You forgot one major advantage PC's have over Consoles, free games. Morality be dammed but all Joe Sixpack's son needs to know is that he can burn copies and download all the games he wants for free. If they dont work their only a keygen or nocd patch away. Granted that you can do the same thing on a console but that requires soldering.
How are they going to tax you if you dont tell them that you bought it over there? Are they going to ask you about every bit of luggage you have to see if its been reciently bought?
My father had a similar experiance, about 10 years ago he lost his wallet somewhere between where he was working and the way home, there were many places and stops along the way there and back and as he was a labourer he could have lost it down a hole and buried it and what not. Anyways he loses his wallet seaches everywhere for it, finaly gives up gets new cards, licence and so on.
Four years later we get a knock on the door by someone who, by chance, had had a pucture in the exact spot along the road that my father had stopped and had evidently dropped his wallet. The man found it and as we weren't far away returned it completely intact, including $50 in paper money (Australia changed to plastic money in 1996, a great innovation IMHO). Returing wallets isn't uncommon in Australia though, I myself have returned two (it could also be argued that Australians just drop their wallets more... sounds like thesis material to me). It is also customary to return the collor of any pet you find (translation: hit) on the road to the owners (translation: owners parents).
While I don't agree with your main argument, you make some good points. However I have to point out a few things.
However, how many people who use her insurance carrier have had their costs increase to pay for her care? Can they afford it?
What a load of crap, Insurance companys have billions that they can to pay out and I garentee that they make a lot more then they actualy pay out. A couple of hundred thousand isn't going to be more then a drop in the ocean to them. If the Insurance company is increasing its costs because of such a small ammount of money shame on them they are just trying to get more money out of the public.
Because of our shared cost health insurance system in the US, with each medical advancement, the price of health care goes up for everyone. Affordable basic health care is out of reach for too many people. Is everyone here so egotistical to think that their life is actually worth that much?
Affordable Medical care is out of reach of many people because those in the medical business know that you will pay an infinite ammount of money to keep yourself alive, if you think medicine is too expensive then you are right, but it isn't expensive because it needs to be. It is expensive because they want it to be. The South African govenment (IIRC) couldn't afford the AIDs medicine that it so desperately needed for its people so instead of buying it they just made their own cheap knockoff drugs, what are the compays going to do? Sue a country?
Do you have a right to live forever? I think that that money might be better spent providing basic health care to those that have none.
Or your government could lay off the wars and provide free healthcare to those who need it.
That said however you are indeed entitled to your own opinions, especialy regarding your own sister, I hope she gets much better in the future.
Well I'm not sure about the rest of the world but Albums are only $20au now, and the last time I bought one it was $30, that was a few years ago now. However common sense tells me that a cheaper product will sell more. Also we just had Australian idol and those wonderful marketeers released albums for both the winner and the runner up, doubling their profits. One wonders what the differnce between the Winner and the Runner up is if they both get the same thing.
My uni has cracked down bigtime and just decided it would be best if ALL traffic aside from web browsing is firewalled, and I'm talking everything, ftp, ssh, telnet, PING everything. As you can probebly tell this pisses everyone off. Want to upload your files to your home computer? Can't do it sorry. Want to see if your computer is still online, Can't do it sorry. Want to stream real... buffering... media? Can't do it sorry.
Australia has been in a number of wars a somewhat complete list can be found here
Australia has also been involved in a somewhat controversial "peacekeeping" mission in East Timor, where it would seem (at least to Indonesians) that we were the agressor.
Dru's dissapearance (and, likely, murder) scared the shit out of everyone around here; the local stores were sold out of mace and pepper spray in an instant, and UND had to revise it's policy concerning mace/pepper spray on campus. It was like a bomb dropping.
Why is it that Americans are so easy to scare and react so gungho so quickly? Seriously the chances of this happening to you are just astronomical, yet people rush out and buy mace and guns and get all jumpy about nothing, and now that people have more mace and guns and whatever they start using them in their jumpy state, this gets people hurt.
This is just one of many examples of sensationalism causing panic, if you ask me America needs to calm the fuck down and realise that you probebly wont get hurt if you dont put yourself in a position to be hurt, and yes that means lay off the guns. I'm not saying ban them, Canada is a hunting country and they have very few deaths from guns. I'm just saying if your country is full of scared irrational people then you may want to think about laying off the guns until people calm down.
You know reading this I've realised that this description is accurate of myself in alltogether to many ways to be coincidence. I may just get some help now.
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You forgot one major advantage PC's have over Consoles, free games. Morality be dammed but all Joe Sixpack's son needs to know is that he can burn copies and download all the games he wants for free. If they dont work their only a keygen or nocd patch away. Granted that you can do the same thing on a console but that requires soldering.
How are they going to tax you if you dont tell them that you bought it over there? Are they going to ask you about every bit of luggage you have to see if its been reciently bought?
Yes but not all, and therein lies the problem
My father had a similar experiance, about 10 years ago he lost his wallet somewhere between where he was working and the way home, there were many places and stops along the way there and back and as he was a labourer he could have lost it down a hole and buried it and what not. Anyways he loses his wallet seaches everywhere for it, finaly gives up gets new cards, licence and so on.
Four years later we get a knock on the door by someone who, by chance, had had a pucture in the exact spot along the road that my father had stopped and had evidently dropped his wallet. The man found it and as we weren't far away returned it completely intact, including $50 in paper money (Australia changed to plastic money in 1996, a great innovation IMHO). Returing wallets isn't uncommon in Australia though, I myself have returned two (it could also be argued that Australians just drop their wallets more... sounds like thesis material to me). It is also customary to return the collor of any pet you find (translation: hit) on the road to the owners (translation: owners parents).
However she may still be a little unstable but whe're prety sure we've worked out all the bugs so we'll call her 3.0 RC1
Have you seen Alabama? Reducing the gene pool is NOT a good idea.
Exactly, this is why there are so many ugly people in the world... I wish people would develop some standards *sheesh*
What if she lives a long reasonably healthy life and develops a cure for cancer, or organ failure, or premature birth?
Begin the Eugenics == Hitler flamewar.... now
What a load of crap, Insurance companys have billions that they can to pay out and I garentee that they make a lot more then they actualy pay out. A couple of hundred thousand isn't going to be more then a drop in the ocean to them. If the Insurance company is increasing its costs because of such a small ammount of money shame on them they are just trying to get more money out of the public.
Affordable Medical care is out of reach of many people because those in the medical business know that you will pay an infinite ammount of money to keep yourself alive, if you think medicine is too expensive then you are right, but it isn't expensive because it needs to be. It is expensive because they want it to be. The South African govenment (IIRC) couldn't afford the AIDs medicine that it so desperately needed for its people so instead of buying it they just made their own cheap knockoff drugs, what are the compays going to do? Sue a country?
Or your government could lay off the wars and provide free healthcare to those who need it.
That said however you are indeed entitled to your own opinions, especialy regarding your own sister, I hope she gets much better in the future.
But with that loss there was another childs life gained, we should all be happy.
Yeah attached to the biggest average bodys in the world.
What and then you have goatse.cx? No thankyou.
Well I'm not sure about the rest of the world but Albums are only $20au now, and the last time I bought one it was $30, that was a few years ago now. However common sense tells me that a cheaper product will sell more. Also we just had Australian idol and those wonderful marketeers released albums for both the winner and the runner up, doubling their profits. One wonders what the differnce between the Winner and the Runner up is if they both get the same thing.
Yeah you can find it here:r rent
http://www.torrentsource.net/apps/virus/mydoom.to
My uni has cracked down bigtime and just decided it would be best if ALL traffic aside from web browsing is firewalled, and I'm talking everything, ftp, ssh, telnet, PING everything. As you can probebly tell this pisses everyone off. Want to upload your files to your home computer? Can't do it sorry. Want to see if your computer is still online, Can't do it sorry. Want to stream real... buffering... media? Can't do it sorry.
I should write a letter
Or connect both the +5v and the +12v line to the fan which gives you a smooth +7v.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, give me a Steam client and a MS Visual Studio alternitive and I'm there.
Australia has been in a number of wars a somewhat complete list can be found here
Australia has also been involved in a somewhat controversial "peacekeeping" mission in East Timor, where it would seem (at least to Indonesians) that we were the agressor.
And here my girlfriend is blaming that stupid mozilla program. Try explaing that its Microsofts fault to someone who thinks that MS is infallable.
and lets not forget the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen
My sister got bitten by a moose once.
Why is it that Americans are so easy to scare and react so gungho so quickly? Seriously the chances of this happening to you are just astronomical, yet people rush out and buy mace and guns and get all jumpy about nothing, and now that people have more mace and guns and whatever they start using them in their jumpy state, this gets people hurt.
This is just one of many examples of sensationalism causing panic, if you ask me America needs to calm the fuck down and realise that you probebly wont get hurt if you dont put yourself in a position to be hurt, and yes that means lay off the guns. I'm not saying ban them, Canada is a hunting country and they have very few deaths from guns. I'm just saying if your country is full of scared irrational people then you may want to think about laying off the guns until people calm down.
This however, is just an outsider looking in.
You know reading this I've realised that this description is accurate of myself in alltogether to many ways to be coincidence. I may just get some help now.
So basicaly discriminates indiscrimitly... I get it now.
/me 's head explodes