I have problems believing a USB sound card would be the best solution. Mainly because I do not trust USB and Firewire for realtime transfers. If you're going to sugest an external box, how about one with a better connection to the computer? Some in the Creative Audigy series have external boxes that connect to an internal sound card. Most of the processing is done in the box, not on board. Works great and is just as convienient.
I have heard this repeated time and again (from people of both persuasions) so it is more prevelant than you think. I dare say that if Osama Bin Laden were on the ticket for one of the parties there are people who would still vote a straight party ticket even with him on it simply because he's registered with their party.
Connecticut was for the longest time a solid Republican state. (Yes, hard to believe, isn't it?) They lost it when they tried running some idiot with some kind of record of either screwing up or he was into corruption or something. This was 40 to 80 years ago. The state voted in the first Democratic candidate for the longest time. It's been Democrat ever since. So, people will vote for a different candidate if they see the individual as a terrible representative.
Although, Conecticut seems to be in an interesting situation again. Lieberman is running without the party backing and it looks like he's going to get re-elected. As I understand it, a lot of people who normally vote Republican vote for him as a person and for what he's done for CT, not as a Democrat.
On a related note, I've noticed that Democratic party members at the national level seem to be a lot more liberal than at the state level. The one exception might be California. Virginia is a largerly Republican state and yet we have a Democratic Governor. Maryland is a largely Democratic state and it has a Republican governor. Then you get the interesting statistics when Regan ran. California voted Republican. He won his second term with 525-10 elector votes and 58.8% of the popular. I think only Washington had a greater percentage (100%).
Voter: "I'd never vote for Casey because he's a Democrat. I may have to not vote for Santorum but I'll never vote for Casey."
I too have come across people like this from both parties. They are far and few between from what I have seen. Most people will take into account the individual. The only person whom I've ever heard of getting re-elected after killing someone was the Mayor of Providence, RI. Apparently he killed his wife and her lover. Got charged with manslaughter, convicted, served, and was re-elected upon serving his sentence because he was the first Politician to actually do something for the city instead of imbezeling the money for himself. I still have no idea which party he runs under.
The conservative member was from the community and the Liberal member was some fuckstick from Toronto who wasn't even sure where his constituency was....
Think about it this way. How is the fuckstick from Toronto going to represent his constituency when he doesn't even know where it is, much less when he's never met the people who are in it? In the US, the people running for office for an area have to meet certain residency requirements. They have to be legal residents of the district s/he is supposed to be representing. We've actually had the candidates running for representative come door to door. (The House of Representatives person, has the smallest constituency of being a specific area in a state. Senators represent the whole state, President represents all the states (President is technically elected by the states, not the people)).
Perhaps the Liberal Party should field people who are actually from the district they are supposed to represent? And that way are more in tune with the communities needs? I know there would be a revolt in the US if all of a sudden we were told our representative wasn't even a resident of the state we are from.
One other thing. It's actually happened where people will refuse to vote for a candidate based on what the candidate has done in the past. Such as various crimes convicted and other things that bring into doubt their ability to represent the district. On the other hand, sometimes people ignore that because the candidate has actually been a very good politician for the area and they have gotten re-elected regardless of what they have done outside of office. It all depends on the area. Representational systems pretty much deny this and essentially mandate parties.
Of course, we do get a few nuts who run for office every now and then. Levi Levy was my areas nut. But it's also the nice thing about the system. Anyone can run and get elected without needing a party to back them. Also, as it does happen, independents do get elected without party support.
Broadband doesn't have to come through a phone line, or any other hard line for that matter. We're pushing wireless broadband over a 50 square mile area with plans to expand much beyond that. It works just as well as any of the DSL or cable providers in our area, and we can reach many places they can't.
Kindly explain how the heck you are doing this with reasonable rates in speed. I'm also curious as to how this would be break even when you have 8 houses 50 miles from the nearest town. Either you'd have to push broadband wirelessly 50 miles for 8 people, or run a line out there. Either way, it's expensive for the number of customers involved and I have no idea how it would pay for itself.
Then there is this one town in Alaska. Population 268. Only way to get to the town is by plane. Mountains in the way. I'm not even sure how they get electricity.
Ever since I came across something mentioned in Niven's Known Space I've been trying to figure out how to cool off a planet. Trouble is, everything I think of basically generates more energy than it could ever disipate except one. Set up a reallllly long piece of metal like a space elevator, only make it out of two metals. The temperature difference would create an electric current that you could then use for energy.
On the other hand you could just set up really really big radiator fins to help cool the earth instead.
I think proportional voting systems would do a lot to help this. For awhile at least, the two parties will be sending in candidates of the second type you describe. Partisan voters will fall in line, as usual. But almost everyone's *second choice is going to be a person from a minor party, rather than the other major party candidate.
Last time I checked, proportional voting had voters voting for a party and not an individual. I think most people would rather vote for an individual rather than a party. Also, with a proportional, you would no longer have individuals directly representing a specific region of people. They would be representing the people who voted for them who could be spread throughout the entire country.
Also, you would have to pass a constitutional amendment to change to a proportional system. The 14th and the 17th amendments are two that set up the direct representation system.
All in all, I'd rather vote for the individual, not the party, whom I want to represent me.
Everyone should have broadband by now, even if it's only 256k
I'm curious as to how groups of houses that are 100 miles from nowhere that share a party line, are supposed to have broadband. Then you have the places that still don't have any phone service at all. And I am talking about the US here.
However, I wish Matlab would become multithreaded! Our servers have 4 processors and if matlab used them all, we could process 1 dataset in 1/4 the time, instead of processing 4 datasets at once to utilize the CPUs. Processing one dataset at a time would reduce disk I/O.
It's sounds like you are using a fairly high end computer system. I have to sugestions for upgrades to it that would help reduce disk IO times and increase the speed.
1) RAM Drive
2) Solid State Hard Drives
Depending on your system and data size would depend on which you get. However, I have seen a "cheep" solid state disk that was basically a compact flash card hooked into a compact flash to IDE adapter. Ram drives are all software and are probably faster. However, you would need more RAM for it.
There is a cheaper alternative to implementing this that I saw a few years ago. Using customized video card drivers and a CRT, you wore a pair of polarizing glasses. The screen would alternate left/right frames and the glasses would block out one eye or the other. It gave a true 3D effect.
From this authority -- which began due to a need to keep civilian transmissions from interfering with maritime wireless service -- they simply continued to regulate as frequencies grew higher and higher, and transmission distances shorter and shorter, until the FCC frequently has a say in things in which there is little or no business for Federal regulation.
Depends on how you look at it. At least with regards to section 15(?) of the FCC code with electronic devices emmiting and tollerating EM interference. Remeber the story about a tv that accidentally emited the aircraft emergency signal? The frequency is 121.5MHz.
The FCC rules for broadcasting are in place for safety actually. Granted, a pirate radio station probaly won't bring down an airline, but what if it does interfere with radio transmissions in the ambulance and 911 when the operator is trying to say got left on Pine and all you here is salsa music?
Interesting thing for you on this. My college's cable network wasn't very well built. Apparently, they couldn't transmit on certian chanels of the cable network (around 13-18) due to it interfering with the Airport Control Tower signals.
If you're doing low volume work, using a camera may be fine. However, once you start getting into the higher volume work, you want a scanner with a document feeder. Also, non-sheetfeed scanners are generaly cheaper than 6-8 megapixel cameras, so I'm not sure why one would use it. Especially since OCR really only needs B&W and any camera of that quality is going to be color only. A black and white scan takes a lot less time than a color.
Back to the sheet feeds, I've worked with the Fujitsu fi-5220C series scanners before. The only time I've ever had a problem with the document feeder was when I forgot to remove a staple or paperclip. It's also quite fast, 3 seconds tops for a BW scan of an 8.5x14 and that includes the time to transfer the scaned image to the PC. I'd challenge you to find a camera that could keep that up for long, especially as you would have to manually change the pages yourself.
Before videogames, there was violence.
In the 60's, they blamed it on the rock 'n' roll.
In the 50's, they blamed it on Elvis' hips.
As far back as history records, there has been violence. Anyone who tries to claim otherwise is just grabbing for straws that aren't there.
I thought in the States you had laws allowing free speech? Surely a non-profit saying in a list that someone that is a spammer, get this... "is a spammer"... is free speech?
The right to free speech does not grand the right to libel/slander. What the e360 is saying claiming is that they are not a spammer and that the claim that they are is false, e.g. libel. They sued, Spamhaus did nothing to defend themselves, and a default judgement was rendered against them.
Freedom of Speech does not grant the right to yell Fire in a crowded theater either.
At work my co-workers are "forced" to use IE. Lucky for me, I made them give me local admin rights to my workstation so I can install and uninstall software at will, like FireFox / Opera / Open Office / Gimp / Cygwin.
I don't know about some of the others, but FireFox installs fine without admin privlidges. All you need to do is place the firefox install directory in the local user profile instead of program files and you are all set.
You seem to be missing the connection with the military technology that gets handed down to civilian agencies. Let me rephrase your question.
When was the last time that there were domestic protests that put the Police into a situation where they had to decide between harsh language and lethal force?
Now, given that I can think of a dozen situations off the top of my head in the past 40 years where this would help, I don't see much of a problem. Oh, and occasionaly the State Militias (AKA National Guard) have been called upon by the governors to perform law enforcement.
He learned about pressure points and whatnot and the chief requirement for learning is that you have to allow the instructor to do it to you so you understand how it feels. That way you understand the level of pain your inflicting on your opponent. If it's non-lethal then they should go right ahead!
Police training for both Peper Spray and Tasers uses this as well.
The really bad thing here isn't that this amendment is likely to pass, but that we have no way of knowing if the vote count is going to be accurate.
I know the election commisioner for the County and she was one of the ones that made the decision for the current machines. They've tested the machines. The vote count is going to be accurate.
Oh, one other thing. The Commonwealth of Virginia may be a bit republican. However, Fairfax has a pretty good democrat majority and the Governor is a democrat as well. THere isn't anything going on in the county with vote rigging.
One of the major things that are holding Hydrogen Fuel Cells back is the fact that it takes more energy to extract the hyrogen from the envrionment then it produces in the fuel cell.
That may be one of the major things, but I'd say the biggest is that with existing fuel cells, you're required to have pure hydrogen as a fuel. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have something that is likely to explode around me. This will really help out in that respect.
In my county (Fairfax, VA. Were on that map), we have over 600,000 registered voters. Prior to using the current computer voting machines, we used mechanical machines by Diebold (I think). These machines were about the size of a vending machine and weighed at least as much. The county loves the new machines as they are smaller, easier to move and store, and they don't have to pay people massive ammounts of money to move them. Most of the volunteers are in there 60's. They can actually move and setup the electronic ones, where with the mechanical ones they couldn't. It's been decades since they used pencil and paper.
People could be electing their Sherrif, councilmen, or a state refferendum on the same ballot as they also vote for either their state or federal representatives. It's my understanding that some ballots can have over a dozen issues on them. (Anyone who has better first hand knowledge of this feel to correct me if this is an inaccurate summation.)
You've got that right. Last election we had four pages of names and offices, multiple offices per page and referendums. Voting was for President, Sometimes senator as well, National Congressman, county offices, 6 bond referendums and a few state constitutional amendments. The county also has to have different ballots for different areas of the county. Depending on which congressional district you are in affects which race you're voting in.
Ah I found the list of what we will be voting on this year. And this is an Off-year (non-presidential election year) and this is all we have to vote on. http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/eb/upcoming.htm California usually has a lot more items than we do.
Of course. It seems states cannot leave the USA without being attacked. When states wanted to leave the former USSR they were free to go (although that was probably more because the USSR was very weak already, I doubt very much Stalin would have let them go as well).
The Civil War did not start until the Confederate States attacked Fort Sumpter. The act of seceding did not start the US Civil War, the battle at Fort Sumpter did. Oh, and Fort Sumpter was a fort in a Confederate State being help by Union soldiers. So even then you can debate it's merits. Either way, secesion did not start the war, Sumpter did.
Sonic the Hedgehog - How on earth did they manage to license this one? I'm surprised that [Sega] would let Nintendo do this.
Off hand, I'd say because Sega and Nintendo have been working more closely together in recent years. It makes a lot more sense since they are no longer directly competing with each other and goes back to something I realized years ago. Nintendo is great at making hardware consoles and marketing them. Sega is great at making games that take full advantage of consoles, but terible at marketing. Put them together and you get some kickass games on great consoles.
Besides, Sega is going to get royalties from each of their games downloaded. They want the money, and it makes sense to lump it in with Nintendos distribution system.
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I have problems believing a USB sound card would be the best solution. Mainly because I do not trust USB and Firewire for realtime transfers. If you're going to sugest an external box, how about one with a better connection to the computer? Some in the Creative Audigy series have external boxes that connect to an internal sound card. Most of the processing is done in the box, not on board. Works great and is just as convienient.
I've had no problems with the Creative Audigy series. They also have a ton of hookups as well, including MIDI.
I have heard this repeated time and again (from people of both persuasions) so it is more prevelant than you think. I dare say that if Osama Bin Laden were on the ticket for one of the parties there are people who would still vote a straight party ticket even with him on it simply because he's registered with their party.
Connecticut was for the longest time a solid Republican state. (Yes, hard to believe, isn't it?) They lost it when they tried running some idiot with some kind of record of either screwing up or he was into corruption or something. This was 40 to 80 years ago. The state voted in the first Democratic candidate for the longest time. It's been Democrat ever since. So, people will vote for a different candidate if they see the individual as a terrible representative.
Although, Conecticut seems to be in an interesting situation again. Lieberman is running without the party backing and it looks like he's going to get re-elected. As I understand it, a lot of people who normally vote Republican vote for him as a person and for what he's done for CT, not as a Democrat.
On a related note, I've noticed that Democratic party members at the national level seem to be a lot more liberal than at the state level. The one exception might be California. Virginia is a largerly Republican state and yet we have a Democratic Governor. Maryland is a largely Democratic state and it has a Republican governor. Then you get the interesting statistics when Regan ran. California voted Republican. He won his second term with 525-10 elector votes and 58.8% of the popular. I think only Washington had a greater percentage (100%).
Voter: "I'd never vote for Casey because he's a Democrat. I may have to not vote for Santorum but I'll never vote for Casey."
I too have come across people like this from both parties. They are far and few between from what I have seen. Most people will take into account the individual. The only person whom I've ever heard of getting re-elected after killing someone was the Mayor of Providence, RI. Apparently he killed his wife and her lover. Got charged with manslaughter, convicted, served, and was re-elected upon serving his sentence because he was the first Politician to actually do something for the city instead of imbezeling the money for himself. I still have no idea which party he runs under.
The conservative member was from the community and the Liberal member was some fuckstick from Toronto who wasn't even sure where his constituency was....
Think about it this way. How is the fuckstick from Toronto going to represent his constituency when he doesn't even know where it is, much less when he's never met the people who are in it? In the US, the people running for office for an area have to meet certain residency requirements. They have to be legal residents of the district s/he is supposed to be representing. We've actually had the candidates running for representative come door to door. (The House of Representatives person, has the smallest constituency of being a specific area in a state. Senators represent the whole state, President represents all the states (President is technically elected by the states, not the people)).
Perhaps the Liberal Party should field people who are actually from the district they are supposed to represent? And that way are more in tune with the communities needs? I know there would be a revolt in the US if all of a sudden we were told our representative wasn't even a resident of the state we are from.
One other thing. It's actually happened where people will refuse to vote for a candidate based on what the candidate has done in the past. Such as various crimes convicted and other things that bring into doubt their ability to represent the district. On the other hand, sometimes people ignore that because the candidate has actually been a very good politician for the area and they have gotten re-elected regardless of what they have done outside of office. It all depends on the area. Representational systems pretty much deny this and essentially mandate parties.
Of course, we do get a few nuts who run for office every now and then. Levi Levy was my areas nut. But it's also the nice thing about the system. Anyone can run and get elected without needing a party to back them. Also, as it does happen, independents do get elected without party support.
Broadband doesn't have to come through a phone line, or any other hard line for that matter. We're pushing wireless broadband over a 50 square mile area with plans to expand much beyond that. It works just as well as any of the DSL or cable providers in our area, and we can reach many places they can't.
Kindly explain how the heck you are doing this with reasonable rates in speed. I'm also curious as to how this would be break even when you have 8 houses 50 miles from the nearest town. Either you'd have to push broadband wirelessly 50 miles for 8 people, or run a line out there. Either way, it's expensive for the number of customers involved and I have no idea how it would pay for itself.
Then there is this one town in Alaska. Population 268. Only way to get to the town is by plane. Mountains in the way. I'm not even sure how they get electricity.
Ever since I came across something mentioned in Niven's Known Space I've been trying to figure out how to cool off a planet. Trouble is, everything I think of basically generates more energy than it could ever disipate except one. Set up a reallllly long piece of metal like a space elevator, only make it out of two metals. The temperature difference would create an electric current that you could then use for energy.
On the other hand you could just set up really really big radiator fins to help cool the earth instead.
I think proportional voting systems would do a lot to help this. For awhile at least, the two parties will be sending in candidates of the second type you describe. Partisan voters will fall in line, as usual. But almost everyone's *second choice is going to be a person from a minor party, rather than the other major party candidate.
Last time I checked, proportional voting had voters voting for a party and not an individual. I think most people would rather vote for an individual rather than a party. Also, with a proportional, you would no longer have individuals directly representing a specific region of people. They would be representing the people who voted for them who could be spread throughout the entire country.
Also, you would have to pass a constitutional amendment to change to a proportional system. The 14th and the 17th amendments are two that set up the direct representation system.
All in all, I'd rather vote for the individual, not the party, whom I want to represent me.
Everyone should have broadband by now, even if it's only 256k
I'm curious as to how groups of houses that are 100 miles from nowhere that share a party line, are supposed to have broadband. Then you have the places that still don't have any phone service at all. And I am talking about the US here.
However, I wish Matlab would become multithreaded! Our servers have 4 processors and if matlab used them all, we could process 1 dataset in 1/4 the time, instead of processing 4 datasets at once to utilize the CPUs. Processing one dataset at a time would reduce disk I/O.
It's sounds like you are using a fairly high end computer system. I have to sugestions for upgrades to it that would help reduce disk IO times and increase the speed.
1) RAM Drive
2) Solid State Hard Drives
Depending on your system and data size would depend on which you get. However, I have seen a "cheep" solid state disk that was basically a compact flash card hooked into a compact flash to IDE adapter. Ram drives are all software and are probably faster. However, you would need more RAM for it.
There is a cheaper alternative to implementing this that I saw a few years ago. Using customized video card drivers and a CRT, you wore a pair of polarizing glasses. The screen would alternate left/right frames and the glasses would block out one eye or the other. It gave a true 3D effect.
From this authority -- which began due to a need to keep civilian transmissions from interfering with maritime wireless service -- they simply continued to regulate as frequencies grew higher and higher, and transmission distances shorter and shorter, until the FCC frequently has a say in things in which there is little or no business for Federal regulation.
Depends on how you look at it. At least with regards to section 15(?) of the FCC code with electronic devices emmiting and tollerating EM interference. Remeber the story about a tv that accidentally emited the aircraft emergency signal? The frequency is 121.5MHz.
The FCC rules for broadcasting are in place for safety actually. Granted, a pirate radio station probaly won't bring down an airline, but what if it does interfere with radio transmissions in the ambulance and 911 when the operator is trying to say got left on Pine and all you here is salsa music?
Interesting thing for you on this. My college's cable network wasn't very well built. Apparently, they couldn't transmit on certian chanels of the cable network (around 13-18) due to it interfering with the Airport Control Tower signals.
If you're doing low volume work, using a camera may be fine. However, once you start getting into the higher volume work, you want a scanner with a document feeder. Also, non-sheetfeed scanners are generaly cheaper than 6-8 megapixel cameras, so I'm not sure why one would use it. Especially since OCR really only needs B&W and any camera of that quality is going to be color only. A black and white scan takes a lot less time than a color.
Back to the sheet feeds, I've worked with the Fujitsu fi-5220C series scanners before. The only time I've ever had a problem with the document feeder was when I forgot to remove a staple or paperclip. It's also quite fast, 3 seconds tops for a BW scan of an 8.5x14 and that includes the time to transfer the scaned image to the PC. I'd challenge you to find a camera that could keep that up for long, especially as you would have to manually change the pages yourself.
Before videogames, there was violence.
In the 60's, they blamed it on the rock 'n' roll.
In the 50's, they blamed it on Elvis' hips.
As far back as history records, there has been violence. Anyone who tries to claim otherwise is just grabbing for straws that aren't there.
In the 20's, they blamed it on The Jitterbug
I thought in the States you had laws allowing free speech? Surely a non-profit saying in a list that someone that is a spammer, get this ... "is a spammer" ... is free speech?
The right to free speech does not grand the right to libel/slander. What the e360 is saying claiming is that they are not a spammer and that the claim that they are is false, e.g. libel. They sued, Spamhaus did nothing to defend themselves, and a default judgement was rendered against them.
Freedom of Speech does not grant the right to yell Fire in a crowded theater either.
At work my co-workers are "forced" to use IE. Lucky for me, I made them give me local admin rights to my workstation so I can install and uninstall software at will, like FireFox / Opera / Open Office / Gimp / Cygwin.
I don't know about some of the others, but FireFox installs fine without admin privlidges. All you need to do is place the firefox install directory in the local user profile instead of program files and you are all set.
You seem to be missing the connection with the military technology that gets handed down to civilian agencies. Let me rephrase your question.
When was the last time that there were domestic protests that put the Police into a situation where they had to decide between harsh language and lethal force?
Now, given that I can think of a dozen situations off the top of my head in the past 40 years where this would help, I don't see much of a problem. Oh, and occasionaly the State Militias (AKA National Guard) have been called upon by the governors to perform law enforcement.
The product sheet says it penentrates 1/64th of an inch into human skin. So what about clothing? Can you avoid the waves by being covered head to toe?
Given that we're talking about microwaves here. Only if you're covered in Aluminum Foil.
He learned about pressure points and whatnot and the chief requirement for learning is that you have to allow the instructor to do it to you so you understand how it feels. That way you understand the level of pain your inflicting on your opponent. If it's non-lethal then they should go right ahead!
Police training for both Peper Spray and Tasers uses this as well.
The really bad thing here isn't that this amendment is likely to pass, but that we have no way of knowing if the vote count is going to be accurate.
I know the election commisioner for the County and she was one of the ones that made the decision for the current machines. They've tested the machines. The vote count is going to be accurate.
Oh, one other thing. The Commonwealth of Virginia may be a bit republican. However, Fairfax has a pretty good democrat majority and the Governor is a democrat as well. THere isn't anything going on in the county with vote rigging.
One of the major things that are holding Hydrogen Fuel Cells back is the fact that it takes more energy to extract the hyrogen from the envrionment then it produces in the fuel cell.
That may be one of the major things, but I'd say the biggest is that with existing fuel cells, you're required to have pure hydrogen as a fuel. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have something that is likely to explode around me. This will really help out in that respect.
In my county (Fairfax, VA. Were on that map), we have over 600,000 registered voters. Prior to using the current computer voting machines, we used mechanical machines by Diebold (I think). These machines were about the size of a vending machine and weighed at least as much. The county loves the new machines as they are smaller, easier to move and store, and they don't have to pay people massive ammounts of money to move them. Most of the volunteers are in there 60's. They can actually move and setup the electronic ones, where with the mechanical ones they couldn't. It's been decades since they used pencil and paper.
People could be electing their Sherrif, councilmen, or a state refferendum on the same ballot as they also vote for either their state or federal representatives. It's my understanding that some ballots can have over a dozen issues on them. (Anyone who has better first hand knowledge of this feel to correct me if this is an inaccurate summation.)
You've got that right. Last election we had four pages of names and offices, multiple offices per page and referendums. Voting was for President, Sometimes senator as well, National Congressman, county offices, 6 bond referendums and a few state constitutional amendments. The county also has to have different ballots for different areas of the county. Depending on which congressional district you are in affects which race you're voting in.
Ah I found the list of what we will be voting on this year. And this is an Off-year (non-presidential election year) and this is all we have to vote on. http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/eb/upcoming.htm California usually has a lot more items than we do.
Of course. It seems states cannot leave the USA without being attacked. When states wanted to leave the former USSR they were free to go (although that was probably more because the USSR was very weak already, I doubt very much Stalin would have let them go as well).
The Civil War did not start until the Confederate States attacked Fort Sumpter. The act of seceding did not start the US Civil War, the battle at Fort Sumpter did. Oh, and Fort Sumpter was a fort in a Confederate State being help by Union soldiers. So even then you can debate it's merits. Either way, secesion did not start the war, Sumpter did.
Sonic the Hedgehog - How on earth did they manage to license this one? I'm surprised that [Sega] would let Nintendo do this.
Off hand, I'd say because Sega and Nintendo have been working more closely together in recent years. It makes a lot more sense since they are no longer directly competing with each other and goes back to something I realized years ago. Nintendo is great at making hardware consoles and marketing them. Sega is great at making games that take full advantage of consoles, but terible at marketing. Put them together and you get some kickass games on great consoles.
Besides, Sega is going to get royalties from each of their games downloaded. They want the money, and it makes sense to lump it in with Nintendos distribution system.
Question: How many acts of software piracy equals one sexual assault, morally speaking?
Morally? No idea, but both are still wrong. Legally? I'd have to check.