You poor dear. It must have been pretty scary when those big, bad record companies barged through the door, held a gun to your head, and forced you to buy those CDs.
I'm not sure I follow your argument here. How is illegal price-fixing not ripping people off? That's the whole reason it is illegal...
Are you suggesting that there are more important things going on in the world besides the latest sale at Old Navy and how many cute guys will be at the Good Charlotte concert?
Why do you think a court of law is more qualified to design an online auction system than, say, eBay?
Because they don't have a financial interest in it. It is definately in eBay's interest to write their software in such as to screw buyers out a dollar or two here and there. They may not have done this on purpose, but this is how it ended up...
I'd be real broken up if poor little Ashton Kutcher didn't want to make a movie because he would take home a measly $5mil instead of $10mil. There's some real talented people out there who would do it for $10k, and they would do it better...
There is nothing emotional about it. You think someone like EA or Microsoft wouldn't gobble up the entire pie if they could? We have to make actual laws and make it illegal for them to do that. Is that emotional?
Again with games, there are tons of game companies. Sure, there are the big boys, but there are little ones popping up all the time.
When EA becomes a monopoly what choice will you have?
You don't see the social benefit of supporting a small employee-owned studio over a big-business studio who outsources work to China and pays its employees dirt and peanuts while the execs rake in billions?
The mutated gazelle which runs faster, makes the _others_ an easier prey for lions.
I understand what you are trying to communicate here, but this analogy is a big flawed. Just because a particular gazelle can run faster than the others doesn't necessarily make the others easier prey. There are a lot of other factors that would have to come into play to make that true. What it does is make the number of potential targets smaller for the lion. If there were n gazelles to choose from before, there are now (n-1) to choose from... but that doesn't implicitly make those (n-1) any easier to catch... And the lion isn't guaranteed to catch any of them.
Let the market decide. Not the lawmakers. If the community broadband implodes then people can buy it from Comcast. If it succeeds then so much the better...
This must be how I know that when I get my Cingular bill it will be fucked up and I will have to call customer service to correct it... over and over again...
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How the fuck did the record companies 'rip you off'? Seriously? ...snip...
Geezus, you are a fucking moron...
I would consider illegal price-fixing to be ripping people off. Seriously.
You poor dear. It must have been pretty scary when those big, bad record companies barged through the door, held a gun to your head, and forced you to buy those CDs.
I'm not sure I follow your argument here. How is illegal price-fixing not ripping people off? That's the whole reason it is illegal...
Are you suggesting that there are more important things going on in the world besides the latest sale at Old Navy and how many cute guys will be at the Good Charlotte concert?
You may have something there
Here comes the next $multibillion garage startup: www.vbay.com
They set it equal to 1 pound
So what happens when these girls graduate, work in IT for a year or two, and then realize that it IS geeky and not social... Kerplow!
Is this what my bus driver does when they aren't at work?
Somehow I doubt it
Any company who makes a C compiler where NULL != 0 will not get much business methinks
That would make an awesome porno
Why do you think a court of law is more qualified to design an online auction system than, say, eBay?
Because they don't have a financial interest in it. It is definately in eBay's interest to write their software in such as to screw buyers out a dollar or two here and there. They may not have done this on purpose, but this is how it ended up...
I'd be real broken up if poor little Ashton Kutcher didn't want to make a movie because he would take home a measly $5mil instead of $10mil. There's some real talented people out there who would do it for $10k, and they would do it better...
There is nothing emotional about it. You think someone like EA or Microsoft wouldn't gobble up the entire pie if they could? We have to make actual laws and make it illegal for them to do that. Is that emotional?
Again with games, there are tons of game companies. Sure, there are the big boys, but there are little ones popping up all the time.
You sure about that?
Support the studios that make the best games
When EA becomes a monopoly what choice will you have? You don't see the social benefit of supporting a small employee-owned studio over a big-business studio who outsources work to China and pays its employees dirt and peanuts while the execs rake in billions?
The mutated gazelle which runs faster, makes the _others_ an easier prey for lions.
I understand what you are trying to communicate here, but this analogy is a big flawed. Just because a particular gazelle can run faster than the others doesn't necessarily make the others easier prey. There are a lot of other factors that would have to come into play to make that true. What it does is make the number of potential targets smaller for the lion. If there were n gazelles to choose from before, there are now (n-1) to choose from... but that doesn't implicitly make those (n-1) any easier to catch... And the lion isn't guaranteed to catch any of them.
This is why its more important than ever to support smaller independent studios. Eventually it will just be EA and Activision and they will pwn joo...
This doesnt prove that the other 3000 people didnt read it
Kids today think gaming began with Doom. The old world is dead.
All someone has to do is get a list of these domains and build a "spell-check" filter for Firefox or IE, their $164million investment is worthless...
"...client settled out of court for an undisclosed number of free ink cartridges which turned out to be expired..."
Let the market decide. Not the lawmakers. If the community broadband implodes then people can buy it from Comcast. If it succeeds then so much the better...
Now it stands for Constant Advertising TeleVision
can he get to the sixth wave on Donkey Kong?
This must be how I know that when I get my Cingular bill it will be fucked up and I will have to call customer service to correct it... over and over again...
I think that is the whole point of their business model. It collapses if they do it depending on how many DVD's you rent each month.