Hmm. Wii price in Japan + round trip ticket from Heathrow - £20 = Wii launch price in Britain. I think Nintendo knows how to do basic math.;) Yeah, from everything I've read Europe gets royaly screwed on pricing, and I've never seen a good reason posited. Seen lots of reasons, just no good ones.
It's text speak. It's a method of spelling and grammar used by kids because they wish to rebel against all of the rules taught in english class. Apparently she has succeded, she has pissed off an english teacher.
Ok. You got me there. If they are a 501(c)(3) chartered entity they do have to disclose in their charter how their funding is to be spent, in general terms. That said, there is a hell of a lot of leeway in the writing of the charter and in the execution. Besides, in the context of my original statement, if what they want to do is be a 501(c)(3) that donates hardware purchased from the profits of their other sales and donate it to underprivileged children and schools in other countries, then that's their business (litteraly0, and I'll purchase the laptop, or not. For me it still isn't charity, it's a purchase.
Firstly, there is no real effort to sell to individuals, so there is an arbitrage limiting mechanism right there. Secondly, price discrimination, as defined in the Wikipedia article you reference, is not a bad thing in many situations. This is one of them if they were to sell to individuals. Thirdly, if someone in Africa or India, or a South Pacific island were willing to sell and ship their $100 laptop to a rich Western European or American for $200, more power to them. Eventually the demand from the rich for a toy would be satisfied, and the poor could afford an educational tool and a years worth of food from their arbitrage transaction. (Baring inflation due to supply/demand imbalances along with the income influx)
Well, the thing is that it isn't charity, forced or not. It would simply be the pruchase of a product. What the company did with their profits would be their business. If they turn around and use their profits to donate 2 machines to poor kids is forign countries, so be it. Nobody is holding a gun to the purchasers headand saying "buy this under our terms, right NOW, or we put a slug in your brainpan." You want one of their laptops, you pay their price. Just like any purchase. First, you would have to convince them to sell them. As far as i saw the reference was sombody offering to buy one for $300, and someone else commenting they needed more people like him. No real offer for a box to be sold.
Then we are in agreement concerning that. As far as I can see no matter what the circumstances, the blame for the rootkit being on ANY machine is Sonys.
I believe he is saying that the fact that a company had to expend time and effort to clean a machine was because an employee used company property for a non-company function, so that employee should be blamed, not Sony. Regardless of whether the employee was misappropriating/misusing company property or not, the rootkit is Sonys fault.
Where I work the handbook specificaly says that I can listen to music CDs on my workstations PC as long as I use headphones and the CD is an original. Under no circumstances is any non-authorized media player software to be installed. This is to keep the company out of licensing/copyright issues apparently.
Well, maybe the company doesn't have any rules against playing music at your workstation for personal enjoyment. Some places aren't quite as backward and draconian as you seem to be, and probably expect music CDs to simply, oh I don't know, play music?.
What does your inane statement have to do with a natural morality? Just because he may, or may not, want to do as you suggest doesnt imply a natural morality.
For a limited subset of parents. I'm not getting my kids any console if it's over $250 U.S. None. I don't care if they are the only kids on the block without one, or all, of the new consoles. Yes, I'm not like most parents. Being a whiny bitch isn't going to get them a damn thing simply to shut them up. If they want a PS3, they are going to earn the cash themselves. At 11 and 13 that could take a while.
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Hmm. Wii price in Japan + round trip ticket from Heathrow - £20 = Wii launch price in Britain. I think Nintendo knows how to do basic math. ;) Yeah, from everything I've read Europe gets royaly screwed on pricing, and I've never seen a good reason posited. Seen lots of reasons, just no good ones.
Because, everyone wants a media center. Microsoft and Sony say so.
It's text speak. It's a method of spelling and grammar used by kids because they wish to rebel against all of the rules taught in english class. Apparently she has succeded, she has pissed off an english teacher.
They didn't forget to get a client, they just failed to inform their client that he was their client, whether he wanted to be or not.
Ok. You got me there. If they are a 501(c)(3) chartered entity they do have to disclose in their charter how their funding is to be spent, in general terms. That said, there is a hell of a lot of leeway in the writing of the charter and in the execution. Besides, in the context of my original statement, if what they want to do is be a 501(c)(3) that donates hardware purchased from the profits of their other sales and donate it to underprivileged children and schools in other countries, then that's their business (litteraly0, and I'll purchase the laptop, or not. For me it still isn't charity, it's a purchase.
Using logic against trolls never works. ;) You need big hammers. Sor of like the one you have, right there.
Firstly, there is no real effort to sell to individuals, so there is an arbitrage limiting mechanism right there. Secondly, price discrimination, as defined in the Wikipedia article you reference, is not a bad thing in many situations. This is one of them if they were to sell to individuals. Thirdly, if someone in Africa or India, or a South Pacific island were willing to sell and ship their $100 laptop to a rich Western European or American for $200, more power to them. Eventually the demand from the rich for a toy would be satisfied, and the poor could afford an educational tool and a years worth of food from their arbitrage transaction. (Baring inflation due to supply/demand imbalances along with the income influx)
Well, the thing is that it isn't charity, forced or not. It would simply be the pruchase of a product. What the company did with their profits would be their business. If they turn around and use their profits to donate 2 machines to poor kids is forign countries, so be it. Nobody is holding a gun to the purchasers headand saying "buy this under our terms, right NOW, or we put a slug in your brainpan." You want one of their laptops, you pay their price. Just like any purchase. First, you would have to convince them to sell them. As far as i saw the reference was sombody offering to buy one for $300, and someone else commenting they needed more people like him. No real offer for a box to be sold.
You realize that those scales are not fixed, right? Each bar you go down the page the scale is an order of magnitude greater. AM is tiny bandwidth.
Its a stupid, victim blaming argument to follow
Then we are in agreement concerning that. As far as I can see no matter what the circumstances, the blame for the rootkit being on ANY machine is Sonys.
I believe he is saying that the fact that a company had to expend time and effort to clean a machine was because an employee used company property for a non-company function, so that employee should be blamed, not Sony. Regardless of whether the employee was misappropriating/misusing company property or not, the rootkit is Sonys fault.
Where I work the handbook specificaly says that I can listen to music CDs on my workstations PC as long as I use headphones and the CD is an original. Under no circumstances is any non-authorized media player software to be installed. This is to keep the company out of licensing/copyright issues apparently.
Well, maybe the company doesn't have any rules against playing music at your workstation for personal enjoyment. Some places aren't quite as backward and draconian as you seem to be, and probably expect music CDs to simply, oh I don't know, play music?.
There is no plagerism law as far as I know. Copyright infringement, yes, but not plagerism.
Well, it does say according to regulations and the UCMJ, which say that military personel must "obey lawful orders".
What does your inane statement have to do with a natural morality? Just because he may, or may not, want to do as you suggest doesnt imply a natural morality.
Yes, and sadly they can still reproduce. Strike the can, they will reproduce.
Ooooh. Good point.
No, we voted the losers in knowing full well they would behave in this manner. We need to take resposibilty for our actions. We did it to ourselves.
No, in democracies you vote your rights away rather than having them capriciously taken away.
What do you have against Meg Ryan?
$500B in small unmarked bills. Discretely delivered to a very large house outside of Seattle.
Because I make them. How else do you think I'm going to farm 50,000 gold on WoW?
For a limited subset of parents. I'm not getting my kids any console if it's over $250 U.S. None. I don't care if they are the only kids on the block without one, or all, of the new consoles. Yes, I'm not like most parents. Being a whiny bitch isn't going to get them a damn thing simply to shut them up. If they want a PS3, they are going to earn the cash themselves. At 11 and 13 that could take a while.
because obviously 25GB > 15GB
A greater than sign in this context does not imply better than, simply more bytes.
No, my molten lithium, sulpher, and sodium.