Hedonism... I think the word does not mean what you think it means.
Promiscuity, as far as I understand it, just means that you change partners. It does not say how often and it does not say in what situations. It therefore also does not say anything about the value of these relationships. Hedonism is supposed to be a world-view that puts the consumption at the top of one's priorities. It is supposed to be selfish.
That you equate the two shows that you either do not understand their meanings or have, in my opinion, a very unhealthy view on sex.
Even if we have an enemy whose homeland is vague, if one is detonated on US soil expect something bad to happen to anybody we suspect.
And people wonder why I think the best way to secure peace is to get rid of the US...
So what? You make glass parking lots out of Afghanistan, Iran and a few other -ans and think you win? I can tell you what would happen: Millions of people would lose their lives and even more would be contaminated in neighbouring countries or even continent wide.
A lot of those people have family, some even across the globe and, gasp, even in America. I think if you want to survive, as a nation, the best thing to do in response to a nuclear attack by a terrorist organization would be to STFU and fucking NOT retaliate. We are talking about an advanced (in terms of destruction) kind of guerilla warfare. The US has produced enough examples of how 'well' it copes with that.
It CAN be linked to obesity and obesity CAN be linked to to death and illness... but then, just about everything can be linked to anything if you know how the tweak the numbers. Some less money-grabbing studies are contradicting that.
It's just not a popular opinion among 'scientists' and it clearly is not popular among the populace.
For those who are able to read and understand German, I'd like to recommend Udo Pollmer's 'Esst endlich normal!'. Therein he quotes many studies from reputable scientific organizations, such as Harvard, that put a big, fat question mark behind this widespread assumption.
If you offer x content and there are y people downloading said contant then you need x times y the bandwidth to get it to them.
Of course there's a time factor in that calculation as well but none the less this makes for huge amounts of bandwidth. Someone has to pay for that and that cost is probably going to be much more of an impact than just hardware.
...and just assuming the summary isn't stupid, I'd say this was a good thing. 65 TB of files is... fucking huge.
THIS is what I understand when someone talks about piracy; a few individuals who move about large quantities of media content.
Now the big question would be whether they made money that way, which I assume they did. After all, how do you pay for a 65TB server with corresponding bandwidth?
Obviously, the same could be said about you and Geography. There are countries other than the US of A, you know.
But I expect you knew that. I also expect you knew that the parent was actually not a native speaker (like myself). The fact that you posted as AC makes me believe that you're most probably just some dickhead who gets off on pissing off other people.
Frankly, _I_ like my TV shows in boxes. Married... with Children is effing long and I want it to take a considerable part of my DVD rack.
If I was all about size I could just as well download everything as DivX and store it on my NAS/Mediacenter.
Also, I think prices for those should would have to come down (and would thus have much more of an impact than squeezing everything onto a single disc). I don't know how it is in America, but here they even started splitting the Star Trek seasons up in the hopes that people would buy them that way. They still don't think that the cost of 30 bucks for two or four (I'm not sure) episodes was a tad high.
I believe a show has to cost a certain amount of $. There is a price limit somewhere that people are willing to pay. If the show is very long it might move that limit a bit but it is not proportional.
Also, a lot of stuff that gets released is mastered in a very awful way. The Cosby Show, for instance, does not have the intro and outro chaptered here, making you have to fast forward and try to hit the exact moment the show starts. This wouldn't be bad if you were watching one episode at a time, but if you watch four episodes an eveing, three evenings in a row, you get highly fed up with that waste of time.
So in conclusion: Bluray discs cost somewhere around 50 to 80% more here with debatable additional value for the customer (I don't give a shit about FullHD), while production cost clearly does not reflect that price.
Technical gimmicks are usually not what Joe Average wants, I believe. Joe Average wants to be entertained with as little hassle as possible (and the more expensive, the less of it he can afford). So cut the crap with technical gimmicks already and start marketing a good cost/value proportion.
The biggest problem is that you NEVER know whether any study published is done this way or not.
I am an advocate of scientific methods, and yet I am someone who is in doubt about this whole "The earth is warming up because of us" spiel.
Now why is that? Even though I'm going to get modded troll or flamebait again, I'm going to repeat myself: Without checking procedures and facts that went into a study, you can never be sure about the results.
Face it, people, the time when scientists did their thing to broaden humankind's knowledge is over (or probably has never happened in the first place). Too many 'scientists' have been given deadlines by their institutes (or the fact that they cannot survive on air and sunshine) and must produce results that people will acknowledge one way or another.
I am not saying the earth isn't warming up. I am also not saying that we are innocent if it does. All I'm saying is that most of the 'studies' I've seen floating around the press smell fishy to me. And unless that changes, I'm rather inclined to label this stuff as simple FUD.
I'd rather we follow simple common sense and watch out for our planet because it's the frickin' right thing to do instead of running around like headless chicken being afraid of our children being cooked alive by the sun. Mindless impulsive actionism never helped anybody.
Oh yeah: Modding me down because you don't like my opinion doesn't make your opinion anymore right just as it doesn't make mine any more wrong, okay?
I can understand someone wanting to keep their cat's fur trimmed... it's just more practical that way... but do come on... shaving the cat is a bit over the top, no?
"there is a physical difference between the white and black races that will for ever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality."
Looking at the western world today,I'm not quite sure whether he wasn't actually right... I see no social and political equality.
The US now has a black president. That is cool and all, but looking back at how much his blackness was hyped in the media all around the world...
Mind, I'm not judging whether it's a bad thing or a good thing... I'm just observing.
The nice thing about greed is that it's like a drug. You have to take it further and further. One day they'll go too far and piss off so many people at the same time, that they will face not one fool with.44 but thousands of them with hammers, pitchforks, 9mms and.44s. Sure, their bodyguards are better equipped/trained but will be unbelievably outnumbered.
Problem is, people don't get riled up that easily nowadays.
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Hedonism... I think the word does not mean what you think it means.
Promiscuity, as far as I understand it, just means that you change partners. It does not say how often and it does not say in what situations. It therefore also does not say anything about the value of these relationships.
Hedonism is supposed to be a world-view that puts the consumption at the top of one's priorities. It is supposed to be selfish.
That you equate the two shows that you either do not understand their meanings or have, in my opinion, a very unhealthy view on sex.
Even if we have an enemy whose homeland is vague, if one is detonated on US soil expect something bad to happen to anybody we suspect.
And people wonder why I think the best way to secure peace is to get rid of the US...
So what? You make glass parking lots out of Afghanistan, Iran and a few other -ans and think you win? I can tell you what would happen: Millions of people would lose their lives and even more would be contaminated in neighbouring countries or even continent wide.
A lot of those people have family, some even across the globe and, gasp, even in America. I think if you want to survive, as a nation, the best thing to do in response to a nuclear attack by a terrorist organization would be to STFU and fucking NOT retaliate. We are talking about an advanced (in terms of destruction) kind of guerilla warfare. The US has produced enough examples of how 'well' it copes with that.
So what exactly speaks against opening a tracker here? The ones distributing would be the fellow British citizens, not the BBC.
It CAN be linked to obesity and obesity CAN be linked to to death and illness... but then, just about everything can be linked to anything if you know how the tweak the numbers.
Some less money-grabbing studies are contradicting that.
It's just not a popular opinion among 'scientists' and it clearly is not popular among the populace.
For those who are able to read and understand German, I'd like to recommend Udo Pollmer's 'Esst endlich normal!'. Therein he quotes many studies from reputable scientific organizations, such as Harvard, that put a big, fat question mark behind this widespread assumption.
Quota, damn it. ;)
Please excuse my mistake, obviously it's not the bandwidth I mean but the traffic quote.
If you offer x content and there are y people downloading said contant then you need x times y the bandwidth to get it to them.
Of course there's a time factor in that calculation as well but none the less this makes for huge amounts of bandwidth. Someone has to pay for that and that cost is probably going to be much more of an impact than just hardware.
...and just assuming the summary isn't stupid, I'd say this was a good thing. 65 TB of files is... fucking huge.
THIS is what I understand when someone talks about piracy; a few individuals who move about large quantities of media content.
Now the big question would be whether they made money that way, which I assume they did. After all, how do you pay for a 65TB server with corresponding bandwidth?
Wow, this comment deserves a Slashdot recode to include a +10 Insightful...
I sure hope 'wich grownup's do you blame for you're shity litterasy?' was meant as a joke...
Obviously, the same could be said about you and Geography. There are countries other than the US of A, you know.
But I expect you knew that. I also expect you knew that the parent was actually not a native speaker (like myself). The fact that you posted as AC makes me believe that you're most probably just some dickhead who gets off on pissing off other people.
Frankly, you're pathetic.
Frankly, _I_ like my TV shows in boxes. Married... with Children is effing long and I want it to take a considerable part of my DVD rack.
If I was all about size I could just as well download everything as DivX and store it on my NAS/Mediacenter.
Also, I think prices for those should would have to come down (and would thus have much more of an impact than squeezing everything onto a single disc). I don't know how it is in America, but here they even started splitting the Star Trek seasons up in the hopes that people would buy them that way. They still don't think that the cost of 30 bucks for two or four (I'm not sure) episodes was a tad high.
I believe a show has to cost a certain amount of $. There is a price limit somewhere that people are willing to pay. If the show is very long it might move that limit a bit but it is not proportional.
Also, a lot of stuff that gets released is mastered in a very awful way. The Cosby Show, for instance, does not have the intro and outro chaptered here, making you have to fast forward and try to hit the exact moment the show starts. This wouldn't be bad if you were watching one episode at a time, but if you watch four episodes an eveing, three evenings in a row, you get highly fed up with that waste of time.
So in conclusion: Bluray discs cost somewhere around 50 to 80% more here with debatable additional value for the customer (I don't give a shit about FullHD), while production cost clearly does not reflect that price.
Technical gimmicks are usually not what Joe Average wants, I believe. Joe Average wants to be entertained with as little hassle as possible (and the more expensive, the less of it he can afford). So cut the crap with technical gimmicks already and start marketing a good cost/value proportion.
Oh and who said anything about double layer DVDs, eh? :)
Didn't they say teraBIT?
The biggest problem is that you NEVER know whether any study published is done this way or not.
I am an advocate of scientific methods, and yet I am someone who is in doubt about this whole "The earth is warming up because of us" spiel.
Now why is that? Even though I'm going to get modded troll or flamebait again, I'm going to repeat myself: Without checking procedures and facts that went into a study, you can never be sure about the results.
Face it, people, the time when scientists did their thing to broaden humankind's knowledge is over (or probably has never happened in the first place). Too many 'scientists' have been given deadlines by their institutes (or the fact that they cannot survive on air and sunshine) and must produce results that people will acknowledge one way or another.
I am not saying the earth isn't warming up. I am also not saying that we are innocent if it does. All I'm saying is that most of the 'studies' I've seen floating around the press smell fishy to me. And unless that changes, I'm rather inclined to label this stuff as simple FUD.
I'd rather we follow simple common sense and watch out for our planet because it's the frickin' right thing to do instead of running around like headless chicken being afraid of our children being cooked alive by the sun. Mindless impulsive actionism never helped anybody.
Oh yeah: Modding me down because you don't like my opinion doesn't make your opinion anymore right just as it doesn't make mine any more wrong, okay?
Lucky for them that science is outdated and we nowadays only have a religion left that we happen to call 'science'. Makes everything so much easier.
*cough cough* cheaters *cough cough* ;)
For some people, the difference is marginal ;)
My ex HTC P3300 charged just fine over USB.
Ah, you mean like the N95 8GB that lets me connect with a standard mini usb cable but will not charge over the same?
I can understand someone wanting to keep their cat's fur trimmed... it's just more practical that way... but do come on... shaving the cat is a bit over the top, no?
"there is a physical difference between the white and black races that will for ever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality."
Looking at the western world today,I'm not quite sure whether he wasn't actually right... I see no social and political equality.
The US now has a black president. That is cool and all, but looking back at how much his blackness was hyped in the media all around the world...
Mind, I'm not judging whether it's a bad thing or a good thing... I'm just observing.
I know a guy who's going to need a strong drink today... poor sod.
No, we're not.
The nice thing about greed is that it's like a drug. You have to take it further and further. One day they'll go too far and piss off so many people at the same time, that they will face not one fool with .44 but thousands of them with hammers, pitchforks, 9mms and .44s. Sure, their bodyguards are better equipped/trained but will be unbelievably outnumbered.
Problem is, people don't get riled up that easily nowadays.
As in Lockheed Martin?