So long as they offer an experience comparable to Steam, including weekly sales and the deeper discounts around Summer/Winter.
Oh, it would be the same experience, but without the discounts. Especially for exclusive franchises. I think they just want to control sale process and prevent used-game resale.
Also, I have never used Steam -- do they have a contingency for when they go out of business?
I've got no issues with always-on, since I'm always connected anyway.
Wait until you move into a building with "free/included" internet that blocks a bunch of ports to keep that free internet usage down. I cannot connect to any game servers from home.
Internet dating is for cows... Moo say the cows. YOU COWS!!
Indeed -- and anonymously trolling message boards is of course reserved for the highly intelligent and most evolved member of the human race. Thank you, sir.
(I can't believe this got "insightful" moderation already!)
I think once the agent begins automatically charging extra $$$ for every facilitated job in order to ensure that the actor does not attack the employee while working, such agent might become the employer. (Save Rides Fee)
Also, doesn't Uber provide insurance to drivers now? This violates the "Actor pays her own expenses" part of the analogy.
The 80s were a glorious, ad free, time all supported by your monthly payment.
I am not sure if this is true, but if you do look at some sitcoms from 70s, you would discover that half-hour sitcoms used to be 26-27 minutes of content. Today's sitcoms would be lucky to hit 23 minutes (usually ~22.5)
What kind of a dictator "asks" Congress for anything? A proper dictator would, you know, dictate his commands
A clever dictator asks Congress for things he does not want, so that he can deflect the blame to Congress when they fail to pass it. You don't see presidents asking for permission about, say, drone bombings in various countries.
Well, the prosecutors are trying to carve out an exception to rules, as always. I am surprised that they haven't worked in "think of the children" into the story.
New York federal prosecutors have urged Forrester to "send a message" with a long prison sentence for Ulbricht.
And yes, IANAL, but this should not be a fairly easy appeal case:
With less than 24 hours until the sentencing takes place, however, it seems increasingly clear that Judge Forrester is taking the accusation that Ulbricht tried to orchestrate five murder-for-hire as truth in the New York case.
New toll systems have few manned toll booths and don't require traffic to slow or stop.
That's assuming you subscribe to a privacy-violating account and carry around their little identifier (last I saw the rules, they have dire warnings against sharing or otherwise moving the device to another car) and also assuming that you have no out-of-state visitors who are not subscribed to some local toll system.
You dont have to completely leave, but it gives you the ability to walk away from the officer without the claim of resisting.
Wow, is that the rule? So then you have to record your question being asked and answered. Otherwise, it's your word against the police officer's word that "....but s/he said I was free to leave", when you are charged with resisting arrest.
I'm not sure if this flies in two party consent states. You wouldn't be allowed to record their voice or conversation
IANAL, but I am quite sure that "X party consent" only applies to private conversation (e.g., phone). Any event happening in public, you can pretty much record. Otherwise, in states with two party consent laws, you could never record videos outside within an earshot of people.
Simply: the old drivers are all quitting because of the hassles and continuing low pay, while few new drivers are joining the industry. Companies can't find drivers. I know 1Q14 3000+ trucking companies closed (most were Bill & Mary trucking, ie small individual owner-operators, but many were substantial firms)
There has to be more to this. If companies can't find drivers (particularly bigger firms), perhaps they should offer higher pay? I can't imagine their margins are so thin that they cannot increase trucker salaries without going into red.
So perhaps there is another explanation, because yours sounds like trucker salary is set in stone and can never be changed.
Tolkien was human. Humans make mistakes and oversights.
Indeed. He could also have kept Aragorn as a hobbit named Trotter instead of a human and now we would be debating a number of different inconsistencies.
Who's the eldest being in Middle Earth, Tom Bombadil or Treebeard?
It would seem pretty obvious that Treebeard cannot be older than Tom Bombadil (who claims to remember "the first raindrop and the first acorn"). I would hardly consider this a "most noticeable inconsistency"
Short version: why didn't they just ask the Eagles to fly them to Mordor? Or over the mountains?
Short (prevalent) answer: Eagles would be extremely easy to spot over the skies of Mordor, and thus would be stopped before they got to Mount Doom. They were willing/able to pick up Frodo at the end because Sauron had already been defeated.
I'm a frequent traveler and see the TSA has 90% theatre.
Do you care to identify the 10% that you consider non-theater? Because I travel often, and I don't see it. There is, for example, not even a consistency with respect to how they do pat-down when you refuse the scanners. It really seems like they are making it up as they go along (or maybe it is city-based, I haven't compiled data). The only consistent thing they are taught to do is to check behind the ankle.
There is no such thing as a fair trial in this country, the deck is stacked in favor of the prosecution at every stage and we saw how they treated Manning.
I agree with you, but looking at Manning is still a bad analogy. Manning was in the military and therefore went to a court-martial and was held at a military base before that.
Today it might be able to tell the police you have blonde hair and blue eyes, but so can your driver's license. Sure it might eventually be able to let the police generate a picture of what you look like based on your DNA, but once again so can your driver's license.
Ah, but can the drivers license tell the police that you are predisposed to [serial murder, mental illness, being a sociopath]? Because there are certainly studies looking at whether genes can (http://www.nc-cm.org/article213.htm)
They should dump the "content" divisions..the movie studio and record company
So you are saying they should dump the high-margin division that thrives in the non-competitive, cartel-controlled market with imaginary losses (Hollywood accounting, anyone?)
They should do whatever it takes to return to being the world's best electronics company
...and go back to focusing on low-margin division where they would have to face real competition and where all expenses and losses are, in fact, real and not made up?
but given that two hundred years ago your life expectancy would have been around 40 years, drastic action is hardly called for.
It was NOT. You are misinformed. The average life expectancy may have been in 30-40 range, but it was caused by childhood mortality. For anyone who survived birth and early childhood, life expectancy was much, much higher.
As per Wikipedia (here), even in Upper Paleolithic era, life expectancy at birth was 32, but for anyone who reached the age of 15 life expectancy was already at 54 instead.
I'm a Tolkien fanboy, and I was pleasantly surprised at PJ's LOTR films.
There were some very odd decisions, but all in all the LOTR movies were surprisingly good.
The Hobbit films are really forgettable, except for a few great scenes here and there, which are about %20 of the total.
Where? I am hard pressed to think of something for the 1st movie and I haven't seen a single good scene anywhere in the 2nd Hobbit movie. Maybe I missed something?
This is what you get when you depend on video for news, you can think that centrists are leftists
Actually, I think this is what you get when you live in US. Don't think we have any centrists left, our "leftists" would be considered moderate-right anywhere else.
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So long as they offer an experience comparable to Steam, including weekly sales and the deeper discounts around Summer/Winter.
Oh, it would be the same experience, but without the discounts. Especially for exclusive franchises. I think they just want to control sale process and prevent used-game resale.
Also, I have never used Steam -- do they have a contingency for when they go out of business?
I've got no issues with always-on, since I'm always connected anyway.
Wait until you move into a building with "free/included" internet that blocks a bunch of ports to keep that free internet usage down. I cannot connect to any game servers from home.
Advertising is one of basic instincts in animal nature. Women advertise to men, men to women.
And DICE advertises advertising to us now.
I think the circle of nature is complete.
Internet dating is for cows. .. Moo say the cows. YOU COWS!!
Indeed -- and anonymously trolling message boards is of course reserved for the highly intelligent and most evolved member of the human race. Thank you, sir.
(I can't believe this got "insightful" moderation already!)
Is the agent her employer?
I think once the agent begins automatically charging extra $$$ for every facilitated job in order to ensure that the actor does not attack the employee while working, such agent might become the employer. (Save Rides Fee)
Also, doesn't Uber provide insurance to drivers now? This violates the "Actor pays her own expenses" part of the analogy.
The 80s were a glorious, ad free, time all supported by your monthly payment.
I am not sure if this is true, but if you do look at some sitcoms from 70s, you would discover that half-hour sitcoms used to be 26-27 minutes of content. Today's sitcoms would be lucky to hit 23 minutes (usually ~22.5)
What kind of a dictator "asks" Congress for anything? A proper dictator would, you know, dictate his commands
A clever dictator asks Congress for things he does not want, so that he can deflect the blame to Congress when they fail to pass it. You don't see presidents asking for permission about, say, drone bombings in various countries.
New York federal prosecutors have urged Forrester to "send a message" with a long prison sentence for Ulbricht.
And yes, IANAL, but this should not be a fairly easy appeal case:
With less than 24 hours until the sentencing takes place, however, it seems increasingly clear that Judge Forrester is taking the accusation that Ulbricht tried to orchestrate five murder-for-hire as truth in the New York case.
New toll systems have few manned toll booths and don't require traffic to slow or stop.
That's assuming you subscribe to a privacy-violating account and carry around their little identifier (last I saw the rules, they have dire warnings against sharing or otherwise moving the device to another car) and also assuming that you have no out-of-state visitors who are not subscribed to some local toll system.
The summary makes no mention of the author's gender.
Why should it? How is that significant?
You dont have to completely leave, but it gives you the ability to walk away from the officer without the claim of resisting.
Wow, is that the rule?
So then you have to record your question being asked and answered. Otherwise, it's your word against the police officer's word that "....but s/he said I was free to leave", when you are charged with resisting arrest.
I'm not sure if this flies in two party consent states. You wouldn't be allowed to record their voice or conversation
IANAL, but I am quite sure that "X party consent" only applies to private conversation (e.g., phone). Any event happening in public, you can pretty much record. Otherwise, in states with two party consent laws, you could never record videos outside within an earshot of people.
Simply: the old drivers are all quitting because of the hassles and continuing low pay, while few new drivers are joining the industry. Companies can't find drivers. I know 1Q14 3000+ trucking companies closed (most were Bill & Mary trucking, ie small individual owner-operators, but many were substantial firms)
There has to be more to this. If companies can't find drivers (particularly bigger firms), perhaps they should offer higher pay? I can't imagine their margins are so thin that they cannot increase trucker salaries without going into red.
So perhaps there is another explanation, because yours sounds like trucker salary is set in stone and can never be changed.
Tolkien was human. Humans make mistakes and oversights.
Indeed. He could also have kept Aragorn as a hobbit named Trotter instead of a human and now we would be debating a number of different inconsistencies.
Who's the eldest being in Middle Earth, Tom Bombadil or Treebeard?
It would seem pretty obvious that Treebeard cannot be older than Tom Bombadil (who claims to remember "the first raindrop and the first acorn"). I would hardly consider this a "most noticeable inconsistency"
Short version: why didn't they just ask the Eagles to fly them to Mordor? Or over the mountains?
Short (prevalent) answer: Eagles would be extremely easy to spot over the skies of Mordor, and thus would be stopped before they got to Mount Doom. They were willing/able to pick up Frodo at the end because Sauron had already been defeated.
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Bush did a lot wrong, but the economy wasn't one of them.
Are you counting things like the Iraq war from the economic perspective?
I'm a frequent traveler and see the TSA has 90% theatre.
Do you care to identify the 10% that you consider non-theater? Because I travel often, and I don't see it. There is, for example, not even a consistency with respect to how they do pat-down when you refuse the scanners. It really seems like they are making it up as they go along (or maybe it is city-based, I haven't compiled data). The only consistent thing they are taught to do is to check behind the ankle.
In some cases, Panda even requested a reboot to complete its hari kari.
Pedantically offtopic, but do you mean Hara-kiri?
There is no such thing as a fair trial in this country, the deck is stacked in favor of the prosecution at every stage and we saw how they treated Manning.
I agree with you, but looking at Manning is still a bad analogy. Manning was in the military and therefore went to a court-martial and was held at a military base before that.
Today it might be able to tell the police you have blonde hair and blue eyes, but so can your driver's license. Sure it might eventually be able to let the police generate a picture of what you look like based on your DNA, but once again so can your driver's license.
Ah, but can the drivers license tell the police that you are predisposed to [serial murder, mental illness, being a sociopath]? Because there are certainly studies looking at whether genes can (http://www.nc-cm.org/article213.htm)
They should dump the "content" divisions..the movie studio and record company
So you are saying they should dump the high-margin division that thrives in the non-competitive, cartel-controlled market with imaginary losses (Hollywood accounting, anyone?)
They should do whatever it takes to return to being the world's best electronics company
...and go back to focusing on low-margin division where they would have to face real competition and where all expenses and losses are, in fact, real and not made up?
That sounds like an excellent plan.
but given that two hundred years ago your life expectancy would have been around 40 years, drastic action is hardly called for.
It was NOT. You are misinformed. The average life expectancy may have been in 30-40 range, but it was caused by childhood mortality. For anyone who survived birth and early childhood, life expectancy was much, much higher.
As per Wikipedia (here), even in Upper Paleolithic era, life expectancy at birth was 32, but for anyone who reached the age of 15 life expectancy was already at 54 instead.
I'm a Tolkien fanboy, and I was pleasantly surprised at PJ's LOTR films.
There were some very odd decisions, but all in all the LOTR movies were surprisingly good.
The Hobbit films are really forgettable, except for a few great scenes here and there, which are about %20 of the total.
Where? I am hard pressed to think of something for the 1st movie and I haven't seen a single good scene anywhere in the 2nd Hobbit movie. Maybe I missed something?
It's interesting that while 8.1 is around 10%-ish, 8 is still about 5%.
Perhaps 8.1 is the one that comes with downgrade to Windows7 option. I wonder if they counted how many licenses are downgraded after purchase.
This is what you get when you depend on video for news, you can think that centrists are leftists
Actually, I think this is what you get when you live in US.
Don't think we have any centrists left, our "leftists" would be considered moderate-right anywhere else.
I'd much rather see an ala carte system with a few very good premium channels, along with some scrappy quirky channel
Also, the channels have to have dynamic scheduling. Maybe we could just subscribe to the actual shows? (To be able to save the next Firefly?)
I used to arrange my life around favorite TV shows when I was a kid. But as an adult, I'd rather shows rearranged for me.