So? Either it's connected to a standard definition TV (in which case the resolution is crap for anything you'd do with a PC) or it's connected to an HDTV (in which case you can connect your PC to it as well, obviating the need to use your PlayStation as a faux PC).
Marx teaches us that it is evil to alienate the worker from the fruits of their labor. The capitalist, by selling the fruits of the worker's labor for his own profit, enslaves the worker. This leads us to a bizarre quandary--if the worker is a musician, then while it is wrong for the capitalist (the record label) to alienate the musician from his labor, copyright is still necessary to protect the worker's right to his own labor.
Most of the second paragraph is complete bullshit based upon my incomplete understanding of Marx, but if you, as I do, believe in the principle of self-amusement, I encourage you to try that argument out. It really pisses pro-copyright people off to call them Marxists.
I can't find anyone, let alone a popular author, named "Claney". Did you mean "Clancy", author of numerous spy novels and fantasizing-about-world-war-III novels?
One year worth of WMA content at 128 Mbps would be 1 year in seconds (60 * 60 * 24 * 365) times 128, divided by 8, in megabytes. That's 481 terabytes. I humbly suggest that if your music library is 481 terabytes large, none of these solutions to managing it is satisfactory.
UnDRM'd WMA is automatically converted by iTunes itself, so he wouldn't have to actually do anything beyond installing iTunes and fixing himself a sandwich.
The root cause of all of this is that the indigenous people of North and South America were so thoroughly conquered by Western societies that they now desperately try to take control over whatever they can. Trying to make their language a state language and trying to stop Microsoft from using their language are both attempts at controlling the West, and stem from the West's centuries-long control of them.
You've clearly never studied economics. The concepts of "supply and demand", and "price floor", are alien to you. Simply put, supply is a curve that slopes upward, demand is a curve that slopes downward, if you plot quantity demanded over price. The intersection of those two curves is the market equilibrium of price and quantity in the market. A rigid price floor (such as a minimum wage) forces the price at such a level that the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded. That means that there are suppliers (i.e. unskilled workers) willing to provide labor who find no buyers (i.e. no jobs). That's unemployment. Raising the price floor increases unemployment. Lowering or removing it eliminates unemployment--laborers who can afford to leave the unskilled labor market, such as teenagers, students, or people who can become students, leave, while employers can afford to hire more workers. Raise the price again, and more students and teenagers enter the market (competing with the genuinely poor) while employers restructure to less labor-intensive business models.
I have, in fact, worked for minimum wage, and no matter how "cheap" you suggest it is, there are alternatives to it that look more lucrative the less cheap unskilled labor is. Ever wonder why self-checkout lanes became popular?
The problem there isn't the amount of options but rather their presentation. Look at cars. Honda doesn't say they'll sell you one of a few hundred models of new car, but if you go down and say you want a Honda Accord, or a Civic, or an Insight, they say, "okay, cool, do you want AC? Manual transmission? Floor mats? CD changer? Extended warranty?" and from customizing all those options, you have hundreds if not thousands of possible configurations.
But I think maybe we shouldn't treat the labor of poor people like a commodity to trade right next to beef, corn, and steel.
But labor is a commodity. That's a fact, and your refusal to recognize it as such is simply your loss and no one's gain. The answer is education, because education takes unskilled labor and changes it into professional or skilled labor.
Supply and demand works both ways. On the supply side, we have a glut of unskilled labor. The vast majority of human beings in the country can perform unskilled labor, and even subtracting those who aren't competing to perform that labor, you still have so many people that--guess what--the market value is really low. Well, you take those laborers out of the market through education, and those left behind will make more money because there will be less of them competing for the same jobs.
Immigration laws discriminate against individuals based upon the circumstances of their birth that they have no control over. In many cases that's seen as unjust. Even if it is just to make immigration laws in the first place, that doesn't mean the particular implementation in the United States is just. It's just to make laws against thievery, but if the mandatory sentence for shoplifting was death, any judge that didn't sentence shoplifters to death would be breaking an unjust law as well.
In the end, supporting a good education system and a higher minimum wage is the cheapest path society can take.
Goodbye, poor people making low wages. Hello, poor people making no wages at all. Seriously, have you ever studied supply and demand? Rigid price floors cause surpluses. A surplus in labor is also known as unemployment. I'm all for education though--that will pave the way to automating jobs that aren't well fit for humans anyway.
See, the solution here is for everybody in the food chain, from you up to the company owner to get fined about $25,000 a head for each illegal worker the authorities find.
And how much for every Negro the authorities find in the White dining room?
I find my sleeping life more fulfilling and oftentimes just as productive as my waking life. I think I debug code in my sleep because I wake up with the necessary fixes at the front of my mind.
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So? Either it's connected to a standard definition TV (in which case the resolution is crap for anything you'd do with a PC) or it's connected to an HDTV (in which case you can connect your PC to it as well, obviating the need to use your PlayStation as a faux PC).
That's a reason to buy a game console, but he wanted a reason to buy a combination-game-console-faux-PC.
Can I question the principle of questioning my moral principles?
You stole it!
Yeah, I miscounted the orders of magnitude. It's my day off.
What do they have against Victor Hugo?
Marx teaches us that it is evil to alienate the worker from the fruits of their labor. The capitalist, by selling the fruits of the worker's labor for his own profit, enslaves the worker. This leads us to a bizarre quandary--if the worker is a musician, then while it is wrong for the capitalist (the record label) to alienate the musician from his labor, copyright is still necessary to protect the worker's right to his own labor.
Most of the second paragraph is complete bullshit based upon my incomplete understanding of Marx, but if you, as I do, believe in the principle of self-amusement, I encourage you to try that argument out. It really pisses pro-copyright people off to call them Marxists.
I can't find anyone, let alone a popular author, named "Claney". Did you mean "Clancy", author of numerous spy novels and fantasizing-about-world-war-III novels?
One year worth of WMA content at 128 Mbps would be 1 year in seconds (60 * 60 * 24 * 365) times 128, divided by 8, in megabytes. That's 481 terabytes. I humbly suggest that if your music library is 481 terabytes large, none of these solutions to managing it is satisfactory.
You bought an 80-millibyte disk? That's 640 millibits. Why would you only want to store less than two-thirds of a bit?
UnDRM'd WMA is automatically converted by iTunes itself, so he wouldn't have to actually do anything beyond installing iTunes and fixing himself a sandwich.
Grammer fascists are simply fanatical fans of the show "Frasier".
The root cause of all of this is that the indigenous people of North and South America were so thoroughly conquered by Western societies that they now desperately try to take control over whatever they can. Trying to make their language a state language and trying to stop Microsoft from using their language are both attempts at controlling the West, and stem from the West's centuries-long control of them.
You've clearly never studied economics. The concepts of "supply and demand", and "price floor", are alien to you. Simply put, supply is a curve that slopes upward, demand is a curve that slopes downward, if you plot quantity demanded over price. The intersection of those two curves is the market equilibrium of price and quantity in the market. A rigid price floor (such as a minimum wage) forces the price at such a level that the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded. That means that there are suppliers (i.e. unskilled workers) willing to provide labor who find no buyers (i.e. no jobs). That's unemployment. Raising the price floor increases unemployment. Lowering or removing it eliminates unemployment--laborers who can afford to leave the unskilled labor market, such as teenagers, students, or people who can become students, leave, while employers can afford to hire more workers. Raise the price again, and more students and teenagers enter the market (competing with the genuinely poor) while employers restructure to less labor-intensive business models.
I have, in fact, worked for minimum wage, and no matter how "cheap" you suggest it is, there are alternatives to it that look more lucrative the less cheap unskilled labor is. Ever wonder why self-checkout lanes became popular?
We wouldn't want you to forget Poland.
The problem there isn't the amount of options but rather their presentation. Look at cars. Honda doesn't say they'll sell you one of a few hundred models of new car, but if you go down and say you want a Honda Accord, or a Civic, or an Insight, they say, "okay, cool, do you want AC? Manual transmission? Floor mats? CD changer? Extended warranty?" and from customizing all those options, you have hundreds if not thousands of possible configurations.
But labor is a commodity. That's a fact, and your refusal to recognize it as such is simply your loss and no one's gain. The answer is education, because education takes unskilled labor and changes it into professional or skilled labor.
Supply and demand works both ways. On the supply side, we have a glut of unskilled labor. The vast majority of human beings in the country can perform unskilled labor, and even subtracting those who aren't competing to perform that labor, you still have so many people that--guess what--the market value is really low. Well, you take those laborers out of the market through education, and those left behind will make more money because there will be less of them competing for the same jobs.
Immigration laws discriminate against individuals based upon the circumstances of their birth that they have no control over. In many cases that's seen as unjust. Even if it is just to make immigration laws in the first place, that doesn't mean the particular implementation in the United States is just. It's just to make laws against thievery, but if the mandatory sentence for shoplifting was death, any judge that didn't sentence shoplifters to death would be breaking an unjust law as well.
Ditch digging is no job for a human being.
Please explain to me how the length of one's hair affects their education, or the education of others.
Goodbye, poor people making low wages. Hello, poor people making no wages at all. Seriously, have you ever studied supply and demand? Rigid price floors cause surpluses. A surplus in labor is also known as unemployment. I'm all for education though--that will pave the way to automating jobs that aren't well fit for humans anyway.
And how much for every Negro the authorities find in the White dining room?
What gives us the right to make those immigration laws? Breaking an unjust law is just.
Here is Google Mars.
Wow, you actually logically decompose English? How do you interpret "no food or drink" signs?
I find my sleeping life more fulfilling and oftentimes just as productive as my waking life. I think I debug code in my sleep because I wake up with the necessary fixes at the front of my mind.