For crying out loud why do people NOT understand what you just said? They see it in writing and they believe anything. They try to rationalize their desire for free things with their knowledge that they're infringing copyrights.
I had a friend who just got back from Japan after spending two years there. He enjoys anime and his PSP which is Japanese. He can't use any American UMD movies and he's a little pissed about that. He puts anime he downloads onto Memory Sticks. He said to me, "As long as it's not released in the US, it's legal." Of course, it isn't.
Plenty of people were willing to plunk down $300 on the PS2. Not so many willing to put $300 on the Xbox. It took three years before the Xbox sold a decent amount, and they still lose money on every box they sell. Sony may have lost some money of their boxes too, but at least they had more games worth buying than Halo.
Sounds about right. I had a call from a collection agency and the debt sounded bogus. I really should have stopped talking to them then, but I refused to agree to anything at the time. I looked up my rights and asked them to send me proof on the second call. Their response was "Oh, you owe it all right, now what payment option do you want or would you prefer us to take you to court?" Obviously they weren't giving up. I didn't bend and they stopped calling.
In the end, they sold my "debt" off to another agency and I got a letter from agency #2 telling me what I "owed" them. I sent a letter back demanding proof of the original debt. Never heard another thing from them. I read of several people who had their debts shuffled from agency to agency and some who'd even paid the debt and still had to deal with the exact same thing later from another agency. I wonder how many of these bogus "debts" get sold off to another unsuspecting collection agency after the first couldn't collect...
Then you wouldn't be basing it on an actual felony record as he was vindicated and it was expunged. A wrongful discrimination suit would probably win in that case.
As another poster mentioned it does have to be related to the work in some states, but not all.
Except that is is perfectly legal to discriminate based on criminal record. You are limited in what you can ask about those criminal records. Misdemeanors are usually only applicable within five years. Felonies are generally applicable forever(except when sealed or expunged). Felons are not in a protected class.
That person can sue, but his chances are very slim unless it's a specific crime and/or state. The crime you mentioned is a felony and there's no time limit on that.
IANAL and all that, but I'd like to hear someone disprove or clarify my statements. I did reasearch this before posting after all.
I've got a 1995 Suzuki Swift. It's got a 1.3-liter 4-cyl for 70 horsepower. Not a super speedy item, it tops out at 85mph, but I get 40-46mpg average. Even when I go to California and drive over the mountain passes from Washington I average 38-40mpg.
Searching around, apparently the older 1.0-liter 3-cyl Geo Metro(same car, diff engine) could get 45-50mpg for some folks. These aren't rare cars, just not what Average Joe wants. Plenty of people have these if you look around. CarQuest and other delivery companies LOVE the lower operating costs and have thousands in service.
Average Joe wants 300hp SUV and neon spinnered RX-8's. Thank goodness we can't all afford them or we'd really be in deep stuff.
Mark Wilson, a "gun nut super-hero" of your description was credited with saving lives during a courthouse shooting spree. A man, David Hernandez Arroyo Sr., came to the courthouse with bullet proof vest and semi-automatic rifle. He then killed his wife, killed a deputy, and wounded his son. He was closing in to kill his son when Mark Wilson fired on him.
Wilson has been credited with saving not only the man's son, but others as well. Wilson hit Arroyo several times in the chest, but the bulletproof vest was effective. Arroyo did kill Wilson before running. The gun battle continued about two miles away and Arroyo was killed by police.
I hear news stories every few weeks of something like this, but almost never hear of anyone able to respond to the situation except police. I know of one friend in Houston, TX who's had to use his gun on a couple of occasions in downtown at night. He's never had to fire. He values his saftey more than the punk who's trying to rob him and rightfully so. If Wilson's a gun nut, we need more like him.
I am from Oregon, and can confirm that in Washington I can show my driver's license, and they will not charge me sales tax. But if I try that in any other state they will look at me like I am crazy.
Of course, that assumes that the retailer in question can handle such requests. Most would probably still try to charge the tax. Managers are called, time is wasted, etc...
I would prefer income taxes and property taxes. With those taxes at least you can write them off your federal income taxes. You don't get to write off sales taxes, so I prefer the way things are done in Oregon and would not change it.
I realize you're in Oregon, but the rest of us now have the option of deducting EITHER state sales OR state income taxes. For states like Washington where there is no income tax, it's a no brainer which to choose. Still, it's overly complicated. You can't deduct your sales tax unless you itemize, so taking the standard deduction is sometimes better.
Yes, I'm sure that's one reason why it's the default. Still, it's truly impossible to change the default. They have it locked. You either have to change the size every single time, or go through a five step workaround on each and every computer that has the program. With problems like this, no major corporation will ever think of switching to OOo.
Yes, but when you tell MS Office to change the default paper to A4, does it do it? In OOo, you set the default, it looks like you did it right, then when you open a new document it's back to A4.
To change it, you have to create a new document, save that as a template after making all the changes you need, THEN set that as the default template.
Shouldn't the defaults be easier to change? I know their reasoning is to prevent morons from mucking up the settings, but it would be better to have a "original defaults" button instead of forcing a kludged up workaround on everyone.
As far as dates go, I can see why each point works. Small, medium, large does make sense, but if you only put down one bit plus year, you get either (15th, 2005) or (January, 2005). Which of those two is more specific? Anyway, it would be nice if everyone had standards for paper that we could agree on. I wouldn't mind moving to metric, but people just don't want to change. I can't use A4 on my own here in the US.
Have they set it to allow 8.5x11 pages without all the hassle of having to make new templates and forcing you to set ten different things just to make it work nicely in the US?
Or is it still impossible to change the A4 size?:(
They'll just type in your product, range of purchase dates, name, and pull up your actual purchase. Not all stores do that, but many do now.
Still, what's the point of store credit. They still keep the money. The idea for return fraud is to actually get money for nothing, not pay for something else in the store.
Stores will still give you cash back, but typically you MUST use cash for the original purchase. This whole contactless Visa thing would be worthless for return fraud simply because it would go back to the original Visa.
There are still ways to do return fraud, but this isn't a new method.
Nothing wrong with putting stuff on that. The article said you could. The issued is how much more stuff do you want to carry? The Sony Memory Stick is one of the most expensive flash memory formats. Plus it requires the Memory Stick DUO for movies.
Wanta movie on one? Even in MPEG-4 you'll need lots of storage. $250 for the device, $50 for a game, $20 for a tote(gotta keep that screen protected!), $75 for a 256mb duo stick...
Your first movie on the PSP will cost: $395!
For that price you can get one of those 20 gig Archos video/mp3 players. Even skipping the game and tote leaves you at $325... Of course you could always buy the movies in UMD format...paying yet again for the same movies you already own in DVD(and perhaps VHS).
Depends on whether the judge thinks it's "lying." If they can make a point that they made it to not run if program X is present, then that IS a conflict with the design of the game. It's a crappy design, but it's the publisher's choice. I highly doubt that it's illegal(fraud?), but that doesn't make us feel any better does it?
It will still sell millions of copies and it will still be illegally copied by copyright scofflaws.
Uh, garage bands that are successfull turn into standard RIAA bands. There's no way to win unless you eventually drop support for the band that USED to be a garage band.
Ok, well how many congressfolk would vote against something so wholesome sounding as:
Measure Number: H.R. 3162 (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 )
Senate roll call found here states only ONE vote against(Feingold (D-WI)) and ONE abstention(Landrieu (D-LA)). ---
Please choose something other than PATRIOT act. A vote for that piece of legislation, however horrible that act is, is certainly not an indication of full support of everything in it.
Hell, hardly ANY act passed has 100% support from any one senator. By the time amendments and other pork are put into budgets, passing something that the senate won't choke on is the goal.
NEXT used to have magnesium cases, but they were made in such a way to be very difficult to burn.
I read a magazine article on it once because they tried to burn a NEXT Cube for the cover. It never caught fire completely. The parts that did burn were only quarter size and they stopped burning on their own.
I wonder if the car manufacturers were smart enough to use this type of magnesium.
You can do lots of addition/subtraction instructions to get the result of a single multiplication instruction.
Maybe they meant to say thousands of clock cycles can be reduced to one clock cycle since you can have larger single instructions(i.e. squareroot over pi or something) programmed into the chip that only take one cycle?
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For crying out loud why do people NOT understand what you just said? They see it in writing and they believe anything. They try to rationalize their desire for free things with their knowledge that they're infringing copyrights.
I had a friend who just got back from Japan after spending two years there. He enjoys anime and his PSP which is Japanese. He can't use any American UMD movies and he's a little pissed about that. He puts anime he downloads onto Memory Sticks. He said to me, "As long as it's not released in the US, it's legal." Of course, it isn't.
It's ethical IMHO, but not legal.
Uh, $300 is not a half grand...
Plenty of people were willing to plunk down $300 on the PS2. Not so many willing to put $300 on the Xbox. It took three years before the Xbox sold a decent amount, and they still lose money on every box they sell. Sony may have lost some money of their boxes too, but at least they had more games worth buying than Halo.
Sounds about right. I had a call from a collection agency and the debt sounded bogus. I really should have stopped talking to them then, but I refused to agree to anything at the time. I looked up my rights and asked them to send me proof on the second call. Their response was "Oh, you owe it all right, now what payment option do you want or would you prefer us to take you to court?" Obviously they weren't giving up. I didn't bend and they stopped calling.
In the end, they sold my "debt" off to another agency and I got a letter from agency #2 telling me what I "owed" them. I sent a letter back demanding proof of the original debt. Never heard another thing from them. I read of several people who had their debts shuffled from agency to agency and some who'd even paid the debt and still had to deal with the exact same thing later from another agency. I wonder how many of these bogus "debts" get sold off to another unsuspecting collection agency after the first couldn't collect...
Then you wouldn't be basing it on an actual felony record as he was vindicated and it was expunged. A wrongful discrimination suit would probably win in that case.
As another poster mentioned it does have to be related to the work in some states, but not all.
It's perfectly legal to fire someone for being gay in most US states. Sad, but true.
Except that is is perfectly legal to discriminate based on criminal record. You are limited in what you can ask about those criminal records. Misdemeanors are usually only applicable within five years. Felonies are generally applicable forever(except when sealed or expunged). Felons are not in a protected class.
That person can sue, but his chances are very slim unless it's a specific crime and/or state. The crime you mentioned is a felony and there's no time limit on that.
IANAL and all that, but I'd like to hear someone disprove or clarify my statements. I did reasearch this before posting after all.
It's a huge difference. Even at the four to one ratio, people would have to buy four games for the 16 PSP multiplayer.
If you're counting on selling games to make money, then this is a major problem. Watch for old PSP's for sale on EBay if new ones disable this "bug."
I've got a 1995 Suzuki Swift. It's got a 1.3-liter 4-cyl for 70 horsepower. Not a super speedy item, it tops out at 85mph, but I get 40-46mpg average. Even when I go to California and drive over the mountain passes from Washington I average 38-40mpg.
Searching around, apparently the older 1.0-liter 3-cyl Geo Metro(same car, diff engine) could get 45-50mpg for some folks. These aren't rare cars, just not what Average Joe wants. Plenty of people have these if you look around. CarQuest and other delivery companies LOVE the lower operating costs and have thousands in service.
Average Joe wants 300hp SUV and neon spinnered RX-8's. Thank goodness we can't all afford them or we'd really be in deep stuff.
Mark Wilson, a "gun nut super-hero" of your description was credited with saving lives during a courthouse shooting spree. A man, David Hernandez Arroyo Sr., came to the courthouse with bullet proof vest and semi-automatic rifle. He then killed his wife, killed a deputy, and wounded his son. He was closing in to kill his son when Mark Wilson fired on him.
Wilson has been credited with saving not only the man's son, but others as well. Wilson hit Arroyo several times in the chest, but the bulletproof vest was effective. Arroyo did kill Wilson before running. The gun battle continued about two miles away and Arroyo was killed by police.
I hear news stories every few weeks of something like this, but almost never hear of anyone able to respond to the situation except police. I know of one friend in Houston, TX who's had to use his gun on a couple of occasions in downtown at night. He's never had to fire. He values his saftey more than the punk who's trying to rob him and rightfully so. If Wilson's a gun nut, we need more like him.
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I realize you're in Oregon, but the rest of us now have the option of deducting EITHER state sales OR state income taxes. For states like Washington where there is no income tax, it's a no brainer which to choose. Still, it's overly complicated. You can't deduct your sales tax unless you itemize, so taking the standard deduction is sometimes better.
Yes, I'm sure that's one reason why it's the default. Still, it's truly impossible to change the default. They have it locked.
You either have to change the size every single time, or go through a five step workaround on each and every computer that has the program. With problems like this, no major corporation will ever think of switching to OOo.
Yes, but when you tell MS Office to change the default paper to A4, does it do it? In OOo, you set the default, it looks like you did it right, then when you open a new document it's back to A4.
To change it, you have to create a new document, save that as a template after making all the changes you need, THEN set that as the default template.
Shouldn't the defaults be easier to change? I know their reasoning is to prevent morons from mucking up the settings, but it would be better to have a "original defaults" button instead of forcing a kludged up workaround on everyone.
As far as dates go, I can see why each point works. Small, medium, large does make sense, but if you only put down one bit plus year, you get either (15th, 2005) or (January, 2005). Which of those two is more specific? Anyway, it would be nice if everyone had standards for paper that we could agree on. I wouldn't mind moving to metric, but people just don't want to change. I can't use A4 on my own here in the US.
Have they set it to allow 8.5x11 pages without all the hassle of having to make new templates and forcing you to set ten different things just to make it work nicely in the US?
:(
Or is it still impossible to change the A4 size?
They'll just type in your product, range of purchase dates, name, and pull up your actual purchase. Not all stores do that, but many do now.
Still, what's the point of store credit. They still keep the money. The idea for return fraud is to actually get money for nothing, not pay for something else in the store.
Stores will still give you cash back, but typically you MUST use cash for the original purchase. This whole contactless Visa thing would be worthless for return fraud simply because it would go back to the original Visa.
There are still ways to do return fraud, but this isn't a new method.
True that.
Perspective is the key. He was asking for successfull PC games that moved to the console successfully. The Sims does fill that requirement.
The Sims. #1 game of all time in terms of units sold.
Yes, it has a memory stick port.
Nothing wrong with putting stuff on that. The article said you could. The issued is how much more stuff do you want to carry? The Sony Memory Stick is one of the most expensive flash memory formats. Plus it requires the Memory Stick DUO for movies.
Wanta movie on one? Even in MPEG-4 you'll need lots of storage. $250 for the device, $50 for a game, $20 for a tote(gotta keep that screen protected!), $75 for a 256mb duo stick...
Your first movie on the PSP will cost: $395!
For that price you can get one of those 20 gig Archos video/mp3 players. Even skipping the game and tote leaves you at $325... Of course you could always buy the movies in UMD format...paying yet again for the same movies you already own in DVD(and perhaps VHS).
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The resolution is crap, but I find being able to see where your OPPONENT is at far more usefull than seeing where your teammate is at. :)
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Depends on whether the judge thinks it's "lying." If they can make a point that they made it to not run if program X is present, then that IS a conflict with the design of the game. It's a crappy design, but it's the publisher's choice. I highly doubt that it's illegal(fraud?), but that doesn't make us feel any better does it?
It will still sell millions of copies and it will still be illegally copied by copyright scofflaws.
Ok, well how many congressfolk would vote against something so wholesome sounding as:
Measure Number: H.R. 3162 (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 )
Senate roll call found here states only ONE vote against(Feingold (D-WI)) and ONE abstention(Landrieu (D-LA)).
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Please choose something other than PATRIOT act. A vote for that piece of legislation, however horrible that act is, is certainly not an indication of full support of everything in it.
Hell, hardly ANY act passed has 100% support from any one senator. By the time amendments and other pork are put into budgets, passing something that the senate won't choke on is the goal.
Think someone like the government is going to keep track of who buys these things?
NEXT used to have magnesium cases, but they were made in such a way to be very difficult to burn.
I read a magazine article on it once because they tried to burn a NEXT Cube for the cover. It never caught fire completely. The parts that did burn were only quarter size and they stopped burning on their own.
I wonder if the car manufacturers were smart enough to use this type of magnesium.
Perhaps they mis-worded it.
You can do lots of addition/subtraction instructions to get the result of a single multiplication instruction.
Maybe they meant to say thousands of clock cycles can be reduced to one clock cycle since you can have larger single instructions(i.e. squareroot over pi or something) programmed into the chip that only take one cycle?