A three armed man might be able to hold enough guns to defend himself against this heinous oppression. A four armed man would have an even better chance.
You and I have only two arms on us. We cannot stop this thing.
That implies you cut spending or increase revenue.... Otherwise borrowing a trillion a year will get you in trouble real quick... As will interest rates climbing from historical lows.
We spent 430 billion on interest on the debt last year, and that number will grow with the debt, until all revenue is consumed by interest on the debt.
Speak for yourself. The more ways we have to make fun of each other, the better, IMHO. As a person of color (pink),I don't find honkey jokes funny, but I wouldn't deny them to those who do.
So, back to the republicans then? The creators of the TSA and Department of Homeland Security?
You're laboring under the delusion that this can be fixed by working within the system. Go ahead and vote... I hope you get what you want, so that in 2 years you can see that you've been lied to by your idols. Again.
The one that does all this for me, without my having to write, maintain, and police my payment system. The one that has the store that markets my apps for me across most of the planet. The one that builds devices specifically for the purpose of running apps like mine, devices that work correctly and aren't fragmented all to hell, saving me thousands in equipment purchases, and hundreds of hours of support and chasing down odd bugs. The one that has some shred of piracy protection. The one that has a userbase that is generally appreciative of what I make, instead of constantly bitching that the product isn't free, or doesn't work their their knockoff $99 tablet that can't run an OS newer than 3 years old, and using that as a justification to pirate.
I make games for a living. I have no interest in fucking around with fulfillment and accounting systems.
I'd like to see that come down as more competition enters the market, but I make good money the way it stands. If there's a better alternative, I'll be all over it. Until then 30% is fair, and helluva lot lower than the 70-80% publishers want to put your game in a box and ship it around the country.
It was as late as the 80s in Wyoming. Drinking age was 19, there was no open container law, and you could buy mixed drinks from a drive up window. I don't know if there were more accidents or not, but there was definitely a lot more drinking and driving back then, from my experience. I got a DUI back then, and it was $100 ticket.
It ends up costing 10-15k now, so I have to think that's more of a deterrent.
There's a group of people I want to stake my income on... the ones that find fault with everything and use that to justify enjoying your work without paying you.
Oh FFS.... how hard is it to use the iTunes client, or Amazon or any of the many, many other options? For geeks, you guys sure are pussies when it comes to using software.
Or wait... maybe you're just too fucking poor/cheap to pay, and are desperate to gin up whatever excuse you can to steal things you could easily live without or obtain free alternatives to from people that are happy to provide them for free.
Instead, you steal the corporate shit, starve the generous people of attention, and then bitch about how it's the evil corporation's fault that you're forced to break the law to get your sweaty mitts on the latest Lady Gaga record.
Fuck you, and everybody like you. You're not fooling anyone but yourselves.
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Other people are perfectly free to dream up their own innovative characters. Nintendo does not have a monopoly on this process.
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A three armed man might be able to hold enough guns to defend himself against this heinous oppression. A four armed man would have an even better chance.
You and I have only two arms on us. We cannot stop this thing.
Melodrama is so much fun!
...or maybe you could accept the fact that you really aren't interesting enough to track.
We don't appear to be having the same conversation.
What semantic twiddlery is this? Not knowing that the device you carry tracks your every move isn't a problem?
Sounds like their problem, not yours or mine.
No, but you can log the data yourself.
So get rid of the cel phone if it bothers you that much. You know damn good and well SOMEBODY is going to track that location data, legally or not.
No? Then it doesn't bother you that much.
Don't act based on how things should be. Act based on how they are.
...because you, and millions like you, will pay it, because you think you can't live without a cel phone. Same as all the other weird fees.
That implies you cut spending or increase revenue.... Otherwise borrowing a trillion a year will get you in trouble real quick... As will interest rates climbing from historical lows.
We spent 430 billion on interest on the debt last year, and that number will grow with the debt, until all revenue is consumed by interest on the debt.
What happens then?
Any child that had seen an old minstrel show could connect the dots. I suspect the number of such children is in the dozens.
Speak for yourself. The more ways we have to make fun of each other, the better, IMHO. As a person of color (pink),I don't find honkey jokes funny, but I wouldn't deny them to those who do.
So, back to the republicans then? The creators of the TSA and Department of Homeland Security?
You're laboring under the delusion that this can be fixed by working within the system. Go ahead and vote... I hope you get what you want, so that in 2 years you can see that you've been lied to by your idols. Again.
God is supposed to be omnipotent. He can get off his ass and do his own work.
Welcome to the future. 600MB is a tiny, squeaking fart of data.
The one that does all this for me, without my having to write, maintain, and police my payment system.
The one that has the store that markets my apps for me across most of the planet.
The one that builds devices specifically for the purpose of running apps like mine, devices that work correctly and aren't fragmented all to hell, saving me thousands in equipment purchases, and hundreds of hours of support and chasing down odd bugs.
The one that has some shred of piracy protection.
The one that has a userbase that is generally appreciative of what I make, instead of constantly bitching that the product isn't free, or doesn't work their their knockoff $99 tablet that can't run an OS newer than 3 years old, and using that as a justification to pirate.
I make games for a living. I have no interest in fucking around with fulfillment and accounting systems.
I'd like to see that come down as more competition enters the market, but I make good money the way it stands. If there's a better alternative, I'll be all over it. Until then 30% is fair, and helluva lot lower than the 70-80% publishers want to put your game in a box and ship it around the country.
If only there were a widely adopted optical media format that held ten times what a CD-ROM does, or a method for booting from USB drives...
It was as late as the 80s in Wyoming. Drinking age was 19, there was no open container law, and you could buy mixed drinks from a drive up window. I don't know if there were more accidents or not, but there was definitely a lot more drinking and driving back then, from my experience. I got a DUI back then, and it was $100 ticket.
It ends up costing 10-15k now, so I have to think that's more of a deterrent.
"Offered in the right spirit"?
There's a group of people I want to stake my income on... the ones that find fault with everything and use that to justify enjoying your work without paying you.
But it's open! It's free! You want it to WORK too? Ingrate!
Oh FFS.... how hard is it to use the iTunes client, or Amazon or any of the many, many other options? For geeks, you guys sure are pussies when it comes to using software.
Or wait... maybe you're just too fucking poor/cheap to pay, and are desperate to gin up whatever excuse you can to steal things you could easily live without or obtain free alternatives to from people that are happy to provide them for free.
Instead, you steal the corporate shit, starve the generous people of attention, and then bitch about how it's the evil corporation's fault that you're forced to break the law to get your sweaty mitts on the latest Lady Gaga record.
Fuck you, and everybody like you. You're not fooling anyone but yourselves.
"They often don't chat to each other. They talk about themselves and hopefully get a lot of people telling them how awesome they are "
In other words, they behave pretty much the same way they do face to face.