Turn off Fox News, please. Austerity has nothing to do with Socialism, nor what he was talking about. There is nothing Socialist that exists in the EU, it is all Capitalist.
They just passed a law that allows everything to be resold. Music, DLC, Online Games, Operating Systems that come "tied" to systems. They are all allowed to be resold. Licensed or not, they are allowed to be resold. This guy should just move his business there and be protected under EU law.
You post is incredibly inaccurate and shows you have a basic grasp of World War 2 history. The Soviet Union was only able to survive because of the other fronts Hitler had lost to the Allies. He had to refocus his defenses and this allowed the Soviet Union enough breathing room to regroup and counter. Also, the success of the Soviet Union in WW2 was mostly because of logistics. Their trains, trucks, and fuel all came from the United States and the UK. Without any of that, they would have lost. They had NO WAY to moving any equipment around their country at the time of Hitlers invasion. Also, you are so wrong about the Pacific front that it is not worth responding to you about.
A lot of it does start out cheap with massive discounts. But once your data is moved over, good luck with it being cheap as the warehouse needs to please its shareholders with profits.
Keep going back! In the late 80s there were VR arcades in Chicago that used Amigas and these huge headsets. You basically got to go in a dungeon with a few friends. It was mostly a grey block cave. Around the time Lawnmower Man came out, it got pretty big in 1992. In 1995 the Virtual Boy came out and gave the entire world a VR headache, and we haven't seen much since.
Because the fact is, and reality was, the game was unplayable. What the reviewers got to see was not the actual product and they changed the scores accordingly. Pick any car analogy you want. Reviewer gets x car with a turbo, says its so awesome. Actual care comes without it, says its a pile.
What? Simply not true. Vinyl is a direct analogue recreation of the analogue source. FLACs are generally created FROM Vinyl sources if the master tapes are lost. I don't think you realize how audio works.
I still think the sales tax from Amazon would outweigh that easily. People buy everything online these days from $500 lawn mowers, to $2,000 speakers. There is a reason Amazon is making those deals, they know the business they pull in from states is that large.
Not really. Texas is in a lot of trouble as well. They've effectively removed all taxes and have had to rely on federal handouts to make the payments needed to keep functioning. They've had to literally shutter nursing homes because they can no longer afford taking care of the elderly.
Since the EU said all software and licenses have to be transferable by law, will this only be for North America only? iTunes, Steam, and other companies have to allow people to sell their music and games in the EU now since that law was enacted. I would imagine Microsoft also has to allow people to sell their XBLA games and DLC because of this ruling as well. Anyone over there care to update us on that progress?
Microsoft doesn't offer any reasonable way to cancel their service. You cannot do it through the console anymore, you need to call a number, and sit on hold for about 15 minutes until you get someone, then read off all your information. None of it is automated, easy, or reasonable. The service absolutely stinks.
The EU made it so all licences for anything, including software, dongles, etc can be resold, even if the EULA forbids it. All countries that reside in Europe have this protection. Buy a $10 Dell with Windows 7? You can sell JUST your Windows 7 license to someone else, Dell has to allow it, Microsoft has to allow it. Want to sell a Nintendo Wii game you bought to someone else? Nintendo will have to allow it. Want to sell your iTunes songs? Apple has to allow it.
Do they all support it yet? Nope! But they have to. You will see more cases like Steam popping up until the industry realizes they need to allow reselling in all their apps and stores.
And this is exactly why the "revised" Start Menu that started in Vista and continued through Windows 7 was so hated. People just want a very small, simple menu of all their apps that stays out of the way of other windows to launch programs For some reason Microsoft thought people wanted it bigger and bigger. Maybe it's because the execs at Microsoft are getting older, and they can't see as well so they force the OS to change for them. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 9 had no interface at all. They will remove the monitor entirely and it will just talk to you because all the execs will be 90 years old and blind.
Right, but when someone refers to Socialism, you are generally referring to an economic method in contrast to Capitalism. Social services such as government run health care, education, utilities, and such are available in all economic methods including Capitalism. What makes a country Socialist is not "free health care for everyone", but rather, the lack of privately run businesses. The closest we have ever seen of true Socialism is Venezuela. What we see in all of Europe is simply Capitalism. People mistake "social services" as Socialism because it has the word "social" in it. This is a misnomer.
The reason we have it is because at the time it was written, England, France, and Spain were all wringing their hands in anticipation of grabbing huge swaths of land from this newly created country. The second amendment allowed militias such as the minutemen to hold over from the Revolutionary War and be ready for the next country that thought they could integrate us into their empire. It was written for a fledgling country to be able to defend itself, as it had a very weak military because, you know, it was so new. Fast forward to today, and we have a military so powerful that we can take on the entire world twice over. The second amendment has no reason to exist any longer.
Do you have any idea how many people would simply die from your proposal? It isn't possible, at all. Medicare/Medicade, and disability will never, ever, ever, in a million years, go away. It is the only thing keeping people 60+ alive. Until we nationalize all of the health care system, it simply cannot be touched.
Reality trumps all. Like Ford, GM seems to be making good use of their bail out money. When Ford went to Washington and told the committees that the interest free bail out that they received a year prior helped them get everything under control, they let GM have a nice chunk of cash, but with interest this time. Seems to be working so far. Ford is healthy, GM is healthy. Jobs are being made.
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Thanks for that, very enlightening.
Turn off Fox News, please. Austerity has nothing to do with Socialism, nor what he was talking about. There is nothing Socialist that exists in the EU, it is all Capitalist.
They just passed a law that allows everything to be resold. Music, DLC, Online Games, Operating Systems that come "tied" to systems. They are all allowed to be resold. Licensed or not, they are allowed to be resold. This guy should just move his business there and be protected under EU law.
You post is incredibly inaccurate and shows you have a basic grasp of World War 2 history. The Soviet Union was only able to survive because of the other fronts Hitler had lost to the Allies. He had to refocus his defenses and this allowed the Soviet Union enough breathing room to regroup and counter. Also, the success of the Soviet Union in WW2 was mostly because of logistics. Their trains, trucks, and fuel all came from the United States and the UK. Without any of that, they would have lost. They had NO WAY to moving any equipment around their country at the time of Hitlers invasion. Also, you are so wrong about the Pacific front that it is not worth responding to you about.
In short, go read a history book.
A lot of it does start out cheap with massive discounts. But once your data is moved over, good luck with it being cheap as the warehouse needs to please its shareholders with profits.
Keep going back! In the late 80s there were VR arcades in Chicago that used Amigas and these huge headsets. You basically got to go in a dungeon with a few friends. It was mostly a grey block cave. Around the time Lawnmower Man came out, it got pretty big in 1992. In 1995 the Virtual Boy came out and gave the entire world a VR headache, and we haven't seen much since.
Because the fact is, and reality was, the game was unplayable. What the reviewers got to see was not the actual product and they changed the scores accordingly. Pick any car analogy you want. Reviewer gets x car with a turbo, says its so awesome. Actual care comes without it, says its a pile.
Because people are still too scared to do this. Or haven't any idea where it goes. Same sort of people who actually spill coffee on the keyboards.
Maybe they have techs in the dispenser?
If someone rear-ends you, then that's their fault. 100% of the time.
Not true at all. If someone "brake checks", it is their fault. It is fined as unsafely braking, and purposely causing an accident.
I'm so sick of snow.
What? Simply not true. Vinyl is a direct analogue recreation of the analogue source. FLACs are generally created FROM Vinyl sources if the master tapes are lost. I don't think you realize how audio works.
Any examples for those of us who have no idea outside of military contracting?
I still think the sales tax from Amazon would outweigh that easily. People buy everything online these days from $500 lawn mowers, to $2,000 speakers. There is a reason Amazon is making those deals, they know the business they pull in from states is that large.
Not really. Texas is in a lot of trouble as well. They've effectively removed all taxes and have had to rely on federal handouts to make the payments needed to keep functioning. They've had to literally shutter nursing homes because they can no longer afford taking care of the elderly.
Since the EU said all software and licenses have to be transferable by law, will this only be for North America only? iTunes, Steam, and other companies have to allow people to sell their music and games in the EU now since that law was enacted. I would imagine Microsoft also has to allow people to sell their XBLA games and DLC because of this ruling as well. Anyone over there care to update us on that progress?
Microsoft doesn't offer any reasonable way to cancel their service. You cannot do it through the console anymore, you need to call a number, and sit on hold for about 15 minutes until you get someone, then read off all your information. None of it is automated, easy, or reasonable. The service absolutely stinks.
This will probably leak into the USA because Europe.
The EU made it so all licences for anything, including software, dongles, etc can be resold, even if the EULA forbids it. All countries that reside in Europe have this protection. Buy a $10 Dell with Windows 7? You can sell JUST your Windows 7 license to someone else, Dell has to allow it, Microsoft has to allow it. Want to sell a Nintendo Wii game you bought to someone else? Nintendo will have to allow it. Want to sell your iTunes songs? Apple has to allow it.
Do they all support it yet? Nope! But they have to. You will see more cases like Steam popping up until the industry realizes they need to allow reselling in all their apps and stores.
And this is exactly why the "revised" Start Menu that started in Vista and continued through Windows 7 was so hated. People just want a very small, simple menu of all their apps that stays out of the way of other windows to launch programs For some reason Microsoft thought people wanted it bigger and bigger. Maybe it's because the execs at Microsoft are getting older, and they can't see as well so they force the OS to change for them. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 9 had no interface at all. They will remove the monitor entirely and it will just talk to you because all the execs will be 90 years old and blind.
Rich people consume much less than poor people. They wouldn't be rich if they spent their money. Most money is invested to make more money.
Right, but when someone refers to Socialism, you are generally referring to an economic method in contrast to Capitalism. Social services such as government run health care, education, utilities, and such are available in all economic methods including Capitalism. What makes a country Socialist is not "free health care for everyone", but rather, the lack of privately run businesses. The closest we have ever seen of true Socialism is Venezuela. What we see in all of Europe is simply Capitalism. People mistake "social services" as Socialism because it has the word "social" in it. This is a misnomer.
The reason we have it is because at the time it was written, England, France, and Spain were all wringing their hands in anticipation of grabbing huge swaths of land from this newly created country. The second amendment allowed militias such as the minutemen to hold over from the Revolutionary War and be ready for the next country that thought they could integrate us into their empire. It was written for a fledgling country to be able to defend itself, as it had a very weak military because, you know, it was so new. Fast forward to today, and we have a military so powerful that we can take on the entire world twice over. The second amendment has no reason to exist any longer.
Do you have any idea how many people would simply die from your proposal? It isn't possible, at all. Medicare/Medicade, and disability will never, ever, ever, in a million years, go away. It is the only thing keeping people 60+ alive. Until we nationalize all of the health care system, it simply cannot be touched.
Reality trumps all. Like Ford, GM seems to be making good use of their bail out money. When Ford went to Washington and told the committees that the interest free bail out that they received a year prior helped them get everything under control, they let GM have a nice chunk of cash, but with interest this time. Seems to be working so far. Ford is healthy, GM is healthy. Jobs are being made.
Until we can read peoples minds, yes, taking away guns is by far the easier option.