This will also drive online sales for 18+ games. Likely a lot of 18+ games will simply never hit the shelves in the original format, as parents will notice they are unsuitable for minors, rather than wallowing ignorance and buying unsuitable games for their children. So most brick and mortar versions will be adjusted to lower the rating and gain access to a larger market and those sold online will be original versions (strict rules on contracts with minors in Australia so, Adult only contracts for online sales).
That web site hardly counts as a reliable source for anything but hate, based upon the overall theme of the reports and the even worse comments. Trying to drum up some hits, are we?
Parliamentary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliment are more fluid in governance and leaders are subject to much more public exposure. Especially when the is a minority government and a third party tends to end up with control (the leading opposition party always tends oppose). The leader, the prime minister can be replaced in public opposition grows to strong, this provides the opportunity for the party to attempt to rebuild it's reputation with another leader. Overall it seems to function better than directly electing the executive and the legislative.
Just straight shifting text books to computers is pretty pointless. The real idea is to create interactive tutorials and simulations backed up with reference material, typically reports covering specific subjects within a body of work that covers the topic. This more readily allows far broader input into the topic and avoids having thousands of text books covering the exact same material, in pretty much the same manner, with the only difference being the prejudices of the instructors.
An interesting idea is can people really copy a cinema movie. It is laughable to compare a low resolution stream to a movie at a cinema.
I have a feeling this whole crack down has more to do with being able to successful bullshit about the quality of content up for offer. That bullshit really falls over when you can check out a stream before going to the cinema and decide whether the reality of the quality of the content is worth paying the cost of a cinema ticket.
From my perspective no stream, no cinema ticket. I am sick of the lies and deceit about the quality of content, if I can't check it out before hand I ain't going. Truth is I have pretty much given up on the cinema experience, it is all coming off as pretty much lame.
Going to the cinema has become what you do if you have nothing else better to do, pretty much a lame night out. The movies have become pretty much crap and that whole passive entertainment thing is just so yesterday. I have no idea what is on at the cinema any more and I haven't missed it.
So tell me wise one, does crime happen in prison or not. After all those institutions are the most monitored and secured places on earth. So if crime happens in prison, how far will you have to go to ensure no crime occurs outside of prison, let me guess, kill everyone.
It is quite easy to argue it relates to quality of search results. After all, you conduct a search on Google it brings back results, you click on one of those results and you see nothing but adds, not the content you were looking for, it really is a 50:50 flip as to whether you scroll down or simply close that tab, get frustrated with Goggle and try again.
Page full of adds, I generally find the info is low quality and the web site is run by some SEO dick, so I click away with out scrolling down. There is always another web site (generally there is always another few hundred web sites with similar or better info).
Spectrum grab, the reality of history would indicate that the only real reason corporations are doing this is to drive out players and establish a monopoly in the event that fails either a duopoly or a collusive cartel.
Here's betting once the spectrum consolidation has ended, prices will go up, caps will shrink and excess charges will be buried in the fine print of every phone contract.
Legislative, executive, judiciary, perhaps maybe you might have heard of it. Obama represents the 'executive', he administers the Federal laws and regulations given to him. Perhaps, maybe just perhaps, you might remember at least some of the example of Republican members of the legislative, time and time again trying to get the US to go to war with Iran (some of the crazy wankers even have Israeli flags in their office along side the US one). Do you not recognise most of the impetus for war comes not from intelligence gathered in the field by agents but from lobbyists (they get paid to do it), arms industries(the want to sell arms and ammunition), US oil companies (cut off Iranian oil and the price of oil will rise by as much as 50%, major profit increase) and via treason of US politicians Israel (Israel want's to dominate the region and is working to destroy country after country that threatens that dominance, eventually Saudi Arabia will come under fire).
As it turns out those driving war prefer to target Republican Party at the primaries and supply huge amounts of money to ensure their puppets get in. Don't think so, just look at the way Ron Paul is targeted by right wing institutions (mass media likes to pretend he doesn't exist) for being anti-war.
The point that needs to be made. Is that manufacturing in the US or anywhere in the western world incorporates large amounts of robotics and automation.
In China humans are cheaper and more disposable than machines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-abkO-9Sw. Have a good long think about that labour, machines have been doing that kind of work in the western world since the 1930s odd.
Apple is in China to inflate profits, nothing more and nothing less. Everything regarding the way Apple publicly thinks about labour is pure PR=B$ (lies for profit). What you suck of the workers pocket goes into executives pockets, http://www.worldsalaries.org/china.shtml.
I think you don't understand they way they used the word socialist in Germany at that time, don't forget that the opposition party the other major party the SPD Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, the Social Democratic Party of German, also used that word. So think of it more as the peoples party, recognised that. A government of the people, by the people and for the people.
The Nazi party was not socialist, it was fascist, tied to the corporations of the day, strongly bound to the military, the police state and racism (surely you recognise those elements in todays politics). Also 'private' corporations profited from slave labour under the Nazi http://www.adl.org/braun/dim_13_2_forgetting.asp, now that's definitely not socialist, need I remind you that US corporations are seeking to use prison labour.
Back to the story, Indonesia apparently only legally recognises these religions Islam, Protestant, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhism and Confucianism, which of course is really rather odd as there is no God in Buddhism or Confucianism, as they are atheist ethical and philosophical systems, hmm, atheism is illegal but atheist religions are not, now that's an interesting conundrum. So does Indonesia recognise the right of Israel to exist as it has what Indonesia considers an illegal national religion.
Chris Dodd as bag handler collecting a whack of cream from the top has just made himself unemployed. Being a public idiot when you bought off politicians refuse to obey your orders, will get you fired every time.
He has effectively made a bad situation much worse. Now any attempt to pass those two pieces of legislation will come of as bribery and corruption. Of one industry setting up legislation to competitively destroy another industry for commercial advantage.
Everyone knows it was about old world mass media regaining control of what information the public gets, about shutting down every influential blog, forum and web portal not owned or controlled by mass media. Basically to shut down means by which Obama and quite a few Democrats got elected.
All politicians have now seen which way the wind is blowing, in the battle between the internet and the idiot box, the internet is kicking the idiot box's ass and with it the ability of old world mass media to control the public mind space.
Who can forget how this all started out. It not ours we didn't lose one. We lost one but that's not it.
We want it back. Now it's, 'er' yeah, it's our's but they didn't bring it down, we lost it all on our own (somehow that's meant to be better.
Of course the web site source is going wildly counter Republican dogma about the dangerous Iranians "the Iranians are constantly lying about their military exploits, especially when it comes to developing new weapons and technology. This is apparently done mainly for domestic propaganda as satellite photos never show more than a few prototypes of these wonder-weapons". So no great threat after all.
The real battle at the moment is between the US and Israel. The US administration is sick of Israel forcing into losing situations, losing billions and losing soldiers and knows Israel is actively trying to goad Iran into attacking Israel.
Likely Russia and China will not be too impressed in Israel launches an airstrike even a series of airstrikes on Iran in an attempt to precipitate a conflict and draw in the US at the US's expense.
Likely this will result in both China and Russia supply Iran with the latest weapons to test them against US hardware.
No Megaupload was profiting from, selling advertising by people visiting the site and by selling premium access for uploads and downloads from the site.
The people who profited from the 'piracy' were of course the advertisers, who paid for advertising space upon the basis of the value they believed the site provided in gaining access to customers and selling product.
In this case he only pays a percentage of the fine even though he is the root cause of the computer network hacking (a phone network is a computer network and that is a criminal offence in all countries concerned). How come a whole bunch of innocent investors get to bear the brunt of the fine and penalties.
Why isn't the investment team specifically targeted, why aren't their assets specifically targeted, why aren't they in jail awaiting arrest.
Just compare what is going on with Mega-upload (which mass media is currently waging a huge guilty by accusation marketing event) which is basically a civil action distorted into a criminal action versus News Corporation (which mass media is largely silent on by basis of cartel like collusion) which is basically a criminal action distorted into a civil action.
Just what the hell is going on, a completely public display of bias in the courts and criminal prosecution, one prosecution feed by mass media and another prosecution being whittled down to nothing by mass media. It would seem all mass media organisation need to be broken up for criminal corruption and collusion.
So what your saying is the Debian bug still hasn't been solved, OMG. So what's that six years and counting. Perhaps what your saying is many eyes still sometimes take time to resolve bugs, well, everyone expects that.
The flip side with closed source code is often the bugs get found when they get exploited. So how many times was the Debian bug exploited. Also in closed source code, how many times was a bug found and left unrepaired for years.
Here's a fun windows 96 bug, their write-behind caching was notoriously un-reliable, using windows update they supplied a fix. Do you know what is was? They disabled it, a feature they marketed and sold didn't work and to fix it, they simply and cheaply turned it off.
Now that is the big difference between closed source proprietary code and open source code. Cost to repair code and willingness to do so. In one case if it eats into profits they simply wont do it of if they do, they do a cheap nasty fix that leads to other problems. In the other case, amongst the many eyes, for popular products, there is always someone who wants publicity for fixing the bug as there is a good chance it will lead to a job or for a company it will help to promote their inhouse skills and abilities or there is a company threatened by that bug or there is a government department in one of the many countries who use it that considers it a security threat or there is a university who does research using that code or even on that code (do you get the picture yet).
Closed source only one set of eyes to discover and 'FIX' (there is bunch of other eyes but they discover and 'EXPLOIT', never heard of 'stuxnet'), versus many sets of eyes to discover and 'FIX'. Of course there are still those want to exploit open source bugs but in large government settings to exploit a bug means you must leave your own systems unrepaired and unprotected, kind of a real catch 22 there.
Just a reminder, just about every kind of power station can generate energy more efficiently than a car. Power stations are also largely located remote from centre of population, helping to create cleaner healthier cities. So smog-free cities, yes we all know, self centred douche's will scream like your typical toddler for their noisy gas guzzler and scream even louder when they get taxed up the wazoo for using it in city environment (you want to suck on an exhaust pipe do it in your garage don't force others to do it).
The electric car is inevitable, the only thing holding back it's dominance is battery design and thanks to computers, that is being slowly but surely solved.
Don't forget you will charge your car off peak overnight, helps the power station to balance our their load. Now add that same battery pack to your home and your protected from brown outs and even blackouts, depending upon how long they last.
Get active in the primaries, put up alternate candidates who will change the laws. It is as simple as that and that is exactly how the minority used their money against the interests of the majority.
They backed down this time, specifically because they believed if they did not, they would be challenged in the next primary and lose.
They already crossed the line, they are just trying to push the vote beyond the next primary to suck everyone in.
As a Christian you should more correctly say, you are opposed to gay 'Christian' marriages. It is not for you as a Christian to define what relationship contracts should be for other religions or secular marriages.
Marriage is not a religious institution, it is a personal contract between two people, a life time commitment, recognised by religions. It actually has it's roots in war. In removing the whole village concept of shared responsibility for the children. When a King/Chief decide to launch an extended conflict he could hold a soldier's wife and children as hostage to the soldiers obedience. Also obviously some men could be denied access to women and the king could have access to many women, all based around patriarchal violence. As always religion changed and altered this relationship in many ways to suit, not belief but the requirements of the leadership of the day.
The only thing that needs to change is people should be bound by their word, a little bit of mature adult responsibility. Make a life time commitment, then suck it up, that should be the only one you are ever allowed to make.
Most climate "denialists" (aka psychopaths) are worried about earning even more profits. Profit is driven by politics, politics are driven by public opinion and lobbyists, public opinion is used to driven by mass media. Mass media and lobbyists are owned by and controlled by a handful of psychopaths. A handful of billionaire psychopaths get beaucoup money/power on keeping the existing consumption and pollution with out limit business model. Irony: Energy conglomerates (oil) have very deeply vested interest in keeping the old consumption and pollution with out limit business model.
There you go fixed it for you;D.
Earth is getting hotter, and to deny it is an exercise in psychopathic GREED." Fixed the heading too. Basically the core of global warming denial are psychopathic billionaires who don't give a crap about the world beyond their own personal existence, their self aggrandisement, their insatiable greed and their truly bloated egos. As far as they are concerned it can all burn as long as they are on the top.
So let's do the comparison scientists who can generate income working in a whole range of areas currently work in climate change (which provides zero opportunity for huge patent bonuses) versus billionaires who derive billions in profits by maintaining the existing insane model of consumption and pollution without limit. Now who has the greater motivation and which in reality is the most likely.
How about a certain vulture capitalist trying to become president. It's not hiding when you put in it a tax haven and your politically connected.
Confiscating assets in this case seems to have more to do with denying the ability of the accused to pay for a proper legal defence.
Notice how US mass media has all jumped on the guilty until proven innocent bandwagon, trial by idiot box. There is very little pretence of justice, just a straight politically motivated attack by the DOJ driven by the administration in an ultimately self destructive attempt to badger their own politicians into voting in faulty and democratically dangerous legislation.
I wonder how many of those politicians where photographed in politically inconvenient actions involving young hollywood et al hopefuls and drugs, at various times in those politicians careers.
'Anonymous' is not a group it is simply am activist promotional meme. People choose to engage in an activity in the name of 'Anonymous' or not. Whether some choose to behave in a digitally disruptive manner or publicly protest is up to them as individuals. No person who does something in the anonymously in the name of 'Anonymous' is responsible for the action of any other individual.
Any claim that 'Anonymous' are vigilante thugs is completely ludicrous, firstly as by far the majority of people who have conducted activist activity in the name of 'Anonymous' had nothing to do with the temporary digital disruptions of digital billboard service and secondly no physical violence of any kind or description was conducted.
As for Barret Brown the supposed operative for 'Anonymous' his activity has more to do with profiting from a book than any activist activity he has anonymously? participated. Any person who claims to be in a position of control or authority within 'Anonymous' is to say the least misled or more likely just being misleading.
'Anonymous' is not a group regardless of anything claimed by any individual, nor are there subgroups. 'Anonymous' is just an concept of participating in activism where self promotion is not the goal, as has to often become all to obvious and destructive, simply the promotion of political change, of the rights of individuals, of a set activist goal. With participation in any specific activity down to the choice of the individual.
The main reason I have always done, those extra thirty seconds at the store to quickly check the contents is a whole lot less time than would be required to return to the store and try to beg for a replacement or my money back.
Those thirty seconds seem like a minor investment of time compared to what I am spend regardless of the looks of cashiers who can generally be answered by 'well it's a lot easier than coming back to the store'.
Just wondering, do you buy stuff on the same basis. Hmm, that's a pretty box, that must have what I've paid for in it and if it doesn't, well I'll just drive back to the shop and they'll give me my money back no questions asked. As I stated I always have the box opened at the checkout prior to paying for the appliance.
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This will also drive online sales for 18+ games. Likely a lot of 18+ games will simply never hit the shelves in the original format, as parents will notice they are unsuitable for minors, rather than wallowing ignorance and buying unsuitable games for their children. So most brick and mortar versions will be adjusted to lower the rating and gain access to a larger market and those sold online will be original versions (strict rules on contracts with minors in Australia so, Adult only contracts for online sales).
That web site hardly counts as a reliable source for anything but hate, based upon the overall theme of the reports and the even worse comments. Trying to drum up some hits, are we?
Parliamentary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliment are more fluid in governance and leaders are subject to much more public exposure. Especially when the is a minority government and a third party tends to end up with control (the leading opposition party always tends oppose). The leader, the prime minister can be replaced in public opposition grows to strong, this provides the opportunity for the party to attempt to rebuild it's reputation with another leader. Overall it seems to function better than directly electing the executive and the legislative.
Perhaps this is why text books are updated. English is a fluid language and changes over time, http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Irregardless&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a, 2,070,000 results, quite significant for a non-word.
Just straight shifting text books to computers is pretty pointless. The real idea is to create interactive tutorials and simulations backed up with reference material, typically reports covering specific subjects within a body of work that covers the topic. This more readily allows far broader input into the topic and avoids having thousands of text books covering the exact same material, in pretty much the same manner, with the only difference being the prejudices of the instructors.
An interesting idea is can people really copy a cinema movie. It is laughable to compare a low resolution stream to a movie at a cinema.
I have a feeling this whole crack down has more to do with being able to successful bullshit about the quality of content up for offer. That bullshit really falls over when you can check out a stream before going to the cinema and decide whether the reality of the quality of the content is worth paying the cost of a cinema ticket.
From my perspective no stream, no cinema ticket. I am sick of the lies and deceit about the quality of content, if I can't check it out before hand I ain't going. Truth is I have pretty much given up on the cinema experience, it is all coming off as pretty much lame.
Going to the cinema has become what you do if you have nothing else better to do, pretty much a lame night out. The movies have become pretty much crap and that whole passive entertainment thing is just so yesterday. I have no idea what is on at the cinema any more and I haven't missed it.
So tell me wise one, does crime happen in prison or not. After all those institutions are the most monitored and secured places on earth. So if crime happens in prison, how far will you have to go to ensure no crime occurs outside of prison, let me guess, kill everyone.
It is quite easy to argue it relates to quality of search results. After all, you conduct a search on Google it brings back results, you click on one of those results and you see nothing but adds, not the content you were looking for, it really is a 50:50 flip as to whether you scroll down or simply close that tab, get frustrated with Goggle and try again.
Page full of adds, I generally find the info is low quality and the web site is run by some SEO dick, so I click away with out scrolling down. There is always another web site (generally there is always another few hundred web sites with similar or better info).
Spectrum grab, the reality of history would indicate that the only real reason corporations are doing this is to drive out players and establish a monopoly in the event that fails either a duopoly or a collusive cartel.
Here's betting once the spectrum consolidation has ended, prices will go up, caps will shrink and excess charges will be buried in the fine print of every phone contract.
Legislative, executive, judiciary, perhaps maybe you might have heard of it. Obama represents the 'executive', he administers the Federal laws and regulations given to him. Perhaps, maybe just perhaps, you might remember at least some of the example of Republican members of the legislative, time and time again trying to get the US to go to war with Iran (some of the crazy wankers even have Israeli flags in their office along side the US one). Do you not recognise most of the impetus for war comes not from intelligence gathered in the field by agents but from lobbyists (they get paid to do it), arms industries(the want to sell arms and ammunition), US oil companies (cut off Iranian oil and the price of oil will rise by as much as 50%, major profit increase) and via treason of US politicians Israel (Israel want's to dominate the region and is working to destroy country after country that threatens that dominance, eventually Saudi Arabia will come under fire).
As it turns out those driving war prefer to target Republican Party at the primaries and supply huge amounts of money to ensure their puppets get in. Don't think so, just look at the way Ron Paul is targeted by right wing institutions (mass media likes to pretend he doesn't exist) for being anti-war.
The point that needs to be made. Is that manufacturing in the US or anywhere in the western world incorporates large amounts of robotics and automation.
In China humans are cheaper and more disposable than machines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-abkO-9Sw. Have a good long think about that labour, machines have been doing that kind of work in the western world since the 1930s odd.
Apple is in China to inflate profits, nothing more and nothing less. Everything regarding the way Apple publicly thinks about labour is pure PR=B$ (lies for profit). What you suck of the workers pocket goes into executives pockets, http://www.worldsalaries.org/china.shtml.
I think you don't understand they way they used the word socialist in Germany at that time, don't forget that the opposition party the other major party the SPD Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, the Social Democratic Party of German, also used that word. So think of it more as the peoples party, recognised that. A government of the people, by the people and for the people.
The Nazi party was not socialist, it was fascist, tied to the corporations of the day, strongly bound to the military, the police state and racism (surely you recognise those elements in todays politics). Also 'private' corporations profited from slave labour under the Nazi http://www.adl.org/braun/dim_13_2_forgetting.asp, now that's definitely not socialist, need I remind you that US corporations are seeking to use prison labour.
Back to the story, Indonesia apparently only legally recognises these religions Islam, Protestant, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhism and Confucianism, which of course is really rather odd as there is no God in Buddhism or Confucianism, as they are atheist ethical and philosophical systems, hmm, atheism is illegal but atheist religions are not, now that's an interesting conundrum. So does Indonesia recognise the right of Israel to exist as it has what Indonesia considers an illegal national religion.
Chris Dodd as bag handler collecting a whack of cream from the top has just made himself unemployed. Being a public idiot when you bought off politicians refuse to obey your orders, will get you fired every time.
He has effectively made a bad situation much worse. Now any attempt to pass those two pieces of legislation will come of as bribery and corruption. Of one industry setting up legislation to competitively destroy another industry for commercial advantage.
Everyone knows it was about old world mass media regaining control of what information the public gets, about shutting down every influential blog, forum and web portal not owned or controlled by mass media. Basically to shut down means by which Obama and quite a few Democrats got elected.
All politicians have now seen which way the wind is blowing, in the battle between the internet and the idiot box, the internet is kicking the idiot box's ass and with it the ability of old world mass media to control the public mind space.
Who can forget how this all started out.
It not ours we didn't lose one.
We lost one but that's not it.
We want it back.
Now it's, 'er' yeah, it's our's but they didn't bring it down, we lost it all on our own (somehow that's meant to be better.
Of course the web site source is going wildly counter Republican dogma about the dangerous Iranians "the Iranians are constantly lying about their military exploits, especially when it comes to developing new weapons and technology. This is apparently done mainly for domestic propaganda as satellite photos never show more than a few prototypes of these wonder-weapons". So no great threat after all.
The real battle at the moment is between the US and Israel. The US administration is sick of Israel forcing into losing situations, losing billions and losing soldiers and knows Israel is actively trying to goad Iran into attacking Israel.
Likely Russia and China will not be too impressed in Israel launches an airstrike even a series of airstrikes on Iran in an attempt to precipitate a conflict and draw in the US at the US's expense.
Likely this will result in both China and Russia supply Iran with the latest weapons to test them against US hardware.
No Megaupload was profiting from, selling advertising by people visiting the site and by selling premium access for uploads and downloads from the site.
They did not 'pirate' content, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement. The person who pirated content was the uploader.
The people who profited from the 'piracy' were of course the advertisers, who paid for advertising space upon the basis of the value they believed the site provided in gaining access to customers and selling product.
In this case he only pays a percentage of the fine even though he is the root cause of the computer network hacking (a phone network is a computer network and that is a criminal offence in all countries concerned). How come a whole bunch of innocent investors get to bear the brunt of the fine and penalties.
Why isn't the investment team specifically targeted, why aren't their assets specifically targeted, why aren't they in jail awaiting arrest.
Just compare what is going on with Mega-upload (which mass media is currently waging a huge guilty by accusation marketing event) which is basically a civil action distorted into a criminal action versus News Corporation (which mass media is largely silent on by basis of cartel like collusion) which is basically a criminal action distorted into a civil action.
Just what the hell is going on, a completely public display of bias in the courts and criminal prosecution, one prosecution feed by mass media and another prosecution being whittled down to nothing by mass media. It would seem all mass media organisation need to be broken up for criminal corruption and collusion.
So what your saying is the Debian bug still hasn't been solved, OMG. So what's that six years and counting. Perhaps what your saying is many eyes still sometimes take time to resolve bugs, well, everyone expects that.
The flip side with closed source code is often the bugs get found when they get exploited. So how many times was the Debian bug exploited. Also in closed source code, how many times was a bug found and left unrepaired for years.
Here's a fun windows 96 bug, their write-behind caching was notoriously un-reliable, using windows update they supplied a fix. Do you know what is was? They disabled it, a feature they marketed and sold didn't work and to fix it, they simply and cheaply turned it off.
Now that is the big difference between closed source proprietary code and open source code. Cost to repair code and willingness to do so. In one case if it eats into profits they simply wont do it of if they do, they do a cheap nasty fix that leads to other problems. In the other case, amongst the many eyes, for popular products, there is always someone who wants publicity for fixing the bug as there is a good chance it will lead to a job or for a company it will help to promote their inhouse skills and abilities or there is a company threatened by that bug or there is a government department in one of the many countries who use it that considers it a security threat or there is a university who does research using that code or even on that code (do you get the picture yet).
Closed source only one set of eyes to discover and 'FIX' (there is bunch of other eyes but they discover and 'EXPLOIT', never heard of 'stuxnet'), versus many sets of eyes to discover and 'FIX'. Of course there are still those want to exploit open source bugs but in large government settings to exploit a bug means you must leave your own systems unrepaired and unprotected, kind of a real catch 22 there.
Just a reminder, just about every kind of power station can generate energy more efficiently than a car. Power stations are also largely located remote from centre of population, helping to create cleaner healthier cities. So smog-free cities, yes we all know, self centred douche's will scream like your typical toddler for their noisy gas guzzler and scream even louder when they get taxed up the wazoo for using it in city environment (you want to suck on an exhaust pipe do it in your garage don't force others to do it).
The electric car is inevitable, the only thing holding back it's dominance is battery design and thanks to computers, that is being slowly but surely solved.
Don't forget you will charge your car off peak overnight, helps the power station to balance our their load. Now add that same battery pack to your home and your protected from brown outs and even blackouts, depending upon how long they last.
Get active in the primaries, put up alternate candidates who will change the laws. It is as simple as that and that is exactly how the minority used their money against the interests of the majority.
They backed down this time, specifically because they believed if they did not, they would be challenged in the next primary and lose.
They already crossed the line, they are just trying to push the vote beyond the next primary to suck everyone in.
Marriage is not a religious institution, it is a personal contract between two people, a life time commitment, recognised by religions. It actually has it's roots in war. In removing the whole village concept of shared responsibility for the children. When a King/Chief decide to launch an extended conflict he could hold a soldier's wife and children as hostage to the soldiers obedience. Also obviously some men could be denied access to women and the king could have access to many women, all based around patriarchal violence. As always religion changed and altered this relationship in many ways to suit, not belief but the requirements of the leadership of the day.
The only thing that needs to change is people should be bound by their word, a little bit of mature adult responsibility. Make a life time commitment, then suck it up, that should be the only one you are ever allowed to make.
Most climate "denialists" (aka psychopaths) are worried about earning even more profits. Profit is driven by politics, politics are driven by public opinion and lobbyists, public opinion is used to driven by mass media. Mass media and lobbyists are owned by and controlled by a handful of psychopaths. A handful of billionaire psychopaths get beaucoup money/power on keeping the existing consumption and pollution with out limit business model. Irony: Energy conglomerates (oil) have very deeply vested interest in keeping the old consumption and pollution with out limit business model.
There you go fixed it for you ;D.
Earth is getting hotter, and to deny it is an exercise in psychopathic GREED." Fixed the heading too. Basically the core of global warming denial are psychopathic billionaires who don't give a crap about the world beyond their own personal existence, their self aggrandisement, their insatiable greed and their truly bloated egos. As far as they are concerned it can all burn as long as they are on the top.
So let's do the comparison scientists who can generate income working in a whole range of areas currently work in climate change (which provides zero opportunity for huge patent bonuses) versus billionaires who derive billions in profits by maintaining the existing insane model of consumption and pollution without limit. Now who has the greater motivation and which in reality is the most likely.
So basically Facebook credits are a free loan that the unaware provide to Facebook. So does Facebook ever pay them back or are they a one way thing?
How about a certain vulture capitalist trying to become president. It's not hiding when you put in it a tax haven and your politically connected.
Confiscating assets in this case seems to have more to do with denying the ability of the accused to pay for a proper legal defence.
Notice how US mass media has all jumped on the guilty until proven innocent bandwagon, trial by idiot box. There is very little pretence of justice, just a straight politically motivated attack by the DOJ driven by the administration in an ultimately self destructive attempt to badger their own politicians into voting in faulty and democratically dangerous legislation.
I wonder how many of those politicians where photographed in politically inconvenient actions involving young hollywood et al hopefuls and drugs, at various times in those politicians careers.
'Anonymous' is not a group it is simply am activist promotional meme. People choose to engage in an activity in the name of 'Anonymous' or not. Whether some choose to behave in a digitally disruptive manner or publicly protest is up to them as individuals. No person who does something in the anonymously in the name of 'Anonymous' is responsible for the action of any other individual.
Any claim that 'Anonymous' are vigilante thugs is completely ludicrous, firstly as by far the majority of people who have conducted activist activity in the name of 'Anonymous' had nothing to do with the temporary digital disruptions of digital billboard service and secondly no physical violence of any kind or description was conducted.
As for Barret Brown the supposed operative for 'Anonymous' his activity has more to do with profiting from a book than any activist activity he has anonymously? participated. Any person who claims to be in a position of control or authority within 'Anonymous' is to say the least misled or more likely just being misleading.
'Anonymous' is not a group regardless of anything claimed by any individual, nor are there subgroups. 'Anonymous' is just an concept of participating in activism where self promotion is not the goal, as has to often become all to obvious and destructive, simply the promotion of political change, of the rights of individuals, of a set activist goal. With participation in any specific activity down to the choice of the individual.
The main reason I have always done, those extra thirty seconds at the store to quickly check the contents is a whole lot less time than would be required to return to the store and try to beg for a replacement or my money back.
Coming from the building industry where Murphy rules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law and a bit of forward thinking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Ps_(military_adage), can save a lot of heart ache.
Those thirty seconds seem like a minor investment of time compared to what I am spend regardless of the looks of cashiers who can generally be answered by 'well it's a lot easier than coming back to the store'.
Just wondering, do you buy stuff on the same basis. Hmm, that's a pretty box, that must have what I've paid for in it and if it doesn't, well I'll just drive back to the shop and they'll give me my money back no questions asked. As I stated I always have the box opened at the checkout prior to paying for the appliance.