Your threat to stop buying something from us that you currently don't buy at all provided us with a fantastic laugh at the friday afternoon executive meeting.
Dear EA Executive,
We each spend well in excess of $400/yr on games, none of which will be going to you.
Maybe the consoles, but those are usually sold at a loss to get people to buy games. When it comes to HDTV... I don't know about you, but I don't see someone shelling out $7,000 as being price sensitive when a larger screen DLP projection TV goes for thousands less.
consoles are driven by available games and have a perceived maximum price (probably around $300). They are not, for the most part, sold at a loss. That would be illegal for Sony to do. Also, I saw a nice HDTV LCD for $4k over at best buy last week.
Think wages will rise that quickly? Not under this administration... all the jobs being created are min-wage.
If the dollar drops, then it will become more economical to manufacture products locally. We don't have the capacity to do that for everything, but we can always build more factories.
Well... your bias towards the issue is sub-consciously evident by use of the phrase "not matter how you help the natives or what you do for them, they will hate you for being their master."
You're confusing the bias inherent in the phrase with my own.
While abortion is abominable, even in my eyes (partial birth particularly so)
What's so bad about partial birth abortion? It's primarily used for severe hydrocephalics. The fetus has a head the size of a basketball and is in no way viable.
What I find most ridiculous is that the same group of people who said that a black man is less than a white man and that kidnapping and enslaving africans was the "white man's burden" are the same group who pretend that they are the worlds single moral authority, and claim that as the basis for everything they are for.
What does 'white man's burden' have to do with Africa? It refers to the fact that, in India, back in the days of the british empire, not matter how you help the natives or what you do for them, they will hate you for being their master. Just like today, where, no matter what we do for Iraq, they will hate us and want us gone because we are foreigners occupying their country.
Of course, anyone can get a child of their own without any vetting at all by the state - assuming they can find a willing partner. I wonder if we will see articles worried that this provide an easy way for a paedophile to gain access to a child?
That's why my step father married my mother. Turns out, she was wife #6.
The age of consent in the Vatican City is 12, technically not necessarily "teen" sex.
Altar boy jokes aside, how many kids are in the Vatican in the first place? Also, if you were an American and went to the vatican to screw a teenager (rather than Amsterdam), you could still be prosecuted by US authorities. I imagine that other countries have similar laws.
With recent advances in optical storage (I don't mean bluray, I mean optical "chips" that resemble star treks Isolinear technology) x86 won't be able to keep up.
How do you figure? x86 is just an instruction set. If you were to slap an x86 decode onto a power5 chip, you could probably get most of the native speed of the normal instruction set. The rest is a matter of different underlying assumptions. If you wrote x86 code to the frankenstein processor I describe, it'd probably be about the same speed.
Remember he's saying to buy it instead of making it. So, instead of inventing the tires with the perfect tread for the path you want to take, you're probably better off sticking to the existing roads and getting your wheels from goodyear.
That would first require you to build a road to wherever you're going. It may be cheaper to build some special wheels and suspension than to build and maintain another road. Oh, and Goodyear makes tires, not wheels.
Look at the statistics. People who get college degrees do much better financially in life.
I've looked at the stats - people who go to college do better, but it doesn't matter much where they go, so long as it's at least decent.
The problem is that not everybody is suited to college, nor should they be - if it isn't for you (and that's your choice), then there's still quite a bit of opportunity. For instance, you could join a trade. The world needs ditch diggers, but it also needs plumbers.
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The Zero Liability policy covers all Visa credit and debit card transactions processed over the Visa network"
So, how is a swipe at the grocery store (which goes over non-Visa networks) covered?
Your threat to stop buying something from us that you currently don't buy at all provided us with a fantastic laugh at the friday afternoon executive meeting.
Dear EA Executive,
We each spend well in excess of $400/yr on games, none of which will be going to you.
Choke on a dick,
25,000 guys just like EZmagz
No, it can take five, at the very longest.
I'm inclined to disagree, seeing as how you linked to visa, and the GP was talking about debit cards.
Kind of like Apple?
Apple delivers value for price and doesn't really charge that much more in the first place.
Maybe the consoles, but those are usually sold at a loss to get people to buy games. When it comes to HDTV... I don't know about you, but I don't see someone shelling out $7,000 as being price sensitive when a larger screen DLP projection TV goes for thousands less.
consoles are driven by available games and have a perceived maximum price (probably around $300). They are not, for the most part, sold at a loss. That would be illegal for Sony to do. Also, I saw a nice HDTV LCD for $4k over at best buy last week.
Depends on the context.
No, not really. The metaphor refers to attching a carrot to a stick and using it to lead an ass around.
As a manager, I find that I am having to balance the carrot and the stick, so that I can get the job done, but without killing my people.
<nit>You use the stick to hold the carrot.</nit>You should probably credit the Dead Milkmen for that
No can do. 120 char limit is teh suck.
We do build cars in america, in fact AFAIK All cars are sold in the US domestically are required to have been built in the US.
Nope. My car is built in Japan. Ferraris are certainly built in Italy.
Think wages will rise that quickly? Not under this administration... all the jobs being created are min-wage.
If the dollar drops, then it will become more economical to manufacture products locally. We don't have the capacity to do that for everything, but we can always build more factories.
I use a password of infinite length.
Must be a bitch to type it in...
Well... your bias towards the issue is sub-consciously evident by use of the phrase "not matter how you help the natives or what you do for them, they will hate you for being their master."
You're confusing the bias inherent in the phrase with my own.
While abortion is abominable, even in my eyes (partial birth particularly so)
What's so bad about partial birth abortion? It's primarily used for severe hydrocephalics. The fetus has a head the size of a basketball and is in no way viable.
What I find most ridiculous is that the same group of people who said that a black man is less than a white man and that kidnapping and enslaving africans was the "white man's burden" are the same group who pretend that they are the worlds single moral authority, and claim that as the basis for everything they are for.
What does 'white man's burden' have to do with Africa? It refers to the fact that, in India, back in the days of the british empire, not matter how you help the natives or what you do for them, they will hate you for being their master. Just like today, where, no matter what we do for Iraq, they will hate us and want us gone because we are foreigners occupying their country.
Because if you believe that life begins at conception, then the fertilized eggs are in fact children, and precious lifeforms.
Children are precious. Eggs are not - you have a large supply of those.
It's times like these that I ask myself: what would Brian Boytano do?
Fight the evil robot king and save the human race again?
A bullet is less than a dollar. Besides you would put kids future whole life at risk to save a few theoretical dollars???
Yes, let's shoot all accused child molesters. Speaking of which, I saw you groping an 11 year old the other day.
Of course, anyone can get a child of their own without any vetting at all by the state - assuming they can find a willing partner. I wonder if we will see articles worried that this provide an easy way for a paedophile to gain access to a child?
That's why my step father married my mother. Turns out, she was wife #6.
Centuries ago, people used to legally own slaves. Doesn't make it right.
People own slaves today. Does that mean you should allow 2 13 year old boys to get married?
The age of consent in the Vatican City is 12, technically not necessarily "teen" sex.
Altar boy jokes aside, how many kids are in the Vatican in the first place? Also, if you were an American and went to the vatican to screw a teenager (rather than Amsterdam), you could still be prosecuted by US authorities. I imagine that other countries have similar laws.
Not only that, it's the kernel!
No, BSD is the kernel. The NeXt/OSX connection is in the application architecture.
Let's not forget nearly all of the console manufacturers lose money on the boxes hoping to make up the loss on software (game) sales.
Let's see... Dreamcast and Xbox. Anybody else?
With recent advances in optical storage (I don't mean bluray, I mean optical "chips" that resemble star treks Isolinear technology) x86 won't be able to keep up.
How do you figure? x86 is just an instruction set. If you were to slap an x86 decode onto a power5 chip, you could probably get most of the native speed of the normal instruction set. The rest is a matter of different underlying assumptions. If you wrote x86 code to the frankenstein processor I describe, it'd probably be about the same speed.
Remember he's saying to buy it instead of making it. So, instead of inventing the tires with the perfect tread for the path you want to take, you're probably better off sticking to the existing roads and getting your wheels from goodyear.
That would first require you to build a road to wherever you're going. It may be cheaper to build some special wheels and suspension than to build and maintain another road. Oh, and Goodyear makes tires, not wheels.
Look at the statistics. People who get college degrees do much better financially in life.
I've looked at the stats - people who go to college do better, but it doesn't matter much where they go, so long as it's at least decent.
The problem is that not everybody is suited to college, nor should they be - if it isn't for you (and that's your choice), then there's still quite a bit of opportunity. For instance, you could join a trade. The world needs ditch diggers, but it also needs plumbers.