The PS3 hardware was and is advertised as being able to play PS3 games. The new games were and are advertised as being able to run on PS3 hardware. It should not be legally OK to retroactively remove the ability for somebody's PS3 hardware to play PS3 games (new or otherwise)!
Here's a question: can you "downgrade" the firmware? 'Cause if you can't, and the user "upgraded" by accident, then they don't really have the choice to run Other OS anymore, now do they?
Except that at the moment their population can't afford to buy all the stuff they make. If the trade cut off abruptly, their economy would collapse (until they retooled for weapons, anyway).
[The Canadian] Federal Government could do absolutely nothing about it.
So I guess the Canadian Constitution doesn't have anything equivalent to the Elastic Clause or the Commerce Clause in the US Constitution? Lucky them...
There are essentially two solutions: cull about 4 billion people, or throw resources at clean power until it sticks, and I mean trillion dollar tranches of funding at fusion.
I think you mean there's only one solution, because if you keep assuming exponential population growth even inventing fusion tomorrow would only buy us a few decades.
See, that's what would need to happen for any of this stuff to work. The politicians need to say: "look, China and India, you don't have to go green if you don't want to... but the entire developed world will embargo your asses if you don't!"
Diesels are great (I drive one myself), but saying that they get better fuel economy than the Volt is overstating it a bit (particularly if you're talking about overall economy, including city driving where the volt gets "infinite" fuel economy because it gets recharged from the grid).
My response is always 'you should use the damn sidewalk' to which the response I get back is 'there are more accidents on sidewalks resulting in injury than on the street'.
If you said that to me, my response would be IT'S ILLEGAL TO RIDE A BIKE ON THE GODDAMN SIDEWALK!
By the way, the reason riding a bike on a sidewalk is more dangerous than riding in the street is NOT bicycle-pedestrian collisions, it's bicycle-automobile collisions where the car is pulling into/out of a driveway or side street and isn't expecting a bicycle [illegally] barreling down the sidewalk.
installing a performance chip in the car's engine control voids the warranty
One thing I wish more people understood is that (under US law) no action ever "automatically" voids the warranty. For the warranty to be voided, the manufacturer has to prove that the action actually caused the failure. For example, they can't void your warranty just because you had a chip if the reason the engine blew was that the timing belt failed prematurely (or something unrelated like that).
On the contrary, he said (paraphrased) that they need at most that much math; I said that they need at least that much math. Although the sets overlap, they're not identical.
I take it that you did well on the math, and not so well on the verbal?
I did well on both math and verbal tests, thank you very much!
But conversely, for other fields that are necessary for society to function - psychiatrists, physiotherapists, nurses, mechanics, plumbers, etc. - the maths in question is probably as advanced as they need (maybe more.)
Absolutely not. Everyone needs to know at least this much math, even if only to be competent at handling money.
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The PS3 hardware was and is advertised as being able to play PS3 games. The new games were and are advertised as being able to run on PS3 hardware. It should not be legally OK to retroactively remove the ability for somebody's PS3 hardware to play PS3 games (new or otherwise)!
So if you post something to the Internet while in Vegas the universe collapses?
The real issue here is not how many hands he has, but that he's not geeky enough to use the right idiom.
Indeed, it was a rhetorical question. Now, for one that isn't rhetorical: did the judge ever consider this?
Here's a question: can you "downgrade" the firmware? 'Cause if you can't, and the user "upgraded" by accident, then they don't really have the choice to run Other OS anymore, now do they?
And allegedly access to newer games that "require" the latest firmware to run...
Anyone who actually is a programmer would know that memorizing the syntax is the easy part. It's developing the algorithm that's the challenge.
Except that at the moment their population can't afford to buy all the stuff they make. If the trade cut off abruptly, their economy would collapse (until they retooled for weapons, anyway).
So I guess the Canadian Constitution doesn't have anything equivalent to the Elastic Clause or the Commerce Clause in the US Constitution? Lucky them...
The same kind of innovations we saw before groups of humans could talk to each other easily, i.e., less of them?
I think you mean there's only one solution, because if you keep assuming exponential population growth even inventing fusion tomorrow would only buy us a few decades.
See, that's what would need to happen for any of this stuff to work. The politicians need to say: "look, China and India, you don't have to go green if you don't want to... but the entire developed world will embargo your asses if you don't!"
Of course, it'd probably start World War 3...
There are companies that hire graffiti artists to do that too these days.
It's getting to the point where the marketers ought to be first up against the wall when the revolution comes (yes, even before the lawyers!).
Aiding and abetting MPAA et al.'s false copyright claims on US Government-produced videos IS defrauding the American Public!
Yeah, well, he had plenty of time to learn Latin since he didn't have to take Calculus in high school!
Plenty of folks with Xboxes have already been arrested for doing just that!
California legal dispensary weed is expensive because they keep getting raided by the Feds anyway.
Diesels are great (I drive one myself), but saying that they get better fuel economy than the Volt is overstating it a bit (particularly if you're talking about overall economy, including city driving where the volt gets "infinite" fuel economy because it gets recharged from the grid).
Holy crap, that's awesome!
If you said that to me, my response would be IT'S ILLEGAL TO RIDE A BIKE ON THE GODDAMN SIDEWALK!
By the way, the reason riding a bike on a sidewalk is more dangerous than riding in the street is NOT bicycle-pedestrian collisions, it's bicycle-automobile collisions where the car is pulling into/out of a driveway or side street and isn't expecting a bicycle [illegally] barreling down the sidewalk.
One thing I wish more people understood is that (under US law) no action ever "automatically" voids the warranty. For the warranty to be voided, the manufacturer has to prove that the action actually caused the failure. For example, they can't void your warranty just because you had a chip if the reason the engine blew was that the timing belt failed prematurely (or something unrelated like that).
On the contrary, he said (paraphrased) that they need at most that much math; I said that they need at least that much math. Although the sets overlap, they're not identical.
I did well on both math and verbal tests, thank you very much!
I'm sure he means "credit hours" (where 15 credit hours equals about a semester's worth of work, or a little more).
Absolutely not. Everyone needs to know at least this much math, even if only to be competent at handling money.
What you're missing is that that's exactly what the FairTax folks want.