protagonist (or at least one of the major characters) is a brooding silent type, there's often a triangle (though they've become more pronounced lately, and VII had two overlapping triangles), and the world needs saving. But, hey, if you're going to be a real hero, saving the local village of 50 people just isn't as impressive as preventing the world from exploding...
yeah, ok. They manually sign every copy... Definately don't just hand a nice signature to some courier to take over to the printers (or the art guy who sends over the art with a sig imprinted on it somewheres)
A stream that doesn't leave your property? Only way I can see that is if your 'stream' is part of a river delta on your oceanfront property, in which case it still flows into the ocean, that must be owned by someone for your... scheme... to work. Ah, I see, consumner boycotts will protect us from the mega-corporations. Heh. Riiiiight... When many companies are the only source of products you want, or competing versions of the product are all produced by subsidiaries of member corporations? There's already damn few large, independant companies that are actually producing anything you or I buy. Do you actually see this as changing in the future when news of mega-mergers barely gets off the business page anymore?
All righty then. One last: what if you spill the toxic crap into the small stream that you yourself own? Are you going to sue you? How about if a whole bunch of major polluting industries get together and buy up most of the mississippi river system? (If it can be privately owned, it can & will be bought and sold)
Ever heard of a language barrier? Non-native english speakers don't always follow what you say exactly on the first try.
They had at one time been intending to put four ports is it. I remember reading early stories about it that clearly said four. Guess they just want to make sure that everyone has to drop $40 on a multi-tap again.
Oh, and about the airlines and cars thing... There's a difference between a risk that I choose to take for myself, my children, and other loved ones and risks taken by someone else that affect me & mine.
Don't forget that the CRTC loosened the rules enough that you can run uncensored music on the radio, whenever the hell you want to, and television broadcasts don't have to be bleeped at all after 9. I was very surprised when my South Park tapes were full of bleeps.
I didn't ask if it _has_ a price, I asked what it was. And I asked about more than just the price of your loved ones too...
Yeah, the CRTC has rules about Canadian content. Of course, we will be seeing the Oscars, the same as we do every year. Too bad they weren't being produced here though. There wouldn't be any issue of censoring or altering the lyrics of the song. God it's nice to live in a free country...
I apologize for any offense. That is what I was talking about. The older, conservative religous men who have recently been outsted from power by far less repressive leaders. At the same time, America has more repressive leaders gaining power.
Private property's a simple enough concept. And while your concept of a river being owned by a county or state, do you not realize that many rivers cross national boundaries? Or the fact that one river flows into another, and then into an ocean or large sea? Each continent only has a few river systems. I bet you could even name one of the major ones. Plus, you never explained how someone can own an environment. Let's say that your company has a mine near a large river. Let's then assume that since propery methods & safegards are expensive, you accidently lose a whole bunch of mecury in the river, and it flows downstream and obliterates a whole ecosystem. And, just for fun, lets say the damage is mostly done in another country. Now, who owns the river you dumped in, who owns the river that the now dead river flows into, and who owns the oceans that the final river flows into, who owns the atmospheric weather that gets formed over that ocean, and who owns the land, rivers, and lakes that the rain eventually falls on?
OK, what are your parents worth? Your children? The love of / Your love for your S.O.? Cherised belongings from your childhood? Freedom of speech? The ability to sit at home peacefully and not have someone bash down your door and sell you some crap? Your faith in whatever religion you subscribe to?
The owner of the river? The owner of the environments? Excuse me? Can I have some of what you're on?
Hmm. Maybe in ten years time, the Iranians (with their new government now) will look at the US as the represive fanatics...
statistics based on the geographic origin of inmates, the amount of money spent per capita on crime control and more importantly EDUCATION in these areas, and the crime rate would be MUCH more interesting.
Without doubt. Like I said though, America's leaders don't want to have to consider that. The more clear evidence that they get that oppression is not as effective at reducing crime as education and a generally improved standard of living would be, the harder it is for a politician to sound sincere when he says that the crackdowns on crime that get the votes really is for the best.
Ok, went and dl'd. Installed. Ran. Watched a few minutes of the first demo. Now I'm dizzy. I don't normally get dizzy from such things... maybe its because I wasn't in control of the motion.
Anyhow, looks pretty. I'll play around with it some more later, but right now, I've got to get to work...
Since some AC's can't seem to follow your point:
The US has a very high rate of imprisonment as compared to the world.
The percentage of the US prison population that is black is much higher than the percentage of the general US population.
Blacks are far more likely to be poor in the US than whites.
Now, the thing that most people don't think about (many American leaders don't _want_ to think about) Race is not the signifigant correlation to criminal activity.... economic status is! The correlation between race and imprisonment is largely due to the correlation between race and economic status. (Although bias in the system doesn't help much either) Despite the standard propaganda "anyone can become anything they want to in America!" (which may be true to an extent), not _everyone_ can become anything they want to. It simply is not possible for everyone born in poverty to die wealthy.
...end meandering rant...
"We regret the commissioners did not agree with our legal opinion, but we are not surprised..."
Heh. In other words, we knew it was illegal, and that we could make a lot of money before anyone decided to enforce the law.
<i>Trans Union has to stop selling the information or pay $2,500 for every violation.</i>
Wish criminal law worked like this for me... "Yeah, you've been consistently breaking the law since 1997, but we'll let you go without punisment, and won't bother to try to correct the harm you're illegal actions have already caused."
Could it still get there? Surely there's not enough fuel to get it away from Jupiter's influence and then to stabilize it's eventual orbit? Plus, how long would it take? Presumably, it would have to go pretty slow with what fuel it has left.
I do vote.
And, yes, theft is wrong. That's why I don't do it. The same reason I don't kill anyone. Not because it's illegal.