How many times do we have to go over this? With theft, you're removing something from the owner so he/she no longer has that item - that's never an issue with copyright infringement.
They are two entirely different violations of the law, just as arson and cannibalism are two entirely different violations of the law. You can try and tie yourself up in a pretzel trying to say that oranges are just like apples, but it just doesn't work. And please, pretzels, skip all the usual straw men - copyright infringement is still a violation of the law and no one is claiming otherwise.
For the price of my last video card, you could own *both* a PS3 and a 360 and have top of the line (for that market) graphics, until the end of the console's life (since a 360 from 2011 is obviously serving the same experience as a 360 from 2005, sans certain RROD experiences).
Funny how the console fanboys always leave out the cost of the TV when making comparisons to PCs.
it's a stupid myth that you have to shell out for a state of the art video card every two years
Fixed that for you. PC gamers no more need to shell out for "state of the art" video cards than console gamers need to shell out for the latest high end flatscreen TV.
i go way back to the Riva TNT2 and voodoo2 days. i bought a top of the line voodoo2 the day it came out back in 1998. cost me $299. these days a top of the line card is $500 or more and it sucks enough electricity to power a small town.
If you insist on making a $500 video card a point of comparison with PC's, then I insist on making a $4,000 high end LCD TV a point of comparison for consoles. Funny how often console fanboys forget about the TV.
Marketing canard fail. If it all boiled down to advertising, why didn't Sony (a FAR larger company at the time) higher the same ad companies making slick ads for the Playstation make some slick ads for their portable music players, and drive Apple out of the market?
Just because Apple had some good marketing doesn't mean that they didn't have a superior product. Between using a microdrive (instead of a laptop or desktop drive), 400 Mbps Firewire (when everything else was using 11 Mpbs USB 1.0 or even parallel) and a unified interface that didn't suck, they were able to take over the market with a superior product.
Why don't you whine about the one button mouse and lack of multitasking while you're at it? Purchased iTunes music is unencumbered aac files, and has been for years.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you're a gullible boob who likes to fall for corporate progaganda.
You're getting some compensation back from the guilty party with zero effort or risk from you and you're whining about some lawyers making some money? Nevermind that the lawyers do all the work and take all the risk - if they don't win, they don't get paid.
Don't like it - get your own damn lawyer and file your own damn lawsuit.
The map is correct? Each of the for maps use a different definition of Jewish/Palestinian land!
Because, as the zionist apologists will tell you, there was no Palestinian nation and the area was controlled by various empires. How else would you make a comparison but based on who owned what prior to 1948?
The Palestinians didn't accept this decision until 1988, and the result was the Israeli war of conquest.
FTFY. Just as any talk of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons should mention the fact that Israel already has at least 200 warheads, any mention of the UN partition plan should include the fact that it gave less than 40% of the population nearly 60% of the land.
When the vast majority of that 40% were first generation immigrants. It would be like handing most of Florida over to Cuban immigrants and then feigning surprise when the existing, majority population objected.
The Arabs started both those wars and the arabs can live with the consequences.
Wrong. Israel started the 1967 war with a sneak attack on the Egyptian air force. Their stated justification was the Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran - but guess what, slick, that means that attacks on Israel in response to the blockade of Gaza are perfectly justified.
Feel free to pull your head out of your ass at any time. Israel has at least 200 nuclear warheads. Hamas has gunpowder rockets with no guidance systems that even the IDF admits are more of a psychological threat than a military one. Israel receives billions in military aid from the U.S. each and every year for the latest and greatest toys. The people in Gaza are blocked from having so much as concrete or wheelchairs.
Proves (evidence points to) what everyone already figured out for themselves, both states are far too arrogant and belligerent.
Uh, no. It proves that the PA was willing to bend over backwards and even that wasn't good enough for the Israelis, but nice try with the false equivalency.
If the critics of Israel being asshats spent a little more time criticizing Israel's neighbors when the neighbors were being asshats, instead of coming across as stereotypical haters (technically, anti-Semitism isn't quite accurate here), then perhaps both Israel and its neighbors would have a better sense of when their behavior was outrageous.
Slight problem with your comparison: Israels neighbors aren't given BILLIONS in military and economic aid from the U.S. each and every year. Israel's neighbors don't have their atrocities automatically shielded with a Security Council veto pen, each and every year. Israel's neighbors are either invaded or threatened with military strikes for even a hint of wanting nuclear weapons while it's an open secret that Israel is in the possession of at least 200 nuclear warheads.
It was never palestinian land either. That area has been "owned" by the other larger tribes in the area, neither the Jews nor the Palestinians ever owned it except as the chattel of others.
Nevermind that the Palestinians have been living there for centuries, and the vast majority of Israelis are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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Only if you also run around claiming that the Republicans have floated a return to the Gold Standard because a Republican in the House talks about it.
When has Obama tried reinstating the FD.
When Speaker Pelosi try to reinstate the FD.
When did Majority Leader Reid try to reinstate the FD.
When have any Democratic-controlled committees tried to reinstate the FD.
Had the same problem with a Mini...see if you can put it to sleep instead of rebooting.
Except you're ignoring the fact this law is meant to shield evangelists.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong!
You're wrong.
You're wrong.
You're wrooooong.
Actually is sounds like THEY broke the contract by modifying your bill. You might tell them to go to hell, but IANAL.....
How many times do we have to go over this? With theft, you're removing something from the owner so he/she no longer has that item - that's never an issue with copyright infringement.
They are two entirely different violations of the law, just as arson and cannibalism are two entirely different violations of the law. You can try and tie yourself up in a pretzel trying to say that oranges are just like apples, but it just doesn't work. And please, pretzels, skip all the usual straw men - copyright infringement is still a violation of the law and no one is claiming otherwise.
Funny how the console fanboys always leave out the cost of the TV when making comparisons to PCs.
Fixed that for you. PC gamers no more need to shell out for "state of the art" video cards than console gamers need to shell out for the latest high end flatscreen TV.
If you insist on making a $500 video card a point of comparison with PC's, then I insist on making a $4,000 high end LCD TV a point of comparison for consoles. Funny how often console fanboys forget about the TV.
Marketing canard fail. If it all boiled down to advertising, why didn't Sony (a FAR larger company at the time) higher the same ad companies making slick ads for the Playstation make some slick ads for their portable music players, and drive Apple out of the market?
Just because Apple had some good marketing doesn't mean that they didn't have a superior product. Between using a microdrive (instead of a laptop or desktop drive), 400 Mbps Firewire (when everything else was using 11 Mpbs USB 1.0 or even parallel) and a unified interface that didn't suck, they were able to take over the market with a superior product.
Superior. Product. Not just "marketing".
Why don't you whine about the one button mouse and lack of multitasking while you're at it? Purchased iTunes music is unencumbered aac files, and has been for years.
Which shortcomings would those be, exactly.
That's not an argument, that's a tactic.
You mean like people that lie about "evolutionists"?
I suppose you could see it that way, if you're a gullible boob who likes to fall for corporate progaganda.
You're getting some compensation back from the guilty party with zero effort or risk from you and you're whining about some lawyers making some money? Nevermind that the lawyers do all the work and take all the risk - if they don't win, they don't get paid.
Don't like it - get your own damn lawyer and file your own damn lawsuit.
Or a bank.
Or an oil company.
Or a coal mining company.
Or a defense contractor.
But who's counting?
Because, as the zionist apologists will tell you, there was no Palestinian nation and the area was controlled by various empires. How else would you make a comparison but based on who owned what prior to 1948?
FTFY. Just as any talk of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons should mention the fact that Israel already has at least 200 warheads, any mention of the UN partition plan should include the fact that it gave less than 40% of the population nearly 60% of the land.
When the vast majority of that 40% were first generation immigrants. It would be like handing most of Florida over to Cuban immigrants and then feigning surprise when the existing, majority population objected.
Wrong. Israel started the 1967 war with a sneak attack on the Egyptian air force. Their stated justification was the Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran - but guess what, slick, that means that attacks on Israel in response to the blockade of Gaza are perfectly justified.
Feel free to pull your head out of your ass at any time. Israel has at least 200 nuclear warheads. Hamas has gunpowder rockets with no guidance systems that even the IDF admits are more of a psychological threat than a military one. Israel receives billions in military aid from the U.S. each and every year for the latest and greatest toys. The people in Gaza are blocked from having so much as concrete or wheelchairs.
Problem with that reasoning: the wall doesn't prevent Qassam rockets, yet Hamas has stopped firing those as well as suicide bombings.
Facepalm. Tax exempt != direct subsidy from taxpayers.
Even better analogy: teens (Israelis) tell the kindergartners to take shelter inside the school....and then promptly level the school.
Except that actually happened.
Uh, no. It proves that the PA was willing to bend over backwards and even that wasn't good enough for the Israelis, but nice try with the false equivalency.
Slight problem with your comparison: Israels neighbors aren't given BILLIONS in military and economic aid from the U.S. each and every year. Israel's neighbors don't have their atrocities automatically shielded with a Security Council veto pen, each and every year. Israel's neighbors are either invaded or threatened with military strikes for even a hint of wanting nuclear weapons while it's an open secret that Israel is in the possession of at least 200 nuclear warheads.
Nevermind that the Palestinians have been living there for centuries, and the vast majority of Israelis are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.