add to that: fucking first amendment baby!</p></quote>
The first amendment was likely not originally intended to be as it is SEEN today. I bet your founding fathers would be aghast to see whats been done with the constitution thingy. Freedom of speech is more meant to be so you cannot be told not to say legitimate things like political or religous crap (ie things that in some countries ARE high censored.).
Moving from iiNet to TPG has proved to be one of the worst decisions I've made with my ISPs.
Their support is not good. It's terrible. It seems whenever I call I get put on hold and forgotten about.
ISP support is for pansies anyway. Most problems people blame on their ISP are not the ISP's problem so the support service is wasted. Hand holding at increased prices. Yay. Why not just use our local monopoly (bigpond) for the same reasons, they apparently have semi decent tech support.
They are outlawed because morons who/think/ they need them do dumb arse things with them. I'm all for banning them myself. There is no real need for them anyhow IMO. As for the brighted comment, there ARE safety rules regarding high beams I believe, and certain lights would also likely get you pulled over if too bright. Unfortunately the average 'intelligent' human is a moron and there are more average 'intelligence' humans and those at either end of the scale who think dumb shit is funny.
I agree with you on a few points. But for me, the labels themselves would have to open their catalogues entirely and not rely on us to rip it for them. I want high quality straight from their stores. Plus access to stuff as its released commercially. Thats about the only way I would ever countenance it.
The issue as I see it is that the US says one thing and does another, and to be blunt, the rest of the world has had a gutfull. Yes, some things the US does ARE good, but most shit they do is simply to enrich a few who dont need it.
"Oh no! Offshore casino's are going to take the money WE wanted to steal from our people!" (Maybe not steal as people give the moeny away.)
Against offshore casinos? Why not against offshore call centres? Why not against sending alot of your jobs, jobs that the US citizens should have offshore? Why? Because the rich dont complain about getting money back in their pocket and the average US citizen is too arrogant (I've spoken with about 5 IRL and thats enough to form my own biased opinion:P )to say "Hold on a minute...". Yeah its nice to have a 'powerful' country and be able to tell the world to f**k off, but don't complain when the rest of the world says f**k you, be fined $100B.
Its a lovely idea. So lovely they decided it's too good to be allowed decent sound quality. Its no wonder they have the agreement allowing the tracks to be free, they couldn't pay people to listen to this crap quality.
someone to interupt whatever you wish to read to deliver someone elses opinion on what you like? someone to write code that slows down page loading? someone to distract you by flashing things wierd colors on your screen? someone to play bad music when you want to read in quiet?
The answer to all these is no (unless you are a massochist in which case go stand on the freeway for a few hours) Most of us PAY for our internet connections. If the ads werent annoying, intrusive and somewhat bordering on abusive, I'm sure we would all love to know about the latest deal on 'blah', or whatever.
Saw the game and thought, "Wow, DND RTS possibly done right?" On release day here in Oz, bought the game, got it home and BAM. Out comes the mortien can. Bugs left right and center. Cant play it with sound, cant install it correctly unless you disable anti-virus software, game plays like a hunk of junk and its for all intents and purposes, unoriginal.
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fucking first amendment baby!</p></quote>
The first amendment was likely not originally intended to be as it is SEEN today. I bet your founding fathers would be aghast to see whats been done with the constitution thingy. Freedom of speech is more meant to be so you cannot be told not to say legitimate things like political or religous crap (ie things that in some countries ARE high censored.).
Moving from iiNet to TPG has proved to be one of the worst decisions I've made with my ISPs.
Their support is not good. It's terrible. It seems whenever I call I get put on hold and forgotten about.
ISP support is for pansies anyway. Most problems people blame on their ISP are not the ISP's problem so the support service is wasted. Hand holding at increased prices. Yay. Why not just use our local monopoly (bigpond) for the same reasons, they apparently have semi decent tech support.
They are outlawed because morons who /think/ they need them do dumb arse things with them. I'm all for banning them myself. There is no real need for them anyhow IMO. As for the brighted comment, there ARE safety rules regarding high beams I believe, and certain lights would also likely get you pulled over if too bright. Unfortunately the average 'intelligent' human is a moron and there are more average 'intelligence' humans and those at either end of the scale who think dumb shit is funny.
I agree with you on a few points. But for me, the labels themselves would have to open their catalogues entirely and not rely on us to rip it for them. I want high quality straight from their stores. Plus access to stuff as its released commercially. Thats about the only way I would ever countenance it.
WTG USPO! WTG USA for making and allowing such a system that is so easily abused by patent trolls. Where is the incentive NOT to do shit like this?
The issue as I see it is that the US says one thing and does another, and to be blunt, the rest of the world has had a gutfull. Yes, some things the US does ARE good, but most shit they do is simply to enrich a few who dont need it.
:P )to say "Hold on a minute...". Yeah its nice to have a 'powerful' country and be able to tell the world to f**k off, but don't complain when the rest of the world says f**k you, be fined $100B.
"Oh no! Offshore casino's are going to take the money WE wanted to steal from our people!" (Maybe not steal as people give the moeny away.)
Against offshore casinos? Why not against offshore call centres? Why not against sending alot of your jobs, jobs that the US citizens should have offshore? Why? Because the rich dont complain about getting money back in their pocket and the average US citizen is too arrogant (I've spoken with about 5 IRL and thats enough to form my own biased opinion
Its a lovely idea. So lovely they decided it's too good to be allowed decent sound quality. Its no wonder they have the agreement allowing the tracks to be free, they couldn't pay people to listen to this crap quality.
someone to interupt whatever you wish to read to deliver someone elses opinion on what you like?
someone to write code that slows down page loading?
someone to distract you by flashing things wierd colors on your screen?
someone to play bad music when you want to read in quiet?
The answer to all these is no (unless you are a massochist in which case go stand on the freeway for a few hours)
Most of us PAY for our internet connections. If the ads werent annoying, intrusive and somewhat bordering on abusive, I'm sure we would all love to know about the latest deal on 'blah', or whatever.
Saw the game and thought, "Wow, DND RTS possibly done right?"
On release day here in Oz, bought the game, got it home and BAM. Out comes the mortien can.
Bugs left right and center. Cant play it with sound, cant install it correctly unless you disable anti-virus software, game plays like a hunk of junk and its for all intents and purposes, unoriginal.
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