If you want to pay full price for the phone you do NOT have to sign a contract. I'm not familiar with T-mobile but this is true of every cell phone company I've ever dealt with (I used to sell Sprint and Verizon cell phones). This will generally make the person you are buying the phone from very sad, because they generally make way more money if you sign a contract, but it's not generally required.
Anyone who has loses a copyright infringement lawsuit either purposefully broadcast their identity while doing it, or did not hire a competent enough lawyer. I am not afraid of the **AA (mostly because I rarely engage in copyright infringement anyway, but also because if I were caught they would end up paying for my lawyer, and possibly extra for my pain and suffering. I can play this game too, I understand my rights and many of the legal issues involved. I don't even technically own this IP address, the ISP bill isn't under my name, and it is used by several people.)
No I'm not justifying anything. Just making a clarification. If I were going to justify copyright infringment it would probably take more than three sentences.
I'll give you a hint: Remember when Jon Stewart was on Crossfire? He really hit the nail on the head that day. Moore's a polarizing element in an issue that is primarily driven by a misallocation of funds in a highly technical field (medical research), not by politicians. We couldn't do what Canada or France does because we currently do the vast majority of medical research in the world. I don't know what the solution is, but I am damn sure Moore doesn't either. If I wanted to watch a documentary about the problems with our health care system, I'd watch one by a doctor or an economist, not a political extremist, either left (Moore) or right (Bush). Everything that man spews onto film is designed to make you hate something(Bush, HMO's, etc.), instead of make you think about anything. The doctors what to help people, the HMO's want to make money, and politicians want to get reelected. And Moore wants you to go out and buy a ticket to his movie, giving him fame and money by dramatizing the misfortune of others.
Moore is making it worse by convincing people who agreed with him previously that the solution is simple, just vote Democrat and we can simply copy the system used by other countries, completely ignoring the fact that if we did that, medical research as a whole would virtually stop. I'm not saying that federally guaranteed healthcare isn't a good idea, it may very well be, when the time comes. I'm not a doctor OR an economist, I have no clue. I'm saying that if I want to see where ground is being broken to fix our problem, where the real work is being done, those are the kind of people I'd ask. NOT a political clown with a camcorder.
The only way the government could possibly help is A)Lower taxes (impossible right now with two wars and a deficit), B)Fund more universities with medical schools, or C)Roll up their sleeves and start doing more research themselves.
Making healthcare universal is only going to make it marginally cheaper... in that only the margins will disappear (partially into overhead). The root issue is the fact that fixing people isn't cheap... yet. If you still don't understand me, then I'm sorry, your on your own. Talk to a doctor or something.
Facts actually NEED to be disprovable, but never successfully disproven. Phil. of Science 101.
This Propagandamentary is an affront to the real efforts to improve the medical system. It's politicizing a technical issue and as such, the best way Moore can help people being hurt by the current system is to shut up and just keep making films about how much Bush sucks. Because that's a point of view everyone can get behind (or at least 65% of us).
The answer is yes. Ocarina of Time has every element that makes video gaming such a rewarding and engaging pasttime. It was revolutionary, and it is still fun to this day.
I am a relatively poor guy who is completely uninsured. When I had to get my wisdom teeth out I paid for it out of pocket, which was obviously extremely difficult, but I had to do it.
Moore does NOT make documentaries, he makes opinion pieces. Documentaries are designed to document facts, leaving conclusions up to the viewer. It's the video equivalent of journalism. Moore makes movies specifically designed to support a particular point of view. This is normally called propaganda, but that's a loaded term now. "Opinionated Film" might be a good word for it, I'm not sure. But it's not a documentary.
The US health care system IS broken, but I hardly need Moore to tell me that. It should be patently obvious to anyone who is paying any attention to the situation, regardless of his political affiliation, coverage status, or income. It is upsetting that we still haven't penned the solution, but I believe someday we will, and that will hopefully be soon.
I don't like the fact that you rail against capitalism when capitalist companies have done the vast majority of medical research in this country (in all fields of science, actually. The transistor was invented by Bell Labs). Companies require oversight to prevent them from causing harm to people in the quest for money (i.e. environmental legislation, etc.), but they are a vital component of the modern society. The correct answer is a mixture of socialism and capitalism, where the government only takes as much tax as it needs, and only interferes in situations that require oversight.
Google & China: Google was presented with two options by the Chinese government: Censor stuff, or don't provide service in China. They made the obvious choice. They probably are very unpleased with it, it's bad for PR and probably costs a lot of money to implement. But the blame is entirely on the Chinese government.
The system I am refering to, the Gamecube, was joking called "Texturezilla" by developers because of it's high texturing bandwidth. Granted, this was in 2001, but still. Have you even seen Resident Evil 4 (though that was a two disk cube game, oh no!)? The game looks great. And the Wii and 360 are both leaps and bounds more powerful than the Cube, with much larger disks. I think you're being too picky.
Manhunt 2 probably IS Adult Only. The issue here is that retailers are threating not to sell it, because they're not supposed to sell it to kids? They allready ID check M rated games (even though they don't techincally have to), it seems like they're just being ridiculously uptight by refusing to sell AO games. Thankfully, the game probably sucks, so I don't really care. But I can imagine an AO game being made that was good, and it is kind of messed up that it would never be released.
No developer actually needs that much space, Dual-layer DVD is actually complete overkill when you consider large, immersive games like Zelda:TP, the Metroid Prime series, FF:CC, Price of Persia, etc, etc, etc, were released on disks that held only 1.5GB. Bluray on the PS3 was an enormous mistake, there is absolutely no excuse for a gaming being more than 8GB other than deliberate bloat.
Moore has made a name for himself by making documentaries holding a far leftist slant wherein he rants about the evils of conservative politics, but if you ask virtually any conservative if the current health-care system is working, they will undoubtedly say no. If they don't, their either completely out of touch, or lying. Now, if this is a documentary showcasing the benefits of a government run, full coverage tax-paid health-care system, then that would fit his style and I wouldn't have even bothered commenting, since I don't actually like him or his movies. But if all this is doing is dramatizing how bad it is currently, well, that boat already sailed and he's wasting his time and money. I don't like him, but I believe he and other political filmmakers are doing an important thing, generally, bringing political discourse to the mass market. But just making a doom and gloom movie about how bad the current health care system is, is not going to tell anyone anything they don't already know, is not going to get people to care about issues they don't normally (because everyone cares about their own health already), and is generally no better than making fiction. Which is fine, but since the movie is probably not very entertaining, pretty much demotes him from "mostly useless" to "completely useless".
There's no accounting for tastes. Also, people who like to blow their money on HDTVs don't mind that the cheapest bluray player is $600. I guess there is a rumor that this particular model can play video games, but I don't believe it. Meanwhile $300 HDDVD players are nearly here. The only reason bluray has any market share at all is pure consumer stupidity and a distinct disinterest in saving any money whatsoever.
Do you believe that it would be easier to iron out fuel cells to use starch and produce enough starch to run all the cars, or to finally design a good battery and figure out how to replace oil upstream at the power plant? Either way cars can't run on a ICE for much longer, that's obvious, but fuel cells are still very new, and this tech in TFA is even newer. I certainly hope Honda and Toyota have everyone they can throw at the Battery problem working on it, but do you think this could beat them to it?
The sooner cars go electric and we can consolidate our energy sources at the power plant, the better, because it's much easier to make a power plant clean, than to make an internal combustion engine clean. The only thing holding us back is the pitiful state of the Battery. If we spent half the money on battery research that we did trying to make cars run on food, we'd be running silent, emissionless cars before we even ran out of oil.
802.11 wasn't designed to be used city-wide. Of course it's expensive and unpopular to try to blanket the town with WiFi, the stations barely enough range to cover a whole house well, much less a whole block. Furthermore, 2.4ghz is way too overcrowded for this sort of thing. Better solutions would be WiMax or a simular tech using the analog TV frequencies when they finally get auctioned off. The idea of Municipal Internet is very good, but this isn't the way to do it.
Your last sentence seems to confuse "intellectual property", which isn't property at all so much as an artificial monopoly on an idea or set of data, and actual, physical property. Last month someone stole my car stereo. That car stereo was mine, I owned it, it was my property, and a thief stole it. Now, if the thief had instead copied my stereo, I would not be the least bit upset. When he stole my stereo, he got a stereo he did not pay for, and I no longer have a stereo. When someone downloads copyrighted music without permission, the person get music he did not pay for, but nobody who already bought the music is suddenly without. This is the key difference and something the RIAA and MIAA still doesn't' seem to understand. Saying that copying data is theft is inherently ludicrous. Copyright infringement, maybe, but not theft.
The problem with "unlocked" phones is that they use GSM, a rather old and outdated network setup. You're going to have a hard time finding ANY GSM phones in a few years, unlocked or not. There's no techinical reason why 3G or 4G phones are tied to a particular Phone Service Provider, just a marketing one. It sucks but that's just the way it is, nothing short of legislation would make them open up the phone hardware.
I would much rather have my cell phone be my:
RFID Entry key (With an actual battery it can be truly secure)
Debit/Credit Card (Same deal, different implementation)
Driver's Liscence/ID
Etc. Etc. Etc...
I should have to type in a PIN or something to spend money. You can already deactivate phone immediately if they are lost or stolen, so that's not really an issue. I'm sure this is the way things are headed.
1) I answer the phone when I'm driving sometimes, but I don't do it when I'm on a major arterial road, I slow down, and I make it VERY clear to the person that called me that I'm busy and to get to the point. If it seems like they're not going to do so, then I'll pull over.
2) I only txt at stoplights. I never look at my phone while the car is in motion. I also look occasionally to see when the light will be turning green. I hate it when people sit at the green light because they're talking on the phone or eating a cheeseburger or something and not paying attention to the progression of the signal.
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If you want to pay full price for the phone you do NOT have to sign a contract. I'm not familiar with T-mobile but this is true of every cell phone company I've ever dealt with (I used to sell Sprint and Verizon cell phones). This will generally make the person you are buying the phone from very sad, because they generally make way more money if you sign a contract, but it's not generally required.
Anyone who has loses a copyright infringement lawsuit either purposefully broadcast their identity while doing it, or did not hire a competent enough lawyer. I am not afraid of the **AA (mostly because I rarely engage in copyright infringement anyway, but also because if I were caught they would end up paying for my lawyer, and possibly extra for my pain and suffering. I can play this game too, I understand my rights and many of the legal issues involved. I don't even technically own this IP address, the ISP bill isn't under my name, and it is used by several people.)
No I'm not justifying anything. Just making a clarification. If I were going to justify copyright infringment it would probably take more than three sentences.
Copyright infringement is not theft. Someone has to lose something for it to be theft. Copying data is pretty much the opposite of theft.
Wikipedia turns up nothing at all on Flashback and say is a cinematic platformer. And, as an aside, it says of Zelda ..."The gameplay consists of a mixture of action, adventure, puzzle-solving, and occasional platforming and racing elements."
But it's just Wikipedia.
I'll give you a hint: Remember when Jon Stewart was on Crossfire? He really hit the nail on the head that day. Moore's a polarizing element in an issue that is primarily driven by a misallocation of funds in a highly technical field (medical research), not by politicians. We couldn't do what Canada or France does because we currently do the vast majority of medical research in the world. I don't know what the solution is, but I am damn sure Moore doesn't either. If I wanted to watch a documentary about the problems with our health care system, I'd watch one by a doctor or an economist, not a political extremist, either left (Moore) or right (Bush). Everything that man spews onto film is designed to make you hate something(Bush, HMO's, etc.), instead of make you think about anything. The doctors what to help people, the HMO's want to make money, and politicians want to get reelected. And Moore wants you to go out and buy a ticket to his movie, giving him fame and money by dramatizing the misfortune of others.
Moore is making it worse by convincing people who agreed with him previously that the solution is simple, just vote Democrat and we can simply copy the system used by other countries, completely ignoring the fact that if we did that, medical research as a whole would virtually stop. I'm not saying that federally guaranteed healthcare isn't a good idea, it may very well be, when the time comes. I'm not a doctor OR an economist, I have no clue. I'm saying that if I want to see where ground is being broken to fix our problem, where the real work is being done, those are the kind of people I'd ask. NOT a political clown with a camcorder.
The only way the government could possibly help is A)Lower taxes (impossible right now with two wars and a deficit), B)Fund more universities with medical schools, or C)Roll up their sleeves and start doing more research themselves.
Making healthcare universal is only going to make it marginally cheaper... in that only the margins will disappear (partially into overhead). The root issue is the fact that fixing people isn't cheap... yet. If you still don't understand me, then I'm sorry, your on your own. Talk to a doctor or something.
If Zelda is an RPG then Solitaire is a FPS. It has RPG elements, but it's an action-adventure game.
Facts actually NEED to be disprovable, but never successfully disproven. Phil. of Science 101. This Propagandamentary is an affront to the real efforts to improve the medical system. It's politicizing a technical issue and as such, the best way Moore can help people being hurt by the current system is to shut up and just keep making films about how much Bush sucks. Because that's a point of view everyone can get behind (or at least 65% of us).
A film that bring to light the right facts can speak volumes, without distorting the viewer's perception of the matter.
The answer is yes. Ocarina of Time has every element that makes video gaming such a rewarding and engaging pasttime. It was revolutionary, and it is still fun to this day.
I am a relatively poor guy who is completely uninsured. When I had to get my wisdom teeth out I paid for it out of pocket, which was obviously extremely difficult, but I had to do it. Moore does NOT make documentaries, he makes opinion pieces. Documentaries are designed to document facts, leaving conclusions up to the viewer. It's the video equivalent of journalism. Moore makes movies specifically designed to support a particular point of view. This is normally called propaganda, but that's a loaded term now. "Opinionated Film" might be a good word for it, I'm not sure. But it's not a documentary. The US health care system IS broken, but I hardly need Moore to tell me that. It should be patently obvious to anyone who is paying any attention to the situation, regardless of his political affiliation, coverage status, or income. It is upsetting that we still haven't penned the solution, but I believe someday we will, and that will hopefully be soon. I don't like the fact that you rail against capitalism when capitalist companies have done the vast majority of medical research in this country (in all fields of science, actually. The transistor was invented by Bell Labs). Companies require oversight to prevent them from causing harm to people in the quest for money (i.e. environmental legislation, etc.), but they are a vital component of the modern society. The correct answer is a mixture of socialism and capitalism, where the government only takes as much tax as it needs, and only interferes in situations that require oversight. Google & China: Google was presented with two options by the Chinese government: Censor stuff, or don't provide service in China. They made the obvious choice. They probably are very unpleased with it, it's bad for PR and probably costs a lot of money to implement. But the blame is entirely on the Chinese government.
The system I am refering to, the Gamecube, was joking called "Texturezilla" by developers because of it's high texturing bandwidth. Granted, this was in 2001, but still. Have you even seen Resident Evil 4 (though that was a two disk cube game, oh no!)? The game looks great. And the Wii and 360 are both leaps and bounds more powerful than the Cube, with much larger disks. I think you're being too picky.
Manhunt 2 probably IS Adult Only. The issue here is that retailers are threating not to sell it, because they're not supposed to sell it to kids? They allready ID check M rated games (even though they don't techincally have to), it seems like they're just being ridiculously uptight by refusing to sell AO games. Thankfully, the game probably sucks, so I don't really care. But I can imagine an AO game being made that was good, and it is kind of messed up that it would never be released.
No developer actually needs that much space, Dual-layer DVD is actually complete overkill when you consider large, immersive games like Zelda:TP, the Metroid Prime series, FF:CC, Price of Persia, etc, etc, etc, were released on disks that held only 1.5GB. Bluray on the PS3 was an enormous mistake, there is absolutely no excuse for a gaming being more than 8GB other than deliberate bloat.
Moore has made a name for himself by making documentaries holding a far leftist slant wherein he rants about the evils of conservative politics, but if you ask virtually any conservative if the current health-care system is working, they will undoubtedly say no. If they don't, their either completely out of touch, or lying. Now, if this is a documentary showcasing the benefits of a government run, full coverage tax-paid health-care system, then that would fit his style and I wouldn't have even bothered commenting, since I don't actually like him or his movies. But if all this is doing is dramatizing how bad it is currently, well, that boat already sailed and he's wasting his time and money. I don't like him, but I believe he and other political filmmakers are doing an important thing, generally, bringing political discourse to the mass market. But just making a doom and gloom movie about how bad the current health care system is, is not going to tell anyone anything they don't already know, is not going to get people to care about issues they don't normally (because everyone cares about their own health already), and is generally no better than making fiction. Which is fine, but since the movie is probably not very entertaining, pretty much demotes him from "mostly useless" to "completely useless".
I'm not familiar with iframes, but would not running javascript on untrusted webpages protect from this?
There's no accounting for tastes. Also, people who like to blow their money on HDTVs don't mind that the cheapest bluray player is $600. I guess there is a rumor that this particular model can play video games, but I don't believe it. Meanwhile $300 HDDVD players are nearly here. The only reason bluray has any market share at all is pure consumer stupidity and a distinct disinterest in saving any money whatsoever.
Do you believe that it would be easier to iron out fuel cells to use starch and produce enough starch to run all the cars, or to finally design a good battery and figure out how to replace oil upstream at the power plant? Either way cars can't run on a ICE for much longer, that's obvious, but fuel cells are still very new, and this tech in TFA is even newer. I certainly hope Honda and Toyota have everyone they can throw at the Battery problem working on it, but do you think this could beat them to it?
That detail hardly effects my point. You are correct, I misspoke (or mistyped or something). But that doesn't change my argument in the slightest.
The sooner cars go electric and we can consolidate our energy sources at the power plant, the better, because it's much easier to make a power plant clean, than to make an internal combustion engine clean. The only thing holding us back is the pitiful state of the Battery. If we spent half the money on battery research that we did trying to make cars run on food, we'd be running silent, emissionless cars before we even ran out of oil.
802.11 wasn't designed to be used city-wide. Of course it's expensive and unpopular to try to blanket the town with WiFi, the stations barely enough range to cover a whole house well, much less a whole block. Furthermore, 2.4ghz is way too overcrowded for this sort of thing. Better solutions would be WiMax or a simular tech using the analog TV frequencies when they finally get auctioned off. The idea of Municipal Internet is very good, but this isn't the way to do it.
Your last sentence seems to confuse "intellectual property", which isn't property at all so much as an artificial monopoly on an idea or set of data, and actual, physical property. Last month someone stole my car stereo. That car stereo was mine, I owned it, it was my property, and a thief stole it. Now, if the thief had instead copied my stereo, I would not be the least bit upset. When he stole my stereo, he got a stereo he did not pay for, and I no longer have a stereo. When someone downloads copyrighted music without permission, the person get music he did not pay for, but nobody who already bought the music is suddenly without. This is the key difference and something the RIAA and MIAA still doesn't' seem to understand. Saying that copying data is theft is inherently ludicrous. Copyright infringement, maybe, but not theft.
The problem with "unlocked" phones is that they use GSM, a rather old and outdated network setup. You're going to have a hard time finding ANY GSM phones in a few years, unlocked or not. There's no techinical reason why 3G or 4G phones are tied to a particular Phone Service Provider, just a marketing one. It sucks but that's just the way it is, nothing short of legislation would make them open up the phone hardware.
I would much rather have my cell phone be my:
RFID Entry key (With an actual battery it can be truly secure)
Debit/Credit Card (Same deal, different implementation)
Driver's Liscence/ID
Etc. Etc. Etc...
I should have to type in a PIN or something to spend money. You can already deactivate phone immediately if they are lost or stolen, so that's not really an issue. I'm sure this is the way things are headed.
1) I answer the phone when I'm driving sometimes, but I don't do it when I'm on a major arterial road, I slow down, and I make it VERY clear to the person that called me that I'm busy and to get to the point. If it seems like they're not going to do so, then I'll pull over. 2) I only txt at stoplights. I never look at my phone while the car is in motion. I also look occasionally to see when the light will be turning green. I hate it when people sit at the green light because they're talking on the phone or eating a cheeseburger or something and not paying attention to the progression of the signal.