Frankly, if I were EA, I would have negotiated the NFL license so that I could make a new release every few years.
Attempting to have "earthshattering" new features with only a yearlong development cycle, especially with the way games are coming out today, tends to mean that
- You're not going to be able to build a new code base from stratch with all the new wonderful and marvelous features
- You're going to overpromise and underdeliver
- You're going to saturate your market
Football doesn't change. If there were new rules every year, sure, it might be a compelling value proposition to put out a new game every year.
Seems it would be better to release a new version every few years. Get the features you want done right while at the same time not oversaturating your market.
Seems the mantra of "but that's what we've always done" has a far firmer grip on people and business than we might otherwise suppose.
However, as a Libertarian, I am against government-run welfare programs. I am against them most specifically because, on average, only 1/3rd of the money allocated to welfare actually gets to the people intended.
This stands in stark contrast to non-profit run welfare programs where, on average, 90% of the money allocated to welfare gets to the people intended.
Personally, I'd rather that only 10% of my tax money go to overhead rather than 66%.
So to answer your question, no, I don't think society should allow people to starve. However, I don't think that government is the solution.
Yeah, it does suck. But I don't want to move to a desert island. I want to be able to live out my life as I want. That was the vision of the founders of the USA: to live out your life as you want.
Your "analogies" don't add up. Traffic laws were instituted to protect me from you and you from me. The Sales Tax is a one-time transaction. Further, if I'm really pissed off about paying a sales tax, I can keep my purchases to a minimum.
Social Security is neither a one-time transaction, nor is it a mechanism to help protect you from me. It's supposed to protect me from me.
Unfortunately in protecting me from me, it PREVENTS me from doing better by me.
I could do a whole lot better investing that 13% payroll tax myself than by "expecting" some younger worker to support me when I get old.
Regardless of the solvency or lack thereof in the system, I want out.
The real problem that I see is that my parents signed me up as a child. I don't want to be in. I don't want to have to be in to get a job.
I think that is the biggest problem. I don't have any choice in the matter, and unlike any other retirement scheme (IRA, Roth IRA, 401k, annuity), I can't get out if or when I want.
Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio called the ousters "a changing of the guard at Canopy. It is quite literally out with the old and in with the new.
"With the departure[s] . . . go the last vestiges of the Ray Noorda era. Yankee Group expects that other, equally significant changes will be in the offing for 2005," she said. "The fate of SCO is one of the big question marks. New management at Canopy . . . may push [SCO] to try and settle."
And how exactly are they going to settle? Seems to me that with IBM having a winning case, it will be SCO that'll be forced to pay out the money. I wager SCO'll fall faster than anyone expects.
So what you're saying then is that my liberties should be restricted because someone else refuses to accept the price (responsibility) for the privilege (children) of being a parent?
I'll agree that kids shouldn't be brought up without limits and values, but what you're arguing is that my lifestyle choices should be limited because of parents who continue to be negligent in the rearing of their children.
As a lifetime resident of California, I believe the recall is entirely fair. How do you figure it's a gross abuse of the recall system when the recall system has never before been employed? How do you figure it's an abuse of the system when over 1 million signatures needed to be collected? Grey Davis did not "inherit" the current problems from a previous administration. He's been in office for 6 years. He's had a hand in creating them.
I don't know whether to dismiss your comments as purely partisan or purely ignorant. Are you even a resident of California?
I wonder how many of us will be completely unaffected by this?
I vowed never to buy another Electronic Arts game years ago, after they decided that Ultima Online and its patrons deserved to be handled in a cynically condescending and ham-fisted manner. I will never forgive EA for having me pay to play a beta, their game not even living up to the feature set printed on the box.
From what I hear, their customer support has only gotten worse, not better, as they farm support out internationally, while making it even more difficult to email or call in for support (by not providing such information), let alone overcoming potential language barriers.
I am a representative to the Program Committee and will definitely be bringing this up tomorrow. Last year in committee I was among a contingent that argued that regardless of the kind of voting system we adopt, there must always be a papertrail so as to prevent the rigging of elections.
This is definitely coming up tomorrow.
If you're interested in seeing a small-party convention and have the time, it's taking place Sat/Sun/Mon, Feb 15-17 in Ontario, California. (as opposed to that other "Ontario, CA")
This is double-speak, plain and simple. The reality of the matter is that Lawyers and Judges have usurped the rights of common citizens and juries. Now that people are becoming informed on the issue, we see responses like this.
Jury Nullification is the RIGHT of the Jury and the common citizen - to prevent the very thing that has happened: From Lawyers and Judges to be able to take the law and use it for its own ends, instead of the true purpose of the Law: To serve the common citizen.
But it's not a true free market economy. If it were a true free market economy, here's a few things you *wouldn't* see:
1.) That corporations having the same rights as flesh-and-blood people. To my horror, they do right now (See Southern-Pacific Railroad vs. Santa Clara County 1889), and this ruling has never been challenged legislatively.
2.) *ALL* of the Fortune 500 companies getting some kind of Government money: Loan Guarantees, Tax Breaks, Increased Tarriffs, Subsidies, Cash Bailouts (Chrysler, FDIC)... you name it, they have it.
That corporations have the rights of people means that the government is responsible for rescuing them when crap happens overseas, that they can give money to political campaigns ad nauseum... But unlike a flesh-and-blood person, you can't put a legal fiction in jail when it breaks the law.
Finally, with all the corporate welfare going on, what you really see is a wholesale robbing of the small businessperson who MUST have efficient operations. The big corporations
And the average tax someone pays is about 47%: Federal, State, Local, and Fees (driver's license, etc...)
I understand that we need corporations. It is the only way to accumulate the capital necessary to do things like build factories, but there has been too little done to moderate corporations. To call it a "free market system" is a mockery. Fix the corporate form and demand that corporations face the same kinds of market forces that individuals do. The taxpayer and employee have been paying for the bad business decisions of corporate executives for far too long.
to that poor lackey Jim Fowler. Remember Jim Fowler? He and Marlin Perkins were on "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". Jim was the poor bastard who would have to wrestle the Anaconda while Marlin (the white hair) was narrating how Jim was in a deadly struggle with said beast...
Jim Fowler. The true inspiration to Steve Irwin...
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Who'd a thought that The Shire would be in Indonesia?
Frankly, if I were EA, I would have negotiated the NFL license so that I could make a new release every few years.
Attempting to have "earthshattering" new features with only a yearlong development cycle, especially with the way games are coming out today, tends to mean that
- You're not going to be able to build a new code base from stratch with all the new wonderful and marvelous features
- You're going to overpromise and underdeliver
- You're going to saturate your market
Football doesn't change. If there were new rules every year, sure, it might be a compelling value proposition to put out a new game every year.
Seems it would be better to release a new version every few years. Get the features you want done right while at the same time not oversaturating your market.
Seems the mantra of "but that's what we've always done" has a far firmer grip on people and business than we might otherwise suppose.
I'm not at all against welfare programs.
However, as a Libertarian, I am against government-run welfare programs. I am against them most specifically because, on average, only 1/3rd of the money allocated to welfare actually gets to the people intended.
This stands in stark contrast to non-profit run welfare programs where, on average, 90% of the money allocated to welfare gets to the people intended.
Personally, I'd rather that only 10% of my tax money go to overhead rather than 66%.
So to answer your question, no, I don't think society should allow people to starve. However, I don't think that government is the solution.
Yeah, it does suck. But I don't want to move to a desert island. I want to be able to live out my life as I want. That was the vision of the founders of the USA: to live out your life as you want.
Your "analogies" don't add up. Traffic laws were instituted to protect me from you and you from me. The Sales Tax is a one-time transaction. Further, if I'm really pissed off about paying a sales tax, I can keep my purchases to a minimum.
Social Security is neither a one-time transaction, nor is it a mechanism to help protect you from me. It's supposed to protect me from me.
Unfortunately in protecting me from me, it PREVENTS me from doing better by me.
I could do a whole lot better investing that 13% payroll tax myself than by "expecting" some younger worker to support me when I get old.
Thanks for the courteous response.
Regardless of the solvency or lack thereof in the system, I want out.
The real problem that I see is that my parents signed me up as a child. I don't want to be in. I don't want to have to be in to get a job.
I think that is the biggest problem. I don't have any choice in the matter, and unlike any other retirement scheme (IRA, Roth IRA, 401k, annuity), I can't get out if or when I want.
So much for Land of the Free.
Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio called the ousters "a changing of the guard at Canopy. It is quite literally out with the old and in with the new.
"With the departure[s] . . . go the last vestiges of the Ray Noorda era. Yankee Group expects that other, equally significant changes will be in the offing for 2005," she said. "The fate of SCO is one of the big question marks. New management at Canopy . . . may push [SCO] to try and settle."
And how exactly are they going to settle? Seems to me that with IBM having a winning case, it will be SCO that'll be forced to pay out the money. I wager SCO'll fall faster than anyone expects.
So what you're saying then is that my liberties should be restricted because someone else refuses to accept the price (responsibility) for the privilege (children) of being a parent?
I'll agree that kids shouldn't be brought up without limits and values, but what you're arguing is that my lifestyle choices should be limited because of parents who continue to be negligent in the rearing of their children.
How can you call that just or fair?
Lawyers are expensive.
As a lifetime resident of California, I believe the recall is entirely fair. How do you figure it's a gross abuse of the recall system when the recall system has never before been employed? How do you figure it's an abuse of the system when over 1 million signatures needed to be collected? Grey Davis did not "inherit" the current problems from a previous administration. He's been in office for 6 years. He's had a hand in creating them.
I don't know whether to dismiss your comments as purely partisan or purely ignorant. Are you even a resident of California?
Me too!
I wonder how many of us will be completely unaffected by this?
I vowed never to buy another Electronic Arts game years ago, after they decided that Ultima Online and its patrons deserved to be handled in a cynically condescending and ham-fisted manner. I will never forgive EA for having me pay to play a beta, their game not even living up to the feature set printed on the box.
From what I hear, their customer support has only gotten worse, not better, as they farm support out internationally, while making it even more difficult to email or call in for support (by not providing such information), let alone overcoming potential language barriers.
People complain about how nothing ever changes, yet they continue to vote for the same candidates. Elect Freedom.
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I'll take my Turkey gasoline with cranberries, thank you.
I just hope this doesn't make anyone sleepy on the road! =)
I'm shaking my head in disbelief at this...
Are you Chinese? I didn't think anyone could look at Windows source code.
> These companies have a responsibility to the public.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
I am a representative to the Program Committee and will definitely be bringing this up tomorrow. Last year in committee I was among a contingent that argued that regardless of the kind of voting system we adopt, there must always be a papertrail so as to prevent the rigging of elections.
This is definitely coming up tomorrow.
If you're interested in seeing a small-party convention and have the time, it's taking place Sat/Sun/Mon, Feb 15-17 in Ontario, California. (as opposed to that other "Ontario, CA")
http://www.ca.lp.org/conv/2003/
Now they can launch their SCUD missiles full of Anthrax, Botulism, or whatever, and need not be concerned about polluting the atmosphere!
This is double-speak, plain and simple. The reality of the matter is that Lawyers and Judges have usurped the rights of common citizens and juries. Now that people are becoming informed on the issue, we see responses like this.
Jury Nullification is the RIGHT of the Jury and the common citizen - to prevent the very thing that has happened: From Lawyers and Judges to be able to take the law and use it for its own ends, instead of the true purpose of the Law: To serve the common citizen.
Why is it your business what someone chooses what to do with his/her life?
Are guns "enablers"? Sure. So are crowbars and bridges and too much booze.
You may not like if someone decides to choose "the end" for themselves. But since you don't own them, you shouldn't have any say.
Bwahahahahaha
But it's not a true free market economy. If it were a true free market economy, here's a few things you *wouldn't* see:
1.) That corporations having the same rights as flesh-and-blood people. To my horror, they do right now (See Southern-Pacific Railroad vs. Santa Clara County 1889), and this ruling has never been challenged legislatively.
2.) *ALL* of the Fortune 500 companies getting some kind of Government money: Loan Guarantees, Tax Breaks, Increased Tarriffs, Subsidies, Cash Bailouts (Chrysler, FDIC)... you name it, they have it.
That corporations have the rights of people means that the government is responsible for rescuing them when crap happens overseas, that they can give money to political campaigns ad nauseum... But unlike a flesh-and-blood person, you can't put a legal fiction in jail when it breaks the law.
Finally, with all the corporate welfare going on, what you really see is a wholesale robbing of the small businessperson who MUST have efficient operations. The big corporations
And the average tax someone pays is about 47%: Federal, State, Local, and Fees (driver's license, etc...)
I understand that we need corporations. It is the only way to accumulate the capital necessary to do things like build factories, but there has been too little done to moderate corporations. To call it a "free market system" is a mockery. Fix the corporate form and demand that corporations face the same kinds of market forces that individuals do. The taxpayer and employee have been paying for the bad business decisions of corporate executives for far too long.
www.lp.org
to that poor lackey Jim Fowler. Remember Jim Fowler? He and Marlin Perkins were on "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". Jim was the poor bastard who would have to wrestle the Anaconda while Marlin (the white hair) was narrating how Jim was in a deadly struggle with said beast...
Jim Fowler. The true inspiration to Steve Irwin...
Hmmm...
Marlin Perkins...
Jim Fowler...
Martin Fowler?
All fun and jokes aside, the dupes are becoming pretty rampant.
Someone's going to put together a Linux install for this?