No, if you put an HDD in a car, you would mount it appropriately, like they did with some older GPS units and with MP3 units from Sony, Dension, Phatnoise, and others.
Must men alone be debarred the common privilege of opposing force with force, which nature allows so freely to all other creatures for their preservation from injury? I answer: self defense is a part of the law of nature, nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself...
Compress? This is the gov't. If they can capture everything, they have the money to store it raw. Whether it takes 1x storage space or 10x storage space is only dollars, which they print.
Generally, if you buy a car on credit, the creditor will force you to have insurance to protect their security. You don't have a choice.
Now stop being pedantic, the discussion is about buying extended warranties on consumer products. Automobile collision insurance is significantly different than an extended warranty (service) contract.
Such warranties are not usually offered by the manufacturer (except direct sellers). If they believed in their products, they'd just offer a longer standard warranty. How much they believe in their product is related more to how much they charge for the extended warranty, not whether they offer one. Retailers typically push third-party warranties for everything they sell.
It you can't afford to replace (or fix) the device, you shouldn't be buying it in the first place. It's just like Las Vegas, the odds are never in your favor.
Anecdotal experience doesn't count. There are many more people who bought Nook Colors a couple of years ago, along with an extended warranty, who have never needed the warranty. Long term, on average, you lose and they make a profit (or go out of business, screwing those left holding worthless extended warranties).
It really make no difference as to whether they're worth it. They'll charge more for the additional accident protection to (more than) offset the additional risk.
And probably much more than the real risk, to account for dishonest reprobates (and there are lots of them) who "accidentally drop their phone in the toilet" when they want a new one.
When they sell you an extended warranty, they're doing it to make money. They have a much broader base to analyze, and they're very good at calculating how much to charge vs. how much they'll have to pay out, to end up with a profit.
It's the same with all insurance. However, unlike life, or health, or car insurance, where there's a low, but finite risk of being out a huge amount without insurance, with product warranties you're out no more that what you've already paid.
So, long term, no, they're not a good deal. Put the same money in the bank and you'll be ahead on average. Sure, there's risk you can still end up worse off, but not catastrophically.
So, you're saying that WB infringed the memes, knowing they'd be sued, just so they could lose the case and set a precedent which they could then turn around and use against 4chan?
Managed spectrum is in no way "free market." It is a public resource, administered by the government, and naturally constrained. There is only flexibility in demand - supply is firmly fixed.
As such, the value is not only what an entity is willing to pay, but also in what benefit the public will gain for allowing their resource to be used.
A true free market attitude would be to support a spectrum commons.
I understand exactly how TLDs work. You obviously have comprehension issues.
1. Amazon applied for the amazon TLD, the complaining countries didn't bother. That shows how important it is to them. 2. The GP was asking what was wrong with Amazon (the company) using x.amazon.com. 3. My response was to simply imply that expecting them to do so is really no different than expecting the complaining countries to get a "river" or "basin" TLD, and build their amazon domains off that.
As far as the rest of your comment goes - Amazon played by the rules. The complaining countries aren't.
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That straight face is part of the bloodline. cf. Hapsburg lip.
No, if you put an HDD in a car, you would mount it appropriately, like they did with some older GPS units and with MP3 units from Sony, Dension, Phatnoise, and others.
You mean like any of the gazillion different iPod car mounts which have been available for years?
I wonder how all those people got away with using their hard drive based iPods in their cars for so long.
Which would make it an abysmal failure, like the Apple iPod, all of which which used hard drives until 2005, and one model still does.
There's a natural right to self defense.
-John Locke
So, the solution is to deny facts and work to take away civil rights? Wow. That's pretty regressive politics. Should the Monarchy be reinstated, too?
Yep. And it's also illegal to kill another person, which has also stopped the violence!
Compress? This is the gov't. If they can capture everything, they have the money to store it raw. Whether it takes 1x storage space or 10x storage space is only dollars, which they print.
Disagree all you want. You're one person. What about the thousands of others who paid for an extended warranty, and haven't used it?
It seems you don't understand actuarial statistics and how insurance works.
Generally, if you buy a car on credit, the creditor will force you to have insurance to protect their security. You don't have a choice.
Now stop being pedantic, the discussion is about buying extended warranties on consumer products. Automobile collision insurance is significantly different than an extended warranty (service) contract.
Don't light any matches or eat any eggs before flying.
Such warranties are not usually offered by the manufacturer (except direct sellers). If they believed in their products, they'd just offer a longer standard warranty. How much they believe in their product is related more to how much they charge for the extended warranty, not whether they offer one. Retailers typically push third-party warranties for everything they sell.
It you can't afford to replace (or fix) the device, you shouldn't be buying it in the first place. It's just like Las Vegas, the odds are never in your favor.
Anecdotal experience doesn't count. There are many more people who bought Nook Colors a couple of years ago, along with an extended warranty, who have never needed the warranty. Long term, on average, you lose and they make a profit (or go out of business, screwing those left holding worthless extended warranties).
It really make no difference as to whether they're worth it. They'll charge more for the additional accident protection to (more than) offset the additional risk.
And probably much more than the real risk, to account for dishonest reprobates (and there are lots of them) who "accidentally drop their phone in the toilet" when they want a new one.
When they sell you an extended warranty, they're doing it to make money. They have a much broader base to analyze, and they're very good at calculating how much to charge vs. how much they'll have to pay out, to end up with a profit.
It's the same with all insurance. However, unlike life, or health, or car insurance, where there's a low, but finite risk of being out a huge amount without insurance, with product warranties you're out no more that what you've already paid.
So, long term, no, they're not a good deal. Put the same money in the bank and you'll be ahead on average. Sure, there's risk you can still end up worse off, but not catastrophically.
So, you're saying that WB infringed the memes, knowing they'd be sued, just so they could lose the case and set a precedent which they could then turn around and use against 4chan?
I think your tin foil hat is borken.
"I'd take 51.1% total tax in a heartbeat to have really good government services."
Rejoice, you've found the answer! Move to Sweden.
There's no DRM in HTML5, only the M. OTOH, there's RM in RMS, so HTML5 is one better than RMS for avoiding DRM.
Even easier. If you don't drink BMC (Bud/Miller/Coors), there's no need to keep it so damn cold to kill the taste.
Managed spectrum is in no way "free market." It is a public resource, administered by the government, and naturally constrained. There is only flexibility in demand - supply is firmly fixed.
As such, the value is not only what an entity is willing to pay, but also in what benefit the public will gain for allowing their resource to be used.
A true free market attitude would be to support a spectrum commons.
Didn't you read the summary? It's a fake bomb detector. It won't detect real bombs.
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium.
I understand exactly how TLDs work. You obviously have comprehension issues.
1. Amazon applied for the amazon TLD, the complaining countries didn't bother. That shows how important it is to them.
2. The GP was asking what was wrong with Amazon (the company) using x.amazon.com.
3. My response was to simply imply that expecting them to do so is really no different than expecting the complaining countries to get a "river" or "basin" TLD, and build their amazon domains off that.
As far as the rest of your comment goes - Amazon played by the rules. The complaining countries aren't.