Actually, no. And the US military is, on average, more educated and comes from a wealthier background than the rest of the population.
The reason that younger people are preferred is because they are less likely to have families dependant on them and because they can physically tolerate more stress and are more physically resilient.
I realize it's the lefty religion that people in the military are stupid, but it's not based in fact. To find real populations of stupid, visit the core Democrat constituencies. IE - wearing $140 shoes, $1000+ worth of jewelry, driving a leased Escalade, sitting on rented furniture, and living in public housing.
I'm very curious as to why you see terrestrial and satellite radio as different?
Because SE decides to treat them differently, that's why. There doesn't need to be any other reason. It's pointless to compare them - especially as an outsider. It doesn't matter.
But I think it's reasonable for them to charge the same rates as satellite radio. That's what would result from the Internet Radio Equality Act (HR.2060 and S.1353) I've written my congressmen - two responded with form letters, but letters that at least indicate they are familiar with the issue.
Unlike terrestrial radio where there is some public regulation due to the fact that radio bands are a limited resources, it's really none of Congress's business what happens on the net. Gee, I wish I could get congress to regulate the price of things I buy, too - and when they do, they inevitably screw it up. Like cable TV prices.
So I posed a lot of questions in my first post. Do you have any answers?
It is a first step in determining that there is insider trading going on. It's pretty successful. Your stats are wrong, and you are completely out of touch with the real world of law enforcement. If you are paranoid about cops planting evidence to send you to prison.... I don't even know where to begin. You are a lost cause. Just stay out of my way.
This is all business. Maybe it's time to stop looking at either side as evil or stupid and simply consider the upsides of any potential outcomes.
First, consider SoundExchange's (SE) position. They represent the mainstream creators (MSC). Now while there are many layers between SE and the MSC, ultimately SE does represent the MSC. Their concern with the streaming is that they consider it an easy way for listeners to capture, digitally, the audio that is being streamed. It can then easily be moved onto a digital player. Additionally, they see many of the internet radio stations making money off of their artist's work - with their content - and they want a piece of the action. You may say that the terrestrial and extra-terrestrial radio don't have to pay these fees, but that is a different model and a much different market - and what SE and the law decide for these radios doesn't really matter to the topic at hand.
So - consider that the SE decides to charge WAY TOO MUCH for the music for it's artist, forcing a lot of non-profitable or barely profitable streamers off the net. What will the consumers of that music do now? Will they just bring a radio to work? Buy an Ipod? Or maybe they will find streamers out there who play totally independant music that isn't part of SE.
So consider the upside here - if you are a MSC hater, a DRM hater, then this may breathe life into the indy bands out there by forcing MSC off of streamers and introducing those who prefer their music through the tubes to these new bands. Rather than villifying SE, maybe you should cheer them. Because - if you are REALLY sure that MSC sucks and it's being forced down people's throats and they only listen because they have no alternative, then the audiences for the streamers will grow, not shrink, when they switch over.
The Elite has a 2x larger HD. So you can have many Live games on there or other media you purchase. And, well, HD-DVD is superior anyway, and if a few dollars is getting in your way..... (heh)
What would happen if your mob ruled that the warrenty had to be 10 years - what effect would that have on price and availability? I answer your questions - but your inability or unwillingness to answer mine suggest you are aware your argument is pretty weak.
And the insults? They are for fun - adding to my enjoyment of what otherwise would be a dull discussion with yet another humorless socialist.
You said you quit - but you came back to argue again. That is the sign of a psychopath. Here's your sign.
Nearly all nanny states operate the way yours does - either directly or just one-off. But you can't distinguish between 'people choosing something for everyone as a LAW' and 'individuals making their own best choices'? Do you really want to defend mobocracy that way? Yes, people are too stupid to make decisions for anyone but themselves, I'll stick by that.
Do you really want 'the people' to make your individual decisions? Telling you what you can or can't eat, what you can or can't learn, how much of your own life and the income you generate from it (I'm guessing you're an unemployed state-dependant leech - IE student) you get to keep?
It's particularly problematic when a majority of the people who are unproductive (YOU) can raise taxes on a small minority who are productive (ME), causing the productive (again, ME) to either move or stop working, causing the unproductive (Guess who) socialist workers paradise to collapse.
So tell me - what would happen to the prices of consumer electronics if you increased the warrenty to 10 years?
The need for your nanny laws is disproven by the thread: this is about MS voluntarily reacting to the market by extending it's warrenty to 3 years from 1. I didn't need a bunch of Norwegian socialist beaurocrats to do it for me.
You've been beat. I didn't realize they didn't teach econ in nanny states.
Yes - if Wal-Mart was bad, it would go out of business. But when a new one opens, people CHOOSE to shop there. You just think they are too stupid to make these decisions on their own.
FYI, we can BUY accident insurance here in the US.
No, it doesn't help consumers, it harms them. Here's some economics.
Normally this kind of action would just result in more expensive goods - and probably does. If people thought that warrenties should be 5 years, they would express that in their economic choices. Unfortunately they have their elected representatives making this choice for everyone.
This is somewhat akin to a small town banning Wal-Mart. What they are really saying no to isn't Wal-Mart but to their own citizens who would WANT to shop there. If Wal-Mart was so bad, it would go out of business in the city; if people wanted 5 year warrenties, they would buy only products that offered them (wilfully, at a higher price.)
Your nanny state has taken this freedom to choose away from the individual.
However, because the country is so pathetically small in population and economically irrelevant, most firms might just not even notice the extra expense as it's absorbed across world-wide sales.
BTW - does your government also wipe your ass when you are done in the toilet? If you're incapable of making purchasing decisions on your own, what else are you incapable of?
Who cares what government mandated warrenties were in your whites-only socialist fairyland? It probably makes it less likely for anyone to want to sell a product there or makes them cost more because for many companies, warrenties are insured and those costs are passed onto the consumer. If you doubt it, try raising the mandated warrenties to 10 years and see what happens to the cost of a product.
Why? Beacuse the country is run by Furor Bush and Haliburton and Big Business?
Thanks for presenting the slash herd viewpoint. If you are interested in learning the truth about how these cases go down, talk to RIM, Inc. about how such cases get decided 'in America.'
There are some legit criticisms of Oblivion, but the mostly uniform architecture made sense, story-wise. There were no Elf cities or anything like that - it was all Imperials. Some cities had hints of other races in the architecture.
I had Morrowind and appreciated the graphics though it would have been nice had they harnessed the 360 horsepower for it. And if the AI wasn't so stupid.....
Which ones DO I need? There is one just called 'Civil War.' Then there are 'Front Lines.' And all that other stuff. What order do I need to read it in?
Interesting sig. Ayn's a hero and I really liked Starship Troopers (the book). Movie was oddly faithful, too.
First, he lied about not finding evidence that Saddam was seeking uranium from Niger. When he was there he was told that Saddam had sent a delegation to discuss trade issues, and then JW said that, along with assuranes from the political leaders over there, proved that there was no attempt by Saddam to obtain uranium. Given that the only reason for trade with Niger would be to obtain uranium, Wilson was either too stupid to recognize this or did recognize and chose to lie anyway. But he certainly didn't have any evidence that Saddam was not trying to get uranium from Niger. He wasn't qualified to lead some kind of inspection team into Niger. It was, for him, more of a vacation. From the Washington Post:
Wilson said that a former prime minister of Niger, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, was unaware of any sales contract with Iraq, but said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him, insisting that he meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Niger and Iraq -- which Mayaki interpreted to mean they wanted to discuss yellowcake sales. A report CIA officials drafted after debriefing Wilson said that "although the meeting took place, Mayaki let the matter drop due to UN sanctions on Iraq."
Second, he again lied when he said his wife was not the reason he got the Niger junket. Also from the Washington Post article reviewing a bi-partisan Senate investigation:
The report states that a CIA official told the Senate committee that Plame "offered up" Wilson's name for the Niger trip, then on Feb. 12, 2002, sent a memo to a deputy chief in the CIA's Directorate of Operations saying her husband "has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity." The next day, the operations official cabled an overseas officer seeking concurrence with the idea of sending Wilson, the report said.
I can't find a reference but he also claimed that he was refuting a supposed fake memo but it turns out his refutation predates the availability of the memo.
I've met the guy and his wife - trust me, the biggest hasbeen/wannabie blowhard you've ever met. He is an ambassador.
Ok - your turn. How come no one was even charged with releasing the identity of his 'covert' wife - even though it's clear that several people did (including Joe Wilson)?
I use to read some comics and have a subscription I haven't been keeping up with lately (Cable/Deadpool).
But tell me - if I wanted to read the civil war thing, do I need to read all of these books? Or just some? And more importantly, what order do I need to read them in?
Under your reasoning, pretty much no commutation or pardon is ever just.
Libby didn't commit a crime - the jury was a bunch of DC residents who couldn't get out of jury duty (read: unemployed morons). And unlike in the Martha Stuart case where there was a paper trail detailing a deception, all of the Libby trial came down to a what amounted to a little confusion on the part of a very busy man.
And it's a distraction from the real issue which was why this CIA totty put her husband up to go lie about what he witnessed in Niger and why the CIA wanted a totally unqualified windbag like Joe Wilson to smear the truth about Saddam's persuit of nuclear weapons.
People get so caught up in process sometimes when they are losing the argument on facts. Joe Wilson is a proven fraud who leaked his own wife's name to get attention when everyone in the DC establishment was ignoring him after he got back from Niger.
Some politicians are corrupt - but not all. But those that aren't corrupt are ones you don't like either (Coburn, DeMint, etc.) And you're still here, achieving nothing, bitching about things from the sidelines, maybe voting and maybe donating to sham organizations where your donation has at best a 20% efficiency.
There you go again - OOH I AM A STOOPID BIBLE THUMPER SO A RELIGIOUS REFERENCE IN YOUR VIDEO WILL GET ME TO WATCH.
I didn't say all evolution advocates are athiests - but I would wager you $1 (US) that 80% of the authors on DE that have had anything published on the subject in the last 10 years are athiests.
And IHOP is a phenominal place to discuss weighty things at 2 AM.
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The reason that younger people are preferred is because they are less likely to have families dependant on them and because they can physically tolerate more stress and are more physically resilient.
I realize it's the lefty religion that people in the military are stupid, but it's not based in fact. To find real populations of stupid, visit the core Democrat constituencies. IE - wearing $140 shoes, $1000+ worth of jewelry, driving a leased Escalade, sitting on rented furniture, and living in public housing.
I'm very curious as to why you see terrestrial and satellite radio as different?
Because SE decides to treat them differently, that's why. There doesn't need to be any other reason. It's pointless to compare them - especially as an outsider. It doesn't matter.
But I think it's reasonable for them to charge the same rates as satellite radio. That's what would result from the Internet Radio Equality Act (HR.2060 and S.1353) I've written my congressmen - two responded with form letters, but letters that at least indicate they are familiar with the issue.
Unlike terrestrial radio where there is some public regulation due to the fact that radio bands are a limited resources, it's really none of Congress's business what happens on the net. Gee, I wish I could get congress to regulate the price of things I buy, too - and when they do, they inevitably screw it up. Like cable TV prices.
So I posed a lot of questions in my first post. Do you have any answers?
It is a first step in determining that there is insider trading going on. It's pretty successful. Your stats are wrong, and you are completely out of touch with the real world of law enforcement. If you are paranoid about cops planting evidence to send you to prison.... I don't even know where to begin. You are a lost cause. Just stay out of my way.
First, consider SoundExchange's (SE) position. They represent the mainstream creators (MSC). Now while there are many layers between SE and the MSC, ultimately SE does represent the MSC. Their concern with the streaming is that they consider it an easy way for listeners to capture, digitally, the audio that is being streamed. It can then easily be moved onto a digital player. Additionally, they see many of the internet radio stations making money off of their artist's work - with their content - and they want a piece of the action. You may say that the terrestrial and extra-terrestrial radio don't have to pay these fees, but that is a different model and a much different market - and what SE and the law decide for these radios doesn't really matter to the topic at hand.
So - consider that the SE decides to charge WAY TOO MUCH for the music for it's artist, forcing a lot of non-profitable or barely profitable streamers off the net. What will the consumers of that music do now? Will they just bring a radio to work? Buy an Ipod? Or maybe they will find streamers out there who play totally independant music that isn't part of SE.
So consider the upside here - if you are a MSC hater, a DRM hater, then this may breathe life into the indy bands out there by forcing MSC off of streamers and introducing those who prefer their music through the tubes to these new bands. Rather than villifying SE, maybe you should cheer them. Because - if you are REALLY sure that MSC sucks and it's being forced down people's throats and they only listen because they have no alternative, then the audiences for the streamers will grow, not shrink, when they switch over.
A generic sign of a crime is when, for example, certain stocks are sold off prior to bad news being announced in an unusual way.
It sounds mostly like you are simply ignorant of what this program looks like. Please resume constructing your tin foil hat.
So this is a chick game, like Viva Pinata?
Yes, and the CTS is a helluva car, especially the V. Work of art, work of art.
The Elite has a 2x larger HD. So you can have many Live games on there or other media you purchase. And, well, HD-DVD is superior anyway, and if a few dollars is getting in your way..... (heh)
The 360 outputs 1080p. You can have HDMI if you get the high end one (which I believe is also only true of the high end PS3.)
360 also has wireless (though it is overpriced) and all models also have a hard drive now.
You should be able to stream your music from your nix server pretty well, too.
So no web browser, but that's not something I would ever want to do on my TV.
I think the other features you are looking for are also covered by the 360 - wireless mouse and keyboard available, HD DvD is an option, too.
So two questions:
1) When does the mobocracy go to far?
What would happen if your mob ruled that the warrenty had to be 10 years - what effect would that have on price and availability? I answer your questions - but your inability or unwillingness to answer mine suggest you are aware your argument is pretty weak.
And the insults? They are for fun - adding to my enjoyment of what otherwise would be a dull discussion with yet another humorless socialist.
Nearly all nanny states operate the way yours does - either directly or just one-off. But you can't distinguish between 'people choosing something for everyone as a LAW' and 'individuals making their own best choices'? Do you really want to defend mobocracy that way? Yes, people are too stupid to make decisions for anyone but themselves, I'll stick by that.
Do you really want 'the people' to make your individual decisions? Telling you what you can or can't eat, what you can or can't learn, how much of your own life and the income you generate from it (I'm guessing you're an unemployed state-dependant leech - IE student) you get to keep?
It's particularly problematic when a majority of the people who are unproductive (YOU) can raise taxes on a small minority who are productive (ME), causing the productive (again, ME) to either move or stop working, causing the unproductive (Guess who) socialist workers paradise to collapse.
So tell me - what would happen to the prices of consumer electronics if you increased the warrenty to 10 years?
The need for your nanny laws is disproven by the thread: this is about MS voluntarily reacting to the market by extending it's warrenty to 3 years from 1. I didn't need a bunch of Norwegian socialist beaurocrats to do it for me.
You've been beat. I didn't realize they didn't teach econ in nanny states.
Yes - if Wal-Mart was bad, it would go out of business. But when a new one opens, people CHOOSE to shop there. You just think they are too stupid to make these decisions on their own.
FYI, we can BUY accident insurance here in the US.
Normally this kind of action would just result in more expensive goods - and probably does. If people thought that warrenties should be 5 years, they would express that in their economic choices. Unfortunately they have their elected representatives making this choice for everyone.
This is somewhat akin to a small town banning Wal-Mart. What they are really saying no to isn't Wal-Mart but to their own citizens who would WANT to shop there. If Wal-Mart was so bad, it would go out of business in the city; if people wanted 5 year warrenties, they would buy only products that offered them (wilfully, at a higher price.)
Your nanny state has taken this freedom to choose away from the individual.
However, because the country is so pathetically small in population and economically irrelevant, most firms might just not even notice the extra expense as it's absorbed across world-wide sales.
BTW - does your government also wipe your ass when you are done in the toilet? If you're incapable of making purchasing decisions on your own, what else are you incapable of?
Who cares what government mandated warrenties were in your whites-only socialist fairyland? It probably makes it less likely for anyone to want to sell a product there or makes them cost more because for many companies, warrenties are insured and those costs are passed onto the consumer. If you doubt it, try raising the mandated warrenties to 10 years and see what happens to the cost of a product.
Like what? Not my cell phone. Not my GPS watch. Not my clock radio.
Thanks for presenting the slash herd viewpoint. If you are interested in learning the truth about how these cases go down, talk to RIM, Inc. about how such cases get decided 'in America.'
I had Morrowind and appreciated the graphics though it would have been nice had they harnessed the 360 horsepower for it. And if the AI wasn't so stupid.....
Interesting sig. Ayn's a hero and I really liked Starship Troopers (the book). Movie was oddly faithful, too.
First, he lied about not finding evidence that Saddam was seeking uranium from Niger. When he was there he was told that Saddam had sent a delegation to discuss trade issues, and then JW said that, along with assuranes from the political leaders over there, proved that there was no attempt by Saddam to obtain uranium. Given that the only reason for trade with Niger would be to obtain uranium, Wilson was either too stupid to recognize this or did recognize and chose to lie anyway. But he certainly didn't have any evidence that Saddam was not trying to get uranium from Niger. He wasn't qualified to lead some kind of inspection team into Niger. It was, for him, more of a vacation. From the Washington Post:
Wilson said that a former prime minister of Niger, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, was unaware of any sales contract with Iraq, but said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him, insisting that he meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Niger and Iraq -- which Mayaki interpreted to mean they wanted to discuss yellowcake sales. A report CIA officials drafted after debriefing Wilson said that "although the meeting took place, Mayaki let the matter drop due to UN sanctions on Iraq."
Second, he again lied when he said his wife was not the reason he got the Niger junket. Also from the Washington Post article reviewing a bi-partisan Senate investigation:
The report states that a CIA official told the Senate committee that Plame "offered up" Wilson's name for the Niger trip, then on Feb. 12, 2002, sent a memo to a deputy chief in the CIA's Directorate of Operations saying her husband "has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity." The next day, the operations official cabled an overseas officer seeking concurrence with the idea of sending Wilson, the report said.
I can't find a reference but he also claimed that he was refuting a supposed fake memo but it turns out his refutation predates the availability of the memo.
I've met the guy and his wife - trust me, the biggest hasbeen/wannabie blowhard you've ever met. He is an ambassador.
Ok - your turn. How come no one was even charged with releasing the identity of his 'covert' wife - even though it's clear that several people did (including Joe Wilson)?
But tell me - if I wanted to read the civil war thing, do I need to read all of these books? Or just some? And more importantly, what order do I need to read them in?
Here is a list of them someone on Amazon made.
http://amazon.com/The-Marvel-Civil-War-Series/lm/R 2P7K8Y6O1T2VL/ref=cm_lmt_srch_f_1_rsrsrs1/104-9260 980-3050364
So tell me - do either of my favorites like Deadpool or Cable make an appearance? Or do any X-men?
Libby didn't commit a crime - the jury was a bunch of DC residents who couldn't get out of jury duty (read: unemployed morons). And unlike in the Martha Stuart case where there was a paper trail detailing a deception, all of the Libby trial came down to a what amounted to a little confusion on the part of a very busy man.
And it's a distraction from the real issue which was why this CIA totty put her husband up to go lie about what he witnessed in Niger and why the CIA wanted a totally unqualified windbag like Joe Wilson to smear the truth about Saddam's persuit of nuclear weapons.
People get so caught up in process sometimes when they are losing the argument on facts. Joe Wilson is a proven fraud who leaked his own wife's name to get attention when everyone in the DC establishment was ignoring him after he got back from Niger.
Some politicians are corrupt - but not all. But those that aren't corrupt are ones you don't like either (Coburn, DeMint, etc.) And you're still here, achieving nothing, bitching about things from the sidelines, maybe voting and maybe donating to sham organizations where your donation has at best a 20% efficiency.
I support the pardon and the Prez on this and most major issues, but your post made me chuckle- brilliant.
I didn't say all evolution advocates are athiests - but I would wager you $1 (US) that 80% of the authors on DE that have had anything published on the subject in the last 10 years are athiests.
And IHOP is a phenominal place to discuss weighty things at 2 AM.
THANKS!