Men and women are different. Men and women feel different things when they are "in love". To say that gay men and women feel the same things, and that those feelings are the same as straights feel, is a logical contradiction.
I'm bisexual. I've been with both men and women, and I've been in love with both men and women. Each relationship was different, however, there wasn't any grand differences in the emotions from gender to gender. Also, the gay couples I know aren't that different from the straight couples I kow. I'm not sure what difference you think there is, but I haven't seen it.
if gays are allowed to get married legally, do citizenship rules apply? Could a foreigner marry someone from the U.S and obtain citizenship?
Yes. Which would be better than the situation now, because since gays can't marry the ones they love they have no reason not to marry someone else for citizenship or for tax purposes or whatever.
If you are heterosexual, and fall in love with a member of the opposite sex and want to marry him/her, then those rules are perfectly fine for you. But if you're homosexual, and fall in love with a member of your own gender and want to marry him/her, you're just out of luck. Why should only heterosexuals be able to marry the ones they love?
It's not so much the staff, because they were friendly, and I can forgive one day of them not knowing everything. It's mostly just that a few things about them annoy me (stupid return policies, they seem to have higher prices and fewer sales) and I've never seen any plus about them that Gamestop didn't have. And considering every EB around here has a GS (or two, or three) around the corner, going to GS instead really isn't that big of a deal. Usually I prefer more competition and less consolidating, but in this case, I really don't mind. Though it'll probably be bad in the long run for GameCrazy, so that keeps me from celebrating.
from a consumer's point of view, a much better retail operation.
The last time I went to an EB (early Dec), I had to wait an half hour while the employees called every other manager in existence trying to find out if the warrenties on my used games would extend past Christmas. Eventually, the answer was yes, but that never would have happened at GS since their standard warrenty is 90 days (like most used game stores) as opposed to EB 14. Then, they insisted on putting a sticker on my used games, even though I asked them not to because I was afraid the sticker would mar one of the boxes. The reason for the sticker? So that you couldn't play the game, decide it sucks, and exchange it for something else. At GS, however, "it sucks" is a very valid reason for exchange.
I'ld been to EBs better, and I'ld noticed they seemed to have less selection and higher prices than GS, and nothing really special about it. But after I'ld had my time wasted because there employees didn't even know the return policy, and finding out that return policy is insanely restrictive compared to GS and other used game stores, I couldn't see any reason to go back. So what am I missing about EB that made you call it "a much better retail operation"?
Except, everyone already can do anything with music. Almost every song you could want you can find through pirating, and when you pirate you don't have to deal with DRM, you can get the music in any format you want and it will play in any player you want. The goal when selling music digitally is not to attempt to make sure your customers don't pirate, but to make sure that what they're paying for is better than what they don't pay for.
Yeah, you can back out on reserves, but that's just more hassle. Like when Gamestop decided to sell that last Zelda gameboy game for $35 instead of $30 like everywhere else, I had to go there and bitch for my money back, and then go to a different store (where I had no problems getting it without a reservation). I would have been much easier if I'ld never preordered it in the first place. The point of preordering is to make life simpler, not harder.
As for Enter the Matrix, yeah, no one forced me to buy it, but if I hadn't preordered it, I wouldn't have bought it on the first day, so maybe I would have found out it sucked before paying $50 for it. My point wasn't that they shouldn't have preorders, my point was that I won't be preordering any more games because it's often more of a hassle and before there are reviews out for the game you're very likely to wind up buying crap. But, hey, if you like preordering games, be my guest.
I've always had terrible luck with pre-orders. Back when I worked at Gamestop, it seemed like everytime I pre-ordered a game, we wouldn't get enough copies in, and the policy was that employees couldn't get their games unless there were enough for all the customers that preordered. Usually, the reason we wouldn't get enough copies is because we'ld take preorders the night before the game was supposed to arrive. No one else could figure out that the preorders had probably already been shipped so you can't add more to them.
Since then, I've managed to preorder a game at a store that got the game 3 days after every other store, and a store that decided to sell the game at $5 more than every other store. Oh, I also preordered Enter the Matrix and Final Fantasy X-2. Yeah, I'm really not a fan of preordering anymore.
Retailers should be able to carry whatever they want. However, it the package is marked "T for Teen", they shouldn't sell it to a 12yo. If it's "M", they shouldn't sell it to anyone under 18.
Teen games are rated for 13 year olds. The difference between 12 and 13 isn't that much, and how is a store clerk supposed to know they're 12 and not 13? Also, Mature games are rated for 17 and up, not 18 and up.
Movies and music are (somewhat) regulated. And it should be so.
And games are regulated too, almost exactly like movies are. This law will either be completely ineffectial, or, like simular laws, will be too confusing to enforce (what counts as excessive violence?). Basically, it's a complete waste of time.
I've heard a lot of rationalizations for why some people commit suicide on antidepressants. I can't speak for everyone, but I know Paxil made me even more depressed and the only time I've ever thought about killing myself was when I was taking it. Maybe for some people being less depressed makes them more likely to kill themselves, but I can't believe I'm the only one that antidepressants made more depressed or more suicidal.
You don't have to give up on console gaming; you just have to wait a little longer after release (since you've waited since 1997, waiting doesn't seem to be a problem for you) and look for deals. I bought my PS2 for $75, used, in 2002. My Gamecube cost $150, new, with 3 games and a memory card (Special at Best Buy, a couple months before WindWaker came out). It's hard waiting for the right deal, but it've very worth it.
And I don't know why everyone thinks Wal-Mart's so cheap, especially for games. Go to Gamestop for used games, and even new games drop faster at Gamestop than elsewhere.
You don't have to play dinosaur-aged games, and you don't have to spend $70 for a game. Just look for good deals on consoles, wait a couple months before buying a game, and buy used. There's probably some good deals on current-gen consoles, since the next gen is coming soon. Good luck. =)
No one's forcing you to buy the game at that price. I personally almost always wait until games have gone down to at least $40, if not less. If everyone waited until until the price goes down to buy, then the prices would go down to that price.
Just show them that your TV is not plugged into an arial, tell them that you do not use it to receive broadcast TV, and they will then go away.
Ok, but you have to prove you don't recieve broadcast TV. You still have to let them in your house to show them your TV w/o an arial. Don't you consider that an invasion of privacy?
I'm perfectly happy to stick a firewall rule in to block their internet broadcasts; I consider that ought to suffice.
How would that work? Couldn't you just disable the firewall? If it's a software firewall, why would you want crap on your system you can't take off? And who's going to pay to pay for it anyways? I can't imagine the government wants to spend money to allow people not to give them money, but it's certainly not fair to charge people to not watch TV.
So if I build my own computer I don't pay? bring it on!!!!
No. They want to extend the TV liscensing scheme to PCs. Currently, you either have to pay 120pounds (~$200) a year, or prove you don't have a TV. With this, it would be prove you don't have a TV *or* PC, or give them money.
And the tax won't go towards computer training, or wi-fi, or anything like that. It will go to the BBC. So, if you don't watch TV, it'll pretty much suck. (Not that it doesn't suck already if you don't watch TV)
I think the point that you're missing is that, over time, these definitions need to change to accurately describe all possibilities.
One word does not have to describe everything. If I burn down your house, would you say I stole your house? No, because "stealing" and "burning down" are two different things. It's not that they're right or wrong, it's that they're different so they have different names. I think it's useful to have different word for different things, so I can say "She steals music" to mean she goes into Best Buy/whenever and takes a whole bunch of cds without paying for them, and I can say "She pirates music" to mean she downloads music instead of buying them. There's enough of a difference in action and effects of pirating vs stealing that I think you can have two words, without "justifying" one of them.
Leaving it alone isn't a solution, but it's certainly better than breaking it worse. Bush's plan won't fix SS at all, it will just make it more expensive. I've seen no positives at all with his plan.
Yes, it does. But the problem is that privatization is not the reform it needs. It's problem is that it's going to be giving out more than it'll take in. The solution is, obviously, to either give out less, i.e., cut benefits, or take in more, raise taxes. But privatization will make it take in less, since it'll devert a bunch of it into private accounts, thus making the problem where it takes in less than it gives out happen a whole lot sooner. I don't think that's what we want in SS reform.
His hair looks exactly the same as link's does in the beginning of Wind Waker. Also, they both wear blue. And Nintendo is not sueing. They sent a letter saying maybe this will be an issue, please think about this. I think Nintendo's in the right here.
Wouldnt you lose those nutrients that were used by that person?
Most people eat dead animals, so appearently they have nutrients. I don't see why dead humans wouldn't have nutrients too. I don't think when you eat a cow, you're getting the nutrients the cow ate during their lifetime, your getting the nutrients that a cow just has. So the same would be true of eating humans.
Amazon never charges me sales tax. Which is why I shop there, because sales tax is 8% here. I really really hope my state doesn't find out how much I've bought online.
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Men and women are different. Men and women feel different things when they are "in love". To say that gay men and women feel the same things, and that those feelings are the same as straights feel, is a logical contradiction.
I'm bisexual. I've been with both men and women, and I've been in love with both men and women. Each relationship was different, however, there wasn't any grand differences in the emotions from gender to gender. Also, the gay couples I know aren't that different from the straight couples I kow. I'm not sure what difference you think there is, but I haven't seen it.
if gays are allowed to get married legally, do citizenship rules apply? Could a foreigner marry someone from the U.S and obtain citizenship?
Yes. Which would be better than the situation now, because since gays can't marry the ones they love they have no reason not to marry someone else for citizenship or for tax purposes or whatever.
If you are heterosexual, and fall in love with a member of the opposite sex and want to marry him/her, then those rules are perfectly fine for you. But if you're homosexual, and fall in love with a member of your own gender and want to marry him/her, you're just out of luck. Why should only heterosexuals be able to marry the ones they love?
It's not so much the staff, because they were friendly, and I can forgive one day of them not knowing everything. It's mostly just that a few things about them annoy me (stupid return policies, they seem to have higher prices and fewer sales) and I've never seen any plus about them that Gamestop didn't have. And considering every EB around here has a GS (or two, or three) around the corner, going to GS instead really isn't that big of a deal. Usually I prefer more competition and less consolidating, but in this case, I really don't mind. Though it'll probably be bad in the long run for GameCrazy, so that keeps me from celebrating.
from a consumer's point of view, a much better retail operation.
The last time I went to an EB (early Dec), I had to wait an half hour while the employees called every other manager in existence trying to find out if the warrenties on my used games would extend past Christmas. Eventually, the answer was yes, but that never would have happened at GS since their standard warrenty is 90 days (like most used game stores) as opposed to EB 14. Then, they insisted on putting a sticker on my used games, even though I asked them not to because I was afraid the sticker would mar one of the boxes. The reason for the sticker? So that you couldn't play the game, decide it sucks, and exchange it for something else. At GS, however, "it sucks" is a very valid reason for exchange.
I'ld been to EBs better, and I'ld noticed they seemed to have less selection and higher prices than GS, and nothing really special about it. But after I'ld had my time wasted because there employees didn't even know the return policy, and finding out that return policy is insanely restrictive compared to GS and other used game stores, I couldn't see any reason to go back. So what am I missing about EB that made you call it "a much better retail operation"?
Here, we have a mall that has a Gamestop and an EB in it, and across the street was a FuncoLand.
That describes every mall near me.
Huh? I don't remember a fishing game in Link's Awakening. Are you sure it had a fishing game?
Except, everyone already can do anything with music. Almost every song you could want you can find through pirating, and when you pirate you don't have to deal with DRM, you can get the music in any format you want and it will play in any player you want. The goal when selling music digitally is not to attempt to make sure your customers don't pirate, but to make sure that what they're paying for is better than what they don't pay for.
Yeah, you can back out on reserves, but that's just more hassle. Like when Gamestop decided to sell that last Zelda gameboy game for $35 instead of $30 like everywhere else, I had to go there and bitch for my money back, and then go to a different store (where I had no problems getting it without a reservation). I would have been much easier if I'ld never preordered it in the first place. The point of preordering is to make life simpler, not harder.
As for Enter the Matrix, yeah, no one forced me to buy it, but if I hadn't preordered it, I wouldn't have bought it on the first day, so maybe I would have found out it sucked before paying $50 for it. My point wasn't that they shouldn't have preorders, my point was that I won't be preordering any more games because it's often more of a hassle and before there are reviews out for the game you're very likely to wind up buying crap. But, hey, if you like preordering games, be my guest.
I've always had terrible luck with pre-orders. Back when I worked at Gamestop, it seemed like everytime I pre-ordered a game, we wouldn't get enough copies in, and the policy was that employees couldn't get their games unless there were enough for all the customers that preordered. Usually, the reason we wouldn't get enough copies is because we'ld take preorders the night before the game was supposed to arrive. No one else could figure out that the preorders had probably already been shipped so you can't add more to them.
Since then, I've managed to preorder a game at a store that got the game 3 days after every other store, and a store that decided to sell the game at $5 more than every other store. Oh, I also preordered Enter the Matrix and Final Fantasy X-2. Yeah, I'm really not a fan of preordering anymore.
Retailers should be able to carry whatever they want. However, it the package is marked "T for Teen", they shouldn't sell it to a 12yo. If it's "M", they shouldn't sell it to anyone under 18.
Teen games are rated for 13 year olds. The difference between 12 and 13 isn't that much, and how is a store clerk supposed to know they're 12 and not 13? Also, Mature games are rated for 17 and up, not 18 and up.
Movies and music are (somewhat) regulated. And it should be so.
And games are regulated too, almost exactly like movies are. This law will either be completely ineffectial, or, like simular laws, will be too confusing to enforce (what counts as excessive violence?). Basically, it's a complete waste of time.
I've heard a lot of rationalizations for why some people commit suicide on antidepressants. I can't speak for everyone, but I know Paxil made me even more depressed and the only time I've ever thought about killing myself was when I was taking it. Maybe for some people being less depressed makes them more likely to kill themselves, but I can't believe I'm the only one that antidepressants made more depressed or more suicidal.
You don't have to give up on console gaming; you just have to wait a little longer after release (since you've waited since 1997, waiting doesn't seem to be a problem for you) and look for deals. I bought my PS2 for $75, used, in 2002. My Gamecube cost $150, new, with 3 games and a memory card (Special at Best Buy, a couple months before WindWaker came out). It's hard waiting for the right deal, but it've very worth it.
And I don't know why everyone thinks Wal-Mart's so cheap, especially for games. Go to Gamestop for used games, and even new games drop faster at Gamestop than elsewhere.
You don't have to play dinosaur-aged games, and you don't have to spend $70 for a game. Just look for good deals on consoles, wait a couple months before buying a game, and buy used. There's probably some good deals on current-gen consoles, since the next gen is coming soon. Good luck. =)
Nah,
You gotta buy the game at that price.
No one's forcing you to buy the game at that price. I personally almost always wait until games have gone down to at least $40, if not less. If everyone waited until until the price goes down to buy, then the prices would go down to that price.
You don't have to 'prove you don't have a TV'.
Just show them that your TV is not plugged into an arial, tell them that you do not use it to receive broadcast TV, and they will then go away.
Ok, but you have to prove you don't recieve broadcast TV. You still have to let them in your house to show them your TV w/o an arial. Don't you consider that an invasion of privacy?
I'm perfectly happy to stick a firewall rule in to block their internet broadcasts; I consider that ought to suffice.
How would that work? Couldn't you just disable the firewall? If it's a software firewall, why would you want crap on your system you can't take off? And who's going to pay to pay for it anyways? I can't imagine the government wants to spend money to allow people not to give them money, but it's certainly not fair to charge people to not watch TV.
So if I build my own computer I don't pay? bring it on!!!!
No. They want to extend the TV liscensing scheme to PCs. Currently, you either have to pay 120pounds (~$200) a year, or prove you don't have a TV. With this, it would be prove you don't have a TV *or* PC, or give them money.
And the tax won't go towards computer training, or wi-fi, or anything like that. It will go to the BBC. So, if you don't watch TV, it'll pretty much suck. (Not that it doesn't suck already if you don't watch TV)
I think the point that you're missing is that, over time, these definitions need to change to accurately describe all possibilities.
One word does not have to describe everything. If I burn down your house, would you say I stole your house? No, because "stealing" and "burning down" are two different things. It's not that they're right or wrong, it's that they're different so they have different names. I think it's useful to have different word for different things, so I can say "She steals music" to mean she goes into Best Buy/whenever and takes a whole bunch of cds without paying for them, and I can say "She pirates music" to mean she downloads music instead of buying them. There's enough of a difference in action and effects of pirating vs stealing that I think you can have two words, without "justifying" one of them.
Leaving it alone isn't a solution, but it's certainly better than breaking it worse. Bush's plan won't fix SS at all, it will just make it more expensive. I've seen no positives at all with his plan.
Likewise, Social Security needs reform.
Yes, it does. But the problem is that privatization is not the reform it needs. It's problem is that it's going to be giving out more than it'll take in. The solution is, obviously, to either give out less, i.e., cut benefits, or take in more, raise taxes. But privatization will make it take in less, since it'll devert a bunch of it into private accounts, thus making the problem where it takes in less than it gives out happen a whole lot sooner. I don't think that's what we want in SS reform.
His hair looks exactly the same as link's does in the beginning of Wind Waker. Also, they both wear blue. And Nintendo is not sueing. They sent a letter saying maybe this will be an issue, please think about this. I think Nintendo's in the right here.
Wouldnt you lose those nutrients that were used by that person?
Most people eat dead animals, so appearently they have nutrients. I don't see why dead humans wouldn't have nutrients too. I don't think when you eat a cow, you're getting the nutrients the cow ate during their lifetime, your getting the nutrients that a cow just has. So the same would be true of eating humans.
Not that I recommend eating humans.
Xbox:(in inches) 10 X 12 x 3
NES: 8 x 10 x 3
Also, if you set the NES on top of the XBox, you'll see it's a little over half the size.
Amazon never charges me sales tax. Which is why I shop there, because sales tax is 8% here. I really really hope my state doesn't find out how much I've bought online.
Well, ok then. You didn't say that the first time.