And now you can't return electronic items after 14 days. Even if you have the receipt, and even if it hasn't been opened!
Came home from Christmas vacation with a new Canon Video Camera, and they wouldn't let us spend more money to get the Sony brand. That is, until I talked my way up the ladder.
You know, I don't mind the theme sets, just theme them down to the brick level!
In otherwords, sure, have a Hogwarts Castle set, but it comes with 400 pieces, a fat manual, takes forever to build, and when you're done with it, you have all these cool grey-stoned 2x4 pices, etc to build other castles and buildings with. There's really no reason to have a piece so big that it resembles something besides a brick.
Mindstorms was an extreme hit and profitable when it first came out. I would guess their retarted $50 Mindstorm expansions to be the deathknell for their bean counters, not the idea itself.
Seems like a brash decision, and I think they might find themselves with even less revenue when their basic brick sets don't reap them lots of money. However, I don't know how to run a company, and what do I know.
It will be nice to walk down to a store and pick up a bucket of bricks when I run out, though. They quit selling that stuff in bulk a few years ago, and only did crappy theme sets.
I agree. How can they blame these expansions as their loss? If it wasn't for Bionicle, they'd probably have gone bankrupt. And what the hell is "traditional brick" about Bionicle? Nothing!! It's more like an expansion into the Pokemon trading card phenomenon.
I'm pretty sure you talking about that case in Indianapolis. That guy was selling mixes on CDR's, but they were by RIAA artists. (released unofficially by the RIAA artists too, so confusing to the store owner why it would be illegal)
I agree. They're not the cops. They don't have a warrant. So you could probably not even lie when you say you were assaulted.
I can only imagine what would happen if they came banging on someone's door. Start the video camera, call 911, open the door and shoot anyone in the leg that crosses the doorway.
After working for Pepsi to get through college, I have developed the mantra that Pop is evil. What really gets me is the average consumption of pop by high schoolers. 10 cans a day!!
Coke & Pepsi 'donate' big dollars to colleges and high schools to have the exclusive rights to sell pop there, and they do... Pop machines everywhere. And we had a saying: Look in the grocery store next time: A 12-pak in every cart.
I like the old Steve Jobs question: "You want to sell sugar water forever?"
Actually, what's weird about it? What if growing up in a gay household was the most normal thing in the world? No different than being an adopted Asian kid in a caucasian household.
It could happen if we didn't live in a world of previous misconceptions. Some day there will be a generation where racism and sexual preference will not be a taboo instilled at a young age.
Sometimes I think the only way to get rid of racism is to have war with an invading army of aliens.
In the end: does the RIAA have a right to sue copyright infringment? Yes.
I think $750 per song for someone not making a profit (what bootleggers truly are) is obscene. My fine could fund the whole Iraqi war. They hold that in front of you to force a settlement. That's harrassment, barratry, and inhumane.
The RIAA has used the money it has ripped off the artists for 70 years to buy more legislation so that it can act as the corporate police. It's time the government goes back to racial profiling or something it's good at, instead of propping up a monopoly that isn't needed for the good of the country.
Yea, I didn't care too much for that movie, but my wife just loves it for some reason.
Anyway, they raped Kubrick's dead corpse by editing out sex scenes, digitally drawing thongs on nude women, and digitally drawing caped men in the way of sex scenes to get the R rating in the USA.
Yep, lots of interviews with teenagers show that DVD's seem to be a better entertainment dollar. Plus they're new. The sales of DVD players are still going up. So that means more and more people getting DVD's now. Also, people have already replaced their tapes & vinyl, so CD's are no longer 'new'. People are still replacing their VHS.
The computer game market is still going up, up, up, also, so there are at least 2 different entertainment genres in direct competition with music. There is only so much money for a consumer's disposable entertainment cash. Why the Music Industry thinks it's their god given right to make money in a recession is beyond me.
why should I have to wait for them to release it in the U.S. and have to pay full price only because it's "region encoded". It's a scam, plain and simple,
Very well put. But you know what, i'm not even going to complain about their staggered releases. What I want to complain about is the games and movies they WON'T release in the US. Ever. And then to give me this bullshit that I can't buy it from another country and use it myself. Or the fucked up version is the only one that gets released in the US. (Eyes Wide Shut, for example)
Considering all the shit movies that you can rent from Blockbuster now, they obviously aren't doing this anymore.
Don't get me wrong, I don't blame Blockbuster for bad movies. On a side note, I am only mad at them for only carrying R rates movies. Edited versions of Requium for a Dream and Showgirls doesn't make much sense. They're like walmart in that way, with [CLEAN] versions of rap CD's. LOL
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And now you can't return electronic items after 14 days. Even if you have the receipt, and even if it hasn't been opened!
Came home from Christmas vacation with a new Canon Video Camera, and they wouldn't let us spend more money to get the Sony brand. That is, until I talked my way up the ladder.
In otherwords, sure, have a Hogwarts Castle set, but it comes with 400 pieces, a fat manual, takes forever to build, and when you're done with it, you have all these cool grey-stoned 2x4 pices, etc to build other castles and buildings with. There's really no reason to have a piece so big that it resembles something besides a brick.
Just like the MIT contest, where you have to use stuff from a list. (king of the hill?)
Would have sold even more Mindstorms, and the secondary market on parts would be even higher!
Seems like a brash decision, and I think they might find themselves with even less revenue when their basic brick sets don't reap them lots of money. However, I don't know how to run a company, and what do I know.
It will be nice to walk down to a store and pick up a bucket of bricks when I run out, though. They quit selling that stuff in bulk a few years ago, and only did crappy theme sets.
I agree. How can they blame these expansions as their loss? If it wasn't for Bionicle, they'd probably have gone bankrupt. And what the hell is "traditional brick" about Bionicle? Nothing!! It's more like an expansion into the Pokemon trading card phenomenon.
I'm pretty sure you talking about that case in Indianapolis. That guy was selling mixes on CDR's, but they were by RIAA artists. (released unofficially by the RIAA artists too, so confusing to the store owner why it would be illegal)
I can only imagine what would happen if they came banging on someone's door. Start the video camera, call 911, open the door and shoot anyone in the leg that crosses the doorway.
There are plenty of other language interfaces to work with Mindstorms that have actually had work done on it.
Yea, coming from an executive's mouth, no less. I'd like to see one of those scumbags live off of minimum wage!!
If I was to be paid minimum wage for what I do? I'd rather fold boxes at a factory. At least there, the stress would be less.
Coke & Pepsi 'donate' big dollars to colleges and high schools to have the exclusive rights to sell pop there, and they do... Pop machines everywhere. And we had a saying: Look in the grocery store next time: A 12-pak in every cart.
I like the old Steve Jobs question: "You want to sell sugar water forever?"
Pop is the Pokemon of food.
Damn, it took me a whole minute to remember where I heard that. *pops Dropkick Murphies into winamp*
Then they should be declared POW's, which they have not been.
It could happen if we didn't live in a world of previous misconceptions. Some day there will be a generation where racism and sexual preference will not be a taboo instilled at a young age.
Sometimes I think the only way to get rid of racism is to have war with an invading army of aliens.
I think $750 per song for someone not making a profit (what bootleggers truly are) is obscene. My fine could fund the whole Iraqi war. They hold that in front of you to force a settlement. That's harrassment, barratry, and inhumane.
The RIAA has used the money it has ripped off the artists for 70 years to buy more legislation so that it can act as the corporate police. It's time the government goes back to racial profiling or something it's good at, instead of propping up a monopoly that isn't needed for the good of the country.
Definately cheating. I didn't realize the book was out in 1969, the movie 1972.
Heheh, that's pretty funny. Might as well submit me as supporting actor, I at least showed up for the movie.
The Godfather?
Nope, but you can scratch that childhood itch for getting to see a second "Saved By The Bell" girl nekkid. Oh, the shows we watched as kids...
Anyway, they raped Kubrick's dead corpse by editing out sex scenes, digitally drawing thongs on nude women, and digitally drawing caped men in the way of sex scenes to get the R rating in the USA.
The computer game market is still going up, up, up, also, so there are at least 2 different entertainment genres in direct competition with music. There is only so much money for a consumer's disposable entertainment cash. Why the Music Industry thinks it's their god given right to make money in a recession is beyond me.
Just check out the manufacturing industry. There are hardly ANY customers orders going through there. Still.
And unlike when I was a kid (back in vinyl days) it's not just classical music.
Very well put. But you know what, i'm not even going to complain about their staggered releases. What I want to complain about is the games and movies they WON'T release in the US. Ever. And then to give me this bullshit that I can't buy it from another country and use it myself. Or the fucked up version is the only one that gets released in the US. (Eyes Wide Shut, for example)
They don't come out of the box that way. Sure, a few simple button pushes on a remote control disables the region.. but there's your loophole
Don't get me wrong, I don't blame Blockbuster for bad movies. On a side note, I am only mad at them for only carrying R rates movies. Edited versions of Requium for a Dream and Showgirls doesn't make much sense. They're like walmart in that way, with [CLEAN] versions of rap CD's. LOL