But if I don't have quarters in the house (you americans are nutty with how much you rely on the 25 cent coin!), then you have to go to the bank. Or a change machine (or keep a jar and constantly worry about filling it with quarters). That sounds like a lot more work then walking a whole half block. Oh the horror!
I know that the lack thereof is what's keeping me from buying a PS3 now that they're affordableâ"they dropped a fairly important feature.
After being a faithful gamer for the 3rd (Sega Master System), 4th (Megadrive) and 5th (Playstation) generation consoles, I skipped the 6th generation. This reason for this is a combination of growing up (and thus spending less time on consoles) and the PSX simply having such a great library of games that I didn't finish them all within the 5 years of its lifepsan. Even today, I've still got a fairly large library of games I've yet to complete. Although that library is shrinking with time.
So when I do get a 7th generation console (I'm confident I'll slog my way through my PSX games before the 8th generation comes), it COULD have been PS2 library+PS3 library versus Xbox360 library (because the xbox was simply an abysmal failure in catering to me).
Instead due to the lack of backwards compatiblity, its the PS3 versus Xbox360, and while Microsoft failed to cater to me in regards to the Xbox, its doing much better with the Xbox360.
So Sony COULD have had a massive advantage over the Xbox360, if only they had continued to keep backwards compatibility.
Next up: those with a family advantage cannot compete. If you had a loving, supporting family growing up, you can't compete! Because its unfair to those whose fathers beat them up every day or those who had to whore themselves out to pay for their parents drug habits.
Genetic disadvantages makes it more difficult for women to compete. It doesn't make it impossible. And how is segregating women into a ghetto that is all but ignored with very few exceptions better than making them compete with men?
This might be more reasonable then it appears on face value.
By separating sports people based on gender you're admitting that women simply cannot compete with men physically.
This causes many female teams to be largely ignored (I can't remember the last time a female baseball team was as well known as the Red Sox. And I don't even know what city they are based in. There are a few exceptions (tennis being the main one), but they're few and far between. This means its extremely difficult for female sportsmen to gain the popularity or wage of their male counterparts. Talk about unfair!
Whereas if we abolish this segregation, sure most of the popular teams will be composed of men. But there might be a female or two that manage to make it to the big leagues.
Too easy for a publisher to move your work into the Public Domain that way.
Because losing a monopoly on the work instead of simply giving the heirs a payout is definitely going to net the publisher more money and would definitely not backfire.
I'm also NOT against heirs making money from their parents/uncles/whatevers (well, I am to a degree, but that's another discussion). I was talking about instances where no-one knows who the rights owner. I even said such cases are most likely to occur when the author has no children/spouse/other close family.
Y'know, sort of the opposite of what you're claiming.
If the original author died without any children or a spouse it becomes even more difficult to determine who should have the rights. Personally I think if no-one can say for sure who owns the work, then the world should be in the public domain.
A healthcare professional and HIV-positive. Why, you're the poster child of all the people who made previous posts to you saying how HIV aint such a big deal and we shouldn't bother with such expensive treatments such as this. I'm not saying you agree with them, simply that they'd love to
Given you're just an anonymous user on the internet*, you're life experiences, no matter how dreadful or important they might have been, doesn't actually add anything to the discussion. Because I could have made the exact same post as you, but instead saying current HIV medications aren't good enough.
When its so easy to lie, telling the truth becomes meaningless if it can't be verified. Also even if everything you say is true, this treatment will (at least) be for people who have the drug-resistant strain of HIV for which the current HIV medication isn't as effective.
* even had you posted under your real account, you're still anonymous. I'm anyonmous and I've got my account, I can also create a new account claiming to be Steve Jobs. I'd just be as anonymous. There is no way to prove your identity on the internet to strangers so you're effectively anonymous.
Your post implies people are willing to get raped and then get infected with HIV. This is clearly not the case just based on the very definition of rape.
Here's the thing. They've done all the research they can to test this without using it on humans. All the research indicates that this works.
So we've got a choice. Not test it on humans and allow HIV to continue to spread uninhibited. Test it on humans and possibly find a way to make people less likely to contract HIV.
You seem to suggest we stick with option 1. I'm glad someone is willing to go with option 2.
Are these patch notes readable before you accept the update? Because I haven't noticed any such patch notes with my updates for years now. Then again, I also didn't get this add-on installed onto my computer.
Hitler didn't play videogames. You can tell because if he had he wouldn't have had time to write Mein Kampf and become elected as president of Germany.
If you're paying the tax, it becomes legal for you to download the material (see Canada for precedence), so why the hell wouldn't you download your music and movies? You'll save a bundle at the end of the day. At least until the companies producing the content whither and die that is due to their only income being such taxes.
Microsoft Update sure sounds like it will update Microsoft products. Given that Firefox is not a microsoft product, how the hell was I to know they would update it?
They have delivered an add-in, which brings this support, at their expense, to your browser.
And they couldn't have delivered a add-in which is removable by the user through the Firefox GUI that most people are accustomed to using to remove add-ins? Or in a pinch, they couldn't make it removable through their Add/Remove Program feature?
Your computer might be secure, but it also sounds like you've got no life if you have read the source code to every single program installed on your computer.
Although I'd love to know where you legally got the source code for Internet Explorer (as you admit to using a Microsoft OS).
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That's worse! What is it with us goddamn hippies! Every car should come equipped with a wheelchair so i don't have to walk at all!
But if I don't have quarters in the house (you americans are nutty with how much you rely on the 25 cent coin!), then you have to go to the bank. Or a change machine (or keep a jar and constantly worry about filling it with quarters). That sounds like a lot more work then walking a whole half block. Oh the horror!
After being a faithful gamer for the 3rd (Sega Master System), 4th (Megadrive) and 5th (Playstation) generation consoles, I skipped the 6th generation. This reason for this is a combination of growing up (and thus spending less time on consoles) and the PSX simply having such a great library of games that I didn't finish them all within the 5 years of its lifepsan. Even today, I've still got a fairly large library of games I've yet to complete. Although that library is shrinking with time.
So when I do get a 7th generation console (I'm confident I'll slog my way through my PSX games before the 8th generation comes), it COULD have been PS2 library+PS3 library versus Xbox360 library (because the xbox was simply an abysmal failure in catering to me).
Instead due to the lack of backwards compatiblity, its the PS3 versus Xbox360, and while Microsoft failed to cater to me in regards to the Xbox, its doing much better with the Xbox360.
So Sony COULD have had a massive advantage over the Xbox360, if only they had continued to keep backwards compatibility.
Clearly you're female.
Next up: those with a family advantage cannot compete. If you had a loving, supporting family growing up, you can't compete! Because its unfair to those whose fathers beat them up every day or those who had to whore themselves out to pay for their parents drug habits.
Hooray for mediocrity!
Genetic disadvantages makes it more difficult for women to compete. It doesn't make it impossible. And how is segregating women into a ghetto that is all but ignored with very few exceptions better than making them compete with men?
This might be more reasonable then it appears on face value.
By separating sports people based on gender you're admitting that women simply cannot compete with men physically.
This causes many female teams to be largely ignored (I can't remember the last time a female baseball team was as well known as the Red Sox. And I don't even know what city they are based in. There are a few exceptions (tennis being the main one), but they're few and far between. This means its extremely difficult for female sportsmen to gain the popularity or wage of their male counterparts. Talk about unfair!
Whereas if we abolish this segregation, sure most of the popular teams will be composed of men. But there might be a female or two that manage to make it to the big leagues.
Because losing a monopoly on the work instead of simply giving the heirs a payout is definitely going to net the publisher more money and would definitely not backfire.
I'm also NOT against heirs making money from their parents/uncles/whatevers (well, I am to a degree, but that's another discussion). I was talking about instances where no-one knows who the rights owner. I even said such cases are most likely to occur when the author has no children/spouse/other close family.
Y'know, sort of the opposite of what you're claiming.
If the original author died without any children or a spouse it becomes even more difficult to determine who should have the rights. Personally I think if no-one can say for sure who owns the work, then the world should be in the public domain.
Why would he? He knows their personal phone number.
This is why you don't work in a live environment. Idiot.
A healthcare professional and HIV-positive. Why, you're the poster child of all the people who made previous posts to you saying how HIV aint such a big deal and we shouldn't bother with such expensive treatments such as this. I'm not saying you agree with them, simply that they'd love to
Given you're just an anonymous user on the internet*, you're life experiences, no matter how dreadful or important they might have been, doesn't actually add anything to the discussion. Because I could have made the exact same post as you, but instead saying current HIV medications aren't good enough.
When its so easy to lie, telling the truth becomes meaningless if it can't be verified. Also even if everything you say is true, this treatment will (at least) be for people who have the drug-resistant strain of HIV for which the current HIV medication isn't as effective.
* even had you posted under your real account, you're still anonymous. I'm anyonmous and I've got my account, I can also create a new account claiming to be Steve Jobs. I'd just be as anonymous. There is no way to prove your identity on the internet to strangers so you're effectively anonymous.
Your post implies people are willing to get raped and then get infected with HIV. This is clearly not the case just based on the very definition of rape.
These drugs are expensive and the majority of individuals who have HIV don't have access to these them.
But goddamnit! You won't be having any of that socialised medicine in your country! If people can't afford treatment, they deserve to die!
Here's the thing. They've done all the research they can to test this without using it on humans. All the research indicates that this works.
So we've got a choice. Not test it on humans and allow HIV to continue to spread uninhibited. Test it on humans and possibly find a way to make people less likely to contract HIV.
You seem to suggest we stick with option 1. I'm glad someone is willing to go with option 2.
I don't think that 'see Canada for precedence' would hold much sway in a European court.
I wasn't aware this was a European court. I thought this was an internet discussion board. My mistake.
Are these patch notes readable before you accept the update? Because I haven't noticed any such patch notes with my updates for years now. Then again, I also didn't get this add-on installed onto my computer.
Hitler didn't play videogames. You can tell because if he had he wouldn't have had time to write Mein Kampf and become elected as president of Germany.
Please be careful when hunting down a Jack Thompson. They're more numerous then you might think and its easy to get the wrong one.
If you're paying the tax, it becomes legal for you to download the material (see Canada for precedence), so why the hell wouldn't you download your music and movies? You'll save a bundle at the end of the day. At least until the companies producing the content whither and die that is due to their only income being such taxes.
the proceeds weren't going to enable everyone to download what they want.
It did in Canada. Is Canadian law so different from English law?
Microsoft Update sure sounds like it will update Microsoft products. Given that Firefox is not a microsoft product, how the hell was I to know they would update it?
They have delivered an add-in, which brings this support, at their expense, to your browser.
And they couldn't have delivered a add-in which is removable by the user through the Firefox GUI that most people are accustomed to using to remove add-ins? Or in a pinch, they couldn't make it removable through their Add/Remove Program feature?
Your computer might be secure, but it also sounds like you've got no life if you have read the source code to every single program installed on your computer.
Although I'd love to know where you legally got the source code for Internet Explorer (as you admit to using a Microsoft OS).
With Windows 7 I get an OS that doesn't slow my internet to a crawl. I wish I could say the same about Linux.