It's not that Microsoft won't let them release it for free, but Microsoft will charge Valve for all DLC and patches that they make for the 360 version. They're only allowed one free patch, any subsequent patches require Valve to pay Microsoft. They're probably charging for the DLC to cover the fees that Microsoft imposes on them, after all, Microsoft's paying for the bandwidth.
Then explain the prison reforms that were done under Andrew Jackson back in the 19th century. What's the point in having the prisons at all, if your only goal is to remove the criminals from society?
Just toss 'em on an island somewhere. No need for guards or buildings or anything like that, just stick 'em on an island and every month you pick up the people whose terms are up.
The primary purpose is to remove them from the population, sure, but the whole concept of deterrence doesn't follow with the data or even the logic of criminal behavior.
If efforts were made to educate prisoners, to help them out, repeat offenders might become a very rare thing indeed. As it is, once you've committed a felony, it's almost impossible to get a job, and in my home state at least, you lose the ability to vote and possess a firearm. That's got nothing to do with rehabilitation, deterrence, or keeping them away from society. What it does, is it makes them so desperate that they commit crimes again.
While I agree with you, Arpaio is a perfect example of a government employee milking the system to suit his own needs. He's a sheriff, but he's pulling in as much money from scamming the taxpayers as the private companies do in states with privatized jails.
Last fall I took a logic design course. It had a lecture and a lab, and the lab was pretty fun. Our final project was to design a circuit that could perform modulo 3 on any arbitrary number.
Given Joe's history, I'm very interested in what's on those servers. This is a guy who thinks ANY press is good press. Even when he had to pay 30-something percent of an 800k judgement due to abuse out of his own pocket. The guy's got corruption all over the place, and he's still in office.
According to www.arpaio.com, Arpaio himself commissioned a study by a college to determine his return statistics (using tax payer money of course) and the college determined that the rates for repeat offenders were no different from the average.
Also keep in mind, that "tent city" thing he's got set up doesn't just house convicted criminals, it also houses people who are waiting for their court date to appear, and were unable to make bond.
Besides, I thought prison was supposed to be about rehabilitation anyway, not so much just a punishment. If it were just punishment you were after, why not shoot everybody in the leg for crimes up to rape or murder, and shoot everybody at or above that level.
If I get a discount on the price of the electricity from the nuclear plant, I'd be more than happy to let them build in my backyard. I think those cooling towers are cute, and it's the safest form of electrical generation we're able to employ for the backbone of the power grid.
Not to play Devil's Advocate, but if the company which owns the Nineteen Eighty Four copyright in the United States filed this as a DMCA violation, then Amazon was probably quick to remove it from everybody's Kindle simply to cement their position for safe harbor protections. In doing so, however, they showed their customers the biggest complaint that anti-DRM people clamor on about: removal of the content you paid money for without warning.
AIDS can be caused by any pathogen that can cripple the immune system. Any virus, not just HIV, that attacks the immune system can cause it. Anybody who's undergoing a bone marrow transplant has his or her immune system intentionally destroyed to minimize rejection of the bone marrow. The opportunistic infections that afflict people who have AIDS due to HIV are a potential danger for those who are getting bone marrow transplants, but those people usually live in bubbles for a few days so their immune system can rebound.
AIDS isn't solely caused by HIV. There are numerous viruses that can also cause the disease, HIV just happens to be the virus that causes so many cases of it. A cure for AIDS wouldn't just benefit people who have HIV, but the people who have contracted it through other means.
You obviously didn't play Manhunt. The victims in Manhunt weren't innocent, they were blood thirsty killers who would have killed you if they'd seen you. The aliens in Dead Space were just trying to get their hive-thing back, but they were also trying to kill you. In both games you're acting in self defense. GTA blurs that line a little, where you defend yourself against cops who try to kill you.
Hitler didn't make a single ultimate mistake. He made several. Launching into an unneeded second front when he broke the non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union was a huge mistake. He also diverted a lot of supplies for his war effort into his political posturing bullshit about the purity of the Aryans. If he'd been like a real politician and just said what he had to, instead of actually following through with it, his trains could have been hauling soldiers and firearms to the front, instead of Jews and homosexuals to death camps.
So remember kids: if you want to eradicate people who look a certain way and you also want to become ruler of the planet, it's best to take over everything first, then you can genocide to your heart's content. Also, don't get involved with war in the winter in Russia.
Antarctica. It's absolutely free of laws. The only law that governs the entire continent is "There shall be no laws here." Dress warm though, it's a little chilly.
Music can be acquired without purchasing a CD. Cassette tapes, vinyl records, and iTunes are all viable options. Or he might just have a little antenna device that picks up the smooth sounds of the 70s and 80s with occasional commercial interruption.
Perjury is a separate charge, but if somebody pleads one way, and is found to have done the opposite of their plea, sometimes the judge will be more harsh in the sentencing. Similar situation here, except the jury decided the sentence instead of the judge.
Thomas Jefferson never said. That quote is often misquoted to Jefferson, but it was actually Gerald Ford who said it. Yes, the same Gerald Ford who pardoned that asshole Richard Nixon.
The women in the McDonald's coffee case didn't intend to sue for obscene amounts of money. She got third degree burns on her lap, and she just wanted McDonald's to foot her hospital bill. No pain and suffering, just the hospital bill. They refused, and she lawyered up, and the lawyer started chasing dollar signs.
Because the God claim was started. Before religions invented the deity, there wasn't a notion of it existing. It goes back to the example of Santa. Five hundred years ago you wouldn't have to assert the non-existence of Santa, because nobody had invented the concept yet.
Proof of a negative is generally a very difficult thing to do, and in the case of a non-falsifiable concept like a supernatural deity, it's impossible to prove it doesn't exist.
Stating that there is no god isn't a claim, it's a rebuttal to a claim.
If I say there is no Santa Claus, it's still not my responsibility to prove there isn't one. Burden of proof always lies in the claim that's asserting, not the one that's responding to an assertion.
The Church never played a part in advancing science. Ever. Nor medicine. Art, sure. But modern medicine is dependent upon science, and modern science in the western world can trace its origins to Galileo. The heliocentric model isn't the only scientific idea that the church didn't want people discussing. The germ theory of disease spat in the face of scripture and centuries of priests making claims about disease. Evolution wasn't accepted by the church until the 20th century.
As for the enlightened culture of Islam. The fountain of knowledge in the Islamic world dried up in the 15th century, and it hasn't recovered since. Islam has the ability to embrace science, but it hasn't happened since the fall of that era of enlightenment. Of course there are plenty of Muslims who take the Koran with a grain of salt, and Christian who do the same with the Bible. But they don't use religion to help them with their science, they put their religion on the coat rack when they step into the laboratory and do the science the way it works best: evidence.
In Gattaca it was technically illegal to discriminate against the regular people. There might have been a lack of enforcement, or everything was very tongue-in-cheek, but the narrator made it clear at the beginning of the film when he first tried to get the job with the space agency that they can't legally discriminate, and the only way they could find out about his roll of the dice conception is through a drug test.
Evolution can still occur without natural selection brought on by random gene mutations and genetic drift. Dogs are still evolving, even though they're artificially selected. The word 'evolution' just means change over time. If brown eyes are artificially selected against due to this sort of technology, it will still be because of evolution, it'll just be an artificial selection without regard to environment, instead of the more popular version of evolution that's been around a few billion years which uses natural selection dependent upon the environment.
United States law is derived from British Common Law. France, like most of continental Europe, has a Civil Law approach. Comparing the French system to the American system is, definitely equivalent to comparing apples to oranges.
Arrested Development was cancelled because the Fox executives are assholes. They love to cancel the good shows, even if they're actually doing well. Case in point: Titus, Arrested Development, Firefly, Family Guy, Futurama, The Tick, Dark Angel. The list goes on.
Comedy Central has only censored South Park once, and that was during their two-part Family Guy spoof, Comedy Central wouldn't let them actually show Muhammad on screen. Comedy Central doesn't have to censor South Park's language, because it's actually done by the South Park people before they send the episode to Comedy Central for airing purposes, and they even had an episode where the word "shit" went uncensored, with a running total in the bottom of the screen on how many times it was said.
Aside from that, the only thing Comedy Central really does to censor South Park, is that if an episode airs and they get a ton of complaints about it, they'll pull it out of reruns for a while. They did it with the Scientology episode, and the one about the Virgin Mary statue bleeding a few episodes later.
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It's not that Microsoft won't let them release it for free, but Microsoft will charge Valve for all DLC and patches that they make for the 360 version. They're only allowed one free patch, any subsequent patches require Valve to pay Microsoft. They're probably charging for the DLC to cover the fees that Microsoft imposes on them, after all, Microsoft's paying for the bandwidth.
Then explain the prison reforms that were done under Andrew Jackson back in the 19th century. What's the point in having the prisons at all, if your only goal is to remove the criminals from society?
Just toss 'em on an island somewhere. No need for guards or buildings or anything like that, just stick 'em on an island and every month you pick up the people whose terms are up.
The primary purpose is to remove them from the population, sure, but the whole concept of deterrence doesn't follow with the data or even the logic of criminal behavior.
If efforts were made to educate prisoners, to help them out, repeat offenders might become a very rare thing indeed. As it is, once you've committed a felony, it's almost impossible to get a job, and in my home state at least, you lose the ability to vote and possess a firearm. That's got nothing to do with rehabilitation, deterrence, or keeping them away from society. What it does, is it makes them so desperate that they commit crimes again.
While I agree with you, Arpaio is a perfect example of a government employee milking the system to suit his own needs. He's a sheriff, but he's pulling in as much money from scamming the taxpayers as the private companies do in states with privatized jails.
Last fall I took a logic design course. It had a lecture and a lab, and the lab was pretty fun. Our final project was to design a circuit that could perform modulo 3 on any arbitrary number.
Given Joe's history, I'm very interested in what's on those servers. This is a guy who thinks ANY press is good press. Even when he had to pay 30-something percent of an 800k judgement due to abuse out of his own pocket. The guy's got corruption all over the place, and he's still in office.
According to www.arpaio.com, Arpaio himself commissioned a study by a college to determine his return statistics (using tax payer money of course) and the college determined that the rates for repeat offenders were no different from the average.
Also keep in mind, that "tent city" thing he's got set up doesn't just house convicted criminals, it also houses people who are waiting for their court date to appear, and were unable to make bond.
Besides, I thought prison was supposed to be about rehabilitation anyway, not so much just a punishment. If it were just punishment you were after, why not shoot everybody in the leg for crimes up to rape or murder, and shoot everybody at or above that level.
If I get a discount on the price of the electricity from the nuclear plant, I'd be more than happy to let them build in my backyard. I think those cooling towers are cute, and it's the safest form of electrical generation we're able to employ for the backbone of the power grid.
Not to play Devil's Advocate, but if the company which owns the Nineteen Eighty Four copyright in the United States filed this as a DMCA violation, then Amazon was probably quick to remove it from everybody's Kindle simply to cement their position for safe harbor protections. In doing so, however, they showed their customers the biggest complaint that anti-DRM people clamor on about: removal of the content you paid money for without warning.
AIDS can be caused by any pathogen that can cripple the immune system. Any virus, not just HIV, that attacks the immune system can cause it. Anybody who's undergoing a bone marrow transplant has his or her immune system intentionally destroyed to minimize rejection of the bone marrow. The opportunistic infections that afflict people who have AIDS due to HIV are a potential danger for those who are getting bone marrow transplants, but those people usually live in bubbles for a few days so their immune system can rebound.
AIDS isn't solely caused by HIV. There are numerous viruses that can also cause the disease, HIV just happens to be the virus that causes so many cases of it. A cure for AIDS wouldn't just benefit people who have HIV, but the people who have contracted it through other means.
You obviously didn't play Manhunt. The victims in Manhunt weren't innocent, they were blood thirsty killers who would have killed you if they'd seen you. The aliens in Dead Space were just trying to get their hive-thing back, but they were also trying to kill you. In both games you're acting in self defense. GTA blurs that line a little, where you defend yourself against cops who try to kill you.
Hitler didn't make a single ultimate mistake. He made several. Launching into an unneeded second front when he broke the non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union was a huge mistake. He also diverted a lot of supplies for his war effort into his political posturing bullshit about the purity of the Aryans. If he'd been like a real politician and just said what he had to, instead of actually following through with it, his trains could have been hauling soldiers and firearms to the front, instead of Jews and homosexuals to death camps.
So remember kids: if you want to eradicate people who look a certain way and you also want to become ruler of the planet, it's best to take over everything first, then you can genocide to your heart's content. Also, don't get involved with war in the winter in Russia.
Antarctica. It's absolutely free of laws. The only law that governs the entire continent is "There shall be no laws here." Dress warm though, it's a little chilly.
Music can be acquired without purchasing a CD. Cassette tapes, vinyl records, and iTunes are all viable options. Or he might just have a little antenna device that picks up the smooth sounds of the 70s and 80s with occasional commercial interruption.
Perjury is a separate charge, but if somebody pleads one way, and is found to have done the opposite of their plea, sometimes the judge will be more harsh in the sentencing. Similar situation here, except the jury decided the sentence instead of the judge.
Thomas Jefferson never said. That quote is often misquoted to Jefferson, but it was actually Gerald Ford who said it. Yes, the same Gerald Ford who pardoned that asshole Richard Nixon.
The women in the McDonald's coffee case didn't intend to sue for obscene amounts of money. She got third degree burns on her lap, and she just wanted McDonald's to foot her hospital bill. No pain and suffering, just the hospital bill. They refused, and she lawyered up, and the lawyer started chasing dollar signs.
Because the God claim was started. Before religions invented the deity, there wasn't a notion of it existing. It goes back to the example of Santa. Five hundred years ago you wouldn't have to assert the non-existence of Santa, because nobody had invented the concept yet.
Proof of a negative is generally a very difficult thing to do, and in the case of a non-falsifiable concept like a supernatural deity, it's impossible to prove it doesn't exist.
Stating that there is no god isn't a claim, it's a rebuttal to a claim.
If I say there is no Santa Claus, it's still not my responsibility to prove there isn't one. Burden of proof always lies in the claim that's asserting, not the one that's responding to an assertion.
The Church never played a part in advancing science. Ever. Nor medicine. Art, sure. But modern medicine is dependent upon science, and modern science in the western world can trace its origins to Galileo. The heliocentric model isn't the only scientific idea that the church didn't want people discussing. The germ theory of disease spat in the face of scripture and centuries of priests making claims about disease. Evolution wasn't accepted by the church until the 20th century.
As for the enlightened culture of Islam. The fountain of knowledge in the Islamic world dried up in the 15th century, and it hasn't recovered since. Islam has the ability to embrace science, but it hasn't happened since the fall of that era of enlightenment. Of course there are plenty of Muslims who take the Koran with a grain of salt, and Christian who do the same with the Bible. But they don't use religion to help them with their science, they put their religion on the coat rack when they step into the laboratory and do the science the way it works best: evidence.
In Gattaca it was technically illegal to discriminate against the regular people. There might have been a lack of enforcement, or everything was very tongue-in-cheek, but the narrator made it clear at the beginning of the film when he first tried to get the job with the space agency that they can't legally discriminate, and the only way they could find out about his roll of the dice conception is through a drug test.
Evolution can still occur without natural selection brought on by random gene mutations and genetic drift. Dogs are still evolving, even though they're artificially selected. The word 'evolution' just means change over time. If brown eyes are artificially selected against due to this sort of technology, it will still be because of evolution, it'll just be an artificial selection without regard to environment, instead of the more popular version of evolution that's been around a few billion years which uses natural selection dependent upon the environment.
United States law is derived from British Common Law. France, like most of continental Europe, has a Civil Law approach. Comparing the French system to the American system is, definitely equivalent to comparing apples to oranges.
Arrested Development was cancelled because the Fox executives are assholes. They love to cancel the good shows, even if they're actually doing well. Case in point: Titus, Arrested Development, Firefly, Family Guy, Futurama, The Tick, Dark Angel. The list goes on.
Comedy Central has only censored South Park once, and that was during their two-part Family Guy spoof, Comedy Central wouldn't let them actually show Muhammad on screen. Comedy Central doesn't have to censor South Park's language, because it's actually done by the South Park people before they send the episode to Comedy Central for airing purposes, and they even had an episode where the word "shit" went uncensored, with a running total in the bottom of the screen on how many times it was said.
Aside from that, the only thing Comedy Central really does to censor South Park, is that if an episode airs and they get a ton of complaints about it, they'll pull it out of reruns for a while. They did it with the Scientology episode, and the one about the Virgin Mary statue bleeding a few episodes later.