If we didn't have copyright, what would stop someone from taking some big content item (be it a movie, book, song, etc), repackaging it (ripping the song and burning it to DVD, scanning the book and reprinting it, etc) and selling it without giving the creator any money?
Uh, even though copyright exists, this is happening.
Honestly, when I first started pirating - really until Don’t Copy That Floppy came along - I saw it as the same as lending a book to a friend. It was just that now with the wonders of modern technology, we could both have it at the same time!
Personally, I don't have time to keep up with everything I'm interested in. And sometimes, I'd really have to go searching. I don't have time to google "are there any Lego events within a 50 mile radius of me in the next few months" every day in the hopes that information about a new one is now online, but when I was sent an advertisement by mail about a new one, I was glad I found out about it ahead of time (and not when people were posting pictures of it online and it was too late to get a ticket or over already).
That's great if you have enough money to always immediately buy/do what you desire. Personally I usually look into something, and then have to wait a few weeks or months to buy/do it. If I'm saving up for a $300 item, and I'm saving $50 a week, and then on week 3 I see an ad saying it's on sale for the next two days at $150, I'm going to be very happy that I saw that ad.
Or if it's something I looked into and then decided it's too expensive, but am willing to pay less for it, an ad can be helpful. This happened last Christmas; my daughter wanted a certain toy, it was $90, that was way too expensive and I said she'd probably never get the toy. But when it went on a flash sale for $10, and I saw an ad for that, I was able to get it for her.
Ads also show me that oh, Amazon has that item I was looking for, great, since I have Prime that means I can get free shipping. And ads show me RELATED items that I didn't know existed, but which are helpful to use along with or instead of the items I already know about.
There's also ads for things that can't be bought just once. Children's clothes. Consumables. Materials for my business. Yes, when I need these things I usually research them myself; but if there's a random sale when I'm not looking, or a site I don't know about selling them for cheaper than I usually pay, great!
What if a person achieves "clarity" that they really should end it all?
Well then they can kill themselves. I don't understand the point of forcing someone to live a shitty life (or a life where they feel shitty) that they don't want to live. Sure, other people might be sad for a little while. But they'll get over it. So in my book, it's better than forcing someone to live in depression for who-knows-how-many-years.
When I was in school, we just had a PIN, no id card needed, no id from the cashier needed. Yes, we could give that PIN to friends, but if you did that every day, your parents would notice the lunch account was draining twice as fast as it should and ask you what was up. I suppose we could have forgotten the PIN, but it's a few numbers that a kid uses way more often than their address, and we expect a kid to remember their address.
Well, I guess that works if the family has a fax machine or a scanner and the knowledge to use it to get a copy to the service providers. And if we pretend you can't fake a death certificate. And if the family doesn't need to access anything before they get the death certificate. And if all service providers hire people to look at the death certificates.
So what about when that person is just in the hospital, unconscious and not dead?
So what info could be used, to verify that you do indeed speak on behalf of the account owner, that people like ex-wives would not know and could use maliciously by lying that the person is dead or in the hospital?
No way. I used cloth diapers at the end with #3 and had her potty trained quickly after I started using them, exclusively with #4 and had him potty trained by 9 months. The amount of money I saved not only by buying the cloth diapers, but by having quickly potty trained kids was amazing. And there was no more running out just before shopping day, or having to buy more when a baby got sick and had diarrhea, or having to call my husband at work (with a 1 car family) and tell him I've run out, or half a pack just being a loss when a baby has a growth spurt, etc. etc. If I ever have any more it is going to be cloth diapers all the way.
The only way disposables are better is if you are using them wrong by putting the poop in the trash.
If I am actually interested in the video, I have to go back to the beginning. And sometimes the humor or entertainment value is ruined by me seeing later parts on mute. It's so much more annoying than just starting videos I'm interested in, and has resulted in me actually viewing a lot less videos on facebook. Unless they want to kill peoples' data limit and get worthless plays to videos, I don't see the point.
I just typed up this long thing about how when my husband and I both had "day jobs," it was a godsend for us to have a day off and things still be open, or for things to stay open say an hour longer than normal so that we had time to go there after work. But then I realized; that was back before we had debit cards, Amazon Prime, Peapod, online inventory checking, etc. Back when we actually had to drive to the bank and then the store, had to drive around to places looking at prices and models available.
So nowadays, really the only reason for such businesses to be open 24 hours is for the night owls. Night owls can work those night time jobs (obviously that benefit is thrown out the window if the business has rotating shifts), and patronize at night. But, if we are doing it for them, then it's contradictory to ONLY have things like Walmart and McDonalds open.
(For the record, before I had a family, I LOVED working holidays. The important and fun stuff is all closed, might as well be at work. Granted, I worked at places were business was slower on holidays, not busier.)
she's hiding out with male friends, and the majority of those "authorities" that are going to protect her are male? Way to go, strong woman who doesn't need men.
I don't know about chinks and pakis but only the Japanese-American people I know get offended by "jap." (And even then, it's only some of them. The people I mostly see being supposedly offended, are caucasians.) The Japanese-Japanese people I know consider it little different than "Japanese" (which is an exonym itself) and have a "Well bless his little heart" type attitude about it - he's a foreigner idiot, he doesn't know any better. I know that "Chinese" is also an exonym but "chink" isn't a natural shortening of that, so that one may be different than Jap and Paki.
Uh, but you're buying it, not your mother. So if you want to talk about who's FUNDING the industry, your mother is not a tally in the "adult female" section.
As someone who has been playing games for nearly 30 years, I've seen that gaming has always included adult women playing casually, females under 18 playing ahrdcore, and men over 18 playing hardcore - though yes the number of hardcore men over 18 has grown, as has the number of hardcore women over 18 (since those hardcore females under 18 grew up just as the males did). What's changed is the definition of gamer.
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If we didn't have copyright, what would stop someone from taking some big content item (be it a movie, book, song, etc), repackaging it (ripping the song and burning it to DVD, scanning the book and reprinting it, etc) and selling it without giving the creator any money?
Uh, even though copyright exists, this is happening.
Honestly, when I first started pirating - really until Don’t Copy That Floppy came along - I saw it as the same as lending a book to a friend. It was just that now with the wonders of modern technology, we could both have it at the same time!
27 or is she 8?
Well if you go by the "1 dog year = 7 human years" rule then she only has to be 3.
I see lots of ads for cat food and baby food on youtube after I watch a video about cats or babies.
Personally, I don't have time to keep up with everything I'm interested in. And sometimes, I'd really have to go searching. I don't have time to google "are there any Lego events within a 50 mile radius of me in the next few months" every day in the hopes that information about a new one is now online, but when I was sent an advertisement by mail about a new one, I was glad I found out about it ahead of time (and not when people were posting pictures of it online and it was too late to get a ticket or over already).
That's great if you have enough money to always immediately buy/do what you desire. Personally I usually look into something, and then have to wait a few weeks or months to buy/do it. If I'm saving up for a $300 item, and I'm saving $50 a week, and then on week 3 I see an ad saying it's on sale for the next two days at $150, I'm going to be very happy that I saw that ad.
Or if it's something I looked into and then decided it's too expensive, but am willing to pay less for it, an ad can be helpful. This happened last Christmas; my daughter wanted a certain toy, it was $90, that was way too expensive and I said she'd probably never get the toy. But when it went on a flash sale for $10, and I saw an ad for that, I was able to get it for her.
Ads also show me that oh, Amazon has that item I was looking for, great, since I have Prime that means I can get free shipping. And ads show me RELATED items that I didn't know existed, but which are helpful to use along with or instead of the items I already know about.
There's also ads for things that can't be bought just once. Children's clothes. Consumables. Materials for my business. Yes, when I need these things I usually research them myself; but if there's a random sale when I'm not looking, or a site I don't know about selling them for cheaper than I usually pay, great!
What if a person achieves "clarity" that they really should end it all?
Well then they can kill themselves. I don't understand the point of forcing someone to live a shitty life (or a life where they feel shitty) that they don't want to live. Sure, other people might be sad for a little while. But they'll get over it. So in my book, it's better than forcing someone to live in depression for who-knows-how-many-years.
Do you have a link to the original jingle?
When I was in school, we just had a PIN, no id card needed, no id from the cashier needed. Yes, we could give that PIN to friends, but if you did that every day, your parents would notice the lunch account was draining twice as fast as it should and ask you what was up. I suppose we could have forgotten the PIN, but it's a few numbers that a kid uses way more often than their address, and we expect a kid to remember their address.
So how are these kids surviving over summer vacation?
The thing is, no difference is seen between "driving" and "sitting completely still in a traffic jam for 40 minutes."
Should he be able to bully them back? No, but if he is being punished for his bullying, they should be too. Unless two wrongs make a right now.
Well, I guess that works if the family has a fax machine or a scanner and the knowledge to use it to get a copy to the service providers. And if we pretend you can't fake a death certificate. And if the family doesn't need to access anything before they get the death certificate. And if all service providers hire people to look at the death certificates.
So what about when that person is just in the hospital, unconscious and not dead?
Google Maps to get directions? I know that around here, they don't even make a distinction.
But mother needs some bandwidth to download her knitting patterns.
So what info could be used, to verify that you do indeed speak on behalf of the account owner, that people like ex-wives would not know and could use maliciously by lying that the person is dead or in the hospital?
No way. I used cloth diapers at the end with #3 and had her potty trained quickly after I started using them, exclusively with #4 and had him potty trained by 9 months. The amount of money I saved not only by buying the cloth diapers, but by having quickly potty trained kids was amazing. And there was no more running out just before shopping day, or having to buy more when a baby got sick and had diarrhea, or having to call my husband at work (with a 1 car family) and tell him I've run out, or half a pack just being a loss when a baby has a growth spurt, etc. etc. If I ever have any more it is going to be cloth diapers all the way.
The only way disposables are better is if you are using them wrong by putting the poop in the trash.
If I am actually interested in the video, I have to go back to the beginning. And sometimes the humor or entertainment value is ruined by me seeing later parts on mute. It's so much more annoying than just starting videos I'm interested in, and has resulted in me actually viewing a lot less videos on facebook. Unless they want to kill peoples' data limit and get worthless plays to videos, I don't see the point.
I just typed up this long thing about how when my husband and I both had "day jobs," it was a godsend for us to have a day off and things still be open, or for things to stay open say an hour longer than normal so that we had time to go there after work. But then I realized; that was back before we had debit cards, Amazon Prime, Peapod, online inventory checking, etc. Back when we actually had to drive to the bank and then the store, had to drive around to places looking at prices and models available.
So nowadays, really the only reason for such businesses to be open 24 hours is for the night owls. Night owls can work those night time jobs (obviously that benefit is thrown out the window if the business has rotating shifts), and patronize at night. But, if we are doing it for them, then it's contradictory to ONLY have things like Walmart and McDonalds open.
(For the record, before I had a family, I LOVED working holidays. The important and fun stuff is all closed, might as well be at work. Granted, I worked at places were business was slower on holidays, not busier.)
she's hiding out with male friends, and the majority of those "authorities" that are going to protect her are male? Way to go, strong woman who doesn't need men.
I don't know about chinks and pakis but only the Japanese-American people I know get offended by "jap." (And even then, it's only some of them. The people I mostly see being supposedly offended, are caucasians.) The Japanese-Japanese people I know consider it little different than "Japanese" (which is an exonym itself) and have a "Well bless his little heart" type attitude about it - he's a foreigner idiot, he doesn't know any better. I know that "Chinese" is also an exonym but "chink" isn't a natural shortening of that, so that one may be different than Jap and Paki.
customers have unlimited money. Which I don't. You can't squeeze blood from a stone, Comcast... I'll just have to get new hobbies.
Uh, but you're buying it, not your mother. So if you want to talk about who's FUNDING the industry, your mother is not a tally in the "adult female" section.
As someone who has been playing games for nearly 30 years, I've seen that gaming has always included adult women playing casually, females under 18 playing ahrdcore, and men over 18 playing hardcore - though yes the number of hardcore men over 18 has grown, as has the number of hardcore women over 18 (since those hardcore females under 18 grew up just as the males did). What's changed is the definition of gamer.