Uh no, they're smart enough to realize that sales injunctions are *not* good for business, and the best way to avoid them is to avoid the claims in the injunction (while at the same time hopefully killing off the retarded patents they're based on)
And while there is definitely some good cover art out there, I have *many* *many* books where the cover is a complete turn-off. What annoys me the most is cover-art where it's pretty obviously the artist never even peeked at the book, and designed characters which have little in common with those in the actual book other than perhaps gender.
It is a criminal offense, so I don't see how civil offenses is the common meme for the stories of unhelpful police. Basically, is property is stolen, but it's not from some person/company important (a.k.a. has money), the response from law enforcement is less likely to be overly helpful.
Now if a prototype iPhone goes missing, it's apparently enough reason to show up at some dude's house with a few borrowed police officers and demand a search....
Given what I've seen of many hardcore fans, it's not terrible advice. You can be a fan *and* still a semi-normal person, but some of the fans take things to extremes and/or seem to have lost track of reality along the way.
I don't agree that one should be able to ignore debts accrued due to education, etc, but you should consider that requiring around $50-$100k for a decent education is perhaps one of the current issues, especially in an economy where many labor/production oriented jobs are outsourced.
Double XP for mountain-dew in shooters is not nearly as lame as the concept of XP in general. Who the hell thought to move XP from RPG's (Role Playing Games, not Rocket Propelled Grenades) to shooters?
It used to be that one could sit down with a bunch of friends, start up 1942 (or something similar), and just play. Obviously there were good and bad players - so normally we adjusted teams accordingly - but there was no advantage to the guy who has oodles of free time and tons of XP vs those that hasn't played the game before and were just starting out.
Add to that the lack of local LAN capabilities in most modern shooters (MW3 being an exemption it seems), and they're just NOT FUN anymore.
And if you count distribution by "steam" etc where they have some kickass sales (usually where I end up getting my games), then pricing is a *hell* of a lot better than it was 10-20 years ago
I have the 360 version. There is an Save-Game-Editor for xbox - which is a modified version of the PC SGE - that allowed me to change my games. I suppose if all else fails, you could find a 360 saved game, and edit a bunch of the flags to match how your PC-based game ended (it lets you edit your paragon/renegade points, which allies are alive/dead, your weapons, and some key "did or did not do" points).
More amusingly, it's supposed to allow importing of face models, but I never did get that to work.
I ordered some DVD's from eBay (the company that owns paypal and supposedly has a no-piracy policy). They arrived in a pretty box, but were obviously bootleg knockoffs. The subtitles varied widely between discs, and some you could see the scan-line and fuzz where they were copied from an old VHS with bad tracking.
Paypal's response to my claim: The DVD's must be brought to a third-party (such as a pro or a video store) to verify that they were pirated. Nobody local was in any way willing to do that for less than the value of the video, so my case rather readily died and the seller continues to sell pirated DVD's.
They'll always get *SOME* attention. The problem is that they don't seem to get attention from those that can shut them down.
They need the attention of those who can actually do something to stop this type of poor behavior... unfortunately those with the power to do so just don't care.
Almost every bank in Canada charges some form of debit card fee, with a few provisions a) You can pay $X/month to get $Y transactions b) You can get accounts where you don't pay fees if you have minimum balance $Z (usually $1000, recently raised to $1500 by TD bank, which I then dropped like a hot potato)
It's a system which penalizes those with lower incomes who cannot maintain the minimum balance, and overall it pretty much sucks.
There are some credit unions that don't charge the fees. Ones I know of are:
ING
President's Choice (Loblaws/Superstore/etc)
To put it in free market terms (which I generally avoid using), the market has decided they like these products. People have exercised their free will and chosen to buy these products.
Except in countries where competing products are banned due pretty much to being rectangular and black with rounded corners....
Which is why they have FRAND agreements with other companies... in which case they cross-license some patents, possibly trade a bit of cash, and agree to *gasp* NOT SUE EACH OTHER.
I'm not a Samsung fanboi. In fact until recently I rather disliked/avoided Samsung as they had a tendency to do stupid/annoying things like create custom connectors for their charging/headphone ports. After issues I've had with Apple and later Motorola products/support, I decided to give them another go (after first ensuring that they had a standard bloody connector) since they had one of the best-specc'ed/reviewed devices. So far I've been very happy with my phone, and I'd hate to see a world where some B.S. black-rectangle patent warfare prevents me from having access to a superior (and DIFFERENT) product.
Don't know so much about the holocaust deniers. I've run into a few and they pretty easily identified themselves as "wacko not worth my time" within a few moments.
I'm more happy to not deal with the KKK or other such groups.
Much of it is the type of show of course (Kirk being the dashing hero type, and others such as "rescue 9-1-1" being a more serious genre), but the humor around Shatner in general days is more self-effacing than previous. However, overall he does seem to be a less "serious" person these days in general. Perhaps it's just the roles he's taking, but he seems to take himself less seriously (which IMHO also makes him more likable).
There was a lot of talk in the industry in regards to interpersonal conflicts, and - in regards to you (Shatner) in particular - taking oneself a bit too seriously. You can see a lot of this stereotype portrayed in the parody "Galaxy Quest"
It seems that in more recent history, you've done pretty well at taking in jokes regarding your previous "Kirk" role, and even making many yourself. IMHO a bit more humility (i.e. Boston Legal) seems to have done well for the latter part of your career. Often, a bit of self-effacing humor seems a staple of many famous Canadian-born actors.
How do you feel you've evolved as a person during your film career, and what influenced that change personally and professionally?
Also, if I can sneak in a 2-in-1, what's your opinion of "Galaxy Quest" ?:-)
From what I've heard, no (but IANAL). I'd imagine, however, that the companies could then stop paying the licensing fees on future products. If they really felt that MS had don't something illegal (like the many alleged "protection racket" comments mentioned on slashdot) then perhaps they might have a change of a lawsuit against MS on those grounds.
There are plenty of things in the world that contains materials that can kill you if ingested in any significant amount. Thermometers, various lightbulbs, etc.
The question is: how easily is somebody exposed to said materials for ingestion, and will you be easily exposed to it by other methods (inhalation, touch, etc).
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Uh no, they're smart enough to realize that sales injunctions are *not* good for business, and the best way to avoid them is to avoid the claims in the injunction (while at the same time hopefully killing off the retarded patents they're based on)
And while there is definitely some good cover art out there, I have *many* *many* books where the cover is a complete turn-off. What annoys me the most is cover-art where it's pretty obviously the artist never even peeked at the book, and designed characters which have little in common with those in the actual book other than perhaps gender.
It is a criminal offense, so I don't see how civil offenses is the common meme for the stories of unhelpful police. Basically, is property is stolen, but it's not from some person/company important (a.k.a. has money), the response from law enforcement is less likely to be overly helpful.
Now if a prototype iPhone goes missing, it's apparently enough reason to show up at some dude's house with a few borrowed police officers and demand a search....
Given what I've seen of many hardcore fans, it's not terrible advice. You can be a fan *and* still a semi-normal person, but some of the fans take things to extremes and/or seem to have lost track of reality along the way.
I don't agree that one should be able to ignore debts accrued due to education, etc,
but you should consider that requiring around $50-$100k for a decent education is perhaps one of the current issues, especially in an economy where many labor/production oriented jobs are outsourced.
Theft is a civil offense?
In the case of shareware or demo-consoles, the game generally had to be good enough to get you hooked in the first place..
Double XP for mountain-dew in shooters is not nearly as lame as the concept of XP in general. Who the hell thought to move XP from RPG's (Role Playing Games, not Rocket Propelled Grenades) to shooters?
It used to be that one could sit down with a bunch of friends, start up 1942 (or something similar), and just play. Obviously there were good and bad players - so normally we adjusted teams accordingly - but there was no advantage to the guy who has oodles of free time and tons of XP vs those that hasn't played the game before and were just starting out.
Add to that the lack of local LAN capabilities in most modern shooters (MW3 being an exemption it seems), and they're just NOT FUN anymore.
And if you count distribution by "steam" etc where they have some kickass sales (usually where I end up getting my games), then pricing is a *hell* of a lot better than it was 10-20 years ago
I have the 360 version. There is an Save-Game-Editor for xbox - which is a modified version of the PC SGE - that allowed me to change my games.
I suppose if all else fails, you could find a 360 saved game, and edit a bunch of the flags to match how your PC-based game ended (it lets you edit your paragon/renegade points, which allies are alive/dead, your weapons, and some key "did or did not do" points).
More amusingly, it's supposed to allow importing of face models, but I never did get that to work.
If an american pilot is flying over Afghanistan and takes something from jet (let's say, just before ejecting), is he subject to US or Afghan law?
Bioware doesn't have a tool, but there are various "save game editors" out there that I believe may also be able to convert...
Ha. That assumes you can actually get a trial by a jury, and not a secret handpicked judged that has clearance to deal with "secret" trials.
I ordered some DVD's from eBay (the company that owns paypal and supposedly has a no-piracy policy).
They arrived in a pretty box, but were obviously bootleg knockoffs. The subtitles varied widely between discs, and some you could see the scan-line and fuzz where they were copied from an old VHS with bad tracking.
Paypal's response to my claim: The DVD's must be brought to a third-party (such as a pro or a video store) to verify that they were pirated. Nobody local was in any way willing to do that for less than the value of the video, so my case rather readily died and the seller continues to sell pirated DVD's.
They'll always get *SOME* attention. The problem is that they don't seem to get attention from those that can shut them down.
They need the attention of those who can actually do something to stop this type of poor behavior... unfortunately those with the power to do so just don't care.
I've never heard of Android phones that had full-disk encryption. What are you using?
Almost every bank in Canada charges some form of debit card fee, with a few provisions
a) You can pay $X/month to get $Y transactions
b) You can get accounts where you don't pay fees if you have minimum balance $Z (usually $1000, recently raised to $1500 by TD bank, which I then dropped like a hot potato)
It's a system which penalizes those with lower incomes who cannot maintain the minimum balance, and overall it pretty much sucks.
There are some credit unions that don't charge the fees. Ones I know of are:
ING
President's Choice (Loblaws/Superstore/etc)
To put it in free market terms (which I generally avoid using), the market has decided they like these products. People have exercised their free will and chosen to buy these products.
Except in countries where competing products are banned due pretty much to being rectangular and black with rounded corners....
Which is why they have FRAND agreements with other companies... in which case they cross-license some patents, possibly trade a bit of cash, and agree to *gasp* NOT SUE EACH OTHER.
I'm not a Samsung fanboi. In fact until recently I rather disliked/avoided Samsung as they had a tendency to do stupid/annoying things like create custom connectors for their charging/headphone ports. After issues I've had with Apple and later Motorola products/support, I decided to give them another go (after first ensuring that they had a standard bloody connector) since they had one of the best-specc'ed/reviewed devices. So far I've been very happy with my phone, and I'd hate to see a world where some B.S. black-rectangle patent warfare prevents me from having access to a superior (and DIFFERENT) product.
Don't know so much about the holocaust deniers. I've run into a few and they pretty easily identified themselves as "wacko not worth my time" within a few moments.
I'm more happy to not deal with the KKK or other such groups.
Much of it is the type of show of course (Kirk being the dashing hero type, and others such as "rescue 9-1-1" being a more serious genre), but the humor around Shatner in general days is more self-effacing than previous. However, overall he does seem to be a less "serious" person these days in general. Perhaps it's just the roles he's taking, but he seems to take himself less seriously (which IMHO also makes him more likable).
Next employee for firing is "William Ernst", fired for subjecting the company to expensive lawsuits...
To add to that,
There was a lot of talk in the industry in regards to interpersonal conflicts, and - in regards to you (Shatner) in particular - taking oneself a bit too seriously. You can see a lot of this stereotype portrayed in the parody "Galaxy Quest"
It seems that in more recent history, you've done pretty well at taking in jokes regarding your previous "Kirk" role, and even making many yourself. IMHO a bit more humility (i.e. Boston Legal) seems to have done well for the latter part of your career. Often, a bit of self-effacing humor seems a staple of many famous Canadian-born actors.
How do you feel you've evolved as a person during your film career, and what influenced that change personally and professionally?
Also, if I can sneak in a 2-in-1, what's your opinion of "Galaxy Quest" ? :-)
From what I've heard, no (but IANAL).
I'd imagine, however, that the companies could then stop paying the licensing fees on future products. If they really felt that MS had don't something illegal (like the many alleged "protection racket" comments mentioned on slashdot) then perhaps they might have a change of a lawsuit against MS on those grounds.
There are plenty of things in the world that contains materials that can kill you if ingested in any significant amount.
Thermometers, various lightbulbs, etc.
The question is: how easily is somebody exposed to said materials for ingestion, and will you be easily exposed to it by other methods (inhalation, touch, etc).