They don't need to require it, instead they guilt/brainwash you into making you think that the pastor doesn't make enough money, so the poor poor church needs your funds.. which then of course make their way to the Vatican, which has no government oversight and is in fact the largest financial institution in the world.
Scientology just gets picked on because it's not widely accepted. Other religions like Christianity are just as far off base.
This just comes from having 8 hard drives on my XP machine.. I always turn off write chaching and it bothers me that it's enabled by default on my non USB drives..
GoDaddy's been doing this for a long time. They suspended one of my business domains based on a single complaint by some random guy, then charged me $200 to allow me to transfer the domain to another registrar. Extortion? Yeah. Against ICANNs rules? Yeah. Do they get away with it? Yeah.
Then again, i called mastercard and told them i didn't authorize that charge, so they didn't get that $200 from me.
They're also implementing practices that are pissing purchasing customers off like crazy.
I see at least 1 movie in theaters per week, often two.
I pay $11 to sit through 5 tv commercials followed by 6 trailer commercials as well as about 8 studio commercials. Then i sit through a commercial telling me that piracy is illegal and that i could go to jail. This delightful process then takes up 30 minutes of my life that i PAID FOR. This isn't entertainment, this is crap that I don't want and am pissed of by it.
To top it off ushers from the movie theater then walk up and down the isles during the movie with infra-red binoculars in order to seek out pirates with video cameras, which disturbs everyone in the theater.
But hey, it's the pirates fault that the movie industry is losing profits, right? It clearly has nothing to do with the absurd practices put forth by the MPAA.
That's cool then, I was reading about it and all I saw as being new in the game was a few updates.. good to know..
I made those comments based on the fact that (I own every blizzard game dating back to warcraft 1) their "expansions" are almost always the same thing: new levels and 2 new characters..
warcraft2: the dark portal starcraft: brood wars diablo 2: Lord of Destruction
are all prime examples of this. I was under the impression that this WoW expansion was just that. Then again, a new world is quite a bit of work..
This $50 expansion is basically a big patch for their game. Look at what they added.. basically they fixed a bunch of problems with the game, does that warrant $50?
This helps microsoft hold their monopoly. If users got tired of dealing with a bug ridden OS with tons of security flaws, they'd move on to a better product.
Do you think connection speeds are going to remain at their current levels?
Right now I've got a cable connection that can download at over 1MB/sec.. sure an HD movie might be big, but I could probably download it (buffered) in about an hour.. which is only slightly longer than if i went to the video store and rented it..
Why stop there? Why not kill the use of 'AJAX' which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, since when does "and" ever get included in the acronym? Besides the fact that "AJAX" is really just Javascript, while making use of one particular function: XMLHttpRequest...... this deserves a special title?
Didn't he already override the supreme court with the military commissions act when it came to their ability to take on lawsuits from prisoners in gitmo?
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You know, the Catholic church makes a lot more money than the church of Scientology..
a religion is a set of beliefs in a supernatural being and a set of rules on how to live your life..
Just because a judge says they're not a religion, doesn't mean they aren't.
They don't need to require it, instead they guilt/brainwash you into making you think that the pastor doesn't make enough money, so the poor poor church needs your funds.. which then of course make their way to the Vatican, which has no government oversight and is in fact the largest financial institution in the world.
Scientology just gets picked on because it's not widely accepted. Other religions like Christianity are just as far off base.
This just comes from having 8 hard drives on my XP machine.. I always turn off write chaching and it bothers me that it's enabled by default on my non USB drives..
Write Caching is only off by default in XP on USB drives, not internal drives.
You did notice who published this interview right? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16934083/site/newsweek /
Allow me to highlight the notable characters in the domain name: www.msnbc.msn.com
it wasn't the "lameness filter" that caused you to not get first post..
http://www.plumbingsupply.com/images/handpump.jpg ?
"Hence it isn't unknown for people to turn up 30 minutes after the published start time of the movie."
I live in a big city, if i show up 30 minutes late for a movie, I can guarrantee I'll be watching the movie from the front row.
You wouldn't be able to get it for free if some people didn't pay for it.
Also, this new cell phone deal is pretty sweet, not I can download porn on the bus!
GoDaddy's been doing this for a long time. They suspended one of my business domains based on a single complaint by some random guy, then charged me $200 to allow me to transfer the domain to another registrar. Extortion? Yeah. Against ICANNs rules? Yeah. Do they get away with it? Yeah.
Then again, i called mastercard and told them i didn't authorize that charge, so they didn't get that $200 from me.
They're also implementing practices that are pissing purchasing customers off like crazy.
I see at least 1 movie in theaters per week, often two.
I pay $11 to sit through 5 tv commercials followed by 6 trailer commercials as well as about 8 studio commercials. Then i sit through a commercial telling me that piracy is illegal and that i could go to jail. This delightful process then takes up 30 minutes of my life that i PAID FOR. This isn't entertainment, this is crap that I don't want and am pissed of by it.
To top it off ushers from the movie theater then walk up and down the isles during the movie with infra-red binoculars in order to seek out pirates with video cameras, which disturbs everyone in the theater.
But hey, it's the pirates fault that the movie industry is losing profits, right? It clearly has nothing to do with the absurd practices put forth by the MPAA.
Hmm, seems to me this practice applies to a lot more than just cell carriers.. maximizing profits tends to apply to most businesses these days.
Meh, come next elections the liberals will be back in power, they're spineless and will cave under public pressure to get rid of any such drm laws..
That's cool then, I was reading about it and all I saw as being new in the game was a few updates.. good to know..
I made those comments based on the fact that (I own every blizzard game dating back to warcraft 1) their "expansions" are almost always the same thing: new levels and 2 new characters..
warcraft2: the dark portal
starcraft: brood wars
diablo 2: Lord of Destruction
are all prime examples of this. I was under the impression that this WoW expansion was just that. Then again, a new world is quite a bit of work..
"It isn't just more of the same old shit."
So you're saying WoW is "old shit"?
You forgot to point out their expansions..
This $50 expansion is basically a big patch for their game. Look at what they added.. basically they fixed a bunch of problems with the game, does that warrant $50?
forget all that..
how you supposed to take a pee while wearing that thing?
Helping the users? Not really..
This helps microsoft hold their monopoly. If users got tired of dealing with a bug ridden OS with tons of security flaws, they'd move on to a better product.
This helps microsoft alone.
I suppose backing up is out of the question for you?
I double up all my hard drives specifically for backup/mirroring.
Do you think connection speeds are going to remain at their current levels?
.. sure an HD movie might be big, but I could probably download it (buffered) in about an hour.. which is only slightly longer than if i went to the video store and rented it..
Right now I've got a cable connection that can download at over 1MB/sec
Consumers really don't care at this point.
Seagate announces Hard Drives will be at 300TB in a few years, what do we even need these formats for? DRM? yaaaaay!
I 100% blame religion since it promotes actions based entirely on believing and faith and not on logic or critical thinking.
Dismissing facts for fiction will only lead people to do stupid things and even dangerous things, like killing others who disagree with you.
Why stop there? Why not kill the use of 'AJAX' which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, since when does "and" ever get included in the acronym? Besides the fact that "AJAX" is really just Javascript, while making use of one particular function: XMLHttpRequest ...... this deserves a special title?
In other news, Slashdot's new most popular tag is "slownewsday"..
Didn't he already override the supreme court with the military commissions act when it came to their ability to take on lawsuits from prisoners in gitmo?