So I guess the real question now is what PS3 functionality Sony is going to cripple in the next forced upgrade to try to defeat this.
Maybe they'll remove Home, Netflix support, Playstation Plus, PS Move, 3D BluRay, 3D Game support, Photo printing, Hulu support, MLB network, trophies, in-game XMB, facebook integration, recording in-game movies, uploading movies to youtube.
Oh wait, no, that's all stuff they've added. For free.
Had a solar installation done recently to prepare. Sure, electricity is cheaper than gasoline, but free beats both. And I'll be helping the grid, rather than hurting it.
You have entered into the brave new world of privatized America. Do not attempt to adjust your internet experience. We will control all that you see and hear.
Yeah, it was much better when website advertising was run by the government.
I was entirely prepared to let him go in general. I thought that was what I was going to Canada to do, honestly. I wasn't okay with letting him go 72 hours post-arrest when his condition was far from stable. If he had stabilized at a point requiring millions in care and apparatus to keep him alive with no quality of life, I would have been okay with letting him go then as well.
As it is, he'll get to see his granddaughters who are three and five and they will be able to form stronger memories of him. Entirely worth it in my opinion. Is that selfish? Maybe. But I think it's fair to make that choice for my family.
Is that the same people who will cry that we should question climate change science will rush to accept this study on the face of it.
Of course, that works in reverse. The same people who say we should "trust the experts because we don't have degrees in this", will be first in line to question it.
My father just had a heart attack on vacation and was in critical care in a Canadian hospital, one of their best. We're Americans. After 72 hours in a medically induced coma they told us he had suffered massive brain damage and would never live independently. They pushed a DNR order and removal of his breathing tube for the next 2 days. Hard. I recorded the interactions with the doctors on my cell phone.
My sister and I fought the entire medical team for two days, after which he regained slight signs of consciousness. Two days later, four days after they had written him off, he was walking. The long term effect has been loss of feeling in his right heel. He's now at home and doing fine and will get to spend some extra time with his grandchildren. He's only 72.
I am absolutely convinced if we were Canadians we would have buried him. They treated us like we were insane for wanting to keep him alive for another two weeks to observe any changes. All the healthcare professionals we spoke with in the US said 72 hours was way too soon.
So I'm damn glad I didn't "throw in the towel". All I wanted was to wait a few more days for his condition to stabilize before pumping him full of morphine and yanking his life support thank you very much.
As I had to look up Joe Konrath (in order to verify it wasn't my typical ignorance). I'm not a big fiction reader. I'll go with the "relative unknown increases circulation" portion of my speculation.
For someone/thing that is already well known, it doesn't seem that word of mouth push would help.
Do you have any actual evidence that high sales have reduced because of "piracy"? Such a thing always seems assumed and never clearly documented (as this story documents the increase in sales following "piracy").
Nope. I'm just theorizing in a random comment on a message board.
It is, unfortunately, difficult to prove in an existing high sales environment.
Control? no not in control. They barely have majority, but REP filibuster pretty much everything to death. There hand where tied as the previous republican majority mistake continued to ride. The tax measure that's expiring will not add any more jobs whether or not it expires.
I'm curious why the Republicans have been able to block the Senate with a historically significant minority, but the Democrats weren't able to block anything when the Republicans held the slimmest of majorities, or even none at all?
If it is a matter of the Democrats having no backbone or order, then how does voting for them help anything?
The GP informed us that most German homes are built with solar panels, and you know damn well that not even a tiny percentage of American homes are, nor will this be the case five years from now no matter what Obama or you do.
No, I don't know that damn well. Sorry. Also, the GP said solar water, not solar photovoltaic. Every home improvement store has large solar displays here in San Diego.
Or, to put it another way:
If you were given a chance to bet on whether a random American house builder would have solar panels installed or not, it would be smart of you to generalize that Americans don't give half a damn about the environment, and bet accordingly.
I don't give half a damn about "saving the environment" with solar panels. I don't buy man-made global warming (or climate change or whatever it goes by nowadays). Even if I did I'm not convinced that buying and installing solar panels is a net carbon "win". I do think free electricity is a good long term investment in the value of my home. I do think that gasoline vehicles are loud, smelly, and will ultimately be less reliable than electrics. I do think it will be nice when there are fewer of them making smog and noise. But make no mistake, I'm doing this for no one but myself and wouldn't be doing it if the price math didn't ultimately pencil out well in my favor. And as the GP said, German homes have it because it is efficient, not because they are trying to save the environment.
I think the reason that some Americans are so opposed to renewable energy is that they have been beat over the head with nebulous claims of global warming catastrophe rather than shown the direct benefits I listed above. They have been told time and again how evil they are for simply living their lives. The smug that comes off some people is palpable and disgusting.
I am curious, not trying to bust your chops or anything but how can you justify the cost on something that will never pay a return? I cannot see it ever being a good investment at todays prices at least.
I've investigated it every couple years for the last ten since I got my house. You are correct two years ago it did not pencil out very well. It would have taken 20 to 30 to pay back which is the lifetime of the system. Then a funny thing happened... panel prices dropped! And energy prices rose!
After rebates a 2kw system will cost me $10,500 ($15K before), and save me a little under $1,000 a year, conservatively. Electricity ain't cheap in San Diego, but sunshine is. This pays me back in 11 years if energy prices don't rise. If they rise at current rates it is significantly less than that, around 8. In 30 years the system will have lost 15% efficiency (that's the advertised lifespan), and be net $25-50K depending on how you project energy prices. Secondly, I am planning on getting an electric car in a few years given they look like they are starting to come together. The system is expandable to 4kw, of which just 1kw would cover the energy used by my car. So once I get that going, no more trips to the gas station. Lastly, as a father with two young daughters, it will be nice in ten years not to have to cringe every time I see a light on in an empty room or hear a blow dryer running for 45 minutes at a time!
I'm sorry you were marked troll. It seemed like an honest question I would have asked before I did my last round of investigation. I am absolutely not doing this to "save the planet". It is a long term monetary investment for me.
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So I guess the real question now is what PS3 functionality Sony is going to cripple in the next forced upgrade to try to defeat this.
Maybe they'll remove Home, Netflix support, Playstation Plus, PS Move, 3D BluRay, 3D Game support, Photo printing, Hulu support, MLB network, trophies, in-game XMB, facebook integration, recording in-game movies, uploading movies to youtube.
Oh wait, no, that's all stuff they've added. For free.
Then you'll be avoiding any other life-extending medical treatments to get you living past historical lifespans of thirty or so, right?
Or did you just pick a different arbitrary number and decide that's the right age of death?
Had a solar installation done recently to prepare. Sure, electricity is cheaper than gasoline, but free beats both. And I'll be helping the grid, rather than hurting it.
Really? Then why have real wages been stagnant for over a decade - for everyone?
They haven't been stagnant for the people to where the jobs are moving.
There's no reason we deserve a job any more than anyone else in the world.
Ryan Howard already has this up and running...it's called Wuphf! [wuphf.com]
Yeah, but they'll be out of funding a week from today!
In one class, the teacher scheduled five midterms.
Apparently he doesn't know what midterm means either.
Which makes this phone's release an art project, not part of a business plan.
"There's a sucker born every minute." is an entirely valid business plan.
I'm thinking you are a parent, is that true?
Speaking as the parent of a 5 year old, more often than I like I imagine shooting a 5 year old as justifiable homicide.
You have entered into the brave new world of privatized America. Do not attempt to adjust your internet experience. We will control all that you see and hear.
Yeah, it was much better when website advertising was run by the government.
I was entirely prepared to let him go in general. I thought that was what I was going to Canada to do, honestly. I wasn't okay with letting him go 72 hours post-arrest when his condition was far from stable. If he had stabilized at a point requiring millions in care and apparatus to keep him alive with no quality of life, I would have been okay with letting him go then as well.
As it is, he'll get to see his granddaughters who are three and five and they will be able to form stronger memories of him. Entirely worth it in my opinion. Is that selfish? Maybe. But I think it's fair to make that choice for my family.
Is that the same people who will cry that we should question climate change science will rush to accept this study on the face of it.
Of course, that works in reverse. The same people who say we should "trust the experts because we don't have degrees in this", will be first in line to question it.
Ahhh, partisan hypocrisy, may you never die.
My father just had a heart attack on vacation and was in critical care in a Canadian hospital, one of their best. We're Americans. After 72 hours in a medically induced coma they told us he had suffered massive brain damage and would never live independently. They pushed a DNR order and removal of his breathing tube for the next 2 days. Hard. I recorded the interactions with the doctors on my cell phone.
My sister and I fought the entire medical team for two days, after which he regained slight signs of consciousness. Two days later, four days after they had written him off, he was walking. The long term effect has been loss of feeling in his right heel. He's now at home and doing fine and will get to spend some extra time with his grandchildren. He's only 72.
I am absolutely convinced if we were Canadians we would have buried him. They treated us like we were insane for wanting to keep him alive for another two weeks to observe any changes. All the healthcare professionals we spoke with in the US said 72 hours was way too soon.
So I'm damn glad I didn't "throw in the towel". All I wanted was to wait a few more days for his condition to stabilize before pumping him full of morphine and yanking his life support thank you very much.
Guess who's next on the don't fly list!
3. Reminds me of moronic and illegal paper 'butterfly ballot' used in Florida not that long ago. Can't we get competent people to design these things?
It is a government project after all...
...we should have voted for McCain!
u don't have a god given right to make money off of something you do, the people decide when, where and why you get to make that money.
You also don't have a god given right to clean air, water, and food free of rat feces.
The people (ie: society) gives us those rights through government.
Are you assuming this or do you have data to back this up?
You see where it says 'I think'?
Yeah, that would make it my opinion.
As I had to look up Joe Konrath (in order to verify it wasn't my typical ignorance). I'm not a big fiction reader. I'll go with the "relative unknown increases circulation" portion of my speculation.
For someone/thing that is already well known, it doesn't seem that word of mouth push would help.
Do you have any actual evidence that high sales have reduced because of "piracy"? Such a thing always seems assumed and never clearly documented (as this story documents the increase in sales following "piracy").
Nope. I'm just theorizing in a random comment on a message board.
It is, unfortunately, difficult to prove in an existing high sales environment.
I "dig" the "quotes" on ""piracy"", though.
Those with high sales would see them reduce, and relative unknowns would see them increase.
Thus the resistance at the high end, and embracing at the lower end.
Because it keeps the Republitards from doing even stupider crap.
Apparently it doesn't.
Despite what fanatical libertarians around here may say, this is exactly the sort of situations unions are for.
Libertarians aren't against Unions, after all, they're just voluntary associations of people.
It's the various laws around them (not right to vote by secret ballot, forced participation to work, forced dues), that gives them the heebee jeebees.
Control? no not in control. They barely have majority, but REP filibuster pretty much everything to death. There hand where tied as the previous republican majority mistake continued to ride. The tax measure that's expiring will not add any more jobs whether or not it expires.
I'm curious why the Republicans have been able to block the Senate with a historically significant minority, but the Democrats weren't able to block anything when the Republicans held the slimmest of majorities, or even none at all?
If it is a matter of the Democrats having no backbone or order, then how does voting for them help anything?
The GP informed us that most German homes are built with solar panels, and you know damn well that not even a tiny percentage of American homes are, nor will this be the case five years from now no matter what Obama or you do.
No, I don't know that damn well. Sorry. Also, the GP said solar water, not solar photovoltaic. Every home improvement store has large solar displays here in San Diego.
Or, to put it another way: If you were given a chance to bet on whether a random American house builder would have solar panels installed or not, it would be smart of you to generalize that Americans don't give half a damn about the environment, and bet accordingly.
I don't give half a damn about "saving the environment" with solar panels. I don't buy man-made global warming (or climate change or whatever it goes by nowadays). Even if I did I'm not convinced that buying and installing solar panels is a net carbon "win". I do think free electricity is a good long term investment in the value of my home. I do think that gasoline vehicles are loud, smelly, and will ultimately be less reliable than electrics. I do think it will be nice when there are fewer of them making smog and noise. But make no mistake, I'm doing this for no one but myself and wouldn't be doing it if the price math didn't ultimately pencil out well in my favor. And as the GP said, German homes have it because it is efficient, not because they are trying to save the environment.
I think the reason that some Americans are so opposed to renewable energy is that they have been beat over the head with nebulous claims of global warming catastrophe rather than shown the direct benefits I listed above. They have been told time and again how evil they are for simply living their lives. The smug that comes off some people is palpable and disgusting.
I am curious, not trying to bust your chops or anything but how can you justify the cost on something that will never pay a return? I cannot see it ever being a good investment at todays prices at least.
I've investigated it every couple years for the last ten since I got my house. You are correct two years ago it did not pencil out very well. It would have taken 20 to 30 to pay back which is the lifetime of the system. Then a funny thing happened... panel prices dropped! And energy prices rose!
After rebates a 2kw system will cost me $10,500 ($15K before), and save me a little under $1,000 a year, conservatively. Electricity ain't cheap in San Diego, but sunshine is. This pays me back in 11 years if energy prices don't rise. If they rise at current rates it is significantly less than that, around 8. In 30 years the system will have lost 15% efficiency (that's the advertised lifespan), and be net $25-50K depending on how you project energy prices. Secondly, I am planning on getting an electric car in a few years given they look like they are starting to come together. The system is expandable to 4kw, of which just 1kw would cover the energy used by my car. So once I get that going, no more trips to the gas station. Lastly, as a father with two young daughters, it will be nice in ten years not to have to cringe every time I see a light on in an empty room or hear a blow dryer running for 45 minutes at a time!
I'm sorry you were marked troll. It seemed like an honest question I would have asked before I did my last round of investigation. I am absolutely not doing this to "save the planet". It is a long term monetary investment for me.