We, as humans, have a certain number of rights. Life, liberty, property, speech, assembly, plus all the other ones we haven't discovered and I didn't list. Government cannot take them away from us. They can infringe on them, keep us from being able to express them, but rights cannot be taken away. They are an intrinsic part of what it means to be human (in classic liberalism anyway).
The Constitution has separation of powers between the federal and state governments. That is, any power not specifically given to the federal government in the constitution is the state's domain. At one point in time this would have also included rights, since the amendments, which is the mechanism by which we have recourse against the government infringing our rights did not apply to the states (it took the 14th amendment and 60 or 70 years before the big ones got incorporated down). Freedom of speech and the rest have nothing to do with states rights. If we want to boil it down as far as it goes. The civil war was really about the states going against the contract that they signed in the Constitution. In it, they submit to the federal government and then powers are separated between the two. Federalism is inherently top-heavy anyway.
yeech, I've ranted too long. That was much too much typing for an explanation of personal rights verses enumerated power. Oh well, Cheerio!
Yes, but if I've got X dollars invested in this console generation, and the next comes along and can play all these games that I've already got. Why would I not want to buy it? That way I can drop the 300 on the system, play my old games, instead of being forced to not only spend extra on the new games, but also wait on the good new games. The PS2 doesn't play PS1 games to sell more PS1 games (although I'm sure a few have been sold because of it), it plays PS1 games to get PS1 owners to buy it, and then buy PS2 games.
Because Apple wants people looking at the $150-$200 flash players to see the iPod mini, and think "hey, for 50 bucks I can get 4 times the storage". The people that say for 50 bucks more than the ipod mini I can get a 15 gig, won't be the target audience for this thing.
Except the TCO of linux isn't free. You've got to figure in transition costs, paying your sysadmins and all of that. If linux is free, will cost you $20K to switch, and you'd have to pay the admins $80K, and windows will cost you $15K for licences and you can get away with paying the admins $65K (or $65K worth of admins), then windows is cheaper in the long run. Note, that I did pull those numbers out of my ass, but you can't assume that linux is free just becasuse the licenses don't cost anything.
There are no actual laws saying kids under 17 can't go in an R rated movie. Its just that the studios and the theaters have agreed that this is an R rated movie and we won't let anybody under 17 in without permission. Somewhere along the way, parents understood that R rated movies probably aren't the kind of stuff kids should be watching. That's what's never happened with video games. Granted, these "mature" games are a relatively new thing, but until we get parents reviewing their children's game choices like they do movies (and all the stores enforcing them), we'll see stories like this.
On a related note, did the media get their panties in a wad over R rated movies in the past? Before the rating system got into place, were people saying movie X made my kid go nuts? I'm just curious, I think there are differences between movies and games, but if that did happen, it'd be the start of a pattern.
Nah, that's what they're saving Bin Ladin for. I'm torn though, while I think that Bush and company would have thought to keep him, I think they'd jump the gun and wave him around.
No, the single member plurality districts that the us uses force there to be only two major parties. Duverge's Law states that when faced by a large majority party the other side will group together, moderate themselves as to create a new party, thus we end up with only two parties. It is ineveitable. Its rather easy to get on the ballot in most places anyway, although I'll grant that it's probably easier now than the early 1900s. Madison said that the infighting between factions would be what keeps america honest. I don't want to get into if that worked. But things haven't fallen apart yet, even with the whole flordia debackle.
I unwittingly left my cell phone in my pocket when I went to do laundry. Didn't notice until I saw the antenna in the lint trap of the dryer. Got it out and turned it on and it still worked. I was pretty amazed. Makes the $100 I dropped on it seem worth it.
Being forced to compete with others on a completely unequal scale is a downside.
No, equaling out the scale is what globalization is. The idea behind the global market is that comparative advantage will take hold and the places that are better able to produce a given type of product will produce that product. One can argue whether this is the case in the current example, but what you're talking about amounts to bellyaching. What globalization is, is vastly different than what everyone is expecting it to be. Things won't stay the same and new markets will be opened up. This is what you're calling a downside (and the US with its steel tarriffs). That's the way it works. If the Indians are better at programing because of labor costs (which is how things appear), then the American programing industry will wither and die and move to India. Sorry, but tough. Economics isn't called the dismal science for no reason.
You assume that the gubamint would not have its own political agenda. What about internet filters on computers in libraries? Bias exists no matter what. Although I do agree that government is probably going to be the least biased of the options you suggest.
Well, sampling techniques say that after about 1500, you're not going to increase the accuracy of the results too much. its in the order of 0.0001% Not really worth it. If you look all those polls that say "americans hate/love Bush" are with less than 2000 respondants. I'd guess that this survery would extrapolate out pretty well, unless this is an extremely biased survey, which I doubt.
One, while you may not agree, the members in Congress are generally pretty reactive to public opinion. Not as much as they probably should be, but good enough on the important stuff. The Patriot Act went through for a variety of reasons the least of which was Interest Groups/Lobbists. There hasn't been some coalition of people sitting on the hill clamoring to reduce people's rights in the name of John Ashcroft. Directly after 9/11 conditions were right for the Patriot Act to pass, would it pass today? probably not. Same thing 10 years ago or really any other point in history (Maybe after Pearl Harbor, but those are different circumstanses). It takes a lot more than money to get a bill passed these days (although it can help).
Two, who sayss you (and the majority of the public really) is qualified to make decisions on court cases? The AMerican Constitution is an amazing document, with a lot of twists and turns in its logic. Hell, most of the time the logic isn't spelled out. The first amendment says Congress shall make no law abridiging free speech... If we take that literaly then all those harsh anti-spam/telemarketing laws are invalid, as the government is now abridging the rights of those companies. Granted there aren't any literalists on the court today, but commercial speech can still be protected under the first amendment.
Oh, I just thought of another one. Do you have any idea exactly how many bills are considered in Congress these days? (marches off to thomas.loc.gov) At least 3300 have been introduced in the house thus far, probably half, to two-thirds of that in the senate, plus all the stuff that goes on from the congress to the president. You're going to weigh all that stuff equally and make equal decisions on each? Not only that, you expect the populace to do the same? Sounds to me like certain people should be selected to do all that for us, we pick individuals to represent us. Oh wait, that's how it does work.
The American system was designed to work like it does, some changes can (and need to be) made, but until we get brown-shirts goose-stepping in the national mall, I'm not going to be that worried.
I believe that two window APIs for OS X exist, the normal "Aqua" one and the "brushed metal" one. It just comes down to which of the two the app calls.
NO, it will drive away the 8-17 or so year-olds. The only people that care about a console being perceived as "kiddie" are the ones that care about themselves being perceived as "kiddie" i.e. mostly teenage boys first being introduced to testosterone. Sony has this market locked up I'd say. In my personal opinion, until the PSP becomes non-vaporware, Nintendo doesn't need to worry about growing beyond this "kiddie" niche. There will always be the people that don't care (which is a larger portion than you'd think, the ones that do are just the louder of the two). Nintendo has the handheld market, always has, there's more competition now, but I doubt if any of it is a serious threat beyond Sony. The next gen of handhelds is where the real interesting battle is going to take place. My money's still on the Big N though.
That's easy, shell out the money for Dave. To my knowledge, there is no other way to get a mac to talk to a windows network. There's a product called PC Maclan that lets windows talk to a mac. Or you could shell out the money for OS X. Doesn't really matter. But I don't believe that there is any free (beer and/or speech) way to do it.
No, the other zelda games were on the CD-i. The first CD based system that had a bunch of "edutainment" crap and cost like your left arm (literally, you had to chop it off)
How about a mac.com email for say $30-40 a year? I personally would love to have my mac.com email back and and too broke to shell out $100 for an email address, I could handle 5 bucks a month, or some other price point, but the whole give us a hundred bucks is a lot harder for me.
While I'm biased as one of the staff. We've been around for a while and have a small but dedicated group that play. Its ROM based, with some fun extra's added in over the years.
Come play, mention slashdot and get a free prize! (if I'm on and in a good mood)
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I'd say a little bit of all three, since Nintendo published the first Final Fantasy Game in America.
They don't forfeit anything. The first amendment applies only to government, a private entity such as this can allow or disallow whatever they want.
Almost, but not quite.
We, as humans, have a certain number of rights. Life, liberty, property, speech, assembly, plus all the other ones we haven't discovered and I didn't list. Government cannot take them away from us. They can infringe on them, keep us from being able to express them, but rights cannot be taken away. They are an intrinsic part of what it means to be human (in classic liberalism anyway).
The Constitution has separation of powers between the federal and state governments. That is, any power not specifically given to the federal government in the constitution is the state's domain. At one point in time this would have also included rights, since the amendments, which is the mechanism by which we have recourse against the government infringing our rights did not apply to the states (it took the 14th amendment and 60 or 70 years before the big ones got incorporated down). Freedom of speech and the rest have nothing to do with states rights. If we want to boil it down as far as it goes. The civil war was really about the states going against the contract that they signed in the Constitution. In it, they submit to the federal government and then powers are separated between the two. Federalism is inherently top-heavy anyway.
yeech, I've ranted too long. That was much too much typing for an explanation of personal rights verses enumerated power. Oh well, Cheerio!
Yes, but if I've got X dollars invested in this console generation, and the next comes along and can play all these games that I've already got. Why would I not want to buy it? That way I can drop the 300 on the system, play my old games, instead of being forced to not only spend extra on the new games, but also wait on the good new games. The PS2 doesn't play PS1 games to sell more PS1 games (although I'm sure a few have been sold because of it), it plays PS1 games to get PS1 owners to buy it, and then buy PS2 games.
Because Apple wants people looking at the $150-$200 flash players to see the iPod mini, and think "hey, for 50 bucks I can get 4 times the storage". The people that say for 50 bucks more than the ipod mini I can get a 15 gig, won't be the target audience for this thing.
Besides, what cost of ownership is less than FREE
Except the TCO of linux isn't free. You've got to figure in transition costs, paying your sysadmins and all of that. If linux is free, will cost you $20K to switch, and you'd have to pay the admins $80K, and windows will cost you $15K for licences and you can get away with paying the admins $65K (or $65K worth of admins), then windows is cheaper in the long run. Note, that I did pull those numbers out of my ass, but you can't assume that linux is free just becasuse the licenses don't cost anything.
There are no actual laws saying kids under 17 can't go in an R rated movie. Its just that the studios and the theaters have agreed that this is an R rated movie and we won't let anybody under 17 in without permission. Somewhere along the way, parents understood that R rated movies probably aren't the kind of stuff kids should be watching. That's what's never happened with video games. Granted, these "mature" games are a relatively new thing, but until we get parents reviewing their children's game choices like they do movies (and all the stores enforcing them), we'll see stories like this.
On a related note, did the media get their panties in a wad over R rated movies in the past? Before the rating system got into place, were people saying movie X made my kid go nuts? I'm just curious, I think there are differences between movies and games, but if that did happen, it'd be the start of a pattern.
Nah, that's what they're saving Bin Ladin for. I'm torn though, while I think that Bush and company would have thought to keep him, I think they'd jump the gun and wave him around.
No, the single member plurality districts that the us uses force there to be only two major parties. Duverge's Law states that when faced by a large majority party the other side will group together, moderate themselves as to create a new party, thus we end up with only two parties. It is ineveitable. Its rather easy to get on the ballot in most places anyway, although I'll grant that it's probably easier now than the early 1900s. Madison said that the infighting between factions would be what keeps america honest. I don't want to get into if that worked. But things haven't fallen apart yet, even with the whole flordia debackle.
I unwittingly left my cell phone in my pocket when I went to do laundry. Didn't notice until I saw the antenna in the lint trap of the dryer. Got it out and turned it on and it still worked. I was pretty amazed. Makes the $100 I dropped on it seem worth it.
Being forced to compete with others on a completely unequal scale is a downside.
No, equaling out the scale is what globalization is. The idea behind the global market is that comparative advantage will take hold and the places that are better able to produce a given type of product will produce that product. One can argue whether this is the case in the current example, but what you're talking about amounts to bellyaching. What globalization is, is vastly different than what everyone is expecting it to be. Things won't stay the same and new markets will be opened up. This is what you're calling a downside (and the US with its steel tarriffs). That's the way it works. If the Indians are better at programing because of labor costs (which is how things appear), then the American programing industry will wither and die and move to India. Sorry, but tough. Economics isn't called the dismal science for no reason.
You assume that the gubamint would not have its own political agenda. What about internet filters on computers in libraries? Bias exists no matter what. Although I do agree that government is probably going to be the least biased of the options you suggest.
Actually, Bush didn't assume power until 2001, so technically they're wrong and no dictator arose in 2000.
Well, sampling techniques say that after about 1500, you're not going to increase the accuracy of the results too much. its in the order of 0.0001% Not really worth it. If you look all those polls that say "americans hate/love Bush" are with less than 2000 respondants. I'd guess that this survery would extrapolate out pretty well, unless this is an extremely biased survey, which I doubt.
Two problems, yo.
... If we take that literaly then all those harsh anti-spam/telemarketing laws are invalid, as the government is now abridging the rights of those companies. Granted there aren't any literalists on the court today, but commercial speech can still be protected under the first amendment.
One, while you may not agree, the members in Congress are generally pretty reactive to public opinion. Not as much as they probably should be, but good enough on the important stuff. The Patriot Act went through for a variety of reasons the least of which was Interest Groups/Lobbists. There hasn't been some coalition of people sitting on the hill clamoring to reduce people's rights in the name of John Ashcroft. Directly after 9/11 conditions were right for the Patriot Act to pass, would it pass today? probably not. Same thing 10 years ago or really any other point in history (Maybe after Pearl Harbor, but those are different circumstanses). It takes a lot more than money to get a bill passed these days (although it can help).
Two, who sayss you (and the majority of the public really) is qualified to make decisions on court cases? The AMerican Constitution is an amazing document, with a lot of twists and turns in its logic. Hell, most of the time the logic isn't spelled out. The first amendment says Congress shall make no law abridiging free speech
Oh, I just thought of another one. Do you have any idea exactly how many bills are considered in Congress these days? (marches off to thomas.loc.gov) At least 3300 have been introduced in the house thus far, probably half, to two-thirds of that in the senate, plus all the stuff that goes on from the congress to the president. You're going to weigh all that stuff equally and make equal decisions on each? Not only that, you expect the populace to do the same? Sounds to me like certain people should be selected to do all that for us, we pick individuals to represent us. Oh wait, that's how it does work.
The American system was designed to work like it does, some changes can (and need to be) made, but until we get brown-shirts goose-stepping in the national mall, I'm not going to be that worried.
I believe that two window APIs for OS X exist, the normal "Aqua" one and the "brushed metal" one. It just comes down to which of the two the app calls.
NO, it will drive away the 8-17 or so year-olds. The only people that care about a console being perceived as "kiddie" are the ones that care about themselves being perceived as "kiddie" i.e. mostly teenage boys first being introduced to testosterone. Sony has this market locked up I'd say. In my personal opinion, until the PSP becomes non-vaporware, Nintendo doesn't need to worry about growing beyond this "kiddie" niche. There will always be the people that don't care (which is a larger portion than you'd think, the ones that do are just the louder of the two). Nintendo has the handheld market, always has, there's more competition now, but I doubt if any of it is a serious threat beyond Sony. The next gen of handhelds is where the real interesting battle is going to take place. My money's still on the Big N though.
That's easy, shell out the money for Dave. To my knowledge, there is no other way to get a mac to talk to a windows network. There's a product called PC Maclan that lets windows talk to a mac. Or you could shell out the money for OS X. Doesn't really matter. But I don't believe that there is any free (beer and/or speech) way to do it.
That's my main gripe with Camino -- bookmarks and history have to be accessed from a side drawer.
FYI, that's been changed in recent releases. They made the old bookmarks sidebar act more like the bookmark thing in Safari. Its really pretty nice.
Yeah, like halflife and halflife 2. Granted those games weren't made by Sierra, but they were published by sierra.
No, the other zelda games were on the CD-i. The first CD based system that had a bunch of "edutainment" crap and cost like your left arm (literally, you had to chop it off)
Linkage
you get the idea.
How about a mac.com email for say $30-40 a year? I personally would love to have my mac.com email back and and too broke to shell out $100 for an email address, I could handle 5 bucks a month, or some other price point, but the whole give us a hundred bucks is a lot harder for me.
Lunar eclipse and/orTelnet
While I'm biased as one of the staff. We've been around for a while and have a small but dedicated group that play. Its ROM based, with some fun extra's added in over the years.
Come play, mention slashdot and get a free prize! (if I'm on and in a good mood)
Cause an EMP blast at that range would knock out all the cool looking robot/mech things that are shooting the guns.
Ken Lobb went from Nintendo of America to MS about a year and a half ago. You know the guy the Klobb gun in Goldeneye was named after.