No individuals or (relatively) small groups will ever win any case no matter how valid, if it reduces the control, power or profitability of large companies.
The difference is that games like Doom3 take thousands of man-years to produce so there's more investment to protect.
Sony can just bang out a top-selling music CD with maybe 3 man-months of mediocre songwriting plus a day or 2 in a recording studio.
Given that, plus the relative size of the games and music marketplaces, and the fact that games usually come on multiple CD's, its outrageous that a single music CD can still cost as much as a game.
So my guess is that they are planning on making the whole CD format obsolete soon in favour of something with built-in DRM.
Or alternatively, they've come up with CD's that artificially degrade over time and are uplayable within some short time.... Oh wait... they're already doing that by only signing bands like Britney.
In the USA in about 1 in 3 of all car accidents the driver was high on drugs, in most cases this is marijuana. In other studies, marijuana has been proven to slow reflexes significantly. It doesn't take a genius to put these two facts together.
Large powerful companies have a vested interest in keeping Americans consuming products and generating 3-10 times as much pollution and waste as anyone else in the world. Americans are taught from birth and continually reinforced by tv and society that stupid levels of excess at any cost is cool, including driving toy tanks (hummers) and eating so much that morbid obesity is the acceptable norm.
How will you educate Americans to stop being so selfishly greedy and gain some of the same sense of proportion and responsibility that the rest of the world has, especially in the face of powerful self-serving political, business and religious groups?
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The fact that the head of the FCC is a democrat is irrelevant and doesn't contadict what I originally wrote.
This government actively pursues a policy of removing individual rights, especially when those rights are contrary to the benefit of big corporations.
Intersting how you manage to apply the result of a single study of one racial group to all racial groups.
You haven't allowed for the fact that genetic predisposition to crime, whilst not a factor in Hispanics, may still be a factor in other racial groups.
No individuals or (relatively) small groups will ever win any case no matter how valid, if it reduces the control, power or profitability of large companies.
why didn't he just shift the car out of gear and/or use the emergency brake?
a beowulf clust.... oh never mind
>> From a biological standpoint, that makes no sense.
Of course it does. You have to also consider the possibility of genetic predisposition.
It just sends you up to the top and over, then its all done in like 20 seconds. Sneeze and you'd miss it.
Hardly worth the hour+ long queues you already know it will have.
I'd like to see some irrefuteable statistics from an unbiassed large-scale study of skin color vs. drug use and crime.
I'll bet the results would be mindblowing to all these pee-cee morons.
>> Both him and Badnarick have said things so amazingly stupid... Badnarick claiming that literacy was better 100 years ago than it is now
What's so stupid about that? I have no experience of the literacy of 100 years ago, but todays average standard is certainly worse than 20 years ago.
On example is that the vast majority of people below the age of 25 don't seem to know the difference between "your" and "you're".
The difference is that games like Doom3 take thousands of man-years to produce so there's more investment to protect.
Sony can just bang out a top-selling music CD with maybe 3 man-months of mediocre songwriting plus a day or 2 in a recording studio.
Given that, plus the relative size of the games and music marketplaces, and the fact that games usually come on multiple CD's, its outrageous that a single music CD can still cost as much as a game.
So my guess is that they are planning on making the whole CD format obsolete soon in favour of something with built-in DRM.
Or alternatively, they've come up with CD's that artificially degrade over time and are uplayable within some short time.... Oh wait... they're already doing that by only signing bands like Britney.
so what?
Contrary to what most US citizens seem to think, the US doesn't rule the world.
America is full of wealthy powreful ews therefore the US will always be biassed towards Israel.
marijuana can and does kill:
In the USA in about 1 in 3 of all car accidents the driver was high on drugs, in most cases this is marijuana. In other studies, marijuana has been proven to slow reflexes significantly. It doesn't take a genius to put these two facts together.
I bet he won't get a response from anyone at Micro$oft who matters...
> This is why depleted uranium bullets and shells are such a bad idea.
Yeah you woulnd't want the person you shot getting poisned, would you?
wouldn't you just end up polluting the water with radioactivity instead?
The connotations of 'Negative' are purely historical and bear no relevance to modern (i.e. digital ) photography.
The images stored in ths format will not be negatives (i.e. inverted) anyway, contrary to what the name means and suggests.
DVI is no good for first-person gaming as it is limited to 60fps.
*yawn* yet another redneck asshole uneducated yank who doesn't know shit about anything outside his trailer park.
What happens at a Skull and Bones meeting and who else are members?
Does Sudan have oil?
if yes:
Claim Sudan has WMDs/links to Al Queda, invade and 'liberate'.
if no:
Open Sudanese branches of McDonalds/WalMart/Chevrolet/Home Depot/Dairy Queen and wait...
> The surface of the earth is neither aeronautical nor space (duh, it's a surface).
Yeah but its where you always end your flights.
If not, why not?
Large powerful companies have a vested interest in keeping Americans consuming products and generating 3-10 times as much pollution and waste as anyone else in the world. Americans are taught from birth and continually reinforced by tv and society that stupid levels of excess at any cost is cool, including driving toy tanks (hummers) and eating so much that morbid obesity is the acceptable norm.
How will you educate Americans to stop being so selfishly greedy and gain some of the same sense of proportion and responsibility that the rest of the world has, especially in the face of powerful self-serving political, business and religious groups?